User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda

22 January 2025

• 11:0311:03, 22 January 2025 diff hist +31,431 Engaged in loving service (Lectures) No edit summary current
• 11:0311:03, 22 January 2025 diff hist +4,140 Engaged in loving service (Conv and Letters) No edit summary current
• 11:0211:02, 22 January 2025 diff hist +27,388 Engaged in loving service (CC and other books) No edit summary current
• 11:0211:02, 22 January 2025 diff hist +29,349 Engaged in loving service (BG and SB) No edit summary current
• 11:0111:01, 22 January 2025 diff hist +3,206 There are different religious systems, different parts of the world, of the universe. But the real purpose of religion is yato bhaktir adhoksaje, how to become engaged in the service of the Lord. That is religion No edit summary current
• 11:0011:00, 22 January 2025 diff hist +3,298 To engage in the service of the Lord is the natural function of the living entity, but because he is covered by the influence of maya, the material energy, he thinks it to be a very difficult task No edit summary current
• 11:0011:00, 22 January 2025 diff hist −1 Those who are engaged in the service of the Lord are not meant to struggle for existence No edit summary current
• 11:0011:00, 22 January 2025 diff hist +5,733 They (the Kumaras) prayed to the Lord that even in the hellish condition of life their minds might not be distracted from the engagement of service to the lotus feet of Lord Narayana No edit summary current
• 11:0011:00, 22 January 2025 diff hist +3,967 These are material desires (to enjoy a comfortable life), but because a mixed devotee engages in the service of the Lord, ultimately, after many, many lives of material enjoyment, he undoubtedly develops Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
• 11:0011:00, 22 January 2025 diff hist −1 There is no need to ask Krsna for these material things, but one should simply request Him: Please engage me in Your service No edit summary current
• 11:0011:00, 22 January 2025 diff hist +4,465 There are two kinds of transcendental feelings for those engaged in the worship of the Lord. One is called sambhoga, and the other is called viraha. According to authorities in the disciplic line, viraha worship is more palatable than sambhoga worship No edit summary current
• 10:5610:56, 22 January 2025 diff hist +2,906 The servant of the Lord is engaged in the service of the Lord as a servant, friend, father, mother or conjugal lover, all of whom are equally as opulent as the Lord. This is acintya-bhedabheda-tattva No edit summary current
• 10:5610:56, 22 January 2025 diff hist +4,358 The saffron dress worn by a sannyasi announces to the world that he has renounced all worldly affairs and is simply engaged in the service of the Lord. Such a devotee is actually a sannyasi, or liberated person No edit summary current
• 10:5610:56, 22 January 2025 diff hist +4,790 The real purpose of life is to make contact with the Lord and be engaged in His service. That is the natural position of living entities No edit summary current
• 10:5610:56, 22 January 2025 diff hist +4,018 The more you engage yourself in the service of the Lord, the more you become enthusiastic. There is no question of becoming tired. Just like I am old man. I have come from India. My age is seventy-six years. So still I am enthusiastic No edit summary
• 10:5510:55, 22 January 2025 diff hist +4,895 The living being then engages himself in the service of the Lord in his eternal constitutional position, becoming liberated from the conditioned life. All this is executed by the Lord either through His external potency or directly by the internal potency No edit summary current
• 10:5510:55, 22 January 2025 diff hist +6,001 The devotee tries to engage everything in His service and does not create perplexities by falsely lording it over the creation of the Lord. He is so faithful that he engages himself, as well as everything else, in the transcendental loving service of God No edit summary current
• 10:5410:54, 22 January 2025 diff hist +4,174 The activities of the senses in the material field are to be stopped by cultivation of knowledge, and, if possible, they can be engaged in the service of the Lord No edit summary current
• 10:5210:52, 22 January 2025 diff hist 0 Category:Giving Up Engagements No edit summary current
• 10:5210:52, 22 January 2025 diff hist +195 N Category:Giving Up Engagements Created page with "*Pages relevant to - giving up engagements Category:Give Up Category:Engage Category:Engagement Category:Engagement - Umbrella Category Category:All Categories - Vaniqutoes"
• 10:5010:50, 22 January 2025 diff hist +4,701 That which is not engaged in the service of the Lord is material, and nothing thus engaged should be given up No edit summary current
• 10:4910:49, 22 January 2025 diff hist +3,737 Such a proposition - yata mata, tata patha - is foolish. Krsna says, bhaktyaham ekaya grahyah - Only by executing the activities of bhakti can one understand Me - This is called anukulyena krsnanusilanam, remaining engaged favorably in the service of God No edit summary current
• 10:4910:49, 22 January 2025 diff hist +4,038 Somehow or other we are now engaged in that service. We may conclude that even as dogs we must take shelter of a Vaisnava. The benefit will be the same as that which accrues to an advanced devotee under a Vaisnava’s care No edit summary current
• 10:4910:49, 22 January 2025 diff hist +4,720 Regardless of what we have done in our past lives, if we engage ourselves in unalloyed devotional service to the Lord in this life, we will always be situated in the brahma-bhuta - liberated state No edit summary current
• 10:4910:49, 22 January 2025 diff hist +12,438 Prahlada Maharaja replied, "Please engage me in the service of Your servant. This is all I want. I do not want anything else." In this way a devotee never asks for anything material from the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary
• 10:4910:49, 22 January 2025 diff hist −1 Perfect self-realized souls, engaged in the service of the Lord, are unafraid of maya, just as law-abiding citizens of a state never fear the police No edit summary current
• 10:4510:45, 22 January 2025 diff hist +4,607 One who is self-realized engages himself in the service of the Lord perpetually, both in this life and in the next. Indeed, for devotees there is no difference between this life and the next No edit summary current
• 10:4510:45, 22 January 2025 diff hist −1 One who engages in the service of Vasudeva can actually realize what Brahman is. If Brahman is impersonal, then there is no question of darsanam, which means: seeing face to face No edit summary current
• 10:4510:45, 22 January 2025 diff hist −1 One who engages in the service of the Lord with some motive is called a sakama-bhakta, and one who serves the Lord without any motives is called an akama-bhakta No edit summary current
• 10:4510:45, 22 January 2025 diff hist +4,758 One who desires to engage all these (his vital energy, his wealth, his intelligence and his words) in the service of the Lord, no matter how he is situated, is to be considered a liberated soul, or satya-drk. Such a man has understood things as they are No edit summary current
• 10:4510:45, 22 January 2025 diff hist −1 One should give up family life and engage oneself completely in the service of the Lord for the remaining days of his life No edit summary current
• 10:4410:44, 22 January 2025 diff hist −1 One should engage in the service of the Lord twenty-four hours a day, as confirmed in the Brahma-samhita. The stage of premanjana-cchurita can be attained by developing complete love No edit summary current
• 10:4310:43, 22 January 2025 diff hist −1 One may speak very nicely with ornamental language or one may be expert at controlled grammatical presentation, but if one's words are not engaged in the service of the Lord, they have no flavor and no actual use No edit summary current
• 10:4210:42, 22 January 2025 diff hist +2,495 Jivera 'svarupa' haya-krsnera 'nitya-dasa.' (CC Madhya 20.108). The living entity is eternally the servant of the Lord, and thus when he engages himself in the service of the Lord in all respects, he enjoys the perfection of life No edit summary current
• 10:4110:41, 22 January 2025 diff hist −1 In this way (by hearing, chanting, remembering, worshiping, offering everything to the Lord) one can very easily engage himself in the service of the Lord. When the Lord is pleased with one's service, one's mission in life is fulfilled No edit summary current
• 10:4110:41, 22 January 2025 diff hist −1 In this (CC Madhya 3.8) connection, Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura says that Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu accepted the sannyasa order and recommended the determination of the Avantipura bhiksu to engage in the service of Mukunda No edit summary current
• 10:4010:40, 22 January 2025 diff hist +5,388 In the impure state of a living being, the various senses are fully engaged in mundane affairs. If the ear is not engaged in the service of God by hearing about Him from Bhagavad-gita or Bhagavatam the holes of the ear will be filled with some rubbish No edit summary current
• 10:3910:39, 22 January 2025 diff hist −1 In the Gaura-ganoddesa-dipika (137) it is stated that the servants formerly named Bhrngara and Bhangura in Vrndavana became Kasisvara and Govinda in Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s pastimes. Govinda always engaged in the service of the Lord, even at great risk No edit summary current
• 10:3910:39, 22 January 2025 diff hist +3,222 If one has scientific, philosophical, political, economic or any other abilities and wants perfection in his knowledge, he should offer prayers to the SP of Godhead by composing first-class poetry or engaging his talents in the service of the Lord No edit summary current
• 10:3810:38, 22 January 2025 diff hist −1 If one engages in the service of the lotus feet of the Lord, he does not want anything more. This is the highest stage of devotional service No edit summary current
• 10:3810:38, 22 January 2025 diff hist +3,735 If one engages his possessions in the service of the Lord under the guidance of a proper spiritual master. he will attain happiness both in this life and the next No edit summary
• 10:3810:38, 22 January 2025 diff hist +8,778 I may have many activities. But my identity is that I am eternal servant of God. So if I love myself, because I am eternal servant of God, therefore, if I actually I love myself, I must always engage myself in the service of the Lord. This is love No edit summary current
• 10:3810:38, 22 January 2025 diff hist +4,360 He (the liberated person) understands that everything is connected with the Supreme Personality of Godhead and that everything should be engaged in the service of the Lord. Therefore he does not give up anything No edit summary current
• 10:3710:37, 22 January 2025 diff hist +3,064 Everything should be engaged in the service of the Lord. Hrsikena hrsikesa-sevanam bhaktir ucyate - CC Madhya 19.170 - Narada-pancaratra No edit summary current
• 10:3710:37, 22 January 2025 diff hist +14,306 Durvasa admitted his fault & said, "For pure devotees who are always engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, nothing is considered impossible, for they are engaged in the service of the God, whose very name is sufficient for liberation" No edit summary current
• 10:3610:36, 22 January 2025 diff hist +3,505 Devotees engage in the temple in the service of the Lord as arca-vigraha, a form made of material objects such as stone, metal, wood, jewels or paint. All of these are called sthula, or physical representations No edit summary current
• 10:3610:36, 22 January 2025 diff hist −1 Constant remembrance of the lotus feet of the Lord is possible only when one engages in His active service No edit summary current
• 10:2710:27, 22 January 2025 diff hist +7,254 Brahma-bhutah prasannatma (BG 18.54). Without being fearless, one cannot be joyful. The bhaktas, the devotees, are fearless and always joyful because they are constantly engaged in the service of the lotus feet of the Lord No edit summary current
• 10:2710:27, 22 January 2025 diff hist +3,022 Atheistic men sometimes criticize a devotee by saying, "If you do not want to take any benediction from the Lord and if the servant of the Lord is as opulent as the Lord Himself, why do you ask for the benediction of being engaged as the Lord's servant?" No edit summary
• 10:2610:26, 22 January 2025 diff hist −25 As soon as even temporary things are engaged in His (God's) service, they take on permanent values. The process of such engagement in the service of the Lord is what the sages call cikitsitam, or - well treated No edit summary current