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18 July 2022

• 10:3410:34, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,297 Even now in this weakened condition I have got strength from your report. You should know that in this work you have Krishna's blessings. You are a sincere worker No edit summary current
• 10:3310:33, 18 July 2022 diff hist +4,602 I already informed him that he will act as the editor of the German Back To Godhead. So when you go please set up everything in a cooperative mood. The workers there are very sincere, and upon your joining them, they will be very much encouraged No edit summary current
• 10:3310:33, 18 July 2022 diff hist +1,831 I have not heard from you since a long time. I hope you are doing well. You are a very sincere worker, and Krishna will bless you. I will be glad to hear from you No edit summary current
• 10:3310:33, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,661 I know it very well that you are all sincere workers but still it is my duty to point out the discrepancies No edit summary current
• 10:3210:32, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,779 You are all sincere workers, and they also are very sincere souls. So cooperate together nicely, and I hope our Hamburg center will very soon become the important center in Europe No edit summary current
• 10:2610:26, 18 July 2022 diff hist +13 This (CC Madhya 9.32) is a verse from the Brhad-visnu-sahasranama-stotra in the Uttara-khanda of the Padma Purana - 72.335 No edit summary current
• 10:2610:26, 18 July 2022 diff hist +13 This (CC Madhya 10.170) is a quote from the Mahabharata’s Visnu-sahasra-nama-stotra No edit summary current
• 10:2610:26, 18 July 2022 diff hist +32 This (CC Adi 3.49) is a verse from the Mahabharata - Dana-dharma, Visnu-sahasra-nama-stotra No edit summary current
• 10:2610:26, 18 July 2022 diff hist +4,246 The Visnu-sahasra-nama prayers mention the Lord's name as sanat and sanatanatama. The Lord and the living entities are both qualitatively sanatana, or eternal, but the Lord is sanatana-tama or the eternal in the superlative degree No edit summary current
• 10:2610:26, 18 July 2022 diff hist +7,089 There are thousands and millions of names of Lord Krsna - Visnu-sahasra-nama - and all of them are given to Him because of His transcendental qualities No edit summary current
• 10:2510:25, 18 July 2022 diff hist +1,379 Recording all these qualities of Lord Caitanya, the sage Vaisampayana included His name in the Visnu-sahasra-nama No edit summary current
• 10:2510:25, 18 July 2022 diff hist +32 In his commentary on the Visnu-sahasra-nama, called the Namartha-sudha, Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana, commenting upon this verse (of CC Adi 3.49), asserts that Lord Caitanya is the Supreme Personality of Godhead according to the evidence of the Upanisads No edit summary current
• 10:2410:24, 18 July 2022 diff hist +1,756 Gopinatha Acarya quoted this verse (of CC Madhya 6.104) from the Mahabharata’s Visnu-sahasra-nama-stotra No edit summary current
• 10:2410:24, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,074 All the symptoms mentioned in the verse from the Visnu-sahasra-nama-stotra are visible in the body of Caitanya. His arms are decorated with sandalwood pulp and the thread received from the Sri Jagannatha Deity, and these are His ornamental bangles No edit summary current
• 10:2110:21, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,228 When one is inspired by the Lord, who is sitting in everyone's heart, he does not care for social custom or Vedic regulative principles No edit summary current
• 10:2010:20, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,438 Very recently the system (of wives entering the fire after their husband's death) was abolished, since the voluntary system had become a forcible social custom No edit summary current
• 10:2010:20, 18 July 2022 diff hist −12 Those who follow social customs and behavior forget to follow the path chalked out by the mahajanas; thus they are offenders at the feet of the mahajanas No edit summary current
• 10:2010:20, 18 July 2022 diff hist +7,178 The queens of Lord Sri Krsna rejoiced within their minds to see their husband home after a long period abroad. The queens got up at once from their seats and meditations. As was socially customary, they covered their faces shyly and looked about coyly No edit summary current
• 10:1810:18, 18 July 2022 diff hist +6,964 The queens got up at once from their seats and meditations. As was socially customary, they covered their faces shyly and looked about coyly No edit summary current
• 10:1810:18, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,680 The man to whom the Lord shows His mercy by inspiring him within the heart takes shelter only of Lord Krsna and abandons all Vedic and social customs No edit summary current
• 10:1810:18, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,838 The Lord is sitting within everyone’s heart, and when He personally inspires His devotee, the devotee does not stick to the Vedic principles or social customs but rather devotes himself to the transcendental loving service of the Lord No edit summary current
• 10:1710:17, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,098 The Lord (Krsna) purposely observed all these social customs so that others would follow Him in the future No edit summary current
• 10:1710:17, 18 July 2022 diff hist −12 The dog has no social custom for mating. Whenever there is a she-dog, he mates on the street. You may mate very silently, in a secret place (although now people are learning how to mate like dogs), but the mating is there No edit summary current
• 10:1710:17, 18 July 2022 diff hist +4,177 These rascals (who criticize the boys and girls in Krsna consciousness for intermingling) should consider that one cannot suddenly change a community's social customs No edit summary current
• 10:1610:16, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,769 There are many instances of devotional service rendered by previous acaryas who did not care about social behavior when intensely absorbed in love for Krsna. Unfortunately, as long as we are within this material world, we must observe social customs No edit summary current
• 10:1610:16, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,306 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu expected that even the caste brahmanas would offer respectful obeisances to a sannyasi because five hundred years ago the social custom was to offer obeisances immediately to any sannyasi, known or unknown No edit summary current
• 10:0610:06, 18 July 2022 diff hist +6,976 Renunciation in devotional service means to give up all kinds of social customs and religious rituals governed by Vedic injunction No edit summary current
• 10:0610:06, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,008 One cannot suddenly change a community's social customs No edit summary current
• 10:0510:05, 18 July 2022 diff hist +8 None of the Muslims came from outside; social customs somehow or other forced Hindus to become Muslims, with no chance of returning to Hindu society No edit summary current
• 10:0510:05, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,302 Lord Krsna expanded Himself into as many forms as He had wives, and He lived with them as an ideal householder, observing the regulative principles, rules and commitments in accordance with the Vedic injunctions and the social laws and customs of society No edit summary current
• 10:0510:05, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,384 Krsna said: "O My beloved gopis, you have renounced social customs, scriptural injunctions and your relatives for My sake. I disappeared behind you only to increase your concentration upon Me" No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 18 July 2022 diff hist −12 Indifference toward what stands in the way of devotional service means to accept only those activities of social custom and Vedic injunction that are favorable to devotional service No edit summary current
• 10:0110:01, 18 July 2022 diff hist +10,521 Dharma does not mean a particular type of faith. Faith is different thing. Faith is followed blindly or by social custom or something else. Faith is different. But dharma, either you change social custom, country, time, space, it cannot be changed No edit summary current
• 10:0110:01, 18 July 2022 diff hist +6,855 As was socially customary, they (the queens of Lord Sri Krsna) covered their faces shyly and looked about coyly No edit summary current
• 10:0110:01, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,427 As long as we are within this material world, we must observe social customs to avoid criticism by the general populace. This is Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's desire No edit summary current
• 10:0010:00, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,760 As a young boy he (Sukadeva Goswami) was expected to be properly dressed, but he went about naked and was uninterested in social customs. He was neglected by the general populace, and inquisitive boys and women surrounded him as if he were a madman No edit summary current
• 10:0010:00, 18 July 2022 diff hist −12 Although the members of the so-called Hindu society had followed the social customs and formulas, they had practically forgotten to execute their religious principles strictly No edit summary current
• 09:5909:59, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,201 According to social custom, Vidura was to be respected by Uddhava on the level of his father. Uddhava was a great scholar in logic, and he was known to be a son or disciple of Brhaspati, the greatly learned priest and spiritual master of the demigods No edit summary current
• 09:5609:56, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,709 The transference of the Lord from the heart of Jagannatha Misra to the heart of Sacimata is explained by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura as follows No edit summary current
• 09:5609:56, 18 July 2022 diff hist +19 The transference of the Lord (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) from the heart of Jagannatha Misra to the heart of Sacimata is explained by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura - in CC Adi 13.86 No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 18 July 2022 diff hist −2 The pastime known as danda-bhanga-lila is thus (CC Madhya 5.158, purport) explained by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 18 July 2022 diff hist +19 The mystery of the sannyasa-danda (staff) of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has been explained by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu accepted the order of sannyasa from a Mayavadi sannyasi No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 18 July 2022 diff hist +4,750 Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura explains in his Anubhasya: There are specific symptoms by which the internal devotees and the unalloyed or pure devotees are to be known No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 18 July 2022 diff hist +7,064 Sri Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami explains that the variegated personal feature of the Absolute Truth is the visnu-tattva and that the material energy, which creates this cosmic manifestation, is the energy of Lord Visnu No edit summary current
• 09:5209:52, 18 July 2022 diff hist −2 Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura explains those inscriptions (written by Sri Narahari Tirtha) as follows: (1) Sri Purusottama Yati appeared as the instructor of many learned men. He was a very favorite devotee of Lord Visnu No edit summary current
• 09:5209:52, 18 July 2022 diff hist −2 Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura explains the word markata to mean "restless." A restless person cannot be steady; therefore he simply wanders about, gratifying his senses No edit summary
• 09:5209:52, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,987 Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura explains that unless one is directly empowered by the causeless mercy of Krsna, one cannot become the spiritual master of the entire world - jagad-guru No edit summary
• 09:5109:51, 18 July 2022 diff hist +19 Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura explains that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is the most magnanimous Personality of Godhead, distributes His causeless mercy in three ways to the conditioned soul No edit summary current
• 09:5109:51, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,224 Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura, who was previously a great astrologer, explains this verse (of CC Adi 13.90) as follows: The sad-varga (six divisions) are technically called ksetra, hora, drekkana, navamsa, dvadasamsa and trimsamsa No edit summary current
• 09:5109:51, 18 July 2022 diff hist −2 Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati has explained the word upanisad in his Anubhasya. Please refer to Adi-lila, Second Chapter, fifth verse, and Adi-lila, Seventh Chapter, verses 106 and 108, for his explanation - on CC Madhya 6.133 No edit summary current