User contributions for Madana Mohana

27 October 2023

• 10:0010:00, 27 October 2023 diff hist +21‎ When it is chanted by a pure devotee of the Lord in love, it has the greatest efficacy on hearers, and as such this chanting should be heard from the lips of a pure devotee of the Lord, so that immediate effects can be achieved ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5809:58, 27 October 2023 diff hist +21‎ Sri Yamunacarya, a great devotee in KC, said: Since I have been engaged in the transcendental loving service of Krsna, realizing ever-new pleasure in Him, whenever I think of sex pleasure, I spit at the thought, and my lips curl with distaste. BG 1972 p ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5709:57, 27 October 2023 diff hist +21‎ When a devotee becomes affected with this mental condition, his love is expressed through the lips ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 27 October 2023 diff hist +21‎ Such words from the lips of a sincere devotee cannot be false. All possibilities abide in Him, for He is the primeval Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5509:55, 27 October 2023 diff hist +21‎ Others who are associating with them (the Europeans and Americans who have taken to Krsna consciousness) and hearing the chanting of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra from the lips of pure devotees are also becoming captivated by the transcendental vibration ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4809:48, 27 October 2023 diff hist +38‎ Now, namanta eva san-mukharitam bhavadiya-vartam. "Just hear the message of God." "From whom?" San-mukharitam: "through the mouth of the devotees." Not professional, not gramophone - through the mouth of, through the lips of real devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3709:37, 27 October 2023 diff hist +21‎ If you hear from a professional man, that will not be effective. Hearing must be from sadhu, from devotee, from the lips of the devotee. Just like Sukadeva Gosvami was speaking to Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary
• 09:3609:36, 27 October 2023 diff hist +21‎ Hearing must be from sadhu, from devotee, from the lips of the devotee ‎No edit summary
• 09:3509:35, 27 October 2023 diff hist +21‎ A businessman is always very eager to go to a place where business is transacted. Similarly, a devotee is very eager to hear from the lips of liberated devotees ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2809:28, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ When Brahma described the situation of pure devotees freed from the culture of empiric philosophy and fruitive actions, he recommended the process of hearing from persons who are on the path of devotion ‎No edit summary current
• 09:2509:25, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ Those who are addicted to the pursuit of empiric philosophy are also advised to act in such a way that they will realize bhakti. Karma-yoga is therefore different from ordinary karma, and jnana-yoga is different from ordinary jnana ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1709:17, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ The speculative process of empiric philosophy is as bitter as the fruit of the nimba tree. Tasting this fruit is the business of crows. In other words, the philosophical process of realizing the Absolute Truth is a process taken up by crowlike men ‎No edit summary
• 09:1609:16, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ The purport is that any transaction, either in the field of fruitive work or in empiric philosophy, which is not ultimately aimed at transcendental realization of the Supreme Lord, is considered to be useless ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1409:14, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ The process of being liberated from the misconception of material identification is called, in different stages, fruitive activity, empiric philosophy and devotional service, up to transcendental realization ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1309:13, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ The culture of empiric philosophy helps one realize the impersonal brahmajyoti, which is the glaring effulgence of the transcendental body of Lord Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0909:09, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ These dirty things of fruitive work and empiric philosophy can be removed only by association with the Supreme Lord. The Lord, being omnipotent, can offer His association by His inconceivable potencies ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0809:08, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ Such transcendental realization is made possible by dovetailing all the above items (fruitive activity, empiric philosophy and devotional service) in relation with the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0609:06, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ Pure devotional service cannot be attained by empiric philosophy, nor can perfection be attained simply by good association ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0409:04, 27 October 2023 diff hist +11‎ In Krsna consciousness there is no scope for worshiping any demigod or any other form of Krsna, nor is there room for indulgence in speculative empiric philosophy, nor indulgence in fruitive activities. One should be free from all these contaminations ‎No edit summary
• 09:0309:03, 27 October 2023 diff hist +11‎ Foolish mundaners actually envy Sri Krsna and deride Him as one who is like other mundaners. The truth about Sri Krsna does not easily enter into the perverted brain of such mundaners infected with the empiric approach to philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0209:02, 27 October 2023 diff hist −16‎ Empiric philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0109:01, 27 October 2023 diff hist −16‎ Culture of empiric philosophy ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0009:00, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ By the speculation of empiric philosophy, which discerns matter from spirit one can achieve the highest perfection, provided one is able to reach the stage of narayana-smrti, or constant remembrance of the Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5908:59, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ Brahma created four principles of knowledge: sankhya, or empirical philosophy for the analytical study of material conditions; and yoga, or mysticism for liberation of the pure soul from material bondage ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5508:55, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ All fruitive activity, empirical philosophy and mysticism are more or less against the sense of subordination to the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5008:50, 27 October 2023 diff hist +10‎ When one firmly realizes Krsna as the supreme goal, he is no longer attracted by mystic yoga practice or the speculative empirical methods of knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4908:49, 27 October 2023 diff hist +10‎ When it comes to the real standard, yada, jnanam yada, when the knowledge or speculative empiric knowledge, pratinivrtta-gunormi-cakram, no more affected by the waves of these modes of nature ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4908:49, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ When a person who is a little advanced (in devotional service) and is therefore called a jnani advances even more, he is in the category of a jnana-misra-bhakta, or a devotee whose love is mixed with empiric knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4808:48, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ Vyasadeva taught Sukadeva the difference between fruitive work and empiric knowledge, the ways and means of attaining spiritual realization and the four asramas (namely the student life, the householder's life, the retired life and the renounced life) ‎No edit summary
• 08:4708:47, 27 October 2023 diff hist +10‎ The cleansing of the polluted heart by other methods (like the culture of empiric knowledge or mystic gymnastics) can simply cleanse one's own heart, but devotional service to the Lord is so powerful that it can cleanse the hearts of the people in general ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4208:42, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ Such devotees (who are essentially very advanced but still not able to understand the personal features or variegatedness of the spiritual world) are known as jnana-misra-bhaktas, or devotees whose devotional service is mixed with empiric knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3908:39, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ Persons who are bewildered by empiric knowledge or direct sensual perception, & who consider that this limited material world can be gauged by their material estimations, conclude that anything that one can discern by direct sense perception is but maya ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3708:37, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ Naradhitah: if Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is not worshiped, there is no point in practicing meditational yoga, performing karma-yoga or culturing empiric knowledge ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3508:35, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ However perfect an empiric philosopher may be in presenting a philosophical thesis, such knowledge is never perfect because it is produced by an imperfect mind ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3008:30, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ Empirical knowledge overcoated with devotional service is called jnana-yoga ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1808:18, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ After hearing Ramananda Raya speak in this way, Caitanya Mahaprabhu again rejected his statement and said, "Go ahead and say something more." Ramananda Raya then replied, "Devotional service mixed with empiric knowledge is the essence of perfection" ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1008:10, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8‎ The sages (the four Kumaras) tried with wide open ears to understand the words from the lips of the Supreme Lord, but although His speech was very concise and meaningful, the sages could not completely comprehend what He was saying ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0908:09, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8‎ The Lord's excellent speech was difficult to comprehend because of its momentous import & its most profound significance. The sages heard it with wide-open ears & pondered it as well. But although hearing, they could not understand what He intended to do ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0708:07, 27 October 2023 diff hist −19‎ They (the four Kumaras) could not even comprehend the purport of the speech or what the Supreme Lord wanted to do. Nor could they understand whether the Lord was angry or pleased with them ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0608:06, 27 October 2023 diff hist −19‎ Lord Krsna put the Pandavas into a distressed condition so acute that even grandfather Bhisma could not comprehend how such distress could occur ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0308:03, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31‎ How is everything being done? The word "inconceivable" has been used. It is not within the power of one's small brain to comprehend; unless one accepts the inconceivable power and energy of the Lord, one cannot make any progress ‎No edit summary current

26 October 2023

• 16:0816:08, 26 October 2023 diff hist +4‎ Brahma is not an ordinary conditioned soul. He is far, far superior to all the other demigods, and yet he could not comprehend the display of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 16:0716:07, 26 October 2023 diff hist +4‎ As indicated in Srimad-Bhagavatam by Sukadeva Gosvami, we should not try to comprehend the greater mountainous areas of the universe merely by our calculations ‎No edit summary current
• 16:0516:05, 26 October 2023 diff hist −16‎ When transcendental love of Krsna awakens in someone's heart, even a learned scholar cannot comprehend his activities ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5515:55, 26 October 2023 diff hist −20‎ We should conclude that if one cannot comprehend the material expansions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one certainly cannot estimate the expansiveness of the spiritual world ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5415:54, 26 October 2023 diff hist +11‎ We have to accept the Bhagavad-gita or any other Vedic literature in good faith. These Vedic literatures are the only source of knowledge about the Lord. We must understand that we cannot comprehend the Absolute Truth by the speculative process ‎No edit summary current
• 15:5115:51, 26 October 2023 diff hist −16‎ We cannot factually comprehend even twelve hours of Brahma's life, to say nothing of the one hundred years that constitute his entire lifetime. How, then, can we understand his abode ‎No edit summary
• 15:5015:50, 26 October 2023 diff hist −16‎ Unfortunately, the stubborn impersonalists cannot comprehend that the final spiritual destination, beyond the four Vedic goals (religiosity, economic development, sense gratification, and liberation) is absolutely pure and transcendental love of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 15:4815:48, 26 October 2023 diff hist +11‎ The impersonalist philosophers, who wish to maintain that the Absolute Truth is without senses, cannot comprehend this (BG 9.26) verse of Bhagavad-gita. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 15:4715:47, 26 October 2023 diff hist −16‎ Persons who are everlastingly fooled by lust and desire lose all power of understanding their change of body and their stay in a particular body. They cannot comprehend it. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary