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27 March 2025
- 17:1217:12, 27 March 2025 diff hist +19,347 All of these living entities are subject to the threefold miseries, including those miseries pertaining to the body and mind No edit summary current
- 17:1017:10, 27 March 2025 diff hist +3,149 Actually the living entity does not take birth nor does he die, but he has to fight with the stringent laws of material nature throughout the entire span of his lifetime. He must also face different kinds of miserable conditions No edit summary current
- 11:0011:00, 27 March 2025 diff hist +19,832 There are many mystic speculators who are engaged in speculating about liberation from the miseries of material life and who therefore undergo various austerities and penances No edit summary current
26 March 2025
- 13:5413:54, 26 March 2025 diff hist +15,486 Why should we accept a competitor? We should not simply engage in mental speculation but should accept Krsna in full consciousness and be happy. This is made possible by the help of the guru; therefore Devahuti is further questioning her son, Kapiladeva No edit summary current
- 13:3213:32, 26 March 2025 diff hist +4,254 Since a devotee engages in philosophical research to understand the Supreme Person as He is his activities may thus appear to be like those of a mental speculator, but actually he is trying to understand the spiritual nature and transcendental activities No edit summary current
- 13:2213:22, 26 March 2025 diff hist +6,824 Jnanis are engaged in philosophical speculation in order to gain release from the clutches of material nature. In these ways everyone is engaged in performing very difficult tasks simply for the gratification of the senses No edit summary current
- 13:1713:17, 26 March 2025 diff hist +17 Lord Siva does not engage in useless mental speculation, but as stated in the previous verse (SB 4.6.38), he is always thoughtful regarding how to deliver the demons from their fallen condition of life No edit summary current
25 March 2025
- 15:4115:41, 25 March 2025 diff hist +4,631 Through the mind the living entity suffers three kinds of tribulations - adhibhautika, adhidaivika and adhyatmika. Therefore this body is a source of all miseries No edit summary
- 15:3715:37, 25 March 2025 diff hist +5,524 Knowing the basic misery of material existence, one should be induced to get out of the material clutches and return home, back to Godhead. Actually the living entity is not at all happy in this material body No edit summary current
- 12:2012:20, 25 March 2025 diff hist +3,769 In general, there are many types of miseries that take advantage of the delicate human body and give us pain. Miseries inflicted by other living entities are called adhibhautika. For example, bedbugs can make us miserable while we are sleeping No edit summary current
- 12:1212:12, 25 March 2025 diff hist +7,142 Enamored with the beauty of the illusory energy, they undergo the same miseries repeatedly and do not learn any lessons from the laws of nature. Therefore the culture of vidya, or transcendental knowledge, is essential for the human being No edit summary current
- 12:1012:10, 25 March 2025 diff hist +7,480 He uses his mind & five senses to acquire knowledge, and these bring about the different bodies and different conditions. Using the senses under the control of the external energy, the living entity suffers the miserable conditions of material existence No edit summary current
- 11:0711:07, 25 March 2025 diff hist +3,943 Anarthopasamam saksad, bhakti-yogam adhoksaje, lokasyajanato vidvams, cakre satvata-samhitam: The material miseries of the living entity, which are superfluous to him, can be directly mitigated by the linking process of devotional service - SB 1.7.6 No edit summary current
- 10:4410:44, 25 March 2025 diff hist +2,646 All three (adhidaivika, adhyatmika and adhibhautika) may assail one at one time, or one misery may be absent and the other present. Thus the living entity is full of anxiety, fearing misery from one side or the other No edit summary current
22 March 2025
- 12:1312:13, 22 March 2025 diff hist +4,094 The Mayavadi sannyasis, engaged in the studies of sankhya and Vedanta and speculation, cannot relish transcendental service of the Lord. Because their studies become very tedious, they sometimes become tired of Brahman speculation. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 05:4905:49, 22 March 2025 diff hist +3,389 How the Dr. Frog, will understand Atlantic Ocean or Pacific Ocean? Can you estimate the length and breadth of the Atlantic, Pacific Ocean by speculation? So by speculation you cannot have Undo revision 1468120 by Akshi (talk) current Tag: Undo
21 March 2025
- 07:0107:01, 21 March 2025 diff hist +12 The conclusion is that those who are engaged in Krsna consciousness are better situated than the sannyasis engaged in simple Brahman speculation, although they too come to Krsna consciousness, after many births. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
16 March 2025
- 04:0904:09, 16 March 2025 diff hist +4,651 The impersonalists, because they engage in mental speculation and have no faith in the Personality of Godhead, have no business hearing the topics of Krsna. Such persons are pitiable for the first-class pure devotees of the Lord No edit summary current
13 March 2025
- 03:2903:29, 13 March 2025 diff hist +6,868 One who is not a devotee of the Lord must be hovering in the darkness of mental speculation and thus must be engaged in material impermanence No edit summary current
- 03:2703:27, 13 March 2025 diff hist +8,234 Nondevotees who are engaged in Vedanta and speculation on Vedic literature without any tinge of true Krsna consciousness are also less intelligent, and for them it is not possible to understand God's personal nature No edit summary current
- 03:1003:10, 13 March 2025 diff hist +3,041 For one who is fully engaged in My devotional service, whose mind is fixed on Me in bhakti-yoga, the path of speculative knowledge and dry renunciation is not very beneficial Undo revision 1467589 by Akshi (talk) current Tag: Undo
11 March 2025
- 17:0417:04, 11 March 2025 diff hist +12 It is clearly stated that not only the worshipers of the demigods are less intelligent, but those nondevotees who are engaged in Vedanta & speculation on Vedic literature without any tinge of true Krsna consciousness are also less intelligent. BG 1972 p No edit summary current
- 17:0217:02, 11 March 2025 diff hist +22,638 If someone gives up that path (of devotional service) and engages in the cultivation of knowledge or in speculation, he will simply undergo a troublesome process and will not achieve his desired results No edit summary current
- 16:4716:47, 11 March 2025 diff hist +12 For them (nondevotees who are engaged in Vedanta and speculation on Vedic literature without any tinge of true Krsna consciousness) it is not possible to understand God's personal nature. BG1972 purports No edit summary current
- 11:1011:10, 11 March 2025 diff hist +4,590 Even though one engages in pious activity and speculation, he is nonetheless defeated. His only aim should be emancipation from the clutches of maya and all material activities No edit summary current
- 07:2107:21, 11 March 2025 diff hist +3,397 Temple or asrama means for renunciation and renounced persons. If one is engaged in self-realization process, then his material necessities become almost nil. Persons who do not like this can work outside No edit summary current
- 07:1907:19, 11 March 2025 diff hist +3,835 The mind, although ceasing to think of sensual activities at present, remembers past sensual activities from the subconscious status and thus disturbs one from cent percent engagement in self-realization No edit summary current
9 March 2025
- 17:2417:24, 9 March 2025 diff hist +4,188 A devotee of the Lord, constantly engaged in devotional service in Krsna consciousness, perfect in self-realization, very quickly attains liberation in the Supreme. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
7 March 2025
- 03:4503:45, 7 March 2025 diff hist +3,922 The great sage Vyasadeva, after compiling the Srimad-Bhagavatam and revising it, taught it to his own son, Sri Sukadeva Gosvami, who was already engaged in self-realization No edit summary current
- 02:5702:57, 7 March 2025 diff hist +6,613 The word atmarama refers to those who are not interested in the material world but are simply engaged in spiritual realization. Such self-realized persons are generally considered in two categories - impersonal and personal No edit summary current
- 02:4802:48, 7 March 2025 diff hist +4,487 There are different kinds of yogis, but every yogi is supposed to engage in self-realization, or Brahman realization No edit summary current
6 March 2025
- 16:2816:28, 6 March 2025 diff hist +12 The apana-vayu goes downwards, vyana-vayu acts to shrink and expand, samana-vayu adjusts equilibrium, udana-vayu goes upwards-and when one is enlightened, one engages all these in searching for self-realization. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 16:2616:26, 6 March 2025 diff hist +3,523 The apana-vayu goes downwards, vyana-vayu acts to shrink and expand, samana-vayu adjusts equilibrium, udana-vayu goes upwards - and when one is enlightened, one engages all these in searching for self-realization No edit summary current
- 14:2714:27, 6 March 2025 diff hist +26,677 If he engages himself in self-realization, then he is engaged in something permanent (sat) No edit summary current
5 March 2025
- 13:4713:47, 5 March 2025 diff hist +2,877 The Supreme Personality of Godhead declares that one who does not accept the proper treatment to detach the mind from material engagement can hardly achieve success in self-realization. BG 1972 purports Undo revision 1235021 by Navakishora Mukunda (talk) current Tag: Manual revert
- 08:3908:39, 5 March 2025 diff hist +11,554 Unless a person is pure, he can neither understand what the PG is nor engage in His service in love, for devotional service, as stated before, begins from the point of self-realization, when all misgivings of materialistic life are vanquished No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
- 07:1407:14, 5 March 2025 diff hist +3,864 Engagement in Krsna consciousness and application of devotional service unto Krsna make it possible to advance in knowledge and detachment, as well as in self-realization No edit summary current
- 07:0907:09, 5 March 2025 diff hist +4,021 Daytime's engagement and night's engagement is finished, then where is the engagement for atma-tattvam? Where is the engagement for understanding self-realization? No edit summary current
4 March 2025
- 16:5316:53, 4 March 2025 diff hist +9,768 The varnasrama-dharma is prescribed for the civilized human being just to train him to successfully terminate human life. Self-realization is distinguished from the life of the lower animals engaged in eating, sleeping, fearing and mating No edit summary current
- 10:5410:54, 4 March 2025 diff hist +25,885 Those who attain self-realization by the execution of devotional service attain a transcendental body, and, being attracted to the transcendental qualities of Krsna, engage fully in pure devotional service Undo revision 1466776 by Akshi (talk) current Tag: Undo
3 March 2025
- 15:0215:02, 3 March 2025 diff hist +7,693 The most intelligent devotees do not take to any means of self-realization except devotional service and constant engagement in the nine different processes of devotional life, especially hearing and chanting No edit summary current
16 February 2025
- 13:5313:53, 16 February 2025 diff hist +23,498 When we come to our spiritual senses, we can understand that we are erroneously engaged in maya's service and that our duty is to engage in Krsna's service. That is self-realization No edit summary current
12 February 2025
- 03:5003:50, 12 February 2025 diff hist +3,976 Srimad-Bhagavatam is the natural commentation on the Brahma-sutras compiled by the same author. This Brahma-sutra, or Vedanta-sutra, is meant for those who are already engaged in self-realization No edit summary current
- 03:4503:45, 12 February 2025 diff hist +7,050 Self-realization is when you actually engage yourself in the service of the Lord. That is your self-realization. Because you are part and parcel, your duty is to serve the whole. If you think yourself, "I am whole," that is wrong conception No edit summary current
- 03:1603:16, 12 February 2025 diff hist +6,360 On the other hand, those who are not devotees but are engaged in uncertain processes of self-realization, such as jnana, yoga and karma, are understood to be still contaminated No edit summary current
9 February 2025
- 14:5614:56, 9 February 2025 diff hist +5,907 One begins as a brahmacari then becomes a grhastha, a vanaprastha and finally a sannyasi to take advantage of the duration of one's life by engaging oneself fully in self-realization No edit summary current
- 13:3513:35, 9 February 2025 diff hist +3,798 One who engaged in the process of self-realization, or connecting with the Supreme Absolute Truth, but fell short is allowed to take birth in such a rich family, or he is allowed to take birth in the family of pious brahmanas No edit summary current
- 13:2113:21, 9 February 2025 diff hist +3,374 He is advanced in the opulence of spiritual assets, and He engages in executing austerity until the end of this millennium. This is the process of self-realization No edit summary current
8 February 2025
- 13:3813:38, 8 February 2025 diff hist +4,668 Devotional service is actual liberation. When one is attracted by the beauty of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and his mind is always engaged at the Lord's lotus feet, he is no longer interested in subjects that do not help him in self-realization No edit summary current
- 13:0513:05, 8 February 2025 diff hist +12 A Krsna conscious person, fully engaged in self-realization, has very little time to falsely possess any material object. For maintaining body and soul, he does not require unfair means of accumulating money. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current