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[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...rld. All these actions have a divine plan behind them. The plan is to give the conditioned souls who so desire a chance to enjoy sense gratification. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...necessary, and therefore they perform religious rituals with a view toward the resultant material name, fame, and gain. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...there is no person who is needy? There are so many needy persons. But has the agricultural education improved their lot? No. Starving people are still th ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...istic way. However, only by becoming Krishna conscious and surrendering to the Lord, one's destiny can change; for only Krishna can change our karma, dest ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...rd. In other words, transcendental pleasure derived from loving service to the Lord is actual independence. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...o are foolish and who torture the material elements of the body as well as the Supersoul dwelling within, are to be known as demons. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...is no more birth, no more death, no more disease, no more old age. This is the difference between spiritual life and material life. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...as extreme as a curse is seen as a benediction and a gift from God to help the devotee prepare to return home - Back to Godhead. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...ven in Brahmaloka there is death. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, "Do not waste your time trying to elevate yourself or transfer yourself from this planet to that pl ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...estination that one could crave for is Goloka Vrindavan, the eternal abode of Lord Sri Krishna, reaching where, one would never return to this material c ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...Vyāsadeva is designated herein as the Personality of Godhead because he is the authorized empowered incarnation. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...e. The human form of life, however, is not meant for such cheap happiness. The human life is meant for attaining eternal and unlimited happiness by spirit ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...e Lord by engaging one's unalloyed senses in the transcendental service of the Lord. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...ls and therefore stay on the material platform which is temporary and full of misery. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...re material benefits from Krishna, the Lord, being all-powerful, considers the person's position and gradually liberates him from a materially ambitious l ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...t we are inviting cooperation of people who are interested in the peace of the world." ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...ifferent individual souls; and, owing to the body, they appear as children of a particular man. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...tic activity no one benefits and instead one becomes entangled in the laws of karma. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...and parcel of the Supreme Being, and thus revival of his self-knowledge is essential. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ..., camel civilization. Unrestricted sense gratification allowed in the name of freedom, that is disastrous. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...n, and here is only, only thing is, that you simply chant the holy name of the Lord. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...nal home. Within this spiritual universe, there is a hierarchy of planets. The topmost planet, or loka, is Kṛṣṇa's own planet: Goloka Vṛndāvana o ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...e sleeping and utilize all his/her time in activities that are pleasing to the Lord. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...own unavoidable misdeeds. That is the nature of a good man and devotee of the Lord. A devotee never finds fault with others, but tries to find his own an ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...another. This subtle body has been figuratively described as a serpent, or the city's police superintendent. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...s part and parcel. But we disappear. Therefore Kṛṣṇa says, tathā dehāntaram-prāptir dhīras tatra na muhyati (BG 2.13). One who is sober, he knows that ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...meday he would die. Death, however, was not forgetful. At the proper time, death appeared and took him away. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...dy, whereas a yogī can consciously attain a suitable body for enjoyment in the higher planets. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...of his family thereby relishes a kind of mellow, but his whole advancement of material happiness immediately terminates along with his body as soon as hi ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...ereby be assured whether or not they will return to the world of birth and death. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...festation of Bhagavad-gītā from the transcendental lips of the Personality of Godhead. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...service. Anyone who is without Krishna consciousness is simply living like an animal - mating, eating and defending. Such persons live a life with no rea ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, this material world of fear becomes hardly dangerous at all. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...disease. So medical treatment may give temporary relief from the distress of such venereal disease, but unless one is trained to understand that sex lif ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...y for the conditioned soul, and sex enjoyment is allowed under the license of marriage ties. According to scriptural injunctions, one is forbidden to eng ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...moved, or he emerges from a false conception of life. Thus the function of the pure soul is revived in spiritual realization. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...e process of total surrender of the body and senses unto the lotus feet of the Lord. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...-bīja - the seed of devotional service in his heart. This is the real goal of life. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...re and acts on it. However, it is not a psychological state of mind. It is the eternal, spiritual, absolute truth. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...e into a direct relationship with the Lord. This is the infallible promise the Lord gives to His dedicated devotees. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...poison, but if one is successful in following the regulations and comes to the transcendental position, he begins to drink real nectar, and he enjoys life ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...ng and/or instructing), the sādhu, and the śāstras. One who is on the path of spiritual advancement must remain vigilant in discriminating between these ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...inate material nature, the living entity is forced to offer his service to the relative material energy. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...a. So sannyāsa means everything sacrificed for Kṛṣṇa's sake. Anāśrita-karma-phalaṁ kāryaṁ karoti yaḥ, sa sannyāsī. A Sanyasa is working without ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...rishna, and it is due to his purity that the movement has flourished well. The movement started with only forty rupees, but it now has great opulence. No ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...eternal and indestructible, and he continues to live after the destruction of his temporary material body.' ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...on of Kṛṣṇa. This is technically called nitya-līlā-praviṣṭa, entering into the planet Goloka Vṛndāvana. ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...se. Devotees have no need to compete with materialists because they are on the path back to Godhead, back home where everything is eternal, full and bliss ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...who are not attracted by Kṛṣṇa conscious activities, there is every chance of falling down again, because one has no other alternative. Either he has to ...

[[Category:Essential Subjects]] ...he rules of violence than to imitate a brāhmaṇa who follows the principles of nonviolence. ...