User contributions for SharmisthaK

3 August 2022

• 05:5205:52, 3 August 2022 diff hist +5,166 If the guru and father and the government, they are themselves rascals and fools, how they will guide? And that is the position. General public, they require guidance, but the guides themselves are rascals and fools, cheaters, bluffers No edit summary current
• 05:5205:52, 3 August 2022 diff hist +14,413 Because people are not educated, they're accepting these rascals as Vedantists. Really, the Mayavadi Vedantists - they are bluffers. They are not Vedantists. They do not know anything of the Vedanta-sutra. That is the difficulty No edit summary current
• 05:5105:51, 3 August 2022 diff hist +3,693 A pseudo incarnation of Krsna once told his disciple that he had emptied himself by giving him all knowledge and was thus spiritually bankrupt. Such bluffers speak in this way to cheat the public No edit summary current
• 05:5105:51, 3 August 2022 diff hist +9,206 Arjuna said, "Similarly, if the king or the executive head of a state cannot give protection to the head of the social structure, he is considered merely a bluffer" No edit summary current
• 05:4805:48, 3 August 2022 diff hist +6,739 This is a knowledge, that every living entity is imprisoned within this body. This knowledge is equally good for Hindus, Muslim, Christian or everyone. There is no question of Christianism or Hinduism No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 3 August 2022 diff hist +5,380 The exchange between God and the living entity is called sanatana-dharma or Vaisnavism. So we are teaching that. We are not teaching Hinduism, Muslimism, Christianism. We are teaching how to love God No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 3 August 2022 diff hist +3,343 I said in many lectures that Christianism means Vaisnavism. Where is the Christian? No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 3 August 2022 diff hist +7,188 It does not matter you learn to love God through Christianism or Hinduism or Muslimism, any "ism," but the result should be how much you have advanced in the art of loving God No edit summary current
• 05:4605:46, 3 August 2022 diff hist +6,266 Anywhere the four prime religions of the world, namely Hinduism, Christianism, Mohammedanism or Buddhism, directly or indirectly, they are accepting God. And without accepting God there is no meaning of religion No edit summary current

2 August 2022

• 15:2715:27, 2 August 2022 diff hist −7 A human civilization is advanced when its people follow the catur-varnya system, the system of four orders of life No edit summary current
• 15:2715:27, 2 August 2022 diff hist +3,835 Without knowledge of the presence of God in every living entity, any so-called advancement of human civilization, either spiritual or material, is to be understood as being in the mode of ignorance No edit summary current
• 15:2615:26, 2 August 2022 diff hist +2,467 The four stages of advancement of human civilization are religiosity, economic development, sense gratification and, for some, the stage of liberation No edit summary current
• 15:2615:26, 2 August 2022 diff hist +4,936 Our society is serving the whole world by supplying the missing part for perfect advancement of human civilization; we are supplying the head No edit summary current
• 15:2615:26, 2 August 2022 diff hist +3,286 Materialistic inventions are considered to be advancement of human civilization, but the result is that people grow more and more violent and more and more cruel, cruel to animals and cruel to other human beings. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 15:2115:21, 2 August 2022 diff hist +3,364 Human civilization and all activities thereof must be dovetailed with the supreme blessing of the Lord, and without this blessing all advancement of human civilization is like decoration on a dead body No edit summary current
• 15:2015:20, 2 August 2022 diff hist +4,987 Even if it is possible to prolong life more than one hundred years, advancement of human civilization does not necessarily follow No edit summary current
• 15:1915:19, 2 August 2022 diff hist +4,866 Advancement of human civilization depends not on industrial enterprises, but on possession of natural wealth and natural food, which is all supplied by the Supreme Personality of Godhead so that we may save time for self-realization No edit summary current
• 15:1415:14, 2 August 2022 diff hist +9,398 To understand what is God, it is not possible. It is not a subject matter of speculative knowledge. No. It is to be received through the right source, deductive process, not inductive process. Because our senses are limited No edit summary current
• 15:1415:14, 2 August 2022 diff hist +6,256 This knowledge, what we are distributing, it is not that we have created this knowledge by research work or by so many other ways, by inductive process. No. Our knowledge is from the deductive process No edit summary current
• 15:1415:14, 2 August 2022 diff hist +21,459 The inductive process consequently is not always perfect, whereas the deductive process from a source of perfect knowledge is perfect. The Vedic process is such a process No edit summary current
• 15:1315:13, 2 August 2022 diff hist +21,353 There are two processes for attaining knowledge - one is inductive and the other is deductive. The deductive method is considered to be more perfect No edit summary current
• 15:1315:13, 2 August 2022 diff hist +6,482 Our process is deductive. We say that man is mortal, first of all. Therefore John is a man. He is also mortal. This is deductive process. First of all we accept, man is mortal. The inductive process is that "Why shall I accept man is mortal? No edit summary current
• 15:1315:13, 2 August 2022 diff hist +4,256 Mayavadis - who are neophytes depending on the empirical, inductive process - should properly understand the position of the pure devotees of the Lord, who have realized the Absolute truth No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 2 August 2022 diff hist −9 When the spiritual master and Lord Krsna will that a person must have Krsna consciousness, then the seed very nicely fructifies. That spiritual asset makes one fortunate, and thus he becomes spiritually enlivened No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 2 August 2022 diff hist +2,475 When the Lord descends, all the demigods become enlivened No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 2 August 2022 diff hist +4,810 This attainment of success (becoming enlivened as a spiritual being) is possible when one is above the modes of passion and ignorance, or, in other words, when one is actually a brahmana by qualification No edit summary current
• 15:0515:05, 2 August 2022 diff hist +20,895 The father becomes more enlivened when he sees his son advance beyond himself. Similarly, the spiritual master takes more pleasure in seeing his disciple advance than in advancing himself No edit summary current
• 15:0515:05, 2 August 2022 diff hist +2,970 The devotees are ever satisfied by the smiling face of the Lord, and they become enlivened. And by seeing the devotees so enlivened, the Lord Himself is further satisfied No edit summary current
• 15:0515:05, 2 August 2022 diff hist +4,006 I am so glad the press workers have become enlivened in their work. This is required if we at all wish to be a truly worldwide organization. Worldwide means worldwide distribution of literatures No edit summary current
• 15:0515:05, 2 August 2022 diff hist +2,802 Discourses on the transcendental activities of God purify the atmosphere in which such discussions are held, and the devotees become enlivened while answering such questions. It is purifying both for the questioners and for one who answers the questions No edit summary current
• 15:0415:04, 2 August 2022 diff hist +2,612 By looking at the beautiful gopis Krsna becomes enlivened, and this enlivens the gopis, whose youthful faces and bodies blossom No edit summary current
• 14:5914:59, 2 August 2022 diff hist +6,635 We took up the mission of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura and Bhaktivinoda Thakura to preach the cult of Caitanya Mahaprabhu all over the world, under the protection of all the predecessor acaryas, and we find that our humble attempt has been successful No edit summary current
• 14:5814:58, 2 August 2022 diff hist +5,926 This rascal civilization is so dangerous, mudha, full of rascals. So our little humble attempt is to give them relief from this rascaldom civilization. That is Krsna consciousness movement No edit summary current
• 14:5814:58, 2 August 2022 diff hist +8 The pasandis were against the Hare Krsna movement of Lord Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu, and now we see practically that they also do not like our humble attempts to spread Krsna consciousness all over the world No edit summary current
• 14:5814:58, 2 August 2022 diff hist +4,283 There is no credit for me, but it is only a teeny attempt, and humble attempt. So if one man could do, if you say, some success, why not all of us? No edit summary current
• 14:5714:57, 2 August 2022 diff hist +5,004 Our humble attempt to propagate the Krsna consciousness movement all over the world is the only remedy that can bring about a peaceful and happy life. We can never be happy without the mercy of the Supreme Lord - tvad-upeksitanam No edit summary current
• 14:5714:57, 2 August 2022 diff hist +28 He (God) is the Supreme Person, yet He is very kind to the devotees. No one is competent to serve the Lord, but even if a devotee is not competent, the merciful Lord accepts the humble attempt of the devotee No edit summary current
• 14:5214:52, 2 August 2022 diff hist +6,366 When the Lord was on the lap of His mother, He would at once stop crying as soon as the ladies surrounding Him chanted the holy names and clapped their hands. This peculiar incident was observed by the neighbors with awe and veneration No edit summary
• 14:5214:52, 2 August 2022 diff hist +1,899 When Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu passed through Vrndavana, herds of grazing cows saw Him pass and, immediately surrounding Him, began to moo very loudly No edit summary current
• 14:5114:51, 2 August 2022 diff hist +2,502 This river, which is a moat surrounding hell, is full of ferocious aquatic animals. When a sinful man is thrown into the River, the aquatic animals there immediately begin to eat him, but because of his extremely sinful life, he does not leave his body No edit summary current
• 14:5114:51, 2 August 2022 diff hist +6,693 They (the cowherd boys) ate and constantly enjoyed seeing the Lord face to face. Krsna appeared to be the whorl of a lotus flower, and the boys surrounding Him appeared to be its different petals No edit summary current
• 14:4814:48, 2 August 2022 diff hist +2,595 The water surrounding it (the first island in the Bhu-mandala planetary system) must have the same breadth, but its length must be different No edit summary current
• 14:4814:48, 2 August 2022 diff hist +5,201 The Sri Rangam temple is the largest in India, and there are seven walls surrounding it. There are also seven roads leading to Sri Rangam No edit summary current
• 14:4714:47, 2 August 2022 diff hist +2,376 The seven walls surround Vaikuntha, with seven gates, just like a building may be located there, but you have to pass through seven gates and courtyards, with walls surrounding, to reach there. Gardens, houses, everything is there between the walls No edit summary current
• 14:4714:47, 2 August 2022 diff hist +1,428 The Lord personally splashed all the devotees with water, and the devotees, surrounding Him on all sides, also splashed the Lord No edit summary current
• 14:4714:47, 2 August 2022 diff hist +1,573 The Lord (Caitanya) personally splashed all the devotees with water, and the devotees, surrounding Him on all sides, also splashed the Lord No edit summary current
• 14:4514:45, 2 August 2022 diff hist +2,096 The entire spiritual world constitutes the unlimited opulence of Krsna, and there are innumerable Vaikuntha planets there. The Causal Ocean is considered the surrounding waters of Vaikunthaloka No edit summary current
• 14:4514:45, 2 August 2022 diff hist +2,042 The cooked rice was a stack of very fine grains nicely cooked, and in the middle was yellow clarified butter from the milk of cows. Surrounding the stack of rice were pots made of the skins of banana trees, & in these pots were varieties of vegetables No edit summary current
• 14:4414:44, 2 August 2022 diff hist +1,384 Tears came forcefully from the eyes of the Lord, as if from a syringe, and all the people surrounding Him became wet No edit summary current
• 14:4414:44, 2 August 2022 diff hist +3,737 Surrounding Sumeru Mountain like filaments of the whorl of a lotus are twenty mountain ranges such as Kuranga, Kurara, Kusumbha, Vaikanka and Trikuta No edit summary current