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Continued from previous page... Srila Prabhupada clarifies what the Vedic scriptures mean when they talk about the spiritual souls' oneness with the Supreme Lord.   MANTRA 7 TRANSLATION. One who always sees all living entities as spiritual sparks, in quality one with the Lord, becomes a true knower of things. What, then,...
Continued from previous page... He must offer everything for the Lord's service and partake only of the remnants of food offered to the Lord. This will enable him to discharge his duty properly. In the Bhagavad-gita (9.26) the Lord directly states that He accepts vegetarian food from the hands of...
Continued from previous page... Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur explains that instead of culturing real knowledge, modern man is chasing advancement of material knowledge which makes him no better than an ass. (6) One should search out a bona fide spiritual master who can lead him gradually to the stage of spiritual...
Continued from previous page... There is a spiritual sky. There is another nature, which is beyond manifestation and nonmanifestation. But how will you know that there is a sky where the planets and inhabitants are eternal? All this knowledge is there, but how will you make experiments? It is...
Continued from previous page... Purports to Mantra 5 ends on this page. Mantra 6 starts with describing maha-bhagvata devotees of the Supreme Lord. When the child saint Prahlada Maharaja was in the presence of his atheist father, his father asked him, "Where is your God?" When Prahlada replied that God...
Continued from previous page… This page talks about human responsibilities and what makes them different from animals. MANTRA 3. TRANSLATION. The killer of the soul, whoever he may be, must enter into the planets known as the worlds of the faithless, full of darkness and ignorance. PURPORT. Human life is distinguished from animal...
Continued from previous page… When he realizes the authority of the Personality of Godhead—Vasudeva, or Krishna—it is to be understood that he has attained the stage of positive knowledge. In this purified stage the modes of nature—namely goodness, passion and ignorance—cannot act, and he is able to work on the...
Isopanishad - page a day
Continued from previous page... Purports to Mantra 12 begins on this page. MANTRA 12 TRANSLATION. Those who are engaged in the worship of demigods enter into the darkest region of ignorance, and still more so do the worshipers of the impersonal Absolute. PURPORT. The Sanskrit word asambhuti refers to those who have...
Continued from previous page... He is original, the oldest, but whenever you look at a picture of Krishna you'll find a young boy fifteen or twenty years old. You will never find an old man. You have seen pictures of Krishna as a charioteer from the Bhagavad-gita. At that...
Continued from previous page… Srlia Prabhupada's purport to Mantra 3 ends on this page. Mantra 4 mentions about the Personality of Godhead and His energies. Such materialistic asuras sometimes make a show of religion, but their ultimate aim is material prosperity. The Bhagavad-gita (16.17-18) rebukes such men by calling them atma-sambhavita, meaning...

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