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11 December 2024

• 07:1807:18, 11 December 2024 diff hist +5,490 Narada was simply a maidservant's son, but he got the opportunity to serve exalted brahmanas & Vaisnavas, & thus in his next life he not only became liberated, but became famous as the supreme spiritual master of the entire Vaisnava disciplic succession No edit summary current
• 07:1707:17, 11 December 2024 diff hist +18,032 Kunti addresses Lord Krsna as vrsni-rsabha, the child of the dynasty of Vrsni. It was because Krsna appeared in the Vrsni dynasty that this dynasty became famous, just as Malaysia & the Malaya Hills became famous because of the sandalwood that grows there No edit summary current
• 07:1707:17, 11 December 2024 diff hist +2,413 Knowing that she was pregnant, the co-wives of the wife of Bahuka conspired to give her poison with her food, but it did not act. Instead, the son was born along with the poison. Therefore he became famous as Sagara ("one who is born with poison") No edit summary current
• 07:1707:17, 11 December 2024 diff hist +2,542 Kapila is considered an incarnation of Krsna, and His philosophy is mentioned in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. Later on another Kapila became famous, but his philosophy was atheistic. Thus there is a gulf of difference between them. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 07:1707:17, 11 December 2024 diff hist +3,086 He (Silhana Misra) wrote a book named Santi-sataka, and later, by the mercy of Lord Krsna and the Vaisnavas, he became a great devotee. Thus he became famous as Bilvamangala Thakura Gosvami No edit summary current
• 07:1707:17, 11 December 2024 diff hist +3,136 Generally men who have wealth and opulence are famous, but Bali Maharaja became famous for all time by being deprived of all his possessions. This is the special mercy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead toward His devotees No edit summary current
• 07:1707:17, 11 December 2024 diff hist +1,574 Caitanya says, "On account of Madhavendra Puri, Lord Gopinatha stole the pot of sweet rice. Thus He became famous as Ksira-cora (the thief who stole the sweet rice)" No edit summary current
• 07:1707:17, 11 December 2024 diff hist +4,093 By the blessings of Krsna, Yogamaya was able to achieve the reputation of being the daughter of mother Yasoda, who also became famous by the blessings of Krsna. Yasoda means "one who gives fame" No edit summary current
• 07:1707:17, 11 December 2024 diff hist +3,198 Before him (Bharata) the land was known as Ilavati-varsa, but just after the coronation of Bharata, the son of Rsabha, this land became famous as Bharata-varsa No edit summary current
• 07:1707:17, 11 December 2024 diff hist +3,157 Although still fully equipped with transcendental knowledge and practical application of that knowledge in life, he appeared as a demon at the fire sacrifice performed by Tvasta, and thus he became famous as Vrtrasura No edit summary current
• 06:5606:56, 11 December 2024 diff hist +3,896 Without Krsna, all the supplementary literatures like the Puranas and Mahabharata are simply stories or historical facts. But with Krsna they become transcendental, and when we hear of them we at once become transcendentally related with the Lord No edit summary current
• 06:5606:56, 11 December 2024 diff hist +3,890 The Vedic literatures contain many narrations of the Lord's pastimes, including the Battle of Kuruksetra and historical facts relating to the life and precepts of devotees like Prahlada Maharaja, Dhruva Maharaja and Ambarisa Maharaja No edit summary current
• 06:5606:56, 11 December 2024 diff hist +3,393 The Puranas and Mahabharata were made from related historical facts which explained the teaching of the four Vedas. There is no point in doubting the authority of the Puranas and Mahabharata as parts and parcels of the Vedas No edit summary current
• 06:5606:56, 11 December 2024 diff hist +6,578 The Mayavadis accept the description of the pastimes of the Lord as stories, but actually they are not stories; they are historical facts No edit summary current
• 06:5506:55, 11 December 2024 diff hist +4,258 The history of Battle of Kuruksetra where this Bhagavad-gita was spoken, that is a historical fact No edit summary current
• 06:5506:55, 11 December 2024 diff hist +1,800 The four divisions of the original sources of knowledge (the Vedas) were made separately. But the historical facts and authentic stories mentioned in the Puranas are called the fifth Veda No edit summary current
• 06:5306:53, 11 December 2024 diff hist +5,955 The difficulty is that such literatures (Puranas), when discussed by professional men, appear to be mundane literature like histories or epics because there are so many historical facts and figures No edit summary current
• 06:5306:53, 11 December 2024 diff hist +8,140 They are said to be apauruseya. No one can trace out the history of the Vedas. Of course, modern human civilization has no chronological history of the world or the universe, and it cannot present actual historical facts older than three thousand years No edit summary current
• 06:5306:53, 11 December 2024 diff hist +4,449 There is a story Savitri-Satyavan. It is not a story. It is historical fact that one gentleman, he was a king's son, prince. His name was Satyavan. But he was to die at a certain age his horoscope said. But one girl Savitri, she fell in love with that boy No edit summary current
• 06:5306:53, 11 December 2024 diff hist +3,843 Srimad-Bhagavatam is the cream of all the Vedas, and it contains all historical facts of all times in relation with Sri Krsna. It is factually the essence of all histories No edit summary current
• 06:5206:52, 11 December 2024 diff hist +4,307 Srimad-Bhagavatam is also a Purana, but the special significance of this Purana is that the activities of the Lord are central and not just supplementary historical facts No edit summary current
• 06:5206:52, 11 December 2024 diff hist +8,260 Some of them (stories in the Puranas) refer to real historical facts. One should be interested, however, in the real purport of the story No edit summary current
• 06:5206:52, 11 December 2024 diff hist +4,795 Simply by knowing by historical fact that Krsna is born in such-and-such date, in such-and-such place, in such-and-such family, activity . . . but no. One has to learn that in tattvatah, in truth. Then he becomes free from this bodily entanglement No edit summary current
• 06:5206:52, 11 December 2024 diff hist +5,653 Men with a poor fund of knowledge do not know that different planets are not equal in all respects and that therefore some of the historical facts derived from other planets do not correspond with the experience of this planet No edit summary current
• 06:4906:49, 11 December 2024 diff hist +5,459 In the Srimad-Bhagavatam historical facts selected from the histories of different planets have been depicted. It is therefore accepted by all the spiritual authorities as the Maha-Purana No edit summary current
• 06:4806:48, 11 December 2024 diff hist +2,625 Historical facts, being instructive for ordinary men, were assorted without chronological reference. They happen on different planets, nay, in different universes & thus the description of the narrations is sometimes measured by three dimensions No edit summary current
• 06:4806:48, 11 December 2024 diff hist +2,326 Formerly, O King, when Maharaja Yudhisthira was performing the Rajasuya sacrifice, the great sage Narada, responding to his inquiry, recited historical facts showing how the Supreme Personality of Godhead is always impartial, even when killing demons No edit summary current
• 06:4706:47, 11 December 2024 diff hist +3,665 By His symptoms, by the historical fact, by the evidence of the Vedas, He is accepted as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore, when Krsna is speaking, the very words are used, sri bhagavan uvaca No edit summary current
• 06:4706:47, 11 December 2024 diff hist +2,407 Brahma has knowledge of those historical facts (the histories of the universe), and therefore all the puranas are histories. As originally composed by Brahma, they are part of the Vedas and are called the fifth Veda No edit summary current
• 06:4606:46, 11 December 2024 diff hist +29 At least to have a guarantee that our next life is going to be human life, everyone should take to Krsna consciousness. From mundane profit point of view. There is a story, Savitri-Satyavan. It is not a story. It is historical fact No edit summary current
• 06:4606:46, 11 December 2024 diff hist +3,583 Any historical fact old or new which has a connection with the activities of the Lord is to be understood as a transcendental narration of the Lord No edit summary current

6 December 2024

• 08:3508:35, 6 December 2024 diff hist +5,362 Brahma said to Narada, "Whatever I have spoken to you about the Bhagavatam was explained to me by the Lord & I am advising you to expand these topics nicely so that people may easily understand the mysterious bhakti-yoga by transcendental loving service" No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 6 December 2024 diff hist +1,941 After thus advising him how to worship, Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu personally offered Raghunatha dasa the govardhana-sila with His transcendental hand. As advised by the Lord, Raghunatha dasa worshiped the sila in great transcendental jubilation No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 6 December 2024 diff hist +1,741 After describing the potency of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, My spiritual master taught Me another verse, advising Me to always keep it within My throat No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 6 December 2024 diff hist +3,854 According to the time, circumstances, different types of philosophies are there. Just like Jesus Christ. He is advising, - Thou shall not killing No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 6 December 2024 diff hist +12,283 Canakya Pandita, he was great politician, he is advising that if you have got money, spend it for Krsna. Don't keep it. Spend it for Krsna. Why? It will be spoiled. Today or tomorrow. Somebody will take and spoil it. Better, if you spend it for Krsna No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 6 December 2024 diff hist +19,862 He (Jesus) is himself eating meat, but he is advising others not to kill. Do you think that Jesus Christ was contradicting himself No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 6 December 2024 diff hist +3,016 He (Vena Maharaja) is advising, "Reject religion. No more charity, no more sacrifice, no more worship. Stop all this nonsense." Then what is the condition of the society? So that is being done No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 6 December 2024 diff hist +7,662 How Krsna is advising that sarva-dharman parityajya, (BG 18.66) "You give up all religious system?" He came - dharma-samsthapanarthaya. He came to reestablish the principles of religion No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 6 December 2024 diff hist +27 If we at all expect success in the yoga system, we cannot allow our unbridled senses to take us down the paths of sense objects; therefore guidelines are set up. Lord Sri Krsna is advising that the mind can be controlled through regulation No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 6 December 2024 diff hist +28,013 If we think that we can be happy without Krsna consciousness, Krsna does not object to that. Yathecchasi tatha kuru (BG 18.63). After advising Arjuna, He simply said - Now I have explained everything to you. Whatever you desire, you can do No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 6 December 2024 diff hist +2,927 In this way Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu directly initiated the saintly Muslim by advising him to chant the holy name of Krsna. The Muslim's name was changed to Ramadasa. Another Pathana Muslim present there was named Vijuli Khan No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 6 December 2024 diff hist +5,062 I am advising him to consult with you and I think, cooperatively along with Mohanananda and others, you, senior members, can manage everything there very nicely and relieve me of such questions No edit summary current
• 08:3108:31, 6 December 2024 diff hist +27 I am advising my Bombay center with a copy of this letter to send you the latest amended copy of the Rules of the Society. It is not yet settled up as to those who will be the Trustees. When I return to India, I shall send you the list No edit summary current
• 08:3108:31, 6 December 2024 diff hist +1,737 I am advising my men in Vrndavana to begin the function (of inaugurating Krsna-Balarama Temple) from the 16th of April as desired by you. Thanking you for your suggestion No edit summary current
• 08:3108:31, 6 December 2024 diff hist +2,232 I am advising my representative Sriman Brahmananda Brahmacari, president of my New York Temple, and he is authorized to deal on my behalf in this connection No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 6 December 2024 diff hist +7,447 Krsna is advising Arjuna that either goodness or passion or ignorance, after all, they are activities of this material world. You have to come above, transcend this position of goodness also. So goodness is not qualification for spiritual advancement No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 6 December 2024 diff hist +20,345 Krsna is advising Arjuna to establish himself in his pure constitutional position as spirit soul, beyond the dualities of material nature No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 6 December 2024 diff hist +2,955 Krsna is here (in BG 8.27) advising Arjuna that he should not be disturbed by the different paths the soul can take when leaving the material world. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 6 December 2024 diff hist +9,744 Krsna is personally advising: sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja: (BG 18.66) "Give up all your concocted religions and surrender to Me alone." take His advice and be happy No edit summary current