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08:1908:19, 28 November 2024 diff hist +4,042 King Malayadhvaja executed austerities and penances for thirty-six thousand years. After this time, he became fixed in the devotional service of the Lord No edit summary current
08:1608:16, 28 November 2024 diff hist +2,830 You surely must be a great devotee. Tulasi devi is growing so profusely there and that is surely to your credit. So continue with this valuable service and become fixed up in Krishna consciousness No edit summary current
08:1608:16, 28 November 2024 diff hist +2,555 You should read every day without fail and become fixed in our philosophy No edit summary current
08:1608:16, 28 November 2024 diff hist +3,761 With the association of a bona fide spiritual master, he (the living entity) can see his real position, and, by such an understanding, he can become fixed in full Krsna consciousness. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
08:1608:16, 28 November 2024 diff hist +8 When we are freed from the bad elements of life, then we become fixed up in our Krsna consciousness. Nistha. Then rucis - taste. Nistha, rucis, then asaktis - attachment; then bhava - ecstasy. Then the next stage is love of Godhead No edit summary current
08:1608:16, 28 November 2024 diff hist +4,380 To become fixed, become sannyasi, the other three processes are there: to become brahmacari, to become grhastha, to become vanaprastha, stage by stage. But if one is able, he can take sannyasa No edit summary current
08:1608:16, 28 November 2024 diff hist +4,116 Those whose intelligence has become fixed by perfect execution of mystic yoga can see that all these elements result from the actions of Your external energy. They can also see Your transcendental form as Supersoul in the background of everything No edit summary current
08:1508:15, 28 November 2024 diff hist −11 Pravrtti-marga or nivrtti-marga, so we have to become fixed about these things. We cannot be deviant No edit summary current
08:1508:15, 28 November 2024 diff hist +8,070 One can become fixed in one's prescribed duty by faithful aural reception of Vedic instructions and assimilation of the essence of Vedic knowledge by devotional service to the Lord No edit summary current
08:1508:15, 28 November 2024 diff hist +2,896 Now that I have become fixed in the Absolute Truth, henceforward I shall not identify myself with the body. I shall give up false conceptions of "I" and "mine" and fix my mind on the lotus feet of Krsna No edit summary current
08:1508:15, 28 November 2024 diff hist +6,638 Nobody dies if he does not smoke or drink. Nobody dies. So artificially we learn it, so by good association we can give it up. So when we are purified out of all the bad habits, then we become fixed up in spiritual knowledge No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 28 November 2024 diff hist +4,362 Maharaja Prthu's activities in devotional service enabled him to become fixed and steady in the discharge of devotional activities without having to take recourse to karma, jnana or yoga No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 28 November 2024 diff hist +3,275 I am very happy to hear that the temple is improving more and more under your expert guidance. Now go on with our program and try to increase your attraction of KCM to the public and recruit local men more and more to become fixed up devotees of Krsna No edit summary
08:1408:14, 28 November 2024 diff hist +8,824 If we become fixed up in this resolution, that "Whatever we have heard from my guru, the representative of Krsna, I must execute. I do not care for my personal convenience or inconvenience. This is my life and soul," then your life is perfect No edit summary
08:1408:14, 28 November 2024 diff hist +8 By counteracting with pious activities, when one is completely freed from the resultant action of sinful life, such persons without any doubt, without any hesitation become fixed up in KC and takes Krsna as the life and soul. So this is very difficult No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 28 November 2024 diff hist +5,030 Upon becoming fixed in his attachment to the SPG by the grace of the spiritual master and by awakening knowledge and detachment, the living entity, situated within the heart of the body, burns up his material surroundings exactly as fire No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 28 November 2024 diff hist +1,959 This is the duty of GBC, to see that all of our members are becoming fixed in Krishna's service No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 28 November 2024 diff hist +12,721 It is only by abandoning all material gains and becoming fixed in Krsna consciousness, devotional service to the Lord, that one can actually achieve the perfection of life No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 28 November 2024 diff hist +3,643 By becoming fixed in this knowledge, one can attain to the transcendental nature, which is like My own nature. Thus established, one is not born at the time of creation nor disturbed at the time of dissolution. BG 14.2 - 1972 No edit summary current
08:1408:14, 28 November 2024 diff hist +3,604 You write to say that this Hare Krishna Movement is perfect in all respects. And it is a fact that "Sankirtana will keep you happy and the books will keep you convinced", so make your program in that way and become fixed up in Krishna Consciousness No edit summary current

08:5908:59, 27 November 2024 diff hist +4,744 Vaisnavas are generally known as gosvamis. In Vrndavana, this is the title by which the director of each temple is known. One who wants to become a perfect devotee of Krsna must become a gosvami No edit summary current
08:5908:59, 27 November 2024 diff hist +4,870 One who can keep himself steady and resist the attraction of material nature is certainly a hero and deserves to be called a gosvami. Unless one is master of the senses, he cannot become a gosvami No edit summary current
08:5808:58, 27 November 2024 diff hist +2,828 One has to become a gosvami and control his senses. One should not simply use his senses for sense gratification; rather, the senses should be employed just as much as required for maintaining body and soul together No edit summary current
08:5808:58, 27 November 2024 diff hist +4,586 Go means "the senses," and svami means "the master." Unless one controls his senses and mind, one cannot become a gosvami No edit summary current
08:5808:58, 27 November 2024 diff hist +12 A devotee who has attained the title of gosvami but is not born of a brahmana father or of a gosvami in the family of Nityananda or Advaita Prabhu should not be artificially puffed up by thinking that he has become a gosvami No edit summary current
08:5708:57, 27 November 2024 diff hist +2,975 Srila Rupa Gosvami and Sanatana Gosvami were previously ministers directly in charge of the government of Nawab Hussain Shah, and they were also householders, but later they became gosvamis No edit summary current
08:5708:57, 27 November 2024 diff hist +8,156 Rupa and Sanatana were made the prime ministers of spreading sankirtana movement, the Caitanya cult. We are sitting in Rupa Gosvami's place. Officially, they become Muhammadan, but by the grace of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, they became Gosvami No edit summary current
08:5708:57, 27 November 2024 diff hist +6,518 One must be master of the senses. That is defined by Rupa Gosvami, Rupa Gosvami. When they were ministers they were not gosvami. But when they become disciples of Lord Caitanya, Sanatana Gosvami and Rupa Gosvami, & was trained by Him, they became gosvami No edit summary current
08:5708:57, 27 November 2024 diff hist +12 How they (Six Gosvamis) became gosvami or svami? Because they are not affected by these (sleeping, eating, sex and defense) demands. That is gosvami; that is svami. Svami means master. Gosvami means master of the senses No edit summary current
08:5708:57, 27 November 2024 diff hist +4,394 Both the brothers, Rupa Gosvami, Sanatana Gosvami, they became gosvamis. And other gosvamis, Gopala Bhatta Gosvami, Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, Sri Jiva Gosvami, they became their assistants No edit summary current
08:5608:56, 27 November 2024 diff hist +11 Unfortunately the go-dasas are claiming to be gosvamis. That is the cause of falldown of Indian Vedic civilization. One has to become gosvami. Gosvami means refuse to follow the dictation of the senses No edit summary current
08:5608:56, 27 November 2024 diff hist +11 That grhamedhi, grhastha - appearing like the same. But grhastha means no dictation of the sense. Then you become gosvami No edit summary current
08:5608:56, 27 November 2024 diff hist +6,157 Go means senses. So unless you become gosvami, your life is spoiled. Gosvami. You cannot be dictated by the senses. You have to dictate to the senses No edit summary current
08:5608:56, 27 November 2024 diff hist +3,374 Sri Rupa Gosvami presented himself as an ordinary grhastha and minister in government service but became a gosvami when he was actually elevated by the instruction of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary current
08:5108:51, 27 November 2024 diff hist +7,620 I was ordered by my spiritual master to do this work, so on his order I came in 1965. That is the beginning of this. I came alone with no help, no money. Somehow or other (laughs) I started... My attraction is this chanting. That's all No edit summary current
08:5008:50, 27 November 2024 diff hist +3,706 Then, without help from others, one will find material enjoyment detestful. Those whose minds are changed by others do not become as renounced as those who have personal experience No edit summary
08:5008:50, 27 November 2024 diff hist +1,552 Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: Hearing these enigmatic words of Narada Muni, the Haryasvas considered them with their natural intelligence, without help from others No edit summary current
08:4908:49, 27 November 2024 diff hist +5,797 Prahlada Maharaja has hinted: hitvatma-patam grham andha-kupam vanam gato yad dharim asrayeta (SB 7.5.5). Family life is considered a blind well (andha-kupam) into which a person falls and dies without help No edit summary current
08:4908:49, 27 November 2024 diff hist +4,382 One should be allowed to remain in so-called material enjoyment while simultaneously advancing in knowledge to experience the misery of this false material happiness. Then, without help from others, one will find material enjoyment detestful No edit summary current

07:2207:22, 20 November 2024 diff hist +4,883 When they become absorbed in thoughts of material enjoyment, Lord Brahma and Lord Siva, as well as other demigods and demons, undergo severe penances and austerities to receive my (Laksmidevi) benedictions No edit summary current
07:2207:22, 20 November 2024 diff hist +5,254 When a living entity is accustomed to think of a particular subject matter or become absorbed in a certain type of thought, he will think of that subject at the time of death No edit summary current
07:2207:22, 20 November 2024 diff hist +12,592 To become absorbed in the transcendental name, quality, form and activities of the Supreme Person, Vasudeva, means to change the temper of the mind from matter to absolute knowledge No edit summary current
07:2207:22, 20 November 2024 diff hist +6,166 Those who have achieved liberation from material contamination, and those who are demons and are killed by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, become absorbed in the Brahman concept of life and reside in the spiritual sky of the brahma-jyoti No edit summary current
07:2207:22, 20 November 2024 diff hist +25,627 The method of devotional service, the service itself, association of pure devotees and the causeless mercy of the Lord all act so wonderfully that one can give up all activities and become absorbed in Krsna No edit summary current
07:2207:22, 20 November 2024 diff hist +11 The atheistic mystic practitioner of yoga cannot understand this perfect knowledge. Only persons who engage in the practical activities of devotional service in full Krsna consciousness can become absorbed in full samadhi No edit summary current
07:2207:22, 20 November 2024 diff hist +3,891 They (the little creatures playing in small pools) are like foolish men who, not caring for the nearing day of their death, become absorbed in the so-called enjoyment of family life No edit summary current
07:2207:22, 20 November 2024 diff hist +5,025 Surrendered devotee sees that everything is part of Krishna's plan, that whatever is meant to be, I am doing that, so let me do it with my full attention to every detail, let me become absorbed in such service, never mind what it is No edit summary current
07:2207:22, 20 November 2024 diff hist +5,172 Sri Narada advised Srila Vyasadeva to become absorbed in transcendental meditation on the Personality of Godhead and His activities. Srila Vyasadeva did not take notice of the effulgence of Brahman because that is not absolute vision No edit summary current
07:2207:22, 20 November 2024 diff hist +4,990 O supreme unconquerable Lord (Kamadeva), when they become absorbed in thoughts of material enjoyment, Lord Brahma and Lord Siva, as well as other demigods and demons, undergo severe penances and austerities to receive my (Laksmi's) benedictions No edit summary current
07:2107:21, 20 November 2024 diff hist +4,776 O supreme unconquerable Lord, when they become absorbed in thoughts of material enjoyment, Lord Brahma and Lord Siva, as well as other demigods and demons, undergo severe penances and austerities to receive my benedictions No edit summary current

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