Speech and restraint

AI-assisted reading path; questions and selection are editorial. The quotations below are stored source text. The full source pages include their original purports and citations.

Compare the urges and activities listed, then read the purports.

1. NOI 1

   A sober person who can tolerate the urge to speak, the mind's demands, the actions of anger and the urges of the tongue, belly and genitals is qualified to make disciples all over the world.

   Read NOI 1 in context · Source: Vanisource

   Edition and source record

   Edition: 1975 · page 16618, revision 780106

2. NOI 2

   One's devotional service is spoiled when he becomes too entangled in the following six activities: (1) eating more than necessary or collecting more funds than required; (2) overendeavoring for mundane things that are very difficult to obtain; (3) talking unnecessarily about mundane subject matters; (4) Practicing the scriptural rules and regulations only for the sake of following them and not for the sake of spiritual advancement, or rejecting the rules and regulations of the scriptures and working independently or whimsically; (5) associating with worldly-minded persons who are not interested in Kṛṣṇa consciousness; and (6) being greedy for mundane achievements.

   Read NOI 2 in context · Source: Vanisource

   Edition and source record

   Edition: 1975 · page 16619, revision 780109

Related contextual definitions

• Krodha: anger
• Buddhi: intelligence

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