User contributions for Rohininandana

28 February 2023

• 11:5111:51, 28 February 2023 diff hist −7 It is forbidden, matra svasra duhitra va, "Don't keep yourself in a lonely place and talk 'pish-pish' with woman, even she is mother, daughter or sister." Strictly forbidden. That "pish-pish" will kill you No edit summary current
• 10:3210:32, 28 February 2023 diff hist +6,156 If a brahmacari or sannyasi talks with a woman in a secluded place, naturally there will be a possibility of sex life without anyone's knowledge. Therefore a complete brahmacari practices just the opposite No edit summary current
• 10:3010:30, 28 February 2023 diff hist +17,900 He (a sannyasi) is even forbidden to talk with a woman in a secluded place. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 10:2910:29, 28 February 2023 diff hist +2,801 Brahmacarya essentially means the vow not to marry but to observe strict celibacy (brhad-vrata). A brahmacari or sannyasi should avoid talking with women or reading literature concerning talks between man and woman No edit summary current
• 10:2710:27, 28 February 2023 diff hist +7,986 A sannyasi is forbidden not to talk even in private place with woman. But a householder, he, if he associates woman under marriage tie, then it is religious. And without this, this is irreligious. And that religious sex life is God No edit summary current
• 10:2510:25, 28 February 2023 diff hist −7 A brahmacari or sannyasi is prohibited to associate with women, especially in a secret place. The sastras enjoin that one should not even talk to a woman in a secret place, even if she happens to be one's own daughter, sister or mother No edit summary current
• 10:1310:13, 28 February 2023 diff hist +3,855 The pure Vaisnava has no desire for material enjoyment. That is the basic qualification of a pure Vaisnava. There are men, especially rich men, who regularly worship the Deity are pious in every respect, but they cannot be pure Vaisnavas No edit summary current
• 10:1210:12, 28 February 2023 diff hist −13 The pure Vaisnava has no desire for material enjoyment. That is the basic qualification of a pure Vaisnava. There are men, especially rich men, who regularly worship the Deity, give charity to brahmanas but they cannot be pure Vaisnavas No edit summary current
• 10:0710:07, 28 February 2023 diff hist +81,437 One who renders loving service to Sri Krsna, the Personality of Godhead, with devotion and austerity, is the greatest of all mystics. Men who undertake austerities motivated by a desire for material results cannot be called yogis or mystics No edit summary current
• 09:5809:58, 28 February 2023 diff hist +12,727 This sarpah, snake, can be charmed by herbs and mantra, but the man, envious, cannot be. Therefore he's more dangerous than the snake No edit summary current
• 09:5609:56, 28 February 2023 diff hist +5,991 The propaganda that a very great man is worshiped as God after his death is misleading because a man after his death cannot be made into God. Nor can the Personality of Godhead be a human being, even when He is personally present No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 28 February 2023 diff hist +5,991 The propaganda that a very great man is worshiped as God after his death is misleading because a man after his death cannot be made into God. Nor can the SPG be a human being, even when He is personally present. Both ideas are misconceptions No edit summary current
• 09:5209:52, 28 February 2023 diff hist +5,082 The materialist will argue that life in the tree and life in the man cannot be compared because the tree cannot enjoy life by eating palatable dishes or by enjoying sexual intercourse No edit summary current
• 09:4609:46, 28 February 2023 diff hist +4,087 So why the low-grade man cannot be offered tri-danda if he is qualified? If he has dedicated everything to Krsna, why he should be prohibited? No. That is not the sastric injunction. Sastric injunction is for anyone No edit summary current
• 09:4509:45, 28 February 2023 diff hist +5,826 There are snake charmer. They chant mantras, and they apply some herb, and the snake come under subjugation. But khalah kena nivaryate: "But the snake-like man, he cannot be subdued at any cost" No edit summary current
• 09:3809:38, 28 February 2023 diff hist +5,060 Real transcendentalists are hungry for this happiness, and as a hungry man cannot be made happy by all comforts of life minus foodstuff, so the man hungry for eternal absolute happiness cannot be satisfied by any amount of material happiness No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 28 February 2023 diff hist +2,794 One who does not know this (that a man who has fallen in the ocean of nescience cannot be saved simply by rescuing the gross material body) and laments for the outward dress is called a sudra, or one who laments unnecessarily. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 28 February 2023 diff hist +4 One who considers the Lord on the level of one's limited potency is only a common man. Such a man cannot be convinced that the Personality of Godhead is always unaffected by the modes of material nature No edit summary current
• 09:3209:32, 28 February 2023 diff hist +2,963 No one knows where compassion should be applied. Compassion for the dress of a drowning man is senseless. A man fallen in the ocean of nescience cannot be saved simply by rescuing his outward dress - the gross material body. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 28 February 2023 diff hist +4,844 If a man becomes the husband of a prostitute, he cannot be happy, and similarly one who follows the dictations of material intelligence and material consciousness will never be happy No edit summary current
• 09:1309:13, 28 February 2023 diff hist +4 His (a Krsna conscious person's) senses are controlled. A man of controlled senses cannot be offensive to anyone. One may ask, "Why then was Arjuna offensive (in battle) to others? Wasn't he in Krsna consciousness?" BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:1209:12, 28 February 2023 diff hist +7,145 Government is a set of fools because sinful men. They cannot be intelligent. A sinful man cannot be intelligent. Yes. That's a fact. If he's intelligent, then his intelligence is used for wrong things No edit summary current
• 09:0409:04, 28 February 2023 diff hist +6,864 Because the government means a set of fools, so all foolish people are flourishing. Government is a set of fools because sinful men. They cannot be intelligent. A sinful man cannot be intelligent. Yes. That's a fact No edit summary current
• 09:0009:00, 28 February 2023 diff hist −13 A man of controlled senses cannot be offensive to anyone. One may ask, "Why then was Arjuna offensive (in battle) to others? Wasn't he in Krsna consciousness?" No edit summary current
• 08:5808:58, 28 February 2023 diff hist −13 A man, if he is thrown into the ocean, he may be very expert swimmer, but simply by swimming over the ocean, he cannot be happy there, because he is put in a different condition of life No edit summary current

27 February 2023

• 15:4015:40, 27 February 2023 diff hist +4,051 When one man becomes idle - Idle brain is the devil's workshop No edit summary current
• 15:3015:30, 27 February 2023 diff hist +8,306 When a man becomes a mendicant willfully or by circumstances, he must be of firm faith and conviction that the Supreme Lord is the maintainer of all living beings everywhere in the universe No edit summary current
• 15:2315:23, 27 February 2023 diff hist +4,862 The wise man becomes by knowledge, not by age. Even an old man, if he has no knowledge, what is...? He is not wise man. Wise means one who has attained knowledge. He may be young, he may be old. It doesn't matter No edit summary current
• 14:5814:58, 27 February 2023 diff hist +36,558 The man in the mode of goodness becomes a first class prisoner &, becoming happy in the prison house, wants to stay there. What to speak of those in the modes of passion and ignorance. The point is that we have to transcend even the quality of goodness No edit summary current
• 14:5614:56, 27 February 2023 diff hist +4,890 The doctrines of anthropomorphism and zoomorphism are never applicable to Sri Krsna, or the Personality of Godhead. The theory that a man becomes God by dint of penance and austerities is very much rampant nowadays, especially in India No edit summary current
• 14:5414:54, 27 February 2023 diff hist +2,075 There was devotee, Nityananda's contemporary, he used to whip. And his whipping means as soon as he whips, the man becomes a devotee No edit summary current
• 14:4314:43, 27 February 2023 diff hist +3,789 Materially, when a man becomes tired by rendering service in his physical body, he is allowed retirement, but in the transcendental service there is no feeling of fatigue because it is spiritual service and is not on the bodily plane No edit summary current
• 14:4114:41, 27 February 2023 diff hist +4,865 Krsna is a woman-hunter. That is the highest pastimes of Krsna, rasa-lila. But here if a man becomes woman-hunter, he will be most abominable person No edit summary current
• 14:3714:37, 27 February 2023 diff hist +3,313 King Anga thought: A bad son is better than a good son because a good son creates an attachment for home, whereas a bad son does not. A bad son creates a hellish home from which an intelligent man naturally becomes very easily detached No edit summary current
• 14:3214:32, 27 February 2023 diff hist −10 Just like in our India, especially in Bengal, sometimes they say a dull-brained man, "Oh, you have got cow dung within your brain. You have no brain substance." Actually a man becomes intelligent by the greater amount of brain substance No edit summary current
• 14:2814:28, 27 February 2023 diff hist +19,660 It is true that if a man becomes too much puffed up because of his family, opulence, beauty and material advancement, he no longer wants a peaceful life but becomes belligerent toward all others No edit summary current
• 14:2714:27, 27 February 2023 diff hist +3,693 In this way (when hearing philosophy, stories, narrations about God and his devotees) a man becomes refreshed in mind, exactly like a person who smears scented sandalwood pulp all over his body and decorates himself with ornaments No edit summary current
• 14:2114:21, 27 February 2023 diff hist +14,420 If a man from the sva-pacah family, or the candala family, he becomes a Vaisnava, strictly according to the orders, then he can become guru, but not a brahmana if he's not a Vaisnava. This is the stricture No edit summary current
• 14:1414:14, 27 February 2023 diff hist +3,775 For sense gratification a woman creates an illusory love, and the man becomes enchanted by such false love and forgets his real duty. When there are children as the result of such a combination, the next attraction is to the sweet words of the children No edit summary current
• 14:1114:11, 27 February 2023 diff hist +4,678 Energy, prakrti. Krsna is engladdened in the presence of Radharani. That is nature. Similarly, a man, he becomes energized if he has got a good wife or good mother No edit summary current
• 12:1212:12, 27 February 2023 diff hist +4 A married man becomes responsible, because there is affection, family affection. And one who is not married, he's irresponsible, because there is no family affection. That is the basic defect of the present society No edit summary current
• 12:1012:10, 27 February 2023 diff hist −13 A man becomes too greedy for wealth and power when he has no higher objective in life and when he thinks that this earthly life of a few years is all in all No edit summary current
• 12:1012:10, 27 February 2023 diff hist −13 A man becomes the greatest soul by accepting the goodness of others' qualities, but by unnecessarily considering others' good qualities to be bad, you (Daksa) have become the lowest of the fallen souls No edit summary current
• 10:5810:58, 27 February 2023 diff hist +2,749 As you go on preaching you will become expert. In every sphere of activity the more a man becomes active, he becomes more and more expert No edit summary current
• 10:5310:53, 27 February 2023 diff hist +3 Always hungry, longing for sufficient food, a poverty-stricken man gradually becomes weaker and weaker. Having no extra potency, his senses are automatically pacified - SB 10.10.16 No edit summary current
• 10:4110:41, 27 February 2023 diff hist +5,697 There is a great chance for the poor man to become liberated through association with a saint No edit summary current
• 10:3710:37, 27 February 2023 diff hist −13 Sati accused her father: A man becomes the greatest soul by accepting the goodness of others' qualities, but by unnecessarily considering others' good qualities to be bad, you have become the lowest of the fallen souls No edit summary current
• 10:3310:33, 27 February 2023 diff hist −13 Only when man revives his real identity, that of eternal servitor to the Lord, does he become liberated No edit summary current
• 09:0909:09, 27 February 2023 diff hist +3,648 Out of many millions of such wise men, one may actually become liberated (mukta), and out of many millions of such liberated persons, a pure devotee of Lord Krsna is very difficult to find No edit summary current
• 09:0409:04, 27 February 2023 diff hist +5,681 Now they have given up the Deity worship. Men have become modernized and are consequently indulging in all sorts of sinful activities, and therefore they are extremely unhappy No edit summary current