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concentrate his energies, mind and body – everything – for the service of the Lord, and that is pure devotional service

You should not unnecessarily tire your body. We should not, therefore, unnecessarily give trouble to the body.”

The answer is that when the Supreme Personality of Godhead puts His devotee in distress, it is not without In other words, if devotees were not in a distressed condition, the Lord would not have come down. Therefore the Lord does not need to come down personally to kill such demons, but when His devotee is Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva appeared not in order to kill Hiraṇyakaśipu but to save Prahlāda and to give him blessings

Whenever Lord Kṛṣṇa speaks about something to a specific devotee, it is meant not only for that devotee Personality of Godhead are important even to Lord Brahmā, Lord Śiva and the other demigods, and if one does not

association with these qualities for the benefit of the conditioned soul, Lord Śiva is their director and is not although the conditioned soul is affected by the three qualities, Lord Śiva, being their master, is not

The answer is that the karmīs and the devotees are not on the same level. man is perpetually entangled in repeated birth and death, whereas a devotee’s distress and happiness, not being under the laws of karma, are part of a temporary arrangement by the Supreme Lord which does not Therefore a devotee’s happiness and distress and a karmī’s happiness and distress are not on the same punishment awarded by the mother and the punishment awarded by an enemy, so a devotee’s distress is not

It is actually not advancement but degradation. In other words, favors received from Lord Śiva are not actually beneficial to the conditioned souls,

Generally, therefore, such nondevotees do not come to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, but It is also stated by Lord Kṛṣṇa that those who worship the demigods are not mature in their intelligence devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, therefore, because of their strong attachment for Him, do not

Lord Kṛṣṇa said to King Yudhiṣṭhira, “My devotee is not deterred by any adverse conditions of life; he Not only is the Lord’s mercy upon the tried devotee great and unlimitedly expansive, but it is of the A devotee of Kṛṣṇa does not worship Lord Śiva or Brahmā or any other, subordinate demigod.

As far as I know, Lord Śiva is not in a sane mental condition. benediction proves false, then you can at once kill this liar, Lord Śiva, so that in the future he will not

the platform of devotional service, then why is it observed that a devotee of Lord Viṣṇu is generally not On the other hand, the devotees of Lord Viṣṇu, who is the controller of the goddess of fortune, do not He does not even construct a house for himself, but still the worshipers of Lord Śiva are very rich.

Later, he could have asked Lord Kṛṣṇa to save him again, from the curse of a brāhmaṇa, but he did not

A devotee does not worship Viṣṇu or Lord Kṛṣṇa for any benediction. The compassion of Lord Śiva was aroused not because the demon was offering his flesh into the sacrificial Therefore when Lord Śiva appeared from the fire to check the demon from suicide, it was not done as a

Please do not kick me away. I have no shelter other than You.”

it that the devotees of Lord Śiva become materially opulent, whereas the devotees of Lord Viṣṇu do not

The predominating deities of other planets, such as Brahmā, Indra and Candra, could not find any way

The demon was very sinful, and sinful persons do not know what sort of benediction should be asked from He could not withdraw his promise, but he was very sorry in his heart that he was to offer him a benediction ask any benediction from Lord Viṣṇu, or Kṛṣṇa, and even if they ask something from the Lord, it is not

Then Lord Śiva told the demon, “My dear Vṛkāsura, you do not need to cut off your head. I do not know why you wanted to cut off your head to satisfy me.

Of course, those who are rich are not expected to offer only a little water, a little piece of fruit But worship in the mode of ignorance, as exhibited by Vṛkāsura, is not only very difficult and painful

statements of Śukadeva Gosvāmī we can understand that the effects of worshiping different demigods are not