User contributions for Madana Mohana

24 October 2023

• 09:2909:29, 24 October 2023 diff hist +6,610 During the misunderstanding with Sivananda’s family, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ordered His personal attendant, Govinda, to give them all the remnants of His food. This is described in (Caitanya-caritamrta) Antya-lila, Chapter Twelve, verse 53 No edit summary current
• 09:2709:27, 24 October 2023 diff hist +1,594 Balabhadra Bhattacarya invited the two brothers to take lunch also. The remnants of food from the plate of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu were offered to them No edit summary current
• 09:2509:25, 24 October 2023 diff hist +1,403 After saying this, the Lord ate the rice mixed with yogurt and offered Caitanya dasa the remnants of His food No edit summary current
• 09:2109:21, 24 October 2023 diff hist +1,869 Actually the authorized compiler of the pastimes of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is Srila Vrndavana dasa, the incarnation of Vyasadeva. Only upon his orders am I trying to chew the remnants of food that he has left No edit summary current
• 09:1109:11, 24 October 2023 diff hist −17 When Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu danced, He forgot Himself and was simply absorbed in ecstatic bliss. But His internal potency arranged everything perfectly. This is the difference between the internal and external potency No edit summary current
• 09:0009:00, 24 October 2023 diff hist +52,759 As His (Caitanya's) associate Nityananda, He is the first expansion of God; as Advaita, He is an incarnation; as Gadadhara, He is the internal potency; and as Srivasa, He is the marginal living entity in the role of a devotee - CC Intro No edit summary current
• 08:4608:46, 24 October 2023 diff hist +2,498 Although the King had been refused an interview, he was indirectly bestowed causeless mercy. Who can understand the internal potency of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary current
• 08:4008:40, 24 October 2023 diff hist +3,375 Thinking Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu was uncomfortable sleeping on bark of plantain trees, Jagadananda made a pillow and quilt for Him. The Lord, however, did not accept them No edit summary current
• 08:3808:38, 24 October 2023 diff hist +5,424 Nevertheless, for the deliverance of all the fallen souls of the world, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu took sannyasa and left home when He was only twenty-four years old. He lived a very strict life as a sannyasi, refusing all bodily comforts No edit summary current
• 08:3508:35, 24 October 2023 diff hist +32 He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) was in renounced order of life; He gave up His family, beautiful wife, very affectionate mother, very comfortable home, very prestige, too much prestige of His personality in the society. He gave up everything No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 24 October 2023 diff hist +4,724 Everyone wants money, everyone wants good wife, good family, good comfortable life. Caitanya Mahaprabhu denies, that "I don't want all these things." No edit summary current
• 08:1208:12, 24 October 2023 diff hist +1,679 When it was time for the Lord to go to bed, Svarupa Damodara stayed nearby, but when Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu saw the quilt and pillow, He was immediately very angry No edit summary current
• 08:1108:11, 24 October 2023 diff hist +1,535 Jagadananda said to Svarupa Damodara Gosvami, "Today please personally persuade Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu to lie down on the bed" No edit summary current
• 08:0908:09, 24 October 2023 diff hist +1,858 In this way Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu passed half the night experiencing varieties of emotions. Finally, after making the Lord lie down on His bed, Svarupa Damodara and Ramananda Raya returned to their homes No edit summary current
• 08:0208:02, 24 October 2023 diff hist +11 In His (Lord Caitanya's) childhood pastimes the Lord tried to catch the wall and stand up, but as an ordinary child falls down, so the Lord also fell down and again took to lying on His bed No edit summary current
• 07:5607:56, 24 October 2023 diff hist +1,519 Early the following morning, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu went to see Lord Jagannatha in the temple, and He saw the Lord rise from His bed No edit summary current
• 07:5507:55, 24 October 2023 diff hist +2,324 After rising from bed the next morning, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu visited the local temple, where there was a deity of Hanuman. After offering him obeisances, the Lord departed for South India No edit summary
• 07:5407:54, 24 October 2023 diff hist +1,620 After half the night had passed in this way, Ramananda Raya and Svarupa Damodara Gosvami made Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu lie down on His bed in the inner room No edit summary current

20 October 2023

• 15:0115:01, 20 October 2023 diff hist +4,833 You are very sincere boy trying your best to serve Krishna and by His Grace you are quite fit for this business, and considering all these points, I have entrusted Back To Godhead in your hand. Because this paper is the beginning of my spiritual life No edit summary current
• 15:0015:00, 20 October 2023 diff hist +4,962 You are a sincere student from the very beginning of your spiritual life and I wish that you may advance more and more No edit summary current
• 14:5714:57, 20 October 2023 diff hist +25,968 Why are we receiving different bodies? Because we have different tendencies for sense gratification. We actually have to come to detest sense gratification before our spiritual life begins. This is made possible through bhakti No edit summary current
• 14:5314:53, 20 October 2023 diff hist +41 When mercy from Krsna comes, your blazing fire of material existence will be extinguished. Ceto-darpana-marjanam bhava-maha . . . (CC Antya 20.12). Then real spiritual life begins No edit summary current
• 14:4914:49, 20 October 2023 diff hist −18 What I am? Why I have come here? Why I am put into so many miserable condition of life? Is there any remedy? - these questions, when arises, then, practically, his spiritual life begins No edit summary current
• 14:4814:48, 20 October 2023 diff hist +3,781 We have to be detestful from this sense gratification. Then our spiritual life will begin. That is possible by bhakti No edit summary current
• 14:4714:47, 20 October 2023 diff hist +5,168 We have to begin a professional spiritual life No edit summary current
• 14:3614:36, 20 October 2023 diff hist +16,189 Those who sincerely begin spiritual life are guaranteed human birth in the next life - not only human birth, but birth into either a very pious or a very wealthy family No edit summary current
• 14:3014:30, 20 October 2023 diff hist +3,111 This Thakurbari, Radha-Govindaji, is my life. That is the beginning of my this spiritual life. And after so many years, still Radha-Govindaji has dragged me. So it is His kindness No edit summary current
• 14:2814:28, 20 October 2023 diff hist +6,951 This is called dvija, or the second birth. When you catch hold of a bona fide spiritual master just to guide you to act on the spiritual platform, then your second life begins. It is called dvija. So this life is so important that one must begin it No edit summary current
• 14:2314:23, 20 October 2023 diff hist −18 The spiritual life begins from the association of sadhu, or devotee. You cannot progress a pinch only without the mercy of sadhu No edit summary current
• 14:2114:21, 20 October 2023 diff hist +4,384 The four sages were impersonalists in the beginning of their spiritual life, but afterwards, by the grace of their father and spiritual master, Brahma, they understood the eternal, spiritual form of the Lord and felt completely satisfied No edit summary current
• 14:2014:20, 20 October 2023 diff hist +40,642 The first and foremost point is that one should accept a bona fide spiritual master. That is the beginning of spiritual life No edit summary current
• 14:1814:18, 20 October 2023 diff hist +6,700 There is the spiritual spark who is the proprietor of the body. This is the beginning of spiritual education. What is, the scientists cannot imagine, or they have no idea, from there we begin our education in spiritual life, beyond their jurisdiction No edit summary current
• 14:1714:17, 20 October 2023 diff hist +6,494 Sukadeva Gosvami has used the word sraddhanvita for one who is trained in spiritual life. Sraddha, or faith, is the beginning No edit summary current
• 14:1514:15, 20 October 2023 diff hist +80,947 Sri Krsna, the Personality of Godhead, is the Absolute Truth. This is corroborated in all authentic scriptures. Our spiritual life begins to develop as soon as our relationship with Sri Krsna is reawakened No edit summary current
• 14:1414:14, 20 October 2023 diff hist +9,916 Spiritual life begins with the association of a devotee, a sadhu. One cannot progress an inch without the mercy of a sadhu No edit summary current
• 14:1314:13, 20 October 2023 diff hist −10 Spiritual life begins when a person understands that he is not the body. In the material world, all our connections - whether social or political or in the field of eating, sleeping, defending, and mating - are due only to the material body No edit summary current
• 14:1214:12, 20 October 2023 diff hist +5,683 Spiritual life begins, first of all, sraddha, some faith. Just like you are coming here, kindly, to hear me. You have got little faith. This is the beginning. Without faith, you could not spare your time here, because here there is no cinema playing No edit summary current
• 14:1014:10, 20 October 2023 diff hist +6,122 So if you engage your tongue for vibrating this transcendental sound, Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare - Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare, and do not take anything except prasadam of Krsna, then your spiritual life immediately begins No edit summary current
• 14:0914:09, 20 October 2023 diff hist −10 Sannyasa means that finishing all material desires. The sannyasa means, real sannyasa, means no more material desires. It is the beginning of spiritual life No edit summary current
• 14:0814:08, 20 October 2023 diff hist +13 Ramananda cited from SB: My dear Lord, one should give up monistic speculation & the cultivation of knowledge altogether. He should begin his spiritual life in devotional service by receiving information of the Lord's activities from a realized devotee No edit summary current
• 14:0714:07, 20 October 2023 diff hist +10,832 Our movement is that beginning of spiritual life is to surrender. If there is no surrendering, then it is no advance. If that thing is lacking, there is no beginning even, what to speak of advancement No edit summary current
• 14:0514:05, 20 October 2023 diff hist +18 Nivrtti-marga means stop material way of life; begin spiritual way of life and come to Godhead, Krsna, back to home, back to Godhead No edit summary current
• 14:0414:04, 20 October 2023 diff hist +18 Maya has given this vehicle, anywhere wandering, up and down, sometimes demigod, sometimes dog. This is going on. And in this wandering process, if he gets in touch with a devotee, then his real spiritual life begins No edit summary current
• 14:0114:01, 20 October 2023 diff hist +4,138 Lord Krsna wants everyone to surrender unto Him, and this surrendering process begins when one touches the lotus feet of a bona fide spiritual master. By sincerely rendering service to a bona fide spiritual master, one begins his spiritual life in KC No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 20 October 2023 diff hist +13 Like a chaste woman has got good reputation, similarly, a chaste tongue . . . chaste tongue means . . . chaste tongue and ear. Jihvadau. Our spiritual life begins from tongue No edit summary current
• 13:5813:58, 20 October 2023 diff hist −10 Just try to get out of these material clutches and begin your spiritual life. That will make you happy. That is the only source of happiness. Otherwise it is not No edit summary current
• 13:5613:56, 20 October 2023 diff hist −10 Just like a chaste woman has got good reputation, similarly, a chaste tongue... Chaste tongue means... Chaste tongue and ear. Jihvadau. Our spiritual life begins from tongue No edit summary current
• 13:5513:55, 20 October 2023 diff hist +4,746 Just as life in this material world has its beginning in material sound, similarly a spiritual life has its beginning in this spiritual sound vibration No edit summary current
• 13:5213:52, 20 October 2023 diff hist +3,675 In the human life, if we prepare ourselves by beginning the activity of our spiritual life, we return to our real life and attain perfection. Otherwise, according to karma, svabhava, prakrti and so on, our varieties of life and activity continue No edit summary current
• 13:5013:50, 20 October 2023 diff hist +8,746 In the beginning of our spiritual life we must worship Madana-mohana so that He may attract us and nullify our attachment for material sense gratification. This relationship with Madana-mohana is necessary for neophyte devotees No edit summary current