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17:4217:42, 7 May 2024 diff hist +28‎ A devotee is always anxious to see that his time is not wasted in anything which is not connected with Krsna ‎No edit summary current
17:4117:41, 7 May 2024 diff hist +28‎ A chaste devotee also never asks the Lord (Krsna) for help, but the Lord, out of His own accord, is always anxious to render it ‎No edit summary current
17:4017:40, 7 May 2024 diff hist +28‎ As the devotee is always anxious to render service to the Lord, so the Lord is ever anxious to render service to the devotee ‎No edit summary current
17:3917:39, 7 May 2024 diff hist +28‎ For the ordinary living beings the law of nature is there for all actions and reactions, but He (Krsna) is always anxious to put His devotees on the right path ‎No edit summary current
17:3817:38, 7 May 2024 diff hist −13‎ For devotional service nobody should be anxious to get some material power. Rather, we should be always anxious to acquire how we can advance our anxiety, our eagerness, to serve the Lord ‎No edit summary current
17:3717:37, 7 May 2024 diff hist −13‎ Demons are always anxious to have a godless society for their sense gratification ‎No edit summary current
17:3517:35, 7 May 2024 diff hist +5‎ Advanced life in Krsna Consciousness means one should be always very much anxious to calculate whether every moment of his life has not been utilized in devotional service. This is called feeling of being afraid for misusing time ‎No edit summary current

17:1317:13, 23 April 2024 diff hist +10‎ The happiness which the living beings are hankering for is not to be found within any corner of the innumerable universes and material planets ‎No edit summary current
17:1317:13, 23 April 2024 diff hist +10‎ The eighteen material contaminations - illusion, fatigue, errors, roughness, material lust, restlessness, pride, envy, violence, disgrace, exhaustion, untruth, anger, hankering, dependence, desire to lord over the universe, seeing duality and cheating ‎No edit summary current
17:1217:12, 23 April 2024 diff hist +33‎ The devotees of the Lord are by nature peaceful because they have no material hankering. A liberated soul has no hankering, and therefore he has no lamentation ‎No edit summary current
17:1117:11, 23 April 2024 diff hist +33‎ The advantage of worshiping the Supreme Person is that even if one has desires for material enjoyment, if he worships Krsna he will gradually become a pure devotee and have no more material hankering ‎No edit summary current
17:1017:10, 23 April 2024 diff hist +33‎ These qualities of a devotee, twenty-six in number, are listed as follows: (10) benevolent, (11) peaceful, (12) completely attached to Krsna, (13) has no material hankering, (14) meek, (15) steady, (16) self-controlled ‎No edit summary current
17:0917:09, 23 April 2024 diff hist +10‎ There are many other weeds (in devotional service), like disobedience to the tenets of the revered scriptures, unnecessary engagements, killing animals, and hankering after material gain, prestige and adoration ‎No edit summary current
17:0917:09, 23 April 2024 diff hist +10‎ Passion and ignorance increase the material propensities of hankering for material enjoyment, and a strong sense of lust provokes the accumulation of wealth and power ‎No edit summary current
17:0117:01, 23 April 2024 diff hist +33‎ On the brahma-bhuta (SB 4.30.20) stage, or the platform of spiritual realization, there is no lamentation and no material hankering (na socati na kanksati) - BG 18.54 ‎No edit summary current
16:5716:57, 23 April 2024 diff hist +34‎ One should therefore understand the fixed position of the spirit soul and how he is carried away by the waves of material nature to different bodies and different situations under lamentation and hankering ‎No edit summary current
16:5616:56, 23 April 2024 diff hist +10‎ One great devotee asked, "When will my mind become cleansed of all hankering for material enjoyment so I will be able to see Vrndavana?" - CC Intro ‎No edit summary current
16:5516:55, 23 April 2024 diff hist −12‎ Nondevotees are under the sway of passion and ignorance. One who is in passion cannot become detached from material hankering, and one who is in ignorance cannot know what he is or what the Lord is ‎No edit summary current
16:5116:51, 23 April 2024 diff hist −12‎ In this material world everyone is envious of everyone else, but by vibrating or discussing the holy name of the Lord, one becomes nonenvious and devoid of material hankering ‎No edit summary current
16:5016:50, 23 April 2024 diff hist +33‎ In the material condition we are in the platform of lamentation and hankering. Everyone is trying to possess something which he does not possess, and everyone is lamenting after losing his possession. These are the condition of the materialistic person ‎No edit summary current
16:4816:48, 23 April 2024 diff hist +10‎ Hankering after material happiness is called lust, and lusty activities are sure to meet with frustration in the long run ‎No edit summary current
16:4416:44, 23 April 2024 diff hist −20‎ Brahma-bhutah prasannatma: (BG 18.54) when one is self-realized he becomes happy and free from the influence of material nature, and at that time he is freed from lamentation and hankering ‎No edit summary current
16:4316:43, 23 April 2024 diff hist +10‎ Everyone tries to become happy by planning in the material world, but the law of nature is so cruel that it sets fire to one's schemes; the fruitive worker is not happy in his schemes, nor is there any satiation of his continuous hankering for happiness ‎No edit summary current
16:4316:43, 23 April 2024 diff hist +10‎ Everyone in this material world is hankering for enjoyment, but one who is free from this hankering can taste how relishable the Bhagavatam is ‎No edit summary current
16:4116:41, 23 April 2024 diff hist +11‎ Devotees have no lusty desires for oneness; instead, their desire is to be freed from all material hankering. they are called niskama, desireless ‎No edit summary current
16:3716:37, 23 April 2024 diff hist −14‎ Brahma-bhutah prasannatma: (BG 18.54) when one is self-realized he becomes happy and free from the influence of material nature, and at that time he is freed from lamentation and hankering ‎No edit summary
16:3016:30, 23 April 2024 diff hist +34‎ Even though one may be situated within this material world, he can become fully satisfied and devoid of hankering and lamentation simply by following the instructions of the Lord as set forth in Bhagavad-gita or Srimad-Bhagavatam ‎No edit summary current
16:2716:27, 23 April 2024 diff hist +33‎ Brahma-bhutah prasannatma: (BG 18.54) when one is self-realized he becomes happy and free from the influence of material nature, and at that time he is freed from lamentation and hankering ‎No edit summary
16:2516:25, 23 April 2024 diff hist −12‎ Bilvamangala Thakura says liberation means... What is that? Liberation from this material hankering. And what is that material hankering? To satisfy the senses. So these devotees, they are not for satisfying their senses ‎No edit summary current
16:2016:20, 23 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 current
16:0516:05, 23 April 2024 diff hist +33‎ At this brahma-bhuta stage of liberation from the material entanglement, the symptoms, as explained in the Bhagavad-gita, are that one becomes joyous beyond any hankering or lamentation and gains a universal vision ‎No edit summary current
15:4215:42, 23 April 2024 diff hist +27‎ He (Caitanya) states that the first result of chanting the maha-mantra, Hare Krsna, is that dirt is cleared from the consciousness, or the mirror of the mind, and then at once the blazing fire of material existence is over ‎No edit summary current
14:4614:46, 23 April 2024 diff hist −13‎ When one is fully absorbed in Krsna consciousness, in one stroke he is freed of past and future mental desires ‎No edit summary current
14:4514:45, 23 April 2024 diff hist −13‎ When a person is fully absorbed in Krsna consciousness, his stockpile of material desires is minimized. Indeed, the desires no longer fructify in the form of gross bodies ‎No edit summary current
14:4514:45, 23 April 2024 diff hist −13‎ Unless one is fully absorbed in Krsna consciousness, material desires will come and go ‎No edit summary current
14:4414:44, 23 April 2024 diff hist −32‎ Those who are actually great souls (mahatmas) are fully absorbed in Krsna consciousness, always engaged in the service of the Lord. They are under the care of daivi-prakrti, or yogamaya ‎No edit summary
14:4314:43, 23 April 2024 diff hist −45‎ The Krsna consciousness movement offers a process of transcendental activities wherein the mind is fully absorbed in affairs pertaining to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
14:4214:42, 23 April 2024 diff hist −32‎ Then (when fully absorbed in Krsna consciousness), by the grace of the Supreme Lord, everything becomes simultaneously manifest within the mind ‎No edit summary current
14:4114:41, 23 April 2024 diff hist −13‎ Prahlada Maharaja is the vivid example of a great person fully absorbed in Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary
14:4014:40, 23 April 2024 diff hist −13‎ Some one who is fully absorbed in Krsna consciousness is sure to attain the spiritual kingdom because of his full contribution to spiritual activities, in which the consummation is absolute and that which is offered is of the same spiritual nature ‎No edit summary current
14:3514:35, 23 April 2024 diff hist −13‎ Nanda Maharaja and mother Yasoda were fully absorbed in Krsna consciousness because of affection ‎No edit summary current
14:3414:34, 23 April 2024 diff hist −13‎ Krsna consciousness is the process of converting the illusory consciousness into Brahman, or the Supreme. When the mind is fully absorbed in Krsna consciousness, it is said to be in samadhi, or trance. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
14:3314:33, 23 April 2024 diff hist −13‎ It appears that Kardama Muni was fully absorbed in Krsna consciousness because as soon as he became silent, he at once began to think of Lord Visnu. That is the way of Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
14:3214:32, 23 April 2024 diff hist +51‎ In the stage of ayoga (separation), the mind is filled with Krsna consciousness and is fully absorbed in thoughts of Krsna. In that stage, the devotee searches out the transcendental qualities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
14:2614:26, 23 April 2024 diff hist −83‎ From the very beginning of his childhood, Prahlada Maharaja was uninterested in childish playthings. Indeed, he gave them up altogether and remained silent and dull, being fully absorbed in Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
14:2314:23, 23 April 2024 diff hist +51‎ From the very beginning of his childhood, Prahlada Maharaja was uninterested in childish playthings. Indeed, he gave them up altogether and remained silent and dull, being fully absorbed in Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary

16:5916:59, 16 April 2024 diff hist +87‎ Category:Changing Our Consciousness ‎No edit summary
16:4016:40, 16 April 2024 diff hist +47‎ Category:Changing Our Consciousness ‎No edit summary
16:0316:03, 16 April 2024 diff hist +4‎ It is prescribed that you can do anything. There is no harm. Whatever your business, or vocation, occupation, you are engaged, that has not to be changed. That has not to be changed. Simply your consciousness has to be changed ‎No edit summary current
15:5915:59, 16 April 2024 diff hist +4‎ We are going to Krsna consciousness means we are going to our eternal consciousness. We are changing from the temporary, bodily consciousness to the eternal consciousness. This is the sum and substance of Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
15:5915:59, 16 April 2024 diff hist +4‎ The whole Krsna consciousness movement is to purify the bhava. Bhava. That is stated here. Parisuddha-bhava. We are not negativating everything. We are simply changing from material bhava to spiritual bhava. That's all ‎No edit summary current
15:5815:58, 16 April 2024 diff hist +4‎ Simply by his changing the rubber stamp, "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am Christian," that does not make any benefit. Therefore our Movement is Krsna consciousness. We don't talk of any religion. The consciousness should be changed ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
15:5815:58, 16 April 2024 diff hist +4‎ One becomes liberated by accepting Krsna, or the Supreme Lord, as master and by changing the mode of consciousness from material consciousness to Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current
15:5715:57, 16 April 2024 diff hist +4‎ Krsna consciousness is an art of changing our hearts by purification from the dust of material desires. We cannot stop our desires because as living entities, desiring is the component part of our constitution. But we can purify our desires ‎No edit summary current
15:5715:57, 16 April 2024 diff hist +4‎ Fully utilize your, this valuable life by changing simply your ordinary consciousness to KC, the greatest boon offered to the human society by KC movement. If you take advantage of it, then sarve sukhino bhavantu - then you'll become happy ‎No edit summary current
11:5211:52, 16 April 2024 diff hist +27‎ Faith is attained by the discharge of devotional service, and by chanting "Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare," which cleanses one's heart of all material dirt. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
11:4911:49, 16 April 2024 diff hist +27‎ Demigods situated in the mode of goodness and great saints cleansed of the dirt of material enjoyment hardly ever render pure devotional service at the lotus feet of Mukunda. (Therefore how could Vrtrasura have become such a great devotee?) ‎No edit summary current
11:4811:48, 16 April 2024 diff hist +27‎ Cleanliness is next to godliness. Actually, our material conditioned life means the mind is covered with dirt, all unclean, dirty things. That is the disease ‎No edit summary current
11:3511:35, 16 April 2024 diff hist −36‎ Without Krsna consciousness the whole world is going to hell. And you can practically see how they are changing, how this movement is changing character and mentality of the population. So I have come here ‎No edit summary current Tag: Manual revert
11:2411:24, 16 April 2024 diff hist +36‎ Without Krsna consciousness the whole world is going to hell. And you can practically see how they are changing, how this movement is changing character and mentality of the population. So I have come here ‎No edit summary
11:1211:12, 16 April 2024 diff hist −13‎ When the mind is fully absorbed in Krsna consciousness, it is said to be in samadhi, or trance. Anything done in such transcendental consciousness is called yajna, or sacrifice for the Absolute. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
11:0511:05, 16 April 2024 diff hist +51‎ Devotees who are always engaged in Krsna consciousness and are fully absorbed in thoughts of Krsna certainly return home, back to Godhead. They then see Krsna directly, face to face, talk with Him and enjoy His company ‎No edit summary current
11:0211:02, 16 April 2024 diff hist −13‎ Being fully absorbed in Krsna consciousness (samadhi-yoga). always thinking of Krsna, Vasudeva, Maharaja Nabhi attained success at the end of his life and was promoted to the spiritual world, Vaikunthaloka ‎No edit summary current
10:5910:59, 16 April 2024 diff hist +51‎ All devotees of Krsna in full Krsna consciousness are free from all kinds of material pleasures and miseries. They are fully absorbed in the service of the Lord, and they are always jolly by virtue of their engagement in His transcendental service ‎No edit summary current
10:5110:51, 16 April 2024 diff hist +46‎ The Krsna consciousness movement offers a process of transcendental activities wherein the mind is fully absorbed in affairs pertaining to Krsna ‎No edit summary
09:3609:36, 16 April 2024 diff hist +36‎ We are going to Krsna consciousness means we are going to our eternal consciousness. We are changing from the temporary, bodily consciousness to the eternal consciousness. This is the sum and substance of Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary
09:3309:33, 16 April 2024 diff hist +14‎ The whole Krsna consciousness movement is to purify the bhava. Bhava. That is stated here. Parisuddha-bhava. We are not negativating everything. We are simply changing from material bhava to spiritual bhava. That's all ‎No edit summary
09:3209:32, 16 April 2024 diff hist −4‎ Simply by his changing the rubber stamp, "I am Hindu," "I am Muslim," "I am Christian," that does not make any benefit. Therefore our Movement is Krsna consciousness. We don't talk of any religion. The consciousness should be changed ‎No edit summary
09:3109:31, 16 April 2024 diff hist −13‎ One becomes liberated by accepting Krsna, or the Supreme Lord, as master and by changing the mode of consciousness from material consciousness to Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary
09:2209:22, 16 April 2024 diff hist +14‎ Krsna consciousness is an art of changing our hearts by purification from the dust of material desires. We cannot stop our desires because as living entities, desiring is the component part of our constitution. But we can purify our desires ‎No edit summary
09:1909:19, 16 April 2024 diff hist +14‎ Fully utilize your, this valuable life by changing simply your ordinary consciousness to KC, the greatest boon offered to the human society by KC movement. If you take advantage of it, then sarve sukhino bhavantu - then you'll become happy ‎No edit summary

19:3919:39, 14 April 2024 diff hist −27‎ A devotee is attracted by Krsna, whereas a nondevotee, being contaminated by the dirt of material enjoyment, is not. This is confirmed by the Lord in Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
19:1419:14, 14 April 2024 diff hist +9‎ A devotee is attracted by Krsna, whereas a nondevotee, being contaminated by the dirt of material enjoyment, is not. This is confirmed by the Lord in Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary
19:1319:13, 14 April 2024 diff hist +27‎ A devotee is attracted by Krsna, whereas a nondevotee, being contaminated by the dirt of material enjoyment, is not. This is confirmed by the Lord in Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary
19:1019:10, 14 April 2024 diff hist −23‎ By the Lord's grace all misconceptions are vanquished and the heart is cleansed of all material dirt. It is only then that the pleasure of transcendental bliss is awakened. By the Lord's mercy one is completely convinced of the value of devotional service ‎No edit summary current
19:0819:08, 14 April 2024 diff hist −1‎ A devotee is attracted by Krsna, whereas a nondevotee, being contaminated by the dirt of material enjoyment, is not. This is confirmed by the Lord in Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary
17:1817:18, 14 April 2024 diff hist +8‎ As enunciated by Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, ceto-darpana-marjanam: (CC Antya 20.12) by chanting the holy name of the Lord, one is cleansed of the material conception of life, which is due to the dirty modes of material nature ‎No edit summary current
16:0816:08, 14 April 2024 diff hist −28‎ According to a prayer by Srila Narottama dasa Thakura (Prarthana 1): When will my mind be cleansed of all material dirt so that I will be able to feel the presence of spiritual Vrndavana ‎No edit summary current
16:0416:04, 14 April 2024 diff hist +5‎ According to a prayer by Srila Narottama dasa Thakura (Prarthana 1): When will my mind be cleansed of all material dirt so that I will be able to feel the presence of spiritual Vrndavana ‎No edit summary
16:0216:02, 14 April 2024 diff hist +8‎ To be fully absorbed in the thought of Krsna means clearance of material dirts or hankerings ‎No edit summary current
15:3315:33, 14 April 2024 diff hist −23‎ 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 current
15:2815:28, 14 April 2024 diff hist −45‎ To be fully absorbed in the thought of Krsna means clearance of material dirts or hankerings ‎No edit summary
15:2515:25, 14 April 2024 diff hist −45‎ 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 current
15:2315:23, 14 April 2024 diff hist −46‎ While the devotees enjoy spiritual bliss, the nondevotees are surprised that the devotees have forgotten material hankerings ‎No edit summary current
15:0415:04, 14 April 2024 diff hist −45‎ 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 current
15:0315:03, 14 April 2024 diff hist −45‎ 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 current
15:0215:02, 14 April 2024 diff hist −45‎ 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 current
14:5814:58, 14 April 2024 diff hist −45‎ Material hankerings, anything material, hankering, should be void ‎No edit summary current
14:5414:54, 14 April 2024 diff hist −45‎ 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 current
14:5314:53, 14 April 2024 diff hist −45‎ In his pure unalloyed state, the living being attains the stage of full bliss, labdhopasanti, and ceases all material hankerings ‎No edit summary current
14:5114:51, 14 April 2024 diff hist −45‎ 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 current
14:5014:50, 14 April 2024 diff hist −45‎ 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 current
14:5014:50, 14 April 2024 diff hist −45‎ 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 current
14:4914:49, 14 April 2024 diff hist −45‎ 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 current
13:4913:49, 14 April 2024 diff hist −45‎ 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 current
13:4813:48, 14 April 2024 diff hist −45‎ 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 current
12:5412:54, 14 April 2024 diff hist +33‎ You have to accept death. Nobody wants to die, but why death is there? But they (the modern civilization) are callous. They think, "We have to accept this death" or "This is finished," all vague idea, no real idea ‎No edit summary current
12:5312:53, 14 April 2024 diff hist +33‎ We do not understand even that there is possibility of amrtatvam. But everything is possible. Amrtatvam. Nobody wants to die. That's a fact. Nobody wants to become old man, nobody wants to become diseased. This is our natural inclination ‎No edit summary current
12:5312:53, 14 April 2024 diff hist +33‎ We are searching after some permanent place, permanent settlement on the world. Nobody wants to die, but that is not possible. But if there is possibility of going somewhere where no more death, why don't you search after that? That is intelligence ‎No edit summary current
12:5212:52, 14 April 2024 diff hist +33‎ Today or tomorrow or fifty years after or a hundred years after, everyone knows that he will be slaughtered. He will die. Death means slaughter. Nobody wants to die ‎No edit summary current
12:5212:52, 14 April 2024 diff hist +33‎ Nobody wants to die; he wants to continue. Why he becomes old? Old means warning and, of the... Just like the, what is that, yellow street light. "Now please prepare for the red light." So this is coming... You stop this ‎No edit summary current
12:5112:51, 14 April 2024 diff hist +33‎ Nobody wants to die. Suppose we are sitting here, and if there is some death signal, oh, we shall at once flee away from this place, if there is fire, because we do not want to die. That is a fact ‎No edit summary current
12:4712:47, 14 April 2024 diff hist +33‎ Nobody wants to die. And where is that technology, to stop death? What do you think? You are financing many technological institutions, businesses. Why don't you finance an institution which is giving instruction how to stop death ‎No edit summary current
12:4412:44, 14 April 2024 diff hist +33‎ Nobody likes to die, but nature will force you to become dead. Nobody wants to become old man, but nature will force you to become old man. Nobody wants to suffer from diseases, but nature will force you to suffer from diseases. These are the problems ‎No edit summary current
12:4112:41, 14 April 2024 diff hist +33‎ I am very much confident of this medicine, because nobody is prepared to die, but I am prepared to die. That much strength I have got. Generally people do not like to die. But I will be very glad to die if Krsna wants ‎No edit summary current
12:4012:40, 14 April 2024 diff hist +33‎ Is there medical science which can stop death? So that knowledge may be temporary, beneficial, but ultimately, it is not the knowledge. I am anxious for not dying. Nobody wants to die. This is my anxiety ‎No edit summary current
12:3912:39, 14 April 2024 diff hist +33‎ In modern science they are trying to combat all the material obstacles, but here is the main obstacle. That nobody wants to die but there is death ‎No edit summary current
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

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

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
20:2520:25, 10 April 2024 diff hist +22‎ Because of her jeweled earrings, shaped like sharks, because of her scattered hair, resembling bumblebees mad after the scent of her body, and because of the white rows of her teeth resembling swans Agnidhra compared Purvacitti's face to a beautiful lake ‎No edit summary current
20:2120:21, 10 April 2024 diff hist −1‎ An uncommonly beautiful garland of flowers decorated His bosom, and because the flowers were extremely fragrant, a large group of bees, making their natural humming sounds, invaded them for honey ‎No edit summary current
20:2120:21, 10 April 2024 diff hist +23‎ An uncommonly beautiful garland of flowers decorated His bosom, and because the flowers were extremely fragrant, a large group of bees, making their natural humming sounds, invaded them for honey ‎No edit summary
19:3319:33, 10 April 2024 diff hist +22‎ O Maitreya, O friend of the distressed, the glories of the Supreme Lord can alone do good for people all over the world. Therefore, just as bees collect honey from flowers, kindly describe the essence of all topics - the topics of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
19:3319:33, 10 April 2024 diff hist +22‎ Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu's many bona fide devotees never leave the lotus feet of the Lord to become imitation Mahaprabhus but all cling to His lotus feet like bees that never leave a honey-soaked lotus flower ‎No edit summary current
19:3019:30, 10 April 2024 diff hist +22‎ If one tastes the nectar of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta with faith and love, I become like a bumblebee tasting the honey of transcendental love from his lotus feet ‎No edit summary current
19:2919:29, 10 April 2024 diff hist +22‎ He was perspiring, liquor dripped from his mouth & his vision was overwhelmed by intoxication. He was being served by bumblebees who drank honey & from a distance he could smell the dust of the lotus flowers, which was carried from the lake by the breeze ‎No edit summary current
19:2919:29, 10 April 2024 diff hist +22‎ From the bumblebee I have learned to be unattached to accumulating money, for although money is as good as honey, anyone can kill its owner and take it away ‎No edit summary current
19:2719:27, 10 April 2024 diff hist 0‎ Due to the aroma, the bees were also flying in the breeze, thinking that the aroma was honey. The gopis made a seat for Krsna by leveling the soft sand and placing cloths over it ‎No edit summary current
19:2719:27, 10 April 2024 diff hist −1‎ Due to the aroma, the bees were also flying in the breeze, thinking that the aroma was honey. The gopis made a seat for Krsna by leveling the soft sand and placing cloths over it ‎No edit summary
19:2619:26, 10 April 2024 diff hist +23‎ Due to the aroma, the bees were also flying in the breeze, thinking that the aroma was honey. The gopis made a seat for Krsna by leveling the soft sand and placing cloths over it ‎No edit summary
19:2519:25, 10 April 2024 diff hist −1‎ Bees collect a little honey from each flower, but all these small quantities of honey accumulate to become a beehive ‎No edit summary current
19:2519:25, 10 April 2024 diff hist 0‎ Bees collect a little honey from each flower, but all these small quantities of honey accumulate to become a beehive ‎No edit summary
19:2419:24, 10 April 2024 diff hist +1‎ Bees collect a little honey from each flower, but all these small quantities of honey accumulate to become a beehive ‎No edit summary
19:2419:24, 10 April 2024 diff hist +22‎ Bees collect a little honey from each flower, but all these small quantities of honey accumulate to become a beehive ‎No edit summary
18:1918:19, 10 April 2024 diff hist +22‎ Bees intoxicated by the honeylike fragrance of the tulasi flowers hum very sweetly around the garland, which thus becomes more and more beautiful. In this way, the Lord enjoys His very magnanimous pastimes ‎No edit summary
18:1018:10, 10 April 2024 diff hist +5‎ Bees are attracted to honey, while flies are attracted to sores ‎No edit summary current
18:0818:08, 10 April 2024 diff hist +12‎ A learned man takes the essence of knowledge from all places, just as a bumblebee collects honey from each and every flower ‎No edit summary current
18:0718:07, 10 April 2024 diff hist +12‎ As bumblebees collect honey from many flowers, a little from each, so a sannyasi should beg from door to door but not accept very much food from any particular house; he should collect a little bit from every house. This is called the bahudaka stage ‎No edit summary current
18:0518:05, 10 April 2024 diff hist +22‎ Approaching the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the goddess of fortune placed upon His shoulders the garland of newly grown lotus flowers, which was surrounded by humming bumblebees searching for honey ‎No edit summary current
18:0418:04, 10 April 2024 diff hist +56‎ After offering my obeisances unto all the devotees of Sri Nityananda Prabhu, who are like bumblebees collecting honey from His lotus feet, I shall try to describe those who are the most prominent ‎No edit summary current
17:5217:52, 10 April 2024 diff hist −14‎ Everyone has a combination of faults and glories. But a Vaisnava, a sober man, accepts only a man’s glories and not his faults, for flies seek sores whereas honeybees seek honey ‎No edit summary current
17:5117:51, 10 April 2024 diff hist +3‎ Due to aroma of the parijata flower, the honeybees would begin their humming vibration, & the birds also would begin their sweet chirping sounds. All together it would sound like the singing of professional chanters engaged in offering prayers to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
17:4817:48, 10 April 2024 diff hist −14‎ Like a honeybee, the Apsara (Purvacitti) smelled the beautiful and attractive flowers ‎No edit summary current
17:4717:47, 10 April 2024 diff hist +3‎ Let my consciousness, which is like a honeybee, take shelter of the lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who has just now appeared as Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu to teach the ancient system of devotional service to Himself ‎No edit summary current
17:4517:45, 10 April 2024 diff hist −14‎ All glories to Nrsimha-deva! All glories to Nrsimha-deva, who is the Lord of Prahlada Maharaja and, like a honeybee, is always engaged in beholding the lotuslike face of the goddess of fortune ‎No edit summary current

17:0617:06, 9 April 2024 diff hist −11‎ Every human being is expected to perform duties meant for approaching Lord Visnu. Therefore Yamaraja advises the Yamadutas to bring him those persons who have forgotten their duties toward Visnu ‎No edit summary current

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