User contributions for Nabakumar
18 October 2020
- 04:4904:49, 18 October 2020 diff hist +3,733 I personally, I don't think that even Americans or Westerners would have accepted even your teachings, as clear as they are, without having your personal association and seeing your example. I think people would have thought that it's totally impossible No edit summary current
- 04:4604:46, 18 October 2020 diff hist +4,785 I never expected. When I came first in Boston, I was thinking, "Oh, who will accept these Vaisnava rules and regulations? These people are after meat and wine and illicit sex, and how they will accept it?" No edit summary current
- 04:2004:20, 18 October 2020 diff hist +4,254 I have to shed my blood three tons before I make one convinced in Krsna consciousness No edit summary current
- 04:1204:12, 18 October 2020 diff hist +5,744 I have seen in the Western countries, they are growing food grains for the animals, and the food grains are eaten by the animals, and the animal is eaten by man No edit summary
- 04:1004:10, 18 October 2020 diff hist +5,154 I have not come to teach you, but to request you that your Christian religion prohibit this killing of animals and child and encourage chanting of name of the Lord No edit summary current
- 04:0704:07, 18 October 2020 diff hist +4,551 I have made a trust will in which fifty percent of the collection is spent for reprinting the books, and fifty percent is spent for spreading this movement No edit summary current
- 04:0004:00, 18 October 2020 diff hist +4,786 I have constituted one governing body as Prabhupada desired, governing body, but still they are not so experienced No edit summary current
- 03:4403:44, 18 October 2020 diff hist +3,953 I have come to America with this view, that America is on the summit of material civilization. They are not poverty-stricken No edit summary current
- 03:3503:35, 18 October 2020 diff hist +4,111 I have come to western countries to teach love of God. It is not that I am satisfied only in myself that I love God, that's all right No edit summary current
- 03:2803:28, 18 October 2020 diff hist +4,183 I had only forty rupees with me, and a return ticket in the Scindia Navigation Companies. So for two, three months, six months, there was no response. I was simply maintaining myself by selling my books No edit summary current
- 03:2303:23, 18 October 2020 diff hist +3,777 I don't go (to the movies or restaurant). We do not go to the movies or to the restaurant. It is different taste. Therefore it is calculated three kinds of men - sattvika, rajasika, tamasika - their tendencies are different No edit summary current
- 03:2103:21, 18 October 2020 diff hist +7,060 I do not know why our disciples are so anxious to take sannyasa, at least those who are outside. Everyone comes: "Give me sannyasa." What is the idea? No edit summary current
17 October 2020
- 15:1315:13, 17 October 2020 diff hist +3,320 I came to preach Krsna consciousness, and Krsna has sent so many representatives to help me. I consider like that. Without your help I could not do No edit summary current
- 15:0915:09, 17 October 2020 diff hist +4,824 I came to give you. Some of you have taken, and some have not taken, so what can I do? I came to give you Krsna consciousness. That is my duty No edit summary current
- 15:0615:06, 17 October 2020 diff hist +6,748 I came here with a service position, that I must give some service to my Guru Maharaja, not that I thought of success. But the spirit was that Guru Maharaja told me I must do something, whatever I can. It may be failure; it may be success - let me try No edit summary current
- 14:5814:58, 17 October 2020 diff hist +3,462 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
- 14:5514:55, 17 October 2020 diff hist +8,006 I did not go to your country taking Vrndavana with me. I had to stay in places where in the refrigerator there is meat. And I was cooking. When opened it I saw, "Here is meat. All right, what can be done? Hare Krsna." That's all No edit summary current
- 14:4814:48, 17 October 2020 diff hist +9,211 For me, personally, I had the opportunity to talk with my spiritual master not more than ten times in my whole life, not more. It may be less than that. But I tried to follow his instruction, that's all, although I was a grhastha No edit summary current
- 13:1413:14, 17 October 2020 diff hist +7,527 I am training some, I mean to say, advanced students so that they may be very easily take up the charge. I have made them GBC. They are under my direct training, and I think they will be able to conduct this movement No edit summary current
- 13:1313:13, 17 October 2020 diff hist +3,844 I am training each one of them as leader so that they can spread extensively. That is my idea No edit summary current
- 13:0813:08, 17 October 2020 diff hist +6,885 I am speaking not my manufacture. I heard it from my Guru Maharaja. He told me that these are these, like that. Not unauthorized. I don't speak anything which I have not heard from my Guru Maharaja No edit summary current
- 13:0513:05, 17 October 2020 diff hist +4,987 I am praying for everyone. That is my business. Otherwise why I have come here? No edit summary current
- 13:0413:04, 17 October 2020 diff hist +6,125 I am not taking any very great active part. They are doing. I am simply reading No edit summary current
- 13:0213:02, 17 October 2020 diff hist +4,579 I am never strict, neither I am conservative. If I become conservative, then I cannot live here for a moment. So I'm not at all conservative No edit summary current
- 12:5712:57, 17 October 2020 diff hist +6,039 I accept Caitanya Mahaprabhu because my Guru Maharaja accepted. He accepted Caitanya as Krsna; his Guru Maharaja accepted. When guru says that Caitanya is Krsna, he quotes sastra No edit summary current
- 12:5512:55, 17 October 2020 diff hist +5,593 He (Lord Caitanya) left the credit (going to the Western countries) for me. He loves His devotee more than Himself No edit summary current
- 12:5212:52, 17 October 2020 diff hist +5,708 Guru Maharaja, he saw this. Now I remember those days, when he was instructing, "Do like this. Do like this." At that time, I could not understand. "Oh, why he's talking to me?" No edit summary current
- 12:4812:48, 17 October 2020 diff hist +5,548 Guru Maharaja foretold. He told my Godbrothers, Sridhara Maharaja and others, that "He'll do the needful when time comes. Nobody requires to help him." He told in 1935. And after all, this was true No edit summary current
- 12:2212:22, 17 October 2020 diff hist +4,613 France is very important country. So printing and translation must go on. That is my request No edit summary current
16 October 2020
- 07:3507:35, 16 October 2020 diff hist +3,368 A very powerful organization, and their ambition is to take over the world No edit summary current
- 07:0207:02, 16 October 2020 diff hist +6,671 Govinda dasa is reminding his mind "You have experience of your material happiness. So material happiness means, the ultimate goal of material happiness is sex life. But don't you remember how long you can enjoy this sex life?" Capala. "Flickering" No edit summary current
- 06:3806:38, 16 October 2020 diff hist +8,262 Gauranga means with all this paraphernalia. As soon as we speak of gauranga, we should mean the five: Lord Nityananda, Advaita, Gadadhara, and Srivasa. All together No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 16 October 2020 diff hist +3,810 From Gaurakisora dasa Babaji, my spiritual master, and then we are descended No edit summary current
- 05:4305:43, 16 October 2020 diff hist +7,611 If you become Krsna conscious seriously, then you jump over all these steps (varnasrama-dharma, sannyasa, varna-tyaga, karma-tyaga) you go immediately. That lift and the staircase. By staircase you go step by step; by lift you can go immediately, faster No edit summary current
- 05:4305:43, 16 October 2020 diff hist +7,046 ISKCON is not going to be social reformer, but as far as possible, we can help No edit summary current
- 05:4305:43, 16 October 2020 diff hist +6,993 This is the power of hari-sankirtana. If one is absorbed in Krsna consciousness, so all benefit is there. So long in the bodily concept of life, we require this varnasrama-dharma. Otherwise there is no necessity No edit summary current
- 05:4205:42, 16 October 2020 diff hist +7,389 To become Krsna conscious means to jump over to the spiritual platform immediately. And this varnasrama-dharma, sannyasa, varna-tyaga, karma-tyaga, these are different steps only No edit summary current
- 05:4205:42, 16 October 2020 diff hist +7,159 If varnasrama is neglected, then how can there be proper functioning of society? No edit summary current
15 October 2020
- 16:1516:15, 15 October 2020 diff hist +2,333 Did the Chand Kazi stop this cow killing thereafter? After talking with Caitanya Mahaprabhu? No edit summary current
- 16:1216:12, 15 October 2020 diff hist +3,256 Can you tell me something about Lord Caitanya's birth, when He was born, what happened, what was it like? No edit summary current
- 16:1116:11, 15 October 2020 diff hist +3,245 Can you tell me something about Caitanya's initiation in Vaisnava faith? When He was initiated? No edit summary current
- 15:4715:47, 15 October 2020 diff hist +5,878 Actually, human life should be very easy, very easy. No hard work. Living very simple life and eating very healthy food, living in open space, no quarrel, no antagonism, everyone is happy, everyone is free. That is human civilization No edit summary current
- 15:4515:45, 15 October 2020 diff hist +7,443 Actually I did not follow him (my Guru Maharaja) in the beginning. High philosophical speaking and I was a new boy. I could not follow him, but actually I was so much glad to hear him. That's all No edit summary current
- 15:4315:43, 15 October 2020 diff hist +3,635 According to Caitanya, Visnu is an expansion of Krsna? No edit summary current
- 12:3712:37, 15 October 2020 diff hist +7,666 We are instructing in the class because there are few disciples who have taken vow to learn from me. Otherwise, I have no business to teach the public. The public may come. But actual interest is to teach my disciples No edit summary current
- 12:2912:29, 15 October 2020 diff hist +5,826 Will we know Krsna as well by thinking always how can we spread this Krsna consciousness? ... As much as if you study thoroughly the Vedas? No edit summary current
13 October 2020
- 05:2405:24, 13 October 2020 diff hist +4,969 We are creating the descendants of Gosvamis here in the Western countries No edit summary current
12 October 2020
- 16:5116:51, 12 October 2020 diff hist +4,254 These brahmacaris, they voluntarily change. Otherwise there are many students, just like we have got two, three students, they are working. They come like ordinary American gentlemen. There is no objection in that way. Dress is not very important thing No edit summary current
- 16:1916:19, 12 October 2020 diff hist +4,919 So far I am concerned, I belong to Lord Caitanya's disciplic succession, and my spiritual master, who was just ninth generation from Lord Caitanya, ordered me that "You try to spread this Krsna consciousness in the Western world" No edit summary current
- 15:3115:31, 12 October 2020 diff hist +4,189 Prabhupada, after Lord Caitanya took sannyasa, in the Teachings of Lord Caitanya it says He met His mother. I always thought that a sannyasi could not do that No edit summary current
- 12:3112:31, 12 October 2020 diff hist +6,114 My Guru Maharaja used to say, "The best use of a bad bargain." Everything in Krsna relationship. That is yukta-vairagya No edit summary current
- 11:4511:45, 12 October 2020 diff hist +4,445 Lord Jesus Christ said that if you would see God, your eye must be single. Was he referring to that same statement that love of God is that single eye? No edit summary current
- 11:3911:39, 12 October 2020 diff hist +6,182 Lord Jesus Christ said that "The only way to God is through me; just believe in me or surrender to me," and Lord Caitanya taught that hari-nama is the only means of spiritual realization in this age. Is there any contradiction? No edit summary current
- 11:3311:33, 12 October 2020 diff hist +4,253 Krsnotkirtena, "loudly chanting the holy name of Krsna," krsnotkirtana-gana, "in musical sound, in songs, with music" No edit summary current
- 08:2808:28, 12 October 2020 diff hist +6,086 Krsna knows everything of your purpose, and He gives you opportunity to work as you have decided. If you decide to enjoy this material world, Krsna will give you intelligence how to become very nice businessman, nice politician, very nice cunning man... No edit summary current
- 08:2208:22, 12 October 2020 diff hist +4,064 It says here that a pure devotee like Haridasa Thakura would not fall victim to Mayadevi's temptations, but even Lord Brahma, Lord Siva, might fall victim. I always thought that they were pure devotees of the Lord No edit summary current
- 07:4607:46, 12 October 2020 diff hist +2,865 Is there anyone similar to Joan of Arc in the Srimad-Bhagavatam? No edit summary current
- 07:2807:28, 12 October 2020 diff hist +3,455 Is Bhaktivinoda Thakura directly in succession from Lord Caitanya? And Gaurakisora dasa Babaji also? No edit summary current
- 06:4506:45, 12 October 2020 diff hist +4,653 In our childhood we had the occasion of taking part in a drama, Caitanya-lila. I took the part of Advaita, and our friends, others, somebody took the part of Caitanya, Nityananda. So that drama was so successful, it was unique in Calcutta No edit summary current
- 06:4206:42, 12 October 2020 diff hist +4,648 In His (Caitanya) boyhood He would ask His contemporary friends to argue with Him on a subject matter, and He'll defeat him. And again He'll establish it. The very point on which He defeated His friend, He'll again establish it, and again nullify it No edit summary current
- 06:4006:40, 12 October 2020 diff hist +6,741 If you don't become servant of God, then you become servant of your senses. That is your position. So those who are intelligent, so they will understand that If I have to remain a servant, why I shall remain servant of the senses? Why not of Krsna? No edit summary current
- 06:2106:21, 12 October 2020 diff hist +2,335 I have to thank Jadurani for nice pictures. She is giving us light about spiritual understanding. So Krsna will bless her with greater energy for Krsna consciousness. Thank you No edit summary current
- 05:5205:52, 12 October 2020 diff hist +6,784 Here is nice rose flower, it is manufactured by Krsna's energy, let it be offered to Krsna. This is self-realization No edit summary current
- 05:3905:39, 12 October 2020 diff hist +3,471 Govinda told me that it started five hundred years ago in Western Bengal. Could you elucidate on this please? No edit summary current
- 04:4904:49, 12 October 2020 diff hist +4,068 Did you say that Sri Krsna Caitanya was playing Radha? No edit summary current
- 04:4704:47, 12 October 2020 diff hist +4,797 Did Lord Caitanya take sannyasa from a Mayavadi sannyasi? No edit summary current
11 October 2020
- 19:2119:21, 11 October 2020 diff hist +5,702 Bharata means this planet, and Mahabharata means the complete history of the whole world. Nowadays, at the present moment, history means a chronological record, but previously, history means only the important incidences at different times No edit summary current
- 19:1519:15, 11 October 2020 diff hist +4,495 Could you tell us about something about Lord Caitanya's production of Vaisnava drama? Are there any of the plays that you know are still extant? No edit summary current
- 18:4318:43, 11 October 2020 diff hist +7,501 Why should we manufacture some other thing? Manufacturing means Mayavada, mental concoction. That is not the process of bhakti No edit summary current
- 18:3718:37, 11 October 2020 diff hist +2,580 We have got so many branches, they want to hear me, my singing, my speech, therefore they record it and send it to different branches No edit summary current
- 18:2918:29, 11 October 2020 diff hist +4,721 Is Krsna consciousness more easily accepted among Indians and among Far Eastern peoples than among the Western peoples? No edit summary current
- 18:1318:13, 11 October 2020 diff hist +6,744 Who is this (Prakasananda Sarasvati)? No edit summary current
- 17:5417:54, 11 October 2020 diff hist +7,418 What is the outcome of this (discussion of the Vedanta-sutra between Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya and Caitanya Mahaprabhu) now? Final outcome? No edit summary current
- 17:4417:44, 11 October 2020 diff hist +6,502 What is His (Caitanya Mahaprabhu's) age? I just want to keep checking on this, His age now. Is He twenty, in His twenties still? No edit summary current
- 17:3017:30, 11 October 2020 diff hist +6,350 What does this story (the story of the Gopala, Saksi) have to do with the temple? Lord Caitanya has entered this temple No edit summary current
- 17:1717:17, 11 October 2020 diff hist +8,110 Well, is that (Lord Caitanya inquiring from Ramananda Raya) important? That's the scene about the meeting No edit summary current
- 17:0017:00, 11 October 2020 diff hist +8,302 What do you mean He wouldn't address him because He was a sannyasi (Ramananda Raya was coming in procession, Caitanya Mahaprabhu understood that he is Ramananda Raya. But because He was sannyasi, He did not address him)? No edit summary current
- 16:5516:55, 11 October 2020 diff hist +8,421 Who is Jagannatha Misra's wife again? No edit summary current
- 16:4216:42, 11 October 2020 diff hist +5,197 This is His determination to incarnate as Lord Caitanya? No edit summary current
- 16:0116:01, 11 October 2020 diff hist +7,257 The friends of Caitanya. What are their names again? No edit summary current
- 15:4815:48, 11 October 2020 diff hist +8,248 The fifth scene is renunciation of household life... This is at age...? This is considerably later then. This is about ten years later No edit summary current
- 15:1515:15, 11 October 2020 diff hist +8,010 That (Caitanya Mahaprabhu in the middle would dance and the four parties will chant Hare Krsna) only happened as long as He stayed there (Jagannatha Puri). Is that right? No edit summary current
- 15:0915:09, 11 October 2020 diff hist +6,863 So Advaita is old too, isn't he (Haridasa should be a old man)? And Nivas (Srinivas) No edit summary current
- 13:0313:03, 11 October 2020 diff hist +7,840 Of Caitanya's. They all became devo...the King of Orissa? No edit summary current
- 12:5512:55, 11 October 2020 diff hist +6,719 Last night in the television, one boy was asking me, "Swamiji, you are all after spiritualism. Why you are using this clay as tilaka and so many things you are using which is matter?" No edit summary current
- 12:4212:42, 11 October 2020 diff hist +7,280 Now the constables broke up a sankirtana carried on by Caitanya's friends. Any location here particular? No edit summary current
- 08:4708:47, 11 October 2020 diff hist +5,464 Or are they (the people at Srinivasa's house) older brahmanas? No edit summary current
- 08:3308:33, 11 October 2020 diff hist +4,754 Now the second scene here, this is when Caitanya on the seashore, this is when He would walk around saying, "Where is Krsna?" Is that right? No edit summary current
- 08:2908:29, 11 October 2020 diff hist +7,727 Now what direct relationship does this (the Ksira-cora-gopinatha story) have to Lord Caitanya? No edit summary current
- 08:2208:22, 11 October 2020 diff hist +6,631 Is this the learned brahmana (so he asked his men to carry Him to his place and that will be the scene. Then after His departure His followers will come, and they will search in the temple that Caitanya Mahaprabhu is not there. Then one Gopinatha Acarya)? No edit summary current
- 08:1408:14, 11 October 2020 diff hist +7,036 Is there anyone there? Any of these characters there? I'm trying to introduce these characters (Srinivasa and Haridasa) No edit summary current
- 07:5707:57, 11 October 2020 diff hist +5,130 Is there any other information about Haridasa (and after burial there was distribution of prasadam and kirtana. Haridasa Ṭhakura. So here you have to show some talks with Haridasa, how feelingly)? No edit summary current
- 07:2307:23, 11 October 2020 diff hist +8,389 How old is Caitanya now (second act of a play on Lord Caitanya) ? No edit summary current
- 07:1607:16, 11 October 2020 diff hist +6,823 How old is He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) at this (when He visited the Jagannatha temple) point? No edit summary current
- 07:0007:00, 11 October 2020 diff hist +8,461 How old is He here (in the sixth scene)? How old is Caitanya here? Maybe five, six? No edit summary current
- 06:5606:56, 11 October 2020 diff hist +7,315 How does He (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) accept sannyasi? No edit summary current
- 06:5006:50, 11 October 2020 diff hist +6,288 How old is this man (Prakasananda Sarasvati)? No edit summary current
- 06:4006:40, 11 October 2020 diff hist +6,511 Fifth scene (of a play on Lord Caitanya)... This is Haridasa Thakura?... At who's death? At Haridasa's death? No edit summary current
- 06:3006:30, 11 October 2020 diff hist +5,970 Freedom is achieved when we are in constantly touch with the supreme spirit, Krsna. That supreme spirit is Krsna. So this assembly which we are trying to conduct is just to keep in touch constantly with Krsna No edit summary current
- 06:1806:18, 11 October 2020 diff hist +7,529 Does she (Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mother) give Him her blessing finally? No edit summary current