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• 05:32, 27 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page How can we become Bhagavan? If we are Bhagavan, we are actually the supreme powerful one. If this is the case, why are we in a miserable condition? Why are we under the influence of maya? Does Bhagavan come under the influence of maya? No (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"How can we become Bhagavān? If we are Bhagavān, we are actually the supreme powerful one. If this is the case, why are we in...")
• 05:21, 27 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Self-realization is realizing that one is the eternal servant of Krsna and that one's duty is to serve Him. Self-realization is not thinking aham brahmasmi, - I have become Brahman, Bhagavan (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Self-realization is realizing that one is the eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa and that one's duty is to serve Him. Self-realiza...")
• 05:17, 27 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Actually the only master is Krsna. Ekale isvara krsna, ara saba bhrtya (CC Adi 5.142). All the demigods, human beings, animals, trees and everything else are servants (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Actually the only master is Krsna. Ekale isvara krsna, ara saba bhrtya (CC Adi 5.142). All the demigods, human beings, animals...")
• 05:14, 27 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page We are also serving in an office or in some employment in order to get some money. In this case, we are serving money, not the person. Thus in the material world we serve the senses and money. In any case, service is there. We must serve (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We are also serving in an office or in some employment in order to get some money. In this case, we are serving money, not the...")
• 05:10, 27 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Service is meant to be rendered to Krsna. In the material world we are serving our lusty desires, not Krsna, and we are deriving no pleasure from this (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Service is meant to be rendered to Kṛṣṇa. In the material world we are serving our lusty desires, not Kṛṣṇa, and w...")
• 05:05, 27 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page If one cannot find anything to serve, he goes and buys a cat or dog and serves it. Why is this? It is because service is our nature. We are simply lacking the knowledge of where to direct the service (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If one cannot find anything to serve, he goes and buys a cat or dog and serves it. Why is this? It is because service is our n...")
• 04:57, 27 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Who can say that he is a master, that he is not serving anyone? We may serve our family, society, country, business, automobile or whatever (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Who can say that he is a master, that he is not serving anyone? We may serve our family, society, country, business, automobil...")
• 04:52, 27 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page It is our constitutional position to serve someone, but when we do not serve Krsna, we serve maya. In any case, we cannot become master (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It is our constitutional position to serve someone, but when we do not serve Kṛṣṇa, we serve māyā. In any case, we can...")
• 04:47, 27 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page In this age, people are generally influenced by the lower modes, the modes of ignorance and passion. In these modes, we are not able to serve Krsna (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In this age, people are generally influenced by the lower modes, the modes of ignorance and passion. In these modes, we are no...")
• 04:44, 27 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Goodness is superior to ignorance and passion because from the platform of goodness we can come to understand Krsna and thereby transcend the modes altogether (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Goodness is superior to ignorance and passion because from the platform of goodness we can come to understand Kṛṣṇa and...")
• 04:39, 27 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page In the conditional state, we are influenced by material nature. We have already discussed how we are conditioned by the three modes of material nature - ignorance, passion and goodness (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In the conditional state, we are influenced by material nature. We have already discussed how we are conditioned by the three...")
• 17:15, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page We become attached to rendering service to Krsna, and we become practiced in this science. When we attain this stage, we immediately become self-realized (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"we become attached to rendering service to Kṛṣṇa, and we become practiced in this science. When we attain this stage, we...")
• 17:07, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page In this Krsna consciousness movement, we have certain rules and regulations. We must rise early in the morning for mangala-arati, chant sixteen rounds of Hare Krsna daily, and execute all the functions of bhakti-yoga (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, we have certain rules and regulations. We must rise early in the morning for maṅ...")
• 17:03, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page When a boy goes to school, he has to follow the rules & regulations, but after a while he becomes accustomed to them and does not have to be taught. In other words, he learns automatically to come to school at a certain time, take his seat & study nicely (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"When a boy goes to school, he has to follow the rules and regulations, but after a while he becomes accustomed to them and doe...")
• 16:58, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page As soon as we engage in devotional service, we immediately become freed from the influence of the gunas. Because we are not expert in approaching the Supreme Lord, we have to follow the principles of bhakti-yoga enunciated by the acaryas (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"As soon as we engage in devotional service, we immediately become freed from the influence of the gunas. Because we are not ex...")
• 16:53, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page The bhakti-yoga process is the process of purification whereby we can become free from kama and lobha, lust and greed, and the influence of the lower gunas, tamo-guna and rajo-guna, ignorance and passion (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The bhakti-yoga process is the process of purification whereby we can become free from kāma and lobha, lust and greed, and th...")
• 16:49, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page The purpose of this Krsna consciousness movement is to teach people how to understand Krsna. If one is fortunate in understanding Him, one's life is successful. As long as we have lusty desires and greed, we cannot come to this understanding (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The purpose of this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to teach people how to understand Kṛṣṇa. If one is fortunate i...")
• 16:45, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page How can this position be attained? We simply have to try to understand Krsna. Why does He come? What is His business? What is His form (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"How can this position be attained? We simply have to try to understand Krsna. Why does He come? What is His business? What is...")
• 16:13, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page We have to enter the eternal planets and associate with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in order to be happy. If we do not attain this position, we will return to the material world (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We have to enter the eternal planets and associate with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in order to be happy. If we do not...")
• 12:51, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Ananda is experienced when we enter the spiritual planets, where Narayana, Krsna, is present. Paras tasmat tu bhavo 'nyo 'vyakto 'vyaktat sanatanah - BG 8.20 (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Ananda is experienced when we enter the spiritual planets, where Narayana, Krsna, is present. Paras tasmat tu bhavo 'nyo 'vyak...")
• 12:44, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page If we simply fly in the sky, we can't have ananda. We have to descend to an airport at some time or another. If we simply rise to the Brahman effulgence, we do not experience ananda (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If we simply fly in the sky, we can't have ānanda. We have to descend to an airport at some time or another. If we simply ris...")
• 12:41, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page We are actually after ananda. Sac-cid-ananda: cit means "knowledge," and that is also partial. We must add ananda (bliss) in order to have complete realization (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We are actually after ānanda. Sac-cid-ānanda: cit means "knowledge," and that is also partial. We must add ānanda (bliss) i...")
• 12:36, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page It is not sufficient to rise to the platform of Brahman. Brahman is sat (being), and a partial realization of the Absolute Truth (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It is not sufficient to rise to the platform of Brahman. Brahman is sat (being), and a partial realization of the Absolute Tru...")
• 12:30, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page In the paravyoma, the spiritual sky, there are many spiritual planets, called Vaikunthalokas. There are millions of these gigantic planets, and unless we take shelter of one of them, we will fall down again into the material atmosphere (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In the paravyoma, the spiritual sky, there are many spiritual planets, called Vaikunthalokas. There are millions of these giga...")
• 12:27, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page One may rise to the Brahma effulgence, but because there is no shelter there one will return to the material atmosphere. One may go to Brahmaloka, the highest planet in the material sky, but one's position there is temporary (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|". One may rise to the Brahma effulgence, but because there is no shelter there one will return to the material atmosphere. One...")
• 12:20, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Although one rises to the platform of Brahman, one again falls down to the material position if he neglects to worship the lotus feet of Krsna (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Although one rises to the platform of Brahman, one again falls down to the material position if he neglects to worship the lot...")
• 12:17, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page By severe austerity and penance one may elevate himself to the position of Brahman, but this is not the position of Para-brahman. Aruhya krcchrena param padam tatah - SB 10.2.32 (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"By severe austerity and penance one may elevate himself to the position of Brahman, but this is not the position of Para-brahm...")
• 12:07, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page The sastras warn that if one thinks that the demigods are equal to Narayana, one is a pasandi, an atheist. We should not think that because we have become liberated, we have attained the position of Narayana (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"the śāstras warn that if one thinks that the demigods are equal to Nārāyaṇa, one is a pāṣaṇḍī, an atheist. We sh...")
• 12:02, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Narayana is Laksmipati, the husband and controller of the goddess of fortune. How, then, can He be daridra? This is all due to misunderstanding (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Narayana is Laksmipati, the husband and controller of the goddess of fortune. How, then, can He be daridra? This is all due to...")
• 11:59, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page We should not compare Narayana to anyone, what to speak of the poor man in the street (daridra). This is all foolishness (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We should not compare Nārāyaṇa to anyone, what to speak of the poor man in the street (daridra). This is all foolishness"}...")
• 11:41, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Narayana is the exalted Supreme Personality of Godhead. Even Sankaracarya says: narayanah paro 'vyaktat. Narayana is beyond this universe. Avyaktad anda-sambhavah: the entire universe is a product of this avyakta (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Narayana is the exalted Supreme Personality of Godhead. Even Sankaracarya says: narayanah paro 'vyaktat. Narayana is beyond th...")
• 11:37, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page If one compares Narayana to the demigods, he simply reveals his lack of intelligence. It is also fashionable to speak of daridra-narayana, poor Narayana, claiming that the poor man in the street is Narayana. But what is this nonsense (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If one compares Narayana to the demigods, he simply reveals his lack of intelligence. It is also fashionable to speak of darid...")
• 11:31, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page In this way (addressing one another as Narayana) we are overcrowded with Narayanas here and there. But how can everyone become Narayana (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In this way we are overcrowded with Nārāyaṇas here and there. But how can everyone become Nārāyaṇa"}} {{notes|}} {{com...")
• 11:27, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page It is very fashionable nowadays to claim to have become Narayana, God. The Mayavadis address one another as Narayana, and thus everyone supposedly becomes Narayana (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It is very fashionable nowadays to claim to have become Nārāyaṇa, God. The Māyāvādīs address one another as Nārāya...")
• 11:10, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page The spark is also fire, but if it falls from the original flame, it will go out. One should not think that because he is qualitatively one with God, he is God. the supreme controller (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The spark is also fire, but if it falls from the original flame, it will go out. One should not think that because he is quali...")
• 11:05, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page We should not foolishly claim that we are as great as the Supreme God. We should understand that we are like sparks of the original fire (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We should not foolishly claim that we are as great as the Supreme God. We should understand that we are like sparks of the ori...")
• 10:54, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page The original demigods are Brahma, Visnu and Siva. Lord Krsna is Visnu, but He is the instructor of Brahma and Siva. Therefore it is said that Lord Krsna is the source of all the demigods (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The original demigods are Brahmā, Viṣṇu and Śiva. Lord Kṛṣṇa is Viṣṇu, but He is the instructor of Brahmā and...")
• 10:50, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs deleted page If he was the first living being in the universe, who educated him? Krsna. Sri Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (10.2), aham adir hi devanam: - I am the source of the demigods (content was: "#REDIRECT If he (Brahma) was the first living being in the universe, who educated him? Krsna. Sri Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (10.2), aham adir hi devanam: - I am the source of the demigods", and the only contributor was "Soham" (talk))
• 10:49, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs moved page If he was the first living being in the universe, who educated him? Krsna. Sri Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (10.2), aham adir hi devanam: - I am the source of the demigods to If he (Brahma) was the first living being in the universe, who educated him? Krsna. Sri Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (10.2), aham adir hi devanam: - I am the source of the demigods
• 10:37, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page If he was the first living being in the universe, who educated him? Krsna. Sri Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (10.2), aham adir hi devanam: - I am the source of the demigods (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If he was the first living being in the universe, who educated him? Kṛṣṇa. Śrī Kṛṣṇa says in Bhagavad-gītā (10...")
• 10:31, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page First of all, Brahma learned to control the universe; then he became qualified as Brahma. Although he was born Brahma, he still had to be educated (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"First of all, Brahmā learned to control the universe; then he became qualified as Brahmā. Although he was born Brahmā, he s...")
• 10:28, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page It is stated in the sastras that Brahma, the greatest living being within this universe, is also meditating in order to learn how to control. Tene brahma hrda ya adi-kavaye - SB 1.1.1 (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It is stated in the sastras that Brahma, the greatest living being within this universe, is also meditating in order to learn...")
• 06:58, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page There are small controllers and larger controllers. If we go to Brahma, we see that he is controlling the entire universe, but he is not the supreme controller (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"There are small controllers and larger controllers. If we go to Brahmā, we see that he is controlling the entire universe, bu...")
• 06:52, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page We small living entities are controllers to a degree. We can control, at times, our family members, wives, children and so forth. Or we can control our office, factory, country or whatever (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We small living entities are controllers to a degree. We can control, at times, our family members, wives, children and so for...")
• 06:45, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Brahma-samhita (5.1) also verifies this statement: isvarah paramah krsnah (Bs. 5.1). The word isvara means "controller," and the word parama means - supreme (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Brahma-saṁhitā (5.1) also verifies this statement: īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ (Bs. 5.1). The word īśvara means...")
• 06:41, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page If someone claims to be God, he has to prove that no one is equal to him and that no one is greater. If he can do this, he is God. This is a very simple definition (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If someone claims to be God, he has to prove that no one is equal to him and that no one is greater. If he can do this, he is...")
• 06:35, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page At no time can we be as great as Krsna, although we are the same qualitatively. No one is equal to God, and no one is greater than Him (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"At no time can we be as great as Kṛṣṇa, although we are the same qualitatively. No one is equal to God, and no one is gr...")
• 06:31, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Realizing our identity means realizing that we are Krsna's eternal parts and parcels, that we are very minute, infinitesimal, and that we have a perpetual and eternal relationship with Krsna, just as a part has its relationship to the whole (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Realizing our identity means realizing that we are Krsna's eternal parts and parcels, that we are very minute, infinitesimal,...")
• 06:26, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Presently everyone is laboring under this delusion, but in order to understand our spiritual identity, we must find the proper guru (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Presently everyone is laboring under this delusion, but in order to understand our spiritual identity, we must find the proper...")
• 06:21, 26 September 2022 Soham talk contribs created page Thinking in these bodily terms, people consider their wives and children to be theirs and the land of their birth to be worshipable. Thinking thus, people are willing to fight and die for their country (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Thinking in these bodily terms, people consider their wives and children to be theirs and the land of their birth to be worshi...")