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16 August 2022

• 07:3107:31, 16 August 2022 diff hist +6,323 This gorilla was a great friend of Bhaumasura, or Narakasura, who was killed by Krsna in connection with his kidnapping sixteen thousand princesses from all over the world No edit summary current
• 07:3107:31, 16 August 2022 diff hist +5,876 The wife is maya but at the same time a great friend. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu remarked that the wife is the goddess of fortune somewhere and somewhere she is a witch No edit summary current
• 07:3107:31, 16 August 2022 diff hist +3,030 Sri Mukunda, a great friend and associate of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, used to visit many places where people were against the Vaisnava cult. When Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu came to know of this, He punished Mukunda, forbidding him to see Him again No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 16 August 2022 diff hist +3,362 Lokanatha Bhatta - this devotee, who lived in the village of Talakhadi in the district of Yasohara (Jessore) and constructed the temple of Radhavinoda, was the spiritual master of Narottama dasa Thakura and a great friend of Bhugarbha Gosvami No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 16 August 2022 diff hist +5,976 Krsna, if He's not our friend, why He's coming down on this platform where we are living in rotten condition? He's great friend, Dina-bandhu No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 16 August 2022 diff hist +4,317 King Salva was a great friend of Sisupala's. When Sisupala went to marry Rukmini, Salva was one of the members of the bridegroom's party No edit summary current
• 07:2307:23, 16 August 2022 diff hist +7,233 He (Uddhava) was a great friend of Krsna's, and being the direct student of Brhaspati, the teacher and priest of the heavenly planets, he was very intelligent and sharp in decision No edit summary current
• 07:2207:22, 16 August 2022 diff hist −13 Bhugarbha Gosani, formerly known as Prema-manjari, was a great friend of Lokanatha Gosvami, who constructed the temple of Gokulananda No edit summary current
• 07:2207:22, 16 August 2022 diff hist +3,244 Arjuna is very enlightened and is glad that he has a great friend like Krsna, but now he is thinking that although he may accept Krsna as the source of everything, others may not. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 07:2107:21, 16 August 2022 diff hist +4,115 After the departure of the Lord, Arjuna was conscious of his great friend, but there was no mistake on the part of Arjuna, nor any ill estimation of the Lord No edit summary current
• 06:5906:59, 16 August 2022 diff hist +4,599 Those who are in the mode of passion remain within this material world on the earth or on heavenly planets, but those who are in the mode of ignorance are degraded to an animal life on planets where life is lower than human No edit summary current
• 06:5206:52, 16 August 2022 diff hist +5,499 This was explained by Thakura Haridasa when Caitanya Mahaprabhu inquired from him how living entities lower than human beings can be delivered from material bondage No edit summary current
• 06:5206:52, 16 August 2022 diff hist +3,957 The relationship between husband and wife in any society, whether higher or lower than human society, is nothing but the same relationship between he-goat and she-goat, for the material relationship between man and woman is one of sex No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 16 August 2022 diff hist +3,618 The greatest danger is the danger of getting a body lower than that of a human being No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 16 August 2022 diff hist +2,702 They (the living entities lower than human beings) are not punishable, for under the laws of material nature they are automatically evolving No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 16 August 2022 diff hist +2,683 Species lower than human beings are not responsible for their actions because they are made to act in a certain way, but in the developed life of human consciousness, if one is not responsible for his activities, then he is sure to get a hellish life No edit summary
• 06:5106:51, 16 August 2022 diff hist +2,984 Only a small fraction of the living entities, perhaps one fourth, are in the material world. And the major portion of the living entities in the material world - 8,000,000 of the 8,400,000 forms of life - are lower than human beings No edit summary current
• 06:5006:50, 16 August 2022 diff hist +4,103 In the various forms of life lower than human life the intelligence does not go beyond the range of life's primary necessities - namely eating, sleeping, mating and defending No edit summary current
• 06:5006:50, 16 August 2022 diff hist +4,340 In the living entities lower than the human being, they follow the nature's way, their allotted food. So similarly, we are human beings, and we have got special food No edit summary current
• 06:5006:50, 16 August 2022 diff hist +5,952 If the birthrate of human beings is increasing, then the birthrate of other living beings is increasing proportionately. The birthrate of lower animals-beasts, aquatics, birds, etc.-is far greater than that of human beings No edit summary current

30 July 2022

• 08:4508:45, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,432 Regarding your present edition of Back To Godhead: I have already informed you in my previous letter that it has become very nice, and try to continue the effort improving the quality and I think you are getting good advertisement also No edit summary current
• 08:4508:45, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,816 Laksmana said, "As I have already informed you, from the very beginning my mind was attracted by Lord Krsna, and thus I considered the garlanding of the Lord my great victory" No edit summary current
• 08:4508:45, 30 July 2022 diff hist +1,997 I have already informed you that I received only one document, which I have received from Gargamuni Swami. I received no sale deed. You may take one certified copy and use that No edit summary current
• 08:4408:44, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,310 I have already informed you that if Mohta's house is available completely vacated, then immediately we can purchase, paying cash down No edit summary current
• 08:0608:06, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,486 The purpose of all Vedic literature is to awaken this God consciousness in the forgetful living being, and this same purpose is presented in various ways in the different scriptures of the world for the understanding of a foolish mankind No edit summary current
• 08:0308:03, 30 July 2022 diff hist +12,675 Twenty different kinds of scripture No edit summary current
• 08:0308:03, 30 July 2022 diff hist +11 There are many different kinds of scriptures, and by reading them one often becomes puzzled. But when one receives the mercy of the Lord, his confusion is mitigated No edit summary current
• 08:0108:01, 30 July 2022 diff hist +10,898 Neither you can understand the real truth simply by going through different scriptures, nor you can understand the real truth simply by your logical force or argument No edit summary current
• 08:0008:00, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,123 In different Vedic scriptures, there are prescribed rules and regulative principles for worshiping different types of forms No edit summary current
• 07:5907:59, 30 July 2022 diff hist +2,107 Different calculations of the scriptures No edit summary current
• 07:5707:57, 30 July 2022 diff hist +5,715 By Your auspicious mercy, quarrels and disagreements arising among different scriptures are vanquished No edit summary current
• 07:5607:56, 30 July 2022 diff hist −12 As far as scriptures are concerned, we find different scriptures describing the Absolute Truth in different ways. If we analyze all of them, there will be bewilderment No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 30 July 2022 diff hist +2,953 Arjuna was perplexed because Asvatthama was to be killed as well as spared according to different scriptures cited by different persons No edit summary current
• 07:3607:36, 30 July 2022 diff hist +6,940 According to the time, circumstances, men, the different scriptures are there. The ultimate aim of scripture is to bring one to Krsna consciousness. But everything is not explained because the people are unable to understand No edit summary current
• 07:2207:22, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,009 This is confirmed in every scripture, and a disciple should accept the spiritual master as such No edit summary current
• 07:2207:22, 30 July 2022 diff hist −13 The opinions of Sridhara Svami are corroborated. In each and every scripture, the supremacy of Krsna is stressed. Baladeva, Sankarsana and other expansions of Krsna are emanations of Maha-Sankarsana No edit summary current
• 07:2107:21, 30 July 2022 diff hist −13 Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura says: saksad-dharitvena samasta-sastrair uktas tatha bhavyata eva sadbhih. The spiritual master is described in every scripture as the representative of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 07:1907:19, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,202 It is recommended that one honor the spiritual master as being on an equal status with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Saksad dharitvena samasta-sastraih. This is enjoined in every scripture No edit summary current
• 07:1807:18, 30 July 2022 diff hist −13 In every scripture and in every lawbook man is warned not to kill, yet no one is concerned with these laws. What is the remedy for this? Drsta-srutabhyam yat papam - SB 6.1.9 No edit summary current
• 07:1807:18, 30 July 2022 diff hist −13 In every scripture, every Veda, devotional service is the objective. That is explained in Bhagavad-gita. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 07:1607:16, 30 July 2022 diff hist +3,555 In each and every scripture there is rules and regulation to follow to become more and more aware of the topmost principle, the original cause of all causes No edit summary current
• 07:1607:16, 30 July 2022 diff hist +27,967 If matter were accepted as the original cause of creation, all the authorized scriptures would be useless, for in every scripture, especially the Vedic scriptures like the Manu-smrti, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is said to be the ultimate creator No edit summary current
• 05:3605:36, 30 July 2022 diff hist −13 Following in the footsteps of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, we are trying to convince everyone that the devotional service of the Lord is enjoined in every scripture No edit summary
• 05:3505:35, 30 July 2022 diff hist +51,035 Caitanya Mahaprabhu informs us that in every country and in every scripture there is some hint of love of Godhead. Unfortunately no one knows what love of Godhead actually is No edit summary current
• 05:3505:35, 30 July 2022 diff hist −13 Caitanya Mahaprabhu informs us that in every country and in every scripture there is some hint of love of Godhead. But no one knows what love of Godhead actually is - CC Intro No edit summary current
• 05:3505:35, 30 July 2022 diff hist +22,740 All the pastimes of Krsna are eternal, and this is confirmed in every scripture No edit summary current
• 05:3005:30, 30 July 2022 diff hist +6,153 The qualifications in themselves are insufficient for one to occupy the post: it must be awarded by some superior authority No edit summary current
• 05:3005:30, 30 July 2022 diff hist +10,022 Such intelligence (intelligence or the direction of a superior being) is all-pervading. Every living being has his intelligence, and this intelligence, being the direction of some higher authority, is just like a father giving direction to his son No edit summary current
• 05:3005:30, 30 July 2022 diff hist +28 Sometimes Sri Krsna descends Himself, and sometimes He sends His representative. The major religions of the world - Christian, Hindu, Buddhist and Moslem - believe in some supreme authority or personality coming down from the kingdom of God No edit summary current
• 05:2905:29, 30 July 2022 diff hist +4,585 One has to accept, after all, some authority. The modern scientists are also authorities for the common man for some scientific truths. The common man follows the version of the scientist. This means that the common man follows the authority No edit summary current