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15:2915:29, 18 August 2022 diff hist +5,694 In the material world, sunshine, moonshine or different kinds of artificial light are required to dispel darkness, especially at night, for by nature the material world is dark No edit summary current
15:2815:28, 18 August 2022 diff hist +3,790 If Krsna consciousness is preached all over the world, the darkness of ignorance and the anxiety of material existence will turn into the whiteness of purity, peacefulness and prosperity No edit summary current
15:2815:28, 18 August 2022 diff hist +4,247 He (the Supreme Lord) is just like the sun, eternally luminous, but He is far, far beyond the darkness of this material world. His knowledge is transcendental. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
15:2715:27, 18 August 2022 diff hist +7,152 As sunshine dissipates the darkness of this material world, the effulgence emanating from the body of the Lord immediately dries up the darkness in the heart of the conditioned soul No edit summary current
15:2715:27, 18 August 2022 diff hist +27 As long as a living entity is in this dark material world, he is in conditional life. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
15:2715:27, 18 August 2022 diff hist +5,410 As darkness is situated far away from the sun, so the material world is also far away from the spiritual world No edit summary current
15:2615:26, 18 August 2022 diff hist +23 All Vedic literature instructs us not to remain in this darkness. The nature of this material world is darkness, but the spiritual world is full of light and yet is not illumined by fire or electricity No edit summary current
15:2615:26, 18 August 2022 diff hist +1,464 All glories to Svarupa Damodara and Murari Gupta! All these brilliant moons have together dissipated the darkness of this material world No edit summary current
12:2712:27, 18 August 2022 diff hist +2,614 Ultimately when one takes shelter at the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and engages in the Lord's service, the resultant knowledge is called vijnana, special knowledge, or the practical application of spiritual knowledge No edit summary current
12:2712:27, 18 August 2022 diff hist +4,721 Ultimately the shelter is the Lord, and one who takes shelter of the Lord is protected. This is guaranteed No edit summary current
12:2712:27, 18 August 2022 diff hist +2,032 Ultimately, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the shelter of all living entities No edit summary current
12:2712:27, 18 August 2022 diff hist +1,807 Thus I (Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) have described the meeting of all the Vaisnavas with Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Whoever hears this description ultimately attains shelter at His lotus feet No edit summary current
12:2712:27, 18 August 2022 diff hist +2,346 Please go on chanting Hare Krishna, as ultimately the shelter of Krishna is our only solace in this material world. Hope this meets you in improved health No edit summary current
12:2712:27, 18 August 2022 diff hist +4,675 Mother Yasoda was thinking, The Supreme Lord has given me many things, but unless He takes charge of everything, there is no assurance of protection. I must therefore ultimately seek shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
12:2712:27, 18 August 2022 diff hist +6,106 Lord Krsna says that He is the Purusottama and the source of everything, and thus it is concluded that Sri Krsna is the ultimate source and shelter of all entities, including the Supersoul and Supreme Brahman No edit summary current
12:2612:26, 18 August 2022 diff hist +3,527 As the earth is the original cause and shelter of all pots made of earth, so You are the ultimate cause and shelter of all living beings No edit summary current
12:2612:26, 18 August 2022 diff hist +8 Ajnani may have an impersonal conception of God, but because he is taking shelter of the ultimate, the Supreme Absolute Truth, he is also to be considered pious. These four types of men are called sukrti - pious - because they are all after God No edit summary current
12:2212:22, 18 August 2022 diff hist +2,354 You are the ultimate shelter of these three plenary portions. Thus there is not the slightest doubt that You are the primeval Narayana No edit summary current
12:2212:22, 18 August 2022 diff hist +4,271 Whatever wealth, opulence or whatever else we may possess belongs not to us but to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the ultimate shelter of everyone and the ultimate owner of everything No edit summary current
12:2112:21, 18 August 2022 diff hist +1,722 To know distinctly the ultimate shelter of everything that be, I (Brahma) have described the other nine categories. The cause for the appearance of these nine is rightly called their shelter No edit summary current
12:2112:21, 18 August 2022 diff hist +7,326 To distinguish this ultimate shelter from the other nine subjects, the mahajanas have described these nine, directly or indirectly, through prayers or direct explanations No edit summary current
12:2112:21, 18 August 2022 diff hist +30 The Personality of Godhead has innumerable liberated souls engaged in His transcendental loving service, and He is the ultimate resort of liberation. In any case, Krsna is the ultimate shelter No edit summary current
12:2112:21, 18 August 2022 diff hist +4,410 The king (Maharaja Khatvanga) at once left the heavenly kingdom, which is always full of material enjoyment of the highest standard, and coming down to this earth, took ultimate shelter of the all-safe Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
12:2012:20, 18 August 2022 diff hist +9,275 Siva-jvara said, "My dear Lord, as long as one is forgetful of Krsna consciousness, driven by the spell of material desires and ignorant of the ultimate shelter at Your lotus feet" No edit summary current
12:2012:20, 18 August 2022 diff hist +25,693 Persons who have accepted the lotus feet of Krsna as the ultimate shelter of their lives, and who are pleased to perform all details of devotional service, have in their pure hearts the transcendental ecstasy of attachment No edit summary current
12:2012:20, 18 August 2022 diff hist +4,299 If we simply regard the lotus feet of Krsna as our ultimate shelter, we shall be saved from all these waves of maya, which are variously exhibited as mental and sensual activities and the agitation of rejection and acceptance No edit summary current
12:2012:20, 18 August 2022 diff hist +30 Actually, I (mother Yasoda) also am eternally subordinate to the Supreme Lord. He is my ultimate shelter - SB 10.8.42 No edit summary current

16:0416:04, 17 August 2022 diff hist +3,071 This is the sum and substance of devotional life. One must first become a servant of the servant of the servant of the Lord No edit summary current
16:0416:04, 17 August 2022 diff hist +7,431 The statement of the Bhagavad-gita that one must first of all surrender unto God, being freed from all other engagements, means that one must become a pure, unconditional devotee of the Lord. Only can one know Him by the strength of devotional service No edit summary current
16:0316:03, 17 August 2022 diff hist +51,350 Although one may complain that no kalpa-vrksa, wish-fulfilling trees, exist there, when the Gosvamis were there, kalpa-vrksa were present. It is not that one can simply go to such a tree and make demands; one must first become a devotee No edit summary current
16:0316:03, 17 August 2022 diff hist −26 Although one may complain that no kalpa-vrksa, wish-fulfilling trees, exist there, when the Gosvamis were there, kalpa-vrksa were present. It is not that one can simply go to such a tree and make demands; one must first become a devotee - CC Intro No edit summary current
16:0316:03, 17 August 2022 diff hist +2,814 The Vedas enjoin that for every ritualistic ceremony one must first become clean by bathing either in the water of the Ganges or Yamuna or in the sea. Then one may perform the ritualistic ceremony and offer clarified butter into the fire No edit summary current
16:0316:03, 17 August 2022 diff hist −26 One must first become very mature in devotion and thus receive the approval of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Only at such a time may one actually sit down peacefully in a solitary place to chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra and remember the lotus feet of the Lord No edit summary current
16:0216:02, 17 August 2022 diff hist +4,386 One must first become fully self-realized. Otherwise one may misidentify the Lord as nagara, or the enjoyer of the damsels of Vraja, thus committing the mistake of rasabhasa, or overlapping understanding No edit summary current
16:0216:02, 17 August 2022 diff hist +3,549 One must first become a pure devotee of Lord Krsna. Only then can one enjoy hearing the songs of Jayadeva and relish transcendental bliss No edit summary current
16:0216:02, 17 August 2022 diff hist +3,852 One must first become a pure devotee by following the strict regulative principles and chanting sixteen rounds daily, and when one thinks that he is actually on the Vaisnava platform, he must then take permission from the spiritual master No edit summary current
15:5215:52, 17 August 2022 diff hist +5,017 Presently it (Bhagavata Acarya's monastery) is not as well managed as in the presence of (Sri Ramadasa) Babaji Maharaja No edit summary current
15:5115:51, 17 August 2022 diff hist +1,845 As things have generally not been so well managed there I have asked him to be ad-hoc President of New York Temple until the coming GBC meeting No edit summary current
05:1205:12, 17 August 2022 diff hist −13 We recall that during the Second World War, a man in Calcutta worshiped Hitler because thanks to that war he had amassed a large amount of wealth by dealing in the black market. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
05:1205:12, 17 August 2022 diff hist +3,480 Sometimes the members of the Krsna Consciousness Society are afraid of the impending danger of world war and ask what would happen to them if a war should occur No edit summary current
05:1205:12, 17 August 2022 diff hist +3,888 Racial strife, civil wars, violent revolutions, and world wars so common in the modern age are all caused by the whimsical and selfish nature of impious men No edit summary current
05:1205:12, 17 August 2022 diff hist −13 Now a United Nations has been constructed to help end war, but war is going on in Vietnam, in Egypt, in Pakistan and other places. No one wants a Third World War, but it seems imminent No edit summary current
05:1105:11, 17 August 2022 diff hist −13 In this century, for instance, we have attempted to put out the fire of war, but it has not been possible. There was a First World War, and then a League of Nations was formed to try to prevent a second, but despite their attempts a second took place No edit summary current
05:1005:10, 17 August 2022 diff hist −13 After the First World War statesmen and diplomats manufactured the League of Nations. Then the Second World War came, and now they have devised the United Nations, but war is still going on No edit summary current

06:1406:14, 16 August 2022 diff hist +6,853 After losing each of his sons, the brahmana would come to the gate of the palace and accuse the King of not being able to give the brahmanas protection and of thus being unfit to sit on the royal throne No edit summary current
06:1306:13, 16 August 2022 diff hist +12,237 Any process of religiosity based on sense gratification, gross or subtle, must be considered a pretentious religion because it is unable to give perpetual protection to its followers No edit summary current
06:1306:13, 16 August 2022 diff hist +8,138 By digging for water, even in the desert, we can produce food grains; when we produce food grains and vegetables, we can give protection to the cows; while giving protection to the cows, we can draw from them abundant quantities of milk No edit summary current
06:1206:12, 16 August 2022 diff hist +18,029 He (Krsna) says, - My dear sons, why are you rotting in this miserable world? Come to Me, and I'll give you all protection No edit summary current
06:1106:11, 16 August 2022 diff hist +7,040 Krsna continued, "If a person is able to care for or give protection to old parents, a chaste wife, children, the spiritual master, brahmanas and other dependents but does not do so, he is considered already dead, although he is supposedly breathing" No edit summary current
06:1106:11, 16 August 2022 diff hist +3,349 Maya is very strong, there is a chance of our falling down at any moment, but if we are able to catch hold of Krishna's lotus feet by chanting the Hare Krishna mantra, then Krishna gives us all protection from the onslaught attack by Maya No edit summary current

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