User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda

8 July 2025

• 06:5406:54, 8 July 2025 diff hist +2,753 Just as by executing various pious activities one achieves different positions in heavenly life, by acting impiously one achieves different positions in hellish life No edit summary current
• 06:5406:54, 8 July 2025 diff hist +4,067 In the beginning one has to discharge devotional service according to regulative principles, but gradually, as devotional service becomes one’s life and soul, one achieves the most exalted position of ecstatic love for Krsna No edit summary current
• 06:5406:54, 8 July 2025 diff hist +6,937 Indra said, "In the material world there is regular competition between different types of living entities to become supreme leaders of society, and after being frustrated in achieving the supreme positions of leadership, foolish persons claim to be God" No edit summary current
• 06:3406:34, 8 July 2025 diff hist +4,126 If Narada Muni, the greatest devotee of Lord Krsna, could bless him or show him the path, then he would be able to occupy a more exalted position than any person within the three worlds. Thus he wanted help from Naradaji to achieve that position No edit summary current
• 06:3406:34, 8 July 2025 diff hist +23,968 How did they (cowherd boys) achieve this position? Krta-punya-punjah: by many, many lives of pious activities No edit summary current
• 06:3306:33, 8 July 2025 diff hist +2,661 From King Hasti came three sons, named Ajamidha, Dvimidha and Purumidha. The descendants of Ajamidha, headed by Priyamedha, all achieved the position of brahmanas No edit summary current
• 06:3306:33, 8 July 2025 diff hist +3,855 Even on this planet of our present residence, one cannot achieve a good position within the social order without being qualified with proportionate good work No edit summary
• 06:3306:33, 8 July 2025 diff hist +3,927 Dhruva Maharaja attained an exalted position at the age of only five or six years, after undergoing austerity for six months. Alas, a great ksatriya cannot achieve such a position even after undergoing austerities for many, many years No edit summary
• 06:0206:02, 8 July 2025 diff hist +5,035 By studying Vedanta-sutra, by becoming a very great scholar, to achieve transcendental position of devotional service is very, very difficult No edit summary current
• 06:0206:02, 8 July 2025 diff hist +2,965 By offering even water, newly grown grass, or flower buds at Your lotus feet, those who maintain no mental duplicity can achieve the most exalted position within the spiritual world No edit summary current
• 06:0006:00, 8 July 2025 diff hist +3,620 By hearing and chanting of the glories of God or the Lord's devotee one can become firmly fixed in the service of the lotus feet of the Lord. This position can also be achieved very easily by narrating the history of the life of Prthu regularly every day No edit summary current
• 05:5905:59, 8 July 2025 diff hist +4,912 Both Prthu Maharaja's airplane and the airplane carrying Queen Arci were passing out of the vision of the ladies of the higher planetary systems. These ladies were simply astonished to see how Prthu Maharaja and his wife achieved such an exalted position No edit summary current
• 05:3205:32, 8 July 2025 diff hist +3,405 Because this transcendental position (automatically following the Paramatma) is at once achieved by one who is in KC, the devotee of God is unaffected by the dualities of material existence, namely distress & happiness, cold & heat, etc. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 05:3105:31, 8 July 2025 diff hist +3,174 Being situated on the spiritual platform, automatically you achieve your original status, constitutional position, brahma-bhutah prasannatma (BG 18.54). Then you are able to enter into the kingdom of God, or the spiritual world No edit summary current
• 05:3105:31, 8 July 2025 diff hist +3,857 Because of his self-realization, he was able to fix his mind upon the Transcendence (Parabrahman, Vasudeva), and thus he ultimately achieved the position of an associate of the Lord No edit summary current
• 05:3105:31, 8 July 2025 diff hist +3,772 Because Krsna embraced Putana's body with great pleasure and sucked her breast, although she was a great witch, she attained the position of a mother in the transcendental world and thus achieved the highest perfection - SB 10.6.37-38 No edit summary current
• 05:3105:31, 8 July 2025 diff hist +2,711 Bali Maharaja was indeed a fully surrendered devotee, but even some demons who were not at all devotees but merely enemies of the Lord attained the same exalted position achieved by many mystic yogis No edit summary current
• 05:3005:30, 8 July 2025 diff hist +13,022 As it is said, traivargikas te purusa vimukha hari-medhasah. Those interested in trivarga - that is, in dharma, artha and kama - are religious for the sake of achieving a material position with which to gain better facilities for sense gratification No edit summary current
• 05:3005:30, 8 July 2025 diff hist +3,646 Although Visvamitra was born in a ksatriya family, by austerities and penances he achieved the position of a brahmana No edit summary current
• 05:0305:03, 8 July 2025 diff hist +1,328 How To Achieve World Peace - Prabhupada 0493 No edit summary current
• 04:3304:33, 8 July 2025 diff hist +3,990 Krsna said, "By the mercy of the spiritual master and by his blessings, one can achieve peace and prosperity and be able to fulfill the mission of human life" No edit summary current
• 04:0404:04, 8 July 2025 diff hist +6,082 To become nirguna means to achieve eternal peace, fearlessness, religiousness, knowledge and renunciation. All these are symptoms of becoming free from the contamination of the material qualities No edit summary current

7 July 2025

• 15:0215:02, 7 July 2025 diff hist +5,501 The human body is most rarely achieved, and although temporary like other bodies, it is meaningful because in human life one can perform devotional service. Even a slight amount of sincere devotional service can give one complete perfection No edit summary current
• 15:0115:01, 7 July 2025 diff hist +9,734 The Nagapatnis said, "My Lord, although he (Kaliya) is born in a species of life which is fostered by the most abominable mode of material nature, accompanied with the quality of anger, this king of the serpents has achieved something very, very rare" No edit summary current
• 14:4714:47, 7 July 2025 diff hist +1,898 Narada Muni continued: Lord Brahma was very much satisfied by Hiranyakasipu's austerities, which were difficult to perform. Therefore, when solicited for benedictions, he indeed granted them, although they were rarely to be achieved No edit summary current
• 14:4614:46, 7 July 2025 diff hist +2,793 King Pururava was greatly attached to Urvasi. Yet despite his faithfulness to her, she had left him. Now, considering that the King was wasting his rarely achieved human form of life, Urvasi frankly explained the nature of a woman No edit summary current
• 14:4614:46, 7 July 2025 diff hist +8,332 Devotional service is rarely achieved. Rarely achieved means No edit summary current
• 14:4614:46, 7 July 2025 diff hist +5,654 Because such attachment in pure Krsna consciousness is very rare and not possible to achieve even for many liberated persons No edit summary current
• 14:0614:06, 7 July 2025 diff hist +4,462 Whoever engages in hearing the transcendental activities of Krsna is not on the material platform, but on the transcendental, spiritual platform No edit summary current
• 14:0614:06, 7 July 2025 diff hist +3,949 To engage both boys and girls in fully transcendental activities is a policy intended to spread the Krsna consciousness movement No edit summary current
• 13:5713:57, 7 July 2025 diff hist +6,387 Thus Krsna is eternally engaged in His transcendental activities in Vrndavana with His friends, the cowherd boys and gopis, but sometimes He exhibits the extraordinary prowess of the Supreme Personality of Godhead by killing different types of demons No edit summary
• 13:5213:52, 7 July 2025 diff hist +3,086 Those who take shelter under the lotus feet of the Lord can completely throw off all such miseries without difficulty. Others, who are engaged in transcendental activities in different ways, cannot do so. For them it is very difficult No edit summary current
• 13:4013:40, 7 July 2025 diff hist +4,625 The Lord is always engaged in transcendental loving activities with His spiritual associates in the various relationships of santa (neutrality), dasya (servitorship), sakhya (friendship), vatsalya (parental affection) and madhurya (conjugal love) No edit summary current
• 13:3913:39, 7 July 2025 diff hist +2,949 They (those engaged in transcendental activities in different ways) may artificially think of becoming liberated without accepting the shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord, but that is not possible No edit summary current
• 13:3113:31, 7 July 2025 diff hist +4,760 Supreme Lord, who is eternally engaged in transcendental activities, chooses a particular land in which to unfold His earthly pastimes, and that this designated country is Bharata-varsa, or India No edit summary current
• 13:0813:08, 7 July 2025 diff hist +51 Narayana-parah sarve na kutascana bibhyati: because a devotee is engaged in transcendental activities, he is not afraid of being materially embodied No edit summary current
• 13:0713:07, 7 July 2025 diff hist +4,189 Devotees do not care for temporary things. They engage in transcendental devotional activities because they desire elevation to the spiritual world, where they can live eternally and peacefully and with full knowledge of Krsna No edit summary current
• 13:0713:07, 7 July 2025 diff hist +4,145 Described in the Bhagavad-gita: while others, such as yogis, try to control their senses by force, devotees, even though possessing full sensory powers, do not use them because they engage in higher, transcendental activities No edit summary current
• 13:0713:07, 7 July 2025 diff hist +51 All the Gosvamis engaged in such transcendental activities, as described by Srinivasa Acarya in his poem about them - krsnotkirtana-gana-nartana-parau premamrtambho-nidhi No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 7 July 2025 diff hist +6,969 The nondevotees commit offense after offense, to both the Lord and His pure devotees engaged in missionary work. As a result of such acts, they become as barren as an alkaline field, where there is no strength to produce No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 7 July 2025 diff hist +3,289 The Mayavadi philosophers, engaged in the missionary work of spoiling the Vedic culture by preaching that everyone is God, describe a poverty-stricken man as daridra-narayana, or “poor Narayana” No edit summary current
• 09:3609:36, 7 July 2025 diff hist +6,499 As part and parcel of the Lord, every individual living entity has a minute quantity of independence, & by misuse of this minute independence, the nondevotees commit offense after offense, to both the Lord and His pure devotees engaged in missionary work No edit summary current
• 09:2309:23, 7 July 2025 diff hist +4,405 Those who engage in the missionary activities of the Krsna consciousness movement are under the guidance of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. They are not actually beggars; their real business is to deliver fallen souls. Therefore they may go from door to door No edit summary current
• 09:2309:23, 7 July 2025 diff hist +6,657 The Lord is unmindful of the nondevotees, although He is sitting within everyone's heart as well-wisher and Supersoul. However, He also gives them the chance to receive His mercy through His pure devotees who are engaged in missionary activities No edit summary current
• 09:1909:19, 7 July 2025 diff hist +4,172 One should also consider that those who engage in the missionary activities of the Krsna consciousness movement are under the guidance of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. They are not actually beggars; their real business is to deliver fallen souls No edit summary current
• 09:1809:18, 7 July 2025 diff hist +5,117 My Guru Maharaja used to say, you must be engaged continually for this missionary activity No edit summary current
• 09:1809:18, 7 July 2025 diff hist +14,760 If one engages not only in hearing but in trying to broadcast the message of devotional activities as well, or if he engages himself in helping the missionary activities of Krsna consciousness, he gradually feels spiritual progress. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:0209:02, 7 July 2025 diff hist +10,686 When it is influenced by the mode of passion, the infection is at the symptomatic stage. However, when the body is influenced by the mode of goodness, the materialistic infection becomes purified No edit summary current
• 08:5308:53, 7 July 2025 diff hist +5,079 Unless the living entity is freed from the infection of the material modes of nature, he receives different types of bodies in which to enjoy or suffer, and according to the body, he is understood to have various inclinations No edit summary current
• 08:5308:53, 7 July 2025 diff hist +24,827 The qualities in Vaikuntha are a manifestation of God’s internal potency, and therefore they are purely spiritual and transcendental, with no trace of material infection No edit summary current