User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda

7 October 2025

• 03:3003:30, 7 October 2025 diff hist +41,304 There are people who believe the body to be the self, & they are engaged in many fruitive activities, including bathing rituals & ordinary worldly activities. However, when they come in contact with a pure devotee, they engage in transcendental service No edit summary current
• 03:3003:30, 7 October 2025 diff hist +10,733 There are many contaminations within the heart, and the people in this age are engaged in many sinful activities - illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication and gambling No edit summary current
• 03:2903:29, 7 October 2025 diff hist +4,171 There are different stages of perfection according to different persons' objectives. Generally people are karmis, for they engage in activities of sense gratification No edit summary current
• 03:2703:27, 7 October 2025 diff hist +4,574 Since people were engaged in useless occupations which would continue their material existence, Lord Siva, in the form of Lord Advaita, appealed to the Supreme Lord to appear as Lord Caitanya to deliver these illusioned souls No edit summary current
• 03:2703:27, 7 October 2025 diff hist +7,694 Simply people are engaged by sense gratification like cats and dogs. That's all. This is material atmosphere. And in the spiritual atmosphere there is no sense gratification; there is only activity for satisfying the Supreme, Krsna No edit summary current
• 03:2503:25, 7 October 2025 diff hist +8,471 Regular rainfall will be possible when people are engaged in yajna. Otherwise, nature will control rainfall. For want of rain, all your arrangement - mechanical arrangement, tractors, and all these - will all fail if there is rainfall, no rainfall No edit summary current
• 03:2503:25, 7 October 2025 diff hist +3,185 Please also describe eternal time, which is a representation of Your (Kapila's) form and by whose influence people in general engage in the performance of pious activities No edit summary current
• 03:2403:24, 7 October 2025 diff hist +5,959 People should be trained, as Krsna said in the beginning, that catur-varnyam maya srstam guna-karma-vibhagasah (BG 4.13). The four classes of men, according to quality, they should be engaged in different types of occupation, guna-karma No edit summary current

6 October 2025

• 08:1708:17, 6 October 2025 diff hist +4,855 People in general all engage in foolish acts, not in the really beneficial activities enunciated directly by You for their guidance No edit summary current
• 08:1708:17, 6 October 2025 diff hist +6,706 People engage in the activities of religion, economic development and sense gratification, and ultimately they work with an idea that they are going to become one with the Supreme Lord (mukti). But bhakti is transcendental to all these activities No edit summary current
• 08:1608:16, 6 October 2025 diff hist +2,279 People engage in academic kalakendra No edit summary current
• 08:1608:16, 6 October 2025 diff hist +8,535 People are simply are engaged for eating, sleeping, mating. They have no time for Krsna consciousness. This condemned civilization must be stopped No edit summary current
• 08:1508:15, 6 October 2025 diff hist +7,584 People are engaged to earn money, working very hard day and night. So if there is such thing that simply by pleasing Krsna you can get as much money as you want, then why shall I earn money? No edit summary current
• 08:1508:15, 6 October 2025 diff hist +5,959 People are engaged in that way. Simply trying to get happiness and avoid distress, and forgetting that he has got a mission of life, to realize his self and go back to home, back to Godhead. This is the defect of the modern civilization No edit summary
• 08:1408:14, 6 October 2025 diff hist −15 People are engaged formally. Their temple, church, is sometimes simply formality. Their real business is how to satisfy their senses No edit summary current
• 08:1408:14, 6 October 2025 diff hist +6,052 People are engaged, "Work hard, earn money and be engaged in sense gratification." That's all. This is the whole program, at the present moment is going on. That cannot bring any peace and prosperity to the society. We have to perform yajnas No edit summary current
• 08:1308:13, 6 October 2025 diff hist +4,707 People are after dharma, artha, kama and moksa. Generally they perform religious activities to achieve some material gain, and they engage in material activity for sense gratification No edit summary current
• 08:1308:13, 6 October 2025 diff hist +4,208 People all over the world are madly engaging in sense gratification and in this way spoiling their human lives, with the risk that in the next life they may become animals or less. Human society should be saved from such a risky civilization No edit summary current
• 07:2507:25, 6 October 2025 diff hist +4,758 Nunam pramattah kurute vikarma. Because of uncontrolled senses, people fully engage in sinful activities by which they get a body full of suffering No edit summary
• 07:2507:25, 6 October 2025 diff hist +7,584 My Guru Maharaja was lamenting, "So only kanistha-adhikaris, we are keeping simply people in the kanistha-adhikara and engaging them in the arcana-marga." So that is not required No edit summary current
• 07:2507:25, 6 October 2025 diff hist +5,287 My Guru Maharaja is described as rupanuga-viruddha-apasiddhanta-dhvanta-harine. He was strictly to follow the rupanuga principle. Rupanuga principle, Srila Rupa Gosvami directs in the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu - You some way or other engage people in KC No edit summary current
• 07:2407:24, 6 October 2025 diff hist +3,074 My dear Thakura Haridasa, in this Age of Kali most people are bereft of Vedic culture, and therefore they are called yavanas. They are concerned only with killing cows and brahminical culture. In this way they all engage in sinful acts No edit summary current
• 07:2407:24, 6 October 2025 diff hist +3,314 Misguided by the blind leaders of society, people consider the body to be everything, and they are engaged in trying to keep the body materially comfortable No edit summary current
• 07:2307:23, 6 October 2025 diff hist +5,831 Lord Caitanya made this process (of reaching the highest perfection of knowledge) very easy: He asked people simply to chant Hare Krsna & to engage in the devotional service of God & eat the remnants of foodstuff offered to the Deity. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 07:2307:23, 6 October 2025 diff hist +4,511 Our Krsna consciousness movement aims at engaging people in Lord Krsna's service. That will help them become freed from all material contamination and sinful activity. This is confirmed in Bhagavad-gita (4.10): vita-raga-bhaya-krodhah No edit summary current
• 07:2207:22, 6 October 2025 diff hist +4,360 One of the symptoms of the disease is that all of the people are engaged in artificial work, and the whole world is interdependent No edit summary current
• 07:2207:22, 6 October 2025 diff hist +24,440 One must give people good engagements, and then they will automatically give up the bad ones. For example, we instruct our students, "No intoxication," and they immediately give it up, even though the government has failed to stop them. This is practical No edit summary current
• 07:2107:21, 6 October 2025 diff hist +14,653 Nunam pramattah kurute vikarmah (SB 5.5.4): people have become mad with sense gratification, and therefore they engage in all sorts of forbidden things No edit summary current
• 06:4606:46, 6 October 2025 diff hist +3,794 Lord Buddha appeared when people were too much engaged in animal sacrifice without any purpose. Actually it was for eating only. In the name of Vedic sacrifice they were killing animals and eating - a propagation for animal eating No edit summary current
• 06:4606:46, 6 October 2025 diff hist +34 Let people be engaged. Machine means one man or two man working... That will mean unemployment No edit summary current
• 06:4506:45, 6 October 2025 diff hist +4,453 Krsna consciousness movement is a protest to the modern way of civilization. The leaders of the modern society, they want that people should be engaged in working like dogs and hogs and asses No edit summary current
• 06:4406:44, 6 October 2025 diff hist +5,645 In this way people engage in various laborious activities, and their attachment for body, home, family, nation and community becomes more and more deep-rooted No edit summary current
• 06:4406:44, 6 October 2025 diff hist +6,667 In this material world people are engaged in different activities simply to achieve a little success in sense gratification No edit summary current
• 06:4306:43, 6 October 2025 diff hist +8,107 In this material world, people in general engage in sense-gratificatory activities, which keep them bound up by the laws of the material nature. Indeed, the more a person engages in such activities, the more he expands his life in material existence No edit summary current
• 06:4206:42, 6 October 2025 diff hist +9 In this godless civilization, if a president engages people somehow or other in devotional service or the awakening of Krsna consciousness, he renders the very best service to the citizens No edit summary current
• 06:1906:19, 6 October 2025 diff hist +3,900 In the Vedic literatures it is recommended that in Kali-yuga people engage in glorifying the Lord by chanting the holy name of Krsna (kirtanad eva krsnasya mukta-sangah param vrajet (SB 3.31.1)) without offense No edit summary current
• 06:1906:19, 6 October 2025 diff hist +8,189 In the Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 5.5.3) Lord Rsabhadeva states that one who is determined to become a pure devotee avoids associating with the general mass of people, who are simply engaged in the animal propensities of eating, sleeping, defending, & mating No edit summary current
• 06:1806:18, 6 October 2025 diff hist +9,396 In the modern civilization, 99.9 percent of the people are engaged in the activities of sense gratification under the flags of industrialism, economic development, altruism, political activism, and so on No edit summary current
• 06:1806:18, 6 October 2025 diff hist +9,208 In the language of the Bhagavad-gita, people who are engaged in gross sense gratification are mudhas - asses. The ass is a symbol of stupidity. Those who simply engage in the profitless pursuit of sense gratification are worshiping avidya No edit summary current
• 06:1806:18, 6 October 2025 diff hist +5,137 In perfect human society, people are situated in the orders of varna and asrama and are engaged in worshiping Lord Visnu by their respective activities No edit summary current
• 06:1706:17, 6 October 2025 diff hist +2,903 In materialistic life, people must certainly engage in activities of animosity. Materialistic life is therefore compared to samsara-davanala, a blazing forest fire that automatically takes place No edit summary current
• 05:5805:58, 6 October 2025 diff hist +4,680 If we see that people are engaged only in these four business - eating, sleeping, mating and defending - he is cat and dog No edit summary current
• 05:5705:57, 6 October 2025 diff hist +4,405 If, therefore, the living entity again associates with the path of unrighteousness, influenced by sensually minded people engaged in the pursuit of sexual enjoyment and the gratification of the palate, he again goes to hell as before No edit summary current
• 05:5705:57, 6 October 2025 diff hist +5,768 He (pure devotee) is not interested in the praise or condemnation of people engaged in material activities No edit summary current
• 05:5605:56, 6 October 2025 diff hist +2,908 Generally when people are engaged in sinful or pious activities, they are not perfect in knowledge of devotional service No edit summary current
• 05:5605:56, 6 October 2025 diff hist +3,889 Generally people engaged in service are always seeking some post under the government or the supreme enjoyer of the state No edit summary current
• 05:5505:55, 6 October 2025 diff hist +3,605 Generally, people are attached to sense enjoyment and so aspire for life on the heavenly planets. Therefore, they engage themselves in charitable or other pious activities No edit summary current
• 05:5505:55, 6 October 2025 diff hist +3,474 Fruitive work, in which almost all people in general are engaged, is always painful either in the beginning or at the end. It can be fruitful only when made subservient to the devotional service of the Lord No edit summary current
• 05:0205:02, 6 October 2025 diff hist +4,137 For example, your Christian religion. Lord Jesus Christ says: "Thou shall not kill." But I think cent percent of the Christian people, they are very much engaged in killing. So they are, disobeying the laws of God. Don't you think No edit summary current
• 05:0205:02, 6 October 2025 diff hist +21,983 Formerly the kings (rajas) were great saintly persons. They were not ordinary people engaged in drinking and dancing. They were all rsis (sages), up to the time of Maharaja Pariksit No edit summary current