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11 August 2022

• 05:4905:49, 11 August 2022 diff hist +9,809 The higher authority, who is present and residing within every individual living being, is the Superself No edit summary current
• 05:4805:48, 11 August 2022 diff hist +2,488 Since the individual self is part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the self and the Superself are qualitatively nondifferent No edit summary current
• 05:4805:48, 11 August 2022 diff hist +5,402 Real love is to myself. So naturally, if you love yourself, then this self is the part and parcel of the Superself. Therefore you love indirectly the Superself No edit summary current
• 05:4805:48, 11 August 2022 diff hist +9,891 Realization of the Superself by the individual self is the beginning of self-realization No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 11 August 2022 diff hist +10,424 Our material senses of perception and action are moving because we are identifying the self with the material body, and that the superior principle of Superself is guiding and supplying us according to our desire No edit summary
• 05:4505:45, 11 August 2022 diff hist +5,962 Knowledge of the qualitative oneness of the self and Superself is partial knowledge and ignorance also because there is no knowledge of quantitative difference No edit summary current
• 05:4005:40, 11 August 2022 diff hist +2,371 Human life is especially meant for self-realization. "Self" refers to the Superself and the individual self, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the living entity No edit summary current
• 05:3905:39, 11 August 2022 diff hist +10,537 God is great, and He cannot be simply an order supplier of the individual selves; therefore the Superself cannot be a full representation of the Supreme Self, Purusottama, the Absolute Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 05:3805:38, 11 August 2022 diff hist +10,544 By taking advantage of the Superself's guidance in the form of intelligence we can either continue to study & practice our conclusion "I am not this body," or we can choose to remain in the false material identification No edit summary current
• 05:3705:37, 11 August 2022 diff hist +5,190 Although individual souls are all different, the Superself, or Supersoul, is the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current

10 August 2022

• 16:0616:06, 10 August 2022 diff hist +3,727 You cannot make any permanent settlement within this material world. That is not possible. The nature is made so, whatever you do, for the time being you relish, but time will come, you will be kicked off from your position No edit summary current
• 16:0516:05, 10 August 2022 diff hist +4,713 The foolish conditioned soul who has taken this temporary world as a permanent settlement has to learn intelligently why such creation and destruction take place No edit summary current
• 16:0416:04, 10 August 2022 diff hist +14,145 In the West, for example, Lord Jesus Christ spread this same message (ultimate goal of life to go back to Godhead). Similarly, Lord Buddha and Muhammad. No one advises us to make our permanent settlement here in this material world No edit summary current
• 16:0416:04, 10 August 2022 diff hist +4,048 Here the material nature is you take your birth or appearance and again disappear and again appear. This is the instruction of spiritual life. The spirit soul is there, but it is not getting a permanent settlement. This is material world No edit summary current
• 15:5815:58, 10 August 2022 diff hist −12 Everyone cannot understand God simply by erudite scholarship or mental speculation. Only one who is actually engaged in Krsna consciousness and devotional service can understand what Krsna is. University degrees are not helpful. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 15:5715:57, 10 August 2022 diff hist +9,792 Maybe your character is less than an animal's, though you have a degree from the university. "Never mind. You have become a learned man." No - that is not accepted No edit summary current
• 15:5615:56, 10 August 2022 diff hist +6,015 The first qualification is amanitvam. Don't be puffed up with your false knowledge. Having this little degree from the university, you are thinking that you have become so learned, you don't care for God even. This is nonsense No edit summary current
• 15:5615:56, 10 August 2022 diff hist +5,660 This does not mean that one should avoid school and expect to automatically receive an honorary degree from some university No edit summary current
• 15:2315:23, 10 August 2022 diff hist −5 Without being unnecessarily agitated, if we take to the process of Krsna consciousness by constantly chanting Hare Krsna, the cycle of birth and death can be stopped for good No edit summary current
• 15:2215:22, 10 August 2022 diff hist +5,298 To stop the cycle of birth and death, one has to understand Krsna as He is. Simply by knowing Krsna, one can stop the process of rebirth into this material world. By acting in Krsna consciousness, one can return to Godhead No edit summary
• 15:2115:21, 10 August 2022 diff hist +4,920 The purpose of controlling the senses is to stop one's implication in the cycle of birth and death No edit summary current
• 15:0715:07, 10 August 2022 diff hist −13 When affection (for God) increases in the parental relationship, there is nonetheless a want of complete freedom No edit summary current
• 15:0715:07, 10 August 2022 diff hist +6,355 We must worship the Absolute Personality of Godhead, Krsna, who is all-attractive and who can bestow upon us complete freedom from material bondage by taking us back home, back to Godhead No edit summary current
• 15:0715:07, 10 August 2022 diff hist −13 Through Lord Caitanya we can become friends with Krsna, and there will be no limit to this friendship. We can become friends of Krsna not in awe or adoration but in complete freedom. We can even relate to God as His father or mother - CC Intro No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 10 August 2022 diff hist +51,136 Through Lord Caitanya we can become friends with Krsna, and there is no limit to this friendship. We can become friends of Krsna not in awe or adoration but in complete freedom. We can even relate to God as His father No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 10 August 2022 diff hist +3,969 The sannyasa-asrama is meant for complete freedom from all anxieties, and it is meant for uplifting the fallen souls, who are merged in materialism No edit summary current
• 15:0515:05, 10 August 2022 diff hist +6,211 The Lord states that as soon as one reaches Him by devotional service-which is the one and only way to approach the Personality of Godhead-one attains complete freedom from the bondage of birth and death No edit summary current
• 15:0415:04, 10 August 2022 diff hist +3,317 The freedom surrendered to the Lord does not mean that the devotee becomes dependent in every respect. To surrender unto the Lord through the transparent medium of the spiritual master is to attain complete freedom of life No edit summary current
• 15:0315:03, 10 August 2022 diff hist +9,388 Siva-jvara said, "My dear Lord, Your appearance as the son of Vasudeva in Your role as a human being is one of the pastimes of Your complete freedom" No edit summary current
• 15:0015:00, 10 August 2022 diff hist +4,531 One who desires complete freedom from material bondage can engage himself in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. He must not associate with visayi - materialistic persons or those interested in sex life. Every materialist is interested in sex No edit summary current
• 15:0015:00, 10 August 2022 diff hist +4,019 King Anga, although a pious devotee, got an unfortunate wife like Sunitha and later on a bad child like Vena. But the result was that he got complete freedom from the entanglement of family life and left home to go back to Godhead No edit summary current
• 14:5914:59, 10 August 2022 diff hist +5,525 Complete freedom. Eternity, blissful and full of knowledge. That is spiritual life. Completely distinct from this bodily concept of life No edit summary current
• 14:5814:58, 10 August 2022 diff hist −13 By the grace of God, we have complete freedom. Because the Lord is kind to us, we can live anywhere - either in the spiritual sky or in the material sky No edit summary current
• 14:5714:57, 10 August 2022 diff hist +7,141 Attainment of love of Godhead means complete freedom from all other attractions No edit summary current
• 14:5014:50, 10 August 2022 diff hist +4,909 The bogus propaganda put out by people claiming to be God has killed God consciousness all over the world. Members of the Krsna consciousness movement must be very alert to defy these rascals, who are presently misleading the whole world No edit summary current
• 14:5014:50, 10 August 2022 diff hist +2,427 Propaganda that one can enjoy this life materially and at the same time spiritually advance is simply bogus No edit summary current
• 12:2212:22, 10 August 2022 diff hist +8,847 When we speak of service, there is no motive. Service is love No edit summary current
• 12:2212:22, 10 August 2022 diff hist +4,650 When the same senses are engaged in the service of the Lord and there is no motive, that is called animitta and is the natural inclination of the mind No edit summary current
• 12:2112:21, 10 August 2022 diff hist +3,915 There is no motive for material gain. In such discourses (between Suta Goswami and the sages), unlimited transcendental pleasure is relished both by the audience and by the speaker, and therefore they can continue the topics for many thousands of years No edit summary current
• 12:2112:21, 10 August 2022 diff hist +2,334 If someone born in a family of dog-eaters is a pure devotee with no motives for enjoyment through fruitive activity or mental speculation, he is very dear to Me No edit summary current
• 12:0912:09, 10 August 2022 diff hist +2,552 The younger Madhucchandas accepted Sunahsepha as their eldest brother and told him, "We shall follow your orders." Visvamitra then said to his obedient sons, "Because you have accepted Sunahsepha as your eldest brother, I am very satisfied No edit summary current
• 12:0912:09, 10 August 2022 diff hist −12 The younger brothers of Yudhisthira were already obedient followers of the great Emperor & they had sufficiently been trained to know the ultimate goal of life. They followed their eldest brother in rendering devotional service to Lord Sri Krsna No edit summary current
• 12:0812:08, 10 August 2022 diff hist +4,467 Sri Mukunda dasa was the son of Narayana dasa and eldest brother of Narahari Sarakara. His second brother's name was Madhava dasa, and his son was named Raghunandana dasa No edit summary current
• 12:0712:07, 10 August 2022 diff hist +2,317 Of the one hundred sons, half disobeyed Visvamitra by not accepting Sunahsepha as their eldest brother, but the other half accepted his order. Therefore the father blessed the obedient sons to become the fathers of sons No edit summary current
• 12:0712:07, 10 August 2022 diff hist +2,981 Mukunda dasa was the eldest brother of Narahari Sarakara No edit summary current
• 12:0512:05, 10 August 2022 diff hist +6,492 Mahatma Vidura could follow this intrigue of Dhrtarastra and company, and therefore, even though he was a faithful servitor of his eldest brother, Dhrtarastra, he did not like his political ambition for the sake of his own sons No edit summary current
• 12:0512:05, 10 August 2022 diff hist +3,702 Her (Rukmini's) eldest brother wanted her to be given away to King Sisupala, who happened to be a cousin of Krsna No edit summary current
• 12:0412:04, 10 August 2022 diff hist +1,838 Visvamitra accepted the son of Ajigarta known as Sunahsepha, who was born in the Bhrgu dynasty and was also known as Devarata, as one of his own sons. Visvamitra ordered his other sons to accept Sunahsepha as their eldest brother No edit summary current
• 11:4711:47, 10 August 2022 diff hist +5,608 The root cause of suffering by the materialistic living beings is pointed out with remedial measures which are to be undertaken and also the ultimate perfection to be gained. All this is mentioned in this particular verse No edit summary current
• 11:4611:46, 10 August 2022 diff hist +4,113 Knowledge is the ultimate perfection of self-realization. I shall explain that knowledge unto you by which the knots of attachment to the material world are cut No edit summary current