User contributions for Yadu Kumar

30 March 2023

• 07:0007:00, 30 March 2023 diff hist +3,004‎ Kamsa killed all the sons of Devaki who were born before Krsna, but Krsna escaped the danger of child-slaughter because He was transferred to the house of Nanda Maharaja, Lord Krsna's foster father ‎No edit summary current
• 07:0007:00, 30 March 2023 diff hist +5,283‎ He (Baladeva) was also entrusted to Nanda Maharaja along with His mother, Rohini, when Vasudeva embraced imprisonment by mutual agreement with Kamsa. So Nanda Maharaja is also the foster father of Baladeva along with Lord Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5906:59, 30 March 2023 diff hist +5,159‎ Friend of Nanda Maharaja pointed out the auspicious signs on the body of Krsna to the boy's foster father ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5906:59, 30 March 2023 diff hist +6,092‎ Although Krsna was the real son of Vasudeva and Devaki, because of Kamsa's atrocious activities Vasudeva could not enjoy the birth ceremony of his son. But Nanda Maharaja, the foster father, celebrated the birth ceremony of Krsna very joyfully ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5306:53, 30 March 2023 diff hist +1,658‎ While resting in Satyabhama-pura, he (Rupa Gosvami) dreamed that a celestially beautiful woman came before him and very mercifully gave him the following order ‎No edit summary
• 06:5206:52, 30 March 2023 diff hist +2,445‎ Having been cursed by Mitra and Varuna, the celestial woman Urvasi had acquired the habits of a human being. Therefore, upon seeing Pururava, the best of males, whose beauty resembled that of Cupid, she controlled herself and then approached him ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5206:52, 30 March 2023 diff hist +2,254‎ Since the King has thus rejected me (Saubhari Muni), I shall reform my body in such a way as to be desirable even to celestial women, what to speak of the daughters of worldly kings ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5006:50, 30 March 2023 diff hist +2,293‎ Maharaja Agnidhra, whose intelligence was like that of a demigod, knew the art of flattering women to win them to his side. He therefore pleased that celestial girl with his lusty words and gained her favor ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4506:45, 30 March 2023 diff hist +2,229‎ Women are naturally softhearted, but men are sometimes very hardhearted ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4506:45, 30 March 2023 diff hist +6,383‎ As soon as soft-hearted people such as women hear those transcendental pastimes of Lord Krsna, they immediately become attracted to Him. Soft-hearted women and girls are therefore very easily drawn to the Krsna consciousness movement ‎No edit summary
• 06:3606:36, 30 March 2023 diff hist +6,776‎ Although the gopis were village cowherd women and girls, they had extensive Vedic knowledge. Such is the effect of Vedic civilization. People in general would learn the highest truths of the Vedas simply by hearing from authoritative sources ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3506:35, 30 March 2023 diff hist +3,143‎ When the cowherd woman (Krsna's foster mother, Yasoda) was trying to tie the hands of her son with ropes, she found the rope to be always insufficient in length ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3506:35, 30 March 2023 diff hist +7,245‎ Cowherd woman described the speaking of Krsna: "Krsna was speaking to His father so politely & gently that it was as if He were pouring nectar into the ears of all present there. After hearing such sweet words from Krsna who will not be attracted to Him" ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3406:34, 30 March 2023 diff hist +5,852‎ Yasoda said, "Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto Him under whose illusory energy I am thinking that Nanda Maharaja is my husband & Krsna is my son, that all the properties of Nanda belong to me & that all the cowherd men & women are my subjects" ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3406:34, 30 March 2023 diff hist +6,394‎ While they (the cowherd women) were blessing child Krsna in this way, they offered a mixture of turmeric powder, oil, yogurt, milk and water. They sprinkled this mixture not only on the body of child Krsna but on all other persons who were present there ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3206:32, 30 March 2023 diff hist +6,836‎ When the cowherd men saw the pastimes of the cowherd women, they became very joyful, and in response they also began to throw yogurt, milk, clarified butter and water upon the bodies of the gopis. Then both parties began to throw butter on each other ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3206:32, 30 March 2023 diff hist +27‎ When the cowherd men and women heard about the killing of Bakasura in the forest, they were very much astonished - SB 10.11.54 ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3106:31, 30 March 2023 diff hist +6,894‎ When mother Yasoda was so piteously crying, all the cowherd women immediately came and began to look for the baby (Krsna), but they were disappointed and could not find Him ‎No edit summary current
• 06:3006:30, 30 March 2023 diff hist +6,149‎ The innocent cowherd women thought that she (Putana) was the goddess of fortune appearing in Vrndavana with a lotus flower in her hand. It seemed to them that she had personally come to see Krsna, who is her husband ‎No edit summary
• 06:2906:29, 30 March 2023 diff hist −13‎ The gopis, they are village cowherds women. They are, according to social construction, they are not very high class. They did not belong to the brahmana class. But their worship, method of worship, has been taken the highest ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2906:29, 30 March 2023 diff hist +27‎ The cowherd women, riding on the bullock carts, were dressed very nicely with excellent garments, and their bodies, especially their breasts, were decorated with fresh kunkuma powder - SB 10.11.33 ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2806:28, 30 March 2023 diff hist +3,345‎ The cowherd men and women in the villages lived a very natural life, and the women developed a natural feminine beauty, with full hips and breasts ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2806:28, 30 March 2023 diff hist +7,075‎ The cowherd men and women could not understand that the all-powerful Personality of Godhead was lying there as a baby and that He could do anything. Both the possible and impossible were in His power ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2706:27, 30 March 2023 diff hist +7,879‎ The cowherd men & women were invited to participate in the jubilant celebration (of Krsna's birthday). A nice band played & the assembled people enjoyed it. All the learned brahmanas were invited, & they chanted Vedic hymns for the good fortune of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2606:26, 30 March 2023 diff hist +27‎ They (the cowherd men and women) looked upon Krsna and the boys with silent eyes, not wanting to turn their eyes aside now that the boys were safe - SB 10.11.54 ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2606:26, 30 March 2023 diff hist +7,744‎ They (the cowherd men and women) began to talk about how wonderful it was that the demon (Trnavarta) had taken away the child (Krsna) to devour Him but could not do so; instead he fell down dead ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2506:25, 30 March 2023 diff hist +2,248‎ There was no limit to the increment of their (the cowherd men and women's) affection for their sons, who were now Krsna. Every day they found new inspiration for loving their children as much as they loved Krsna - SB 10.13.26 ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2506:25, 30 March 2023 diff hist +27‎ Thereafter (after learning to walk), Lord Krsna, along with Balarama, began to play with the other children of the cowherd men, thus awakening the transcendental bliss of the cowherd women - SB 10.8.27 ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2406:24, 30 March 2023 diff hist +7,156‎ Their (the cowherd women's) ears were decorated with pearl rings, their necks were decorated with jeweled lockets, their lips and eyes were decorated with different kinds of lipstick and ointment, and their hands were decorated with nice golden bangles ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2306:23, 30 March 2023 diff hist +6,810‎ Srimati Radharani continued, "We know that Krsna cannot live for a moment without the association of young women. That is His nature. He is finding difficulty in Mathura because He is no longer in the village among innocent cowherd girls" ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2306:23, 30 March 2023 diff hist +5,413‎ Nanda Maharaja was also very happy to see the pastimes of the cowherd men and women, and he became very liberal in giving charity to the different singers who were assembled there ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2206:22, 30 March 2023 diff hist +3,985‎ Krsna is a thunderbolt to the wrestlers; to the common man He is the most beautiful human being; to the young girls He is just like Cupid; to the cowherd men and women He is the most intimate relative and to the impious kings He is the supreme ruler ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2106:21, 30 March 2023 diff hist +2,611‎ Because of intense love for Krsna, the cowherd men and women simply remained silent, thinking of how Krsna and the boys had been saved (from Bakasura). The cowherd men and women looked upon Krsna and the boys and did not desire to turn their eyes aside ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2006:20, 30 March 2023 diff hist −13‎ As they (the cowherd women) rode, they began to chant with great pleasure the pastimes of Krsna - SB 10.11.33 ‎No edit summary current
• 06:2006:20, 30 March 2023 diff hist +2,537‎ Although the inhabitants of Gokula were mostly cowherd men and cultivators, they knew how to defend themselves from danger and how to give protection to the women, the old men, the cows and the children, as well as to the brahminical purohitas ‎No edit summary
• 06:0006:00, 30 March 2023 diff hist +10,965‎ People are gradually descending from human society to animal society. They are forgetting marriage. That is also predicted in the sastras ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5905:59, 30 March 2023 diff hist +3,883‎ Now, of course, this (a lifelong marriage) is no longer possible, for human society has fallen to the level of animal society. Marriage now takes place simply by agreement ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5805:58, 30 March 2023 diff hist +4,850‎ Modern education has artificially devised a puffed up concept of womanly life, and therefore marriage is practically now an imagination in human society. Nor is the moral condition of woman very good now. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5705:57, 30 March 2023 diff hist +5,161‎ The Vedic injunctions for marriage offer a concession to human society, the idea being that a man and woman united in a ritualistic marriage ceremony should help one another advance in spiritual life ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5605:56, 30 March 2023 diff hist +4,283‎ The so-called institution of free love marriage is ruining the human society and it is our duty to reestablish the correct procedure of human life by encouraging our disciples who wish to marry to enter into a contract of spiritual wedlock ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5405:54, 30 March 2023 diff hist +10,969‎ That is also restricted - he cannot have sex life without being married. Therefore in human society there is marriage, not in animal society ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5205:52, 30 March 2023 diff hist +3,505‎ Marriage on principles of religious life is current in all civilized human society because that is the way for restricted sex life. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5205:52, 30 March 2023 diff hist +2,633‎ Human society must also have ideal marriages ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 30 March 2023 diff hist +7‎ Most obligatory duty of the father, to get the daughter married. And then it is the duty of the husband next ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 30 March 2023 diff hist +5,866‎ As soon as one engages himself in the one single obligatory duty -- the duty of spiritual perfection -- then he automatically liquidates all other obligations without having to make separate efforts ‎No edit summary
• 05:4105:41, 30 March 2023 diff hist +3,789‎ Although He has no obligatory duty, still He does everything so that others may follow. That is the way of factual teaching; one must act properly himself and teach the same to others, otherwise no one will accept one's blind teaching ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3805:38, 30 March 2023 diff hist +12,965‎ When Caitanya took sannyasa, so mother became very much upset: "Oh, that I have no husband, and this boy is going to take sannyasa." Naturally. But that is a different case. For Krsna's sake, we can forsake our obligatory duties ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3705:37, 30 March 2023 diff hist +5,684‎ For Krsna's sake, we can forsake our obligatory duties. For Krsna's sake. In the sastra it is said that one who has fully surrendered to Krsna, he has no more any material duty ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3505:35, 30 March 2023 diff hist +3,406‎ Everyone has his proprietory right in regard to prescribed duties, but should act without attachment to the result; such disinterested obligatory duties doubtlessly lead one to the path of liberation. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current

29 March 2023

• 07:1207:12, 29 March 2023 diff hist +6,564‎ Lord Visnu advised Maharaja Prthu that a king is not enjoined to give up his kingdom & the responsibility of protecting the prajas, or citizens, to instead go away to the Himalayas for liberation. He can attain liberation while executing his royal duties ‎No edit summary