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God is the refuge and strength of all. Meditation on god is the sword that severs the knots of the evil karma. With faith the desire to learn about god comes. And comes the desire to hear the word of god. Once this desire arises one starts taking pleasure in the word. And then all evil vanishes. With evil the impurities are washed away and the true love for god happens. Thus when this love occupies one’s mind man is free from the bondage of repeated births and deaths. He realizes the truth and knows the self. The wise always find joy in god.

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Even to listen about god and his pastimes is purifying. The highest religion of man is to think and talk about the lord and his unselfish love for god. Religion is an Inquiry about the truth. The knowers call it knowledge and the Vedas call it Brahman. The worshippers of Hiranyagarbha call it the universal spirit and others call it god.

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Men became holy by singing the praises of the lord. Fear does not approach them. By surrendering themselves to the lord the self controlled munis became so perfect that even those who were associated with them became holy.

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By following one’s innate qualities one will attain perfection. One who is conscious of god will cross all obstacles.

Surrender yourself to the lord and have no fear. He will help you cross the ocean of endless life and death.

WHERE THERE IS KRSHNA VICTORY IS CERTAIN.

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That which is like poison in the beginning but which tastes like nectar in the end is in the mode of goodness. That which is derived by contact of the senses is passionate. It tastes like nectar in the beginning but becomes poison gradually is in the mode of passion. And that which is blind to self realization and is bitter right from the beginning is in the mode of ignorance.

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The knowledge by which the undivided spiritual nature is seen everywhere is in the goodness mode. The knowledge by which a separate living entities are seen by one, is in the passion mode. And where the doer is unaware of the universal truth is in ignorance.

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To give up the results of one’s activities is called renunciation. A person who does this is called Renunciant. Prescribed duties should never be renounced. Those in the mode of goodness are attached to auspicious work. The human being should never think himself as the doer. Knowledge, the object of knowledge and the knower are the three factors which motivate action.

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a.  Faith can be of three kinds- Goodness, passion and ignorance. In the material world all these are contaminated. Men in the mode of goodness worship the demigods. Those in passion worship demons and those in ignorance worship the ghosts and spirits. Those who go through severe austerities out of false ego and pride are passionate. Food taken in the mode of goodness increases the duration of life. It gives health, strength and satisfaction. Food that is too spicy results in passion. And putrid food is consumed by the ignorant. Sacrifice according to scriptures is in the mode of goodness. That which is done to secure some material benefit is in the mode of passion. Sacrifices done without consulting the scripttures are in the mode of ignorance. The absolute truth is the object of all sacrifices.

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1.  Those who are demoniac do not know what is to be done and what is not to be done. They are not clean, nor truthful. Thinking that the world is made up of lust they indulge in all activities meant to destroy this world. The demoniac taking shelter of their insatiable lust, pride and false prestige are always sworn to unclean work. The think that gratifying once lust is the ultimate goal of life. This gives birth to endless anxiety. Being bound by thousands of desires, by lust, and by anger they hanker towards securing mammon through illegal means. The are thus deluded by ignorance. They start hating the super soul within and commit blasphemy. There are three gates to hell- lust, anger and greed. They should be scrupulously avoided by one who wants self realization.

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1.  Arrogance, pride, anger, conceit, harshness, and ignorance are demoniac qualities. The divine qualities are conducive to liberation and the demoniac qualities bind the entity. The world is filled with people of the two categories.

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1.  Fearlessness, purification of one’s existence, cultivation of spiritual knowledge, charity, self control, performance of sacrifice, study of the Vedas, austerity, simplicity, non violence, truthfulness, freedom from anger, renunciation, tranquility, aversion to fault finding, non covetousness, compassion, gentleness, modesty, steady determination, vigor, forgiveness, fortitude, cleanliness, freedom from envy and passion for honor these are divine qualities.

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1.  One who is free from illusion, false prestige, and false association, who understands the eternal, is freed from the duality of happiness and distress and surrenders to the lord attains his kingdom. One who reaches there never returns. The endeavoring transcend list who is situated in self realization can see this clearly. In the material world everyone is fallible and in the spiritual world everyone is infallible.

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1.  The material world consists  of three modes of nature namely goodness, passion and ignorance. These three modes are present in everybody in various degrees. A person is judged by the mode which he adopts. The mode of goodness is purer than the other two. It is free from sinful reactions. Those who are in this mode develop knowledge but they are conditioned by the concept of happiness. The mode of passion gives birth to unlimited desires and longings. The mode of ignorance causes delusion, lethargy and sleep. The bind the soul. Goodness conditions one to happiness and bliss, passion to fruits of action and ignorance results in madness. Each mode takes turn in ruling the society. When one dies in the mode of goodness he attains pure and higher planets. One in the mode of passion takes birth in the material world and one who dies in the v mode of ignorance attains hellish births and planets. When the embodied being reaches beyond these modes, he drinks nectar even in this life.

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1.  Humility, pride less ness, non violence, tolerance, simplicity, approaching a bona fide spiritual master, cleanliness, steadiness, self control, renunciation of objects of sense gratification, absence of false ego, perception of the evils of birth, death, old age and constant and unalloyed devotion to god, being solitary, detachment from the world, knowing the importance of self realization, and philosophical search for absolute truth are considered knowledge. Brahman the spirit lies spiritual soul is omnipresent. He exists both externally and internally and is near to all. He is the main source of light. He is knowledge, and is situated in every one’s heart. The living entity comes under the influence of the three modes of material nature because he comes under the influence of the material nature. One who sees the soul and the super soul different from the material body is knowledgeable.

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1.  God is the beginning and end of all.

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1.  God loves all and helps all but he is especially affectionate towards his devotees. One should engage his mind in constantly thinking of god. God is eternal and unborn.

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1.  Those who remember god at the time of death, go to his heavenly abode and attains his nature. He who meditates on god and remembers him constantly attains him.

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1.  False ego, intelligence, mind, ether, air, fire, water and earth constitute the material energies of the lord. These are his inferior energies. The superior energy is spiritualism. Lord is the taste of water, the light of sun & moon, the syllable Om, the sound of the ether and the ability in man. He is the fragrance of the earth and the heat of fire. He is the life in all living beings and the penance of ascetics. He is the original seed of all that exists, the intelligence of all intelligent guys and the power of all powerful men. He is the strength of the strong. He is in the heart of all as super soul.

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1.  For one who has conquered his mind, the mind is the best of friends. He has already reached the super soul. A transcendentalist thinks about god all the time. As a lamp does not waver in a windless place a yogi never waver from his thoughts of god. A true yogi sees god in everything. A transcend list never falls down even if he meets some hindrances.

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1.  Unless one is rendering devotional service to the lord he should not renounce anything. One who works in devotion is dear to all. He is never entangled by the material world. Whatever he does is in Krshna Consciousness. He is aloof from all activities. The humble sage sees all living beings equally. A truly knowledgeable man looks within and thus attains Krshna consciousness.

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1.  One who sees action in inaction and vice versa is in a transcendental position. He or she acts in krshna consciousness. His actions are burnt up in the fire of perfect knowledge. He accepts the results of his action for what they are worth and is ever free from duality. Sacrifice of knowledge is better than sacrifice of material things. The purpose of all sacrifices is to attain the goal of transcendental loving service to lord. All living beings are part of god. Even the most sinful cross the ocean of miseries when one is situated in the boat of transcendental knowledge. The fire of knowledge burns all material activities to ashes.

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1.  The four divisions in the society are created by god on the basis of the three modes of material nature namely goodness, passion and ignorance.

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1.  Those who want quick results in fruitive activities worship the demigods and not the god. Demigods are parts and parcels of god delegated with various powers. The boons from demigods are material and temporary.

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1.  One who knows about the transcendental nature of this incarnation gets freed from future births and deaths from this material world. He or she attains the abode of the lord.

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1.  In order to deliver the pious and to annihilate the evil as well as to reestablish the principles of religion god manifests himself. A Krshna conscious person is called Sadhu (holy man). And one who ignores this aspect is called an evil man. God manifests himself primarily to save the holy but he has to annihilate the evil man in that process.