User contributions for Madana Mohana

20 October 2023

• 14:5714:57, 20 October 2023 diff hist −7‎ Why are we receiving different bodies? Because we have different tendencies for sense gratification. We actually have to come to detest sense gratification before our spiritual life begins. This is made possible through bhakti ‎No edit summary current
• 14:5614:56, 20 October 2023 diff hist +41‎ When we are actually free from material affinities, then your real spiritual life begins. Athasakti. You become attached ‎No edit summary
• 14:5314:53, 20 October 2023 diff hist +41‎ When mercy from Krsna comes, your blazing fire of material existence will be extinguished. Ceto-darpana-marjanam bhava-maha . . . (CC Antya 20.12). Then real spiritual life begins ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4914:49, 20 October 2023 diff hist −18‎ What I am? Why I have come here? Why I am put into so many miserable condition of life? Is there any remedy? - these questions, when arises, then, practically, his spiritual life begins ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4814:48, 20 October 2023 diff hist +21‎ We have to be detestful from this sense gratification. Then our spiritual life will begin. That is possible by bhakti ‎No edit summary current
• 14:4714:47, 20 October 2023 diff hist +21‎ We have to begin a professional spiritual life ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3614:36, 20 October 2023 diff hist −10‎ Those who sincerely begin spiritual life are guaranteed human birth in the next life - not only human birth, but birth into either a very pious or a very wealthy family ‎No edit summary current
• 14:3014:30, 20 October 2023 diff hist +18‎ This Thakurbari, Radha-Govindaji, is my life. That is the beginning of my this spiritual life. And after so many years, still Radha-Govindaji has dragged me. So it is His kindness ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2814:28, 20 October 2023 diff hist +21‎ This is called dvija, or the second birth. When you catch hold of a bona fide spiritual master just to guide you to act on the spiritual platform, then your second life begins. It is called dvija. So this life is so important that one must begin it ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2314:23, 20 October 2023 diff hist −18‎ The spiritual life begins from the association of sadhu, or devotee. You cannot progress a pinch only without the mercy of sadhu ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2114:21, 20 October 2023 diff hist +13‎ The four sages were impersonalists in the beginning of their spiritual life, but afterwards, by the grace of their father and spiritual master, Brahma, they understood the eternal, spiritual form of the Lord and felt completely satisfied ‎No edit summary current
• 14:2014:20, 20 October 2023 diff hist −10‎ The first and foremost point is that one should accept a bona fide spiritual master. That is the beginning of spiritual life ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1814:18, 20 October 2023 diff hist +21‎ There is the spiritual spark who is the proprietor of the body. This is the beginning of spiritual education. What is, the scientists cannot imagine, or they have no idea, from there we begin our education in spiritual life, beyond their jurisdiction ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1714:17, 20 October 2023 diff hist +13‎ Sukadeva Gosvami has used the word sraddhanvita for one who is trained in spiritual life. Sraddha, or faith, is the beginning ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1514:15, 20 October 2023 diff hist −7‎ Sri Krsna, the Personality of Godhead, is the Absolute Truth. This is corroborated in all authentic scriptures. Our spiritual life begins to develop as soon as our relationship with Sri Krsna is reawakened ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1414:14, 20 October 2023 diff hist −7‎ Spiritual life begins with the association of a devotee, a sadhu. One cannot progress an inch without the mercy of a sadhu ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1314:13, 20 October 2023 diff hist −10‎ Spiritual life begins when a person understands that he is not the body. In the material world, all our connections - whether social or political or in the field of eating, sleeping, defending, and mating - are due only to the material body ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1214:12, 20 October 2023 diff hist +13‎ Spiritual life begins, first of all, sraddha, some faith. Just like you are coming here, kindly, to hear me. You have got little faith. This is the beginning. Without faith, you could not spare your time here, because here there is no cinema playing ‎No edit summary current
• 14:1014:10, 20 October 2023 diff hist +41‎ So if you engage your tongue for vibrating this transcendental sound, Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare - Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare, and do not take anything except prasadam of Krsna, then your spiritual life immediately begins ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0914:09, 20 October 2023 diff hist −10‎ Sannyasa means that finishing all material desires. The sannyasa means, real sannyasa, means no more material desires. It is the beginning of spiritual life ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0814:08, 20 October 2023 diff hist +13‎ Ramananda cited from SB: My dear Lord, one should give up monistic speculation & the cultivation of knowledge altogether. He should begin his spiritual life in devotional service by receiving information of the Lord's activities from a realized devotee ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0714:07, 20 October 2023 diff hist +18‎ Our movement is that beginning of spiritual life is to surrender. If there is no surrendering, then it is no advance. If that thing is lacking, there is no beginning even, what to speak of advancement ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0514:05, 20 October 2023 diff hist −7‎ One must be very eager to hear, for spiritual life begins with hearing. - CC Madhya 17.136 ‎No edit summary
• 14:0514:05, 20 October 2023 diff hist +18‎ Nivrtti-marga means stop material way of life; begin spiritual way of life and come to Godhead, Krsna, back to home, back to Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0414:04, 20 October 2023 diff hist +18‎ Maya has given this vehicle, anywhere wandering, up and down, sometimes demigod, sometimes dog. This is going on. And in this wandering process, if he gets in touch with a devotee, then his real spiritual life begins ‎No edit summary current
• 14:0214:02, 20 October 2023 diff hist −10‎ Love of God involves the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the devotee, and the process of devotional service. Self-realization, the brahma-bhuta stage, is the beginning of spiritual life; it is not the perfectional stage ‎No edit summary
• 14:0114:01, 20 October 2023 diff hist +13‎ Lord Krsna wants everyone to surrender unto Him, and this surrendering process begins when one touches the lotus feet of a bona fide spiritual master. By sincerely rendering service to a bona fide spiritual master, one begins his spiritual life in KC ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5913:59, 20 October 2023 diff hist +13‎ Like a chaste woman has got good reputation, similarly, a chaste tongue . . . chaste tongue means . . . chaste tongue and ear. Jihvadau. Our spiritual life begins from tongue ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5813:58, 20 October 2023 diff hist −10‎ Just try to get out of these material clutches and begin your spiritual life. That will make you happy. That is the only source of happiness. Otherwise it is not ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5613:56, 20 October 2023 diff hist −10‎ Just like a chaste woman has got good reputation, similarly, a chaste tongue... Chaste tongue means... Chaste tongue and ear. Jihvadau. Our spiritual life begins from tongue ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5513:55, 20 October 2023 diff hist +13‎ Just as life in this material world has its beginning in material sound, similarly a spiritual life has its beginning in this spiritual sound vibration ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5213:52, 20 October 2023 diff hist −10‎ In the human life, if we prepare ourselves by beginning the activity of our spiritual life, we return to our real life and attain perfection. Otherwise, according to karma, svabhava, prakrti and so on, our varieties of life and activity continue ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5013:50, 20 October 2023 diff hist +11‎ In the beginning of our spiritual life we must worship Madana-mohana so that He may attract us and nullify our attachment for material sense gratification. This relationship with Madana-mohana is necessary for neophyte devotees ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4813:48, 20 October 2023 diff hist +18‎ If you adopt spiritual life, then your material miseries will be gradually decreased, and practically it will be nil. And when we are actually free from material affinity, then your real spiritual life begins. Athasakti ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4713:47, 20 October 2023 diff hist −10‎ If we approach that sound (the spiritual sound), then our spiritual life begins, and the other requirements for spiritual advancement can be supplied ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4513:45, 20 October 2023 diff hist −10‎ For less intelligent men, beginning of spiritual life is essential, and only foolish men decry the establishment of such places of worship, which are required to raise the standard of spiritual attributes for the mass of people ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4413:44, 20 October 2023 diff hist −7‎ Everything here in the material world is spiritual reflection covered by the material elements. So when this sound is purified or you catch up the spiritual sound, then your spiritual life begins ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4313:43, 20 October 2023 diff hist −7‎ Don't try to elevate yourself materially. That will not make you happy. Just try to get out of these material clutches and begin your spiritual life. That will make you happy ‎No edit summary
• 13:4213:42, 20 October 2023 diff hist −7‎ By simply surrendering unto Krsna, our spiritual life begins ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4113:41, 20 October 2023 diff hist −10‎ Brahmacarya is very, very essential. And that is, when one becomes detestful to sex life, that is the beginning of spiritual life ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3913:39, 20 October 2023 diff hist +41‎ Brahmacarya is student life, the beginning of life in the spiritual orders, and the principle of brahmacarya is celibacy. Only a householder can indulge in sense gratification or sex life, not a brahmacari ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3813:38, 20 October 2023 diff hist −7‎ Bhakti formula, anyabhilasita-sunyam (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.1.11): "You have to make your heart cleansed of all material desire." Then spiritual life will begin ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3713:37, 20 October 2023 diff hist −10‎ A person who begins a spiritual life in Krsna consciousness, his asset will go with him. Never mind, in this body we may be little uncomfortable. A spiritually advanced man, or a person in Krsna consciousness, is never in discomfort ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3513:35, 20 October 2023 diff hist −10‎ Adau sraddha tatah sadhu-sangah (Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu 1.4.15). Spiritual life begins, first of all, sraddha, some faith. Just like you are coming here, kindly, to hear me. You have got little faith. This is the beginning ‎No edit summary current
• 13:3413:34, 20 October 2023 diff hist +13‎ Acaryopasanam. In the Bhagavad-gita: "One should worship acarya." This is the beginning of spiritual life ‎No edit summary current

13 October 2023

• 14:0514:05, 13 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ We are generally illusioned. We are claiming ownership of the land. But before my birth the land was here, and after my death it will still be here ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5213:52, 13 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ The purificatory activities begin even before the birth of a child, and the seed-giving reformatory process is called Garbhadhana-samskara ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5113:51, 13 October 2023 diff hist +6‎ The Lord (Caitanya Mahaprabhu) entered the bodies of His parents thirteen full months before His birth ‎No edit summary current
• 13:5113:51, 13 October 2023 diff hist +6‎ The land was there before our birth, before we came to the land. How did it become our property? Such deliberation will help us understand that there is a supreme proprietor of everything - the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 13:4913:49, 13 October 2023 diff hist +6‎ Srimati Radharani continued, "Before that birth as a ksatriya, He (Krsna) took His birth as a brahmana boy known as Vamanadeva and asked charity from Bali Maharaja. Bali Maharaja was so magnanimous that he gave Him whatever he had" ‎No edit summary current