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20 June 2022

• 15:3715:37, 20 June 2022 diff hist +5,867 When one is trained to become conscious of his position, he understands that he is the servitor of the Lord No edit summary current
• 15:3615:36, 20 June 2022 diff hist +3,567 When one is trained by the spiritual master according to the regulative principles of devotional service and is situated on the platform of spontaneous attachment for the Lord (raga-bhakti), the Lord also gives instructions from within No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 20 June 2022 diff hist +2,833 We simply have to maintain our strict principles, keeping ourselves pure, Otherwise, there are so many bogus institutions doing business in the name of God and simply cheating the people No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 20 June 2022 diff hist +4,024 The word upakuryat means para-upakara, helping others. Of course, in human society there are many institutions to help others, but because philanthropists do not know how to help others, their propensity for philanthropy is ineffectual No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 20 June 2022 diff hist +8,003 There are so many universities, educational institution, big, big professors, scientists, all rascals. All rascals, we declare. Let them come and argue with us. All rascals No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 20 June 2022 diff hist +4,352 Introducing so many relief funds and humanitarian institutions No edit summary current
• 13:0113:01, 20 June 2022 diff hist +6,697 Guru's business is how to give you Krsna, not any material things. For material things, there are so many institutions. But if you want Krsna, then guru's required No edit summary current
• 13:0113:01, 20 June 2022 diff hist +4,872 Even though there are so many charitable institutions, poverty has not been driven from human society No edit summary current
• 13:0113:01, 20 June 2022 diff hist +4,260 At the present time there are many educational institutions for training and technology, but such knowledge has nothing to do with understanding of the Absolute Truth No edit summary current
• 13:0013:00, 20 June 2022 diff hist +6,139 Although there is advancement of learning, many universities and educational institutions, but nowhere this subject matter is discussed or taught, "What I am" No edit summary current
• 12:5612:56, 20 June 2022 diff hist +33 One’s devotional attitude increases in the association of a Vaisnava. By his personal example, Narottama dasa Thakura stresses that a devotee must always remember to please his predecessor acarya No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 20 June 2022 diff hist +2,020 By service, you are not only in touch with me, but my Predecessors, the Acaryas, up to Krishna No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 20 June 2022 diff hist +3,804 By his personal example, Narottama dasa Thakura stresses that a devotee must always remember to please his predecessor acarya No edit summary current
• 12:5112:51, 20 June 2022 diff hist +6,531 Gradually he will develop the surrendering attitude and accept voluntarily the life of austerity or tapasya which must be practiced in the temple living No edit summary current
• 12:5112:51, 20 June 2022 diff hist +5,914 Chant, dance and take prasadam. Still we are unwilling. We cannot accept this tapasya. You see. We are so fallen No edit summary current
• 12:4912:49, 20 June 2022 diff hist +10 Tapasya: voluntary acceptance of a miserable condition. The ability to do this is good, and human life is meant for that purpose No edit summary current
• 12:4812:48, 20 June 2022 diff hist +8,633 No illicit sex, no meat-eating, no gambling, no intoxication. This is tapasya, voluntarily accepting... Those who are practiced to all these bad habits... So they will feel some pain, but you accept that pain. Then this pain will be over No edit summary current
• 12:4812:48, 20 June 2022 diff hist +4,373 Let us forget our past difficulties and in Krishna Consciousness, if anyone faces difficulties, it is considered as blessings, because without tapasya, or voluntarily accepting some inconveniences, nobody can realize the Transcendence No edit summary current
• 12:4712:47, 20 June 2022 diff hist +11 If a doctor advises a diabetic patient not to eat but to starve for some days, although no one likes to starve, the patient must voluntarily accept starvation if he wants to be cured. This is tapasya: voluntary acceptance of a miserable condition No edit summary current
• 12:0312:03, 20 June 2022 diff hist +3,319 The child thus remains just like a bird in a cage, without freedom of movement. At that time, if the child is fortunate, he can remember all the troubles of his past one hundred births, and he grieves wretchedly No edit summary current
• 11:5211:52, 20 June 2022 diff hist −13 In the mature stage the developed transcendental feeling culminates in realization of the particular relationship with the Lord by which a living entity is originally constituted - up to the relationship of conjugal love with the Lord No edit summary current
• 11:5011:50, 20 June 2022 diff hist +5,342 Devotional activities sometimes appear to be impure in the neophyte stage, but in the mature stage they are completely pure, or free from material activity No edit summary current
• 11:4611:46, 20 June 2022 diff hist +8,989 You cannot make society classless. If you try to make it classless, naturally people will all be sudras, fourth-class men, and worse. Then there will be social chaos No edit summary current
• 11:4611:46, 20 June 2022 diff hist +7,628 You cannot make classless. If you make classless, naturally they will be all sudras, fourth-class men. Then there will be society chaos No edit summary current
• 11:4611:46, 20 June 2022 diff hist +3,715 There will be very, very big chaos, this godless civilization. And it is distinctly said, "There will be no grain, no sugar, no milk" No edit summary current
• 11:4511:45, 20 June 2022 diff hist +3,485 Eventually the state will not be able to collect taxes and consequently will not be able to meet its huge military and administrative expenses. Everything will collapse, and there will be chaos and disturbance all over the state No edit summary current
• 11:4511:45, 20 June 2022 diff hist +8,459 Our Krsna consciousness movement is trying to educate some brahmanas. If the society take our help and conduct the business of the society - ksatriya, vaisya, sudra - then there will be peace and prosperity. Otherwise there will be chaos and confusion No edit summary current
• 11:4411:44, 20 June 2022 diff hist +4,897 Only intelligent class, that will be chaos No edit summary current
• 11:3311:33, 20 June 2022 diff hist +8,074 The exemplary character of devotional service manifested by the devotees of Vrndavana is the purest type of devotion. It is enjoined in authoritative sastras that devotional service must be ahaituki and apratihata No edit summary current
• 11:3211:32, 20 June 2022 diff hist +4,068 They (the brahmanas) saw that Lord Ramacandra, aside from being the Supreme Personality of Godhead, was fully qualified as a ksatriya and was exemplary in character. One of the qualifications of a ksatriya is to be charitable No edit summary current
• 11:3011:30, 20 June 2022 diff hist +4,646 So it is my request to you all that you establish an exemplary character and show how householders can be the first class transcendentalists No edit summary current
• 11:2711:27, 20 June 2022 diff hist +2,220 One who can talk and dress himself very artistically is called vidagdha. This exemplary characteristic was visible in the personality of Sri Krsna No edit summary current
• 11:2611:26, 20 June 2022 diff hist +7,272 Lord Krsna was present among His relatives who were members of the ksatriya class. To teach them through the exemplary character of King Nrga, He said No edit summary current
• 11:1811:18, 20 June 2022 diff hist +4,045 I think by your exemplary character the Indian public will be surprised and they will take to your way of life; this is the second phase of my missionary activities No edit summary current
• 10:3410:34, 20 June 2022 diff hist +4,753 If we can manage successfully, we will be attractive for the whole of India. Our task is very heavy, do not neglect by paltry disagreement. I hope Krishna will bless you to understand my heart and oblige No edit summary
• 10:3410:34, 20 June 2022 diff hist +3,928 Do not be diminished in your enthusiasm. You should always think of yourself that you are sold to Krsna as slave and that is the only way to get relief of the slavery of Maya. I hope you will understand me rightly and do the needful No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 20 June 2022 diff hist +6,005 The great scientists, the great philosophers, the great mental speculators, the great politicians, the great industrialists, the great social reformers, etc., cannot give any relief to the restless society because they do not know the secret of success No edit summary current
• 09:3309:33, 20 June 2022 diff hist +2,824 They'll understand as they read our books that we are all-round reformer No edit summary current
• 09:3209:32, 20 June 2022 diff hist +10,455 These transcendentalists (ordinarily known as saints, philosophers, reformers, messengers, and so forth) appear in various places in the world at various times No edit summary current
• 09:3109:31, 20 June 2022 diff hist −2 There were many politicians, social reformers and philosophers who died very miserably, without deriving any practical value from their material plans No edit summary current
• 09:3009:30, 20 June 2022 diff hist −2 There are waterfalls flowing from the hills of the forest, but sometimes water does not flow from them. So the waterfalls are not like ordinary rainfall. They are compared to great reformers, who speak or do not speak, as the time require No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 20 June 2022 diff hist +3,533 Expert religionists know perfectly well how to adjust religious principles in terms of time and place. All the great acaryas or religious preachers or reformers of the world executed their mission by adjustment of religious principles No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 20 June 2022 diff hist −2 Even messiahs and reformers as Lord Buddha - who did not accept the existence of Godhead and preached morality and ethics in the spirit of atheism No edit summary current
• 09:2209:22, 20 June 2022 diff hist +3,240 You are repenting, so Krsna will excuse you. But never do this again. Rather you should stop sex-life altogether, make this your austerity No edit summary current
• 09:2209:22, 20 June 2022 diff hist +3,289 That is the difference between Western and Eastern culture: the whole Eastern culture is based on how to stop sex life, and here in the Western countries, how to increase sex life No edit summary current
• 09:2209:22, 20 June 2022 diff hist +3,155 Rejection of illicit sex life is our first motto. So I request you to stop immediately all this nonsense and remain fixed up in your good character No edit summary current
• 09:1909:19, 20 June 2022 diff hist +3,860 Indeed, he (the conditioned soul) commits abominable acts that cause him to suffer both in this life and in the next. Consequently illicit sex must be stopped by those who are spiritually inclined or who are on the path of spiritual realization No edit summary
• 09:1909:19, 20 June 2022 diff hist +6,170 If a person who is working in the factory, if you stop sex, he cannot work. And when he's unable to enjoy sex life, then he takes intoxication. This is material life. So energy must be there. Here in the material world the energy is sex No edit summary current
• 09:1309:13, 20 June 2022 diff hist +2,771 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. BG 3.19 - 1972 No edit summary current
• 09:1309:13, 20 June 2022 diff hist +7,434 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