User contributions for Madana Mohana
30 October 2023
- 10:4010:40, 30 October 2023 diff hist +7 Anyone who is acting in Krsna consciousness under the direction of the Supersoul or the Supreme Personality of Godhead, even though killing, does not kill. Nor is he ever affected with the reaction of such killing. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 10:1710:17, 30 October 2023 diff hist +36 When the devotee is constantly engaged in Krsna Consciousness, at that time, Krsna will give all intelligence from within how to make steady progress in Krsna Consciousness No edit summary current
- 10:1510:15, 30 October 2023 diff hist +36 We should not be greedy and we should not mix with persons not interested in Krishna. In this way, we can make steady progress and maintain our membership in Krishna's family No edit summary current
- 10:1110:11, 30 October 2023 diff hist +36 We have to make our steady progress, keeping both sides in balance; namely the Pancaratriki Biddhi and Bhagavat Biddhi No edit summary current
- 10:0910:09, 30 October 2023 diff hist −24 The Krsna conscious movement accepts both processes (bhagavata-marga and pancaratrika-vidhi) simultaneously and thus enables one to make steady progress on the path of realization of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 10:0810:08, 30 October 2023 diff hist +36 The devotees must bear in mind they are promising to follow four regulative principles & chanting a minimum of 16 rounds of japa daily. Everyone should take very seriously this vow & make steady & sure progress in KC & go back to Godhead in this lifetime No edit summary current
- 10:0710:07, 30 October 2023 diff hist +36 That is the sublime philosophy of Krishna Consciousness understanding; implicit faith in Krishna and Spiritual Master. This will make your steady progress towards the Ultimate Goal of back to Home, back to Godhead No edit summary
- 10:0610:06, 30 October 2023 diff hist +36 I am so glad to note how ISKCON Houston is making steady progress for becoming a grand success. And Sankirtana is being well received, especially at the schools and university No edit summary
- 10:0410:04, 30 October 2023 diff hist +36 I am glad that you have already started a center in small scale and please try to improve it as far as possible. There is no question of doing anything very hastily so please try to make steady, even if slow, progress No edit summary current
- 10:0210:02, 30 October 2023 diff hist +2 If one wants to make steady progress on the path of self-realization, he must try to control the forces of the material senses. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 10:0110:01, 30 October 2023 diff hist −11 If somebody comes and helps this movement, one or two, we can make very steady progress. We have no money. We are struggling very hard. You see? This boy is a professor in the Ohio University. So whatever he's earning, he's spending for this No edit summary current
- 10:0010:00, 30 October 2023 diff hist −26 If one wants to make steady progress on the path of self-realization, he must try to control the forces of the material senses. BG 1972 purports No edit summary
- 09:3509:35, 30 October 2023 diff hist −13 If one wants to make steady progress on the path of self-realization, he must try to control the forces of the material senses No edit summary
- 09:3309:33, 30 October 2023 diff hist −11 A Krsna conscious person can thoroughly understand that there is duality (simultaneous identity and individuality) in Krsna, and, equipped with such transcendental knowledge, one can make steady progress on the path of liberation. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 09:1409:14, 30 October 2023 diff hist +25 You discriminate actually. You do not kill human beings, but you kill animals. Similarly, you discriminate: instead of killing animal, kill vegetable. Importance No edit summary current
- 09:1209:12, 30 October 2023 diff hist +25 We take nice vegetables, nice food grains, rice, wheat, sugar, milk, all vitaminous, full of vitamins. So there is no deficiency of food. Even from food value it is very nice. We do not unnecessarily kill animals No edit summary current
- 09:1109:11, 30 October 2023 diff hist +23 We Krsna conscious people, we do not kill even a plant because, Krsna says - find out this - patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati - BG 9.26 No edit summary current
- 09:1009:10, 30 October 2023 diff hist +2 We Krsna conscious people, we do not kill even a plant because, Krsna says - find out this - patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati - BG 9.26 No edit summary
27 October 2023
- 15:2515:25, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25 We do not say that don't read Bible. Read something, but learn something. Jesus Christ said, "Thou shall not kill." You learn this art. But you read Bible and kill animals, then what is your benefit No edit summary current
- 15:2315:23, 27 October 2023 diff hist +5 The gopis said, "We therefore appeal to You (Krsna), dear Lord of all lords: please do not kill our long-cherished desires to have You as our supreme husband" No edit summary current
- 15:2215:22, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25 They give some false argument, "Lord Christ says, 'Thou shall not kill' and if I kill, Christ has taken the contract that whatever sinful activities we do, he will excuse." This is Christian dogma No edit summary current
- 15:1815:18, 27 October 2023 diff hist +5 Suppose I am not inclined to kill animals or I do not kill animals. I avoid it. But intentionally or unintentionally, sometimes we have to kill animals No edit summary current
- 15:1615:16, 27 October 2023 diff hist +5 Panditah sama-darsinah: (BG 5.18) because they (humble sages) are completely educated in Krsna consciousness, they see all living beings equally. Aryans do not kill even a small plant unnecessarily, not to speak of cutting trees for sense gratification No edit summary current
- 15:1415:14, 27 October 2023 diff hist +5 O Kamsa, you fool, what will be the use of killing me (Durga)? The SPG Krsna, who has been your enemy from the very beginning & who will certainly kill you, has already taken His birth somewhere else. Do not unnecessarily kill other children - SB 10.4.12 No edit summary current
- 15:1215:12, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25 One must know what are sinful activities. Apart from any other scripture, in Christian scripture it is said, "Thou shall not kill. Thou shall not covet. Thou shall not do this." These are sinful activities No edit summary current
- 15:1115:11, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 One cannot continue killing animals and at the same time be a religious man. That is the greatest hypocrisy. Jesus Christ said, "Do not kill," but hypocrites nevertheless maintain thousands of slaughterhouses while posing as Christians No edit summary current
- 15:1015:10, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25 Nonviolence does not mean that in right causes also you will remain nonviolent. No. You do not attack anybody unnecessarily. You do not kill unnecessarily animal even, not even an ant No edit summary current
- 15:0815:08, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25 Killing is sinful activity, even if we do not kill willingly. When you walk down the street you are killing many animals. Whenever you drink water, you are also killing. Below a water pot there are many ants and microbes that are being killed No edit summary current
- 15:0615:06, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25 Just like the Christians. Jesus is guiding them, “Thou shalt not kill,” but they are killing. Where is the Jesus guidance? Simply saying, “I am guided by Jesus Christ” - will that do? No edit summary current
- 15:0515:05, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25 Jesus is guiding them, "Thou shalt not kill," but they are killing. Where is the Jesus guidance? Simply saying, "I am guided by Jesus Christ" - will that do? "But I don't care for his words." Is that guidance No edit summary current
- 15:0315:03, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25 In the Bible also it is said, "Thou shall not kill." Why it is forbidden? Because if he kills, he'll have to suffer. But they do not care for it. Therefore they suffer No edit summary current
- 11:2511:25, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25 In every sastra, every scripture, every law book, man is warned, "Don't commit theft; you'll be punished. Don't tell lie; you'll be punished. Don't do this; you'll be punished. Thou shall not kill, otherwise you'll be punished." But nobody is caring No edit summary current
- 11:2411:24, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25 If Lord Jesus Christ said "Thou shalt not kill'', or "Thou shalt do no murder'' to the people, it does not reflect very good social structure of the audience. Our philosophy is above all these things No edit summary current
- 11:2211:22, 27 October 2023 diff hist +25 Even you do ordinary killing, vegetable killing, you are killing so many germs. So in higher sense, if you take this principle of Bible, "Thou shall not kill," that means you must eat krsna-prasadam, otherwise you will be killing No edit summary current
- 11:0911:09, 27 October 2023 diff hist +5 Even if we do not kill animals, simply by eating vegetables, they are also life. It does not mean that vegetarians are not killing. They are also killing No edit summary current
- 11:0611:06, 27 October 2023 diff hist +5 Devaki said "You are not to be killed by any female child. That was the prophecy. You are to be killed by a male child, so please do not kill her. My dear brother, you have killed so many of my children who were just born, shining like the sun" No edit summary current
- 10:5810:58, 27 October 2023 diff hist +30 You don't require to labor and pay somewhere some five dollars, ten dollars, and practice this gymnastic. No. It is not possible. And as soon as you come out, you'll again engage yourself in all nonsense activities No edit summary current
- 10:4710:47, 27 October 2023 diff hist +30 This seeking for solitude is simply a reaction on our past nonsense activities, or it is negation, voidism. Our sound position is always being engaged in service of Krishna, that is the positive standing No edit summary current
- 10:3710:37, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8 Our yoga system is not like that, that we whole day, twenty-three hours and forty-five minutes, I engage myself in all nonsensical activities, and fifteen minutes I concentrate my mind, the meditation. That kind of yoga system is not here No edit summary current
- 10:3610:36, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8 No one can stop a child from playing by leaving him inactive; rather, the child can be stopped from engaging in nonsense by being engaged in superior activities - CC Preface No edit summary current
- 10:3510:35, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8 No one can stop a child from playing by leaving him inactive. A child can be stopped from engaging in nonsense by being engaged in superior activities No edit summary current
- 10:3410:34, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8 Nirvana means stop nonsense, but take to spiritual life. That is next, athato brahma jijnasa. Nirvana does not mean to stop activities; to stop nonsense activities. Come to the real activity No edit summary current
- 10:3210:32, 27 October 2023 diff hist −16 Lord Buddha propounded the philosophy, "Make all your nonsense activities zero, so much. First of all make zero, then positive we shall say" No edit summary current
- 10:3010:30, 27 October 2023 diff hist −9 Just like this small child, Sarasvati. According to the body, she is acting. She's acting sometimes nonsense, but we take it delight, because she is child. But the same nonsense if I do in another body, grown up body, that will be ridiculous No edit summary
- 10:2810:28, 27 October 2023 diff hist +30 I am very much disturbed to hear of Kanupriya's activities, and I advise you that so long he is engaged in these nonsense activities, you should not have any association with him. Best thing is that you remain in the association of devotees No edit summary current
- 10:2110:21, 27 October 2023 diff hist −9 In yoga one should have not only theoretical knowledge but practical knowledge. Simply understanding "I am not this body" and at the same time acting in a nonsensical way will not help No edit summary current
- 10:1810:18, 27 October 2023 diff hist −12 If we perform some nonsensical action and think, "I am doing this for Krsna," that will not be accepted. The work must be verified by Krsna's acceptance or by the acceptance of Krsna's representative No edit summary current
- 10:1710:17, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8 If we don't adopt the process and simply waste our time by intoxication and speculation and all nonsensical activities, oh, that is not possible ever. You'll never understand what is God No edit summary current
- 10:1110:11, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8 For a person to disregard the order of the spiritual master and act by concoction, accepting his nonsensical activities to be spiritual, is maya No edit summary current
- 10:1010:10, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8 Devotional service not only puts an end to all nonsensical mundane activities, but also engages one in meaningful devotional activities No edit summary current
- 10:0910:09, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8 Artificially, they (materialists) may sit down for so-called meditation, but immediately after their yogic performance they will engage themselves again in such activities as illicit sex life, gambling, meat-eating and many other nonsensical things No edit summary current
- 10:0010:00, 27 October 2023 diff hist +21 When it is chanted by a pure devotee of the Lord in love, it has the greatest efficacy on hearers, and as such this chanting should be heard from the lips of a pure devotee of the Lord, so that immediate effects can be achieved No edit summary current
- 09:5809:58, 27 October 2023 diff hist +21 Sri Yamunacarya, a great devotee in KC, said: Since I have been engaged in the transcendental loving service of Krsna, realizing ever-new pleasure in Him, whenever I think of sex pleasure, I spit at the thought, and my lips curl with distaste. BG 1972 p No edit summary current
- 09:5709:57, 27 October 2023 diff hist +21 When a devotee becomes affected with this mental condition, his love is expressed through the lips No edit summary current
- 09:5509:55, 27 October 2023 diff hist +21 Such words from the lips of a sincere devotee cannot be false. All possibilities abide in Him, for He is the primeval Lord No edit summary current
- 09:5509:55, 27 October 2023 diff hist +21 Others who are associating with them (the Europeans and Americans who have taken to Krsna consciousness) and hearing the chanting of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra from the lips of pure devotees are also becoming captivated by the transcendental vibration No edit summary current
- 09:4809:48, 27 October 2023 diff hist +38 Now, namanta eva san-mukharitam bhavadiya-vartam. "Just hear the message of God." "From whom?" San-mukharitam: "through the mouth of the devotees." Not professional, not gramophone - through the mouth of, through the lips of real devotee No edit summary current
- 09:3709:37, 27 October 2023 diff hist +21 If you hear from a professional man, that will not be effective. Hearing must be from sadhu, from devotee, from the lips of the devotee. Just like Sukadeva Gosvami was speaking to Maharaja Pariksit No edit summary current
- 09:3609:36, 27 October 2023 diff hist +21 Hearing must be from sadhu, from devotee, from the lips of the devotee No edit summary current
- 09:3509:35, 27 October 2023 diff hist +21 A businessman is always very eager to go to a place where business is transacted. Similarly, a devotee is very eager to hear from the lips of liberated devotees No edit summary current
- 09:2809:28, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 When Brahma described the situation of pure devotees freed from the culture of empiric philosophy and fruitive actions, he recommended the process of hearing from persons who are on the path of devotion No edit summary current
- 09:2509:25, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 Those who are addicted to the pursuit of empiric philosophy are also advised to act in such a way that they will realize bhakti. Karma-yoga is therefore different from ordinary karma, and jnana-yoga is different from ordinary jnana No edit summary current
- 09:1709:17, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 The speculative process of empiric philosophy is as bitter as the fruit of the nimba tree. Tasting this fruit is the business of crows. In other words, the philosophical process of realizing the Absolute Truth is a process taken up by crowlike men No edit summary current
- 09:1609:16, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 The purport is that any transaction, either in the field of fruitive work or in empiric philosophy, which is not ultimately aimed at transcendental realization of the Supreme Lord, is considered to be useless No edit summary current
- 09:1409:14, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 The process of being liberated from the misconception of material identification is called, in different stages, fruitive activity, empiric philosophy and devotional service, up to transcendental realization No edit summary current
- 09:1309:13, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 The culture of empiric philosophy helps one realize the impersonal brahmajyoti, which is the glaring effulgence of the transcendental body of Lord Sri Krsna No edit summary current
- 09:0909:09, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 These dirty things of fruitive work and empiric philosophy can be removed only by association with the Supreme Lord. The Lord, being omnipotent, can offer His association by His inconceivable potencies No edit summary current
- 09:0809:08, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 Such transcendental realization is made possible by dovetailing all the above items (fruitive activity, empiric philosophy and devotional service) in relation with the Lord No edit summary current
- 09:0609:06, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 Pure devotional service cannot be attained by empiric philosophy, nor can perfection be attained simply by good association No edit summary current
- 09:0409:04, 27 October 2023 diff hist +11 In Krsna consciousness there is no scope for worshiping any demigod or any other form of Krsna, nor is there room for indulgence in speculative empiric philosophy, nor indulgence in fruitive activities. One should be free from all these contaminations No edit summary current
- 09:0309:03, 27 October 2023 diff hist +11 Foolish mundaners actually envy Sri Krsna and deride Him as one who is like other mundaners. The truth about Sri Krsna does not easily enter into the perverted brain of such mundaners infected with the empiric approach to philosophy No edit summary current
- 09:0209:02, 27 October 2023 diff hist −16 Empiric philosophy No edit summary current
- 09:0109:01, 27 October 2023 diff hist −16 Culture of empiric philosophy No edit summary current
- 09:0009:00, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 By the speculation of empiric philosophy, which discerns matter from spirit one can achieve the highest perfection, provided one is able to reach the stage of narayana-smrti, or constant remembrance of the Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 08:5908:59, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 Brahma created four principles of knowledge: sankhya, or empirical philosophy for the analytical study of material conditions; and yoga, or mysticism for liberation of the pure soul from material bondage No edit summary current
- 08:5508:55, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 All fruitive activity, empirical philosophy and mysticism are more or less against the sense of subordination to the Lord No edit summary current
- 08:5008:50, 27 October 2023 diff hist +10 When one firmly realizes Krsna as the supreme goal, he is no longer attracted by mystic yoga practice or the speculative empirical methods of knowledge No edit summary current
- 08:4908:49, 27 October 2023 diff hist +10 When it comes to the real standard, yada, jnanam yada, when the knowledge or speculative empiric knowledge, pratinivrtta-gunormi-cakram, no more affected by the waves of these modes of nature No edit summary current
- 08:4908:49, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 When a person who is a little advanced (in devotional service) and is therefore called a jnani advances even more, he is in the category of a jnana-misra-bhakta, or a devotee whose love is mixed with empiric knowledge No edit summary current
- 08:4808:48, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 Vyasadeva taught Sukadeva the difference between fruitive work and empiric knowledge, the ways and means of attaining spiritual realization and the four asramas (namely the student life, the householder's life, the retired life and the renounced life) No edit summary
- 08:4708:47, 27 October 2023 diff hist +10 The cleansing of the polluted heart by other methods (like the culture of empiric knowledge or mystic gymnastics) can simply cleanse one's own heart, but devotional service to the Lord is so powerful that it can cleanse the hearts of the people in general No edit summary current
- 08:4208:42, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 Such devotees (who are essentially very advanced but still not able to understand the personal features or variegatedness of the spiritual world) are known as jnana-misra-bhaktas, or devotees whose devotional service is mixed with empiric knowledge No edit summary current
- 08:3908:39, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 Persons who are bewildered by empiric knowledge or direct sensual perception, & who consider that this limited material world can be gauged by their material estimations, conclude that anything that one can discern by direct sense perception is but maya No edit summary current
- 08:3708:37, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 Naradhitah: if Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is not worshiped, there is no point in practicing meditational yoga, performing karma-yoga or culturing empiric knowledge No edit summary current
- 08:3508:35, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31 However perfect an empiric philosopher may be in presenting a philosophical thesis, such knowledge is never perfect because it is produced by an imperfect mind No edit summary current
- 08:3008:30, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 Empirical knowledge overcoated with devotional service is called jnana-yoga No edit summary current
- 08:1808:18, 27 October 2023 diff hist −13 After hearing Ramananda Raya speak in this way, Caitanya Mahaprabhu again rejected his statement and said, "Go ahead and say something more." Ramananda Raya then replied, "Devotional service mixed with empiric knowledge is the essence of perfection" No edit summary current
- 08:1008:10, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8 The sages (the four Kumaras) tried with wide open ears to understand the words from the lips of the Supreme Lord, but although His speech was very concise and meaningful, the sages could not completely comprehend what He was saying No edit summary current
- 08:0908:09, 27 October 2023 diff hist +8 The Lord's excellent speech was difficult to comprehend because of its momentous import & its most profound significance. The sages heard it with wide-open ears & pondered it as well. But although hearing, they could not understand what He intended to do No edit summary current
- 08:0708:07, 27 October 2023 diff hist −19 They (the four Kumaras) could not even comprehend the purport of the speech or what the Supreme Lord wanted to do. Nor could they understand whether the Lord was angry or pleased with them No edit summary current
- 08:0608:06, 27 October 2023 diff hist −19 Lord Krsna put the Pandavas into a distressed condition so acute that even grandfather Bhisma could not comprehend how such distress could occur No edit summary current
- 08:0308:03, 27 October 2023 diff hist +31 How is everything being done? The word "inconceivable" has been used. It is not within the power of one's small brain to comprehend; unless one accepts the inconceivable power and energy of the Lord, one cannot make any progress No edit summary current
26 October 2023
- 16:0816:08, 26 October 2023 diff hist +4 Brahma is not an ordinary conditioned soul. He is far, far superior to all the other demigods, and yet he could not comprehend the display of the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 16:0716:07, 26 October 2023 diff hist +4 As indicated in Srimad-Bhagavatam by Sukadeva Gosvami, we should not try to comprehend the greater mountainous areas of the universe merely by our calculations No edit summary current
- 16:0516:05, 26 October 2023 diff hist −16 When transcendental love of Krsna awakens in someone's heart, even a learned scholar cannot comprehend his activities No edit summary current
- 15:5515:55, 26 October 2023 diff hist −20 We should conclude that if one cannot comprehend the material expansions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, one certainly cannot estimate the expansiveness of the spiritual world No edit summary current
- 15:5415:54, 26 October 2023 diff hist +11 We have to accept the Bhagavad-gita or any other Vedic literature in good faith. These Vedic literatures are the only source of knowledge about the Lord. We must understand that we cannot comprehend the Absolute Truth by the speculative process No edit summary current
- 15:5115:51, 26 October 2023 diff hist −16 We cannot factually comprehend even twelve hours of Brahma's life, to say nothing of the one hundred years that constitute his entire lifetime. How, then, can we understand his abode No edit summary
- 15:5015:50, 26 October 2023 diff hist −16 Unfortunately, the stubborn impersonalists cannot comprehend that the final spiritual destination, beyond the four Vedic goals (religiosity, economic development, sense gratification, and liberation) is absolutely pure and transcendental love of Godhead No edit summary current
- 15:4815:48, 26 October 2023 diff hist +11 The impersonalist philosophers, who wish to maintain that the Absolute Truth is without senses, cannot comprehend this (BG 9.26) verse of Bhagavad-gita. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current