User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda

4 October 2025

• 12:3812:38, 4 October 2025 diff hist +3,192 It is very cold at that time (during the month of Magha, January-February), but in spite of that a man who abides by the religious principles does not hesitate to take his bath (in the early morning). BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 12:3712:37, 4 October 2025 diff hist +3,617 It is therefore concluded that one who chants the holy name of the Lord should be understood to have performed all kinds of austerities and great sacrifices mentioned in the Vedas. He has already taken his bath in all the holy places of pilgrimage No edit summary current
• 12:3712:37, 4 October 2025 diff hist +2,273 It is still the system to go to places of pilgrimage and take a bath in the water there. In Vrndavana the people take baths in the River Yamuna. In other places, such as Prayaga, they take baths in the River Ganges No edit summary current
• 12:3712:37, 4 October 2025 diff hist +2,315 It is like the bathing of an elephant, for an elephant cleanses itself by taking a full bath, but then throws dust over its head and body as soon as it returns to the land No edit summary current
• 12:3612:36, 4 October 2025 diff hist +15,857 It is learned that this rsi (Bharadvaja), while taking bath in the Ganges, happened to meet Ghrtaci, one of the beautiful society girls of heaven, and thus he discharged semen, which was kept and preserved in an earthen pot and from which Drona was born No edit summary current
• 12:3612:36, 4 October 2025 diff hist +8,716 It is an old system among Indian girls and women that when they take a bath in the river they place their garments on the bank and dip into the water completely naked No edit summary current
• 12:3612:36, 4 October 2025 diff hist −11 In this way (refraining from sinful activities, taking bath and chant Hare Krsna) harijana can be made, but not that you pick up somebody nonsense and rubber-stamp this "harijana" No. There must be process No edit summary current
• 12:3512:35, 4 October 2025 diff hist +5,429 In this connection Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura writes that even great sages and great devotees like Narada and Sanaka do not get an opportunity to come to Radha-kunda to take their baths No edit summary current
• 12:3512:35, 4 October 2025 diff hist +4,758 In the winter we do not like taking a bath, but in the summer we wish to take a bath twice, thrice or more a day. Thus Krsna advises us not to be disturbed by such relativities and dualities when they come and go No edit summary current
• 07:2907:29, 4 October 2025 diff hist +3,168 In the province of Kulacala, there were rivers named Candravasa, Tamraparni and Vatodaka. King Malayadhvaja used to go to those pious rivers regularly and take his bath there No edit summary current
• 07:2807:28, 4 October 2025 diff hist +1,578 In the morning, after taking His bath in the Ganges, Nityananda Prabhu sat down with His associates beneath the same tree under which He had previously sat No edit summary current
• 07:2807:28, 4 October 2025 diff hist +2,167 In the Bhakti-ratnakara it is said that Sri Krsna and Balarama used to play at Khela-tirtha with the cowherd boys during the entire day. Mother Yasoda had to call Them to take Their baths and eat Their lunch No edit summary current
• 07:2707:27, 4 October 2025 diff hist +3,478 In spite of pinching cold, a brahmachary does not stop taking bath twice and in spite of excessive heat, a good house-wife does not stop working in kitchen No edit summary current
• 07:2707:27, 4 October 2025 diff hist +4,678 In India still you will find hundreds and thousands of men are going to take bath in the Ganges in the morning. They might have only one cloth and one napkin, still, they will take twice bath No edit summary current
• 07:2607:26, 4 October 2025 diff hist +18,185 In India even the poorest man will take an early morning bath every day, but when I came to America I saw that even taking one's daily bath may be a difficult thing and is often not the practice No edit summary current
• 07:2607:26, 4 October 2025 diff hist +4,988 In India, one can actually see that a person who takes a bath in the Ganges waters daily is almost free from all kinds of diseases No edit summary current
• 07:2607:26, 4 October 2025 diff hist +22,558 In America it may sometimes be very chilly in the morning, and that may make taking one's morning bath a little difficult. But does that mean that those who are devotees will stop taking their prescribed morning bath? No No edit summary current
• 06:4206:42, 4 October 2025 diff hist −11 Internal cleanliness, one must rise early in the morning, evacuate, then after taking bath must chant Hare Krsna mantra, see the mangala-aratrika. In this way one has to purify himself internally and externally No edit summary current
• 06:4206:42, 4 October 2025 diff hist −11 If you train your family in Krsna consciousness . . . just early in the morning rise up. You can control your family in that way, - Now get up. Take your bath. Have mangala-arati No edit summary current
• 06:4206:42, 4 October 2025 diff hist +7 If you touch the bone of an animal, you become immediately impure. You have to take bath. But this bone of animal, conchshell, is taken to the Deity room. It is so pure. So from our human consciousness we find contradiction in the Vedic instruction No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 4 October 2025 diff hist +8,910 If you simply go to the holy places and take bath in the water and finish your business... No. That is not recommended. Tirtha, going to tirtha means to find out a learned saintly person and take knowledge from him. That is tirtha No edit summary current
• 06:2806:28, 4 October 2025 diff hist −11 If you have evacuated nicely, you have washed inside and outside, taken your bath, then you'll feel always refreshed. And unless you feel refreshed, you cannot very nicely chant Hare Krsna maha-mantra or serve Krsna No edit summary current
• 06:2406:24, 4 October 2025 diff hist +5,061 If one would do this (accepting a spiritual master), he would feel completely refreshed, just as one feels after taking a bath No edit summary current
• 06:2406:24, 4 October 2025 diff hist +17,792 If one is actually in Krsna, he'll be truthful. Truthfulness. These are the qualities. Cleanliness, always clean, taking thrice bath. Cloth clean, mind clean, body clean, activities clean, desire clean, thinking clean - everything clean No edit summary current
• 06:2106:21, 4 October 2025 diff hist +5,377 If one goes to any place of pilgrimage, his first duty is to take a bath and sometimes to shave his head. That is the first business. After taking a bath, they worshiped the deities and then distributed charity in the holy places No edit summary current
• 06:2006:20, 4 October 2025 diff hist +4,418 If one by chance sees his (one who considers the body of Krsna to be material) face, he should at once take bath in the Ganges to rid himself of infection. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 06:1906:19, 4 October 2025 diff hist +2,952 If I say, outsider that, "You come early in the morning and you take your bath and engage yourself mangala-arati and do this," he will not be able. Unless one has developed a sense of service to Krsna, one cannot do it. It is not so easy No edit summary current
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• 05:4505:45, 4 October 2025 diff hist −13 If he cannot change his character, change his mind, then the punishment, or prayascittam, is apartha, useless. How useless? Manye, "I think it is as useless as kunjara-saucavat." Kunjara means elephant. Elephants taking bath No edit summary current
• 05:2405:24, 4 October 2025 diff hist +3,432 If he again takes up sinful activities, his bath in the Ganges is as good as that of the elephant, who nicely takes his bath in a river but later spoils the whole thing by covering himself with dust on the land No edit summary current
• 05:0005:00, 4 October 2025 diff hist +3,303 If after taking a bath in the Ganges or being washed of all sins, a man guards himself against committing further sinful acts, then certainly he is delivered No edit summary current
• 04:5904:59, 4 October 2025 diff hist +2,347 He was constantly sanctified by taking his bath in holy places, although he was in the dress of a mendicant and had no hair dressing nor a bed on which to lie. Thus he was always unseen by his various relatives No edit summary current
• 04:5904:59, 4 October 2025 diff hist +6,657 He must be always clean. Three times he must take bath at least. All the clothing, all, everything is clean. And then he must know all what is what, knowledge, and practical application, and firm faith in Krsna. This is brahmana No edit summary current
• 04:5904:59, 4 October 2025 diff hist +6,011 He (Pariksit) compared atonement to an elephant's bathing. The elephant may take a very nice bath in the river, but as soon as it comes onto the bank, it throws dirt all over its body No edit summary current
• 04:5804:58, 4 October 2025 diff hist +7,868 He (Narada) entered another palace and saw Lord Krsna preparing to take His bath No edit summary current
• 04:5704:57, 4 October 2025 diff hist +4,899 He (Nanda Maharaj) entered deep into the water of the river, but he was arrested immediately by one of the servants of Varunadeva. This servant brought Nanda Maharaja before the demigod Varuna & accused him of taking a bath in the river at the wrong time No edit summary current
• 04:3104:31, 4 October 2025 diff hist +25 He (Lord Ramacandra) performed ten Asvamedha sacrifices, and later on He disappeared while taking a bath in the Sarayu River No edit summary current
• 04:3004:30, 4 October 2025 diff hist +57 Hearing the discourse on absolute knowledge, His (Lord Caitanya's) mother was very much astonished and forced Him to take a bath No edit summary current
• 04:2904:29, 4 October 2025 diff hist +1,754 Hare Krsna. It is all respectively. You are all Vaisnavas. To take bath along with you is a great opportunity No edit summary current
• 04:2904:29, 4 October 2025 diff hist +5,379 Going to take their (members of yadu dynasty) baths in the place of pilgrimage at Kuruksetra, in observing the regulative principles during the solar eclipse, or in feeding the brahmanas in all their activities they simply thought of devotion to Krsna No edit summary current
• 04:2904:29, 4 October 2025 diff hist +25 Gayatri-mantra and other things you have to chant in a different atmosphere, three times, tri-sandha, after taking bath. There are so many rules and regulations. But this Hare Krsna maha-mantra you can chant anywhere and everywhere No edit summary current
• 04:2804:28, 4 October 2025 diff hist +3,244 From the spiritual point of view, people still go to take a bath in this lake (known as Bindu-sarovara). Actually, by taking a bath there, one becomes very healthy even from the material viewpoint No edit summary current
• 04:2804:28, 4 October 2025 diff hist +2,555 For ladies, taking a bath up to the neck is ordinarily prescribed, and they take a full bath only on certain occasions. On this occasion Devahuti took a full bath and washed her hair very nicely No edit summary current
• 04:0904:09, 4 October 2025 diff hist +3,308 Exactly at three o'clock they (these boys and girls) will rise, take bath, offer arati at four o'clock.. All regulative principles they will do. And that is the sign that they are free from the reaction of all sinful activities. This is the proof No edit summary current

3 October 2025

• 14:2114:21, 3 October 2025 diff hist +3,425 Every morning I go to the temple and see the Deity and offer obeisances, so I expect each and every one of my disciples should also follow what I have given in this connection, arising early, taking bath, attending mangal arati No edit summary current
• 14:2014:20, 3 October 2025 diff hist +3,096 Every devotee should take his bath early in the morning and decorate his body with tilaka. In Kali-yuga one can hardly acquire gold or jeweled ornaments, but the twelve tilaka marks on the body are sufficient as auspicious decorations to purify the body No edit summary current
• 14:2014:20, 3 October 2025 diff hist −11 Everywhere, all over the world, the young boys and girls, they have no fixture where they'll live, where they'll take their bath, where they'll eat or how they have sex. No No edit summary current
• 14:2014:20, 3 October 2025 diff hist +2,549 Everyone should be very alert in their behavior. Rising early in the morning, taking bath, be prepared for mangala aratik immediately. Then class No edit summary current
• 14:2014:20, 3 October 2025 diff hist −11 Even in the severest type of cold, they (Six Gosvamis) remain without dress, sitting, only smearing the body with some ashes. They'll take bath in the morning and cover the body with ashes - not very thick No edit summary current
• 14:2014:20, 3 October 2025 diff hist +7 Even if it is chilly, they must take this regular bath. The duty must be done, even if there is a little suffering involved. That is called tapasya, or austerity No edit summary current