User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda

20 July 2025

• 04:1804:18, 20 July 2025 diff hist +22,876 Another twelve-hour (4,300,000 years multiplied by one thousand) period covers the night. Thirty such days equal a month, twelve months a year, and Brahma lives for one hundred such years No edit summary current
• 04:1704:17, 20 July 2025 diff hist +6,726 Above the human form of life there are demigods, Caranas and Siddhas on up to Brahmaloka, where Lord Brahma lives, and among these demigods there are always different grades of knowledge No edit summary current
• 04:1704:17, 20 July 2025 diff hist +4,729 4 yugas, rotating a 1000 times, comprise 1 day of Brahma, the creator god, & the same number comprise 1 night. Brahma lives 100 of such "years" & then dies. These "100 years" by earth calculations total to 311 trillion & 40 million earth years. BG 1972 p No edit summary current
• 03:3603:36, 20 July 2025 diff hist +3,265 You are the supreme controller of the senses, and Your expansions of form are unlimited. You are the greatest, and therefore I offer my respectful obeisances unto You No edit summary current
• 03:3403:34, 20 July 2025 diff hist +6,487 Yasoda saw in Krsna's mouth the total ego and its products, namely the senses, the controllers of the senses, all the demigods and the objects of the senses like sound and smell. Within His mouth she also saw the three qualities of material nature No edit summary current
• 03:3403:34, 20 July 2025 diff hist +5,028 Vasudeva said, "The senses, the controllers of the senses (the demigods) and the acquisition of knowledge, which is the purpose of the senses, as well as the subject matter of knowledge - all are You (Krsna and Balarama)" No edit summary current
• 03:3303:33, 20 July 2025 diff hist +7,323 Unless one is a prabhu, or controller of the senses, he cannot act as spiritual master, who is authorized by the supreme prabhu, or Lord Krsna No edit summary current
• 03:3303:33, 20 July 2025 diff hist +2,979 The Supreme Lord is the controller of the ten senses, the five material elements, the five sense objects, the mind, the intelligence, the false ego and the soul. Therefore He is addressed as panca-vimsa, the twenty-fifth element No edit summary current

19 July 2025

• 11:0511:05, 19 July 2025 diff hist +6,802 The gosvami title is not hereditary. The word gosvami refers to one who can control his senses, who is master of the senses. A devotee is not controlled by the senses, but is the controller of the senses No edit summary current
• 10:3910:39, 19 July 2025 diff hist +14 The controller of the senses is the mind. And above the mind there is intelligence. And above the intelligence there is soul. So we cannot see even the mind, intelligence and ego. And how we can see the soul No edit summary current
• 10:3910:39, 19 July 2025 diff hist +6,402 The body consists of the senses. The Supreme Lord is Hrsikesa, which means controller of the senses. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 10:3910:39, 19 July 2025 diff hist +6,757 Rukmini continued, "You (Krsna) are never under the control of the senses; rather, You are the controller of the senses, Hrsikesa. My dear Lord, You have said that You are bereft of all royal power, and that is also correct" No edit summary current
• 10:3810:38, 19 July 2025 diff hist +3,444 Radha-bhava must be understood from the Gosvamis, those who are actually controllers of the senses No edit summary
• 10:1910:19, 19 July 2025 diff hist +2,483 One who is situated in devotional service is certainly the controller of his senses, and thus he is a liberated person No edit summary current
• 10:1910:19, 19 July 2025 diff hist +4,830 My Lord, You are the origin of the creation by virtue of the lotus flower which sprouts from Your navel. You are the supreme controller of the senses and the sense objects, and You are also the all-pervading Vasudeva No edit summary current
• 10:1810:18, 19 July 2025 diff hist +3,701 My dear Lord, You are the supreme controller of the worker, sense activities and results of sense activities (karma). Therefore You are the controller of the body, mind and senses. You are also the supreme controller of egotism, known as Rudra No edit summary current
• 10:1810:18, 19 July 2025 diff hist +3,336 Lord Brahma clearly explained to Narada how the creation took place, and he explained one step after another the proper divisions of the senses, the controller of the senses, the objects of the senses, and the material elements No edit summary current
• 10:1710:17, 19 July 2025 diff hist +4,445 Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto the SPG, Lord Hrsikesa, the controller of all my senses and the origin of everything. As the supreme master of all bodily, mental and intellectual activities, He is the only enjoyer of their results No edit summary current
• 10:1310:13, 19 July 2025 diff hist +6,562 It is stated in the Upadesamrta of Rupa Gosvami that a guru is a gosvami, a controller of the senses and the mind. Such a guru can accept disciples from all over the world. Prthivim sa sisyat. This is the test of the guru No edit summary current
• 10:1210:12, 19 July 2025 diff hist +6,878 It is because of the interaction of these three material modes of nature that the five knowledge-gathering senses, the five working senses and their controller, the mind, are manifested No edit summary
• 10:1210:12, 19 July 2025 diff hist +6,470 He (the Supreme Lord) is the original controller of the senses, just as the king is the original controller of all the activities of the state, and the citizens are secondary controllers. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 19 July 2025 diff hist +4,074 Citraketu thought himself a better controller of the senses than Lord Siva, although actually he was not. Because of all these considerations, mother Parvati was somewhat angry at Citraketu No edit summary current
• 09:5309:53, 19 July 2025 diff hist +5,610 Brahma said, "We may be proud of being controllers of the senses, but here the residents of Vrndavana are so transcendental that they are not under our control. Actually they are enjoying their senses through service to You" No edit summary current
• 09:5309:53, 19 July 2025 diff hist +3,369 Brahmanas, they are to be trained up how to become truthful, how to become controller of the senses, how to become simple, how to become tolerant No edit summary current
• 09:4809:48, 19 July 2025 diff hist +71 We shall engage ourselves as Krsna's servants (dasyam), we shall become Krsna's friends (sakhyam), and we shall surrender everything to Krsna (atma-nivedanam). This is the process of Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 19 July 2025 diff hist +3,689 One should take to devotional service without reservations and surrender everything to the supreme will of the Lord. That will make one happy in this life and the next No edit summary current
• 09:3409:34, 19 July 2025 diff hist +10,085 Krsna's final instruction in Bhagavad-gita is to surrender everything to Him. We can sacrifice our life, wealth and intelligence, and this is called yajna. Everyone has some intelligence, and everyone uses his intelligence in one way or another No edit summary current

18 July 2025

• 14:0814:08, 18 July 2025 diff hist +4,386 Krsna said, "Yes. Don't be agitated. I am coming, I am coming." Like that. And practically He never came back. He left at the age of 15, 16 years old, then He became engaged in fighting, being educated and marrying and becoming king and so on No edit summary current
• 14:0414:04, 18 July 2025 diff hist +2,955 Why one goes to college, school? Just to follow the instruction of the teacher, and then he becomes educated. This is the general method. Anything you want to learn, you have to approach a person who knows the thing No edit summary current
• 14:0214:02, 18 July 2025 diff hist +1,931 Your parents desire that you become educated also, although they do now know that someone who is a devotee is best educated No edit summary current
• 14:0214:02, 18 July 2025 diff hist +3,499 We are happy. We are becoming educated, we are advanced in science. But Bhagavata says, "No, you are not advancing, you are simply being defeated, because you do not know how to get happiness. You are not trying for real happiness" No edit summary current
• 14:0214:02, 18 July 2025 diff hist +10,116 To become educated in the Krsna consciousness movement, this is the beginning - to hear about Krsna, to understand about Krsna No edit summary current
• 13:4613:46, 18 July 2025 diff hist +2,906 These (obtain birth in an aristocratic family, become highly educated, become very beautiful or get a sufficient quantity of riches) are symptoms of pious activities performed in one’s past life No edit summary current
• 13:4613:46, 18 July 2025 diff hist +3,664 There is no chance. Everything depends on some cause. Not that by chance anyone becomes very rich man. No. One has to work for it. Not that by chance one becomes very educated. These things are not chances No edit summary current
• 13:4613:46, 18 July 2025 diff hist +3,460 People do very pious activities, charity, munificence. Now, what is the purpose? What is the purpose of becoming educated, learned scholar, very charitable and all these pious activities? What is the end? No edit summary current
• 13:4513:45, 18 July 2025 diff hist +3,990 Just like uneducated person: It is not that he'll have to remain in that uneducated standard, but he can become educated. That is Krsna consciousness movement, that there is no check on any particular person, community, to become God conscious No edit summary current
• 13:0213:02, 18 July 2025 diff hist +6,913 In your country also, why this section of people have become hippies? From university student, they have become hippies. Why? Frustration. They know that "What is this life? If I am become educated, then what is my future?" There is no future No edit summary current
• 13:0113:01, 18 July 2025 diff hist +3,373 In the material world, so-called auspicity, to become very rich, to become very educated, to become very beautiful, high parentage, they are auspicity. But they are also adulterated with threefold miseries: adhyatmika, adhibhautika, adhidaivika No edit summary current
• 13:0013:00, 18 July 2025 diff hist +24,716 If one wants to become educated, he worships goddess Sarasvati. In this way Westerners often think that the Hindus are polytheistic, but actually this worship is not to God, but to demigods No edit summary current
• 12:5612:56, 18 July 2025 diff hist +5,199 Government is giving facilities everyone equally. You become educated, you become high-court judge. And if you become criminal, then go to jail. So similarly, God, He's equal to everyone. Samo 'ham sarva-bhutesu (BG 9.29). There is no discrimination No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 18 July 2025 diff hist +2,883 Due to pious activities, one can be enriched by four opulences: one may obtain birth in an aristocratic family, become highly educated, become very beautiful or get a sufficient quantity of riches No edit summary current
• 12:0612:06, 18 July 2025 diff hist +3,219 You accept the pleasure of sleeping in the water of devastation, where there are violent waves & enjoy pleasure on the bed of snakes, showing the happiness of Your sleep to intelligent persons. All the universal planets are stationed within Your abdomen No edit summary current
• 11:5311:53, 18 July 2025 diff hist +2,174 When Brahma goes to sleep in his nighttime, the three planetary systems below Brahmaloka are all submerged in the water of devastation No edit summary current
• 11:5311:53, 18 July 2025 diff hist +3,212 Those living beings who reside on higher planets like the sun and the moon, as well as those on Martyaloka, this earth planet, and also those who live on lower planets - all are merged into the waters of devastation during the night of Brahma No edit summary current
• 11:5211:52, 18 July 2025 diff hist +3,157 This particular appearance of the boar incarnation (Lord Varaha) actually took place in the Svayambhuva devastation, when all planets other than the higher ones - Jana, Mahar and Satya - merged in the water of devastation No edit summary current
• 11:5111:51, 18 July 2025 diff hist +3,382 The Lord's potencies are innumerable. As He lies down in the water of devastation, I am born as the total universal energy from the navel lake in which the lotus sprouts No edit summary current
• 11:5011:50, 18 July 2025 diff hist +3,509 Pulling the boat, with you and all the rsis in it, O King, I shall travel in the water of devastation until the night of Lord Brahma's slumber is over No edit summary current
• 11:5011:50, 18 July 2025 diff hist +2,151 Piercing through, this sum total form of the fruitive activity of the living entities took the shape of the bud of a lotus flower generated from Visnu & by His supreme will it illuminated everything, like the sun & dried up the vast waters of devastation No edit summary current
• 11:5011:50, 18 July 2025 diff hist −10 Before Brahma took up the task of creation, he found the Lord sleeping on the serpent bed in the waves of the water of devastation. Therefore, sleeping exists in the internal potency of the Lord, and this is not denied by pure devotees of the Lord No edit summary current
• 11:4911:49, 18 July 2025 diff hist +2,951 At the end of the millennium, when the Personality of Godhead Lord Narayana lay down within the water of devastation, Brahma began to enter into Him along with all creative elements, and I (Narada Muni) also entered through His breathing No edit summary current