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12:1112:11, 19 July 2023 diff hist +2,394 In the creation, maintenance and dissolution of the cosmic manifestation, the three deities Brahma, Visnu and Mahesvara, or Siva, are respectively in charge No edit summary current
12:1112:11, 19 July 2023 diff hist +2,820 In the Skanda Purana there is this description: upayanam daduh sarve vina devan hiranyakah. Hiranyakasipu was so powerful that everyone but the three principal demigods - namely Lord Brahma, Lord Siva and Lord Visnu - engaged in his service No edit summary current
12:1112:11, 19 July 2023 diff hist +5,314 In the Sruti-mantra it is said that only Visnu, the Supreme Lord, existed before the creation, and there was no Brahma, Siva or other demigods No edit summary current

11:3411:34, 17 July 2023 diff hist +5,358 Brahma and Siva, although almost as greatly powerful as Visnu, are within the control of the material energy of the Supreme Lord. The conception of many gods controlling the many departments of material nature is ill conceived of by the foolish pantheist No edit summary current
11:3411:34, 17 July 2023 diff hist +23,104 Brahma and Lord Siva are obedient servants of the Supreme Lord, and the Supreme Lord as Visnu is an expansion of Krsna No edit summary current
11:3311:33, 17 July 2023 diff hist −21 Brahma, Visnu and Mahadeva (Siva) are different incarnations of the different modes of material nature. Visnu is the Lord of the mode of goodness. Brahma is the lord of the mode of passion, and Siva is the lord of the mode of ignorance No edit summary current
11:3311:33, 17 July 2023 diff hist +5,108 Brahma, Siva or any other powerful god can never be equal to the Supreme Lord Visnu No edit summary current
11:3311:33, 17 July 2023 diff hist +6,455 Beginning from 1) the name Brahmaji, the first living creature within the universe, down to Lord Siva, Lord Visnu, Narada and other powerful demigods (..) may appear to be the Supreme Lord, but factually none of them is the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
11:3211:32, 17 July 2023 diff hist +2,556 As stated in the Caitanya caritamrta (CC Adi 5.14), ekale isvara krsna: the only Supreme Lord is Visnu. Ara saba bhrtya: all others are His servants. Lord Brahma, Lord Siva and other demigods are all servants No edit summary current
11:3211:32, 17 July 2023 diff hist +2,890 As soon as Lord Visnu was visible, all the demigods - Lord Brahma and Lord Siva, the Gandharvas and all present there - immediately offered their respectful obeisances by falling down straight before Him No edit summary current
11:3211:32, 17 July 2023 diff hist +3,826 As far as this material world is concerned, Lord Brahma, Lord Visnu and Lord Siva are all emanations from Krsna. These three incarnations of Krsna are called guna-avataras No edit summary current
11:3211:32, 17 July 2023 diff hist +23,065 As far as the guna-avataras, or qualitative incarnations of Visnu, are concerned, they are three - Brahma, Visnu and Siva No edit summary current
11:3211:32, 17 July 2023 diff hist +2,740 Any sacrifice without the presence of Lord Siva is baffled." Lord Visnu is Yajnesvara, the Supreme Personality in the matter of sacrifice, yet in each yajna it is necessary for all the demigods, headed by Lord Brahma and Lord Siva, to be present No edit summary current
11:2811:28, 17 July 2023 diff hist +7,909 After testing Lord Brahma, Lord Siva and Lord Visnu, Bhrgu Muni returned to the assembly of great sages on the bank of the river Sarasvati and described his experience No edit summary current
11:2811:28, 17 July 2023 diff hist +36 After describing the universal form of the Lord, Lord Brahma explained that his position and Lord Siva’s position are controlled by Lord Visnu No edit summary current
11:2811:28, 17 July 2023 diff hist +2,590 According to Srila Jiva Gosvami, the fire of pranayama is mental satisfaction. That fire was perceived by the Supersoul, Visnu, and thereby Lord Brahma and Siva also perceived it No edit summary current
11:2811:28, 17 July 2023 diff hist +3,110 Above all, the Satyaloka planetary system, where the chief directors of the modes of material nature reside, namely Visnu, Brahma and Siva. This Visnu is known as the Ksirodakasayi Visnu, and He acts as the Supersoul in every living being No edit summary current
11:2811:28, 17 July 2023 diff hist +5,899 Anasuya, the wife of Atri Muni, gave birth to three very famous sons - Soma, Dattatreya and Durvasa - who were partial representations of Lord Visnu, Lord Siva and Lord Brahma No edit summary current
11:2711:27, 17 July 2023 diff hist +3,744 Although they are incarnations of the Lord, Lord Brahma and Lord Siva worship Lord Visnu, and thus they are also counted amongst the demigods and not as the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
11:2711:27, 17 July 2023 diff hist +7,411 Although Lord Visnu, Siva & Brahma are always ready to help the demigods, headed by Indra, we have no reason to be afraid of them. As far as Visnu is concerned, He has already hidden Himself within the hearts of all living entities, He cannot come out No edit summary current
11:2711:27, 17 July 2023 diff hist +2,935 Although he was abominable, all but the three principal demigods - Lord Brahma, Lord Siva and Lord Visnu - personally worshiped him to please him by bringing him various presentations because he had powerfully executed great austerities in mystic yoga No edit summary current
11:2711:27, 17 July 2023 diff hist +5,541 Although Brahma and Siva are greatly elevated and are almost on the level of Visnu, it is not possible for such incarnations of rajo-guna (passion) and tamo-guna (ignorance) to release the conditioned soul from the clutches of maya. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
11:2711:27, 17 July 2023 diff hist +3,770 Although Daksa felt defeated, he knew that his punishment was simply the great mercy of Lord Siva. He remembered that Lord Siva and Lord Visnu are never neglectful of the brahmanas, even though the brahmanas are sometimes unqualified No edit summary current
11:2611:26, 17 July 2023 diff hist +3,837 All three of these deities (Visnu, Brahma, Siva) are incarnations of the Supreme Lord Krsna because He is the original Supreme Personality of Godhead. The demigods directly refer to the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord and not to the different incarnations No edit summary current
11:2611:26, 17 July 2023 diff hist +3,573 All three, namely Brahma, Visnu and Siva, are incarnations of the Garbhodakasayi Visnu No edit summary current
11:2611:26, 17 July 2023 diff hist +2,518 All the demigods are called tri-pistapa, and the same word tri applies to Lord Brahma, Lord Siva and Lord Visnu No edit summary current

08:5408:54, 12 July 2023 diff hist +4,456 Since He (Lord Krsna) is full in Himself, what can we offer Him? Everything is produced by Him. We simply offer to show our love and gratitude to the Lord No edit summary current
08:5408:54, 12 July 2023 diff hist +4,375 One should not misunderstand that because everything is Krsna, Krsna has no personal identity. Krsna is so full that in spite of keeping Himself separate from everything by His energy, He is everything No edit summary
08:5408:54, 12 July 2023 diff hist +6,507 Krsna is not beggar. Krsna can create millions of fruits and flowers. He's atmarama, He's fully satisfied in Himself. He's so opulent. But He wants that you should also love Krsna and give Him something. That He wants. Therefore He comes No edit summary current
08:5308:53, 12 July 2023 diff hist +3,924 He is the original person. He has no father. But He accepts His devotee as His father. He accepts His devotee as mother. He is full in Himself, but still, He awaits the affection of father and mother. This is the beauty of Krsna No edit summary current
08:5308:53, 12 July 2023 diff hist +3,546 When He (Krsna) exhibits Himself in fullness, He is appreciated by great learned scholars as most perfect. When He exhibits Himself in lesser degrees, He is called very perfect. And when He exhibits still less, He is called perfect No edit summary current
08:5308:53, 12 July 2023 diff hist +16 The love of a woman, that potency and pleasure, is absent in man, and therefore a man wants a woman. But this is not the case with Krsna, who is full in Himself - CC Intro No edit summary current
08:5308:53, 12 July 2023 diff hist +51,061 The love of a woman, that potency and pleasure, is absent in man, and therefore a man wants a woman. But this is not the case with Krsna, who is full in Himself No edit summary current
08:5308:53, 12 July 2023 diff hist +20 In Vrndavana, for example, although Lord Krsna is full in Himself, He wants the cooperation of His devotees like the cowherd boys and the gopis to increase His transcendental bliss No edit summary
08:5308:53, 12 July 2023 diff hist +4,677 In the Fifteenth Chapter of the Bhagavad-gita, the Lord says that the living entities are His parts and parcels. There are innumerable living entities throughout the material and spiritual universes, but still Lord Krsna is full in Himself No edit summary current
08:4308:43, 12 July 2023 diff hist +10,319 Why it is called sanatana-dharma. That I have already explained. The living entity is sanatana, or eternal; God is sanatana; and there is sanatana-dhama, the Lord's eternal abode. As Krsna describes in the Bhagavad-gita (8.20), paras tasmat tu bhavo 'nyo No edit summary current
08:4308:43, 12 July 2023 diff hist +5,130 Well, everyone dies. Death is inevitable. Nobody can avoid death. "As sure as death". And therefore, I have already explained that we have to take information from the Vedas No edit summary current
08:4308:43, 12 July 2023 diff hist +4,332 Two things must be there—jnana and vairagya. I have already explained that actually our aim of life, human life, is to acquire knowledge and vairagya. Simply talking of knowledge is useless. There must be vairagya also No edit summary current
08:4308:43, 12 July 2023 diff hist +5,062 This devotional service is not artificial. In every one of you there is dormant devotional service, as I have already explained, but they are exhibited in a different way. Instead of loving God, that devotional service is diverted in loving a dog No edit summary current
08:4208:42, 12 July 2023 diff hist +51 They give example, "Others are eating vegetable. That is also killing." Yes, that is also killing. But I have already explained, that because one living entity is foodstuff for another living entity, that does not mean you shall eat your family members No edit summary current
08:4208:42, 12 July 2023 diff hist +29,521 That (Chirst's suffering) I have already explained. He took the sinful reactions of all the people. Therefore he suffered No edit summary current
08:4208:42, 12 July 2023 diff hist +3,187 Our program is that, as I have already explained, the success of everything depends how Krsna is satisfied No edit summary current
08:4208:42, 12 July 2023 diff hist +4,403 Our position is, I have already explained, that we are all imperfect. Therefore we have to take knowledge from the perfect No edit summary current
08:4208:42, 12 July 2023 diff hist +3,675 I have already explained what is meaning of religion. Religion means to render service to God. If you do not render service to God, that is not religion; that is cheating No edit summary current
08:4208:42, 12 July 2023 diff hist +51 I have already explained the four kinds of sinful activities you should avoid. But if you think that you are chanting, therefore there will be no reaction of sinful activities, that is the greatest sin No edit summary current
08:4208:42, 12 July 2023 diff hist +3,620 I have already explained that this is not our home, material world. We are spirit soul. Our real home is spiritual world No edit summary current
08:4208:42, 12 July 2023 diff hist +51 I have already explained that religion means to become lover of God. That is religion. When there is no love of God, that is not religion. Religion means - I have already explained - to know God and to love Him No edit summary current
08:4208:42, 12 July 2023 diff hist +51 I have already explained that our real occupational duty is to become servant. So instead of becoming servant of Krsna, we are now servant of our senses. This is our material life No edit summary current
08:4108:41, 12 July 2023 diff hist +3,399 I have already explained that our idea of religion means that like the sugar, it must be sweet. It is not that in Europe sugar is not sweet, in India it is sweet. Sugar, wherever it is, it is sweet. Similarly, the spirit soul is the same everywhere No edit summary current
08:4108:41, 12 July 2023 diff hist +4,651 I have already explained that because Sri Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and because He has got clear vision, and because He has full knowledge, He cannot give us misdirection No edit summary current

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