User contributions for Yadu Kumar

7 April 2023

• 07:3207:32, 7 April 2023 diff hist −11‎ Narada-pancaratra trains the karmis, or the fruitive workers, to achieve liberation from the bondage of fruitive work ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3207:32, 7 April 2023 diff hist +3,041‎ My (God's) devotees, who are always satisfied to be engaged in My loving service, are not interested even in the four principles of liberation (salokya, sarupya, samipya and sarsti), although these are automatically achieved by their service ‎No edit summary
• 07:3107:31, 7 April 2023 diff hist +7,273‎ Ma means mrtyu, or death. When one attempts to nullify these five different statuses of life - pa, pha, ba, bha and ma - one achieves apavarga, or liberation from the punishment of material existence ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3107:31, 7 April 2023 diff hist +6,010‎ Manusyanam sahasresu: out of many thousands of persons, one may endeavor for liberation, and of many thousands of persons attempting to become liberated, one may achieve liberation from the anxieties of material existence and become self-satisfied ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 7 April 2023 diff hist +4,834‎ Liberation is not a very great achievement for a devotee, to say nothing of the results of ritualistic performances in religion, economic development or the materialistic life of sense gratification. Devotees do not care for these ‎No edit summary current
• 07:3007:30, 7 April 2023 diff hist +2,040‎ It has been decided that among human beings Babhru is the best and that Devavrdha is equal to the demigods. Because of the association of Babhru and Devavrdha, all of their descendants, numbering 14,065, achieved liberation ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2907:29, 7 April 2023 diff hist +5,826‎ In this verse (SB 7.15.2) the words anantyam icchata refer to persons who desire to achieve liberation from material bondage and merge into the existence of the Lord ‎No edit summary
• 07:2907:29, 7 April 2023 diff hist +6,085‎ In the Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (1.2.256), markata-vairagya, or phalgu-vairagya, is explained as follows: When persons eager to achieve liberation renounce things related to the SP of G, thinking them to be material, their renunciation is called incomplete ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2907:29, 7 April 2023 diff hist +7,211‎ If one works piously one may be elevated to the higher planetary systems or achieve liberation and return home, back to Godhead, but otherwise one may be degraded to a life as a dog, a hog and so on ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2807:28, 7 April 2023 diff hist +5,583‎ If one is engaged in pure transcendental loving service to the Lord, it is understood that he has already achieved the five kinds of liberation ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2807:28, 7 April 2023 diff hist +6,724‎ How liberation is imperceptibly achieved by a pure devotee and what the symptoms are have been explained - in SB 3.25.39-40 ‎No edit summary
• 07:2707:27, 7 April 2023 diff hist +4,969‎ He spoke to His mother about self-realization, by which, in that very lifetime, she became fully cleansed of the mud of the material modes and thereby achieved liberation, the path of Kapila ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2707:27, 7 April 2023 diff hist +4,080‎ He (Maharaja Khatvanga) was successful in his great attempt and achieved liberation. This attempt, even for a moment, by the saintly king, was successful because he was always alert to his prime duty ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2707:27, 7 April 2023 diff hist −11‎ Hearing Srimad-Bhagavatam spoken by a professional reciter cannot actually help us achieve liberation. Krsna-katha is very simple ‎No edit summary
• 07:2607:26, 7 April 2023 diff hist +5,657‎ Having achieved the liberation of sarupya and thus having the same bodily features as the Lord, Uddhava looked almost like Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2607:26, 7 April 2023 diff hist +2,924‎ For a higher cause He (Lord Caitanya) took sannyasa and was steady in the discharge of higher duties. That is the way of achieving liberation from material bondage. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2607:26, 7 April 2023 diff hist +1,822‎ For a devotee who enjoys the transcendental bliss of devotional service, liberation is most insignificant. Therefore pure devotees never desire to achieve liberation ‎No edit summary
• 07:2507:25, 7 April 2023 diff hist +6,372‎ For a devotee, to get liberation is not very difficult. Even one who is unable to establish a relationship with Krsna can achieve liberation by merging into the Brahman effulgence. This is called sayujya-mukti ‎No edit summary
• 07:2507:25, 7 April 2023 diff hist +3,034‎ Females are not meant for the renounced order of life; they should be faithful to their good husbands, for if a husband is competent for liberation, his wife will also achieve liberation with him ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2407:24, 7 April 2023 diff hist +5,330‎ Even Lord Siva affirms that liberation can be achieved only by the mercy of Visnu. Lord Siva says: There is no doubt that Visnu is the deliverer of liberation for everyone. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 07:2407:24, 7 April 2023 diff hist +7,119‎ By the grace of Krsna only, everyone is engaged in the practice of religion, the development of economic conditions, the satisfaction of the senses and, ultimately, the achievement of liberation from material bondage ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2407:24, 7 April 2023 diff hist +3,122‎ By the grace of Krsna, Devayani gave up her imaginary position in the material world. Completely fixing her mind upon Krsna, she achieved liberation from the gross and subtle bodies ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2307:23, 7 April 2023 diff hist +16,278‎ By executing religious rituals one can achieve economic development, sense gratification or liberation (merging into the existence of the Supreme), but the results of transcendental devotional service are completely different from such temporary benefits ‎No edit summary
• 07:2307:23, 7 April 2023 diff hist +6,812‎ By advancement of knowledge, one can achieve liberation and the ultimate goal of life. It is said that if one takes to the path of liberation, even rejecting his so-called duties in the material world, he is not a loser at all ‎No edit summary
• 07:2307:23, 7 April 2023 diff hist +2,896‎ By acting in that way, he achieved the greatest success in material happiness and afterwards achieved liberation, which is impossible to obtain by worshiping the demigods ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2107:21, 7 April 2023 diff hist −11‎ Bhakti-yoga includes jnana-yoga, or, in other words, the process of pure devotional service simultaneously serves the purpose of jnana-yoga; liberation from material conditions is automatically achieved by gradual development of pure devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2107:21, 7 April 2023 diff hist +4,252‎ A person who is able to attain this transcendental qualification is called jivan-mukta, liberated, even though he is apparently in material conditions. This liberation is achieved by one who constantly engages in the transcendental loving service of God ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2007:20, 7 April 2023 diff hist −11‎ A person who gives up all fruitive activities and offers himself entirely unto Me (God), eagerly desiring to render service unto Me, achieves liberation from birth and death and is promoted to the status of sharing My own opulences ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2007:20, 7 April 2023 diff hist +13‎ A nondevotee cannot believe that simply by thinking of one person, one can achieve liberation from this material world and go back home, back to Godhead. But this is a fact ‎No edit summary current
• 07:2007:20, 7 April 2023 diff hist +5,196‎ At the beginning of Srimad-Bhagavatam it is also stated that without devotional service to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one cannot achieve liberation from the bondage of fruitive activities ‎No edit summary
• 07:1907:19, 7 April 2023 diff hist +8,642‎ As far as Paundraka was concerned, somehow or other he always thought of Lord Vasudeva by falsely dressing himself in imitation of the Lord, therefore he achieved one of the five kinds of liberation ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1907:19, 7 April 2023 diff hist −11‎ Any kind of liberation cannot be achieved without tapasya. That is the verdict of all Vedic literature ‎No edit summary current
• 07:1907:19, 7 April 2023 diff hist +4,400‎ Another devotee once exclaimed, "Although I can achieve liberation simply by serving the devotees, my mind is still very much anxious to see the Supreme Personality of Godhead, whose bodily complexion is just like a dark cloud" ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5206:52, 7 April 2023 diff hist +9‎ Worship of the Lord is also performed by the ingredients born from the bodily limbs of the Lord, and yet the worshiper, who is himself a part of the Lord, achieves the result of devotional service to the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 7 April 2023 diff hist +2,877‎ Why are You chanting the names 'gopi gopi' instead of the holy name of Lord Krsna, which is so glorious? What pious result will You achieve by such chanting? ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 7 April 2023 diff hist +9‎ When you hear the chanting, that is transcendental meditation.This process is recommended in all scriptures of Vedic literature, and it is followed by Caitanya & His disciplic succession for the last five hundred years, & people are achieving good result ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5106:51, 7 April 2023 diff hist +1,637‎ When Srivasa Thakura inquired from Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, "Where is Junior Haridasa?" the Lord replied, "A person is sure to achieve the results of his fruitive activities" ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5006:50, 7 April 2023 diff hist +9‎ We follow Lord Caitanya's footprints to achieve very quick result. I would advise you also to follow the principle ‎No edit summary current
• 06:5006:50, 7 April 2023 diff hist −11‎ Vasudeva had already achieved the result of bhagavata-dharma because Lord Krsna appeared in his house as his son ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4906:49, 7 April 2023 diff hist +4,176‎ Vasudevaya means "to Krsna, the son of Vasudeva." Since by chanting the name of Krsna, Vasudeva, one can achieve all the good results of charity, austerity and penances ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4906:49, 7 April 2023 diff hist +8,476‎ Unless one adds devotional service to all activities, he cannot achieve the desired result ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4906:49, 7 April 2023 diff hist +4,956‎ Unfortunately, many mystic yogis try to meditate on something void, and as is stated in the Gita, the result is that they simply undergo trouble and do not achieve any tangible result ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4806:48, 7 April 2023 diff hist +5,350‎ Uddhava addresses Lord Krsna and says, "Although happiness from these different sources can be very easily had by them. In spite of such facilities, my dear Lord, I do not aspire to achieve any such results" ‎No edit summary
• 06:4806:48, 7 April 2023 diff hist +5,676‎ Thus, we can understand that things offered by the devotees even in meditation are accepted by the Lord, and they help one achieve the desired result ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4806:48, 7 April 2023 diff hist +5,208‎ Those who go there (Vrndavan, Mathura and Dvaraka) to follow the principles in terms of instructions imparted in the revealed scriptures surely achieve the same result as obtained during the presence of Lord Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4706:47, 7 April 2023 diff hist +6,692‎ Those who are vasudeva-parayana, who have fully surrendered to the lotus feet of Lord Vasudeva, Krsna, automatically achieve the results of mauna (silence), vrata (vows) and other such methods simply by discharging devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4706:47, 7 April 2023 diff hist +2,497‎ Those who are actually learned say that he who applies himself well to one of these paths achieves the results of both. BG 5.4 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4606:46, 7 April 2023 diff hist +11,709‎ This is confirmed in the Bhagavad-gita: "Those who worship the different demigods achieve the desired results the respective demigods can reward" ‎No edit summary current
• 06:4606:46, 7 April 2023 diff hist +9‎ This age is an ocean of faults, but there is one boon, in this age one gets the same result as was achieved in former ages through elaborate temple worship, costly sacrifices, or introspective meditation, simply by chanting the Holy Name of The Lord ‎No edit summary
• 06:4606:46, 7 April 2023 diff hist +2,221‎ This (CC Madhya 9.33) verse from the Brahmanda Purana is found in the Laghu-bhagavatamrta (1.5.354), by Rupa Gosvami. Simply by chanting the name of Krsna once, one can attain the same results achieved by chanting the holy name of Rama three times ‎No edit summary