User contributions for Madana Mohana

2 August 2023

• 13:1413:14, 2 August 2023 diff hist +22,282 It is by ignorance that people think that by opening factories they will be happy. Why should they open factories? There is no need No edit summary current
• 13:1313:13, 2 August 2023 diff hist +4,568 Is it not? "We trust in God. I promise to pay you. Take this paper now. Not even one cent worth. It is written there hundred dollars." So I am thinking I am very happy: "Now I have got this paper." That's all. Cheaters and cheated. This is going on No edit summary current
• 13:1213:12, 2 August 2023 diff hist +17,060 In this way, everyone is thinking that he is very happy, although he is in a horrible and fearsome condition. However, one who is actually intelligent can understand that he is not actually happy, that he is suffering No edit summary current
• 11:1011:10, 2 August 2023 diff hist +3,536 In the material world, we manufacture so many plans to be happy, material desires. Somebody's thinking, "I shall be happy in this way." Somebody's thinking . . . "There is no question of happiness here". The place is contaminated No edit summary current
• 11:0411:04, 2 August 2023 diff hist +3,085 In the human race, the mode of passion is very prominent. Humans are always busy in the midst of miserable life, but they think themselves happy in all respects No edit summary current
• 11:0311:03, 2 August 2023 diff hist +4,880 In the grim clutches of maya, the first-class prisoners of this material world wrongly think themselves happy because they are rich, powerful, resourceful and so on No edit summary current
• 11:0111:01, 2 August 2023 diff hist −7 In Calcutta, the party, Naxalite, they are committing so many sinful activities thinking that by that way they will be happy and they will get the political supremacy. They are called duskrtina No edit summary current
• 10:5910:59, 2 August 2023 diff hist +2,796 In any hellish condition, the conditioned soul thinks he is happy. Otherwise, it would not be possible for him to suffer hellish life No edit summary current
• 10:5810:58, 2 August 2023 diff hist −1 In any condition of life, everyone thinks that he's happy. But actually he does not know what is happiness. This is called maya No edit summary current
• 10:5710:57, 2 August 2023 diff hist +4,572 Impeded by this ignorance and passion they are working very hard, just like an ass, and still they are thinking that "I am happy" No edit summary current
• 10:5210:52, 2 August 2023 diff hist +15 If the leader is also blind and the followers are blind, then what is the result? That is happening. They are thinking that, "By bodily comfort, by sense gratification, we shall be happy." But that is not possible No edit summary current
• 10:5110:51, 2 August 2023 diff hist +6,170 If one sticks to this principle, that "I shall be happy with this material body, I shall be happy within this material world, within my country, within my society," in this way, if one thinks, they are called grha-vrata No edit summary current
• 10:4910:49, 2 August 2023 diff hist −1 For the comforts of life, the so-called comforts of life I shall be able to enjoy, I am forced to work day and night. And I am thinking I am happy. This is called maya No edit summary current
• 10:4510:45, 2 August 2023 diff hist +2,678 Even if one lives in the most abominable condition, he still thinks himself happy with his wife, children, friends and relatives No edit summary
• 10:4310:43, 2 August 2023 diff hist +3,506 By advancing in material comforts the human being puts himself into a more miserable condition, but, illusioned by the material energy, he always thinks himself happy, even while in the midst of misery No edit summary current
• 10:3110:31, 2 August 2023 diff hist +4,069 Because of his material opulences, he thinks that "Oh, where is the disease? This is all right. I am happy." That is the defect. We have to reduce. That is called tapasya. Not that "Because my tongue is asking me to eat something, therefore I must eat" No edit summary current
• 10:2910:29, 2 August 2023 diff hist −22 A person must work very hard, and when he attains the result of his hard work, he thinks himself happy No edit summary current
• 10:2210:22, 2 August 2023 diff hist +4,054 A fool wrongly thinks that he is happy in this material world, but in fact he is not, for one who thinks that way is only illusioned. At every step, at every moment, there is danger No edit summary current
• 10:1710:17, 2 August 2023 diff hist +3,972 Anyone in the most miserable condition of life, he'll think, "Oh, I am very happy." Ask him, "How are you?" "Oh, very nice. Very nice." - So there is no adjustment. A Krsna conscious person knows that here, only adjustment is to live in KC No edit summary current
• 10:1310:13, 2 August 2023 diff hist +3,126 Always spreading miseries and controlled by acts of sense gratification, he (the attached householder) acts just to counteract the reactions of all his miseries, and if he can successfully counteract such miseries, he thinks that he is happy No edit summary current
• 10:0810:08, 2 August 2023 diff hist +17,667 Although one animal may see that another animal is being slaughtered, he will go right on chewing grass, for he has no knowledge to understand that he may be next. He is thinking that he is happy, but at the next moment he may be slaughtered No edit summary current
• 10:0610:06, 2 August 2023 diff hist +3,293 All living entities, especially human beings, think themselves very happy in the midst of families. As if living in a flower garden and hearing the sweet humming of bumblebees, everyone is centered around his wife, who is the beauty of family life No edit summary current
• 10:0410:04, 2 August 2023 diff hist +6,193 Akrura continued, "I am falsely thinking myself happy in possessing my home, wife, children, estate, property and friends. In this way I am acting as if in a dreamland, because none of these are permanent" No edit summary current
• 09:5709:57, 2 August 2023 diff hist +15,299 Because Romaharsana was seated on the vyasasana, he foolishly thought himself greater than the Lord; therefore he did not get down from his seat or bow down before the Lord (Balarama) No edit summary current
• 09:4509:45, 2 August 2023 diff hist +4,219 Because he (Romaharsana Suta) was seated on the vyasasana, he foolishly thought himself greater than the Lord; therefore he did not get down from his seat or bow down before the Lord No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 2 August 2023 diff hist +11 You are thinking so-called free. You are not free. You are under the stringent laws of nature. You are not free. You are thinking foolishly that you are free No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 2 August 2023 diff hist +5,055 You are not free. You are thinking so-called free. You are not free. You are under the stringent laws of nature. You are not free. You are thinking foolishly that you are free No edit summary current
• 09:2909:29, 2 August 2023 diff hist +6,156 Within conditioned life, no one has freedom, but because one is bewildered, being subject to the rule of mahamaya, one foolishly thinks himself independent No edit summary current
• 09:2209:22, 2 August 2023 diff hist +5,520 When Krsna asks you that "Give Me in charity," so that - you are foolishly thinking that it is your money - Krsna is just trying to take your money so that your false consciousness may be dispelled. Therefore He is No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 2 August 2023 diff hist +16,990 What is that connection? We are all His eternal servants. We should not foolishly think that we can become one with God or equal to God. This is all the result of rascaldom No edit summary current
• 09:1409:14, 2 August 2023 diff hist +5,704 We are eternal. We understand from Bhagavad-gita, na hanyate hanyamane sarire (BG 2.20). So if I am eternal, then why I am accepting death? This is real question. But foolishly we are thinking, "I am this body": therefore we remain as an animal No edit summary current
• 09:1009:10, 2 August 2023 diff hist +2,805 This (the conditioned soul is is subjected to the results of his past deeds) is carried out by the laws of nature, but one foolishly thinks himself the doer, which in fact he is not No edit summary current
• 09:0409:04, 2 August 2023 diff hist +4,773 The Lord gives orders to material nature, and she arranges facilities for the living entities. The living entities are not independent, although they foolishly think themselves the doers - karta No edit summary current
• 08:5008:50, 2 August 2023 diff hist +5,368 The devotees of the Supreme Lord know how to respect the demigods, but the devotees of the demigods sometimes foolishly think that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is no greater than the demigods No edit summary current
• 08:4608:46, 2 August 2023 diff hist +7,885 They foolishly think that simply "I am the monarch of all I survey." That's all. This planet is the monarch, and all other planets they're all subservient. They will satisfy our senses. This is foolishness No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 2 August 2023 diff hist +52,518 They (ordinary men) foolishly think that Krsna is like themselves and that He embraces the gopis just as an ordinary man embraces a young girl - CC Intro No edit summary current
• 08:2808:28, 2 August 2023 diff hist +6,853 Persons with a small fund of intelligence, finding themselves equal in quality with God, foolishly think that they are equal in quantity also. Their intelligence is called avisuddha-buddhayah-unpolished or contaminated intelligence No edit summary current
• 08:2508:25, 2 August 2023 diff hist +3,249 One should not foolishly think that the individual infinitesimal soul is the cause of the gigantic manifestation of the universal form. The universal form is called the virat-rupa because the Supreme Lord is within it in His plenary portion No edit summary current
• 08:2408:24, 2 August 2023 diff hist −8 Lord Caitanya is like a teacher who, seeing a student doing poorly, takes up a pencil and writes, saying, "Do it like this: A, B, C." By this, one must not foolishly think that the teacher is learning his ABC's No edit summary current

1 August 2023

• 14:0814:08, 1 August 2023 diff hist +6,999 It is not that the previous acaryas and others, they did not know what is airplane, what is speed, how to run. Don't think foolishly, as if they have manufactured. It is nothing, not even third-, not even fourth-class, tenth-class No edit summary current
• 14:0514:05, 1 August 2023 diff hist −11 In many varieties of ways we have to convince them and prove that "You are foolishly thinking that there is independence, so-called scientific advancement, and only promising, 'Yes, in future we shall be like this, be like this.' " What is future No edit summary current
• 14:0314:03, 1 August 2023 diff hist +4,011 In Calcutta recently a slaughterhouse was being advertised as a temple of the goddess Kali. Meat-eaters foolishly purchase meat from such shops, thinking it different from ordinary meat and taking it to be the prasada of goddess Kali No edit summary current
• 13:5713:57, 1 August 2023 diff hist +5,407 Foolish people think that devotional service is flattering the Lord to get special mercy. Factually the pure devotees who are engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord are not a mercantile community No edit summary current
• 13:5613:56, 1 August 2023 diff hist +3,958 Foolish people think of Krsna as one of them. Not understanding His spiritual potency, they simply decry the personal form of the Absolute Truth, foolishly thinking of themselves as jnanis cognizant of the complete truth No edit summary current
• 13:5413:54, 1 August 2023 diff hist +5,206 Foolish people thinks, "I am better off being busy with my material comforts - maintaining a nice apartment, family and sex life" No edit summary current
• 13:5213:52, 1 August 2023 diff hist +6,394 Foolish people think, "Why God has made me poor? Why God has made so many poor men?" God has not made. They have made themselves poor. God has not made. He does not make any distinguish. He says the plain truth No edit summary current
• 13:5113:51, 1 August 2023 diff hist +25,861 Foolish mental speculators think that after liberation one's identity is lost, but that is not so No edit summary current
• 13:4813:48, 1 August 2023 diff hist +13 Foolish creatures, they think that everything has come out of nothing, and it is being managed by nature. No. Behind nature there is God No edit summary current
• 11:0511:05, 1 August 2023 diff hist +10,005 Because you have accepted this material body, you are foolishly thinking that you are not eternal. Otherwise, as God is eternal, you are also eternal No edit summary current
• 11:0411:04, 1 August 2023 diff hist +5,529 A person foolishly thinks that the material body has grown from a combination of chemicals, although he cannot find them. The Vedas inform us, however, that chemical combinations do not constitute the living force No edit summary current