User contributions for Amala Sundari

22 July 2022

• 11:1311:13, 22 July 2022 diff hist −13 Dhruva Maharaja was advised to stop fighting by his grandfather, who was concerned that Dhruva was adhering to a personal ambition to fight to annihilate the whole race of Yaksas No edit summary
• 11:1311:13, 22 July 2022 diff hist −13 Dhruva Maharaja, as a ksatriya, could have argued with his grandfather, Manu, when Manu requested him to stop fighting No edit summary current
• 11:1311:13, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,057 Better to cooperate all of you and do something tangible for Krsna. Stop this fighting No edit summary current
• 11:1211:12, 22 July 2022 diff hist +1,404 O Vipracitti, O Rahu, O Nemi, please hear my words! Don't fight. Stop immediately, for the present time is not in our favor No edit summary current
• 11:0811:08, 22 July 2022 diff hist +19,299 Why not take that austerity for permanent happiness? You have to purify your existence and your body. As many times as you accept a material body, you will have to change it. But as soon as you get a spiritual body, there is no question of change No edit summary current
• 11:0711:07, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,035 If the mind is purified by Krsna consciousness, one will naturally in the future get a body that is spiritual and full of Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
• 11:0711:07, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,489 If he (the living entity) is intelligent enough, he can desire to get a spiritual body to enjoy the company of the Lord, and he will get it No edit summary current
• 11:0711:07, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,071 If a human being is taught to change his subtle body by developing a consciousness of Krsna, or if he is still more perfect, he will immediately get a spiritual body and thus return home, back to Godhead. This is the process of the transmigration No edit summary current
• 07:0107:01, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,837 The actual happiness of the karmis is sex life. They work very hard outside the home, and to satiate their hard labor, they come home to enjoy sex life. King Puranjana went to the forest to hunt and after his hard labor he returned home to enjoy sex life No edit summary current
• 07:0007:00, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,149 Ksatriya kings are sometimes advised to go to the forest to hunt ferocious animals just to learn how to kill, but such forays are never meant for sense gratification. Killing animals to eat their flesh is forbidden for human beings No edit summary current
• 06:5906:59, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,639 Ksatriyas are allowed to hunt in the forest for the purpose of learning the killing art, not to kill animals for eating or for any other purpose No edit summary current
• 06:5906:59, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,902 While hunting in the forest, Dusmanta once approached the asrama of Maharsi Kanva, where he saw an extremely beautiful woman and became attracted to her. That woman was the daughter of Visvamitra, and her name was Sakuntala No edit summary current
• 06:5906:59, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,225 When King Puranjana was hunting in this way, many animals within the forest lost their lives with great pain, being pierced by the sharp arrowheads No edit summary current
• 06:5806:58, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,325 The Lord continued: Sometime in the future your brother, Uttama, will go hunting in the forest, and while absorbed in hunting, he will be killed No edit summary current
• 06:5806:58, 22 July 2022 diff hist +10,590 The forest in which King Puranjana engaged in hunting was named Panca-prastha. The word panca means "five," and this indicates the objects of the five senses No edit summary current
• 06:5706:57, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,371 The brahmana therefore said, "No one should offer respects or worship to a king whose only business is envy. Such a king spends his time either hunting and killing animals in the forest or killing citizens for criminal acts" No edit summary current
• 06:5706:57, 22 July 2022 diff hist +7,865 Somewhere Krsna was found as a ksatriya king engaged in hunting animals in the forest and riding on a very beautiful Sindhi horse No edit summary current
• 06:5706:57, 22 July 2022 diff hist +1,699 Once while Kartaviryarjuna was wandering unengaged in a solitary forest and hunting, he approached the residence of Jamadagni No edit summary current
• 06:5606:56, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,284 Krsna consciousness is absolutely necessary for one who has committed a lot of sinful activities, especially killing animals or hunting in the forest No edit summary current
• 06:5606:56, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,932 King Puranjana took his punishment dealt by his wife, the Queen, as mercy upon him. He considered himself the most obedient servant of the Queen. She was angry at him for his sinful activities - namely, hunting in the forest and leaving her at home No edit summary current
• 06:5606:56, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,229 King Puranjana returned to his home because he was very much fatigued from hunting animals in the forest. In this way his conscience came to stop him from committing further sinful activities and make him return home No edit summary current
• 06:5406:54, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,184 At present the whole world is on the verge of retiring from a blind materialistic civilization, which may be likened to hunting animals in the forest No edit summary current
• 06:4406:44, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,384 This is Kali-yuga. Now this adulteration, prostitution, is common affair, common affair. Nobody sees other's wife as his mother, nobody. And neither the woman sees other's husband as father No edit summary current
• 06:4406:44, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,819 These (improving family affairs) are common affairs for a man grossly materialistic and without knowledge of the spiritual force. He (Dhrtarastra) does not see how this can drag one from heaven to hell No edit summary current
• 06:4406:44, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,995 Just like we have got many universes within this material world, similarly, there are many spiritual planets in the spiritual world. These are common sense affairs. Why people will not understand No edit summary current
• 06:4306:43, 22 July 2022 diff hist +2,535 It is said that in Kali-yuga lying is a common affair: mayaiva vyavaharike. Even in the most common dealings, people are accustomed to speaking so many lies No edit summary current
• 06:4306:43, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,329 It is a simple common sense affair to understand that matter comes from life. And the Supreme Life is Krsna No edit summary current
• 06:4106:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,715 It is a common sense affair. The God has given you independence. If you do something wrong, against the will of God, then you must suffer. Therefore we find so many varieties of living entities. In different grades of life No edit summary current
• 06:4106:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,130 Indeed, divorce has now become a common affair, although formerly one's marriage would continue lifelong, & the affection between husband & wife was so great that the wife would voluntarily die when her husband died or remain widow throughout entire life No edit summary current
• 05:1305:13, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,789 Simply by devotional service, one can raise himself to the position of perfect knowledge, and thus he can renounce all sinful activities No edit summary current
• 05:1305:13, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,804 One who has conquered these two base mentalities and has raised himself to the platform of goodness, which is full of knowledge and morality, cannot also control the senses, namely the eyes, the tongue, the nose, the ear and touch No edit summary current
• 05:1305:13, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,089 One therefore has to raise himself from the position of kanistha-adhikari to the platform of madhyama-adhikari No edit summary current
• 05:1205:12, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,540 One should try to raise himself by the association of the great soul. That is the way of the perfection of life No edit summary current
• 05:1205:12, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,009 One should gradually raise himself to the platform of Krsna consciousness and devotional service; it is then and there that he can attain the highest perfectional stage, not otherwise. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 05:0505:05, 22 July 2022 diff hist −13 One has to raise himself at least to the mode of goodness before the path to understanding the Supreme Lord can be opened. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 05:0405:04, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,288 One has to awaken his Krsna consciousness by first regretting his past deeds. Just as King Puranjana began to flatter his Queen, one should, by deliberate consideration, raise himself to the platform of Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
• 05:0205:02, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,173 In the Padma Purana there is the story of a neophyte devotee who, in order to raise himself to the ecstatic platform, danced all night to invoke the Lord's grace upon him No edit summary current
• 05:0005:00, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,015 He (Sambarasura) thus raised himself high into the sky and threw various types of nuclear weapons at the body of Pradyumna No edit summary current
• 05:0005:00, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,547 Arjuna, as a student and friend of Lord Krsna, is advised to raise himself to the transcendental position of Vedanta philosophy where, in the beginning, there is brahma-jijnasa, or questions on the Supreme Transcendence. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 05:0005:00, 22 July 2022 diff hist +6,592 Any devotee can fall down if he remains prakrta-bhakta, so he has to raise himself above this in the madhyama-adhikara No edit summary current
• 04:5904:59, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,115 To raise oneself from hellish life to the highest position of spiritual understanding is to transform this lust into love of Krsna No edit summary current
• 04:5904:59, 22 July 2022 diff hist −13 Without raising oneself to the standard of the mode of goodness, one remains in ignorance and passion, which are the cause of demoniac life. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 04:5704:57, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,871 The purport is that one should execute devotional service rigidly in the association of devotees so that there will be certainty in raising oneself to that ecstatic position No edit summary current
• 04:4304:43, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,945 When you are dreaming that there is a tiger, you are crying, that is not illusion. It is acting. Similarly, this material manifestation, it is not illusion, but for the time being it is illusion. We are attracted with this material world No edit summary current
• 04:4104:41, 22 July 2022 diff hist +4,481 The tiger is a myth for both of them, namely the person dreaming and the person awake, because actually there is no tiger; but the man forgetful of his awakened life is fearful, whereas the man who has not forgotten his position is not at all fearful No edit summary current
• 04:3804:38, 22 July 2022 diff hist +5,366 There may be many mountains, rivers, trees, bees, tigers and snakes that are situated far away, but in a dream one may imagine them to be nearby No edit summary current
• 04:3804:38, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,208 Sometimes we suffer because we see a tiger in a dream or a snake in a vision, but actually there is neither a tiger nor a snake. Thus we create some situation in a subtle form and suffer the consequences No edit summary current
• 04:3704:37, 22 July 2022 diff hist +32,297 I may dream that I am in a great storm, or that I am being pursued, or that someone is taking my money, or that I am being devoured by a tiger, but actually these are all creations of my mind No edit summary current
• 04:3604:36, 22 July 2022 diff hist 0 A person may be fearful of a tiger in a dream, but another man who is awake by his side sees no tiger there No edit summary current
• 04:3204:32, 22 July 2022 diff hist +3,464 At night one dreams of tigers and snakes, and while dreaming he actually sees them, but as soon as the dream is broken they no longer exist No edit summary current