User contributions for Shivangi
16 April 2022
- 06:1506:15, 16 April 2022 diff hist +4,839 The greatest benefit (of receiving a brahmana) was that a householder could save a great deal of money from being spent on doctor bills because the brahmanas could ordinarily cure all kinds of diseases simply by giving instructions and some medicine No edit summary current
- 06:1406:14, 16 April 2022 diff hist +2,338 The death is inevitable, you die today or tomorrow. So by taking this medicine, if you die, you have the greatest benefit. And if you live, enjoy. If you die, enjoy; if you live, enjoy. Go on chanting No edit summary current
- 06:1206:12, 16 April 2022 diff hist −13 In the Vedic rituals there are recommendations for performing different types of sacrifice in order to achieve the greatest benefit in life No edit summary current
- 06:0306:03, 16 April 2022 diff hist +9,264 Woman are considered less intelligent. In the Bhagavad-gita... Their heart is very soft. Just like children, their heart is very soft. But their intelligence is not very sharp. That is the difference. Striyah sudras tatha vaisyah No edit summary current
13 April 2022
- 22:2722:27, 13 April 2022 diff hist +1,432 When the Muslim heard Raghunatha dasa's appealing voice, his heart softened. He began to cry, and tears glided down his beard No edit summary current
- 22:2222:22, 13 April 2022 diff hist +3,940 The heart of one who is highly elevated and grave is compared with gold. If one's heart is very soft and gentle, his heart is compared with a cotton swab No edit summary current
- 22:2222:22, 13 April 2022 diff hist +3,399 Ramananda Raya, a most confidential devotee of the Lord, diplomatically soften the heart of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, despite the fact that the Lord definitely decided not to meet the King No edit summary current
- 22:1922:19, 13 April 2022 diff hist +1,704 The hearts of those above common behavior are sometimes harder than a thunderbolt and sometimes softer than a flower. How can one accommodate such contradictions in great personalities No edit summary current
12 April 2022
- 14:5514:55, 12 April 2022 diff hist +4,417 If one is stone-hearted, then Krsna will stand as stone forever. But if one is soften-hearted by chanting Hare Krsna mantra, then he'll talk with Krsna. That is the difference No edit summary current
- 14:5414:54, 12 April 2022 diff hist +2,314 By various tastes, one’s heart is softened, and there is an awakening of one’s loving propensity to render spontaneous service to the Lord. This is called tatastha-laksana, the marginal symptom of bhava No edit summary current
- 14:5014:50, 12 April 2022 diff hist +260 Category:Devotional Service to God Causes the Heart to Soften No edit summary current
- 14:5014:50, 12 April 2022 diff hist +330 Category:Devotees of God Are Softened at Heart No edit summary current
11 April 2022
- 18:3618:36, 11 April 2022 diff hist +3,334 Brahmanas are generally very softhearted and forbearing because they have the power to control the senses and the mind. Daksa, however, was not forbearing No edit summary current
- 18:1418:14, 11 April 2022 diff hist −13 Nimai Pandita was naturally a soft-hearted person, though strong in his principles No edit summary current
- 18:1318:13, 11 April 2022 diff hist +2,479 He (Arjuna) did not consider how much the other party was bent upon fighting. All these symptoms are due to softheartedness resulting from his being a great devotee of the Lord. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 18:1118:11, 11 April 2022 diff hist +2,959 As honey and butter become melted even in slight sunshine, so softhearted persons become easily melted No edit summary current
7 April 2022
- 15:4115:41, 7 April 2022 diff hist +6 The way of religion is made by the Supreme Lord (Krsna). No one can manufacture a new path of religion, as is the fashion for certain ambitious persons No edit summary current
- 15:4015:40, 7 April 2022 diff hist −16 The path of religion, or the different kinds of sacrifice recommended above, automatically solves our economic problems. By performance of yajna we can have enough food, enough milk, etc.-even if there is a so-called increase of population. BG 1972 pur No edit summary current
- 15:3815:38, 7 April 2022 diff hist +3,928 The Bhagavatam says: dharmam hi saksad-bhagavat-pranitam - the path of religion is directly enunciated by the Lord. Therefore, mental speculation or dry arguments cannot help one progress in spiritual life. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 15:3615:36, 7 April 2022 diff hist +2,658 I (Vyasadeva) have abided by the rulings and have shown the import of disciplic succession through the explanation of the Mahabharata, by which even women, sudras and others (friends of the twice-born) can see the path of religion No edit summary current
- 15:2615:26, 7 April 2022 diff hist +3,051 He (Dhaumya) was actually the right type of priest of a householder, for he could guide the Pandavas on the right path of religion No edit summary current
- 15:2215:22, 7 April 2022 diff hist +3,845 Deviation in the path of religious system means No edit summary current
5 April 2022
- 17:1117:11, 5 April 2022 diff hist +12,344 According to the Bhagavata school, this path of religiosity is also a method of cheating its followers No edit summary current
- 16:5716:57, 5 April 2022 diff hist +9,788 It is eternally truth, eternally fact, that you have got your love for Krsna within yourself. Simply you have to revive. That process is easy, very easy. The chanting No edit summary current
3 April 2022
- 17:1617:16, 3 April 2022 diff hist +4,230 The truth is eternal, and as such there cannot be any new opinion about the truth. That is the way of knowing the knowledge contained in the Vedas No edit summary current
- 17:1617:16, 3 April 2022 diff hist −13 The spirit encaged by this body and mind is eternal truth & indestructible. No one can destroy the eternal spirit - that is what we need to understand at the present moment. The indestructible spirit is thus above the conception of violence & nonviolence No edit summary current
- 17:1217:12, 3 April 2022 diff hist +39,062 The ksetrajna is the eternal spirit, whereas the ksetra is matter, which is temporary and ephemeral. This eternal truth is summarized in the Vedas in the aphorism brahma satyam jagan mithya: "Spirit is fact and the world is a false shadow" No edit summary current
- 16:3816:38, 3 April 2022 diff hist +3,481 Can you point out any time in history when there existed such a perfect system (we are always hankering after happiness. So we do not like suffering. So if there is no suffering, that is perfect system)? No edit summary current
- 16:3616:36, 3 April 2022 diff hist +7,715 Not for a second we can make our mind vacant. That is not possible. So this vacancy, this mind's business - thinking, feeling and willing - when all of them are engaged in the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that is called perfect yoga system No edit summary current
- 16:3416:34, 3 April 2022 diff hist +25,516 Perfect system No edit summary current
- 16:3216:32, 3 April 2022 diff hist +2,379 Perfect system means No edit summary current
- 16:3116:31, 3 April 2022 diff hist −12 Sudras, the working class, would help the higher three classes by manual labor. This is the perfect social system No edit summary current
- 16:3016:30, 3 April 2022 diff hist +4,822 The purpose of the Lord's taking birth is to establish devotional service, which is the perfect system of religion, and the purpose of the birth of a devotee is to broadcast the same system of religion, or the bhakti cult, all over the world No edit summary current
- 16:2716:27, 3 April 2022 diff hist +4,470 You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead; no one can excel You, nor can anyone come up to an equal level with You. The perfect social system is that in which You remain in the center, being served as the Supreme No edit summary current
31 March 2022
- 14:5214:52, 31 March 2022 diff hist +3,052 This awakening of divine consciousness enthralls a devotee, who thus relishes his eternal transcendental mellow. Such an awakening is awarded only to those convinced by devotional service about the transcendental nature of the Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 14:4514:45, 31 March 2022 diff hist +11,964 Various agents of the external energy make explicit propaganda to try to root out the very seed of DC. But this is impossible to do, because although circumstances may choke up a living being's divine consciousness for the time being, it cannot be killed No edit summary current
- 14:4514:45, 31 March 2022 diff hist +7,382 If you keep divine association, then your consciousness is made divine No edit summary current
- 14:4114:41, 31 March 2022 diff hist +20,646 The Supreme Father does not forget His rebellious sons. He creates scriptures for them like the Vedas and Puranas in order to revive their lost relationship with Him and awaken their divine consciousness No edit summary current
30 March 2022
- 15:2915:29, 30 March 2022 diff hist +3,809 Association is so important. So if we become serious for developing divine consciousness, then this is the only association - we have established the International Society for Krishna Consciousness No edit summary current
- 15:2715:27, 30 March 2022 diff hist +3,404 As fire is kindled from wood by another fire, the divine consciousness of man can similarly be kindled by another divine grace No edit summary current
- 15:2615:26, 30 March 2022 diff hist +3,319 A person in the divine consciousness, although engaged in seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, eating, moving about, sleeping, and breathing, always knows within himself that he actually does nothing at all. BG 5.8-9 - 1972 No edit summary
29 March 2022
- 14:5114:51, 29 March 2022 diff hist +7 Krsna advises in BG 18.65: man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam namaskuru. The perfect yoga system consists of always thinking of Krsna, always engaging in devotional service, always worshiping Krsna and always offering obeisances unto Him No edit summary current
- 14:5114:51, 29 March 2022 diff hist +5,016 Knowledge received from the greatest personality, greatest authority, is, according to Vedic system, accepted as perfect No edit summary current
- 14:5014:50, 29 March 2022 diff hist +5,449 According to Vedic system, there should be four classes of men: the brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra, social order; and spiritual order: brahmacari, grhastha, vanaprastha, and sannyasa. This is perfect system of human civilization No edit summary current
28 March 2022
- 11:2711:27, 28 March 2022 diff hist +2,873 Both the lowest of fools and he who is transcendental to all intelligence enjoy happiness, whereas persons between them suffer the material pangs No edit summary current
- 11:2611:26, 28 March 2022 diff hist +7 It is clear that in spite of His (Krsna's) being in the material world, He is the same unborn, eternal form of bliss and knowledge, changeless in His transcendental body and intelligence. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 11:2211:22, 28 March 2022 diff hist +3,596 Advanced transcendentalists are called sudhiyah. Sudhi means "intelligence," sudhi means "highly advanced," and sudhi means "devotee." No edit summary current
- 11:0711:07, 28 March 2022 diff hist +15,767 Grtsamada was a great scholar of the Rg-veda, and thus he was highly respected by the brahmana community. He lived a life of celibacy and was powerful in every respect No edit summary current
- 11:0511:05, 28 March 2022 diff hist +2,829 Unfortunately, there are many great scholars of the Vedas who do not know the ultimate purport of studying them. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
26 March 2022
- 15:2815:28, 26 March 2022 diff hist +8,800 Those operating in the modes of ignorance and passion cannot be as perfect as that system in the mode of goodness. In Bhagavad-gita everything has been divided into three qualitative divisions; therefore religious systems are similarly categorized No edit summary current