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• 05:10, 8 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page It is our position to hear Bhagavad-gita from the lips of Arjuna or his bona fide representative, the spiritual master. After hearing, it is necessary to practice this acquired knowledge in daily life (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It is our position to hear Bhagavad-gītā from the lips of Arjuna or his bona fide representative, the spiritual master. Afte...")
• 05:05, 8 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page In Bhagavad-gita Arjuna is hearing about God from the lips of Sri Krsna Himself. In this way Arjuna set the criterion for understanding the Supreme by submissive hearing (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In Bhagavad-gītā Arjuna is hearing about God from the lips of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself. In this way Arjuna set the criterio...")
• 04:24, 8 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page We should become submissive and hear of the Supreme through the authoritative sources such as Bhagavad-gita or through the lips of a realized soul (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"we should become submissive and hear of the Supreme through the authoritative sources such as Bhagavad-gītā or through the l...")
• 04:20, 8 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page One should come to understand, submissively, that he is a very insignificant segment of the universe. Abandoning the endeavor to understand the Supreme by limited knowledge or mental speculation (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"One should come to understand, submissively, that he is a very insignificant segment of the universe. Abandoning the endeavor...")
• 04:15, 8 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page It is not possible to measure the length and breadth of Krsna by one's minuscule knowledge, and one who arrives at this conclusion is considered intelligent by Vedic literature (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It is not possible to measure the length and breadth of Kṛṣṇa by one's minuscule knowledge, and one who arrives at this...")
• 04:08, 8 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Srimad-Bhagavatam also recommends that we give up this futile process to measure the Supreme. We cannot even measure the limitations of space, what to speak of the Supreme (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam also recommends that we give up this futile process to measure the Supreme. We cannot even measure the li...")
• 04:04, 8 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Krsna is called ajitah - unconquerable - for no one can conquer God, but according to SB, one with this attitude ("I am Your eternal servitor. Please let me somehow engage in Your service") easily conquers the Supreme (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Kṛṣṇa is called ajitaḥ - unconquerable - for no one can conquer God, but according to Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, one with t...")
• 03:56, 8 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Unless one worships the lotus feet of Krsna, he again has to descend to the material platform. The ideal attitude should be - I am Your eternal servitor. Please let me somehow engage in Your service (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Unless one worships the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, he again has to descend to the material platform. The ideal attitude should...")
• 03:50, 8 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page By penances, austerities, & meditations they (the jnanis & yogis) can rise up to the platform of the Supreme Absolute, but as has been explained, they again fall down to the material world, because they have not taken Krsna's personal features seriously (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"By penances, austerities, and meditations they can rise up to the platform of the Supreme Absolute, but as has been explained,...")
• 07:06, 7 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The jnanis and yogis are generally impersonalists, and although they attain the temporary form of liberation by merging into the impersonal effulgence, the spiritual sky, according to Srimad-Bhagavatam their knowledge is not considered pure (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The jñānīs and yogīs are generally impersonalists, and although they attain the temporary form of liberation by merging in...")
• 06:57, 7 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page There are no rules and regulations (of chanting Hare Krsna). One can chant in the street, in the subway, or at his home or office. There is no tax and no expense. So why not take to it (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"There are no rules and regulations. One can chant in the street, in the subway, or at his home or office. There is no tax and...")
• 06:51, 7 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Krsna Himself says that He is easily purchased by this bhakti-yoga process. Then why should we take to any other process? We can chant Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare twenty-four hours daily (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Kṛṣṇa Himself says that He is easily purchased by this bhakti-yoga process. Then why should we take to any other process...")
• 06:15, 7 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Smarati nityasah means "continuously remembering," and for one who is continuously remembering Krsna, the Lord becomes tasyaham sulabhah - easily purchased (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"continuously remembering"|"and for one who is continuously remembering Kṛṣṇa, the Lord becomes tasyāhaṁ sulabhaḥ -...")
• 06:09, 7 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Krsna consciousness means that one always lives with Krsna on that spiritual planet, Goloka Vrndavana, and that one is simply waiting to give up this material body (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Kṛṣṇa consciousness means that one always lives with Kṛṣṇa on that spiritual planet, Goloka Vṛndāvana, and that...")
• 06:06, 7 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page In India I lived in Vrndavana, and now I am in America, but this does not mean that I am out of Vrndavana, because if I think of Krsna always, then I'm always in Vrndavana, regardless of the material designation (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In India I lived in Vṛndāvana, and now I am in America, but this does not mean that I am out of Vṛndāvana, because if I...")
• 05:50, 7 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page His (one who is continuously in trance) mind is always filled with the thought of Krsna, without deviation (ananya-cetah satatam). Satatam refers to anywhere and any time (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"His mind is always filled with the thought of Kṛṣṇa, without deviation (ananya-cetāḥ satatam). Satatam refers to anyw...")
• 05:47, 7 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page One who is continuously in trance (nitya-yuktasya yoginah) does not divert his attention to anything else. He is always situated in trance (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"One who is continuously in trance (nitya-yuktasya yoginaḥ) does not divert his attention to anything else. He is always situ...")
• 05:41, 7 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page We can manufacture something that will accelerate death, but nothing that will stop death. Those who are intelligent, however, are not concerned with the fourfold miseries of material life, but with elevation to the spiritual planets (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We can manufacture something that will accelerate death, but nothing that will stop death. Those who are intelligent, however,...")
• 05:37, 7 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Material scientists have discovered many facilities for sense enjoyment and destruction, but they have discovered no solution to the problems of old age, disease, and death. They cannot make any machine that will check death, old age, or disease (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Material scientists have discovered many facilities for sense enjoyment and destruction, but they have discovered no solution...")
• 05:33, 7 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page In this material world we have become acclimatized to birth, death, and all sorts of suffering (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In this material world we have become acclimatized to birth, death, and all sorts of suffering"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|Nabaku...")
• 05:30, 7 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The cows (from Krsnaloka) are called surabhi, and they yield an endless supply of milk. These are descriptions of the spiritual planets found in Vedic scriptures (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"the cows are called surabhi, and they yield an endless supply of milk. These are descriptions of the spiritual planets found i...")
• 05:24, 7 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page In this world we get mangoes from mango trees and apples from apple trees, but there (Krsnaloka) from any tree one can get whatever he desires (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In this world we get mangoes from mango trees and apples from apple trees, but there from any tree one can get whatever he des...")
• 05:20, 7 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The trees are wish-fulfilling trees, or "desire trees," (in Krsnaloka) for one can receive from them whatever he wishes (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The trees are wish-fulfilling trees, or"|"desire trees"|"for one can receive from them whatever he wishes"}} {{notes|}} {{comp...")
• 05:12, 7 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page This (Bs 5.29) is a description of Krsnaloka. The houses are made of what is called "touchstone." Whatever touchstone touches immediately turns into gold (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"This is a description of Kṛṣṇaloka. The houses are made of what is called"|"touchstone"|"Whatever touchstone touches imm...")
• 13:03, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor, who is tending the cows, always served with great reverence and affection by hundreds and thousands of laksmis, or gopis - Bs. 5.29 (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor, who is tending the cows"|"always served with great reverence and a...")
• 12:58, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor, who is tending the cows, fulfilling all desire, in abodes built with spiritual gems, surrounded by millions of wish-fulfilling trees - Bs. 5.29 (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, the first progenitor, who is tending the cows, fulfilling all desire, in abodes built wi...")
• 12:41, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page In Brahma-samhita (5.29) Sri Krsna and His abode are described thus: cintamani-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vrksa- laksavrtesu surabhir abhipalayantam, laksmi-sahasra-sata-sambhrama-sevyamanam, govindam adi-purusam tam aham bhajami (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In Brahma-saṁhitā (5.29) Śrī Kṛṣṇa and His abode are described thus:"|"cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa...")
• 11:59, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The best process is to train ourselves now, so that at the time of death we may transfer ourselves to the spiritual universe, to Krsnaloka, and there associate with Krsna (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"the best process is to train ourselves now, so that at the time of death we may transfer ourselves to the spiritual universe,...")
• 11:56, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Unless sex life is there in the spiritual world, it cannot be reflected here. Here it is simply a perverted reflection, but the actual life is there in Krsna, who is full of all pleasure (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"unless sex life is there in the spiritual world, it cannot be reflected here. Here it is simply a perverted reflection, but th...")
• 11:52, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page We should not think that the pleasure there is like the sex pleasure in the material world. No, it is different (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"we should not think that the pleasure there is like the sex pleasure in the material world. No, it is different"}} {{notes|}}...")
• 11:48, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page In the material world it is generally accepted that the highest pleasure is sex. This is a perverted reflection of the sex pleasure in the spiritual world, the pleasure of association with Krsna (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In the material world it is generally accepted that the highest pleasure is sex. This is a perverted reflection of the sex ple...")
• 08:54, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page When we are left alone for a long time in the impersonal brahma-jyotir, we cannot have pleasure, and therefore we accept the pleasure given by the material world. But in Krsna consciousness, real pleasure is enjoyed (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"When we are left alone for a long time in the impersonal brahma-jyotir, we cannot have pleasure, and therefore we accept the p...")
• 08:42, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page It is of utmost importance that we know the nature of our constitutional position: we want eternity, complete knowledge, and also pleasure (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It is of utmost importance, therefore, that we know the nature of our constitutional position: we want eternity, complete know...")
• 08:33, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The impersonalist's position in the spiritual world is nonpermanent, for out of loneliness he will attempt to acquire some association. Because he does not associate personally with the Supreme Lord, he has to return again to the world (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The impersonalist's position in the spiritual world is nonpermanent, for out of loneliness he will attempt to acquire some ass...")
• 08:21, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page As long as we are here on earth, we must learn to practice to love and serve Krsna, the Supreme Lord. If we learn this, we can enter into those spiritual planets (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"As long as we are here on earth, we must learn to practice to love and serve Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Lord. If we learn this,...")
• 07:48, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Srimad-Bhagavatam says that even after so much endeavor, if the impersonalist enters into the spiritual world and acquires an impersonal form, he returns again into the material world because of neglecting to serve the Supreme Lord in love and devotion (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam says that even after so much endeavor, if the impersonalist enters into the spiritual world and acquires...")
• 07:37, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Astronauts may travel thousands and thousands of miles, but if they do not find rest on some planet, they have to return again to earth. In any case, rest is required. In the impersonal form, rest is uncertain (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Astronauts may travel thousands and thousands of miles, but if they do not find rest on some planet, they have to return again...")
• 06:09, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page For one who merges impersonally into the existence of the Supreme, there is every chance of falling down again into the material world in order to acquire some association. This is the verdict of Srimad-Bhagavatam (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"for one who merges impersonally into the existence of the Supreme, there is every chance of falling down again into the materi...")
• 05:59, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page One may remain alone in a room for some time and may enjoy himself by reading a book or engaging in some thought, but it is not possible to remain in that room for years and years at a time, and certainly not for all eternity (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"One may remain alone in a room for some time and may enjoy himself by reading a book or engaging in some thought, but it is no...")
• 05:55, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Those who enter impersonally into the brahma-jyotir can remain there for some time in full knowledge that they are now merged homogeneously with Brahman, but they cannot have that eternal ananda, bliss, because that part is wanting (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Those who enter impersonally into the brahma-jyotir can remain there for some time in full knowledge that they are now merged...")
• 05:30, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page As living entities we want enjoyment. Being, in itself, is not enough. We want bliss (ananda) as well as being (sat). In his entirety, the living entity is composed of three qualities - eternality, knowledge, and bliss (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"as living entities we want enjoyment. Being, in itself, is not enough. We want bliss (ānanda) as well as being (sat). In his...")
• 03:59, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Just as the sunshine is composed of so many atomic particles, so the brahma-jyotir is composed of so many spiritual sparks (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Just as the sunshine is composed of so many atomic particles, so the brahma-jyotir is composed of so many spiritual sparks"}}...")
• 03:53, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The individuality of the spiritual spark is retained, but because the impersonalist does not want to take a personal form, he is found as a spiritual spark in that effulgence (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"the individuality of the spiritual spark is retained, but because the impersonalist does not want to take a personal form, he...")
• 03:49, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page It should not be considered that one merges into the brahma-jyotir in the sense of becoming one with it (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It should not be considered that one merges into the brahma-jyotir in the sense of becoming one with it"}} {{notes|}} {{compil...")
• 03:33, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The impersonalists are placed in the brahma-jyotir as spiritual sparks, and in this way the brahma-jyotir is filled with spiritual sparks. This is what is meant by merging into the spiritual existence (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The impersonalists are placed in the brahma-jyotir as spiritual sparks, and in this way the brahma-jyotir is filled with spiri...")
• 03:22, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The brahma-jyotir may be compared to the sunshine, and the spiritual planets may be compared to the sun itself. In the spiritual sky the impersonalists remain in the effulgence of the Supreme Lord, the brahma-jyotir (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The brahma-jyotir may be compared to the sunshine, and the spiritual planets may be compared to the sun itself. In the spiritu...")
• 03:18, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Although they (the impersonalists) may enter the spiritual world, they cannot enter into any of the planets there. They remain outside, in the brahma-jyotir (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"although they may enter the spiritual world, they cannot enter into any of the planets there. They remain outside, in the brah...")
• 03:10, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page For the impersonalists to get out of this temporary body, Krsna here (in BG 8.13) advises that they vibrate the syllable om. In this way they can be assured of transmigration into the spiritual world (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"For the impersonalists to get out of this temporary body, Kṛṣṇa here advises that they vibrate the syllable oṁ. In thi...")
• 02:58, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If somehow we can get out of the material body, we can escape the miseries that are integral with it (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If somehow we can get out of the material body, we can escape the miseries that are integral with it"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|...")
• 02:39, 6 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Although we are not meant to suffer from fever, sometimes fever comes, and we have to take precautions and remedies to get well again. The fourfold miseries are like a fever, and they are all due to the material body (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Although we are not meant to suffer from fever, sometimes fever comes, and we have to take precautions and remedies to get wel...")