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27 September 2024
- 07:5307:53, 27 September 2024 diff hist +3,694 After reaching the shore of the ocean of milk, the demigods worshiped the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Visnu, the master of the whole universe, the supreme God of all gods, who provides for everyone & diminishes everyone's suffering - SB 10.1.20 No edit summary current
- 07:5007:50, 27 September 2024 diff hist +2,757 After creating both the material world and spiritual world through yogamaya, the Supreme Personality of Godhead personally maintains them by expanding Himself in different categories as the Visnu murtis and the demigods No edit summary current
- 07:4807:48, 27 September 2024 diff hist +16,424 Above that situation of impersonal Brahman understanding, he comes to the platform of understanding Lord Visnu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; then he becomes a Vaisnava. This is the perfectional process No edit summary current
- 07:4707:47, 27 September 2024 diff hist +90 A human life is especially meant for this purpose (to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu), and one has to go through all kinds of penances and austerities and set aside the propensity for sense gratification No edit summary current
- 07:1507:15, 27 September 2024 diff hist +3,931 The Visnudutas made Ajamila aware of devotional service so that He might immediately become fit to return home, back to Godhead. To increase his eagerness to glorify the Lord, they disappeared so that he would feel separation in their absence No edit summary current
- 07:1307:13, 27 September 2024 diff hist +1,696 Sri Maitreya said: After Lord Visnu was glorified by all present, Daksa, his consciousness purified, arranged to begin again the yajna which had been devastated by the followers of Lord Siva No edit summary current
- 07:1207:12, 27 September 2024 diff hist +3,549 Sravanam kirtanam visnoh: one should chant about and glorify Lord Visnu, not any demigod. Unfortunately, there are foolish persons who invent some process of kirtana on the basis of a demigod's name. This is an offense No edit summary current
- 07:1007:10, 27 September 2024 diff hist +3,937 When the Visnudutas saw Ajamila trying to say something to them, they disappeared to give him a chance to glorify the Supreme Lord. Since all his sinful reactions had been vanquished, he was now prepared to glorify the Lord No edit summary current
- 07:0907:09, 27 September 2024 diff hist +5,012 One should glorify God in the adoration of santa-rasa or revive his eternal relationship with Visnu as a servant in dasya-rasa, a friend in sakhya-rasa, a parent in vatsalya-rasa or a conjugal lover in madhurya-rasa. All these are on the platform of love No edit summary current
26 September 2024
- 17:2317:23, 26 September 2024 diff hist +2,206 Garbhodakasayi Visnu, known within the universe as Hiranyagarbha and the antaryami, or Supersoul, is glorified in the Vedic hymns, beginning with the hymn that starts with the word 'sahasra-sirsa' No edit summary current
- 17:2217:22, 26 September 2024 diff hist +4,117 Garbhodakasayi Visnu is glorified in the Vedas in the hymns of Garbha-stuti, which begin with the description of the Lord as having thousands of heads, etc No edit summary current
- 17:1417:14, 26 September 2024 diff hist +11,185 Pariksit Maharaja was listening, and Sukadeva Gosvami was performing kirtana by describing the glories of the Lord. Prthu Maharaja simply worshiped the Lord, and Laksmidevi massaged Visnu's lotus feet No edit summary current
- 17:1017:10, 26 September 2024 diff hist +3,477 Vasistha Muni has given a mantra about Lord Visnu: na te visnor jayamano na jato mahimnah param anantam apa. No one can estimate the extent of the uncommonly glorious activities of Lord Visnu No edit summary current
- 17:0517:05, 26 September 2024 diff hist +7,611 The visnu-murtis all had eternal, unlimited forms, full of knowledge and bliss and existing beyond the influence of time. Their great glory was not even to be touched by the jnanis engaged in studying the Upanisads - SB 10.13.54 No edit summary current
- 16:5916:59, 26 September 2024 diff hist +7,202 Sthana: the maintenance of the universe by the PG, Visnu. Visnu’s function is more important and His glory greater than Brahma’s and Lord Siva’s, for although Brahma is the creator and Lord Siva the destroyer, Visnu is the maintainer No edit summary current
- 16:5516:55, 26 September 2024 diff hist +3,939 One who is subject to death cannot measure the glories of the SPG, Trivikrama, Lord Visnu, any more than he can count the number of atoms on the entire planet earth. No one, whether born already or destined to take birth, is able to do this No edit summary current
- 16:4916:49, 26 September 2024 diff hist +1,904 O King Pariksit, when Amsuman had glorified the Lord in this way, the great sage Kapila, the powerful incarnation of Visnu, being very merciful to him, explained to him the path of knowledge No edit summary current
- 16:4416:44, 26 September 2024 diff hist +1,568 I have thus explained the truth of the first Personality of Godhead, Maha-Visnu. I shall now explain the glories of the second Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
31 August 2024
- 18:0218:02, 31 August 2024 diff hist +2,734 I am very much pleased by your (Brahma's) description of Me (Visnu) in terms of My transcendental qualities, which appear mundane to the mundaners. I grant you all benedictions in your desire to glorify all the planets by your activities No edit summary current
30 August 2024
- 19:3319:33, 30 August 2024 diff hist +7,140 There are many kinds of incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the first incarnations within this material world are Brahma, Visnu and Mahesvara - Siva No edit summary current
- 19:3019:30, 30 August 2024 diff hist +34 There are many types of energies of the Supreme Lord, and all of them are auspicious. Brahma, Visnu and Mahesvara are called guna-avataras, or incarnations of material qualities No edit summary current
- 19:3019:30, 30 August 2024 diff hist +1,899 There are six types of incarnations (avataras) of Krsna. One comprises the incarnations of Visnu (purusa-avataras), and another comprises the incarnations meant for the performance of pastimes (lila-avataras) No edit summary current
- 19:2719:27, 30 August 2024 diff hist +5,800 This first incarnation in the material creation, namely Karanarnavasayi Visnu, is the plenary part of the original Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, described in the Brahma-samhita No edit summary current
- 19:2619:26, 30 August 2024 diff hist +5,558 To manage the whole show the Supreme Lord incarnates Himself as the Karanarnavasayi Visnu just as a magistrate is deputed by the government to manage affairs temporarily No edit summary current
- 19:2519:25, 30 August 2024 diff hist +4,747 When King Prthu is described as an incarnation of Lord Visnu, it should be understood that he is a saktyavesa-avatara, part and parcel of Lord Visnu, and is specifically empowered by Him No edit summary current
- 19:2419:24, 30 August 2024 diff hist +2,534 Varuna advised Hiranyaksa to meet Visnu in His boar incarnation so that his hankering for aggressive war would be satisfied and his powerful body would be vanquished No edit summary current
- 19:2319:23, 30 August 2024 diff hist +47 When You (Visnu) appear in these incarnations, You are pleasing to the pious and religious devotees, but for nondevotees You are the annihilator - SB 10.2.29 No edit summary current
- 19:2219:22, 30 August 2024 diff hist +2,187 While Brahma was guessing about the appearance of the Lord's incarnation as a boar, the Lord confirmed Brahma's contemplation by roaring with His gorgeous voice No edit summary current
- 17:5117:51, 30 August 2024 diff hist +7,334 Within this universe is a planet called Svetadvipa, where Ksirodakasayi Visnu is situated. From Him come all the incarnations within this universe No edit summary current
28 August 2024
- 16:1516:15, 28 August 2024 diff hist +2,736 The present duration of a kalpa of Brahma is called the Varaha-kalpa or Svetavaraha-kalpa because the incarnation of the Lord as Varaha took place during the creation of Brahma, who was born on the lotus coming out of the abdomen of Visnu No edit summary current
- 16:1216:12, 28 August 2024 diff hist +2,200 The third expansion of Visnu is Ksirodakasayi Visnu, who is the incarnation of the quality of goodness. He is to be counted within both types of incarnations (purusa-avataras and guna-avataras) No edit summary current
- 16:1016:10, 28 August 2024 diff hist +34 The three of them (Brahma, Siva, Visnu) are understood to be incarnations of the Supreme Lord in charge of the three different material modes of nature, but none of them is independent of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 16:1016:10, 28 August 2024 diff hist +66 The various expansions of the Supreme Lord who act to empower the material energy are known as plenary expansions or incarnations. As illustrated by the example of many flames lit from one flame, all these plenary expansions are as good as Visnu Himself No edit summary current
- 16:0816:08, 28 August 2024 diff hist +2,473 The Visnu form called Ananta-sayana has thousands of hands and legs and thousands of eyes, and He is the active generator of all the incarnations within the material world No edit summary current
- 16:0616:06, 28 August 2024 diff hist +2,028 The Visnu who lies on the Causal Ocean is an incarnation of Lord Sankarsana, and, accordingly, the emotion of being a devotee is always present in His heart No edit summary current
- 16:0416:04, 28 August 2024 diff hist +4,700 Then in the twelfth & thirteenth verses he describes Advaitacarya, who is another principal associate of Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s and an incarnation of Maha-Visnu. Thus Advaitacarya is also the Lord, or, more precisely, an expansion of the Lord - CC Intro No edit summary current
- 16:0116:01, 28 August 2024 diff hist +3,058 There (in Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, Chapter Five, verses 117-125) it is stated that Lord Visnu's incarnation as the serpentine Ananta Sesa Naga supports all the universes on His hoods No edit summary current
- 15:5815:58, 28 August 2024 diff hist +3,636 There are innumerable Brahmas, and all of them live only during one breathing period of Maha-Visnu. So we can just imagine how the incarnations of the Lord work all over the material worlds, which comprehend only one-fourth of the total energy of God No edit summary current
23 August 2024
- 17:5317:53, 23 August 2024 diff hist +6,458 The original Personality of Godhead (adyah), Govinda, expands Himself as the Maha-visnu incarnation and rests in the Causal Ocean, which He Himself creates No edit summary current
- 17:5217:52, 23 August 2024 diff hist +4,387 The plenary portion of the Lord through whom Lord Krsna executes such actions is called Maha-Visnu, who is the primal beginning of all incarnations No edit summary current
- 17:5117:51, 23 August 2024 diff hist +61 The Personality of Godhead Lord Visnu descends by His will to the material planets in His innumerable incarnations for particular purposes, and again He goes back to His own abode No edit summary current
- 17:4817:48, 23 August 2024 diff hist +2,695 The Lord Visnu who lies in the ocean of milk incarnates Himself in various forms to maintain the laws of the cosmos and annihilate the causes of disturbance. Such incarnations are visible in every manv-antara No edit summary current
- 17:4617:46, 23 August 2024 diff hist +2,744 The Lord then presented Himself as a most fallen living entity, and He said, "If someone accepts a fallen conditioned soul as Visnu, Bhagavan, or an incarnation, he commits a great offense" No edit summary current
- 17:4417:44, 23 August 2024 diff hist +34 The ingredients for creation and the subordinate creator, Brahma, are first created by Lord Visnu in His first and second incarnations No edit summary current
- 17:4217:42, 23 August 2024 diff hist +3,100 The Lord (Visnu) incarnates Himself in each and every one of them and in each and every type of living society No edit summary current
22 August 2024
- 14:2214:22, 22 August 2024 diff hist +4,413 The Ksirodakasayi Visnu has His own planet on the northern top of the universe, and there is a great ocean of milk where the Lord resides on the bed of the Ananta incarnation of Baladeva No edit summary current
- 14:2014:20, 22 August 2024 diff hist +3,166 The incarnations of the material qualities - Lord Siva and Lord Brahma - are under the jurisdiction of the external energy. Lord Visnu, however, is different No edit summary current
- 14:1914:19, 22 August 2024 diff hist +15 The incarnation of Visnu in the material world is directly worshiped by the demigods No edit summary current
- 14:1814:18, 22 August 2024 diff hist +1,952 The great Amsuman saw the sage named Kapila, the saint who is an incarnation of Visnu, sitting there by the horse. Amsuman offered Him respectful obeisances, folded his hands and offered Him prayers with great attention No edit summary current
- 14:1714:17, 22 August 2024 diff hist +2,941 The Garbhodakasayi Visnu purusa-avatara expansion of Lord Visnu accepts the material modes - sattva-guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna - and thus incarnates as Lord Visnu, Brahma and Siva. These are incarnations of the material qualities No edit summary current