User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda

10 December 2024

• 13:2113:21, 10 December 2024 diff hist +6,629 I want to develop a replica of Old Vrindaban. I have got ambition to construct there 7 temples as follows: 1. Radha Madan Mohan, 2. Radha Govinda, 3. Radha Gopinatha, 4. Radha Damodara, 5. Radha Raman, 6. Radha Gokulananda, 7. Radha Syamasundara No edit summary current
• 13:2113:21, 10 December 2024 diff hist +11 If you have got sraddha, "Yes, I want Krsna in this life. I must do anything required," then that determination is called sraddha. Then if you want to develop that determination, then you should associate with sadhu No edit summary current
• 13:2013:20, 10 December 2024 diff hist +25,691 If we actually want to become pious and develop our devotional life, we have to associate unflinchingly with a sadhu. Then we can acquire some taste for Krsna No edit summary current
• 13:1813:18, 10 December 2024 diff hist −10 A householder, he can also become a mahatma, provided he has got this tendency that he wants to develop his spiritual life. Then he is mahatma. And not interested to increase economic development, or persons who are too much attached for enjoyment No edit summary current
• 13:0813:08, 10 December 2024 diff hist +7,981 You cannot learn to become a perfect human being without accepting guru. Then you remain a rascal. Tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet. That is the Vedic injunction. If you want to learn that transcendental science, you must approach a guru No edit summary current
• 12:5812:58, 10 December 2024 diff hist +3,910 Without viddhi-marga, if anyone wants to learn the raga-marga immediately, that is foolishness No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 10 December 2024 diff hist +9 When the dry philosophers are frustrated in every field of knowledge, they sometimes want to learn of God, and they come to the Supreme Lord to render devotional service. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 10 December 2024 diff hist +30 We have got about sixty books. If you want to learn this movement through science and philosophy, we have got our books. You have not seen our books No edit summary current
• 12:5612:56, 10 December 2024 diff hist +4,257 The sadhus have been described in different way. A sadhu . . . because everything you want to learn, you have to take some penance voluntarily. So we have to give up something in the beginning No edit summary current
• 12:5612:56, 10 December 2024 diff hist +2,775 The dangerous ways of interpretations by the nondevotee class of men have played havoc in understanding the Srimad-Bhagavatam, and the careful student should be always alert in this matter if he at all wants to learn the science of Godhead No edit summary current
• 12:3812:38, 10 December 2024 diff hist +5,090 Suppose if you want to learn engineering, so you cannot go to a butcher; you must find out an engineer. You must admit yourself into the engineering college, learn how to practice engineering No edit summary current
• 12:2712:27, 10 December 2024 diff hist +4,560 Take this one criterion: anything you want to learn from somebody, first of all you see whether that somebody is a devotee of Krsna; otherwise don't take any lesson No edit summary current
• 12:2612:26, 10 December 2024 diff hist +12,272 So if we want to learn some specific subject we have to accept a proper authority or a bona fide teacher. Similarly if we want to learn the science of God, we have to approach a person who knows the science No edit summary current
• 11:5811:58, 10 December 2024 diff hist −10 She (Devahuti) wanted to learn the characteristics of the Supreme Lord in relation to the material nature No edit summary current
• 11:5711:57, 10 December 2024 diff hist +61,647 I am not exercising myself. I am an old man of seventy-two years. I was ill, I went back to India; but I want to work. Actually, I could retire from all these activities, but as far as I can, I want to work; I want to learn day and night No edit summary current
• 11:5611:56, 10 December 2024 diff hist +36,353 It is stated in Bhagavad-gita that if we at all want to learn transcendental knowledge, we must approach one who has actually seen the Absolute Truth (tad-viddhi pranipatena) - BG 4.34 No edit summary current
• 11:4711:47, 10 December 2024 diff hist +11 It is recommended in the Bhagavad-gita, acaryopasanam. If you want to learn factually things, then you should approach acarya No edit summary current
• 11:4611:46, 10 December 2024 diff hist +6,873 If you want to learn this Krsna consciousness movement, we have got enough books. You can scientifically and philosophically study No edit summary current
• 11:4611:46, 10 December 2024 diff hist +5,056 If you want to learn the transcendental subject matter, then you must adopt three things. First of all surrender. Find out that kind of person where you can surrender. If there is no surrender, it is not possible No edit summary current
• 11:4511:45, 10 December 2024 diff hist +11 If you want to learn something, you have to approach some expert in the matter, similarly, if you want to learn what is dharma, how to execute it, then you have to approach such gurus or their representative No edit summary current
• 11:4511:45, 10 December 2024 diff hist +6,545 If you want to learn factually things, then you should approach acarya. Acaryavan puruso veda, "One who has accepted acarya, he knows things as they are." Acaryavan puruso veda No edit summary current
• 08:0108:01, 10 December 2024 diff hist +4,625 If you want to learn by studying scriptures, Vedic literature, you will find different scriptures, - Sama, Yajur, Rg, Atharva, then different Puranas. There are eighteen Puranas, Mahabharata. That is also impossible; means you cannot understand No edit summary current
• 07:5807:58, 10 December 2024 diff hist +3,763 If you want to learn Bengali, there are many sources. Simply Caitanya-caritamrta will be sufficient No edit summary current
• 07:5807:58, 10 December 2024 diff hist +5,525 If you want to learn about that then you must find out a guru. What kind of guru? Just like Kapiladeva, Krsna, or His representative. Not a bogus guru. Then you will be cheated No edit summary current
• 07:5607:56, 10 December 2024 diff hist +30 If you want to learn about God, then you must approach a person who is conversant in the science of God. That thing first required No edit summary current
• 07:5507:55, 10 December 2024 diff hist +4,032 If we want to learn about Krsna, then we have to follow the path of mahajanas, great personalities No edit summary current
• 06:2606:26, 10 December 2024 diff hist +7,609 If one wants to learn how to become vairagi, no attachment for this material world, then he must take to devotional service. Vairagya-vidya-nija-bhakti-yogam. That is, bhakti-yoga means vairagya, no attachment for this material world No edit summary current
• 06:2606:26, 10 December 2024 diff hist +21,334 If one wants to learn Bhagavad-gita and profit by it, there is a process for understanding it, and that process is described here No edit summary current
• 06:2506:25, 10 December 2024 diff hist +3,987 If one has fallen in the blind well - "Please get me up! Get me up!" - so I give him a rope: "Yes, catch it. I'll get you . . ." "No, no, I shall not catch." Without catching, there is no . . . so if you want to learn, come here. Stay. We shall teach you No edit summary current
• 06:2506:25, 10 December 2024 diff hist +3,564 If he is serious to know about these things, then he must know it from the proper channel. You cannot learn music from a carpenter. If you want to learn music, then you have to approach an expert musician No edit summary current
• 06:2506:25, 10 December 2024 diff hist +4,793 God is there. There is no doubt of it, but because, due to our foolishness, we think there is no God, there is no father, that is our foolishness. But what is that God, how He is, what is His business, how He is formed - all these things we want to learn No edit summary current
• 06:0206:02, 10 December 2024 diff hist +3,636 You wanted to dance like this, He (Krsna) is giving facility. He is not in agreement with you. Otherwise, why does He say: "You give up all this nonsense. Surrender"? He does not approve, but he wanted to dance, - All right, you take the facility, dance No edit summary current
• 06:0206:02, 10 December 2024 diff hist +1,226 When the Lord Himself wanted to dance, all seven groups combined together No edit summary current
• 05:5305:53, 10 December 2024 diff hist +10 Unless you come to Radha-Krsna, you cannot get real pleasure. If you want to dance and get pleasure, don't dance independently; dance with Krsna. Then you'll be happy No edit summary current
• 05:5305:53, 10 December 2024 diff hist +30 The Gandharvas can sing continuously for days, and therefore Vakresvara Pandita wanted to dance as they sang No edit summary current
• 05:5205:52, 10 December 2024 diff hist +4,211 Ramananda Raya humbly submitted himself as a puppet before Lord Caitanya, the puppet master. He only wanted to dance according to the will of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. He compared his tongue to a stringed instrument No edit summary current
• 05:5205:52, 10 December 2024 diff hist +46,271 Ramananda Raya humbly submitted himself as a puppet before Lord Caitanya, the puppet master. He only wanted to dance according to the will of Caitanya Mahaprabhu No edit summary current
• 05:5205:52, 10 December 2024 diff hist +14,065 In the material world, a young man wants to dance with many young girls, but Krsna's dancing with the gopis is different No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 10 December 2024 diff hist +4,624 If you want to dance with the dog, then remain here. Go on perpetually dancing with the dog. But if you want to dance with God, you can prepare yourself and go there and dance with Him. That is up to you No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 10 December 2024 diff hist +14,834 If you want to dance, you cannot be shy No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 10 December 2024 diff hist +3,277 If you want to dance, "All right, I (Krsna) give you facility to dance." The karmis are dancing. "All right, dance." The jnanis are dancing. - All right, dance. Go on speculating, but you will never understand Me No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 10 December 2024 diff hist +22,575 Everything takes practice. For example, if one wants to dance on the stage, one has to perform many rehearsals to practice how to dance. Then if one becomes an expert dancer, when one dances on stage one will receive acclaim - Ah, a very good dancer No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 10 December 2024 diff hist +6,903 Everyone wants to eat, sing and dance, Through this formula - dancing, singing and eating Krsna prasada and hearing philosophical discussion, transcendental topics from Bhagavad-gita - so don't you think it is very happy? No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 10 December 2024 diff hist +23,356 Everyone wants to dance, to sing, to eat and to hear the truth. This process is truly susukham - very happy No edit summary current
• 05:3405:34, 10 December 2024 diff hist +10,275 As soon as a king becomes rich in material opulences, he wants to dominate other nations by military aggression. Similarly, mercantile men want to monopolize a certain type of business and control other mercantile groups No edit summary current
• 05:2405:24, 10 December 2024 diff hist +3,435 I want to control death, disease, but I cannot. Everyone is trying. As soon as one is diseased, he tries to control it. He goes to take help from other, the physician, but he cannot. Therefore he is not supreme controller No edit summary current
• 05:2405:24, 10 December 2024 diff hist +32 If you want to control the senses, you have to control the tongue first of all. Then you will be able to control other senses very easily No edit summary current
• 05:2405:24, 10 December 2024 diff hist +5,498 If we want to control the mind, then we have to adopt these regulative principles of life. Not that we have to give up, but we have to make regulated No edit summary current
• 05:2105:21, 10 December 2024 diff hist −10 If we want to control passion, then we have to eat in such a way, deal in such a way, live in such a way that we control passion and come to the platform of goodness No edit summary current
• 05:2005:20, 10 December 2024 diff hist +32 A businessman may consider a certain banker to be a mahajana, and karmis desiring material enjoyment may consider philosophers like Jaimini to be mahajanas. There are many yogis who want to control the senses, and for them Patanjali Rsi is a mahajana No edit summary current