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10 July 2022

• 14:5914:59, 10 July 2022 diff hist +8,112 This (the transcendental position of pure love) is simply impudence on the part of spiritually inexperienced people. Such faultfinding is symptomatic of unfortunate mundane wranglers No edit summary current
• 14:5814:58, 10 July 2022 diff hist +5,511 The minds of those who are addicted to fruitive activity are always filled with unclean desires. Fruitive activities are symptomatic of our polluted desire to dominate material nature No edit summary current
• 14:5714:57, 10 July 2022 diff hist +3,577 These symptoms are sometimes manifested internally and sometimes externally. The pure devotee always feels such symptomatic expressions within himself, but being afraid of outsiders he does not generally manifest them externally No edit summary current
• 14:5714:57, 10 July 2022 diff hist +4,649 These activities (of devotional service) are called sattva or suddha-sattva. In the material world, activities of goodness, which are symptomatic of a pure brahmana, are appreciated No edit summary current
• 14:5614:56, 10 July 2022 diff hist +2,892 Such deluded persons, symptomatically, dwell in dualities of dishonor and honor, misery and happiness, woman and man, good and bad, pleasure and pain, etc. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 14:5514:55, 10 July 2022 diff hist +1,391 In this state of madness, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mind was unsteady. Whatever He said or did was all symptomatic of madness No edit summary current
• 14:5414:54, 10 July 2022 diff hist +7,036 As far as the material body is concerned, there are six "waves," or symptomatic material conditions: hunger, thirst, lamentation, bewilderment, old age and death. The liberated soul is never concerned with these six physical interactions No edit summary current
• 14:5214:52, 10 July 2022 diff hist +4,491 We can see through history also Bhagavan Sri Krsna and through sastra also. Sastra-caksusa. Just like at the present moment, Krsna is not physically present, but we understand through sastra what is Krsna No edit summary current
• 14:5214:52, 10 July 2022 diff hist +4,407 Sastra-caksusa. Sastra... Either you take direct perception or through the sastra... Through the sastra the perception is better than direct perception No edit summary current
• 14:4714:47, 10 July 2022 diff hist 0 When this idea (of communists and socialists) is expanded, we can see that everything belongs to God. That will be the perfection of the communistic idea No edit summary current
• 14:4714:47, 10 July 2022 diff hist +43,404 The socialist's idea of a society devoid of competition is artificial because even in the socialist states there is competition for power No edit summary current
• 14:4614:46, 10 July 2022 diff hist +38,770 The psychological effects of various peoples, places, and times have led us to designate ourselves as Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, Congressites, Luddites, Socialists, Bolsheviks, and so forth No edit summary current
• 14:4614:46, 10 July 2022 diff hist +11,350 The contemporary socialist's conception of a competitionless society is artificial because in the socialist state there is competition for the post of dictator No edit summary current
• 14:4614:46, 10 July 2022 diff hist +4,157 There is no harm in becoming a family man, or an altruist, a socialist, a communist, a nationalist or a humanitarian, provided that one executes his activities in relation with isavasya, the God-centered conception No edit summary current
• 14:4414:44, 10 July 2022 diff hist +8,405 Modern rascal theory is classless society: "There is no need of teacher, or there is no need of higher class, or there is no need of... One class." Therefore they fall down. Even in socialistic country like Russia No edit summary current
• 14:4414:44, 10 July 2022 diff hist +81,365 If karma-yoga, or work with transcendental results, is systematically performed, we shall transcend and more than fulfill all fragmented endeavors - whether by the socialists toward equality, by the Bolsheviks toward a grand social order of fraternity No edit summary current
• 14:4314:43, 10 July 2022 diff hist +7,234 Greatest socialist movement No edit summary current
• 14:4314:43, 10 July 2022 diff hist +4,990 Either you become communist, socialist or capitalist or this "ist" or that "ist," the real disease is bhoga-vancha, "How I shall enjoy this world" No edit summary current
• 14:4314:43, 10 July 2022 diff hist 0 Communists and socialists are trying to propagate the philosophy that everything belongs to the mass of people or to the state. Such an idea is not perfect No edit summary current
• 14:3814:38, 10 July 2022 diff hist +3,246 Krsna, by and by, opened His mouth, wherein the mother found all the universes situated. Seeing this, she was doubtful in her mind, but she was convinced in a different manner of the mystic nature of her son No edit summary current
• 14:3814:38, 10 July 2022 diff hist +2,190 Even if there is a slight doubt in this land purchasing matter, we shall not purchase. There must be no doubt. This man is legal-minded you say, therefore to my mind it is doubtful. It must be very cautiously examined No edit summary current
• 14:3114:31, 10 July 2022 diff hist +5,882 You cannot stop death. You cannot stop old age. You can manufacture advanced medicine, but why don't you stop disease? Take this pill, there will be no more disease. Where is that science No edit summary current
• 14:3114:31, 10 July 2022 diff hist +10,656 However magnificent hospital you may start, you cannot stop death No edit summary current
• 14:2414:24, 10 July 2022 diff hist +6,531 One should be conscious of his precarious position, that "I am eternal, but I am encaged in a temporary body which will not exist. However I may try to make it youthful by so many arrangement, but no..." The science cannot give you permanent life No edit summary current
• 14:1914:19, 10 July 2022 diff hist +5 To meditate on the Supreme Lord is to meditate on the activities, form, pastimes, name and fame of the Lord. That is easier than what is imagined as meditation on the impersonal feature of the Supreme No edit summary current
• 14:1914:19, 10 July 2022 diff hist +3,838 The Absolute Truth is easier to understand for a devotee than for jnanis who simply speculate to understand Vasudeva. Lord Siva confirms this statement No edit summary current
• 14:1614:16, 10 July 2022 diff hist +3,575 It is easier to maintain a great empire than to maintain a small family, especially in these days, when the influence of Kali-yuga is so strong that everyone is harassed and full of anxieties because of accepting the false presentation of maya's family No edit summary current
• 14:1414:14, 10 July 2022 diff hist +4,499 In this Fifth Chapter of the Bhagavad-gita, God says that work in devotional service is better than dry mental speculation. Devotional service is easier than the latter because, being transcendental in nature, it frees one from reaction. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 14:0614:06, 10 July 2022 diff hist +6,208 We can accommodate many devotees, and if the opportunity is offered to us, we can organize a very strong Sankirtana Party here and establish at least four or five branches in England. But the climate is not at all suitable for me No edit summary current
• 14:0414:04, 10 July 2022 diff hist +3,135 This age of Kali is not at all suitable for self-realization as was Satya-yuga, the golden age, or Treta- or Dvapara-yugas, the silver and copper ages No edit summary current
• 14:0314:03, 10 July 2022 diff hist +1,785 The fish then said: O King, I am a large aquatic, and this water is not at all suitable for Me. Now kindly find some way to save Me. It would be better to put Me in the water of a lake that will never reduce No edit summary current
• 14:0314:03, 10 July 2022 diff hist +1,800 The climate here in London is not at all suitable for me. There is no sunshine No edit summary current
• 14:0314:03, 10 July 2022 diff hist +4,771 So yoga practice is approved process, but it requires long, long period, time, and the time is not at all suitable in this age. And persons are differently cultured. They are eating everything, they are drinking everything, smoking No edit summary current
• 13:4813:48, 10 July 2022 diff hist +3,903 Atheists are punishable, whereas devotees are to be protected. To maintain this principle is the mission of all avataras, or incarnations. One must therefore identify an incarnation by His activities, not by popular votes or mental concoctions No edit summary current

6 July 2022

• 15:1315:13, 6 July 2022 diff hist +3,547 This false sense of proprietorship can be avoided simply by engaging oneself in devotional service under the direction of the Supreme Lord or His bona fide representative No edit summary current
• 15:1315:13, 6 July 2022 diff hist +6,184 We are not admitted in the spiritual kingdom unless we have given up this false sense of lording it over the material nature. Here, the conditioned souls, everyone is trying to become the lord, imitating. Everyone is trying. But there is clash No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 6 July 2022 diff hist +9 With the progress of the autumn season the moist earth and muddy places begin to dry up, and the green vegetation begins to fade. This drying up and fading resembles the gradual disappearance of the false sense of affinity and ego No edit summary current
• 15:0715:07, 6 July 2022 diff hist +9 Progress in cultivating the human spirit entails the gradual disappearance of the materialistic ego. Covered by ignorance, passion, and so-called goodness, the spirit soul thinks himself all in all and is covered by a false sense of ego No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 6 July 2022 diff hist +8,202 They support their arguments by a false and laborious jugglery of words, which is a gift of the same illusory energy of the Lord. But the poor froggish philosophers, due to a false sense of knowledge, cannot understand the situation No edit summary current
• 15:0015:00, 6 July 2022 diff hist +3,642 The living entities are not meant to be conditioned by material energy but due to their being affected by the false sense of lording it over material energy they come under the influence of potency & become conditioned by the 3 modes of material nature No edit summary current
• 14:5914:59, 6 July 2022 diff hist +4,119 The qualitative distinction of the body as being good, bad or mediocre is extinguished, and again the qualitative manifestations become merged in the material energy, which is produced from a false sense of the pure living being No edit summary current
• 14:5614:56, 6 July 2022 diff hist +9 Freedom from the false sense of ego is called the liberation of the soul No edit summary current
• 14:5514:55, 6 July 2022 diff hist +81,245 Forgetfulness of transcendental relationship between the living entity and the Personality of Godhead has created a false sense of everyone's being a miniature Krsna, who tries to enjoy the world to his best capacity No edit summary current
• 14:5014:50, 6 July 2022 diff hist +4,345 Vaisnava position is not very easy thing, above all qualities. Therefore Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura introduced not to become an imitation of Rupa Gosvami No edit summary current
• 14:4714:47, 6 July 2022 diff hist +4,601 If one changes his dress artificially by imitating Rupa Gosvami, he cannot stay. He'll have to take to sex pleasure and intoxication to keep himself fit for bhajana No edit summary current
• 14:4414:44, 6 July 2022 diff hist +4,071 Unfortunately the illusioned living beings, out of misunderstanding only, become servants of the senses by material desire. This desire is called avidya, or nescience No edit summary current
• 14:4414:44, 6 July 2022 diff hist +14 The jiva, or living entity, is a spiritual spark who is part of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Unfortunately, he thinks the body to be the self, and that misunderstanding is called vivarta, or acceptance of untruth to be truth No edit summary current
• 14:3314:33, 6 July 2022 diff hist +3,203 Three words have been used in this connection to describe the achievement of Devahuti: atmanam, brahma-nirvanam and bhagavantam No edit summary current
• 14:3314:33, 6 July 2022 diff hist +6,053 The word brahma-nirvana-sukham indicates that when one is in touch with the Absolute Truth, material sense gratification is completely nullified No edit summary current
• 14:3214:32, 6 July 2022 diff hist +6,001 The words brahma-nirvana refer to connecting with the Absolute Truth, who is realized in three features: brahmeti paramatmeti bhagavan iti sabdyate - SB 1.2.11 No edit summary current