User contributions for Madana Mohana

5 August 2023

• 10:0310:03, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,153‎ Maharaja Pariksit said: The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Hari, is eternally situated in His transcendental position, yet He descends to this material world and manifests Himself in various incarnations ‎No edit summary current
• 10:0110:01, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,508‎ Maharaja Pariksit said: Sukracarya was a very powerful brahmana, and Maharaja Yayati was a ksatriya. Therefore I am curious to know how there occurred this pratiloma marriage between a ksatriya and a brahmana ‎No edit summary
• 09:4809:48, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5,763‎ Maharaja Pariksit said: O my lord, O Sukadeva Gosvami, you have already described (in the Second Canto) the path of liberation (nivrtti-marga) ‎No edit summary
• 09:4609:46, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5,509‎ Maharaja Pariksit said: Once when I felt very thirsty, I went to the asrama of Samika Muni to drink water, but the muni did not supply it. I therefore wrapped a dead snake over his shoulder, and that is why I was cursed by the brahmana boy ‎No edit summary
• 09:4209:42, 5 August 2023 diff hist +7,224‎ Maharaja Pariksit said, "The gopis did not know that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. They accepted Him as a beautiful boy and considered Him to be their paramour" ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4109:41, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,810‎ Maharaja Pariksit said, "O learned brahmana, you know everything because you are without material contamination" ‎No edit summary current
• 09:4009:40, 5 August 2023 diff hist +8,830‎ Maharaja Pariksit said, "My dear lord, the SP of Godhead, Krsna, is the bestower of both liberation and love of God simultaneously. Anyone who becomes a devotee of the Lord automatically attains liberation without having to make a separate attempt" ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3509:35, 5 August 2023 diff hist +11,202‎ Maharaja Pariksit said, "Krsna appeared on the earth to establish the regulative principles of religion and to curb the predominance of irreligion. But the behavior of Krsna and the gopis might encourage irreligious principles in the material world" ‎No edit summary current
• 09:3309:33, 5 August 2023 diff hist +8,374‎ Maharaja Pariksit said, "I think that no intelligent person can reject this method of hearing the transcendental pastimes of the Lord again and again; simply by hearing, one can remain always steeped in transcendental pleasure" ‎No edit summary
• 09:1909:19, 5 August 2023 diff hist +11,480‎ Maharaja Pariksit said, "I am simply surprised that He would act in such a way, enjoying the company of others' wives in the dead of night." This statement of Maharaja Pariksit's was very much appreciated by Sukadeva Gosvami ‎No edit summary
• 09:0509:05, 5 August 2023 diff hist +8,380‎ Maharaja Pariksit said, "I am actually experiencing how the transcendental topics of Lord Krsna's pastimes can relieve one from being affected by such material activities of sense gratification" ‎No edit summary current
• 09:0409:04, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5,865‎ Maharaja Pariksit said, "Hunger and thirst may give trouble to ordinary persons or to me, but the topics of Krsna are so nice that one can continue to hear them without feeling tired because such hearing situates one in the transcendental position" ‎No edit summary
• 09:0209:02, 5 August 2023 diff hist +8,140‎ Maharaja Pariksit said, "Because the Lord is unlimited, His (Krsna's) pastimes and activities for creating, maintaining and destroying the whole cosmic manifestation are also unlimited" ‎No edit summary
• 08:5808:58, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5‎ Maharaja Pariksit also said - Somehow or other they have fallen down to a hellish life, but that does not mean that they should remain in that condition. There must be some means by which they can be delivered, so kindly explain those means ‎No edit summary
• 08:5708:57, 5 August 2023 diff hist +3,222‎ King Pariksit said to Sukadeva Gosvami: O brahmana, you have already informed me that the radius of Bhu-mandala extends as far as the sun spreads its light and heat and as far as the moon and all the stars can be seen ‎No edit summary
• 08:5508:55, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,235‎ King Pariksit said: What is the basic knowledge of the Vedic literatures, including the branches of history and the supplementary Puranas? ‎No edit summary current
• 08:5408:54, 5 August 2023 diff hist +4,384‎ King Pariksit said: What are the opulences of the great mystics, and what is their ultimate realization? How does the perfect mystic become detached from the subtle astral body? ‎No edit summary
• 08:5208:52, 5 August 2023 diff hist +1,883‎ King Pariksit said: O Sukadeva Gosvami, why did Vasistha, the spiritual master of Saudasa, curse that great soul? I wish to know of this. If it is not a confidential matter, please describe it to me ‎No edit summary
• 08:5008:50, 5 August 2023 diff hist +2,070‎ King Pariksit said: O my lord, O Sukadeva Gosvami, Yamaraja is the controller of all living entities in terms of their religious and irreligious activities, but his order had been foiled ‎No edit summary
• 08:4608:46, 5 August 2023 diff hist +5,972‎ King Pariksit said: My dear lord, you (Sukadeva Gosvami) have elaborately described the dynasties of both the moon-god and the sun-god, with the exalted and wonderful character of their kings - SB 10.1.1 ‎No edit summary
• 08:4508:45, 5 August 2023 diff hist +20,966‎ King Pariksit said: I do not mind if I am immediately bitten by the snake sent by the brahmana boy's curse. Let the snake bite me as it likes. I shall be pleased if all of you present here will go on chanting the message of Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 08:4408:44, 5 August 2023 diff hist +21,165‎ King Pariksit affords a good example of bhava. When sitting on the banks of the Ganges waiting to meet his death, he said: "All the brahmanas present here, as well as Mother Ganges, should know that I am a soul completely surrendered to Krsna" ‎No edit summary current
• 08:4108:41, 5 August 2023 diff hist +7,400‎ He (Pariksit Maharaja) said that even greatly learned scholars fail to know about that, even after great effort. The Lord is unlimited, and His activities are also unfathomed ‎No edit summary current
• 08:3308:33, 5 August 2023 diff hist +8,090‎ Another word used here is apta-kama. Some may take it for granted that Krsna was very lusty among young girls, but Pariksit Maharaja said that this was not possible. He could not be lusty ‎No edit summary

4 August 2023

• 14:5314:53, 4 August 2023 diff hist −12‎ Pariksit Maharaja says, nivrtta-tarsair upagiyamanat (SB 10.1.4). The holy name of the Lord can be chanted by those who have fully satisfied their material desires or who are fully situated on the transcendental platform and devoid of material desire ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5114:51, 4 August 2023 diff hist +2,418‎ Maharaja Pariksit’s expression of anxiety is explained in this verse. He says, “Let whatever is destined to happen take place. It doesn’t matter. Just let me see that not a moment of my time is wasted without a relationship with Krsna” ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4114:41, 4 August 2023 diff hist +4,163‎ When Pariksit was cursed by a brahmin to die within seven days, why Krsna did not save him, or why he did not seek Krsna's protection? This question may be raised. He was young man. He was not old man. He could live. That question was made ‎No edit summary
• 14:4014:40, 4 August 2023 diff hist +5,875‎ When Pariksit Maharaja was informed that he was to die within seven days, he accepted the curse, "Yes, I was wrong to insult the sage." Otherwise, he could counteract; he was also very powerful. But he did not ‎No edit summary
• 14:3914:39, 4 August 2023 diff hist +30‎ When Kali could not penetrate into the daily behavior of the people, he planned killing of Pariksit Maharaja. So one Kali brahmin cursed him to death, for no fault practically. Therefore the brahmins of this age, they are condemned ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3714:37, 4 August 2023 diff hist +3,066‎ This is a verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam, spoken by Maharaja Pariksit while he was sitting on the bank of the Ganges expecting to be bitten by a snake-bird summoned by the curse of a brahmana boy named Srngi, who was the son of a great sage named Samika ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3514:35, 4 August 2023 diff hist +2,755‎ The whole incident is now cleared up. Maharaja Pariksit's garlanding the sage (Samika Rsi) with a dead snake was not at all a very serious offense, but Srngi's cursing the King was a serious offense ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3314:33, 4 August 2023 diff hist +2,955‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the controller of both the transcendental and mundane worlds, has graciously overtaken me (King Pariksit) in the form of a brahmana's curse ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3214:32, 4 August 2023 diff hist +3,058‎ The so-called warning of his (Pariksit's) death within seven days from the date of the curse by the brahmana's son was a boon to him to enable him to prepare himself to go back home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary
• 14:2714:27, 4 August 2023 diff hist +4,031‎ The situation, in this case (Maharaja Pariksit's curse), was all planned by the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2514:25, 4 August 2023 diff hist +4,522‎ The plan was that for his so-called misdeed the King (Maharaja Pariksit) could be cursed by an inexperienced brahmana boy infected by the influence of Kali, and thus the King would leave his hearth and home for good ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2314:23, 4 August 2023 diff hist +6,071‎ The incident of the King's (Maharaja Pariksit) garlanding the muni (Samika Rsi) was not sufficient cause for being cursed to death, but since there was no way to retract the curse, the King was informed to prepare for death within a week ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1814:18, 4 August 2023 diff hist +3,564‎ The first sign of misgivings was exhibited in the cursing of such a greatly intelligent and devoted king as Maharaja Pariksit because the age of Kali began to act just after the assumption of power by Maharaja Pariksit ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1714:17, 4 August 2023 diff hist +2,308‎ The circumstances under which Maharaja Pariksit was cursed were simply childish, as it appears from this verse. Srngi was showing his impudency amongst his playmates, who were innocent ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1614:16, 4 August 2023 diff hist +6,629‎ The brahmana's son who cursed Pariksit Maharaja, he was only twelve years old, a boy, and because he cursed Pariksit Maharaja that, "Within seven days he will have to die," so he had to die. Just a small brahmana boy, how he was powerful ‎No edit summary
• 14:1414:14, 4 August 2023 diff hist +2,960‎ The brahmana's son cursed the King thus: On the seventh day from today a snake-bird will bite the most wretched one of that dynasty (Maharaja Pariksit) because of his having broken the laws of etiquette by insulting my father ‎No edit summary
• 14:1314:13, 4 August 2023 diff hist +1,875‎ The boy (Srngi) was not happy because he committed a great mistake (cursing Maharaja Pariksit), and he wanted to be relieved of the burden on his heart by crying ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1214:12, 4 August 2023 diff hist +2,209‎ There was nothing seriously wrong in Maharaja Pariksit's act (throwing a snake on Samika Rsi's shoulders) but the foolish son (Srngi) took it very seriously, and being influenced by Kali he cursed the King and thus ended a chapter of happy history ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0514:05, 4 August 2023 diff hist +5,749‎ So long Maharaja Pariksit was there, there was no influence of Kali-yuga. So after all, the age has come. It is ordained. So Pariksit Maharaja was cursed by a brahmana to die within seven days, and after his death the Kali-yuga spreaded its influence ‎No edit summary
• 14:0414:04, 4 August 2023 diff hist +2,989‎ Since he (Pariksit) was always protected by the Lord, he could have avoided the effect of such a curse by the grace of the Lord, but he did not take such undue advantage for nothing. Rather, he made the best use of a bad bargain ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0114:01, 4 August 2023 diff hist +5,977‎ Samika Muni sent news to the King (Maharaja Pariksit) that foolish Srngi, his son, although a powerful brahmana boy, unfortunately had misused his spiritual power by cursing the King unwarrantedly ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 4 August 2023 diff hist +5,079‎ Rsi Samika could foresee that his son had committed a great sin by cursing Maharaja Pariksit, who deserved to be protected by the brahmanas, for he was a pious ruler and completely free from all sins because of his being a first-class devotee of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5813:58, 4 August 2023 diff hist +4,160‎ Pariksit was a very magnanimous emperor of this world. Unfortunately, he was cursed by a brahmin boy to die within seven days. But he did not take any reaction. He submitted ‎No edit summary
• 13:5613:56, 4 August 2023 diff hist +3,469‎ Pariksit Maharaja was unnecessarily cursed by a brahmana boy, and this was very much regretted by the boy's father, but Pariksit Maharaja accepted the curse and agreed to die within a week as the brahmana boy desired ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5413:54, 4 August 2023 diff hist +7,807‎ Pariksit Maharaja was cursed by a Brahmin boy that "Maharaja, you shall die within seven days, bitten by a snake." So immediately, because he was emperor, so he understood that, "I shall have to die." So he prepared himself ‎No edit summary
• 13:5313:53, 4 August 2023 diff hist +6,774‎ Pariksit Maharaja was condemned to death within seven days. That is also very nice, interesting. Not interesting very much; it is very sorry plight, that he was cursed by a brahmana boy to die within seven days, bitten by a snake. What was the incident ‎No edit summary