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CC daily 154 – M 6.226 – Appreciation of transcendence is often beyond material comprehension
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How was Kunti ever truthful when she lied to conceal Bhima’s identity?
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From Abhiram Gopal Prabhu:
In Kunti’s character in video 2 in the Mahabharata Characters Course, in the same video you mentioned how she said that Bhima has mantras to kill the demon in ekachakra in order to hide revealing their identity and then you mentioned she had never spoken untruth and therefore Draupadi had to marry all 5 sons since it came from her mouth.

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Venkatesh Stotra 5 – Krishna’s availability for others doesn’t make him unavailable to us
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CC daily 153 – M 6.225 – Urgency to honor prasad can be due to sense gratification or due to spontaneous devotion
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Bhagavatam-daily 255 – 11.12.12 – Krishna uses impersonalist imagery to convey devotional glory
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CC daily 152 – M 6.220-224 – Devotion drives away the dullness that sees the rule but not its purpose
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CC daily 151 – M 6.215-219 – Sarvabhauma jubilantly accepts the triumph of the heart over the head
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Bhagavatam-daily 254 – 11.12.11 – Relativity of the gopis’ perception of time demonstrates their intensity of love
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Is KC also exclusivist because those who don’t accept Krishna’s form are said to be doomed?
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From Raja Parikshit Prabhu
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Bhagavatam-daily 253 – 11.12.10 – Radharani’s love is the summit of selflessness
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Accepted restriction facilitates elevation – resented restriction doesn’t
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Some people ask, “Scripture requires us to restrict worldly enjoyment. Why should we restrict our enjoyment like this? Why can’t we enjoy without any restriction?”

The fact is that it is not scripture alone that restricts our worldly enjoyment – many other factors restrict it too, the most inescapable of which is the body itself. Even if we somehow did away with all restrictions such as scriptural (by rejecting scripture), cultural (by adopting a licentious culture) or financial (by having as much money as we want for enjoying), still we can’t do away with the body’s restriction – its limited capacity to enjoy. Consider the enjoyment through eating. Even if we owned the world’s best hotel that had the best cuisines and the best chefs, still we wouldn’t be able to enjoy food unrestrictedly – our stomach’s limited capacity would put an unavoidable cap on our enjoyment.

The same bodily restriction applies to the endlessly glamorized pleasure of sex too. Though the media often depicts unending erotic bliss, such depictions are counter-factual – the fact is that the body’s capacity for sexual indulgence is limited, like a water-filled sponge’s capacity to give out water.

Someone may argue, “Ok, even if we can’t enjoy unrestrictedly, we can still enjoy as much as our bodily capacity. Why does scripture impose further restriction on that enjoyment?”

The purpose of scriptural regulation is not to deprive us of happiness, but to direct us towards lasting happiness. The primary message of scripture is not that we restrict bodily enjoyment, but that we seek spiritual fulfillment. The Bhagavad-gita explains that we are at our core eternal souls and are parts of the Supreme Soul, Krishna, who is the all-attractive reservoir of infinite pleasure. By following the Gita’s guidelines to practice yoga, especially bhakti-yoga, we can realize our spiritual nature, connect with Krishna and thereby relish eternal spiritual happiness. While we pursue yogic connection with Krishna, the Gita asks us to regulate worldly enjoyment so that our mind can peacefully focus on higher, spiritual realities. Otherwise, if there were no such regulation, the mind would be obsessed with, indeed consumed by, cravings for enjoyment. If our mind is filled with the search for the next worldly object to enjoy, we will have no mental space left to search for the Absolute Truth.

Therefore, though it may seem that scripture restricts our enjoyment to even lesser than our bodily capacity for enjoyment, the reality is that it redirects our consciousness from matter to spirit so that we can relish unending spiritual happiness. The Bhagavad-gita (02.64) assures us that by following scriptural rules, we attain mercy and purity – which in turn paves our way to lasting happiness (02.65).

To better understand this, consider the example of a horse tethered to a pole by a ten-feet rope. If it keeps tugging at the rope, it may stretch the rope to twelve feet, but it still remains bound. If on the other hand, instead of wasting its energy in tugging at the rope, the horse focuses […]

Bhagavatam-daily 252 – 11.12.09 – Religious activities should increase our Krishna consciousness, not our self-consciousness
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When thinking is done by the soul, how can our thoughts be material?
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From Hari Hara Iyer Prabhu: And what about thoughts about Krishna? Aren’t they spiritual?
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Aren’t those who doubt whether Deities can perform miracles faithless skeptics?
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Why check whether something has a natural cause or a divine cause? Doesn’t everything have a divine cause?

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Does seeing natural laws instead of Deities’ reciprocation amount to shallow Krishna consciousness?
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CC daily 149 – M 6.213 – Don’t mistake heartfelt erudite appreciation with self gratification
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Bhagavatam-daily 251 – 11.12.08 – Even the unqualified become liberated by bhakti
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