Modern Kshatriya
01.05.202519:54
na hi jnanena sadrisham pavitramiha vidyate
In this world, there is nothing so sublime and pure as transcendental knowledge.
(Bhagavad Gita 4.38)
In this world, there is nothing so sublime and pure as transcendental knowledge.
(Bhagavad Gita 4.38)
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Englisc Bhakta
29.03.202522:23
There are undoubtedly different planetary systems for different persons. As stated in Bhagavad-gītā (14.18), ūrdhvaṁ gacchanti sattva-sthāḥ: persons in the mode of goodness can go to the upper planets. Those in the modes of darkness and passion, however, are not allowed to enter the higher planets. The word divam refers to the higher planetary system known as Svargaloka. Indra, King of the higher planetary system, has the power to push down any conditioned soul attempting to go from the lower to the higher planets without proper qualifications. The modern attempt to go to the moon is also an attempt by inferior men to go to Svargaloka by artificial, mechanical means. This attempt cannot be successful. From this statement of Indra it appears that anyone attempting to go to the higher planetary systems by mechanical means, which are here called māyā, is condemned to go to the hellish planets in the lower portion of the universe. To go to the higher planetary system, one needs sufficient good qualities. A sinful person situated in the mode of ignorance and addicted to drinking, meat-eating and illicit sex will never enter the higher planets by mechanical means.
Srimad Bhagavatam 8.11.5, purport
Srimad Bhagavatam 8.11.5, purport
27.03.202505:27
26.03.202522:31
24.03.202513:13
The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the reservoir of transcendental mellows.
Taittiriya Upanishad 2.7.1
Taittiriya Upanishad 2.7.1
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Stoicism Quotes 🙏
28.04.202516:13
“If a person gave away your body to some passerby, you’d be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may abuse you, leaving it disturbed and troubled— have you no shame in that?”
—EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 28
—EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 28
29.03.202510:08
"That religion is the purest which gives us the purest idea of God. How then it is possible that the ignorant will ever obtain the absolute religion, as long as they are ignorant?
God give us Truth as He gave it to Vyāsa, when we earnestly seek for it. Truth is eternal and inexhaustible. The soul receives a revelation when it is anxious for it.
- Bhaktivinoda Thakura
(From the foreword of "Search For Sri Krishna: Reality The Beautiful")
God give us Truth as He gave it to Vyāsa, when we earnestly seek for it. Truth is eternal and inexhaustible. The soul receives a revelation when it is anxious for it.
- Bhaktivinoda Thakura
(From the foreword of "Search For Sri Krishna: Reality The Beautiful")
27.03.202500:24
As pouring water on the root of a tree energizes the trunk, branches, twigs and everything else, and as supplying food to the stomach enlivens the senses and limbs of the body, simply worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead through devotional service automatically satisfies the demigods, who are parts of that Supreme Personality.
Srimad Bhagavatam 4.31.14
Srimad Bhagavatam 4.31.14
24.03.202519:58
‘The potency of Lord Viṣṇu is summarized in three categories — namely, the spiritual potency, the living entities and ignorance. The spiritual potency is full of knowledge; the living entities, although belonging to the spiritual potency, are subject to bewilderment; and the third energy, which is full of ignorance, is always visible in fruitive activities.’
Vishnu Purana 6.7.61
Vishnu Purana 6.7.61
23.03.202521:27
O King, unless one is influenced by the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there is no meaning to the relationship of the pure soul in pure consciousness with the material body. That relationship is just like a dreamer’s seeing his own body working. The illusioned living entity appears in so many forms offered by the external energy of the Lord. While enjoying in the modes of material nature, the encaged living entity misconceives, thinking in terms of “I” and “mine.” As soon as the living entity becomes situated in his constitutional glory and begins to enjoy the transcendence beyond time and material energy, he at once gives up the two misconceptions of life [I and mine] and thus becomes fully manifested as the pure self." (SB 2.9.1-3)
15.03.202522:27
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Parama-Dharma
02.04.202510:14
"We find great shelter at the lotus feet of Sri Ramanujacharya because his lotus feet are the strongest fort to combat the mayavadi philosophy [which erroneously teaches that the self and God are the same]."
(AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Letter to V. S. R. Chakravarti, Bombay, 22 Nov. 1974)
(AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Letter to V. S. R. Chakravarti, Bombay, 22 Nov. 1974)
28.03.202504:38
“Above all shadows rides the Sun
and Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
nor bid the Stars farewell.” - The Return of the King
and Stars for ever dwell:
I will not say the Day is done,
nor bid the Stars farewell.” - The Return of the King
27.03.202500:16
Wendy Doniger is one such insincere academic, and she should be thoroughly ignored. Her work betrays her absolute hatred for anything Vedic.
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SanatanaDharma
24.03.202519:53
vanamālī gadī śārṅgī śaṅkhī cakrī ca nandakī |
śrīmān nārāyaṇō viṣṇurvāsudevōbhirakṣatu ||
"Protect us, oh Sriman Narayana, Who wears the forest garland, Who has the mace, conch, sword and the dharmachakra. And who is called Vishnu and Vasudeva." (Sri Vishnu Sahasranama, 108)
śrīmān nārāyaṇō viṣṇurvāsudevōbhirakṣatu ||
"Protect us, oh Sriman Narayana, Who wears the forest garland, Who has the mace, conch, sword and the dharmachakra. And who is called Vishnu and Vasudeva." (Sri Vishnu Sahasranama, 108)
22.03.202523:23
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"The King will consider all embodied living entities as dear as his own self, and he will always be increasing the pleasures of those dear to him. He will intimately associate with liberated persons, and he will be a chastising hand to all criminals." (Srimad Bhagavatam, 4.16.18)
"Dem König werden alle verkörperten Lebewesen so lieb sein wie sein eigenes Selbst, und er wird die Freuden derer, die ihm lieb sind, immer mehren. Er wird eng mit befreiten Personen verkehren, und er wird eine züchtigende Hand für alle Verbrecher sein." (Srimad Bhagavatam, 4.16.18)
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"The King will consider all embodied living entities as dear as his own self, and he will always be increasing the pleasures of those dear to him. He will intimately associate with liberated persons, and he will be a chastising hand to all criminals." (Srimad Bhagavatam, 4.16.18)
"Dem König werden alle verkörperten Lebewesen so lieb sein wie sein eigenes Selbst, und er wird die Freuden derer, die ihm lieb sind, immer mehren. Er wird eng mit befreiten Personen verkehren, und er wird eine züchtigende Hand für alle Verbrecher sein." (Srimad Bhagavatam, 4.16.18)
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15.03.202504:17
The extent of a man's dignity
Is apparent at a glance.
Dignity is evienced in humble mien.
The heart is strong and sound
In he who lowers his eyes and
Does not look in all directions.
There is dignity in tranquility,
In a steady hand and untroubled brow.
Dignity graces a jaw set, a mouth closed
And the observance of proper etiquette -
One's courtesy towards man and Gods all.
There is great dignity in grit teeth
And flashing eyes.
The same dignity in spear-shaft-calloused hands
With wrapped fingers.
What is without reflects what is within:
One's essence can be read on one's person.
Pay attention to this, and let shine through
A sincere and dignified spirit.
- Hagakure, The Book of the Samurai.
Is apparent at a glance.
Dignity is evienced in humble mien.
The heart is strong and sound
In he who lowers his eyes and
Does not look in all directions.
There is dignity in tranquility,
In a steady hand and untroubled brow.
Dignity graces a jaw set, a mouth closed
And the observance of proper etiquette -
One's courtesy towards man and Gods all.
There is great dignity in grit teeth
And flashing eyes.
The same dignity in spear-shaft-calloused hands
With wrapped fingers.
What is without reflects what is within:
One's essence can be read on one's person.
Pay attention to this, and let shine through
A sincere and dignified spirit.
- Hagakure, The Book of the Samurai.
30.03.202512:31
27.03.202514:34
narayanah paro 'vyaktat
Narayana is transcendental, beyond this cosmic creation
- Shankaracharya
Narayana is transcendental, beyond this cosmic creation
- Shankaracharya
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27.03.202500:14
Only insincere academics (and those influenced by them) who reject that the Veda is the eternal and self-valid source of perfect knowledge have faulty ideas such as Vedic religion progressing to a Puranic religion, etc. which betray their own lack of philosophical understanding.
Seen through an impartial, sincere and discerning lens, the Vedas (which include Upanishads), Bhagavad-Gita, Vedanta-sutra, Itihasas, Puranas, Pancaratra and Vaikhanasa Agamas speak of the same Ultimate Truth in varying degrees of descriptiveness. Indeed, all traditional schools of Sanātana Dharma have accepted this to be the case. It is only in modernity that we have contrary ideas which destroy the actual philosophical understanding of whoever accepts them by dragging their attention down to speculations about historical events from sincere inquiry into the Highest.
Seen through an impartial, sincere and discerning lens, the Vedas (which include Upanishads), Bhagavad-Gita, Vedanta-sutra, Itihasas, Puranas, Pancaratra and Vaikhanasa Agamas speak of the same Ultimate Truth in varying degrees of descriptiveness. Indeed, all traditional schools of Sanātana Dharma have accepted this to be the case. It is only in modernity that we have contrary ideas which destroy the actual philosophical understanding of whoever accepts them by dragging their attention down to speculations about historical events from sincere inquiry into the Highest.
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24.03.202519:53
We live in the time of profanity. Dharma teaches all individuals in any station of life to be genuine, sincere, honest, noble and dignified. When we make God the sole goal, all such qualities grow in us, and we become true men who bring blessings to this world.
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21.03.202519:56
"Just as cold, fear and darkness are eradicated for one who has approached the sacrificial fire, in the same way dullness, fear and ignorance are destroyed for one engaged in serving the devotees of the Lord." (Srimad Bhagavatam, 11.26.31)
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14.03.202520:00
"Rather than mistaking Truth to be an object, a mere tool, that we can greedily grasped in our tiny hands, we must be willing to instead be grasped ourselves by Truth. Instead of hoping that Truth will surrender her greatest secrets to us, we must be willing to surrender our very beings at the feet of Truth. Truth is a living thing. It is as much fully alive as are you and I. It is not merely the object to fulfill our desire for dominance. Rather, Truth is itself the subject, and we are its objects - for Truth is non-different from God, who is the supreme subject." Sri Dharma Pravartaka Acharya (Taking Refuge in Dharma: The ISDS Initiation Guide, Introduction)
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