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08:3908:39, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,532 We may temporarily make some compromises, but ultimately the material world is full of misery No edit summary current
08:3808:38, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,736 We are very much attached to this material world, but according to the Vedic system, renunciation is compulsory, for when one reaches the age of fifty, he renounces his family life No edit summary current
08:3808:38, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,556 Nature gives warning, - You are now past fifty. That's all right. You have fought in this material world. Now stop this business No edit summary current
08:3708:37, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,956 Children play on the beach and make houses out of sand, but after a while the father comes and says, "Now, my dear children, time is up. Stop this business and come home." This is the business of the guru - to teach his disciples detachment No edit summary current
08:3608:36, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,880 The world is not our place; our place is Vaikunthaloka. Krsna also comes to remind us of this. The dharma, or order, of the Supreme Person is to become His devotee and always think of Him No edit summary current
08:3508:35, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,131 Krsna tells Arjuna, "Because you are My friend, I am revealing to you the most confidential dharma." What is that? "Simply surrender unto Me." This is the dharma taught by the SPG, and Krsna's incarnation and His devotee will teach the same dharma No edit summary current
08:3408:34, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,903 We are thinking of ourselves according to so many false material identifications, but we should take Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's advice: jivera 'svarupa' haya-krsnera 'nitya-dasa.' We must come to understand, - I am the eternal servant of Krsna No edit summary current
08:3308:33, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,872 After all, our senses are employed for the satisfaction of somebody - either for ourselves or for someone else. That is kama, krodha, lobha and matsara - illusion. If we are not serving our own lusty desires (kama), we are serving anger - krodha No edit summary current
08:3108:31, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,899 In any case, we will not be allowed to stay here, and although we are attached to all this, everything will be taken away at death. Whatever post we are occupying - be it president or Lord Brahma - we are occupying temporarily No edit summary current
08:3008:30, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,918 We may be here five years, ten years, one hundred years or five million years. Whatever, our position is limited. Our position in the material world is not eternal, but we are eternal. Why, then, should we be illusioned by the noneternal No edit summary current
08:2908:29, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,807 In the morning, when the sun arises, the darkness of night immediately goes away. Similarly, when God or His incarnation comes, the darkness of material life is dissipated No edit summary current
08:2908:29, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,919 When Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, came, Arjuna's illusion was dispelled. He was thinking, "Why should I fight with my relatives?" Actually the whole world is going on under this conception of "my" and - mine No edit summary current
08:2708:27, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,937 On a train, people may argue and fight over a seat, but one who knows that he will only be on the train for two or three hours thinks, - Why should I fight? I shall only be here for a short while No edit summary current
08:2708:27, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,670 One person thinks in this way, and the other person is ready to fight, thinking that his seat is permanent. No one will be allowed to stay within this material world No edit summary current
08:2708:27, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,663 Everyone will have to change his body and position, and as long as one remains here, he will have to fight and struggle for existence. This is the way of material life No edit summary current
08:2408:24, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,972 We are bound tightly by the modes of material nature, and yet we are thinking that we are independent. This is simply foolishness No edit summary current
08:2408:24, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,192 It is said that all the people in the material world are blinded by the darkness of ignorance. When people are blind, out of their ignorance they say, - There is no God. I cannot see God No edit summary current
08:2208:22, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,767 Devahuti is accepting her son, Kapila, as her guru. He consequently tells her how to solve all material problems. Material life is nothing but sex attraction. Pumsah striya mithuni-bhavam etam - SB 5.5.8 No edit summary current
08:2108:21, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,901 As soon as people join to satisfy their sex desire, the attraction becomes greater and greater. An apartment is needed for privacy, and then one has to earn a livelihood and acquire some land No edit summary
08:2008:20, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,760 At the time of death Krsna comes and takes away everything - house, land, wife, children, friends, reputation and whatever. Then we have to begin another life No edit summary current
08:1608:16, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,325 If one is a little thoughtful, he will see that the great ocean stays in its place. The ocean has received its orders not to go beyond such and such a limit No edit summary current
08:1608:16, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,034 People who are asses, mudhas, duskrtis, cannot see God, but those who are intelligent can see God everywhere because God is omnipresent No edit summary current
08:1508:15, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,271 He (God) is within the universe and within our heart, and He is even within the atom. Why are we saying that we cannot see Him? God says, - Try to see Me in this way, but if you are too dull, then try to see Me another way No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,021 Bhagavan pumsam isvarah. Bhagavan is isvara, the controller. We are not independent. No one can actually say, - I am independent No edit summary current
08:1208:12, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,079 Actually Krsna protects the entire universe, but Yasoda was giving protection to Krsna. This is Vaisnava philosophy No edit summary current
08:1108:11, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,448 Yasoda became mad when she saw Krsna taken away by the Trnavarta demon. However, Krsna became so heavy that the demon could not fly in the sky, and thus the demon fell to the earth and died. Yasoda immediately said, - God has saved my Krsna No edit summary current
08:1108:11, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,972 She (Yasoda) began to thank some other God, some devata. She did not know that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
08:1008:10, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,418 If she (Yasoda) had thought of Krsna as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the relationship between mother and son would have been destroyed. Therefore Krsna was playing just like an ordinary child, and Mother Yasoda was treating Him as her son No edit summary current
08:0908:09, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,022 In order to understand the Absolute Truth, we have to understand the meaning of Bhagavan No edit summary
08:0608:06, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,940 People today do not even know the meaning of God, so there is no question of surrender No edit summary current
08:0508:05, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,170 There are also those who are scholarly and well educated, but their knowledge is taken away by maya, illusion. Although they may superficially hold degrees, they have no real knowledge No edit summary current
08:0408:04, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,187 They are also asuras, demons who simply defy God, saying, - I am God, you are God. Why are you searching for God? There are many Gods loitering in the street. Take care of them No edit summary current
08:0308:03, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,114 It is not surprising that newspapers report that faith in a personal God is decreasing. Nonetheless, God is a person. Ya adyo bhagavan No edit summary current
08:0208:02, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,243 We all have some relationship with Krsna, but presently that is covered. Therefore we have to revive it. Simple appreciation of the Supreme is called santa-rasa No edit summary current
08:0108:01, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,277 When one appreciates the Supreme fully, he wishes to render some service, and that is called dasya. When one becomes more intimate, he becomes a friend of Krsna's, and that is called sakhya No edit summary current
08:0008:00, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,145 When one is more advanced, he wants to render service to Krsna as a father or a mother, and this is vatsalya. Being a father or a mother means serving the son No edit summary current
07:5207:52, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,190 The Christian conception of God as the Supreme Father is not very perfect because if we conceive of God as a father, our position will be to take things from Him No edit summary current
06:5606:56, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,330 Foolish philosophers say that the universe automatically came into being by nature. They say that in the beginning there was a chunk, and this cosmic manifestation came out of that chunk of matter No edit summary current
06:5606:56, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,214 Where did this chunk come from? The fact is that there must be a brain, a leader, behind anything organized. We have information of this leader from the Vedas: nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam - Katha Upanisad 2.2.13 No edit summary current
06:5506:55, 21 September 2022 diff hist +10,842 The Supreme Lord is eternal, and we are also eternal. But the Supreme Lord is one, and we are many No edit summary current
06:5506:55, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,352 The Supreme Lord is very great, and we are very small. He is all-pervading and infinite, and we are finite and infinitesimal. Even if we analyze the creation, we will find that not everyone is on the same level No edit summary current
06:5406:54, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,183 One person is more intelligent or opulent than another. If we analyze things in this way, we will come to the demigods, and among them we will find that the most important demigod is Lord Brahma No edit summary current
06:5206:52, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,446 We actually see that the present generation is not as strong as the previous. People also have short memories. We also understand that sometimes people are killed while other people pass by, not caring. Thus mercy is also diminishing No edit summary current
06:5206:52, 21 September 2022 diff hist +11,509 Because everything is diminishing, God consciousness is diminishing also; therefore it is natural to receive news that faith in a personal God is diminishing. In BG (7.15), one who does not accept a personal God is described as a mudha, a fool No edit summary current
06:4906:49, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,621 One who feels the need to cross the dark ocean of nescience, which is material existence, requires a guru. It is not the guru's task to supply gold and medicine No edit summary current
06:4906:49, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,619 It has become a fashion to keep a guru as if he were a dog or a cat. This is of no use. We must inquire about that portion of God's creation which is beyond this darkness No edit summary current
06:4806:48, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,375 The Upanisads and Bhagavad-gita describe another world, beyond this material nature No edit summary current
06:4706:47, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,558 It is not possible for us to go to that paravyoma by material means. It is impossible to penetrate the material universe unless one understands Krsna No edit summary current
06:4606:46, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,675 We are so foolish that we do not take advantage of them (devotees of God and Bhagavad-gita). We do not take advantage of His devotee, who hankers to give this knowledge, sacrificing everything No edit summary current
06:4606:46, 21 September 2022 diff hist +9,428 By Krsna's mercy one can receive the bhakti-lata-bija, the seed of devotional service No edit summary current

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