User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda

23 July 2025

• 08:5408:54, 23 July 2025 diff hist +8,094 Sastra says, na grham grham ity ahuh: "Simply a house is not grha." There must be the housewife. That means wife. Grhini grham ucyate. In Hindi this word is used, garbhali means if there is no wife, that is not grha No edit summary current
• 08:5208:52, 23 July 2025 diff hist +4,046 Sastra says, krsnas tu bhagavan svayam (SB 1.3.28). So we have to follow these mahajana. Otherwise we cannot get the right knowledge. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah (Cc. Madhya 17.186). We have to follow great authorities No edit summary current
• 08:5108:51, 23 July 2025 diff hist +3,798 Sastra says, kalau sudra-sambhavah: "In this age, Kali-yuga, mostly all of them are sudras." No brahmin, no ksatriya, no vaisya, according to qualification No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 Sastra says, atah sri-krsna-namadi na bhaved grahyam indriyaih (CC Madhya 17.136). These blunt senses, those who are depending on the blunt senses, they can say nirakara, because he cannot see. He has no eyes to see what is that akara, what is that form No edit summary current
• 08:3208:32, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 Sastra says, atah sri-krsna-namadi na bhaved grahyam indriyaih: "You cannot understand Krsna by your present imperfect senses. That is not possible." Na bhaved grahyam, "You cannot accept or you cannot receive by your blunt senses." That is not possible No edit summary current
• 08:3108:31, 23 July 2025 diff hist +3,222 Sastra says, andha yathandhair upaniyamanah (SB 7.5.31). The andha - means blind, blind leaders - they are giving us false hope that we shall make here permanent settlement. Therefore they are called andhas. They have no sense No edit summary current
• 08:3108:31, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 Sastra says, - Don't waste your valuable time in that way. Try to understand God. Use your intelligence for this purpose No edit summary current
• 08:3008:30, 23 July 2025 diff hist +3,428 Sastra says, "You have got this human form of life after many, many millions of years' waiting." So do not misuse it. That is Vedic civilization, not to misuse the human form of life No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 23 July 2025 diff hist +7,900 Sastra says, "No, no. You live with the minimum necessities. Don't increase your necessities unnecessarily." This is Vedic civilization. And the modern civilization is even increase your necessities - a machine for shaving your cheek. You see? No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 23 July 2025 diff hist +5,792 Sastra says, "Here is the soul." The Yamaraja is snatching, dragging the soul, not his leg or hand. There's no business. As soon as the soul is gone, the leg and hand and everything becomes a lump of matter, that's all. What is the use of it? No edit summary current
• 08:2908:29, 23 July 2025 diff hist +8 Sastra has some rules and regulations when number of intoxication and meat eating people increase, then mother earth suffers the heavy weight. Sastras says that we must reject these kinds of sinful activities No edit summary current
• 08:2808:28, 23 July 2025 diff hist +6,540 Sastra, says tad-vijnanartham: "If you want to know the real problem of your life and if you want to be enlightened how to become Krsna conscious, how to become eternal, go back to home, back to Godhead, then you must approach the guru" No edit summary current
• 08:0208:02, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 People will be surprised, "How God consciousness begins with jihva?" That they do not know. Sastra says, sevonmukhe hi jihvadau. Jihva, the tongue, is the beginning of Krsna consciousness, God consciousness No edit summary current
• 07:5607:56, 23 July 2025 diff hist +3,410 People are surprised. They think the mind, speculative mind, is the beginning. No. Sastra says tongue is the beginning No edit summary current
• 07:5607:56, 23 July 2025 diff hist +3,221 Now sastra says jalaja nava-laksani. There are nine hundred thousand forms of aquatics. So what the scientist says? How many there are? No edit summary current
• 07:5607:56, 23 July 2025 diff hist +5 Narada Muni said, "Even by sentiments one gives up his occupational duty, & surrenders to Krsna, even not understanding fully . . ." So sastra says, "What is the loss there?" And if one is performing his material duties very perfectly, then what is gain No edit summary current
• 07:5307:53, 23 July 2025 diff hist +10,011 Krsna and all the sastras say that our only obligation is to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. If we take to His service, we are no longer obliged to anyone. We are free No edit summary current
• 07:5107:51, 23 July 2025 diff hist +7,407 Just like you are sacrificing money for being cured from the diseased condition, similarly, sastra says that this human life is meant for tapasya, tapasya. Tapo divyam yena suddhyet sattvam No edit summary current
• 07:1207:12, 23 July 2025 diff hist +1,658 I cannot go beyond what the sastra says No edit summary current
• 07:1207:12, 23 July 2025 diff hist +3,875 In the previous chapter (BG 1) he (Arjuna) was arguing with Krsna, giving evidences from sastra on the bodily concept of life. But he does not know the sastras say, - One who is in the bodily concept of life, he is no better than an ass or cow No edit summary current
• 07:1207:12, 23 July 2025 diff hist +14,941 In one life they may be very opulent. Then they don't care about the next life. They think, "Let me eat, drink and be merry." This is going on all over the world, but the sastras say that people are making mistakes in this way No edit summary current
• 07:1107:11, 23 July 2025 diff hist +7,367 If you understand that "This is my disease, repetition of birth, death, old age and disease," you'll have to sacrifice. Like you are sacrificing money for being cured from the diseased condition, similarly, sastra says this human life is meant for tapasya No edit summary current
• 07:1007:10, 23 July 2025 diff hist +5,511 If you dress a dog very nicely, does it mean that he becomes a human being? A dressed dog, that's all. Dog dancing. So sastra says that if one is still in the bodily concepts of life, then he's no better than animal No edit summary current
• 07:1007:10, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 If you become a surrendered soul to God - that means you become a devotee - then you are religionist. Otherwise you are criminal. Therefore sastra says that you should follow the great devotees. That is religion No edit summary current
• 06:5906:59, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 If one takes to Krsna consciousness, tyaktva sva-dharmam caranambujam hareh, and practices for some time regularly, then again, due to bad association or by something he falls down, so sastra says that, "What is the loss? There is no loss No edit summary current
• 06:5806:58, 23 July 2025 diff hist +2,770 Hina means without. And bala means strength. So sastra says, nayam atma bala-hinena labhyah - One who is less strong, or one who has no support of the strength, then he cannot make any progress in spiritual self-realization No edit summary current
• 06:5706:57, 23 July 2025 diff hist +10,070 Generally, people go to church, to temple, for some material benefit. Therefore sastra says, "No, no. Dharma is not meant for that purpose." People have become materialistic more and more No edit summary current
• 06:5406:54, 23 July 2025 diff hist +31,248 For those who are advancing in spiritual life - not only for them but for everyone - the sastras, scriptures, say that you should not sit in a secluded place even with your mother, even with your daughter or your sister No edit summary current
• 05:5005:50, 23 July 2025 diff hist +4,608 Following bhagavata-dharma has been made extremely easy in this age of Kali. The sastra says: one need only chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra No edit summary current
• 05:4905:49, 23 July 2025 diff hist +8 Every sastra says, vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah (BG 15.15).All the Vedic literatures, they aim at understanding Krsna No edit summary current
• 05:4305:43, 23 July 2025 diff hist +7,316 Even if he does so, or he is a very nice brahmana, nice ksatriya, so he has done his duty very nicely, but he has not taken to Krsna consciousness. Sastra says, what he has gained? What he has gained No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 23 July 2025 diff hist +6,915 Do you think that if you try to become more happy, you will be happy? No. The sastra says that you get miserable condition of life without hankering after this. Nobody hankers after that all miseries may come upon him No edit summary current
• 04:5904:59, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 Buddhi means intelligence. Avisuddha means unclean, contaminated. They think that they have become liberated, but sastra says no, it is not yet liberated. Avisuddha-buddhaya. Still there is contamination No edit summary current
• 04:5804:58, 23 July 2025 diff hist +23,935 Bird, beast, insect, fish - everywhere the same struggle: "Where is food? Where is sex? Where is shelter? How to defend?" So the sastra (scripture) says we have done these things in many, many past lives No edit summary current
• 04:5804:58, 23 July 2025 diff hist +9,540 Bhajan means execution of devotional service. Gradually it should be strong and ripe. But if one falls down, even it is not ripened, bhajann apakvo, sastra says that "What is the wrong there? What is the loss there? Because he has begun this line of DS No edit summary current
• 04:5704:57, 23 July 2025 diff hist +3,493 Because we are so weak in this age and there are so many problems, it is very, very difficult to make a solution. Therefore sastra says that, You simply take to the chanting of the holy name of God No edit summary current
• 04:5704:57, 23 July 2025 diff hist +5 A secret mantra we don't approve. It must be very open. There is no secret. The sastra never says that mantra can be secret No edit summary current
• 04:4404:44, 23 July 2025 diff hist +5 At the present moment, the Kali-yuga, the sastra says, almost everyone is a sudra because nobody can live independently No edit summary current
• 04:1004:10, 23 July 2025 diff hist +6,816 You want to solve something; instead of solving, you'll create so many problems. This is material life. Because our life is not meant for solving problems and creating problems. Our life is meant for understanding God No edit summary current
• 04:1004:10, 23 July 2025 diff hist +9 You want to solve something; instead of solving, you'll create so many problems. This is material life No edit summary current
• 04:0904:09, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 Why we are meeting so many problems? This is due to this body. This is due to this body. Therefore the real culture is, real education is, how to stop this repetition of body No edit summary current
• 04:0904:09, 23 July 2025 diff hist +9 Why there should be problem in human society? Because they have given up the real principles. They are simply animals. Therefore there are so many problems No edit summary current
• 04:0904:09, 23 July 2025 diff hist +13,024 When Arjuna was perplexed by so many problems involving whether to fight or not, he accepted Lord Krsna as his spiritual master. It was also a case of the supreme spiritual master instructing Arjuna about the constitutional position of the living entity No edit summary current
• 03:2703:27, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 We should always remember that this Krsna consciousness movement is meant for purifying the human society. Unless the human society is purified, there will be so many problems and disturbances in the human society No edit summary current
• 03:2603:26, 23 July 2025 diff hist +3,626 We have forgotten our relationship with God. Therefore our life is problematic. We are facing so many problems. So again, if we revive our original consciousness, then we shall become happy No edit summary current
• 03:2603:26, 23 July 2025 diff hist +32,363 We are turning the world into a materialistic and hellish place, and because we are ignorant of our constitutional position, we have created innumerable problems, just as in dreams we create so many problems. But in actuality there are no problems No edit summary current
• 03:2603:26, 23 July 2025 diff hist +6,257 Uddhava said, "I think that if the killing of Jarasandha is undertaken first, that will automatically solve many other problems" No edit summary current
• 03:2503:25, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 This is maya; we are creating facilities, but these facilities in their turn are creating so many problems No edit summary current
• 03:2403:24, 23 July 2025 diff hist +5,238 This ignorance about the eternity of the living being and the change of covering in the material world has played havoc in the structure of modern human society. Consequently there are many problems, multiplied by various plans of modernized man No edit summary current
• 03:2403:24, 23 July 2025 diff hist +9 This human form of life is meant for understanding God only. There is no other business. But instead of understanding God we have created so many problems, and our life is being spoiled in solving all these problems. That is the difficulty No edit summary current