User contributions for Rohininandana

14 January 2023

• 09:2009:20, 14 January 2023 diff hist +4,120 One who desires nothing of material enjoyment should worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 09:1909:19, 14 January 2023 diff hist +4,300 One should not desire any sort of material enjoyment, being sensible enough to worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 09:0709:07, 14 January 2023 diff hist +4,683 One must minimize the desires for material enjoyment, and for this one should worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is described here as param, or beyond anything material No edit summary current
• 09:0509:05, 14 January 2023 diff hist −9 Narottama dasa Thakura prayed: When will Lord Nityananda be merciful toward me and free me from all desires for material enjoyment? No edit summary current
• 08:4508:45, 14 January 2023 diff hist +8,669 Krsna cleanses desire for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who relishes His messages, which are in themselves virtuous when properly heard and chanted No edit summary current
• 08:4208:42, 14 January 2023 diff hist −9 Just as the capital of a state is especially gorgeously filled with various high buildings and lustrous palaces, the heart of the body is filled with various desires and plans for material enjoyment No edit summary current

13 January 2023

• 19:1119:11, 13 January 2023 diff hist +3,224 In the Caitanya-caritamrta it is said that one who worships the Supreme Lord and at the same time desires material enjoyment is contradictory in his desires. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 19:1019:10, 13 January 2023 diff hist −9 In the beginning one should very regularly chant Sri Gaurasundara’s holy name and then chant the holy name of Lord Nityananda. Thus one’s heart will be cleansed of impure desires for material enjoyment No edit summary current
• 19:0719:07, 13 January 2023 diff hist +2,071 If those who desire material enjoyment or merging into the existence of the Absolute Truth engage in the Lord's transcendental loving service, they will immediately attain shelter at Krsna's lotus feet, although they did not ask for it No edit summary current
• 18:5918:59, 13 January 2023 diff hist +5,139 If he (the bhakti-yogi) is completely free from all desires for material enjoyment, he should then reach the cerebral hole and give up his material connections, having gone to the Supreme No edit summary current
• 18:5718:57, 13 January 2023 diff hist −9 If a person desires to have material enjoyment and wants very sincerely to have such facilities from the material demigods, the Supreme Lord, as Supersoul in everyone's heart, understands and gives facilities to such persons. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 18:5618:56, 13 January 2023 diff hist +2,163 If a person considered liberated in this life commits offenses against the reservoir of inconceivable potencies, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he will again fall down and desire the material atmosphere for material enjoyment No edit summary current
• 15:3215:32, 13 January 2023 diff hist +4,794 Generally the Lord does not fulfill anyone's material desires for sense enjoyment, but He awards such benedictions to worshipers of the Lord, for they ultimately come to the point of not desiring material enjoyment No edit summary current
• 15:2515:25, 13 January 2023 diff hist +7,488 Eight symptoms of a jivan mukta - 05 Another (symptom of a liberated person) is vijighatsa, which indicates that he no longer desires material enjoyment No edit summary current
• 15:2415:24, 13 January 2023 diff hist +3,642 Due to ignorance, the materialistic person does not know anything about his real self-interest, the auspicious path in life. He is simply bound to material enjoyment by lusty desires, and all his plans are made for this purpose No edit summary current
• 15:2215:22, 13 January 2023 diff hist +4,424 Desires are compared to being haunted by ghosts and witches, because while these aspirations for material enjoyment or spiritual oneness with the Supreme remain, no one can relish the actual transcendental taste of devotional service No edit summary current
• 15:2015:20, 13 January 2023 diff hist +6,480 Constant chanting of the holy name of the Lord is the way of success for all, including those who are free from all material desires, those who are desirous of all material enjoyment, and those who are self-satisfied by dint of transcendental knowledge No edit summary current
• 15:1615:16, 13 January 2023 diff hist +12,799 Beginning from Brahma down to the insignificant ant, everyone is full of material desires for sense enjoyment, and everyone is busy in sense gratification, but when thus engaged one cannot fully understand the value of krsna-katha No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 13 January 2023 diff hist +2,563 At the time of death, fire burns the gross body, and if there is no more desire for material enjoyment the subtle body is also ended, and in this way a pure soul remains No edit summary current
• 15:0915:09, 13 January 2023 diff hist +4,736 As stated in SB (1.2.17): Sri Krsna, the Personality of Godhead, cleanses desire for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who has developed the urge to hear His messages, which are in themselves virtuous when properly heard and chanted No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 13 January 2023 diff hist +5,141 As long as one is under the control of the material modes, he desires so many things and makes so many plans for material sense enjoyment, but as soon as the Lord is perceived in the heart, all material desires vanish No edit summary current
• 15:0215:02, 13 January 2023 diff hist +3,624 All desires should be reformed and directed toward spiritual activities; otherwise those same desires will repeatedly manifest themselves in different varieties of material enjoyment, thus conditioning the living being perpetually in material bondage No edit summary current
• 14:5114:51, 13 January 2023 diff hist +6,888 The Vedas said, "As such, the so-called yogis and jnanis who are simply wasting their time in different types of sense gratification, either by mental speculation or by exhibition of limited mystic powers, will never be liberated from conditioned life" No edit summary current
• 14:4614:46, 13 January 2023 diff hist +6 Our faculties, experience, and powers of speculation are always limited. We can only give rise to such frog philosophy. Therefore SB recommends that we give up the method of speculation as a waste of time in trying to understand the Supreme No edit summary current
• 14:4214:42, 13 January 2023 diff hist +4,451 Although a demon may acquire such powers to a very limited extent, he cannot compete with the mystic power of Krsna, for Krsna is Yogesvara, the source of all mystic power - yatra yogesvaro harih - BG 18.78 No edit summary current
• 14:4014:40, 13 January 2023 diff hist −13 You cannot do anything which is beyond your power. But you are limited, your power is limited. That you must agree. Your power is not unlimited. You are finite. That you must admit No edit summary current
• 14:3814:38, 13 January 2023 diff hist −13 We view the sun as a small disc. Why? It is far, far greater than this earth, but we see it as just a disc. Everyone knows that our seeing power, our hearing power, and so on are limited No edit summary current
• 14:3714:37, 13 January 2023 diff hist −13 We may never have seen a man who is not mortal, but we are judging this on our personal experience, which is finite. Our senses have limited power, and there are so many defects in our conditional state No edit summary
• 14:3414:34, 13 January 2023 diff hist +5,620 We cannot claim that we can enjoy everything in this world. Although we have got the desire, but limited power to enjoy. The unlimited enjoyer is Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 14:3114:31, 13 January 2023 diff hist +3,174 The transcendental pastimes of the Lord (Krsna) are not only bewildering but also apparently contradictory. In other words, they are all inconceivable to the limited thinking power of the human being No edit summary current
• 14:2914:29, 13 January 2023 diff hist +4,187 The power of friendship is limited. Although one claims to be a friend, he cannot be a friend unlimitedly No edit summary current
• 14:2614:26, 13 January 2023 diff hist +8,436 The person who denies the existence of the Lord and declares himself the Lord is called asura, and as such he is given protection by the strength of limited power subject to the sanction of the Lord No edit summary current
• 14:2514:25, 13 January 2023 diff hist +27 The incarnations of the Lord display limited powers because so much power is needed at that particular time No edit summary current
• 14:2314:23, 13 January 2023 diff hist +5,745 The devotee cannot remain in darkness, & because a devotee is enlightened by the Personality of Godhead, his knowledge is certainly perfect. This is not the case for those who speculate on the Absolute Truth by dint of their own limited power of approach No edit summary
• 14:2114:21, 13 January 2023 diff hist +8 There may be some difficulty in surrendering to the father of this body, for he has limited knowledge and power, but Krsna is not like an ordinary father No edit summary current
• 14:1914:19, 13 January 2023 diff hist +6 Our power to think about space and time is also limited. Time is eternal; we may imagine billions and trillions of years, but that will still be an inadequate estimate of the extent of time No edit summary current
• 14:0714:07, 13 January 2023 diff hist −13 A living entity is, by superior nature, full of knowledge. Nevertheless, he is prone to be influenced by ignorance due to his limited power. The Lord is omnipotent, but the living entity is not. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 14:0414:04, 13 January 2023 diff hist +3,367 All these (everything is performed by Krsna perfectly) statements prove without any question that the Lord's activities, forms & deeds are all inconceivable to our limited thinking power & because He is inconceivably powerful, everything's possible in Him No edit summary current
• 11:3011:30, 13 January 2023 diff hist +9,573 With the progress of devotional service, the reaction of change in the heart is exhibited by gradual detachment from the sense of material enjoyment by a false sense of lording it over the world and an increase in service attitude No edit summary current

12 January 2023

• 17:0017:00, 12 January 2023 diff hist −3 When we forget Krsna and want to lord it over the material nature, this is called maya. Maya means which has no factual existence No edit summary current
• 16:5216:52, 12 January 2023 diff hist +4,229 We have already discussed many times that the material energy is controlled by the Lord. The Bhagavad-gita (BG 9.10) confirms this controlling power of the Lord over the material nature No edit summary current
• 16:4816:48, 12 January 2023 diff hist +3,742 We generally have the experience of the temporary, material world and conditioned souls trying to lord it over the material worlds No edit summary current
• 16:4316:43, 12 January 2023 diff hist +2,427 Those who cannot avoid oversleeping, who cannot avoid the pride of enjoying material objects, who are always dreaming of lording it over the material world...are considered to have determination in the mode of ignorance No edit summary current
• 16:4116:41, 12 January 2023 diff hist −29 Those who cannot avoid oversleeping, cannot avoid the pride of enjoying material objects & always dreaming of lording it over the material world, whose life, mind, & senses are thus engaged, are considered to be in the mode of ignorance. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 16:3816:38, 12 January 2023 diff hist +2,352 Those who are always dreaming of lording it over the material world, and whose life, mind and senses are thus engaged, are considered to have determination in the mode of ignorance No edit summary current
• 16:3516:35, 12 January 2023 diff hist +3,217 This cheating practice is there in the conditioned souls because the conditioned souls are primarily in the material world imbued with an unnatural desire to lord it over the material world No edit summary current
• 16:3116:31, 12 January 2023 diff hist +15,529 The Supersoul gives the individual soul all facilities to achieve whatever he desires to enjoy in this material world. Suffering is a reaction to the living entity's propensity to try to lord it over the material world No edit summary current
• 16:2816:28, 12 January 2023 diff hist +3,366 The seedlike spiritual sparks who are dominated by the desire to lord it over the material nature exist in a dormant state after the cosmic manifestation is annihilated No edit summary current
• 16:2616:26, 12 January 2023 diff hist −3 The real disease, as we have already explained, is to lord it over the material nature No edit summary current
• 16:2416:24, 12 January 2023 diff hist +5,511 The prime inclination of the materialistic mind is to lord it over the material world, and all the siddhis mentioned above are features of domination over the world. The devotees of the Lord are not ambitious to dominate a false and temporary phenomenon No edit summary current