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4 July 2022

• 11:1311:13, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,216 In this age, those who come through the monkey species are considered by modern anthropologists like Darwin to be descendants of monkeys No edit summary current
• 11:1311:13, 4 July 2022 diff hist +8,390 He (Bhrgu) explained how the air in the stomach works and regulates the intestines. As a great philosopher, he logically established the eternity of the living entity. He was a great anthropologist the theory of evolution was long ago explained by him No edit summary current
• 11:1311:13, 4 July 2022 diff hist +9,223 For materialistic anthropologists speculating on the evolution of the body, a person like Darwin is a mahajana No edit summary current
• 11:1211:12, 4 July 2022 diff hist +6,079 According to the foolish Darwinian theory of the anthropologists, it is said that forty thousand years ago Homo sapiens had not appeared on this planet because the process of evolution had not reached that point No edit summary current
• 11:1211:12, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,648 According to the anthropologists, there is nature's law of struggle for existence and survival of the fittest. But they do not know that behind the law of nature is the supreme direction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 11:0511:05, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,309 By this material civilization they will never be happy. And it is risky. That they do not know. They do not believe in the transmigration of the soul. So irresponsibly… Or just like these elderly person, how they are wasting time No edit summary current
• 11:0011:00, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,951 Offering by the student to the teacher or spiritual master is called guru-daksina. It is essential that a student satisfy the teacher in return for any learning received, either material or spiritual No edit summary current
• 11:0011:00, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,348 Just like you give daksina to your spiritual master for initiation, similarly, here also, it is said, saradvatam gurum krtva. Everything must be executed under the guidance of a guru, not whimsically No edit summary current
• 10:5910:59, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,049 He also went to live at the spiritual masters' place, gurukula. After His education was finished, He gave gifts (guru-daksina) to His spiritual masters and then accepted the life of a householder No edit summary current
• 10:5910:59, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,235 After completing one's education as a brahmacari in this way, one should give daksina, an offering of gratitude, to one's guru No edit summary current
• 10:5310:53, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,933 Uddhava is one of the eternal associates of the Lord, and a plenary portion of Uddhava was one of the eight Vasus in the days of yore No edit summary current
• 10:5310:53, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,005 O Vasu, I know from within your mind what you desired in the days of yore when the Vasus and other demigods responsible for expanding the universal affairs performed sacrifices No edit summary current
• 10:5210:52, 4 July 2022 diff hist +2,627 O Uddhava, in the lotus millennium in the days of yore, at the beginning of the creation, I spoke unto Brahma, who is situated on the lotus that grows out of My navel, about My transcendental glories, which the great sages describe as Srimad-Bhagavatam No edit summary current
• 10:5210:52, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,694 In the days of yore Welfare activities for the benefit of the citizens were aimed at understanding the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 10:5110:51, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,716 Indeed, it (different opinions of demons & devotees) has existed since days of yore. Millions of years ago, there was the same competition. The demons, as a result of their so-called Vedic study, preferred to hold the side of the snake near the mouth No edit summary current
• 10:5110:51, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,489 Great sages and saints in the days of yore were not living in palatial buildings furnished with good furniture and so-called amenities of life No edit summary current
• 10:4410:44, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,445 The Lord (Krsna) is the chief amongst such satvatas. Bhismadeva, therefore, had no other desires No edit summary current
• 10:4310:43, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,179 The monist believes that there is only one consciousness, whereas the satvatas, or the devotees, believe that although there is undoubtedly one consciousness, they are one because there is agreement No edit summary current
• 10:4210:42, 4 July 2022 diff hist +2,110 Personality of Godhead who protects such pure devotees is known as the protector of the satvatas No edit summary current
• 10:3610:36, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,300 The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Freed from all sinful reactions are those who rise from bed at the end of night, early in the morning, and fully concentrate their minds with great attention upon My Vaijayanti garland and My club, Kaumodaki No edit summary current
• 10:3610:36, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,743 Krsna used to put a vaijayanti garland around His neck. This vaijayanti garland is made of at least five differently colored flowers. The length of such a garland was always touching Krsna's knees or feet No edit summary current
• 10:3510:35, 4 July 2022 diff hist +6,503 Krsna appeared before him with four hands, as visnu-murti, with a garland called Vaijayanti hanging from His neck down to His knees. He looked lustrous, His face was beautifully smiling, and He wore nice jeweled earrings on His ears No edit summary current
• 10:3510:35, 4 July 2022 diff hist +6,223 His garment glowed yellow-gold, and He was garlanded with a Vaijayanti necklace. Dressed in such an attractive way, Krsna filled up the holes of His flute with the nectar emanating from His lips No edit summary current
• 10:3510:35, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,332 Freed from all sinful reactions are those who concentrate their minds with great attention upon My Vaijayanti garland; My club, Kaumodaki; My Sudarsana disc and Pancajanya conchshell; My bearer, Garuda, the king of the birds; My bed, Sesa Naga No edit summary current
• 10:3410:34, 4 July 2022 diff hist +1,737 Both the peacock feather on His head and His Vaijayanti garland (containing flowers of five colors) resemble rainbows No edit summary current
• 10:3410:34, 4 July 2022 diff hist +6,008 At this time, the earth personified appeared before Lord Krsna and greeted Him with a Vaijayanti flower garland. She then returned the dazzling earrings of Aditi, bedecked with jewels and gold No edit summary current
• 10:2910:29, 4 July 2022 diff hist +8,804 These opulences of the Godhead (wealth, power, fame, beauty, wisdom and renunciation) are delineated by Parasara Muni, a great Vedic authority No edit summary current
• 10:2910:29, 4 July 2022 diff hist −13 There is an erroneous theory current that only human beings have souls and that other living entities do not, but we understand from Vedic authority that there are 8,400,000 species of bodies, including plants and trees, and that they all have souls No edit summary current
• 10:2810:28, 4 July 2022 diff hist −13 One may create some bylaws for his own society, but these laws must be sanctioned by the law of the State. Similarly, if we wish to make some principle of religion, it must be sanctioned by the Vedic authority No edit summary current
• 10:2810:28, 4 July 2022 diff hist +15,601 Mayavadi philosophy is inferior to Buddhist philosophy, which directly denies Vedic authority. Because it is disguised as Vedanta philosophy, Mayavadi philosophy is more dangerous than Buddhism or atheism No edit summary current
• 10:2710:27, 4 July 2022 diff hist +16,486 I cannot say to stop animal sacrifice before the deity Goddess Kali. That I cannot say. You cannot dictate on the Vedic authority No edit summary current
• 10:2110:21, 4 July 2022 diff hist +7,345 Evolution has been very well explained on the strength of Vedic authority No edit summary current
• 10:1510:15, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,732 The relationship of the pure devotees with the Lord develops because of devotional service to the Lord on the authentic basis of Vedic authority. Such pure devotees are not mundane sentimentalists, but are factually realists No edit summary current
• 10:1410:14, 4 July 2022 diff hist +6,409 The word sruti jatam indicates that in the Vedas animal sacrifice is recommended, but Lord Buddha directly denied Vedic authority in order to stop animal sacrifice. Consequently Lord Buddha is not accepted by the followers of the Vedas No edit summary current
• 10:1410:14, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,653 Vedic authority says that a householder must leave home after his fiftieth year. Pancasordhvam vanam vrajet No edit summary current
• 10:1310:13, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,656 We follow Vedic principles. So Vedas declare that these four kinds of activity, they are sinful. So we accept. Our authority is Veda. Just like lawyer's authority is lawbook No edit summary current
• 10:0710:07, 4 July 2022 diff hist +8,615 Of all the gopis, Srimati Radharani is the topmost. Rupa Gosvami and Sanatana Gosvami are the most exalted servitors of Srimati Radharani and Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Those who adhere to their service are known as rupanuga devotees No edit summary current
• 08:2308:23, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,744 We find that even an illiterate person who has lost all intelligence is elected God, and although he has a temple, it has meat-eating sannyasis, and many polluted activities go on there No edit summary current
• 08:0808:08, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,843 We do not judge the man by his dress, so we are not concerned with the color of our cloth as much as we are concerned to keep our conduct on the plane of pure spiritual life No edit summary current
• 08:0808:08, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,052 This ladder (yoga) begins from the lowest material condition of the living entity and rises up to perfect self-realization in pure spiritual life. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 08:0808:08, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,681 The Vedic principles are based on the three qualities of the material modes. One has to transcend the three qualities, and then one can be situated in pure and simple spiritual life No edit summary current
• 08:0708:07, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,487 The material color of the mind is changed when one washes it from contaminations of life-breathing and thereby frees it from the contamination of repeated births and deaths and situates it in pure spiritual life No edit summary current
• 08:0708:07, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,591 Spiritual life means pure life, and material life means contaminated life. Just like we have got this body, material body. This is impure body. Therefore we suffer from disease, we suffer from old age, we suffer from birth, we suffer from death No edit summary current
• 08:0708:07, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,208 Attainment of this stage of pure spiritual life is the highest perfection, and this stage is called svarupa, or the factual identity of the living being. Liberation means renovation of this stage of svarupa No edit summary current
• 07:5807:58, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,696 Unfortunate persons merely pick up some slogans from the great book of knowledge (Bhagavad-gita), but are unable to estimate the Lord (Krsna) as the SP of Godhead. Pure devotees like Uddhava, however, are never misled by such atheistic opportunists No edit summary current
• 07:5807:58, 4 July 2022 diff hist +6,782 Pure devotee is never puffed up like the nondevotee class of men who falsely think that they are God. It is astonishing to see how a person who is being kicked by the laws of the Lord's energy at every step can falsely think of becoming one with the Lord No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 4 July 2022 diff hist +1,955 On the platform of santa-rasa, one realizes only his constitutional position. But when one is raised to the platform of dasya-rasa, he better understands the full opulence of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 4 July 2022 diff hist −8 One who is convinced that he is eternally a servitor of the Supreme Lord is called immortal because he has realized his constitutional position of immortality No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,892 Not only does the illusory energy of the SPG act on the conditioned soul within this material world, but sometimes it also acts on the advanced learned scholars, who factually know the constitutional position of this material world through realization No edit summary current
• 07:4207:42, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,774 Liberation as conceived of by an impersonalist is a myth, and begging for sense gratification has to continue eternally unless the beggar comes to his spiritual senses and realizes his constitutional position No edit summary current