User contributions for Madana Mohana
11 February 2023
- 13:5413:54, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,836 Because a pure devotee has no thought other than Krsna, he is naturally always joyful. He does not lament for any material loss or gain because he is full in service of the Lord. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
- 13:5113:51, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,182 A pure devotee of the Lord never thinks of himself as the proprietor of his home. He surrenders everything unto the supreme control of the Lord, and thus he has no fear for maintaining his family or protecting the interests of his family No edit summary current
- 13:4913:49, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,480 A pure devotee of Lord Krsna never desires to be promoted to the heavenly planets, or even to Vaikuntha or Goloka Vrndavana, because he has no desire for his own personal satisfaction No edit summary
- 13:4613:46, 11 February 2023 diff hist +42 A pure devotee like Uddhava has no material afflictions because he engages constantly in the transcendental loving service of the Lord No edit summary current
- 13:4413:44, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,442 A pure devotee is niskincana; he has no material desire to enjoy the material world. One has to take shelter of such a pure devotee in order to attain his qualities No edit summary current
- 13:4213:42, 11 February 2023 diff hist +42 A pure devotee is anyabhilasita-sunyam (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.1.11). He has no desire for material profit, nor does the Lord induce him to try to profit materially. When a devotee needs something, the Supreme Personality of Godhead supplies it No edit summary
- 13:3813:38, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,124 A pure devotee actually has no problems for himself; wherever he is he can read books like Krsna Books and chant Hare Krsna, get some prasadam and always think of Krsna No edit summary current
- 13:3313:33, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,151 A pure devotee has no way of sensing happiness except by seeing that Krsna is happy in every respect. If Krsna becomes happy by giving him distress, such a devotee accepts that unhappiness as the greatest of all happiness No edit summary current
- 13:2813:28, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,579 A pure devotee has no plans other than those for the Lord’s service. He is not interested in attaining success in mundane activities No edit summary current
- 13:2713:27, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,730 A pure devotee has no interest but to act on behalf of the Supreme Lord. When one has even a tinge of personal interest, his devotion is mixed with the three modes of material nature No edit summary current
- 13:2513:25, 11 February 2023 diff hist +12,671 A pure devotee has no demand from the Lord. His only concern is to serve the Lord sincerely and seriously, and he is not at all concerned about what will happen in the future No edit summary current
- 13:2213:22, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,176 A pure devotee has nothing to do with mundane religiosity, economic development, sense gratification, or salvation, nor is he concerned whether his standard of material existence is the highest or the lowest. To him, heaven and hell are of equal value No edit summary current
- 13:1913:19, 11 February 2023 diff hist +7,745 A pure devotee has none of the tinges of the above contaminations (becoming a religious man, a rich man, a first-class enjoyer or becoming God himself), which are the influence of material desires, impersonal speculations and attainment of mystic powers No edit summary current
- 13:1713:17, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,750 A pure devotee engaged in the service of Lord Krsna has no desire for his personal sense gratification, and thus he never accepts anything for that purpose No edit summary current
- 12:0012:00, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,299 Although the pure devotee does not follow all the regulative principles of varnasrama, he worships the lotus feet of Krsna. Therefore he naturally has no tendency to commit sin No edit summary current
- 11:5311:53, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,319 After being baffled in his material enjoyment, the impersonalist may desire to merge into the existence of the Lord, but a pure devotee of the Lord has no such desire. Therefore a pure devotee is really bhagavad-dharmi No edit summary current
- 11:3611:36, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,892 Yudhisthira Maharaja and his brothers the Pandavas were all engaged in the service of the Lord Sri Krsna, and they had very little attraction for the illusory happiness of this material world No edit summary
- 11:1111:11, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,830 Unobstructed happiness is called brahma-saukhya, spiritual happiness. Although we may get some so-called happiness in this material world, that happiness is temporary. The foolish materialists cannot understand this No edit summary
- 11:0511:05, 11 February 2023 diff hist +2,476 Unless one comes to the platform of actual experience, one cannot realize what is pain and what is happiness in this material world No edit summary current
- 11:0311:03, 11 February 2023 diff hist +8 Under the circumstances, they must come down to realize happiness in these varieties of material world. Because they found it better happiness by taking in politics and on political movements or opening school, hospitals No edit summary current
- 10:5410:54, 11 February 2023 diff hist +3,385 The yoga system which relates to the Lord and the individual soul, which is meant for the ultimate benefit of the living entity, and which causes detachment from all happiness and distress in the material world, is the highest yoga system No edit summary current
- 10:3910:39, 11 February 2023 diff hist +81,352 The worker with a desire to enjoy the fruits of his work is hankering after transient material happiness, and such a worker is rewarded with worldly or heavenly happiness within the material worlds No edit summary current
- 10:3710:37, 11 February 2023 diff hist +24,300 The whole Vedic civilization is based on the understanding that destiny allows only a certain amount of material happiness in this world, and that our efforts should therefore be directed toward self-realization No edit summary
- 10:3010:30, 11 February 2023 diff hist −15 The sage Rsabhadeva told his sons that once they purified their existence they would have unlimited happiness. We are all intended to attain peace and happiness, but whatever peace and happiness we find in this material world is limited No edit summary current
- 10:1410:14, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,010 The happiness and distress of the material world of duality are both mistaken ideas No edit summary current
- 10:0910:09, 11 February 2023 diff hist +4,272 The conditioned soul is always engaged in laying out plans for happiness within the material world, even up to the end of the universal limit No edit summary current
- 09:3109:31, 11 February 2023 diff hist +15,674 The asuras are always fighting to overcome these impediments, and by the illusory power of material nature the foolish living entities work very hard within this material world and take this to be happiness. This is called maya No edit summary current
- 09:2709:27, 11 February 2023 diff hist +2,657 They (conditioned souls) are continuously making plans to live here (material world) peacefully and happily. Such is the material world No edit summary current
- 09:2409:24, 11 February 2023 diff hist +5,364 These fools (who make elaborate political, social and cultural plans) are trying to turn the material world into sukhalayam, a place of happiness, not knowing how everything acts by the arrangement of material nature, which works in her own way No edit summary current
10 February 2023
- 15:5515:55, 10 February 2023 diff hist +6 There are so many scientists, philosophers and big leaders, but they do not know wherefrom they have come, nor do they know why they are busy within this material world to obtain a position of so-called happiness No edit summary current
- 15:2815:28, 10 February 2023 diff hist +4,325 Remembering those (cursing) words, he (Siva) was sorry at heart, although to please his wife he smiled. In Bhagavad-gita it is said that a liberated person is always in mental equilibrium in both the distress and the happiness of this material world No edit summary current
- 15:0215:02, 10 February 2023 diff hist +3,255 Of course, one may say that he is not disturbed by material happiness, but he does not know that just after one enjoys so-called material happiness, material distress will follow. This is the law of the material world No edit summary current
- 14:5414:54, 10 February 2023 diff hist +4,635 My Lord, due to Your illusory energy, all living beings in this material world have forgotten their real constitutional position, and out of ignorance they are always desirous of material happiness in the form of society, friendship and love No edit summary current
- 14:5014:50, 10 February 2023 diff hist +2,689 Material existence consists of pious and impious fruitive activities. As long as one is engaged in any kind of activity other than devotional service, it will result in the happiness and distress of this material world No edit summary current
- 14:4714:47, 10 February 2023 diff hist +13,961 Material enjoyment includes activities such as great sacrifices for auspicious activity, charity, austerity, elevation to the higher planetary system, and even living happily within the material world No edit summary current
- 14:0914:09, 10 February 2023 diff hist +4,401 Materialists think that sexual indulgence is the greatest happiness in this material world, and therefore they make elaborate plans to satisfy their senses, especially the genitals No edit summary current
- 14:0714:07, 10 February 2023 diff hist +8 Krsna has advised that this material happiness and distress, they are on account of this body. They come and go. They do not stay. So long we are in this material world, this happiness and distress will come and go No edit summary current
- 14:0514:05, 10 February 2023 diff hist +3,317 Just as a deer, because of ignorance, cannot see the water within a well covered by grass, but runs after water elsewhere, the living entity covered by the material body doesn't see the happiness within himself, but runs after happiness in material world No edit summary current
- 13:5413:54, 10 February 2023 diff hist +6,066 In this material world, a householder's life brings all kinds of happiness in religion, economic development, sense gratification and the begetting of children, sons and grandsons. After that, one may desire liberation as well as material reputation No edit summary current
- 13:4913:49, 10 February 2023 diff hist +6,111 In the material world people do not know what real happiness is. Sukham atyantikam yat tad buddhi-grahyam atindriyam (BG 6.21). Real happiness must be appreciated by one's transcendental senses No edit summary current
- 13:4613:46, 10 February 2023 diff hist +8,446 In the material world happiness means No edit summary current
- 13:4413:44, 10 February 2023 diff hist +4,022 In the material world even Brahma, the highest created being, seeks the favor of Laksmi for happiness No edit summary current
- 10:5310:53, 10 February 2023 diff hist +8,132 In the material world, so-called happiness is the result of one's own work. One can become a rich man by dint of one's own hard labor, and there are always fear and doubts as to the duration of such acquired happiness No edit summary current
- 10:4510:45, 10 February 2023 diff hist +2,966 In the material world, in any form of life, there is some so-called happiness and so-called distress. No one invites distress in order to suffer, but still it comes No edit summary current
- 10:4310:43, 10 February 2023 diff hist +3,032 In the material world, everyone is trying to get some material happiness, but as soon as we get some material happiness, there is also material distress No edit summary current
- 10:2910:29, 10 February 2023 diff hist +6,264 Illusory material world happiness means No edit summary current
- 10:1810:18, 10 February 2023 diff hist +7,174 Here in the material world whatever we consider happiness, that is limited No edit summary current
9 February 2023
- 15:5115:51, 9 February 2023 diff hist +3,618 Everyone in this material world trying to mitigate or trying to become free from the distress. Duhkhasya. Atyantika-duhkha-nivrtti. Atyantika means supreme. The struggle for existence in this material world is everyone is trying to get some happiness No edit summary current
- 15:4915:49, 9 February 2023 diff hist +5,218 Everyone in this material world is distressed by miserable conditions, but Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati says that this world is full of happiness. How is this possible No edit summary current
- 15:4215:42, 9 February 2023 diff hist +6,113 Even old man, eighty years old, he is also going to the club. Because in the material world the happiness means wine and women. That's all No edit summary current