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5 October 2024

• 09:5009:50, 5 October 2024 diff hist +4,376 This ordinary living being is of two kinds - nitya-baddha or nitya-mukta. One is eternally conditioned and the other eternally liberated No edit summary current
• 09:5009:50, 5 October 2024 diff hist +3,740 The word paramatmanah is significant in this verse. An ordinary living being is generally called the atma, but Lord Krsna is never an ordinary living being because He is paramatma, the Supersoul No edit summary current
• 09:5009:50, 5 October 2024 diff hist +4,130 The visnu-tattva living beings are expansions of the Supreme Lord, and all of them are qualitatively and quantitatively equal with the Lord. But expansions of the jiva-sakti, the category of the ordinary living beings, are not at all equal with the Lord No edit summary current
• 09:5009:50, 5 October 2024 diff hist +3,885 The terms "pious" and "impious" are applicable only in reference to the activities of an ordinary living being No edit summary current
• 09:4909:49, 5 October 2024 diff hist +4,951 The poet from Bengal committed a great offense by treating Lord Jagannatha’s body and Lord Jagannatha, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as two different entities, material and spiritual, as if the Lord were an ordinary living being No edit summary current
• 09:4909:49, 5 October 2024 diff hist −13 The PG can turn matter into spirit and spirit into matter by His inconceivable power. Everything is therefore matter and spirit by the grace of the Almighty, although there is a difference between matter and spirit for the ordinary living being No edit summary current
• 09:4909:49, 5 October 2024 diff hist +1,307 The pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are like the unlimited sky. How, then, can an ordinary living being describe them all No edit summary current
• 09:4909:49, 5 October 2024 diff hist +4,284 The ordinary living being knows about his body to some extent, but the Supreme, Paramatma, knows the condition of all bodies. The individual living being is localized, and the Supreme, Paramatma, is all-pervading No edit summary current
• 09:4909:49, 5 October 2024 diff hist +10,650 The ordinary living being has no independent power of perception or of motion, & as we undoubtedly feel our existence being conditioned by nature's energy, we conclude that he who sees is spirit, & that the senses & the objects of perception are material No edit summary current
• 09:4909:49, 5 October 2024 diff hist +7,001 The ordinary living beings, being part and parcel of Krsna, are also Brahman, but Krsna is the Supreme - Parabrahman No edit summary current
• 09:4909:49, 5 October 2024 diff hist +5,853 The Lord is kaivalya, and for Him there is no difference between matter and spirit because everything is created from Him. Therefore His quitting one sort of body or accepting another body does not mean that He is like the ordinary living being No edit summary current
• 09:4809:48, 5 October 2024 diff hist +14 The Lord's body, being all spiritual and thus eternal, neither takes birth nor dies. Nor can the Lord be forced to take birth in some particular family due to His past deeds, as an ordinary living being is No edit summary current
• 09:4809:48, 5 October 2024 diff hist +5,489 The law of karma enacted by the Supreme Lord for the living entities cannot be applicable to Him, nor has the Lord any desire to improve Himself by activities like those of ordinary living beings No edit summary current
• 09:4809:48, 5 October 2024 diff hist −13 The body of the ordinary living being is made of material elements and is therefore subject to birth and death. But the Lord's body, being all spiritual and thus eternal, neither takes birth nor dies No edit summary current
• 09:4809:48, 5 October 2024 diff hist +9,326 They (the Queens) wondered how Lord Krsna could personally receive a brahmana who was poor, not very neat or clean, and poorly dressed; but at the same time they could realize that the brahmana was not an ordinary living being No edit summary current
• 09:4809:48, 5 October 2024 diff hist −13 These members (Sankarsana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha) of the quadruple manifestation are never to be considered ordinary living beings. Each of Them is a plenary expansion of the Absolute Godhead No edit summary current
• 09:4709:47, 5 October 2024 diff hist +2,599 There are two kinds of Brahmas. Sometimes Brahma is an ordinary living entity, and at other times Brahma is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Brahma spoken of here is an ordinary living being No edit summary current
• 09:4709:47, 5 October 2024 diff hist +4,296 There are many so-called scholars who contend that the Lord descends in a body made of matter, just like an ordinary living being. Not knowing His inconceivable power, such foolish men place the Lord on an equal level with ordinary men No edit summary current
• 09:4709:47, 5 October 2024 diff hist +3,145 Sukadeva Gosvami said: After Lord Brahma had thus spoken, glorifying the Supreme Lord's activities and prowess, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is never subject to death like an ordinary living being, appeared from the womb of Aditi No edit summary current
• 09:4509:45, 5 October 2024 diff hist +1,414 Sri Advaita Acarya is indeed directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself. His glory is beyond the conception of ordinary living beings No edit summary current
• 09:4509:45, 5 October 2024 diff hist +8,596 Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura describes the difference between the Supreme Personality of Godhead and an ordinary living being No edit summary current
• 09:4209:42, 5 October 2024 diff hist +3,249 Param bhavam ajanantah: such a conclusion (considering the Supreme Personality of Godhead an ordinary living being) is reached by the unintelligent because they are unaware of the transcendental qualities of the Lord No edit summary current
• 09:4209:42, 5 October 2024 diff hist +5,687 Ordinary living beings work for the improvement of their conditional lives. But the Lord is already full of all opulence, all strength, all fame, all beauty, all knowledge and all renunciation. Why should He desire improvement? No edit summary current
• 09:4209:42, 5 October 2024 diff hist +2,492 Ordinary living beings cannot be so qualified, but a devotee can be qualified like the Supreme Personality of Godhead, not in full but partially No edit summary current
• 09:4109:41, 5 October 2024 diff hist +7,266 Ordinary living beings assume material bodies, but the Supreme Personality of Godhead does not No edit summary current
• 09:4109:41, 5 October 2024 diff hist +3,001 One who understands this fact (Krsna's birth and body are not like that of ordinary living beings), either from the Lord or from authorized sources, is not reborn after leaving the present material body No edit summary current
• 09:4109:41, 5 October 2024 diff hist +3,349 One who has given up all material duties and taken full shelter at the lotus feet of Mukunda, who gives shelter to all, is not indebted to the demigods, great sages, ordinary living beings, relatives, friends, mankind or even his forefathers No edit summary current
• 09:4109:41, 5 October 2024 diff hist +36 One who foolishly considers Narayana like other living beings should take a lesson from this. Narayana is not an ordinary living being. He is the SPG Himself, and He has all the potencies of all the senses in all parts of His transcendental body No edit summary current
• 09:4109:41, 5 October 2024 diff hist +2,351 One should not consider Yamaraja an ordinary living being. He is as good as Lord Brahma. He has the complete cooperation of the Supreme Lord, who is situated in everyone's heart No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 5 October 2024 diff hist +17,958 One may argue that an ordinary living being is eternal and unborn like the Lord and also takes birth in different species of life, and so there is no difference between the Lord and an ordinary living being No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 5 October 2024 diff hist −13 No one is more attractive or more authoritative than Lord Krsna. That is one of the differences between God and an ordinary living being No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 5 October 2024 diff hist +5,468 No one can excel Him (God) in any opulence, and therefore the desire for improvement is absolutely useless for Him. One should always discriminate between the activities of the Lord and those of ordinary living beings No edit summary current
• 09:3909:39, 5 October 2024 diff hist +4,482 Narayana is not an ordinary living being. He is the Personality of Godhead Himself, and He has all the potencies of all the senses in all parts of His transcendental body No edit summary current
• 09:3909:39, 5 October 2024 diff hist +3,201 My dear Sir, according to Your behavior and bodily features, You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is impossible for ordinary living beings to possess such transcendental qualities No edit summary current
• 09:3909:39, 5 October 2024 diff hist −13 Mahesvara, or Lord Siva, is not an ordinary living being, nor is he equal to Lord Visnu No edit summary current
• 09:3909:39, 5 October 2024 diff hist +3,868 Maharaja Pariksit knew this (that Nanda and Yasoda, as well as Vasudeva & Devaki are not ordinary living beings), but he was curious to know from Sukadeva Gosvami whether it is possible for an ordinary human being to come to this stage by sadhana-siddhi No edit summary current
• 09:3909:39, 5 October 2024 diff hist +6,991 Maharaja Pariksit asked, "So how was it possible for them to get freed from the material condition just by thinking of a paramour?" One should consider here that Krsna and ordinary living beings are qualitatively one No edit summary current
• 09:3809:38, 5 October 2024 diff hist +3,644 Lord Siva is the greatest yogi, and he can perform such wonderful things, far beyond the ordinary living beings No edit summary current
• 09:3809:38, 5 October 2024 diff hist +8,548 Lord Siva is not an ordinary living being. He is the plenary portion of the Lord, but because Lord Siva is in direct touch with material nature, he is not exactly in the same transcendental position as Lord Visnu No edit summary current
• 09:3809:38, 5 October 2024 diff hist +4,190 Lord Siva and Lord Brahma are two chiefs of the demigods. They are full of mystic powers. For example, Lord Siva drank an ocean of poison of which one drop was sufficient to kill an ordinary living being No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 5 October 2024 diff hist +3,708 Lord Krsna meditated upon Himself every morning as a grhastha, and similarly Lord Ramacandra performed yajnas to satisfy Himself, but this does not mean that an ordinary living being should imitate the Lord by accepting the process of ahangraha-upasana No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 5 October 2024 diff hist +2,512 Lord Krsna is more exalted than ordinary living beings and demigods like Lord Siva. He is even more exalted than His personal expansion Narayana. In all, the Supreme Personality of Godhead has sixty-four transcendental qualities in full No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 5 October 2024 diff hist +20,432 Krsna does not say that He comes as an ordinary living being. Rather, His advent is totally transcendental. Janma karma ca me divyam evam yo vetti tattvatah - BG 4.9 No edit summary current
• 09:3309:33, 5 October 2024 diff hist +20,240 It is foolish to try to impose the limits of an ordinary living being upon the unlimited potency of Godhead and obstinately maintain that the Supreme Lord cannot descend No edit summary current
• 09:3309:33, 5 October 2024 diff hist +6,448 In this way, Krsna is endowed with all opulences, transcendental qualities and mystic powers. No ordinary living being can compare to Him No edit summary current
• 09:3309:33, 5 October 2024 diff hist +4,012 In this sloka (SB 5.11.12) the word ksetrajna refers to an ordinary living being, not the supreme living being No edit summary current
• 09:3309:33, 5 October 2024 diff hist −13 Instead of accepting Lord Rama as an incarnation of Visnu, Ravana thought Him an ordinary living being No edit summary current
• 09:3209:32, 5 October 2024 diff hist +4,042 If endowment of powers and withdrawal of powers by the Lord are possible even for a great devotee like Arjuna, or even the demigods in heaven, then what to speak of the ordinary living beings who are but figs compared to such great souls No edit summary current
• 09:3209:32, 5 October 2024 diff hist +1,636 How, then, could an ordinary living being with very little intelligence describe such pastimes? Nevertheless, I am trying to touch but a particle of them just to rectify myself No edit summary current
• 09:3209:32, 5 October 2024 diff hist −13 He wanted to exhibit such fighting spirit, so who will fight with Him? Ordinary living being cannot fight with the Supreme Lord. Therefore some of His devotees, some of His associates, must fight with Him No edit summary current