Posted by Ramananda on Jan 28, 2014 in Govinda Datta, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.37
Speaker: Govinda Datta Prabhu (Los Angeles, California)
January 28, 2014
SB 2.2.37 — Those who drink through aural reception, fully filled with the nectarean message of Lord Kṛṣṇa, the beloved of the devotees, purify the polluted aim of life known as material enjoyment and thus go back to Godhead, to the lotus feet of Him [the Personality of Godhead].
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Posted by Ramananda on Jan 27, 2014 in Gaudacandra, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.36
Speaker: Gaudacandra Prabhu (Los Angeles, California)
January 27, 2014
SB 2.2.36 — O King, it is therefore essential that every human being hear about, glorify and remember the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, always and everywhere.
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Posted by Ramananda on Jan 23, 2014 in Narahari, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.34
Speaker : Narahari Prabhu (Honolulu, HI)
January 23, 2014
SB 2.2.34 — The great personality Brahmā, with great attention and concentration of the mind, studied the Vedas three times, and after scrutinizingly examining them, he ascertained that attraction for the Supreme Personality of Godhead Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the highest perfection of religion.
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Posted by Ramananda on Jan 22, 2014 in Madan Mohan, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.33
Speaker : Madan Mohan Prabhu (Alachua, Florida)
January 22, 2014
SB 2.2.33 — For those who are wandering in the material universe, there is no more auspicious means of deliverance than what is aimed at in the direct devotional service of Lord Kṛṣṇa.
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Posted by Ramananda on Jan 21, 2014 in SB 2.2 | 0 comments
Speaker: Puskara Prabhu (Alachua, Florida)
January 21, 2014
SB 2.2.32 — Your Majesty Mahārāja Parīkṣit, know that all that I have described in reply to your proper inquiry is just according to the version of the Vedas, and it is eternal truth. This was described personally by Lord Kṛṣṇa unto Brahmā, with whom the Lord was satisfied upon being properly worshiped.
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Posted by Ramananda on Jan 20, 2014 in Ananda Caitanya, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.31
Speaker: Ananda Caitanya Prabhu (Kaunas, Lithuania)
January 20, 2014
SB 2.2.31 — Only the purified soul can attain the perfection of associating with the Personality of Godhead in complete bliss and satisfaction in his constitutional state. Whoever is able to renovate such devotional perfection is never again attracted by this material world, and he never returns.
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Posted by Ramananda on Jan 17, 2014 in SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.29-30
Speaker: Balabhadra Prabhu (Boise, ID)
January 17, 2014
SB 2.2.29 — The devotee thus surpasses the subtle objects of different senses like aroma by smelling, the palate by tasting, vision by seeing forms, touch by contacting, the vibrations of the ear by ethereal identification, and the sense organs by material activities.
SB 2.2.30 — The devotee, thus surpassing the gross and the subtle forms of coverings, enters the plane of egoism. And in that status he merges the material modes of nature [ignorance and passion] in this point of neutralization and thus reaches egoism in goodness. After this, all egoism is merged in the mahat-tattva, and he comes to the point of pure self-realization.
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Posted by Ramananda on Jan 16, 2014 in Ramananda, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.28
Speaker : Ramananda Dasa
January 16, 2014
SB 2.2.28 — After reaching Satyaloka, the devotee is specifically able to be incorporated fearlessly by the subtle body in an identity similar to that of the gross body, and one after another he gradually attains stages of existence from earthly to watery, fiery, glowing and airy, until he reaches the ethereal stage.
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Posted by Ramananda on Jan 15, 2014 in Narahari, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.27
Speaker : Narahari Prabhu
January 15, 2014
SB 2.2.27 — In that planet of Satyaloka, there is neither bereavement, nor old age nor death. There is no pain of any kind, and therefore there are no anxieties, save that sometimes, due to consciousness, there is a feeling of compassion for those unaware of the process of devotional service, who are subjected to unsurpassable miseries in the material world.
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Posted by Ramananda on Jan 14, 2014 in Krsna Kirtan, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.25-26
Speaker: Krsna Kirtan Prabhu (Warsaw,Poland)
January 14, 2014
SB 2.2.25 — This Śiśumāra is the pivot for the turning of the complete universe, and it is called the navel of Viṣṇu [Garbhodakaśāyī Viṣṇu]. The yogī alone goes beyond this circle of Śiśumāra and attains the planet [Maharloka] where purified saints like Bhṛgu enjoy a duration of life of 4,300,000,000 solar years. This planet is worshipable even for saints who are transcendentally situated.
SB 2.2.26 — At the time of the final devastation of the complete universe [the end of the duration of Brahmā’s life], a flame of fire emanates from the mouth of Ananta [from the bottom of the universe]. The yogī sees all the planets of the universe burning to ashes, and thus he leaves for Satyaloka by airplanes used by the great purified souls. The duration of life in Satyaloka is calculated to be 15,480,000,000,000 years.
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Posted by Ramananda on Jan 13, 2014 in Gaudacandra, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.24
Speaker: Gaudacandra Prabhu (Los Angeles, California)
January 13, 2014
SB 2.2.24 — O King, when such a mystic passes over the Milky Way by the illuminating Suṣumṇā to reach the highest planet, Brahmaloka, he goes first to Vaiśvānara, the planet of the deity of fire, wherein he becomes completely cleansed of all contaminations, and thereafter he still goes higher, to the circle of Śiśumāra, to relate with Lord Hari, the Personality of Godhead.
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Posted by Ramananda on Jan 10, 2014 in Damayanti, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.23
Speaker: Damayanti Devi (Cottonwood, Arizona)
January 10, 2014
SB 2.2.23 — The transcendentalists are concerned with the spiritual body. As such, by the strength of their devotional service, austerities, mystic power and transcendental knowledge, their movements are unrestricted, within and beyond the material worlds. The fruitive workers, or the gross materialists, can never move in such an unrestricted manner.

Posted by Ramananda on Jan 9, 2014 in Madan Mohan, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.22
Speaker : Madan Mohan Prabhu (Alachua, Florida)
January 9, 2014
SB 2.2.22 — However, O King, if a yogī maintains a desire for improved material enjoyments, like transference to the topmost planet, Brahmaloka, or the achievement of the eightfold perfections, travel in outer space with the Vaihāyasas, or a situation in one of the millions of planets, then he has to take away with him the materially molded mind and senses.
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Posted by Ramananda on Jan 8, 2014 in Kavi Candra Swami, SB 2.2 | 0 comments
Speaker : HH Kavi Candra Swami
January 8, 2014
SB 2.2.21 — Thereafter the bhakti-yogī should push the life air up between the eyebrows, and then, blocking the seven outlets of the life air, he should maintain his aim for going back home, back to Godhead. If he is completely free from all desires for material enjoyment, he should then reach the cerebral hole and give up his material connections, having gone to the Supreme.
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Posted by Ramananda on Jan 7, 2014 in Govinda Datta, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.20
Speaker: Govinda Datta Prabhu (Los Angeles, California)
January 7, 2014
SB 2.2.20 — The meditative devotee should slowly push up the life air from the navel to the heart, from there to the chest, and from there to the root of the palate. He should search out the proper places with intelligence.
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Posted by Ramananda on Jan 6, 2014 in Ananda Caitanya, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.19
Speaker: Ananda Caitanya Prabhu (Kaunas, Lithuania)
January 6, 2014
SB 2.2.19 — By the strength of scientific knowledge, one should be well situated in absolute realization and thus be able to extinguish all material desires. One should then give up the material body by blocking the air hole [through which stool is evacuated] with the heel of one’s foot and by lifting the life air from one place to another in the six primary places.
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Posted by Ramananda on Jan 3, 2014 in Narahari, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.18
Speaker : Narahari Prabhu
January 3, 2014
SB 2.2.18 — The transcendentalists desire to avoid everything godless, for they know that supreme situation in which everything is related with the Supreme Lord Viṣṇu. Therefore a pure devotee who is in absolute harmony with the Lord does not create perplexities, but worships the lotus feet of the Lord at every moment, taking them into his heart.
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Posted by Ramananda on Jan 2, 2014 in SB 2.2 | 0 comments
Speaker: Puskara Prabhu (Alachua, Florida)
January 2, 2014
SB 2.2.17 — In that transcendental state of labdhopaśānti, there is no supremacy of devastating time, which controls even the celestial demigods who are empowered to rule over mundane creatures. (And what to speak of the demigods themselves?) Nor is there the mode of material goodness, nor passion, nor ignorance, nor even the false ego, nor the material Causal Ocean, nor the material nature.
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Posted by Ramananda on Jan 1, 2014 in Ramananda, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.16
Speaker : Ramananda Dasa
January 1, 2014
SB 2.2.16 — Thereafter, the yogī should merge his mind, by his unalloyed intelligence, into the living entity, and then merge the living entity into the Superself. And by doing this, the fully satisfied living entity becomes situated in the supreme stage of satisfaction, so that he ceases from all other activities.
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Posted by Ramananda on Dec 31, 2013 in Bhakti Dhira Damodara, SB 2.2 | 0 comments
Speaker: HH Bhakti Dhira Damodara Swami (Nairobi)
December 31, 2013
SB 2.2.15 — O King, whenever the yogī desires to leave this planet of human beings, he should not be perplexed about the proper time or place, but should comfortably sit without being disturbed and, regulating the life air, should control the senses by the mind.
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Posted by Ramananda on Dec 30, 2013 in Gaudacandra, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.14
Speaker: Gaudacandra Prabhu (Los Angeles, California)
December 30, 2013
SB 2.2.14 — Unless the gross materialist develops a sense of loving service unto the Supreme Lord, the seer of both the transcendental and material worlds, he should remember or meditate upon the universal form of the Lord at the end of his prescribed duties.
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Posted by Ramananda on Dec 27, 2013 in Kavi Candra Swami, SB 2.2 | 0 comments
Speaker : HH Kavi Candra Swami
December 27, 2013
SB 2.2.13 — The process of meditation should begin from the lotus feet of the Lord and progress to His smiling face. The meditation should be concentrated upon the lotus feet, then the calves, then the thighs, and in this way higher and higher. The more the mind becomes fixed upon the different parts of the limbs, one after another, the more the intelligence becomes purified.
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Posted by Ramananda on Dec 26, 2013 in Krsna Kirtan, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.12
Speaker: Krsna Kirtan Prabhu (Warsaw,Poland)
December 26, 2013
SB 2.2.12 — The Lord’s magnanimous pastimes and the glowing glancing of His smiling face are all indications of His extensive benedictions. One must therefore concentrate on this transcendental form of the Lord, as long as the mind can be fixed on Him by meditation.
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Posted by Ramananda on Dec 25, 2013 in Narahari, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.9-11
Speaker : Narahari Prabhu
December 25, 2013
SB 2.2.9 — His mouth expresses His happiness. His eyes spread like the petals of a lotus, and His garments, yellowish like the saffron of a kadamba flower, are bedecked with valuable jewels. His ornaments are all made of gold, set with jewels, and He wears a glowing headdress and earrings.
SB 2.2.10 — His lotus feet are placed over the whorls of the lotuslike hearts of great mystics. On His chest is the Kaustubha jewel, engraved with a beautiful calf, and there are other jewels on His shoulders. His complete torso is garlanded with fresh flowers.
SB 2.2.11 — He is well decorated with an ornamental wreath about His waist and rings studded with valuable jewels on His fingers. His leglets, His bangles, His oiled hair, curling with a bluish tint, and His beautiful smiling face are all very pleasing.
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Posted by Ramananda on Dec 24, 2013 in Madan Mohan, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.8
Speaker : Madan Mohan Prabhu (Alachua, Florida)
December 24, 2013
SB 2.2.8 — Others conceive of the Personality of Godhead residing within the body in the region of the heart and measuring only eight inches, with four hands carrying a lotus, a wheel of a chariot, a conchshell and a club respectively.
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Posted by Ramananda on Dec 23, 2013 in Damayanti, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.7
Speaker: Damayanti Devi (Cottonwood, Arizona)
December 23, 2013
SB 2.2.7 — Who else but the gross materialists will neglect such transcendental thought and take to the nonpermanent names only, seeing the mass of people fallen in the river of suffering as the consequence of accruing the result of their own work?

Posted by Ramananda on Dec 20, 2013 in Hanumatpresaka Swami, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.6
Speaker: HH Hanumatpresaka Swami
SB 2.2.6 — Thus being fixed, one must render service unto the Supersoul situated in one’s own heart by His omnipotency. Because He is the Almighty Personality of Godhead, eternal and unlimited, He is the ultimate goal of life, and by worshiping Him one can end the cause of the conditioned state of existence.
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Posted by Ramananda on Dec 18, 2013 in Govinda Datta, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.4
Speaker: Govinda Datta Prabhu (Los Angeles, California)
December 18, 2013
SB 2.2.4 — When there are ample earthly flats to lie on, what is the necessity of cots and beds? When one can use his own arms, what is the necessity of a pillow? When one can use the palms of his hands, what is the necessity of varieties of utensils? When there is ample covering, or the skins of trees, what is the necessity of clothing?
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Posted by Ramananda on Dec 17, 2013 in SB 2.2 | 0 comments
Speaker: Puskara Prabhu (Alachua, Florida)
December 17, 2013
SB 2.2.3 — For this reason the enlightened person should endeavor only for the minimum necessities of life while in the world of names. He should be intelligently fixed and never endeavor for unwanted things, being competent to perceive practically that all such endeavors are merely hard labor for nothing.
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Posted by Ramananda on Dec 16, 2013 in Ananda Caitanya, SB 2.2 | Comments Off on SB 2.2.2
Speaker: Ananda Caitanya Prabhu (Kaunas, Lithuania)
December 16, 2013
SB 2.2.2 — The way of presentation of the Vedic sounds is so bewildering that it directs the intelligence of the people to meaningless things like the heavenly kingdoms. The conditioned souls hover in dreams of such heavenly illusory pleasures, but actually they do not relish any tangible happiness in such places.
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