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TEXT 15

cetaḥ khalv asya bandhāya muktaye cātmano matam guṇeṣu saktaṁ bandhāya rataṁ vā puṁsi muktaye

The stage in which the consciousness of the living entity is attracted by the three modes of material nature is …

There is a distinction here between Kṛṣṇa consciousness and māyā consciousness. Guṇeṣu, or māyā consciousness, involves attachment to the three …

TEXT 16

ahaṁ-mamābhimānotthaiḥ kāma-lobhādibhir malaiḥ vītaṁ yadā manaḥ śuddham aduḥkham asukhaṁ samam

When one is completely cleansed of the impurities of lust and greed produced from the false identification of the body …

Kāma and lobha are the symptoms of material existence. Everyone always desires to possess something. It is said here that …

In the beginning Lord Kapila has said that perfect yoga enables one to transcend the platform of material distress and …

Our mind is our friend, and our mind is our enemy. If it is cleansed, it is a friend, and …

Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu therefore enjoins, jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’: our actual position is that of eternal servants of …

People actually waste their time talking politics, sociology, anthropology, and so on. They read many literatures that do not glorify …

yajñārthāt karmaṇo ’nyatra loko ’yaṁ karma-bandhanaḥ tad-arthaṁ karma kaunteya mukta-saṅgaḥ samācara

“Work done as a sacrifice for Viṣṇu has to be performed, otherwise work binds one to this material world. Therefore, …

When people are in the modes of passion and ignorance, they perform vikarma. They do not care for their future …

kṛṣṇa bhuli’ sei jīva anādi-bahirmukha ataeva māyā tāre deya saṁsāra-duḥkha

“Forgetting Kṛṣṇa, the living entity has been attracted by the external feature from time immemorial. Therefore the illusory energy (māyā) …

māyā-mugdha jīvera nāhi svataḥ kṛṣṇa jñāna jīvere kṛpāya kailā kṛṣṇa veda-purāṇa

“The conditioned soul cannot revive his Kṛṣṇa consciousness by his own effort. But out of causeless mercy, Lord Kṛṣṇa compiled …

The Vedic literatures – the Vedānta, Upaniṣads, Rāmāyaṇa, Mahābhārata and many others – should be utilized if we wish to …