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14:2814:28, 13 November 2022 diff hist +8,091 He (Krsna) convinced them (the cowherd boys) that one who is engaged in collecting or begging should not think that he will be successful everywhere. He may be unsuccessful in some places, but that should not be cause for disappointment No edit summary current
14:2814:28, 13 November 2022 diff hist +6,619 You have to associate yourself with persons who are in that business. Then gradually you'll also develop the taste ... So there is no cause of disappointment that because you have no taste for such things No edit summary current
14:0514:05, 13 November 2022 diff hist +17,653 This process is actually very simple. One must first of all realize that the first problem is the conquest of death. Presently we consider death compulsory, but actually it is not. One may be put into prison, but actually prison is not compulsory No edit summary current
14:0514:05, 13 November 2022 diff hist +22 The sufferings of the Pandavas were never due to their past deeds. The Lord had to execute the plan of establishing the kingdom of virtue, and therefore His own devotees suffered temporarily in order to establish the conquest of virtue No edit summary current
14:0414:04, 13 November 2022 diff hist +1,531 On the day celebrating the conquest of Lanka - a day known as Vijaya-dasami - Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu dressed up all His devotees as monkey soldiers No edit summary current
13:5613:56, 13 November 2022 diff hist +2,047 The best policy is to act for the sake of the Lord. That will bring about the desired harmony No edit summary current
13:5613:56, 13 November 2022 diff hist +81,045 The best policy for doing work is to perform all prescribed duties for the satisfaction of Yajna, the Supreme Being - Visnu, the Absolute Truth. Otherwise, all actions will produce reactions that will cause bondage No edit summary current
13:5513:55, 13 November 2022 diff hist +7,246 Mind is restless, always desiring something, desiring something. So the best policy to control the mind is to desire how to spread Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
13:5513:55, 13 November 2022 diff hist +3,541 Even the exhaustive philosophical inquiries of sages cannot ascertain the plan of the Lord. The best policy is simply to abide by the orders of the Lord without argument No edit summary current
13:5513:55, 13 November 2022 diff hist +4,743 Celibacy does not necessitate that one be absolutely free from sex life; satisfaction with one's wife is permitted also under the vow of celibacy. The best policy is to avoid sex life altogether. That is preferable No edit summary
13:5113:51, 13 November 2022 diff hist +5,637 One who has connected himself with spiritual knowledge can understand that there is a spiritual soul within the body. However, one who is in an animalistic conception of life and has no spiritual culture cannot understand No edit summary current
13:5113:51, 13 November 2022 diff hist +6,870 An animal does not know that there is soul and the soul is transmigrating from one body to another. This is animal conception. You cannot teach these pigeons that "You are spirit soul. Your body's different from you" No edit summary current
13:5013:50, 13 November 2022 diff hist +31 Any person who is not expert in understanding this science (of the soul) or is unwilling to understand it remains in the bodily conception of life, or the animalistic conception of life No edit summary current
13:4713:47, 13 November 2022 diff hist +2,333 Questions and answers are very satisfactorily dealt with when the inquirer is bona fide and the speaker is also authorized No edit summary current
13:4713:47, 13 November 2022 diff hist +4,171 So far Hindu religion is concerned, there are millions of Krishna Temples in India and there is not a single Hindu who does not worship Krishna. Therefore, Krishna Consciousness movement is not a concocted idea. The chanting process is also authorized No edit summary current
13:4613:46, 13 November 2022 diff hist +5 When the Muslims support their position with quotations from the Koran, their arguments are also authorized No edit summary current

15:2115:21, 12 November 2022 diff hist +3,154 The Srimad-Bhagavatam affirms that one should follow in the footsteps of great devotees, and that is the way of progress on the path of spiritual realization. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
15:1715:17, 12 November 2022 diff hist +6,059 One who is not properly initiated may present himself as a great devotee, but in fact he is sure to encounter many stumbling blocks on his path of progress toward spiritual realization No edit summary current
15:1515:15, 12 November 2022 diff hist +4,323 One should never pass over the honor due to an elderly spiritual master in the interests of one's own personal gain and fame. Impertinence on the part of the pseudo spiritual master is very risky to progressive spiritual realization No edit summary current

04:5604:56, 11 November 2022 diff hist +9,073 The guru, or the bona fide spiritual master, is competent to teach the disciple in the right path with reference to the context of all authentic Vedic literature. He does not attempt to juggle words to bewilder the student No edit summary current
04:5104:51, 11 November 2022 diff hist +25,465 There are transcendental tastes in servitude, friendship and other relationships with Krsna. These can be described with reference to the context of Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu No edit summary current
04:5104:51, 11 November 2022 diff hist +2,709 Simply upon hearing the word daksayani, Sati felt afflicted because of reference to the context because her body was the symbol of all offensiveness with which Daksa was endowed. Since her body was a source of unhappiness, she decided to give it up No edit summary current
04:4904:49, 11 November 2022 diff hist −6 One who is intelligent and who studies the characteristics of the Supreme Personality of Godhead with reference to the Vedic context cannot be bewildered by the pasandas No edit summary current
04:4704:47, 11 November 2022 diff hist +1,965 In the Dvapara-yuga, the Lord had descended in a blackish hue. This is the essence of the statements in the Puranas and other Vedic literatures with reference to the context No edit summary current
04:4304:43, 11 November 2022 diff hist +4,413 Although he (the highly advanced devotee) sees trees, mountains, and other living entities moving here and there, he sees all as the creation of the Supreme Lord and, with reference to the context, sees only the creator and not the created No edit summary current

08:3808:38, 10 November 2022 diff hist +2,213 One principle, the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
08:3808:38, 10 November 2022 diff hist +16,311 In this world there are two principles operating: One principle is the origin or shelter of everything, and the other principle is deduced from this original principle No edit summary current
08:3808:38, 10 November 2022 diff hist +7,083 Dharma is one. God is one. And you have to follow that one principle, how to approach Krsna. That is bhakti. So dharma is to approach Krsna, and the process is bhakti. And Krsna is the Supreme God No edit summary current
08:3308:33, 10 November 2022 diff hist +13 Sridhara Svami confirms in his commentary that first one must surrender to the spiritual master; then the process of devotional service will develop No edit summary current
08:3208:32, 10 November 2022 diff hist +6,476 First one must control his speaking power. Every one of us has the power of speech; as soon as we get an opportunity we begin to speak. If we do not speak about Krsna consciousness, we speak about all sorts of nonsense No edit summary current
08:3208:32, 10 November 2022 diff hist +3,048 First one must be able to sit properly, and then the mind and attention will become steady enough for practicing yoga. Gradually, one must control circulation of vital air, and with such control he will be able to withdraw the senses from sense objects No edit summary current
08:3208:32, 10 November 2022 diff hist +35 First a child is shown the branches of a tree, and then he is shown the moon through the branches. This is called sakha-candra-nyaya. The idea is that first one must be given a simpler example. Then the more difficult background is explained No edit summary current
08:3008:30, 10 November 2022 diff hist +5,110 One should not attempt to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead by concoction. One must first be prepared to serve the spiritual master, and when one is qualified he is automatically offered the platform of direct service to the Lord No edit summary
08:3008:30, 10 November 2022 diff hist +6,057 For this purpose (to free ourselves from the cycle of birth, death, old age and disease), one must first be liberated from material bondage, and especially from household life No edit summary current

15:5015:50, 9 November 2022 diff hist +4,973 In the spiritual world the unalloyed quality of goodness prevails; there the quality of goodness is called suddha-sattva, pure goodness. Another name for suddha-sattva is vasudeva because God is born from Vasudeva No edit summary current
15:5015:50, 9 November 2022 diff hist +5,540 In the Sankhya-kaumudi it is stated that unalloyed goodness or transcendence is just opposite to the material modes. All living entities there (Vaikuntha) are eternally associated without any break, and the Lord is the chief and prime entity No edit summary current
15:4915:49, 9 November 2022 diff hist +32 A devotee is always in the mode of unalloyed goodness; therefore he harms no one No edit summary current
15:4915:49, 9 November 2022 diff hist +4,072 A brahmana is in the mode of goodness, to be a brahmana is not sufficient for becoming a representative of God. One has to transcend the mode of goodness also and be situated in unalloyed goodness, unaffected by any of the qualities of material nature No edit summary current
15:4315:43, 9 November 2022 diff hist +2,725 We shall teach the girls two things. One thing is how to become chaste and faithful to their husband, and how to cook nicely. If these two qualifications they have, I'll take guarantee to get for them good husband No edit summary current
15:4015:40, 9 November 2022 diff hist +4 While being pierced by your (Kamsa's) arrows, which you discharged on all sides, some of them (the demigods), who were injured by the multitude of arrows but who desired to live, fled the battlefield, intent on escaping - SB 10.4.33 No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 9 November 2022 diff hist +4,622 Parasya saktir vividhaiva sruyate: (CC Madhya 13.65, purport) the Lord has a multitude of energies, and therefore He acts in multifarious ways. Yet He has a particular name No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 9 November 2022 diff hist +2,531 Lord Krsna desired to taste the limitless nectarean mellows of the love possessed by one of His multitude of loving damsels (Sri Radha), and so He has assumed the form of Lord Caitanya No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 9 November 2022 diff hist +2,181 Lord Krsna desired to taste the limitless nectarean mellows of the love of one of His multitude of loving damsels (Sri Radha), and so He has assumed the form of Lord Caitanya No edit summary current
15:3815:38, 9 November 2022 diff hist +1,862 Here and there in that palace were multitudes of live swans and pigeons, as well as artificial swans and pigeons so lifelike that the real swans rose above them again and again, thinking them live birds like themselves No edit summary current

17:1417:14, 8 November 2022 diff hist +7,715 Sometimes mother thinks: "The child will be grown up. He will be big man. He will earn money, and I shall get it." There is still some feelings of exchange. But while loving Krsna, there is no such feeling of exchange. That is called unalloyed love No edit summary current
17:1417:14, 8 November 2022 diff hist +4,101 Only one who is very highly elevated in spiritual realization can understand the lusty feelings exchanged between Radha and Krsna, or between Krsna and the damsels of Vraja No edit summary current
17:0317:03, 8 November 2022 diff hist +46,051 This exchange of feelings between Krsna and Radharani is very difficult to understand unless one is elevated to the platform of pure goodness No edit summary current
17:0317:03, 8 November 2022 diff hist +46,347 The exchange of feelings between Radha and Krsna is not a subject matter of this material world. Even the greatest mental speculator cannot understand this, directly or indirectly No edit summary current
17:0217:02, 8 November 2022 diff hist +46,117 Material activities are manifested either for the gross body or the subtle mind, but this exchange of feelings between Radha and Krsna is beyond such manifestations and beyond intellectual mental speculation No edit summary current
17:0217:02, 8 November 2022 diff hist +3,416 It is (The Lord's rasa-lila with the gopis) the highest perfectional stage of the exchange of feelings between the Lord and the living entities. The Lord gives the fallen souls the chance for this highest perfection of life No edit summary current

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