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13 July 2022

• 16:0716:07, 13 July 2022 diff hist +6 It is recommended in Srimad-Bhagavatam (yajnaih sankirtana-prayaih) that by performing sankirtana-yajna and by satisfying the yajna-purusa, Lord Caitanya, one can derive all the results derived by great sacrifices in the past No edit summary current
• 16:0716:07, 13 July 2022 diff hist +3,963 If you perform the sankirtana-yajna, then it is as good any other yajna. Yajna means to satisfy the yajna-purusa, Visnu, Lord Visnu No edit summary
• 16:0516:05, 13 July 2022 diff hist +4,740 If one performs activities for the satisfaction of the Supreme Personality, the yajna-purusa, his work does not produce reactions, whereas karmis, who act for themselves, are bound by the reactions of their work No edit summary current
• 16:0416:04, 13 July 2022 diff hist +5,154 He (Krsna) is the enjoyer of all sacrifices; He is known as yajna-purusa. The word yajna-purusa indicates Lord Visnu or Lord Krsna, or any Personality of Godhead in the category of visnu-tattva No edit summary current
• 16:0216:02, 13 July 2022 diff hist +5,458 As stated herein (in SB 4.14.18), bhagavan yajna-purusah - the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, is the yajna-purusa. As stated in Bhagavad-gita (BG 5.29): bhoktaram yajna-tapasam. Krsna is the ultimate purpose of all sacrifice No edit summary current
• 15:5015:50, 13 July 2022 diff hist +3,331 When man and woman unite, the hard knot of this attraction becomes increasingly tight, and thus a man is implicated in the materialistic way of life. This is the illusion of the material world No edit summary current
• 15:5015:50, 13 July 2022 diff hist −13 The Lord (Krsna) is addressed as the Lord of the universe, or the Lord of the universal mind, indicating His all-powerful ability to cut the hard knot of family affection No edit summary current
• 15:5015:50, 13 July 2022 diff hist +6,443 The devotees, who are always engaged in the service of the toes of the lotus feet of the Lord, can very easily overcome hard-knotted desires for fruitive activities No edit summary current
• 15:4915:49, 13 July 2022 diff hist +7,155 Once the boy and girl unite intimately the hard knot is formed, and the girl is thinking Oh, without him I am lost, and the boy is thinking Oh, without her I am lost, that is Maya's arrangement for keeping us bound-up tightly in the material atmosphere No edit summary current
• 15:4715:47, 13 July 2022 diff hist +3,298 Give up attraction to the sense objects and take up the sword of knowledge sharpened by devotional service. Then you will be able to cut the hard knot of illusory energy and cross to the other side of the ocean of nescience No edit summary current
• 15:4715:47, 13 July 2022 diff hist +4,023 Everyone comes to this material world attracted to sense gratification, and the hard knot of sense gratification is the attraction between male and female No edit summary current
• 15:4715:47, 13 July 2022 diff hist +3,611 Due to the entangling relationship between man and woman, there is a sense of illusion whereby one thinks, "This man is my husband," or "This woman is my wife." This is called hrdaya-granthi, the hard knot in the heart No edit summary current
• 15:4615:46, 13 July 2022 diff hist +3,148 Because of a false hope for happiness, the conditioned soul becomes involved in various plans for material activity. Maharaja Satyavrata prays that the Lord sever this hard knot of false happiness and thus become his supreme spiritual master No edit summary
• 15:3315:33, 13 July 2022 diff hist +3,055 We have unlimited number of instruments and other goods which we shall be needing from India, so if arrangement can be made for these goods to be sent safely and promptly, there is so much business which we shall give you No edit summary current
• 15:3315:33, 13 July 2022 diff hist +2 Please do not hesitate to answer my letters promptly No edit summary current
• 15:3315:33, 13 July 2022 diff hist +2,277 I thank you for so promptly sending the dried banana. You are always seeing to my comforts and your service in this regard is much appreciated by me. I also thank you for the nice shirts you have made No edit summary current
• 15:3215:32, 13 July 2022 diff hist +6,003 After reading Bhagavad-gita one should promptly come to the conclusion of Bhagavad-gita: one should give up all other engagements and adopt the service of the Supreme Lord, Krsna, the Personality of Godhead. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 15:3015:30, 13 July 2022 diff hist +3,479 The grhamedhis business is to repeatedly chain himself to so-called family life, in one life after another, and perpetually remain in the darkness of maya No edit summary current
• 15:2915:29, 13 July 2022 diff hist +3,867 The grhastha's concern is to get out of the family life created by illusion and enter into real family life with Krsna, whereas the grhamedhi s business is to repeatedly chain himself to so-called family life, in one life after another No edit summary current
• 15:2915:29, 13 July 2022 diff hist +5,098 When one is fully aware that he does not belong to any family, society, country, is eternally related to Krsna, he then realizes his energy should be employed not in the interests of so-called family, society or country, but in the interests of Krsna No edit summary current
• 15:2715:27, 13 July 2022 diff hist +4,989 One will never be successful in pleasing his so-called family, society and nation, even if one endeavors to sacrifice his life No edit summary current
• 15:2615:26, 13 July 2022 diff hist +5,632 One who is sufficiently intelligent immediately attains the stage of renunciation of so-called society, family and love as well as other things No edit summary current
• 15:2615:26, 13 July 2022 diff hist −13 In the material world a so-called family is a combination of several persons in one home to fulfill the terms of their imprisonment No edit summary current
• 15:2615:26, 13 July 2022 diff hist +3,449 Instead of utilizing this life to get liberation, if one uses it simply for the purpose of maintaining his so-called family and performs foolish and unauthorized action, he is compared to a man who has lost his wealth and who, upon losing it, laments No edit summary current
• 15:2515:25, 13 July 2022 diff hist −13 For so long I have been controlled by these rascals. There is no benefit. I have been controlled by my senses. So under the control of the senses I have served so-called family, society, country, nation - up to serving the dogs No edit summary current
• 15:2515:25, 13 July 2022 diff hist +5,080 A person who remains steadfast in his family duty or so-called social or family obligation but does not take to Krsna consciousness receives no profit No edit summary current
• 15:1915:19, 13 July 2022 diff hist +12,066 We are indebted to devarsi, devata, the demigods. The demigods. Just like Indra. He supplies us water. Just like we are obliged to pay tax to the water department, to the fire department, to the education department No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 13 July 2022 diff hist +5,244 The intelligent men, generally known as the brahmanas, took up all the different branches of Vedic knowledge to guide society. Even the department of military education (Dhanur-veda) was also taken up by such intelligent men No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 13 July 2022 diff hist +12,250 Just like we are obliged to pay tax to the water department, to the fire department, to the education department, so many departments government. Or once we pay our income tax, that is distributed to so many departments No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 13 July 2022 diff hist +4,980 Even the department of military education (Dhanur-veda) was also taken up by such intelligent men (brahmanas), and the vipras were also teachers of this section of knowledge, as were Dronacarya, Krpacarya, etc No edit summary current
• 15:1715:17, 13 July 2022 diff hist −11 As far as ordinary education is concerned, people are involved with so many departments: politics, sociology, physics, chemistry, mathematics, astronomy, engineering, etc. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 15:1715:17, 13 July 2022 diff hist +13 An outsider may consider the criminal department inauspicious, but from the government's point of view it is as important as the education department, and therefore the government finances both departments equally, without discrimination No edit summary current
• 15:1615:16, 13 July 2022 diff hist −13 The government has both an educational department and criminal department. An outsider may consider the criminal department inauspicious, but from the government's point of view it is as important as the education department No edit summary current
• 15:1615:16, 13 July 2022 diff hist +11,552 I don't think in any university throughout the whole world there is such educational department where this science is handled. The soul. Whether I am this body or I'm not the body. I am not this body; that is the fact No edit summary current
• 15:0715:07, 13 July 2022 diff hist +3,209 Let them each hear the tape through the right ear, privately and individually, reading the paper and repeating each word. Beforehand you can instruct them how to chant on the fingers. Then you can get the thread on Traidas's body No edit summary current
• 15:0715:07, 13 July 2022 diff hist +4 Kardama Muni explains beforehand that he would not associate with the girl Devahuti for the whole duration of his life. He would simply associate with her until she had a child No edit summary current
• 13:1413:14, 13 July 2022 diff hist −5 The temple (of Lord Siva in Pitambara) is situated on about thirty-nine acres of land, and all this land is surrounded by a wall and by a road that is about sixty feet wide No edit summary current
• 13:1313:13, 13 July 2022 diff hist +16 The important point in this verse (CC Adi 7.157) is that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu regularly visited the temple of Visvesvara (Lord Siva) at Varanasi No edit summary current
• 13:1213:12, 13 July 2022 diff hist +2,466 Sri Saila is on the southern side of Belgaum, and the Siva temple of Mallikarjuna is located there - Refer to text 15 of this chapter 9 of Madhya-lila of Caitanya-caritamrta No edit summary current
• 13:1113:11, 13 July 2022 diff hist +13 Siva-ksetra, within the city of Tanjore, is situated near a big lake known as Siva-ganga. At this place is a large temple of Lord Siva known as Brhatisvara-siva-mandira No edit summary current
• 13:1113:11, 13 July 2022 diff hist −5 On this island (of Pambam), four miles north of Pambam Harbor, is Setubandha, where the temple of Ramesvara is located. This is a temple of Lord Siva, and the name Ramesvara indicates that he is a great personality whose worshipable Deity is Lord Rama No edit summary current
• 13:0613:06, 13 July 2022 diff hist −5 In Varanasi there are many hundreds and thousands of Lord Siva’s temples, or pancopasaka temples. Consequently Candrasekhara expressed great unhappiness as he informed Lord Caitanya that he was obliged to live at Benares due to his past misdeeds No edit summary current
• 13:0613:06, 13 July 2022 diff hist −5 In this area (of southern Mathura) there are mountains and forests. There are also two Siva temples, one known as Ramesvara and the other known as Sundaresvara No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 13 July 2022 diff hist +16 In the Caitanya-bhagavata (Antya-khanda, Chapter Two) it is said that when Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu arrived at Sri Bhuvanesvara, He visited the temple of Lord Siva known as Gupta-kasi - the concealed Varanasi No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 13 July 2022 diff hist −5 He (Lord Caitanya) visited the city of Bhuvanesvara, where Lord Siva’s temple is located No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 13 July 2022 diff hist −5 Gokarna is situated in North Kanara, in the Karnataka state. It is about thirty-three miles southeast of Karwar. This place is very famous for the temple of Lord Siva known as Maha-balesvara. Hundreds and thousands of pilgrims come to see this temple No edit summary current
• 13:0113:01, 13 July 2022 diff hist +1,866 At Paksi-tirtha, Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu visited the temple of Lord Siva. Then He went to the Vrddhakola place of pilgrimage No edit summary current
• 13:0013:00, 13 July 2022 diff hist +1,873 After showing mercy to the brahmana, Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu left the next day and arrived at Vrddhakasi, where He visited the temple of Lord Siva No edit summary
• 12:5912:59, 13 July 2022 diff hist +2,291 After seeing Pancapsara, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu went to Gokarna. While there, He visited the temple of Lord Siva, and then He went to Dvaipayani. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the crown jewel of all sannyasis, then went to Surparaka-tirtha No edit summary current
• 12:5912:59, 13 July 2022 diff hist +5,510 After decorating Himself (Krsna) (with cosmetics and ornaments), the Lord would then look at marble statues of the cow and calf and visit temples of God or demigods like Lord Siva No edit summary current