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Simply just to maintain the body and soul together, that I can.
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As I have got my end of life, either Brahmā, Vivasvān, everyone has got end of life—anyone within this material world.
Bhagavad-gītā 4.1
Anything attempting to understand the Absolute Truth, it is called yoga, yoga system, mainly.
Bhagavad-gītā 3.9–14
So long we are in ignorance, we do not care for these four things: birth, death, old age and disease.
Room Conversation
Because everyone's life is mixed up with some distress or happiness.
Room Conversation
If you are scientist, you are chemist, through chemical challenge you try to glorify the Supreme Lord.
Bhagavad-gītā 7.2 Hindi
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Bhagavad-gītā 7.3
So long you are in material condition, you have to suffer all these miseries, either you become rich man or poor man.
Bhagavad-gītā 7.1 Hindi
God had inspired me and I was instructed by my Guru Maharaja that there should be some preaching in English language in the western countries.
Bhagavad-gītā 15.1
Material world, activities of the material world means to act in such a way that you become liberated at the end and go back to home, back to Godhead.
The Nectar of Devotion
Somehow or other, if one can remember Nārāyaṇa, Kṛṣṇa, that is success of life.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.3.1
So we have become, instead of becoming servant of Kṛṣṇa, we have become the servants of our these enemies.
The Nectar of Devotion
The practice means somehow or other, you fix up your mind on the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, as Mahārāja Ambarīṣa did.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.34
They were hankering after this God consciousness, because they are fed up with this all nonsense civilization.
The Nectar of Devotion
Caitanya-caritāmṛta-kāra, Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, he says that there is difference between material lusty desire and love of God.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.33
Kṛṣṇa said, nistraiguṇyo bhavārjuna: \"Just become transcendental to the material modes of nature.\" What is that transcendental material nature?
The Nectar of Devotion
Madana, sex attraction, Cupid, and Kṛṣṇa is called Madana-mohana.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.32
So in this way the whole creation is going on under the direction of Kṛṣṇa.
Morning Walk
That many Indians also will join with you and combinedly preaching will go on.
The Nectar of Devotion
This advancement of material education means advancement of the snares of the illusory energy of Kṛṣṇa.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.31
As the living entity enters this material world, Kṛṣṇa is also there along with him.
The Nectar of Devotion
So the answer is given in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam that their such kind of Brahman realization is not fact.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.30
Material world means it is not eternal, not blissful and not full of knowledge.
The Nectar of Devotion
A devotee can develop all the good qualities of the demigods—immediately.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.28–29
Similarly, our Vedic principle is: \"Religion means the codes and the rules and regulation given by God.\" That is religion.
The Nectar of Devotion
Just like this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement: it is welfare activities for all the people of the world.
Room Conversation
He has spring cleaned everything jīva va maro va—those who are devotees for them death or life the same thing.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.27
So Vedānta means the ultimate goal of knowledge is to know Kṛṣṇa.
The Nectar of Devotion
But a Vaiṣṇava, one who has taken to devotional service, for him it is said, sadyaḥ savanāya kalpate.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.26
Cāṇakya Paṇḍita, he was the greatest scholar, politician.
The Nectar of Devotion
This is the chain of accepting different types of bodies, one after another, according to the sinful activity.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.25
Now, the Vedānta, in the beginning it is, the first sūtra is, athāto brahma-jijñāsā: so to inquire about Brahman, the Absolute.
The Nectar of Devotion "Relief from Material Distress."
The, the reaction of our sinful activities we are suffering.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.24
So those who are actually advanced in civilization, those who are in the platform of goodness, their aim is how to go back to home, back to Godhead.
The Nectar of Devotion
These are the immediate result of taking to Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.23
The problem is repetition of birth, death, old age and disease.
The Nectar of Devotion
They did not know that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but they loved Kṛṣṇa with their heart and soul.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.22
So spiritual realization is the ultimate goal of our life.
The Nectar of Devotion
If you are actually serious to know God, or Kṛṣṇa, then you must take to this process of devotional service.
Room Conversation Philosophical Discussions
Gauracandra Gosvāmī is telling Prabhupāda that ah, that it started raining just so that the kīrtana would happen in front of Dāmodara and then it stopped raining so that we could go back into the samādhi grounds.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.21
In the Bhagavad-gītā it is said that they are part and parcel of God sanātana, eternally, not that they have been cut off.
The Nectar of Devotion
He is one, but He expands Himself to innumerable forms.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.20
So human being in the modes of ignorance and passion, they are animals.
The Nectar of Devotion
Because there was no other living creature, except Brahmā, in the beginning of creation, and He instructed Brahmā.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.19
So to become brāhmaṇa by qualification is not sufficient.
The Nectar of Devotion
We should not manufacture in our own way, that \"This is Kṛṣṇa's activity.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.18
So actually Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is so nice that if one takes to it, immediately he reduces so many rascal anarthas which is not required.
The Nectar of Devotion
So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is propagating that to serve Kṛṣṇa.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.17
So that was the fight between the father and the son.
The Nectar of Devotion
Therefore the theory of merging into the existence of impersonal Brahman is to stay there for some time, again fall down.