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14 September 2025

• 11:0511:05, 14 September 2025 diff hist +4,211 The age of Kali literally means the age of quarrel, and the abovementioned four symptoms in human society are the root causes for all kinds of quarrel No edit summary current
• 11:0411:04, 14 September 2025 diff hist +4,306 Suta Gosvami said: While Maharaja Pariksit was residing in the capital of the Kuru empire, the symptoms of the age of Kali began to infiltrate within the jurisdiction of his state No edit summary current
• 11:0411:04, 14 September 2025 diff hist +3,525 Maharaja Pariksit knew also that the age of Kali had begun and that the first symptom of the age, namely degradation of the highly talented brahmana community, had also begun No edit summary current
• 11:0311:03, 14 September 2025 diff hist +9,119 Kali-yuga symptom, that position in society, if you want to be respectable man, you somehow or other gather money. Never mind how we have gathered, what is the method. It doesn't matter. Get some money and you become respectable No edit summary current
• 11:0311:03, 14 September 2025 diff hist +4,265 In the rainy season, rain is predestined. Similarly, in the age of Kali the symptoms as above mentioned are sure to infiltrate into social life, but it is the duty of the state to save the citizens from the association of the agents of the age of Kali No edit summary current
• 11:0311:03, 14 September 2025 diff hist +3,429 This is the symptom of this age: "I want to associate with some organization" No edit summary current
• 11:0211:02, 14 September 2025 diff hist +4,118 In the age of Kali such symptoms (illicit sex, indulgence in meat-eating, intoxication and gambling) are predestined. If so, then why was there preparation for fighting out such symptoms? Such arguments are offered by lazy and unfortunate men No edit summary current
• 11:0111:01, 14 September 2025 diff hist +2,410 It appears from this statement that all these symptoms (greed, anger etc) of degraded society were unknown to the people of the time, and it was astonishing for them to have experienced them with the advent of the Kali-yuga, or the age of quarrel No edit summary current
• 10:5810:58, 14 September 2025 diff hist +3,056 The most regrettable characteristic of this age, is that man has forgotten God No edit summary current
• 10:5710:57, 14 September 2025 diff hist +3,748 The present age is characterized by a bitter struggle for a life of short duration. People are not serious about self-realization even by simple, practical means, and what to speak of this difficult yoga system. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 10:5610:56, 14 September 2025 diff hist +26,094 The characteristics of this age predicted by Srimad-Bhagavatam are already being experienced to some degree. Since Kali-yuga is a very miserable age, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, who is Sri Krsna Himself, advises everyone simply to chant Hare Krsna No edit summary current
• 10:5510:55, 14 September 2025 diff hist +11,792 We're not very intelligent, and, at the same time, we're unfortunate. These are the characteristics of man living in Kaliyuga, a degraded age. So properly speaking we can never attain success in this meditational yoga system described by Krsna No edit summary current
• 10:5310:53, 14 September 2025 diff hist +3,978 Maharaja Yudhisthira was intelligent enough to understand the influence of the age of Kali, characterized by increasing avarice, falsehood, cheating and violence throughout the capital, state, home and among individuals No edit summary current
• 10:5310:53, 14 September 2025 diff hist +3,076 He (the son of the brahmana) was not at all sorry for the King's (Maharaja Pariksit's) not being well received. On the contrary, he justified the wrong act in a way characteristic of the brahmanas of Kali-yuga No edit summary current
• 10:3710:37, 14 September 2025 diff hist +23,504 People are also characterized in this age as being unfortunate. They have a great deal of difficulty meeting the primary demands of life - eating, defending, mating, and sleeping - necessities which are met even by the animals No edit summary current
• 10:3710:37, 14 September 2025 diff hist +3,535 He (a living man) is always present in the past, present and future, like electricity. One can remember incidents from his past and can conjecture about his future also on the basis of past experience No edit summary current
• 10:3210:32, 14 September 2025 diff hist +2,807 Simply by chanting the holy name of the Lord the inhabitants of hell became released from their hellish persecution No edit summary current
• 10:3010:30, 14 September 2025 diff hist +43,897 This Krsna consciousness movement is meant for the purpose of understanding God. The spiritual master is the living representative of Krsna who helps externally, and Krsna as Supersoul helps internally No edit summary current
• 10:3010:30, 14 September 2025 diff hist +3,049 If we become cent percent dependent and serve Him faithfully under His order or His representative's order, then the success is sure. Sevanurupa. Sevanurupam udayo. Udayo - It becomes manifest No edit summary current
• 10:2910:29, 14 September 2025 diff hist +2,936 Any person, if he is fortunate enough to hear these teachings (of Bhagavad-gita) from Krsna or from His bona fide spiritual representative, is sure to become a liberated person and get out of the darkness of ignorance. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 10:1910:19, 14 September 2025 diff hist +1,811 Your Lordship is the beginning, sustenance and end of everything, like the earth, which is the cause of an earthen pot, which supports the pot, and to which the pot, when broken, finally returns No edit summary current
• 10:1810:18, 14 September 2025 diff hist +3,863 Neti neti is the analytical process of rejecting matter. By expertly conducting such an analysis, one can understand where the soul is. One who is not expert, however, cannot distinguish gold from earth, nor the soul from the body No edit summary current
• 10:1610:16, 14 September 2025 diff hist +27,996 Material scientists give the example that milk turns into curd automatically and that distilled water pouring from the clouds falls down to earth, produces different kinds of trees, and enters different kinds of flowers & fruits with different fragrances No edit summary current
• 10:1510:15, 14 September 2025 diff hist −2 Major portion is earth, and there major portion is fire. So somewhere major portion is water. So therefore there are vibhuti-bhinnam, different atmosphere. That is God's creation No edit summary current
• 10:1410:14, 14 September 2025 diff hist +2,845 Lord Brahma said: I, Lord Siva, all of you demigods, the demons, the living entities born of perspiration, the living beings born of eggs, the trees and plants sprouting from the earth, and the living entities born from embryos No edit summary current
• 10:1210:12, 14 September 2025 diff hist −3 It (a fruit) finally falls from the tree and commences to decompose into the earth and at last mingles with the earth, leaving behind its seed which in its turn grows to become a tree and produces many fruits in time, which will all meet the same fate No edit summary current
• 10:1110:11, 14 September 2025 diff hist +1,726 Indra served his aunt daily by bringing flowers, fruits, roots and wood for yajnas from the forest. He also brought kusa grass, leaves, sprouts, earth and water exactly at the proper time No edit summary current
• 10:1010:10, 14 September 2025 diff hist +5,145 The whole process of creation is an act of gradual evolution and development from one element to another, reaching up to the variegatedness of the earth as so many trees, plants, mountains, rivers, reptiles, birds, animals and varieties of human beings No edit summary current
• 10:0810:08, 14 September 2025 diff hist +7,067 The earth (mahi) contains all our requirements. Thus the objects of sense perception are all present in bhumi, or the earth. The gross material elements and subtle elements (mind, intelligence and ahankara, false ego) constitute the total material energy No edit summary current
• 10:0710:07, 14 September 2025 diff hist +3,488 Different elements, such as sound, sky, air, fire and water, can be perceived in the earth. Another feature of the earth especially mentioned here (in SB 3.26.46) is that earth can manifest different forms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 14 September 2025 diff hist +6,982 The Lord's eight separated material energies, the three modes of material nature & the sixteen transformations (the eleven senses and the five gross material elements like earth and water) - within all these, the one spiritual soul exists as the observer No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 14 September 2025 diff hist +10,685 The elements of nature - earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and ego - all belong to the Lord's inferior, material energy (apara prakrti),whereas the living being, the organic energy, is His superior energy (para prakrti) No edit summary current
• 10:0310:03, 14 September 2025 diff hist −3 Suppose your material body - earth, water, air, fire - now, when this body will be decomposed, so this form will not remain. Does it mean that your body has become the whole universal material elements? No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 14 September 2025 diff hist +3,596 It is possible to worship a form of the Lord made of physical elements such as earth, water, pulp, wood and metal. In the forest one can make a form with no more than earth and water and worship Him according to the above principles No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 14 September 2025 diff hist +4,264 In this world there are five elements - namely earth, water, fire, air and ether - but the body is not a reflection of them, nor a combination or transformation of them. Because the body and its ingredients are neither distinct nor amalgamated No edit summary current
• 10:0010:00, 14 September 2025 diff hist +2,806 One kind of body, that of the trees and plants, sprouts from the earth; the second kind of body grows from perspiration, as with flies, germs and bugs; the third kind of body develops from eggs; and the fourth develops from an embryo No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 14 September 2025 diff hist +3,932 We can still purge out from the state all the activities of immorality introduced by the personality of Kali if we are determined to take action like Maharaja Pariksit No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 14 September 2025 diff hist +3,576 They bow down like stick. This is called dandavat. Danda means "stick"; vat means "like." When you fall down, just like a stick falls, before superior, that is called dandavat. Not by simply saying dandavat... Eh, one must fall down No edit summary current
• 09:0309:03, 14 September 2025 diff hist +2,892 My Lord, who are never conquered by anyone, I am certainly not afraid of Your ferocious mouth and tongue, Your eyes bright like the sun or Your frowning eyebrows No edit summary current
• 09:0009:00, 14 September 2025 diff hist +3,254 My dear lord, you are a worthy son of Lord Brahma, and you travel, playing on your musical instrument, the vina, for the welfare of the entire universe. You are like the sun, which rotates in the universe for the benefit of all living beings No edit summary current
• 08:5908:59, 14 September 2025 diff hist +3,101 Like the sun, the moon must also be full of flames because without flames there cannot be illumination. The flames on the moon, however, unlike those on the sun, must be mild and pleasing No edit summary current
• 08:5908:59, 14 September 2025 diff hist +1,826 Kardama Muni saw the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is free from material contamination, in His eternal form, effulgent like the sun, wearing a garland of white lotuses and water lilies No edit summary current
• 08:5808:58, 14 September 2025 diff hist −8 It emanates from the energy of the Transcendence because of the spiritual force which is His, and it develops into gigantic forms like the sun, moon, earth, etc No edit summary current
• 08:5708:57, 14 September 2025 diff hist +5,396 He (Krsna) is luminous like the sun and, being transcendental, is beyond this material nature No edit summary current
• 08:5608:56, 14 September 2025 diff hist +6,616 Factually, Krsna's appearance and disappearance are like the sun's rising, moving before us, and then disappearing from our eyesight No edit summary current
• 08:5308:53, 14 September 2025 diff hist +6,948 The yogis strive very hard to achieve success in becoming smaller than the smallest or greater than the greatest, or in creating a planet like earth or, as scientists, by inventing so many wonderful machines No edit summary current
• 08:5108:51, 14 September 2025 diff hist +3,738 For one who is powerful like the sun or the fire, there is no consideration of purity or impurity. The sunshine can sterilize an impure place, whereas if someone else were to pass such a place he would be affected No edit summary current
• 08:4808:48, 14 September 2025 diff hist +284 Category:Krsna Is Like the Sun No edit summary current
• 08:4808:48, 14 September 2025 diff hist +3,448 For a pure devotee of the Lord like Bhismadeva, this illusion was at once removed as soon as the Lord arrived. Lord Krsna is like the sun, and the illusory, external material energy is like darkness No edit summary current
• 08:4708:47, 14 September 2025 diff hist +2,566 By the traveling of the sun, people are relieved from the fear of the darkness of night - a fear brought about by thieves and rogues. Similarly, your traveling is like the sun's, for you drive away all kinds of fear No edit summary current