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TEXT 15

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

TEXT 16

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 …

“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 …

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

“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 …

Lord Kapiladeva, in the next verse, points out the results that follow the successful completion of this purificatory process.

TEXT 17

In the state of pure consciousness, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one can see himself as a minute particle nondifferent from the …

The jīva particle is estimated in the Vedic literature to be one ten-thousandth the size of the upper portion of …

Two words in this verse are to be particularly noted. One is nirantaram, which means “nondifferent” or “of the same …

Self-realization means seeing one’s proper identity as the infinitesimal jīva. At the present moment, we are seeing the body, but …

“This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, all-pervading, unchangeable, immovable …