User contributions for Madana Mohana

30 October 2023

• 10:4010:40, 30 October 2023 diff hist +7‎ Anyone who is acting in Krsna consciousness under the direction of the Supersoul or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, even though killing, does not kill. Nor is he ever affected with the reaction of such killing. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1710:17, 30 October 2023 diff hist +36‎ When the devotee is constantly engaged in Krsna Consciousness, at that time, Krsna will give all intelligence from within how to make steady progress in Krsna Consciousness ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1510:15, 30 October 2023 diff hist +36‎ We should not be greedy and we should not mix with persons not interested in Krishna. In this way, we can make steady progress and maintain our membership in Krishna's family ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1110:11, 30 October 2023 diff hist +36‎ We have to make our steady progress, keeping both sides in balance; namely the Pancaratriki Biddhi and Bhagavat Biddhi ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0910:09, 30 October 2023 diff hist −24‎ The Krsna conscious movement accepts both processes (bhagavata-marga and pancaratrika-vidhi) simultaneously and thus enables one to make steady progress on the path of realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0810:08, 30 October 2023 diff hist +36‎ The devotees must bear in mind they are promising to follow four regulative principles & chanting a minimum of 16 rounds of japa daily. Everyone should take very seriously this vow & make steady & sure progress in KC & go back to Godhead in this lifetime ‎No edit summary
• 10:0710:07, 30 October 2023 diff hist +36‎ That is the sublime philosophy of Krishna Consciousness understanding; implicit faith in Krishna and Spiritual Master. This will make your steady progress towards the Ultimate Goal of back to Home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary
• 10:0610:06, 30 October 2023 diff hist +36‎ I am so glad to note how ISKCON Houston is making steady progress for becoming a grand success. And Sankirtana is being well received, especially at the schools and university ‎No edit summary
• 10:0410:04, 30 October 2023 diff hist +36‎ I am glad that you have already started a center in small scale and please try to improve it as far as possible. There is no question of doing anything very hastily so please try to make steady, even if slow, progress ‎No edit summary
• 10:0210:02, 30 October 2023 diff hist +2‎ If one wants to make steady progress on the path of self-realization, he must try to control the forces of the material senses. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 10:0110:01, 30 October 2023 diff hist −11‎ If somebody comes and helps this movement, one or two, we can make very steady progress. We have no money. We are struggling very hard. You see? This boy is a professor in the Ohio University. So whatever he's earning, he's spending for this ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0010:00, 30 October 2023 diff hist −26‎ If one wants to make steady progress on the path of self-realization, he must try to control the forces of the material senses. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 09:3309:33, 30 October 2023 diff hist −11‎ A Krsna conscious person can thoroughly understand that there is duality (simultaneous identity and individuality) in Krsna, and, equipped with such transcendental knowledge, one can make steady progress on the path of liberation. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1409:14, 30 October 2023 diff hist +25‎ You discriminate actually. You do not kill human beings, but you kill animals. Similarly, you discriminate: instead of killing animal, kill vegetable. Importance ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1209:12, 30 October 2023 diff hist +25‎ We take nice vegetables, nice food grains, rice, wheat, sugar, milk, all vitaminous, full of vitamins. So there is no deficiency of food. Even from food value it is very nice. We do not unnecessarily kill animals ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1109:11, 30 October 2023 diff hist +23‎ We Krsna conscious people, we do not kill even a plant because, Krsna says - find out this - patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati - BG 9.26 ‎No edit summary current
• 09:1009:10, 30 October 2023 diff hist +2‎ We Krsna conscious people, we do not kill even a plant because, Krsna says - find out this - patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati - BG 9.26 ‎No edit summary

27 October 2023

• 15:2515:25, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25‎ We do not say that don't read Bible. Read something, but learn something. Jesus Christ said, "Thou shall not kill." You learn this art. But you read Bible and kill animals, then what is your benefit ‎No edit summary current
• 15:2315:23, 27 October 2023 diff hist +5‎ The gopis said, "We therefore appeal to You (Krsna), dear Lord of all lords: please do not kill our long-cherished desires to have You as our supreme husband" ‎No edit summary current
• 15:2215:22, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25‎ They give some false argument, "Lord Christ says, 'Thou shall not kill' and if I kill, Christ has taken the contract that whatever sinful activities we do, he will excuse." This is Christian dogma ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1815:18, 27 October 2023 diff hist +5‎ Suppose I am not inclined to kill animals or I do not kill animals. I avoid it. But intentionally or unintentionally, sometimes we have to kill animals ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1615:16, 27 October 2023 diff hist +5‎ Panditah sama-darsinah: (BG 5.18) because they (humble sages) are completely educated in Krsna consciousness, they see all living beings equally. Aryans do not kill even a small plant unnecessarily, not to speak of cutting trees for sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1415:14, 27 October 2023 diff hist +5‎ O Kamsa, you fool, what will be the use of killing me (Durga)? The SPG Krsna, who has been your enemy from the very beginning & who will certainly kill you, has already taken His birth somewhere else. Do not unnecessarily kill other children - SB 10.4.12 ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1215:12, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25‎ One must know what are sinful activities. Apart from any other scripture, in Christian scripture it is said, "Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not covet. Thou shall not do this." These are sinful activities ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1115:11, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ One cannot continue killing animals and at the same time be a religious man. That is the greatest hypocrisy. Jesus Christ said, "Do not kill," but hypocrites nevertheless maintain thousands of slaughterhouses while posing as Christians ‎No edit summary current
• 15:1015:10, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25‎ Nonviolence does not mean that in right causes also you will remain nonviolent. No. You do not attack anybody unnecessarily. You do not kill unnecessarily animal even, not even an ant ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0815:08, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25‎ Killing is sinful activity, even if we do not kill willingly. When you walk down the street you are killing many animals. Whenever you drink water, you are also killing. Below a water pot there are many ants and microbes that are being killed ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0615:06, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25‎ Just like the Christians. Jesus is guiding them, “Thou shalt not kill,” but they are killing. Where is the Jesus guidance? Simply saying, “I am guided by Jesus Christ” - will that do? ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0515:05, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25‎ Jesus is guiding them, "Thou shalt not kill," but they are killing. Where is the Jesus guidance? Simply saying, "I am guided by Jesus Christ" - will that do? "But I don't care for his words." Is that guidance ‎No edit summary current
• 15:0315:03, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25‎ In the Bible also it is said, "Thou shall not kill." Why it is forbidden? Because if he kills, he'll have to suffer. But they do not care for it. Therefore they suffer ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2511:25, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25‎ In every sastra, every scripture, every law book, man is warned, "Don't commit theft; you'll be punished. Don't tell lie; you'll be punished. Don't do this; you'll be punished. Thou shall not kill, otherwise you'll be punished." But nobody is caring ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2411:24, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25‎ If Lord Jesus Christ said "Thou shalt not kill'', or "Thou shalt do no murder'' to the people, it does not reflect very good social structure of the audience. Our philosophy is above all these things ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2211:22, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25‎ Even you do ordinary killing, vegetable killing, you are killing so many germs. So in higher sense, if you take this principle of Bible, "Thou shall not kill," that means you must eat krsna-prasadam, otherwise you will be killing ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0911:09, 27 October 2023 diff hist +5‎ Even if we do not kill animals, simply by eating vegetables, they are also life. It does not mean that vegetarians are not killing. They are also killing ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0611:06, 27 October 2023 diff hist +5‎ Devaki said "You are not to be killed by any female child. That was the prophecy. You are to be killed by a male child, so please do not kill her. My dear brother, you have killed so many of my children who were just born, shining like the sun" ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5810:58, 27 October 2023 diff hist +30‎ You don't require to labor and pay somewhere some five dollars, ten dollars, and practice this gymnastic. No. It is not possible. And as soon as you come out, you'll again engage yourself in all nonsense activities ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4710:47, 27 October 2023 diff hist +30‎ This seeking for solitude is simply a reaction on our past nonsense activities, or it is negation, voidism. Our sound position is always being engaged in service of Krishna, that is the positive standing ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3710:37, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8‎ Our yoga system is not like that, that we whole day, twenty-three hours and forty-five minutes, I engage myself in all nonsensical activities, and fifteen minutes I concentrate my mind, the meditation. That kind of yoga system is not here ‎No edit summary
• 10:3610:36, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8‎ No one can stop a child from playing by leaving him inactive; rather, the child can be stopped from engaging in nonsense by being engaged in superior activities - CC Preface ‎No edit summary
• 10:3510:35, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8‎ No one can stop a child from playing by leaving him inactive. A child can be stopped from engaging in nonsense by being engaged in superior activities ‎No edit summary
• 10:3410:34, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8‎ Nirvana means stop nonsense, but take to spiritual life. That is next, athato brahma jijnasa. Nirvana does not mean to stop activities; to stop nonsense activities. Come to the real activity ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3210:32, 27 October 2023 diff hist −16‎ Lord Buddha propounded the philosophy, "Make all your nonsense activities zero, so much. First of all make zero, then positive we shall say" ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3010:30, 27 October 2023 diff hist −9‎ Just like this small child, Sarasvati. According to the body, she is acting. She's acting sometimes nonsense, but we take it delight, because she is child. But the same nonsense if I do in another body, grown up body, that will be ridiculous ‎No edit summary
• 10:2810:28, 27 October 2023 diff hist +30‎ I am very much disturbed to hear of Kanupriya's activities, and I advise you that so long he is engaged in these nonsense activities, you should not have any association with him. Best thing is that you remain in the association of devotees ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2110:21, 27 October 2023 diff hist −9‎ In yoga one should have not only theoretical knowledge but practical knowledge. Simply understanding "I am not this body" and at the same time acting in a nonsensical way will not help ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1810:18, 27 October 2023 diff hist −12‎ If we perform some nonsensical action and think, "I am doing this for Krsna," that will not be accepted. The work must be verified by Krsna's acceptance or by the acceptance of Krsna's representative ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1710:17, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8‎ If we don't adopt the process and simply waste our time by intoxication and speculation and all nonsensical activities, oh, that is not possible ever. You'll never understand what is God ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1110:11, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8‎ For a person to disregard the order of the spiritual master and act by concoction, accepting his nonsensical activities to be spiritual, is maya ‎No edit summary current
• 10:1010:10, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8‎ Devotional service not only puts an end to all nonsensical mundane activities, but also engages one in meaningful devotional activities ‎No edit summary
• 10:0910:09, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8‎ Artificially, they (materialists) may sit down for so-called meditation, but immediately after their yogic performance they will engage themselves again in such activities as illicit sex life, gambling, meat-eating and many other nonsensical things ‎No edit summary