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17:2417:24, 27 December 2021 diff hist +4,844‎ When a devotee cannot ascertain the cause of suffering he accepts that it is due to his own past misdeeds and offers obeisances to God. Such a devotee is called mukti-pade sa daya-bhak; that is, he is guaranteed his liberation from this material world ‎No edit summary current
17:2317:23, 27 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ When a person is advanced in spiritual consciousness or Krsna consciousness, he naturally becomes very sympathetic toward all living entities suffering in the material world. Naturally such an advanced person thinks of the suffering of people in general ‎No edit summary
17:2317:23, 27 December 2021 diff hist +6,433‎ When one cannot understand his sufferings of this material contamination, his life is animal life. He knows that he's suffering, but he's trying to cover the suffering by some nonsense means: by forgetfulness, by drinking, by intoxication ‎No edit summary current
17:1317:13, 27 December 2021 diff hist +4,819‎ When Sanatana Gosvami submitted to the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya, his first question was 'ke ami', 'kene amaya jare tapa-traya'. He wanted to know his constitutional position and why he was suffering from the threefold miseries of material existence ‎No edit summary
17:1217:12, 27 December 2021 diff hist +3,413‎ When the living entity's mind becomes absorbed in the sense gratification of the material world, it brings about his conditioned life and suffering within the material situation ‎No edit summary current
17:1217:12, 27 December 2021 diff hist +3,489‎ When the mind is absorbed in material sense gratification, it causes suffering, and when detached from material sense gratification, it brings about the original brightness of Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current

15:5015:50, 22 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ Under different standards of material identity, they (the living entities) become forgetful of Krsna. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 22 December 2021 diff hist +6,589‎ Bhagavad-gita and the Srimad-Bhagavatam, are specifically recommended to suffering humanity to bring about the desired effect of liberation from the pangs of material civilization, which is eating the vital part of human energy ‎No edit summary
15:3715:37, 22 December 2021 diff hist +4,920‎ A patient who is suffering from a disorder of the bowels due to overindulgence in milk products is cured by another milk product, namely curds. The materially absorbed conditioned soul can be cured by KC as set forth here in the Gita (4.24). BG 1972 pur ‎No edit summary
15:3315:33, 22 December 2021 diff hist +5,162‎ The material body, which is subject to birth and death, diseases and old age, is the cause of all sufferings of the living being, otherwise the living being is eternal; he is never born, nor does he ever die ‎No edit summary current
15:2715:27, 22 December 2021 diff hist +4,067‎ The materialistic person can also be called a tapasvi, which means someone who is always suffering from material pains. One can get rid of all these material pains only when he takes shelter of the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra ‎No edit summary
15:2615:26, 22 December 2021 diff hist +32‎ The Lord (Krsna) wants the suffering human beings to come back home, back to Him, and cease to suffer the threefold material pangs ‎No edit summary current
15:2115:21, 22 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ The living entity, by accepting his material existence as just so much suffering, can become situated in his spiritual existence. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
15:2015:20, 22 December 2021 diff hist +5,375‎ The living being is perpetually suffering in different types of bodies from the material miseries of birth, old age, disease and death ‎No edit summary current
15:1915:19, 22 December 2021 diff hist +12,827‎ The instructions of BG and the descriptions of SB are so pleasing that almost anyone suffering from the threefold miseries of material existence will desire to hear the glories of the Lord from these books and thus benefit on the path of liberation ‎No edit summary
15:1915:19, 22 December 2021 diff hist +8,543‎ The end of all suffering means surrendering unto the Lord because the surrendering process itself is bhava-cchidam (liberation from all material miseries), svasty-ayanam (perception of all happiness), and sumangalam - the source of everything auspicious ‎No edit summary
15:1815:18, 22 December 2021 diff hist +2,088‎ The endeavor of one who constantly hears or describes this narration of the churning of the ocean of milk will never be fruitless. Indeed, chanting the glories of the SPG is the only means to annihilate all sufferings in this material world ‎No edit summary current
15:1415:14, 22 December 2021 diff hist +3,469‎ The duty of all devotees is to preach Krsna consciousness everywhere all over the world, because all living entities without Krsna consciousness are suffering the pangs of material existence ‎No edit summary current
15:1115:11, 22 December 2021 diff hist +2,451‎ The conditioned jiva suffers from the material disease - the miseries of birth, death, old age and disease. When this suffering becomes unbearable, he looks for help ‎No edit summary current
15:0915:09, 22 December 2021 diff hist +7,700‎ The cage is not the bird. But foolish persons, they are taking care of the cage, not of the bird. The bird, out of starvation, is suffering. So we are suffering spiritual starvation. Therefore nobody is happy in this material world ‎No edit summary current
15:0515:05, 22 December 2021 diff hist +4,822‎ The aim of life is that we are now detached from God. This is our position. Material life means detached from God, detached from Krsna. So this detachment is the cause of suffering ‎No edit summary current
15:0115:01, 22 December 2021 diff hist +7,469‎ There was no necessity to create this material world for the sufferings of the conditioned souls, but at the same time there are certain living entities, known as nitya-baddha, who are eternally conditioned ‎No edit summary current
15:0015:00, 22 December 2021 diff hist +3,449‎ There is no enjoyment in this material world. Simply we are trying to counteract the suffering ‎No edit summary current
14:5714:57, 22 December 2021 diff hist +5,388‎ Suffering is the nature of this material world, and whatever enjoyment we are trying to achieve is simply illusion. After all, we have to suffer the miseries of birth, old age, disease and death ‎No edit summary current
14:5614:56, 22 December 2021 diff hist +10,023‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that the living entity, since time immemorial, is suffering the threefold miseries of material nature due to his demoniac attitude, which is his spirit of revolt against the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary
14:5514:55, 22 December 2021 diff hist +3,936‎ Srila Narottama dasa Thakura says, samsara-visanale, divanisi hiya jvale, judaite na kainu upaya: "we are always suffering from material pangs, and our hearts are burning, but we cannot find any way out of it ‎No edit summary current
14:5514:55, 22 December 2021 diff hist +5,967‎ Srila Narottama dasa Thakura, also, prays like this, "My dear Lord, O son of Nanda Maharaja, associated with the daughter of Vrsabhanu, I have come to take shelter under Your lotus feet after suffering greatly in the material condition of life" ‎No edit summary current
14:5514:55, 22 December 2021 diff hist +9,889‎ Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura therefore says in a song, miche mayara vase, yaccha bhese', khaccha habudubu, bhai: "Why are you suffering? Why are you sometimes being drowned in the waves of material nature and sometimes coming to the surface?" ‎No edit summary current
14:5414:54, 22 December 2021 diff hist +3,860‎ Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has sung: My dear brothers, you are being carried away by the waves of material energy and are suffering in many miserable conditions ‎No edit summary current
14:5414:54, 22 December 2021 diff hist +6,926‎ Spiritual life means normal life, and material life means diseased life. Therefore we are always suffering in materialistic way of life. Diseased condition means suffering ‎No edit summary current
14:5214:52, 22 December 2021 diff hist +6,758‎ So long you'll get this material body, you have to suffer. It is meant for suffering. As soon as you get this material body, this body or that body, you have to suffer ‎No edit summary
14:5014:50, 22 December 2021 diff hist +3,967‎ Sometimes the question arises why the Supreme Lord has created this material world, which is so full of suffering for the living entities entrapped in it ‎No edit summary current
14:4914:49, 22 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ Sometimes the forefathers may be suffering from various types of sinful reactions, and sometimes some of them cannot even acquire a gross material body and are forced to remain in subtle bodies as ghosts. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
14:4814:48, 22 December 2021 diff hist +7,397‎ Sisupala said, "By their (personalities who have undergone great austerities) knowledge and direction, they can deliver many persons who are suffering from the pangs of material existence" ‎No edit summary current
14:4814:48, 22 December 2021 diff hist +8,117‎ Since all living beings are His beloved sons, His parts and parcels, God is more sorry than we ourselves to see the sufferings we are constantly undergoing in this material condition ‎No edit summary current
14:4814:48, 22 December 2021 diff hist +12,978‎ Sanatana said: My associations are all abominable, and I am fallen, the most wretched of mankind. I was suffering in the dark well of material enjoyment, and I never knew the actual goal of my life. Indeed, I do not even know what is beneficial for me ‎No edit summary
14:4614:46, 22 December 2021 diff hist +6,904‎ Practically everyone is a pasu, an animal, and everyone is attacked by the crocodile of material existence. Not only the King of the elephants (Gajendra) but every one of us is being attacked by the crocodile and is suffering the consequences ‎No edit summary current
14:4514:45, 22 December 2021 diff hist +6,898‎ Practically our creation is for enjoying in the company, in the association of the Supreme Lord. But we thought that it is better to become an imitation God and try to lord it over the material nature. That is not possible; therefore we are suffering ‎No edit summary
14:4514:45, 22 December 2021 diff hist +4,394‎ Prahlada Maharaja is the topmost example of a Vaisnava, who is always compassionate toward sinful persons suffering a hellish life within this material world ‎No edit summary
14:4414:44, 22 December 2021 diff hist +2,415‎ Prahlada Maharaja was unhappy seeing the people, degenerated people, suffering in this material world ‎No edit summary
14:4214:42, 22 December 2021 diff hist +21,193‎ Persons who are infected with the disease of material attachment and who suffer from the pangs of repeated birth and death cannot relish such recitation of the Lord's glories, just as a person suffering from jaundice cannot relish the taste of sugar candy ‎No edit summary current
14:4114:41, 22 December 2021 diff hist +3,134‎ People who are suffering in this material world because they are conditioned by the material energy can easily get freedom from the clutches of matter by understanding the Sankhya philosophy enunciated by Lord Kapila ‎No edit summary current
14:3914:39, 22 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ People at present are killing animals daily, because of this the entire world is suffering in so many ways. Politicians are unnecessarily declaring war, and according to the stringent laws of material nature, massacres are taking place between nations ‎No edit summary

17:0017:00, 21 December 2021 diff hist +63,141‎ Pavarga: five letters representing the stages of suffering in the material world ‎No edit summary current
17:0017:00, 21 December 2021 diff hist +4,134‎ Others say that You (Krsna) appeared to rejuvenate the devotional service of hearing, remembering, worshiping and so on in order that the conditioned souls suffering from material pangs might take advantage and gain liberation ‎No edit summary current
16:5816:58, 21 December 2021 diff hist +3,354‎ One should also have compassion for the people in general, who are suffering due to forgetfulness of Krsna. These important functions will make one happy within this material world ‎No edit summary current
16:5816:58, 21 December 2021 diff hist +4,056‎ One has to be serious to cure this condition of material existence and transfer himself to Krsna consciousness, for thus his long suffering may be mitigated without difficulty ‎No edit summary current
16:5616:56, 21 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ Once fallen and separated from the Supreme Personality of Godhead's association, one becomes a candidate for suffering in the material world. Although rejected by Sri Caitanya, Kala Krsnadasa was given another chance ‎No edit summary current
16:5616:56, 21 December 2021 diff hist +5,559‎ No one can dominate Krsna. It is the conditioned soul who tries to dominate material nature and is instead subjected to the laws of material nature and the sufferings of repeated birth and death ‎No edit summary current
16:5216:52, 21 December 2021 diff hist +4,308‎ Nature is said to be the cause of all material causes and effects, whereas the living entity is the cause of the various sufferings and enjoyments in this world ‎No edit summary current

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