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• 15:27, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page He (a learned person) thinks: Here is a dog, but it is also a living entity, although by his past karma he has become a dog. And this learned scholar is also a living spark, but he has taken good birth because of his past karma (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"He thinks"|"Here is a dog, but it is also a living entity, although by his past karma he has become a dog. And this learned sc...")
• 15:19, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page A learned person's vision enables him to see them all equally. How is this? He does not see the body but the soul, the spiritual spark (Brahman). He thinks: Here is a dog, but it is also a living entity, although by his past karma he has become a dog (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"his vision enables him to see them all equally. How is this? He does not see the body but the soul, the spiritual spark (Brahm...")
• 15:13, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page One who is very highly learned does not distinguish between a learned scholar, a brahmana, an elephant, a dog and a cow. He is sama-darsi; his vision enables him to see them all equally (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"one who is very highly learned does not distinguish between a learned scholar, a brāhmaṇa, an elephant, a dog and a cow. He...")
• 14:57, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page When one comes to the platform of elevated knowledge, he naturally becomes a vegetarian. Panditah sama-darsinah: (BG 5.18) one who is very highly learned does not distinguish between a learned scholar, a brahmana, an elephant, a dog and a cow (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"When one comes to the platform of elevated knowledge, he naturally becomes a vegetarian. Paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ"|"on...")
• 14:50, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Sparrows and pigeons have sex three hundred times daily, although they are strict vegetarians, and the lion, which is not a vegetarian, has sex once a year. Spiritual life is not a question of vegetarianism but of understanding higher knowledge (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Sparrows and pigeons have sex three hundred times daily, although they are strict vegetarians, and the lion, which is not a ve...")
• 14:45, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The pivot of material attraction is sex, not only for human society but for animal society also (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The pivot of material attraction is sex, not only for human society but for animal society also"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|Nabak...")
• 14:44, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page We should not be frivolous or waste time. If one wants this knowledge, he has to practice austerity, tapasya, and the beginning of tapasya, as already explained, is brahmacarya - celibacy or restricted sex life (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We should not be frivolous or waste time. If one wants this knowledge, he has to practice austerity, tapasya, and the beginnin...")
• 14:40, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page One must consider whether he is the body or whether he is transcendental to the body, and one must try to know what God is. These ideas are to be studied in Krsna consciousness. We should not be frivolous or waste time (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"One must consider whether he is the body or whether he is transcendental to the body, and one must try to know what God is. Th...")
• 14:29, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page In the Bhagavatam Sukadeva Gosvami declares that real atonement necessitates thoughtfulness, sobriety and meditation (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In the Bhāgavatam Śukadeva Gosvāmī declares that real atonement necessitates thoughtfulness, sobriety and meditation"}} {{...")
• 14:26, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page We should use this great opportunity, human life, to understand all these points which are mentioned in the authoritative books of Vedic knowledge like Srimad-Bhagavatam and Bhagavad-gita (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We should use this great opportunity, human life, to understand all these points which are mentioned in the authoritative book...")
• 14:23, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page We work with our hands, but they are not our hands but God's, for when the power to use the hand is withdrawn by God, the hand becomes useless (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We work with our hands, but they are not our hands but God's, for when the power to use the hand is withdrawn by God, the hand...")
• 14:20, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page We cannot produce the metal; we must take it from the mine, which is also God's property. The earth and the bricks which are made from it are also God's. We simply give our labor, but that labor is also God's property (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We cannot produce the metal; we must take it from the mine, which is also God's property. The earth and the bricks which are m...")
• 14:16, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page We may wish to construct a building, but where do we get the stone, wood and earth that the construction requires? We cannot artificially produce the wood; it is God's property (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We may wish to construct a building, but where do we get the stone, wood and earth that the construction requires? We cannot a...")
• 14:13, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page In the higher sense everything we have is Krsna's or God's, and it must be utilized in accordance with His desires (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"in the higher sense everything we have is Kṛṣṇa's or God's, and it must be utilized in accordance with His desires"}} {{...")
• 14:10, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If one earns a great deal of money but tries to hide it to avoid paying income tax, the government considers him to be a criminal. He cannot say, "I have earned this money. Why shall I pay tax to the government?" No, he must pay or risk punishment (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"if one earns a great deal of money but tries to hide it to avoid paying income tax, the government considers him to be a crimi...")
• 14:03, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page It is also stated in Bhagavad-gita that if one does not spend his money for yajna, sacrifice, he is understood to be a thief - yo bhunkte stena eva sah - BG 3.12 (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It is also stated in Bhagavad-gītā that if one does not spend his money for yajña, sacrifice, he is understood to be a thie...")
• 13:59, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If this is considered thoughtfully (person without God consciousness steal God's property) and if one comes to real knowledge, he will realize that if we do not understand God, whose property we are using, whatever we possess is stolen property (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If this is considered thoughtfully and if one comes to real knowledge, he will realize that if we do not understand God, whose...")
• 13:51, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If one who has something is not God conscious, it is to be understood that he has stolen God's property. That is the nature of material life (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If one who has something is not God conscious, it is to be understood that he has stolen God's property. That is the nature of...")
• 13:46, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Of course this may not be very pleasant to hear, but actually we are all thieves, for we have stolen God's property (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Of course this may not be very pleasant to hear, but actually we are all thieves, for we have stolen God's property"}} {{notes...")
• 13:40, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Even though He is sarva-loka-mahesvaram (BG 5.29), the proprietor of all the planets, He nonetheless says, "Please give in charity to Me." Why? It is for our interest, for the sooner we return Krsna's money to Krsna, the better situated we will be (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Even though He is sarva-loka-maheśvaram"|"the proprietor of all the planets, He nonetheless says, "Please give in charity to...")
• 13:33, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Krsna is not in want of money, for He is the original proprietor of everything (Isavasyam idam sarvam (ISO 1)). But still He asks us for charity. For example, Krsna, in the guise of Vamana, a dwarf brahmana, went to beg from Bali Maharaja (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Kṛṣṇa is not in want of money, for He is the original proprietor of everything (Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam (ISO 1)). Bu...")
• 13:29, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page In Bhagavad-gita Krsna says: I envy no one, nor am I partial to anyone. I am equal to all. But whoever renders service unto Me in devotion is a friend, is in Me, and I am also a friend to him - BG 9.29 (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In Bhagavad-gītā Kṛṣṇa says"|"I envy no one, nor am I partial to anyone. I am equal to all. But whoever renders servic...")
• 13:23, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Bhagavad-gita explains that there are three kinds of charity - charity in the mode of goodness, passion and ignorance. A person in the mode of goodness knows where charity should be given (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Bhagavad-gītā explains that there are three kinds of charity - charity in the mode of goodness, passion and ignorance. A per...")
• 13:20, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page As long as it (money) is in one's hand, it is better to spend it for a good purpose. If one spends it for bad purposes, he becomes entangled, but if he spends it for good purposes, he gets good in return. This is very clearly stated in Bhagavad-gita (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"as long as it is in one's hand, it is better to spend it for a good purpose. If one spends it for bad purposes, he becomes ent...")
• 13:15, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page A person may leave the world declaring how the money should be spent by his sons or heirs, but even if one leaves millions of dollars, in his next life he has no claim to it (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"A person may leave the world declaring how the money should be spent by his sons or heirs, but even if one leaves millions of...")
• 13:12, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page One does not know where the money which he earned in his previous body is being kept or how it is being spent (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"one does not know where the money which he earned in his previous body is being kept or how it is being spent"}} {{notes|}} {{...")
• 13:08, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page As soon as one quits his body, all his monetary resources and everything else that he has collected in connection with his body is finished, for the spirit soul transmigrates to another body (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"As soon as one quits his body, all his monetary resources and everything else that he has collected in connection with his bod...")
• 09:21, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If one has a million dollars, he should not keep it, but, as long as it is within his jurisdiction, he should spend it for Krsna. Money or energy is properly utilized when it is directed to Krsna (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If one has a million dollars, he should not keep it, but, as long as it is within his jurisdiction, he should spend it for K...")
• 09:15, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page By austerity, celibacy, and control of the mind and senses one can advance in pure life. Similarly, advancement can be made through charity properly directed. That is called tyaga, renunciation (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"By austerity, celibacy, and control of the mind and senses one can advance in pure life. Similarly, advancement can be made th...")
• 09:11, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Indulging in sex in any way, looking at and whispering with girls, and determining or endeavoring to engage in sex life are all against the principles of brahmacarya. One executes real brahmacarya when all these activities come to a halt (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"indulging in sex in any way, looking at and whispering with girls, and determining or endeavoring to engage in sex life are al...")
• 09:07, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page To properly execute celibacy, one should not even think or even talk of sex life. Reading modern literature and newspapers which are filled with sexual material is also against the principles of brahmacarya (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"To properly execute celibacy, one should not even think or even talk of sex life. Reading modern literature and newspapers whi...")
• 08:46, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs deleted page There are descriptions in the Vedas of brahmacarya, celibacy, which characterize the beginning of a life dedicated to tapasya: Smaranam kirtanam kelih preksanam guhyabhasanam/ sankalpo 'dhyavasayas ca kriya-nirvrttir eva ca - Sridhara 6.1.12 (content was: "#REDIRECT There are descriptions in the Vedas of brahmacarya, celibacy, which characterize the beginning of a life dedicated to tapasya: Smaranam kirtanam kelih preksanam guhyabhasanam, sankalpo 'dhyavasayas ca kriya-nirvrttir eva ca - Sridhara 6.1.12", and the only contributor was "Nabakumar" (talk))
• 08:45, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs moved page There are descriptions in the Vedas of brahmacarya, celibacy, which characterize the beginning of a life dedicated to tapasya: Smaranam kirtanam kelih preksanam guhyabhasanam/ sankalpo 'dhyavasayas ca kriya-nirvrttir eva ca - Sridhara 6.1.12 to There are descriptions in the Vedas of brahmacarya, celibacy, which characterize the beginning of a life dedicated to tapasya: Smaranam kirtanam kelih preksanam guhyabhasanam, sankalpo 'dhyavasayas ca kriya-nirvrttir eva ca - Sridhara 6.1.12
• 08:44, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page There are descriptions in the Vedas of brahmacarya, celibacy, which characterize the beginning of a life dedicated to tapasya: Smaranam kirtanam kelih preksanam guhyabhasanam/ sankalpo 'dhyavasayas ca kriya-nirvrttir eva ca - Sridhara 6.1.12 (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"There are descriptions in the Vedas of brahmacarya, celibacy, which characterize the beginning of a life dedicated to tapasya:...")
• 08:39, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The processes of eating, sleeping, mating and defending need not be taught, for they are learned instinctively. Human life is obviously meant for more. It is meant for tapasya and knowledge (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The processes of eating, sleeping, mating and defending need not be taught, for they are learned instinctively. Human life is...")
• 08:37, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Because human life is meant for knowledge, there are schools and colleges, philosophers and scientists and mathematicians. The processes of eating, sleeping, mating and defending need not be taught, for they are learned instinctively (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Because human life is meant for knowledge, there are schools and colleges, philosophers and scientists and mathematicians. The...")
• 08:34, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Brahma janatiti brahmanah: One who knows the supreme, the Absolute Truth, is a brahmana, but one who does not know is an animal. This is the difference between animal and man; man, to deserve the name, must be educated to understand the Absolute Truth (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Brahma jānātīti brāhmaṇaḥ: One who knows the supreme, the Absolute Truth, is a brāhmaṇa, but one who does not know...")
• 08:30, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page These two words are used frequently in Vedic literature - brahmana and krpana. Krpana means "miser" and brahmana refers to a liberal, broad-minded person (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"These two words are used frequently in Vedic literature - brāhmaṇa and kṛpaṇa. Kṛpaṇa means "|"and brāhmaṇa refe...")
• 08:26, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Everyone is dying, for no one can live here permanently, but one who dies after executing a life of tapasya is a brahmana, and one who dies like a cat or dog, without executing tapasya, is called a krpana (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Everyone is dying, for no one can live here permanently, but one who dies after executing a life of tapasya is a brāhmaṇa,...")
• 08:22, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page In the Vedas it is said that those who execute a regulated life of tapasya are brahmanas. Etad aksaram gargi viditvasmal lokat praiti sa brahmanah, etad aksaram gargy aviditvasmal lokat praiti sa krpanah (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In the Vedas it is said that those who execute a regulated life of tapasya are brāhmaṇas. Etad akṣaraṁ gārgi viditvās...")
• 08:19, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page In the present age people have become degraded for want of tapasya because they are not taught how to execute tapasvi life. Criticism for its own sake will not do; one must be effectively trained in the life of tapasya (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In the present age people have become degraded for want of tapasya because they are not taught how to execute tapasvī life. C...")
• 08:16, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page When he is grown up, the brahmacari can marry and become grhastha, and as a grhastha he can have sex, but in the brahmacarya life strict celibacy is the rule (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"When he is grown up, the brahmacārī can marry and become gṛhastha, and as a gṛhastha he can have sex, but in the brahmac...")
• 08:13, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The first principle of austerity is brahmacarya, restricted sex life. The real meaning of brahmacarya is complete celibacy, and according to Vedic culture in the beginning of life one should strictly follow the regulations of brahmacarya (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The first principle of austerity is brahmacarya, restricted sex life. The real meaning of brahmacarya is complete celibacy, an...")
• 08:09, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page What is tapasya? What is austerity? The first principle of austerity is brahmacarya, restricted sex life (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"What is tapasya? What is austerity? The first principle of austerity is brahmacarya, restricted sex life"}} {{notes|}} {{compi...")
• 08:07, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If we want actual freedom from the problems of life, we have to accept a life of austerity. Bondage to material life is the only other alternative (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If we want actual freedom from the problems of life, we have to accept a life of austerity. Bondage to material life is the on...")
• 08:04, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Apparently propaganda is being made celebrating freedom as opposed to a regulated life, but one who sees things as they are can understand that freedom from all restriction is animal life. Therefore Sukadeva Gosvami recommends tapasya (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Apparently propaganda is being made celebrating freedom as opposed to a regulated life, but one who sees things as they are ca...")
• 07:59, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The law makes distinctions between human beings and animals because human beings supposedly have advanced consciousness. If we do not follow rules and regulations, we again lapse into animalism (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The law therefore makes distinctions between human beings and animals because human beings supposedly have advanced consciousn...")
• 07:55, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page We cannot drive a car on the left or run a red light without risking apprehension by the law. If a dog, however, walks on the left side of the street or crosses against a red light, it is not punished because it is an animal (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We cannot drive a car on the left or run a red light without risking apprehension by the law. If a dog, however, walks on the...")
• 07:51, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Restriction is for human beings, not for animals. We encounter restrictions daily in our common dealings. We cannot drive a car on the left or run a red light without risking apprehension by the law (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Restriction is for human beings, not for animals. We encounter restrictions daily in our common dealings. We cannot drive a ca...")
• 07:47, 23 February 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The real fact is, however, that if one wants to advance in spiritual understanding and solve all the problems of life, he must accept this life of tapasya - austerity and restriction (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The real fact is, however, that if one wants to advance in spiritual understanding and solve all the problems of life, he must...")