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30 July 2024
- 17:4317:43, 30 July 2024 diff hist +37 We are part and parcel of God, Krsna, Visnu. We are suffering on account of our relationship with God. This is the cause of our suffering. Then we have to make plan how to revive our lost relationship with God No edit summary current
- 17:4117:41, 30 July 2024 diff hist +4,476 This literature clarifies our relationship with Lord Visnu, and therefore the publication of ISKCON literature is the performance of yajna No edit summary current
29 July 2024
- 17:1917:19, 29 July 2024 diff hist +2,937 The Lord (Caitanya) said to his mother: Everything in relationship with Visnu is to be considered an expansion of Visnu’s energy. Visnu, the Supersoul, is eternal and uncontaminated. How then may these pots be considered pure or impure? No edit summary current
- 17:1717:17, 29 July 2024 diff hist +70 The goal of life is Visnu, or the Supreme Lord, or God. That one has to understand what is the Supreme Lord, what is Absolute Truth, - What is my relationship with Him and what is my duty towards Him No edit summary
- 17:1517:15, 29 July 2024 diff hist +4,484 The educational system in the human form of life should be so perfect that one will understand his intimate relationship with God, or Visnu. Every living entity has an intimate relationship with God No edit summary current
- 17:1417:14, 29 July 2024 diff hist +3,294 The conditioned soul, however, not being interested in reviving his relationship with Visnu, becomes captivated by material activities and remains in everlasting bondage, being misled by so-called leaders No edit summary current
- 17:1217:12, 29 July 2024 diff hist +3,538 Material happiness and distress come as soon as we accept a body, regardless of what form. We cannot avoid such happiness and distress under any circumstances. The best use of life, therefore, lies in reviving our relationship with the Supreme Lord, Visnu No edit summary current
- 17:1117:11, 29 July 2024 diff hist +4,345 ISKCON literature is published for the service of Lord Visnu. This literature clarifies our relationship with Lord Visnu, and therefore the publication of ISKCON literature is the performance of yajna No edit summary current
28 July 2024
- 18:3118:31, 28 July 2024 diff hist +6,134 In the Vedic literature, we find the creation described in relationship to Maha-Visnu. As stated in the Brahma-samhita - BS 5.38 No edit summary current
- 18:3118:31, 28 July 2024 diff hist +4,631 In the Brahma-samhita the relationship between Visnu and Lord Siva is compared to that between milk and yogurt. Milk is converted into yogurt by certain additives, but although milk and yogurt have the same ingredients, they have different functions No edit summary current
- 18:2718:27, 28 July 2024 diff hist +6,397 Human life is meant for understanding position of Visnu, and his position, what is the relationship with Visnu, and how to achieve the highest success of life. Sambandha, abhidheya, prayojana No edit summary current
- 18:2518:25, 28 July 2024 diff hist +4,492 For this transcendental happiness, the living entity has wandered throughout the universe in different forms of life and different planetary systems, but because he has forgotten his intimate relationship with Visnu he has merely suffered life after life No edit summary current
27 July 2024
- 19:5219:52, 27 July 2024 diff hist +2,937 It is the duty of all living entities to take shelter of the lotus feet of Visnu and thus save themselves from the cycle of birth and death No edit summary current
- 19:5019:50, 27 July 2024 diff hist +5,482 One's greatness has to be estimated by one's ability to tolerate provoking situations. The sages gathered on the bank of the river Sarasvati concluded that one who wants actual peace & freedom from all fear should take shelter of the lotus feet of Visnu No edit summary current
26 July 2024
- 18:2218:22, 26 July 2024 diff hist +5,344 Simply by expansion of His (Lord Visnu) eyebrows, invincible time personified can immediately vanquish the entire universe. However, formidable time does not approach the devotee who has taken complete shelter at Your lotus feet No edit summary current
- 18:1918:19, 26 July 2024 diff hist +63 Sreyamsi means if you want really ultimate benefit of your life, then sattva-tanoh. Sattva-tanoh means Visnu. You have to take shelter of the form of the Lord who is representing sattva-guna, goodness. Not the rajo-guna, not the tamo-guna No edit summary current
- 18:0918:09, 26 July 2024 diff hist +4,416 The lord (Siva) had to take shelter of Visnu to save himself from trouble, and the Lord Visnu, by His illusory potency, asked Vrkasura to make an experiment with his own head No edit summary current
- 18:0718:07, 26 July 2024 diff hist +6,338 Vaisnavanam yatha sambhuh: the most exalted Vaisnava is Lord Siva, and those who are actually devotees of Lord Siva follow Lord Siva's advice and take shelter at the lotus feet of Lord Visnu No edit summary current
- 18:0618:06, 26 July 2024 diff hist +6,655 What is my business? My business is to get out of these material clutches. So if anyone is eager to be free from these material clutches, then he must take shelter of Visnu, not others No edit summary current
25 July 2024
- 17:4817:48, 25 July 2024 diff hist +6,838 If you want ultimate goal, ultimate goal means to get free from the conditional life, repetition of birth, death, old age - then you have to take shelter of Lord Visnu No edit summary current
- 17:4617:46, 25 July 2024 diff hist +3,227 If one is serious about being happy spiritually, he must take shelter of Lord Visnu, as the Lord personally demands: "Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear" - BG 18.66 No edit summary current
- 17:3917:39, 25 July 2024 diff hist +18 For getting out of these material clutches one has to take shelter of Visnu - not of Lord Brahma nor Lord Siva. It is explained in the BG: kamais tais tair hrta-jnanah yajante anya-devatah (BG 7.20). Anya-devatah means Lord Siva and Lord Brahma and others No edit summary current
- 17:3517:35, 25 July 2024 diff hist +4,055 Due to gross ignorance, the conditioned soul does not know that his real self-interest is to take shelter at the lotus feet of Lord Visnu No edit summary current
- 17:3317:33, 25 July 2024 diff hist +6,561 After every dissolution of the material cosmos, all the living entities take shelter in the body of Karanodakasayi Visnu, and when creation takes place again, they come forth from His body in their various species to resume their activities No edit summary current
24 July 2024
- 18:3518:35, 24 July 2024 diff hist +3,067 Your appearances as Lord Brahma, Lord Visnu and Lord Siva are meant for the purpose of creating, maintaining and annihilating this cosmic manifestation No edit summary current
23 July 2024
- 18:4318:43, 23 July 2024 diff hist +6,038 The third purusa avatara is the Ksirodakasayi Visnu, who lives as the Supersoul of everything in the universe and maintains the creation generated by Brahma No edit summary current
- 18:4118:41, 23 July 2024 diff hist +5,411 The transcendental P of G is indirectly associated with the three modes of material nature - passion, goodness & ignorance - & just for the material world's creation, maintenance & destruction He accepts three qualitative forms of Brahma, Visnu & Siva No edit summary current
- 18:2018:20, 23 July 2024 diff hist +8,138 The Nagapatnis said, "Although You have expanded into the three principal deities of this universe - namely Brahma, Visnu and Siva - for creation, maintenance and destruction, Your appearance as Visnu is actually for the benediction of living creatures" No edit summary current
- 18:1618:16, 23 July 2024 diff hist +5,445 All the innumerable universes are maintained only during the breathing period of Maha-Visnu, or Karanarnavasayi Visnu, who is only a plenary part of Govinda, the original Personality of Godhead Lord Krsna No edit summary current
22 July 2024
- 19:3719:37, 22 July 2024 diff hist +22,943 Within each universe the Lord is present as the Garbhodakasayi Visnu, and He maintains each universe and tends to its needs No edit summary current
- 19:2819:28, 22 July 2024 diff hist +13,860 It is stated that Yasoda received such incomparable mercy from the SPG that it cannot even be compared to the mercy received by Brahma, or by Lord Siva, or even by the goddess of fortune, Laksmi, who is always situated on the chest of Lord Visnu No edit summary current
21 July 2024
- 18:5418:54, 21 July 2024 diff hist +3,916 Pariksit heard that out of His causeless mercy Krsna (Visnu), who is universally obeyed, rendered all kinds of service to the malleable sons of Pandu by accepting posts ranging from chariot driver to president to messenger, friend, night watchman, etc No edit summary current
- 18:5018:50, 21 July 2024 diff hist +1,535 To show him mercy, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu allowed him to see His Visnu form. Thus He immediately assumed four hands No edit summary current
- 18:4318:43, 21 July 2024 diff hist +1,788 That purusa (Karanodakasayi Visnu) is the performer of creation, maintenance and destruction. He manifests Himself in many incarnations, for He is the maintainer of the world No edit summary current
- 18:4118:41, 21 July 2024 diff hist +1,906 The conclusion is that Lord Brahma and Lord Siva are simply devotee incarnations who carry out orders. However, Lord Visnu, the maintainer, is the personal feature of Lord Krsna No edit summary current
- 18:3918:39, 21 July 2024 diff hist +28,263 The great Parasara Rsi has confirmed this in the Visnu Purana. He says that the cosmic manifestation visible to us is produced from Lord Visnu and sustained under His protection. He is the principal maintainer and destroyer of the universal form No edit summary current
- 18:3818:38, 21 July 2024 diff hist +5,196 The supreme proprietor of everything is Lord Visnu. He is the maintainer of everyone No edit summary current
20 July 2024
- 18:2318:23, 20 July 2024 diff hist +5,771 The supreme proprietor of everything is Lord Visnu. He is the maintainer of everyone. The king, the father, and the guardian are simply representatives of Lord Visnu, empowered by Him to look after the management and maintain things No edit summary current
- 18:1718:17, 20 July 2024 diff hist +3,892 Krsna, the cause of all causes, lies down in the cosmic ocean as Maha-Visnu or Karanodakasayi Visnu, and therefore Krsna is the beginning of this universe, the maintainer of the universal manifestation, and the end of all the energy. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 18:1418:14, 20 July 2024 diff hist +5,977 Brahma said, "Persons who are not in awareness of things as they are contemplate that I, Brahma, am the creator, Visnu is the maintainer, and Lord Siva is the annihilator" No edit summary current
- 18:1318:13, 20 July 2024 diff hist +4,474 Brahma creates the whole of human society, animal society - everything. Ksirodakasayi Visnu lies on the milk ocean within the universe, of which He is the controller and maintainer. Thus Brahma is the creator - CC Intro No edit summary current
- 18:1218:12, 20 July 2024 diff hist +4,186 Brahma creates the whole of human society, animal society - everything. Ksirodakasayi Visnu lies on the milk ocean within the universe, of which He is the controller and maintainer No edit summary current
- 18:0818:08, 20 July 2024 diff hist +9,219 An actual follower of Vedanta philosophy is a devotee of Lord Visnu, who is the greatest of the great and the maintainer of the entire universe No edit summary current
19 July 2024
- 18:1818:18, 19 July 2024 diff hist +4,234 Each and every Vaikuntha planet is many, many times bigger than the biggest universe within the material world, and in each of them there are innumerable inhabitants who look exactly like Lord Visnu No edit summary current
- 18:1718:17, 19 July 2024 diff hist +3,030 From the Sixth Canto we have already learned that when the Visnudutas came from Vaikuntha to deliver Ajamila, they looked exactly like Visnu, with four hands and the same features as Visnu No edit summary current
- 18:1618:16, 19 July 2024 diff hist +4,996 King Nanda said, "On the whole, He (Krsna) is exactly like Lord Visnu, who always takes the side of the demigods, who are consequently never defeated by the demons" No edit summary current
- 18:1318:13, 19 July 2024 diff hist +7,104 Lord Siva holds almost all the powers of Lord Visnu, and he is also above the qualities of the living entity, but he is not exactly like Visnu, just as yogurt, although transformed milk, is not exactly like milk No edit summary current
- 18:1218:12, 19 July 2024 diff hist +5,149 Text 38 (of SB 10.12) explains that Aghasura attained a body exactly like that of Visnu, and the verse after that also clearly states that he attained a completely spiritual body like that of Narayana No edit summary current
- 18:1018:10, 19 July 2024 diff hist +3,308 The order carriers of Lord Visnu, who are worshiped even by the demigods, possess wonderful bodily features exactly like those of Visnu and are very rarely seen No edit summary current