User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda

5 February 2025

• 04:4704:47, 5 February 2025 diff hist +6,469 One should not engage in the different processes of fruitive activity or cultivate knowledge by the mental speculative process. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 04:3304:33, 5 February 2025 diff hist +5,940 Narada Muni wanted to show King Pracinabarhisat how one undergoes great troubles and miseries in order to engage in fruitive activity No edit summary current
• 04:3304:33, 5 February 2025 diff hist +3,974 My dear brahmana, there are contradictions between your instructions and those of my spiritual teachers who engaged me in fruitive activities. I now can understand the distinction between devotional service, knowledge and renunciation No edit summary current
• 04:3304:33, 5 February 2025 diff hist +4,626 Material existence is a life of revolt against the SPG. There are many ways in which the living entities can manifest this spirit of revolt, such as engaging in fruitive activities, mental speculation, or mystic yoga to achieve material perfections No edit summary current
• 04:3204:32, 5 February 2025 diff hist +3,727 King Pracinabarhisat was too much engaged in fruitive activities due to performing different types of yajnas No edit summary current
• 04:3104:31, 5 February 2025 diff hist +3,373 It is really foolishness to engage oneself all the days of one's life in material enjoyment and fruitive activities No edit summary current

4 February 2025

• 10:0310:03, 4 February 2025 diff hist +8,139 In transcendental state, a devotee attains all the benefits of karma, jnana and yoga. Although he never engages in fruitive activities or empiric speculation to attain mystic powers, automatically mystic powers appear in his service No edit summary current
• 10:0310:03, 4 February 2025 diff hist +5,846 In the propagation of the Krsna consciousness movement, we actually see that many people are not attracted because they are mudhas engaged in fruitive activity No edit summary current
• 10:0210:02, 4 February 2025 diff hist +14,362 In the Padma Purana, man's sinful activities have been analyzed and are shown to be the results of sin after sin. Those who are engaged in fruitive activities are entangled in different stages and forms of sinful reactions. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:3809:38, 4 February 2025 diff hist +2,234 If someone is ignorant and addicted to the path of samsara, how can one who is actually learned, merciful and advanced in spiritual knowledge engage him in fruitive activity and thus further entangle him in material existence? No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 4 February 2025 diff hist +4,546 If one fully engages in temporary fruitive activities and does not solve this real problem, what profit will he gain No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 4 February 2025 diff hist +4,129 If one fully engages in temporary fruitive activities, not understanding how this is taking place, what does he actually gain? No edit summary current
• 09:2909:29, 4 February 2025 diff hist +4,099 If one foolishly engages in temporary fruitive activities and does not look toward the cessation of this bondage, what will be the benefit of his actions? No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 4 February 2025 diff hist +5,114 If one engages in temporary fruitive activities, not knowing that Supreme Person, what benefit will he derive? No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 4 February 2025 diff hist +4,025 If one does not understand how he is being tossed by the waves (of the river maya), but simply engages in temporary fruitive activities, what benefit will he derive? No edit summary current
• 09:1909:19, 4 February 2025 diff hist +2,813 If an ahangrahopasaka-mayavadi, a person engaged in fruitive activities or a person interested only in sense gratification describes the Absolute Truth, he immediately becomes an offender No edit summary current
• 09:1809:18, 4 February 2025 diff hist +1,892 However, when such persons come in contact with the pure devotee, they give up their fruitive activity and fully engage in the service of the Lord No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 4 February 2025 diff hist +2,965 He (Narada Muni) had delivered Uttanapada's son Dhruva and had even delivered Pracinabarhi, who was engaged in fruitive activities. Nevertheless, he could not deliver Prajapati Daksa No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 4 February 2025 diff hist +12 Fruitive activities are the engagements of one's reactions from past good or bad deeds. When one is awake in Krsna consciousness, he need no longer endeavor for good results in his activities. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 4 February 2025 diff hist +3,943 Even though King Pracinabarhisat was engaged in fruitive activity, the great sage Narada appeared before him. The King was very fortunate to be able to associate with Narada, who enlightened him in spiritual knowledge No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 4 February 2025 diff hist +3,548 Even if one completes only a minute percentage of devotional service and then falls down from his immature position, he is better than a person who fully engages in the fruitive activities of this material world No edit summary current
• 08:3108:31, 4 February 2025 diff hist +2,742 Due to ignorance he becomes lusty and engages in fruitive activity. Because his mind is absorbed in these activities, he sees the material world as permanent, although it is temporary like a phantasmagoria, a house in the sky No edit summary current
• 08:3108:31, 4 February 2025 diff hist +12,879 Caitanya Mahaprabhu went on to teach that for each and every moment he is engaged in some fruitive activity, the conditioned soul forgets his real identity No edit summary current
• 08:3108:31, 4 February 2025 diff hist +3,487 Being thus entangled in different types of mental concoction and engaged in fruitive activities, King Puranjana came completely under the control of material intelligence and was thus cheated No edit summary current
• 08:0008:00, 4 February 2025 diff hist +4,744 Being engaged in all these materialistic activities, the living soul entangles himself in the cycle of the law of fruitive actions. This entails the chain of birth and death in the 8,400,000 species of life No edit summary current
• 07:5207:52, 4 February 2025 diff hist +25 A person is said to have attained to yoga when, having renounced all material desires, he neither acts for sense gratification nor engages in fruitive activities. BG 6.4 - 1972 No edit summary current
• 07:5107:51, 4 February 2025 diff hist −8 A person is said to be elevated in yoga when, having renounced all material desires, he neither acts for sense gratification nor engages in fruitive activities No edit summary current
• 07:4607:46, 4 February 2025 diff hist −8 A man in the modes of passion and goodness may be engaged in fruitive activity; he owns as much as he can and spends for good causes. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 07:4507:45, 4 February 2025 diff hist +2,727 A Krsna conscious person, or unflinching devotee of the Lord, should not be disturbed by the flowery language of the Vedas nor be engaged in fruitive activities for promotion to the heavenly kingdom. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 4 February 2025 diff hist −8 A devotee should not be very enthusiastic about attaining any material goal. He should not be like persons who engage in fruitive activities, who work very hard day and night to attain material rewards No edit summary
• 07:2607:26, 4 February 2025 diff hist +3,295 A devotee never enters upon the path of karma, or elevation by fruitive activities. Narada Muni took compassion upon King Pracinabarhisat when he saw the King engaged in fruitive activity No edit summary current
• 07:2607:26, 4 February 2025 diff hist +3,203 A devotee is not required to engage in fruitive activities. As stated in the sastra, sarvarhanam acyutejya (SB 4.31.14). By worshiping Acyuta, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one satisfies everyone No edit summary current
• 07:2507:25, 4 February 2025 diff hist +6,048 At the present moment almost everyone is engaged in some kind of fruitive activity No edit summary current
• 07:2507:25, 4 February 2025 diff hist +4,337 At that time (when one fully engages in service of the Lord by performing activities without fruitive results) he has no obligation to follow the Vedic injunctions or the different rules and regulations of the Vedas No edit summary current
• 06:4906:49, 4 February 2025 diff hist +5,801 An intelligent man does not try to understand the Absolute Truth by speculative or mystic power. Rather, he engages in devotional service & depends on the S.P. of God. He knows that whatever may happen to the body is due to his past fruitive activities No edit summary current
• 06:4706:47, 4 February 2025 diff hist +3,281 Although I live in household life with my wife and children, I honestly follow the Vedic injunctions by engaging in fruitive activities to enjoy life without sinful reactions. I have performed deva-yajna, rsi-yajna, pitr-yajna and nr-yajna No edit summary current
• 06:4606:46, 4 February 2025 diff hist +39,283 After performing sacrifices, sometimes a person engaged in fruitive activity customarily offers the results to Visnu. But it is said, bhagavaty addha: one must directly offer everything to Visnu. This is called sannyasa - not merely nyasa No edit summary current
• 06:3806:38, 4 February 2025 diff hist +2,560 Abandoning all attachment to the results of his activities, ever satisfied and independant, he performs no fruitive action, although engaged in all kinds of undertakings. BG 4.20 - 1972 No edit summary current
• 06:3406:34, 4 February 2025 diff hist +5,071 For those who are materially engaged, control of the senses is required, but a devotee's senses are all engaged in the service of the Lord, which means that they are already controlled No edit summary current
• 06:3106:31, 4 February 2025 diff hist +5,001 Every citizen engaged in an occupation renders service by the resultant actions of his activities. That is the perfection of life No edit summary current
• 06:2806:28, 4 February 2025 diff hist +4,146 Devotional service means engaging the spiritual body and spiritual senses in the service of the Lord. When we are engaged in such activities, the actions and reactions of the gross and subtle bodies cease No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 4 February 2025 diff hist +5,175 Because your senses are engaged in the service of the Hrsikesa, the senses have no other opportunity to be engaged. Locked up No edit summary current
• 05:1005:10, 4 February 2025 diff hist +3,875 Sanatana Gosvami felt very low because he had accepted a position of service in the Muslim government. The conclusion is that no one should claim to be a brahmana simply by birthright while engaging in someone else’s service No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
• 04:5604:56, 4 February 2025 diff hist +24,074 That spiritual purpose you should engage your energy. That advantage is open to you now, in the human form. Ahaituky apratihata: pure devotional service to the Lord, Krsna consciousness, is open to you now, and it cannot be checked No edit summary current
• 03:5803:58, 4 February 2025 diff hist +3,301 Actually one can be perfectly Krishna-Conscious without being literate. Education is not necessary. Simply it is required to accept the fact, that we are the eternal servants of Krishna, and engage in some tangible service No edit summary current

3 February 2025

• 15:0115:01, 3 February 2025 diff hist +5,410 My dear King, if a sinful person engages in the service of a bona fide devotee of the Lord and thus learns how to dedicate his life unto the lotus feet of Krsna, he can be completely purified No edit summary current
• 15:0115:01, 3 February 2025 diff hist +3,306 Narada Muni delivered his instructions both to me, who was within the womb, and to my mother, who was engaged in rendering him service No edit summary current
• 15:0015:00, 3 February 2025 diff hist +2,603 Neither those engaged in the self-realization of appreciating the Brahman effulgence of the Lord, nor those engaged in devotional service while accepting the S P of Godhead as master are now playing with the Lord in friendship as cowherd boys No edit summary current
• 15:0015:00, 3 February 2025 diff hist −20 No one is independent of Him (God), and everyone is engaged in His service in different ways No edit summary current
• 14:4514:45, 3 February 2025 diff hist +3,780 Nor should a person who may be a spiritual master for others pose to be so if he is unable to engage his disciple ultimately in the transcendental loving service of Lord Sri Krsna No edit summary current