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7 September 2022

• 07:0807:08, 7 September 2022 diff hist +4,164 Sometimes jealous persons criticize the Krsna consciousness movement because it engages equally both boys and girls in distributing love of Godhead No edit summary current
• 07:0807:08, 7 September 2022 diff hist −13 In distributing love of Godhead one should not consider whether the recipients are Europeans, Americans, Hindus, Muslims, etc. The Krsna consciousness movement should be spread wherever possible No edit summary current
• 07:0807:08, 7 September 2022 diff hist +2,899 In distributing love of Godhead, Caitanya Mahaprabhu and His associates did not consider who was a fit candidate and who was not, nor where such distribution should or should not take place No edit summary current
• 07:0707:07, 7 September 2022 diff hist −13 Both of them (Krsnadasa Brahmacari and Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) were expert in distributing love of Godhead to the fallen souls of this age No edit summary current
• 06:0606:06, 7 September 2022 diff hist +8,886 To understand what is actually religion is very difficult even if one is situated in the principles of morality and nonviolence. It is very confidential because as soon as one is conversant with the real principles of religion, he is at once liberated No edit summary current
• 06:0506:05, 7 September 2022 diff hist +5,047 If one is situated in KC, then that path is guaranteed for his elevation to the perfectional stage. If one does not take to this path of self-realization, then he is surely to be conducted by the influence of the modes of nature. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 06:0506:05, 7 September 2022 diff hist +5,454 If one is situated in an opulent position in spiritual advancement, his opulence never decreases. Therefore such a spiritual benediction is called bhuti or vibhuti. Krsna confirms this in Bhagavad-gita No edit summary current
• 06:0506:05, 7 September 2022 diff hist +10 Certainly this was astonishing. One cannot attain complete satisfaction even if one is situated in the greatest material opulence No edit summary current

6 September 2022

• 15:1015:10, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,316 When we come to spiritual activities, we find that these are also divided into two: namely, understanding of one's own self (or one's constitutional position), and the truth regarding the Supreme Personality of Godhead. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,182 The actual interest of all living entities - indeed, the goal of life - is to return home, back to Godhead. This is the interest of one's own self, one's wife, one's children, one's disciples and one's friends, relatives, countrymen and all humanity No edit summary current
• 15:0915:09, 6 September 2022 diff hist +4,036 Some of the philosophers, who deny all sorts of duality, declare that one's own self is responsible for his personal happiness and distress. Others say that superhuman powers are responsible, while yet others say that activity is responsible No edit summary
• 15:0815:08, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,369 Philosophy means to seek after the right knowledge of one's own self, or the knowledge of self-realization No edit summary current
• 15:0715:07, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,191 Material knowledge means ignorance of the knowledge of one's own self No edit summary current
• 15:0715:07, 6 September 2022 diff hist +2,990 It is in one's own self-interest to execute prescribed devotional service, and anyone who neglects this process neglects his own self-interest No edit summary current
• 15:0715:07, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,856 Attaining scientific knowledge of the Personality of Godhead means seeing one's own self simultaneously. As far as the identity of the living being as spirit self is concerned, there are a number of speculations and misgivings No edit summary current
• 15:0515:05, 6 September 2022 diff hist +28 Actually it is all illegal, for to work for one's self-interest is both unlawful and destructive. Even the cultivation of spiritual realization for one's own self-interest is unlawful and destructive No edit summary current
• 12:3412:34, 6 September 2022 diff hist +2,026 Unless one practices devotional service himself, he cannot teach it to others. This conclusion is indeed confirmed throughout the Gita and Bhagavatam No edit summary current
• 12:3412:34, 6 September 2022 diff hist +4,772 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has said that in order to preach, one must live a practical life and show people how to do things. Apani acari' bhakti sikhaimu sabare. One cannot teach others unless he behaves the same way himself No edit summary current
• 12:3312:33, 6 September 2022 diff hist +4 A leader cannot teach the public to stop smoking if he himself smokes. Lord Caitanya said that a teacher should behave properly even before he begins teaching. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 12:2012:20, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,374 The senses are certainly products of the mode of passion in false ego, and therefore philosophical speculative knowledge and fruitive activities are predominantly products of the mode of passion No edit summary current
• 12:2012:20, 6 September 2022 diff hist +2,848 The mode of passion is born of unlimited desires and longings, O son of Kunti, and because of this one is bound to material fruitive activities. BG 14.7 - 1972 No edit summary current
• 12:1912:19, 6 September 2022 diff hist +6,375 They (contaminated persons) cannot understand that the Vedas deal with activities of the material modes of nature - goodness, passion and ignorance No edit summary current
• 12:1912:19, 6 September 2022 diff hist +7,601 In the Bhagavad-gita it is clearly explained that there are three kinds of activities according to the different modes of nature: the activities of goodness, the activities of passion, the activities of ignorance No edit summary current
• 12:1912:19, 6 September 2022 diff hist +23 Intelligence in the mode of passion is always working perversely. It accepts religions which are not actually religions and rejects actual religion. All views and activities are misguided. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 12:1812:18, 6 September 2022 diff hist +81,339 If these modes (goodness, passion, or ignorance) were not acting, then we would not have observed in the phenomenal world different varieties of activities. These different varieties of activities are conditioned by the different modes of nature No edit summary current
• 12:1812:18, 6 September 2022 diff hist +2,596 If by rising early in the morning one can advance his transcendental Krsna consciousness, one should not desist out of fear or because such activities are considered troublesome. Such renunciation is in the mode of passion. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 12:1812:18, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,624 By pious activities in the mode of goodness one is purified; therefore the sages, who are free from all illusion, are situated in happiness. Similarly, activities in the mode of passion are simply miserable. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 12:1812:18, 6 September 2022 diff hist +1,630 Because of his past pious activities mixed with devotional service, the first-class living entity is influenced by the mode of passion within his mind No edit summary current
• 12:1712:17, 6 September 2022 diff hist +4,092 At first there is transformation of the modes of goodness and passion, and later - due to the mode of ignorance-matter, its knowledge, and different activities of material knowledge come into play No edit summary current
• 12:1612:16, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,042 Activities performed only for the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord are pure and are not contaminated by the modes of material nature. All other activities are contaminated by the modes of ignorance and passion, as well as goodness No edit summary current
• 12:1612:16, 6 September 2022 diff hist +2,990 According to their previous activities in the modes of goodness, passion or ignorance, they (who do not follow rules and regulations of the scriptures out of laziness or indolence) acquire a nature which is of a specific quality. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:0909:09, 6 September 2022 diff hist +6,707 When the purusa and prakrti, male and female, enjoy, they enjoy, they get the same pleasure, but one is purusa; one is prakrti. Similarly, Krsna is purusa, and we are prakrti. If we enjoy with Krsna, then the ananda, sac-cid-ananda, is there No edit summary current
• 09:0909:09, 6 September 2022 diff hist +4,508 Tvam adyah purusah. Purusa means enjoyer. God is not female. Sometimes they worship a female as God, like Durga, Kali, and so many others. But God is purusa. Everyone is prakrti. Prakrti means female. Everyone knows it No edit summary current
• 09:0909:09, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,679 The Lord provides everyone with his quota. Actually, however, every living entity is prakrti, or female, and Krsna is the only husband No edit summary current
• 09:0909:09, 6 September 2022 diff hist +3,817 The attraction between man and woman is the cause of bondage for both. Actually both belong to the para prakrti, the superior energy of the Lord, but both are actually prakrti - female No edit summary current
• 09:0809:08, 6 September 2022 diff hist +5,461 Krishna is the only male & all others being energies of Krishna, they're prakrti, or female. Please don't try to understand this male & female in the material sense. In other words, our perfection of life will be actually realizing that we're all females No edit summary current
• 09:0809:08, 6 September 2022 diff hist +77,788 Prakrti is always under control, whether inferior or superior. Prakrti is female, and she is controlled by the Lord just as the activities of a wife are controlled by the husband. BG 1972 Introduction No edit summary current
• 09:0809:08, 6 September 2022 diff hist +1,471 One day Vallabha Bhatta said to Advaita Acarya, "Every living entity is female (prakrti) and considers Krsna her husband (pati)" No edit summary current

3 September 2022

• 14:5314:53, 3 September 2022 diff hist +4,056 If you want to chant Hare Krsna mantra, there is no impediment in the world. You can, walking on the street, you can chant Hare Krsna. That will keep you purified. No other method No edit summary current
• 14:5214:52, 3 September 2022 diff hist +5,827 By bhakti-yoga one can completely avoid the tendency for sinful life; other methods are not very feasible. Therefore the Vedic literature concludes that devotional service is more important than the methods of karma-kanda and jnana-kanda No edit summary current
• 14:4214:42, 3 September 2022 diff hist +8,229 When a devotee distributes prasada, remnants of food offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in order to maintain our spirit of devotional service we must accept this prasada as the Lord's grace received through the pure devotees No edit summary current
• 14:4114:41, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,595 Whatever You have, though it be a palmful of rice, please eat it and get up. Don't show Your madness and strew the remnants of food here and there No edit summary current
• 14:4114:41, 3 September 2022 diff hist +3,814 We are taking vegetables not as vegetarian. We are taking as Krsna prasadam, remnants of foodstuff offered to Krsna No edit summary current
• 14:4014:40, 3 September 2022 diff hist +8,013 We are servant; we take the remnants of foodstuff left by Krsna. We are neither vegetarian nor nonvegetarian. We are prasad-ian No edit summary current
• 14:4014:40, 3 September 2022 diff hist +5,216 Visvanatha Cakravarti has described the ritualistic performers to be like crows because crows delight in eating the remnants of food which has been thrown into the dustbin. All the brahmanas who were present for the sacrifice were also condemned by Sati No edit summary current
• 14:4014:40, 3 September 2022 diff hist +1,669 Today your mind has become fit to take shelter of the lotus feet of Krsna because, surpassing the Vedic regulative principles, you have eaten the remnants of food offered to the Lord No edit summary current
• 14:3914:39, 3 September 2022 diff hist +3,427 Those who are honoring prasadam, accepting the remnants of food offered to the Deity, must always remember that prasadam is not ordinary food. Prasadam is transcendental No edit summary current
• 14:3914:39, 3 September 2022 diff hist +8 This offering (to the forefathers) is performed by worship of Visnu, because eating the remnants of food offered to Visnu can deliver one from all kinds of sinful actions. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 14:3914:39, 3 September 2022 diff hist +5,895 The Vedic injunctions state that every living entity lives by eating the remnants of food offered to the Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 14:3814:38, 3 September 2022 diff hist +8 The tongue can be utilized to spread the message of Krsna and glorify the Lord or take prasada, the remnants of food offered to Krsna No edit summary current