User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda

24 July 2025

• 13:2313:23, 24 July 2025 diff hist +6,345 We become in touch with Krsna by chanting His name, Hare Krsna. That is the beginning of our connection with Krsna. Namadi. So sastra says, atah sri-krsna-namadi. Adi means beginning No edit summary current
• 12:5612:56, 24 July 2025 diff hist −12 We are thinking we are very happily living with nice wife and children and working very hard, getting money. But sastra says, - You are fallen in the dark well No edit summary current
• 12:5612:56, 24 July 2025 diff hist −12 We are thinking my nation, my community, my country, my society, my friend, my children, my wife, my body, they will give me protection. But sastra says that, This person, he is so mad that he is thinking that these things will give him protection No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 24 July 2025 diff hist +5,166 Visnu-sahasra-nama is recommended to be chanted by common man. But sastra says that after chanting one thousand of Lord Visnu's name - there are hundreds and thousands of names - it is equal to if you chant once Lord Rama's name No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 24 July 2025 diff hist +5,878 Vedic sastra says that to understand the divine you must have divine mercy No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 24 July 2025 diff hist +8 Three things there are for knowledge: sadhu, saintly person; sastra, scripture; and guru. If you accept somebody as guru, then you have to corroborate it whether sastra says that he is guru or any saintly person says that he is guru No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 24 July 2025 diff hist −12 The so-called rascal guru, he does not know also what is the aim of life, and if he makes some disciples, then sastra says, andha yathandair upaniyamanah: one blind man is trying to guide many other blind men. So what is the benefit? There is no benefit No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 24 July 2025 diff hist +5,523 The sastra says to protect yourself, that is a . . . what is called? In English there is a proverb: "Self-preservation is the first law of nature"? What is that? So self means soul. Your soul may not fall down. That is your first business No edit summary current
• 12:1212:12, 24 July 2025 diff hist +3,485 The sastra says that you should become free from becoming a good man or bad man. You must become a devotee. That is required. To become a good man of this world is not a very good qualification No edit summary current
• 12:1112:11, 24 July 2025 diff hist +6,345 The sastra says that controller or ruler is the same, and the Sanskrit synonym is isvara. Isvara means controller or ruler. So there are different kinds of controllers according to time, sphere No edit summary current
• 12:1112:11, 24 July 2025 diff hist +22,682 The sastra says that according to our particular mentality, we will get a particular kind of body. Although I may be in a comfortable position, if I keep myself in the mentality of a dog, I shall get my next life as a dog No edit summary current
• 12:1112:11, 24 July 2025 diff hist +5,917 The sastra says: "Whether one desires everything or nothing or desires to merge into the existence of the Lord, he is intelligent only if he worships Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, by rendering transcendental loving service" - SB 2.3.10 No edit summary current
• 12:1012:10, 24 July 2025 diff hist −12 The sastra says: "No other method will be successful." Kalau nasty eva nasty eva nasty eva gatir anyatha (CC Adi 17.21). Karma, jnana, yoga. So therefore three times stressed, nasty eva. "By karma you will not be successful." Time is different No edit summary current
• 12:0912:09, 24 July 2025 diff hist +2,910 The sastra says, tasmad gurum prapadyeta jijnasuh sreyah uttamam. One should accept guru when he is inquisitive, jijnasuh. What about? Sreyah uttamam. The Absolute or the auspicity beyond this material world. Uttamam. Tamah means darkness, ignorance No edit summary current
• 12:0912:09, 24 July 2025 diff hist +3,914 The sastra says, pravrttir esa bhutanam nivrttis tu maha-phala: one should not be carried away by the propensities of defective conditioned life; one should be guided by the principles of the sastras No edit summary current
• 12:0812:08, 24 July 2025 diff hist +8,344 The sastra says, na te viduh svartha-gatim hi visnum (SB 7.5.31). One achieves the perfection of life by becoming a devotee of Visnu, but people do not know this No edit summary current
• 12:0812:08, 24 July 2025 diff hist +31,204 The sastra says, everyone is born a fool: because he has this body, therefore he was born a fool. No being, either American or Indian, cat or dog, is free from this. You have come to disease, that's all No edit summary current
• 12:0812:08, 24 July 2025 diff hist +9,725 The sastra says, "You must have sex like this: once in a month and only for begetting children." So that is also tapasya No edit summary current

23 July 2025

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• 13:2113:21, 23 July 2025 diff hist +5,961 Anyone can take education as a brahmana or a ksatriya, as a vaisya. There is no... Vaisya doesn't require any education. Ksatriyas require little. Brahmana require. But that is free. Just find out a brahmana guru and he will give you free education No edit summary current
• 13:1913:19, 23 July 2025 diff hist +5,708 The sastra always says that "Don't work in such a way that you have to accept again body after death." That's, that is your business. Not that to accumulate crores and rupees and make a very good bank balance & skyscraper house & 3 or dozens of motorcars No edit summary current
• 13:1913:19, 23 July 2025 diff hist +7,267 The sastras say that this (dharma's) essential quality is to render eternal service, and the proper object of this service is the Supreme Truth, Lord Krsna, the Absolute Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
• 13:1913:19, 23 July 2025 diff hist +4,197 The sastras say that being initiated in such a sampradaya (which is not bona fide) is a useless waste of time, for it will never enable one to understand the real religious principles No edit summary current
• 13:1913:19, 23 July 2025 diff hist +35 The sastras say everywhere that Krsna is the original Personality of Godhead and that He has innumerable avataras, or incarnations No edit summary current
• 13:1813:18, 23 July 2025 diff hist +15,199 The sastras say, krsnas tu bhagavan svayam... (SB 1.3.28). isvarah paramah krsnah (Bs. 5.1). "Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead." We should take our lessons from the acaryas and the sastras No edit summary current
• 13:1813:18, 23 July 2025 diff hist +3,347 The essence of all scripture, asks you to do - the sastra says, the Lord says - sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja (BG 18.66): "Give up everything. Just surrender unto Me." This is the most confidential part of knowledge No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 23 July 2025 diff hist +5,548 The economic development's cow killing. Just see, rascal civilization. Don't be sorry. It is Sastra. Don't think that I am criticizing the Western civilization. It is sastra says. Very experienced No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 23 July 2025 diff hist +4,572 The atheist class see, what is the Jagannatha made of? Wood or stone? They're seeing wood and stone. Similarly, Vaisnavas also they're seeing "a American," "European." They are blind. Sastra says: If you think like that, then you become hellish No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 They are authorities who know exactly what is God, or Krsna, and they can direct. Therefore sastra says you have to follow the authorities. Otherwise it is not possible No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 There is no ksatriya; there is no Brahmin; there is no vaisya. Therefore the sastra says, "In the Kali-yuga there is only sudras"; there is no more brahmin. Of course, there is; not "no more," but very minor quantity No edit summary current
• 12:1712:17, 23 July 2025 diff hist +10,010 There are many rascals, they say you can chant any name. Why? Why the sastra says sravanam kirtanam visnoh, chanting and hearing about Visnu, not for any other god? No edit summary current
• 12:1612:16, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 So long one is under illusion, he's under the bodily concept of life. Therefore sastra says that one who is in the bodily concept of life, he's animal No edit summary current
• 12:1512:15, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 Sastra says that this is the sadhu. Now, you find out a sadhu and associate with him. Then your path of liberation will be open No edit summary current
• 12:1412:14, 23 July 2025 diff hist +2,487 Sastra says that only for progeny there should be sex, otherwise no sex, "dharmaviruddho bhutesu kamo 'smi." No "indriyartha," for sense gratification there should be no sex. But, this sterilization is for sense gratification. That is most sinful No edit summary current
• 09:2509:25, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 Sastra says that if one is in bodily concept of life, he is no better than the animal. Because the dog, it does not know that beyond this body, the dog is there, he is a living entity, he is a soul, he is Brahman, part and parcel of the Supreme Brahman No edit summary current
• 09:2509:25, 23 July 2025 diff hist +3,135 Sastra says that every living entity is one ten-thousandth part of the tip of the hair. Everyone has seen the tip of the hair, but he has no idea how to divide it into ten thousand part No edit summary current
• 09:2509:25, 23 July 2025 diff hist +5 Sastra says that don't bother about this so-called distress and happiness. They are already fixed up. If you have got some energy, please utilize it how to develop in Krsna consciousness. Don't spoil your energy for so-called distress and happiness No edit summary current
• 09:1809:18, 23 July 2025 diff hist +5,458 Sastra says that dharmena hinah pasubhih samanah. If in the human society there is no culture of religion, then it is animal society. It is not human society No edit summary current
• 09:1809:18, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 Sastra says that, "Everyone, every living entity, has got a general tendency for these things: sex life, meat-eating and drinking." Then where is the need of sastric injunction? That sastric injunction is there not to encourage them, but to restrict them No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 Sastra says no - you should not sit in a secluded place even with your mother, sister or daughter, because the senses are so strong that even though you may be very moral, you may still be attracted by sex No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 23 July 2025 diff hist +4,430 Sastra says even if you have got material desires, even if you are not suddha bhakta. What to speak of suddha bhakta , even if you are an enemy of Krsna , somehow or other go to Krsna No edit summary
• 09:1709:17, 23 July 2025 diff hist −16 Sastra says - unless you surrender to Krsna, Hari, there is no question of salvation No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 Sastra says - One should not be guru if he cannot deliver the disciple from the chain of birth, death, old age and disease No edit summary current
• 09:1609:16, 23 July 2025 diff hist +4,741 Sastra says - Don't waste your valuable time in that way (by finding out cure for diseases). Try to understand God. Use your intelligence for this purpose No edit summary current
• 08:5808:58, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 Sastra says. You conjecture, but we don't conjecture. We simply repeat what is said in the sastra No edit summary current
• 08:5808:58, 23 July 2025 diff hist +5,080 Sastra says. . . visayah khalu sarvatah syat (SB 11.9.29): "In any form of life you'll get full facilities for the bodily necessities of life." Just see the birds & bees. They have no anxiety for maintaining the body or fulfilling the necessities of life No edit summary current
• 08:5708:57, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 Sastra says, You are destined to certain type of miserable condition of life, certain type of so-called happy life. That will automatically come and go, just like seasonal changes. Agamapayino 'nityas tams titiksasva bharata No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 23 July 2025 diff hist −12 Sastra says, Vedanta says, sastra-caksusah. Pasyanti jnana-caksusah (BG 15.9) in the Bhagavad-gita. Pasyanti jnana-caksusa: eyes should be enlightened by knowledge. That is real eyes. These blunt eyes is not eyes. Therefore guru is worshiped No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 23 July 2025 diff hist +4,696 Sastra says, that, These four necessities of life you'll get, any form of life. Any insignificant form or very important form, it doesn't matter. You'll get all . . . this is arranged." You have no anxiety for that. Krsna has given you No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 23 July 2025 diff hist +9,262 Sastra says, No, no. You live with the minimum necessities. Don't increase your necessities unnecessarily No edit summary current