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16:1616:16, 13 August 2022 diff hist +4,150 The ritualistic ceremonies of atonement recommended in the religious scriptures are insufficient to cleanse the heart absolutely because after atonement one's mind again runs toward material activities No edit summary current
16:1616:16, 13 August 2022 diff hist −12 There are twenty types of religious scriptures called dharma-sastras, beginning with the Manu-samhita and parasara-samhita No edit summary current
16:1616:16, 13 August 2022 diff hist +3,061 That is the injunction of every scripture, either Bible, Koran, or any religious scripture, that we suffer due to our sinful actions. And our sinful actions are due to our ignorance No edit summary current
16:1516:15, 13 August 2022 diff hist +2,283 Some follow the smrti-sastra composed of twenty religious scriptures, and others follow the Puranas and the tantra-sastra. In this way there are many different types of philosophers No edit summary current
16:1516:15, 13 August 2022 diff hist +3,030 So-called renunciation for the purpose of maintenance is never approved by the Lord, nor by any religious scripture. After all, one has to maintain one's body and soul together by some work. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
16:1416:14, 13 August 2022 diff hist +4,400 People claim to follow a certain type of religion, saying formally, "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am Christian," "I am this or that," but actually no one follows the principles enunciated in religious scriptures. This is the disease of this age No edit summary current
16:1416:14, 13 August 2022 diff hist +7,299 Man-made religious scriptures and transcendental philosophical talks are quite different. Indeed, there is a gulf of difference between the two. This subject matter has been very diligently described by Sriman Madhvacarya No edit summary current
16:1316:13, 13 August 2022 diff hist +6,376 He is the Supersoul and the Supreme Lord of all self-realized souls. He is the personification of the Vedas, religious scriptures and austerities No edit summary current
16:1316:13, 13 August 2022 diff hist −12 God's service is dharma. This dharma may be described differently in different countries according to different cultural and climatic conditions or situations, but in every religious scripture obedience to God is instructed No edit summary current
08:0008:00, 13 August 2022 diff hist +12,052 We cannot expect that all of a sudden, being addicted to so many bad habits, your countrymen, will give up eating flesh, taking intoxication, sex-life, and so many other nasty things, and become overnight great self-realized souls. That is not possible No edit summary current
08:0008:00, 13 August 2022 diff hist +2,846 The characteristics of the lowest class of men have already been described - they do not bathe, they have long hair on their heads, and they are addicted to intoxicants No edit summary current
08:0008:00, 13 August 2022 diff hist +3,892 These (a man in the mode of ignorance sleeps at least ten or twelve hours a day. Such a man appears to be always dejected and is addicted to intoxicants and sleeping) are the symptoms of a person conditioned by the mode of ignorance No edit summary current
08:0008:00, 13 August 2022 diff hist +3,889 Six hours of sleep is sufficient, but a man in the mode of ignorance sleeps at least ten or twelve hours a day. Such a man appears to be always dejected, and is addicted to intoxicants and sleeping. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
07:5907:59, 13 August 2022 diff hist +5,977 Regarding Randy, I understand that he is addicted to heroin intoxication, and he is taking some medicine to give it up, but I am sure that the best medicine is chanting the HARE KRISHNA mantra No edit summary current
07:5907:59, 13 August 2022 diff hist +5,356 One is indulging in intoxication. He may say that "I am very pure." But how one can become pure, he's addicted to intoxicants? No edit summary current
07:5907:59, 13 August 2022 diff hist +4,584 It is recommended that a chaste wife not associate with a fallen husband. A fallen husband is one who is addicted to the four principles of sinful activity - namely illicit sex, meat-eating, gambling and intoxication No edit summary current
07:5907:59, 13 August 2022 diff hist +5,062 If one is addicted to illicit sex life, if one is addicted to meat-eating and if one is addicted in intoxicants, then he is immediately fallen from the standard of human society No edit summary current
07:5907:59, 13 August 2022 diff hist +12 Four kinds of people, followers of scripture and higher authority, inquire about Krsna. Those addicted to sinful activities can't inquire. They go on in intoxication. The righteous, pious man inquires and goes to God No edit summary current
07:5907:59, 13 August 2022 diff hist +3,891 By too much addiction to intoxication, mercy is spoiled; and by too much lying propaganda, truthfulness is spoiled No edit summary current
07:5907:59, 13 August 2022 diff hist +4,320 By pride, either artificial or real, the resultant action of austerity is spoiled; by too much affection for female association, cleanliness is spoiled; by too much addiction to intoxication, mercy is spoiled No edit summary current
06:4606:46, 13 August 2022 diff hist +2,721 Praising a man by saying that if he were educated he might have become a great scholar or great personality is nothing but a process of cheating. A foolish person who agrees to accept such praise does not know that such words simply insult him No edit summary current
06:4606:46, 13 August 2022 diff hist +4,749 As a result of this process of cheating, others are reluctant to accept a religious process, and instead they advise people in general to work for material advancement. This is going on all over the world No edit summary current
06:4306:43, 13 August 2022 diff hist +4,245 Without coming to that central point, our love on the material conception of life - equality, fraternity, brotherhood - are all simply cheating process No edit summary current
06:4306:43, 13 August 2022 diff hist −13 Those who are not advanced prefer to chant the Hare Krsna mantra in a solitary place. Such activities constitute a type of cheating process in the sense that they imitate the activities of exalted personalities like Haridasa Thakura No edit summary current
06:4206:42, 13 August 2022 diff hist +3,111 There are many kinds of cheaters all over the universe. Of all cheating processes, gambling stands supreme and therefore represents Krsna. As the Supreme, Krsna can be more deceitful than any mere man. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
06:4106:41, 13 August 2022 diff hist +3,321 Sacrifice undertaken in this age as a matter of show may simply be a cheating process by the clever priestly order. But such a show of sacrifices cannot be effective at any stage No edit summary current
06:4006:40, 13 August 2022 diff hist +8 Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura has condemned this process for neophytes. He has stated in a song: Sitting in a solitary place intending to chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra is considered a cheating process. This practice is not possible for neophytes No edit summary current

02:3502:35, 11 August 2022 diff hist +4,571 Unfortunately, the descendants of Kasisvara Gosani's brother have sold a major portion of this land (in Vallabhapura), and therefore the Deity worship has now been hampered No edit summary current
02:3502:35, 11 August 2022 diff hist −13 The pancamrta consists of five kinds of nectar - yogurt, milk, ghee, honey and sugar. The major portion of this preparation also comes from the cow. To make it more palatable, sugar and honey are added No edit summary current
02:3402:34, 11 August 2022 diff hist +5,957 The major portion of the living entities, they are in the spiritual world. They are called nitya-mukta, ever-liberated. And we, in this material world, we are nitya-baddha, ever-conditioned No edit summary current
02:3402:34, 11 August 2022 diff hist −13 The major portion of that shining sky is full of spiritual planets, which are called Vaikunthas, chief of which is Goloka Vrndavana. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
02:3402:34, 11 August 2022 diff hist +6,544 The major portion of our monetary income, not less than fifty percent, must be spent to carry out the order of Lord Krsna No edit summary current
02:3402:34, 11 August 2022 diff hist +5,168 So far I am concerned, I wish to live the major portion of my remaining days of my life in the Western world to propagate this movement, but I could not obtain my permanent visa on some technical ground No edit summary current
02:3402:34, 11 August 2022 diff hist +5,576 Just try to understand, if the major portion of the living entities have no problem... Their necessities of life are being supplied by the supreme eternal, God. Just like an elephant. There are millions of elephants in African jungle No edit summary current

08:4308:43, 9 August 2022 diff hist +9,680 You have to hear it from the authorities; otherwise there is no possibility. Just like you cannot understand who is your father. You have to take the knowledge from your mother. If mother certifies, "This gentleman is your father," that is correct No edit summary current
08:4208:42, 9 August 2022 diff hist +7,419 Whatever you want, especially in this human form of life, whatever you desire, Krsna will give you chance. It may be very unpalatable, but this is a fact. We have heard from authorities No edit summary current
08:4008:40, 9 August 2022 diff hist +3,442 We have to hear not from a telephone but from an authorized person, for it is he who has real knowledge No edit summary current
08:4008:40, 9 August 2022 diff hist +48 We don't need any material qualifications in order to attain the Supreme. All we have to do is hear from authoritative sources and repeat accurately what we hear No edit summary current
08:4008:40, 9 August 2022 diff hist +4,343 We can understand the knowledge of God by hearing Bhagavad-gita from a person authorized in the disciplic succession No edit summary current
08:3908:39, 9 August 2022 diff hist +48 Try to hear about the glories of the Supreme Lord from authorized sources. Such authority is handed over by disciplic succession. If we can understand by the same authority as Arjuna, that is real authority No edit summary current
08:3908:39, 9 August 2022 diff hist +5,503 Those who are actually in the Vedic line hear about Krsna from authority, and by repeated hearing about Him, Krsna becomes dear. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
08:3908:39, 9 August 2022 diff hist +3,854 Those who, although not conversant in spiritual knowledge, begin to worship the Supreme Person upon hearing about Him from others. Because of their tendency to hear from authorities, they also transcend the path of birth and death. BG 13.26 - 1972 No edit summary current
08:3908:39, 9 August 2022 diff hist +6,933 This Krsna consciousness movement is giving chance to everyone to hear from the authoritative sources, from the sastra. Sadhu sastra guru No edit summary current
08:3808:38, 9 August 2022 diff hist +4,535 This glorification of the Lord is not a product of research, but the result of hearing submissively from the authority of the spiritual master No edit summary current

11:2511:25, 8 August 2022 diff hist +8,015 The Vedic understanding is different. It is sruti. Sruti means to hear from authoritative source. That is real knowledge No edit summary current
11:2311:23, 8 August 2022 diff hist +6,099 The transcendental process is described in Bhagavad-gita, Chapter Two: to hear about Krsna from authorities. That is the actual Vedic process, and those who are actually in the Vedic line hear about Krsna from authority. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
11:2311:23, 8 August 2022 diff hist +17,135 The system of hearing from undisturbed authorities is approved in this mantra. 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
11:2211:22, 8 August 2022 diff hist +3,520 The saintly brahmana did not remain silent, but began to answer. These answers were not concocted by him. This is indicated by the words yatha-srutam, meaning "as I have heard from the authorities No edit summary current
11:2211:22, 8 August 2022 diff hist +6,703 The revealed scriptures mention nine means of attaining devotional service, of which the first and foremost is hearing from authority No edit summary current
09:3909:39, 8 August 2022 diff hist +3,761 The pure devotees hear from the authorities and chant, sing and write of the glories of the Lord No edit summary current

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