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03:1603:16, 13 January 2025 diff hist +3,411 I shall give you one tangible example in the life of Mahatma Gandhi. You know he was a very great man, political leader in India. So he was also very God-fearing man, a very nice soul. But he also committed mistakes so many times No edit summary current
03:1603:16, 13 January 2025 diff hist +3,840 I have given the example that the Vedas say cow dung is pure. This is axiomatic truth. Now if you analyze cow dung you'll find all the antiseptic properties are there. This is axiomatic No edit summary current
03:1303:13, 13 January 2025 diff hist +19,412 I have given the example many times that a screw which has fallen from a machine has no value. But when the same screw is again attached to the machine, it has value. Similarly, we are part and parcel of God. So without God, what is our value? No value No edit summary current
03:1203:12, 13 January 2025 diff hist +131,550 I have given the example No edit summary current
03:1003:10, 13 January 2025 diff hist +13,366 I have given several times the example of the iron rod and the fire No edit summary current
03:0703:07, 13 January 2025 diff hist +21,325 I have given many times example, if you take a fish out of water, you can give it a very comfortable velvet bedstead, but still the fish cannot be happy; it will die No edit summary current
03:0703:07, 13 January 2025 diff hist +4,073 I have given already one crude example. Similarly, why Mr. Stalin could tolerate without any trouble? Because he was a leader. He was always absorbed in the thought of how he could advance the Communist cause. This is the real reason No edit summary current
03:0603:06, 13 January 2025 diff hist +8,116 I give you one example. Just like this finger is the part and parcel of your body or my body. If this finger is separated from this body, it has no value. Similarly, we being part and parcel of God, Krsna, if we're detached from God, we cannot be happy No edit summary current
03:0603:06, 13 January 2025 diff hist +4,451 I am a sannyasi. I am forbidden to make any association with women. I cannot talk even with woman in a lonely place. That is forbidden. I give you one practical example. When my Guru Maharaja, my spiritual master, was living... No edit summary current
03:0503:05, 13 January 2025 diff hist +16,355 How is she (Prakrti) working? Just like a shadow. Below our hand is its shadow, and as our hand moves, the shadow moves. Behind all manifestations there is motion. I have sometimes given the example of the shunting of the big cars in a railway line No edit summary current
03:0403:04, 13 January 2025 diff hist +10,734 Follow my example No edit summary current
03:0103:01, 13 January 2025 diff hist +6,153 Follow my example as I did in the beginning at 26 2nd Ave. That is preaching, cooking, writing, talking, chanting everything one man's show. I never thought about the audience. I was prepared to chant if there were no man to hear me No edit summary current
02:5902:59, 13 January 2025 diff hist +3,261 Fighting is a ksatriya's duty, you see. I can give you one example: Just like one man is ordered by the state that "This man should be hanged." Does it mean that the state is enemy of this man? No edit summary current
02:5602:56, 13 January 2025 diff hist +23,759 As for the question of "fatalistic," I have often given this example: Let us say a man is condemned by a court of law to be hanged. Nobody can check it No edit summary current
02:5502:55, 13 January 2025 diff hist +7 Anyone of us, serving somebody. But the result is, this material service... I have given several times the example that Mahatma Gandhi, he gave so much service. But result was he was killed No edit summary current

13:0713:07, 12 January 2025 diff hist +3,952 If I am part and parcel of God, my duty is to serve. This example I have given you many times: Just like this finger is the part and parcel of my body. So what is the duty of this finger? The duty of the finger is to serve the whole body, that's all No edit summary current
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11:5011:50, 12 January 2025 diff hist +2,941 On the brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20) stage, or the platform of spiritual realization, there is no lamentation and no material hankering (na socati na kanksati) - BG 18.54 No edit summary current
11:5011:50, 12 January 2025 diff hist +31,949 Only when one has attained proper knowledge can he actually be liberated. The stage of liberation is also called the brahma-bhutah stage No edit summary current
11:5011:50, 12 January 2025 diff hist +31,951 One who has attained this stage (of the brahma-bhutah) is characterized by Sri Krsna in Bhagavad-gita in this way: brahma-bhutah prasannatma, na socati na kanksati, samah sarvesu bhutesu, mad-bhaktim labhate param - BG 18.54 No edit summary current
11:4911:49, 12 January 2025 diff hist +4,725 One who fully engages in the devotional service of the Lord is immediately raised to the transcendental position, which is the brahma-bhuta stage No edit summary current
11:4911:49, 12 January 2025 diff hist +6 One who attains his particular relationship with the SPG should be known to be in the best relationship for him, but when these transcendental relationships are studied, it can be seen that the neutral stage of realization (brahma-bhuta) is the first No edit summary current
09:3009:30, 12 January 2025 diff hist +5,886 One has to come to the brahma-bhuta stage for going back to Godhead No edit summary current
09:3009:30, 12 January 2025 diff hist +11,500 Love of God involves the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the devotee, and the process of devotional service. Self-realization, the brahma-bhuta stage, is the beginning of spiritual life; it is not the perfectional stage No edit summary current
09:2909:29, 12 January 2025 diff hist +11,076 Lord Krsna states that the brahma-bhuta ananda-maya stage is complete only when there is an exchange of love between the Supreme and the subordinate living entities No edit summary current
09:2909:29, 12 January 2025 diff hist +5,623 Knowledge gives one the preference to accept devotional service. Unless one comes to the platform of knowledge, the brahma-bhuta stage, one cannot advance in devotional service No edit summary current
09:2809:28, 12 January 2025 diff hist +10,925 In the brahma-bhuta stage of life there is no anxiety and no hankering. This stage begins when one is equally disposed toward all living entities, and it then expands to the stage of Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
09:2809:28, 12 January 2025 diff hist +36,447 In the brahma-bhutah stage one no longer identifies with matter. The first symptom of one's having become established on the brahma-bhutah platform is that one becomes jolly (prasannatma). On that platform, there is neither lamentation nor hankering No edit summary current
09:2809:28, 12 January 2025 diff hist +25,952 In the Bhagavad-gita we find that this is our brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20) (highest stage of goodness) situation. The Vedas teach us that we are not this matter. We are Brahman. Aham brahmasmi No edit summary current
09:0609:06, 12 January 2025 diff hist +8,170 In the Bhagavad-gita (BG 18.54), Lord Krsna describes self-realization as follows: Self-realization (the brahma-bhuta SB 4.30.20 stage) is symptomized by joyfulness. One never laments for any loss, nor is one very enthusiastic when there is some gain No edit summary current
09:0209:02, 12 January 2025 diff hist −13 In that (brahma-bhuta) stage of existence the idea of attaining the heavenly kingdom becomes phantasmagoria, and the senses are like broken serpents' teeth. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
09:0209:02, 12 January 2025 diff hist +4,546 In that (brahma-bhuta) stage of existence, the idea of becoming one with the Supreme Brahman and annihilating one's individuality becomes hellish. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
09:0209:02, 12 January 2025 diff hist +4,507 In order to maintain the status quo of the brahma-bhuta stage, as also to increase the degree of transcendental realization, Narada recommended to Vyasadeva that he (Vyasadeva) should now eagerly and repeatedly describe the path of devotional service No edit summary current
09:0209:02, 12 January 2025 diff hist +4,810 If the devotee adheres strictly to the orders of the spiritual master, follows the rules and regulations and chants the Hare Krsna mantra, it should be concluded that he is already at the brahma-bhuta stage, as confirmed in Bhagavad-gita - BG 14.26 No edit summary current
08:4808:48, 12 January 2025 diff hist +4,518 He (the devotee of God) has no need to practice any other type of yoga in order to approach the brahma-bhuta stage - SB 4.30.20 No edit summary current
08:4808:48, 12 January 2025 diff hist +4,458 For him (a pure devotee) stone and gold are of equal value. This is the brahma-bhuta stage, and this stage is attained very easily by the pure devotee. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
08:4808:48, 12 January 2025 diff hist −13 Even though these (semiliberated) living entities attain the brahma-bhuta stage and realize the Supreme Personality of Godhead through His bodily effulgence, they nonetheless fall down due to neglecting the Lord’s service No edit summary current
08:4808:48, 12 January 2025 diff hist −13 Even if we rise to this stage (brahma-bhutah) and do not take to the loving service of Krsna, there is the possibility of falling down again into the material whirlpool No edit summary current
08:3708:37, 12 January 2025 diff hist −13 Brahma-bhutah stage is a preliminary qualification to enter into devotional service. But if one does not enter into devotional service, neglects the lotus feet of Krsna, then patanty adhah. These are the authoritative statements No edit summary current
08:2108:21, 12 January 2025 diff hist +11,982 A person who is highly advanced in spiritual knowledge and who has attained the brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20) stage neither laments nor hankers for anything material. That is the stage of spiritual realization No edit summary current
08:1908:19, 12 January 2025 diff hist +8,344 A jnani may become detached from material attractions by prolonged discussions on subjects of knowledge and may in this way finally come to the brahma-bhuta stage, but a devotee does not have to undergo so much trouble No edit summary current
08:1708:17, 12 January 2025 diff hist +6,531 At this brahma-bhuta stage of liberation from the material entanglement, the symptoms, as explained in the Bhagavad-gita, are that one becomes joyous beyond any hankering or lamentation and gains a universal vision No edit summary current
07:4907:49, 12 January 2025 diff hist +11,220 As soon as one attains this knowledge (uselessly serving maya), he reaches the brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20) stage, Brahman realization, and he becomes prasannatma, happy. One may ask, - Why should I serve Krsna No edit summary current
07:4807:48, 12 January 2025 diff hist +9,504 As confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita, in the brahma-bhuta stage of life one becomes free from hankering and lamentation. Therefore the conclusion is that the inhabitants of the Vaikuntha planets are all brahma-bhuta living entities No edit summary current
07:4307:43, 12 January 2025 diff hist +4,659 Anyone who is engaged in devotional service unflinchingly, without any adulteration, he immediately becomes elevated to the brahma-bhutah stage - Immediately No edit summary current
07:4107:41, 12 January 2025 diff hist +5,628 Aham brahmasmi. That is Vedic instruction. And as soon as you come to this point, if you are firmly convinced that you are not this body, that is called brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20) stage, Brahman realization stage. That is knowledge, real knowledge No edit summary current
07:4107:41, 12 January 2025 diff hist +6 After liberation, which is the last item in the line of performing religiosity, etc., one is engaged in pure devotional service. This is called the stage of self-realization, or the brahma-bhuta stage (SB 4.30.20) No edit summary current
07:4107:41, 12 January 2025 diff hist +3,279 After attainment of this brahma-bhuta stage, one is satisfied. But satisfaction is the beginning of transcendental bliss No edit summary current
07:4007:40, 12 January 2025 diff hist +6 After attainment of the brahma-bhuta stage of freedom from material conceptions, devotional service begins by one's hearing about the Lord. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current

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