User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda

6 October 2025

• 05:0205:02, 6 October 2025 diff hist +3,771 Foolish people engage in material activities as if they will live forever and enjoy material advancement, but actually there is no material advancement No edit summary current
• 05:0105:01, 6 October 2025 diff hist +4,612 Everything is complete by the arrangement of Krsna. Simply we mismanage. That's all. I do not know why people are engaged with politics, fighting, and so on, so on. By Krsna's grace everything is complete. You eat sufficiently, you be strong and chant HK No edit summary current
• 05:0005:00, 6 October 2025 diff hist +4,620 Even fifty years ago, I saw that in the villages of Bengal and the suburbs of Calcutta, people engaged in hearing Srimad-Bhagavatam daily when all their activities ended, or at least in the evening before going to bed. Everyone would hear the Bhagavatam No edit summary current
• 04:5904:59, 6 October 2025 diff hist +4,992 Especially in the human form of body, one's duty is to act in such a way that he can release himself from his encagement, but without the instructions of Narada or his representative in the disciplic succession, people blindly engage in bodily activities No edit summary current
• 04:0804:08, 6 October 2025 diff hist +3,136 Engaging people in sankirtan, either in a musical way or by spiritual discussion, people will come to their senses and stop harmful activities; gradually they will become Vaishnavas No edit summary current
• 04:0804:08, 6 October 2025 diff hist +6,402 Different classes of people in the social system are engaged in various professions, and when one inquires as to the well-being of a particular person, he should do so on the basis of that person's occupation No edit summary current
• 04:0804:08, 6 October 2025 diff hist +4,703 Dharma-yuddha means right, righteous fighting, and adharma-yuddha means political. That is... One politician, he wants to keep his position, he engages the people in fighting, declares war. That is another thing No edit summary current
• 04:0704:07, 6 October 2025 diff hist +3,650 Devotees should preach the gospel of devotional service and thus engage people in practical service to the Deity No edit summary current
• 04:0704:07, 6 October 2025 diff hist +4,265 Caitanya Mahaprabhu had to lead a civil disobedience movement against the propaganda of the so-called followers of Vedic principles. These people are described as karma jada-smartas, which indicates that they are priests engaged in ritualistic ceremonies No edit summary current
• 03:5903:59, 6 October 2025 diff hist +21,426 Berlin is a very nice city and London is also a very nice city, but why do the people engage in fighting and bombing every other city? Why has this happened? Because they have lost their interest in Visnu, God No edit summary current
• 03:5903:59, 6 October 2025 diff hist +1,771 Before leaving, Madhavendra Puri made all arrangements for regular Deity worship, and he engaged different people in various duties. Then, taking up the order of Gopala, he started for Bengal No edit summary current
• 03:5803:58, 6 October 2025 diff hist +14,389 Because most people are fallen and because there is no time to elevate them by a gradual process, the best course, according to Caitanya, is to let them remain in whatever condition they are in but to engage them in hearing of the activities of the God No edit summary current
• 03:5803:58, 6 October 2025 diff hist +4,230 A sane person, by attaining old age, will become fearful of death. Foolish people engage in material activities as if they will live forever and enjoy material advancement, but actually there is no material advancement No edit summary current
• 03:5203:52, 6 October 2025 diff hist +29 A leader should train the people as brahmanas, ksatriyas, vaisyas and sudras and engage them in various occupational duties, thus helping them progress toward Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
• 03:5103:51, 6 October 2025 diff hist +4,630 At the present moment neither the king nor the governing body is interested in seeing that the people are engaged in the devotional service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They are more interested in advancing the machinery of sense gratification No edit summary current
• 03:5103:51, 6 October 2025 diff hist +15,054 At the present moment in Kali-yuga, people are not well educated. They are simply engaged in earning money to fill the belly No edit summary current
• 03:5003:50, 6 October 2025 diff hist +4,343 At the present moment human society is overly influenced by the mode of passion, and consequently people are engaged in working in big factories. They forget how distressful it is to live in such places No edit summary current
• 03:5003:50, 6 October 2025 diff hist +6,908 At the present moment groups of people are engaged in welfare activities in terms of society, community or nation. There is even an attempt in the form of the United Nations for world-help activity No edit summary current
• 03:5003:50, 6 October 2025 diff hist +40,823 Another meaning of the word nirgrantha is "a foolish person." Thus even birds, bees and foolish people engage in the service of the Supreme Lord when they are favored by the pure devotee No edit summary current
• 03:4903:49, 6 October 2025 diff hist +3,848 Although there is an immense treasure-house of knowledge, people are engaged in reading useless literature that will give them no information on how to get out of the clutches of maya No edit summary current
• 03:4803:48, 6 October 2025 diff hist +4,839 Actually we see that different people are engaged in different ways; therefore there must be divisions according to work No edit summary current

5 October 2025

• 14:2614:26, 5 October 2025 diff hist +2,579 Srimati Radharani first smears Her body with the paste of Krsna's affection for Her. She then takes Her bath in the water of mercy No edit summary current
• 14:2614:26, 5 October 2025 diff hist +3,494 Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 10.84.13) states - A human being who goes to a place of pilgrimage simply to take a bath rather than to meet men of transcendental knowledge there is to be considered like an ass or a cow No edit summary current
• 14:2614:26, 5 October 2025 diff hist +5,451 Srila Rupa Gosvami recommends that even if one cannot live permanently on the banks of Radha-kunda, he should at least take a bath in the lake as many times as possible No edit summary current
• 14:2614:26, 5 October 2025 diff hist +5,870 Spiritually, even if you still go in the interior of village, poor man, living in a cottage, he is taking bath three times and doing his professional work, a cultivator, having little food, and chanting Hare Krsna. They are happy actually No edit summary current
• 14:2614:26, 5 October 2025 diff hist +6,358 Some of them (ladies) were in the bathroom taking their baths, but without properly finishing their baths, they went to see Krsna and Balarama. Some were engaged in feeding their children breast milk, but they put their babies aside and went to see them No edit summary current
• 14:2514:25, 5 October 2025 diff hist +5,507 Sometimes within the water there are many stools and other dirty things which are washed away from neighboring mills and factories, but still thousands of men take baths in the Ganges water, and they are very healthy as well as spiritually inclined No edit summary current
• 14:2414:24, 5 October 2025 diff hist +3,621 Sometimes we see a devotee offering Ganges water to the Ganges. After taking his bath in the Ganges, a devotee takes a palmful of water and offers it back to the Ganges No edit summary current
• 14:2414:24, 5 October 2025 diff hist +6,268 Sometimes the wives of Lord Krsna, who were all goddesses of fortune, would embrace the Lord in the midst of the water while swimming or taking a bath No edit summary current
• 14:2314:23, 5 October 2025 diff hist +4,744 Sometimes they (yogis) go early in the morning to Jagannatha Puri, to Ramesvaram, to Haridwar, and take their bathing in different Ganges water and others. That is called laghima-siddhi. He became very light No edit summary current
• 14:2114:21, 5 October 2025 diff hist +5,970 Sometimes he would take his bath in the River Godavari. After taking his bath he would sit in a secluded place on the bank of the river, and, by practicing the yoga exercises of pranayama, the usual breathing exercise, he would concentrate his mind No edit summary current
• 13:5113:51, 5 October 2025 diff hist +17,751 Snanam eva prasadhanam. In the Kali-yuga it will be very difficult even to take a bath No edit summary current
• 13:5113:51, 5 October 2025 diff hist +5,801 Sinful men take their baths in the waters of the Ganges and Yamuna at places such as Prayaga, Vrndavana and Mathura. In this way they are purified, but their sinful actions and reactions remain at the holy places of pilgrimage No edit summary current
• 13:5013:50, 5 October 2025 diff hist +3,125 Simply because we rise early, take bath, chant sixteen rounds and strive with every activity to please Krsna - this is what impresses others No edit summary current
• 13:5013:50, 5 October 2025 diff hist −11 Saucam, cleanliness. There are two kinds of cleanliness: external and internal. External cleanliness by taking bath with soap and other cleansing material No edit summary current
• 13:5013:50, 5 October 2025 diff hist +1,718 Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya said, "Please go, my Lord, to see Lord Jagannatha. After taking my bath, I shall go there and then return" No edit summary current
• 13:4913:49, 5 October 2025 diff hist −11 Sankara-sampradaya, they perform very austere penance and principles. They take three times bath at least, three times. And no clothing; simply one loincloth No edit summary current
• 13:4913:49, 5 October 2025 diff hist +5,994 Raghunatha dasa Gosvami was offering obeisances flat hundred times and taking bath three times. Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, those who have gone to Radha-Kunda, you have seen, the extreme tapasya. He was very rich man's son No edit summary current
• 13:4813:48, 5 October 2025 diff hist +3,946 Raghunatha dasa Gosvami was fasting, but he was taking thrice bathing and offering obeisances hundred times. His regular activities was not stopped. And he was taking every alternate day a little quantity of butter. That's all No edit summary current
• 13:4813:48, 5 October 2025 diff hist +5,987 Raghunatha dasa Gosvami, he was a very rich man's son. So he showed us the example, what is tapasya. He gradually reduced his eating, every alternate days a little butter. That's all. Ragunatha dasa Gosvami. And still, he was taking three times bath No edit summary current
• 13:4813:48, 5 October 2025 diff hist +7,248 Putting flower garlands on His (Krsna) neck, dressing His hair, getting Him to lie down on the bed & assisting Him in taking His bath. Thus they (Krsna's wives) served always in every respect, especially when Krsna was eating No edit summary current
• 13:4613:46, 5 October 2025 diff hist +5,678 Purify the body by taking bath, similarly, the wealth is purified by the charity process, giving it to the brahmins and Vaisnavas. Just like Rupa Gosvami No edit summary current
• 12:3412:34, 5 October 2025 diff hist +3,363 Practice yoga - solitary and sacred place. What is this circle we see in morning? Simply "Chai, chai, chai." And cigarette, bidi, and talking nonsense, drinking - no arrangement. Vedic system, still in India in morning they take bath, in the villages No edit summary current
• 12:3412:34, 5 October 2025 diff hist −11 Please keep fit with regular habits at least once a day take your bath and timely eat drink and sleep. Now you are married man you have got facility for sex life, but also this should be regulated No edit summary current
• 12:3412:34, 5 October 2025 diff hist +25 Over and above the other baths, the bath taken in the afternoon is taken in the nectar of full beauty. This nectar represents the personal qualities of beauty and luster. Thus there are three baths in different kinds of water No edit summary current
• 12:3312:33, 5 October 2025 diff hist +3,261 On the plea of taking a bath they (the great sages) came to meet Maharaja Pariksit because they could foresee that Srimad-Bhagavatam would be spoken by Sukadeva Gosvami. All of them wanted to take advantage of the great occasion No edit summary current
• 12:3312:33, 5 October 2025 diff hist +3,930 On the next day, Dvadasi, Nanda Maharaja went to take a bath in the Ganges and was arrested by one of the men of Varuna; then he was released by Lord Krsna. Then Nanda Maharaja, along with the cowherd men, was shown the spiritual sky No edit summary current
• 12:3312:33, 5 October 2025 diff hist +4,830 On the eleventh day of the full moon, Ekadasi, Maharaja Nanda observed fasting for the whole day, and just early in the morning of the next day, Dvadasi, he went to take a bath in the river Yamuna No edit summary current
• 12:3212:32, 5 October 2025 diff hist +2,649 One who chants the holy name is understood to have performed all kinds of austerities. He has studied all the Vedas, he has performed all the great sacrifices mentioned in the Vedas, & he has already taken his bath in all the holy places of pilgrimage No edit summary current
• 12:3212:32, 5 October 2025 diff hist +2,916 One should take bath three times. In India there is no difficulty. Even in Western countries you have got very good arrangement, hot water and cold water No edit summary current