User contributions for BhavesvariRadhika

26 June 2022

• 12:5612:56, 26 June 2022 diff hist −18 In the mundane mode of goodness there are tinges of passion and ignorance. Therefore mundane goodness, being mixed, is called misra-sattva No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 26 June 2022 diff hist +3,603 In the spiritual world there is only the mode of goodness, which is uncontaminated by any tinge of ignorance or passion No edit summary current
• 10:5310:53, 26 June 2022 diff hist +9 When he (the living entity) is elevated to the higher planetary systems due to worldly pious activities, he considers himself well situated, but when he is subjected to punishment, he thinks himself improperly situated No edit summary current
• 10:5210:52, 26 June 2022 diff hist +1,911 When one's friends and relatives are properly situated, one's religion, economic development and sense gratification, as described in the Vedic literatures, are beneficial - SB 10.5.28 No edit summary current
• 10:4510:45, 26 June 2022 diff hist +3,258 The Lord says: Even if one commits the most abominable actions, if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated in his determination. He quickly becomes righteous & attains lasting peace - BG 9.30-31 No edit summary
• 10:4510:45, 26 June 2022 diff hist +5,072 The Lord says: Even if one commits the most abominable actions, if he engages in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated No edit summary
• 10:4510:45, 26 June 2022 diff hist +5,305 The Lord clearly describes His intimate relationship with His devotees in the BG (9.30-34): "Even if one commits the most abominable action, if he is engaged in DS he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated in his determination No edit summary
• 10:4410:44, 26 June 2022 diff hist +7,250 Krsna says in Bhagavad-gita (BG 9.30): Even if one commits the most abominable actions, if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated No edit summary
• 10:4410:44, 26 June 2022 diff hist +5,643 Even if one commits the most abominable actions, if he is engaged in devotional service, he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated. BG 9.30 - 1972 No edit summary
• 10:4310:43, 26 June 2022 diff hist +17,383 Even if one commits the most abominable action, if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be considered saintly because he is properly situated in his determination No edit summary current
• 10:3710:37, 26 June 2022 diff hist +25,688 These fifty qualities (of Krsna) or characteristics are fragmentally present in every living entity. When they are completely spiritually free and situated in their original condition, all these qualities can be perceived in human life in minute quantity No edit summary current
• 10:3610:36, 26 June 2022 diff hist +5,276 Our preaching is to reinstate the living soul to his original condition. The original condition of living being is part and parcel of the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
• 10:3610:36, 26 June 2022 diff hist +3,575 Original condition means No edit summary current
• 10:3510:35, 26 June 2022 diff hist +3,876 One hankers to revive his original condition and inquires how to do so. There are also deep thought, heavy breathing, crying and lamentation, as well as a changing of the bodily color and drying up of the tongue No edit summary current
• 10:3510:35, 26 June 2022 diff hist +25,454 Krsna's five transcendental qualities are as follows: (1) He is always situated in His original condition; (2) He is omniscient; (3) He is evergreen or always fresh; (4) He is eternally blissful; (5) He is conversant and is the master of all perfection No edit summary current
• 10:3410:34, 26 June 2022 diff hist −13 From the sastras we learn that there is a stone or jewel called a touchstone that can transform iron into gold. Although the touchstone turns iron into gold many times, it remains in its original condition No edit summary current
• 10:2910:29, 26 June 2022 diff hist −7 He (who is ignorant of the spirit soul) goes outside to search for happiness, just as a deer without knowledge of the water beneath the grass goes out to the desert to find water No edit summary current
• 10:2710:27, 26 June 2022 diff hist −7 Every one of us is searching after happiness, but we do not know what real happiness is. We see so much advertised about happiness, but practically speaking we see so few happy people No edit summary current
• 10:2710:27, 26 June 2022 diff hist +3,976 Every living being is searching after happiness, but no one knows where eternal and unlimited happiness is obtainable No edit summary current
• 09:0609:06, 26 June 2022 diff hist +4,549 They (scientists, philosophers, economists and mathematicians) waste time and energy in the search for so-called happiness. These are the qualifications of the demons. In BG 9.11 it says that when one has all these demonic qualities, he becomes a mudha No edit summary current
• 09:0509:05, 26 June 2022 diff hist +28,942 The illusioned living entity who, in his search for eternal happiness, tries to extract happiness from this material world, which is not only full of miseries but is also transient and flickering No edit summary current
• 08:5008:50, 26 June 2022 diff hist +3,122 Caitanya Mahaprabhu offers the following prayer: My dear Lord, son of Nanda Maharaja, I am Your eternal servant. Somehow or other, I have fallen into this ocean of nescience. Kindly, therefore, save me from this horrible condition of materialistic life No edit summary current
• 08:4708:47, 26 June 2022 diff hist +34 Category:Fallen in the Ocean of Nescience No edit summary current
• 08:4708:47, 26 June 2022 diff hist +5,156 We, the conditioned souls, have fallen in the ocean of nescience, but the human body fortunately provides us a good opportunity to cross the ocean because the human body is like a very good boat No edit summary current
• 08:4608:46, 26 June 2022 diff hist +3,471 The Lord, being very kind to fallen souls, is always anxious to get the living entity out of the ocean of nescience No edit summary current
• 08:4408:44, 26 June 2022 diff hist +5,367 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu prayed: O Krsna, beloved son of Nanda Maharaja, I am Your eternal servant, but somehow or other I have fallen into this ocean of nescience, and although I am struggling very hard, there is no way I can save myself No edit summary current
• 08:4308:43, 26 June 2022 diff hist +4,556 Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has sung: Because of my past fruitive activities, I have now fallen into an ocean of nescience. I cannot find any means to get out of this great ocean, which is indeed like an ocean of poison No edit summary current
• 08:4208:42, 26 June 2022 diff hist +3,166 My Lord, I do not know when I commenced my material life, but I can certainly experience that I have fallen in the deep ocean of nescience. Now I can also see that there is no other way to get out of it than to take shelter of Your lotus feet No edit summary current
• 08:4208:42, 26 June 2022 diff hist +1,474 I am Your eternal servant, but I forgot Your Lordship. Now I have fallen into the ocean of nescience and have been conditioned by the external energy No edit summary current
• 07:4807:48, 26 June 2022 diff hist +5,984 The mental speculator may be called Dr. Frog. The story is that a frog in a three-foot well wanted to calculate the length and breadth of the Atlantic Ocean on the basis of his knowledge of his own well. But it was an impossible task for Dr. Frog No edit summary current
• 07:4707:47, 26 June 2022 diff hist +3,277 We have explained several times. Kupa-manduka-nyaya. The frog within the well, he is calculating the dimension of Pacific Ocean. So by this dog, frog philosophical way, we can, we cannot understand what is God No edit summary current
• 07:4707:47, 26 June 2022 diff hist +7,021 The frog is perpetually within the well, and if somebody informs him that there is another big span of water, Atlantic Ocean, he simply calculates that "It may be a little more than this well, little more than this well" No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 26 June 2022 diff hist +4,172 The froggish calculator may raise the objection that if the Absolute is unknowable even by the controlling deities of speech, mind and ego, then why should the devotees be so interested in this unknown object No edit summary current
• 07:4207:42, 26 June 2022 diff hist +4,801 The attempt of the tillers in the paddy field to understand the cosmic manifestation and the cause behind such wonderful work can be compared to the endeavor of the frog in the well to calculate the measurement of the Pacific Ocean No edit summary current
• 07:4207:42, 26 June 2022 diff hist +3,881 Since Arjuna was unable to estimate the length and breadth of the potency of the Lord, who else would be able to do so? One may only indulge in miscalculation like the frog-philosopher No edit summary current
• 07:4007:40, 26 June 2022 diff hist +9 How vast (the Atlantic Ocean)? Is it double the size of this well? (the frog in well) - "Oh no, much much larger," his friend replied. "How much larger? Ten times the size?" In this way the frog went on calculating No edit summary current
• 07:4007:40, 26 June 2022 diff hist +3,777 All these rascal scientists, they are all frog in the well. They have got little calculation of this planet, and they have no information of... There are so many millions of planets No edit summary current
• 07:3107:31, 26 June 2022 diff hist +5,269 So karisye vacanam tava: "Now I shall act as You desire." This is perfection of life. Whenever we decide that "Now we shall act as Krsna says," then our life is perfect. Vasudeva-uktah karinah No edit summary current
• 05:5205:52, 26 June 2022 diff hist +6,200 As soon as Krsna desires that these senses will not work, it will not work. So in spite of your claim that this is my hand, this is my eyes, this is my mouth, it will not work No edit summary current
• 05:5105:51, 26 June 2022 diff hist +1 One who is fully surrendered is qualified with the six characteristics: (5) Self-surrender means remembering that one’s activities and desires are not independent. The devotee is completely dependent on Krsna, and he acts and thinks as Krsna desires No edit summary current
• 05:5105:51, 26 June 2022 diff hist +3,975 Only Krsna is the supreme master, and all others are His servants. As Krsna desires, everyone dances according to His tune No edit summary current
• 05:5105:51, 26 June 2022 diff hist +20 There are six symptoms of surrender: (5) One should always remember that one's activities and desires are not independent. In other words, the devotee should feel completely dependent on Krsna, and thus he should act and think as Krsna desires No edit summary current
• 05:4605:46, 26 June 2022 diff hist +39,103 The real devotee first offers his surrender to Krsna with his body, mind and words and then uses his body, mind and words for the service of Krsna as Krsna desires No edit summary current
• 05:4605:46, 26 June 2022 diff hist +5,652 When first-class devotional service develops, one must be devoid of all material desires, knowledge obtained by monistic philosophy, and fruitive action. The devotee must constantly serve Krsna favorably, as Krsna desires No edit summary current

25 June 2022

• 15:0015:00, 25 June 2022 diff hist +3,424 After birth the child may forget about the difficulties of his past lives, but when we are grown-up we can at least understand the grievous tortures undergone at birth and death by reading the authorized scriptures like Srimad-Bhagavatam No edit summary current
• 14:5814:58, 25 June 2022 diff hist +8 A book sold becomes a permanent matter for enjoyment. We read the scriptures again and again and it is still fresh. When there is time I go on reading my own books No edit summary current
• 14:5814:58, 25 June 2022 diff hist +3,726 Don't try to do anything artificially. That is sahajiya, which means a class of men that take everything very cheap. You want to perform sacrifice so continuously read our Vedic scriptures and perform the Vaikuntha yajna No edit summary
• 14:5714:57, 25 June 2022 diff hist +7,596 Ekadasi occurs on the eleventh day after the full moon and the eleventh day after the new moon. On such days no grains, cereals or beans are eaten; simply vegetables and milk are moderately taken, and chanting and reading scriptures are increased No edit summary current
• 14:5614:56, 25 June 2022 diff hist +25,586 Ekadasi occurs on the eleventh day after the full moon and the eleventh day after the new moon. On such days no grains, cereals or beans are eaten; simply vegetables and milk are moderately taken, & chanting Hare Krsna & reading scriptures are increased No edit summary current
• 14:5014:50, 25 June 2022 diff hist +4,829 Reading standard scriptures is necessary for executing yoga. Practicing yoga without reading the standard literatures is simply a waste of time No edit summary current