User contributions for Madana Mohana
18 January 2023
- 10:5310:53, 18 January 2023 diff hist +4,063 Even in this fallen age if the rulers, governors and presidents take advantage of Prthu Maharaja's example, there will certainly be a reign of peace and prosperity throughout the world No edit summary
- 10:3410:34, 18 January 2023 diff hist −11 Any scripture of any country, not only of this BG, but any scripture, they are aiming simply how to get us back to Godhead. That is the purpose. take for example any of the great religious reformer or acaryas of any country, like, Jesus or Buddha No edit summary current
- 10:2310:23, 18 January 2023 diff hist +6,472 Good, or piety, that is God's frontage, and evil means God's back side. So taking this example, the chest or the back of my body, they are equal No edit summary current
- 10:0810:08, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,652 When the artificially dressed personality of Kali saw that to fight Maharaja Pariksit was beyond his ability, he bowed down his head like a subordinate and gave up his royal dress No edit summary current
- 10:0610:06, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,182 The royal dress of the personality of Kali is artificial No edit summary current
- 10:0410:04, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,598 The royal dress is suitable for a king or ksatriya, but when a lower-class man artificially dresses himself as a king, his real identity is disclosed by the challenge of a bona fide ksatriya like Maharaja Pariksit No edit summary current
- 10:0110:01, 18 January 2023 diff hist +5,925 The purpose of Your appearance is to kill the followers of the demoniac rulers of the world, who are in the dress of royal princes but are actually demons. I (Vasudeva) am sure that You (Krsna) will kill all of them and their followers and soldiers No edit summary
- 09:5809:58, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,447 The elected show-bottle executive head, as representative of a degraded public, cannot be equal with a strong king like Maharaja Pariksit. The dress or style of royal order does not count. It is one's actions which are counted No edit summary current
- 09:5509:55, 18 January 2023 diff hist +2,033 She thought of Him in the calm and quiet atmosphere of Vrndavana, dressed as a cowherd boy. But at Kuruksetra He was in a royal dress and was accompanied by elephants, horses and crowds of men. Thus the atmosphere was not congenial for Their meeting No edit summary current
17 January 2023
- 16:0516:05, 17 January 2023 diff hist +2,051 Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya suggested, "On that Ratha-yatra festival day, after dancing before the Lord, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu will enter the Gundica garden. At that time you (King Prataparudra) should go there alone, without your royal dress" No edit summary current
- 16:0316:03, 17 January 2023 diff hist +1,778 On that Ratha-yatra festival day, after dancing before the Lord, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu will enter the Gundica garden. At that time you should go there alone, without your royal dress No edit summary current
- 16:0116:01, 17 January 2023 diff hist −13 Maharaja Yudhisthira to become spiritually pure, at once gave up his royal opulence, relinquishing his royal dress and garments No edit summary current
- 15:5915:59, 17 January 2023 diff hist +1,857 Here at Kuruksetra You are dressed like a royal prince, accompanied by great warriors, but in Vrndavana You appeared just like an ordinary cowherd boy, accompanied only by Your beautiful flute No edit summary current
- 15:5715:57, 17 January 2023 diff hist +2,418 Following Sarvabhauma Bhattacarya's instructions, the King had given up his royal dress. He now entered the garden in the dress of a Vaisnava No edit summary current
- 15:5515:55, 17 January 2023 diff hist +25 Being village girls, they (the gopis) were not very much attracted to the field of Kuruksetra, where Krsna was present with elephants, horses and royal dress. Indeed, they did not very much appreciate Krsna in that atmosphere No edit summary current
- 15:2015:20, 17 January 2023 diff hist +2,949 Where is this consciousness of surrender come in human life? At what stage it can come? No edit summary current
- 15:1615:16, 17 January 2023 diff hist −14 When our consciousness is actually in the clear stage, we can understand our particular relationship with Krsna No edit summary current
- 15:0815:08, 17 January 2023 diff hist +36 The state of contaminated consciousness is compared to dream consciousness, and Krsna consciousness is compared to the awakened stage of life. Actually, as stated in Bhagavad-gita, the only absolute enjoyer is Krsna No edit summary
- 14:5714:57, 17 January 2023 diff hist +3,110 The human being is endowed with a higher, advanced stage of consciousness for getting relief from the existence of material miseries, but due to his ignorance he thinks that his higher consciousness is meant for advancing in the material comforts of life No edit summary
- 14:5514:55, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,518 The highest stage of spiritual consciousness is Krsna consciousness. KC means, "I am Krsna's," that's all. Krsna says, "All these living entities, they are My part and parcel." So you have to understand this relationship with Krsna, that you are Krsna's No edit summary current
- 14:4814:48, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,820 Suppose you are sleeping, and if I vibrate some sound, you can hear and can wake up. No other method will act. Similarly, at the present moment it is our sleeping stage. Therefore this transcendental vibration will awaken to spiritual consciousness No edit summary current
- 14:3014:30, 17 January 2023 diff hist −10 One should execute his spiritual activities in the svarupa-gata stage of consciousness. He should also chant such spiritual mantras as om namo bhagavate vasudevaya and the cin-mayi Gayatri No edit summary current
- 14:1314:13, 17 January 2023 diff hist +7,137 In the phenomenal manifestation there are three stages: the stage of consciousness, the stage of semiconsciousness in dreaming, and the stage of unconsciousness. But Your (Krsna's) Lordship is transcendental to all these material stages of existence No edit summary current
- 14:0414:04, 17 January 2023 diff hist +7,967 In the beginning of life, every living entity is food conscious. A child or an animal is satisfied only by getting nice food. This stage of consciousness, in which the goal is to eat sumptuously, is called anna-maya No edit summary current
- 14:0014:00, 17 January 2023 diff hist +9 If we act on the level of consciousness, then we can overcome the fruitive result of good work or bad work. It is a transcendental stage No edit summary current
- 13:5213:52, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,432 First the soul has covered consciousness, then he reaches the stage of budding consciousness, then blossoming consciousness, and finally fully blossomed consciousness No edit summary current
- 13:4313:43, 17 January 2023 diff hist +3,693 Different living beings are situated in different consciousness, Some are satisfied in the matter of eating and sleeping, they are on the annamoya stage No edit summary current
- 13:3213:32, 17 January 2023 diff hist +13,800 Bhakti means the activities of the liberated stage. That is not material things. So this Krsna consciousness movement is little difficult to understand because these activities are for the persons who have already attained moksa No edit summary current
- 13:2313:23, 17 January 2023 diff hist −13 A child or an animal is satisfied only by getting nice food. This stage of consciousness, in which the goal is to eat sumptuously, is called anna-maya No edit summary current
- 12:1612:16, 17 January 2023 diff hist +8,010 After this stage (prana-maya), when one is situated on the mental platform, his consciousness is called mano-maya No edit summary current
- 12:0112:01, 17 January 2023 diff hist +5,049 The surabhi cow said, "Therefore, You (Krsna) are our Indra, You are the supreme father of the whole cosmic manifestation, and You are the protector and elevator of all the cows, brahmanas, demigods and others who are pure devotees of Your Lordship" No edit summary
- 11:5811:58, 17 January 2023 diff hist −1 One should directly approach Krsna, for that will save time and energy. For example, if there is a possibility of going to the top of a building by the help of an elevator, why should one go by the staircase, step by step? BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 11:4311:43, 17 January 2023 diff hist +5,576 You can say: "Why Krsna is so partial to the sadhus?" No. He gives protection to everyone. Without His protection, nobody can live. That's a fact. But He gives special protection to the sadhu, to the devotees. That is natural No edit summary
- 11:4011:40, 17 January 2023 diff hist +38 The word parama-kalyana is significant because Krsna, in any of His incarnations, appears in order to protect the sadhus (paritranaya sadhunam) - BG 4.8 No edit summary current
- 11:3711:37, 17 January 2023 diff hist +8,875 The sadhu, who is a great devotee of the Lord, they might be tolerant. You can crucify him, can do any misbehavior to him. He's never angry. But God will never tolerate. We must always remember that. He has got special protection No edit summary current
- 11:2611:26, 17 January 2023 diff hist −2 In India, for instance, when people were over-indulging in animal slaughter, Lord Buddha came to establish ahimsa, nonviolence to all living entities. Similarly, in the above-quoted verse BG 4.8, Sri Krsna says that He comes in order to protect the sadhus No edit summary current
- 11:1611:16, 17 January 2023 diff hist +5,503 Under the circumstances (in BG 2.13), it is admitted that Lord Krsna is the Supreme Lord, superior in position to the living entity, Arjuna, who is a forgotten soul deluded by maya. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 11:1411:14, 17 January 2023 diff hist +3,278 This transcendental knowledge (the arts of music, dance, dressing, decorations relished by god) is unknown to the forgotten conditioned souls No edit summary current
- 11:0911:09, 17 January 2023 diff hist +3,157 This sort of punishment (dunk someone and thrusting him completely underwater, and when he is almost suffocated take him out of the water and allow him to breathe and then again dunk him to suffocate) inflicted upon the forgotten soul by Yamaraja No edit summary
- 10:2610:26, 17 January 2023 diff hist −13 The fallen and forgotten souls are detached from the transcendental loving service of the Lord. The living entities are parts and parcels of the Lord, and they are eternally servitors of the Lord No edit summary current
- 10:1810:18, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,589 By reestablishing relationship with God, even the most forgotten soul is roused up to the sense of spiritual life, and thus being initiated by the bhakti-vedantas, the people in general gradually progress on the path of transcendental realization No edit summary
- 09:5609:56, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,527 The river will flow profusely to fertilize the land; the oceans will supply sufficient quantities of minerals, pearls and jewels; the forest will supply sufficient wood, drugs and vegetables No edit summary current
- 09:5309:53, 17 January 2023 diff hist +2,017 The ocean of Caitanya Mahaprabhu became filled with the jewels of the knowledge of pure devotional service No edit summary current
- 09:4809:48, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,376 The oceans and seas are meant for producing jewels, but in Kali-yuga the oceans are mainly being utilized for fishing. Sudras and poor men were allowed to fish, but the higher classes like the ksatriyas and vaisyas would gather pearls, jewels and coral No edit summary current
- 09:4509:45, 17 January 2023 diff hist +2,358 The ocean, which is the source of all valuable jewels, supplied the upper and lower portions of a yellow silken garment. The predominating deity of the water, Varuna, presented flower garlands surrounded by six-legged bumblebees, drunken with honey No edit summary current
- 09:4209:42, 17 January 2023 diff hist −6 The flow of river waters fertilizes the fields, and there is more than what we need. Minerals are produced in the hills, and the jewels in the ocean No edit summary current
- 09:3809:38, 17 January 2023 diff hist +8,565 There (in the large palace within the water of the Karana Ocean) were many thousands of pillars and columns made of valuable jewels, and the glaring effulgence of those columns was so beautiful that Arjuna was charmed by it No edit summary current
- 09:3609:36, 17 January 2023 diff hist −26 Prabodhananda Sarasvati has composed in his Caitanya-candramrta (34): The advent of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu is just like an expanding ocean of nectar. One who does not collect the valuable jewels within this ocean is certainly the poorest of the poor No edit summary
- 09:3409:34, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,310 Oceans and seas produce pearls, coral and valuable jewels so that fortunate law-abiding people can utilize them. Similarly, the hills are full of chemicals so that when rivers flow down from them the chemicals spread over the fields to fertilize No edit summary current
- 09:2609:26, 17 January 2023 diff hist +4,000 King Prthu was presented with various gifts from the general populace and predominating deities of all planets. The oceans and seas were full of valuable jewels and pearls, and the hills were full of chemicals and fertilizers No edit summary