User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda

5 January 2025

• 11:0711:07, 5 January 2025 diff hist +3,421 The president cannot take any loans without authorization. This is a declaration. These things must not be allowed. Whatever he has taken must be returned and he must pay back the money that he has kept No edit summary current
• 11:0611:06, 5 January 2025 diff hist +3,226 The practice of sacrifice called pancagni-vidya, recommended in the Katha Upanisad, enables one to achieve Brahmaloka, but if, in Brahmaloka, one does not cultivate Krsna consciousness, then he must return to earth. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 10:3410:34, 5 January 2025 diff hist +1,319 Variety Is The Mother Of Enjoyment - Prabhupada 0009 No edit summary current
• 08:1208:12, 5 January 2025 diff hist +1,445 The Lord said, "All of you come to see Me every year, to come here and then return must certainly give you great trouble" No edit summary current
• 08:1108:11, 5 January 2025 diff hist +4,497 There is no practical benefit in promoting oneself to the heavenly planets. Indeed, from the heavenly planets one must return to this earth after one has exhausted the results of his pious activities No edit summary current
• 08:1108:11, 5 January 2025 diff hist +6,110 Sometimes they (Mayavadi sannyasis) rise to the Brahman effulgence, but because their minds are not completely purified, they must return to material existence No edit summary current
• 08:1008:10, 5 January 2025 diff hist +4,739 One who is fully aware of this truth (if one is promoted to Brahmaloka, but he is not freed from material bondage he must return to this planet earth) is self-realized (sa atma-drk), but aside from him, everyone suffers in the cycle of birth and death No edit summary current
• 08:0008:00, 5 January 2025 diff hist +4,314 One should not endeavor to wander to different planetary systems within this universe, for even if one goes to the topmost planetary system, Brahmaloka, one must return again No edit summary current
• 07:5907:59, 5 January 2025 diff hist +4,750 One should always keep this understanding in mind (even if one is promoted to Brahmaloka, if one is not freed from material bondage one must return to this planet earth) so as not to be allured by any kind of sense enjoyment, in this life or in the next No edit summary current
• 07:5807:58, 5 January 2025 diff hist +4,510 Karmis certainly take on one body after another. As far as jnanis are concerned, unless they are promoted to the topmost understanding, they must return to the material world No edit summary current
• 07:5807:58, 5 January 2025 diff hist +5,277 If one is born a sudra, he must continually return to the ocean of Puyoda to eat horrible things. Thus even a born sudra is expected to become a brahmana; that is the meaning of human life. Everyone should improve himself No edit summary current
• 07:4807:48, 5 January 2025 diff hist +6,232 Everyone in heavenly planets such as Pitrloka must return to earth after exhausting the effects of his pious acts No edit summary current
• 07:4807:48, 5 January 2025 diff hist +4,376 Even the demigods must return to earth to work like ordinary men when the results of their pious activities expire No edit summary current
• 07:4507:45, 5 January 2025 diff hist +4,580 Even if one is promoted to Brahmaloka, if one is not freed from material bondage one must return to this planet earth and continue in the miserable condition of material existence No edit summary current
• 07:4507:45, 5 January 2025 diff hist +14 Even if one goes to the higher planetary systems (yanti deva-vrata devan (BG 9.25)), one's place there is not secure; one must return to martya-loka No edit summary current
• 07:4307:43, 5 January 2025 diff hist +4,390 A short life in the land of Bharata-varsa is preferable to a life achieved in Brahmaloka for millions and billions of years because even if one is elevated to Brahmaloka, he must return to repeated birth and death No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 5 January 2025 diff hist +10,252 As the rivers draw water from the sea through the clouds and again go down to the sea, similarly our energy is borrowed from the supreme source, the Lord's energy, and it must return to the Lord No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 5 January 2025 diff hist +6,669 Although such persons may be elevated to the heavenly planets by their pious activities and although they may enjoy life there for many thousands of years, they must return to this planet when the results of their pious activities are exhausted No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 5 January 2025 diff hist +5,248 All are but material enjoyments, and one should be thoroughly convinced that he has no need of such a long duration of life, even in the Brahmaloka planet. He must return home, back to Godhead & must not be attracted by any amount of material facilities No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 5 January 2025 diff hist +4,668 After the results of one's sacrifices, charity and other pious activities expire, one must return to the lower planetary systems and again feel the pangs of birth and death. However, one who becomes Krsna conscious can go back to Krsna No edit summary current
• 07:2907:29, 5 January 2025 diff hist +5,026 After one's enjoyment due to pious activities is finished, one must return to this planet in rainfall and first take birth as a plant or creeper, which is eaten by various animals, including human beings, and turned to semen No edit summary current
• 06:2606:26, 5 January 2025 diff hist −15 You can be excused, but don't do again. If you continue to do it, then you have to suffer. Once or twice, you may be excused. But if you continue to do that, you must be punished No edit summary current
• 06:2606:26, 5 January 2025 diff hist +9 They (our preachers) are violating the so-called laws of the state (by going for sankirtana), they are being punished, similarly, important laws of God, if one violates, how you cannot be punished? This is an instance. Must be punished No edit summary current
• 06:2606:26, 5 January 2025 diff hist +16,745 They (Dhrtarastra, Bhisma, Vidura and Arjuna) decided that he (Samba) must be punished. They unanimously declared that he was most impudent and had degraded the Kurus' family tradition No edit summary current
• 06:2606:26, 5 January 2025 diff hist +6,293 Satrajit happened to be the father-in-law of Krsna, and it is the injunction of the sastras that one who is guru-druha, who has rebelled against a superior person, must be punished in proportion to the severity of the offense No edit summary current
• 06:0306:03, 5 January 2025 diff hist +6,067 Our dear husbands (Kamsa and his eight brothers), you treated persons ill who were faultless, and as a result you have been killed. This is inevitable because a person who torments an innocent person must be punished by the laws of nature No edit summary current
• 06:0206:02, 5 January 2025 diff hist +8,463 One should not try to worship Krsna unfavorably; otherwise he must be punished, at least for one life, to be purified No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 5 January 2025 diff hist +1,920 Lord Siva is personified religion and the spiritual master of the entire world, and therefore Citraketu must be punished No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 5 January 2025 diff hist +3,743 It is the Yamaraja's duty to see that these rascals who have forgotten Krsna, or God, and come here to enjoy material sense gratification, they must be punished. Because material sense gratification is always sinful No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 5 January 2025 diff hist +3,060 It does not matter whether there is increase of population. But if the people are unfaithful, they must be punished with starvation. That is God's will. It is not that they will not be fed. There is no question of overpopulation No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 5 January 2025 diff hist +5,345 Indra said, "Because they have taken Krsna so seriously, they must be punished. They should be destroyed with their cows." In this way Indra ordered the Samvartaka cloud to go to Vrndavana and inundate the place No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 5 January 2025 diff hist +6 If he lives like ass and cow, without any knowledge, without knowing the values of human life, then he must be subjected to the sinful activities and will be punished one after another, accepting different types of body No edit summary current
• 05:3105:31, 5 January 2025 diff hist +4,155 If a man kills an animal for the satisfaction of his uncontrolled taste buds, he is responsible for breaking the laws of nature. Consequently he must be punished No edit summary current
• 05:3105:31, 5 January 2025 diff hist +6 Here (in America) even one problem, in another country, another problem, another problem, another problem. He must be problematic. Because anyone who is not Krsna conscious, he must be punished by the laws of nature No edit summary current
• 05:3005:30, 5 January 2025 diff hist +10,325 Cats and dogs can kill other animals for food without incurring sin, but if a man kills an animal for the satisfaction of his uncontrolled taste buds, he is responsible for breaking the laws of nature. Consequently he must be punished No edit summary current
• 05:1605:16, 5 January 2025 diff hist +8,169 Bhaktivinoda Thakura's wife became very much disturbed that, "You arrested Visnu, and we are all going to die. We have got now high fever." Bhaktivinoda Thakura replied, "Yes, let us all die, but this rascal must be punished." No edit summary current
• 05:1505:15, 5 January 2025 diff hist +3,397 A man is a living entity, and a cow is also a living entity. Why this discrimination, that if a man is murdered or killed, that murderer must be punished? No edit summary current
• 05:1505:15, 5 January 2025 diff hist +2,873 A sinful man who acts against the laws of nature must be punished, but sometimes he is given a chance to play, exactly like Hiranyakasipu when he was released from the hands of Nrsimha-deva No edit summary current
• 05:1405:14, 5 January 2025 diff hist +6,901 As the wild animal is killed when it creates disturbances, similarly any man who unnecessarily kills or terrifies the jungle animals or other animals must be punished at once No edit summary current
• 04:5104:51, 5 January 2025 diff hist +3,627 The idea of this family planning is that sense pleasure should not be curtailed, but birth control should be accomplished by artificial measures. Such methods of birth control are called bhruna-hatya, or killing the child in embryo No edit summary current
• 04:5104:51, 5 January 2025 diff hist +4,545 The great sage Narada said: When a living entity is born to engage in the DS of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is the supreme controller, his birth, all his fruitive activities, his life-span, his mind and his words are all factually perfect No edit summary current
• 04:4904:49, 5 January 2025 diff hist +3,260 There is no need to check the growth of population if the children are born as human beings with all precautions regarding their birth. So-called birth control is not only vicious but also useless No edit summary current
• 03:0703:07, 5 January 2025 diff hist +5,558 There are so many contraceptive methods, birth control. Still, the population increasing. Increasing. So these are not solution. Real solution is here in the Bhagavad-gita No edit summary current
• 03:0603:06, 5 January 2025 diff hist +5,266 People should be educated in how to give birth to good children through samskaras, beginning with the garbhadhana-samskara; birth should not be controlled by artificial means, for this will lead to a civilization of animals No edit summary current
• 03:0503:05, 5 January 2025 diff hist +5,088 People are trying to control birth, but they are not able to control death; and if one cannot control death, one cannot control birth either. In other words, artificially controlling birth is not any more feasible than artificially controlling death No edit summary current
• 03:0503:05, 5 January 2025 diff hist +5,169 One who is spiritually advanced does not indulge in uncontrolled sex. So, instead of being forced to refrain from sex or refrain from giving birth to many children, people should be spiritually educated, and then birth control will automatically follow No edit summary current
• 03:0403:04, 5 January 2025 diff hist +5,252 In India there is great agitation for birth control in various mechanical ways, but birth cannot be mechanically controlled. As stated in Bhagavad-gita (BG 13.9), birth, death, old age & disease are certainly the primary distresses of the material world No edit summary current
• 03:0303:03, 5 January 2025 diff hist +3,363 In every state all over the world, such activities (of sense gratification) are encouraged by the government in the form of birth control No edit summary current
• 03:0203:02, 5 January 2025 diff hist +5,101 If one follows religious principles, he automatically practices birth control because if one is spiritually educated he knows that the after-effects of sex are various types of misery - bahu-duhkha-bhaja No edit summary current
• 03:0103:01, 5 January 2025 diff hist +5,326 If one can beget children who will be devotees and be taught to turn aside from the path of birth and death (mrtyu-samsara-vartmani (BG 9.3)), there is no need of birth control. Rather, one should be encouraged to beget children No edit summary current