User contributions for Madana Mohana

16 March 2023

• 09:3709:37, 16 March 2023 diff hist +2,723 Both His (Krsna's) anger and pleasure are the same because He is absolute. His anger is not exhibited in the three modes of material nature. It is only a sign of His bent of mind towards the cause of His devotee because that is His transcendental nature No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 16 March 2023 diff hist +8,984 Bhagavad-gita (4.23): "The work of a man who is unattached to the modes of material nature and who is fully situated in transcendental knowledge merges entirely into transcendence" No edit summary current
• 09:2409:24, 16 March 2023 diff hist +4,730 Because the Lord is always transcendentally situated, the material modes of passion and ignorance cannot touch Him. Whenever the Lord is present, there cannot be any darkness from the mode of ignorance No edit summary current

15 March 2023

• 15:3515:35, 15 March 2023 diff hist +60 Because of His eternally transcendental position, when the Supreme Personality of Godhead appears in this material world, the modes of material nature cannot affect Him. Therefore the Supreme Lord is called Transcendence No edit summary current
• 15:3315:33, 15 March 2023 diff hist +8,179 Because He (God) is a person, He has many personal qualities, although He is transcendental to the material modes. We have already discussed the statement, ittham-bhuta-guno harih - SB 1.7.10 No edit summary current
• 15:3015:30, 15 March 2023 diff hist +32 A person in Krsna consciousness is always transcendental to the material modes of nature. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 15:0115:01, 15 March 2023 diff hist +21,095 A devotee is in a transcendental position because he is no longer under the control of the three material modes of nature - goodness, passion, and ignorance No edit summary current
• 14:1514:15, 15 March 2023 diff hist +18,062 Anger is the product of the modes of passion and lust, so one who is transcendentally situated should check himself from anger. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 14:1314:13, 15 March 2023 diff hist +2,959 Although within the material nature, one who is thus situated in full knowledge of the Paramatma and atma is never affected by the modes of material nature, for he is always situated in My transcendental loving service No edit summary current
• 14:0914:09, 15 March 2023 diff hist +3,179 Although the Lord sometimes appears in this material world, He has nothing to do with the modes of material nature, and He acts with full independence in His transcendental position. This is the special quality of the Lord No edit summary current
• 12:0812:08, 15 March 2023 diff hist +4,840 Akrura continued, "Even demigods like Lord Brahma, being covered by the influence of material nature, do not exactly know Your transcendental existence beyond the cosmic manifestation of the three modes of material nature" No edit summary current
• 12:0612:06, 15 March 2023 diff hist +4,807 Aham brahmasmi: "I am not this body." This is applicable only to the person who constantly engages in the devotional service of Krsna and is thus in the transcendental stage; he is above the influence of the three modes of material nature No edit summary current
• 12:0312:03, 15 March 2023 diff hist +3,378 After creating the material substance, the Lord (Vasudeva) expands Himself & enters into it. And although He is within the material modes of nature & appears to be; one of the created beings, He is always fully enlightened in His transcendental position No edit summary current
• 11:5111:51, 15 March 2023 diff hist +4,278 According to Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 1.7.5): Due to this external energy, the living entity, although transcendental to the three modes of material nature, thinks of himself as a material product and thus undergoes the reactions of material miseries No edit summary current
• 11:4711:47, 15 March 2023 diff hist +4,048 According to Srila Jiva Gosvami, a person freed from the three modes of material qualities, namely goodness, passion and ignorance, and situated in transcendence can reach the highest perfection of life without change of body No edit summary current
• 10:4710:47, 15 March 2023 diff hist +3,128 One who has such (bodily) concept of life is considered to be in the class of animals like cows and asses No edit summary current
• 10:3810:38, 15 March 2023 diff hist +7,196 If one does not utilize his human life for svarga or apavarga, he falls again to the degraded life of animals like dogs and hogs No edit summary current
• 10:3610:36, 15 March 2023 diff hist +5,892 A person who has no connection with Krsna consciousness may be a very great personality in so-called human society, but actually he is no better than a great animal. Such big animals are generally praised by other animals like dogs, hogs camels and asses No edit summary current
• 10:3310:33, 15 March 2023 diff hist +10,728 Everywhere we find this same misunderstanding. As soon as one is in the bodily conception of life, one is nothing but an animal like a cat or a dog - sa eva go-kharah - SB 10.84.13 No edit summary current
• 10:2910:29, 15 March 2023 diff hist +5,761 Anyone who is in bodily concept of life, he is no better than animal, like cows and asses. This is the verdict. So therefore, when we are in the animal consciousness of life, there is no possibility of getting Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
• 10:1210:12, 15 March 2023 diff hist +3,105 When the Yavanas were taking King Puranjana away to their place, binding him like an animal, the King's followers became greatly aggrieved. While they lamented, they were forced to go along with him No edit summary current
• 10:0910:09, 15 March 2023 diff hist +3,079 When a person is born even in human society, he remains a sudra. Sudra means almost like animal. Now he has to be reformed. That is called samskara. Then twice-born No edit summary current
• 10:0710:07, 15 March 2023 diff hist +3,848 When a person goes to the spiritual master, that is his second birth because he is born foolish. Take birth by the combination of father, mother - that is material birth - that is a birth of ignorance, just like animals No edit summary current

14 March 2023

• 18:0018:00, 14 March 2023 diff hist +4,405 We should not misunderstand that the Supersoul situated in the heart of an animal like a hog and the Supersoul situated in the heart of a learned brahmana are different No edit summary
• 17:5917:59, 14 March 2023 diff hist +8,023 We can see that if someone has no object of love, he generally directs his love to a pet animal like a cat or a dog. Thus the eternal propensity for love in all living entities is always searching for a place to reside No edit summary current
• 17:5817:58, 14 March 2023 diff hist +11,242 Unless one comes to this ananda-maya stage, his breathing is like the breathing of a bellows in a blacksmith's shop, his duration of life is like that of a tree, and he is no better than the lower animals like the camels, hogs and dogs No edit summary current
• 17:5517:55, 14 March 2023 diff hist +4,166 Those who are inclined to eat meat may eat the flesh of unimportant animals like hogs, dogs, goats and sheep, but they should not touch the life of the cows, for this is destructive to the spiritual advancement of human society No edit summary current
• 17:5317:53, 14 March 2023 diff hist +2,395 They are Aditi, Diti, Danu, Kastha, Arista, Surasa, Ila, Muni, Krodhavasa, Tamra, Surabhi, Sarama and Timi. From the womb of Timi all the aquatics took birth, and from the womb of Sarama the ferocious animals like the tigers and lions took birth No edit summary current
• 17:5217:52, 14 March 2023 diff hist +2,555 There (on Mount Kailasa) are many kinds of animals, like deer, monkeys, boars, lions, rksas, salyakas, forest cows, forest asses, tigers, small deer, buffalo and many other animals, who are fully enjoying their lives No edit summary current
• 17:5117:51, 14 March 2023 diff hist +3,923 The tamasic sastras give instructions for the sacrifice of an animal like a goat or buffalo before the goddess Kali, but there is no mention of killing a man, however dull he may be. This process was manufactured by the dacoits themselves No edit summary current
• 17:5117:51, 14 March 2023 diff hist +7,113 The so-called modern leader, he is a pasu, animal. And who exalts them? Sva-vid-varahostra-kharah: other lower animals like dogs, the hogs, sva-vid-varaha, camel and ass. So one big animal is being praised by these kinds of animals No edit summary current
• 17:4917:49, 14 March 2023 diff hist +4,922 The maha-bhagavata’s heart is completely freed from material contamination, and he can become very dear even to fierce animals like tigers and elephants. Indeed, the maha-bhagavata treats them as his very intimate friends No edit summary current
• 17:4717:47, 14 March 2023 diff hist +6,562 The jungle animals are also subject to the king, and they also have a right to live. So what to speak of domestic animals like the cows and bulls No edit summary current
• 17:4517:45, 14 March 2023 diff hist +2,377 The four-legged animals like the cows made a calf out of the bull who carries Lord Siva and made a milking pot out of the forest. Thus they got fresh green grasses to eat No edit summary current
• 17:4417:44, 14 March 2023 diff hist +2,165 The fish, sharks, tortoises and snakes were most agitated and perturbed. The entire ocean became turbulent, and even the large aquatic animals like whales, water elephants, crocodiles and timingila fish came to the surface No edit summary current
• 17:4317:43, 14 March 2023 diff hist +5,224 The Bhagavatam asks whether other animals like the dogs and hogs, living in the same village with human beings, do not eat and enjoy sexual life No edit summary current
• 17:4017:40, 14 March 2023 diff hist +3,961 Sometimes ksatriyas go to the forest to kill animals like deer because they have to learn the art of killing, and sometimes they eat the animals also. Sudras, too, eat animals such as goats No edit summary current
• 17:3417:34, 14 March 2023 diff hist +4,668 Sex is very prominent among animals like monkeys, and such people who are enlivened by sex may be called descendants of monkeys No edit summary current
• 17:3317:33, 14 March 2023 diff hist +4,335 Pregnancy takes place only in lower-grade life. Animals like dogs and hogs become pregnant twice a year, and each time they beget at least half a dozen offspring. Even lower species of life such as snakes give birth to hundreds of young at one time No edit summary current
• 17:3117:31, 14 March 2023 diff hist +2,827 Pandita means spiritually advanced. A person who is spiritually advanced, he sees on equal level a very learned man, vidya-vinaya-sampanne brahmana, brahmana, the first-class man; vidya-vinaya-sampanne gavi, an animal like cow No edit summary current
• 17:2717:27, 14 March 2023 diff hist +5,817 One's riches, beautiful wife and female friends, one's sons and daughters, one's residence, one's domestic animals like cows - indeed, even the lifetime in which one can enjoy all these material opulences - are certainly temporary and flickering No edit summary current
• 17:2417:24, 14 March 2023 diff hist +2,039 O Bhimasena, tiger amongst men, now useful animals like cows are passing me (Yudhisthira Maharaja) on my left side, and lower animals like the asses are circumambulating me. My horses appear to weep upon seeing me No edit summary current
• 17:2017:20, 14 March 2023 diff hist +5,798 Just like ordinary animals, they have got four legs, no hand. So these four-legged animals is the food for the two-legged animals. Ahastani sahastanam. Uncivilized men means two-legged animals. They are animals, but two-legged No edit summary current
• 17:1817:18, 14 March 2023 diff hist +5,732 In Vrndavana, everyone and everything is attracted to Krsna, including the trees, the plants, the water, and animals like the deer and cows. That is the perfect description of Krsna’s all-attractiveness No edit summary current
• 17:1517:15, 14 March 2023 diff hist +3,699 In the higher planetary systems, there are not only different types of human beings, but also animals like lions and elephants. There are trees, and the land is made of emeralds. Such is the creation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 17:1217:12, 14 March 2023 diff hist +25,531 Ignorance is like the animal existence. The animal's life is full of suffering, but the animal does not know that he is suffering No edit summary current
• 17:0817:08, 14 March 2023 diff hist +17,699 If we depend on God's creation, there will be no scarcity, but simply ananda, bliss. God's creation provides sufficient grains and grass, and while we eat the grains and fruits, the animals like the cows will eat the grass No edit summary current
• 17:0517:05, 14 March 2023 diff hist +5,186 If I don't find any suitable person lovable, then I turn my love to some hobby, to some animal, like that, because the love is there. So this is dormant. Our love for Krsna is dormant No edit summary current
• 16:5716:57, 14 March 2023 diff hist +4,160 Don't be bothering yourself for solution of economic question. That is already provided. Just like all these animals, these birds, they have no question how to live, how to eat, how to mate, how to defend. This is already there No edit summary current
• 15:4215:42, 14 March 2023 diff hist +5 We have to approach to the proper person and inquire and hear. Sravanam kirtanam. Tad viddhi pranipatena pariprasnena sevaya (BG 4.34). Not to hear like animal, but pariprasnena sevaya. Then our knowledge will be developed No edit summary current