User contributions for Moumene

15 January 2025

• 20:2620:26, 15 January 2025 diff hist +32‎ According to external vision, Haridasa Thakura belonged to a Muslim family. Nevertheless, because he engaged himself in performing the yajna of chanting the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, he became a regularly initiated brahmana ‎No edit summary
• 20:2020:20, 15 January 2025 diff hist +32‎ You can do any nonsense and still you become initiated. Give me some money. No. We don't make such compromise. You must first of all agree to give up all these sinful activities. Then I can accept you. I can initiate you. This is our process ‎No edit summary current
• 20:1920:19, 15 January 2025 diff hist +43‎ You can do any nonsense and still you become initiated. Give me some money. No. We don't make such compromise. You must first of all agree to give up all these sinful activities. Then I can accept you. I can initiate you. This is our process ‎No edit summary
• 20:1720:17, 15 January 2025 diff hist −11‎ In the next stage, one becomes initiated by an elevated spiritual master, and under his instruction the neophyte devotee begins the process of devotional service ‎No edit summary current
• 20:1720:17, 15 January 2025 diff hist +32‎ Jaga Dasi can become initiated also when I come there ‎No edit summary current
• 20:1620:16, 15 January 2025 diff hist −10‎ So our program is very easy. And actually, these boys and girls, they were not advised in the beginning to become my initiated student. I simply invited, - You please come ‎No edit summary current
• 20:1520:15, 15 January 2025 diff hist +12‎ I am especially encouraged that that professor has become my initiated disciple, and because he is very intelligent and has a good position of influence in the university, he can utilize this opportunity to serve Krishna very perfectly ‎No edit summary current
• 20:1420:14, 15 January 2025 diff hist −11‎ In next stage one becomes initiated by an elevated spiritual master, and under his instruction the neophyte devotee begins the process of devotional service. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 20:1420:14, 15 January 2025 diff hist +75‎ Yesterday you said when one becomes initiated by a bona fide spiritual master, his body changes? ‎No edit summary current
• 20:1320:13, 15 January 2025 diff hist −14‎ You do not study all these things. You become initiated . . . there are ten kinds of offenses. Do you have any regard for these things or not? You must avoid these ten kinds of offenses. The first offense is to disobey the orders of guru ‎No edit summary current
• 20:1320:13, 15 January 2025 diff hist +32‎ One who becomes initiated is channelized to the authorities in the disciplic succession. One who isn't initiated may chant Hare Krishna and should certainly be encouraged to do so & serve in his own way. Gradually by doing so he may want to be initiated ‎No edit summary current
• 20:1220:12, 15 January 2025 diff hist +12‎ Anyone can come and live with us. That is called association. Faith, association. Then by association somebody becomes interested to become initiated: So I shall also become bona fide initiated disciple ‎No edit summary current
• 20:1120:11, 15 January 2025 diff hist +12‎ He (Rupa Gosvami) mentions the basic principles as follows: 1) accepting the shelter of the lotus feet of a bona fide spiritual master, 2) becoming initiated by the spiritual master and learning how to discharge devotional service from him ‎No edit summary current
• 20:1020:10, 15 January 2025 diff hist +32‎ In the beginning we do not ask anybody to become initiated or a brahmana. No. We simply invite a person to join the chanting. This is our process. We should strictly follow this ‎No edit summary current
• 19:5619:56, 15 January 2025 diff hist +11‎ Now you have got the right spiritual master, the process I've given you, so now it is up to you. If you really want to achieve the goal of your life, then become very serious to always pursue it at every moment and not be distracted by anything false ‎No edit summary current
• 19:5519:55, 15 January 2025 diff hist −10‎ Everyone wants to achieve life's ultimate goal, but due to being absorbed in the material energy, we waste our time with sense gratification ‎No edit summary
• 19:5519:55, 15 January 2025 diff hist +11‎ The moksa-kami wants to achieve liberation by merging into the existence of the Supreme Brahman, and because of this desire to merge into the existence of the Lord, he is not yet pure ‎No edit summary current
• 19:5419:54, 15 January 2025 diff hist −10‎ If one wants to achieve success at the end of his life, the process of remembering Krsna is essential. Therefore one should constantly, incessantly chant the maha-mantra ‎No edit summary current
• 19:5319:53, 15 January 2025 diff hist −10‎ Vidura wanted to achieve sincere devotional service of the Lord and therefore became a soul absolutely surrendered to the Absolute Personality of Godhead. He could realize this in the progress of his pilgrim's journey, & thus he was freed from all doubts ‎No edit summary current
• 19:5319:53, 15 January 2025 diff hist +75‎ And what is the upasana you will be prescribing for those people who want to achieve jnana? ‎No edit summary
• 19:5219:52, 15 January 2025 diff hist −10‎ Visvanatha Cakravarti describes in his explanation of the verse in Bhagavad-gita, vyavasayatmika buddhih, that one who wants to be certain to achieve spiritual success must take instruction from the spiritual master as to what his particular function is ‎No edit summary current
• 19:4019:40, 15 January 2025 diff hist +43‎ How you can think of Krsna always? That is not possible unless you become too much addicted. Just like if you love somebody, then you can think of him always ‎No edit summary current

9 January 2025

• 21:0821:08, 9 January 2025 diff hist +31‎ Before Krsna's appearance, Drona and Dhara appear in order to become His father and mother. It is they who appear as Nanda Maharaja and his wife, Yasoda ‎No edit summary current
• 21:0621:06, 9 January 2025 diff hist +31‎ According to our Bhagavata philosophy, if one is not able to beget nice children, then he should not become father, mother. That is real contraceptive ‎No edit summary current
• 21:0521:05, 9 January 2025 diff hist −9‎ You ask about marriage, yes, actually I want that every woman in the Society should be married. But what is this training to become wives and mothers? No school is required for that, simply association ‎No edit summary current
• 21:0421:04, 9 January 2025 diff hist +11‎ Woman should be trained up from the very beginning how to become good wife and good mother. That is the duty. Vama-svabhava. So here is example; Kuntidevi is one example, Draupadi one example ‎No edit summary current
• 21:0421:04, 9 January 2025 diff hist +62‎ We can become a direct servant of Krsna, or in the highest stages we can become Krsna's father, mother or lover. Krsna is prepared to establish a loving relationship with all living entities ‎No edit summary current
• 21:0321:03, 9 January 2025 diff hist −15‎ We cannot apply the nagna-matrka-nyaya formula. This states that if one’s mother was naked in her childhood, she should continue to remain naked, even though she has become the mother of so many children ‎No edit summary current
• 21:0321:03, 9 January 2025 diff hist +8‎ To become mother of Krsna or to become aunt of Krsna, it is not ordinary thing. It requires many, many lives' tapasya. Then one can become mother of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 21:0221:02, 9 January 2025 diff hist +7‎ To become mother of Krsna or to become aunt of Krsna, it is not ordinary thing. It requires many, many lives' tapasya. Then one can become mother of Krsna ‎No edit summary
• 21:0221:02, 9 January 2025 diff hist +31‎ This is Vedic contraception, that if you are competent to give instruction to your children how to avoid the cycle of birth, death, old age and disease, then you become father. Otherwise don’t become father, don’t become mother ‎No edit summary current
• 21:0121:01, 9 January 2025 diff hist +31‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead made it clear that Devaki had not become His mother only now; rather, she had been His mother previously also ‎No edit summary current
• 21:0021:00, 9 January 2025 diff hist +11‎ The Srimad-Bhagavatam instructs that no body should become father or mother if they cannot take this responsibility, namely, stopping the repeated birth and death cycle of their children ‎No edit summary current
• 20:5920:59, 9 January 2025 diff hist +31‎ The Lord is already sitting within the heart, and if He comes out from the body of a devotee it does not mean that the particular woman becomes His mother in the material sense ‎No edit summary current
• 20:5920:59, 9 January 2025 diff hist +62‎ The Krsna consciousness movement is so nice. You can make direct friendship with Krsna. You can become direct servant of Krsna. Or, in higher stages, you can become father, mother of Krsna. Or you can become lover of Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 20:5820:58, 9 January 2025 diff hist +62‎ The devotees, therefore, following their constitutional instincts, achieve the desired goal of becoming servitors, friends, fathers, mothers or conjugal lovers of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 20:5820:58, 9 January 2025 diff hist −9‎ She (Rukmini-devi) then began to wonder, "Who is this beautiful young boy? He appears to be the most beautiful person. Who is the fortunate young woman able to conceive this nice boy in her womb and become his mother" ‎No edit summary current
• 20:5720:57, 9 January 2025 diff hist +62‎ Only pure devotees can understand these things - to become the father or mother of God - to control God with love ‎No edit summary current
• 20:5520:55, 9 January 2025 diff hist +43‎ One should not become mother, one should not become father, if he cannot release his children from the clutches of death ‎No edit summary current
• 20:5520:55, 9 January 2025 diff hist +11‎ One should not become mother, one should not become father, if he cannot release his children from the clutches of death ‎No edit summary
• 20:5420:54, 9 January 2025 diff hist +22‎ One should not become guru, one should not become kinsmen, one should not become father, one should not become mother - na mocayed yah samupeta-mrtyum - if one cannot give lesson to the children how to avoid death. This is the duty of the guardians ‎No edit summary current
• 20:5420:54, 9 January 2025 diff hist +11‎ One should not become father or mother if he cannot do so. In this way, no friend, no relatives, no father, no..., if one cannot teach his other party how to save from the clutches of death ‎No edit summary current
• 20:5320:53, 9 January 2025 diff hist +22‎ One should not become father, one should not become mother, if the parents cannot give protection to the children from the danger of birth, death, old age and disease ‎No edit summary current
• 20:5320:53, 9 January 2025 diff hist +22‎ One should not become a guru, a relative, the father, the mother, the husband - In this way there is a list. Why? - If he does not know how to guide his disciple or subordinate to stop the cycle of birth and death ‎No edit summary current
• 20:5120:51, 9 January 2025 diff hist +31‎ No one should become a spiritual master - nor a relative, father, mother, worshipable Deity or husband - if he cannot help a person escape the imminent path of death - SB 5.5.18 ‎No edit summary current
• 20:5120:51, 9 January 2025 diff hist +42‎ Not only does a devotee become one in quality with the Supreme Lord, but he sometimes becomes the father, mother or master of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
• 20:5020:50, 9 January 2025 diff hist −15‎ Kunti refused to allow her husband to adopt such life (renounced order of life), but at last Maharaja Pandu gave her permission to become a mother of sons by calling some other suitable personalities ‎No edit summary current
• 20:4920:49, 9 January 2025 diff hist +2‎ It does not know anyone but me, as I have become its father, mother, brother and relatives. This deer is thinking in this way, and it has full faith in me. It does not know anyone but me ‎No edit summary current
• 20:4920:49, 9 January 2025 diff hist +62‎ In the attitude of the denizens of Vrndavana, such as Nanda Maharaj and Mother Yasoda, is to be found the ideal transcendental concept of becoming the father and mother of Krsna, the original Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
• 20:4820:48, 9 January 2025 diff hist +62‎ In contrast to Sutapa and Prsnigarbha, they (Drona and Dhara) did not undergo severe penances and austerities to become the father and mother of Krsna. This is the difference between nitya-siddha and sadhana-siddha ‎No edit summary current