User contributions for Rohininandana

15 January 2023

• 09:2409:24, 15 January 2023 diff hist +6,352 So-called educated philosophers and scientists who are simply on the mental platform cannot distinguish between what is actually sat, eternal, and what is asat, temporary No edit summary current
• 09:2209:22, 15 January 2023 diff hist +5,871 Mostly the so-called educated circle, they are agnostics. They do not believe in God, they do not believe in the soul, and still they are passing on as educationists, learned scholars, professor. This is the pity No edit summary current
• 09:2109:21, 15 January 2023 diff hist +9 Members of the so-called educated class ask, If one is busy all the time rendering devotional service to Lord Krsna, how is one to maintain himself and his family No edit summary current
• 09:2009:20, 15 January 2023 diff hist −22 Many educated. They are coming, trying to understand. But it requires little brain. So-called educated with dull brain cannot understand No edit summary current
• 09:1909:19, 15 January 2023 diff hist +6,028 Faithless nonbelievers may be highly educated in the material sense of the term, but they are the greatest fools of the world because by the influence of the external, material nature all their so-called acquisition of knowledge has been made null & void No edit summary current
• 09:1409:14, 15 January 2023 diff hist +4,783 As cats, dogs and other animals not knowing their true interest in life become increasingly involved in ignorance, the so-called educated person who does not know his own self-interest or the true goal of life becomes increasingly involved in materialism No edit summary
• 09:1209:12, 15 January 2023 diff hist +9,279 After finishing a so-called education, the so-called educated persons move like dogs from door to door with applications for some service, and mostly they are driven away, informed of no vacancy No edit summary current
• 09:0209:02, 15 January 2023 diff hist +10,428 Not only should one hear submissively from the spiritual master, but one must also get a clear understanding from him, in submission and service and inquiries No edit summary current
• 09:0009:00, 15 January 2023 diff hist +4,296 In this verse (BG 4.34), both blind following and absurd inquiries are condemned. One should not only hear submissively from the spiritual master; but one must also get a clear understanding from him, in submission and service and inquiries. BG 1972 pur No edit summary current
• 08:5808:58, 15 January 2023 diff hist +3,964 Inquiries and submission constitute the proper combination for spiritual understanding. Unless there is submission and service, inquiries from the learned spiritual master will not be effective. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 15 January 2023 diff hist +12 Bhaktya means devotional service, submission, submission to the Supreme Lord. Bhaktya means bhaja. It is Sanskrit word. The root meaning is bhaja-dhatukti. Bhaja. Bhaja means service. So bhaja-dhatukti bhakti, bhaktya No edit summary current
• 08:5408:54, 15 January 2023 diff hist −9 As stated in the Bhagavad-gita, the process of receiving knowledge from the spiritual master entails submission, inquiry and service No edit summary current
• 08:4608:46, 15 January 2023 diff hist +4,428 The brahminical character offers no scope for possessing land and ruling citizens; these are the duties of a ksatriya No edit summary current

14 January 2023

• 19:2819:28, 14 January 2023 diff hist +3,739 Now, we have by Krsna's Grace built up something significant in the shape of this ISKCON and we are all one family. Sometimes there may be disagreement and quarrel but we should not go away No edit summary current
• 19:2719:27, 14 January 2023 diff hist +2,871 I can understand that Nandarani is a little displeased with Aniruddha, but I think this is a family quarrel between brother and sister, and you may try to mitigate it No edit summary current
• 19:2419:24, 14 January 2023 diff hist +6,293 After visiting the temple of Ksira-cora-gopinatha of Remuna at Balasore in Orissa, Lord Caitanya proceeded towards Puri and on the way visited the temple of Saksi-gopala, who appeared as a witness in the matter of two brahmana devotees' family quarrel No edit summary current
• 18:4618:46, 14 January 2023 diff hist +3,102 Upon seeing the ecstatic loving symptoms manifest in Madhavendra Puri, the priest was struck with wonder. He could understand why Krsna had become so much obliged to him, and he saw that Krsna's action was befitting No edit summary
• 18:4318:43, 14 January 2023 diff hist +3,492 Radharani's shyness arises due to Sri Krsna's prohibitions, and ecstatic loving bodily symptoms called kila-kincita-bhava are manifest at this time No edit summary current
• 18:4318:43, 14 January 2023 diff hist +2,008 Pride, ambition, weeping, smiling, envy, fear and anger are the seven ecstatic loving symptoms manifested by a jubilant shrinking away, and these symptoms are called kila-kincita-bhava No edit summary current
• 18:4018:40, 14 January 2023 diff hist +1,945 I am (Prabhupada) very much pleased to understand that although you are now living away from Vrindavana, your mind is here. That is a very good sign. This is the symptom of loving affection for Krishna No edit summary current
• 18:3818:38, 14 January 2023 diff hist +6,213 In this stage, all expressions of unhappiness by the devotee are called anubhava, or ecstatic loving symptoms No edit summary current
• 18:3318:33, 14 January 2023 diff hist +10,691 You be happy, very ideally, and people will learn. If you make minus Krsna consciousness this thing, it will never be possible. All these scheme will be successful if there is Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
• 18:2318:23, 14 January 2023 diff hist +3,354 I always want that my students should be very ideal in character and not discredit our society No edit summary current
• 18:1818:18, 14 January 2023 diff hist +7,398 For whole human society, there must be a very ideal intellectual man, so that people will follow. Brain, brain of the society. That is the teachings of Bhagavad-gita. You cannot say that "We can do without brain" No edit summary current
• 11:5111:51, 14 January 2023 diff hist +4,158 Who in this world does not want to possess wealth, beauty and the social respectability that come from these opulences? People generally desire material enjoyment, material opulence and the association of aristocratic family members No edit summary current
• 11:4711:47, 14 January 2023 diff hist +26,155 When the infinitesimal living entities are engaged in their infinitesimal desires for material enjoyment, they are called jiva-sakti, but when they are dovetailed with the infinite, they are called liberated souls No edit summary current
• 11:4611:46, 14 January 2023 diff hist +4,433 When Krsna forces somebody to surrender, that is a great favor. But generally, He does not do so. But He does so to a person who is very sincere to Krsna's service but at the same time he has got slight desire for material enjoyment No edit summary current
• 11:4311:43, 14 January 2023 diff hist +11 We should never desire to increase the depth of material enjoyment No edit summary current
• 11:4011:40, 14 January 2023 diff hist +6,792 Udara-dhih means one who has a broader outlook. People with desires for material enjoyment worship small demigods, and such intelligence is condemned in the Bhagavad-gita as hrta jnana, the intelligence of one who has lost his senses No edit summary current
• 11:3911:39, 14 January 2023 diff hist +6,709 Udara-dhih means one who has a broader outlook. People with desires for material enjoyment worship small demigods, and such intelligence is condemned in the Bhagavad-gita (BG 7.20) as hrta jnana, the intelligence of one who has lost his senses No edit summary current
• 11:3811:38, 14 January 2023 diff hist +3,109 Those who approach the Supreme Personality of Godhead with desires for material enjoyment are called sakama, and those devotees who have no material desires for sense gratification but serve the Supreme Lord out of spontaneous love are called akama No edit summary current
• 11:3411:34, 14 January 2023 diff hist +6,476 The waves of a river flow incessantly, and it is very difficult to stop them. Similarly, the waves of desire for material enjoyment are so strong that they cannot be stopped by any process other than bhakti-yoga No edit summary current
• 10:4610:46, 14 January 2023 diff hist +5,122 The sarga, the repetition of birth, is due to our strong desire for material enjoyment. So long we do not discard this desire of material enjoyment, we have to take our birth repeatedly No edit summary current
• 10:4410:44, 14 January 2023 diff hist +4,932 The purport of this verse is that a liberated soul has absolutely no desire at all for material enjoyment No edit summary current
• 10:4110:41, 14 January 2023 diff hist +4,913 The process of giving up all material connections and returning home, back to Godhead, the Supreme, is recommended herein. The condition is that one should be completely freed from desire for material enjoyment No edit summary current
• 10:3610:36, 14 January 2023 diff hist +5,471 The point is that a living entity has immense and unlimited desires for material enjoyment, and he has to transmigrate from one gross body to another until these desires are exhausted No edit summary current
• 10:3410:34, 14 January 2023 diff hist −9 The more the Krsna consciousness movement spreads, the more the desire for material enjoyment decreases No edit summary current
• 10:3110:31, 14 January 2023 diff hist +4,622 The Lord has proclaimed that the materialists, who desire material enjoyment and thus seek the favor of different demigods, as above mentioned, are not in control of their senses and so give themselves to nonsense No edit summary current
• 10:2810:28, 14 January 2023 diff hist +3,753 The living entity desires a particular type of material enjoyment, and thus the Lord supplies him with a body, which is like a machine. Just to keep him alive in that body, the Lord remains with him as the purusa - Ksirodakasayi Visnu No edit summary current
• 10:2710:27, 14 January 2023 diff hist +6,511 The karmis, who are much attracted by the fruitive activities of the Vedic rituals, are called bhukti-kami, or those who desire material enjoyment No edit summary current
• 10:1910:19, 14 January 2023 diff hist −9 The bodily conception is created by the desire for material enjoyment. This is called vipada-smrti, which is the opposite of real life No edit summary current
• 10:0810:08, 14 January 2023 diff hist −9 Then (when the heart is cleansed of impure desires for material enjoyment) one can approach Vrndavana-dhama to worship Lord Krsna No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 14 January 2023 diff hist +14,058 Sri Krsna, who is the Paramatma in everyone's heart & the benefactor of the truthful devotee, cleanses desire for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who relishes His messages, which are in themselves virtuous when properly heard & chanted No edit summary current
• 09:5809:58, 14 January 2023 diff hist +4,309 Sri Krsna, the Personality of Godhead, 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
• 09:5809:58, 14 January 2023 diff hist −48 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
• 09:5409:54, 14 January 2023 diff hist +7,000 Pure devotees are not desirous of any material enjoyment, nor are they averse to it. They completely dovetail their desires with the desires of the Lord and perform nothing on their personal account. Arjuna is a good example No edit summary
• 09:4109:41, 14 January 2023 diff hist +9,231 O King, constant chanting of the holy name of the Lord after the ways of the great authorities is the doubtless and fearless way of success for all, including those who are free from all material desires, those who are desirous of all material enjoyment No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 14 January 2023 diff hist +3,429 Out of such (avidya) desire the living being makes different plans for material enjoyment centered about a perverted sex life No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 14 January 2023 diff hist +5,521 Our material existence is maya, or illusion, in which we desire different varieties of material enjoyment and therefore change to different varieties of bodies - bhramayan sarva-bhutani yantrarudhani mayaya - BG 18.61 No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 14 January 2023 diff hist −9 One who has a good deal of money or riches is especially driven by the mode of passion. Being influenced by the mode of passion, one desires so many things for enjoyment in this material world No edit summary current