User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda

4 December 2025

• 11:5611:56, 4 December 2025 diff hist −8 The royal dress is suitable for a king or ksatriya, but when a lower-class man artificially dresses himself as a king, his real identity is disclosed by the challenge of a bona fide ksatriya like Maharaja Pariksit No edit summary current
• 11:5611:56, 4 December 2025 diff hist −6 The living entity is described as isvara (in BG 15.8), the controller of his own body. If he likes, he can change his body to a higher grade, and if he likes he can move to a lower class. Minute independence is there. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 11:5611:56, 4 December 2025 diff hist +9 The ksatriya, or the man who is qualified to protect the sufferers, is meant to rule the state. Untrained lower-class men, or men without ambition to protect the sufferers, cannot be placed on the seat of an administrator No edit summary current
• 11:5511:55, 4 December 2025 diff hist +9 The Kalawaras generally take wine and other intoxicants. Although they are vaisyas, they are considered to belong to a lower class No edit summary current
• 11:5411:54, 4 December 2025 diff hist +4 Stri means women, sudra means the lower class of civilized human society, and brahma-bandhu means persons who are born in the families of brahmanas but do not follow the rules and regulations carefully No edit summary current
• 11:5411:54, 4 December 2025 diff hist −15 She (Devahuti) was his (Manu's) daughter and at the same time the sister of ksatriyas; she did not come from a lower-class family. Manu therefore offered her to Kardama as just suitable for his purpose No edit summary current
• 11:5311:53, 4 December 2025 diff hist −2 People may make a distinction between lower class and higher class, but Krsna says, - Even though one may supposedly be of a lower class, that doesn't matter. If he surrenders to Me he is also eligible to come back home, back to Godhead No edit summary
• 11:4911:49, 4 December 2025 diff hist +13 Kuntidevi humbly submits, - You are meant for the paramahamsas and munis, those who are cleansed in heart and are engaged in bhakti-yoga. But what are we? We are simply women. We are in a lower class. How can we understand You No edit summary current
• 11:4911:49, 4 December 2025 diff hist −15 Just as a student is elevated from a lower class to a post-graduate class, the divisions of labor (catur-varnyam) are created to elevate us from the lowest stages of consciousness to the highest stage of KC. This process is a process of cooperation No edit summary current
• 11:4711:47, 4 December 2025 diff hist +4 Here (in BG 15.8) the living entity is described as isvara, the controller of his own body. If he likes, he can change his body to a higher grade, and if he likes he can move to a lower class. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 11:4411:44, 4 December 2025 diff hist +32 Candalas means the dog-eaters. In the human society, the division of higher class and lower class is determined by the standard of eating. So first-class men, just like brahmin, Vaisnava, they eat very purified prasadam No edit summary current
• 11:4311:43, 4 December 2025 diff hist −15 A child begotten by a ksatriya in the womb of a lower-class woman is called a svada, or dog-eater. All such offspring are considered extremely sinful, but the holy name of the SPG is so strong that all of them can be purified simply by chanting No edit summary current
• 11:4211:42, 4 December 2025 diff hist −20 Among people of the lower classes, intermarriage and the drinking of wine are allowed, for these people do not recognize such conduct as sinful among themselves No edit summary current
• 11:4211:42, 4 December 2025 diff hist −6 Although women, sudras, and vaisyas are ordinarily considered to belong to a lower class, when one becomes a devotee he or she goes beyond such designations No edit summary current
• 11:4011:40, 4 December 2025 diff hist +5 The American people have every thing in ample and the worker gets about Rs 100/- as daily wages and still there are thieves for want of character. The lower class men daily workers are cent percent drunkards No edit summary current
• 11:4011:40, 4 December 2025 diff hist +5 The antyajas, the men of the lower classes, are accustomed to stealing, drinking and illicit sex, but that is not considered sinful No edit summary current
• 11:3911:39, 4 December 2025 diff hist +5 Worthless men with the modes of lower-class men No edit summary current
• 11:3211:32, 4 December 2025 diff hist −77 Category:The Body of a Living Entity No edit summary current
• 11:2811:28, 4 December 2025 diff hist +12 The personal body of the living entity exists due to the presence of the spiritual spark. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 11:2711:27, 4 December 2025 diff hist +12 The subtle body of the living entity consists of the mind, the sense objects, the five senses that acquire knowledge and the five senses for acting in the material condition No edit summary current
• 11:2711:27, 4 December 2025 diff hist +41 The Supersoul within the body of a particular living entity, being a plenary portion of the Lord, is worshipable by the individual living entity No edit summary current
• 11:2711:27, 4 December 2025 diff hist +12 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is living within the body of a living entity, is the controller of all living entities all over the universe. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 11:2711:27, 4 December 2025 diff hist +23 The Vedic literature states that the Supersoul is sitting within the heart of every living entity’s body and is as big as a thumb No edit summary current
• 11:2711:27, 4 December 2025 diff hist −6 The words tisro devata indicate that the body of the living entity is made of three material elements - fire, earth and water No edit summary current
• 11:2711:27, 4 December 2025 diff hist +41 This is real knowledge. In the Bhagavata it is said, karmana daiva-netrena jantor deho upapatti (SB 3.31.1): "A living entity gets a body," upapatti - according to karma No edit summary current
• 11:2311:23, 4 December 2025 diff hist +23 While there is a vast difference between the ordinary living entity and his body, there is no difference between the Lord and His body because He is pure spirit. In other words, there is no distinction between His body and His soul No edit summary current
• 11:2311:23, 4 December 2025 diff hist +41 Yamaraja offers the living entity a body according to his karma. Karmana daiva-netrena (SB 3.31.1). We have already discussed the point that bodies are awarded according to one's qualifications No edit summary current
• 11:2211:22, 4 December 2025 diff hist −6 The living entity has a body, which is a very complicated combination of the material elements, and with this body he struggles alone No edit summary current
• 11:2211:22, 4 December 2025 diff hist +10 The living entity first accepts a body that is human in form, but gradually, due to his degraded activities, he falls into lower forms of life - into the animal, plant and aquatic forms No edit summary current
• 11:2211:22, 4 December 2025 diff hist +12 The living entity creates his own body by his personal desires, and the external energy of the Lord supplies him the exact form by which he can enjoy his desires to the fullest extent No edit summary current
• 11:2211:22, 4 December 2025 diff hist +12 The living entity changes his body in the material world, but even when the Lord is in the material world, He is ever unchanged. That is His prerogative No edit summary current
• 11:2211:22, 4 December 2025 diff hist +12 The living entity changes his body as soon as the higher authorities decide on his next body. As long as a living entity is conditioned within this material world, he must take material bodies one after another No edit summary current
• 11:2111:21, 4 December 2025 diff hist +28 The living entity accepts the material body, which is made of five elements, as himself. With this misunderstanding, he accepts nonpermanent things as his own and increases his ignorance in the darkest region No edit summary current
• 11:2111:21, 4 December 2025 diff hist +10 The living entity accepts a body and comes out again into the material world to enjoy or suffer according to the construction of the body No edit summary current
• 11:1411:14, 4 December 2025 diff hist +12 The foolish cannot understand how a living entity can quit his body, nor can they understand what sort of body he enjoys under the spell of the modes of nature. But one whose eyes are trained in knowledge can see all this. BG 15.10 - 1972 No edit summary current
• 11:1411:14, 4 December 2025 diff hist +12 The foolish cannot understand how a living entity can quit his body, nor can they understand what sort of body he enjoys under the spell of the modes of nature. But one whose eyes are trained in knowledge can see all this No edit summary current
• 11:1411:14, 4 December 2025 diff hist −6 The ear is the most important instrument in the body of the living entity. Sound is the most important medium for carrying the message of distant and unknown things No edit summary current
• 11:1411:14, 4 December 2025 diff hist +41 The demigods are empowered administrators of material affairs. The supply of air, light, water and all other benedictions for maintaining the body and soul of every living entity are entrusted to the demigods. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 11:1211:12, 4 December 2025 diff hist +41 The chemical composition of God's body and the eternal spiritual body of the living entity is the same-spiritual No edit summary current
• 11:1111:11, 4 December 2025 diff hist +2 The change his (of the living entity) body undergoes depends upon him. At the time of death, the consciousness he has created will carry him on to the next type of body. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 11:1111:11, 4 December 2025 diff hist −6 The body of the living entity in different forms is supplied by material nature, but the living entity himself is supplied by the Supreme Lord. The father and mother give the body necessary for the living entity under certain conditions No edit summary current
• 11:1111:11, 4 December 2025 diff hist −6 The argument may be put forward, How can something the size of a thumb be accommodated within the heart of an ant? The answer is that this thumb measurement of the Supersoul is imagined in proportion to the body of the living entity No edit summary current
• 11:1111:11, 4 December 2025 diff hist +12 These three verses (SB 4.26.1-3) explain how the material body of the living entity is under the control of the three qualities of the external energy No edit summary current
• 11:1011:10, 4 December 2025 diff hist +23 There are two constituents: one is the living entity (ksetra jna), and the other is the body of the living entity (ksetra) No edit summary current
• 11:1011:10, 4 December 2025 diff hist 0 There are many transcendentalists in the path of spiritual self-realization, but one who is not situated in self-realization cannot see how things are changing in the body of the living entity. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 11:1011:10, 4 December 2025 diff hist +21 Such a perfect devotee offers respects to every living entity because he is under the firm conviction that the Supreme Personality of Godhead has entered the body of every living entity as the Supersoul, or controller No edit summary current
• 11:0911:09, 4 December 2025 diff hist −6 Only the living entity’s material body, or the body of the scorpion, comes out of the cow dung. The sparks of the living entities, as we understand from the Bhagavad-gita, are injected into material nature, and then they come out No edit summary current
• 11:0911:09, 4 December 2025 diff hist +41 One who is trained to perceive all these things (how a living entity leaves his present body, what form of body he is going to take in the next life, why he is living in a particular type of body) is fortunate. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
• 11:0911:09, 4 December 2025 diff hist +12 Na hanyate hanyamane sarire: (BG 2.20) don't think that when the body is destroyed the living entity will be destroyed; no, the living entity will continue to exist No edit summary current
• 11:0411:04, 4 December 2025 diff hist +12 Mind is the subtle body of the living entity. We may sometimes be absorbed in some thought which is sinful, but if we give up the sinful thought, it may be said that we give up the body No edit summary current