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30 June 2022

• 07:1707:17, 30 June 2022 diff hist +6,808 The standard of human civilization should be to cure the disease of sense gratification, and one can do this simply by becoming an agent for satisfying the spiritual senses of the Lord No edit summary current
• 07:1707:17, 30 June 2022 diff hist +9,834 The production of machines and machine tools increases the artificial living fashion of a class of vested interests and keeps thousands of men in starvation and unrest. This should not be the standard of civilization No edit summary current
• 07:1607:16, 30 June 2022 diff hist +5,708 The highest achievement of perfect civilization is to work with valor but at the same time depend completely on the Lord. The Pandavas were the ideal executors of this standard of civilization No edit summary current
• 07:1607:16, 30 June 2022 diff hist +5,408 Material sense gratification is now the standard of civilization. For the maintenance of such material civilizations, man has formed complex nations and communities, and there is a constant strain of hot and cold wars between these different groups No edit summary current
• 07:1507:15, 30 June 2022 diff hist +5,413 Machinery is not bad because through the machine one can take advantage of hearing about the Lord, but because machinery is used for ulterior purposes, it is creating rapid degradation in the standard of human civilization No edit summary current
• 07:1407:14, 30 June 2022 diff hist +1,532 Ideal executors of this standard of civilization No edit summary current
• 07:1407:14, 30 June 2022 diff hist +7,866 Among the living entities who live on the ground, only 400,000 are human species, and out of these 400,000 human species, many are uncivilized or unclean; they are not up to the standard of proper civilization No edit summary current
• 07:0807:08, 30 June 2022 diff hist +3,553 You are the source of the eternal occupation of all living entities, and by Your multimanifestations of Personalities of Godhead, You have always protected religion No edit summary current
• 07:0607:06, 30 June 2022 diff hist −21 Sanatana-dharma refers to the eternal occupation of the living entity. BG 1972 Introduction No edit summary current
• 06:5906:59, 30 June 2022 diff hist +10,419 This regulating process (trying to know the Absolute Truth) is commonly known as a system of faith or religion No edit summary current
• 06:5906:59, 30 June 2022 diff hist +3,655 The parijata tree is not commonly found within this material world. The parijata tree is also known as kalpa-vrksa, or the wish-fulfilling tree. One can get anything he desires from such a tree No edit summary current
• 06:5806:58, 30 June 2022 diff hist +3,115 The intense heat of its effulgence, meant for killing non-Vaisnavas, is unbearable to Rahu, and he therefore flees in fear of it. During the time Rahu disturbs the sun or moon, there occurs what people commonly know as an eclipse No edit summary current
• 06:5706:57, 30 June 2022 diff hist +5,168 Lord Siva's punishment was just like that of a cowherd boy, who keeps a stick to frighten his animals. It is commonly said that to give protection to animals, a stick is needed because animals cannot reason and argue No edit summary current
• 06:5706:57, 30 June 2022 diff hist +2,694 In due course of time, when a pure devotee is completely prepared, all of a sudden the change of body occurs which is commonly called death No edit summary current
• 06:5606:56, 30 June 2022 diff hist +1,920 Formerly when a person died it was commonly said that he had attained the shelter of mother Ganges, even if he did not die on the bank of the Ganges No edit summary current
• 06:5606:56, 30 June 2022 diff hist +2,079 Despite directly perceiving the symptoms of the Supreme Lord in the body of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, you cannot understand Him. This is commonly called illusion No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 30 June 2022 diff hist −13 When the sky is clear, we can see the sun's brilliant effulgence, but when it is covered by clouds, we cannot see it. We may be able to perceive the sunlight, but we cannot see the sun disc itself. When the sky is clear, it is in its natural condition No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 30 June 2022 diff hist +5,284 Instead of serving the senses, if you serve the Lord of the senses, then you are in natural condition, and that is called bhagavata-dharma. So bhagavata-dharma is nothing unnatural, or Krsna consciousness is nothing unnatural. It is very natural No edit summary current
• 06:4406:44, 30 June 2022 diff hist +21,360 When one becomes deeply affected by the devotion of the residents of Vrajabhumi and tries to follow in their footsteps, he does not care for the restrictions or regulations of the revealed scriptures. This is the characteristic of one in raga-bhakti No edit summary current
• 06:4206:42, 30 June 2022 diff hist +20 Those who obey the rules and regulations of scriptures, the moral and social laws, and are, more or less, devoted to the Supreme Lord. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 06:4206:42, 30 June 2022 diff hist +4,066 Those who are in Krsna consciousness are naturally reluctant to engage in material sense gratifications. But those who are not in such consciousness should follow the rules and regulations of the revealed scriptures. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 06:4106:41, 30 June 2022 diff hist +6,407 Those who are following the rules and regulations of the scriptures for material happiness may be further divided into two classes: those who are fruitive workers and those who desire no fruit for sense gratification. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 06:4106:41, 30 June 2022 diff hist +19 Those in the modes of passion and ignorance deride the scriptures, deride the holy man, and deride the proper understanding of the spiritual master, and they do not care for the regulations of the scriptures. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 06:3906:39, 30 June 2022 diff hist −4 The two stages of executing devotional service are, 1) first, the stage of practicing devotional service with our present senses under the regulations of the recognized scriptures No edit summary current
• 06:3806:38, 30 June 2022 diff hist +2,521 The difference between a married wife and a public prostitute is that one is restrained in sex life by the rules and regulations of the scriptures, whereas the other is unrestricted in sex life and is conducted solely by the strong sex urge No edit summary current
• 06:3206:32, 30 June 2022 diff hist +43 One has to follow those rules and regulations (of the revealed scriptures), unattached to them, because practice of sense gratifications under regulations may also lead one to go astray - as much as there is always the chance of an accident. BG 1972 pur No edit summary current
• 06:3206:32, 30 June 2022 diff hist +13,805 Neophytes in devotional service must strictly and scrupulously follow the rules and regulations of the scriptures to rise to the platform of unalloyed devotional service No edit summary current
• 06:3106:31, 30 June 2022 diff hist +2,356 He irresponsibly spent his long lifetime transgressing all the rules and regulations of the holy scripture, living extravagantly and eating food prepared by a prostitute. Therefore he is full of sins. He is unclean and is addicted to forbidden activities No edit summary current
• 06:3006:30, 30 June 2022 diff hist +20 There are many rules and regulations for the worship of demigods in the scriptures, and one may question why the Vedic literatures recommended their worship. There is necessity No edit summary current
• 06:3006:30, 30 June 2022 diff hist +6,538 Practicing the scriptural rules and regulations only for the sake of following them and not for the sake of spiritual advancement, or rejecting the rules and regulations of the scriptures and working independently or whimsically No edit summary current
• 06:2206:22, 30 June 2022 diff hist +3,622 Actually people will be happy when a trained leader, whether a monarch or a dictator, takes control of the government and rules the people according to the standard regulations of the authorized scriptures No edit summary current
• 06:2206:22, 30 June 2022 diff hist +13,855 According to Sutra 12 (NBS), even a person on a highly elevated platform of devotional service must execute the rules and regulations of the scripture, what to speak of persons who are not elevated No edit summary current
• 06:1806:18, 30 June 2022 diff hist +6,162 While mother Yasoda was thinking in this high philosophical way, Lord Krsna again expanded His internal energy just to bewilder her with maternal affection. Immediately mother Yasoda forgot all philosophical speculation & accepted Krsna as her own child No edit summary current
• 06:1806:18, 30 June 2022 diff hist +7,261 When they (the cows) were coming down the hill (of Govardhana), their milk bags were pouring milk on the ground out of intense maternal affection for the calves, although they were not their own calves No edit summary current
• 06:1706:17, 30 June 2022 diff hist +2,070 Thus as Dhruva Maharaja passed on the road, from every place in the neighborhood all the gentle household ladies assembled to see him, and out of maternal affection they offered their blessings, showering him with white mustard seed, barley No edit summary current
• 06:1706:17, 30 June 2022 diff hist +7,439 The mothers of the boys heard the vibration of their flutes before their entrance, and to receive them, they came out of their homes and embraced them. Out of maternal affection, milk was flowing from their breasts No edit summary current
• 06:1506:15, 30 June 2022 diff hist +2,186 Seeing the transcendental bodily effulgence of the child, each of His nicely constructed limbs full of auspicious signs & resembling a form of gold, Sita Thakurani was very pleased & because of her maternal affection she felt as if her heart were melting No edit summary current
• 06:1406:14, 30 June 2022 diff hist +3,688 Quite astonishingly, mother Yasoda was afraid because of intense maternal affection. She could not believe that within the mouth of her son such things (cosmic manifestation) could appear. Yet she saw them, and therefore she was struck with fear & wonder No edit summary current
• 06:1406:14, 30 June 2022 diff hist +10 One day mother Yasoda, having taken Krsna up and placed Him on her lap, was feeding Him milk from her breast with maternal affection. The milk was flowing from her breast, and the child was drinking it - 10.7.34 No edit summary current
• 06:0806:08, 30 June 2022 diff hist +6,872 By all of these activities, it is definitely understood that she (Yasoda) is the emblem of all maternal affection for Krsna No edit summary current
• 06:0706:07, 30 June 2022 diff hist +3,266 Although Krsna was full of opulences, now, by the order of mother Yasoda, He opened wide His mouth like a human child and did not neglect the transcendental humor of maternal affection No edit summary current
• 06:0706:07, 30 June 2022 diff hist +2,421 All the gopis, headed by mother Yasoda, were bound by maternal affection. After they thus chanted mantras to protect the child (Krsna), mother Yasoda gave the child the nipple of her breast to suck and then got Him to lie down on His bed - SB 10.6.30 No edit summary current
• 06:0406:04, 30 June 2022 diff hist −8 Visrambhena means "with intimacy," and gauravena means "with great reverence No edit summary current
• 06:0406:04, 30 June 2022 diff hist +4,740 The words etad abhyasatadrtah indicate that if one takes these instructions from a spiritual master with great reverence (adrta) and practices them accordingly, he will find this bhakti-yoga process to be very, very easy No edit summary current
• 06:0306:03, 30 June 2022 diff hist +5,497 People worship Krsna and offer food with great reverence and devotion, but automatically He sucked the milk from the body of Putana No edit summary current
• 06:0306:03, 30 June 2022 diff hist +20,196 I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor, who is tending the cows, always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds and thousands of laksmis, or gopis - Bs. 5.29 No edit summary current
• 06:0206:02, 30 June 2022 diff hist +5,186 He is always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds and thousands of goddesses of fortune No edit summary current
• 06:0206:02, 30 June 2022 diff hist +4,317 He (Govinda) is always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds of thousands of Laksmis, or goddesses of fortune No edit summary current
• 06:0206:02, 30 June 2022 diff hist +5,458 He (Dhruva Maharaja) offered obeisances to the Lord with great respect and reverence, completely understanding that the Lord's favor was upon him No edit summary
• 06:0206:02, 30 June 2022 diff hist +26 Everyone worships the Supreme Lord with great reverence; therefore the Lord sometimes wants to enjoy the chastisement of His devotees. In this way the relationship eternally existing between the Lord and His devotees is fixed, just like the sky overhead No edit summary current