User contributions for Madana Mohana
14 February 2023
- 11:2211:22, 14 February 2023 diff hist +27,555 No one in the material creation can say that he is free from them (threefold miseries). The trident of this material nature is pressed against everyone's chest, and because of this, pure happiness within this material world is not possible No edit summary current
- 11:1911:19, 14 February 2023 diff hist +81,078 It must be known that all these forms of happiness (within the material worlds) are temporary. Thus, the worker cannot attain to real happiness, which is permanent and transcendental No edit summary current
- 11:0411:04, 14 February 2023 diff hist +16,990 It is said that ignorance is bliss, but this is the bliss of a hog. When one actually comes to the understanding that he is not actually happy in the material world, he can begin to relieve his suffering No edit summary current
- 10:4810:48, 14 February 2023 diff hist +3,797 In this material world, every living entity desires some future happiness, which is exactly like a mirage in the desert. Where is water in the desert, or, in other words, where is happiness in this material world? No edit summary current
- 10:4110:41, 14 February 2023 diff hist +4,329 In this material world it is our mental creation, "This is happiness. This is distress." Actually, it is all distress. After all, we have to die. After all, we have to finish this business. So what is happiness or distress No edit summary current
- 10:3410:34, 14 February 2023 diff hist +7,835 In the material world the conditioned soul is given a chance to satisfy his senses, but at the same time he is informed by Vedic knowledge that this material world is not his actual place for happiness No edit summary current
- 10:3210:32, 14 February 2023 diff hist +3,318 In the material world one cannot have unadulterated happiness. Any kind of happiness one has is contaminated by distress also No edit summary current
- 10:2710:27, 14 February 2023 diff hist +7,238 In the material world a living entity is never satisfied. Even in the position of Brahma or in the position of Indra or Candra, one is full of anxiety simply because he has accepted this material world as a place of happiness No edit summary
- 10:2310:23, 14 February 2023 diff hist +77,712 In the desert there is no water, but the mirage suggests that there is such a thing as water. In the material world there is no water, there is no happiness, but the real water of actual happiness is there in the spiritual world. BG 1972 Introduction No edit summary current
- 10:2010:20, 14 February 2023 diff hist +4,816 In the desert there is no water, but the mirage suggests that there is such a thing as water. In the material world there is no water, there is no happiness, but the real water of actual happiness is there in the spiritual world No edit summary current
- 10:0810:08, 14 February 2023 diff hist +6,011 In each and every life one is engaged in the struggle to become happy. Actually no one in this material world is happy, but the struggle gives a false sense of happiness No edit summary current
- 10:0610:06, 14 February 2023 diff hist +3,474 In Bhagavad-gita the Personality of Godhead Himself certifies the material world as an impermanent place that is full of miseries. There is no question of happiness in this material world, either individually or in terms of family, society or country No edit summary current
- 10:0410:04, 14 February 2023 diff hist +3,074 If something is going on in the name of happiness, that is also illusion. Here in this material world, happiness means successful counteraction to the effects of distress No edit summary current
- 10:0310:03, 14 February 2023 diff hist +4,903 Here, in the material world, everything is but a mental concoction that will never give us real happiness. The practical solution is to cease from materialistic activities and engage in spiritual activities No edit summary current
- 10:0110:01, 14 February 2023 diff hist +6,886 Here, in the material world, as we are engaged, unalloyed happiness is not possible. But if you actually want unalloyed happiness, then you have to be advanced in spiritual consciousness, unalloyed No edit summary
- 09:5809:58, 14 February 2023 diff hist +4,243 Happiness is very difficult to obtain, but because they (living entities) are unable to control their senses, they run after the so-called happiness of the material world and never come to the right conclusion No edit summary current
- 09:5609:56, 14 February 2023 diff hist +5,003 First of all, you have to take it as axiomatic truth that there is no happiness and there cannot be any satisfaction in this material world. Then you'll make, spiritually advance No edit summary current
- 09:5409:54, 14 February 2023 diff hist +9,228 False happiness in the material world is the source of distress, but when one's endeavors for happiness are redirected toward the satisfaction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, this tapa-kari element of misery is vanquished No edit summary current
- 09:5009:50, 14 February 2023 diff hist +3,564 Everyone tries to become happy by planning in the material world, but the law of nature is so cruel that it sets fire to one's schemes; the fruitive worker is not happy in his schemes, nor is there any satiation of his continuous hankering for happiness No edit summary
- 09:4909:49, 14 February 2023 diff hist +5,271 Everyone is inventing so many methods. Consequently human society has lost the standard ways of life, both materially and spiritually, and as a result people are bewildered, and there is no peace or happiness in the world No edit summary current
- 09:4709:47, 14 February 2023 diff hist +7,160 Everyone is attracted to hard labor for becoming happy in this material world, but although various activities are going on all over the world simply for the sake of happiness, unfortunately only problems are being created from such fruitive activities No edit summary
- 09:4509:45, 14 February 2023 diff hist +9,316 Everyone hankers for happiness, but although happiness originally comes from the pleasure potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in the material world, because of material activities, the pleasure potency of the Lord becomes a source of miseries No edit summary current
- 09:4309:43, 14 February 2023 diff hist +4,076 Due to the living entity's ignorance of his eternal blissful life, he becomes attracted to material activities under the spell of maya. In this world, he can never experience happiness, yet he works very hard to do so. This is called maya No edit summary current
- 09:4009:40, 14 February 2023 diff hist +2,294 By your unalloyed service to the Deities you are becoming more and more attracted to the spiritual world and seeing the material world as a condemned place of no happiness No edit summary current
- 09:3709:37, 14 February 2023 diff hist +3,249 By false understanding we may make hundreds and thousands of plan to be happy in this material world. That is not possible. This is therefore called sammohito, - bewildered No edit summary current
- 09:3309:33, 14 February 2023 diff hist +3,533 Because of ignorance, we consider every life offered by nature to be happy and pleasing, but in the degraded life within this material world, from the life of Lord Brahma down to that of an ant, no one can actually be happy No edit summary current
- 09:2709:27, 14 February 2023 diff hist +5,086 Although all materialists are baffled in their plans, they try again and again to become happy in this material world. Therefore they have been described as vimudha - first-class fools No edit summary current
- 09:2409:24, 14 February 2023 diff hist +2,820 All our attempts to become happy in this material world are simply a delusion offered by maya No edit summary current
- 09:2209:22, 14 February 2023 diff hist +3,302 A life in this material world is like a blazing forest fire. No one goes to set fire to the forest, yet the fire takes place. Similarly, everyone wants to be happy in the material world, but the miserable conditions of material life simply increase No edit summary current
13 February 2023
- 16:1316:13, 13 February 2023 diff hist +5,748 Anyone who does not give evidences, proof, from the sastra, then na siddhim sa avapnoti, he does not get at any time success, na sukham, neither any happiness in this material world, na param gatim, and what to speak of elevation in the next life No edit summary current
- 16:1016:10, 13 February 2023 diff hist +6,470 After seeing that there is no happiness, he (the living entity) then plans to go further and further to another point. This is called mrga-trsna, and its basis is sense enjoyment in this material world No edit summary current
- 15:1215:12, 13 February 2023 diff hist +42 The pure devotee has no actual chance to fall down because the Supreme Godhead personally takes care of His pure devotees. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 15:0715:07, 13 February 2023 diff hist +6,003 The pure devotee has no actual chance to fall down No edit summary current
- 14:3614:36, 13 February 2023 diff hist +8 This (to bring back poor fools and rascals to God) is the decision of the Vaisnava, the pure devotee of the Lord. For himself he has no problems, even if he has to stay in this material world, because his only business is to remain in Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 14:3214:32, 13 February 2023 diff hist +3,760 The word svakarthanam refers to great desires. As mentioned in this verse (SB 10.13.50), the glance of Lord Visnu creates the desires of the devotees. A pure devotee, however, has no desires No edit summary current
- 14:2714:27, 13 February 2023 diff hist +8 The pure devotee of Lord Vasudeva, enlightened by the transcendental service attitude, has no attraction for such false things as religiosity, economic development, sense gratification, or salvation, the last snare of Maya No edit summary current
- 14:0514:05, 13 February 2023 diff hist +8 The devotee who has no motive is pure devotee - "In any condition, it is my duty to love God and to serve Him, not for my benefit but God's satisfaction." That is pure devotee No edit summary current
- 13:5813:58, 13 February 2023 diff hist +8 Since the Lord's potency is distributed everywhere, a pure soul, or devotee of the Lord, can see everything in relationship with the Lord, and therefore he has no affection for the outer coverings No edit summary current
- 12:1512:15, 13 February 2023 diff hist +2,810 Prahlada Maharaja is praised for having all good qualities because of worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead. A pure devotee, who has no motives, has all good qualities, material and spiritual No edit summary
- 11:4211:42, 13 February 2023 diff hist +4,963 The Lord is so kind that even though disturbed, He fulfills the desires of such beggars. The pure devotee is anyabhilasita-sunya; he has no motive behind his worship. He is not conducted by the influence of maya in the form of karma or jnana No edit summary current
- 11:2911:29, 13 February 2023 diff hist +4,932 Srimad-Bhagavatam says, "A pure devotee has no more doubts about the supremacy of the Personality of Godhead, and thus he engages himself in Krsna consciousness and devotional service" No edit summary current
- 10:5110:51, 13 February 2023 diff hist +42 Sanatana Gosvami was a pure devotee of Krsna. A pure devotee has no business other than serving Krsna; consequently Krsna is always ready to help him. This benediction was given by Sri Caitanya to Sanatana, who was authorized to write Vaisnava smrti No edit summary
11 February 2023
- 16:0616:06, 11 February 2023 diff hist +6,406 Krsna is so merciful that He turns a sakama-bhakta into an akama-bhakta. A pure devotee, an akama-bhakta, who has no material motives, is satisfied simply to serve the lotus feet of the Lord No edit summary current
- 16:0116:01, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,971 In the Srimad-Bhagavatam it is recommended that whether one's desires liberation from material contamination, or is a pure devotee and has no desire for material sense gratification, he should in all cases surrender to Vasudeva and worship Him. BG 1972 p No edit summary
- 15:2315:23, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,380 In the Caitanya-caritamrta the pure devotee is called niskama, which means he has no desire for self-interest. Perfect peace belongs to him alone, not to them who strive for personal gain. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 15:0515:05, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,963 However, even though a person is born in a family of dog-eaters, he is very dear to Me if he is a pure devotee who has no motive to enjoy fruitive activity or mental speculation No edit summary current
- 14:5714:57, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,714 He (a pure devotee) has no desire for material enjoyment because he knows that every living entity is the fragmental part and parcel of the Supreme Lord and therefore eternally a servant. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 14:4114:41, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,151 Everyone is working to get some result. That is called fruitive activities. So a pure devotee has no such desires No edit summary current
- 14:1314:13, 11 February 2023 diff hist +2,484 Even though a person is born in a family of dog-eaters, he is very dear to Me if he is a pure devotee who has no motive to enjoy fruitive activities or mental speculation No edit summary current
- 14:0114:01, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,502 Even before death, a pure devotee has no material affection, due to his body's being spiritualized like a red-hot iron in contact with fire No edit summary current