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27 December 2021
- 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
22 December 2021
- 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
21 December 2021
- 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
18 December 2021
- 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
13 December 2021
- 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