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2 August 2022
- 12:4712:47, 2 August 2022 diff hist +8 It may appear that a devotee of the Lord is becoming poorer and poorer in terms of material prosperity, but factually he is not. The typical example is the Pandavas No edit summary current
- 12:4612:46, 2 August 2022 diff hist +20,515 In the transcendental relationship the servant and the Lord are in one sense identical, for the Lord also serves the servant. The typical example is Sri Krsna's becoming the charioteer of His eternal servant Arjuna No edit summary current
- 12:4512:45, 2 August 2022 diff hist +5,862 He (Kholaveca Sridhara) was a great devotee of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He is a typical example of how a poor man with no material possessions can become a most exalted devotee of the Lord No edit summary current
- 12:4512:45, 2 August 2022 diff hist +4,374 Emperor Bharata is a typical example of detachment. He had everything enjoyable in the material world, but he left it. This means that detachment does not mean artificially keeping oneself aloof and apart from the allurements of attachment No edit summary current
- 12:4412:44, 2 August 2022 diff hist +8 Dhrtarastra is a typical example of an attached old man in household life No edit summary current
- 12:4212:42, 2 August 2022 diff hist +8 A devotee of the Lord automatically has all good qualifications. And the Emperor was a typical example of this. Personally he had no attachment for all the worldly opulences in his possession No edit summary current
- 12:3712:37, 2 August 2022 diff hist +5,653 In order to intelligently apply the sixfold loving reciprocations mentioned in the previous verse, one must select proper persons with careful discrimination No edit summary current
- 12:3612:36, 2 August 2022 diff hist +6,182 In 1922 when I (Prabhupada) saw my Guru Maharaja and when I was convinced about his argument and mode of presentation, I was so much struck with wonder. I could understand that "Here is the proper person who can give real religious idea" No edit summary current
- 12:3612:36, 2 August 2022 diff hist +2,022 If our family has given charity to the proper persons, if we have performed ritualistic ceremonies and sacrifices I wish, in exchange, that this brahmana be freed from the burning caused by the Sudarsana cakra No edit summary current
- 12:3512:35, 2 August 2022 diff hist −9 If one is initiated by a proper person, he can be accepted as twice-born immediately. In our Krsna consciousness movement, we therefore offer the student his first initiation and allow him to chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra No edit summary current
- 12:3412:34, 2 August 2022 diff hist +6,954 Everything, in fact, is inconceivable, for the truth is revealed only to the proper persons No edit summary current
- 12:3412:34, 2 August 2022 diff hist +5,828 A peon's duty is that he must sincerely carry out the order of the postmaster and deliver the letter to the proper person. That is their duty. Similarly, this parampara system is like that. Every one of us should become a spiritual master No edit summary current
31 July 2022
- 14:2714:27, 31 July 2022 diff hist +4,579 When one hears or describes with great faith the pastimes of Lord Krsna, such as His rasa dance with the gopis, the disease of lusty desires in his heart and the agitation caused by the three modes of material nature are immediately nullified No edit summary current
- 14:0414:04, 31 July 2022 diff hist +6,076 The gopis, who are expansions of His (Krsna's) energy, then he will be relieved of the most dangerous type of disease, namely lust No edit summary current
- 14:0114:01, 31 July 2022 diff hist −10 As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam, kamam hrd-rogam. Materialistic life means that one is afflicted by a formidable disease called lusty desire No edit summary current
- 01:5601:56, 31 July 2022 diff hist +9,105 Sometimes our devotees fall down because he has not come to that platform, ever-existing. Therefore the fire extinguished. That is possible, but everyone should be very, very careful that the fire may not be extinguished. Then again maya No edit summary current
- 01:5101:51, 31 July 2022 diff hist +4,744 Even a maha-bhagavata, or highly elevated devotee who has surrendered himself unto the lotus feet of Krsna, sometimes falls down from pure devotional service if he hears the Mayavada philosophy of the Sariraka-bhasya No edit summary current
- 01:4801:48, 31 July 2022 diff hist +3,207 We have to keep Krsna always in the center, and then although there are disturbances and sometimes fall downs we will be able to work together and keep our society intact No edit summary current
- 01:4601:46, 31 July 2022 diff hist +3,941 The Mayavadi sannyasis sometimes fall down from the path of self-realization and again enter into material activities of a philanthropic and altruistic nature, which are nothing but material engagements. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 01:4501:45, 31 July 2022 diff hist +7,453 The living entities, they are compared with the sparks, and the Supreme Lord as the big fire. So the big fire, that is the comparison. And the small sparks, both of them are fire. But sometimes the sparks fall down from the big fire. That is our falldown No edit summary current
- 01:4401:44, 31 July 2022 diff hist +5,128 The individual soul, although within the illumination of the Supreme, sometimes falls down from that illumination because of his tiny position, and when he falls down he enters into material, conditional life No edit summary current
- 01:4401:44, 31 July 2022 diff hist +6,291 The devotee, in the beginning, may sometimes fall from the standard, but still he should be considered superior to all other philosophers and yogis. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 01:4001:40, 31 July 2022 diff hist +4,322 Sometimes even Brahma and Indra fall down No edit summary current
- 01:3501:35, 31 July 2022 diff hist +5,554 In the Krsna consciousness movement these monkey disciples, being unable to follow the strict regulative principles, sometimes fall down and try to form societies based on sex No edit summary current
- 01:3401:34, 31 July 2022 diff hist +25,249 In the attitude of anubhava, one dances and sometimes falls down, sometimes sings loudly, shows convulsions, yawns, and sometimes breathes very heavily - all without concern for circumstances No edit summary current
- 01:3201:32, 31 July 2022 diff hist +4,581 From Vedic scriptures it is understood that sometimes even Brahma and Indra fall down, but a devotee in the transcendental abode of the Lord never falls No edit summary current
- 01:3101:31, 31 July 2022 diff hist −10 Even liberated souls sometimes fall down to material desires, but those who fully engage in devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead are not affected by such desires. These are references from authoritative revealed scriptures No edit summary current
- 01:3001:30, 31 July 2022 diff hist −10 Even if one falls down sometimes, if one becomes sincere, thinking, "From this time I shall remain Krsna conscious and execute His orders," then Krsna will help him No edit summary current
- 01:2901:29, 31 July 2022 diff hist −10 Bhaktivinoda Thakura remarks that even a maha-bhagavata, or highly elevated devotee who has surrendered himself unto the lotus feet of Krsna, sometimes falls down from pure devotional service if he hears the Mayavada philosophy of the Sariraka-bhasya No edit summary current
30 July 2022
- 04:4704:47, 30 July 2022 diff hist +5,098 Everyone has dormant love for Krsna, and by culture and education that has to be awakened. That is the purpose of this Krsna consciousness movement No edit summary current
- 04:4404:44, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,023 They may be descendants of brahmana or ksatriya forefathers, but in the age of Kali, for want of sufficient education and culture of Vedic wisdom, such a sudra-like population will defy the principles of religion No edit summary current
- 04:4404:44, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,513 The nondevotee, however advanced he may be in material qualifications by education and culture, lacks in godly qualities. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 04:4304:43, 30 July 2022 diff hist −9 The human form of life is a great asset, for in this life one can fulfill the goal of existence. Unfortunately, however, because of a lack of education and culture, people are victimized by the false happiness of sex life No edit summary current
- 04:4304:43, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,162 The four statuses and orders of human society - brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras, as well as brahmacaris, grhasthas, vanaprasthas and sannyasis - are all divisions of quality, education, culture and spiritual advancement No edit summary current
- 04:4104:41, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,364 The brahmanas thus began to condemn their own activities. They realized that in spite of being so elevated by birth, education and culture, they still were under the spell of the illusory energy No edit summary current
- 04:3904:39, 30 July 2022 diff hist +2,638 One has to take his birth, rebirth, by culture, by education, by knowledge. That is called cultural birth No edit summary current
- 04:3904:39, 30 July 2022 diff hist +6,933 Human life is meant for cultivation of spiritual knowledge, in eternal relationship with the SPG, and the executive heads of all states and all planets are obliged to impart this lesson to the citizens by education, culture and devotion. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 04:3804:38, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,708 Fourth-class people who have neither education nor culture capture the seats of governments to exploit the citizens No edit summary
29 July 2022
- 04:0604:06, 29 July 2022 diff hist +5,335 They call all woman, "Mother." "Mother, give me some alms." And they come back to guru's place. Everything belongs to guru. This brahmacari life. This is tapasya No edit summary current
- 04:0304:03, 29 July 2022 diff hist +7,805 Matrvat para-daresu. From the very beginning of life, all women they are treated as mother. That is the system, Vedic system. Everyone will call a woman as "Mother." Never mind whether she is younger or older. It doesn't matter No edit summary current
- 04:0304:03, 29 July 2022 diff hist +4,204 If one always thinks of Krsna, feels how to serve Him and wills to execute the order of Krsna, it should be known that he has taken good instruction from his intelligence, which is called the mother No edit summary current
- 04:0204:02, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,675 Although you (Parvati) cursed the King (Citraketu), he was not at all afraid or sorry. He offered respect to you, called you mother & accepted your curse thinking himself faulty. He did not say anything in retaliation. This is the excellence of a devotee No edit summary current
- 04:0104:01, 29 July 2022 diff hist +7,030 Krsna immediately changed His dress to look exactly like Abhimanyu and approached Abhimanyu's mother, Jatila, addressing her thus: "My dear Mother, I am your real son Abhimanyu, but just see - Krsna, dressed up like me, is coming before you!" No edit summary current
- 03:5903:59, 29 July 2022 diff hist +7,955 The etiquette is to address every woman, never mind whether she is young or old, as "Mother." This is brahmacari No edit summary current
- 03:5703:57, 29 July 2022 diff hist +3,098 The word amba is significant. A father sometimes addresses his daughter in affection as "mother" and sometimes as "my darling." No edit summary current
- 03:5503:55, 29 July 2022 diff hist +12,329 Arjuna sustained his unimpeachable character by closing his eyes before Urvasi, addressing her as mother of the Kuru dynasty and placing her in the category of his mothers Kunti, Madri and Sacidevi, wife of Indradeva No edit summary current
- 03:5103:51, 29 July 2022 diff hist +6,312 Our activities are conditioned, not free. But you can attain a life of freedom, life of unlimited energy, unlimited happiness, unlimited bliss. There is possibility. This is not story or fiction No edit summary current
- 03:4903:49, 29 July 2022 diff hist +5,422 Because I have written some book, so I know what is the purpose of writing my book. You cannot know. My purpose you cannot know. There is a small instructive story in this - not story, fact - in this connection No edit summary current
- 03:4703:47, 29 July 2022 diff hist +5,323 So these statements are not overestimations, nor are they stories. They are actual facts, but are true for certain devotees and do not necessarily apply to all No edit summary current
- 03:4303:43, 29 July 2022 diff hist +7,395 They spend fifty thousand dollars weekly for seeing naked dance. You see? So money is being misused in this way. Everyone wants sense gratification. And for sense gratification, they want money. And they are earning money No edit summary current