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7 July 2022

• 08:0108:01, 7 July 2022 diff hist +10,390 There are three kinds of devotees of the Lord, and the neophyte is in the lowest stage. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 07:5907:59, 7 July 2022 diff hist +5,028 Krsna has now explained about the personal, the impersonal and the universal and has described all kinds of devotees and yogis. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 07:5807:58, 7 July 2022 diff hist +58 There are three kinds of devotees: (1) those who are eternally on the transcendental platform (nitya-siddha), (2) those who have been elevated to the transcendental platform by the execution of devotional service - sadhana-siddha No edit summary current
• 07:5807:58, 7 July 2022 diff hist +6,640 The word atmavatam is significant in this verse (SB 4.22.16). There are three different kinds of devotees, namely kanistha-adhikari, madhyama-adhikari and uttama-adhikari: the neophyte, the preacher and the maha-bhagavata, or the highly advanced devotee No edit summary current
• 07:5707:57, 7 July 2022 diff hist +4,716 The word sarva-mantra-vicarana in the present verse of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta means “considering all different types of mantras.” There are different kinds of mantras for different kinds of devotees No edit summary current
• 07:5707:57, 7 July 2022 diff hist +5,162 The preceeding verses (from BG 8.14) mention four different kinds of devotees - the distressed, the inquisitive, those who seek material gain, and the speculative philosophers. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 07:5607:56, 7 July 2022 diff hist +5,953 Out of many kinds of devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the one who is attracted to the original form of the Lord, Krsna in Vrndavana, is considered to be the foremost, first-class devotee No edit summary current
• 07:5607:56, 7 July 2022 diff hist +26,186 Radharani's transcendental qualities are as follows: (20) She is the abode of love of the residents of Gokula; (21) She can give shelter to all kinds of devotees; (22) She is always affectionate to superiors and inferiors No edit summary current
• 07:5607:56, 7 July 2022 diff hist +46,350 There are different kinds of devotees who have different aptitudes and relationships with the Supreme Lord. Any one relationship with the Lord is as good as any other because the central point is Krsna No edit summary current
• 07:5507:55, 7 July 2022 diff hist +23,013 There are three classes of devotees according to the degree of conviction. The first-class devotee is conversant with all kinds of Vedic literature. He can deliver all others from the pangs of material miseries No edit summary current
• 07:5407:54, 7 July 2022 diff hist +25,697 His (God's) transcendental qualities are such that the perfection of His beauty, His perfect reciprocation of love between Himself & His devotees & the flavor of His transcendental qualities attract different kinds of transcendentalists & liberated souls No edit summary current
• 07:5407:54, 7 July 2022 diff hist +1,805 Four kinds of devotees are the receptacles of the four kinds of mellows in love of God, namely servitude, friendship, parental affection and conjugal love No edit summary current
• 07:5407:54, 7 July 2022 diff hist +3,272 I worship herewith the lotus feet of all kinds of devotees, both advanced and neophyte. I request all of them to be satisfied with me No edit summary current

6 July 2022

• 12:5912:59, 6 July 2022 diff hist +5,567 You have to remain within the conditions of material nature. Daivi hy esa gunamayi mama.... You cannot violate. If you want to violate the laws of nature, then you will create another difficulty No edit summary current
• 12:5812:58, 6 July 2022 diff hist +2,879 The Vedic literatures are the laws of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. One cannot violate the injunctions given in the Vedic literatures any more than one can violate the state laws No edit summary current
• 12:5812:58, 6 July 2022 diff hist +4,697 Upon breaking the laws of the state, everyone can be punished by the government except the brahmanas and Vaisnavas No edit summary current
• 12:5812:58, 6 July 2022 diff hist +5,848 You cannot violate the laws of God. As you cannot violate the laws of the state, similarly, if you violate, you have to suffer. You cannot expect peace and you go on killing animals. That is not possible No edit summary current
• 12:5812:58, 6 July 2022 diff hist +7,344 There is no necessity for the government's creation of a separate police department, but because it is a fact that some of the citizens will not accept the state laws, a department to deal with criminals is necessary No edit summary current
• 12:5812:58, 6 July 2022 diff hist +9,805 Let them suffer (by concocting their own system). What can be done? If you don't accept the laws of the state and you manufacture your own laws, then you'll suffer No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 6 July 2022 diff hist +33 Just as disobedient citizens serve the government indirectly. Prisoners come to the prison house on account of their disobedience of the laws of the state. So, in the prison house, they are forced to obey the laws of the state No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 6 July 2022 diff hist −22 If a citizen is disobedient to the state law, he is immediately put into police custody. Similarly, anyone who has rebelled against the superiority of God is put under the stringent laws of material nature, and he must suffer. That is the position No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 6 July 2022 diff hist +4,786 Brahmanas and Vaisnavas never transgress the laws of the state or the laws of nature because they know perfectly well the resultant reactions caused by such law-breaking No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 6 July 2022 diff hist +7,223 As soon as he thinks that "I am independent," that is another insanity. He is under control. Just like the same man. He is thinking, "I don't care for state laws." He is insane. He will be forced to accept state laws in the prison house by the police No edit summary current
• 12:2512:25, 6 July 2022 diff hist +10 If a GBC man becomes a good lawyer that is very good No edit summary current
• 12:1412:14, 6 July 2022 diff hist +4,190 A sannyasi does not abandon his superior position and become a beggar just for the sake of begging. Similarly, a person in householder life may be very important, but he may also voluntarily take to the mendicant way of life No edit summary current
• 12:1412:14, 6 July 2022 diff hist +2,972 As the householder is maintainer & protector of beggars & as the learned is the friend of the ignorant, so the king is the protector & giver of life to all his subjects. The trees are also subjects of the king. Therefore they should be given protection No edit summary current
• 12:1312:13, 6 July 2022 diff hist +7,793 The renounced order of life is never meant for begging or living at the cost of others as a parasite. According to the dictionary, a parasite is a sycophant who lives at the cost of society without making any contribution to that society No edit summary current
• 12:1312:13, 6 July 2022 diff hist +3,680 Sannyasi means he is in renounced order and lives by begging alms for the bare necessities of life. It is not good to make trade to get money for personal expenditure No edit summary current
• 12:1312:13, 6 July 2022 diff hist +18,422 Sacrifice is another item to be performed by the householders because sacrifices require a large amount of money. Other orders of life, namely the brahmacarya, the vanaprastha and sannyasa, have no money; they live by begging. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 12:1312:13, 6 July 2022 diff hist +2,808 One is recommended to take leave of his family and live alone, maintaining body and soul together by begging alms and eating only as much as needed to keep himself alive. Without such a process, one cannot conquer lusty desires No edit summary current
• 12:1112:11, 6 July 2022 diff hist +2,683 It's better to live in this world by begging than to live at the cost of the lives of great souls who're my teachers. Even though they are avaricious, they're nonetheless superiors. If they are killed, our spoils will be tainted with blood. BG 2.5 - 1972 No edit summary current
• 12:1112:11, 6 July 2022 diff hist +1,970 In Vrndavana, he goes from door to door begging alms with all his disciples. He begs from both the moving and the inert inhabitants - the citizens, the trees and the creepers. In this way he lives on fruits, roots and leaves No edit summary current
• 12:1012:10, 6 July 2022 diff hist +3,163 His (Arjuna's) desire to live by begging, although he was born in the royal household, is another sign of detachment. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 12:1012:10, 6 July 2022 diff hist +3,028 For conquering the agitation of the mind one is recommended to take leave of his family and live alone, maintaining body and soul together by begging alms and eating only as much as needed to keep himself alive No edit summary current
• 12:1012:10, 6 July 2022 diff hist +3,532 Carvaka recommended that man should live very opulently by either begging, borrowing or stealing No edit summary current
• 12:1012:10, 6 July 2022 diff hist +2,858 Begging, borrowing and stealing to live for sense gratification is condemned in this verse (SB 5.5.4) because such consciousness leads one to a dark, hellish condition No edit summary current
• 12:0912:09, 6 July 2022 diff hist +3,194 Arjuna did not know whether he should fight and risk unnecessary violence, although fighting is the duty of the ksatriyas, or whether he should refrain and live by begging. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 12:0912:09, 6 July 2022 diff hist +4,572 We are not begging for livelihood, but it is for expansion of the Krishna Consciousness Movement, and members who are free are working outside and giving the result of their work for Krishna Consciousness Movement No edit summary current
• 08:0408:04, 6 July 2022 diff hist +3,638 Regarding your getting married, I have no objection. However as a brahmacari you are not obligated to marry, what is the advantage to your getting married? That should be considered No edit summary current
• 08:0408:04, 6 July 2022 diff hist +3,659 So far as getting yourself married is concerned, I have no objection. Be sure that you can meet the obligations of Grihasta order of life and then when you find a nice girl you may marry with my blessings No edit summary current
• 07:0007:00, 6 July 2022 diff hist +2,520 Shaktimata Devi Dasi whom you know from London. She is presently in Nairobi & is looking for a good husband for her daughter. She wrote one letter appealing that you might consider marrying her daughter. So, if you are agreeable then I have not objection No edit summary current
• 06:3106:31, 6 July 2022 diff hist +1,927 When ghee (clarified butter) was offered in the fire of sacrifice, there appeared from the fire a celestial chariot covered with gold and silk. There also appeared yellow horses like those of Indra, and a flag marked with a lion No edit summary current
• 06:3106:31, 6 July 2022 diff hist +7,076 Under the priesthood of Mamateya, Bhrgu Muni, he performed fifty-five horse sacrifices on the bank of the Ganges, beginning from its mouth and ending at its source, and seventy-eight horse sacrifices on the bank of the Yamuna No edit summary current
• 06:3006:30, 6 July 2022 diff hist −13 King Indra is known as sata-kratu, which indicates that he has performed one hundred horse sacrifices (asvamedha-yajna). We should know, however, that the animals sacrificed in the yajna were not killed No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 6 July 2022 diff hist +2,985 Formerly, the brahmanas well conversant in Vedic mantras could show the potency of the mantras, but in this age, because there are no such brahmanas, all such sacrifices are forbidden. The sacrifice in which horses were offered was called asvamedha No edit summary current
• 06:2806:28, 6 July 2022 diff hist +2,822 Asvamedha-yajnas or Gomedha-yajnas, sacrifices in which a horse or a bull is sacrificed, were not, of course, for the purpose of killing the animals No edit summary current
• 06:2806:28, 6 July 2022 diff hist +1,987 Amsuman brought back the horse meant for sacrifice, and with this horse Maharaja Sagara performed the remaining ritualistic ceremonies No edit summary current
• 06:2706:27, 6 July 2022 diff hist +1,778 Among these many sons, six were the foremost, such as Prthusrava and Prthukirti. The son of Prthusrava was known as Dharma, and his son was known as Usana. Usana was the performer of one hundred horse sacrifices No edit summary current
• 06:0006:00, 6 July 2022 diff hist +16,354 Wealthy men collected rice which was selling at six rupees a pound, and suddenly within a week the price rose to fifty rupees a pound. Consequently no rice was available on the market, and the people went hungry No edit summary current
• 06:0006:00, 6 July 2022 diff hist +6,226 It is better that prostitutes be available in the marketplace so that the sanctity of society can be maintained. It is better to maintain a class of prostitutes than to encourage prostitutes within society No edit summary current