User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda

2 January 2025

• 05:4205:42, 2 January 2025 diff hist +11 Impersonalism is only a solace for the frustrated. When we are frustrated by the relative personalism of this material world, we try to find out, in material way, the opposite number No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 2 January 2025 diff hist +8 If you want to purchase something, once or twice you may be cheated. A third time, you are very intelligent. So even despite being cheated, you should try to find out who is the real preacher. That requires little intelligence No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 2 January 2025 diff hist +12 If you want to go by the speculative knowledge, trying to find out what is God just like the theosophist and many other societies - they do that, speculating - you cannot reach God by speculation. That is not. Because your senses are limited No edit summary current
• 05:1205:12, 2 January 2025 diff hist +13,890 If we try to find things at night, it becomes very difficult; however, in the daytime, there is no difficulty. The sastras enjoin that we leave this darkness and come to light. This light is given by the guru No edit summary current
• 05:1205:12, 2 January 2025 diff hist +5,127 He (Lord Krsna) was pleased to hand over to him (Samvarta, brother of Maharaja Marutta) the charge of a mountain peak of gold. This peak of gold is somewhere in the Himalaya Mountains, and modern adventurers may try to find it there No edit summary current
• 05:1005:10, 2 January 2025 diff hist +3,571 Here is the truth, Bhagavad-gita, Krsna. So why don't you accept this truth? If you are actually trying to find out the truth, here is the truth. It is accepted by all learned scholars and acaryas of India: the Supreme Absolute Truth is Krsna No edit summary current
• 04:4604:46, 2 January 2025 diff hist +8 Everyone thinks that my contemporary devotees are doing better than me. We are trained to address Godbrothers as Prabhu, which means Master. This means we shall try to find out always the serving side of our Godbrothers No edit summary current
• 04:4604:46, 2 January 2025 diff hist +8 Everyone is relative controller. But if you try to find out who is the absolute controller, then He's Krsna No edit summary current
• 04:4504:45, 2 January 2025 diff hist +8 Even in the human form of life they are also trying for the same thing as cats and dogs are trying. The cats and dogs, they are trying to find out where it is, food, where sleeping comfort, where sex life and where defense No edit summary current
• 04:4504:45, 2 January 2025 diff hist +2,644 Even among so-called religionists, sadhus, mendicants, sannyasis and brahmacaris, there are many enemies of the Krsna consciousness movement who always try to find faults in it No edit summary current
• 04:4404:44, 2 January 2025 diff hist +7,270 Education means to find out the ultimate goal, Absolute Truth. In whatever field of education you may be, that doesn't matter. But try to find out the ultimate. Because in the Vedanta-sutra it is said - What is Absolute Truth No edit summary current
• 04:4304:43, 2 January 2025 diff hist +4,283 During the day they (materialistic householders) are busy trying to find out where money is, and if they get money they spend it to maintain their families. Yamaraja specifically advises his servants to bring these persons to him for punishment No edit summary current
• 04:2104:21, 2 January 2025 diff hist +4,131 Dogs, cats and tigers are always busy trying to find something to eat or a place to sleep, trying to defend and have sexual intercourse successfully No edit summary current
• 04:2004:20, 2 January 2025 diff hist +5,512 A sane man should understand the miserable condition of this material body. Without being unnecessarily upset, he should try to find out if there is a remedy No edit summary
• 04:1904:19, 2 January 2025 diff hist +5,850 Antah means within and bahih means without. "Those who are less intelligent, they simply try to find out God within, and those who are advanced in intelligence, they can see You within and without." That is the difference No edit summary current
• 04:0704:07, 2 January 2025 diff hist +10,168 There is a Bengali proverb about a person who thought, - I have committed so many sinful acts that Yamaraja will come and punish me. How can I avoid him No edit summary current
• 04:0404:04, 2 January 2025 diff hist +4,825 In God's law, either you kill a man or you kill an ant, you are punishable. You cannot avoid this. Because in the eyes of God, the Brahma, Lord Brahma, and a small ant, they are all sons of God No edit summary current
• 04:0304:03, 2 January 2025 diff hist +3,611 Ignorance is no excuse, similarly out of ignorance we are committing so many sinful life's and we are becoming liable to be punished, that is the law of nature. You cannot avoid it, if you touch the fire it will burn No edit summary current
• 04:0104:01, 2 January 2025 diff hist +9 If you act criminally, then you will be punished - That you cannot avoid. You have been given freedom, "You act whatever you like," but if you violate the laws of the state, then you are to be punished, criminal No edit summary current
• 04:0104:01, 2 January 2025 diff hist +7,156 If we do something which is punishable, I may avoid the state law, but I cannot avoid God's law. That is not possible No edit summary current
• 03:2903:29, 2 January 2025 diff hist +7,024 You cannot surpass the stringent laws of maya, but if you want to avoid punishment, then you take shelter of Krsna. Mam eva ye prapadyante mayam etam taranti te No edit summary current
• 03:2903:29, 2 January 2025 diff hist +3,531 Unless one is very well organized, one cannot accumulate riches by unfair means. Even if one acquires riches by unfair means, he cannot avoid punishment and insult from the government or the general populace No edit summary current
• 03:2803:28, 2 January 2025 diff hist +9 There are 3 modes of material nature, and when you mix up, it becomes three into three equal to nine, and again mix up, nine into nine, eighty-one. Every minute particles, there is account. You cannot avoid. Material nature's punishment you cannot avoid No edit summary current

1 January 2025

• 13:5613:56, 1 January 2025 diff hist +8,704 As soon as you violate the laws of Krsna you'll be punished automatically. You cannot avoid it. Daivi hy esa gunamayi mama maya duratyaya (Bg. 7.14). Cannot avoid No edit summary current
• 13:3513:35, 1 January 2025 diff hist +6,223 Those who want to associate with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His transcendental form as Narayana in the Vaikunthas, or with Krsna in Krsnaloka, go to those abodes, wherefrom they never return No edit summary current
• 13:3213:32, 1 January 2025 diff hist +5,155 The gopis of Vrndavana were so attached to Krsna that they were not satisfied simply with the rasa dance at night. They wanted to associate with Him and enjoy His company during the daytime also No edit summary current
• 13:3213:32, 1 January 2025 diff hist +13 The bhaktas, the devotees, want to associate with the Supreme Personality of Godhead eternally and serve Him No edit summary current
• 13:2413:24, 1 January 2025 diff hist +7,755 It was in great fun that the goddess of fortune wanted to associate with Lord Krsna. The goddess of fortune considered that her vow of chastity would not be damaged by her relationship with Krsna No edit summary current
• 13:2313:23, 1 January 2025 diff hist +3,230 It is understandable that a chaste woman wants to associate with her husband in all his different dresses. Therefore one should not criticize Laksmi for wanting to associate with Krsna No edit summary current
• 13:2313:23, 1 January 2025 diff hist +5,604 If we want to associate with a sadhu, we cannot expect him to give us instructions on how to improve our material condition, but he will give us instructions on how to cut the knot of the contamination of material attraction No edit summary current
• 13:2213:22, 1 January 2025 diff hist +25,093 If we living entities want to actually associate with Radharani, that may be possible, although She is not an ordinary woman. We can become associates of Radharani by qualifying ourselves in advanced devotional service No edit summary current
• 13:2213:22, 1 January 2025 diff hist +1,717 However, my Lord is Lord Sri Krsna, a cowherd boy who is engaged in tending cows. Why is it that Laksmi, being such a chaste wife, wants to associate with My Lord No edit summary current
• 13:0913:09, 1 January 2025 diff hist +13 He (the pure devotee) wants to associate with Krsna's atmosphere of Vrndavana's beauty. These are the highest ambitions of a devotee of Krsna No edit summary current
• 13:0813:08, 1 January 2025 diff hist +3,403 He (the pure devotee) simply wants to associate with the Supreme Personality of Godhead like the inhabitants of Vrndavana - Srimati Radharani, the gopis, Krsna's father and mother (Nanda Maharaja and Yasoda), Krsna's friends and Krsna's servants No edit summary current
• 13:0813:08, 1 January 2025 diff hist +3,402 Free mingling with women has never been possible in India, but for one who wanted to associate with society girls, they were available in a district of prostitutes No edit summary current
• 13:0713:07, 1 January 2025 diff hist +3,776 Devotees of Lord Visnu may aspire for a position in Vaikunthaloka, but a devotee of Krsna never aspires even for the facilities of Vaikuntha; he wants to return to Goloka Vrndavana and associate with Lord Krsna in His eternal pastimes No edit summary current
• 13:0713:07, 1 January 2025 diff hist +3,123 Devahuti expressed her gratefulness, for although she wanted to associate with Kardama Muni only for sense gratification, because he was spiritually great she was sure to be liberated by his benediction No edit summary current
• 13:0713:07, 1 January 2025 diff hist +13 A person becomes interested in devotional service by some good fortune. Eventually he becomes interested in pure devotional service without material contamination. At that point, a person wants to associate with devotees No edit summary current
• 12:5112:51, 1 January 2025 diff hist +4,481 You can serve Krsna in any capacity-provided you want to serve. And if you want to engage Krsna for your service, that is blunder No edit summary current
• 12:5112:51, 1 January 2025 diff hist +3,856 When he (the living entity) wants to engage in Krsna consciousness, a suitable body is offered to him by the internal potency, the spiritual energy of the Lord, and when he wants to satisfy his senses, a material body is offered No edit summary current
• 12:5012:50, 1 January 2025 diff hist +7,051 We simply don't say that: "No illicit sex, no intoxication, no, no..." Simply negative is no meaning. There must be something positive. Because everyone wants engagement. That is because we are living entities. We are not dead stone No edit summary current
• 12:5012:50, 1 January 2025 diff hist +24,332 We don't simply say, "No illicit sex," "No intoxication," and so on. Mere negativity has no meaning; there must be something positive, because everyone wants engagement. That is because we are living entities, not dead stones No edit summary current
• 12:4912:49, 1 January 2025 diff hist +7,391 The followers of the Patanjali yoga system actually want to merge into the body of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This indicates that they do not want to engage in His service despite their knowledge of Him No edit summary current
• 12:0712:07, 1 January 2025 diff hist +18,032 There are 8,400,000 forms of life, and if one wants to engage one's senses in a particular type of body, Krsna will give one the chance: - Come on. Here is the body you want. Take it No edit summary current
• 12:0612:06, 1 January 2025 diff hist +5,370 Prahlada wants to engage in the service of a devotee, and therefore he prays to Krsna, "My dear Lord, kindly give me the shelter of Your very dear devotee so that I may engage in his service and You may then be pleased" No edit summary current
• 12:0612:06, 1 January 2025 diff hist +3,512 Prahlada Maharaja was offered all the blessings of an opulent position in the material world and even the liberation of merging into Brahman, but he refused all this. He simply wanted to engage in the service of the servant of the servant of the Lord No edit summary current
• 12:0512:05, 1 January 2025 diff hist +5,168 Prahlada Maharaja rejected bhukti, mukti and siddhi; he simply wanted to engage as an apprentice under the guidance of a pure devotee No edit summary current
• 12:0512:05, 1 January 2025 diff hist +10 Our prayer should be, "Dear Lord, You are so great that I want to engage in Your service. I have been serving all these rascals, and I am not satisfied. Now I have come to You, please engage me in Your service." This is the last word in prayer No edit summary current
• 11:5711:57, 1 January 2025 diff hist +6,846 Nrsimhadeva offered Prahlada Maharaja all kinds of benedictions, but Prahlada Maharaja did not accept any of them, for he simply wanted to engage in the service of the lotus feet of the Lord No edit summary current
• 11:5611:56, 1 January 2025 diff hist +4,430 I simply want to engage everyone in the service of Krishna, that's all. And that means preaching. So if the preaching work has stopped, what can I do? In that case you must expect there will be so many troubles No edit summary current