Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.3.14–15
So my maternal uncle's was in the suburb of Calcutta, about ten miles from our house.
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So my maternal uncle's was in the suburb of Calcutta, about ten miles from our house.
So Vaiṣṇava, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, is learned and poet.
Therefore one must come to the sense where these waves of material nature cannot act.
He's going to die, and he thinks that doctor can prolong his life.
Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva appeared on this Nṛsiṁha Cāturdaśī on account of His devotee Prahlāda.
So if one wants to finish this business, accepting...
\"The path of religion entails making progress on the path of spiritual advancement, ultimately reviving the eternal relation with Lord Viṣṇu in His impersonal effulgence, localized Paramātmā feature and, ultimately, in His personal feature by…
So there are many statements in the Bhagavad-gītā that...
So you won't find any difference between Bhagavad-gītā or Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam or any Vedic literature.
So if you keep yourself in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that consciousness, subtle body, then you are sure to get next life, if not in Vaikuṇṭha, at least you get a high standard life.
For seven days he placed himself on the bank of the Ganges without drinking a drop of water, and for seven days continually he heard Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam from Parīkṣit Mahārāja...
jajñe ca kardama-gṛhe dvija devahūtyāṁ strībhiḥ samaṁ navabhir ātma-gatiṁ sva-mātre ūce yayātma-śamalaṁ guṇa-saṅga-paṅkam asmin vidhūya kapilasya gatiṁ prapede
Here in this material world, service means neither master or servant.
Because the sky has no own color, because the color of Kṛṣṇa is spread as brahma-jyoti, that is being reflected in the sky.
So in all other planets, not only within this material world, but also in the spiritual world...
Therefore one should take little risk in order to enter into the eternal life, blissful life.
Cow protection means just like Bhagavān, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, He is tending the cows.
Therefore a devotee does not see anything except Kṛṣṇa, because he sees the craftsmanship, hands of Kṛṣṇa, how He is preparing.
Now intelligent person should be anxious that if Kṛṣṇa says, mad-dhāma gatvā punar janma na vidyate...
So this is the description, beginning, just to get an idea of the spiritual world.
If you want to exist here you have to work very, very hard.
Spiritual master is external manifestation of the Supreme Lord.
He is receiving Vedic knowledge from..., directly from God, Kṛṣṇa.
In the Bhagavad-gītā we don't find anywhere a single line that \"You raise fund for,\" I mean to say, \"giving relief to the poor\" or \"to the suffering.
Parīkṣit Mahārāja inquired—many people inquired—so, \"How the living entity was with Kṛṣṇa, he became fallen in this material world?\" Is not done?
And according to the body, he is enjoying different variety of enjoyment.
Unmukhasya means they were practically trying to raise, spiritually, on the platform of devotional service.
So those who have no spiritual knowledge, they are on the mental platform.
So this verse I am just now quoting is the verse given by Sūta Gosvāmī, the president of the meeting.
So this morning one gentleman was asking me, \"Why there are so many religions in the world?
When we understand that we are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, we are eternal servants of Kṛṣṇa, that is jñāna.
Even though we have got these eyes, we cannot see; we require light.
So we are all under the influence of māyā, illusion.
The first verse of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, First Canto, First Chapter, janmādy asya yato: the original source of everything, that is the Absolute Truth, yataḥ, from which or from whom everything is emanating.
This is plural number, yogā, all these kind including.
Prahlāda Mahārāja is considering himself to be unfit for worshiping the Lord.
Lord Kṛṣṇa, He instructed Brahmā to spread knowledge, Vedic knowledge, all over the universe.
sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo > yato bhaktir adhokṣaje...
So this inquiry was made by the great sages in Naimiṣāraṇya, that \"After departure of Kṛṣṇa, wherein the principles of religions are kept?
So Nārada Muni is the spiritual master of all demigods, so he immediately accepted the words of the great sage Nārada.
The materialistic person, they have only one experience: this cosmic manifestation.
So those who are sane man, they are confident that \"Kṛṣṇa has given me this body according to my past karma, so let me not improve.
So beginning of religious life should be without any material motive.
So this non-moving entities, namely the trees, the plants, the grass, they cannot move, apadāni.
So here it is described: sa vai puṁsāṁ para dharmo.
how to make progress in bhakti-yoga, or bīja-nirharaṇam.
This is the division of four orders of life: brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra.
So this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means to prepare a body, next life, by approaching Kṛṣṇaloka.
Therefore, willingly or unwillingly, we are becoming entangled in so many sinful activities.
So in order to induce him to fight, Kṛṣṇa had to speak to him the whole Bhagavad-gītā.