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22 July 2022

• 05:0905:09, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,428 Ecstatic love of Godhead can be potently invoked simply by following the rules and regulations of devotional service as they are prescribed in scriptures, under the direction of a bona fide spiritual master No edit summary current
• 05:0805:08, 22 July 2022 diff hist +37 Duties on the spiritual platform and duties on the material platform may be different, but the principle of following the authorized direction is always good for the performer. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 04:5604:56, 22 July 2022 diff hist +8,875 The Lord says in the Bhagavad-gita, "The asuras' view of this cosmic manifestation is that the whole creation is false. The asuras think that the mere interaction of matter is the source of the creation and that there is no controller or God" No edit summary current
• 04:5604:56, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,404 The demoniac conclude that the world is phantasmagoria. There is no cause, no effect, no controller, no purpose: everything is unreal. They say that this cosmic manifestation arises due to chance material actions and reactions. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 04:5604:56, 22 July 2022 diff hist +7,026 These (demoniac) speculators are envious of the existence of the Lord. Jagad ahur anisvaram: their conclusion is that the entire cosmic manifestation has no controller, but is just working naturally No edit summary current
• 04:5604:56, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2 There is no supreme controller other than Krsna. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 04:5504:55, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,557 So how we can think that there is no control, there is no government, everything has come out of its own course? There is controller, and He is called Isvara. Isvara means God. There is management of God. It is very commonsense understanding No edit summary current
• 04:5504:55, 22 July 2022 diff hist −20 Sometimes the tables turn, and we find that the dog controls the master. This happens because actually no one is the controller, and everyone is controlled. Unfortunately we are forgetful of this situation, and this forgetfulness is called maya No edit summary current
• 04:5504:55, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,781 Our message is that here in this material world, there are many controllers, many governors, many isvaras, but nobody is the supreme isvara. Supreme isvara means He has no controller over Him No edit summary current
• 04:5504:55, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,137 One thinks that there is no God or controller and that one is independent and can do anything. This is the material condition, and when one awakens from this ignorance, he is called liberated No edit summary current
• 04:5404:54, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,459 Asatyam apratistham te jagad ahur anisvaram (BG 16.8). The Raksasas are unaware that the Supreme Lord is the ruler of the creation. They think that everything has come about by chance or accident and that there is no ruler, king or controller No edit summary current
• 04:4304:43, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,079 The personified Vedas continued, "When elevated to the human form of life, they identify with a particular class of men, or a particular nation or race or so-called religion, forgetting their real identity as eternal servants of Your Lordship" No edit summary current
• 04:4304:43, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,436 There was a great hard struggle for some time, but it has turned out successfully, and it is now correctly and practically established that devotional service is not restricted to a particular class of men No edit summary current
• 04:4204:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,284 Teachings of Christ, teaching of Buddha, they are meant for a particular type of men. Generally it is meant for everyone, but specifically for a particular type of men No edit summary current
• 04:4204:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +7,019 Such recommendations (association of women by marriage and flesh-eating by sacrifices) in the Vedic literature are meant for a particular class of men, and not for all No edit summary current
• 04:4204:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,239 On the whole, meat-eating is not completely forbidden; a particular class of men is allowed to eat meat according to various circumstances and injunctions. As far as eating beef is concerned, however, it is strictly prohibited to everyone No edit summary current
• 04:4204:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist −20 From this (CC Antya 3.50) statement by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu we can clearly understand that the word yavana does not refer only to a particular class of men No edit summary current
• 04:4104:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,496 Bombay is the best city in India, and people are also very advanced, enlightened. So let us combine together and develop this institution for the whole human society. That is our ambition. It is not for any sect or any creed or any particular class of men No edit summary current
• 04:4104:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,293 The word yavana means - meat-eater. Anyone from a meat-eating community is called a yavana. One who does not strictly observe the Vedic regulative principles is called a mleccha. These words do not refer to any particular man No edit summary current
• 04:4004:40, 22 July 2022 diff hist −11 The tendency of a particular man toward work is determined by the modes of material nature which he has acquired. Such symptoms of life, according to different modes of material nature, are described in the Eighteenth Chapter of this book. BG 1972 pur No edit summary current
• 04:4004:40, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,206 The real fact is that a bona fide spiritual master knows the nature of a particular man and what sort of duties he can perform in Krsna consciousness, and he instructs him in that way. He instructs him through the ear, not privately, but publicly No edit summary current
• 04:4004:40, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,105 The by-products of the body, namely children, are also different individual souls; and, owing to the body, they appear as children of a particular man No edit summary current
• 04:3904:39, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,356 Propaganda by false glorification of an unqualified person cannot bring about any good, either for the particular man or for the society No edit summary current
• 04:3904:39, 22 July 2022 diff hist +8,122 Everyone has to take sannyasa. It is not that a particular man, simply Caitanya Mahaprabhu has to take sannyasa. No. That is obligation. You must No edit summary current
• 04:3804:38, 22 July 2022 diff hist +11,126 Buddhir buddhimatam asmi tejas tejasvinam aham. One who is very influential, that influence is Krsna. That influence, that particular influence of a particular man, that is also Krsna No edit summary current
• 04:1504:15, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,452 We recruit devotees with great difficulty. So they must be well-treated. New men may not always behave so nicely but we must be tolerant No edit summary current
• 04:1504:15, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,546 I started this movement just in this way. It is not very difficult. The important thing is that you behave nicely, chant all your rounds and follow strictly the regulative principles. Example is better than precept No edit summary current
• 04:1504:15, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,734 Krsna continued, "Because I was trained in a village in My childhood, I am not well acquainted with the etiquette of urban life. I do not know the way to please a wife with nice words and behavior" No edit summary current
• 04:1504:15, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,442 A very nice example of this obligatory behavior was manifested when Sudama Vipra went to Krsna's palace No edit summary current
• 04:1404:14, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,989 All our members, the members of the Krsna consciousness society, should be ideal. At least people may see that "Here is a class of men - ideal character, ideal behavior, spiritual advanced, and very frugal and very nice" No edit summary current
• 02:1602:16, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,756 As devotees propagate the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, the general population of the entire world gets the opportunity to understand the glories of the holy name No edit summary current
• 02:1502:15, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,569 I have to propagate this mission, Krsna consciousness, so I am not so much attached to the rules and regulations, but I am attached to the preaching work No edit summary current
• 01:4201:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +8,920 Without any training there is a natural attraction due to the sex impulse. This is a material example, but the devotee is praying that he may develop a similar spontaneous attachment for the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
• 01:4201:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,628 The word ksatra-bandhu refers to the so-called administrators or persons promoted to the post of the administrator without proper training by culture and tradition No edit summary current
• 01:4201:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,035 Persons promoted to the post of the administrator without proper training by culture and tradition No edit summary current
• 01:4201:42, 22 July 2022 diff hist +20,060 No one should be eager to understand the conjugal love of Krsna without undergoing disciplinary training under the six Gosvamis of Vrndavana No edit summary
• 01:4101:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,741 In the so-called people's government there is no trained ksatriya king; as soon as someone strong accumulates votes, he becomes the minister or president, without training from the learned brahmanas expert in the sastras No edit summary current
• 01:4101:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,279 Here we are having sense pleasure artificially through this body. Before leaving this body, if we practice to stop sense pleasure as much as possible... There is training, of course. Without training, nothing can be done No edit summary current
• 01:4001:40, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,785 Gradually the democratic government is becoming unfit for the needs of the people, and therefore some parties are trying to elect a dictator. A dictatorship is the same as a monarchy, but without a trained leader No edit summary current
• 01:3001:30, 22 July 2022 diff hist +8,048 According to the Nirukti, or the Vedic dictionary, sankhya means that which describes phenomena in detail, and sankhya refers to that philosophy which describes the real nature of the soul. And yoga involves controlling the senses No edit summary current
• 01:3001:30, 22 July 2022 diff hist +16,117 According to Bhagavad-gita, one should make research by philosophical discretion into the nature of the soul. One should make research to understand with what the self is concerned. That is recommended. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
• 01:3001:30, 22 July 2022 diff hist −7 The changing nature of the soul is just like change of water to ice. The tendency of ice is to melt and become water again. So due to contamination of matter, the soul by illusion identifies with material existence No edit summary current
• 01:1901:19, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,968 We think, from Vedic evidences, the whole world was in Krsna consciousness. There was one God, Krsna; one scripture, Bhagavad-gita; one consciousness, Krsna consciousness; and one work, service of the Lord No edit summary current
• 01:1901:19, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,716 This Krishna Consciousness Movement is for understanding one God, one scripture, one mantra, and one engagement for all living entities, not only within this world, but throughout the whole universe No edit summary current
• 01:1901:19, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,450 That is our mission: one God, one mantra, one scripture, one activity. One God: Krsna. One mantra: Hare Krsna. One scripture: Bhagavad-gita. And one activity: to serve Krsna. That's all. There is no two. One No edit summary current
• 01:1801:18, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,737 Principle of one God, one community, one scripture, and one occupation No edit summary current
• 01:1801:18, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,641 One God is Krishna, one scripture is Bhagavad-gita, one mantra is Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, and one service means everything for the Lord No edit summary current
• 01:1701:17, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,448 One culture means politically, one flag; religiously, one God, Krsna; and to understand Krsna, one scripture, Bhagavad-gita; and one work, one work, simply to satisfy Krsna. So this is oneness No edit summary current
• 01:1701:17, 22 July 2022 diff hist +10,093 My mission of one God, Sri Krishna; one scripture, Bhagavad-gita; and one mantra, Hare Krishna No edit summary current
• 01:1701:17, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,379 I thank you once more for your appreciating my mission of one God, Sri Krishna; one scripture, Bhagavad-gita; and one mantra, Hare Krishna. This idea is not manufactured by me, but it is authoritative statement in the Gita Mahatma Skanda Purana No edit summary current