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7 November 2024
- 19:2519:25, 7 November 2024 diff hist +5,954 Pariksit questioned Sukadeva, and Sukadeva referred the matter to Narada, who had in the same way questioned Narayana Rsi, who had put the matter to still higher authorities on the planet of Janaloka, where it was discussed among the great Kumaras No edit summary current
- 19:2119:21, 7 November 2024 diff hist +2,745 I have described the authorities. Brahma is authority, Lord Siva is authority, and Kapila is authority, Kumara, four Kumaras and Manu is authority. Similarly, Prahlada Maharaja is authority. Janaka Maharaja is authority. The twelve authorities No edit summary current
6 November 2024
- 21:1521:15, 6 November 2024 diff hist +3,496 When he (Purusottama Bhattacarya) became a brahmacari, he was given the name Sri Damodara Svarupa. He left Benares shortly thereafter, without taking sannyasa, and he came to Nilacala, Jagannatha Puri, where Lord Caitanya was staying No edit summary current
- 21:1421:14, 6 November 2024 diff hist +4,100 The great sage Maitreya said: The four great Kumara sages headed by Sanaka, as well as Narada, Rbhu, Hamsa, Aruni and Yati, all sons of Brahma, did not live at home, but became urdhva-reta, or naisthika-brahmacaris, unadulterated celibates No edit summary current
- 21:1321:13, 6 November 2024 diff hist +32,108 You have to become a strict brahmacari and sit in the forest with your body at a right angle to the ground, pressing your nose with your finger for six months - Who could follow such an instruction No edit summary current
- 21:1221:12, 6 November 2024 diff hist +8,798 When one is serious about advancement of spiritual consciousness, he must live under the control of the guru to learn how to become brahmacari. This is the main purpose No edit summary current
- 21:1121:11, 6 November 2024 diff hist +14,988 When a child goes to a guru-kula, he becomes a brahmacari and works like a menial servant. He may be the son of a great brahmana or a great king; it doesn't matter No edit summary current
- 21:1021:10, 6 November 2024 diff hist −16 We have opened our gurukula asrama in Dallas. We are teaching from the very beginning of life small children how to become brahmacari. That is required No edit summary current
- 21:1021:10, 6 November 2024 diff hist −12 Vedic civilization is, from the very beginning, to train the boys to become brahmacari, celibacy. Not that modern days, the schools, boys and girls, ten years, twelve years, they're enjoying. The brain is spoiled No edit summary current
- 21:0921:09, 6 November 2024 diff hist +11 Up to twenty-fifth year you remain a brahmacari, learn from guru how to become brahmacari, gurukula. Brahmacari gurukule vasan danta, how to practice self-control, sense control No edit summary current
- 21:0721:07, 6 November 2024 diff hist +5,236 The first cultural education is how to teach the small children to become purified, brahmacari. In ancient times it was done by association in gurukulas. That is required, gurukula. We are starting, therefore, gurukulas No edit summary current
- 21:0521:05, 6 November 2024 diff hist −12 Tapasa brahmacaryena (SB 6.1.13). Tapasa, to become brahmacari, to become . . . abstaining from sex life, it requires tapasya No edit summary current
- 21:0521:05, 6 November 2024 diff hist −16 Suppose one lives for a hundred years. He should become brahmacari, student, for twenty-five years, then a married man for another twenty-five years, and after fifty years, pancasordhvam vanam vrajet, he should accept the vana-vasi No edit summary current
- 21:0221:02, 6 November 2024 diff hist +5,207 Modern civilization, not referring to the verdicts of Vedic literature, is so cruel to the members of human society that instead of teaching children to become brahmacaris, it teaches mothers to kill their children even in the womb No edit summary current
- 21:0121:01, 6 November 2024 diff hist +5,002 In Vedic civilization a man is taught from the beginning of his life to become a brahmacari, then an ideal grhastha, then vanaprastha, then sannyasi, and the wife is taught just to follow the husband strictly in all conditions of life No edit summary current
- 21:0021:00, 6 November 2024 diff hist +6,070 In the varnasrama system, one first becomes a brahmacari, then a grhastha, a vanaprastha and finally a sannyasi. Going to the forest means accepting vanaprastha life, which is between grhastha life and sannyasa No edit summary current
- 20:5920:59, 6 November 2024 diff hist +4,710 In the system of varnasrama-dharma, which is the beginning of actual human life, small boys after five years of age are sent to become brahmacari at the guru's asrama No edit summary current
- 20:5720:57, 6 November 2024 diff hist −13 If you have desire to enjoy, then don't become a sannyasi, brahmacari. You become a married man, live peacefully with wife and children. That is allowed No edit summary current
- 20:5620:56, 6 November 2024 diff hist +4,593 Human society means to understand it, that what is the basic principle of material life. If we understand it is sex, therefore we have to cut down the sex desire gradually by becoming brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, sannyasa. This is the process No edit summary current
- 20:5620:56, 6 November 2024 diff hist +32,287 For instance, the hatha-yoga process would say: You have to become a strict brahmacari and sit in the forest with your body at a right angle to the ground, pressing your nose with your finger for six months No edit summary current
- 20:5520:55, 6 November 2024 diff hist +5,930 For brahmana, the four asramas are compulsory. He must become a brahmacari. Then from brahmacari he becomes grhastha. Then from grhastha he must become vanaprastha. Then he must become a sannyasi No edit summary current
- 20:5420:54, 6 November 2024 diff hist +4,193 First of all, they used to become brahmacari, to become most obedient servant of the spiritual master before becoming grhastha. Celibacy, brahmacari, then grhastha No edit summary current
- 20:5420:54, 6 November 2024 diff hist +3,197 Every mother must take care of her son and train him to become a brahmacari No edit summary current
- 20:5320:53, 6 November 2024 diff hist −9 Every mother, like Suniti, must take care of her son and train him to become a brahmacari from the age of five years and to undergo austerities and penances for spiritual realization No edit summary current
- 20:5220:52, 6 November 2024 diff hist +5,910 Children at the age of five are sent to the guru-kula, or the place of the spiritual master, and the master trains the young boys in the strict discipline of becoming brahmacaris. Without such practice, no one can make advancement in any yoga. BG 1972 p No edit summary current
- 20:5020:50, 6 November 2024 diff hist +5,385 A boy is trained to become brahmacari. Brahmacari. Brahmacari means complete celibacy. No sex life, no amusement. Because just to train him not to be attracted by this material sense enjoyment. Then he'll be able to grasp what is spiritual life No edit summary current
- 18:5118:51, 6 November 2024 diff hist +5,251 Because there is no institution to teach people how to become brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras or brahmacaris, grhasthas, vanaprasthas and sannyasis, these demons want a classless society. This is resulting in chaotic conditions No edit summary current
- 18:4418:44, 6 November 2024 diff hist +6,110 This (schools and colleges to train students to become brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas, sudras, brahmacaris, grhasthas, vanaprasthas and sannyasis) will provide the preliminary condition for good citizenship - varnasrama-gunan-vitah No edit summary current
5 November 2024
- 20:2320:23, 5 November 2024 diff hist −10 The householder becomes a vanaprastha, and gradually, when he is mature, he renounces household life and vanaprastha life also and takes to sannyasa, completely devoting himself to devotional service No edit summary current
- 19:5919:59, 5 November 2024 diff hist +2,908 Canakya Pandita advises that a person in such a situation (where household affairs are very difficult to continue) should immediately give up household life and become a vanaprastha or sannyasi No edit summary current
- 19:5719:57, 5 November 2024 diff hist +3,468 Because he (a mature student) was first trained in conquering his senses, he retires from household life and becomes vanaprastha as soon as the strong waves of youthful life are past and he reaches the verge of old age at fifty years or slightly more No edit summary current
28 October 2024
- 20:0720:07, 28 October 2024 diff hist +3,429 When Lord Caitanya left home accepting the renounced order of life, sannyasa, at that time Visnupriya was on the summit of youth, 16 years old, but when her husband became sannyasi she also became greater than sannyasa No edit summary current
- 20:0520:05, 28 October 2024 diff hist +33 On the next day (of Caitanya's accepting sannyasa) He became a regular sannyasi, with one rod (ekadanda). From that day on, His name was Sri Krsna Caitanya. Before that, He was known as Nimai Pandita No edit summary current
- 20:0520:05, 28 October 2024 diff hist +5,216 Madhava Bharati’s disciple Balabhadra, who also later became a sannyasi of the Bharati-sampradaya, had two sons in his family life, named Madana and Gopala No edit summary current
- 20:0420:04, 28 October 2024 diff hist +4,900 Lord Caitanya decided to accept sannyasa on the grounds that when He became a sannyasi everyone would show Him respect and in that way be favored No edit summary current
- 20:0320:03, 28 October 2024 diff hist +9,336 You remain as a grhastha, remain as sannyasi, remain as brahmacari as it becomes suitable for you, but preach. That is the main business. If you lacking in preaching and become a sannyasi, what is the use of sannyasa? Better... A grhastha is better No edit summary
- 20:0220:02, 28 October 2024 diff hist +12,567 Why not surrender immediately? What is the point in waiting for so many births? When one comes to that point of surrender, he becomes a real sannyasi No edit summary current
- 20:0120:01, 28 October 2024 diff hist +13 When we are absorbed in the thought of serving Krsna and when we act in that consciousness, we can become real sannyasis and real yogis No edit summary current
- 20:0020:00, 28 October 2024 diff hist +7,366 When the practice is complete (as a vanaprastha, to live alone without the association of woman), the same retired householder becomes a sannyasi, strictly separate from woman, even from his married wife No edit summary current
- 20:0020:00, 28 October 2024 diff hist +7,202 When one is young, he can remain with family, wife, children, twenty-five to fifty years. That's all. No more. Give up. Then take vanaprastha. Train up yourself for becoming sannyasi. Then take sannyasa simply for understanding God. That is sannyasa No edit summary current
- 19:5919:59, 28 October 2024 diff hist +7,491 When I was householder, several times there was indication given by my Guru Maharaja that I should give up family life and become a sannyasi and preach this Krsna consciousness movement No edit summary current
- 19:5819:58, 28 October 2024 diff hist +8,146 We do not recommend that "You give up your occupation, you become a sannyasi, give up your wife and children." No. That is not our movement No edit summary current
- 19:5619:56, 28 October 2024 diff hist +4,940 To become sannyasi means that, that he'll be pure devotee, and wherever he will go, he will purify. That is sannyasa No edit summary current
- 19:5619:56, 28 October 2024 diff hist +4,232 To become sannyasi means No edit summary current
- 19:5519:55, 28 October 2024 diff hist +5,276 To become sannyasi is not very great credit, according to our Vaisnava philosophy. To become perfect house-holder, that is credit No edit summary current
- 19:5319:53, 28 October 2024 diff hist +9,564 The Krsna consciousness movement is not that we are asking everyone to become a sannyasi like me, and give up everything. No. That is not our program No edit summary current
- 19:5119:51, 28 October 2024 diff hist +5,504 There are many supposed renouncers even at the present moment who officially become sannyasis or renouncers and outwardly claim that spiritual existence is truth and material existence untruth No edit summary current
- 19:5019:50, 28 October 2024 diff hist +19,352 Suppose I say I have become a sannyasi mendicant - this is not a qualification, that I can now understand Krsna. Then what is the qualification? This: One who has developed the service spirit, with love and devotion, can understand Me." No other No edit summary current
- 19:4919:49, 28 October 2024 diff hist +13 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu very tactfully gave Prakasananda Sarasvati an opportunity to advance in ajnata-sukrti so that in the future he might actually become a Vaisnava sannyasi No edit summary current
- 19:4919:49, 28 October 2024 diff hist −9 So when one is fully equipped in knowledge, then he asks his wife to go to home to be taken care of by the elderly children, and he becomes a sannyasi. This is called varnasrama-dharma No edit summary current