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16:5116:51, 21 December 2021 diff hist +4,038‎ Nature is said to be the cause of all material activities and effects, whereas the living entity is the cause of the various sufferings and enjoyments in this world. BG 13.21 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
16:4916:49, 21 December 2021 diff hist +2,709‎ Narayana had come as Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, with the purpose of delivering suffering humanity from the pangs of material burdens. In other words, Narayana Rsi was now present in the world in the forms of Krsna and Arjuna ‎No edit summary current
16:4816:48, 21 December 2021 diff hist +5,937‎ Mucukunda continued, "For many, many births I have been suffering from the threefold miseries of this material existence, and I am now tired of it. I have been impelled only by my senses, and I was never satisfied" ‎No edit summary current
16:4616:46, 21 December 2021 diff hist +17,057‎ Material life is suffering, like being dunked in water to suffocate and then drawn back up for relief ‎No edit summary current
16:4516:45, 21 December 2021 diff hist +7,222‎ Material life is called pavarga because here we are subject to five different states of suffering, represented by the letters pa, pha, ba, bha and ma. Pa means parisrama, very hard labor. Pha means phena, or foam from the mouth ‎No edit summary current
16:4516:45, 21 December 2021 diff hist +3,158‎ Material existence is the cause of all our sufferings, for we do not suffer once we are out of the material condition ‎No edit summary current
16:4416:44, 21 December 2021 diff hist +4,651‎ Material enjoyment is indeed the cause of all unhappiness, but one cannot give it up unless one has personally experienced how much suffering it is. Therefore one should be allowed to remain in so-called material enjoyment while advancing in knowledge ‎No edit summary current
16:4316:43, 21 December 2021 diff hist +6,140‎ Materialistic men sometimes ask why God has created the material world for the suffering of the living entities ‎No edit summary current
16:4116:41, 21 December 2021 diff hist +5,313‎ Living entities, who are part and parcel of the SPG, are loitering in this material world suffering. When they are instructed by God Himself about bhagavata-dharma and they adopt it, that is victory for the Lord, for He then reclaims these fallen souls ‎No edit summary current
16:3616:36, 21 December 2021 diff hist +3,885‎ King Mucukunda said, "My dear Lord (Krsna), because of my bad deeds in the past I am everlastingly aggrieved. I am always suffering from my desires, but still my senses are never satisfied with material enjoyments" ‎No edit summary
16:2716:27, 21 December 2021 diff hist +3,070‎ It is one's mind that generates different kinds of bodies for suffering different kinds of material pangs ‎No edit summary current
16:2716:27, 21 December 2021 diff hist +4,062‎ It is as though they (householders) were pierced by thorns and hurt by pebbles. Material attachment is so strong that despite the suffering, one cannot give it up ‎No edit summary current
16:2716:27, 21 December 2021 diff hist +5,068‎ Is this because the illusion that we see is a representation of the spiritual world in a sense (this material world is only suffering, but under illusion we are accepting suffering as enjoyment)? ‎No edit summary current
16:2216:22, 21 December 2021 diff hist +3,460‎ In the Bhagavad-gita (BG 6.5) also it is confirmed that by one's mind, freed from material affection, one can deliver himself from the sufferings of material pangs ‎No edit summary current
16:1816:18, 21 December 2021 diff hist +2,637‎ In my readings of the Bhagavad-gita I haven't seen where Krsna deals with the social aspect of man, helping the man who is starving, say, to overcome his suffering or providing his material needs. Rather, the emphasis is on away from the material ‎No edit summary current
16:1716:17, 21 December 2021 diff hist +2,416‎ In hopes of becoming happy in this material world, the foolish conditioned soul performs fruitive activities that result only in suffering ‎No edit summary current
16:1616:16, 21 December 2021 diff hist +3,799‎ In all cases, He (the Supreme Lord) is the original spiritual master who enlightens the conditioned souls who are suffering in the material world ‎No edit summary current
15:1715:17, 21 December 2021 diff hist +6,234‎ Individual parts and parcels, who can travel to any part of the Lord's creation, are called sarva-gata and are suffering the pangs of material existence ‎No edit summary current
15:1615:16, 21 December 2021 diff hist +4,900‎ If we want to be saved from this suffering, we must appeal to the same controller (The Supreme Personality of Godhead). Thus one can be saved from this material condition ‎No edit summary current
15:1615:16, 21 December 2021 diff hist +3,768‎ If we keep the mind engaged in material activities for sense gratification, it will cause continuous bondage and will make us remain in this material world in different bodies, suffering the consequences of our different actions ‎No edit summary
15:1315:13, 21 December 2021 diff hist +3,744‎ If persons who are suffering in the forest fire of this material existence will only enter into the nectarean river of the description of the pastimes of the Lord, they will forget all the troubles of the miserable material existence ‎No edit summary current
15:1215:12, 21 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ If one is engaged in devotional service he becomes unattached to all kinds of material enjoyment and suffering ‎No edit summary current
15:1115:11, 21 December 2021 diff hist +4,122‎ If one is actually sympathetic to fallen, suffering humanity, he should try to elevate people from material consciousness to spiritual consciousness ‎No edit summary

17:0117:01, 18 December 2021 diff hist +3,468‎ God is joyful, and we are part and parcel of God; we are by nature joyful. But by freaks of nature, because we are prone to be allured by the illusory nature, we have come to this material world; therefore, we are suffering. Enjoyment is our birthright ‎No edit summary current
17:0017:00, 18 December 2021 diff hist +3,330‎ Guru's first business is to deliver the suffering humanity from the forest fire of this material existence. This material existence is compared with forest fire ‎No edit summary current
16:5916:59, 18 December 2021 diff hist +2,154‎ Has God put the suffering here for us to experience so that we will want to give up material lives and get closer to Him? Is it punishment? ‎No edit summary
16:5816:58, 18 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ He (Bhismadeva) died very happily by seeing Maharaja Yudhisthira to the throne, otherwise he would have long ago quitted his material body, instead of suffering agony over the undue sufferings of the Pandavas ‎No edit summary

14:2914:29, 13 December 2021 diff hist +6,598‎ From this tree (of the body), which fully depends on the ground of material nature, come two kinds of fruit - the enjoyment of happiness and the suffering of distress - SB 10.2.27 ‎No edit summary current
14:2714:27, 13 December 2021 diff hist +3,626‎ For temporary sense gratification, such a person (materialistic) creates a society of envy, and due to this mentality, he plunges into the ocean of suffering. Such a foolish person does not even know about this ‎No edit summary current
14:2614:26, 13 December 2021 diff hist +5,548‎ For our past karma, we have created this body and we are suffering. Therefore our mission should be not to create another body. And finish all suffering in this body and do not create another material body - that is actually our duty ‎No edit summary
14:2514:25, 13 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ Forgetfulness of our relationship with the Supreme Lord brings about our suffering in the material world ‎No edit summary current
14:2514:25, 13 December 2021 diff hist +6,051‎ Every living entity is suffering in this material existence from past activities; therefore everyone has a very old history ‎No edit summary current
14:2314:23, 13 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ Even though such a materialistic person is always suffering threefold miseries, he is not intelligent enough to cease his materialistic way of life ‎No edit summary current
14:2214:22, 13 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ Everyone will be incorrigible. Only hope is Hare Krsna. The whole Vedic system is to make human being correct. Being incorrect, they are suffering in this material world repetition of birth, death ‎No edit summary current
14:2114:21, 13 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ Everyone is suffering within this material world due to ignorance ‎No edit summary current
14:1514:15, 13 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ Constant transmigration of the soul from one body to another is the cause of suffering in material existence. This conditional life in material existence is called samsara ‎No edit summary current
14:1514:15, 13 December 2021 diff hist +2,316‎ Completion of your suffering of the material world ‎No edit summary current
14:1414:14, 13 December 2021 diff hist +3,720‎ By nature and the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead (karmana-daiva-netrena (SB 3.31.1)) we get the advantages we desire. Thus we become more and more involved with material concoctions. This is the reason for our suffering in the material world ‎No edit summary current
14:0814:08, 13 December 2021 diff hist +5,378‎ As soon as he (the living being) gets another material body, he is put into repeated suffering in material existence. Therefore the Vedic culture or brahminical culture teaches one how to be satisfied with possessing the minimum necessities in life ‎No edit summary
14:0314:03, 13 December 2021 diff hist +5,162‎ Arjuna was a gross materialist in the bodily conception of life and was suffering from the bodily concept very acutely. But simply by hearing, Arjuna became a spiritualized, Krsna conscious person ‎No edit summary
14:0214:02, 13 December 2021 diff hist +4,390‎ Although the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original cause of all causes, He is not responsible for anyone's material sufferings or enjoyment. There is no such partiality on the part of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
13:5913:59, 13 December 2021 diff hist +4,216‎ Although the living entities are part and parcel of the Supreme Lord and are therefore in a transcendental position, they are still suffering in this material world and struggling for existence due to the mind and the senses ‎No edit summary current
13:5913:59, 13 December 2021 diff hist +2,940‎ Although materialistic persons know that material happiness is nothing but another side of suffering, they want it, and to get it very quickly they worship Lord Siva ‎No edit summary current
13:5113:51, 13 December 2021 diff hist +4,324‎ All persons in this material world are suffering from material pains, and if one wants to get rid of them, he must associate with saintly persons, pure devotees of God, and chant the maha-mantra. That is the only auspicious way for materialistic persons ‎No edit summary
13:4913:49, 13 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ All our sufferings in this material world, especially from disease, are due to our past sinful activities. And of all sinful activities, actions directed against a pure devotee out of sheer envy are considered extremely severe ‎No edit summary current
13:1713:17, 13 December 2021 diff hist +4,969‎ According to the Vaisnava philosophy if one simply ceases from materialistic activity one cannot remain inactive for very long, and everyone should engage himself in spiritual activities, which will solve the problem of suffering in this material world ‎No edit summary

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