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20 June 2022

• 09:1309:13, 20 June 2022 diff hist +2,791 Without being attached to the fruits of activities, one should act as a matter of duty, for by working without attachment one attains the Supreme No edit summary current
• 09:1209:12, 20 June 2022 diff hist +8,328 While a devotee must know this (no one is a wife, child, husband, or father of anyone else), that does not mean he should neglect his family. As a matter of duty he should maintain his family members without attachment and instruct them in KC No edit summary current
• 09:1209:12, 20 June 2022 diff hist +4,161 Whatever status of life we may accept, this principle of working for Krsna as a matter of our duty, without being attracted by the result - should be followed by us No edit summary current
• 09:0609:06, 20 June 2022 diff hist +6,765 One who acts as a matter of duty because he has been ordered to do so by the Supreme Lord, and who does not seek shelter in the fruits of his activities (anasritah karma-phalam), is a true renouncer No edit summary current
• 09:0609:06, 20 June 2022 diff hist −10 One should go to a temple or church as a matter of duty, offer respect to the Supreme Personality of Godhead and offer flowers and eatables. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:0609:06, 20 June 2022 diff hist +5,071 One should depend fully on the causeless mercy of the Lord. Although as a matter of routine duty one must of course accept other remedial measures, no one can protect one who is neglected by the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 09:0509:05, 20 June 2022 diff hist +2,264 Nonetheless the ksatriyas had to perform such undesirable actions (fighting and killing) as a matter of duty No edit summary current
• 09:0409:04, 20 June 2022 diff hist +5,023 Maharaja Yudhisthira, as a matter of duty, maintained Dhrtarastra in royal honor, and Dhrtarastra was happily passing away his numbered days in the illusion of being a king or the royal uncle of King Yudhisthira No edit summary current
• 09:0409:04, 20 June 2022 diff hist +10,080 In pure devotional service one simply serves the Supreme Personality of Godhead as a matter of duty, without reason and without being impeded by material conditions No edit summary current
• 09:0309:03, 20 June 2022 diff hist +2,917 He (Maharaja Yudhisthira) ruled over the kingdom as a matter of duty, assisted by his younger brothers No edit summary current
• 09:0209:02, 20 June 2022 diff hist +2,467 He (Brahma) has to offer his respectful obeisances unto the Lord. Therefore, it is incumbent upon all others, who are far, far below the standard of Brahma, to do as he did and offer respects as a matter of duty No edit summary current
• 09:0209:02, 20 June 2022 diff hist +5,738 Everything should be offered to the spiritual master as a matter of duty, but the offering should be made to the spiritual master with heart and soul, not artificially to gain material prestige No edit summary current
• 09:0109:01, 20 June 2022 diff hist +2,883 Even though they (Yudhistira and Arjuna) were unwilling to kill their own men in the fight, it had to be done as a matter of duty, for it was planned by the supreme will of Lord Sri Krsna No edit summary current
• 09:0109:01, 20 June 2022 diff hist +7,561 Don't chant Hare Krsna maha-mantra with any motive. That is not good. Even if you chant with motive, that will take little time to become pure devotee, but better without any motive. As a matter of duty, you chant regularly No edit summary current
• 09:0009:00, 20 June 2022 diff hist +5,961 Devotees are situated in the transcendental loving service of the Lord as a matter of duty, and they do not mind where they are or how they have to act No edit summary current
• 08:5908:59, 20 June 2022 diff hist +3,628 Arjuna was advised by the Lord (Krsna) to fight as a matter of duty without attachment to the result. His nonparticipation in the battle is another side of attachment. Such attachment never leads one to the path of salvation. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 08:4808:48, 20 June 2022 diff hist −11 Although the Mayavadi philosophers appear to be very much advanced in knowledge, they are not yet perfect. To come to the point of perfection they must voluntarily surrender to Krsna No edit summary current
• 08:4708:47, 20 June 2022 diff hist −13 What type of surrender is recommended? Surrender in full knowledge - when one comes to the perfectional point he must understand that Vasudeva, Krsna, is everything. This is also confirmed in Brahma-samhita - 5.1 No edit summary current
• 08:4708:47, 20 June 2022 diff hist +32,189 This is not the case with KC (as in the world without completely construct the building it's useless), for even if one does not come to the perfectional point, whatever work he does is his permanent asset, & he can begin from that point in his next life No edit summary current
• 08:4708:47, 20 June 2022 diff hist +4,138 One should be determined to serve the Supreme Lord by his occupational duty in Krsna consciousness; that is the perfectional point No edit summary current
• 08:4208:42, 20 June 2022 diff hist +2,524 When we enjoy life in so-called material happiness, it is to be understood that we are diminishing the resultant actions of our pious activities No edit summary current
• 08:4208:42, 20 June 2022 diff hist +3,231 When one takes to the path of Transcendence, one has to cease all material activities and sacrifice all forms of so-called material happiness. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 08:4108:41, 20 June 2022 diff hist +3,041 Such exalted devotees forget the tiny reflection of so-called material happiness produced from the material senses of sight and sound. Free from all desires, such devotees are the real friends of all living entities No edit summary current
• 08:3408:34, 20 June 2022 diff hist +5,666 One should surrender fully to the Lord, forgetting one's so-called material happiness, opulence and education, which are not at all useful for pleasing the Lord. The Lord is pleased only by the process of surrender unto Him No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 20 June 2022 diff hist +3,964 Everyone should seek the shelter of the Supreme Soul, the source of all living entities. No one should waste his time in the so-called happiness of materialistic household life No edit summary current

19 June 2022

• 16:5516:55, 19 June 2022 diff hist +29,212 When we see any form of life, whether it be in a tree, in a plant, or an animal or in a human being, we should understand that this life is part and parcel of Krsna No edit summary
• 16:4816:48, 19 June 2022 diff hist +4,926 We are passing through 8,400,000 forms of life - from aquatic to plants, trees, then insect, then flies, then birds, then beasts, then uncivilized human beings, jungle, then come to this Aryan form, civilized form of human being No edit summary current
• 16:4816:48, 19 June 2022 diff hist +3,113 We have information that there are 8,400,000 species of life. Out of these, 400,000 species are considered human life No edit summary current
• 16:4816:48, 19 June 2022 diff hist +6,969 When the world was full of water, the living entity took an aquatic form. Then he passed to vegetable life, from vegetable life to worm life, from worm life to bird life, from bird life to animal life, and from animal life to the human form No edit summary current
• 16:4416:44, 19 June 2022 diff hist +6,349 Self-realization is possible in the human form of life, but not in other forms. There are 8,400,000 species, or forms of life, of which the human form qualified by brahminical culture presents the only chance to obtain knowledge of transcendence No edit summary current
• 16:4216:42, 19 June 2022 diff hist +3,302 After rotating through many, many forms of life in the cycle of birth and death, the living being gets a chance for a human form No edit summary current
• 16:3316:33, 19 June 2022 diff hist +6,190 The Lord says that there are eight hundred, er, 8,400,000 species of life, different forms of life, species of life. There are aquatics, there are plants, trees, worms, germs, then birds, beasts, and at last, the human species of life, only 400,000's No edit summary current
• 16:3216:32, 19 June 2022 diff hist +3,739 In the form of a human being, the living entity may revive a little Krsna consciousness, and, if he makes further development, the fire of spiritual life can be kindled in the human form of life. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 14:5314:53, 19 June 2022 diff hist +3,638 But to whom did God give the seed (material nature is the mother, and God is the father)? No edit summary current
• 14:5114:51, 19 June 2022 diff hist +4,982 Those who are spontaneously devoted to the Lord and have no aims for material gain are called attracted devotees. They are spontaneously attracted to the service of the Lord, and they follow in the footsteps of self-realized souls No edit summary current
• 14:5014:50, 19 June 2022 diff hist +3,984 The spontaneous attraction of Sri Krsna for His dearest parts and parcels generates an enthusiasm that obliges Sri Krsna and the gopis to meet together No edit summary current
• 14:5014:50, 19 June 2022 diff hist +2,884 That means that our attraction for Krsna must be spontaneous? No edit summary current
• 14:4814:48, 19 June 2022 diff hist +3,486 The Lord's desire to appear was born from two reasons: the Lord wanted to taste the sweet essence of the mellows of love of God, and He wanted to propagate devotional service in the world on the platform of spontaneous attraction No edit summary current
• 14:4614:46, 19 June 2022 diff hist +5,125 The attraction of the gopis for Krsna and the affection of the members of the Yadu dynasty are both accepted as spontaneous, or raganuga No edit summary current
• 14:4314:43, 19 June 2022 diff hist +5,200 Such a manifestation of divine love is mere imitation and has no value. When one is actually spontaneously attracted to the loving principles of the gopis, there will be found no trace of any mundane contamination in his character No edit summary current
• 14:4214:42, 19 June 2022 diff hist +36 Spontaneous attraction to the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is most important to pure devotional service No edit summary current
• 14:4214:42, 19 June 2022 diff hist +5,620 Spontaneous attraction to Krsna under two headings, One is profound veneration for the greatness of the Lord, and the other may be one's automatically being attracted to Krsna without any extraneous consideration No edit summary current
• 14:4214:42, 19 June 2022 diff hist +5,194 Spontaneous attraction of the devotee's mind to the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead signifies pure devotional service No edit summary current
• 14:4014:40, 19 June 2022 diff hist +9,492 If you are going on as a happening program to the church, to the temple, or to the mosque, but there is no spontaneous attraction for hearing about God, then it is simply labor, simply waste of time, that's all No edit summary current
• 14:4014:40, 19 June 2022 diff hist +36 By practicing the regulative principles, one should rise to the platform of spontaneous attraction for Krsna. Then and only then should one hear about radha-krsna-lila No edit summary current
• 14:3914:39, 19 June 2022 diff hist +5,085 An advanced devotee is attracted by the service rendered by an eternal servitor of the Lord. This attraction is called spontaneous attraction. Technically it is called svarupa-upalabdhi. This stage is not achieved in the beginning No edit summary current
• 14:0814:08, 19 June 2022 diff hist +7 We are all creatures of material nature. In the Bhagavad-gita it is said that the Lord Himself is the seed-giving father and material nature is the mother of all living beings in all shapes No edit summary current
• 14:0714:07, 19 June 2022 diff hist +3,883 This material covering of the effulgent firmament is also something like a womb of the mother nature, and we are all put into the womb by the Lord, the father of all living beings No edit summary current
• 14:0614:06, 19 June 2022 diff hist +5,085 The mother nature, therefore chastises her disobedient sons in order to bring them to the right path of fulfilling the plan of Godhead. This process of chastisement is necessary for the benefit of both the asuras and the gods alike No edit summary current
• 14:0514:05, 19 June 2022 diff hist +5,237 The modern civilization is: mother is material nature and we are all sons, born in the womb of the material nature. So who is the father? That inquiry is lacking. But there is father, undoubtedly. And the answer is given in the Bhagavad-gita No edit summary