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“Dear Lord,” Raghunātha implored, “please do not eat this. It is not fit for You.”

Why do you say it’s not fit for Me? It’s Lord Jagannātha’s prasāda!”

He is not dead or void. And what is the nature of His cognizance? To a limited degree, each and every living entity is cognizant, but we are not completely cognizant. I will not be able to reply. Of course, this kind of knowledge is not transcendental, but in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam it is stated that the I may know that I am eating, but I do not know the intricacies of the eating process – how my body is

Although we are suggesting that this body is useless and is a form of contamination, we are not recommending We may use a car to carry us to work, but this does not mean that we should not take care of the car. We should take care of the car for it to carry us to and fro, but we should not become so attached to The body should not be neglected. But we should not be greedy and eat dozens of samosās, sweetballs, and rasagullās. No.

Nirvāṇa actually means not accepting another material body. It’s not that we attempt to make this body void.

Raghunātha did not reply, but the Lord quickly found the place where he kept the rice, and the Lord immediately

If it is stated that God does not have eyes, limbs, and senses like ours, how are we to understand His This is not possible by mental speculation.

“That supreme abode of Mine is not illumined by the sun or moon, nor by fire or electricity.

Why are you not inviting Me?”

emphasizes the philosophical process of analysis by which we determine what is Brahman and what is not This process is known as the neti neti process, or “not this, not that.”

of one’s becoming a yogi, O Arjuna, if one eats too much or eats too little, sleeps too much or does not

At the same time, we should know that this body is not permanent. They are not permanent. Asat is a word meaning that they will cease to exist.

In this system of yoga, moderation is required; therefore it is stated that we should not eat too much The spirit soul does not experience misery, and the normal condition of the living entity is his healthy The answer is not a great mystery. The disease is this body. This body is actually not meant for me. All these designations are not symptomatic of our actual position but of our diseased condition.

Although this is an excellent example of minimizing all material necessities, we should not try to imitate It is not possible for an ordinary man to imitate Raghunātha dāsa Gosvāmī, who was one of the Six Gosvāmīs the Six Gosvāmīs displayed a unique example of how one can advance in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, but it is not

This is not the case. If He attains His knowledge from someone else, He is not God. Svarāṭ.

Yoga is not meant for attaining any kind of material facility; it is to enable the cessation of all material But these facilities will not solve the problems of life.

As stated, sunlight, moonlight, or electricity are not required in the paraṁ dhāma. We may travel as far as possible within our spaceships, but we will not find any place where there is Actually, we know nothing of this material nature; we do not even know how it was originally formed.

It is not necessary to do anything else. This is a secret people are not aware of. Regardless of the process – be it haṭha-yoga, bhakti-yoga, jñāna-yoga, or whatever – sex indulgence is not Sex is not meant for sense enjoyment, although enjoyment is there by nature. That is the secret of nature’s gift, but we should not take advantage of it. Perfection in yoga is not something childish, and the Bhagavad-gītā instructs us that if we try to make

In the second chapter, after Arjuna told Śrī Kṛṣṇa, “I shall not fight,” the Lord said, “While speaking learned words, you are mourning for what is not worthy of grief. He wanted to leave the battlefield because he did not want to fight with his relatives.

Although we should minimize our eating and sleeping, we should not attempt this too rapidly, at the risk We should not attempt to reduce eating and sleeping too rapidly or artificially; when we advance we will naturally not feel pain due to the reduction of these natural bodily processes.