User contributions for Navakishora Mukunda
29 June 2025
- 11:0711:07, 29 June 2025 diff hist +101 That is devotion: sravanam kirtanam visnoh, smaranam, and remembering Him (Visnu). BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 10:5710:57, 29 June 2025 diff hist +221 Sudama was a friend of Krsna. So "I am the servant of Krsna's friend, Sudama dasa." So in this way our relationship with Krsna we always remember. That remembrance is also self-realization process. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam - SB 7.5.23 No edit summary current
- 10:5710:57, 29 June 2025 diff hist +51 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s philosophy holds that devotional service to Krsna always exists in everyone’s heart. It simply has to be awakened by the process of sravanam kirtanam visnoh - SB 7.5.23 No edit summary current
- 10:5710:57, 29 June 2025 diff hist +168 Srimad-Bhagavatam was recited by Sukadeva Gosvami and heard by Pariksit Maharaja, and we in turn have to hear about Krsna and then chant about Him (sravanam kirtanam visnoh) - SB 7.5.23 No edit summary current
- 10:1310:13, 29 June 2025 diff hist +270 Sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam (SB 7.5.23). The word smaranam means "remembering." If we chant and hear, then remembrance will automatically come, and then we shall engage in worshiping Krsna's lotus feet - sevanam No edit summary current
- 10:1210:12, 29 June 2025 diff hist +51 Sravanam kirtanam visnoh (SB 7.5.23). One must simply hear about and describe Lord Visnu and His various incarnations. This narration concerning Prahlada Maharaja and Lord Nrsimhadeva, therefore, has properly described spiritual, transcendental subjects No edit summary current
- 10:1210:12, 29 June 2025 diff hist +126 Sravanam kirtanam visnoh. This is knife. If you want to get rid of this entanglement of material existence, one body after another, then this is the only instrument by which you can unknot the knot and come out of the entanglement No edit summary current
- 09:3009:30, 29 June 2025 diff hist +126 Sravanam kirtanam visnoh, clearly state. But these bogus, so-called swamis and yogis, they cheat people, bluff people by their own concoction. That is the difficulty No edit summary current
- 09:2809:28, 29 June 2025 diff hist +278 Sravanam is very essential. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam (SB 7.5.23). So in all our centers, this process should be followed No edit summary current
- 07:1407:14, 29 June 2025 diff hist +31 Sravanam - hearing. Somebody is speaking, and somebody is hearing. So both speaking and hearing, both of them are in the process of devotional service. But that talking or speaking and hearing, not about newspaper, Nixon news - Visnu No edit summary current
- 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