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• 12:01, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page He (wise man) knows that whatever he sees is but an emanation of Krsna. In the material world, sex life is the most prominent factor. Sexual attraction is found in all species of life, and one may ask where it comes from (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"He knows that whatever he sees is but an emanation of Kṛṣṇa. In the material world, sex life is the most prominent facto...")
• 11:57, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page In this verse (BG 10.8) the word budha is used, which indicates a wise man or one who is learned. What is his symptom? He knows that Krsna is the fountainhead of everything, of all emanations (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In this verse the word budha is used, which indicates a wise man or one who is learned. What is his symptom? He knows that K...")
• 11:42, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If one places himself in artificial light, it may flicker and go out. Krsna is just like sunlight. Where He is present there is no question of darkness and ignorance. The wise men, the mahatmas, understand this (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"if one places himself in artificial light, it may flicker and go out. Kṛṣṇa is just like sunlight. Where He is present t...")
• 11:37, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Actually no one is a free man, for everyone is under the spell of material nature, but one who is surrendered to Krsna cannot be touched by maya. He, of all men, is free. If one places himself in sunlight, there is no question of darkness (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Actually no one is a free man, for everyone is under the spell of material nature, but one who is surrendered to Kṛṣṇa c...")
• 11:32, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If he (the child) becomes expert in KC, he can help not only his children but his society and nation. But if he himself is bound by ignorance, how can he untie others who are similarly bound? Before one can make others free, he must be free himself (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If he becomes expert in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he can help not only his children but his society and nation. But if he him...")
• 11:24, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page He (the father) should be resolved to train his children in such a way that they will no longer have to be subjected to the painful cycle of birth and death. But before one can do this, he has to make himself expert (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"He should be resolved to train his children in such a way that they will no longer have to be subjected to the painful cycle o...")
• 11:19, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The father should be in knowledge of Krsna, and he should be determined that the innocent children who are entrusted to him will not have to undergo the cycle of birth and death again (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The father should be in knowledge of Kṛṣṇa, and he should be determined that the innocent children who are entrusted to...")
• 11:14, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page As the Bhagavatam says, one should not attempt to become a father, or mother, or teacher unless he is able to save his children from death, from the grip of material nature (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"As the Bhāgavatam says, one should not attempt to become a father, or mother, or teacher unless he is able to save his childr...")
• 11:10, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page There are so many men trying to benefit their families, but unfortunately they do not succeed. They do not know what the real problem is (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"There are so many men trying to benefit their families, but unfortunately they do not succeed. They do not know what the real...")
• 10:52, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The real friend is Krsna, and if we want to benefit our family, nation or planet, we will work for Him. If we have our family's welfare in mind, we will try to make all members Krsna conscious (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The real friend is Kṛṣṇa, and if we want to benefit our family, nation or planet, we will work for Him. If we have our f...")
• 10:49, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page We often tend to be philanthropic and altruistic, and we strive to be friends with our countrymen, with our families and with all the peoples of the world - but this is based on a wrong conception (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We often tend to be philanthropic and altruistic, and we strive to be friends with our countrymen, with our families and with...")
• 10:46, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page This consciousness of isavasya - everything belongs to Krsna - must be revived, not only individually but nationally and universally. Then there will be peace (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"This consciousness of īśāvāsya - everything belongs to Kṛṣṇa - must be revived, not only individually but nationally...")
• 10:42, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page We may have the same money in our hands, but as soon as we think that we are the proprietor, we are under the influence of maya. One who is situated in the consciousness that everything belongs to Krsna is an actual learned man (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We may have the same money in our hands, but as soon as we think that we are the proprietor, we are under the influence of mā...")
• 10:39, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If we think that we can use whatever wealth we have amassed for our own sense gratification, we are acting out of kama, lust. But if we come to understand that everything we have belongs to Krsna, we are liberated (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If we think that we can use whatever wealth we have amassed for our own sense gratification, we are acting out of kāma, lust....")
• 10:20, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page As soon as a teller at the bank thinks, "Oh, I have so much money. I am the proprietor. Let me take it home with me," his trouble begins (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"As soon as a teller at the bank thinks"|"Oh, I have so much money. I am the proprietor. Let me take it home with me"|"his trou...")
• 10:15, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page We must come to understand that Krsna is the ultimate proprietor of the fruits of all our works. Hundreds of people may be working in an office, but they understand that whatever profit the business makes belongs to the proprietor (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We must come to understand that Kṛṣṇa is the ultimate proprietor of the fruits of all our works. Hundreds of people may...")
• 10:10, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Krsna is the proprietor of everything, the ultimate beneficiary and the receiver of the results of everything. We may consider ourselves to be the proprietors of the fruits of our labor, but this is a misconception (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Kṛṣṇa is thus the proprietor of everything, the ultimate beneficiary and the receiver of the results of everything. We m...")
• 09:59, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Furthermore, O Arjuna, I (Krsna) am the generating seed of all existences. There is no being - moving or unmoving - that can exist without Me - BG. 10.39 (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Furthermore, O Arjuna, I am the generating seed of all existences. There is no being - moving or unmoving - that can exist wit...")
• 09:42, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The United Nations has been striving for peace for so many years, but still war is going on (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The United Nations has been striving for peace for so many years, but still war is going on"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|Nabakumar...")
• 09:40, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page When we come to realize that we are dependent, we will have attained knowledge. Today so many people are striving for peace in the world, but they do not know how to implement that peace formula (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"When we come to realize that we are dependent, we will have attained knowledge. Today so many people are striving for peace in...")
• 09:33, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Everyone is trying to become independent, and this is called maya, illusion. Individually, communally, socially, nationally, or universally, it is not possible to become independent (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Everyone is trying to become independent, and this is called māyā, illusion. Individually, communally, socially, nationally,...")
• 09:30, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If one thinks he is independent of Krsna, he becomes dependent on the illusory energy of Krsna, just as if one thinks that he is independent of the government and its regulations, he becomes dependent on the police force (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"If one thinks he is independent of Kṛṣṇa, he becomes dependent on the illusory energy of Kṛṣṇa, just as if one thi...")
• 09:27, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Artificially, we are trying to forget Krsna and live independently, but this is not possible. When we strive to live independent of Krsna, we come under the influence of the laws of material nature (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Artificially, we are trying to forget Kṛṣṇa and live independently, but this is not possible. When we strive to live ind...")
• 09:24, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The jivas, or living entities, are now detached from the whole due to material contact. It is therefore necessary for us to strive to attach ourselves again through the latent Krsna consciousness that is within us (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The jīvas, or living entities, are now detached from the whole due to material contact. It is therefore necessary for us to s...")
• 09:17, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page I cannot be happy serving you - everyone is thinking. "I can only be happy serving myself." But no one knows who the self is. That self is Krsna (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"I cannot be happy serving you"|"everyone is thinking"|"I can only be happy serving myself"|"But no one knows who the self is....")
• 09:12, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page My hand can take pleasure when it is attached to my body and serves it. It does not take pleasure in serving another's body. Because we are part of Krsna, our pleasure is in serving Him (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"my hand can take pleasure when it is attached to my body and serves it. It does not take pleasure in serving another's body. B...")
• 06:19, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Relative knowledge may teach us how to repair a machine, but real knowledge is knowing our position as being integral with Krsna. Being part of Him, our pleasure, which is partial, is dependent on the whole (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Relative knowledge may teach us how to repair a machine, but real knowledge is knowing our position as being integral with K...")
• 06:15, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page In order to change this consciousness (to satisfy own senses), however, knowledge is required. That knowledge is knowing "I am part and parcel of Krsna, the superior energy of Krsna." That is real knowledge (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In order to change this consciousness, however, knowledge is required. That knowledge is knowing"|"I am part and parcel of K...")
• 06:12, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page One's business or occupation need not be changed - as Arjuna's was not changed - but one does have to change his consciousness (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"One's business or occupation need not be changed - as Arjuna's was not changed - but one does have to change his consciousness...")
• 05:52, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Materially it may seem very pious that he (Arjuna) is giving up his claim for a kingdom and refusing to kill his relatives, but Krsna did not approve of this because the principle for Arjuna's decision was to satisfy his own senses (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Materially it may seem very pious that he is giving up his claim for a kingdom and refusing to kill his relatives, but Kṛṣ...")
• 05:47, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Arjuna wanted to satisfy his senses by refraining from fighting with his relatives, but Krsna spoke to him to convince him to execute his duty for the satisfaction of the Supreme (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Arjuna wanted to satisfy his senses by refraining from fighting with his relatives, but Kṛṣṇa spoke to him to convince h...")
• 05:44, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The Sanskrit word kama is used to indicate lust, desire or sense satisfaction. Sri Krsna instructs that we should not work for the satisfaction of kama or our own lust. The whole teaching of Bhagavad-gita is based on this principle (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The Sanskrit word kāma is used to indicate lust, desire or sense satisfaction. Śrī Kṛṣṇa instructs that we should not...")
• 05:41, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page It is not that we have to change our process of work, but we do have to understand for whom we are working. Whatever activity we have to do we must execute, but we should not be carried away by kama, desire (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It is not that we have to change our process of work, but we do have to understand for whom we are working. Whatever activity...")
• 05:29, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page He whose consciousness is agitated, who is like a madman, cannot execute any duty. We should execute our duty properly, but we should do it thinking to satisfy Krsna (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"He whose consciousness is agitated, who is like a madman, cannot execute any duty. We should execute our duty properly, but we...")
• 05:27, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Everyone is thinking, "Oh, I must have a vocation in order to maintain my family." Society, the government or the family have to be satisfied, and no one is free from such consciousness One has to be in proper consciousness to execute any activity nicely (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Oh, I must have a vocation in order to maintain my family"|"Society, the government or the family have to be satisfied, and no...")
• 05:23, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Everyone has a vocation in life, but with what consciousness does he enter upon it (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Everyone has a vocation in life, but with what consciousness does he enter upon it"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|Nabakumar}} {{comp...")
• 05:14, 28 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page In our practical life, Krsna instructs us how to invoke Krsna consciousness. It is not that we are to stop executing our duty or to cease from activity. Rather, activities have to be conducted in Krsna consciousness (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In our practical life, Kṛṣṇa instructs us how to invoke Kṛṣṇa consciousness. It is not that we are to stop executi...")
• 17:07, 27 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page As we progress in chanting, purification is sure to come (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"As we progress in chanting, purification is sure to come"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|Nabakumar}} {{complete|ALL}} {{first|2022-03...")
• 17:01, 27 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page When Caitanya was passing through the jungles of South India some five hundred years ago, He chanted HK, and all the animals - the tigers, elephants and deer - joined Him in dancing to the holy names. Of course this depends on the purity of the chanting (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"When Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu was passing through the jungles of South India some five hundred years ago, He chanted Hare K...")
• 16:57, 27 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page It (Krsna consciousness) is within all living entities, whether they be human being or animal (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"It is within all living entities, whether they be human being or animal"}} {{notes|}} {{compiler|Nabakumar}} {{complete|ALL}}...")
• 16:50, 27 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page In fact, it (KC) is the very quality of the self. We have only to invoke it by this process. Krsna consciousness is an eternal fact. It is not a doctrine or set of beliefs imposed by some organization (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"In fact, it is the very quality of the self. We have only to invoke it by this process. Kṛṣṇa consciousness is an eterna...")
• 16:43, 27 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page This chanting of Hare Krsna is a process by which all contaminations due to material association are removed from the mirror of the mind. There is no need for external help in reviving our Krsna consciousness, for KC is dormant within the self (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"this chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa is a process by which all contaminations due to material association are removed from the mi...")
• 16:40, 27 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If we try to interpret Bhagavad-gita according to our own mundane academic mentality, we spoil it all (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"if we try to interpret Bhagavad-gītā according to our own mundane academic mentality, we spoil it all"}} {{notes|}} {{compil...")
• 16:36, 27 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page Actually this process of Krsna consciousness or self-realization is not very difficult. Krsna taught it to Arjuna in Bhagavad-gita, and if we understand Bhagavad-gita just as Arjuna did, we will have no problem in coming to the perfectional state (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"Actually this process of Kṛṣṇa consciousness or self-realization is not very difficult. Kṛṣṇa taught it to Arjuna...")
• 16:33, 27 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page We will not need anyone to ask us whether we are making progress. We will know it automatically, just as a hungry man knows that he has been satisfied by a full meal (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We will not need anyone to ask us whether we are making progress. We will know it automatically, just as a hungry man knows th...")
• 16:29, 27 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page We have nothing to do other than listen, and by listening carefully, enlightenment is sure to come. Krsna will surely help, for He is seated within. We only have to make the effort and spare a little time (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We have nothing to do other than listen, and by listening carefully, enlightenment is sure to come. Kṛṣṇa will surely he...")
• 16:25, 27 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page If after receiving this chance (of becoming KC) and this gift of human life we do not utilize them to develop KC, we shall be missing this rare opportunity. The process for cultivation is very simple: sravanam kirtanam (SB 7.5.23) - hearing and chanting (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"if after receiving this chance and this gift of human life we do not utilize them to develop Kṛṣṇa consciousness, we sha...")
• 16:20, 27 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page We should be careful not to miss the special opportunity of human life. Sri Krsna Himself comes to deliver Bhagavad-gita and to help us to become God conscious. Indeed, this very material creation is given to us to utilize for this cultivation (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"We should therefore be careful not to miss the special opportunity of human life. Śrī Kṛṣṇa Himself comes to deliver B...")
• 16:15, 27 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The defect of modern civilization is that it puts too much stress on solving these (eating, mating, sleeping, etc.) survival problems. As spiritual living beings it is incumbent upon us to extricate ourselves from this entanglement of birth and Death (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The defect of modern civilization is that it puts too much stress on solving these survival problems. As spiritual living bein...")
• 16:10, 27 March 2022 Navakishora Mukunda talk contribs created page The human being has a special qualification whereby he can develop transcendental Krsna consciousness, but if he does not avail himself of this, he is in the animal category (Created page with "<div id="compilation"> <div id="facts"> {{terms|"The human being, however, has a special qualification whereby he can develop transcendental Kṛṣṇa consciousness, but if...")