User contributions for Yadu Kumar

6 April 2023

• 06:1106:11, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,625‎ Real understanding is described here (in SB 3.26.30) as niscayah, or proved experimental knowledge. This experimental knowledge can be achieved when one has understood the false knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1106:11, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11‎ Persons who have achieved knowledge by the association of devotees follow the mahajanas (mahat-krtena). Such a person always concentrates his mind upon the lotus feet of the Lord and executes one or more of the nine varieties of devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1006:10, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11‎ One cannot serve the Supreme Personality of Godhead unless one has achieved full perfectional knowledge in the ways and means of performing devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 06:1006:10, 6 April 2023 diff hist +1,708‎ My grandfather, the best of all men, who achieved unlimited knowledge and was worshipable for everyone, was afraid of the common men in this world ‎No edit summary
• 06:1006:10, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,248‎ Lord Sri Krsna agreed to become the son of Vasudeva and Devaki upon being pleased with their severe austerities. Therefore if any austerities have to be done, they must be done to achieve the end of knowledge, Vasudeva ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0906:09, 6 April 2023 diff hist +12‎ Knowledge is always highly esteemed. And what is that knowledge? Perfect knowledge is achieved when one surrenders unto Krsna, as is said in the Seventh Chapter, 19th verse (of BG): bahunam janmanam ante jnanavan mam prapadyate. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0906:09, 6 April 2023 diff hist +12‎ In this material world we are trying to achieve so many things - riches, women, fame, beauty, knowledge, etc. - but as soon as we are situated in Krsna consciousness we think - Oh, no achievement is better than this ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0906:09, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,915‎ In this material world there are different types of achievement, but of all of them the achievement of knowledge is considered to be the highest because one can cross the ocean of nescience only on the boat of knowledge. Otherwise the ocean is impassable ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0806:08, 6 April 2023 diff hist +12‎ In the Srimad-Bhagavatam it is said that the transcendental subject matter becomes clear in the association of the devotees. Without good association, one cannot achieve transcendental knowledge. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 06:0806:08, 6 April 2023 diff hist +9,546‎ If one endeavors simply to achieve knowledge of the Absolute Truth or the Supersoul but has no devotional service, he labors without gaining the real result. This is compared to beating the husks of wheat after the grains have already been removed ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0706:07, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,032‎ Experimental knowledge can be achieved when one has understood the false knowledge. By experimental or proved knowledge, one can understand that he is not the body but spirit soul ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0606:06, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,793‎ Evam parampara. So absolute knowledge can be achieved when we hear from the Absolute. No person in the relative world can inform us about the absolute knowledge. That is not possible ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0606:06, 6 April 2023 diff hist +12‎ Complete knowledge can be achieved only by the devotee of the Lord directly from the Lord in disciplic succession. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0606:06, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,408‎ By performing austerities & penances, by controlling the senses & mind, & by achieving full knowledge of the Absolute Truth, one is fully cleansed of material contamination. Then one's words and blessings, like those of the demigods, are never a failure ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0506:05, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,137‎ By his high intelligence (svena tejasa), by the superior power of superior knowledge achieved from the right source - the spiritual master, or acarya - he can give up his conditional life in a material body and return home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0406:04, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,477‎ As soon as we speak of knowledge, there must be three things: the object of knowledge, the person who is trying to know and the process by which the object of knowledge is achieved ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0406:04, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11‎ Any knowledge achieved by speculation is imperfect ‎No edit summary current
• 06:0406:04, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,195‎ After performing speculative activities for many, many births, when one actually comes to his real consciousness and surrenders unto the Supreme Lord, Krsna, then the fulfillment of his research in knowledge is actually achieved ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5005:50, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,750‎ When they have thus enjoyed heavenly sense pleasure, they return to this mortal planet again. Thus, through the Vedic principles, they achieve only flickering happiness. BG 9.21 - 1972 ‎No edit summary
• 05:5005:50, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,713‎ Unadulterated happiness, real happiness can be achieved in the spiritual world. Not in the material world ‎No edit summary current
• 05:5005:50, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,576‎ This ultimate gain (of achieving permanent happiness and eternal life) is possible to achieve in the human form of life ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4905:49, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,172‎ This (SB 7.15.50) is explained in Bhagavad-gita (BG 9.21): When those who follow the pravrtti-marga have enjoyed heavenly sense pleasure, they return to this mortal planet again. Thus, through the Vedic principles, they achieve only flickering happiness ‎No edit summary
• 05:4905:49, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,603‎ The perfect process for achieving this (freedom from all kinds of fear and the fullest extent of happiness in life), here and now, is recommended in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, which is uttered by such a great authority as Srila Sukadeva Gosvami ‎No edit summary
• 05:4805:48, 6 April 2023 diff hist +1,347‎ The Lord has already ordered both of you brothers (Rupa and Sanatana) to situate yourselves in Vrndavana. There you will achieve all happiness ‎No edit summary
• 05:4805:48, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,158‎ The living entity tries to achieve happiness and rid himself of the causes of distress, but because the various bodies of the living entities are under the full control of material nature, all his plans in different bodies, one after another ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4705:47, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,964‎ The highest kind of happiness that a man can achieve is to be promoted to the spiritual planets by practice of Krsna consciousness. A life of Krsna consciousness is therefore the solution to all the problems of material existence. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 05:4705:47, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,081‎ The actual form of life for the living entities is one of spiritual happiness, which is real happiness. This happiness can be achieved only when one stops all materialistic activities. Material sense enjoyment is simply imagination ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4605:46, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,765‎ There are many heavenly planets to which they (those materially attached) aspire just to achieve more and more material happiness by getting a long duration of life and the paraphernalia for sense enjoyment ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4605:46, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,012‎ Steady in the Self, being freed from all material contamination, the yogi achieves the highest perfectional stage of happiness in touch with the Supreme Consciousness. BG 6.28 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4405:44, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,130‎ Real happiness is achieved by spiritual existence or by cessation of the repetition of birth and death. One can stop the repetition of birth and death only by going back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4405:44, 6 April 2023 diff hist +7,943‎ Real happiness can be achieved in the spiritual world. Not in the material world. So certain amount of happiness and certain amount of distress we have to enjoy and suffer. You cannot change it. This is the law of nature in this material world ‎No edit summary
• 05:4405:44, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,949‎ Persons who are trying to become happy by adjustment of this bahir-artha, external energy, or the material energy, they do not know that happiness cannot be achieved without approaching Visnu, or God ‎No edit summary
• 05:4305:43, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,941‎ People are working hard day and night for the illusory happiness of the body. This is not a way to achieve happiness. One has to get out of this material entanglement and return home, back to Godhead. That is real happiness ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4305:43, 6 April 2023 diff hist +9,648‎ People are trying to become happy by adjusting the external energy, but they do not know that happiness cannot be achieved without approaching God ‎No edit summary
• 05:4205:42, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,951‎ People are seeking peace in different ways, but they can achieve real happiness only if they consult the bona fide representative of Krsna, the man in Krsna consciousness. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,806‎ People are seeking peace in different ways, but they can achieve real happiness only if they consult Krsna, or the Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam - which constitute the science of Krsna. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 05:4205:42, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,838‎ Our duty is to achieve permanent happiness and eternal life, and it is for that purpose only - for the ultimate gain - that we should undertake all sorts of penances and austerities ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4205:42, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,496‎ One should simply understand that the distress and happiness of this body are predestined; there is no need to try to avoid the distress of this bodily existence or to attempt to achieve happiness by different types of exercises ‎No edit summary
• 05:4105:41, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,462‎ My dear Priyavrata, according to our association with different modes of material nature, the Supreme Personality of Godhead gives us our specific bodies and the happiness and distress we achieve ‎No edit summary current
• 05:4105:41, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11‎ Krsna said that happiness can be achieved in pure consciousness, or when your senses are transcendental. He gave hint. Not only hint, He practically suggested also that: You simply surrender unto Me ‎No edit summary
• 05:4105:41, 6 April 2023 diff hist +2,449‎ My dear King Pariksit, the sons of Kartaviryarjuna, who were defeated by the superior strength of Parasurama, never achieved happiness, for they always remembered the killing of their father ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3905:39, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,351‎ In this material world, every materialist desires to achieve happiness and diminish his distress, and therefore he acts accordingly. Actually, however, one is happy as long as one does not endeavor for happiness ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3905:39, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,409‎ In the human form of life, the living entity must accept this instruction from the Supreme Person, Krsna: "Do not plan to achieve happiness and drive away distress. You will never be successful. Simply surrender unto Me" - BG 18.66 ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3805:38, 6 April 2023 diff hist −11‎ If your misery comes by nature, your happiness will also come by nature. Don't bother about it. That is the instruction of Prahlada Maharaja. If you receive the miseries of life without effort, you will similarly achieve happiness without effort ‎No edit summary
• 05:3805:38, 6 April 2023 diff hist +3,450‎ He works very hard day and night exactly like a merchant who enters a forest to acquire some articles to sell later for profit. However, he cannot really achieve happiness within this material world ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3805:38, 6 April 2023 diff hist +12‎ Here the proposal is how to achieve perfect happiness of atma. Atma means the body, atma means the mind and atma means the soul. So unless you get happiness of the soul, simply trying to get happiness of the body and the mind, you'll never get happiness ‎No edit summary
• 05:3705:37, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,645‎ For the neophytes the routine of devotional service may be very painful, but at least they have the hope that they will ultimately be able to avoid all kinds of distresses and achieve the highest perfectional stage of happiness ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3705:37, 6 April 2023 diff hist +6,972‎ Everyone is trying to be happy, and the process adopted to achieve that happiness is called self-interest. Unfortunately, the conditioned soul hovering within this material world does not know that his ultimate goal of self-interest is Vasudeva ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3605:36, 6 April 2023 diff hist +5,161‎ Everyone is actually seeking to achieve happiness by reviving his relationship with the Supersoul. As the Lord (Krsna) says in Bhagavad-gita (BG 15.15), vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah: By all the Vedas, it is I who am to be known ‎No edit summary current
• 05:3605:36, 6 April 2023 diff hist +4,262‎ Even though we may be able to avoid distress and artificially enjoy some material happiness by temporary achievements, this represents no factual gain in life. Our duty is to achieve permanent happiness and eternal life ‎No edit summary current