User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda

23 January 2025

• 13:3213:32, 23 January 2025 diff hist +3,460 You write to say that you have become frustrated with so many dualities of the material world and that sometimes you are engaged in sense gratification and sometimes renouncing No edit summary current
• 13:2713:27, 23 January 2025 diff hist +3,523 Worldly men are all engaged in sense gratification. But even such men will find in this Vedic literature a remedial measure for their material diseases No edit summary current
• 13:2613:26, 23 January 2025 diff hist +3,440 When the mind is engaged in material sense gratification, it is called avara, or material No edit summary current
• 13:2613:26, 23 January 2025 diff hist +5,088 When one thinks that he is the best friend to his countrymen, to society or to humanity and he engages in various nationalistic, philanthropic and altruistic activities, all that is just so much concentration on sense gratification No edit summary current
• 13:2613:26, 23 January 2025 diff hist +4,388 When one is in an insane condition, he speaks all kinds of nonsense. Thus to become engaged in sense gratification, one has to accept a friend who is durmada, or badly affected by the material disease No edit summary current
• 13:2613:26, 23 January 2025 diff hist +4,429 When one engages in the spiritual activities of devotional service, naturally he does not get any opportunity to engage in sense gratificatory activities No edit summary current
• 13:2513:25, 23 January 2025 diff hist +12,707 When engaged (in sense gratification) one cannot fully understand the value of krsna-katha, either in the form of Bhagavad-gita or in Srimad-Bhagavatam No edit summary current
• 13:2113:21, 23 January 2025 diff hist +6,493 We require to undergo some sort of penances. That penance is that engage our senses not in the process of sense gratification but in the process of serving the Supreme Lord, dovetailing, dovetailing our independence No edit summary current
• 13:2013:20, 23 January 2025 diff hist +1 Utterance of the holy name while one engages in sense gratification is an impediment on the path toward achieving ecstatic love for Krsna No edit summary current
• 13:1813:18, 23 January 2025 diff hist +9,066 Those who simply engage in the profitless pursuit of sense gratification are worshiping avidya, according to Sri Isopanisad No edit summary current
• 13:1813:18, 23 January 2025 diff hist +4,355 Those who are very sensual and are engaged in sense gratification do not wish to die No edit summary current
• 13:1213:12, 23 January 2025 diff hist +3,464 Those who engage in sense gratification are called demons, and those who spread the glorification of the Lord or satisfy the transcendental senses of the Lord are called demigods No edit summary current
• 13:1213:12, 23 January 2025 diff hist +5,997 Those who are engaged simply in bestial sense gratifications without knowledge of their next life or spiritual salvation belong to the nonregulated section. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 13:1213:12, 23 January 2025 diff hist +3,312 Those who are engaged in sense gratification require purification by the above-mentioned cycle of yajna performances. There are different kinds of activities. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 13:1213:12, 23 January 2025 diff hist +3,459 They (the materialists) try to enjoy this material world to the utmost limit and therefore always engage in inventing something for sense gratification. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 13:1113:11, 23 January 2025 diff hist +3,999 There are many persons with little in their possession who accept the renounced order of life like monkeys. They go here and there engaging in sense gratification and speaking intimately with women No edit summary current
• 13:1113:11, 23 January 2025 diff hist +3,045 The word tantram is significant herein. Sometimes tantram is misunderstood to be the black spiritual science of materialistic persons engaged in sense gratification, but here tantram means the science of devotional service compiled by Srila Narada Muni No edit summary current
• 13:1113:11, 23 January 2025 diff hist +6,529 The wives of the demigods condemn the performers of sense gratificatory activities as vancita, cheated. Those so engaged are actually killing themselves No edit summary current
• 13:1113:11, 23 January 2025 diff hist +8,782 The whole summary is that this human form of life is very, very important, and it is meant for developing Krsna consciousness. If you neglect this business and simply engage for sense gratification, that is spoiling time No edit summary current
• 13:1113:11, 23 January 2025 diff hist +4,785 The Supreme Personality of Godhead does not allow any of His devotees or assistants to be engaged in sense gratification No edit summary current
• 13:1013:10, 23 January 2025 diff hist +6,934 The senses are never to be stopped in their engagements, but one should purify them by engaging them in the pure service of sense gratification of the master of the senses. This is the instruction of the whole Bhagavad-gita No edit summary current
• 13:1013:10, 23 January 2025 diff hist +5,403 The senses and the action of the senses are to be considered impure or materialistic as long as they are employed only in sense gratification. The purified senses are engaged not in sense gratification but in the service of the Lord in toto No edit summary current
• 13:1013:10, 23 January 2025 diff hist +3,281 The purified senses are engaged not in sense gratification but in the service of the Lord in toto No edit summary current
• 13:1013:10, 23 January 2025 diff hist +1 The prakrta-sahajiyas proclaim themselves vraja-vasis or dhama-vasis, but they are mainly engaged in sense gratification. Thus they become more and more implicated in the materialistic way of life No edit summary current
• 13:0613:06, 23 January 2025 diff hist +5,307 The more human society engages in the exploitation of undeveloped material resources for sense gratification, the more it will be entrapped by the illusory, material energy of God, and the distress of the world will be intensified instead of diminished No edit summary current
• 13:0613:06, 23 January 2025 diff hist +1 The living entities are engaged in their respective activities of sense gratification, and these activities are not ordained by the Lord. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 13:0613:06, 23 January 2025 diff hist +6,966 The jnanis are also engaged in sense gratification, for they are simply interested in becoming one with the Supreme. Thus the aim of all these activities is sense gratification to a higher or a lower degree No edit summary current
• 13:0613:06, 23 January 2025 diff hist +6,819 The human form of life is meant for understanding the Supreme Lord and oneself by spiritual cultivation of knowledge. One should not waste valuable life simply engaged in economic development and sense gratification No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 23 January 2025 diff hist +1 The difference between material life and spiritual life is that if somebody is simply engaged in sense gratification business, that is called material life No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 23 January 2025 diff hist +6,776 The devotee contemplates, "Persons unaware of the supreme reservoir of pleasure falsely engage in deriving pleasure from sense gratification, but this is transient and illusory" No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 23 January 2025 diff hist +7,304 The conditioned souls or the individual living entities are servants of the senses. They are conducted by the direction or dictation of the senses, and therefore material civilization is a kind of engagement in sense gratification only No edit summary current
• 13:0513:05, 23 January 2025 diff hist +2,865 The bona fide enjoyer of the fruitive work is the Personality of Godhead, and thus when it is engaged for the sense gratification of the living beings, it becomes an acute source of trouble No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 23 January 2025 diff hist +3,326 The author of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta advises everyone to give up all engagements of sense gratification and, like the gopis, dovetail oneself entirely with the will of the Supreme Lord. That is the ultimate instruction of Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 23 January 2025 diff hist +3,961 That which cannot give them satisfaction is accepted as an object for satisfaction. So Narada Muni, by his personal experience, says that satisfaction for such frustrated beings engaged in sense gratification is to chant always the activities of the Lord No edit summary
• 13:0413:04, 23 January 2025 diff hist +3,308 Sometimes materialistic scholars think He (Caitanya) was diseased or crazy. Their problem is that they always engage in material sense gratification and can never understand the feelings of the devotees and the Lord No edit summary current
• 13:0413:04, 23 January 2025 diff hist +5,896 So-called great leaders of human society are stubborn rebels against the supremacy of the Lord because they are ignorant of this great knowledge of bhakti-yoga & are always engaged in ignoble acts of sense gratification, bewildered by the external energy No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 23 January 2025 diff hist +2,476 Since those who engage in such activities (religiosity, economic development and sense gratification) are not interested in liberation, Narada did not inquire from the King about this No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 23 January 2025 diff hist +4,715 Since the material potency is the Lord's energy, indirectly it is the Lord who gives the facility to forget Him. Devahuti therefore said, "My engagement in sense gratification was also due to You. Now kindly get me free from this entanglement No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 23 January 2025 diff hist +3,990 Seekers of the Absolute Truth are never allured by unnecessary engagements in sense gratification because the serious students seeking the Absolute Truth are always overwhelmed with the work of researching the Truth No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 23 January 2025 diff hist +4,229 Prthu was special in that although he was given license to remain a householder, and although he possessed immense opulences in his kingdom, he never engaged in sense gratification. This was a special sign that indicated him to be a pure devotee of God No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 23 January 2025 diff hist +9,119 Princes offered prayers to Krsna, "Foolish persons think that their material possessions will give them protection; engaged in sense gratification, they falsely accept this material world as a place of eternal enjoyment" No edit summary current
• 13:0313:03, 23 January 2025 diff hist +2,856 Persons who are bereft of the all-auspicious performance of chanting and hearing about Your transcendental activities are certainly unfortunate and are also bereft of good sense. They engage in inauspicious activities, enjoying SG for a very little while No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 23 January 2025 diff hist +3,218 One who is in knowledge of the Absolute Truth, O mighty-armed, does not engage himself in the senses and sense gratification, knowing well the differences between work in devotion and work for fruitive results. BG 3.28 - 1972 No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 23 January 2025 diff hist +3,658 One who engages in sense gratification on the material platform can hardly understand radha-bhava, but one who is freed from the demands of sense gratification can understand it No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 23 January 2025 diff hist +2,841 One must be engaged in sense gratification, since one cannot live without engagement. Without Krsna consciousness, one must be always seeking self-centered or extended selfish activities. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 23 January 2025 diff hist +4,508 Of the different classes of men-karmis, jnanis and yogis - the karmis are those who are engaged in the activities of sense gratification No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 23 January 2025 diff hist +16,734 Now our senses are engaged in sense gratification. I am thinking that because I am this body, I must satisfy my senses. In fact, however, this is a contaminated stage of life No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 23 January 2025 diff hist +4,449 Not that I collect tax and I engage it in my sense gratification; I employ three hundred prostitutes for dancing before me. This is the cause of falling down of monarchy system. Therefore people are in democracy No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 23 January 2025 diff hist +1,926 Next his (the person who was engaged in criminal sense gratification) limbs are lopped off and torn asunder by elephants. He is hurled down from hilltops, and he is also held captive either in water or in a cave No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 23 January 2025 diff hist +2,733 Lord Kapila describes how persons engaged in activities of sense gratification to maintain a family are treated by the messengers of Yamaraja, called Yamadutas No edit summary current