User contributions for Rohininandana
27 April 2023
- 10:4210:42, 27 April 2023 diff hist +5,817 The individual soul is under the clutches of illusory energy, and therefore although qualitatively one with the Supersoul, he is under the illusion of identifying himself with matter No edit summary current
- 10:4010:40, 27 April 2023 diff hist +5,747 The illusory energy of matter is so strong that one is apt to be under such illusion at every stage of life, even after quitting one's happy home No edit summary current
- 10:3910:39, 27 April 2023 diff hist +3,961 The father (King Yayati) shamelessly asked his son (Yadu) to exchange youth for old age. Of course, the entire world is under such illusion. Therefore it is said that everyone is pramattah, or exclusively mad No edit summary current
- 10:3710:37, 27 April 2023 diff hist +4,625 The false ego, under the influence of material illusion, thinks, "I am matter, and material acquisitions are mine." BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 10:3210:32, 27 April 2023 diff hist +4,114 The entire world is under the illusion that people will be happy by advancing in materialistic measures to counteract the miseries of conditional life, but this attempt will never be successful No edit summary current
- 10:3110:31, 27 April 2023 diff hist −13 The entire material creation is meant for the falsely egoistic living entities hovering on the mental plane under different illusions in the modes of material nature No edit summary current
- 10:3010:30, 27 April 2023 diff hist +4,788 The conditioned soul, under the illusion of maya, or the external energy, thinks that he is completely protected by his country, society, friendship and love, not knowing that at the time of death none of these can save him No edit summary current
- 09:5809:58, 27 April 2023 diff hist +3,861 The body is material, but within the body is the soul. This is spiritual understanding. Unfortunately, one who is in ignorance, under the spell of material illusion, accepts the body to be the self. He cannot understand that the body is matter No edit summary current
- 09:5509:55, 27 April 2023 diff hist +3,159 These are simply combinations of different experiences in time and space. Sometimes we may see a golden mountain, and this is due to our having experienced gold and mountains separately. In the dream, under illusion, we combine these separate factors No edit summary current
- 09:5509:55, 27 April 2023 diff hist +1,775 That understanding which considers irreligion to be religion and religion to be irreligion, under the spell of illusion and darkness, and strives always in the wrong direction, O Partha, is in the mode of ignorance. BG 18.32 - 1972 No edit summary current
- 09:5409:54, 27 April 2023 diff hist +2,327 That understanding which considers irreligion to be religion and religion to be irreligion, under the spell of illusion and darkness, and strives always in the wrong direction, O Partha, is in the mode of ignorance No edit summary current
- 09:5309:53, 27 April 2023 diff hist +8,733 That understanding which considers irreligion to be religion & religion to be irreligion, under the spell of illusion and darkness, and strives always in the wrong direction, O Partha, is in the mode of ignorance No edit summary current
- 09:5109:51, 27 April 2023 diff hist +6 Sri Krsna asserts that the entire universe is illusioned by the interactions of the three qualities of material nature, and we are under the spell of that illusion; therefore we cannot understand what God is No edit summary current
- 09:5009:50, 27 April 2023 diff hist +23,603 Sri Isopanisad states that "everything animate or inanimate that is within the universe is controlled & owned by the Lord (isavasyam idam sarvam)." The truth of this statement is factual, but under illusion we are thinking that we are the proprietors No edit summary current
- 09:4909:49, 27 April 2023 diff hist +3,849 Sometimes ghastly activities also support strong ecstatic love for Krsna. This state of mind is called ecstatic fearfulness under illusion No edit summary current
- 09:4509:45, 27 April 2023 diff hist +3,844 Our first proposition is that "You are not this body; you are spirit soul. Some way or other, you are in contact with this material world, and you have got this material body, and under illusion, you are accepting something which you are not" No edit summary current
- 09:4309:43, 27 April 2023 diff hist +6,193 My (Laksmi's) dear Lord, You (Kamadeva) are certainly the fully independent master of all the senses. Therefore all women who worship You by strictly observing vows because they wish to acquire a husband to satisfy their senses are surely under illusion No edit summary current
- 09:4209:42, 27 April 2023 diff hist +6,360 Many persons leave home and go to holy places, but due to bad association, again become family men by illicit connection with the opposite sex. The illusory energy of matter is so strong that one is apt to be under such illusion at every stage of life No edit summary current
- 09:4109:41, 27 April 2023 diff hist +51,447 Lord Caitanya should not be considered to be one of us. He is Krsna Himself, the supreme living entity, and as such He never comes under the cloud of maya. Krsna, His expansions, and even His higher devotees never fall into the clutches of illusion No edit summary current
- 09:4009:40, 27 April 2023 diff hist +28 Lord Caitanya should not be considered one of us. He is Krsna Himself, the supreme living entity, and as such He never comes under the cloud of maya. Krsna, His expansions and even His higher devotees never fall into the clutches of illusion - CC Intro No edit summary current
- 09:3809:38, 27 April 2023 diff hist +5,710 Krsna continued, "One who engages himself in severe penances and austerities just to attain this material happiness is certainly under the illusion of My external energy" No edit summary current
- 09:3809:38, 27 April 2023 diff hist +5,844 Karmana-daiva-netrena: his (the husband's) circumstances are determined by his past fruitive activities. Therefore if one proudly thinks he can protect his wife, he is under illusion No edit summary current
26 April 2023
- 10:5810:58, 26 April 2023 diff hist +7,481 Just like in the desert, accepting the sand as water. That is called illusion. Similarly, every one of us who are identified with this body, he's under illusion. That is a false thing, but he has no knowledge. Even President Johnson, he's under illusion No edit summary current
- 10:4310:43, 26 April 2023 diff hist +5,112 It is by the supreme will that we are situated in certain conditions in terms of family, community and personality. These are all arrangements of the Supreme Lord according to our desires under the spell of maya, illusion No edit summary current
- 10:2910:29, 26 April 2023 diff hist +5,305 In the Vedas the Supreme Lord is described as tam isvaranam paramam mahesvaram. Under the spell of illusion, living entities are trying to be lords of all they survey, but actually they are dominated by the material energy of the Lord. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 10:2510:25, 26 April 2023 diff hist +1,427 In the condition of external separation, you were again under illusion, thinking that you had not offered the food to Lord Visnu No edit summary current
- 10:2410:24, 26 April 2023 diff hist +8,068 His (Krsna's) friends, being controlled in such a way, could not understand that for one whole year they were absent from the Yamuna's bank and were under the spell of Brahma's illusion No edit summary current
- 10:1410:14, 26 April 2023 diff hist +7,131 He gives up all engagements in the service of matter, engagements concocted under the names of social service, national service, community service, dog service, automobile service and so many other services conducted under the illusion of "I" and mine No edit summary current
- 10:1310:13, 26 April 2023 diff hist +3,649 Here (in SB 9.18.39) is an example (of BG 7.20): the father shamelessly asked his son to exchange youth for old age. Of course, the entire world is under such illusion No edit summary
- 10:1210:12, 26 April 2023 diff hist −13 Even President Johnson, he's under illusion. Even the greatest scientist, he's under this illusion. So that one is sure to commit mistake, and one is under illusion, and bhrama, pramada and vipralipsa . . . vipralipsa means the tendency for cheating No edit summary current
- 10:1110:11, 26 April 2023 diff hist +4,711 Due to illusion only, he thinks himself independent in his activities. Duryodhana was acting under such influence of the external nature, by which he would be vanquished at the ultimate end No edit summary current
- 10:1010:10, 26 April 2023 diff hist +4,637 Due to continuing on the path of danger from time immemorial and not associating with saintly persons, the conditioned soul, under illusion, wants to enjoy this material world No edit summary current
- 10:0810:08, 26 April 2023 diff hist +26,620 Being under the influence of illusion, we spend our lifetimes trying to make adjustments to this material atmosphere, but this is not the purpose of human life. Human life is meant for understanding the science of Krsna No edit summary
- 10:0710:07, 26 April 2023 diff hist +20,935 Because we are under illusion, Devahuti says: sva-bhrtya-samsara-taroh kutharam. In Bhagavad-gita (15.1-4), material existence is likened unto a banyan tree with its roots upward and its branches below No edit summary current
- 10:0610:06, 26 April 2023 diff hist +6,282 Because we are conditioned, we are under illusion. Although we are prakrti, we are thinking that we are purusa. But actually we are not purusa. We are also prakrti No edit summary current
- 10:0510:05, 26 April 2023 diff hist +4,476 Because the cowherd boys were under the illusion that Krsna could be in some mishap, their symptoms are not at all astonishing; they had dedicated their friendship, their possessions, their desires and their very selves to Krsna No edit summary current
- 09:5609:56, 26 April 2023 diff hist +11,351 As stated here: jnana-vairagya-yuktena. Real understanding is knowing oneself to be the servant of Krsna, no one else. Because we are under illusion, we are serving kama, lobha, moha, matsarya - lust and greed - without benefit and without pleasure No edit summary current
- 09:5609:56, 26 April 2023 diff hist +4,368 As long as this contamination (to enjoy this material world) continues, the conditioned soul will be unable to understand his real identity and will perpetually continue under illusion, life after life No edit summary current
- 09:5409:54, 26 April 2023 diff hist −13 As long as the living being, under illusion, accepts the body or the mind as the soul, he will always be unhappy, like a man in the burning heat of autumn No edit summary current
- 09:5309:53, 26 April 2023 diff hist +3,360 As a result (of living under certain circumstances and enjoying under the spell of material nature), he (every living entity) is suffering different kinds of happiness and distress, under the illusion of sense enjoyment. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 09:5109:51, 26 April 2023 diff hist +4,796 Although we (Yamaraja, Indra, Candra, Siva, Brahma and Surya) are in the mode of goodness, we cannot understand the activities of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. What, then, is to be said of others, who, under illusion, merely speculate to know God? No edit summary current
- 09:4909:49, 26 April 2023 diff hist +6,725 Acyuta means infallible. God cannot be entrapped by maya. The Mayavadi philosopher says that "I am God. Now I am under illusion of maya. I have forgotten myself, that I am God, and by meditation I shall become God." This is all nonsense No edit summary current
- 09:4309:43, 26 April 2023 diff hist +6,127 When the poor man dovetails his desires with those of the rich man and when there is cooperation between the poor man and the rich man, or between the big and the small man, then the enjoyment is shared equally. That is like bhakti-yoga No edit summary current
- 09:2809:28, 26 April 2023 diff hist +9,568 When Krsna reached her (Kubja's) house, He saw that it was completely decorated in a way to excite the lusty desires of a man. This suggests that there were many nude pictures, on top of which were canopies and flags embroidered with pearl necklaces No edit summary current
- 09:2309:23, 26 April 2023 diff hist +3,807 We understand that the desires for sexual satisfaction are meant for the arvak, the lowest among men. To rectify these rascals and fools is very difficult. After all, the sex desires of the common man are condemned in these verses - in SB 4.29.14 No edit summary current
- 09:2009:20, 26 April 2023 diff hist +3,448 Time deteriorates even the body itself, which is the medium for all sensual satisfaction, but even when a man becomes old and invalid, his desires are strong enough to dictate that he go here and there to satisfy the desires of his senses No edit summary current
- 09:1909:19, 26 April 2023 diff hist +3,359 The so-called man of the renounced order, who has left his house and wife, goes to hell if he again desires sexual pleasure, knowingly or unknowingly. In that way the householders are on the side of safety No edit summary current
- 09:1709:17, 26 April 2023 diff hist +21,850 The important man is quite confident that because he has told his secretary, his desires will be carried out. The secretary is a person, energy - sakti No edit summary current
- 09:1509:15, 26 April 2023 diff hist +6,447 The attitude of a married man who desires another wife or a wife who desires another husband is called parakiya-rasa No edit summary current
- 09:1109:11, 26 April 2023 diff hist +4,759 One who desires to engage all these (his vital energy, his wealth, his intelligence and his words) in the service of the Lord, no matter how he is situated, is to be considered a liberated soul, or satya-drk. Such a man has understood things as they are No edit summary current