User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda

12 April 2025

• 06:2806:28, 12 April 2025 diff hist +3,554 Everyone wants to live forever, but nature will not allow that. That's a fact. We may think very independent, but we are not independent. We are under the stringent laws of nature No edit summary current
• 06:2606:26, 12 April 2025 diff hist −13 Everyone in the material world is a servant; no one is master. One may think that he is the master, but he is actually a servant No edit summary current
• 05:5105:51, 12 April 2025 diff hist +26,096 Even if you drink a glass of water without knowing to whom it belongs, you are a thief. So you may think, "I am honest," but actually you are a thief. You must remember Krsna. "Oh, Krsna, it is Your creation, so kindly allow me to drink." This is honesty No edit summary current
• 05:5105:51, 12 April 2025 diff hist +3,589 A person who has lost a great sum of money may think that he is lost, but actually he is not lost-only his money is lost No edit summary current
• 04:5704:57, 12 April 2025 diff hist +3,762 A living entity can never be lost. When one forgets his identity in deep sleep, he becomes absorbed in dreams, and he may think himself a different person or may think himself lost. But actually his identity is intact No edit summary current
• 04:5704:57, 12 April 2025 diff hist +21,412 A foolish prisoner may think, "Oh, here the governor is also in prison. So we are equal. I am also governor." Rascals think like that. "Because Krsna has descended as an avatara," they say, - I am also an avatara No edit summary current
• 04:5704:57, 12 April 2025 diff hist +4,311 A demoniac person may think that he can force his enemy or other parties to comply with his desire by this method (unauthorized fasting or austerities for some political end), but sometimes one dies by such fasting. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 04:5704:57, 12 April 2025 diff hist +3,867 Any activity, good or bad, performed in this material world - they are all contaminated, faulty actions because of material association. The foolish conditioned soul may think that he is offering charity by opening hospitals No edit summary current
• 04:4204:42, 12 April 2025 diff hist +6,329 Although the atheist class of men may think that they are engaged in idol worship, it is not idol. Those who are atheist, they may see idol, stone. But those who are devotees, they see saksad brajendranandana hari No edit summary current
• 04:4104:41, 12 April 2025 diff hist +20,905 Although scientists may think that the planets are being held in space simply by nature alone, behind nature there is the Supreme Lord. Nature is acting under His guidance No edit summary current
• 04:0704:07, 12 April 2025 diff hist +3,488 While passing from this planet to the planet of Yamaraja, the culprit arrested by Yamaraja's constables meets many dogs, which bark and bite just to remind him of his criminal activities of sense gratification No edit summary current
• 04:0704:07, 12 April 2025 diff hist +4,630 When a person within a state acts according to the laws and licenses of the government, he does not become involved in criminal activities No edit summary
• 04:0704:07, 12 April 2025 diff hist +5,203 When a man's lusty desire is very strong, he commits, what is called, rape, & he becomes complicated in criminal activities. Kama esa krodha esa rajo-guna-samudbhavah (BG 3.37). Why one is forced to do that? The cause is lusty desires, anger, greediness No edit summary current
• 03:3203:32, 12 April 2025 diff hist −13 The word dama, used in verse (CC Madhya 19) 213, means indriya-samyama - curbing one’s senses. The word dama can also mean curbing one’s enemies. A king has to take steps to curb the criminal activities of his citizens No edit summary current
• 03:3003:30, 12 April 2025 diff hist +6,221 There are karma, vikarma and akarma. So one should know. Vikarma means criminal activities No edit summary current
• 03:2903:29, 12 April 2025 diff hist −13 Sukadeva Gosvami is suggesting the platform of speculative knowledge. When it has failed that a thief, repeatedly committing criminal activities, repeatedly he is being punished but he is not corrected, then what is the remedy? That is vimarsanam No edit summary current
• 03:2403:24, 12 April 2025 diff hist −13 So many times punishment, the practice of committing criminal activities is going on. This is very intelligent question (What is value of this prayascitta?). Sukadeva Gosvami will reply. But this is student. Just see how intelligent question that is put No edit summary current
• 03:2303:23, 12 April 2025 diff hist +5,131 Sometimes we commit so many criminal activities to satisfy our senses, because we want money. So palita durnidesah. My conscience says, "You don't do it." But, because I want to enjoy my senses, I must do it No edit summary current
• 03:2203:22, 12 April 2025 diff hist +2,796 Maharaja Antardhana was not very happy while exacting taxes or punishing the citizens for their criminal activities; therefore, on the plea of performing sacrifices, he retired from the royal majestic power at a very early age No edit summary current

11 April 2025

• 12:1412:14, 11 April 2025 diff hist −13 If one commits criminal activities, the state will punish him. Sometimes, however, a criminal may escape punishment by the state, but this is not the case with God's law No edit summary current
• 12:1412:14, 11 April 2025 diff hist +4,090 Even the Lord's criminal activities make His devotee the most fortunate person. How can a mundane rascal understand the pastimes of Krsna and judge whether He is moral or immoral No edit summary current
• 11:4911:49, 11 April 2025 diff hist −13 Even if a devotee has a history of very grievous criminal activities behind him, instead of being killed he may only get a little cut on his finger. Why then should a devotee fear danger No edit summary current
• 11:4911:49, 11 April 2025 diff hist +3,181 Another friend for criminal activity is put into jail, but the friend is thinking, "Anyway, my friend is now put into jail, suffering. How to get him released?" That is friend's action - father, mother or friend. Similarly, Vaisnava No edit summary current
• 11:4811:48, 11 April 2025 diff hist +4,858 Although an attached family man is always engaged in getting money by hook or by crook for the maintenance of his family, he cannot enjoy more than what he could consume even without such criminal activities No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 11 April 2025 diff hist +27,748 In the material world the Supreme Personality of Godhead is not manifested by His personal presence, but the presence of the cosmic manifestation in different varieties is the proof that everything has been created under His direction No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 11 April 2025 diff hist +3,071 Such manifestations of the transcendental forms of the Lord are accepted by Him mostly to enliven His devotees. All His incarnations are manifested whenever there is a need to deliver His devotees and maintain His own principles No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 11 April 2025 diff hist +4,673 The appearance of the Lord is manifested for the annihilation of the upstarts No edit summary current
• 09:2609:26, 11 April 2025 diff hist −3 The Bhagavad-gita, mama yonir mahad brahma, indicate that everything in the material world is the manifestation of Brahman; and, although the effects are differently manifested, they are nondifferent from the cause. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 08:4608:46, 11 April 2025 diff hist +7,303 The forms of Visnu, the Supreme Brahman, were one, but They were manifested differently No edit summary current
• 08:4508:45, 11 April 2025 diff hist +3,113 The instruction of this narration concerning the churning of the milk ocean is clearly manifested by the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 08:4508:45, 11 April 2025 diff hist +3,440 The Lord is eternally manifested by His internal potency or spiritual energy just like the sun and its rays in the clear sky, but at times He creates the material energy, as the sun creates a cloud in the clear sky No edit summary current
• 08:4408:44, 11 April 2025 diff hist +4,322 The Lord is the creator, as indicated in this verse (SB 4.7.42), because the energies of creation are manifested through His body, and after annihilation, He conserves all the energy within His abdomen No edit summary current
• 08:0208:02, 11 April 2025 diff hist +4,763 The manifested varieties of the universe are not different from the Lord, just as golden ornaments of different shapes and forms are nondifferent from the original stock reserve of gold No edit summary current
• 08:0108:01, 11 April 2025 diff hist −3 The material creation is manifested by the energy of the Lord, but He is still the same person. His form, entourage, qualities and so on never deteriorate No edit summary current
• 07:5707:57, 11 April 2025 diff hist −3 The material universes are manifested by the Lord in the form of Maha-Visnu. Just as a husband and wife combine to beget offspring, Maha-Visnu combines with His wife maya, or material nature - CC Intro No edit summary current
• 07:5707:57, 11 April 2025 diff hist +3,024 The same principle is applicable when He (The Lord) appears as the hog or fish incarnations. They are transcendental forms of the Lord and are manifested under certain necessities of His own pleasure and pastimes No edit summary current
• 07:3707:37, 11 April 2025 diff hist +15,159 The Supreme Lord is also the supreme controller, and He is manifested in innumerable energies and expansions No edit summary current
• 07:3707:37, 11 April 2025 diff hist +3,482 The transcendental bodily expansions manifested by the Lord for His pastimes in the mortal world, and the appearance and disappearance of such transcendental expansions, are difficult subject matters No edit summary current
• 07:3707:37, 11 April 2025 diff hist +1,617 The transformations undergone by the Lord when He manifested severe unhappiness due to separation from Krsna cannot be described No edit summary current
• 06:5706:57, 11 April 2025 diff hist +4,157 Their (Devotees) example is that just as the stomach is the source of energy of all the limbs of the body, God is the original source of all energy manifested in the material and spiritual worlds No edit summary current
• 06:5606:56, 11 April 2025 diff hist −3 They (Narayana and Krsna) are in fact the same person manifested differently, like a high-court judge who is differently situated in his office and at home. As Narayana the Lord is manifested with four hands, but as Krsna He is manifested with two hands No edit summary current
• 06:5606:56, 11 April 2025 diff hist +2,812 This material world does not develop unless agitated by the Supreme Lord as the virat-purusa. Yasmad udatisthad asau virat: by His agitation, space was created, and the universal form of the Lord also manifested therein No edit summary current
• 06:4206:42, 11 April 2025 diff hist +4,993 Visnu is manifested by His millions and billions of integrated forms & separated forms. The integrated forms are called Godhead & the separated forms are called the living entities or the jivas. Both the jivas & Godhead have their original spiritual forms No edit summary current
• 06:2606:26, 11 April 2025 diff hist +10,889 When the Lord manifested Himself on this earth He partially displayed the activities of His pleasure potency in His rasa-lila just to attract the conditioned souls, who are all after the phantasmagoria pleasure potency in degraded sex enjoyment No edit summary current
• 06:2506:25, 11 April 2025 diff hist +3,985 You awaken from the bed of Sesa, Ananta, and from Your navel a small transcendental seed is generated. It is from this seed that the lotus flower of the gigantic universe is manifested, exactly as a banyan tree grows from a small seed No edit summary current
• 05:0705:07, 11 April 2025 diff hist +8,647 Srimad-Bhagavatam is the narration of the svarupa of the Lord manifested by His internal potency, and this potency is distinguished from the external potency which has manifested the cosmic world, which is within our experience No edit summary current
• 05:0705:07, 11 April 2025 diff hist +6,551 Sridhara Svami has composed a nice verse in this regard, "I worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is always manifested as reality even within this material world, which is considered by some to be false" No edit summary current
• 05:0605:06, 11 April 2025 diff hist +2,762 So the result of all meditation on the transcendental form of the Lord shall be manifested by our detachment from sense gratification. Therefore the ultimate purpose of meditation is purification of our intelligence No edit summary current
• 04:4204:42, 11 April 2025 diff hist +4,258 Regulated activities are prescribed in the Vedas, and the Vedas are directly manifested from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Consequently the all-pervading Transcendence is eternally situated in acts of sacrifice. BG 3.15 - 1972 No edit summary current
• 04:4104:41, 11 April 2025 diff hist +4,560 One can immediately enjoy the association of the Lord by the pure vibration of the sound representation of His holy name, and the concept of the Lord is immediately manifested before the pure devotee No edit summary current