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11 February 2023

• 15:2315:23, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,380 In the Caitanya-caritamrta the pure devotee is called niskama, which means he has no desire for self-interest. Perfect peace belongs to him alone, not to them who strive for personal gain. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 15:0515:05, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,963 However, even though a person is born in a family of dog-eaters, he is very dear to Me if he is a pure devotee who has no motive to enjoy fruitive activity or mental speculation No edit summary current
• 14:5714:57, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,714 He (a pure devotee) has no desire for material enjoyment because he knows that every living entity is the fragmental part and parcel of the Supreme Lord and therefore eternally a servant. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 14:4114:41, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,151 Everyone is working to get some result. That is called fruitive activities. So a pure devotee has no such desires No edit summary current
• 14:1314:13, 11 February 2023 diff hist +2,484 Even though a person is born in a family of dog-eaters, he is very dear to Me if he is a pure devotee who has no motive to enjoy fruitive activities or mental speculation No edit summary current
• 14:0114:01, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,502 Even before death, a pure devotee has no material affection, due to his body's being spiritualized like a red-hot iron in contact with fire No edit summary current
• 13:5113:51, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,182 A pure devotee of the Lord never thinks of himself as the proprietor of his home. He surrenders everything unto the supreme control of the Lord, and thus he has no fear for maintaining his family or protecting the interests of his family No edit summary current
• 13:4613:46, 11 February 2023 diff hist +42 A pure devotee like Uddhava has no material afflictions because he engages constantly in the transcendental loving service of the Lord No edit summary current
• 13:4413:44, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,442 A pure devotee is niskincana; he has no material desire to enjoy the material world. One has to take shelter of such a pure devotee in order to attain his qualities No edit summary current
• 13:3813:38, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,124 A pure devotee actually has no problems for himself; wherever he is he can read books like Krsna Books and chant Hare Krsna, get some prasadam and always think of Krsna No edit summary current
• 13:3313:33, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,151 A pure devotee has no way of sensing happiness except by seeing that Krsna is happy in every respect. If Krsna becomes happy by giving him distress, such a devotee accepts that unhappiness as the greatest of all happiness No edit summary current
• 13:2813:28, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,579 A pure devotee has no plans other than those for the Lord’s service. He is not interested in attaining success in mundane activities No edit summary current
• 13:2713:27, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,730 A pure devotee has no interest but to act on behalf of the Supreme Lord. When one has even a tinge of personal interest, his devotion is mixed with the three modes of material nature No edit summary current
• 13:2513:25, 11 February 2023 diff hist +12,671 A pure devotee has no demand from the Lord. His only concern is to serve the Lord sincerely and seriously, and he is not at all concerned about what will happen in the future No edit summary current
• 13:2213:22, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,176 A pure devotee has nothing to do with mundane religiosity, economic development, sense gratification, or salvation, nor is he concerned whether his standard of material existence is the highest or the lowest. To him, heaven and hell are of equal value No edit summary current
• 13:1713:17, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,750 A pure devotee engaged in the service of Lord Krsna has no desire for his personal sense gratification, and thus he never accepts anything for that purpose No edit summary current
• 12:0012:00, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,299 Although the pure devotee does not follow all the regulative principles of varnasrama, he worships the lotus feet of Krsna. Therefore he naturally has no tendency to commit sin No edit summary current
• 11:5311:53, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,319 After being baffled in his material enjoyment, the impersonalist may desire to merge into the existence of the Lord, but a pure devotee of the Lord has no such desire. Therefore a pure devotee is really bhagavad-dharmi No edit summary current
• 11:0511:05, 11 February 2023 diff hist +2,476 Unless one comes to the platform of actual experience, one cannot realize what is pain and what is happiness in this material world No edit summary current
• 11:0311:03, 11 February 2023 diff hist +8 Under the circumstances, they must come down to realize happiness in these varieties of material world. Because they found it better happiness by taking in politics and on political movements or opening school, hospitals No edit summary current
• 10:5410:54, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,385 The yoga system which relates to the Lord and the individual soul, which is meant for the ultimate benefit of the living entity, and which causes detachment from all happiness and distress in the material world, is the highest yoga system No edit summary current
• 10:3010:30, 11 February 2023 diff hist −15 The sage Rsabhadeva told his sons that once they purified their existence they would have unlimited happiness. We are all intended to attain peace and happiness, but whatever peace and happiness we find in this material world is limited No edit summary
• 10:1410:14, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,010 The happiness and distress of the material world of duality are both mistaken ideas No edit summary current
• 10:0910:09, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,272 The conditioned soul is always engaged in laying out plans for happiness within the material world, even up to the end of the universal limit No edit summary current
• 09:2709:27, 11 February 2023 diff hist +2,657 They (conditioned souls) are continuously making plans to live here (material world) peacefully and happily. Such is the material world No edit summary current
• 09:2409:24, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,364 These fools (who make elaborate political, social and cultural plans) are trying to turn the material world into sukhalayam, a place of happiness, not knowing how everything acts by the arrangement of material nature, which works in her own way No edit summary current

10 February 2023

• 15:0215:02, 10 February 2023 diff hist +3,255 Of course, one may say that he is not disturbed by material happiness, but he does not know that just after one enjoys so-called material happiness, material distress will follow. This is the law of the material world No edit summary current
• 14:4714:47, 10 February 2023 diff hist +13,961 Material enjoyment includes activities such as great sacrifices for auspicious activity, charity, austerity, elevation to the higher planetary system, and even living happily within the material world No edit summary current
• 14:0714:07, 10 February 2023 diff hist +8 Krsna has advised that this material happiness and distress, they are on account of this body. They come and go. They do not stay. So long we are in this material world, this happiness and distress will come and go No edit summary current
• 14:0514:05, 10 February 2023 diff hist +3,317 Just as a deer, because of ignorance, cannot see the water within a well covered by grass, but runs after water elsewhere, the living entity covered by the material body doesn't see the happiness within himself, but runs after happiness in material world No edit summary current
• 13:4913:49, 10 February 2023 diff hist +6,111 In the material world people do not know what real happiness is. Sukham atyantikam yat tad buddhi-grahyam atindriyam (BG 6.21). Real happiness must be appreciated by one's transcendental senses No edit summary current
• 13:4613:46, 10 February 2023 diff hist +8,446 In the material world happiness means No edit summary current
• 13:4413:44, 10 February 2023 diff hist +4,022 In the material world even Brahma, the highest created being, seeks the favor of Laksmi for happiness No edit summary current
• 10:4510:45, 10 February 2023 diff hist +2,966 In the material world, in any form of life, there is some so-called happiness and so-called distress. No one invites distress in order to suffer, but still it comes No edit summary current
• 10:2910:29, 10 February 2023 diff hist +6,264 Illusory material world happiness means No edit summary current
• 10:1810:18, 10 February 2023 diff hist +7,174 Here in the material world whatever we consider happiness, that is limited No edit summary current

9 February 2023

• 15:4215:42, 9 February 2023 diff hist +6,113 Even old man, eighty years old, he is also going to the club. Because in the material world the happiness means wine and women. That's all No edit summary current
• 15:3815:38, 9 February 2023 diff hist +3,051 Deluded by ignorance, the living entity wanders in the forest of this material world, enjoying the happiness and distress resulting from his past deeds, everywhere and at all times. (Therefore, neither you nor I am to be blamed for this incident) No edit summary current
• 15:0415:04, 9 February 2023 diff hist +7,477 Both the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the jivas enter into this material world. The Paramatma, or Supreme Personality of Godhead, is worshipable because He has arranged for the happiness of the living entity in the material world No edit summary current
• 14:5814:58, 9 February 2023 diff hist +2,668 Before giving up this present body, if one is able to tolerate the urges of the material senses and check the force of desire and anger, he is well situated and is happy in this world No edit summary current
• 14:5614:56, 9 February 2023 diff hist +2,581 Before giving up this present body, if one is able to tolerate the urges of the material senses and check the force of desire and anger, he is a yogi and is happy in this world. BG 5.23 - 1972 No edit summary current
• 14:5114:51, 9 February 2023 diff hist +5,003 Because the devotee knows Vasudeva, he knows everything within the creation of Vasudeva (vasudevah sarvam iti sa mahatma sudurlabhah). Such a devotee does not give much value to the highest standard of happiness within this material world No edit summary current
• 14:4714:47, 9 February 2023 diff hist +7,533 Because it is the material world, no one can enjoy any kind of happiness without inebriety. Material enjoyment means inebriety, whereas spiritual enjoyment means pure enjoyment under the protection of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 14:4414:44, 9 February 2023 diff hist +4,143 A person who is overly affected materially may take advantage of this movement and become intimately associated with it. In this way the confused and frustrated inhabitants of this material world may find the highest happiness in association with devotees No edit summary current
• 12:1312:13, 9 February 2023 diff hist +46 A devotee accepts the distress of this material world as happiness only due to the causeless mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary current
• 12:0712:07, 9 February 2023 diff hist +4,417 As one mistakenly considers a flower garland to be a snake or experiences happiness & distress in a dream, so, in the material world, by a lack of careful consideration, we differentiate between happiness & distress, considering one good & the other bad No edit summary current
• 12:0512:05, 9 February 2023 diff hist +8 As for Prahlada Maharaja, he was not at all unhappy, for although he was in the material world, he was full of Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
• 12:0312:03, 9 February 2023 diff hist +6,545 An intelligent devotee, instead of being entangled by the happiness of this material world in the form of a beautiful wife, material opulence and children, desires to be immediately transferred back home, back to Godhead No edit summary current
• 11:4211:42, 9 February 2023 diff hist +4,608 Although the material world is only a shadow of the spiritual world, the materially encaged living entities seek spiritual happiness here in a form perverted by materialistic attachment No edit summary current
• 11:0811:08, 9 February 2023 diff hist +4,538 Although qualitatively one with the Lord, the living being, due to contamination of the material world, is pervertedly manifested, he experiences so-called happiness and distress in the material world No edit summary current