User contributions for SharmisthaK

21 July 2022

• 14:4714:47, 21 July 2022 diff hist +5,122 Everything the Lord did in Vrndavana was for the pleasure of His associates there. The Lord created these pastimes to attract the dry speculators and the acrobats of the so-called hatha-yoga system who wish to find the Absolute Truth No edit summary current
• 14:4714:47, 21 July 2022 diff hist +2,945 Even though they (the so-called yogis) are endeavoring in a so-called yoga system, they are not self-realized. Such people cannot understand the process of the transmigration of the soul. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 14:4614:46, 21 July 2022 diff hist +3,396 At the present moment the so-called yoga system is prosecuted on the understanding that by agitation of the different stations of the bodily construction one can find that he is God No edit summary current
• 14:3214:32, 21 July 2022 diff hist +3,613 Your letter is very much encouraging to me, that you are appreciating my humble service in spreading Krishna Consciousness in your great country No edit summary current
• 14:3114:31, 21 July 2022 diff hist +6,853 Your feelings of appreciation are too much kind, and I can see you are making good advancement with your humble attitude of service to the Lord and His devotees No edit summary current
• 14:2914:29, 21 July 2022 diff hist +28 The all-powerful Lord accepts the humble service of His devotee in devotional activities of the arcana, His form as the worshipable Deity in the temple No edit summary current
• 14:2414:24, 21 July 2022 diff hist +3,078 Perhaps you are my only Godbrother who has appreciated my humble service to the cause of Guru Gauranga No edit summary current
• 14:2314:23, 21 July 2022 diff hist +3,953 I am very much obliged to you for your appreciation of my humble services by bringing to your country this movement. But actually it all depends upon your cooperation No edit summary current
• 14:2214:22, 21 July 2022 diff hist +28 Although Maharaja Prataparudra was a king, he took up a broom to cleanse the road for Lord Jagannatha's ratha (chariot). Because of this humble service, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was very pleased with the King, and for that reason the Lord embraced him No edit summary current

19 July 2022

• 12:3512:35, 19 July 2022 diff hist +2,250 You are producing nice vegetables from the earth and ample supply of milk from the cows so what more do you want? Just chant Hare Krishna and everything will be alright No edit summary current
• 12:3512:35, 19 July 2022 diff hist +4,276 Yes, this supplying of milk to the temple is wanted. Thank you. In the way that Atlanta is doing, every center must have a farm so we can get all milk and if possible vegetable, even fruit, flowers and milk No edit summary current
• 12:3412:34, 19 July 2022 diff hist +8,232 Yasoda once was nursing her child Krsna & patting Him with great affection, there streamed a profuse supply of milk from her breast, & when she opened the mouth of the child with her fingers, she suddenly saw the universal manifestation within His mouth No edit summary current
• 12:3412:34, 19 July 2022 diff hist +1,686 When the Lord was a boy, He would visit the house of Paramesvara Modaka again and again. The confectioner would supply the Lord milk and sweetmeats, and the Lord would eat them No edit summary current
• 12:3412:34, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,700 When there is a profuse supply of milk, yogurt, honey, food grains, ghee, molasses, dhotis, saris, bedding, sitting places and ornaments, the residents are actually opulent No edit summary current
• 12:3112:31, 19 July 2022 diff hist +4,845 The sadhus keep cows and supply milk to the tigers, saying, Come here and take a little milk. Thus envy and malice are unknown in Vrndavana. That is the difference between Vrndavana and the ordinary world No edit summary current
• 12:3112:31, 19 July 2022 diff hist +4,045 The miserable conditions of this material world can be corrected by a sufficient supply of milk, yogurt, honey, ghee, molasses, food grains, ornaments, bedding, sitting places and so on. This is human civilization No edit summary current
• 12:3012:30, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,269 The Indians are not cow worshippers as others wrongly interpret it, but the Indians are gratitudeful to the species of cow for supplying milk No edit summary current
• 12:2912:29, 19 July 2022 diff hist −17 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 No edit summary current
• 12:2912:29, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,638 There is no need for men to eat animals because there is an ample supply of grains, vegetables, fruits and milk. Such simple foodstuff is considered to be in the mode of goodness according to the Bhagavad-gita. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 12:2812:28, 19 July 2022 diff hist −17 There (in the supreme abode of Lord Krsna, Goloka Vrndavana) are cows known as surabhi cows which supply a limitless supply of milk. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 12:2812:28, 19 July 2022 diff hist −17 There (in the spiritual abode) the Lord is accustomed to tending thousands and thousands of kamadhenus (cows able to supply unlimited quantities of milk). And all the houses, trees, and cows are qualitatively nondifferent from the Lord No edit summary current
• 12:2812:28, 19 July 2022 diff hist +5,639 She was thus constantly engaged in supplying milk to Krsna after wetting the covering cloth over the jug No edit summary current
• 12:2712:27, 19 July 2022 diff hist +18,292 People are now addicted to eating animals, in spite of having an ample supply of grains, fruits and milk. There is no necessity for animal killing. This injunction is for everyone. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 12:2712:27, 19 July 2022 diff hist +1,881 O Kamsa, we (the ministers), who are your adherents in all respects, shall therefore kill the cows that supply milk, from which clarified butter is obtained for the ingredients of sacrifice (Because Visnu lives wherever there are sacrifices) - SB 10.4.39 No edit summary current
• 12:2712:27, 19 July 2022 diff hist +5,657 Of all kinds of animal killing, the killing of cows is most vicious because the cow gives us all kinds of pleasure by supplying milk. Cow slaughter is an act of the grossest type of ignorance. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 12:2512:25, 19 July 2022 diff hist +6,144 Nowadays, mothers do not supply milk. That is also to be supplied by the cow. So from the very beginning of my life I am subsisting by the foodstuff given by mother, cow, and when I am grown up, I kill. This is my gratitude. Just see No edit summary current
• 12:2512:25, 19 July 2022 diff hist +6,671 Milk is miracle food. And we are practically experiencing in our farms that if the cows are protected nicely, they can supply immense milk. We are getting in our farms, extra milk No edit summary current
• 12:2412:24, 19 July 2022 diff hist +10,407 In Vrndavana, spiritual cows are always supplying spiritual milk. Not a single moment is wasted there - in other words, there is no past, present or future. Not a single particle of time is wasted No edit summary current
• 12:2312:23, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,734 In the material world the human society gives all protection to the human being, but there is no law to protect the descendants of Surabhi, who can give all protection to men by supplying the miracle food, milk No edit summary current
• 12:2312:23, 19 July 2022 diff hist +6,530 If you can organize big dairy farms with large pasturing grounds, then the problem of milk supply and cow protection will automatically be done No edit summary current
• 12:2312:23, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,182 If we want to drink milk then we have to bother to maintain a cow and keep her fit to supply milk. Drinking milk is very nice; it is also pleasure. But for the sake of drinking milk one has to accept so much trouble No edit summary current
• 12:2012:20, 19 July 2022 diff hist −17 If despite a sufficient supply of grass a cow does not supply milk, and if there is an acute shortage of food, the dried-up cow may be utilized to feed the hungry masses of people No edit summary current
• 12:2012:20, 19 July 2022 diff hist +5,045 He explicitly mentions Bhagavan (in the beginning of Krsna-karnamrta), who has peacock feathers on His crown, because the Lord of Vrndavana, Krsna the cowherd boy, used to come to Bilvamangala to talk with him and supply him with milk No edit summary current
• 12:1912:19, 19 July 2022 diff hist +25,628 For devotional service, all other transcendental processes are just like nipples on the neck of a goat. The nipples on a goat's neck may be squeezed, but they do not supply milk No edit summary current
• 12:1412:14, 19 July 2022 diff hist +7,176 The so-called Vedantists and Mayavadis cannot understand Krsna as He is; they simply mislead their followers by imitating the actions of Krsna in an unauthorized way No edit summary current
• 12:1412:14, 19 July 2022 diff hist +6,985 The so-called Vedantist, therefore, cannot enter into the existence of the Lord without being trained in the matter of bhakti-vedanta, or Vedanta plus bhakti No edit summary current
• 12:1412:14, 19 July 2022 diff hist +2,969 There are so-called Vedantists who advertise themselves as followers of Vedanta philosophy but who misinterpret Vedanta No edit summary current
• 12:1312:13, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,517 Such so-called Vedantists may go on talking about the Vedas or may execute austerities in their own way, but it is not possible for them to attain to such an exalted position as Dhruva. As far as ordinary kings are concerned, it is not at all possible No edit summary current
• 12:1312:13, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,830 Most Vedic scholars are called Vedantists. These so-called followers of Vedanta philosophy consider the Absolute Truth to be impersonal. They also believe that a person born in a particular caste cannot change his caste until he dies and takes rebirth No edit summary current
• 12:1112:11, 19 July 2022 diff hist +6,427 He is the author of the Vedanta philosophy, & He knows the Vedanta philosophy perfectly well. The so-called Vedantists & Mayavadis cannot understand Krsna as He is; they simply mislead their followers imitating the actions of Krsna in an unauthorized way No edit summary current
• 12:0712:07, 19 July 2022 diff hist +5,308 Whatever allocation of duty there may be, if we try to execute such specific duty sincerely, that alone can make us much more advanced in Krishna Consciousness No edit summary current
• 12:0712:07, 19 July 2022 diff hist +4,603 One who is brahmana, he has got his specific duty. Culture, cultivation of knowledge is their first and foremost duty No edit summary current
• 12:0612:06, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,269 I am glad that you are typing the remaining portion of KRSNA, and then I shall send the second part of KRSNA also for editing. Your husband wanted from me a specific duty, and I think the best part of his valor can be utilized in editorial work No edit summary current
• 12:0512:05, 19 July 2022 diff hist +3,579 In the Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 1.2.13) also it is stated, svanusthitasya dharmasya samsiddhir hari-tosanam: the perfection of duty is to see that by discharging one's specific duties one satisfies the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 12:0512:05, 19 July 2022 diff hist +2,508 If he (Arjuna) abandoned the battle (of Kuruksetra), he would not only neglect his specific duty as a ksatriya, but he would lose all his fame and good name and thus prepare his royal road to hell. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 12:0312:03, 19 July 2022 diff hist +4,059 Disruption in the matter of discharging the specific duty assigned to each and every living being is the cause of disharmony between one living being and another No edit summary current
• 12:0212:02, 19 July 2022 diff hist +4,811 Devotional service means every living entity has a specific duty towards God. God wants everyone to do a particular duty for Him, that is service. Just like God instructed Arjuna to fight, so to fight was Arjuna's duty No edit summary current
• 12:0212:02, 19 July 2022 diff hist +6,562 Devotees of the Lord are engaged in the specific duty offered by the Lord, and such duties are successfully carried out without hindrance because they are ordained by the Lord. The credit of success goes not to the doer but to the Lord No edit summary current
• 12:0212:02, 19 July 2022 diff hist +4,728 Considering your specific duty as a ksatriya, you should know that there is no better engagement for you than fighting on religious principles; and so there is no need for hesitation. BG 2.31 - 1972 No edit summary current
• 12:0112:01, 19 July 2022 diff hist +6,111 As it is said in the Bhagavad-gita, Lord Krsna has no specific duty to perform in this world, and yet He acts just like an ordinary man living an ideal life within this material world No edit summary