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08:5908:59, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,319 When we speak of Bhagavan, or when the sastras refer to Bhagavan, we refer to Him who is above material understanding No edit summary current
08:5808:58, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,570 As stated here, sri-bhagavan uvaca. It does not say vyasadeva uvaca or kapiladeva uvaca. Similarly, in Bhagavad-gita, Vyasadeva says, sri-bhagavan uvaca. Bhagavan refers to Him who is above the defects of this material world No edit summary current
08:5708:57, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,595 Bhagavan is not subject to the four deficiencies of the living entities. Being imperfect, living entities are illusioned and subject to commit mistakes. They also have the tendency to cheat others No edit summary current
08:5508:55, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,537 So-called scholars and learned men manufacture their own teachings and give their opinions. In the West especially, we find much philosophical speculation and mental gymnastics, but such philosophy can never be perfect No edit summary current
08:5508:55, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,705 We have to take our ideas from Bhagavan; then they will be perfect. We read Bhagavad-gita because it is perfect. There is no mistake in it; there is no illusion in it; there is no cheating in it. Nor is it delivered by one whose senses are imperfect No edit summary current
08:5408:54, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,469 God knows everything, but we do not know what is God. That is our position. Our position is not knowing. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese 'rjuna tisthati (BG 18.61). Isvara, God, Krsna, is situated in everyone's heart No edit summary current
08:5408:54, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,580 Sarvasya caham hrdi sannivistah: "I have entered into everyone's heart." (BG 15.15) The Supreme Lord refers not only to the hearts of human beings but to those of animals and everything else No edit summary current
08:5308:53, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,548 The Supreme Lord is within the atom as Paramatma, and therefore He is also within the individual soul. Being within everything, He knows everything. Since He knows everything, we have to take lessons from Him No edit summary current
08:5208:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,543 This Krsna consciousness philosophy is very easy because we do not manufacture ideas. We take the ideas and the words delivered by the Supreme Person, Krsna, or His incarnation or representative No edit summary current
08:5208:52, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,426 If we take what Bhagavan says as perfect knowledge, we receive perfect knowledge. For receiving this knowledge, there is a disciplic succession - parampara No edit summary current
08:5108:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,537 His (Krsna's) representative does not say anything which Krsna Himself does not say. It is very easy to be a representative, but one cannot be a representative of Krsna if one tries to interpret Krsna's words in a whimsical way No edit summary current
08:5108:51, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,222 There is no authority superior to Sri Krsna, and if we stick to this principle, we can become gurus No edit summary current
08:4808:48, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,786 Krsna is not alone, but is always with His friends, either the gopis or the cowherd boys, or with His mother and father. We never find Krsna alone. He may be with Radharani or with His devotees No edit summary current
08:4708:47, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,541 He (Krsna) is like a king or president. When one says that the king or president is coming, it is understood that he is not coming alone. He comes with His secretaries, ministers and many others No edit summary current
08:4608:46, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,628 The word yoga means "connection," and atma means "soul" and sometimes "mind" or "body." The material body has nothing to do with the Supreme Being because the Supreme Being is completely spiritual. He has no material covering No edit summary current
08:4608:46, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,285 One who thinks that Krsna, the Supreme Being, has a material covering is himself covered by maya No edit summary current
08:4408:44, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,388 We have to learn how Krsna takes His birth, which is not ordinary. If it were ordinary, why should we observe the Janmastami ceremony? His birth is divyam, divine No edit summary current
08:4108:41, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,500 Krsna is the original Supreme Being, the original spirit soul. We are simply minute parts and parcels of Krsna. If we connect with Krsna, we are illuminated just as Krsna is illuminated No edit summary current
08:4008:40, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,202 If we fall down from Krsna, our spiritual power and illumination are extinguished No edit summary current
08:4008:40, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,508 The word yoga means connecting or linking with that original source. Yoga is the Sanskrit word meaning "connection," and viyoga means - disconnection No edit summary current
08:3608:36, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,507 On one side there is happiness, and on the other side there is distress. Both happiness and distress are actually illusions. In summer, water is happiness, but in winter it is distress No edit summary current
08:3508:35, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,676 The water is the same, but at one time it brings happiness and at another time it brings distress. When a son is born, he brings happiness, but when he dies, he brings distress. In either case, the son is the same No edit summary current
08:3408:34, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,371 This material world is the world of duality, and we cannot understand happiness without distress or distress without happiness. This is therefore called the relative world No edit summary current
08:3308:33, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,663 Generally yoga is practiced to acquire some material profit. There are eight kinds of yogic perfection (siddhis): anima, laghima, prapti, isitva, vasitva, mahima, prakamya and kamavasayita No edit summary current
08:2808:28, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,238 Spiritual happiness is above these dualities, and that spiritual happiness is the perfection of yoga. Yoga adhyatmikah No edit summary current
08:2808:28, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,443 Yoga is the happiness of the soul, and the individual soul can be happy when it is with the Supersoul, the Supreme Soul No edit summary current
08:2708:27, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,312 Nityo nityanam cetanas cetananam (Katha Upanisad 2.2.13). There is the Supreme Soul, or the supreme living being, and there are many individual souls, individual beings No edit summary current
08:2708:27, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,324 We are many, but the principal living being is one, Krsna. He is the fire, and we are the sparks from that fire No edit summary current
08:2608:26, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,594 The sparks are illuminated when they are with the original fire, but if the sparks no longer associate with the original fire, they are extinguished. Similarly, our real happiness is in enjoying with the Supreme Being. Happiness is being in His company No edit summary current
08:2108:21, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,452 A real yogi can become smaller than the smallest, lighter than the lightest and bigger than the biggest. Whatever he wants he can produce immediately in his hand No edit summary current
08:1808:18, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,402 Everyone is trying to get out of material distress and gain some happiness. In any case, when something is material, there is only so-called happiness and so-called distress No edit summary current
08:1708:17, 22 September 2022 diff hist +20,425 The attempt in this material world to maximize happiness and minimize distress is called the struggle for existence No edit summary
08:1608:16, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,414 If you can get Krsna to smile upon you just once, your life's goal is fulfilled. Thus smiling, Kapiladeva began to enlighten His mother No edit summary current
08:1508:15, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,559 When Kapiladeva or His representative sees someone a little interested, he becomes very glad and thanks him. When Kapiladeva saw His mother interested, He thanked her from within, not openly No edit summary current
08:1508:15, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,370 Kapiladeva was very glad, and He began to speak. Kapiladeva was an incarnation of God and was a young boy; therefore His face was very beautiful No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,317 When He answered this question, He became even more beautiful, and He smiled because He was pleased at His mother's question No edit summary current
08:1308:13, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,602 When a devotee with all his heart and soul serves Krsna, dresses Him in nice garments and gives Him a flower, Krsna smiles No edit summary current
08:1008:10, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,695 It is regrettable that in India, where these literatures are available, people are not interested. They are interested in Marxist literature but not Srimad-Bhagavatam, and this is India's misfortune No edit summary current
08:0408:04, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,391 Generally people are interested in things that give immediate pleasure. We want to taste something tasty to the tongue, regardless of whether it is edible or not No edit summary current
07:2907:29, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,715 Those who are interested in trying to get pleasure out of this material world are actually chewing the chewed. Punah punas carvita-carvananam (SB 7.5.30). If one picks up a piece of sugarcane which has already been chewed, he is a fool No edit summary current
07:2807:28, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,549 We must know that the juice has already been taken out of that sugarcane. What will one get by chewing it? However, there are animals who are simply interested in chewing the chewed No edit summary current
07:2707:27, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,232 A real father is one who does not allow his son to chew the chewed No edit summary current
07:2507:25, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,663 If we do not go forward to liberation, we promote a civilization of cats and dogs. Eating, sleeping, mating, defending, fearing and dying are all experienced by cats and dogs, but human life is meant for another purpose No edit summary current
07:2407:24, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,449 Of course we have to maintain the body; it is not that we should neglect it. But we should not unnecessarily engage in the maintenance of the body No edit summary current
07:2107:21, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,474 One may ask, - How is it that in the modern age these Europeans and Americans of the Krsna consciousness movement do not take interest in newspapers No edit summary current
07:2107:21, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,653 Newspapers are very popular in the West. Each day the papers are published in three or four editions, and they are all selling. However, these American boys and girls who have come to Krsna consciousness have stopped reading newspapers No edit summary current
07:1907:19, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,471 Kapiladeva was very glad that His mother was interested only in spiritual advancement. This material world is called pavarga, and to nullify it is called apavarga No edit summary current
07:1907:19, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,538 In this material world, people are laboring very hard simply to earn some money. This creates a hellish situation, and this is the way of material life No edit summary current
07:1707:17, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,323 The questions are raised by Devahuti, and the answers are given by Kapiladeva. That is apavarga-vardhanam No edit summary current
07:1307:13, 22 September 2022 diff hist +14,506 Transcendentalists are not interested in worldly talks. Indeed, worldly talks are very disgusting to them, and they avoid the company of those who talk about nonsensical worldly affairs No edit summary current

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