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4 July 2022

• 07:4207:42, 4 July 2022 diff hist +14 In order to perform real yoga one must realize his constitutional position as being distinct from matter. The purpose of seeking out a secluded place and executing the meditational process is to come to this understanding No edit summary current
• 07:4007:40, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,036 Because (foolish persons) they do not realize the natural constitutional position of the living entity, they concoct names like daridra-narayana, svami-narayana or mithya-narayana No edit summary current
• 06:3406:34, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,002 There are seven kinds of mothers. These mothers are the original mother, the wife of the teacher or spiritual master, the wife of a brahmana, the king's wife, the cow, the nurse and the earth No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,005 They are both very exemplary devotees, and they are already trained in managing all areas of Sankirtana Party and temple affairs. So their presence will be a great help to you No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,611 Regarding general state of affairs at Amsterdam temple, I can understand there is some disturbance among you, but that is not to be taken very seriously No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,409 It is a very important question, and I am glad that you have asked me, but I think from now on the GBC men may be consulted in all such matters of temple management and affairs No edit summary current
• 06:2806:28, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,531 If your preaching work is strong, then your management of temple affairs will also become automatically very strong. Just like if the head wills it, the hand will move No edit summary current
• 06:2406:24, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,452 Decide amongst yourselves what is to be done and do the needful. This is management. You have asked about the management of our society, and the position is that management should be done in such a way that people may not break away No edit summary current
• 06:2306:23, 4 July 2022 diff hist +32 A devotee should not be aggrieved in an awkward position, nor should he feel extraordinarily happy in material opulence. This is the way of expert management of material life. Because a devotee knows how to manage expertly, he is called jivan-mukta No edit summary current
• 06:2206:22, 4 July 2022 diff hist +2,225 Regarding Gurukula I am very happy to hear that the financial crisis has passed. That is very good. This is real management No edit summary current
• 06:1706:17, 4 July 2022 diff hist +2,999 There is no brain in this artistic work. And how wonderfully, because it is automatically coming, artist. Anything you take, flower. So, without brain how this thing can happen? But these rascals, they do not understand No edit summary current
• 06:1706:17, 4 July 2022 diff hist −13 Seeing the wonderful arrangement and management of the cosmic manifestation generally suggests that a living brain is behind this arrangement, for without a living brain such an arrangement could not exist No edit summary current
• 06:1606:16, 4 July 2022 diff hist +6 A civilization of ghosts, without brain. It is something revolutionary. Something revolutionary, but this is a fact No edit summary current
• 06:0606:06, 4 July 2022 diff hist +51,502 One may ask that if Caitanya Mahaprabhu is Krsna Himself, then why did He need a spiritual master? Of course He did not need a spiritual master, but because He was playing the role of acarya (one who teaches by example), He accepted a spiritual master No edit summary current
• 06:0506:05, 4 July 2022 diff hist +53,068 One may ask that if Caitanya is Krsna Himself, then why did He need a spiritual master? Of course, He did not need a spiritual master, but because He was playing the role of acarya (one who teaches by example), He accepted a spiritual master - CC Intro No edit summary current
• 06:0506:05, 4 July 2022 diff hist +2,429 If one is not very inquisitive about self-realization, one need not approach a spiritual master simply to make a show of discipleship No edit summary current
• 06:0406:04, 4 July 2022 diff hist +2,822 Even if there is a need to ask a favor from the spiritual master, one cannot ask that favor without satisfying him fully. Svayambhuva Manu wanted to disclose his mind regarding the function he wanted to execute due to affection for his daughter No edit summary current
• 06:0406:04, 4 July 2022 diff hist −8 At the present moment, thousands of spiritual masters are needed to spread this great science (of Krsna) throughout the world No edit summary
• 05:5805:58, 4 July 2022 diff hist +6,114 Who is in Krsna consciousness, he sees everyone on the same level. How it is, that? Has he become a madman, that a highly intellectual person and the dog, he sees on the equal level? Yes. Because he is not seeing on the material platform No edit summary current
• 05:5505:55, 4 July 2022 diff hist +81,149 The four social orders (intellectual, administrative, mercantile, and laborer) are set by Him (Krsna) according to the qualities these persons have acquired through their actions under the modes of nature No edit summary current
• 05:5505:55, 4 July 2022 diff hist +81,292 Sri Krsna Himself has enumerated the basic principles of a caste system that is real and universal. The four social orders (intellectual, administrative, mercantile, and laborer) are set by Him according to the qualities these persons have acquired No edit summary current
• 05:5405:54, 4 July 2022 diff hist +20,972 Modern society is in dire need of intellectual persons or brahmanas who can broadcast real spiritual knowledge all over the world. That is an absolute necessity for a society which is working hard simply to exploit nature No edit summary current
• 05:5405:54, 4 July 2022 diff hist +14 Although according to the Vedic system of education one must be given instruction by intellectual persons like brahmanas, if someone lower on the social scale has learned the truth, one should accept him as a teacher and learn from him No edit summary
• 05:4805:48, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,623 This is a spiritual movement, and at the present moment people are more interested with material improvement, but our real interest is... Not only our, every human being's interest should be for spiritual upliftment No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,347 The entire social structure of varna and asrama is a cooperative system meant to uplift all to the highest platform of spiritual realization No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 4 July 2022 diff hist +2,492 The demigods concern themselves with the spiritual upliftment of human society, whereas the demons are concerned with physical and material upliftment No edit summary current
• 05:4605:46, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,882 Such (Dhaumya and Krpa) brahmanas are not only rare, but also not available in this age, & therefore, for the purpose of spiritual upliftment in this fallen age, the Gosvamis prefer the purificatory processes under Pancaratrika formulas to the Vedic rites No edit summary current
• 05:4605:46, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,835 In ancient days the citizens from village to village were taught the principles of self-realization according to the Vedic codes for both the material and the spiritual upliftment of society No edit summary current
• 05:4505:45, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,120 Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati represented perfectly the ideal of utilizing 100 percent of one's energy in God's service for the spiritual upliftment of humanity No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,135 This mentality of Prajapati Daksa still continues even today. When young boys join the Krsna consciousness movement, their fathers and so-called guardians are very angry at the propounder of the Krsna consciousness movement No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,598 The Lord appeared as the son of Devahuti and Kardama Muni as Kapiladeva, the first propounder of the Sankhya philosophy No edit summary current
• 05:3905:39, 4 July 2022 diff hist +1,864 My dear King Pariksit, in the next manvantara the lotus-eyed Personality of Godhead Lord Parasurama, the son of Jamadagni, will be a great propounder of Vedic knowledge. In other words, he will be one of the seven sages No edit summary current
• 05:3805:38, 4 July 2022 diff hist +6,276 Lord Buddha is the incarnation of Godhead. As such, he is the original propounder of Vedic knowledge. He therefore cannot reject Vedic philosophy No edit summary current
• 05:3805:38, 4 July 2022 diff hist +8,167 He (Bhrgu) was a scientific propounder of the four divisions and orders of human society known as the varnasrama institution. He converted the ksatriya king Vitahavya into a brahmana No edit summary current
• 05:3705:37, 4 July 2022 diff hist +9,340 Bali said, "You (Krsna) are the creator of the whole world. You are the original initiator and propounder of the systems of jnana-yoga and bhakti-yoga" No edit summary current
• 05:3205:32, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,257 One man is trying to exploit another; one nation is trying to exploit another nation; one society is trying to... This is struggle for existence. They have invented this law that "Might is right" No edit summary current
• 05:2105:21, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,755 Thus any process manufactured within this created situation as a means for understanding the original source of creation is to be considered modern No edit summary current
• 05:2005:20, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,187 The Vedanta-sutra begins by declaring that the Absolute Person is the original source of all creation No edit summary current
• 05:2005:20, 4 July 2022 diff hist +6,895 The supreme source of creation, the Supreme Lord, reveals Himself only to the devotees No edit summary current
• 05:0305:03, 4 July 2022 diff hist +77,648 O my dear Krsna, You are the friend of the distressed and the source of creation. You are the master of the gopis and the lover of Radharani. I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. BG 1972 Introduction No edit summary current
• 05:0205:02, 4 July 2022 diff hist +6,024 One should pray to the Lord to be engaged in His devotional service eternally, so that by the grace of the Lord one can understand the supreme source of creation No edit summary current
• 05:0105:01, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,003 One has to associate with such a mahatma, who has accepted Krsna as the supreme source of the entire creation. Without being a mahatma, one cannot understand Krsna's absolute position No edit summary current
• 05:0105:01, 4 July 2022 diff hist +6,760 Material science has tried to find the ultimate source of creation very insufficiently, but it is a fact that there is one ultimate source of everything that be. This ultimate source is explained rationally and authoritatively in the beautiful Bhagavatam No edit summary current
• 05:0005:00, 4 July 2022 diff hist +32 Krsna is the original source of creation and the ultimate rest after annihilation. Krsna is therefore the eternal cause of all causes. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 05:0005:00, 4 July 2022 diff hist +43,994 I offer my obeisances unto the Supreme Truth - This is the first introductory verse dealing with the Supreme Truth, which is described in Srimad-Bhagavatam as the source of creation, maintenance and destruction for the cosmic manifestation No edit summary current
• 04:5904:59, 4 July 2022 diff hist +6,705 It is explained by the Lord Himself in Bhagavad-gita (BG 9.4-5): Behold My (Krsna's) mystic opulence! Although I am the maintainer of all living entities, and although I am everywhere, My Self is the very source of creation No edit summary current
• 04:5804:58, 4 July 2022 diff hist +6,257 In other words, the supreme source of creation, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, cannot be understood by our own endeavor No edit summary current
• 04:5804:58, 4 July 2022 diff hist +9,260 Devaki said, "My dear Krsna, I know that Maha-Visnu, who is lying in the Causal Ocean of the cosmic manifestation and who is the source of this whole creation, is simply an expansion of Your plenary portion" No edit summary current
• 04:5704:57, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,896 Devahuti said, "Your (God) being born from my abdomen is certainly wonderful because although You are the source of all creation, You have so kindly taken birth as my child. That is most wonderful No edit summary current
• 04:5704:57, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,128 And yet everything that is created does not rest in Me. Behold My mystic opulence! Although I am the maintainer of all living entities, and although I am everywhere, still My Self is the very source of creation. BG 9.5 - 1972 No edit summary current