User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda

14 December 2024

• 06:2406:24, 14 December 2024 diff hist +6,624 The impersonalists who want to merge in the existence of the Lord are allowed to merge as one of the spiritual sparks of the brahmajyoti No edit summary current
• 06:2306:23, 14 December 2024 diff hist +6,415 The impersonalists who want to merge into the existence of the Transcendence are placed within Mahesa-dhama. Those who want to remain within the planetary systems of the material universes do so on various planets No edit summary current
• 05:5005:50, 14 December 2024 diff hist +5,563 The impersonalists do not accept spiritual varieties of life. They want to merge into the existence of the Supreme Lord in His Brahman feature (the brahmajyoti). The devotees, however, desire to take part in the transcendental activities of the Lord No edit summary current
• 05:4905:49, 14 December 2024 diff hist +7,982 The fruitive worker wants reward for his work, the mystic wants some perfection of life, and the empiric philosopher wants to merge in the existence of the Lord No edit summary current
• 05:4405:44, 14 December 2024 diff hist +48 The first liberation, as the jnanis or the speculators want, it is another side of voidism, to merge into the existence of the Absolute. They don't want varieties No edit summary current
• 05:4305:43, 14 December 2024 diff hist +5,017 There are impersonalist philosophers and mystics, however, who by a show of devotional service want ultimately to merge into the existence of the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 14 December 2024 diff hist +7,612 Their (the followers of the Patanjali yoga system) position is even more abominable than that of those who want to merge into the Lord’s effulgence. These yogis meditate on the four-handed Visnu form of the Lord in order to merge into His body No edit summary current
• 04:5404:54, 14 December 2024 diff hist +6,256 Some people are too materially attached and therefore do not give attention to spiritual life, some of them want to merge into the supreme spiritual cause. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 04:5104:51, 14 December 2024 diff hist +3,912 On this platform (of the causal ocean), a living entity is completely free from material entanglement. For the jnanis who want to merge into the Brahman effulgence, there is Brahma-loka No edit summary current
• 04:5004:50, 14 December 2024 diff hist +4,078 Jnani wants to merge, and karmi wants higher level, higher standard of life. That is karmi's business. Karmis give in charity just to acquire pious result out of it, so that after death he can be elevated to the Svargaloka, heavenly planet No edit summary current
• 04:4304:43, 14 December 2024 diff hist +3,306 Jnanis, they also want. They, being fed up of this material way of life, they want to merge into the existence of Brahman. That is jnani No edit summary current
• 04:2404:24, 14 December 2024 diff hist +3,474 In the association of pure devotees, by constantly hearing such topics respectfully, even a person who wants to merge into the existence of the Absolute Truth abandons this idea and gradually becomes attached to the service of Vasudeva No edit summary current
• 04:1804:18, 14 December 2024 diff hist +8,455 If you want to finish your individuality and merge into the existence of God, that is not very difficult job. Even the enemies of Krsna - Kamsa, Jarasandha, Dantavakra, Sisupala, and many demons - they also merged into the existence of Krsna No edit summary current
• 04:1704:17, 14 December 2024 diff hist +3,826 If one 2) wants some material prosperity (sakama or sarva-kama), or wants to merge into the existence of the Supreme Brahman effulgence (moksa-kama), he is recommended to take to the path of devotional service, hear & chant of Visnu or of His devotee No edit summary current
• 04:1704:17, 14 December 2024 diff hist +2,292 Highly elevated Mayavadi sannyasis sometimes worship the Radha-Krsna Deity and discuss the pastimes of the Lord, but their purpose is not elevation to Goloka Vrndavana. They want to merge into the Lord’s effulgence No edit summary current
• 04:1604:16, 14 December 2024 diff hist +4,428 Even impersonalists who stress the knowledge feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead want to merge in the effulgence of the Lord No edit summary current
• 04:1604:16, 14 December 2024 diff hist +37 By Krsna conscious, by rendering DS, if you want to have some material profit, Krsna will give you. That is not very difficult thing for Krsna. If you want to merge in His existence - the Mayavadi - all right, you can get it. But that is not real profit No edit summary current
• 04:1504:15, 14 December 2024 diff hist +7,219 A living entity is eternally an individual soul, & if he wants to merge into the spiritual whole, he may accomplish the realization of the eternal & knowledgeable aspects of his original nature, but the blissful portion is not realized. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 04:1404:14, 14 December 2024 diff hist +3,773 After accepting sannyasa, Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted to reach Vrndavana. He was unlike the Mayavadi sannyasis, who desire to merge into the existence of the Absolute No edit summary current
• 04:1004:10, 14 December 2024 diff hist +18,965 If you want to please me, then you should ask me, "How can I Please you?" And if you do what I order, that will please me No edit summary current
• 04:0904:09, 14 December 2024 diff hist +11,002 This is one side, that if you want to please Krsna, then you have to be prepared for killing your so-called relatives. If you want Krsna. If you want to please Krsna No edit summary current
• 03:4803:48, 14 December 2024 diff hist +31 The pure devotee only wants to please the Supreme Lord, and so the Lord says that for anyone who is unflinchingly devoted to Him, He is easy to attain. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 03:4503:45, 14 December 2024 diff hist +4,442 The Lord's presence on the spot was very pleasing to the hearts of the devotees. The Lord understood that the trouble was due to His lotus feet not being seen by the sages, and therefore He wanted to please them by personally going there No edit summary current
• 03:4503:45, 14 December 2024 diff hist +10,617 The gopis wanted to please Krsna, and therefore as Krsna sang, they responded and encouraged Him by saying "Well done! Well done!" Sometimes they presented beautiful music for His pleasure, and He responded by praising their singing No edit summary
• 03:3303:33, 14 December 2024 diff hist +3,896 The adjustment is that the Lord, being bhakta-vatsala, or one who wants to please His devotees, assumes such features so that devotees like Lord Brahma, Lord Siva and other demigods may be pleased No edit summary current
• 03:3103:31, 14 December 2024 diff hist +3,267 They (Bhima, Duryodhana, Sahadeva, Nakula, Arjuna, Krsna, Draupadi, Karna, Satyaki, Vikarna, Hardikya, Vidura, Santardana and Bhurisrava) were all so bound in loving affection for King Yudhisthira that they simply wanted to please him No edit summary current
• 03:2903:29, 14 December 2024 diff hist +2,931 Some (karmis) desire to be elevated to the heavenly planets or to go to Dhruvaloka, and others want to please the demigods to get material profits No edit summary current
• 03:2803:28, 14 December 2024 diff hist +7,381 Sanatana Gosvami was actually following the disciplic principles. He wanted to please Lord Caitanya submissively. To please the spiritual master means to approach him submissively, not in a challenging mood No edit summary current
• 03:2703:27, 14 December 2024 diff hist +9,197 People are generally addicted to offering obeisances to various demigods, but Bharata Maharaja simply wanted to please Lord Vasudeva. As stated in Bhagavad-gita: bhoktaram yajna-tapasam sarva-loka-mahesvaram No edit summary current

13 December 2024

• 13:0713:07, 13 December 2024 diff hist +3,487 Our point was how to please the Supreme Lord. This is the way. If you want to please Krsna, you spread Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
• 13:0713:07, 13 December 2024 diff hist +6,502 One has to dance to please Krsna, not to imitate or attempt to become equal to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The gopis wanted to please Krsna, and therefore as Krsna sang, they responded and encouraged Him by saying “Well done! Well done!" No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 13 December 2024 diff hist +2,917 Lord Caitanya wanted to please the gopis instead of Krsna. But His contemporaries misunderstood Him, and for this reason Lord Caitanya renounced the order of householder life and became a sannyasi No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 13 December 2024 diff hist +5,622 Krishna Cons. is not a miracle, it is science, & because we are Krishna conscious, therefore we know everything, so practically we can understand how Krishna wanted to please His devotees & He appeared there so wonderfully. We do not see anything miracle No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 13 December 2024 diff hist +5,270 In the material world there is no such thing as a lover's wanting to please the senses of his beloved. Actually, in the material world, everyone wants mainly to gratify his own personal senses No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 13 December 2024 diff hist +30 If you get right guru, then you are liberated. If you follow the direction, if you want to please him, yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasadah, then you are liberated No edit summary current
• 12:5112:51, 13 December 2024 diff hist +7,046 If I want a glass of water. And if you manufacture that "Swamiji will be more pleased if I give him a glass of milk, hot milk," that will not please me. If you want to please me, then you should ask me, "How can I please you?" No edit summary current
• 12:5012:50, 13 December 2024 diff hist +4,000 Fruits and flowers are very much pleasing to the Lord. If one wants to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he can simply offer fruits and flowers, and the Lord will be pleased to accept them. Our only duty is to please the Supreme Godhead No edit summary current
• 12:5012:50, 13 December 2024 diff hist +31 Don't manufacture your ways of Pleasing God. Don't manufacture. Suppose I want to please you. Then I shall ask you, "How can I serve you?" Not that I manufacture some service. That is not pleasing No edit summary current
• 12:4912:49, 13 December 2024 diff hist +31 A devotee may have a priest perform some karma-kanda, and the priest may not be a pure Vaisnava, but because the devotee wants to please the Supreme Lord, he should not be criticized No edit summary current
• 12:1212:12, 13 December 2024 diff hist +3,206 When Vamanadeva appeared before Bali Maharaja, Bali Maharaja immediately wanted to offer Him respectful obeisances, but he was unable to do so because of the presence of Sukracarya and other demoniac associates No edit summary current
• 12:1212:12, 13 December 2024 diff hist +3,310 When Kardama Muni understood that his son, Kapila, was Visnu Himself, he wanted to offer his obeisances. Therefore, when Kapila was alone he offered his respects and expressed his mind No edit summary current
• 12:1112:11, 13 December 2024 diff hist +3,029 Upon the death of Prahlada's father, Hiranyakasipu, Lord Nrsimhadeva wanted to offer Prahlada his father's kingdom and even wanted to grant him liberation from material bondage, but Prahlada accepted neither No edit summary current
• 11:3911:39, 13 December 2024 diff hist +5,142 The history of the Jagannatha temple in Mahesa is as follows. One devotee of the name Dhruvananda went to see Lord Jagannatha, Balarama and Subhadra at Jagannatha Puri, wanting to offer food to Jagannathaji that he had cooked with his own hands No edit summary current
• 11:3911:39, 13 December 2024 diff hist +4,448 The brahmanas repented their sinful activities. They wanted to go personally to offer their obeisances unto Him, but being afraid of Kamsa, they could not go to Krsna and surrender unto Him No edit summary current
• 11:3811:38, 13 December 2024 diff hist +30 Sometimes it is misunderstood that by using the word raghunatha he (Krsnadasa Kaviraja) wanted to offer his respectful obeisances to Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami, for it is sometimes stated that Raghunatha Bhatta Gosvami was his initiating spiritual master No edit summary current
• 11:3711:37, 13 December 2024 diff hist +1,685 Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu also wanted to offer Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya first-class food; therefore, out of affection, He had the servers put first-class food on his plate again and again No edit summary current
• 11:2611:26, 13 December 2024 diff hist +2,956 King Prthu did not want anyone to offer him prayers or glorify him unless he possessed the real qualities of which they spoke No edit summary current
• 11:1711:17, 13 December 2024 diff hist +3,450 King Bhismaka of Vidarbha wanted to offer Krsna his daughter, Rukmini, but Rukmi, the eldest of his five sons, objected. Therefore Bhismaka withdrew his decision and decided to offer Rukmini to the King of Cedi, Sisupala, who was a cousin of Krsna's No edit summary current
• 11:1511:15, 13 December 2024 diff hist +5,160 In the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu, there is a story... Not story. Fact. It is described there that one brahmana - he was a great devotee - he wanted to offer very brilliant service, arcana, in the temple worship. But he had no money No edit summary current
• 11:1511:15, 13 December 2024 diff hist +30 If you want to offer to God, then - God is all-pure - the things you offer, that must be pure No edit summary current