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On Photography and Taking Videos During Lectures
The best photographers, cinematographers are invisible, you don’t see them, they come in, they get their shot, they leave, you don’t know. The worst ones are the ones because they have a camera they are the center of the universe, everyone has got to move and adjust.
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'This is what I feel, if I can find other people that feel like that, that’s truth.' Because of the identifying so strongly, as we are saying here, with the modern culture, especially the Protestant, as the prominent element of the First World culture... Means it doesn’t mean... You can
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"This [Vedanta] psychology is not something separate from what you are used to hearing. It’s just that it’s not necessarily taken as its own topic. Psychology, basically, it’s based in the root, the psyche, means is actually the soul. But in your modern psychology and philosophies they can’t actually tell
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Prabhu: If a person doesn’t wear clothes in the wintertime and gets sick thinking that he is very austere, and so he doesn’t need to wear almost anything, that is also based on ignorance? HH BVPS Maharaja: Yes, based on ignorance. Austerity means the proper performance of your duty.
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Westerners and Indian Diet: The Challenge of Eating What Kṛṣṇa Eats
Kṛṣṇa, Who, being God, could eat anything, He has chosen these particular things to eat because out of all the different tastes they are the most developed and refined. So it is a nice direction to go towards. But I would say more important is to learn how to cook.
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A little knowledge is dangerous. So you have to have enough knowledge, then you stop being dangerous.
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Prabhu (1): Why do we have so much faith in external results and not in relationships?
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Why should we have study of the sastras? Why should we have organized classes in which people then study this knowledge and get degrees? To get degrees, to increase our prestige, make outside people think that we are educated. But that is not the purpose. The purpose is to develop
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"Humility; pridelessness; nonviolence; tolerance; simplicity; approaching a bonafide spiritual master; cleanliness; steadiness; self-control; renunciation of the objects of sense gratification; absence of false ego; the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age, and disease; detachment; freedom from entanglement with children, wife, home and the rest; even-mindedness amid pleasant
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