User contributions for Amala Sundari

20 July 2022

• 06:1206:12, 20 July 2022 diff hist +6,786 We have to follow the Gosvamis literature, especially Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, which we have translated in The Nectar of Devotion, every one of you should very carefully read & make progress. Don't be victimized by the Mayavadi so-called Vaisnava No edit summary current
• 06:1006:10, 20 July 2022 diff hist +4,154 We now have published several books which delve deeply into the topic of the Absolute Truth, so you should read them very carefully, and gradually the knowledge will become revealed to you No edit summary current
• 06:1006:10, 20 July 2022 diff hist +5,780 Our Vaisnava philosophy is in summary the Teachings of Lord Caitanya. Read them very carefully, word to word, & immediately begin translation into French language so they may be published in French BTG as well as in future they may be published in a book No edit summary current
• 06:0806:08, 20 July 2022 diff hist +2,554 I wish to thank you very much for your reading our books so carefully and scrutinizingly. Any man who read these literatures will find a storehouse of transcendental information No edit summary current
• 06:0806:08, 20 July 2022 diff hist +2,286 Thank you for appreciating my books. Read them carefully and you will preach very nicely No edit summary
• 06:0706:07, 20 July 2022 diff hist +7,465 Bhagavad-gita is a transcendental literature which one should read very carefully. And the result will be, if he properly follows the instruction, then he can be freed from all miseries of life, all anxieties of life and all fears of life No edit summary current
• 06:0606:06, 20 July 2022 diff hist +4,807 I recommend that all my students read Brahma Samhita very carefully, especially because it was translated personally by my spiritual master No edit summary current
• 05:4305:43, 20 July 2022 diff hist +6,156 Unless there is ukta, said by authorities, previous authorities, acaryas, you cannot say anything. This is called parampara. You try to understand with your intelligence, but you cannot make any addition or alteration. That is not possible No edit summary current
• 05:3905:39, 20 July 2022 diff hist +14 You should try to understand whether Krsna is God or not. But He is God. There is no doubt about it. If you have the intelligence to understand what God is, then try to understand No edit summary
• 05:3705:37, 20 July 2022 diff hist +3,944 To study the Vedas and understand them, of course, requires some special intelligence No edit summary current
• 05:3605:36, 20 July 2022 diff hist +5,045 The wretched descendants of the higher three classes, are unfit by intelligence to understand transcendental subject matter concerning the spiritual name, fame, attributes, forms, etc., of the Supreme Absolute Truth No edit summary current
• 05:3605:36, 20 July 2022 diff hist +6,000 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is always trying to give the individual soul the intelligence to understand about Himself No edit summary
• 05:3605:36, 20 July 2022 diff hist +2,993 The Paramatma gave the pandita (Kesava Kashmiri) the intelligence to understand that because he was proud of his learning and wanted to defeat even the Supreme Lord, by the will of the Lord and through the agency of mother Sarasvati he had been defeated No edit summary current
• 05:3605:36, 20 July 2022 diff hist +6,656 The Lord understands the mentality and sincerity of a particular living entity who is engaged in Krsna consciousness and gives him the intelligence to understand the science of Krsna in the association of the devotees. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 05:3505:35, 20 July 2022 diff hist +3,830 The distinction between the Lord and the living entity is definitely experienced when there is sufficient intelligence to understand His internal potency, as distinguished from the external potency by which He makes possible the material manifestation No edit summary current
• 05:3505:35, 20 July 2022 diff hist +3,624 The atheist class of men foolishly inquire "Where is God?" And we present them Krsna - here is God, and if you have got sense and intelligence just try to understand Krsna, whether He is not God No edit summary current
• 05:3405:34, 20 July 2022 diff hist +10,390 So far as common sense is concerned, we come to the conclusion that there are three identities, namely matter, spirit and Superspirit. Now if we go to the Bhagavad-gita, or the Vedic intelligence, we can further understand that No edit summary current
• 05:3405:34, 20 July 2022 diff hist +3,762 Perfect intelligence is to render service unto the Lord. One should be intelligent enough to understand that the living being is, in all circumstances, a servant of the circumstances No edit summary current
• 05:3305:33, 20 July 2022 diff hist +2,338 Men of passionate intelligence understand a great soul to be a common man and accept a common man as a great soul. They think truth to be untruth and accept untruth as truth. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 05:3205:32, 20 July 2022 diff hist +8,078 Krsna consciousness movement is not pushing something forcibly to anyone. There is complete judgement. But unfortunately, if one cannot understand, that is not our fault. One must have the intelligence to understand No edit summary current
• 05:2905:29, 20 July 2022 diff hist +14 Instead of wasting our energy to supply ourselves with so many facilities and modern amenities, we should apply intelligence to understand who and what we are. We do not like to suffer, but we should understand why suffering is being forced upon us No edit summary
• 05:2805:28, 20 July 2022 diff hist −10 If you go beyond intelligence to understand the soul, it is finer still. From these elements people have discovered so many sciences No edit summary current
• 05:2805:28, 20 July 2022 diff hist −10 He who is really intelligent will apply his intelligence to understand who he is, who God is, what material nature is, why he is suffering in material nature, and what is the remedy to this suffering No edit summary current
• 05:2805:28, 20 July 2022 diff hist +7,174 Even though we have got the intelligence if do not utilize it to understand the instruction in the Bhagavad-gita and Vedic knowledge, then purposefully we keep ourself within the category of animals No edit summary current
• 05:2705:27, 20 July 2022 diff hist +5,304 Devahuti is not unintelligent. She has enough intelligence to understand that the living entities are not on the level of the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
• 05:2705:27, 20 July 2022 diff hist +3,867 By intelligence only can one understand whether or not he is the body. The study to determine whether one's identity is spiritual or material begins in doubt No edit summary current
• 05:2605:26, 20 July 2022 diff hist +4,719 After all, intelligence to understand Krsna is not within the range of your material senses. You cannot make any experiments and calculations and expect to find Krsna No edit summary current
• 04:5704:57, 20 July 2022 diff hist +3,988 When a fight takes place, the opposing parties must be prepared to fight like heroes. A hero never runs from the field of battle. He always fights face to face, determined to gain victory or lay down his life in the fight. That is heroic No edit summary
• 04:5504:55, 20 July 2022 diff hist +4,705 O maintainer of all creatures, I am not prepared to fight with them even in exchange for the three worlds, let alone this earth. BG 1.32-35 - 1972 No edit summary current
• 04:5504:55, 20 July 2022 diff hist +6,539 In this way (heavily striking each other), all of the clubs used by Jarasandha and Bhimasena became ruined, and so the two enemies prepared to fight with their strong-fisted hands No edit summary current
• 04:5404:54, 20 July 2022 diff hist +6,090 He (Krsna) was simply walking on foot. Kalayavana had come to fight with Krsna, and yet he had sufficient principles not to take up any kind of weapon. He decided to fight with Him hand to hand. Thus he prepared to capture Krsna and fight No edit summary current
• 04:5104:51, 20 July 2022 diff hist +4,760 After getting on Subhadra’s chariot, he prepared himself for a fight. Taking up his bow and holding off with his arrows the soldiers ordered to check him, Arjuna took Subhadra away No edit summary current
• 04:5004:50, 20 July 2022 diff hist +2,053 You (Kamsa) can be free from all fear of the demigods - they (his ministers) said - Just prepare to fight No edit summary current
• 04:5004:50, 20 July 2022 diff hist +3,408 Therefore get up and prepare to fight. After conquering your enemies you will enjoy a flourishing kingdom. They are already put to death by My arrangement, and you, O Savyasacin, can be but an instrument in the fight. BG 11.33 - 1972 No edit summary current
• 04:5004:50, 20 July 2022 diff hist +2,572 But the present emergency - the ministers said (to Kamsa) - is not intended for such mercy or military etiquette. Now you should prepare to fight under any circumstances No edit summary current
• 04:4504:45, 20 July 2022 diff hist +5,195 You have to change your body.That is a fact. You believe or not believe, you are changing your body every moment. So simply you have no eyes to see, you have no brain to understand No edit summary current
• 04:4404:44, 20 July 2022 diff hist +5,546 In bhagavata-dharma there is no question of "what you believe" and "what I believe." Everyone must believe in the Supreme Lord and carry out His orders No edit summary current

19 July 2022

• 10:4410:44, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,072 Therefore if by the grace of Lord Caitanya and the spiritual master a disciple attains the standard of pure devotional service, the spiritual master is very happy No edit summary current
• 10:4210:42, 19 July 2022 diff hist +5 Ramananda Raya cited more evidence from BG: "One who is transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman. He never laments, nor desires, he is equally disposed. In that state he attains pure devotional service unto Me (Krsna)" - BG 18.54 No edit summary current
• 10:4110:41, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,708 Pure devotional service in KC cannot be had even by pious activity in hundreds and thousands of lives. It can be attained only by paying one price - that is, intense greed to obtain it. If it is available somewhere, one must purchase it without delay No edit summary current
• 10:4010:40, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,142 O King Rahugana, without taking upon one's head the dust from the lotus feet of a pure devotee (a mahajana or mahatma), one cannot attain devotional service No edit summary current
• 10:3810:38, 19 July 2022 diff hist +5 Only by the combined mercy of the pure devotee - the bona fide spiritual master - and the Supreme Lord Himself can one attain pure devotional service to the Lord No edit summary current
• 10:3810:38, 19 July 2022 diff hist +25,530 One who is transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman. He never laments nor desires to have anything; he is equally disposed to every living entity. In that state, he attains pure devotional service unto Me. (BG 18.54) No edit summary current
• 10:3710:37, 19 July 2022 diff hist +4,514 One who is thus transcendentally situated at once realizes the Supreme Brahman. He never laments nor desires to have anything; he is equally disposed to every living entity. In that state he attains pure devotional service unto Me. BG 18.54 - 1972 No edit summary current
• 10:3710:37, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,795 One who constantly hears and chants the holy name of the Lord and hears and chants about His activities can very easily attain the platform of pure devotional service, which can cleanse the dirt from one's heart No edit summary current
• 10:3610:36, 19 July 2022 diff hist +22,709 One who attains pure unalloyed devotional service to the Supreme Lord develops all the good qualities of the demigods, whereas a person who doesn't develop such service, despite all material qualifications, is sure to go astray No edit summary current
• 10:3610:36, 19 July 2022 diff hist +2,850 One must not desire material profit when rendering devotional service. Even if one follows all the sixty-four regulative principles, he cannot attain pure devotional service with a contaminated heart No edit summary current
• 10:3510:35, 19 July 2022 diff hist +4,042 One can attain perfection simply by explaining the instructions, following in the footsteps of the acaryas or listening to the instructions with great attention. If one does so, one can attain the platform of pure devotional service to Lord Vasudeva No edit summary current
• 10:3510:35, 19 July 2022 diff hist +6,920 One cannot be elevated to the highest platform of devotional service by karma-kanda or jnana-kanda. Pure devotional service can be understood and attained only through the association of pure devotees No edit summary current
• 10:3410:34, 19 July 2022 diff hist +2,663 It is not at all wonderful that simply by being covered by the dust of your lotus feet, one immediately attains the platform of pure devotional service to Adhoksaja, which is not available even to great demigods like Brahma No edit summary current