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29 November 2022
- 15:0115:01, 29 November 2022 diff hist +4,288 Since it has been stated hereinbefore that in the Bhagavatam the Absolute Truth is to be known, the questions of the sages of Naimisaranya are proper and just, because they pertain to Krsna, who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth No edit summary current
- 15:0115:01, 29 November 2022 diff hist +6,147 By concentrating one's mind upon Krsna, one is able to know the Absolute Truth completely, but not otherwise. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 15:0115:01, 29 November 2022 diff hist +4,853 As confirmed in Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 1.2.11): Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this nondual substance Brahman, Paramatma or Bhagavan No edit summary current
- 15:0115:01, 29 November 2022 diff hist +2,956 According to Srimad-Bhagavatam, one who knows the Absolute Truth in three different features - namely Brahman, Paramatma, and the SPG - is called tattvavit, for he knows also his own factual position in relationship with the Supreme. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 14:5114:51, 29 November 2022 diff hist +4,714 The Absolute Truth is known sometimes as Brahman, sometimes as Paramatma and sometimes as Bhagavan. Persons who are in knowledge of the truth know that one who tries to approach the Absolute simply by mental speculation will ultimately realize Brahman No edit summary current
- 14:5114:51, 29 November 2022 diff hist +37 The Absolute Truth is known sometimes as Brahman, sometimes as Paramatma and sometimes as Bhagavan. One who tries to approach the Absolute through yoga practice will be able to realize Paramatma No edit summary current
- 14:5114:51, 29 November 2022 diff hist +37 The Absolute Truth is known sometimes as Brahman, sometimes as Paramatma and sometimes as Bhagavan. One who has complete knowledge and spiritual understanding realizes the spiritual form of Bhagavan, the Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 14:5014:50, 29 November 2022 diff hist +1,838 The Absolute Truth is known by the self-realized souls as a unified identity known by different names - impersonal Brahman, localized Paramatma, and Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 14:5014:50, 29 November 2022 diff hist +37 So Bhagavad-gita is the right book to understand about that brahma, or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, or the Absolute Truth, whatever you call. The Absolute Truth is known in three phases: Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan No edit summary current
- 14:5014:50, 29 November 2022 diff hist +7,988 Sankhya means physical study of the cosmic situation through speculative knowledge. This is generally known as jnana-sastra. The Sankhyites are attached to the impersonal Brahman, but the Absolute Truth is known in three ways No edit summary current
- 14:5014:50, 29 November 2022 diff hist +37 Krsna proclaims that the Absolute Truth is known in three aspects - Brahman, Paramatma and Bhagavan - impersonal Brahman effulgence, localized Supersoul, and the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 14:1914:19, 29 November 2022 diff hist +39,204 To acquire a degree at an academic university, we first have to establish a relationship with that institution. We have to abide by the direction of our instructors there and work favorably according to their direction No edit summary current
- 14:1814:18, 29 November 2022 diff hist +25,939 It is to be understood that one is to be considered educated in accordance with his vision of life and his activity in accordance with that vision, not by his academic degrees. This is the understanding of the word pandita from Bhagavad-gita No edit summary
- 14:1814:18, 29 November 2022 diff hist +3,239 Education does not mean having academic degrees only. One should execute what he has learned in his personal life No edit summary current
- 07:2407:24, 29 November 2022 diff hist +3,306 When Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu started His civil disobedience movement in defiance of the Kazi, Sridhara danced in jubilation. The Lord used to drink water from his water jug No edit summary current
- 07:2407:24, 29 November 2022 diff hist −2 The defiance is due to the transcendental position of the Lord's form, name, qualities, pastimes, and so on No edit summary current
- 07:2307:23, 29 November 2022 diff hist +2,381 That sacrifice performed in defiance of scriptural injunctions, in which no spiritual food is distributed, no hymns are chanted & no remunerations are made to the priests, & which is faithless-that sacrifice is of the nature of ignorance. BG 17.13 - 1972 No edit summary current
- 07:2307:23, 29 November 2022 diff hist +2,847 I am very glad that you are preaching steadily our Krishna Conscious philosophy and this should be done in defiance of all the atheistic propagandas which are so much current No edit summary current
- 07:2207:22, 29 November 2022 diff hist +4,434 Despite all our offenses and defiance of the desires of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Lord will give us immediate relief from all the hardships offered by material nature if we simply surrender unto Him No edit summary current
27 November 2022
- 06:0006:00, 27 November 2022 diff hist +9 The actual business of the sakhis is described in Ujjvala-nilamani - Sakhi-prakarana 88-91 No edit summary current
- 06:0006:00, 27 November 2022 diff hist +18,670 Then, after the weekend is spent in forgetfulness, he again changes his position and resumes his actual business activities. Material engagement means accepting a particular status for some time and then changing it No edit summary current
- 06:0006:00, 27 November 2022 diff hist +1,780 Our actual business is to become brahminical No edit summary current
- 05:5905:59, 27 November 2022 diff hist +4,337 After the weekend is spent in forgetfulness, he (a businessman) again changes his position and resumes his actual business activities No edit summary current
24 November 2022
- 15:5615:56, 24 November 2022 diff hist +22 Who is this mystic power, and where has she come from? Is she a demigod or a demoness? She must be the illusory energy of My (Balarama's) master, Lord Krsna, for who else can bewilder Me? - SB 10.13.37 No edit summary current
- 15:5515:55, 24 November 2022 diff hist +5,921 When Krsna was just a small baby the gigantic demoness Putana attempted to kill Him, but when He sucked her breast He pulled out her life. That is the difference between the real Godhead and a God manufactured in the mystic factory No edit summary current
- 15:5515:55, 24 November 2022 diff hist +1,533 O sinless Vidura, mountains discharged weapons of various kinds, and naked demonesses armed with tridents appeared with their hair hanging loose No edit summary current
- 15:5415:54, 24 November 2022 diff hist +12,744 Is it to be taken, the references say to Putana, is this to be taken... physically or spiritually as a demonic power or what?... Where, is it the demoness Putana takes Krsna and Krsna sucks her breast?... Should it be taken literally or allegorically? No edit summary current
- 14:2114:21, 24 November 2022 diff hist +1,759 I (Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami) have briefly described only some of the followers and devotees of Lord Nityananda Prabhu. Even the thousand-mouthed Sesa Naga cannot describe all of these unlimited devotees No edit summary current
- 14:1414:14, 24 November 2022 diff hist +1,901 Among the devotees of Lord Nityananda Prabhu, Pitambara was the sixty-fourth, Madhavacarya the sixty-fifth, Damodara dasa the sixty-sixth, Sankara the sixty-seventh, Mukunda the sixty-eighth, Jnana dasa the sixty-ninth and Manohara the seventieth No edit summary current
- 14:1314:13, 24 November 2022 diff hist +1,665 All these branches, the devotees of Lord Nityananda Prabhu, being full of ripened fruits of love of Krsna, distributed these fruits to all they met, flooding them with love of Krsna No edit summary current
- 14:1214:12, 24 November 2022 diff hist +1,828 The bodily hues of the devotees of Lord Nityananda, why green? But, it can be done, there is no harm No edit summary current
- 14:0914:09, 24 November 2022 diff hist +2,989 When Nityananda Prabhu was ordered to go to Bengal to preach, Sri Ramadasa and Gadadhara dasa were ordered to go with Him. Thus they are sometimes counted among the devotees of Lord Caitanya and sometimes among the devotees of Lord Nityananda No edit summary current
22 November 2022
- 11:3311:33, 22 November 2022 diff hist +3,876 What was possible for Dhruva Maharaja is possible for everyone. Anyone who very seriously engages in devotional service can obtain, in due course of time, the same perfection of the human form of life No edit summary current
- 11:3311:33, 22 November 2022 diff hist +5,811 Those who are serious about liberation are certainly nonenvious, and they respect all. Yet they reject the horrible and ghastly forms of the demigods and worship only the all-blissful forms of Lord Visnu and His plenary portions No edit summary current
- 11:3311:33, 22 November 2022 diff hist +3,953 The spiritual master is as good as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and therefore one who is very serious about spiritual advancement must regard the spiritual master in this way. Even a slight deviation from this understanding can create disaster No edit summary current
- 11:3211:32, 22 November 2022 diff hist +32 That is stated in the Caitanya-caritamrta, krsna yei bhaje sei bada catura: "One who takes to Krsna consciousness seriously and perfectly, he must be very, very intelligent." Dull brain cannot accept it No edit summary current
- 11:3211:32, 22 November 2022 diff hist +8,034 Revelation is there to fortunate person, one who is very seriously searching after God. God is within himself. He reveals. And the other process is that if you are searching after God, then you know it from the person who has already known God No edit summary current
- 11:3211:32, 22 November 2022 diff hist +7,339 One who is very serious to understand the science of God, for him a guru is required No edit summary current
- 11:2711:27, 22 November 2022 diff hist +3,814 One who is not seriously inclined to put questions before a spiritual master need not accommodate a show-bottle spiritual master No edit summary current
- 11:2711:27, 22 November 2022 diff hist +32 One who is actually serious about advancing in devotional service should desire only to satisfy the previous acaryas No edit summary current
- 11:2611:26, 22 November 2022 diff hist +4,783 If one takes seriously the lotus feet of Krsna, who is seated within one's heart, the God eradicates all ignorance. By the torch of knowledge, one immediately understands everything properly by the special mercy of the Supreme God & becomes self-realized No edit summary current
- 11:1411:14, 22 November 2022 diff hist +3,869 For one who very seriously practices devotional service during his lifetime in order to understand the constitutional position of the SP of God, liberation from this material world is guaranteed, even if he has previously been addicted to sinful habits No edit summary current
- 11:1411:14, 22 November 2022 diff hist +32 Anyone who takes to Krsna consciousness seriously is not an ordinary person; he must have taken to the same process in his previous life No edit summary current
- 11:1411:14, 22 November 2022 diff hist +6,239 Anyone who is earnestly serious in heart and soul about being in intimate touch with the Personality of Godhead in the relationship of transcendental loving service will always be infallible in words and action No edit summary current
- 10:0810:08, 22 November 2022 diff hist +3,574 Through the association of devotees, one develops Krsna consciousness, which is dormant within. This Krsna consciousness movement is giving this chance to everyone. We are giving shelter to everyone who is serious about progressing in Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 09:1009:10, 22 November 2022 diff hist +3,292 He (Lord Krsna) is also causelessly merciful, and He wants to bestow upon us this privilege of raga-bhakti. Thus He appeared by His own internal energy. He was not forced to appear by any extraneous force No edit summary current
- 09:0909:09, 22 November 2022 diff hist +3,859 When a devotee praises the glories of the Lord, the Lord is very satisfied, and He bestows His transcendental benediction upon the devotee without reservation because He is always causelessly merciful toward His devotee No edit summary current
- 09:0909:09, 22 November 2022 diff hist +3,330 The Supreme Lord (Krsna) is causelessly merciful upon His devotee, so much so that even the poorest of men can offer Him a little water and a flower in devotion and thus please Him. This is due to His affectionate dealings with His devotees No edit summary current
- 09:0709:07, 22 November 2022 diff hist +3,163 The Absolute Truth is the reservoir for all kinds of reciprocal exchanges of loving sentiments. He is also causelessly merciful No edit summary current
- 09:0609:06, 22 November 2022 diff hist +5,770 They can keep You under their control because You are causelessly merciful to devotees who desire no material profit from You. Indeed, You give Yourself to them, and because of this You also have full control over Your devotees No edit summary current