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03:2503:25, 20 July 2022 diff hist +4,227 If one is carried away by the waves of nature, what is the meaning of being a great scientist or philosopher? Mundane science and philosophy are also material creations No edit summary current
03:2503:25, 20 July 2022 diff hist +38,819 Because we are always very busy in the discharge of our worldly duties, generally we do not wish to understand any philosophy except our mundane philosophy of the stomach and allied subjects No edit summary current
03:2503:25, 20 July 2022 diff hist +4,738 Although such (mundane) topics (such as art, culture, politics, sociology, dry philosophy, poetry and so on) have a qualitative feature of transcendental pleasure, they are saturated with the modes of material nature No edit summary current

14:3414:34, 18 July 2022 diff hist +4,556 We can attract people by some gorgeous show, but inside there must be strict purity and seriousness, otherwise, we shall be attracted by the gorgeous show only No edit summary current
14:3014:30, 18 July 2022 diff hist +3,393 To understand the science of God, it does not depend on the Western culture or Eastern culture. One must be serious to understand. Then it is equally available No edit summary current
13:5313:53, 18 July 2022 diff hist +2,866 Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti also advises that if we want to be successful in our attempt to go back to Godhead, we must very seriously act according to the instruction of the spiritual master. That is the way of perfection No edit summary current

12:0612:06, 16 July 2022 diff hist +3,783 It is impossible to realize oneself simply by absorbing oneself in speculation and material activities. One must be very serious about self-realization and the practice of austerity No edit summary current
10:4110:41, 16 July 2022 diff hist +3,158 Chanting is very simple, but one must practice it seriously. Therefore the author of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, advises everyone to keep this verse (CC Adi 17.32) always strung about his neck No edit summary current
08:4108:41, 16 July 2022 diff hist +6,988 Bhakti-yoga, thus being the supreme means of self-realization, is recommended here. Everyone must therefore seriously take up the methods of bhakti-yoga, even though one aspires for material enjoyment or liberation from material bondage No edit summary current
08:4008:40, 16 July 2022 diff hist +6,921 But one must come to that point of being serious to recognize the problems of life? Before one can understand your books, the karmi must become serious to understand that he is in misery and that he must get out? No edit summary current
08:2308:23, 16 July 2022 diff hist +7,733 Brahmana, his qualification is that he knows what is his business. And that business is sat-karma. Sat-karma means a brahmana has to become very learned. Pathana. He must be a serious student of Vedic religion. That is first qualification No edit summary current
03:5103:51, 16 July 2022 diff hist +2,733 When people increase love of Godhead, that means real religion No edit summary current
03:5103:51, 16 July 2022 diff hist +2,823 To increase love of God means there is also process, how to increase No edit summary current
03:5003:50, 16 July 2022 diff hist −5 One's main concern should be to increase one's attachment to the Supreme Personality of Godhead and to increase one's love for Him No edit summary current
03:5003:50, 16 July 2022 diff hist +1,889 Devotees in Vrndavana who are friends of the Lord can increase their ecstatic love to the point of anuraga. Parental affectionate lovers, Krsna's father and mother, can increase their love of Godhead up to the end of anuraga No edit summary current
03:4903:49, 16 July 2022 diff hist +2,888 Due to their affection for their cats and dogs, they (who are not spiritually advanced) have to take the same bodily forms in the next life unless they clearly increase their affection and love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current

03:3803:38, 15 July 2022 diff hist +6,450 Our senses are imperfect, and with all this paraphernalia, when we want to teach, that is not teaching; that is cheating. Because I am imperfect, how can I be teacher? That is not possible No edit summary current
03:3103:31, 15 July 2022 diff hist +1,531 As soon as the Lord became a teacher, many, many students came to Him, every one of them astonished to hear His mode of explanation No edit summary current
03:3103:31, 15 July 2022 diff hist +2,160 By the mercy of the Supreme Lord, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, everyone became a first-class devotee. Later they became teachers or spiritual masters and liberated the entire world No edit summary current
03:0903:09, 15 July 2022 diff hist +5,384 A real brahmana is the natural teacher or spiritual master. Unless one has Vedic knowledge, one cannot become a spiritual master No edit summary current
03:0703:07, 15 July 2022 diff hist +3,983 Without being a representative of Krsna, one cannot become a teacher or spiritual master of transcendental subject matter. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
03:0703:07, 15 July 2022 diff hist +46,255 Whatever position one may have, if he is fully conversant with the science of Krsna, Krsna consciousness, he can become a bona fide spiritual master, initiator or teacher of the science No edit summary current
03:0703:07, 15 July 2022 diff hist +5,411 Weakness is hypocrisy. If you are weak, you cannot become priest. Because you are teacher, religious teacher. You should not take that post. That is hypocrisy No edit summary current
03:0703:07, 15 July 2022 diff hist +3,549 Regarding the Teachings in the temple; everyone of my disciples may become a teacher strictly following my instructions. I am a bona fide teacher as long as I follow the instructions of my spiritual master No edit summary
03:0403:04, 15 July 2022 diff hist +3,855 Literature that is a useless waste of time - in other words, literature without spiritual benefit - should be rejected. One should not become a professional teacher as a means of earning one's livelihood, nor should one indulge in arguments No edit summary current
03:0303:03, 15 July 2022 diff hist +3,012 It may be argued why Dronacarya, a rigid brahmana, should be a teacher in military science. But the reply is that a brahmana should become a teacher, regardless of what his department of knowledge is No edit summary current

07:2107:21, 14 July 2022 diff hist +5,927 If you are defective, if you have got so many defects in your life, how you can become teacher? You are a cheater No edit summary current
07:2107:21, 14 July 2022 diff hist +3,541 If one simply becomes a teacher or professor of education but does not understand Krsna, it is to be understood that he is among the lowest of mankind No edit summary current
07:2107:21, 14 July 2022 diff hist +4,963 Brahmanas generally used to become astrologers, Ayur-vedic physicians, teachers and priests. Although highly learned and respectable, such brahmanas went from door to door to distribute their knowledge No edit summary current
07:2107:21, 14 July 2022 diff hist +32 A learned brahmana should become a teacher, a priest and a recipient of charity. A bona fide brahmana is authorized to accept such professions No edit summary current
03:4403:44, 14 July 2022 diff hist +5,739 Krsna consciousness movement is meant for taking into account of the nonperishable. So it is the movement of the soul, not the movement as political movement, social movement or religious movement No edit summary current
03:4403:44, 14 July 2022 diff hist +4,043 I have no interest with the political leaders because it is not a political movement. It is spiritual movement No edit summary current
03:4403:44, 14 July 2022 diff hist +10,968 In our political movement, Mahatma Gandhi also took the mendicant's dress, loincloth, these Gosvamis also... That is Indian culture No edit summary current
03:4403:44, 14 July 2022 diff hist +3,951 In India there was agitation during Gandhi's political movement because the lowborn classes of men like street-sweepers and candalas are prohibited, according to the Vedic system, from entering the temple. Due to their unclean habits they are prohibited No edit summary current

15:3715:37, 12 July 2022 diff hist +6,320 You sing every day morning that by the mercy of the Spiritual master one can please the Lord and one who has not pleased the spiritual master cannot have any access in the realm of Krishna Consciousness No edit summary current
15:3715:37, 12 July 2022 diff hist +17,654 Upstarts and unbelievers cannot have any access to this transcendental vision (by which one can see God's body), for they lack the required submission to the will of the Lord No edit summary current
15:3715:37, 12 July 2022 diff hist +2,662 One who has not pleased the spiritual master cannot have any access in the realm of Krishna Consciousness No edit summary current
15:3715:37, 12 July 2022 diff hist +5,175 He (Lord Krsna) is not as easily accessible to mental speculators, to those striving for self-realization by severe austerities and penances, or to those who consider the body the same as the self - SB 10.9.21 No edit summary current
15:3215:32, 12 July 2022 diff hist +3 They (mental speculators) are in fact in ignorance because they equalize the transcendental name and form of the Lord with mundane names and form. With such a poor fund of knowledge, there is no access to the real nature of the Supreme Being No edit summary current
15:3215:32, 12 July 2022 diff hist +1,722 Srila Ramananda Raya said that previously Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu had empowered his heart so that he could express elevated and conclusive statements to which even Lord Brahma has no access No edit summary current
15:3215:32, 12 July 2022 diff hist +4,345 Simply by satisfying the spiritual master one can achieve the supreme success in life, and in spite of executing all ritualistic performances, if one cannot satisfy the spiritual master, one has no access to spiritual perfection No edit summary current
15:3215:32, 12 July 2022 diff hist +4,275 Persons who are less intelligent, without being conversant with the science, mistake this great attempt to be idol worship and poke their nose into that to which they have no access No edit summary current
15:3215:32, 12 July 2022 diff hist +5,610 Persons infatuated by material consciousness are very intelligent in discovering things for material comforts, but they have no access to understanding the spirit soul and spiritual life No edit summary current
15:3215:32, 12 July 2022 diff hist +52,594 Knowledge of the superior nature must simply be accepted without argument. How is it possible to argue about something to which we have no access? - CC Intro No edit summary current
15:3215:32, 12 July 2022 diff hist +50,977 Knowledge of the superior nature must simply be accepted without argument. How is it possible to argue about something to which we have no access? No edit summary current
15:3115:31, 12 July 2022 diff hist +3 In spite of executing all ritualistic performances, if one cannot satisfy the spiritual master, one has no access to spiritual perfection No edit summary current

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