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19 January 2023

• 10:2410:24, 19 January 2023 diff hist +39,184 A tridandi-sannyasi carries three dandas, signifying kaya-mano-vakya-body, mind and words. All of these should be offered to Visnu, and then one can begin devotional service No edit summary current

18 January 2023

• 15:3815:38, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,489 The conditioned soul is sometimes illusioned and afraid. Sometimes he cries loudly out of fear. Sometimes he is happy maintaining his family, and sometimes he is overjoyed and sings melodiously No edit summary current
• 15:0815:08, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,046 I will advise you to chant on your lips since you become tired chanting out loud. Also you can sit and hear your Godbrothers chanting. And you can also hear tapes No edit summary current
• 15:0315:03, 18 January 2023 diff hist +8,021 His (person who is full KC) heart becomes slackened while chanting the holy name, he becomes almost like a madman, and he does not care for any outward social conventions. Thus sometimes he laughs, sometimes he weeps, sometimes he cries out very loudly No edit summary current
• 14:1214:12, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,714 The absolute happiness or the perpetual happiness or the greatest happiness is that which is enjoyed by supernatural senses No edit summary current
• 13:5613:56, 18 January 2023 diff hist +15,543 You have got a tendency for sex life, take for example. This is your tendency. But if you can check it, that is your success No edit summary current
• 13:5413:54, 18 January 2023 diff hist +10 You have already mentioned the exemplary character of Lord Jesus Christ that he sacrificed everything for God. This example should be taken. The process should be to follow the example, not to imitate the exact activities No edit summary current
• 13:4313:43, 18 January 2023 diff hist +5,492 You cannot change your destiny. Now, take for example, there are so many agricultural improvement. Does it mean that there is no person who is needy? There are so many needy person. But has the agricultural education improved their lot? No No edit summary current
• 13:3813:38, 18 January 2023 diff hist +9,244 You cannot avoid the natural occurrence of various social divisions. Nature's caste system will remain. Take, for example, the brahminical quality of truthfulness. All over the world, wherever you go, you'll find at least one person who is truthful No edit summary current
• 12:2612:26, 18 January 2023 diff hist −11 We are Krsna conscious. Now take any religion and take their highest conclusion - it is there in Krsna consciousness. Take for example Buddhism. They say nonviolence. Oh, we are nonviolent. Christianism, love of God No edit summary current
• 11:4911:49, 18 January 2023 diff hist −11 The modern people, they do not know. They do not know it that material condition cannot be changed. Take, for example, the pig. His body is meant for eating stool. So you cannot induce him to eat halava. That cannot be. He'll not accept it No edit summary current
• 11:4411:44, 18 January 2023 diff hist +6,075 Take the example of a dead man. The senses, the hands, the nose, the sense organs, and everything is there, but now he cannot enjoy. The dead body, it cannot enjoy. Why? This requires intelligence No edit summary current
• 11:4111:41, 18 January 2023 diff hist +5,418 Take that example of the habit, if someone is smoking out of habit. So again. So is he free in that smoking, or is it..., has he completely surrendered his freedom? No edit summary current
• 11:3911:39, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,756 Take for example Buddhism. They say nonviolence. Oh, we (persons in Krsna consciousness) are nonviolent No edit summary current
• 11:3711:37, 18 January 2023 diff hist −15 Take for example, buddhi. Buddhi means intelligence. And what is that intelligence? Real intelligence? Real intelligence is, to know, to understand that, "Krsna is the Supreme, and I am part and parcel." No edit summary current
• 11:2811:28, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,309 Our acharya Bhaktivinode Thakura was the perfect householder and we should take his example. How nice a householder he was and how nice children he produced; one of them is my Guru Maharaja. That is the example No edit summary current
• 11:2511:25, 18 January 2023 diff hist +28 No one can manufacture anything. Take, for example eatables for the nonvegetarians, like meats, etc., none of which can be manufactured by men. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 11:2311:23, 18 January 2023 diff hist +28 No one can manufacture anything. Take, for example, all the eatables of human society. These eatables include grains, fruits, vegetables, milk, sugar, etc., for the persons in the mode of goodness. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 11:1111:11, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,827 Krsna said, "My dear gopi friends, you may know from Me that it is My energies only which are acting everywhere. Take, for example, an earthen pot. It is nothing but a combination of earth, water, air, fire and sky" No edit summary current
• 11:0611:06, 18 January 2023 diff hist +6,403 Isvara means controller or the powerful man who controls. Take for example the president or the king. So there are many isvaras, or controllers. You are also isvara; I am also isvara No edit summary current
• 11:0411:04, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,764 If we follow the Krsna conscious path... Now, take for example our wedding ceremonies. Now, the first thing that we take, the Ganapati, there is Ganasyainava, and there is various other deities that we have to respect. Now, what happens in his case? No edit summary current
• 10:5810:58, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,098 From the earth, many varieties of manifestations take place. Take, for example, a big skyscraper manifested from the earth. When it is dismantled, the manifestation becomes again unmanifested and remains as atoms in the ultimate stage. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 10:3410:34, 18 January 2023 diff hist −11 Any scripture of any country, not only of this BG, but any scripture, they are aiming simply how to get us back to Godhead. That is the purpose. take for example any of the great religious reformer or acaryas of any country, like, Jesus or Buddha No edit summary current
• 10:2310:23, 18 January 2023 diff hist +6,472 Good, or piety, that is God's frontage, and evil means God's back side. So taking this example, the chest or the back of my body, they are equal No edit summary current
• 10:0810:08, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,652 When the artificially dressed personality of Kali saw that to fight Maharaja Pariksit was beyond his ability, he bowed down his head like a subordinate and gave up his royal dress No edit summary current
• 10:0610:06, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,182 The royal dress of the personality of Kali is artificial No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,598 The royal dress is suitable for a king or ksatriya, but when a lower-class man artificially dresses himself as a king, his real identity is disclosed by the challenge of a bona fide ksatriya like Maharaja Pariksit No edit summary
• 09:5809:58, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,447 The elected show-bottle executive head, as representative of a degraded public, cannot be equal with a strong king like Maharaja Pariksit. The dress or style of royal order does not count. It is one's actions which are counted No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,033 She thought of Him in the calm and quiet atmosphere of Vrndavana, dressed as a cowherd boy. But at Kuruksetra He was in a royal dress and was accompanied by elephants, horses and crowds of men. Thus the atmosphere was not congenial for Their meeting No edit summary current

17 January 2023

• 16:0516:05, 17 January 2023 diff hist +2,051 Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya suggested, "On that Ratha-yatra festival day, after dancing before the Lord, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu will enter the Gundica garden. At that time you (King Prataparudra) should go there alone, without your royal dress" No edit summary current
• 16:0316:03, 17 January 2023 diff hist +1,778 On that Ratha-yatra festival day, after dancing before the Lord, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu will enter the Gundica garden. At that time you should go there alone, without your royal dress No edit summary current
• 16:0116:01, 17 January 2023 diff hist −13 Maharaja Yudhisthira to become spiritually pure, at once gave up his royal opulence, relinquishing his royal dress and garments No edit summary current
• 15:5915:59, 17 January 2023 diff hist +1,857 Here at Kuruksetra You are dressed like a royal prince, accompanied by great warriors, but in Vrndavana You appeared just like an ordinary cowherd boy, accompanied only by Your beautiful flute No edit summary current
• 15:5715:57, 17 January 2023 diff hist +2,418 Following Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya's instructions, the King had given up his royal dress. He now entered the garden in the dress of a Vaisnava No edit summary current
• 15:5515:55, 17 January 2023 diff hist +25 Being village girls, they (the gopis) were not very much attracted to the field of Kuruksetra, where Krsna was present with elephants, horses and royal dress. Indeed, they did not very much appreciate Krsna in that atmosphere No edit summary current
• 15:2015:20, 17 January 2023 diff hist +2,949 Where is this consciousness of surrender come in human life? At what stage it can come? No edit summary current
• 15:1615:16, 17 January 2023 diff hist −14 When our consciousness is actually in the clear stage, we can understand our particular relationship with Krsna No edit summary current
• 14:5514:55, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,518 The highest stage of spiritual consciousness is Krsna consciousness. KC means, "I am Krsna's," that's all. Krsna says, "All these living entities, they are My part and parcel." So you have to understand this relationship with Krsna, that you are Krsna's No edit summary
• 14:4814:48, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,820 Suppose you are sleeping, and if I vibrate some sound, you can hear and can wake up. No other method will act. Similarly, at the present moment it is our sleeping stage. Therefore this transcendental vibration will awaken to spiritual consciousness No edit summary current
• 14:3014:30, 17 January 2023 diff hist −10 One should execute his spiritual activities in the svarupa-gata stage of consciousness. He should also chant such spiritual mantras as om namo bhagavate vasudevaya and the cin-mayi Gayatri No edit summary current
• 14:1314:13, 17 January 2023 diff hist +7,137 In the phenomenal manifestation there are three stages: the stage of consciousness, the stage of semiconsciousness in dreaming, and the stage of unconsciousness. But Your (Krsna's) Lordship is transcendental to all these material stages of existence No edit summary current
• 14:0414:04, 17 January 2023 diff hist +7,967 In the beginning of life, every living entity is food conscious. A child or an animal is satisfied only by getting nice food. This stage of consciousness, in which the goal is to eat sumptuously, is called anna-maya No edit summary current
• 14:0014:00, 17 January 2023 diff hist +9 If we act on the level of consciousness, then we can overcome the fruitive result of good work or bad work. It is a transcendental stage No edit summary current
• 13:5213:52, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,432 First the soul has covered consciousness, then he reaches the stage of budding consciousness, then blossoming consciousness, and finally fully blossomed consciousness No edit summary current
• 13:4313:43, 17 January 2023 diff hist +3,693 Different living beings are situated in different consciousness, Some are satisfied in the matter of eating and sleeping, they are on the annamoya stage No edit summary current
• 13:3213:32, 17 January 2023 diff hist +13,800 Bhakti means the activities of the liberated stage. That is not material things. So this Krsna consciousness movement is little difficult to understand because these activities are for the persons who have already attained moksa No edit summary current
• 13:2313:23, 17 January 2023 diff hist −13 A child or an animal is satisfied only by getting nice food. This stage of consciousness, in which the goal is to eat sumptuously, is called anna-maya No edit summary current
• 12:1612:16, 17 January 2023 diff hist +8,010 After this stage (prana-maya), when one is situated on the mental platform, his consciousness is called mano-maya No edit summary current
• 11:5811:58, 17 January 2023 diff hist −1 One should directly approach Krsna, for that will save time and energy. For example, if there is a possibility of going to the top of a building by the help of an elevator, why should one go by the staircase, step by step? BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 11:4011:40, 17 January 2023 diff hist +38 The word parama-kalyana is significant because Krsna, in any of His incarnations, appears in order to protect the sadhus (paritranaya sadhunam) - BG 4.8 No edit summary current