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• 07:44, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Indians are automatically taught tapasya through their Vedic culture, but they come to America to forget that culture and accept another type of life (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Indians are automatically taught tapasya through their Vedic culture, but they come to America to forget that culture and acce...")
• 07:41, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Indian gentlemen often come to the West to learn these indulgences (illicit sex, intoxication, gambling and meat-eating), and they think themselves to be thus advancing (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Indian gentlemen often come to the West to learn these indulgences, and they think themselves to be thus advancing"}} {{notes|...")
• 07:25, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Impossible - the Britisher replied. Yes, it is impossible, for in Europe or in America self-indulgence is the way of life from the very beginning (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Impossible"|"the Britisher replied. Yes, it is impossible, for in Europe or in America self-indulgence is the way of life from...")
• 07:15, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page In England, a wealthy aristocrat inquired from a Vaisnava Godbrother: Swamiji, can you make me a brahmana? The Swamiji replied - Yes, why not? You just have to observe these four principles - no illicit sex, intoxication, gambling and meat-eating (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In England, a wealthy aristocrat inquired from a Vaiṣṇava Godbrother"|"Swāmījī, can you make me a brāhmaṇa?" The Sw...")
• 06:54, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page In the Western countries especially it is a great tapasya to give up illicit sex life, intoxication, meat-eating and gambling. Although we require only these austerities, it is very difficult to observe them (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In the Western countries especially it is a great tapasya to give up illicit sex life, intoxication, meat-eating and gambling....")
• 06:50, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If one wants to become an initiated member of our Krsna consciousness society, we first of all ask him to undergo tapasya. In the Western countries especially it is a great tapasya to give up illicit sex life, intoxication, meat-eating and gambling (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If one wants to become an initiated member of our Kṛṣṇa consciousness society, we first of all ask him to undergo tapasy...")
• 06:44, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Some tapasya is certainly required. Without it, one can not advance in spiritual life or knowledge. If we simply engage in the animal propensities of eating, sleeping, mating and defending, not accepting the tapasya process, human life is a failure (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Some tapasya is certainly required. Without it, one can not advance in spiritual life or knowledge. If we simply engage in the...")
• 06:38, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page In the summer they (tapasvis) also ignite fires all around themselves and sit down in the midst of the blazes and meditate. These are examples of severe tapasya undertaken by many ascetics in India (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In the summer they also ignite fires all around themselves and sit down in the midst of the blazes and meditate. These are exa...")
• 06:33, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Standing in water during severe cold is not very comfortable, but they (tapasvis) voluntarily do it. In the summer they also ignite fires all around themselves and sit down in the midst of the blazes and meditate (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Standing in water during severe cold is not very comfortable, but they voluntarily do it. In the summer they also ignite fires...")
• 06:26, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Indeed, Vedic culture prescribes tapasya, and one can see many tapasvis undergoing austerities in India. In the winter they stand in water up to their necks and meditate (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Indeed, Vedic culture prescribes tapasya, and one can see many tapasvīs undergoing austerities in India. In the winter they s...")
• 06:20, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Tapasya: voluntary acceptance of a miserable condition. The ability to do this is good, and human life is meant for that purpose (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"tapasya: voluntary acceptance of a miserable condition. The ability to do this is good, and human life is meant for that purpo...")
• 06:16, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If a doctor advises a diabetic patient not to eat but to starve for some days, although no one likes to starve, the patient must voluntarily accept starvation if he wants to be cured. This is tapasya: voluntary acceptance of a miserable condition (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If a doctor advises a diabetic patient not to eat but to starve for some days, although no one likes to starve, the patient mu...")
• 06:10, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page It is suggested that one elevate himself to the platform of knowledge as prescribed in Srimad-Bhagavatam. The first necessity is tapasya, or acceptance of austerity (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It is suggested therefore that one elevate himself to the platform of knowledge as prescribed in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. The fir...")
• 06:05, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Ordinary people, or karmis, are fruitive actors who work all day and night to get some enjoyable results and then again suffer. Thus the problems of such karmis are never solved (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Ordinary people, or karmīs, are fruitive actors who work all day and night to get some enjoyable results and then again suffe...")
• 05:53, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Sukadeva Gosvami says that in material or sinful life we act in a way in which we are forced to commit sins and suffer as a result. This is so, and if we want to stop this cycle of suffering and victimization, we have to advance in knowledge (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Śukadeva Gosvāmī says that in material or sinful life we act in a way in which we are forced to commit sins and suffer as a...")
• 05:47, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If one does not think or act wisely, as Vedic knowledge prescribes, how can he stop the problems of life? Simply by atonement there may be a temporary suppression of difficulties, but they will arise again (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"if one does not think or act wisely, as Vedic knowledge prescribes, how can he stop the problems of life? Simply by atonement...")
• 05:41, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If one wants to actually stop diseased life, he must follow a regulative principle. If a person does not follow the program given by a physician to cure his disease, he cannot be cured (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If one wants to actually stop diseased life, he must follow a regulative principle. If a person does not follow the program gi...")
• 05:37, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page How can these questions (Why am I suffering? Wherefrom have I come? What is my constitutional position? etc.) be solved? Sukadeva Gosvami says: nasnatah pathyam evannam vyadhayo 'bhibhavanti hi, evam niyamakrd rajan sanaih ksemaya kalpate - SB 6.1.12 (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"How can these questions be solved? Śukadeva Gosvāmī says: nāśnataḥ pathyam evānnaṁ vyādhayo 'bhibhavanti hi/ evaṁ...")
• 05:30, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page These questions must arise: Why am I suffering? Wherefrom have I come? What is my constitutional position? Where shall I go after death? Why am I put into a miserable form of life? Why are there birth, death, old age and disease (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"These questions must arise"|"Why am I suffering? Wherefrom have I come? What is my constitutional position? Where shall I go a...")
• 05:18, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Why is there fighting and why are there miseries? Unless these "why" questions, which in the Vedas are called Kena Upanisad, arise in one's mind, one is not fulfilling the proper function of his human life (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Why is there fighting and why are there miseries? Unless these"|"questions, which in the Vedas are called Kena Upaniṣad, ari...")
• 16:25, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Avidvat-adhikaritvat prayascittam vimarsanam. Real atonement is performed in knowledge (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Avidvat-adhikāritvāt prāyaścittaṁ vimarśanam. Real atonement is performed in knowledge"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|Nabakum...")
• 16:20, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Sukadeva states that these troubles (SB 6.1.10) happen due to ignorance: avidvad-adhikaritvat. Avidvat means - lack of knowledge (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Śukadeva states that these troubles happen due to ignorance: avidvad-adhikāritvāt. Avidvat means "|"lack of knowledg"|"Avid...")
• 16:14, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Sukadeva Gosvami said that one kind of war causes a disturbance, and another kind of war stops it for some time, but that is not the ultimate solution to the problem (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Śukadeva Gosvāmī said that one kind of war causes a disturbance, and another kind of war stops it for some time, but that i...")
• 16:10, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The cycle of sinful activities and atonement is like that. What we actually want is to be free from suffering and war, but that does not happen (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The cycle of sinful activities and atonement is like that. What we actually want is to be free from suffering and war, but tha...")
• 16:06, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The actual goal is to stop war, but that cannot be done. By one action war is created, and by another action war is stopped for the time being, but again at the next opportunity there is another war (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The actual goal is to stop war, but that cannot be done. By one action war is created, and by another action war is stopped fo...")
• 15:22, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page After the First World War statesmen and diplomats manufactured the League of Nations. Then the Second World War came, and now they have devised the United Nations, but war is still going on (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"After the First World War statesmen and diplomats manufactured the League of Nations. Then the Second World War came, and now...")
• 15:19, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The United Nations is attempting to establish peace in the world, but they cannot stop war. War breaks out again and again (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"the United Nations is attempting to establish peace in the world, but they cannot stop war. War breaks out again and again"}}...")
• 15:16, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Sukadeva Gosvami said that merely counteracting karma, fruitive activities, by other activities cannot bring one's miseries to a final end (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Śukadeva Gosvāmī said that merely counteracting karma, fruitive activities, by other activities cannot bring one's miseries...")
• 15:14, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The second question put by Pariksit Maharaja to Sukadeva Gosvami is very important: How can one ultimately become free from all contamination brought about by the material modes of nature? If one cannot achieve liberation, what is the use of atonement (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"the second question put by Parīkṣit Mahārāja to Śukadeva Gosvāmī is very important: How can one ultimately become free...")
• 15:10, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Pariksit Maharaja said that although one may cleanse himself in the process of atonement, if he again commits the same sinful acts, what is the use (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Parīkṣit Mahārāja said that although one may cleanse himself in the process of atonement, if he again commits the same si...")
• 15:07, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page He (Pariksit Maharaja) gave the example of an elephant which cleanses his body thoroughly in a lake or reservoir, but as soon as he comes onto shore he takes dust and throws it all over his body and immediately becomes dirty again (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"He gave the example of an elephant which cleanses his body thoroughly in a lake or reservoir, but as soon as he comes onto sho...")
• 15:03, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Pariksit Maharaja said: kvacin nivartate 'bhadrat kvacic carati tat punah prayascittam ato 'partham: (SB 6.1.10) Repetitive sinning and atoning seem to me like nothing but a waste of time (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Parīkṣit Mahārāja said: kvacin nivartate 'bhadrāt kvacic carati tat punaḥ prāyaścittam ato 'pārtham"|"Repetitive si...")
• 14:59, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If one does not come to Krsna consciousness, he may be relieved for the time being from the reactions of sinful activities, but he will again commit transgressions (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If one does not come to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he may be relieved for the time being from the reactions of sinful activiti...")
• 14:52, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page One can go on experimenting by atoning, but the diseases of the soul will remain unless one comes to the platform of rendering devotional service in love and purifying his life (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"One can go on experimenting by atoning, but the diseases of the soul will remain unless one comes to the platform of rendering...")
• 14:49, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The Krsna consciousness process does not recommend this (BG 14.26) atonement or that atonement (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The Kṛṣṇa consciousness process does not recommend this atonement or that atonement"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|Nabakumar}}...")
• 14:45, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page In Bhagavad-gita Lord Krsna says: One who engages in full devotional service, who does not fall down in any circumstance, at once transcends the modes of material nature and thus comes to the level of Brahman - BG 14.26 (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In Bhagavad-gītā Lord Kṛṣṇa says"|"One who engages in full devotional service, who does not fall down in any circumsta...")
• 14:30, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If one actually wants freedom from the repetition of birth and death, he must come to Krsna consciousness (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If one actually wants freedom from the repetition of birth and death, he must come to Kṛṣṇa consciousness"}} {{notes|}}...")
• 14:28, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Krsna consciousness is an excellent medicine. Unless one comes to awareness of Krsna, the habits he forms in association with the three modes of material nature will continue, and he will not be able to change them (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Kṛṣṇa consciousness is an excellent medicine. Unless one comes to awareness of Kṛṣṇa, the habits he forms in assoc...")
• 14:21, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Those who seriously follow the process of Krsna consciousness, though previously habituated to many undesirable things, are able to stay on a platform where there is no material contamination simply by virtue of practicing Krsna consciousness (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Those who seriously follow the process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, though previously habituated to many undesirable things,...")
• 14:14, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If one is Krsna conscious, there is no chance of his associating with the three modes of material nature, and when one is conscious of Krsna, one's spiritual nature is automatically invoked. That is the secret (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If one is Kṛṣṇa conscious, there is no chance of his associating with the three modes of material nature, and when one i...")
• 14:05, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If we disassociate ourselves from the three modes of material nature, our real spiritual nature is invoked. That is the process of Krsna consciousness (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If, however, we disassociate ourselves from the three modes of material nature, our real spiritual nature is invoked. That is...")
• 14:00, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Our habits are formed by association with these three qualities (sattva guna, rajo guna and tamo guna), which are the qualities of goodness, passion and ignorance (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"our habits are formed by association with these three qualities, which are the qualities of goodness, passion and ignorance"}}...")
• 13:54, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page We have acquired material qualities by associating with the three modes of material nature - sattva guna, rajo guna and tamo guna (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"we have acquired material qualities by associating with the three modes of material nature - sattva guṇa, rajo guṇa and ta...")
• 13:52, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page One may seat a dog on a royal throne, but as soon as he sees a shoe, he will immediately jump down and run after it simply because he is a dog. The canine qualities are there, and they cannot be changed simply by putting the dog on a throne (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"One may seat a dog on a royal throne, but as soon as he sees a shoe, he will immediately jump down and run after it simply bec...")
• 13:46, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Sva yadi kriyate raja, tat kim nasnaty upanaham (Hitopadesa): One may seat a dog on a royal throne, but as soon as he sees a shoe, he will immediately jump down and run after it simply because he is a dog (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Śvā yadi kriyate rājā/ tat kiṁ nāśnāty upānaham (Hitopadeśa): One may seat a dog on a royal throne, but as soon as...")
• 13:42, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs deleted page Habit is second nature; it is very difficult to break. Sva yadi kriyate raja/ tat kim nasnaty upanaham - Hitopadesa (content was: "#REDIRECT Habit is second nature; it is very difficult to break. Sva yadi kriyate raja, tat kim nasnaty upanaham - Hitopadesa", and the only contributor was "Nabakumar" (talk))
• 13:37, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs moved page Habit is second nature; it is very difficult to break. Sva yadi kriyate raja/ tat kim nasnaty upanaham - Hitopadesa to Habit is second nature; it is very difficult to break. Sva yadi kriyate raja, tat kim nasnaty upanaham - Hitopadesa
• 13:35, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Habit is second nature; it is very difficult to break. Sva yadi kriyate raja/ tat kim nasnaty upanaham - Hitopadesa (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Habit is second nature; it is very difficult to break. Śvā yadi kriyate rājā/ tat kiṁ nāśnāty upānaham (Hitopadeśa)...")
• 13:31, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page When one is being punished, he thinks, "What a mistake I have made! I shall not commit this sin anymore." But as soon as he is out of danger, he again commits the same sin (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"When one is being punished, he thinks"|"What a mistake I have made! I shall not commit this sin anymore"|"But as soon as he is...")
• 13:26, 22 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page What is the value of atonement if one commits the same sin again and again after atoning? Kvacin nivartate 'bhadrat kvacic carati tat punah prayascittam ato 'partham manye kunjara-saucavat - SB 6.1.10 (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"What is the value of atonement if one commits the same sin again and again after atoning? Kvacin nivartate 'bhadrāt kvacic ca...")