User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda
29 June 2025
- 07:1007:10, 29 June 2025 diff hist +278 Spiritual life can be attained by proper training-either by following the principles of varna and asrama or by being directly trained in the bhakti school by the methods of sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam No edit summary current
- 07:0407:04, 29 June 2025 diff hist +126 So if we associate with all these things, sravanam kirtanam visnoh (SB 7.5.23), hearing and chanting about Visnu, then this misconception of life, that "I am purusa," will vanquish. Then you become liberated No edit summary current
- 06:4806:48, 29 June 2025 diff hist +104 Since Mayavadi philosophers cannot understand this (that all devotional activities are easy to perform and are eternal), they take it for granted that a devotee’s activities (sravanam kirtanam, etc. (SB 7.5.23)) are all material and are therefore maya No edit summary current
- 06:0806:08, 29 June 2025 diff hist +225 One should not give up the process of devotional service, which is performed in nine different ways - sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam, etc. - SB 7.5.23 No edit summary current
- 06:0706:07, 29 June 2025 diff hist +51 My dear King (Pariksit), wherever people in any position perform their occupational duties of devotional service by chanting and hearing (sravanam kirtanam visnoh SB 7.5.23), there cannot be any danger from bad elements - SB 10.6.3 No edit summary current
- 06:0106:01, 29 June 2025 diff hist +259 Kunti says, "You have come to teach rascals like this and engage them in hearing, remembering, and worship." This is bhakti. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh: (SB 7.5.23) one should hear and chant about Visnu, Krsna No edit summary current
- 06:0006:00, 29 June 2025 diff hist +149 Krsna knowledge is so perfect. And if we take the real process, sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam (SB 7.5.23), the devotional service... Because Krsna says, bhaktya mam abhijanati yavan yas casmi tattvatah No edit summary current
- 05:5905:59, 29 June 2025 diff hist +168 Krsna is present everywhere, but one has to acquire knowledge in order to know how to see Krsna. That is mukti, liberation. That is Krsna consciousness. That is also the process of bhakti-yoga-sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam... - SB 7.5.23 No edit summary current
- 05:0905:09, 29 June 2025 diff hist +179 Kirtana means sravanam kirtanam visnoh (SB 7.5.23) - hearing and chanting about Visnu, Krsna. The Vedic literature recommends harer nama (CC Adi 17.21), chanting of the holy name of Hari, Krsna, and no one else No edit summary current
- 05:0805:08, 29 June 2025 diff hist +148 Kirtana means sravanam kirtanam visnoh, Visnu-kirtana. But these rascals have discovered because they are very fertile brain and they can discover so many things No edit summary current
- 04:5404:54, 29 June 2025 diff hist +104 Kirtana means glorification. Kirtana is preaching, glorifying and speaking about the Lord. Pariksit Maharaja attained perfection simply by listening to Srimad-Bhagavatam. This is sravanam kirtanam No edit summary current
- 04:2804:28, 29 June 2025 diff hist +107 Jada Bharata was simply concerned with returning home, back to Godhead, by executing devotional service through sravanam kirtanam visnoh. He did not care for the Vedic instructions of his father No edit summary current
- 04:2504:25, 29 June 2025 diff hist +115 I am speaking to you; this is also kirtanam. And you are hearing; this is bhakti. Sravanam kirtanam, about Krsna. The chanting, dancing about Krsna, this is bhakti No edit summary current
- 04:2304:23, 29 June 2025 diff hist +168 It is very important verse. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh (SB 7.5.23). When one has heard, when one has properly chanted, he has little experience of the transcendental form of the Lord, then his service beginning No edit summary current
- 03:4303:43, 29 June 2025 diff hist +126 In the execution of devotional service, sravanam kirtanam visnoh (SB 7.5.23) is especially stressed. This means that bhakti, or devotional service, begins by hearing and chanting about Visnu No edit summary current
- 03:4003:40, 29 June 2025 diff hist +62 In Kali-yuga, if this Vedic (Hare Krsna) maha-mantra is chanted regularly and heard regularly by the devotional process of sravanam kirtanam (SB 7.5.23), it will purify all societies, and thus humanity will be happy both materially and spiritually No edit summary current
- 03:3503:35, 29 June 2025 diff hist −6 In bhakti-yoga it is recommended that a devotee follow nine principles; sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam/ arcanam. vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-nivedanam - SB 7.5.23 No edit summary current
- 03:3203:32, 29 June 2025 diff hist +104 In any case, bhakti-yoga begins with hearing-sravanam kirtanam (SB 7.5.23). After one has heard from the right source and is convinced, one will automatically perform kirtana No edit summary current
- 03:2903:29, 29 June 2025 diff hist +83 Inquiry means sravanam. Inquiry means to get the answer; that is hearing. And then assimilate. Then kirtanam, then distribute the knowledge to the world No edit summary current
28 June 2025
- 14:2914:29, 28 June 2025 diff hist +62 If you want spiritual salvation, then you have to hear and chant about Visnu, nobody else. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh No edit summary current
- 14:2914:29, 28 June 2025 diff hist +128 If you can constantly, twenty-four hours, if you hear and chant Hear means somebody chants or you chant yourself or hear, or some of your colleague may chant, you hear. This process must go on. This is sravanam kirtanam visnoh No edit summary current
- 14:2814:28, 28 June 2025 diff hist +62 If we try to repeat what we hear, we become established in knowledge. By the process of sravanam kirtanam (SB 7.5.23), hearing and chanting, we can become free from material conditioning and attain to the kingdom of God No edit summary current
- 14:2814:28, 28 June 2025 diff hist +29 If we simply try to explain how Krsna is great, how God is great, that is sufficient service. That is complete service: sravanam kirtana No edit summary current
- 14:2614:26, 28 June 2025 diff hist +107 If we associate with all these things, sravanam kirtanam visnoh, hearing and chanting about Visnu, then this misconception of life, that "I am purusa," will vanquish. Then you become liberated No edit summary current
- 14:0714:07, 28 June 2025 diff hist +62 Even if one is busy executing his occupational duty, his business in Krsna consciousness need not be hampered. He has to execute the devotional service of sravanam kirtanam - hearing, chanting and remembering. One need not abandon his occupational duty No edit summary current
- 13:5313:53, 28 June 2025 diff hist +26 Devotional service begins with sravanam kirtanam; (SB 7.5.23) therefore Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu advised the beggars to chant the Hare Krsna maha-mantra for elevation to the transcendental position No edit summary current
- 13:3913:39, 28 June 2025 diff hist +104 Devotees interested in hearing and chanting (sravanam kirtanam) regularly discuss the pure characteristics of Bharata Maharaja and praise his activities No edit summary current
- 13:3813:38, 28 June 2025 diff hist +83 Constantly, twenty-four hours, if you hear and chant. Hear means somebody chants or you chant yourself or hear, or some of your colleague may chant, you hear. Or he may hear, you may chant. This process must go on. This is sravanam kirtanam visnoh No edit summary current
- 13:3313:33, 28 June 2025 diff hist +45 Chanting, hearing. First hearing, then chanting. Without hearing, nobody can chant. Sravanam kirtanam. And what sort of sravanam kirtanam? Visnoh, of Visnu. Not anything else No edit summary current
- 12:5712:57, 28 June 2025 diff hist −1 Athato brahma jijnasa means that in order to get out of the bodily conception, one has to increase attachment to or inquiry about Brahman. Then he can be situated in the transcendental devotional service - sravanam kirtanam visnoh - SB 7.5.23 No edit summary current
- 12:3712:37, 28 June 2025 diff hist +127 Athato brahma jijnasa means that in order to get out of the bodily conception, one has to increase attachment to or inquiry about Brahman. Then he can be situated in the transcendental devotional service - sravanam kirtanam visnoh - SB 7.5.23 No edit summary
- 12:3612:36, 28 June 2025 diff hist +104 As soon as there is a question of hearing, we must ask what subject matter we should hear about. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh: we should hear about the activities of Lord Visnu, or Lord Krsna, not about the news in the newspaper No edit summary current
- 12:3012:30, 28 June 2025 diff hist +154 As long as one is not satiated by fruitive activity and has not awakened his taste for devotional service by sravanam kirtanam visnoh (SB 7.5.23), one has to act according to the regulative principles of the Vedic injunctions No edit summary current
- 12:2512:25, 28 June 2025 diff hist +12 Always we should hear about Krsna, speak about Krsna. Then this base quality, ignorance and passion, will go. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh No edit summary current
- 12:2312:23, 28 June 2025 diff hist +83 According to the strict principles of the Vedas, the highest attainment is to rise to the platform of sravanam kirtanam (SB 7.5.23), hearing and chanting about the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This is confirmed in Srimad-Bhagavatam - SB 1.1.2 No edit summary current
- 11:3211:32, 28 June 2025 diff hist +384 This bhakti consists of various activities (sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam/ arcanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-nivedanam (SB 7.5.23)), and to understand the Lord one must take to this path of devotional service No edit summary current
- 11:3111:31, 28 June 2025 diff hist +316 The principles of bhakti-yoga-sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam/ arcanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-nivedanam (SB 7.5.23) - are the only means by which perfection can be attained No edit summary current
- 11:3011:30, 28 June 2025 diff hist +541 The nine processes of devotional service are sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam/ arcanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-nivedanam (SB 7.5.23). See text 121 of this chapter - CC Madhya 22 No edit summary current
- 11:3011:30, 28 June 2025 diff hist +353 The nine forms of devotional service are sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam arcanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-nivedanam No edit summary current
- 11:0311:03, 28 June 2025 diff hist +520 The method for this (approaching God directly) is described by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu as nine kinds of devotional service, beginning with hearing: sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam, arcanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-nivedanam - SB 7.5.23 No edit summary current
- 11:0311:03, 28 June 2025 diff hist +459 The direct method of getting liberation from material bondage is devotional service, comprising the nine following methods: sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam arcanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-nivedanam No edit summary current
- 11:0211:02, 28 June 2025 diff hist +480 The bhakti-yoga practice are in different nine spheres, that, sravanam kirtanam visnoh, smaranam pada-sevanam, arcanam vandanam dasyam, sakhyam atma-nivedanam No edit summary current
- 10:5810:58, 28 June 2025 diff hist +421 There are nine different processes of devotional service (sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam arcanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-nivedanam (SB 7.5.23)), but all of them are meant only for the service of the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
- 10:5710:57, 28 June 2025 diff hist +53 So each and every verse you should chant very perfectly, nicely, meditate upon it. That is the process of progress, advancement in spiritual life. We should get all these verses by heart, and chant, and offer prayer to the Lord, vandanam. Vandanam No edit summary current
- 10:2010:20, 28 June 2025 diff hist +1 Pada-sevanam: Laksmi, goddess of fortune, simply engaged herself in massaging the lotus feet of Visnu. Pada-sevanam. Arcanam: Prthu Maharaja, he engaged himself in the arcana. Vandanam. Dasyam: Hanuman. Akrura, Akrura, he simply offered prayers to Krsna No edit summary
- 10:2010:20, 28 June 2025 diff hist +1 In bhakti there are nine different activities: sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam/ arcanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-nivedanam No edit summary current
- 10:1910:19, 28 June 2025 diff hist +1 In bhakti-yoga it is recommended that a devotee follow nine principles; sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam/ arcanam. vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-nivedanam - SB 7.5.23 No edit summary
- 10:1810:18, 28 June 2025 diff hist +187 Smaranam means meditation. Vandanam means offering prayer. So smaranam vandanam dasyam arcanam. Arcanam, Deity worship. There are other items also. In this way there are nine items No edit summary current
- 10:0910:09, 28 June 2025 diff hist +212 Pada-sevanam: Laksmi, goddess of fortune, simply engaged herself in massaging the lotus feet of Visnu. Pada-sevanam. Arcanam: Prthu Maharaja, he engaged himself in the arcana. Vandanam. Dasyam: Hanuman. Akrura, Akrura, he simply offered prayers to Krsna No edit summary
- 10:0810:08, 28 June 2025 diff hist +153 In the land of Bharata-varsa one can very easily perform the sankirtana-yajna, which consists of sravanam kirtanam visnoh (SB 7.5.23), or one can perform other methods of devotional service, such as smaranam vandanam arcanam dasyam sakhyam No edit summary current