User contributions for Amala Sundari

25 August 2022

• 13:0213:02, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,410‎ Srila Rupa Gosvami says that if brahmananda, or the happiness of becoming one with the Supreme, is multiplied by one trillionfold, still it cannot be compared with an atomic fraction of the happiness derived from the ocean of devotional service ‎No edit summary
• 13:0113:01, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,208‎ Rupa Gosvami divided happiness into three categories, 1) happiness derived from material enjoyment, 2) happiness derived by identifying oneself with the Supreme Brahman, and 3) happiness derived from Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0113:01, 25 August 2022 diff hist +2,034‎ Pure devotional service is so sublime that one can very easily forget the happiness derived from material enjoyment, material liberation and mystic or yogic perfection. Thus the devotee is bound by Krsna's mercy and His uncommon power and qualities ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0013:00, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,780‎ It is said that even one drop of happiness in Krsna consciousness stands beyond comparison with an ocean of happiness derived from any other activity ‎No edit summary current
• 13:0013:00, 25 August 2022 diff hist +8,006‎ In the asamprajnata-samadhi there is no longer any connection with mundane pleasure, for one is then transcendental to all sorts of happiness derived from the senses. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5912:59, 25 August 2022 diff hist +6,632‎ In other words, a pure devotee does not lack any kind of happiness derived from any source. He does not want anything but service to Krsna, but even if he should have another desire, the Lord fulfills this without the devotee's asking ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5912:59, 25 August 2022 diff hist +13‎ He (the person who is acting in Krsna consciousness) becomes accustomed to not taking pleasure in anything beyond the transcendental happiness derived from the service of the Lord. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5912:59, 25 August 2022 diff hist +3,156‎ Happiness derived from the touch of skin, or sensuous happiness, is present in the life of hogs and dogs. Such happiness is very insignificant. If a devotee worships the Lord for such insignificant happiness, he must be considered devoid of all knowledge ‎No edit summary
• 12:5812:58, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,515‎ Happiness derived from society, friendship and love is like a drop of water in the scorching heat of the desert. One may want to become very great and powerful in society, but this is like attempting to climb a hill full of thorns ‎No edit summary
• 12:5812:58, 25 August 2022 diff hist +15,594‎ Happiness derived from religiousness ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5812:58, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,455‎ Happiness derived from pure devotional service is the highest because it is eternal. But the happiness derived from material perfection or understanding oneself to be Brahman is inferior because it is temporary ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 25 August 2022 diff hist +8,159‎ Happiness derived from conquering them and happiness derived by seeing kinsmen alive are both on the basis of personal sense gratification, for there is a sacrifice of wisdom and duty. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5712:57, 25 August 2022 diff hist +4,673‎ Foolish men seek after material sense pleasure as a substitute for real happiness, but such foolish men forget that temporary so-called happiness derived from sense pleasures is also enjoyed by the dogs and hogs ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5612:56, 25 August 2022 diff hist +4,672‎ Foolish men forget that temporary so-called happiness derived from sense pleasures is also enjoyed by the dogs and hogs. No animal, bird or beast is bereft of this sense pleasure ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5612:56, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,588‎ Ekatva, or merging into the effulgence of the Supreme Lord, is called kaivalya, but the happiness derived from kaivalya is considered by the pure devotee to be hellish ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 25 August 2022 diff hist +5,071‎ Devotees are not desirous of any material happiness, including the happiness derived from liberation. This is called anyabhilasita-sunyam jnana-karmady-anavrtam - Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.1.11 ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 25 August 2022 diff hist +2,834‎ Caitanya said, "Love of Krsna is so powerful that it simultaneously defeats the poisonous effects of a snake, as well as the happiness derived from pouring nectar on one's head. It is perceived as doubly effective, simultaneously poisonous & nectarean" ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5512:55, 25 August 2022 diff hist +4,294‎ As far as happiness derived from sense enjoyment is concerned, it can be obtained automatically in course of time, just as in due course of time we obtain miseries even though we do not desire them ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 25 August 2022 diff hist +4,966‎ As far as happiness derived from sense enjoyment is concerned, it can be obtained automatically in course of time, just as in course of time we obtain miseries even though we do not desire them ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 25 August 2022 diff hist +11,801‎ Any person who has developed even a small amount of devotional service doesn't care a fig for any kind of happiness derived from religiousness, economic development, sense gratification or the five kinds of liberation ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5412:54, 25 August 2022 diff hist +6,031‎ Any person who has developed even a little quantity of pure devotional service can very easily kick out all the other kinds of happiness derived from religiousness, economic development, sense gratification and liberation ‎No edit summary current
• 12:5312:53, 25 August 2022 diff hist +6,390‎ Actually, a pure devotee does not aspire after any of these perfections because the happiness derived from devotional service in Krsna consciousness is so transcendental and so unlimited that no other happiness can be compared with it ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3312:33, 25 August 2022 diff hist +7,829‎ If one is found doing mistake or doing something wrong, but because he is sticking to this principle of Krsna consciousness, he is sadhu. Sadhu means a holy man. He is holy. He is not doing any wrong consciously. But due to habit ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3212:32, 25 August 2022 diff hist +6,687‎ Simply thinking of Krsna. That will help you. Ananya-bhavena. This is sadhu ‎No edit summary current
• 12:3212:32, 25 August 2022 diff hist +3,752‎ What is Bible? Scripture. Why the scripture? It is fully contains the instruction of sadhu, holy man, or spiritual master, Lord Jesus Christ, therefore is scripture. The scripture means the statement of liberated holy man. That is sadhu ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1512:15, 25 August 2022 diff hist +6,655‎ We have the tendency of controlling over the material nature, lording it over the material nature, but we are not the supreme controller. So that thing is explained in the Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1212:12, 25 August 2022 diff hist +8‎ You can move your hand if you like. So I am not the controller of your body, and you are not the controller of my body, but the Supreme Soul is the controller of your body and my body and every body ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1212:12, 25 August 2022 diff hist +8‎ I speak of this hand as "my hand" because I can work with this hand and move it according to my desire. But I am not the controller of your hand. If I desire to move your hand, that is not in my power; that is in your power ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0112:01, 25 August 2022 diff hist 0‎ I also feel that I am controlling my bodily affairs to some extent, but because I am not the supreme controller, if there is something wrong in this body, I have to go to a physician. Similarly, I have no control over other bodies ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0012:00, 25 August 2022 diff hist +9,104‎ In this way, controller, controller, bigger controller, bigger controller, you go to the Brahma, the controller of the universe. But he is also not Supreme Controller ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5911:59, 25 August 2022 diff hist −24‎ Although we have a tendency to lord it over material nature, we should know that we are not the supreme controller. This is explained in Bhagavad-gita. BG 1972 Introduction ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5811:58, 25 August 2022 diff hist +8‎ According to our capacity, everyone of us has some controlling power. But we are not the supreme controller. The supreme controller is God, Krsna ‎No edit summary current

18 August 2022

• 12:1612:16, 18 August 2022 diff hist +4,594‎ Pleasure potency is not painful to Krsna. But it is painful. It is painful to us, conditioned souls. This Golden Moon (name of a bar?), everyone comes there for pleasure, but he is becoming implicated in sinful activities. Therefore it is not pleasure ‎No edit summary current
• 12:1612:16, 18 August 2022 diff hist +5,066‎ Throughout the whole world they're implicated in these four kinds of sinful activities. How you can expect that he's going to have next body very nice? ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4311:43, 18 August 2022 diff hist +7,701‎ Without a doubt whenever we refer to control over others we must admit the existence of a personal feature ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4211:42, 18 August 2022 diff hist +3,406‎ When Krsna was fighting with Kaliya, Mother Yasoda exclaimed, "Krsna is now entrapped within the hoods of the Kaliya snake, and yet I am not tattered to pieces! So I must admit how wonderful is the preserving power of this material body!" ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4211:42, 18 August 2022 diff hist +5,676‎ The queens continued, "Dear black cloud, we must admit frankly that to establish an intimate relationship with Syamasundara means to purchase unnecessary anxieties while we are otherwise comfortable at home" ‎No edit summary
• 11:4211:42, 18 August 2022 diff hist +5,226‎ The intelligent class of men must admit the Lord as the ultimate source of all energies and thus pay tribute to the Lord for His good blessings ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4211:42, 18 August 2022 diff hist −17‎ The Absolute Truth is beyond our conception. One must admit that He has unblemished qualities that He does not share with every living entity ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4111:41, 18 August 2022 diff hist +8,760‎ Princes offered prayers to Krsna, "O Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, we must admit that before this we were puffed up with our material opulences. It was as if we were intoxicated" ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4111:41, 18 August 2022 diff hist −13‎ One has to abide by superior dictation. When one's mind is fixed on the superior nature, he has no other alternative but to follow the dictation of the Supreme. The mind must admit some superior dictation and follow it. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4111:41, 18 August 2022 diff hist +3,856‎ My dear Queen, due to my sinful desires I went to the forest to hunt without asking you. Therefore I must admit that I have offended you. Nonetheless, thinking of me as your most intimate subordinate, you should still be very much pleased with me ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4111:41, 18 August 2022 diff hist +6,072‎ My dear Lord, I must admit that due to Your bodily effulgence, unbearable to my eyes, I cannot see You properly. I can fully realize that the influence of Your effulgence has diminished my power ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4111:41, 18 August 2022 diff hist −13‎ Matter can never work automatically, without a living hand, and therefore we must admit the existence of God, the supreme living being, behind the laws of nature ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4011:40, 18 August 2022 diff hist +5,835‎ I must admit my frailties in presenting Srimad-Bhagavatam, but still I am hopeful of its good reception by the thinkers and leaders of society on the strength of the following statement of Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4011:40, 18 August 2022 diff hist +3,814‎ I beg to acknowledge receipt of your pictures and note and it has so much engladdened me that I must admit that there is a little fraction of Caitanya Mahaprabhu's merciful glance upon you ‎No edit summary
• 11:4011:40, 18 August 2022 diff hist +3,218‎ In the Sri Caitanya-candrodaya (beginning of the eighth act) Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu says - Sarvabhauma, I have traveled to many holy places, but I cannot find a Vaisnava as good as you anywhere. However, I must admit that Ramananda Raya is wonderful ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3911:39, 18 August 2022 diff hist −13‎ In an honest search for truth, we must admit that His (Lord's) powers are inconceivable to our tiny brains ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3911:39, 18 August 2022 diff hist +4,881‎ Behind the laws of nature is the living brain of God, just as there is always a lawmaker behind all the laws of the state. It does not matter whether or not we see the lawmaker behind the common laws; we must admit that there is a lawmaker ‎No edit summary current
• 11:3911:39, 18 August 2022 diff hist +5,311‎ All our senses are imperfect. We claim to observe everything and anything, but we must admit that we can observe things under certain material conditions only, which are also beyond our control ‎No edit summary