User contributions for Yadu Kumar

6 April 2023

• 06:0906:09, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,915 In this material world there are different types of achievement, but of all of them the achievement of knowledge is considered to be the highest because one can cross the ocean of nescience only on the boat of knowledge. Otherwise the ocean is impassable No edit summary current
• 06:0806:08, 6 April 2023 diff hist +9,546 If one endeavors simply to achieve knowledge of the Absolute Truth or the Supersoul but has no devotional service, he labors without gaining the real result. This is compared to beating the husks of wheat after the grains have already been removed No edit summary current
• 06:0706:07, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,032 Experimental knowledge can be achieved when one has understood the false knowledge. By experimental or proved knowledge, one can understand that he is not the body but spirit soul No edit summary current
• 06:0606:06, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,793 Evam parampara. So absolute knowledge can be achieved when we hear from the Absolute. No person in the relative world can inform us about the absolute knowledge. That is not possible No edit summary current
• 06:0606:06, 6 April 2023 diff hist +12 Complete knowledge can be achieved only by the devotee of the Lord directly from the Lord in disciplic succession. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 06:0606:06, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,408 By performing austerities & penances, by controlling the senses & mind, & by achieving full knowledge of the Absolute Truth, one is fully cleansed of material contamination. Then one's words and blessings, like those of the demigods, are never a failure No edit summary current
• 06:0506:05, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,137 By his high intelligence (svena tejasa), by the superior power of superior knowledge achieved from the right source - the spiritual master, or acarya - he can give up his conditional life in a material body and return home, back to Godhead No edit summary current
• 06:0406:04, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,477 As soon as we speak of knowledge, there must be three things: the object of knowledge, the person who is trying to know and the process by which the object of knowledge is achieved No edit summary current
• 06:0406:04, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11 Any knowledge achieved by speculation is imperfect No edit summary current
• 06:0406:04, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,195 After performing speculative activities for many, many births, when one actually comes to his real consciousness and surrenders unto the Supreme Lord, Krsna, then the fulfillment of his research in knowledge is actually achieved No edit summary current
• 05:5005:50, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,713 Unadulterated happiness, real happiness can be achieved in the spiritual world. Not in the material world No edit summary current
• 05:5005:50, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,576 This ultimate gain (of achieving permanent happiness and eternal life) is possible to achieve in the human form of life No edit summary current
• 05:4805:48, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,158 The living entity tries to achieve happiness and rid himself of the causes of distress, but because the various bodies of the living entities are under the full control of material nature, all his plans in different bodies, one after another No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,081 The actual form of life for the living entities is one of spiritual happiness, which is real happiness. This happiness can be achieved only when one stops all materialistic activities. Material sense enjoyment is simply imagination No edit summary current
• 05:4605:46, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,765 There are many heavenly planets to which they (those materially attached) aspire just to achieve more and more material happiness by getting a long duration of life and the paraphernalia for sense enjoyment No edit summary current
• 05:4605:46, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,012 Steady in the Self, being freed from all material contamination, the yogi achieves the highest perfectional stage of happiness in touch with the Supreme Consciousness. BG 6.28 - 1972 No edit summary current
• 05:4405:44, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,130 Real happiness is achieved by spiritual existence or by cessation of the repetition of birth and death. One can stop the repetition of birth and death only by going back to Godhead No edit summary current
• 05:4305:43, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,941 People are working hard day and night for the illusory happiness of the body. This is not a way to achieve happiness. One has to get out of this material entanglement and return home, back to Godhead. That is real happiness No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,951 People are seeking peace in different ways, but they can achieve real happiness only if they consult the bona fide representative of Krsna, the man in Krsna consciousness. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
• 05:4205:42, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,838 Our duty is to achieve permanent happiness and eternal life, and it is for that purpose only - for the ultimate gain - that we should undertake all sorts of penances and austerities No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,462 My dear Priyavrata, according to our association with different modes of material nature, the Supreme Personality of Godhead gives us our specific bodies and the happiness and distress we achieve No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,449 My dear King Pariksit, the sons of Kartaviryarjuna, who were defeated by the superior strength of Parasurama, never achieved happiness, for they always remembered the killing of their father No edit summary current
• 05:3905:39, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,409 In the human form of life, the living entity must accept this instruction from the Supreme Person, Krsna: "Do not plan to achieve happiness and drive away distress. You will never be successful. Simply surrender unto Me" - BG 18.66 No edit summary current
• 05:3805:38, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,450 He works very hard day and night exactly like a merchant who enters a forest to acquire some articles to sell later for profit. However, he cannot really achieve happiness within this material world No edit summary
• 05:3705:37, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,645 For the neophytes the routine of devotional service may be very painful, but at least they have the hope that they will ultimately be able to avoid all kinds of distresses and achieve the highest perfectional stage of happiness No edit summary current
• 05:3705:37, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,972 Everyone is trying to be happy, and the process adopted to achieve that happiness is called self-interest. Unfortunately, the conditioned soul hovering within this material world does not know that his ultimate goal of self-interest is Vasudeva No edit summary current
• 05:3605:36, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,161 Everyone is actually seeking to achieve happiness by reviving his relationship with the Supersoul. As the Lord (Krsna) says in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.15), vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah: By all the Vedas, it is I who am to be known No edit summary current
• 05:3605:36, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,262 Even though we may be able to avoid distress and artificially enjoy some material happiness by temporary achievements, this represents no factual gain in life. Our duty is to achieve permanent happiness and eternal life No edit summary current
• 05:3505:35, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,622 An intelligent man will never aspire to become a devotee to achieve material happiness. That is the test of a devotee No edit summary current
• 05:3305:33, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,577 Actually, one should undergo severe austerities and penances only to achieve spiritual happiness. In Srimad-Bhagavatam it is recommended that tapasya, or austerity, should be accepted for realizing the Supreme Lord No edit summary current

5 April 2023

• 08:1408:14, 5 April 2023 diff hist +8,065 The actual commandment is "Thou shalt not kill." But these Christian people, they are making some amendment, "Thou shalt not murder." Because murder will apply to the killing of human beings. But Lord Jesus Christ never said like that No edit summary current
• 08:1308:13, 5 April 2023 diff hist +2,958 Krsna says that to kill a cow and to kill a human being is the same sin No edit summary current
• 08:1308:13, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,695 In the act of killing an animal, there is a regular conspiracy by the party of sinners, and all of them are liable to be punished as murderers exactly like a party of conspirators who kill a human being combinedly No edit summary current
• 08:1308:13, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,323 He (Manu) says that in the act of killing an animal, there is a regular conspiracy by the party of sinners, and all of them are liable to be punished as murderers exactly like a party of conspirators who kill a human being combinedly No edit summary current
• 08:0008:00, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,432 This is not my business to make intimate relation with woman and get money. I could do. There was chance. When attempt was failed, the man who introduced that woman to me, he one day said, "I have seen many swamis, but none like you" No edit summary current
• 08:0008:00, 5 April 2023 diff hist +2,164 The Lord replied, "I cannot tolerate seeing the face of a person who has accepted the renounced order of life but who still talks intimately with a woman" No edit summary current
• 07:5907:59, 5 April 2023 diff hist +18,112 There are so many rules and regulations to be followed in the renounced order of life. Most important of all, a sannyasi is strictly forbidden to have any intimate relationship with a woman. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 07:5907:59, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,583 Only the grhasthas, or householders, are given license to have an intimate relationship with a woman, and that relationship is also restricted for begetting nice children No edit summary current
• 07:5907:59, 5 April 2023 diff hist +7,666 An ordinary grhastha, or... Grhastha only, If he talks with woman nobody will blame. He is grhastha. But if a sannyasi talks with woman very intimately, oh, immediately people will take note of it No edit summary current
• 07:5807:58, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,395 There are eight different kinds of sensual enjoyment with women, including talking about them and thinking about them. Thus for a sannyasi, a person in the renounced order, talking intimately with women is a great offense No edit summary current
• 07:5807:58, 5 April 2023 diff hist +1,511 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, "My mind is not under My control. It does not like to see anyone in the renounced order who talks intimately with women" No edit summary current
• 07:5607:56, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,109 Just to preserve the regulative principles for the future, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu enforced the hard-and-fast rule that no one in the renounced order should intimately mix with women No edit summary current
• 07:5607:56, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,598 It is very dangerous for such a person to have intimate relationships with mundane people or to become intimately related with women. This formality is to be observed by anyone who is serious about going back home, back to Godhead No edit summary current
• 07:5507:55, 5 April 2023 diff hist −8 For a person engaged in devotional service in the renounced order, having intimate relationships with women is certainly hypocrisy No edit summary current
• 07:3907:39, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,067 Thus, by the arrangement of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the maintainer of kinsmen is put into a hellish condition to suffer for his sinful activities, like a man who has lost his wealth No edit summary current
• 07:3807:38, 5 April 2023 diff hist +3,087 Those whose minds are overcome by the mode of passion are attracted by the color of gold, just as a man suffering from cold in the forest runs after a phosphorescent light in a marshy land, considering it to be fire No edit summary current
• 07:3707:37, 5 April 2023 diff hist +8,768 The sinful man taken to the Yamaraja, he is put into suffering, the same principle as a prisoner. He has to suffer for a time, six months or one year or sometimes more than that, just to atone for his sinful activities No edit summary current
• 07:3707:37, 5 April 2023 diff hist +4,667 The mercy of the Lord (Krsna) is open for him (suffering man), but he is reluctant to receive it. That is the difference between a pure devotee and a mixed devotee No edit summary current
• 07:3707:37, 5 April 2023 diff hist +5,415 The distinction between animal and man is that that animal is not aware of the sufferings he is undergoing. There are sufferings both for the animals and for the man, but man is conscious No edit summary current
• 07:3707:37, 5 April 2023 diff hist +5,687 The brahmana continued: I am actually seeing how a rich man, who is a victim of his senses, is very greedy to accumulate wealth, and therefore suffers from insomnia due to fear from all sides, despite his wealth and opulence No edit summary current