User contributions for Madana Mohana

1 August 2023

• 11:0311:03, 1 August 2023 diff hist +32 A neophyte devotee foolishly thinks of accumulating some material power in exchange for devotional service. Such foolish devotees are sometimes put into difficulty by the Lord Himself No edit summary current
• 11:0011:00, 1 August 2023 diff hist +8,297 Acarya should be always worshiped. Even if you, by ABCD, you have become more learned than the acarya... That is not possible, but if you foolishly think like that, still, you should not exhibit your foolishness, that you know more than the acarya No edit summary current
• 10:5410:54, 1 August 2023 diff hist +51,202 They (ordinary men) incorrectly think that Krsna is like themselves and that He embraces the gopis just as an ordinary man embraces a young girl No edit summary
• 10:5310:53, 1 August 2023 diff hist +2,912 Since the members of the Mayavada school cannot understand the spiritual form of the Lord, they incorrectly think the Lord's form is also made of material energy No edit summary current
• 10:5210:52, 1 August 2023 diff hist +28,842 Impersonalists and monists have misguided their followers because they incorrectly think that the Supreme Lord and the individual souls are equal in all respects No edit summary current
• 10:4710:47, 1 August 2023 diff hist +3,527 To become associated with the supreme light is to dissipate all ignorance. By ignorance only, the conditioned soul wrongly thinks that both he and the Lord are products of material nature No edit summary current
• 10:2310:23, 1 August 2023 diff hist +43,374 The materialist wrongly thinks that there is no creator outside his own good self, and this is called maya, or illusion No edit summary current
• 10:2210:22, 1 August 2023 diff hist +9,709 The materialist wrongly thinks that there is no creator other than his own self. This is called maya, or illusion No edit summary current
• 10:2110:21, 1 August 2023 diff hist +4,132 The living entities wrongly consider the physical elements to be resources meant for their enjoyment, and they think themselves to be the enjoyers. However, neither of them is independent; they are both energies of the Lord No edit summary current
• 10:1910:19, 1 August 2023 diff hist +7,842 The Asuras wrongly think that Krsna took birth like an ordinary child and passed away from this world like an ordinary man. Such asuric conceptions are rejected by persons in knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 10:1010:10, 1 August 2023 diff hist +9,453 People in general, especially in this age of Kali, are enamored by the external energy of Krsna, and they wrongly think that by advancement of material comforts every man will be happy. BG 1972 Preface No edit summary current
• 10:0910:09, 1 August 2023 diff hist +4,222 Only because of illusion do we wrongly think, "I am existing" or "Everything belongs to me." Thus mother Yasoda completely surrendered unto the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
• 10:0510:05, 1 August 2023 diff hist +4,314 One's land, home, wealth and all of one's possessions belong to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, although we wrongly think, I am this and These things are mine No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 1 August 2023 diff hist +5,928 Nonetheless He (God) keeps Himself distinct from such creation as the purnam (or complete), and so no one should wrongly think that His personal feature is not existent due to His impersonal unlimited expansions No edit summary current
• 09:4709:47, 1 August 2023 diff hist +9 It is by the influence of the Supreme Lord's maya that I (mother Yasoda) am wrongly thinking that Nanda Maharaja is my husband, that Krsna is my son - SB 10.8.42 No edit summary
• 09:4409:44, 1 August 2023 diff hist +9 It is by the influence of the Supreme Lord's maya that I (mother Yasoda) am wrongly thinking because I am the queen of Nanda Maharaja, all the wealth of cows and calves are my possessions and all the cowherd men & their wives are my subjects - SB 10.8.42 No edit summary
• 09:3009:30, 1 August 2023 diff hist −10 If one is not free and wrongly thinks that he is free, then what is that mentality? A doggish mentality No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 1 August 2023 diff hist +11 If Krsna orders we shall do, but not purposely at your whims. There is nothing wrong for a Krsna conscious person. But what we think materially wrong, if it is ordered by Krsna, we shall do it. For Krsna there is no wrong No edit summary current
• 09:2309:23, 1 August 2023 diff hist +30 Here in this material world he is actually the small particle of God, but there is disagreement. He is falsely thinking that "I am as good as God." This is material life. When we are free from this wrong conception of life, that is liberation No edit summary current
• 08:5908:59, 1 August 2023 diff hist −10 When one thinks artificially that he is master, that is his conditioned life. And when one voluntarily surrenders to the supreme master, that is his liberation No edit summary current
• 08:2708:27, 1 August 2023 diff hist +6,373 The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the friend of all living entities, and all living entities are eternal servants of the Supreme Lord. Oneness is possible through this understanding, not through artificially thinking that every one of us is God No edit summary current
• 08:2508:25, 1 August 2023 diff hist −10 The sannyasis sometimes artificially think that they have become liberated from all material duties, and therefore they cease to perform agnihotra yajnas (fire sacrifices). BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 08:2308:23, 1 August 2023 diff hist +9,128 They think, "Now I have realized that 'I am the same. I am same God. " So this process is called jnana system. So Caitanya says that these jnanis, they artificially think that "Now I have realized myself," but actually that is not self-realization No edit summary current
• 08:1808:18, 1 August 2023 diff hist +5,743 There are many so-called devotees who artificially think of Krsna's pastimes, which are known as asta-kalika-lila No edit summary current
• 08:1608:16, 1 August 2023 diff hist −10 Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 10.2.32): Even though one may artificially think himself liberated from material contamination, if he has not taken shelter of the Lord's lotus feet his intelligence is polluted No edit summary current
• 08:1308:13, 1 August 2023 diff hist +4,502 Prakrta-sahajiyas, who consider the transcendental pastimes of Krsna something like the behavior between a man and a woman, artificially think that hearing the rasa-lila will help them by diminishing the lusty desires of their diseased hearts No edit summary current
• 08:1108:11, 1 August 2023 diff hist +4,361 Prakrta-sahajiyas, ...artificially think that hearing the rasa-lila will help them by diminishing the lusty desires of their diseased hearts... No edit summary current
• 08:0608:06, 1 August 2023 diff hist −13 One cannot enter into Krsna’s rasa-lila dance simply by artificially imitating it or artificially thinking oneself a sakhi and dressing up like one. Krsna’s rasa-lila dance is completely spiritual; it has nothing to do with material contamination No edit summary current

31 July 2023

• 14:3014:30, 31 July 2023 diff hist +6,002 If we want to exist as first class men in society all our students must be induced to following the regulative principles. One shouldn't think artificially he has come to the spontaneous platform. That is sahajiyaism No edit summary current
• 14:2714:27, 31 July 2023 diff hist +3,436 Here in Los Angeles, we have found that there is a group of about 40 devotees who privately meet to discuss the intimate pastimes artificially thinking that they can enter into the understanding of the gopis prematurely No edit summary current
• 14:1514:15, 31 July 2023 diff hist +5,050 A living entity is eternally subordinate to the Supreme Lord, and he has this knowledge with him, but, artificially, he thinks that he is God himself and that although he is God he has lost his knowledge due to maya No edit summary current
• 14:1414:14, 31 July 2023 diff hist +5,582 Artificially we are thinking it is American pain or it is Indian pain. That is artificial. This artificial covering has to be removed. Then we come to Krsna consciousness. Feelings, consciousness is not American, African or Indian No edit summary current
• 14:0514:05, 31 July 2023 diff hist +4,123 When the Brahma of this particular universe was invited by Krsna to Dvaraka, he thought that he was the only Brahma No edit summary current
• 13:4813:48, 31 July 2023 diff hist +21,483 The four-headed Brahma said, What I thought about You at first was nonsensical. Everyone may say that they know You in perfection, but as far as I am concerned, I cannot begin to conceive how great You are. You are beyond my conception and understanding No edit summary current
• 13:1513:15, 31 July 2023 diff hist +31 Lord Brahma thought: Whatever boys and calves there were in Gokula, I have kept them sleeping on the bed of my mystic potency, and to this very day they have not yet risen again - SB 10.13.41 No edit summary current
• 13:0813:08, 31 July 2023 diff hist +3,296 How can there be two sets of calves and boys at the same time? Have the boys and calves here been created by Krsna, or has Krsna created the ones lying asleep? Or are both merely creations of Krsna? Brahma thought about the subject in many different ways No edit summary current
• 13:0613:06, 31 July 2023 diff hist +2,607 Brahma was surprised. The original cowherd boys and cows, he thought, are still where I put them last year. So who is it that is now keeping company with Krsna exactly as before? Where have they come from No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 31 July 2023 diff hist +2,857 Brahma was puzzled. The original boys and calves are still sleeping as I have kept them, he thought, but another set is here playing with Krsna. How has this happened No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 31 July 2023 diff hist +2,151 Brahma thought to himself: Alas, it is wonderful that in spite of my being scattered all over, there is still insufficient population throughout the universe. There is no other cause for this misfortune but destiny No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 31 July 2023 diff hist +2,887 Brahma thought, Maybe I took those calves and cowherd boys away but now they have been taken from that cave. Is this what has happened? Has Krsna brought them back here? No edit summary current
• 13:0113:01, 31 July 2023 diff hist +31 Brahma thought, "What is this?" And then he was not even able to see. Lord Krsna, understanding Brahma's position, then at once removed the curtain of His yogamaya - SB 10.13.57 No edit summary current
• 13:0013:00, 31 July 2023 diff hist +1,851 Brahma, who was empowered by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, thought of generating living entities and begot ten sons for the extension of the generations No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 31 July 2023 diff hist +4,995 What can the scientists know? Even Brahma himself was once bewildered, thinking himself the only one Brahma favored by the Lord No edit summary current
• 12:5112:51, 31 July 2023 diff hist +6,031 Upon seeing this wonderful exhibition (of innumerable other Brahmas), the four-headed Brahma became nervous and began to think of himself as no more than a mosquito in the midst of many elephants. Therefore, what can Brahma do to bewilder Krsna No edit summary current
• 10:2010:20, 31 July 2023 diff hist +11 Lord Brahma, thinking and thinking for a long time, tried to distinguish between those two sets of boys, who were each separately existing. He tried to understand who was real and who was not real, but he couldn't understand at all - SB 10.13.43 No edit summary current
• 10:1410:14, 31 July 2023 diff hist +3,483 It was never expected that a great personality like Brahma would ever think of sex indulgence with his daughter No edit summary current
• 10:1110:11, 31 July 2023 diff hist +6,053 He (Brahma) is always thinking of how to improve the situation of the conditioned souls who have come to the material world to enjoy material activities. For this reason, he disseminates the Vedic knowledge throughout the universe for everyone's guidance No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 31 July 2023 diff hist +3,123 From that great lotus flower, Brahma was generated, but Brahma certainly could see nothing but the lotus. Therefore, thinking You to be outside, Lord Brahma dove into the water and attempted to find the source of the lotus for one hundred years No edit summary current

29 July 2023

• 10:0410:04, 29 July 2023 diff hist +4,119 While Lord Krsna and Balarama were living peacefully in Their great city of Dvaraka, there was the rare occasion of a full solar eclipse, such as takes place at the end of every kalpa, or day of Brahma No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 29 July 2023 diff hist +4,682 The thirty kalpas of Brahma are: (1) Sveta-kalpa, (2) Nilalohita, (3) Vamadeva, (4) Gathantara, (5) Raurava, (6) Prana, (7) Brhat-kalpa, (8) Kandarpa, (9) Sadyotha, (10) Isana, (11) Dhyana, (12) Sarasvata, (13) Udana, (14) Garuda, (15) Kaurma No edit summary current