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8 August 2022

• 12:5812:58, 8 August 2022 diff hist +6,922 Modern presidents, governors and chief executive officers are all unworthy of their posts because they are not conversant with Vedic administrative knowledge and they do not take direction from great saintly persons and brahmanas No edit summary current
• 12:5812:58, 8 August 2022 diff hist +2,488 Just as a condemned person can be relieved by a special favor of the chief executive head, the president or king, so the condemned people of this Kali-yuga can be delivered only by the SPG Himself or a person especially empowered for this purpose No edit summary current
• 12:5612:56, 8 August 2022 diff hist +3,749 Here in this material world the citizens may be inimical to the chief executives or heads of state, but in Vaikuntha there is no such mentality No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 8 August 2022 diff hist +6,202 Generally speaking, if the king or president is a rajarsi, the relationship between the citizens and the chief executive will be clear, and there will be no possibility of disruption in the state, because the number of thieves and rogues will decrease No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 8 August 2022 diff hist −13 Everyone is a servant, and no one is a master. Everyone is serving someone or other. Although the president may be the chief executive of the state, still he is serving the state, and when his services are no longer required, the state disposes of him No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 8 August 2022 diff hist +5,903 As You (Krsna) have said, material nature works under Your superintendence, just like a government officer working under the orders of the chief executive. The influence of subordinate activities cannot affect You No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 8 August 2022 diff hist +4,541 As we learn from the history of the Mahabharata, or "Greater India," the wives and daughters of the ruling class, the ksatriyas, knew the political game, but we never find that a woman was given the post of chief executive No edit summary current
• 12:5312:53, 8 August 2022 diff hist +5,772 According to this description of the kingdom of Maharaja Ambarisa, the country or the world should be ruled by a chief executive whose advisors are all devotee brahmanas No edit summary current
• 12:4612:46, 8 August 2022 diff hist +4,338 We insist our students that "Don't go out." Even you are discomfortable, you should tolerate, but you should not go out of the society. Then you will surely fall down, surely fall down No edit summary current
• 12:4212:42, 8 August 2022 diff hist +6 One should tolerate insults against oneself, but when there is blasphemy committed against superiors such as other Vaisnavas, one should be neither humble nor meek: one must take proper steps to counteract such blasphemy No edit summary current
• 12:3212:32, 8 August 2022 diff hist +29 A devotee should lead a very simple life and not be disturbed by the duality of opposing elements. He should learn to tolerate them No edit summary current
• 12:3112:31, 8 August 2022 diff hist +29 A devotee should be tolerant and should be very much compassionate toward others. For example, if he suffers personal injury, he should tolerate it, but if someone else suffers injury, the devotee need not tolerate it No edit summary current
• 12:2412:24, 8 August 2022 diff hist +2,445 We Upanisads can also taste the nectar of His lotus feet by following in the footsteps of the gopis No edit summary current
• 12:2412:24, 8 August 2022 diff hist +3,025 Unless one follows in the footsteps of the gopis, he cannot attain the service of the lotus feet of Krsna, the son of Nanda Maharaja No edit summary current
• 12:2412:24, 8 August 2022 diff hist +17 To attain such service (of the Lord in conjugal love), one has to follow in the footsteps of the gopis in the ecstasy of sakhi-bhava. Then only can one understand the transcendental mellow of conjugal love No edit summary current
• 12:2312:23, 8 August 2022 diff hist +3,567 Those attracted by the conjugal love between Radha and Krsna must follow in the footsteps of the gopis. Only then is it possible to enter into the Lord's service in Goloka Vrndavana and directly associate with Radha and Krsna No edit summary current
• 12:2312:23, 8 August 2022 diff hist +36 The srutis understood that without serving Krsna and following in the footsteps of the gopis there would be no possibility of their entering the kingdom of God and serving Krsna in the mood of conjugal love No edit summary current
• 12:2012:20, 8 August 2022 diff hist +3,517 The process of spontaneous service - following in the footsteps of the gopis, who are the denizens of Vrndavana - is transcendentally more advanced and is the process whereby Radha and Krsna are worshiped No edit summary current
• 12:2012:20, 8 August 2022 diff hist +6,438 The gopis have set the standard of devotion for the whole world. One who follows in the footsteps of the gopis by constantly thinking of Krsna can attain the highest perfectional stage of spiritual life No edit summary current
• 12:1912:19, 8 August 2022 diff hist +1,921 The goddess of fortune, Laksmi, wanted to enjoy Krsna and at the same time retain her spiritual body in the form of Laksmi. However, she did not follow in the footsteps of the gopis in her worship of Krsna No edit summary
• 12:1912:19, 8 August 2022 diff hist +2,250 The authorities in the Vedic literature who are known as the sruti-ganas worshiped Lord Krsna in the ecstasy of the gopis and followed in their footsteps No edit summary current
• 12:1612:16, 8 August 2022 diff hist +3,173 They (the srutis) engaged in spontaneous loving service unto Krsna and followed in the footsteps of the gopis No edit summary current
• 12:1612:16, 8 August 2022 diff hist +6,828 Only one who worships the Lord in the ecstasy of the gopis, following in their footsteps, can engage in the service of Sri Sri Radha-Krsna in the bushes of Vrndavana No edit summary current
• 12:1512:15, 8 August 2022 diff hist +17 One who wants to be elevated to the transcendental stage of perfection should follow in the footsteps of the damsels of Vraja as an assistant maidservant of the gopis No edit summary current
• 12:1512:15, 8 August 2022 diff hist +7,527 In the Caitanya-caritamrta it is said that no one can receive the real favor of the Supreme Personality of Godhead without following in the footsteps of the gopis No edit summary current
• 12:1512:15, 8 August 2022 diff hist +7,362 If someone simply desires conjugal love, but does not follow in the footsteps of the gopis, he is promoted to association with the Lord at Dvaraka No edit summary current
• 12:1412:14, 8 August 2022 diff hist +17 He (Srila Jiva Gosvami) also warns that thinking oneself one of the associates of the Supreme without following in the footsteps of the gopis is as offensive as thinking oneself the Supreme. Such thinking is an aparadha No edit summary current
• 12:1412:14, 8 August 2022 diff hist +5,375 Great devotees up to the standard of Uddhava are very dear friends of the Lord, and they desire to follow in the footsteps of the gopis. So the gopis' love for Krsna is certainly not material lusty desire No edit summary current
• 12:0612:06, 8 August 2022 diff hist +3,917 The protection of cows maintains the most miraculous form of food, i.e., milk for maintaining the finer tissues of the brain for understanding higher aims of life No edit summary current
• 12:0612:06, 8 August 2022 diff hist +3,884 The Maya's agents does not let go even Krishna, then what to speak of Krishna's devotees. They will act in their own way, but as Krishna miraculously saved Himself from the hands of all these demons, similarly, He will always save His devotees No edit summary current
• 12:0512:05, 8 August 2022 diff hist +24 There is no question of Krsna being a man. At no stage in His appearance on earth did He appear as an ordinary living entity. Even as a baby He performed miraculous feats way beyond the abilities of the ordinary living entity No edit summary current
• 12:0512:05, 8 August 2022 diff hist +1,914 Struck by the demon's (Hiranyaksa) mace, however, the Lord's mace slipped from His hand and looked splendid as it fell down whirling. This was miraculous, for the mace was blazing wonderfully No edit summary current
• 12:0412:04, 8 August 2022 diff hist +2,578 Rahu had been drinking nectar through his mouth, & before the nectar entered his body, his head was cut off. Thus his head remained alive whereas the body died. This wonderful act performed by the God was meant to show that nectar is miraculous ambrosia No edit summary current
• 12:0012:00, 8 August 2022 diff hist +6,643 It is their (the yogis) desire to show some miraculous results through the practice of yoga No edit summary current
• 10:2510:25, 8 August 2022 diff hist +4,448 Ardent hearing from the bona fide master is the only way to receive transcendental knowledge, and there is no need for medical performances or occult mysticism for miraculous effects No edit summary current
• 10:1110:11, 8 August 2022 diff hist +4,361 Unless one hears from a bona fide acarya, who is never disturbed by the changes of the material world, one cannot have the real key to transcendental knowledge No edit summary current
• 10:1010:10, 8 August 2022 diff hist +3,578 This (highest perfectional stage of life) can be attained by everyone who is willing to discharge the act of devotional service to the Lord as enjoined in the revealed scriptures that are standard and accepted by the bona fide acaryas, spiritual masters No edit summary current
• 10:0810:08, 8 August 2022 diff hist +2,243 The branches of Advaita Acarya nourished by the water (jala) supplied by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are to be considered bona fide acaryas No edit summary current
• 10:0710:07, 8 August 2022 diff hist +2,593 Simply taking birth in the family of a brahmana does not make one qualified to perform yajnas. One must be twice-born by proper training and initiation from the bona fide acarya No edit summary current
• 10:0310:03, 8 August 2022 diff hist +3,542 Anyone who is bona fide acarya, he can create his own disciplic succession; but one disciplic succession and the other disciplic, they are not different - they are of the same conclusion No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 8 August 2022 diff hist +4,086 In this age of Kali a community has sprung up known as the arya-samaja, which is ignorant of the import of the Vedas in the parampara system. Their leaders decry all bona fide acaryas, and they pose themselves as the real followers of the Vedic principles No edit summary current
• 09:5809:58, 8 August 2022 diff hist +3,050 By discharging devotional service under the direction of the bona fide spiritual master, or acarya, he (the living entity) develops love of Godhead No edit summary current
• 09:5709:57, 8 August 2022 diff hist +3,865 Brahmanas, ksatriyas & vaisyas are called twice-born because for these higher classes of men there is one birth by parental conjugation & there is another of cultural rejuvenation by spiritual initiation from the bona fide acarya, or spiritual master No edit summary current
• 09:4309:43, 8 August 2022 diff hist +5,869 The wife of Santanu named Ganga gave birth to Bhisma, one of the twelve authorities No edit summary current
• 09:4109:41, 8 August 2022 diff hist +3,622 The Absolute Truth, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is realized by hearing about Him in all submission and love from a bona fide authority who is a representative of the twelve great authorities mentioned in the Srimad-Bhagavatam No edit summary current

4 August 2022

• 13:3013:30, 4 August 2022 diff hist +1,486 The Lord said, "You drink cows' milk; therefore the cow is your mother. And the bull produces grains for your maintenance; therefore he is your father No edit summary current
• 13:2913:29, 4 August 2022 diff hist +3,606 Since our real father gives us food grains and our mother gives us milk with which to live, the cow and bull are considered our father and mother. According to Vedic civilization, there are seven mothers, of which the cow is one No edit summary current
• 13:2413:24, 4 August 2022 diff hist +4,737 With love and affection, one should try to give something to Krsna from one's source of income. Then one's life will be successful No edit summary
• 13:2313:23, 4 August 2022 diff hist +3,985 When we inquire from a friend whether everything is well, we are concerned not only with his personal self but also with his family, his source of income, and his assistants or servants. All of them must be well, and then a person can be happy No edit summary current
• 13:2313:23, 4 August 2022 diff hist +3,487 The one Supreme Being, Krsna, maintains everyone. Our so-called source of income is our own choice only. If I wish to be a hunter, it will appear that hunting is the source of my maintenance No edit summary current