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06:5506:55, 18 November 2024 diff hist +13‎ Simply by giving people a chance to hear this wonderful Hare Krsna mantra and Krsna's philosophy as stated in Bhagavad-gita, so many people will become interested and actually they will join us ‎No edit summary current
06:5506:55, 18 November 2024 diff hist −9‎ One who is very busy, anxious with politics, sociology, humanitarianism, one who is very busy always in politics, how he can become interested or how he can understand bhagavat-tattva-vijnanam? That is not possible ‎No edit summary current
06:5506:55, 18 November 2024 diff hist +13‎ Krsna continued, "On the contrary, when a person becomes penniless, whether by force or by circumstances, he may become interested in Me if he gets the proper opportunity" ‎No edit summary current
06:5506:55, 18 November 2024 diff hist +13‎ It so happened that when this very cobbler came to his former house, his former sons and grandsons beat him with shoes. Unless the karmis and jnanis become interested in KC, they will simply continue to waste their life in fruitless activities ‎No edit summary current
06:5506:55, 18 November 2024 diff hist +33‎ In the BG 7.16 it is confirmed: If backed by pious activities in the past, four kinds of men - namely those who are distressed, those in need of money, those searching after knowledge & those who are inquisitive - become interested in devotional service ‎No edit summary current
06:5506:55, 18 November 2024 diff hist −9‎ If you do not become interested in the matter of understanding the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then you should know it that your performances of all religious ritualistic ceremonies are simply waste of time ‎No edit summary current
06:5506:55, 18 November 2024 diff hist −9‎ If they (people) are at all fortunate, they become interested in going back home, back to Godhead, but unless they understand the spiritual world, they rot in this material darkness continuously ‎No edit summary current
06:5406:54, 18 November 2024 diff hist +13‎ If respectable gentlemen become interested in our Krishna Conscious Movement then our temple in Vrindaban will stand first, because all other temples in Vrindaban gather general mass of people without philosophical understanding ‎No edit summary current
06:5406:54, 18 November 2024 diff hist +13‎ Every intelligent human being should become interested in this transcendental science; indeed, according to the opinions of the sages, human life is only meant for learning this science ‎No edit summary current
06:5306:53, 18 November 2024 diff hist +33‎ As soon as you become interested (in Krsna), oh, Krsna becomes very active: "Oh, he's trying to do something. I shall help him" ‎No edit summary current

04:0004:00, 15 November 2024 diff hist +28‎ If we want to revive our original position, we must be placed again into that service attitude. That is the perfect cure. Otherwise we shall suffer pain and God will be suffering pain on account of us ‎No edit summary current
03:5903:59, 15 November 2024 diff hist +28‎ We are all living beings, but because we have accepted this material body, we are suffering. Now we require this fan. Why? Because feeling some pains on account of heat. That heat is felt by the body, not the soul ‎No edit summary current
03:5903:59, 15 November 2024 diff hist −13‎ We have fallen into this river and are repeatedly suffering the pains of birth and death and eating horrible things. Now kindly look upon us - not only upon me but also upon all others who are suffering ‎No edit summary current
03:5903:59, 15 November 2024 diff hist +5‎ They (human being) are put into hell means they are suffering very severe type of pains. "Now, leaving aside all other topics, kindly let me know how these men can be delivered from this hellish condition of life." This is his (Maharaja Pariksit's) prasna ‎No edit summary current
03:5903:59, 15 November 2024 diff hist +28‎ These sufferings and pains are sometimes mixed. Sometimes they are very severe, and sometimes they are not. These bodily conditions are acquired due to the conditioned soul's mental speculation ‎No edit summary
03:5903:59, 15 November 2024 diff hist +4‎ On the television they are always advertising tranquilizers and pain killers, and in America and in other Western countries they are so advanced that there are dozens of tablets for various pains. Therefore there must be some suffering ‎No edit summary current
03:5803:58, 15 November 2024 diff hist +28‎ Just by treating the root cause of an ailment, one can conquer all bodily pains and sufferings. Similarly, if one is devoted and faithful to the spiritual master, he can conquer the influence of sattva-guna, rajo-guna and tamo-guna very easily ‎No edit summary current
03:5803:58, 15 November 2024 diff hist +5‎ In this material nature, or material world, we have got three kinds of sufferings: tri-tapa-yantana. Sri, Sri Sanatana Gosvami inquired, - Why these three kinds of miseries inflict pains upon me? ‎No edit summary current
03:5803:58, 15 November 2024 diff hist +5‎ Either a bug is biting, or there is a pain in the stomach or some other malady. Whatever the case, the suffering goes on ‎No edit summary current
03:5803:58, 15 November 2024 diff hist −13‎ As human beings, we should be cognizant that we are suffering the pains of birth, old age, disease and death and should be inquisitive to know how to avoid these miseries ‎No edit summary current
03:5803:58, 15 November 2024 diff hist −12‎ Although suffering the pain of being bound and although rebuked and cursed by his spiritual master, Bali Maharaja, being fixed in his vow, did not give up his truthfulness ‎No edit summary current
03:5803:58, 15 November 2024 diff hist +5‎ Adhyatmika refers to the body and mind. Today I have a headache or some pain in my back, or my mind is not very quiet. These are sufferings called adhyatmika ‎No edit summary
03:5803:58, 15 November 2024 diff hist +10‎ The materialistic person can also be called a tapasvi, which means someone who is always suffering from material pains. One can get rid of all these material pains only when he takes shelter of the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra ‎No edit summary current

08:3908:39, 13 November 2024 diff hist +11‎ The word samadhina is very important. Samadhi means complete absorption with an undiverted mind ‎No edit summary current
08:3908:39, 13 November 2024 diff hist +11‎ The quadruple forms have a spiritual existence that can be realized in vasudeva-sattva (suddha-sattva), or unqualified goodness, which accompanies complete absorption in the understanding of Vasudeva ‎No edit summary current
08:3908:39, 13 November 2024 diff hist +11‎ The more the activities of the material world are performed in Krsna consciousness, or for Visnu only, the more the atmosphere becomes spiritualized by complete absorption. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
08:3908:39, 13 November 2024 diff hist +11‎ Sannyasa, or renunciation of material household life, necessitates complete absorption in Krsna consciousness and immersion in the self ‎No edit summary current
08:3908:39, 13 November 2024 diff hist +11‎ In all three stages of their consciousness - namely, wakefulness, dreaming & deep sleep - the devotees are absorbed in the thought of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Therefore, in their complete absorption in the thought of Krsna, they do not sleep ‎No edit summary current
08:3808:38, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ When one is completely absorbed in the adhoksaja, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is beyond the sense perception of materialistic persons, one is situated in brahmananda ‎No edit summary current
08:3808:38, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ Thus because he is completely absorbed in thought of Me, the devotee does not desire even the highest benediction obtainable in the upper planetary systems, including Satyaloka ‎No edit summary current
08:3808:38, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ This is stated in Bhagavad-gita (9.34): Engage your mind always in thinking of Me and become My devotee. Offer obeisances and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me ‎No edit summary
08:3708:37, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ The transcendental qualities of the Lord are so attractive that Srila Sukadeva Gosvami became detached from being completely absorbed in impersonal Brahman and positively took up the personal activity of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
08:3708:37, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ The pure devotees are free from all these mixtures (enthusiasm for fruitive activities and philosophical speculation) and are completely absorbed in the service of the Lord, regardless of how and where they are situated ‎No edit summary current
08:3708:37, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ The ocean of material nescience is compared to a blazing fire, but to a devotee this blazing fire is insignificant because he is completely absorbed in devotional service ‎No edit summary
08:3708:37, 13 November 2024 diff hist +33‎ The greatest necessity for a human being is the achievement of love for the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Here (in SB 10.8.45) we see that mother Yasoda is on the highest stage of necessity, for she is completely absorbed in love for Krsna ‎No edit summary current
08:3708:37, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu danced completely absorbed in ecstatic emotion. While looking at the face of Lord Jagannatha, He danced and recited these verses ‎No edit summary current
08:3708:37, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ Social literary men, scientists, mundane poets, theoretical philosophers and politicians who are completely absorbed in the material advancement of sense pleasure are all dolls of the material energy ‎No edit summary current
08:3708:37, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ Rupa Gosvami has defined raganuga-bhakti as spontaneous attraction for something while completely absorbed in thoughts of it, with an intense desire of love. Devotional service executed with such feelings of spontaneous love is called raganuga-bhakti ‎No edit summary current
08:3708:37, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ One devotee boldly said, "My dear Lord, now I am turning my face from any thought of association with young girls. As far as Brahman realization is concerned, I have lost all interest, because I am completely absorbed in thinking about You ‎No edit summary current
08:3708:37, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ Narada Muni, the topmost pure devotee, praises Krsna's enemies like Sisupala because their minds are always completely absorbed in Krsna. Indeed, he thinks himself deficient in the inspiration of being feelingly absorbed in Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary
08:3608:36, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ My dear Uddhava, a person whose consciousness is completely absorbed in My thought and activities does not aspire even to occupy the post of Brahma, or the post of Indra, or the post of lordship over the planets, or the eight kinds of mystic perfections ‎No edit summary current
08:3608:36, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ Maharaj Pariksit inquires from Sukadeva Gosvami, "My dear brahmana, I understand that the demon Vrtrasura was a great sinful person and that his mentality was completely absorbed in the modes of passion and ignorance" ‎No edit summary current
08:3608:36, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ In the body of a brahmana, Maharaja Bharata was completely absorbed in devotional service within; therefore it was not at all necessary for him to execute the regulative principles of fruitive activity ‎No edit summary current
08:3608:36, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ In BG 15.15 Krsna says: "I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness." The living entities are completely absorbed in the three states of wakefulness, dreaming and deep sleep through their intelligence ‎No edit summary current
08:3608:36, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ If one's mind and senses are completely absorbed in Krsna consciousness, one is experiencing bhakti ‎No edit summary current
08:3608:36, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ Even while engaged in various activities, devotees whose minds are completely absorbed at Your lotus feet are always on the transcendental platform, and thus they can understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead - SB 10.2.37 ‎No edit summary
08:3608:36, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, offer obeisances and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me. BG 9.34 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
08:3608:36, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, become My devotee, offer obeisances to Me and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me ‎No edit summary
08:3608:36, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ Being completely absorbed in His thought, she gave up her material body conditioned by the laws of nature ‎No edit summary current
08:3608:36, 13 November 2024 diff hist +9‎ A pure devotee who is executing the different processes of devotional service may be situated in the transcendental position, being completely absorbed in Krsna consciousness, but even he, while discharging devotional service, must hear ‎No edit summary

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