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09:5109:51, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,210 Being covered by the three modes of material nature, one cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead. However, the Supreme Lord reveals Himself to His devotees No edit summary current
09:5109:51, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,984 It is our business to understand Krsna in truth; then our lives will be successful. It is not that we can succeed by understanding Krsna superficially. It is therefore stated here: tani me sraddadhanasya kirtanyany anukirtaya No edit summary current
09:5009:50, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,750 The word anukirtaya, as we have initially pointed out, means that we should not manufacture anything. The word anu means - to follow No edit summary current
09:5009:50, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,696 The bhagavat-tattva, or Bhagavan, can be understood only by the parampara system, the system of disciplic succession No edit summary current
09:4609:46, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,961 The ultimate goal of all activity is the satisfaction of the Supreme Lord, Visnu. Na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum (SB 7.5.31). Foolish people do not know that their ultimate interest is the satisfaction of Visnu No edit summary current
09:4309:43, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,078 Foolish people say that there is no brain behind the universe, but this is due to ignorance. By taking information from the sastras, the scriptures, we can understand who that brain is No edit summary current
09:4209:42, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,064 We see His energies working in this material world all the time. There is thunder and rain, and from rain comes the food we enjoy. This process is outlined in Bhagavad-gita - 3.14 No edit summary current
09:4109:41, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,850 The origin of everything is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Through yajna, sacrifice, we have to satisfy the Supreme Person No edit summary current
09:4009:40, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,041 Yajnas can be executed when human society is regulated according to the varnasrama-dharma, the system of four social orders (varnas) and four spiritual orders - asramas No edit summary current
09:4009:40, 16 September 2022 diff hist +22,175 There are four varnas (brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya and sudra) and four asramas (brahmacarya, grhastha, vanaprastha and sannyasa). These varnas and asramas have their respective duties No edit summary current
09:3609:36, 16 September 2022 diff hist +21,923 Sri Krsna has nothing to do personally. It is His energy that acts. When an important man wants to get something done, he simply tells his secretary, who does everything No edit summary current

10:5510:55, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,873 The Gosvamis and Krsna Himself tell us that since everything belongs to Krsna, everything should be utilized for His purpose No edit summary current
10:5410:54, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,994 This creation emanates from Bhagavan, the Supreme Lord, who is without anxiety. Krsna very pleasantly associates with His consort Srimati Radharani and enjoys playing His flute No edit summary current
10:5310:53, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,116 Krsna expands as Sankarsana, Narayana, Visnu, Maha-Visnu, Garbhodakasayi Visnu and Ksirodakasayi Visnu. God can expand Himself in many, many forms No edit summary current
10:5210:52, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,031 This Krsna has many expansions (advaitam acyutam anadim). He has no beginning, but He is the beginning of everything. He has expanded Himself in many forms. The visnu-tattva consists of bhagavat-tattva-svamsa, the personal expansions No edit summary current
10:5210:52, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,761 We are also Krsna's forms, but we are vibhinnamsa, separated expansions. We are the expansions of the energies No edit summary current
10:4610:46, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,959 We cannot say that the sunshine is false and that the sun is true. If the sun is true, the sunshine is also true. Similarly, we do not say that the material universe is false. It may be temporary, but it is not false No edit summary current
10:4410:44, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,197 The Mayavadi philosophers say, brahma satyam jagan mithya: "The Supreme Truth is real, whereas the world is false" - but Vaisnavas do not use the word mithya (false), because God, the Supreme Brahman, is truth, and nothing false can emanate from the truth No edit summary current
10:4310:43, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,744 If we prepare an earring from gold, the earring is also gold. We cannot say that the earring is false No edit summary current
10:4310:43, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,729 The Vaisnava philosophers accept the world as temporary, but not false, as the Mayavadi philosophers do No edit summary current
10:4210:42, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,832 The world (jagat) has emanated from the Supreme; therefore it is not mithya, but it is temporary. That is also explained in Bhagavad-gita (8.19): bhutva bhutva praliyate No edit summary current
10:4110:41, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,015 The material world comes into existence, remains for some time, and is then annihilated. It is not false, for it can be utilized to realize the Supreme Truth. This is Vaisnava philosophy No edit summary current
10:4010:40, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,935 The world is temporary, but we must use it for spiritual purposes. If something is used for the ultimate truth, the Absolute Truth, it becomes integral with the Absolute Truth No edit summary current
10:3810:38, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,158 The Vaisnava says, prapancikataya buddhya hari-sambandhi-vastunah. Everything has some relationship with the Supreme Person, the Absolute Truth. For instance, a microphone is made of metal, but what is metal? It is another form of earth No edit summary current
10:3710:37, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,225 Sri Krsna says: "Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego - all together these comprise My separated material energies." All of these are Krsna's energies, and if Krsna is the source of them, how can they be untrue? They are not No edit summary current
10:3610:36, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,045 A Vaisnava will never say that metal has no connection with Krsna. It is a product of one of His energies, just as this material world is a product of the sun No edit summary current
10:3310:33, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,932 Although he (managing director) sits in his office without disturbance, he is not very happy because he is always thinking about how to do this or that, how to manage this affair or that No edit summary
10:3210:32, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,682 This is material nature, and therefore it is said that there is always anxiety in the material world No edit summary current
10:3010:30, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,970 We should not remain on this platform, but should go to the platform of sat (om tat sat). This is the Vedic injunction. The material world is asad-vastu; it cannot possibly remain No edit summary current
10:3010:30, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,840 In the material world, everything will ultimately be vanquished. Whatever exists in the material world exists only for some time. It is temporary No edit summary current
10:2910:29, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,842 Yato imani bhutani jayante: the Supreme Absolute Truth is He from whom everything is emanating. If everything is emanating from the Absolute Truth, nothing can actually be false No edit summary current
10:2610:26, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,906 If we organize a business, we have many anxieties. The managing director or proprietor of the business particularly has many anxieties No edit summary current
10:2310:23, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,876 There are saktyavesa-avataras, guna-avataras and svayam-avataras, and these are all described in Srimad-Bhagavatam. All these avataras, or incarnations, are svacchandatma, free from care and anxiety No edit summary current
10:1710:17, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,074 Before the creation there was no Brahma or Siva. There was only Krsna. Krsna therefore says, aham adir hi devanam (BG 10.2). He is the creator of all demigods and all other living entities No edit summary current
10:1610:16, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,304 After the cosmic manifestation is created, the living entities are placed in it. In the Vedas it is stated that in the beginning there was neither Brahma nor Siva, but only Narayana (eko narayana asit). Narayana is also another plenary expansion of Krsna No edit summary current
10:1410:14, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,994 We have to learn from the scriptures that Krsna is the origin of all. Krsnas tu bhagavan svayam: (SB 1.3.28) all the visnu-tattvas and incarnations are but plenary expansions or expansions of the plenary expansions of Krsna No edit summary current
10:0910:09, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,891 We can understand the pastimes of the Lord by following one or some of the authorized devotional processes No edit summary current
10:0810:08, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,909 We have to speak or chant about the holy activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but first we have to hear about them No edit summary current
10:0710:07, 15 September 2022 diff hist +21,872 When we speak of Visnu, we mean Krsna. Krsna is the origin of the visnu-tattva - that is, Visnu is an expansion of Krsna No edit summary current
10:0310:03, 15 September 2022 diff hist +22,229 Nine basic processes of devotional service - hearing & chanting about the Supreme Lord, remembering Him, serving His lotus feet, worshiping Him, offering prayers to the Lord, acting as His servant, becoming His friend, & surrendering everything to Him No edit summary current
09:5809:58, 15 September 2022 diff hist +25,868 Concerning Kapiladeva, Saunaka Rsi says, kapilas tattva-sankhyata. Kapila is the Supreme Person; therefore He can explain the Absolute Truth. Actually only Bhagavan can know the true position of the ultimate truth. No one else can know it No edit summary current

13:3713:37, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,387 The easiest way to go to the Vaikunthalokas is: janma karma ca me divyam evam yo vetti tattvatah (BG 4.9). Simply try to understand Krsna No edit summary current
13:3713:37, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,716 Why does He come? What are His activities? Where does He come from? Why does He come in the form of a human being? We only have to try to understand this and study Krsna as He explains Himself in Bhagavad-gita. What is the difficulty No edit summary current
13:3613:36, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,502 God personally explains Himself as He is, and if we accept Bhagavad-gita as it is, we shall no longer have to transmigrate. Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti - BG 4.9 No edit summary current
13:3513:35, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,598 We shall no longer have to endure birth and death, for we can attain our spiritual bodies (sac-cid-ananda-vigraha (Bs. 5.1)) and live happily in Krsna's family. Krsna is providing for us here, and He will also provide for us there No edit summary current
13:3413:34, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,428 We should know that our happiness is in returning home, back to Godhead, where we can eat, drink and be merry in Krsna's company No edit summary current
13:3113:31, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,494 Everything is present in Vaikunthaloka. There we can have an eternal, blissful life full of knowledge (sac-cid-ananda). It is not compulsory for us to rot in this material world No edit summary current
13:2913:29, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,404 In this life we enjoy or suffer the results of our past karma, and in the same way we are creating further karma for our next body No edit summary current
13:2513:25, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,358 There are many types of yogis, but he who is devoted to Krsna is the topmost yogi. Sri Krsna is far above all yogic processes No edit summary current
13:2313:23, 14 September 2022 diff hist +17,556 Who can manage to float even a small stone in the air? Sometimes a yogi may show a little mystic power by manufacturing some gold, and we are so foolish that we accept him as God No edit summary current

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