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14 April 2024
- 12:3812:38, 14 April 2024 diff hist +33 If I submit, "Yes, the force is there," then where is my knowledge? I do not wish to die. So why death is forced upon me? Nobody wants miserable condition of life, but miserable condition of life is enforced upon me No edit summary current
- 12:3812:38, 14 April 2024 diff hist 0 Everyone is trying to live. Nobody wants to die. Why this psychological desire is there? I want to live. That means that he is eternal. Therefore he wants to live No edit summary current
- 12:3712:37, 14 April 2024 diff hist +33 Everyone is trying to live. Nobody wants to die. Why this psychological desire is there? I want to live. That means that he is eternal. Therefore he wants to live No edit summary
- 12:0912:09, 14 April 2024 diff hist +1 Anyone who is fixed in the transcendental service of the Lord has surpassed all the material qualities and is situated in the status of Brahman realization, in which one is not afflicted by hankering for material objects No edit summary current
- 12:0712:07, 14 April 2024 diff hist +32 Anyone who is fixed in the transcendental service of the Lord has surpassed all the material qualities and is situated in the status of Brahman realization, in which one is not afflicted by hankering for material objects No edit summary
- 11:4711:47, 14 April 2024 diff hist +38 These two students (Purusottama and Sanjaya) were inhabitants of Navadvipa and were the Lord’s (Caitanya's) first companions in the sankirtana movement No edit summary current
- 11:4611:46, 14 April 2024 diff hist +38 Suklambara Brahmacari collected alms of rice from the inhabitants of Navadvipa, and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu took pleasure in eating the rice that he cooked No edit summary current
- 11:4611:46, 14 April 2024 diff hist +38 Sri Buddhimanta Khan was one of the inhabitants of Navadvipa. He was very rich, and it is he who arranged for the marriage of Lord Caitanya with Visnupriya, the daughter of Sanatana Misra, who was the priest of the local zamindar No edit summary current
- 11:4411:44, 14 April 2024 diff hist +38 After the appearance of Lord Caitanya, there was great ceremony, all the inhabitants of Navadvipa. His father, Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu's father, was not very rich man but was very respectable brahmin No edit summary current
13 April 2024
- 09:3309:33, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 All others fall into three classes. One class is bhukti, those who are hankering after material happiness and enjoyment. These people want to eat, drink, be merry and enjoy No edit summary current
- 09:2009:20, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 While the devotees enjoy spiritual bliss, the nondevotees are surprised that the devotees have forgotten material hankerings No edit summary
- 09:1909:19, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 Whenever pure topics of the transcendental world are discussed, the members of the audience forget all kinds of material hankerings, at least for the time being. Not only that, but they are no longer envious of one another No edit summary
- 09:1709:17, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 To be fully absorbed in the thought of Krsna means clearance of material dirts or hankerings No edit summary
- 09:1609:16, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 Those persons who were unable to see God as He is remained attached to material hankerings & were not able to go back home, back to Godhead. When the Lord passed beyond the vision of all, He did so in His original eternal form, as stated here - SB 3.2.11 No edit summary
- 09:1609:16, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 This spiritual subject matter, which is transcendental to the hankerings of the material body and mind, is our supreme need. Unless we reach this transcendental plane of activities, we cannot achieve real peace No edit summary current
- 09:1509:15, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 This specific example (about the touchstone of Sanatana Gosvami) is given for the neophyte devotees just to convince them that material hankerings and spiritual advancement go ill together No edit summary
- 09:1509:15, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 The natural hankering of the minute spirit spark is for the qualities of the whole - knowledge, bliss, and eternality - but these hankerings are being frustrated due to the material body. The information on how to attain the soul's desire is given in BG No edit summary current
- 09:1409:14, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 The inhabitants of those planets (the spiritual planets) are liberated from birth, death, old age and diseases and have full knowledge of everything; they are all godly and free from all sorts of material hankerings No edit summary
- 09:1309:13, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 O Narada, O great sage, the great thinkers can know Him when completely freed from all material hankerings and when sheltered under undisturbed conditions of the senses. Otherwise, by untenable arguments, all is distorted, and the Lord disappears No edit summary
- 09:1209:12, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 Only by a transcendental vision are one's material hankerings fully satisfied. When the Lord was present, persons who were able to satisfy their material hankerings by seeing Him in true perspective were thus able to go back with Him to His kingdom No edit summary
- 09:1109:11, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 One who wants to possess also laments when he loses his possession. Devotees have no hankerings for material possessions and no hankerings for spiritual salvation No edit summary current
- 09:1109:11, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 My Lord, You are not very much satisfied by the worship of the demigods, who arrange for Your worship very pompously, with various paraphernalia, but who are full of material hankerings No edit summary
- 09:1009:10, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 Material hankerings, anything material, hankering, should be void No edit summary
- 09:0909:09, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 Just like a person taking lunch, he will feel satisfied of hunger and strength, himself. Similarly, the more you serve Krishna, you will forget material hankerings and get spiritual strength. This is the test No edit summary
- 09:0809:08, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 In his pure unalloyed state, the living being attains the stage of full bliss, labdhopasanti, and ceases all material hankerings No edit summary
- 09:0809:08, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 In his present life, which is completely freed from all material hankerings, Sri Narada Muni does not go into the forest, although he can turn every place into Vaikuntha by his presence only No edit summary
- 09:0709:07, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 By hearing the holy names and glories of the Lord, a person executes pious activities. Srnvatam sva-kathah krsnah punya-sravana-kirtanah (SB 1.2.17). Thus his material hankerings immediately stop No edit summary
- 09:0609:06, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 As soon as one understands that he has nothing to do with matter, he at once ceases his material hankerings and becomes enlivened as a spiritual being No edit summary
- 09:0409:04, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 As is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, "A materialistic person can give up his material hankerings only by becoming situated in Krsna consciousness" No edit summary
- 09:0409:04, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 As a very rich man has no hankerings for small petty things, so also a devotee of Lord Krsna, who is guaranteed to pass on to the kingdom of God, where life is eternal, fully cognizant and blissful, naturally has no hankerings for petty material things No edit summary
- 09:0309:03, 13 April 2024 diff hist +33 All conditioned souls are mad after these (profit, adoration and distinction) different forms of sex desire, and one shall see for himself how much he has been freed from such material hankerings based primarily on the sex desire No edit summary
11 April 2024
- 09:4909:49, 11 April 2024 diff hist +29 Liberation can be attained within a second, provided we abide by the order of Krsna No edit summary current
- 09:1809:18, 11 April 2024 diff hist +22 United with his wife, he always remains absorbed in such thoughts. He feels great pleasure in hearing the talks of his wife and children, which are like the sweet humming of bumblebees that collect honey from flower to flower No edit summary current
- 09:1709:17, 11 April 2024 diff hist +22 Trees and creepers are also different types of living beings. When bumblebees come upon trees and creepers to collect honey, certainly such plants become very happy No edit summary current
- 09:0609:06, 11 April 2024 diff hist +22 When a bee approaches the parijata tree, it gets unlimited supplies of honey. There is no need to go to another tree No edit summary current
- 08:0708:07, 11 April 2024 diff hist +22 The difference between a devotee & a nondevotee is this, just like the bee & the fly: the bee always is attracted by the honey & flies go to the open sores. So the devotee is only attracted by the good qualities in other people & does not see their faults No edit summary current
- 08:0608:06, 11 April 2024 diff hist +22 The bee and the python are two excellent spiritual masters who give us exemplary instructions regarding how to be satisfied by collecting only a little and how to stay in one place and not move No edit summary current
- 08:0508:05, 11 April 2024 diff hist +22 Srila Rupa Gosvami, the great devotee acarya of the Gaudiya-Vaisnava-sampradaya, has sung a song about this lotus honey, comparing himself to the bee No edit summary current
- 07:3307:33, 11 April 2024 diff hist −1 O my (Rupa Gosvami) Lord Krsna, I beg to offer my prayers unto You. My mind is like the bee, and it is after some honey. Kindly, therefore, give my bee-mind a place at Your lotus feet, which are the resources for all transcendental honey No edit summary current
- 07:3207:32, 11 April 2024 diff hist +23 O my (Rupa Gosvami) Lord Krsna, I beg to offer my prayers unto You. My mind is like the bee, and it is after some honey. Kindly, therefore, give my bee-mind a place at Your lotus feet, which are the resources for all transcendental honey No edit summary
10 April 2024
- 20:3620:36, 10 April 2024 diff hist +22 Maharaja Pariksit was a realist, like the bees who only accept the essence (of a flower) No edit summary current
- 20:3520:35, 10 April 2024 diff hist +22 Lalita said: "The borders of Krsna's eyes roam from side to side, and His eyebrows move slowly like bumblebees on His lotuslike face No edit summary current
- 20:3520:35, 10 April 2024 diff hist +22 Laksmi, the dust of whose feet is worn on the head by others, waits upon You, as appointed, for she is anxious to secure a place in the abode of the king of bees who hovers on the fresh wreath of tulasi leaves offered at Your feet by some blessed devotee No edit summary current
- 20:3320:33, 10 April 2024 diff hist +22 If all the mental speculators bring the bees of their minds into this forest of lotus flowers and jubilantly enjoy ecstatic love of Krsna day and night, their mental speculation will be completely transcendentally satisfied No edit summary current
- 20:3220:32, 10 April 2024 diff hist +22 His chest had brushed against their breasts, crushing His flower garland and coloring it with red kunkuma powder. Attracted by the fragrance of that garland, humming bumblebees followed Krsna like celestial beings of Gandharvaloka No edit summary current
- 20:3120:31, 10 April 2024 diff hist +22 He also wears around His neck a garland of attractive sylvan flowers, & a swarm of bees, intoxicated by its delicious fragrance, hums about the garland. He is further superbly adorned with a pearl necklace, a crown & pairs of armlets, bracelets & anklets No edit summary current
- 20:3020:30, 10 April 2024 diff hist +22 He (Sri Krsna Caitanya) is so kind that He is distributing love of Krsna. Everyone should be attracted more and more to His lotus feet, as humming bees are attracted to a lotus flower No edit summary current
- 20:2920:29, 10 April 2024 diff hist +22 Haridasa Thakura made Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu sit down in front of him, and then he fixed his eyes, like two bumblebees, on the lotus face of the Lord No edit summary current
- 20:2820:28, 10 April 2024 diff hist +22 Caitanya's eyes have been compared to thirsty bumblebees & Sri Jagannatha's eyes have been compared to blossoming lotus flowers. The author has made these comparisons to describe Caitanya while the Lord was deeply absorbed in ecstatic love for Jagannatha No edit summary current
- 20:2720:27, 10 April 2024 diff hist +22 Bumblebees became mad after the fragrance & sweetness of the atmosphere. Being pleased by the humming sound of the bees, Krsna would play His flute, & together the sounds became so sweet to hear that aquatic birds like cranes, swans & ducks were charmed No edit summary current