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9 July 2022
- 03:5703:57, 9 July 2022 diff hist +12,941 In the Bhagavad-gita, the Lord says that you, the soul, are present in your body and that your body is the field of your activities. So whatever you are doing is limited by the field of your body No edit summary current
- 03:5603:56, 9 July 2022 diff hist +4,527 In the Bhagavad-gita, the Lord says that one should surrender unto Him, giving up all other engagements. The Lord also gives His word there that He will protect such surrendered souls from the reactions of all sinful activities No edit summary current
- 03:5603:56, 9 July 2022 diff hist +4,362 In the absence of varieties of enjoyment, the spirit soul feels an attraction to enjoy a life of bliss, and not having any information of Krsnaloka or Vaikunthaloka, he naturally falls down to material activities in order to enjoy material varieties No edit summary current
- 03:4903:49, 9 July 2022 diff hist +4,927 If the soul is so active in its abnormal condition, existing under the covering of matter, how can one deny its activity when free? No edit summary current
- 03:4803:48, 9 July 2022 diff hist +12 In order to perceive the Supersoul within the individual soul, one has to cease the sensual activities of seeing, hearing, tasting, working, etc. Then one comes to understand that the Supreme Soul is present everywhere. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
8 July 2022
- 05:3205:32, 8 July 2022 diff hist +3,899 I, the pure soul, appearing now bound by my activities, am lying in the womb of my mother by the arrangement of maya. I offer my respectful obeisances unto Him who is also here with me but who is unaffected and changeless No edit summary current
- 05:3205:32, 8 July 2022 diff hist +3,729 I, the pure soul, appearing now bound by my activities, am lying in the womb of my mother by the arrangement of maya No edit summary current
- 05:3105:31, 8 July 2022 diff hist +4,898 He (God as the Supersoul) remains with the jiva simply as sanction-giver and witness so that the living entity can receive the results of his activities, good or bad No edit summary current
- 05:3005:30, 8 July 2022 diff hist +4,648 Hence even though he is the passive performer of all activities, how can there be freedom for the soul as long as material nature acts on him and binds him? No edit summary current
7 July 2022
- 04:0304:03, 7 July 2022 diff hist +3,713 For the impersonalist, pure egotism is aham brahmasmi - "I am not this body; I am spirit soul." But in its actual position, the spirit soul has devotional activities to perform No edit summary current
- 03:5903:59, 7 July 2022 diff hist +374 Category:Devotional Service to God is the Activity of the Soul Proper No edit summary current
- 03:5603:56, 7 July 2022 diff hist +4,522 Constant association with the spiritual activities of the Supreme Lord gradually spiritualizes the conditioned soul and ultimately severs the knot of material bondage No edit summary current
- 03:5603:56, 7 July 2022 diff hist +12 Confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (BG 3.27): "The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself the doer of activities, which are in actuality carried out by nature" No edit summary current
- 03:4703:47, 7 July 2022 diff hist +36 Category:Sinful Activities of a Conditioned Soul No edit summary current
- 03:4403:44, 7 July 2022 diff hist +7,828 BG 3.27: The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself the doer of activities that are in actuality carried out by nature No edit summary current
- 03:4303:43, 7 July 2022 diff hist +7,054 Because they are ignorant and bewildered concerning the soul and its activities, even though some of them have a vague idea of the soul, many controversies arise, and the philosophical speculators can never reach a conclusion No edit summary current
5 July 2022
- 03:0703:07, 5 July 2022 diff hist −13 A gross materialist, whether he be an empiric philosopher, a scientist, a psychologist or whatever, cannot attain such success (in mystic perfection and merging of oneself in the activities of the soul & Supersoul) through blunt efforts and word jugglery No edit summary current
- 03:0703:07, 5 July 2022 diff hist +36 A conditioned soul thinks that he is working stealthily and that no one can see his sinful activities No edit summary current
- 03:0203:02, 5 July 2022 diff hist +6 Category:Activities of a Conditioned Soul No edit summary
- 02:4102:41, 5 July 2022 diff hist +6,484 When the living entities desire to enjoy themselves, they develop a consciousness of duality and come to hate the service of the Lord. In this way the living entities fall into the material world No edit summary current
- 02:3802:38, 5 July 2022 diff hist +2,978 Uttara said: O Lord of lords, Lord of the universe! You are the greatest of mystics. Please protect me, protect me, for there is no one else who can save me from the clutches of death in this world of duality No edit summary current
- 02:3702:37, 5 July 2022 diff hist +3,165 This material world is the world of duality, in contrast with the oneness of the absolute realm. The world of duality is composed of matter and spirit, whereas the absolute world is complete spirit without any tinge of the material qualities No edit summary current
- 02:3702:37, 5 July 2022 diff hist +5,373 This material world is only a shadow phantasmagoria of the spiritual kingdom of God, and because it is a shadow it is never eternal; the variegatedness in the material world of duality (spirit and matter) cannot be compared to that of the spiritual world No edit summary current
- 02:3702:37, 5 July 2022 diff hist +3,448 This material world is called dvaita, the world of duality. A devotee knows very well that everything within this material world is but a manifestation of the Supreme Lord's energy No edit summary current
- 02:3602:36, 5 July 2022 diff hist +3,969 This material world is called dvaita, or duality. The Caitanya-caritamrta (CC Antya 4.176) says - In the world of duality - that is to say, in the material world - so-called goodness and badness are both the same No edit summary current
- 02:3602:36, 5 July 2022 diff hist +7,581 This material world is a world of duality - at one moment we are subjected to the heat of the summer season & at the next moment the cold of winter. Or at one moment we're happy & at the next distressed. At one moment honored, at the next dishonored No edit summary current
- 02:3602:36, 5 July 2022 diff hist +8,946 This is the world of duality. One should not think that because he has fallen sick he has fallen from Krsna consciousness. Krsna consciousness can continue without impediment from any material opposition No edit summary current
- 02:3602:36, 5 July 2022 diff hist +4,016 The word kusalena is very important. One should live in the material world very expertly. The material world is known as the world of duality because one sometimes has to act impiously and sometimes has to act piously No edit summary current
- 02:3102:31, 5 July 2022 diff hist +4,122 The Mayavadi philosophers may be very proud of their so-called knowledge, but because they do not understand Vasudeva (vasudevah sarvam iti), they do not understand the world of duality, which is a manifestation of Vasudeva's external energy No edit summary current
- 02:3102:31, 5 July 2022 diff hist +5,222 The material world is a shadow phantasmagoria of the spiritual kingdom of the Lord, and because it is a shadow it is never eternal; the variegatedness in the material world of duality (spirit and matter) cannot be compared to that of the spiritual world No edit summary current
- 02:2902:29, 5 July 2022 diff hist −3 There is no duality in his mind (one who is fully in Krsna consciousness) because whatever he does, he does for Krsna. Being thus freed from the platform of dualities, he is liberated-even in this material world. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 02:2902:29, 5 July 2022 diff hist +3,476 Since they find duality in the existence of Vaikuntha life, they are contaminated and should be removed from this place to the material world, where the living entities have three kinds of enemies No edit summary current
4 July 2022
- 12:3112:31, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,860 One has to understand that in the material world of duality, to think that this is good or that this is bad is simply a mental concoction. One should not imitate this consciousness; one should actually be situated on the spiritual platform of neutrality No edit summary
- 12:3112:31, 4 July 2022 diff hist +2,054 One has to give up all the nonduality of philosophical life in the material world and come to the actual life of reality in the spiritual world in order to attain perfection No edit summary current
- 12:3012:30, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,015 Krsna is impartial, but because this is the material world of duality, such relative terms as happiness and distress, curses and favors, are created by the will of the Supreme No edit summary current
- 12:3012:30, 4 July 2022 diff hist +2,771 In this world of duality, family life is the cause that spoils one's spiritual life or meditation. Specifically understanding this fact, one should accept the order of sannyasa without hesitation No edit summary current
- 12:2912:29, 4 July 2022 diff hist +11,868 In this dual, the world of duality, here, in this material world, the, "This thing is very good, this thing is very bad," it is simply mental concoction. Everything here is bad. Nothing good. So this is our mental creation only No edit summary current
- 12:2812:28, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,157 In the world of duality - that is to say, in the material world - so-called goodness and badness are both the same No edit summary current
- 12:2812:28, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,669 In the spiritual world there is no duality, nor is there hate No edit summary current
- 12:2312:23, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,066 In the relative world the knower is the living spirit or superior energy, whereas the known is inert matter or inferior energy. Therefore, there is a duality of inferior and superior energy No edit summary current
- 12:2312:23, 4 July 2022 diff hist +35 In the relative world such qualities (God's qualities) are displayed in a perverted manner, and therefore we experience nonduality as a perverted reflection No edit summary current
- 12:2112:21, 4 July 2022 diff hist +26,154 Ignorance and knowledge are conceptions in this world of duality, but in the Absolute there is no duality. It is simply foolishness to consider that the Absolute is covered by ignorance No edit summary current
- 12:2112:21, 4 July 2022 diff hist +4,324 He (anyone) will never feel the distresses of the world of duality. In any condition of life one will be happy if he chants the holy name of the Lord No edit summary current
- 12:2012:20, 4 July 2022 diff hist +3,907 Dear Lord, we (the Pracetas) beg to offer our obeisances unto You. When the mind is fixed upon You, the world of duality, although a place for material enjoyment, appears meaningless. Your transcendental form is full of transcendental bliss No edit summary current
- 12:1512:15, 4 July 2022 diff hist +6,220 Because it is the world of duality. There must be something dual, black-white, darkness-light, sukha, happiness-distress, father-son. There must be. This is called relative world No edit summary current
- 12:1512:15, 4 July 2022 diff hist +5,469 Because in this world, the world of duality, dual world, everything is to be understood by duality. We cannot understand what is honor if there is no dishonor No edit summary
13 June 2022
- 06:5906:59, 13 June 2022 diff hist +1,831 Thus I (Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) have described the incident of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's falling into the ocean. Anyone who listens to this pastime will certainly attain shelter at the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary current
- 06:5806:58, 13 June 2022 diff hist +6,544 The pure devotee thinks himself fallen into the ocean of birth and death and incessantly prays to the Lord to lift him up. He only aspires to become a speck of transcendental dust at the lotus feet of the Lord No edit summary current
- 06:5806:58, 13 June 2022 diff hist +22,733 The only hope for a man fallen in the middle of the ocean is that someone will come and pick him up. If someone just comes and hauls him but a few feet out of the water, he is immediately relieved No edit summary current
- 06:5806:58, 13 June 2022 diff hist +3,903 The gopis have fallen into the great ocean of separation and are being devoured by the timingila fish of their ambition to serve You. The gopis are to be delivered from the mouths of these timingila fish, for they are pure devotees No edit summary current