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18 July 2022

• 09:4909:49, 18 July 2022 diff hist −2 In this (CC Madhya 8.83) regard, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura explains that this verse does not advocate the whimsical invention of some methods of love of Godhead. Such inventions cannot be accepted as topmost No edit summary current
• 09:4909:49, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,881 Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, describing the truth about the Panca-tattva, explains that we should understand that Caitanya is the supreme predominator and that Nityananda Prabhu and Advaita Prabhu are His subordinates but are also predominators No edit summary current
• 09:4909:49, 18 July 2022 diff hist −2 Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati has explained ku-visaya garta as follows: Because of the activities of the senses, we become subjected to many sense gratificatory processes & are thus entangled by the laws of material nature. This entanglement is called visaya No edit summary current
• 09:4809:48, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,244 Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati explained that "I was little proud. So I was thrice refused by Guru Maharaja," although he was the only disciple. So the scholarship is not a qualification of becoming devotee No edit summary current
• 08:4008:40, 18 July 2022 diff hist +32 When this same rasa (dasya-rasa) is developed into fraternity (sakhya-rasa), a friendly intimacy is added. There is no awe or veneration in sakhya-rasa. Therefore sakhya-rasa is invested with the qualities of three rasas - santa, dasya and sakhya No edit summary current
• 08:3908:39, 18 July 2022 diff hist +46,865 When there is friendship, paternal affection and conjugal love, however such awe and veneration are reduced No edit summary current
• 08:3908:39, 18 July 2022 diff hist +6,595 Whatever we are worshiping Radha-Krsna, that is Radha-Krsna in His Narayana form - Laksmi-Narayana. In the beginning we should worship Radha-Krsna in the level of Laksmi-Narayana, with awe and veneration, very strictly following the rules and regulations No edit summary current
• 08:3808:38, 18 July 2022 diff hist +32 This type of attachment (with awe and veneration) might be characterized by a certain lack of freedom, and it is exhibited in Mathura and in the Vaikuntha planets. In these abodes of the Lord, the spirit of transcendental loving service is restricted No edit summary current
• 08:3608:36, 18 July 2022 diff hist +4,298 This appreciation of Lord Visnu in awe and veneration by the saintly is to be understood as the sign that they are situated in the santa-rasa, or neutral stage of devotional service No edit summary current
• 08:3508:35, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,168 The qualities of santa-rasa and the service of dasya-rasa are both present on the platform of sakhya-rasa. On the platform of fraternity, the qualities of dasya-rasa are mixed with the confidence of fraternity instead of awe and veneration No edit summary current
• 08:3508:35, 18 July 2022 diff hist +17,927 The pleasure one gives the Lord by addressing Him by such names (Devaki-nandana etc.) is many, many times greater than the pleasure He enjoys when He is addressed as Paramesvara, or anything of that nature, which indicate volumes of awe and veneration No edit summary current
• 08:3508:35, 18 July 2022 diff hist +6,762 There are two kinds of devotees engaged in devotional service with awe and veneration, and the servitors in the abode of Dvaraka always worship Krsna as the most respectable and revered Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 08:3408:34, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,851 There are also other planets in the spiritual world, called Vaikuntha planets, and on these planets Lord Narayana is worshiped with awe and veneration. On these planets santa-rasa is prevalent No edit summary current
• 08:3408:34, 18 July 2022 diff hist +18,117 Some great devotees of the Lord cannot surpass the boundary of awe and veneration. But other devotees are in such an intense compact of love with the Lord that they forget His exalted position and regard themselves as His equals or even His superiors No edit summary current
• 08:3408:34, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,943 Radha-Krsna worship is little difficult. We have to worship Him with great awe and veneration. But Caitanya Mahaprabhu has voluntarily come to deliver the fallen souls. Little service, He will be satisfied No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 18 July 2022 diff hist +32 On the platform of dasya-rasa, the greatest quantity of awe and veneration of the Supreme Lord is exhibited. That is, in the dasya-rasa, the greatness of the Supreme Lord is appreciated No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,267 One sort of friendship is with awe and veneration. Just like if you have a very rich friend, you cannot talk with him so frankly although he is so..., he is your intimate friend. But a friend in the same status, you can talk with him very freely No edit summary current
• 08:3008:30, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,885 Knowing My opulences, the whole world looks upon Me with awe and veneration. But devotion made feeble by such reverence does not attract Me No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 18 July 2022 diff hist +47,148 In the transcendental fraternal relationship known as sakhya-rasa, there are three transcendental characteristics: the sense of greatness, the sense of service, and the sense of intimacy without awe or veneration No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 18 July 2022 diff hist +6,586 In the five principal transcendental relationships, awe and veneration are sometimes impediments to one’s service to the Lord No edit summary current
• 08:2808:28, 18 July 2022 diff hist +46,649 In the five principal transcendental relationships, awe and veneration are sometimes impediments obscuring the Lord's actual greatness and sometimes they actually impede one's service to the Lord No edit summary current
• 08:2808:28, 18 July 2022 diff hist +4,690 In the beginning we must treat the Lord with awe and veneration. Later one when we are perfectly on the spiritual platform, we treat Krsna more intimately, and therefore we forget the exalted position of Krsna No edit summary current
• 08:2808:28, 18 July 2022 diff hist +32 In Gokula Vrndavana, love is freely exchanged, and although the cowherd boys and damsels of Vrndavana know that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they do not show awe and veneration because of the great intimacy of their relationship with Him No edit summary current
• 07:5407:54, 18 July 2022 diff hist +1,797 Fearful with awe and veneration, all present touched their hands to their heads and prepared to offer their prayers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Adhoksaja No edit summary current
• 07:5307:53, 18 July 2022 diff hist +1,918 Dealings in affection with the Supreme Personality of Godhead bring happiness many millions of times greater than dealings with Him in awe and veneration No edit summary current
• 07:5307:53, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,034 Awe and veneration are absent on the platform of fraternity, since this rasa is predominated by confidential service. Therefore sakhya-rasa is characterized by the qualities of three rasas No edit summary current
• 07:5207:52, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,329 Although on such a platform of love the devotee sometimes appears to predominate over the Lord or transgress regulative principles, such dealings are far more advanced than ordinary dealings through regulative principles with awe and veneration No edit summary current
• 07:5207:52, 18 July 2022 diff hist +32 Although in santa-rasa there is attachment for Krsna in awe and veneration - since the two valuable transcendental qualities of this rasa are attachment for Krsna and detachment from material desires - nonetheless the sense of intimacy is lacking No edit summary current
• 07:4507:45, 18 July 2022 diff hist +4,999 This mantra from the Brahma-samhita is spoken from the platform of factual realization of the Absolute Truth, and the sruti-mantra of Sri Isopanisad under discussion confirms this mantra as a process of realization No edit summary current
• 07:4407:44, 18 July 2022 diff hist +6,757 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is therefore described in the sruti-mantras, Vedic hymns, as "the fountainhead of all rasas." When one associates with the SL & exchanges one's constitutional rasa with the Lord, then the living being is actually happy No edit summary current
• 07:4407:44, 18 July 2022 diff hist +7,338 The Supreme Lord is all-perfect is confirmed in all sruti-mantras. It is said in the sruti-mantras that the all-perfect Lord threw a glance over matter and thus created all living beings No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 18 July 2022 diff hist +4,962 The sruti mantras say that God impregnates material nature with the seeds of living beings simply by casting His glance at her. He does not need any other kind of intercourse with mother nature to beget the living beings in her womb & become their father No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,056 The sruti mantras declare that although the Lord has no hands He can accept anything we offer Him with devotion, although He has no feet He can travel anywhere, and although He has no mundane eyes He can see anywhere and everywhere without hindrance No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,371 The Sruti-mantra affirms that the Lord can expand Himself into many No edit summary current
• 07:4207:42, 18 July 2022 diff hist +43,412 The sruti-mantras indicate that before the creation of the material universe, the Lord was existing, and He was master of everyone No edit summary current
• 07:4207:42, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,440 The potter's wheel with which the pot is made is an expansion of earth, and the ingredients from which the pot are made are also earth. As confirmed in the sruti-mantra, yato va imani bhutani jayante. yena jatani jivanti yat prayanty abhisamvisanti No edit summary current
• 07:3907:39, 18 July 2022 diff hist +43,697 That the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, is all - perfect is confirmed in all sruti-mantras. It is said in the sruti-mantras that the all-perfect Lord glanced over matter and thus created all living beings No edit summary current
• 07:3907:39, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,345 Lord Krsna or His plenary expansions dominate every one of these innumerable planets, a fact confirmed in the sruti mantras: eko vasi sarva-gah krsna idyah/ eko 'pi san bahudha yo 'vabhati. (Gopala-tapani Upanisad 1.21) No edit summary current
• 07:3907:39, 18 July 2022 diff hist +4,421 It is confirmed by the Sruti-mantra that the Absolute is one alone, and yet He becomes many as soon as He so desires. These manifold expansions of the Supreme Lord are manifested as plenary and separated portions No edit summary current
• 07:3807:38, 18 July 2022 diff hist −12 In the sruti mantra it is said that the Supreme Brahman has nothing to do. No one is equal to or greater than Him (Krsna). He has manifold energies, and everything is performed by Him perfectly by automatic knowledge, strength and activity No edit summary current
• 07:3607:36, 18 July 2022 diff hist +1,914 In the sruti-mantras it is said, agnih sarva-devatah: "Fire is the aggregate of all demigods." Agni is the mouth of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is through Agni, or fire, that the Lord accepts all sacrificial oblations No edit summary current
• 07:3607:36, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,785 In the sruti-mantras it is also said that although the Lord has no hands and legs like ours, He has a different type of hands and legs, by which He can accept all that we offer Him and run faster than anyone No edit summary current
• 07:3607:36, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,030 In the sruti-mantras also it is stated that Angira Muni, who strictly followed the rigid principles of the Atharva Vedas, was the leader of the followers of the Atharva Vedas No edit summary current
• 07:3507:35, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,629 In the sruti, or veda-mantra, it is said that the Supreme Absolute Truth is sarva-kamah sarva-gandhah sarva-rasah, or, in other words, He is known as raso vai sah, the source of all relishable relationships - rasas No edit summary current
• 07:3407:34, 18 July 2022 diff hist +6,699 In Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.15) the Lord says, sarvasya caham hrdi sannivistah: "I am situated in everyone's heart." This does not mean, however, that everyone is equal to the Lord. In the sruti-mantras it is also said, hrdi hy ayam atma pratisthitah No edit summary current
• 07:3207:32, 18 July 2022 diff hist +4,215 He (Krsna) also maintains all manifestations in the spiritual world. Therefore in this sruti-mantra of Sri Isopanisad, the Lord is addressed as pusan, the ultimate maintainer No edit summary current
• 07:3107:31, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,841 He (God) is ajanah, or the Supreme Person, amongst jananam, or all persons. All living entities are individual persons & amongst all such persons Hari is supreme, as confirmed in the sruti-mantra, nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam (Katha Upanisad 2.2.13) No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,536 Foolish people who have no knowledge of Sri Isopanisad or any of the other sruti-mantras consider the arca-vigraha, which is worshiped by pure devotees, to be made of material elements No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,400 Anything sung in the praise of the Lord is Sruti-mantra No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 18 July 2022 diff hist +7,948 Another name for God is asamordhva, which means that no one is equal to or greater than Him. Param satyam, or the Supreme Truth, is He who has no equal or superior. This is confirmed in the sruti-mantras No edit summary current