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15:4715:47, 28 January 2022 diff hist +3,483‎ One may say that varieties arise from the planet earth itself. However, although the universe may temporarily appear to be the truth, it ultimately has no real existence. The earth was originally created by a combination of atomic particle ‎No edit summary current
15:3815:38, 28 January 2022 diff hist +2,488‎ Due to ignorance of the real existence of the Lord, the conditioned soul imagines many things ‎No edit summary current
15:3815:38, 28 January 2022 diff hist +6,372‎ Due to his long forgetfulness of real existence, he (individual soul) identifies himself with a particular form awarded to him by the laws of material nature ‎No edit summary current
15:3815:38, 28 January 2022 diff hist +3,155‎ By practical experience one can see that when the soul is separated from the body, the body has no real existence, and when the body is separated from the soul one cannot perceive the existence of the soul ‎No edit summary current

16:1516:15, 21 January 2022 diff hist +5,927‎ Your line is so very good in saying that the real evolution of man's mind has been his ability to produce more and more the functions of whatever the mind may be. We know what the brain is, but we don't know what the mind is? ‎No edit summary current
16:1316:13, 21 January 2022 diff hist +4,313‎ Real evolutionary theory ‎No edit summary current

14:2414:24, 7 January 2022 diff hist +2,141‎ Laksmi is extremely difficult to understand because she is so powerful that the jurisdiction of her power is difficult to overcome. She is represented in the material world as the external energy but actually she is always the internal energy of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
14:2114:21, 7 January 2022 diff hist +159‎ N Category:Extremely Difficult to Understand ‎ Created page with "Category:Extreme Category:Difficult Category:Extremely Difficult Category:Very Difficult to Understand Category:All Categories - Vaniquotes" current
14:1814:18, 7 January 2022 diff hist +9,088‎ Although the subject matter is durvijneyam, extremely difficult to understand, it becomes easy if one follows the prescribed method ‎No edit summary
14:1714:17, 7 January 2022 diff hist +272‎ Category:Very Difficult to Understand ‎No edit summary current
14:0414:04, 7 January 2022 diff hist +4,000‎ The living entity is contaminated and suffering because he has a material body, but that does not mean that because the Lord is also with him, He also has a material body ‎No edit summary current
13:1413:14, 7 January 2022 diff hist +7,161‎ According to the Vedic injunctions, the brahmanas are considered to be the spiritual masters of all other castes ‎No edit summary current

18:2018:20, 27 December 2021 diff hist +3,259‎ You are extremely difficult to attain for those like me who are too attached to mental concoction, home, relatives, friends, money, servants and assistants ‎No edit summary current
18:1918:19, 27 December 2021 diff hist +2,518‎ Unless one is very strong in knowledge, patience and proper bodily, mental and intellectual behavior, controlling one's lusty desires is extremely difficult ‎No edit summary current
18:1918:19, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,696‎ To describe the fortunate position of Ramananda Raya and Svarupa Damodara Gosvami is extremely difficult. They were renowned as intimately confidential friends of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
18:1918:19, 27 December 2021 diff hist +6,740‎ The worst offenders, the impersonalists, were extremely difficult to convert, for they very tactfully escaped the devices of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
18:1618:16, 27 December 2021 diff hist +4,452‎ The living entity is the smallest. Jiva Gosvami says in this connection that the living entity within the body is extremely difficult for materialistic scientists to find, although we understand from authorities that the living entity is within the body ‎No edit summary
18:1618:16, 27 December 2021 diff hist +5,319‎ The brahminical culture is now lost and is extremely difficult to reestablish in a proper way. Therefore Lord Caitanya has recommended the chanting of the holy name of the Lord, which will revive brahminical culture very easily ‎No edit summary
18:1618:16, 27 December 2021 diff hist +5,103‎ There is a river known as Vaitarani between the material and spiritual worlds, and one must cross this river to reach the other side, or the spiritual world. This is an extremely difficult task ‎No edit summary current
18:1518:15, 27 December 2021 diff hist +2,642‎ Seeing Vrtrasura's disposition, Indra, the King of heaven, became intolerant and threw at him one of his great clubs, which are extremely difficult to counteract. However, as the club flew toward him, Vrtrasura easily caught it with his left hand ‎No edit summary
18:1518:15, 27 December 2021 diff hist +4,190‎ Prahlada Maharaja's class friends, who were born of Daitya families, thought that realizing the Absolute was extremely difficult. Indeed, we have experience that many, many people say this very thing ‎No edit summary current
18:1518:15, 27 December 2021 diff hist +5,267‎ Pleasing one's society, family, community and nation is extremely difficult. Pleasing Narayana is not at all difficult; it is very easy ‎No edit summary current
18:1418:14, 27 December 2021 diff hist +1,785‎ My dear friend, these palpitations of Srimati Radharani's heart are extremely difficult to cure. Even if one applied some medical treatment, it would only end in defamation ‎No edit summary current
18:0818:08, 27 December 2021 diff hist +3,922‎ In this age of Kali, it is extremely difficult to perform Vedic ritualistic ceremonies or sacrifices perfectly ‎No edit summary current
18:0718:07, 27 December 2021 diff hist +7,089‎ For example, if one were in a boat moving according to the wind on a river or the sea, and the wind were uncontrollable, the tilting boat would be very much disturbed and extremely difficult to control. It might even capsize ‎No edit summary current
18:0518:05, 27 December 2021 diff hist +9,324‎ Experiencing the Supreme Personality of Godhead is extremely difficult for those devoid of devotional service, but everything becomes easier for a devotee, and thus he can very easily meet the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
18:0218:02, 27 December 2021 diff hist +7,633‎ Don't you find it extremely difficult to get the literal meaning from the Sanskrit to the English? ‎No edit summary current
18:0118:01, 27 December 2021 diff hist +3,612‎ Bhagavad-gita clearly says that the strong material energy controls everyone and that getting out of her control is extremely difficult. That controlling energy belongs to the Supreme Personality of Godhead and works under His control ‎No edit summary current
18:0118:01, 27 December 2021 diff hist +5,119‎ Because the population of the modern world consists mostly of sudras, the brahminical culture is now lost and is extremely difficult to reestablish in a proper way ‎No edit summary
18:0118:01, 27 December 2021 diff hist +2,699‎ Because of the force of materialistic life, to maintain self-control is extremely difficult unless one is specifically under the protection of the Supreme Personality of Godhead through devotional service ‎No edit summary current
17:5917:59, 27 December 2021 diff hist +9,816‎ Any process of self-realization or God realization other than bhakti-yoga, or devotional service, is extremely difficult ‎No edit summary
17:4317:43, 27 December 2021 diff hist +3,698‎ The sufferings of the whole world or the entire universe in material condition, is due to lack of Krishna Consciousness. Therefore, the best service to our brother is to awaken Krishna Consciousness ‎No edit summary current
17:4317:43, 27 December 2021 diff hist +3,416‎ The suffering of being blasphemed and the enjoyment of being praised, the acceptance of a good welcome or of chastisement by harsh words, are felt in the material conception of life ‎No edit summary current
17:4217:42, 27 December 2021 diff hist +4,030‎ The suffering of the conditioned soul is due to his attachment to material nature. This attachment should thus be transferred from matter to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
17:4217:42, 27 December 2021 diff hist +4,691‎ The sum total of suffering is birth, death, old age and disease. This is due to this body. Therefore the problem is how to stop this material body, repetition ‎No edit summary current
17:4117:41, 27 December 2021 diff hist +5,054‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead does not wish to create this material world just to inflict suffering on the living entities. The Supreme Lord creates this world only because the conditioned souls want to enjoy it ‎No edit summary current
17:4117:41, 27 December 2021 diff hist +4,010‎ The Supreme Personality of Godhead is actually the supreme spiritual master. The Supreme Lord knows everything about the suffering of the conditioned soul, and therefore He appears in this material world ‎No edit summary current
17:4017:40, 27 December 2021 diff hist +6,234‎ The Vedic literatures, especially the BG and the Srimad-Bhagavatam, are specifically recommended to suffering humanity to bring about the desired effect of liberation from the pangs of material civilization, which is eating the vital part of human energy ‎No edit summary
17:3517:35, 27 December 2021 diff hist +2,749‎ This material world is a place for suffering, which is due to the misdeeds of the inhabitants, the conditioned souls themselves ‎No edit summary current
17:3417:34, 27 December 2021 diff hist +3,534‎ This particular type of mercy (liberation from all material suffering) is bestowed upon the living being by the Lord (Krsna) in the form of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
17:3317:33, 27 December 2021 diff hist +5,057‎ Through means of protection on the water, in the air and on land, there is always an endeavor for relief from various kinds of suffering in the material world, but none of them are guaranteed measures for protection ‎No edit summary current
17:3317:33, 27 December 2021 diff hist +4,570‎ To stop the suffering of material existence, one must take to the Hare Krsna movement of sankirtana or Krsna conscious life ‎No edit summary current
17:3217:32, 27 December 2021 diff hist +4,973‎ Vasudeva wanted to impress upon Kamsa that if he committed this sinful act of killing a woman, in his next life he would certainly get a material body still more conditioned to the sufferings of material existence. Thus advised Kamsa not to commit sin ‎No edit summary current
17:3217:32, 27 December 2021 diff hist +7,368‎ We are all in wretched condition under the grip of material nature, always suffering threefold miseries. So we should be conscious. Unless we are conscious about this fact, then our human life is spoiled ‎No edit summary current
17:3217:32, 27 December 2021 diff hist +3,294‎ We are part and parcel of God, every one of us. So we remain always pure, but account of material attachment, we are suffering. This is the position ‎No edit summary current
17:2917:29, 27 December 2021 diff hist +8,300‎ We are sons of God, part and parcels of God, and God means almighty. So we have got almighty father, and leaving His place, I have come to this material world to enjoy independently. That is criminality. And we are suffering ‎No edit summary current
17:2917:29, 27 December 2021 diff hist +2,861‎ We are suffering in this material life on account of these three modes of material nature, especially the modes of passion and ignorance ‎No edit summary current
17:2817:28, 27 December 2021 diff hist +8,981‎ We get different types of body, and according to the body, our material sufferings and enjoyment are fixed up, already ‎No edit summary current
17:2817:28, 27 December 2021 diff hist +4,849‎ We must know conclusively that our material condition of suffering has been allotted to us by the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
17:2417:24, 27 December 2021 diff hist +4,362‎ We should know that material suffering due to the material body will come and go. Therefore we must tolerate the suffering and proceed with discharging our duty as ordained by our spiritual master ‎No edit summary current
17:2417:24, 27 December 2021 diff hist +4,844‎ When a devotee cannot ascertain the cause of suffering he accepts that it is due to his own past misdeeds and offers obeisances to God. Such a devotee is called mukti-pade sa daya-bhak; that is, he is guaranteed his liberation from this material world ‎No edit summary current
17:2317:23, 27 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ When a person is advanced in spiritual consciousness or Krsna consciousness, he naturally becomes very sympathetic toward all living entities suffering in the material world. Naturally such an advanced person thinks of the suffering of people in general ‎No edit summary
17:2317:23, 27 December 2021 diff hist +6,433‎ When one cannot understand his sufferings of this material contamination, his life is animal life. He knows that he's suffering, but he's trying to cover the suffering by some nonsense means: by forgetfulness, by drinking, by intoxication ‎No edit summary current
17:1317:13, 27 December 2021 diff hist +4,819‎ When Sanatana Gosvami submitted to the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya, his first question was 'ke ami', 'kene amaya jare tapa-traya'. He wanted to know his constitutional position and why he was suffering from the threefold miseries of material existence ‎No edit summary
17:1217:12, 27 December 2021 diff hist +3,413‎ When the living entity's mind becomes absorbed in the sense gratification of the material world, it brings about his conditioned life and suffering within the material situation ‎No edit summary current
17:1217:12, 27 December 2021 diff hist +3,489‎ When the mind is absorbed in material sense gratification, it causes suffering, and when detached from material sense gratification, it brings about the original brightness of Krsna consciousness ‎No edit summary current

15:5015:50, 22 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ Under different standards of material identity, they (the living entities) become forgetful of Krsna. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:3915:39, 22 December 2021 diff hist +6,589‎ Bhagavad-gita and the Srimad-Bhagavatam, are specifically recommended to suffering humanity to bring about the desired effect of liberation from the pangs of material civilization, which is eating the vital part of human energy ‎No edit summary
15:3715:37, 22 December 2021 diff hist +4,920‎ A patient who is suffering from a disorder of the bowels due to overindulgence in milk products is cured by another milk product, namely curds. The materially absorbed conditioned soul can be cured by KC as set forth here in the Gita (4.24). BG 1972 pur ‎No edit summary
15:3315:33, 22 December 2021 diff hist +5,162‎ The material body, which is subject to birth and death, diseases and old age, is the cause of all sufferings of the living being, otherwise the living being is eternal; he is never born, nor does he ever die ‎No edit summary current
15:2715:27, 22 December 2021 diff hist +4,067‎ The materialistic person can also be called a tapasvi, which means someone who is always suffering from material pains. One can get rid of all these material pains only when he takes shelter of the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra ‎No edit summary current
15:2615:26, 22 December 2021 diff hist +32‎ The Lord (Krsna) wants the suffering human beings to come back home, back to Him, and cease to suffer the threefold material pangs ‎No edit summary current
15:2115:21, 22 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ The living entity, by accepting his material existence as just so much suffering, can become situated in his spiritual existence. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
15:2015:20, 22 December 2021 diff hist +5,375‎ The living being is perpetually suffering in different types of bodies from the material miseries of birth, old age, disease and death ‎No edit summary current
15:1915:19, 22 December 2021 diff hist +12,827‎ The instructions of BG and the descriptions of SB are so pleasing that almost anyone suffering from the threefold miseries of material existence will desire to hear the glories of the Lord from these books and thus benefit on the path of liberation ‎No edit summary
15:1915:19, 22 December 2021 diff hist +8,543‎ The end of all suffering means surrendering unto the Lord because the surrendering process itself is bhava-cchidam (liberation from all material miseries), svasty-ayanam (perception of all happiness), and sumangalam - the source of everything auspicious ‎No edit summary
15:1815:18, 22 December 2021 diff hist +2,088‎ The endeavor of one who constantly hears or describes this narration of the churning of the ocean of milk will never be fruitless. Indeed, chanting the glories of the SPG is the only means to annihilate all sufferings in this material world ‎No edit summary current
15:1415:14, 22 December 2021 diff hist +3,469‎ The duty of all devotees is to preach Krsna consciousness everywhere all over the world, because all living entities without Krsna consciousness are suffering the pangs of material existence ‎No edit summary current
15:1115:11, 22 December 2021 diff hist +2,451‎ The conditioned jiva suffers from the material disease - the miseries of birth, death, old age and disease. When this suffering becomes unbearable, he looks for help ‎No edit summary current
15:0915:09, 22 December 2021 diff hist +7,700‎ The cage is not the bird. But foolish persons, they are taking care of the cage, not of the bird. The bird, out of starvation, is suffering. So we are suffering spiritual starvation. Therefore nobody is happy in this material world ‎No edit summary current
15:0515:05, 22 December 2021 diff hist +4,822‎ The aim of life is that we are now detached from God. This is our position. Material life means detached from God, detached from Krsna. So this detachment is the cause of suffering ‎No edit summary current
15:0115:01, 22 December 2021 diff hist +7,469‎ There was no necessity to create this material world for the sufferings of the conditioned souls, but at the same time there are certain living entities, known as nitya-baddha, who are eternally conditioned ‎No edit summary current
15:0015:00, 22 December 2021 diff hist +3,449‎ There is no enjoyment in this material world. Simply we are trying to counteract the suffering ‎No edit summary current
14:5714:57, 22 December 2021 diff hist +5,388‎ Suffering is the nature of this material world, and whatever enjoyment we are trying to achieve is simply illusion. After all, we have to suffer the miseries of birth, old age, disease and death ‎No edit summary current
14:5614:56, 22 December 2021 diff hist +10,023‎ Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that the living entity, since time immemorial, is suffering the threefold miseries of material nature due to his demoniac attitude, which is his spirit of revolt against the Supreme Personality of Godhead ‎No edit summary current
14:5514:55, 22 December 2021 diff hist +3,936‎ Srila Narottama dasa Thakura says, samsara-visanale, divanisi hiya jvale, judaite na kainu upaya: "we are always suffering from material pangs, and our hearts are burning, but we cannot find any way out of it ‎No edit summary current
14:5514:55, 22 December 2021 diff hist +5,967‎ Srila Narottama dasa Thakura, also, prays like this, "My dear Lord, O son of Nanda Maharaja, associated with the daughter of Vrsabhanu, I have come to take shelter under Your lotus feet after suffering greatly in the material condition of life" ‎No edit summary current
14:5514:55, 22 December 2021 diff hist +9,889‎ Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura therefore says in a song, miche mayara vase, yaccha bhese', khaccha habudubu, bhai: "Why are you suffering? Why are you sometimes being drowned in the waves of material nature and sometimes coming to the surface?" ‎No edit summary current
14:5414:54, 22 December 2021 diff hist +3,860‎ Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has sung: My dear brothers, you are being carried away by the waves of material energy and are suffering in many miserable conditions ‎No edit summary current
14:5414:54, 22 December 2021 diff hist +6,926‎ Spiritual life means normal life, and material life means diseased life. Therefore we are always suffering in materialistic way of life. Diseased condition means suffering ‎No edit summary current
14:5214:52, 22 December 2021 diff hist +6,758‎ So long you'll get this material body, you have to suffer. It is meant for suffering. As soon as you get this material body, this body or that body, you have to suffer ‎No edit summary current
14:5014:50, 22 December 2021 diff hist +3,967‎ Sometimes the question arises why the Supreme Lord has created this material world, which is so full of suffering for the living entities entrapped in it ‎No edit summary current
14:4914:49, 22 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ Sometimes the forefathers may be suffering from various types of sinful reactions, and sometimes some of them cannot even acquire a gross material body and are forced to remain in subtle bodies as ghosts. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
14:4814:48, 22 December 2021 diff hist +7,397‎ Sisupala said, "By their (personalities who have undergone great austerities) knowledge and direction, they can deliver many persons who are suffering from the pangs of material existence" ‎No edit summary current
14:4814:48, 22 December 2021 diff hist +8,117‎ Since all living beings are His beloved sons, His parts and parcels, God is more sorry than we ourselves to see the sufferings we are constantly undergoing in this material condition ‎No edit summary current
14:4814:48, 22 December 2021 diff hist +12,978‎ Sanatana said: My associations are all abominable, and I am fallen, the most wretched of mankind. I was suffering in the dark well of material enjoyment, and I never knew the actual goal of my life. Indeed, I do not even know what is beneficial for me ‎No edit summary
14:4614:46, 22 December 2021 diff hist +6,904‎ Practically everyone is a pasu, an animal, and everyone is attacked by the crocodile of material existence. Not only the King of the elephants (Gajendra) but every one of us is being attacked by the crocodile and is suffering the consequences ‎No edit summary current
14:4514:45, 22 December 2021 diff hist +6,898‎ Practically our creation is for enjoying in the company, in the association of the Supreme Lord. But we thought that it is better to become an imitation God and try to lord it over the material nature. That is not possible; therefore we are suffering ‎No edit summary current
14:4514:45, 22 December 2021 diff hist +4,394‎ Prahlada Maharaja is the topmost example of a Vaisnava, who is always compassionate toward sinful persons suffering a hellish life within this material world ‎No edit summary
14:4414:44, 22 December 2021 diff hist +2,415‎ Prahlada Maharaja was unhappy seeing the people, degenerated people, suffering in this material world ‎No edit summary current
14:4214:42, 22 December 2021 diff hist +21,193‎ Persons who are infected with the disease of material attachment and who suffer from the pangs of repeated birth and death cannot relish such recitation of the Lord's glories, just as a person suffering from jaundice cannot relish the taste of sugar candy ‎No edit summary current
14:4114:41, 22 December 2021 diff hist +3,134‎ People who are suffering in this material world because they are conditioned by the material energy can easily get freedom from the clutches of matter by understanding the Sankhya philosophy enunciated by Lord Kapila ‎No edit summary current
14:3914:39, 22 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ People at present are killing animals daily, because of this the entire world is suffering in so many ways. Politicians are unnecessarily declaring war, and according to the stringent laws of material nature, massacres are taking place between nations ‎No edit summary current

17:0017:00, 21 December 2021 diff hist +63,141‎ Pavarga: five letters representing the stages of suffering in the material world ‎No edit summary current
17:0017:00, 21 December 2021 diff hist +4,134‎ Others say that You (Krsna) appeared to rejuvenate the devotional service of hearing, remembering, worshiping and so on in order that the conditioned souls suffering from material pangs might take advantage and gain liberation ‎No edit summary current
16:5816:58, 21 December 2021 diff hist +3,354‎ One should also have compassion for the people in general, who are suffering due to forgetfulness of Krsna. These important functions will make one happy within this material world ‎No edit summary current
16:5816:58, 21 December 2021 diff hist +4,056‎ One has to be serious to cure this condition of material existence and transfer himself to Krsna consciousness, for thus his long suffering may be mitigated without difficulty ‎No edit summary current
16:5616:56, 21 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ Once fallen and separated from the Supreme Personality of Godhead's association, one becomes a candidate for suffering in the material world. Although rejected by Sri Caitanya, Kala Krsnadasa was given another chance ‎No edit summary current
16:5616:56, 21 December 2021 diff hist +5,559‎ No one can dominate Krsna. It is the conditioned soul who tries to dominate material nature and is instead subjected to the laws of material nature and the sufferings of repeated birth and death ‎No edit summary current
16:5216:52, 21 December 2021 diff hist +4,308‎ Nature is said to be the cause of all material causes and effects, whereas the living entity is the cause of the various sufferings and enjoyments in this world ‎No edit summary current
16:5116:51, 21 December 2021 diff hist +4,038‎ Nature is said to be the cause of all material activities and effects, whereas the living entity is the cause of the various sufferings and enjoyments in this world. BG 13.21 - 1972 ‎No edit summary current
16:4916:49, 21 December 2021 diff hist +2,709‎ Narayana had come as Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, with the purpose of delivering suffering humanity from the pangs of material burdens. In other words, Narayana Rsi was now present in the world in the forms of Krsna and Arjuna ‎No edit summary current
16:4816:48, 21 December 2021 diff hist +5,937‎ Mucukunda continued, "For many, many births I have been suffering from the threefold miseries of this material existence, and I am now tired of it. I have been impelled only by my senses, and I was never satisfied" ‎No edit summary current
16:4616:46, 21 December 2021 diff hist +17,057‎ Material life is suffering, like being dunked in water to suffocate and then drawn back up for relief ‎No edit summary current
16:4516:45, 21 December 2021 diff hist +7,222‎ Material life is called pavarga because here we are subject to five different states of suffering, represented by the letters pa, pha, ba, bha and ma. Pa means parisrama, very hard labor. Pha means phena, or foam from the mouth ‎No edit summary current
16:4516:45, 21 December 2021 diff hist +3,158‎ Material existence is the cause of all our sufferings, for we do not suffer once we are out of the material condition ‎No edit summary current
16:4416:44, 21 December 2021 diff hist +4,651‎ Material enjoyment is indeed the cause of all unhappiness, but one cannot give it up unless one has personally experienced how much suffering it is. Therefore one should be allowed to remain in so-called material enjoyment while advancing in knowledge ‎No edit summary current
16:4316:43, 21 December 2021 diff hist +6,140‎ Materialistic men sometimes ask why God has created the material world for the suffering of the living entities ‎No edit summary current
16:4116:41, 21 December 2021 diff hist +5,313‎ Living entities, who are part and parcel of the SPG, are loitering in this material world suffering. When they are instructed by God Himself about bhagavata-dharma and they adopt it, that is victory for the Lord, for He then reclaims these fallen souls ‎No edit summary current
16:3616:36, 21 December 2021 diff hist +3,885‎ King Mucukunda said, "My dear Lord (Krsna), because of my bad deeds in the past I am everlastingly aggrieved. I am always suffering from my desires, but still my senses are never satisfied with material enjoyments" ‎No edit summary current
16:2716:27, 21 December 2021 diff hist +3,070‎ It is one's mind that generates different kinds of bodies for suffering different kinds of material pangs ‎No edit summary current
16:2716:27, 21 December 2021 diff hist +4,062‎ It is as though they (householders) were pierced by thorns and hurt by pebbles. Material attachment is so strong that despite the suffering, one cannot give it up ‎No edit summary current
16:2716:27, 21 December 2021 diff hist +5,068‎ Is this because the illusion that we see is a representation of the spiritual world in a sense (this material world is only suffering, but under illusion we are accepting suffering as enjoyment)? ‎No edit summary current
16:2216:22, 21 December 2021 diff hist +3,460‎ In the Bhagavad-gita (BG 6.5) also it is confirmed that by one's mind, freed from material affection, one can deliver himself from the sufferings of material pangs ‎No edit summary current
16:1816:18, 21 December 2021 diff hist +2,637‎ In my readings of the Bhagavad-gita I haven't seen where Krsna deals with the social aspect of man, helping the man who is starving, say, to overcome his suffering or providing his material needs. Rather, the emphasis is on away from the material ‎No edit summary current
16:1716:17, 21 December 2021 diff hist +2,416‎ In hopes of becoming happy in this material world, the foolish conditioned soul performs fruitive activities that result only in suffering ‎No edit summary current
16:1616:16, 21 December 2021 diff hist +3,799‎ In all cases, He (the Supreme Lord) is the original spiritual master who enlightens the conditioned souls who are suffering in the material world ‎No edit summary current
15:1715:17, 21 December 2021 diff hist +6,234‎ Individual parts and parcels, who can travel to any part of the Lord's creation, are called sarva-gata and are suffering the pangs of material existence ‎No edit summary current
15:1615:16, 21 December 2021 diff hist +4,900‎ If we want to be saved from this suffering, we must appeal to the same controller (The Supreme Personality of Godhead). Thus one can be saved from this material condition ‎No edit summary current
15:1615:16, 21 December 2021 diff hist +3,768‎ If we keep the mind engaged in material activities for sense gratification, it will cause continuous bondage and will make us remain in this material world in different bodies, suffering the consequences of our different actions ‎No edit summary current
15:1315:13, 21 December 2021 diff hist +3,744‎ If persons who are suffering in the forest fire of this material existence will only enter into the nectarean river of the description of the pastimes of the Lord, they will forget all the troubles of the miserable material existence ‎No edit summary current
15:1215:12, 21 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ If one is engaged in devotional service he becomes unattached to all kinds of material enjoyment and suffering ‎No edit summary current
15:1115:11, 21 December 2021 diff hist +4,122‎ If one is actually sympathetic to fallen, suffering humanity, he should try to elevate people from material consciousness to spiritual consciousness ‎No edit summary current

17:0117:01, 18 December 2021 diff hist +3,468‎ God is joyful, and we are part and parcel of God; we are by nature joyful. But by freaks of nature, because we are prone to be allured by the illusory nature, we have come to this material world; therefore, we are suffering. Enjoyment is our birthright ‎No edit summary current
17:0017:00, 18 December 2021 diff hist +3,330‎ Guru's first business is to deliver the suffering humanity from the forest fire of this material existence. This material existence is compared with forest fire ‎No edit summary current
16:5916:59, 18 December 2021 diff hist +2,154‎ Has God put the suffering here for us to experience so that we will want to give up material lives and get closer to Him? Is it punishment? ‎No edit summary current
16:5816:58, 18 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ He (Bhismadeva) died very happily by seeing Maharaja Yudhisthira to the throne, otherwise he would have long ago quitted his material body, instead of suffering agony over the undue sufferings of the Pandavas ‎No edit summary

14:2914:29, 13 December 2021 diff hist +6,598‎ From this tree (of the body), which fully depends on the ground of material nature, come two kinds of fruit - the enjoyment of happiness and the suffering of distress - SB 10.2.27 ‎No edit summary current
14:2714:27, 13 December 2021 diff hist +3,626‎ For temporary sense gratification, such a person (materialistic) creates a society of envy, and due to this mentality, he plunges into the ocean of suffering. Such a foolish person does not even know about this ‎No edit summary current
14:2614:26, 13 December 2021 diff hist +5,548‎ For our past karma, we have created this body and we are suffering. Therefore our mission should be not to create another body. And finish all suffering in this body and do not create another material body - that is actually our duty ‎No edit summary current
14:2514:25, 13 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ Forgetfulness of our relationship with the Supreme Lord brings about our suffering in the material world ‎No edit summary current
14:2514:25, 13 December 2021 diff hist +6,051‎ Every living entity is suffering in this material existence from past activities; therefore everyone has a very old history ‎No edit summary current
14:2314:23, 13 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ Even though such a materialistic person is always suffering threefold miseries, he is not intelligent enough to cease his materialistic way of life ‎No edit summary current
14:2214:22, 13 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ Everyone will be incorrigible. Only hope is Hare Krsna. The whole Vedic system is to make human being correct. Being incorrect, they are suffering in this material world repetition of birth, death ‎No edit summary current
14:2114:21, 13 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ Everyone is suffering within this material world due to ignorance ‎No edit summary current
14:1514:15, 13 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ Constant transmigration of the soul from one body to another is the cause of suffering in material existence. This conditional life in material existence is called samsara ‎No edit summary current
14:1514:15, 13 December 2021 diff hist +2,316‎ Completion of your suffering of the material world ‎No edit summary current
14:1414:14, 13 December 2021 diff hist +3,720‎ By nature and the order of the Supreme Personality of Godhead (karmana-daiva-netrena (SB 3.31.1)) we get the advantages we desire. Thus we become more and more involved with material concoctions. This is the reason for our suffering in the material world ‎No edit summary current
14:0814:08, 13 December 2021 diff hist +5,378‎ As soon as he (the living being) gets another material body, he is put into repeated suffering in material existence. Therefore the Vedic culture or brahminical culture teaches one how to be satisfied with possessing the minimum necessities in life ‎No edit summary current
14:0314:03, 13 December 2021 diff hist +5,162‎ Arjuna was a gross materialist in the bodily conception of life and was suffering from the bodily concept very acutely. But simply by hearing, Arjuna became a spiritualized, Krsna conscious person ‎No edit summary current
14:0214:02, 13 December 2021 diff hist +4,390‎ Although the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the original cause of all causes, He is not responsible for anyone's material sufferings or enjoyment. There is no such partiality on the part of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
13:5913:59, 13 December 2021 diff hist +4,216‎ Although the living entities are part and parcel of the Supreme Lord and are therefore in a transcendental position, they are still suffering in this material world and struggling for existence due to the mind and the senses ‎No edit summary current
13:5913:59, 13 December 2021 diff hist +2,940‎ Although materialistic persons know that material happiness is nothing but another side of suffering, they want it, and to get it very quickly they worship Lord Siva ‎No edit summary current
13:5113:51, 13 December 2021 diff hist +4,324‎ All persons in this material world are suffering from material pains, and if one wants to get rid of them, he must associate with saintly persons, pure devotees of God, and chant the maha-mantra. That is the only auspicious way for materialistic persons ‎No edit summary current
13:4913:49, 13 December 2021 diff hist +9‎ All our sufferings in this material world, especially from disease, are due to our past sinful activities. And of all sinful activities, actions directed against a pure devotee out of sheer envy are considered extremely severe ‎No edit summary current
13:1713:17, 13 December 2021 diff hist +4,969‎ According to the Vaisnava philosophy if one simply ceases from materialistic activity one cannot remain inactive for very long, and everyone should engage himself in spiritual activities, which will solve the problem of suffering in this material world ‎No edit summary current

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