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19 July 2022

• 06:1406:14, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,432 Concerning the eightfold yoga system, attempts in the beginning to enter into meditation through regulative principles of life and practice of different sitting postures are considered fruitive material activities. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 06:1406:14, 19 July 2022 diff hist +6,822 By the eightfold yoga system He appears as Paramatma. But in pure Krsna consciousness, or knowledge in purity, when one tries to understand Absolute Truth, one realizes Him as the Supreme Person. Transcendence is realized simply on the basis of knowledge No edit summary current
• 06:1306:13, 19 July 2022 diff hist −13 Because the eightfold yoga system is directed toward the ultimate realization of Krsna consciousness, such practice is also auspicious, and no one who is trying his best in this matter need fear degradation. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 06:1206:12, 19 July 2022 diff hist +4,383 Although the eightfold yoga system is recommended in this chapter (of BG 6), the Lord emphasizes that the process of karma-yoga, or acting in Krsna consciousness, is better. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current

18 July 2022

• 15:1315:13, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,243 When the devotees smell the good flavor of the incense which is offered to the Deity, they thus become cured of the poisonous effects of material contamination, as much as one becomes cured of a snakebite by smelling the prescribed medicinal herbs No edit summary current
• 15:1215:12, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,070 When a devotee comes to offer something to the Deity in the morning, he is sure to smell the good flavor of the incense, and then at once he will become cleansed of the poisonous effect of material existence No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 18 July 2022 diff hist −9 Those who are on the mundane platform and who study these talks (between Lord Caitanya and Ramananda Raya) in order to put forward some thesis for a Ph.D. will not be able to understand them. Instead, these conversations will have a poisonous effect No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,882 The devotee’s mind and senses are already engaged in the transcendental service of the Lord. In this way the poisonous effects of sensory activities are removed No edit summary current
• 15:0815:08, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,101 There is an herb found in the jungles which expert persons know how to use to revive the consciousness of one who is bitten by a snake. Simply by smelling that herb one becomes immediately relieved of the poisonous effects of the snakebite No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 18 July 2022 diff hist +6,910 One servant of Krsna named Patri once addressed Him like this: "My dear Lord, You protected the cowherd boys from the hunger of the Aghasura demon, and You protected them from the poisonous effects of the Kaliya snake" No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 18 July 2022 diff hist +81,327 Notwithstanding all such advancement of material knowledge in the West, the people in general there are suffering the pangs of the poisonous effects of materialism because they have cared very little for the culture of spiritual science No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,771 Narottama dasa Thakura has sung: "I am suffering from the poisonous effect of material enjoyment. Thus my heart is always burning and is almost on the verge of failure" No edit summary current
• 15:0415:04, 18 July 2022 diff hist +7,643 If one extracts the poison fangs of a serpent, this saves the serpent's future victims from poisonous effects, even if the serpent bites repeatedly No edit summary current
• 15:0315:03, 18 July 2022 diff hist +6,746 If a bird happened to even pass over the spot, it would immediately die and fall down into the water. Due to the poisonous effect of the Yamuna’s vapors, the trees and grass near the bank of the Yamuna had all dried up No edit summary current
• 15:0315:03, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,063 Externally there appeared severe tribulation, as if He were suffering from poisonous effects, but internally He was experiencing bliss. This is characteristic of transcendental love of Krsna No edit summary current
• 15:0315:03, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,801 Caitanya said, "The poisonous effects of love of Godhead defeat the severe and fresh poison of the serpent. Yet there is simultaneously transcendental bliss, which pours down and defeats the pride of nectar and diminishes its value" No edit summary current
• 14:5914:59, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,494 When one chants the holy name of the Lord in ecstasy, not caring for outward social conventions, it is to be understood that he is atma-mati. In other words, his consciousness is turned toward the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 14:5814:58, 18 July 2022 diff hist +4,998 Those who engage in transcendental Krsna consciousness, giving up all the stereotyped activities of this material world, are freed from social conventions No edit summary current
• 14:5614:56, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,370 The word avadhuta refers to one who does not care for social conventions, particularly the varnasrama-dharma No edit summary current
• 14:5514:55, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,372 The principles of animal life - eating, sleeping, mating and defending - are actually necessities of the body, but those who engage in Krsna consciousness, giving up all the stereotyped activities of this material world, are freed from social conventions No edit summary current
• 14:5514:55, 18 July 2022 diff hist −12 The higher stage of ecstasy can be characterized by the following thirteen transcendental activities: (8) breathing heavily, (9) forgetting social conventions, (10) salivating, (11) laughing, (12) aching, (13) coughing No edit summary current
• 14:5514:55, 18 July 2022 diff hist +6,396 The brahmana knew Krsna to be the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and still he accepted the respectful service of the Lord on the grounds of Vedic social convention No edit summary current
• 14:5414:54, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,573 There is a proverb in Sanskrit that you speak truth but don't speak unpalatable truth. When you speak the truth it must be very palatable. So this social convention is not applicable to a person who is preaching the Absolute Truth No edit summary current
• 14:5214:52, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,537 Such a person (one who does not care for social conventions, particularly the varnasrama-dharma) may be situated fully within himself and be satisfied with the Supreme Personality of Godhead, on whom he meditates No edit summary current
• 14:5214:52, 18 July 2022 diff hist +7,015 Since His (Lord Caitanya's) acceptance of sannyasa was also designed to attract public attention, Lord Caitanya, not wishing to disturb the social convention, took the renounced order of life from a sannyasi in the disciplic succession of Sankaracarya No edit summary current
• 14:5114:51, 18 July 2022 diff hist +4,369 Prime state of ecstasy annihilated all other formalities and social conventions, and thus they (queens) escaped all stumbling blocks on the path of meeting the Lord. And that is the perfect stage of meeting the Lord of the soul, Sri Krsna No edit summary current
• 14:4814:48, 18 July 2022 diff hist +15,303 It is social convention that if you want to speak truth, you speak truth very palatable, flattering. Don't speak unpalatable truth No edit summary
• 14:4814:48, 18 July 2022 diff hist +5,642 It is imperative that a serious person accept a bona fide spiritual master in terms of the sastric injunctions. Sri Jiva Gosvami advises that one not accept a spiritual master in terms of hereditary or customary social and ecclesiastical conventions No edit summary current
• 14:4814:48, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,664 If you want you can cut your hairs, but there is no need of cutting. It would be nicer if you can put on sari, you can learn it from Jadurani. You must remain like a nice girl. The dress and appearance is social convention of the society No edit summary current
• 14:4514:45, 18 July 2022 diff hist +7,323 He has "no good qualities" (gunaih hinah) means that Krsna has no material qualities, and because He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He acts independently, not caring for conventions in social or religious principles No edit summary current
• 14:4514:45, 18 July 2022 diff hist +7,741 Avadhuta means a highly elevated mystic who does not care for any social, religious or Vedic conventions No edit summary current
• 14:4514:45, 18 July 2022 diff hist +4,197 As long as one remains in the bodily concept of life, he may act according to the duties of social convention, but if one is elevated to the spiritual platform, he must simply serve the Supreme Lord; that is the real execution of sva-dharma No edit summary current
• 14:4414:44, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,701 After getting his sons and daughters married, a householder can retire from household life, leaving his wife in the charge of the grown-up sons. That is the social convention of the Vedic system No edit summary current
• 14:4414:44, 18 July 2022 diff hist +4,223 Advaita Acarya had confidence in the sastric evidence and did not care about social customs. The Krsna consciousness movement, therefore, is a cultural movement that does not care about local social conventions No edit summary current
• 14:4414:44, 18 July 2022 diff hist −12 According to social convention one may be superior to Krsna, but factually everyone engages in His service No edit summary current
• 14:4414:44, 18 July 2022 diff hist +11,518 According to social conventions, it is said that one can speak the truth only when it is palatable to others. But that is not truthfulness. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 10:4610:46, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,042 Then, O Vidura, the Lord caused all the kings, both the enemies & those on the side of your fighting nephews, to be killed in the Battle of Kuruksetra. All those kings were so great and strong that the earth seemed to shake as they traversed the warfield No edit summary current
• 10:4610:46, 18 July 2022 diff hist +12,452 On hearing this (Arjuna took a vow to kill him), Jayadratha wanted to leave the warfield and asked permission from the Kauravas for this cowardly action. But he was not allowed to do so. On the contrary, he was obliged to fight with Arjuna No edit summary current
• 10:4510:45, 18 July 2022 diff hist +13,725 Napoleon Bonaparte, he was not sleeping. He was sleeping... When he was passing from one warfield to another, on his horse he slept. That's all. He never went to the bedroom for sleeping No edit summary current
• 10:4510:45, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,598 In the course of the battle, the warfield became strewn with the severed heads of heroes, their eyes still staring and their teeth still pressed against their lips in anger. Helmets and earrings were scattered from these severed heads No edit summary current
• 10:4510:45, 18 July 2022 diff hist +9,914 In fighting, the king or the president should never return home without being hurt by the enemy. The so-called king of today never visits the warfield. He is very much expert in artificially encouraging the fighting strength No edit summary current
• 10:4110:41, 18 July 2022 diff hist +8,288 When Nimai Pandita heard of this incident He organized a party for civil disobedience. He is the pioneer of the civil disobedience movement in India for the right cause No edit summary current
• 10:4110:41, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,134 We should bring the matter in the court. We have the opinions of so many scholars. Bring the matter in the court. But if it is a state policy to cut down this Movement, then civil disobedience. What can be done? No edit summary current
• 10:4010:40, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,497 We must adopt civil disobedience. There is no other, second way. "Capriciously you cannot impose anything against the law, against the judgment. If you do, then we shall also disobey." That should be the last resolve No edit summary current
• 10:3910:39, 18 July 2022 diff hist −13 The Kazi had issued an order not to perform kirtana, congregational chanting of the holy name of the Lord. But when this was brought up to Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, He ordered civil disobedience to the Kazi’s order No edit summary current
• 10:3810:38, 18 July 2022 diff hist −13 Some of the men in Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s civil disobedience movement were agitated because they could not control their minds. But the Lord was thoroughly peaceful, sober and unagitated No edit summary current
• 10:3810:38, 18 July 2022 diff hist +6,289 He was the first man in the history of India who started this civil disobedience movement. It is not Gandhi who is the originator of civil disobedience; it was Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He said that "Defy the order of the Kazi'' No edit summary current
• 10:3810:38, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,768 Gandhi is known for having started the movement of nonviolent civil disobedience in India, but about five hundred years before him, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu started His movement of nonviolent civil disobedience to the order of Chand Kaz No edit summary current
• 10:3710:37, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,559 Even if the magistrate would object to such Sankirtana movement on the complaint of some demons, Caitanya Mahaprabhu would still send out his disciples and at the same time He exhibited a great civil disobedience movement No edit summary current
• 10:3410:34, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,287 Cooperate with Hamsaduta. This is Krsna's business. We shouldn't form different parties. Hamsaduta is a sincere worker and has given evidence of success in Germany No edit summary current