User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda

15 January 2025

• 02:1602:16, 15 January 2025 diff hist +28,621 Hankering after material happiness is called lust, and lusty activities are sure to meet with frustration in the long run No edit summary current
• 02:1502:15, 15 January 2025 diff hist +3,615 Everyone tries to become happy by planning in the material world, but the law of nature is so cruel that it sets fire to one's schemes; the fruitive worker is not happy in his schemes, nor is there any satiation of his continuous hankering for happiness No edit summary current
• 02:1102:11, 15 January 2025 diff hist +4,740 Everyone is hankering after happiness in life, but in this age the members of human society, blind as they are, do not have the proper vision that the Personality of God is the reservoir of all happiness because He is the ultimate source of everything No edit summary current
• 02:1002:10, 15 January 2025 diff hist +7,187 Everyone is hankering after happiness, just as in the desert everyone is hankering after water. If in the desert there is a drop of water, it may of course be said that water is there, but the benefit from that drop of water is very insignificant No edit summary current
• 02:0902:09, 15 January 2025 diff hist +9,332 Everyone hankers for happiness, but although happiness originally comes from the pleasure potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in the material world, because of material activities, the pleasure potency of the Lord becomes a source of miseries No edit summary current

14 January 2025

• 13:4313:43, 14 January 2025 diff hist +14,260 When one is a siddha, one understands himself - that is, one understands, aham brahmasmi: "I am not this body." This is Brahman realization, the brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20) platform. When one attains this stage, he becomes very happy No edit summary current
• 13:4313:43, 14 January 2025 diff hist +8,111 Perfection for a jnani lies in attaining the stage of brahma-bhuta, or self-realization. Only after self-realization is attained does the stage of understanding devotional service begin No edit summary current
• 13:4213:42, 14 January 2025 diff hist +4,671 It is stated in Bhagavad-gita that anyone who engages in devotional service to the Lord automatically becomes transcendental to the three destinations of material nature and is situated in the brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20), or self-realized, stage No edit summary current
• 13:2913:29, 14 January 2025 diff hist −13 When one is on the transcendental platform, brahma-bhutah stage, his symptom is that he's always joyful. Joyful. There is no moroseness No edit summary current
• 13:2813:28, 14 January 2025 diff hist −13 When you come to this knowledge perfectly that, "I not this body; I am soul," that is called brahma-bhuta stage, aham brahmasmi, Brahman realization or spiritual realization No edit summary current
• 13:1713:17, 14 January 2025 diff hist −13 When one is on the transcendental platform, brahma-bhutah stage, his symptom is that he's always joyful No edit summary current
• 13:1613:16, 14 January 2025 diff hist −13 When one hears about the Supreme Lord, automatically the brahma-bhuta stage develops, and material contamination-greediness and lust for sense enjoyment-disappears. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 13:1613:16, 14 January 2025 diff hist +3,687 When one attains self-realization, the brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20) stage, one knows that whatever happens during his life is due to the contamination of the modes of material nature. The living being, the pure soul, has nothing to do with these modes No edit summary current
• 13:1613:16, 14 January 2025 diff hist +6 What is the nature of joyfulness? Na socati. Even in the great loss, there is no lamentation. And big profit, there is no jubilation, or there is no hankering. That is called brahma-bhutah stage. Equipoised No edit summary current
• 13:1513:15, 14 January 2025 diff hist +36,471 We may rise very high in the sky, but if we have no shelter there, if we do not land on some planet, we will again fall down. A simple understanding of the brahma-bhutah stage will not help us unless we take to the shelter of Krsna's lotus feet No edit summary current
• 13:1513:15, 14 January 2025 diff hist +5,356 Unless one comes to the platform of knowledge, the brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20) stage, one cannot advance in devotional service No edit summary current
• 13:1513:15, 14 January 2025 diff hist +2,666 Unless we come to that platform, that we are servants of Krsna, there is no question of unity. That is brahma-bhutah stage No edit summary current
• 12:2412:24, 14 January 2025 diff hist +4,888 To the impersonalist, achieving the brahma-bhuta stage, becoming one with the Absolute, is the last word. But for the personalist, or pure devotee, one has to go still further to become engaged in pure devotional service. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 12:2212:22, 14 January 2025 diff hist +4,487 They (Devotees of God) are situated always on the transcendental platform of the brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20) stage of self-realization No edit summary current
• 12:2212:22, 14 January 2025 diff hist +6,824 There it is said that in the brahma-bhuta stage of life there is no anxiety and no hankering No edit summary current
• 12:2112:21, 14 January 2025 diff hist +5,330 The purpose of muktasana practice is to come to the brahma-bhuta stage, for without being on the brahma-bhuta stage, one cannot be promoted to the spiritual sky No edit summary current
• 12:2012:20, 14 January 2025 diff hist +9,268 The difficulty is that even if we rise up to the brahma-bhutah stage and if we do not take to the service of Krsna then there is possibility of falling down again. That information we have got No edit summary current
• 12:0612:06, 14 January 2025 diff hist +3,998 The brahma-bhutah stage, situation, is that "I am not matter; I am spirit." That's all right. But we have to sustain the spirit. How we can sustain? We can sustain when there is spiritual engagement. Otherwise, it is not possible No edit summary current
• 12:0412:04, 14 January 2025 diff hist +5,407 The bhakti-yogi, practicing bhakti-yoga, is always situated on the brahma-bhuta stage (brahma-bhuyaya kalpate) No edit summary current
• 12:0412:04, 14 January 2025 diff hist −13 Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura considers the brahma-bhuta stage in two divisions - svarupa-gata and vastu-gata No edit summary current
• 08:0908:09, 14 January 2025 diff hist +4,291 One who is not affected by the three modes of material nature is called a liberated soul, or brahma-bhuta soul (SB 4.30.20). Brahma-bhutah prasannatma (BG 18.54) is the stage of liberation No edit summary current
• 08:0908:09, 14 January 2025 diff hist +6,020 Detachment from the sensory world is called the brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20) stage of realization, the preliminary stage of transcendental devotional life (para bhaktih) No edit summary current
• 08:0908:09, 14 January 2025 diff hist +7,242 Brahma-bhutah prasannatma (BG 18.54). This is the stage of perfection of jnana. Na socati na kanksati. He has nothing to do with the material world. That is jnani No edit summary current
• 08:0808:08, 14 January 2025 diff hist +16,029 As soon as you come to this point of being firmly convinced that you are not this body, that is called the brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20) stage of Brahman realization. That is knowledge, real knowledge No edit summary current
• 07:4807:48, 14 January 2025 diff hist +41 Category:Process of Chanting Hare Krsna Maha-mantra No edit summary current
• 07:3207:32, 14 January 2025 diff hist +327 N Category:Process of Chanting Hare Krsna Maha-mantra Created page with "*Pages relevant to - process of chanting hare krsna mahamantra | maha-mantra | hare krsna Category:Process Of Category:Chanting the Mantra Category:Maha-mantra Category:Hare Krsna Mantra Category:Holy Name and Chanting - Umbrella Category Category:Systems, Processes, and Positions - Umbrella Category"
• 07:3007:30, 14 January 2025 diff hist −38 Advancement of spiritual life, culture, tapasya - is meant to cleanse the heart. And in this process of chanting the maha-mantra, the first installment of benefit is the cleansing of the heart. Ceto-darpana-marjanam No edit summary current
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• 07:1407:14, 14 January 2025 diff hist +4,909 By karma we cannot become perfect perpetually. Just like I have given several times the example that in spite of so much education and universities and advancement of civili . . . nobody is perfect in the modern civilization, even, not even honest No edit summary current
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• 02:5702:57, 14 January 2025 diff hist +7,935 If you show example how to keep the temple neat and clean, then these foreigners also will learn from you No edit summary current
• 02:5502:55, 14 January 2025 diff hist +3,521 The example shown by Brahma (Brahma thought of sex indulgence with his daughter) only suggests that the power of material nature is so strong that it can act upon everyone, even Brahma No edit summary current
• 02:5302:53, 14 January 2025 diff hist +2,443 Her example No edit summary current
• 02:5302:53, 14 January 2025 diff hist +4,428 Brilliant example No edit summary current

13 January 2025

• 13:2913:29, 13 January 2025 diff hist +26 When you come to Krsna, then it is sufficient. You are satisfied. I'll give you one example, that a child is crying, & people changing laps: "Oh, you are crying." It is not stopping. But as soon as the small baby comes to the lap of his mother, he stops No edit summary current
• 13:2813:28, 13 January 2025 diff hist +4,773 Regarding your questions, how material things dissolve, I may give you one example: Material manifestation is temporary, as it is stated in Bhagavad Gita, that material manifestation at times comes into being and it at times vanquishes No edit summary current
• 13:2813:28, 13 January 2025 diff hist +5,043 I will give you a practical example: a man is deaf and he is calling wife No edit summary current
• 13:2713:27, 13 January 2025 diff hist +5,093 I'll give you one practical example of how things are misinterpreted... No edit summary current
• 13:2413:24, 13 January 2025 diff hist +9,324 My example No edit summary current
• 13:2313:23, 13 January 2025 diff hist +59 Somebody says that tomorrow the whole city will merge into the Atlantic Ocean. Would you like to construct such building? No. I am giving that one example No edit summary current
• 13:2113:21, 13 January 2025 diff hist +4,991 So in our conditioned stage there will be so many doubts, so many implication. But the same thing as I gave you example, that don't be very much hasty to receive the result immediately. Simply we have to follow No edit summary current
• 13:2113:21, 13 January 2025 diff hist +44 Material advancement of material science, people have got so many machines, facilities. But actually, they are in trouble. I gave you one example: the computer machine. It can work for thousands of men. That means the thousands of men must be unemployed No edit summary current
• 13:1713:17, 13 January 2025 diff hist +3,319 We say everything definitely. How I can say definitely? Because I have heard it from Krsna. The example I have given: The child, he asks his father, "Father, what is this?" Father says, - My dear child, it is called microphone No edit summary current
• 13:1513:15, 13 January 2025 diff hist +4,140 The Deity of the Lord and the Lord Himself are identical. Krishna can act through the Deity perfectly. As I have given several times the example, the mailbox can act perfectly as the post office because it is authorized No edit summary current
• 13:1513:15, 13 January 2025 diff hist +23 Theism means to have faith, full faith in the Vedic knowledge. That is called theism. That I have given you several times the example: Just like the cow dung is the stool of an animal, but the Vedic literature confirms that cow dung is pure No edit summary current