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1.  Not by abstaining from work nor by renouncing all can anyone attain liberation. Renunciation can be obtained only after the discharge of duties is over. This results in purification of heart. One must dedicate oneself in the transcendental service of God.  

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1.  There are people who try to understand god by mental speculation and there are those who do it with devotional work. Of these two, the devotional work or Krshna consciousness or Karma Yoga is easier.

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1.  There are people who try to understand god by mental speculation and there are those who do it with devotional work. Of these two, the devotional work or Krshna consciousness or Karma Yoga is easier.

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1.  This is the way of spiritual life attaining which man is not bewildered, and by leading it one reaches the kingdom of god after death. According to bhagawad gita life begins after the end of this material life. And one who is Krshna conscious, attains his kingdom after death.   

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1.  A person who has given up all objects of sense gratification, who lives free from all desires, who has given up all sense of proprietorship, and who is devoid of any false ego, can only attain peace. Because he is totally devoted to and surrendered to god and  lives only to satisfy him.

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1.  That which is night for the common man is day for the self controlled and that which is day for the normal guys is night for the introspective sage.

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1.  As a boat on the water which is swept away by a strong wind, even a mind which is focused towards some sense can have its intelligence carried away.

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1.  For one who is situated in divine consciousness the three fold miseries of materialism do not exist and his intelligence becomes steady.  

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1.  One who can control his senses by practicing the regulated principles of freedom can obtain the mercy of the lord and become free from all attachments and aversions. The Krshna conscious person is concerned only with satisfying the lord, and nothing else. This is the mercy of the lord.

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1.  By contemplation on the objects of senses an attachment to them develops. This turns into desire, then lust, then anger, then illusion and then finally into false ego. When the desire gets too powerful a fear that one may lose that object develops. This fear gets an outlet in anger towards those who are objects of this anger. This impotent anger and unnecessary suspicion gives rise to persecution mania and illusion. This illusion that everyone is preventing one from getting his or her object of desire results in false ego.

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1.  The senses are so impetuous that they even carry away one who is trying to control them, Just like sage Vishwamitra who fell for Menaka. The only way to control them is by total surrender to the lord. It is such a nice thing to one who tastes it will never fall for the distasteful sense enjoyment.

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1.  The senses are so impetuous that they even carry away one who is trying to control them, Just like sage Vishwamitra who fell for Menaka. The only way to control them is by total surrender to the lord. It is such a nice thing to one who tastes it will never fall for the distasteful sense enjoyment.

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1.  One who is not affected by the threefold miseries, who is free from attachment, fear and anger is called a  sage of steady mind. He is always conscious of god. He accepts everything as a mercy of the lord. And is always daring and active as the lord’s servitor. His whole life is dedicated to the service of the lord.

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1.  When intelligence has passed the dense forest of delusion one is not affected by what he hears or is going to hear. A person in the platform of devotion to the lord does not need scriptures. 

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1.  The wise ones take refuge in lord thus escaping the material world and avoiding the endless births and deaths. The ignorant do not know that the material world is a miserable place. The try to adjust here by their fruitive actions. But one who understands himself as the eternal servitor of lord goes to the Vaikuntha planets.

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1.  One should surrender himself to the lord totally. Those who want to enjoy the fruits of their labor are misers. Those in devotional service rid themselves of both the good and the bad actions even in life. 

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1.  One should surrender himself to the lord totally. Those who want to enjoy the fruits of their labor are misers. Those in devotional service rid themselves of both the good and the bad actions even in life. 

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a.  In the minds of those who think materialistically the thought of devotional service to the supreme lord does not arise. They are content with sense gratification.

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1.  Activity in Krshna consciousness means improvement in life even when it is only a bit. Even one percent in this field gives permanent results. 

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1.  All living entities are un manifest in the beginning, manifest in the middle and again un manifest in the end. Hence there is no cause for lamentation as the material body is a dream.

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1.  For one who is born, death is certain and for one who is dead, birth is certain. This is an unchangeable law of life. One has to take birth as per his or her destiny.

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1.  Anyone who knows that the soul is imperishable should not lament at the loss of the body just like one should not lament at the loss of his dress.

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1.  The soul cannot be cut into pieces by any weapon, cannot be burnt by fire, cannot be moistened by water nor can it be withered by air. In other words it cannot be harmed by weapons of any kind. The soul is covered by illusory energy and thus become separated from the supreme soul just like a spark gets away from the main fire. Even after liberated, the living entity is separated from the supreme soul. 

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1.  As a person discards old clothes and acquires new ones, the soul too discards old bodies and acquires new ones. This transfer of one soul to another is made possible only by the grace of the super soul. The super soul fulfills the desires of the soul just like a friend fulfills that of the other. One who lays down his life in the sacrificial alter immediately attains higher status in life.  

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1.  One should know that the self neither slays nor is ever slain. It is the body that slays or is slain but this argument does not permit murder. There is the soul and the supersoul which is all knowledgeable. Both are present in every living entity.

1.  The soul is imperishable. It pervades the whole body and is known as consciousness. It is floating in the five type of air called prana, apana, vyana, samana and udana. Hatha yoga is done to control these airs. The corpuscles which carry oxygen to the lungs to the whole body gather energy from the soul.

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1.  The seers of the truth have concluded that of the nonexistent there is no endurance and of the existent there is no cessation. There is no endurance in the changing body but the spirit soul is permanent. The god’s abode has a spiritual and permanent existence. The relationship between the individual and god is that of a part and a whole. Thus the individual is always subordinate to god.

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1.  Happiness and distress are like the changing seasons. One should learn to tolerate them without flinching. Come what may one should not deviate from one’s duty.   

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1.  As the body passes through various phases during once life like infancy, babyhood, childhood, adulthood and old age, the soul passes from the body to another birth through death. This life after death and so on goes on eternally. The enlightened soul is not bewildered by this fact. What one sows so he reaps. Noble souls either get spiritual bodies or at least birth in heavenly planets. All human beings are actually the reflections of the lord.

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1.  Those who are wise lament for neither the living nor the dead. Because on death only the material body perishes. The knowledge of the soul is of prime importance.

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1.  Material activities are a source of perplexity to all and one who wants to be a self realized soul should humbly approach a spiritual master humbly for guidance from this perplexity. Material perplexities include attachment to one’s family.

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1.  According to lord Krshna such material impurities should be eradicated and one should rise above them to become a self realized soul. The absolute truth is realized in the following three forms viz. Bhgawan, Paramatma & Brahman. This can be explained with the Sun planet, the sun’s surface and the sun shine. The advance of a student is from Brahman, to Paramatma and ultimately to Bhagwan. Those who have realized the utmost feature of god viz. Bhagwan are the top most transcendentalists. In the Bhagwan feature the god exhibits himself as all attractive, all knowledgeable, all powerful, all rich, all famous and all renounced.

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1.  According to lord Krshna material impurities such as excessive attachment to relatives do not befit a wise man. This does not lead one to the higher world but to infamy. God as Maha Vishnu pervades the whole Universe, as Garbodakasayee Vishnu the whole planet and as Kshirodakasee Vishnu he is present in each of the living as well as non living beings.

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1.  Arjuna saw the Kaurava army in which he saw several near and dear ones. He got disheartened at the sight. He was stunned to see so many of the relatives and friends who had come to fight with him, and were supporting the evil Duryodhana.

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1.  Lord Krshna is termed as Hrishikesh   because he is the owner of all senses of the living entities especially those of his ardent devotees in every one of whom he resides as Kshirodakasai Vishnu.

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1.  Bhishma lived in an illusive world and was very much attached to the material kingdom of Hastinapur. He was like the disillusioned cardinal Wolsey the man digraced by king Henry the eighth, who said ruefully ‘’had I served my lord with half the devotion that I showed this king I would not have come to such a sorry pass.’’ Duryodhana was scared that this wizened, old, and sanguine Bhishma would come to harm in this war and so he requested Dronacharya to protect him.

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1.  Duryodhana wanted to indirectly accuse his commander and teacher for being affectionate with the Pandava prince Arjuna, and teach martial skills to Dhrishtadhumna who was born only to kill the teacher. This shows that a self realized soul like the teacher does not fear death.

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1.  Dhrshrashtra was blind by birth which shows his utter ignorance. Hence his sons were also atheists and were pitted against the Pandavas who were pious souls. Dhrshrashtra’s eldest son Duryodhana inspite of his diplomacy literally ran towards his commander Dronacharya out of fear on seeing  the Pandava army.

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1.  Kurukshetra is called Dharmakshetra because the supreme personality of god head lord Krshna was present there. Dhrtarshtra knew that his sons were evil and Kurukshetra being a sacred place, they were unlikely to succeed there in their plans. But he was not ready to compromise either. This is what happens when one is too avaricious for his or her own good. God has decided to weed out the fields of this planet so that only good may prevail.