User contributions for Madana Mohana

26 June 2023

• 14:0814:08, 26 June 2023 diff hist +9 The day of Brahma is described in Bhagavad-gita (BG 8.17): By human calculation, a thousand ages taken together is the duration of Brahma's one day. And such also is the duration of his night No edit summary current
• 14:0514:05, 26 June 2023 diff hist +4,160 There are two kinds of dissolutions, one during the night of Lord Brahma and one at the end of Lord Brahma's life No edit summary current
• 13:5313:53, 26 June 2023 diff hist +4,180 One gopi, expressing herself to Krsna, says: "When we meet You at night, we consider the duration of night to be very small. And why speak of only this night? Even if we had a night of Brahma* we would consider it a very short time!" No edit summary current
• 13:5013:50, 26 June 2023 diff hist +2,201 Krsna's superior spiritual energy is transcendental and eternal. It is beyond all the changes of material nature, which is manifest and annihilated during the days and nights of Brahma. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 13:4913:49, 26 June 2023 diff hist +6,518 It was a night of Brahma, and lasted millions and millions of years. Everything is possible for Krsna, for He is the supreme controller No edit summary current
• 13:4613:46, 26 June 2023 diff hist +9 In the day (of Brahma) they (the less intelligent jivas) receive various bodies for material activities, and at night these bodies perish. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 13:4113:41, 26 June 2023 diff hist +2,796 During the daytime of Brahma they (jivas) exhibit their activities, and at the coming of Brahma's night they are annihilated. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 13:3413:34, 26 June 2023 diff hist +4,214 Avyakta means the night of Brahma, when partial annihilation takes place and the living entities of that particular brahmanda, up to the planets of Brahmaloka, along with the big oceans, etc., all repose in the belly of the virat-purusa No edit summary current
• 13:2913:29, 26 June 2023 diff hist +4,038 At the end of a Brahma's night, the creation again takes place, and the living entities, reserved within the belly of the Lord, are let loose to play their respective parts as if being awakened from a deep slumber No edit summary current
• 13:1813:18, 26 June 2023 diff hist +9 Although the living entities do not like devastation, that devastation will come and overflood the planets until all living beings on the planets stay merged in water throughout the night of Brahma. But as day comes, the water gradually disappears No edit summary current
• 13:1713:17, 26 June 2023 diff hist +3,073 Again and again, when Brahma's day arrives, all living entities come into being, and with the arrival of Brahma's night they are helplessly annihilated No edit summary current
• 13:1613:16, 26 June 2023 diff hist −11 After this devastation (the annihilation of all the lower planetary systems) and after the night of Brahma passes, in the morning when Brahma arises there is again creation, and all these beings come forth No edit summary current
• 13:1413:14, 26 June 2023 diff hist +6,101 After the rasa dance was over, the night (the night of Brahma, a very, very long period, as mentioned in the Bhagavad-gita) turned into the brahma-muhurta. The brahma-muhurta takes place about one and a half hours before sunrise No edit summary current

21 June 2023

• 14:4214:42, 21 June 2023 diff hist +7,939 The living entity never takes birth, never dies. Then why even Brahma dies? Brahma is also dying. That is material life. That is bondage No edit summary current
• 14:3114:31, 21 June 2023 diff hist +3,293 Worshipers of the Hiranyagarbha expansion of the Personality of Godhead remain within this material world until the end of two parardhas, when Lord Brahma also dies No edit summary current
• 14:3014:30, 21 June 2023 diff hist +2,938 The word maha-kalpe is described by Srila Madhvacarya as atita-brahma-kalpe. Brahma dies at the end of a life of many millions of years No edit summary current
• 14:1814:18, 21 June 2023 diff hist +27,309 He had his birth, and when Lord Brahma dies, the entire material cosmic manifestation will be finished No edit summary current
• 14:1014:10, 21 June 2023 diff hist +5,290 This material world is called the world of death. Every living being, beginning from Brahma, whose duration of life is some thousands of millions of years, down to the germs who live for a few seconds only, is struggling for existence No edit summary current
• 14:0814:08, 21 June 2023 diff hist +4,538 The personal weapon used by Lord Krsna, the disc, is called hari-cakra, the disc of Hari. This cakra is the wheel of time. It expands from the beginning of the atoms up to the time of Brahma's death, and it controls all activities No edit summary current
• 14:0514:05, 21 June 2023 diff hist +27,414 The life of Lord Brahma covers millions of earth years, yet he is also subjected to birth and death. That is the way of conditional life No edit summary current
• 13:5613:56, 21 June 2023 diff hist +2,549 Lomarsa Muni. He would die when all the hairs on the body will fall down. And each hair will fall down after the death of one Brahma No edit summary current
• 13:5113:51, 21 June 2023 diff hist +27,761 Just as Lord Brahma undergoes birth, old age, disease and death, so also a small ant or insect undergoes the same process. The point is that the living entity has to be free from this bondage because he is by nature eternal No edit summary current
• 13:5013:50, 21 June 2023 diff hist +28 In the material universe not even Brahma is free from the process of birth, old age, disease and death. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 13:4713:47, 21 June 2023 diff hist +6,543 Insurmountable time even brings about the death of Brahma, so what to speak of other demigods like Indra, Candra, Surya, Vayu & Varuna? The astronomical influence directed by the different demigods over mundane creatures is also conspicuous by its absence No edit summary current
• 13:4213:42, 21 June 2023 diff hist +1,734 Fifty years of the life of Brahma are already over, and fifty years are yet to be completed; then, for Brahma also, death is inevitable No edit summary current
• 13:3913:39, 21 June 2023 diff hist +3,323 Brahma is also afraid of his death, and thus he performs devotional service to the Lord, just to release himself from the clutches of illusory energy No edit summary current

20 June 2023

• 15:2015:20, 20 June 2023 diff hist +28 Which Brahma? Oh, I am so powerful. I have got four heads. I have created this gorgeous universe, and under me there are so many demigods. How is that? 'Which Brahma?' So all right, Krsna has asked. Tell Him that No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 20 June 2023 diff hist +1,768 When the most powerful Lord Brahma saw the demigods coming toward him, their bodies gravely injured by the arrows of the demons, he pacified them by his great causeless mercy and spoke as follows No edit summary current
• 15:0215:02, 20 June 2023 diff hist +3,388 Understanding King Agnidhra's desire, the first and most powerful created being of this universe, Lord Brahma, selected the best of the dancing girls in his assembly, whose name was Purvacitti, and sent her to the King No edit summary current
• 14:2714:27, 20 June 2023 diff hist +8,402 Siva-jvara said, "Lord Brahma may be very powerful because he can create the entire universe" No edit summary current
• 14:0814:08, 20 June 2023 diff hist +2,746 Without touching the original cows and cowherd boys kept by Brahma, Krsna had created another assembly of calves and boys, who were all expansions of visnu-tattva. Thus Brahma's mystic power was superseded No edit summary current
• 14:0614:06, 20 June 2023 diff hist +4,414 When the small mystic power exhibited by Brahma was before the mystic power of Krsna, it was just like snow at night or a glowworm during the day No edit summary current
• 14:0414:04, 20 June 2023 diff hist +3,147 When one wants to supersede a superior power, one's own inferior power becomes ludicrous. Just as a glowworm in the daytime and snow at night have no value, Brahma's mystic power became worthless in the presence of Krsna No edit summary current
• 13:1513:15, 20 June 2023 diff hist +2,736 The playful pastimes of the Lord caused suspicion in the mind of Lord Brahma, and therefore Lord Brahma, to test Krsna's Lordship, stole all the Lord's calves and cowherd boys with his own mystic power No edit summary current
• 13:1213:12, 20 June 2023 diff hist +9,317 The original ones (calves & boys) were sleeping under the spell of Brahma's mystic power, but the present ones, seen by Brahma, were all immediate expansions of Krsna, or Visnu. Visnu is the expansion of Krsna, so the Visnu forms appeared before Brahma No edit summary current
• 13:0613:06, 20 June 2023 diff hist +7,525 The influence of his (Brahma's) mystic power appeared like snow in darkness or a glowworm in the daytime No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 20 June 2023 diff hist +4,009 Lord Brahma had stolen all the calves and cowherd boys in order to test Krsna’s power. Lord Brahma admitted that his own extraordinary powers within the universe were not in the least comparable to the unlimited powers of Lord Krsna No edit summary current
• 12:5212:52, 20 June 2023 diff hist +2,440 Lord Balarama's thoughts of astonishment at such wonderful retaliation (of how Krsna responded by replacing all the calves and boys in the field which Lord Brahma stole by his mystic power) are recorded in this verse - SB 10.13.37 No edit summary current
• 12:4612:46, 20 June 2023 diff hist +2,922 It was known to Sri Narada Muni that Lord Brahma attained creative energy by undergoing severe austerities. As such, he could understand that there was someone else superior to Brahmaji who invested Brahma with the power of creation No edit summary current
• 12:3612:36, 20 June 2023 diff hist +3,772 His (Brahma's) power is like the power of the sun reflected in valuable stones and jewels. When there is no such living being to take charge of the post of Brahma, the Lord Himself becomes a Brahma and takes charge of the post No edit summary current
• 11:0511:05, 20 June 2023 diff hist +2,990 Every power is derived from Him; so Brahma's mystic power cannot act on Krsna No edit summary current
• 10:5210:52, 20 June 2023 diff hist +8 Diamond also illuminating, but it is not original. Original luminous is sun, & the illumination expanded by diamond is not so valuable as the sunshine. Similarly, Brahma, although we see him so powerful, he has little power derived from the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
• 10:4010:40, 20 June 2023 diff hist +5,406 Coming to his senses, Lord Brahma saw that although he was a very powerful living creature in the estimation of all other living creatures within this material world, his power was nothing in comparison to the power and energy of the S.P. of Godhead No edit summary current
• 10:3510:35, 20 June 2023 diff hist +21,243 By his mystic power, Brahma stole all the cows, calves and cowherd friends of Krsna and hid them. However, when he returned to see what Krsna was doing alone, he saw that Krsna was still playing with the same cows, calves and cowherd boys No edit summary current
• 10:1710:17, 20 June 2023 diff hist +3,373 Brahma is so powerful that he is in charge of creating an entire universe, yet he personally came to receive the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 10:0110:01, 20 June 2023 diff hist +6,693 Brahma is a living being, jiva-tattva. He is not Visnu-tattva. Just see how much a living being can be powerful. Now, Brahma was created by this Garbhodakasayi Visnu, and Brahma in his turn, he created all these planetary systems No edit summary current
• 09:5409:54, 20 June 2023 diff hist +7,905 Brahma began to think, "All the boys and calves were taken away by me, and I know they are still sleeping. How is it that a similar batch of boys and calves is playing with Krsna? Is it that they are not influenced by my mystic power?" No edit summary current
• 09:4109:41, 20 June 2023 diff hist +2,443 Brahma's mystic power became worthless in the presence of Krsna, for greater mystic power condemns inferior mystic power No edit summary current
• 09:3809:38, 20 June 2023 diff hist +4,534 Being the incarnation of the passion mode of material nature, he (Brahma) is empowered by God to generate the beautiful material manifestation. Yet due to his being one of the numerous living entities, he is apt to forget the art of his creative energy No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 20 June 2023 diff hist +2,979 In the beginning of the creation there was a great need of population; Lord Brahma was creating one son after another and ordering them to increase. However, when the Kumaras were requested to do so, they declined No edit summary current