User contributions for Visnu Murti

6 August 2023

• 09:3709:37, 6 August 2023 diff hist +4,963 Sometimes, after flowing down from the mountains during the rainy season, small rivers fail to reach the sea; some reach the sea and some do not. Similarly, the worshipers of the demigods may or may not reach You No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 6 August 2023 diff hist +3,976 In India (Bharata-varsa), there are many worshipers of the demigods, the various officials appointed by the Supreme Lord, such as Indra, Candra and Surya, all of whom are worshiped differently No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 6 August 2023 diff hist +6,304 If the Supreme Lord were to withdraw the powers of the demigods, the demigods would no longer be able to offer benedictions to their worshipers No edit summary current
• 09:3309:33, 6 August 2023 diff hist +4,344 All of these worshipers, although they appear to be very good devotees of the demigods, are still considered to be nondevotees. They cannot be accepted as devotees No edit summary current
• 09:3109:31, 6 August 2023 diff hist +2,842 Mayavadi philosophers are mostly worshipers of Lord Siva, and Sripada Sankaracarya is considered to be the incarnation of Lord Siva for preaching godlessness to the Mayavadi philosophers No edit summary current
• 09:3009:30, 6 August 2023 diff hist +4,495 One who is actually a worshiper of Lord Siva as a devotee of Sankarsana can be released from false, material ego No edit summary current
• 09:3009:30, 6 August 2023 diff hist +5,648 Most of the inhabitants of Benares were and are impersonalists, worshipers of Lord Siva and followers of the pancopasana method No edit summary current
• 09:2909:29, 6 August 2023 diff hist +4,479 Materialists like Hiranyakasipu and Ravana are worshipers of Lord Brahma or Lord Siva, but Prahlada and other devotees in the service of Krsna consciousness worship the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 6 August 2023 diff hist +1,636 Since King Bana was a great worshiper of Lord Siva, he became one of Lord Siva's most celebrated associates. Even now, Lord Siva protects King Bana's capital and always stands beside him No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 6 August 2023 diff hist +5,119 Sati, being the devoted wife of Lord Siva, offers all kinds of material opulences to the worshipers of Lord Siva. This fact is explained in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, in the Tenth Canto No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 6 August 2023 diff hist +9,966 Ravana, for example, was a great worshiper and devotee of Lord Siva, and in return he got all the blessings of goddess Durga, so much so that his whole kingdom was constructed of golden buildings No edit summary current
• 09:0009:00, 6 August 2023 diff hist +32,149 There is no need (to end material life) to first undergo severe penance and austerity, practice celibacy, control the mind and the senses, give in charity, perform great sacrifices and become very truthful and clean No edit summary current
• 08:5808:58, 6 August 2023 diff hist +4,594 The living entity, who is of the marginal energy, is entrapped by the material energy on the basis of his desire to lord it over the material world No edit summary current
• 08:4808:48, 6 August 2023 diff hist +6,847 There are different kinds of purusas, or enjoyers, within the universe. Generally they can be divided into three classes - those who are conditioned, those who are liberated and those who are eternal No edit summary current
• 08:4808:48, 6 August 2023 diff hist +2,607 Pious activities can be divided into three categories No edit summary current
• 08:4808:48, 6 August 2023 diff hist +1,804 Next are explained the symptoms of love of Godhead, which can be divided into nine varieties, beginning with attraction and extending up to ecstatic love and finally up to the topmost ecstatic love (mahabhava) No edit summary current

5 August 2023

• 18:0718:07, 5 August 2023 diff hist +17,873 I may say, "I have only killed a poor man. There was no need for him in society. Why should such a person live?" But will the state excuse me? Will the authorities say, "You have done very nice work"? No No edit summary current
• 16:4116:41, 5 August 2023 diff hist +49 Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has advised a Vaishnava to be humbler than the straw and more tolerant than the tree. Then he can become a perfect teacher No edit summary current
• 16:4116:41, 5 August 2023 diff hist +3,458 As stated by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, taror api sahisnuna. Just like a tree, a devotee can tolerate all kinds of curses and reversals in life. This is the excellence of a devotee No edit summary current
• 16:4016:40, 5 August 2023 diff hist +27 A Vaisnava is always tolerant and submissive like trees and grass. He tolerates insults offered by others, for he is simply interested in chanting the holy name of the Lord without being disturbed No edit summary current
• 16:4016:40, 5 August 2023 diff hist +3,129 A pure devotee, free from the reactions of the material modes of nature, executes devotional service with tolerance like that of a tree. He also feels humbler than the grass No edit summary current
• 16:1216:12, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,148 Krsna's devotees relate to Krsna in various relationships; one might treat Krsna as a son, one might treat Krsna as a husband, as a friend, as a master, etc. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 14:5414:54, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,782 Devahuti requested her great son (Kapiladeva) to be merciful towards her because she was a less intelligent woman and also His mother No edit summary current
• 14:1914:19, 5 August 2023 diff hist +7,415 In the Brahma-samhita it is stated that Lord Siva, who is another form of Maha-Visnu, is like yogurt. Yogurt is nothing but milk, yet it is not milk No edit summary current
• 14:0214:02, 5 August 2023 diff hist +3,169 The word aksaram is very significant because this material creation is subject to destruction, but the Lord is above this material creation. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 13:3813:38, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,018 As their weapons & mantras decreased, the demons began showering mountain peaks, trees and stones upon the demigod soldiers, but the demigods were so powerful & expert that they nullified all these weapons by breaking them to pieces in the sky as before No edit summary current
• 13:3213:32, 5 August 2023 diff hist +1,384 This is a description of His second desire. Now please listen as I describe the third No edit summary current
• 13:2713:27, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,837 If one immediately follows the principles of Sri Caitanya by associating with His devotees, lusty desires for material enjoyment will vanish from one’s heart. Then one will be able to understand the meaning of SB and the purpose of listening to it No edit summary
• 08:3108:31, 5 August 2023 diff hist +6,682 Under the influence of maya, the living entity becomes exactly like a person haunted by a ghost. Such a person speaks all kinds of nonsense No edit summary current
• 08:3008:30, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,966 The forgetful living entity can be compared to a man who is under the influence of disease and has become mad or to a man haunted by ghosts, who acts without control and yet thinks himself to be in control No edit summary current
• 08:2808:28, 5 August 2023 diff hist +1,526 Nakula Brahmacari became exactly like a man haunted by a ghost. Thus he sometimes laughed, sometimes cried, sometimes danced and sometimes chanted like a madman No edit summary current
• 08:2708:27, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,079 The theory of the impersonalists and so-called yogis is that the Supreme Lord assumes a particular form when He comes in touch with maya, although actually He has no form No edit summary current
• 08:2108:21, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5,541 The so-called yogis who practice in Western countries have no idea of this. The aim of pranayama is not to make the body strong and fit for working hard. The aim is worship of Krsna No edit summary current
• 08:1808:18, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,344 The so-called jnanis and yogis cannot compare to a devotee No edit summary current
• 08:1808:18, 5 August 2023 diff hist +6,509 The personified Vedas continued, "For such persons (the so-called yogis and jnanis), both this life and the next life are sources of tribulation" No edit summary current
• 08:1208:12, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,878 There are other devotees, who may not have undergone all the required details of devotional service but who, by the special mercy of guru and Krsna - the spiritual master and the SPOG - have immediately attained the perfection of pure devotional service No edit summary current
• 08:0708:07, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,661 This (Krsna does not very readily grant perfection in devotional service) means that Krsna wants to see that a devotee is actually sincere and serious and that he does not have ulterior motives No edit summary current
• 08:0708:07, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,439 Thus Bali Maharaja is understood to be one who received the highest perfection of devotional service by special mercy No edit summary current
• 08:0608:06, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,962 Unless one is attached to Krsna, he cannot attain devotional perfection even if he renders devotional service for a long time. Krsna does not easily deliver perfection in devotional service No edit summary current
• 08:0608:06, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,628 When one has attained the perfection of devotional service, it is not very important to follow the Vedic principles. Lord Krsna advised Arjuna to ascend to the platform of nistraigunya, the transcendental position above the Vedic principles No edit summary current
• 08:0608:06, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,738 The words sarvatra tad-iksanam describe the highest perfection of devotional service, in which one sees everything with reference to Govinda's activities. The highly elevated devotee never sees anything unrelated to Govinda No edit summary current
• 08:0508:05, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5,107 The women amongst whom He lived as their husband are not women of this mundane world, but are eternally related with Him as transcendental wives, a position which they attained by perfection of devotional service. That is their competency No edit summary current
• 08:0508:05, 5 August 2023 diff hist +8,466 The devotee should patiently follow the rules and regulations of devotional service so that the day will come when he will achieve, all of a sudden, all the perfection of devotional service. He should not lament for any loss or any reverse No edit summary current
• 08:0508:05, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5,348 The conclusion is that to live on the banks of the Radha-kunda and to bathe there daily constitute the highest perfection of devotional service No edit summary current
• 08:0408:04, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,847 Perfection of pure devotional service is attained when all attention is diverted towards the transcendental loving service of the Lord (Krsna) No edit summary current
• 07:5807:58, 5 August 2023 diff hist +28 Category:Reading the Mahabharata No edit summary current
• 07:3107:31, 5 August 2023 diff hist +10,006 When one reaches the lotus feet of Lord Krsna at Goloka Vrndavana, the watering process of hearing and reading, as also chanting of the holy name in the pure devotional stage, fructifies No edit summary current
• 07:2407:24, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,732 As long as one does not inquire about the spiritual values of life, one is defeated and subjected to miseries arising from ignorance. Be it sinful or pious, karma has its resultant actions No edit summary current
• 07:1807:18, 5 August 2023 diff hist +3,338 While outside observing her husband, who will burn in the fire of mystic power along with his thatched cottage, his chaste wife will enter the fire with rapt attention No edit summary current
• 07:1707:17, 5 August 2023 diff hist +3,300 She (Gandhari) left home after losing her one hundred sons, and in the forest she saw that her most beloved husband was also burning. Now she actually felt alone, and therefore she entered the fire of her husband and followed her husband to death No edit summary current