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20 May 2023

• 14:4514:45, 20 May 2023 diff hist +3,850 In a case where the wife and children are disobedient and do not follow the principles of home life, they are sometimes given up. But in the case of Dhruva Maharaja this was not applicable because Dhruva was very mannerly and obedient No edit summary current

19 May 2023

• 15:4315:43, 19 May 2023 diff hist +13,160 You produce your sons, children. Why? To remain in household life, enjoy in the company of wife, children, friends No edit summary current
• 15:2015:20, 19 May 2023 diff hist +12,394 Lord Caitanya prayed, My Lord, I do not want any amount of material wealth, I do not want any number of materialistic followers, nor do I want any attractive wife to enjoy. The only thing I want is that I may engage life after life in Your service No edit summary current
• 15:1915:19, 19 May 2023 diff hist +14,148 In the material world we see that during the evening a man tries to enjoy life with his wife, children and friends. Therefore he takes on so many responsibilities No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 19 May 2023 diff hist +14 In the home the karmi's sole source of enjoyment is his wife, who cooks for him and provides pleasure for his misery-ridden senses No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 19 May 2023 diff hist +4,848 In household affairs the first attraction is the beautiful and pleasing wife, who increases household attraction more and more. One enjoys his wife with two prominent sense organs, namely the tongue and the genitals No edit summary current
• 15:1715:17, 19 May 2023 diff hist +7,557 Husband is understood as the enjoyer and the wife is considered as the enjoyed. But if the wife satisfies the senses of the husband, her senses are also satisfied No edit summary current
• 15:1715:17, 19 May 2023 diff hist +5,724 He (Priyavrata) gave up everything, including his wife, with whom he had enjoyed so much sense gratification, and his great and opulent kingdom, and he completely renounced all attachment No edit summary current
• 15:1715:17, 19 May 2023 diff hist +4,368 Forgetting the duty of human life, the foolish man simply remains in the company of his wife and enjoys her in a secluded place. Such a condition is called apakrsta-cetana, or degraded consciousness No edit summary current
• 15:1715:17, 19 May 2023 diff hist +6,423 Especially in this age of Kali, there are no garbhadhana ceremonies; everyone enjoys sex with his wife like a cat or dog No edit summary current
• 15:1615:16, 19 May 2023 diff hist +6,059 Actually, householders work very hard day and night, but all fatigue of the day's labor is minimized as soon as they meet, husband and wife together, and enjoy life in many ways No edit summary current
• 15:0915:09, 19 May 2023 diff hist +3,373 When the wife is accepted as a sense gratificatory agency, personal beauty is the main consideration, and as soon as there is a break in personal sense gratification, there is disruption or divorce No edit summary
• 15:0915:09, 19 May 2023 diff hist +2,054 When the King refused to accept his wife and son, who were both irreproachable, an unembodied voice spoke from the sky as an omen and was heard by everyone present No edit summary current
• 15:0715:07, 19 May 2023 diff hist +3,300 When King Yayati delivered Devayani from the well, she felt great relief and requested Yayati to accept her as his wife No edit summary current
• 15:0715:07, 19 May 2023 diff hist +3,429 When Bhisma refused to marry Amba, who wanted him to become her husband, Amba met Parasurama & by her request only, he asked Bhismadeva to accept her as his wife. Bhisma refused to obey his order, although he was one of the spiritual masters of Bhismadeva No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 19 May 2023 diff hist +3,613 We say that there is necessity of a putra, or a son; therefore to have a son, a wife is necessary. Therefore wife is accepted. This is a plan No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 19 May 2023 diff hist +2,525 Upon hearing the omen, Maharaja Dusmanta accepted his wife and child No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 19 May 2023 diff hist +10 The word kalatra means wife, and adi means beginning. Because a man feels alone, he accepts a wife, and immediately there are children and then grandchildren. In this way there is expansion No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 19 May 2023 diff hist +2,872 The wife is the cause of all kinds of success in religion, economic development, sense gratification and ultimately salvation. When one accepts a wife, it is to be understood that he is being helped in his progressive march toward liberation No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 19 May 2023 diff hist +3,635 There are other kinds of marriage, such as gandharva marriage and marriage by love, which are also accepted as marriage. Even if one is forcibly kidnapped and later on accepted as a wife, that is also accepted No edit summary current
• 15:0015:00, 19 May 2023 diff hist +1,434 O My dear son Daksa, Prajapati Pancajana has a daughter named Asikni, whom I offer to you so that you may accept her as your wife No edit summary current
• 15:0015:00, 19 May 2023 diff hist +1,558 O My (Visnu's) dear son Daksa, Prajapati Pancajana has a daughter named Asikni, whom I offer to you so that you may accept her as your wife No edit summary current
• 15:0015:00, 19 May 2023 diff hist +9,540 Neither wife should be accepted as a machine for satisfying our lust. The marriage tie should be taken as very sacred. One who marries for subduing lust is mistaken. Because lust cannot be satisfied simply by indulging in sense gratification No edit summary current
• 15:0015:00, 19 May 2023 diff hist +3,366 Lord Ramacandra took a vow to accept only one wife and have no connection with any other women No edit summary current
• 14:5914:59, 19 May 2023 diff hist +8,659 It is said that the intelligent man should pick up nectar from a stock of poison, should accept gold even from a filthy place, should accept a good and qualified wife even from an obscure family No edit summary current
• 14:5914:59, 19 May 2023 diff hist +2,851 It is natural that one should accept the wife selected by one's father, just as a son accepts the name given by the father or as he accepts the property offered by the father. That is the general course in increasing the population of the world No edit summary current
• 14:5414:54, 19 May 2023 diff hist +4,289 If the women outnumber the men, some men can accept more than one wife. In that way there will be no prostitution in society. If men can marry more than one wife, illicit sex life will be stopped No edit summary current
• 14:5314:53, 19 May 2023 diff hist +13,928 He has created us for enjoyment. Anandamayo 'bhyasat (Vedanta-sutra 1.1.12). He has created us in the same way a gentleman accepts a wife No edit summary current
• 14:5314:53, 19 May 2023 diff hist +3,434 Even Lord Ramacandra's father accepted more wives than one. But Lord Ramacandra, as an ideal king, accepted only one wife, mother Sita No edit summary current
• 14:5214:52, 19 May 2023 diff hist +3,200 Eka-patni-vrata, accepting only one wife, was the glorious example set by Lord Ramacandra. One should not accept more than one wife. In those days, of course, people did marry more than one wife No edit summary current
• 08:1808:18, 19 May 2023 diff hist +4,249 A person who does not have a chaste wife accepted by religious principles always has a bewildered intelligence No edit summary current
• 08:1308:13, 19 May 2023 diff hist +6,534 To teach a lesson on sex life to devotees and to human society in general, Lord Sri Ramacandra, although the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, underwent a series of tribulations because He accepted a wife, mother Sita No edit summary current
• 08:1208:12, 19 May 2023 diff hist +4,873 Since Maharaja Priyavrata was fully trained in transcendental knowledge, he could have returned home and conducted the business of government as a brahmacari. Instead, however, when he returned to household life, he accepted a wife also No edit summary current
• 08:1108:11, 19 May 2023 diff hist +3,534 The purpose of accepting a wife in religious marriage, as sanctioned in the Vedas, is to have a putra, a son qualified to deliver his father from the darkest region of hellish life No edit summary current
• 08:1108:11, 19 May 2023 diff hist +3,887 These principles (lifting the semen up to the brain instead of allowing them to be driven downwards, not living at home neither accepting a wife) were followed from the beginning of creation, and such brahmacaris never created progeny No edit summary current
• 08:1008:10, 19 May 2023 diff hist +5,091 Some of the brahmacaris are allowed to remain naisthika-brahmacari, without going home and accepting a wife No edit summary current
• 08:1008:10, 19 May 2023 diff hist +4,593 Priyavrata Maharaja had taken a vow of renunciation, but accepting a wife and begetting children have nothing to do with the path of renunciation; these are activities on the path of enjoyment No edit summary current
• 08:1008:10, 19 May 2023 diff hist +3,753 They (the brahmacaris) did not live at home means that they did not accept a wife, and so there was no question of their discharging semen No edit summary current
• 08:0908:09, 19 May 2023 diff hist −8 One who has married, he's thinking, "Why did I marry? I would have remained free." He's lamenting. And who is not married, - Oh, I did not accept a wife. I would have been happy No edit summary current
• 08:0908:09, 19 May 2023 diff hist +3,778 One has to accept a wife because a wife will produce children, and the children in their turn will offer foodstuffs and funeral ceremonies so that the forefathers, wherever they may live, will be made happy No edit summary current
• 08:0908:09, 19 May 2023 diff hist −8 Of the six sons of Advaita Acarya, three, Acyutananda, Krsna Misra and Gopala dasa, lived faithfully in the service of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Since Acyutananda did not accept a wife, he had no issue No edit summary current
• 08:0908:09, 19 May 2023 diff hist +5,792 In the next part of life (after Brahmacarya), one may accept a wife and beget children, but one should not beget children like cats and dogs No edit summary current
• 08:0908:09, 19 May 2023 diff hist −8 For a grhamedhi, to accept a wife means to satisfy the senses, but for a grhastha a qualified wife is an assistant in every respect for advancement in spiritual activities No edit summary current
• 08:0908:09, 19 May 2023 diff hist +4,249 At a certain stage, say between 20-25 years, one may accept a wife, live with her to the maximum age of 50 years, and then there should be no more sex relationship - stringently No edit summary current
• 08:0908:09, 19 May 2023 diff hist +3,776 According to the Vedic system, a gift is offered to the spiritual master, which is called guru-daksina. Then the disciple should take to householder life and accept a wife according to religious rites No edit summary current
• 08:0908:09, 19 May 2023 diff hist +2,637 According to the Vedic injunctions, one must accept a wife just to beget a son who can deliver one from the clutches of Yamaraja. Unless one has a son to offer oblations to the pitas, or forefathers, one must suffer in Yamaraja's kingdom No edit summary current

18 May 2023

• 13:2413:24, 18 May 2023 diff hist +2,350 When the strong knot in the heart of a person implicated in material life due to the results of past action is slackened, one turns away from his attachment to home, wife and children No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 18 May 2023 diff hist +8,705 When one understands the futility of the materialistic way of life, one becomes advanced in knowledge, and therefore he situates himself in the vanaprastha order, unattached to family, wife and children No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 18 May 2023 diff hist +3,218 Those who are interested in spiritual life should not be attached to homely comforts in the company of wife, children, friends and so forth No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 18 May 2023 diff hist +4,756 The word samsara refers to attachment for one's body, home, husband or wife, and children No edit summary current