User contributions for Madana Mohana

3 August 2023

• 08:4308:43, 3 August 2023 diff hist +7,895‎ Imminent death does not mean motor accident. Imminent death means we are in the cycle of birth and death. It is the duty of the father and mother, the duty of the guru, the duty of the relative, to save one another from the cycle of birth and death ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4208:42, 3 August 2023 diff hist −2‎ If we can beget children to develop them with Krsna consciousness and thus become liberated from the clutches of repeated birth and death, that is the duty of the father and mother rightly followed ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4108:41, 3 August 2023 diff hist −2‎ Father, mother, guardian's duty is to educate the wards, subordinates, in such a way that he becomes fully Krsna conscious and so that he can be saved from this repetition of birth and death ‎No edit summary
• 08:4008:40, 3 August 2023 diff hist +6,333‎ Death means we are in the cycle of birth and death. It is the duty of the father and mother, the duty of the guru, the duty of the relative, to save one another from the cycle of birth and death ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3708:37, 3 August 2023 diff hist +5,070‎ As long as a living entity in the form of a child or boy is innocent, it is the duty of the father and mother to lead him into a proper understanding of the values of life ‎No edit summary
• 08:3508:35, 3 August 2023 diff hist +7,392‎ Advanced civilization, the mother is killing the child, abortion. You see? Still, it is called advancement. Mother's duty is to take care of the child, motherly affection ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2608:26, 3 August 2023 diff hist +2,332‎ By the influence of the modes of material nature, I became fallen and thought that I would be happy in material life. Thus there is no end to my material desires for enjoyment, in this life and the next ‎No edit summary current
• 08:2408:24, 3 August 2023 diff hist +18‎ You may think that, having been born in America, you are very happy. But you cannot remain an American for long. You will have to be kicked out of that place ‎No edit summary
• 08:2208:22, 3 August 2023 diff hist +5,757‎ You cannot remain as American. You may think that you are born in America, you are very happy. But you cannot remain as American for long. You'll have to be kicked out of the place, and next life you do not know ‎No edit summary
• 08:2108:21, 3 August 2023 diff hist +18‎ Working hard all day and night, then having some sex life - we think that in this way we are very happy. But this is not happiness. This has been described in the Bhagavatam as a hog's happiness ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1808:18, 3 August 2023 diff hist +4,413‎ When he (the conditioned soul) enters such castles, he temporarily thinks that he is very happy, even though his happiness is impermanent ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1708:17, 3 August 2023 diff hist +37‎ We should not be like the hog, falsely thinking that we are very happy ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1508:15, 3 August 2023 diff hist +14,259‎ We may think that at present we are Americans and are very happy, and that's all right. We may chalk out our plans for continued happiness, but nature will not allow us to stay indefinitely ‎No edit summary
• 08:1408:14, 3 August 2023 diff hist +15‎ We may be in a miserable condition, but we accept it thinking that we are very happy. This is called ignorance ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1308:13, 3 August 2023 diff hist +12,482‎ We are thinking that we are very happy within this material world, although in addition to these threefold miseries there is also birth, old age, disease and death. So where is our happiness ‎No edit summary
• 08:1108:11, 3 August 2023 diff hist +6,417‎ We are thinking, "I shall be happy in this way. I shall be happy in this..." Nothing. You shall never be happy - this is perfect instruction - unless you go back to home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 08:1008:10, 3 August 2023 diff hist −1‎ We are entrapped here in this material world in sense happiness. If our senses are satisfied, we think we are happy. But Bhagavad-gita says that real happiness is to be searched out beyond the senses, transcendental ‎No edit summary current
• 08:0908:09, 3 August 2023 diff hist +16,863‎ We are all in a very fearful situation, but we do not understand this. Under the spell of maya, we are thinking we are very happy, but this is not a fact ‎No edit summary current

2 August 2023

• 14:4114:41, 2 August 2023 diff hist +2,740‎ This is the way of material life. Even if one lives in the most abominable condition, he still thinks himself happy with his wife, children, friends and relatives ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4014:40, 2 August 2023 diff hist +12,003‎ This is material nature. There are many events in nature that cause fear. There are great cyclones and tornadoes. There is excessive heat and excessive rain. There is flood and famine and war. Yet people are thinking of being happy on this planet ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3714:37, 2 August 2023 diff hist +5,253‎ The world is feeling so much disturbed by the misarrangement of the leaders of the society. They have forgotten Krsna or God. They are thinking that by material advancement they will be happy, but that is never possible ‎No edit summary
• 14:3514:35, 2 August 2023 diff hist +4,718‎ The whole idea is that we are in this material world. That is miserable. Under the spell of illusion, we are thinking we are very happy. They do not know what is actually happiness. What is happiness? But there is no argument for these rascals ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3414:34, 2 August 2023 diff hist +12,302‎ The symptom of human life is that he should be very much pessimistic, not optimistic, of this material world. Then there is path of liberation. And if we think that we are very much happy here, that is called illusion, maya ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3014:30, 2 August 2023 diff hist +9,938‎ The rascals have no knowledge how to become happy. They are thinking, they will be happy by drinking wine and eating meat and having sex life unlimitedly. They're thinking like that, so rascal. The whole civilization is condemned ‎No edit summary
• 14:2814:28, 2 August 2023 diff hist +17,301‎ The mind is always concocting objects for happiness. I am always thinking, "This will make me happy," or "That will make me happy. Happiness is here. Happiness is there." In this way the mind is taking us anywhere and everywhere ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2514:25, 2 August 2023 diff hist +3,389‎ The materialists, in material consciousness, are engaged in producing so many things in the name of economic development. They think that by advancing in satisfying the material needs of man they will be happy ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2314:23, 2 August 2023 diff hist +16,867‎ The living entity thinks that he is very happy in whatever body he gets. He may get the body of a dog or the body of a cat, but he is happy in his body, and he does not want to lose it. This is called illusion ‎No edit summary
• 14:2114:21, 2 August 2023 diff hist +11,974‎ The body is like a bubble. It is present for one moment, then it bursts and is gone forever. We simply take on one bubble after another, one body after another, and we think that we will become happy in this way because we are so foolish ‎No edit summary
• 14:1814:18, 2 August 2023 diff hist −9‎ They are thinking very happy, husband, wife, living together, enjoying. But that is grha andha-kupam. Andha-kupam means if you are thrown into the dark well, it is like that ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1614:16, 2 August 2023 diff hist −4‎ They are thinking that having such nice house, nice motorcar, nice road, nice machine, nice dress, nice woman, they will be happy. This is advancement of civilization ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1514:15, 2 August 2023 diff hist −25‎ They are thinking that by adjusting this material way of life they'll be happy. That's all. This is ignorance. The whole civilization is wrong because they do not know what is the aim of life. That is the fault ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1314:13, 2 August 2023 diff hist +18‎ They are thinking by material opulence they will be happy. This is their ignorance. Therefore so much struggle all over the world. It is not the question of India or America. It is the material way of life ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1214:12, 2 August 2023 diff hist +18‎ They are thinking, "By adjustment of this material world, we shall be happy." That is not possible. The maya, the material energy, will not allow you to become perfect unless and until you surrender to Krsna. That is her business ‎No edit summary
• 14:1014:10, 2 August 2023 diff hist +4,176‎ They (people) think, "By increasing motorcars, we shall be happy." This is called maya. That will not help. This motorcar civilization will be finished within another hundred years ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0914:09, 2 August 2023 diff hist +3,515‎ These rascals, they are thinking that by so-called economic development, by exploiting material resources, we shall be happy. That is not possible. The best example your country has given ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0714:07, 2 August 2023 diff hist −4‎ That is maya (thinking in the future I'll be happy), illusion. That is like the ass ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0614:06, 2 August 2023 diff hist −24‎ So in this material world we have to work very hard under these three kinds of miserable conditions of life, and we are actually doing that. Still, we are thinking that we are happy ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0414:04, 2 August 2023 diff hist +6,053‎ So all these materialistic persons, they are so fools, rascals, miscreants, they are increasing these material activities. They are thinking by this increasing material activities they will be happy. No. That is not possible ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0014:00, 2 August 2023 diff hist +37‎ Some good, palatable foodstuff I have been offered by some friend, I am eating. "Oh," I am thinking, "oh, how happy I am!" But what is that happiness? That happiness is due to my tongue only. But I am not this tongue ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 2 August 2023 diff hist +13,305‎ Sometimes when he (the conditioned soul) is fatigued, when he is tired of material activities, he wants liberation and hankers to become one with the Supreme Lord, but at other times he thinks that by working hard to gratify his senses he will be happy ‎No edit summary
• 13:5713:57, 2 August 2023 diff hist −29‎ Samsrta. This material world is called samsrti, continuously suffering. That we cannot understand. This is called ignorance, continuously suffering. They are thinking, "We are very happy," but this material world means continuously suffering ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5513:55, 2 August 2023 diff hist +2,290‎ People forget all these devastations of the worlds and think themselves happy in the material progress of civilization. This is called maya, or "that which is not ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5313:53, 2 August 2023 diff hist +9,962‎ People are thinking that by adjusting the material energy they will be happy, and everyone is trying this individually, collectively or nationally. In any case, it is not possible. People will ultimately be frustrated ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5213:52, 2 August 2023 diff hist +9,854‎ People are misled. They are thinking that by material comfort they will be happy. And practically we are seeing, this competition of material comfort... The capitalist and the labor class, worker class, they are fighting - strike ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4913:49, 2 August 2023 diff hist +4,102‎ Out of ignorance only, less intelligent persons try to adjust to the situation by fruitive activities, thinking that the resultant actions will make them happy. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4713:47, 2 August 2023 diff hist +5,312‎ Our Krsna consciousness movement is particularly to go back to Godhead, giving up this material world, which is full of miserable life. It is actually full of miseries, but those who are thinking that I am happy, or We are happy, they are under illusion ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4413:44, 2 August 2023 diff hist +17,894‎ One thinks, "I shall be happy. My sons will be happy. My community will be happy. My nation will be happy." This is extended selfishness ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2913:29, 2 August 2023 diff hist −11‎ One is not happy, but he's thinking, "I am happy." And they are trying to become happy in so many other ways. But that is not the way of seeking happiness ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2813:28, 2 August 2023 diff hist −27‎ One is living very condemned life; still, he's thinking, "I am very happy," or "We are all right." That is called avaranatmika, covered. Real knowledge is covered ‎No edit summary current
• 13:2613:26, 2 August 2023 diff hist +5,997‎ No one in this material world is happy, but the struggle gives a false sense of happiness. A person must work very hard, and when he attains the result of his hard work, he thinks himself happy ‎No edit summary current