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engagements: paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām – giving protection to the sādhus, the devotees, and Kṛṣṇa gave protection to the Pāṇḍavas and Vṛṣṇis because they were devotees, and He also killed demons like Kaṁsa, Aghāsura, and Bakāsura. If one is a demon, we can use logic and arguments to kill his demoniac propensities and turn him into They should be killed by argument, reasoning, and scientific spiritual understanding.

It begins with the natural attraction between man and woman. A male seeks a female, and a female seeks a male. to live together, and then, of course, the man needs to earn money. When they are well settled, they must have children and also some friends to come and praise them: “Oh , you have such a nice apartment and such nice children.”

Kuntī was the daughter of the Vṛṣṇi family and the wife and mother of the Pāṇḍava family. Generally a woman has affection for both her father’s family and husband’s family, and therefore Kuntī prays to Kṛṣṇa, “I am a woman, and women are generally attached to their families, so kindly cut off

But if one has something and then renounces it, his renunciation is meaningful. No one else could give up such a happy home, such honor, and such affection from mother, wife, friends , and students. He personally taught the whole world how one must detach oneself and become a devotee of Kṛṣṇa. Prayāga, he fell flat before Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and offered obeisances with this prayer:

Such men may pose as scientists and philosophers, but actually they have no knowledge, and they simply This is our greatest source of grief, and therefore I have requested the members of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement to challenge and defeat these rascals, who are misleading the entire human society. On the contrary, the devotees are the greatest philosophers and the greatest scientists.

Unless the living force is present within the body, the body cannot move or work nicely, and similarly Rascals do not know how this world is moving and how this universe is acting, and therefore they should

The evidence of this is Jagāi and Mādhāi.” At that time, of course, there were two Jagāis and Mādhāis, but at the present moment, by the grace of Caitanya Mahāprabhu and His process of teaching, so many Jagāis and Mādhāis are being delivered.

She had become one of the relatives of Kṛṣṇa, and therefore Kṛṣṇa had come to offer her respects. But still she said, “Kṛṣṇa, I have become attached to two families, my father’s family and my husband Thus she illustrated that one must become detached from society, friendship, and love, all of which will

this love one can purchase Kṛṣṇa, but Caitanya Mahāprabhu distributed this love of Kṛṣṇa to anyone and everyone, even to the two drunkards Jagāi and Mādhāi.

Caitanya Mahāprabhu was only twenty-four or twenty-five years old He had a lovable, beautiful wife and a devoted, affectionate mother, He gave up everything and took sannyāsa, the renounced order of life In Nadia, the city where He lived, His position was very respectable, and physically He was very beautiful Yet He gave up His young, faithful, beautiful wife, His affectionate mother, His position, and everything

If not, he can marry and then after some time enter vānaprastha, retired life. Then the man travels all over to various places of pilgrimage to become detached, and the wife goes with After two or three months he again comes home to see that his children are doing nicely and then again When the detachment is complete, the man tells his wife, “Now go live with your children, and I shall The whole Vedic way of life is meant for detachment, and therefore Kuntī prays, “Kindly help detach me

associated with a certain quality of nature, nature is making him dance according to that quality, and This information provided in Bhagavad-gītā is the basic principle of understanding, and it will give

Kuntī addresses Kṛṣṇa as viśveśa, the Lord of the universe (viśva means “universe,” and īśa means “lord The universal affairs are going on so nicely, with the sun rising just on time, the seasons changing, and the seasonal fruits and flowers making their appearance. And who is that controller? Kṛṣṇa to be like those of ordinary boys and girls.

Śrīmatī Kuntīdevī was conscious of this fact, and therefore she prayed to the Lord to cut off the affectionate tie from her own kinsmen, the Pāṇḍavas and the Vṛṣṇis. The Pāṇḍavas are her own sons, and the Vṛṣṇis are the members of her paternal family. All these partialities troubled the mind of Kuntī, and therefore she desired to cut off the affectionate

One’s present body will be finished, and then one will have to accept another body. Lord, if one follows the regulative principles for avoiding sinful life one will remain in goodness and But if we waste our life just living like cats and dogs, eating, sleeping, mating, and defending, then

become free from the bodily concept of life, but unfortunately scientists, philosophers, politicians, and conscious, but these rascals are stopping that opportunity by alluring people to bodily designations, and

the form of the universe, please, therefore, sever my tie of affection for my kinsmen, the Pāṇḍavas and

to this family,” “I belong to this nation,” “I belong to this religion,” “I belong to this color,” and I am spirit soul, and all these attachments belong to the body, but I am not this body. The supreme father and mother is Kṛṣṇa. Māyā, the material nature, is causing us to dance, telling us, “You are a member of this family and a

Because Arjuna was a devotee and wanted to see the universal form, Kṛṣṇa showed it to him, but that was Similarly, Kṛṣṇa’s real form is seen at home in Vṛndāvana, and all other forms are expansions of His stated in the Brahma-saṁhitā, advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam: He can expand Himself in millions and millions of forms (ananta-rūpam), but He is one (advaita), and He is infallible (acyuta).

A pure devotee cuts off the limited ties of affection for his family and widens his activities of devotional All of them belonged to the most enlightened and cultured rich families of the higher castes, but for the benefit of the mass of population they left their comfortable homes and became mendicants.