User contributions for SharmisthaK

4 August 2022

• 09:3609:36, 4 August 2022 diff hist +2,817 The devotees of the Lord are by nature peaceful and offenseless, and therefore it is the prime duty of the state to arrange to convert everyone to become a devotee of the Lord. Thus automatically there will be peaceful, offenseless citizens No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 4 August 2022 diff hist +5,396 These (divisions of varnasrama) are religious principles, and it is the duty of the head of state to see that his citizens strictly follow them No edit summary current
• 09:3309:33, 4 August 2022 diff hist +3,413 There is a need of such (expert) vipras in the social structure, and it is the duty of the state to maintain them comfortably, as designed in the Vedic procedure No edit summary current
• 09:3209:32, 4 August 2022 diff hist +5,771 It is the duty of the executive head of a state to see that the citizens strictly follow religious principles. The Vedic religious principles begin with varnasrama-dharma, the duties of the four varnas and four asramas No edit summary current
• 09:3209:32, 4 August 2022 diff hist +3,499 It is the duty of the executive heads of state and others to take all necessary actions against the activities of Kali or the persons influenced by the age of Kali No edit summary current
• 09:3109:31, 4 August 2022 diff hist +5,224 Duty of the executive head of a state No edit summary current
• 09:2109:21, 4 August 2022 diff hist +1,654 Lord Krsna belongs to the cowherd community, and the gopis are the dearmost lovers of Krsna No edit summary current
• 09:2109:21, 4 August 2022 diff hist +1,696 I belong to a community of cowherd boys, and therefore I generally have many cowherd associates with Me. I am happy when we eat together in a picnic like this by the sandy bank of the river No edit summary current
• 09:1809:18, 4 August 2022 diff hist −5 Faith may change, but dharma cannot be changed. The liquidity of water cannot be changed. If it is changed - if, for instance, water becomes solid - it is actually no longer in its constitutional position No edit summary current
• 09:1509:15, 4 August 2022 diff hist −25 The dharma of the individual soul can never be changed, and that dharma is the occupational duty of rendering service unto the Supreme Lord. Faiths and religions can be changed No edit summary current
• 09:1409:14, 4 August 2022 diff hist +5,596 The neophyte's faith can be changed by someone else with strong arguments or by an opposite decision No edit summary current
• 09:1409:14, 4 August 2022 diff hist −5 The word dharma does not have the same meaning as faith. The faith of an individual may change from Hindu to Buddhist to Christian to Moslem, etc. People have the ability to accept one faith and reject another, but dharma cannot be changed No edit summary current
• 09:1309:13, 4 August 2022 diff hist −25 Today I may be a Hindu, but tomorrow I may become a Christian or Moslem. In this way faiths can be changed, but dharma is a natural sequence, a natural occupation or connection No edit summary current
• 09:1309:13, 4 August 2022 diff hist +8,109 Today you are Muslim. Tomorrow you can become Christian. You can change your faith. But that is not religion. Change of faith or accepting some faith, that is not religion. Religion means which you cannot change No edit summary current
• 09:0909:09, 4 August 2022 diff hist +12 The word prahasitapanga, referring to Krsna's smile and sidelong glances at His devotees, specifically applies to His dealings with the gopis. Krsna is always in a joking mood when He increases the feelings of conjugal rasa in the hearts of the gopis No edit summary current
• 09:0909:09, 4 August 2022 diff hist +3,004 The Lord is superexcellently beautiful on account of His open and merciful smile and His sidelong glance upon His devotees. His black hair is curly, and His garments, waving in the wind, appear like flying saffron pollen from lotus flowers No edit summary current
• 09:0709:07, 4 August 2022 diff hist +4,043 Casting sidelong glances, He (Govinda) places His flute to His lips, which seem like newly blossomed twigs. His transcendental body, bending in three places, appears very bright in the moonlight No edit summary current
• 08:5708:57, 4 August 2022 diff hist +2,858 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, as an ideal teacher, shows us how a disciple should deal with his spiritual master. Whenever there is doubt regarding any point, he should refer the matter to his spiritual master for clarification No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 4 August 2022 diff hist +5,309 Lord Caitanya is the ideal teacher of life’s prime necessities No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 4 August 2022 diff hist +13,300 Lord Caitanya is the ideal teacher of life's prime necessities. He is the most munificent bestower of love of Krsna. He is the complete reservoir of all mercies and good fortune - CC Preface No edit summary current
• 08:5408:54, 4 August 2022 diff hist +12,919 Lord Caitanya is the ideal teacher of life's prime necessities. He is the most munificent bestower of love of Krsna. He is the complete reservoir of all mercies and good fortune No edit summary current
• 08:5408:54, 4 August 2022 diff hist +5,633 In ancient days the kings were taught lessons in political philosophy by ideal teachers according to the Vedic codes for both the material and the spiritual upliftment of society No edit summary current
• 08:5408:54, 4 August 2022 diff hist +2,746 Caitanya Mahaprabhu is an ideal teacher by His personal behavior, and so also are all His disciples. Thus this brahmana, being purified in association with Caitanya Mahaprabhu, followed these principles in submitting his request to the higher authority No edit summary current
• 07:0107:01, 4 August 2022 diff hist +1,863 We have got enough of a university educational program in our Krishna Consciousness movement No edit summary current
• 06:5906:59, 4 August 2022 diff hist +6,289 Sex life is natural. It does not require any university education how to enjoy sex. They will enjoy it. Nobody... "Nobody is taught how to cry or how to laugh or how to enjoy sex life" No edit summary current
• 06:5906:59, 4 August 2022 diff hist −13 Ordinary knowledge obtained by a university education pertains only to matter, and it is not accepted here (in BG 10.4-5) as knowledge. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 06:5706:57, 4 August 2022 diff hist −13 According to Bhagavad-gita, one may not be a learned man just because he has received a lot of education from a university. Bhagavad-gita says that he is a learned man who can see everything on an equal level - BG 5.18 No edit summary current
• 06:5306:53, 4 August 2022 diff hist +1,983 You are always engaged in Krishna's service is the greatest pleasure for me, and I am feeling transcendental happiness No edit summary current
• 06:5306:53, 4 August 2022 diff hist −13 The very name Krsna, which is nonsectarian, means "the greatest pleasure." Krs means "greatest," and na means "pleasure." Krsna is the epitome of pleasure, and being part and parcel of Him, we hanker for pleasure No edit summary current
• 06:5306:53, 4 August 2022 diff hist +6,673 The devotees engage in greater pleasure than the so-called pleasure of merging into His (the Personality of Godhead) existence. The greatest pleasure is to serve the Lord No edit summary current
• 06:5206:52, 4 August 2022 diff hist +7,626 People are very much anxious to have one religion, one God, one scripture, and one business or one activity of life. This is summarized in the Bhagavad-gita - that one God is Krsna. Krsna is not sectarian God. Krsna means the greatest pleasure No edit summary current
• 06:5206:52, 4 August 2022 diff hist +4,484 As we sincerely try to improve our chanting for the pleasure of Krishna, Krishna reciprocates and we feel our greatest pleasure which is devotional service to the Lord. So, you may continue with this method, it is very nice and approved by me No edit summary
• 06:4906:49, 4 August 2022 diff hist +2,725 So if our GBC members remain strong, strictly following the regulative principles, everything will be all right No edit summary current
• 06:4606:46, 4 August 2022 diff hist +4,451 I want that my London center remain very strong for preaching this Indian cult to the Britishers No edit summary current
• 06:4606:46, 4 August 2022 diff hist +4,430 I have tried to give you all Krsna Consciousness, now it is your duty to develop it. If you remain strong on the spiritual platform then your progress will not be checked or blocked No edit summary
• 06:4506:45, 4 August 2022 diff hist +7,868 Follow the rules and regulations, worship the Deity, and chant Hare Krsna mantra, as you have given, then you will remain as strong as Krsna No edit summary current
• 06:4506:45, 4 August 2022 diff hist +4,100 Anyway, you remain strong. Don't be intimidated by this (indistinct). That is my request No edit summary current
• 06:4106:41, 4 August 2022 diff hist +8,297 This self-illumination (of the spiritual world) also contradicts the theory that the spirit soul, or the spiritual consciousness, develops at a certain point in material combination No edit summary current
• 06:4106:41, 4 August 2022 diff hist +4,685 The Vaikuntha planets are all self-illuminating like the sun, and the rays of the Vaikuntha planets are called the brahmajyoti No edit summary current
• 06:4006:40, 4 August 2022 diff hist +2,303 The transcendental abode of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as stated in Bhagavad-gita and confirmed in this verse, is self-illuminated No edit summary current
• 06:4006:40, 4 August 2022 diff hist −12 The Lord, is not subject to conditioning; therefore He is described as self-illuminated No edit summary current
• 06:3606:36, 4 August 2022 diff hist +5,712 O self-illuminated one (Krsna), the great saintly persons who have crossed over the ocean of nescience by the help of the transcendental boat of Your lotus feet have not taken away that boat No edit summary current
• 06:3606:36, 4 August 2022 diff hist +3,094 O lord, the five important Vedic mantras are represented by your five faces, from which the thirty-eight most celebrated Vedic mantras have been generated. Your Lordship, being celebrated as Lord Siva, is self-illuminated No edit summary current
• 06:3506:35, 4 August 2022 diff hist +4,009 In the Visnu Purana it is stated that Visnu and His abodes all have self-illuminated spiritual existence. The words existent and nonexistent refer only to spirit and matter. That is the version of all seers of truth. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 06:3206:32, 4 August 2022 diff hist +6,059 In that sky, which is far beyond the material sky and its sevenfold coverings, there is no need of sun or moon, nor is there necessity of electricity for illumination, because the planets are self-illuminating and more brilliant than the material suns No edit summary current
• 06:3206:32, 4 August 2022 diff hist +2,627 In Bhagavad-gita it is said that in the spiritual world there is no need of sun, moon or electricity. This indicates that all the planets there are self-illuminated, self-sufficient and independent; everything there is complete No edit summary current
• 06:3206:32, 4 August 2022 diff hist +2,356 His transcendental body, unlimited in length and breadth, occupied the three planetary systems, upper, middle and lower. His body was self-illuminated by unparalleled dress and variegatedness and was properly ornamented No edit summary current
• 06:3206:32, 4 August 2022 diff hist +30 His (the Ksna conscious person's) duty thus becomes self-illuminated by the grace of the Lord, and therefore he no longer has any obligations to the Vedic injunctions. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 06:2606:26, 4 August 2022 diff hist +1,612 With great care and attention Raghava Pandita prepares spinach, other vegetables, radishes, fruits, chipped rice, powdered rice and sweetmeats No edit summary current
• 06:2506:25, 4 August 2022 diff hist +5,312 While Lord Krsna was speaking to Sudama Vipra, He ate one morsel of chipped rice from his bundle, and when He attempted to eat a second morsel, Rukminidevi, the goddess of fortune herself, checked the Lord by catching hold of His hand No edit summary current