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24 September 2022

• 12:2612:26, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,183 The word guru may be translated as "heavy," or "the supreme" No edit summary current
• 12:2512:25, 24 September 2022 diff hist +9,651 The word guru is equally applicable to the vartma-pradarsaka-guru, siksa-guru and diksa-guru. Unless we accept the principle enunciated by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, this Krsna consciousness movement cannot spread all over the world No edit summary current
• 12:2412:24, 24 September 2022 diff hist +27 The word guru-prasada indicates that the spiritual master is very merciful in bestowing the boon of devotional service upon the disciple. That is the best possible gift the spiritual master has to offer No edit summary current
• 12:2312:23, 24 September 2022 diff hist +9 There is specific mention of the word gurum, which indicates the Supreme Personality as caitya-guru No edit summary current
• 12:2012:20, 24 September 2022 diff hist +6,915 From all angles of vision the word guru is especially meant for the bona fide representative of Krsna and no one else No edit summary current
• 11:1811:18, 24 September 2022 diff hist +1,759 There is a variety of transcendental truths - the truth about Krsna, the truth about Radharani, the truth about Their loving affairs, the truth about transcendental humors, and the truth about the Lord's pastimes No edit summary current
• 10:5110:51, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,083 The ideal husband-and-wife relationship is very nicely described in this statement. Kardama Muni gave Devahuti all sorts of comforts in his duty as a husband, but he was not at all attached to his wife No edit summary current
• 10:5010:50, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,074 No ideal husbands and wives No edit summary current
• 10:5010:50, 24 September 2022 diff hist +7,303 Lord Krsna and His queens remained together as husband and wife, and Krsna, as an ideal husband, treated them in such a way that at every moment there was an increase of transcendental bliss in their smiling exchanges, talking and mixing No edit summary current
• 10:4910:49, 24 September 2022 diff hist +5,601 Ideal husband-and-wife relationship No edit summary current
• 10:4810:48, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,919 As Lord Ramacandra is the ideal husband (eka-patni-vrata), mother Sita is the ideal wife. Such a combination makes family life very happy. Yad yad acarati sresthas tat tad evetaro janah: whatever example a great man sets, common people follow No edit summary current
• 10:4810:48, 24 September 2022 diff hist +8 As an ideal husband, Lord Jagannatha remained fifteen days in a secluded place with His wife, the supreme goddess of fortune. Nonetheless, the Lord wanted to come out of seclusion to give happiness to His devotees No edit summary current
• 10:4810:48, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,039 An ideal husband and wife are generally called Laksmi-Narayana to compare them to the Lord and the goddess of fortune, for it is significant that Laksmi-Narayana are forever happy as husband and wife No edit summary current
• 10:2510:25, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,098 Its limbs were so beautiful that they increased the beauty of the ornaments worn on different parts of His body No edit summary current
• 10:2410:24, 24 September 2022 diff hist +5,888 His (Lord Visnu's) arms stretched down to His knees, and all His beautiful limbs were smeared with sandalwood and decorated with glittering ornaments. He wore yellow clothes, and by either side stood His energies Bhumi and Nila No edit summary current
• 10:1210:12, 24 September 2022 diff hist +9,591 The man who worships the Lord, the Lord Himself who is worshiped, the cause for which the Lord is worshiped, the source of supply, the place where such worship is done, etc. - everything is benefited by such an action No edit summary current
• 10:1210:12, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,705 The Lord supplies the necessities of all living entities. These necessities come from the earth, and thus the earth is the source of supply No edit summary current
• 10:1110:11, 24 September 2022 diff hist +5,033 Pasturing ground for the cows - the grass is produced by rains, and the animals, they eat the grass, and they produce milk. You require milk. So everything, the main source of supply is the rainfall from the sky No edit summary current
• 10:1110:11, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,310 A son's duty is not only to make the father the source of supply for all his needs, but also, when he is grown up, to render service unto him. That is the law of creation beginning from the time of Brahma No edit summary current
• 10:0310:03, 24 September 2022 diff hist −14 The silkworm wraps itself in a cocoon made of its own saliva, until he is in a prison from which he cannot escape. In the same way, a materialistic householder's entanglement becomes so tight that he cannot come out of the cocoon of family attraction No edit summary current
• 10:0310:03, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,688 The influence of the modes of nature is very strong. The living entity entangled in different types of fruitive activity is like a silkworm trapped in a cocoon. Getting free is very difficult unless he is helped by the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 24 September 2022 diff hist +5,181 If we do not act in Krsna consciousness we shall be entangled, like silkworms in cocoons. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, appears in order to teach us how to work so that we will not be entangled in this material world No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,808 He (the foolish embodied living entity, inept at controlling his senses and mind) is like a silkworm that uses its own saliva to create a cocoon and then becomes trapped in it, with no possibility of getting out No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,761 A living being is entrapped by his fruitive activities, exactly like a silkworm trapped in its own cocoon. Foolish persons are generally encaged by their fruitive actions (karma) because of a strong desire to enjoy this material world No edit summary current
• 09:0409:04, 24 September 2022 diff hist +39,069 There is but one way to perceive things in the depth of darkness. Only if somebody brings a light into the darkness is it truly possible to see things as they are. Similarly, the light of knowledge is kindled by our preceptors No edit summary current
• 09:0309:03, 24 September 2022 diff hist +1,906 O Maharaja Pariksit, subduer of enemies, this Revata constructed a kingdom known as Kusasthali in the depths of the ocean. There he lived and ruled such tracts of land as Anarta, etc. He had one hundred very nice sons, of whom the eldest was Kakudmi No edit summary current
• 09:0309:03, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,093 The impression (of a previous life) is there in the stockpile of the mind, and it suddenly expresses itself. It is like fermentation taking place in the depths of water, which sometimes manifests itself in bubbles on the water's surface No edit summary current
• 08:5908:59, 24 September 2022 diff hist +2,866 The wrongdoer is misled by bad associates and by ill advice, which is against the established principles of the Lord's order, and thus he becomes subject to punishment No edit summary current
• 08:5208:52, 24 September 2022 diff hist +4,207 One should reject all ideas of religiosity, economic development, sense gratification and liberation and fully engage in the service of the Lord No edit summary current
• 08:5108:51, 24 September 2022 diff hist +3,343 Mind is the center of all the activities of the senses, and thus the mind is the reservoir of all ideas of sense gratification; and, as a result, the mind and the senses become the repositories of lust. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current

17 September 2022

• 13:4313:43, 17 September 2022 diff hist +6,148 We have got already fifteen branches as follows: New York City; Boston; San Francisco; Vancouver, B.C.; Canada; Honolulu, Hawaii; New Vrindaban, an ideal Krishna Consciousness community; and London, England; and Berlin, Germany No edit summary current
• 13:4313:43, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,904 The ideal Krishna Conscious community No edit summary current
• 13:4213:42, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,117 Our ideal Vedic community will attract everyone on its own merit No edit summary current
• 13:4213:42, 17 September 2022 diff hist +7,740 Living as an ideal community No edit summary current
• 13:4213:42, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,916 I am going in a few days to San Francisco to speak at the San Francisco State University there on the topic of "Krsna Consciousness: The Best Alternative Life Style, the Ideal Community, the New Social Order" No edit summary current
• 13:4113:41, 17 September 2022 diff hist +2,019 Be very serious to develop New Vrindaban nicely so that we can show the world how the ideal God-conscious community is working No edit summary current
• 13:4113:41, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,073 Before I came to your country, I was thinking to establish an ideal Vedic community No edit summary current
• 13:3613:36, 17 September 2022 diff hist +2,439 There is no hindrance of your being a householder so far as distributing books are concerned. Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu had many householder disciples who would preach Krishna Consciousness No edit summary current
• 13:3613:36, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,076 I am especially proud how my householder disciples are preaching Lord Caitanya's Mission. This is a new thing in the history of the Sankirtana Movement No edit summary
• 13:1013:10, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,950 You have learned the life of a Sannyasi now it is my desire that you apply for some concrete results in this new field. If you do it, it will be a very great service to the Movement & humanity at large & I will be very pleased with this work No edit summary current
• 13:1013:10, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,293 You are by managing the temple as a president you are doing a very great service to humanity. So please continue in this way and make it nicer and nicer No edit summary current
• 13:0913:09, 17 September 2022 diff hist +5,076 Yes, if you can inject this Krishna Consciousness to the young children, it will be a great service to the humanity and to the Lord No edit summary current
• 13:0813:08, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,964 The spreading of this Sankirtana Movement is the best service to the greater humanity and all living entities in general because it revives the divine nature of the soul in Krsna Consciousness No edit summary current
• 13:0713:07, 17 September 2022 diff hist +2,261 The spell of Maya is very strong, and to save a living entity from such clutches is the greatest service to the humanity No edit summary current
• 13:0613:06, 17 September 2022 diff hist +4,853 Simply your sincerity of service is required and He will dictate from within you how to make your thesis. It will be a great service to the humanity, especially to the Western world No edit summary current
• 13:0613:06, 17 September 2022 diff hist −24 Our married couples are rendering the greatest service to humanity, their countrymen, and to their parents, of that kindly be assured by me. Do not worry for anything in this connection No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 17 September 2022 diff hist +5,339 Our married couples are rendering the greatest service to humanity, their countrymen, and to their parents, of that kindly be assured by me No edit summary current
• 12:5812:58, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,605 Now each one of us has got a great responsibility to spread this movement as far as possible and that is the greatest service to the suffering humanity No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 17 September 2022 diff hist +3,551 Murari Gupta could treat both bodily and spiritual disease because he was a physician by profession and a great devotee of the Lord in terms of spiritual advancement. This is an example of service to humanity No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 17 September 2022 diff hist +8,125 I request you, all English boys and girls present here, now you become greater than your forefathers by taking this Krsna consciousness. That will make you more powerful, spiritually powerful. You can render service to the humanity No edit summary current