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7 December 2025

• 13:5613:56, 7 December 2025 diff hist +1,365 Category:My Experience (Prabhupada) No edit summary
• 13:5613:56, 7 December 2025 diff hist +1,405 Category:My Practical Experience (Prabhupada) No edit summary
• 13:4513:45, 7 December 2025 diff hist +1,450 Category:My Elder and Senior Disciples (Prabhupada) No edit summary
• 12:0612:06, 7 December 2025 diff hist +52 Category:Distributing My Books (Prabhupada) No edit summary
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5 December 2025

• 16:2816:28, 5 December 2025 diff hist +9 The following statement elucidates the subject of part and whole: "All living entities are just like sparks from the supreme fire" No edit summary current
• 16:2716:27, 5 December 2025 diff hist +9 The blazing fire is different from the flames, from the sparks and from the smoke, although all are intimately connected because they are born from the same blazing wood No edit summary current
• 16:2616:26, 5 December 2025 diff hist +9 As a spark's falling onto the ground from a fire has a beginning, so a living entity's coming to this material world has a beginning, but no one can say when No edit summary current
• 16:2616:26, 5 December 2025 diff hist +9 Although the blazing firewood, the sparks, the smoke and the flame cannot stay apart because each of them is part and parcel of the fire, still they are different from one another No edit summary current
• 16:2516:25, 5 December 2025 diff hist +9 Although smoke, flaming wood, and sparks are all considered together as ingredients of a fire, the flaming wood is nevertheless different from the fire, and the smoke is different from the flaming wood No edit summary current
• 16:2516:25, 5 December 2025 diff hist +9 Although both the Supreme Lord and the living entities are qualitatively fire, there is yet a distinction. Visnu the Supreme is infinite, whereas the living entities, which are but sparks, are infinitesimal No edit summary current
• 16:1116:11, 5 December 2025 diff hist +9 In the spiritual world both the living entities and the Lord are manifest in their original status, like live sparks in a blazing fire No edit summary current
• 16:1016:10, 5 December 2025 diff hist +9 The spark is also fire, but if it falls from the original flame, it will go out. One should not think that because he is qualitatively one with God, he is God. the supreme controller No edit summary current
• 16:1016:10, 5 December 2025 diff hist +9 Fire has different features. There is flame, the sparks and the smoke. Although these are one in quality, there is still a difference between the fire, the flame, the spark and the smoke No edit summary current
• 16:0916:09, 5 December 2025 diff hist +9 As explained before, the particles of Brahman are like sparks blissfully dancing within a fire, but there is a chance of their falling from the fire to smoke, although smoke is another condition of fire No edit summary current
• 16:0916:09, 5 December 2025 diff hist −9 Our consciousness exists because we are part and parcel of the supreme consciousness. For example, a spark is only a tiny particle of the fire, yet the spark is also fire No edit summary current
• 16:0616:06, 5 December 2025 diff hist −9 Neither the Supreme Personality of Godhead nor the small sparklike living entities have anything to do with matter, but when the spiritual spark comes in contact with the material world his fiery quality is extinguished No edit summary current
• 16:0516:05, 5 December 2025 diff hist −13 One has to understand the differences with intelligence. Everyone knows that his material body has developed from a spiritual spark, and similarly the universal body has developed from the supreme spark, Supersoul No edit summary
• 16:0516:05, 5 December 2025 diff hist −32 When the spiritual spark, which is described as one ten-thousandth part of the tip of a hair, is forced into material existence, that spark is covered by gross and subtle material elements No edit summary current
• 16:0416:04, 5 December 2025 diff hist −19 The spiritual sparks known as the living entities are subjected to the conditions of material energy. It is because these sparks are related with both the internal and external potencies of the Lord that they are known as belonging to the marginal potency No edit summary current
• 16:0316:03, 5 December 2025 diff hist −13 The real enjoyer is that small spiritual spark within you. That spiritual spark has got the potency of enjoyment, but that is not being manifested on account of being covered by this material tabernacle, and therefore this enjoyment is not perfect No edit summary current
• 16:0216:02, 5 December 2025 diff hist −19 Although belonging to the marginal potency, known as jiva-sakti, the spiritual sparks known as the living entities are subjected to the conditions of material energy. It is because these sparks are related with both the internal and external potencies No edit summary current
• 16:0116:01, 5 December 2025 diff hist −13 Because these spiritual sparks are all Krsna's parts and parcels, as the Lord states in the Bhagavad-gita (mamaivamsah), they (the conditioned souls) can revive their original position by getting free from material contact. This is pure understanding No edit summary current

2 December 2025

• 11:3911:39, 2 December 2025 diff hist +9 If a devotee spends money to construct a beautiful and costly temple, the construction is not material but spiritual (nirbandhah krsna-sambandhe yuktam vairagyam ucyate). A devotee's mind is never diverted to the material side of the temple No edit summary current
• 11:3811:38, 2 December 2025 diff hist +10 We have to give more stress on our spiritual side than the scholastic side. But at the same time, if our books are presented in a scholarly way, that will be very nice. So you use the best part of discretion and do the needful No edit summary current
• 11:3711:37, 2 December 2025 diff hist +15 Now we are world organization. There is spiritual side, and there is material side also. That is not material side. That is also spiritual side, means systematic management. Otherwise how it will be done? No edit summary current
• 11:3611:36, 2 December 2025 diff hist −13 A guru or brahmana is meant for giving protection to the people from spiritual side. The king, ksatriya, is meant for giving protection to the people from material side. The vaisya is to produce from the material side No edit summary current
• 11:3411:34, 2 December 2025 diff hist +10 The spiritual side importance-giving means one has to see how much important this human life is No edit summary current
• 11:3411:34, 2 December 2025 diff hist +10 The two processes of sravana and kirtana are of primary importance to progressive spiritual life No edit summary current
• 11:3311:33, 2 December 2025 diff hist +20 This process of self-realization (chanting the holy names of the Lord) is very suitable for the fallen souls of this age, when life is short and when people are slow in understanding the importance of spiritual realization No edit summary
• 11:3311:33, 2 December 2025 diff hist +10 We belong to the Aryan family, but we have lost our knowledge. So we have become non-Aryan practically, because we do not give importance to the spiritual side of life No edit summary current
• 11:3211:32, 2 December 2025 diff hist −13 We shall try to avoid the Beatles or hippy's articles, because they have no spiritual importance No edit summary
• 11:3111:31, 2 December 2025 diff hist +4 After taking supper and thinking of the next day's program, He (Krsna) very peacefully took rest. Thus He passed the night there No edit summary current
• 11:3111:31, 2 December 2025 diff hist −13 After showing mercy to the brahmana, Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu left the next day and arrived at Vrddhakasi, where He visited the temple of Lord Siva No edit summary current
• 11:3111:31, 2 December 2025 diff hist −13 A sawman was cutting wood by the saw. So at the end of business it was half cut so he pulled down a plug so that next day he will come and he'll again begin sawing. So went away. So one monkey came. So monkey sat down there and began to pull on the plug No edit summary current
• 11:2811:28, 2 December 2025 diff hist −13 A ksatriya cannot tolerate insults on the principle of fighting. Bhismadeva therefore promised that the next day he would kill all five Pandavas with special weapons made for the purpose No edit summary current
• 11:2811:28, 2 December 2025 diff hist +24 Next day means No edit summary current
• 11:2711:27, 2 December 2025 diff hist −15 A brahmana gets one lakh of rupees, next day he's again beggar No edit summary current
• 11:2611:26, 2 December 2025 diff hist −8 The next day, in the morning, Samba delivered a large lump of iron, which was entrusted to Ugrasena for necessary action. Actually later on there was the foretold fratricidal war, and Samba died in that war No edit summary current
• 11:2511:25, 2 December 2025 diff hist −8 On the morning of the next day, one should wash oneself, and after worshiping Lord Krsna as before, one should cook as one cooks for festivals as stated in the Grhya-sutras No edit summary current
• 11:2411:24, 2 December 2025 diff hist −13 Yogurt can be prepared in the temple, it is not very difficult. Boil the milk at night, put a little yogurt in it, and next morning you will find it full of yogurt No edit summary current
• 11:2311:23, 2 December 2025 diff hist −13 When he became old, he was very anxious to hand over the worship to the charge of someone reliable, and in a dream he got permission from Jagannatha Prabhu to hand it over to a person whom he would meet the next morning No edit summary current
• 11:2311:23, 2 December 2025 diff hist −13 We boarded the plane for the second time the next morning at nine a.m. and took off for Moscow shortly thereafter, and arrived at that bastion of propaganda about three hours later No edit summary current
• 11:2311:23, 2 December 2025 diff hist −13 Thinking in this way, Vallabha Bhatta approached Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu the next morning, and in great humility, offering many prayers, he sought shelter and surrendered at the lotus feet of the Lord No edit summary current
• 11:2311:23, 2 December 2025 diff hist −13 They (the cowherd boys) were so fond of the Lord (Krsna) that at night they would only think of the next morning when they would be able to meet the Lord and go together to the forests for cowherding No edit summary current
• 11:2211:22, 2 December 2025 diff hist −13 The next morning, the rendering of service to the Deity began again, and people from one village arrived with all kinds of food grains No edit summary current
• 11:2211:22, 2 December 2025 diff hist −13 The next morning, after visiting the Jagannatha temple, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, accompanied by all His devotees, went hastily to see Haridasa Thakura No edit summary current
• 11:2111:21, 2 December 2025 diff hist −13 Narada Muni asked him (the hunter) that, "You sit down on this bank of Ganges,& here is the tulasi plant. You worship it, & I'll send your food. Don't be worried." So next morning it was declared in the village - That heinous hunter has become a Vaisnava No edit summary current
• 11:2111:21, 2 December 2025 diff hist −13 Nanda Maharaja informed the cowherd men that they would start the next morning. They therefore arranged for the cows and bulls to carry them all to Mathura No edit summary current
• 11:2011:20, 2 December 2025 diff hist −13 The next morning they both departed to perform their respective duties, but in the evening Ramananda Raya returned to meet the Lord again No edit summary current