User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda

13 April 2025

• 04:5104:51, 13 April 2025 diff hist +3,426 This chapter (of Bhagavad-gita) reveals Krsna as the cause of all causes. He is even the cause of the Maha-visnu, from whom the material universes emanate. Krsna is not an incarnation; He is the source of all incarnations No edit summary current
• 03:5203:52, 13 April 2025 diff hist +8 In the material calculation this is very good work, the opening of hospital or this or that, very good work. And Deity worship and going to the temple is bogus. - You may think like that. But that, your opening of hospital, is sinful No edit summary current
• 03:5103:51, 13 April 2025 diff hist +51,150 In material consciousness we are trying to love that which is not at all lovable. We give our love to dogs and cats, running the risk that at the time of death we may think of them and consequently take birth in a family of cats or dogs No edit summary current
• 03:4403:44, 13 April 2025 diff hist −17 In material consciousness we are trying to love that which is not at all lovable. We give our love to cats and dogs, running the risk that at the time of death we may think of them and consequently take birth in a family of cats or dogs - CC Intro No edit summary current
• 03:4403:44, 13 April 2025 diff hist +4,037 In a dream we may think of flying in the sky, or sitting on a chariot as a king, but when we wake up we can see that we are neither in the sky nor seated on the chariot. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 03:3503:35, 13 April 2025 diff hist −17 If we love God, we love everything. But if we do not love God, it is not possible to love anything. We may think that it is love, but it is simply a glamorized form of lust No edit summary current
• 03:3503:35, 13 April 2025 diff hist −17 He may think that "Oh, here is a starving man. I must give him some food." But you are liable to be punished. So first of all learn how to do good to others. So that is described here. Tasyaiva hetoh prayateta kovido - SB 1.5.18 No edit summary current
• 03:3203:32, 13 April 2025 diff hist +4,147 Foolish people may think that, "I shall live forever," but that is foolishness. Life is very transient. At any moment we can die No edit summary current
• 02:5102:51, 13 April 2025 diff hist +7,129 Brahma said, "Persons with a poor fund of knowledge may think that because You are the son of Maharaja Nanda You are not the original person, that You are born just like a human being. They are mistaken" No edit summary current
• 02:5002:50, 13 April 2025 diff hist +2,885 Bhagavad-gita says that - You may think of yourself as very happy within this material condition. That is called maya. Actually, it is not happiness No edit summary current
• 02:4902:49, 13 April 2025 diff hist +4,751 Because materialists cannot imagine or conceive of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they may think that God is dead, but factually He is always existing in His sac-cid-ananda-vigraha (Bs. 5.1), His eternal form No edit summary current
• 02:4902:49, 13 April 2025 diff hist +5,668 A person may think that there is no direct statement about Krsna in the Upanisads, but the fact is that the Vedic mantras cannot be understood by people with mundane senses No edit summary current
• 02:4502:45, 13 April 2025 diff hist −17 A child may think that an automobile is quite wonderful to be able to run without a horse or other animal pulling it, but a sane man knows that behind the machinery there is a man. BG 1972 Introduction No edit summary current

12 April 2025

• 13:5313:53, 12 April 2025 diff hist −17 At the present moment we may think that this material body is our actual body, but it is like a dress. In reality we do have an actual body, a spiritual body. This material body is superficial compared to the real spiritual body of the living entity No edit summary
• 13:4013:40, 12 April 2025 diff hist +4,092 Atheists may think that the devotees are engaged in idol worship, but the fact is different No edit summary current
• 13:2413:24, 12 April 2025 diff hist +3,496 As far as Arjuna is concerned, he is inspired by the statements of Krsna, but in order to convince others in the future who may think that Krsna is an ordinary person, he desires to see Him actually in His universal form. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 13:2313:23, 12 April 2025 diff hist +13,132 An outsider may think that there is no distinction between God & pure devotee, but it is due only to a poor fund of knowledge. Every individual person, every individual being, maintains his individuality eternally, even when dovetailed with the Supreme No edit summary current
• 13:2213:22, 12 April 2025 diff hist +3,660 All this eulogization about me, people, outsider, may think that "This man is being flattered and he is hearing his own eulogization." But that is not the fact. It is the test, how they are receiving the message sincerely No edit summary current
• 13:2013:20, 12 April 2025 diff hist +3,653 One may wrongly think, "In the beginning of our lives let us enjoy material facilities, and in old age we may become Krsna conscious." Such materialistic thoughts are always useless because in old age one cannot be trained in the spiritual way of life No edit summary current
• 12:5912:59, 12 April 2025 diff hist −41 One may think that unless he is free from all sinful reactions he cannot take to the surrendering process. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 12 April 2025 diff hist +10,379 One may think that the maya taken away by Lord Krsna was mahamaya, but Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura comments that it was yogamaya, the potency by which Krsna is sometimes manifest and sometimes not manifest No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 12 April 2025 diff hist +77,814 One may think that because Krsna was the friend of Arjuna, Arjuna was telling Him all this by way of flattery. BG 1972 Introduction No edit summary current
• 12:5612:56, 12 April 2025 diff hist +4,568 One may think that because he is surrendering unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he will not be able to perform all of his other obligations No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 12 April 2025 diff hist +24,077 One may think of Krsna as smaller than the smallest. That is also a kind of greatness. Krsna can manufacture this gigantic cosmic manifestation, and He can also manufacture a small insect No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 12 April 2025 diff hist +5,250 One may think of Krsna as the supreme personality, one may think of Krsna as the supreme master, one may think of Krsna as the supreme friend, one may think of Krsna as the supreme son, or one may think of Krsna as the supreme conjugal lover No edit summary current
• 09:1109:11, 12 April 2025 diff hist +24,263 One may think of Brahmaloka as the top of Krsna's skull, and one may think of the Patalaloka planetary system as the soles of Krsna's feet. Thus one may think of Krsna as greater than the greatest - mahato mahiyan No edit summary current
• 08:4708:47, 12 April 2025 diff hist +20,280 One may think, - I am illiterate and have no education. I was not born in a very high family. How can I become a guru No edit summary current
• 08:4708:47, 12 April 2025 diff hist +18,022 One may think, "The Pacific Ocean is such a vast mass of water, with many large waves, but although I am standing only a few yards from it, I am confident that I am safe No edit summary current
• 08:4608:46, 12 April 2025 diff hist +4,920 One may sometimes think that the monkeys in Vrndavana are envious, because they cause mischief and steal food, but in Vrndavana we find that the monkeys are allowed to take butter, which Krsna Himself distributes No edit summary current
• 08:4608:46, 12 April 2025 diff hist +22,445 One may even think, "I foolishly chanted 'Krsna, Krsna' for two hours." But that also is smarana No edit summary current
• 08:0908:09, 12 April 2025 diff hist +12,541 Nobody is actually outside (of sanatana-dharma). Everyone is an eternal spirit soul, and therefore everyone is meant for the eternal religion, sanatana-dharma. You may think that you are not an eternal spirit soul, but that is simply illusion No edit summary current
• 08:0808:08, 12 April 2025 diff hist +5,278 Narada said, "The ordinary conditioned human being may think that the conditioned soul, who is covered by his materialistic senses, mind and intelligence, is equal to Krsna" No edit summary current
• 08:0808:08, 12 April 2025 diff hist +3,960 My only point is that we are dealing with the public. They are paying us money and we should handle them so carefully so that they may think of us as spotless No edit summary current
• 08:0708:07, 12 April 2025 diff hist +3,372 Like this cow dung. You may think that, "This is contradiction. In one place (in Vedas) it is said that stool of an animal is impure, now here it is again said that cow dung is pure." So if you like, you can make analysis No edit summary current
• 08:0708:07, 12 April 2025 diff hist −17 Krsna is the father of all living beings. Therefore He is the original living being of all other living beings. He is the original eternal enjoyer amongst all other enjoyers. Therefore no one can be His begetting father, as the ignorant may think No edit summary current
• 07:5907:59, 12 April 2025 diff hist +3,731 If you are excused and again come back and again do the same sinful activities, criminal activities, and if you are again arrested, then you'll be very, very severely punished. It is a common sense No edit summary current
• 07:3507:35, 12 April 2025 diff hist +7,834 Krsna consciousness movement is not one-sided. It is not that people may think that they are sentimentalist and simply chanting and dancing. No. There is volumes of philosophy of life, from all angles of vision. Dharma, artha, kama, moksa No edit summary current
• 07:2907:29, 12 April 2025 diff hist +25,970 It is understood that when an ordinary person is placed in jail, he is sent there by force because he has been proven a criminal. A criminal may think that he and the governor are one, just as rascals and fools think that Krsna is one of them No edit summary current
• 07:2807:28, 12 April 2025 diff hist +3,044 It is recommended for the sahajiya, or the neophyte devotee, to hear, chant and get others to hear about the activities of Prthu Maharaja, even though one may think himself to be in the transcendental position of advanced devotional service No edit summary current
• 07:2807:28, 12 April 2025 diff hist +17,785 It (soft cow dung) does not know that when it dries out, it will be thrown into the fire too. We may laugh because President Nixon is in trouble, and we may think ourselves very safe because we have a big bank balance, but actually no one is safe No edit summary current
• 07:1507:15, 12 April 2025 diff hist +3,658 In this life one may think that he is very happy being an American, Indian, Englishman or German, but in the next life one has to accept another body among 8,400,000 species No edit summary current
• 07:1507:15, 12 April 2025 diff hist +6,415 In the Seventh Chapter it was said that only one who has become free from all sinful reactions can take to the worship of Lord Krsna. Thus one may think that unless he is free from all sinful reactions he cannot take to the surrendering process No edit summary current
• 07:1407:14, 12 April 2025 diff hist +3,096 In material existence, the living entity possesses many things - the material body, children, wife and so on. One may think that these will give him protection, but that is impossible No edit summary current
• 07:1407:14, 12 April 2025 diff hist +6 In every temple there is a transcendental form of the Lord, and one may easily think of this form No edit summary current
• 06:5006:50, 12 April 2025 diff hist +24,480 If one thinks, "This mountain is the bone of Krsna," or if one thinks of the vast Pacific Ocean as Krsna's navel, one is in Krsna consciousness. Similarly, one may think of the trees and plants as the hairs on Krsna's body No edit summary current
• 06:5006:50, 12 April 2025 diff hist +22,533 If one performs kirtana, chanting, one will be able to think of Krsna. One may think, "I danced for two hours and chanted Hare Krsna. What is the meaning of this?" This is smarana, thinking of Krsna No edit summary current
• 06:5006:50, 12 April 2025 diff hist +4,858 If one hears and chants without trying to give up offenses, one may think, “This is a Hindu Vaisnava, and this is a European Vaisnava. European Vaisnavas are not allowed to enter the temples” No edit summary current
• 06:4306:43, 12 April 2025 diff hist −17 Here is a machine working, and pushing some button it is recording, and pushing some button it is stopped. A child may think that it is being done automatically. No. There is a big brain behind this machine No edit summary current
• 06:3006:30, 12 April 2025 diff hist +2,741 Frog may think himself that, "I am the proprietor of this well," but that will not give him right information what is Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean. Not only one, but there are millions and trillions of Pacific Oceans floating in the air No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 12 April 2025 diff hist +24 False devotees may think that simply shedding tears will lead one to the transcendental plane, even if one has not had a factual change in heart, but such a practice is useless if there is no transcendental realization No edit summary current