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24 June 2022

• 09:5809:58, 24 June 2022 diff hist +4,036 Sin will overcome us if we slay such aggressors. Therefore it is not proper for us to kill the sons of Dhrtarastra and our friends. BG 1.36 - 1972 No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 24 June 2022 diff hist +4,042 Ravana was an aggressor against Rama because he kidnapped Rama's wife, Sita, but Lord Rama gave him sufficient lessons, unparalleled in the history of the world. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 24 June 2022 diff hist +4,017 In Arjuna's case one should consider the special type of aggressors, namely his own grandfather, own teacher, friends, sons, grandsons, etc. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 24 June 2022 diff hist +4,277 Because of them (his own grandfather, own teacher, friends, sons, grandsons, etc), Arjuna thought that he should not take the severe steps necessary against ordinary aggressors. Besides that, saintly persons are advised to forgive. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:5309:53, 24 June 2022 diff hist +2,560 As a brahma-bandhu, or a worthless son of a brahmana, Asvatthama was not to be killed, but he was at the same time an aggressor also No edit summary current
• 09:5309:53, 24 June 2022 diff hist +12,430 An enemy who sets fire to the house, administers poison, attacks all of a sudden with deadly weapons, plunders wealth or usurps agricultural fields, or entices one's wife is called an aggressor No edit summary current
• 09:5109:51, 24 June 2022 diff hist +5,545 An aggressor intent on killing may be a very learned scholar of Vedanta, yet he should be killed because of his envy in killing others. In such a case, it is not sinful to kill a brahmana No edit summary current
• 09:5109:51, 24 June 2022 diff hist +2,079 An aggressor, though he be a brahmana or a so-called son of a brahmana, has to be punished in all circumstances No edit summary current
• 09:3809:38, 24 June 2022 diff hist −1 According to Vedic injunctions there are six kinds of aggressors: 1) a poison giver, 2) one who sets fire to the house, 3) one who attacks with deadly weapons. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:3809:38, 24 June 2022 diff hist +4,953 According to the Vedic injunctions, only an aggressor can be killed. If a person comes with an intent to kill, one can immediately take action and kill in self-defense No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 24 June 2022 diff hist +2,595 Trust no future, however pleasant. You may talk that future is very bright, but we don't believe in that No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 24 June 2022 diff hist +9,799 There is no experimental evidence that matter has anywhere produced a living entity. Trust no future, however pleasant No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 24 June 2022 diff hist +2,841 If you think you shall keep the money you collect there for future use for temple, that's alright, but my Guru Maharaja used to say, "Trust no future, however pleasant" No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 24 June 2022 diff hist +5,808 From the earth, many varieties of manifestations take place. For example, a big skyscraper is manifested from the earth. When it is dismantled, the manifestation becomes again unmanifested and remains as atoms in the ultimate stage No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 24 June 2022 diff hist +6,097 The Lord says in BG 4.11: Everyone follows My path in all respects, O son of Prtha. One may be a karmi, a jnani, a yogi and then a bhakta or prema-bhakta. But the ultimate stage of realization is prema-bhakti, as actually demonstrated by mother Yasoda No edit summary current
• 09:2509:25, 24 June 2022 diff hist +6,889 To unfold the mystery of bhakti-yoga, as it is explained in the previous verse, is the ultimate stage of all inquiries or the highest objective for the inquisitive No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 24 June 2022 diff hist +6,211 The real disease can be cured here by Krsna consciousness movement. I am eternal servant of Krsna. Everything belongs to Krsna No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 24 June 2022 diff hist +5,284 Real disease is there is no Krsna. Therefore he'll (the devotee) be agitated, either reading or working No edit summary current
• 09:0309:03, 24 June 2022 diff hist +5,536 We must carefully follow in the footsteps of Sri Madhavendra Puri and observe how he installed the Gopala Deity on top of Govardhana Hill, how he arranged and performed the Annakuta ceremony in only one day, and so forth No edit summary current
• 09:0209:02, 24 June 2022 diff hist +1,425 The next day, almost as before, there was an Annakuta ceremony. All the brahmanas prepared foods and Gopala accepted them No edit summary current
• 09:0209:02, 24 June 2022 diff hist +5,035 Since eating is the first necessity in human society, those engaged in solving the problems of preparing and distributing food should take lessons from Madhavendra Puri and execute the Annakuta ceremony No edit summary current
• 09:0209:02, 24 June 2022 diff hist +4,299 Seeing the influence of Madhavendra Puri, all the people gathered there were struck with wonder. They saw that the Annakuta ceremony, which had been performed before during the time of Krsna, was now taking place again by the mercy of Madhavendra Puri No edit summary
• 09:0109:01, 24 June 2022 diff hist +1,645 One village after another was pleased to beg Madhavendra Puri to allot them one day to perform the Annakuta ceremony. Thus, day after day, the Annakuta ceremony was performed for some time No edit summary current
• 09:0109:01, 24 June 2022 diff hist +1,360 In this way the Annakuta ceremony was performed, and Madhavendra Puri Gosvami personally offered everything to Gopala No edit summary current
• 09:0109:01, 24 June 2022 diff hist −13 In this kind of ceremony, which is called Annakuta, cooked rice is stacked like a small mountain for prasadam distribution No edit summary current
• 09:0009:00, 24 June 2022 diff hist +1,746 All the villages in neighboring Vrajabhumi (Vrndavana) became aware of the appearance of Gopala, and all the people from these villages came to see Him. Day after day they all performed the Annakuta ceremony No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 24 June 2022 diff hist +4,226 This poetry was found in the India House Library at London by Gurudasa. I was searching after it and my master has rewarded me of this after so long a time (34 years). Please publish it in BTG No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 24 June 2022 diff hist +3,549 O my Lord! O unlimited one! Although I was merged in the ocean of nescience, I have now, after a long time, attained You, just as one may attain the seashore No edit summary current
• 08:5308:53, 24 June 2022 diff hist +2,977 It is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita that the impersonal way of self-realization is more troublesome because it reaches the goal in an indirect way, although the impersonalist also becomes obsessed with the personal feature of the Lord after a long time No edit summary current
• 08:5108:51, 24 June 2022 diff hist +38,873 If, after a long time, somebody embarks on a homeward journey, the pleasure of being homeward - bound diminishes the accompanying distress of the journey. The inconveniences of traveling become subordinate to the pleasure of heading homeward No edit summary current
• 08:2708:27, 24 June 2022 diff hist +7,190 This is also confirmed in the Hari-bhakti-vilasa by Sri Sanatana Gosvami: "As a base metal like bell metal can be changed into gold by a chemical process, any person can similarly be changed into a brahmana by diksa-vidhana, the initiation process No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 24 June 2022 diff hist +6,047 Purification of the heart by culture of knowledge or mystic yoga may be all right for the time being for an individual person, but it is like the cleansing of a small quantity of stagnant water by chemical processes No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 24 June 2022 diff hist +8 Clarification (by chemical processes) of water may stand for the time being and the sediments settle down, but by a slight agitation everything becomes muddy No edit summary current
• 08:2108:21, 24 June 2022 diff hist +56 To be knowledgeable, one must understand his constitutional position and realize how he is suffering in this material world. That perfection of knowledge comes when one becomes vasudeva-parayanah, devoted to Lord Vasudeva No edit summary current
• 08:1708:17, 24 June 2022 diff hist +31 Sukadeva Gosvami suggests an alternate process: kecit kevalaya bhaktya vasudeva-parayanah, agham dhunvanti kartsnyena niharam iva bhaskarah - SB 6.1.15 No edit summary current
• 08:1608:16, 24 June 2022 diff hist +7,361 Sukadeva Gosvami, having several times repeated the words vasudeva-parayana and narayana-parayana, finally says krsna-padaravindayoh. Thus he indicates that Krsna is the origin of both Narayana and Vasudeva No edit summary current
• 08:1508:15, 24 June 2022 diff hist +31 Such a devotee who is narayana-parayana, or vasudeva-parayana is not afraid of going anywhere No edit summary current
• 08:1408:14, 24 June 2022 diff hist +9 Since Lord Krsna is the center of the topics, the word vasudeva-parayanah, or "devotee of Vasudeva," suggests devotee of Lord Krsna, the common aim No edit summary current
• 08:1308:13, 24 June 2022 diff hist +10,834 Process of bhakti, devotional service to Krsna (vasudeva-parayana), relieves one from the reactions of all activities No edit summary current
• 08:1308:13, 24 June 2022 diff hist +3,308 One who is vasudeva-parayana, or seriously engaged in the devotional service of the Personality of Godhead, Vasudeva, need not care for any other obligation No edit summary current
• 08:1208:12, 24 June 2022 diff hist +31 One who is a devotee (Vasudeva-parayanah) and who simply engages in devotional service is immediately freed from all sinful activities No edit summary current
• 08:0908:09, 24 June 2022 diff hist +4,045 Kecit means "somebody, "very rarely." "Somebody" means "very rarely." It is not so easy thing to become vasudeva-parayanah No edit summary current
• 06:3106:31, 24 June 2022 diff hist +5,791 When in the heart of a devotee there is expectation of some mishap to Krsna it is called devotional service in bereavement. Such bereavement is another symptom of this devotional service in compassion No edit summary current
• 06:3106:31, 24 June 2022 diff hist +5,398 When the program is changed into the service of the Lord, that is to say when the senses are purified in relation with the service of the Lord, it is called pure unalloyed devotional service No edit summary current
• 06:3106:31, 24 June 2022 diff hist +3,623 When the transcendental devotional service is mixed with a subordinate process, it is no longer transcendental but is called mixed devotional service No edit summary current
• 06:3006:30, 24 June 2022 diff hist +3,078 When in the heart of a devotee there is expectation of some mishap to Krsna it is called devotional service in bereavement No edit summary current
• 06:2506:25, 24 June 2022 diff hist +6,176 Such activities (like engaging in Krsna consciousness, or the devotional service of the Lord) are performed in his (the living entity's) constitutional position, and they are technically called devotional service. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 06:2406:24, 24 June 2022 diff hist +3,224 These reciprocal exchanges of mellows are called raga-bhakti, or devotional service to the Lord in transcendental rapture No edit summary current
• 06:2106:21, 24 June 2022 diff hist +20 The astrologer Sarvajna advised the poor man: The search should be conducted on the eastern side where there is actual light, which is called devotional service or Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
• 06:2006:20, 24 June 2022 diff hist +47,190 The devotee should see his identity as an eternal servant of Krsna. In this way one can engage his senses in the service of the Lord. Such engagement is called pure devotional service No edit summary current