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26 October 2024
- 03:5703:57, 26 October 2024 diff hist +3,394 King Anga thinking in terms of detachment, accepted his bad son as a good impetus for detachment from home life. He therefore considered his bad son his friend since he was helping him become detached from his home No edit summary current
- 03:5703:57, 26 October 2024 diff hist +3,473 In the human form of life, one must learn these two things—how to become detached from the material world and how to acquire full knowledge in spiritual life. This is the Lord's mission No edit summary current
- 03:5703:57, 26 October 2024 diff hist +2,982 In the first process of sankhya, one has to become detached from matter, and in the devotional yoga process one has to attach himself to the work of Krsna. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 03:5703:57, 26 October 2024 diff hist +11 If we are not attached to devotional service to the Lord, then we cannot become detached from the modes of material nature. BG 1972 Introduction No edit summary current
- 03:5603:56, 26 October 2024 diff hist +11 How far you are advancing in Krsna consciousness you test yourself - how far you have become detached from material consciousness. That's all No edit summary current
- 03:5603:56, 26 October 2024 diff hist +23,091 He who has progressed in devotional life and who is relishing service to Krsna will automatically become detached from material enjoyment. The symptom of one absorbed in bhakti is that he is fully satisfied with Krsna No edit summary current
- 03:5603:56, 26 October 2024 diff hist +4,085 Everyone has to test himself that, "How far I have advanced?" That means "How far I have become detached with material contamination." That's all. The test is in your hand. And if you are sincere, then you should test yourself No edit summary current
- 03:5603:56, 26 October 2024 diff hist +31 Devotional service to Vasudeva, Krsna, will gradually help him how to become vairagya, how to become detached with material attraction, and how to acquire knowledge about Krsna. Everything will come No edit summary current
- 03:5603:56, 26 October 2024 diff hist +3,279 Devahuti continued: My dear Lord, please also describe in detail, both for me and for people in general, the continual process of birth and death, for by hearing of such calamities we may become detached from the activities of this material world No edit summary current
- 03:5603:56, 26 October 2024 diff hist +23,516 At that time (while entering vanaprastha life) one thinks, "Now that I have enjoyed this attachment so much, let me leave home." Then the man travels all over to various places of pilgrimage to become detached, and the wife goes with him as an assistant No edit summary current
- 03:5503:55, 26 October 2024 diff hist +3,528 An intelligent person actually interested in getting freed from the material clutches must associate with pure devotees. By such association, one can gradually become detached from the material attraction of money and women No edit summary current
25 October 2024
- 08:2808:28, 25 October 2024 diff hist +9,229 When you take the animal to the slaughterhouse for killing, he cries. Why? Because he's feeling pain. He knows that "I'm going to be killed." So there is soul. Soul is there No edit summary current
- 08:2808:28, 25 October 2024 diff hist +6,556 Krsna is feeling pain. So you become Krsna conscious, then Krsna will feel pleasure. That is Krsna consciousness movement No edit summary current
- 08:2808:28, 25 October 2024 diff hist +4,712 Because we are covered by the skin, therefore we are feeling pains and pleasure. If you become uncovered, free from the skinly covering, then there is no pains and pleasure No edit summary current
- 08:2508:25, 25 October 2024 diff hist +5,844 This body, wherever you pinch, you feel pain. Why? Because the consciousness is there. So Krsna advises that consciousness is eternal, not this body No edit summary current
- 08:2508:25, 25 October 2024 diff hist +5,255 The proof of the soul existing is that the consciousness is spread all over my body. As soon as I pinch any part of my body, I feel pain. Therefore I understand a soul is there No edit summary current
- 08:2508:25, 25 October 2024 diff hist +3,055 The material nature will go on changing, and because your material body is susceptible to all the influence of such changes, you will feel pains and pleasure. No pleasure; always pain No edit summary current
- 08:2508:25, 25 October 2024 diff hist +4,908 The Lord does not feel pain or pleasure from any action or reaction of this material world, but the devotees cannot tolerate even the pricking of the Lord's lotus feet by a thorn No edit summary current
- 08:2508:25, 25 October 2024 diff hist −10 They have no idea what is spiritual. Buddha's religion is not a spiritual. It is material. If I. . . "If you kill me, I feel pain; therefore I shall not kill you." This is No edit summary current
- 08:2508:25, 25 October 2024 diff hist +6,918 These people say the animals have no soul. But that's all right, but he's feeling pain when you are killing the animal. So you also feel pain. So why should you give pain to others? That is Lord Buddha's theory No edit summary current
- 08:2508:25, 25 October 2024 diff hist +7,473 I am existing in this body; you are existing in your body - how it is known? By the consciousness. If I pinch your body, you feel pain. You pinch my body, I feel pain No edit summary current
- 08:2508:25, 25 October 2024 diff hist −10 If you or I pinch my body, I feel pain because the consciousness is there. But when the consciousness will not be there, if I cut my hand or cut your hand, you will not protest No edit summary current
- 08:2408:24, 25 October 2024 diff hist +7,552 If I pinch your body, you feel pain. You pinch my body, I feel pain. Similarly, cats and dogs, they also feel pain or pleasure. So that is the proof of existence of the soul even in cats and dogs and human beings No edit summary current
- 08:2408:24, 25 October 2024 diff hist +4,299 If I pinch your body, you feel pain. This is also consciousness that, "Somebody is pinching me." But if I pinch somebody else, you cannot feel it. Therefore your consciousness or my consciousness is limited within this body No edit summary current
- 08:2408:24, 25 October 2024 diff hist +4,009 If I pinch your body, I do not feel any pain, but if I pinch my body, I feel pain. Therefore, "I am all-pervading" means I am all-pervading within this body by consciousness No edit summary current
- 08:2408:24, 25 October 2024 diff hist +3,590 He (Lord Buddha) became very compassionate that, "All these poor animals are being killed unnecessarily." So he promulgamated a new type of religion - Don't commit violence. If I pinch your body, you feel pain. You should not pinch others No edit summary
- 08:2408:24, 25 October 2024 diff hist +5 From ordinary moral point of view, it is said by Canakya, atmavat sarva-bhutesu sa panditah. Anyone who can see in others, feeling like himself . . . If I cut your throat, you'll feel pain. How I know it? Now, because if you cut my throat I'll feel pain No edit summary current
- 08:2408:24, 25 October 2024 diff hist +5,915 Everyone can understand that if I pinch any part of my body or your any part of the body, you feel pain. Or similarly, if you get some other facilities, pleasure, so pains and pleasure are felt so long there is consciousness No edit summary current
- 08:2408:24, 25 October 2024 diff hist +3,880 Consciousness is individual. You can feel the pains and pleasure of your body, and your friend also can feel the pains and pleasure of his body. I can feel pains and pleasure of my body. So this feeling of pains and pleasure is consciousness No edit summary current
- 08:2408:24, 25 October 2024 diff hist +5,664 Buddha had to deny the existence of the soul because their brain will not tolerate such things. Therefore he did not say anything about the soul or God. He said that "You stop animal killing." If I pinch you, you feel pain. So why give pain to others? No edit summary current
- 08:2408:24, 25 October 2024 diff hist +4,537 Because the consciousness is there, therefore any part of the body, if we pinch, we can feel pains and pleasure. And when the consciousness is not there, the man is dead No edit summary current
- 08:2308:23, 25 October 2024 diff hist +7,752 Because the atma is within the body, if I pinch or if you pinch my body, I feel pains and pleasures. As soon as the atma is not there, it will be cut with a chopper, there is no protest No edit summary current
- 08:2308:23, 25 October 2024 diff hist +6,055 A Krsna conscious person who has realized God, he is samah sarvesu bhutesu, he's equal to all living entities. He'll feel pain even for cutting a tree. He'll feel pain, he'll feel pain even he traverses over an ant No edit summary current
- 08:2308:23, 25 October 2024 diff hist +6,565 Atmavat sarva-bhutesu, and treating everyone equally, as he wants to be treated himself. If by pinching your body or giving pain to your body, if you feel pain, you should not give such pain to any living entity No edit summary current
- 08:2308:23, 25 October 2024 diff hist +5,741 As I feel pains and pleasure on account of some disturbance on this body, similarly, as soon as we create some disturbance with this universal atmosphere, the supreme consciousness is disturbed No edit summary current
- 08:1908:19, 25 October 2024 diff hist +3,864 When you are completely purified, you see God face to face, eye to eye, talk with Him, play with Him, just like cowherds boys, they are playing, the gopis are dancing. You get that position No edit summary current
- 08:1908:19, 25 October 2024 diff hist +5,436 When the spiritual body, mind and senses are completely purified, one can render service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead and His consort. In Vaikuntha the consort is Laksmi, and in Goloka Vrndavana the consort is Srimati Radharani No edit summary current
- 08:1808:18, 25 October 2024 diff hist +5,576 When the mind is completely purified in love of Godhead, the mind becomes the mind of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The mind at that time does not act separately, nor does it act without inspiration to fulfill the desire of the Lord No edit summary
- 08:1808:18, 25 October 2024 diff hist +9 When these four kinds of persons (sukrtina) come to the Supreme Lord for devotional service and are completely purified by the association of a pure devotee, they also become pure devotees. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 08:1808:18, 25 October 2024 diff hist +5,469 When one is completely purified, then he acts with his spiritual senses No edit summary current
- 08:1808:18, 25 October 2024 diff hist −13 When one is completely purified, anyabhilasita-sunyam jnana-karmady-anavrtam (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.1.11), only then is one able to execute Krsna’s orders in the Bhagavad-gita - BG 18.65 No edit summary current
- 08:1808:18, 25 October 2024 diff hist +6,511 When one comes to the stage of pure devotional service, the process of sravanam kirtanam is very essential. By executing the nine items of devotional service, beginning with sravanam kirtanam, one is completely purified No edit summary current
- 08:1808:18, 25 October 2024 diff hist +4,851 When one's consciousness is completely purified of the contamination of material existence, without being agitated as in the working and dreaming states, and when the mind is not dissolved as in susupti, deep sleep, one comes to the platform of trance No edit summary current
- 08:1708:17, 25 October 2024 diff hist +5,168 Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura quotes the prayer by Brahma from the Bhagavatam: One whose heart has become completely purified, my Lord, can understand the transcendental qualities of Your Lordship and can understand the greatness of Your activities No edit summary current
- 08:1708:17, 25 October 2024 diff hist −13 Through such fortunate engagement (the transcendental service of God), one’s transcendental love for Krsna is increased. One's position is thus completely purified, and one is filled with transcendental bliss accompanied by the spirit soul's jubilation No edit summary current
- 08:1708:17, 25 October 2024 diff hist −13 The Supreme Personality of Godhead speaks directly to the individual soul when the devotee has completely purified himself by rendering devotional service to the Lord No edit summary current
- 08:1708:17, 25 October 2024 diff hist +4,849 The purport is that those who are completely purified of the material modes of nature and who are transcendentally situated can worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 08:1708:17, 25 October 2024 diff hist +5,281 The Lord is the Supreme with all senses, and the servitor, who is part and parcel of the Lord, also has the same senses. Service to the Lord is the completely purified use of the senses, as described in the Bhagavad-gita No edit summary current
- 08:1608:16, 25 October 2024 diff hist +2,846 Then one should touch kusa grass and sit gravely and silently, facing north. When completely purified, one should touch the mantra composed of eight syllables to the eight parts of his body and touch the mantra composed of twelve syllables to his hands No edit summary current
- 08:1608:16, 25 October 2024 diff hist +5,560 Then in the end when he (Maharaja Dhruva) was completely purified he declined to accept any material benediction from the Lord. Similarly, Gajendra was also distressed and prayed to Krsna for protection, after which he became a pure devotee No edit summary current