User contributions for Madana Mohana

6 November 2023

• 11:1611:16, 6 November 2023 diff hist −12‎ While the discussion was going on, baby Krsna cried. Without remonstration, mother Yasoda picked the child up on her lap and called the learned brahmanas to chant holy Vedic hymns to counteract the evil spirits ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1511:15, 6 November 2023 diff hist −12‎ The great sages, the great demons, the great atheists and the great spacemen, as well as the dead bodies, evil spirits, satans, jinn, kusmandas, great aquatics, appear to be the specific truth and the form of the Lord, but actually they are not so ‎No edit summary current
• 11:1311:13, 6 November 2023 diff hist −12‎ The evil spirits like Bhutas, Pretas, Pisacas, Yaksas, Raksasas and Vinayakas, are always ready to give trouble to the body, the life air and the senses, causing loss of memory, madness and bad dreams ‎No edit summary
• 11:0211:02, 6 November 2023 diff hist −12‎ On the western side there is an impediment in the form of a yaksa, an evil spirit who protects the treasure ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0111:01, 6 November 2023 diff hist +6‎ One can vanquish them (evil stars, evil witches and evil spirits) simply by uttering Lord Visnu's name, for when Lord Visnu's name resounds, all of them become afraid and go away - SB 10.6.27-29 ‎No edit summary
• 11:0011:00, 6 November 2023 diff hist −12‎ Mother Yasoda chanted different names of Visnu to protect child Krsna’s different bodily parts. Mother Yasoda was firmly convinced that she should protect her child from different kinds of evil spirits and ghosts ‎No edit summary
• 10:5910:59, 6 November 2023 diff hist −12‎ Men, supermen, sages, rsis, and other lower creatures of extraordinary strength and opulence, including the dead bodies, satans, evil spirits, jinn, aquatics, birds and beasts, may appear to be the Supreme Lord, but factually none of them is God ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5710:57, 6 November 2023 diff hist −12‎ Lord Siva informed Sudaksina that if such a black ritualistic ceremony were performed properly, then the evil spirit named Daksinagni would appear and then carry out any order given to him ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5610:56, 6 November 2023 diff hist +6‎ Like the most experienced evil stars, they (evil witches known as Dakinis, Yatudhanis, Kusmandas and evil spirits like Bhutas, Pretas, Pisacas, Yaksas, Raksasas, Vinayakas) all create great disturbances, especially for children - SB 10.6.27-29 ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5510:55, 6 November 2023 diff hist −12‎ King Nrga said, "Among the living entities who have not accepted material bodies are those who hover in the material world as evil spirits or live in the ghostly atmosphere" ‎No edit summary
• 10:5410:54, 6 November 2023 diff hist −12‎ Kasyapa has already told his wife Diti to wait for a while, and now he warns her that failure to consider the particular time will result in punishment from the ghosts and evil spirits who move during this time, along with their master, Lord Rudra. ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5310:53, 6 November 2023 diff hist −12‎ In other ways some are worshipers of race, nationality, birds, beasts, evil spirits, satans, etc ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5110:51, 6 November 2023 diff hist −12‎ Evil spirits like Bhutas, Pretas, Pisacas, Yaksas, Raksasas and Vinayakas are always ready to give trouble to the body, the life air and the senses, causing loss of memory, madness and bad dreams - SB 10.6.27-29 ‎No edit summary
• 10:5010:50, 6 November 2023 diff hist −12‎ Evil spirits, who cause persons to forget their own existence and give trouble to the life airs and the senses. Sometimes they appear in dreams and cause much perturbation; sometimes they appear as old women and suck the blood of small children ‎No edit summary
• 10:4910:49, 6 November 2023 diff hist −12‎ Every one of them (Brahma, Siva, Visnu, Narada and other powerful demigods, men, supermen, sages, rsis, dead bodies, satans, evil spirits, jinn, aquatics, birds and beasts) possesses only a fragment of the great potencies of the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary
• 10:4810:48, 6 November 2023 diff hist −12‎ Although Putana was an evil spirit, she gained elevation just like the mother of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is clear that the cows and the elder gopis who offered milk to Krsna were also elevated to the transcendental position ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4210:42, 6 November 2023 diff hist +25‎ This essence (of Bhagavad-gita that one should just always think of Krsna) is not understood by a common man, but by one who is actually very dear to Krsna, a pure devotee of Krsna. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 10:4010:40, 6 November 2023 diff hist +4‎ The Lord says that such a devotee (who is situated in the stage of devotional service) is very dear to Him, for the Lord is always pleased with all his activities in full Krsna consciousness. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3710:37, 6 November 2023 diff hist +29‎ Prahlada wants to engage in the service of a devotee, and therefore he prays to Krsna, "My dear Lord, kindly give me the shelter of Your very dear devotee so that I may engage in his service and You may then be pleased" ‎No edit summary
• 10:3410:34, 6 November 2023 diff hist +2‎ Nobody can understand Bhagavad-gita unless one is very dear to Krsna and bhakta of Krsna. Nobody can understand. That is the first step. One must be very dear to Krsna and one must be a devotee of Krsna, then he can touch Bhagavad-gita ‎No edit summary current
• 10:3110:31, 6 November 2023 diff hist +2‎ Lord Krsna says, "Even if a sincere devotee comes from a low family of meat-eaters, he is very dear to Me (Krsna). Such a sincere pure devotee should be given charity, for he is as worshipable as I" ‎No edit summary current
• 10:2810:28, 6 November 2023 diff hist +29‎ Lord Krsna says, "Even if a nondevotee comes from a brahmana family and is expert in studying the Vedas, he is not very dear to Me (Krsna), whereas even if a sincere devotee comes from a low family of meat-eaters, he is very dear to Me" ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5709:57, 6 November 2023 diff hist +7‎ Devotees who follow these imperishable religious principles of Krsna consciousness with great faith and devotion, fully accepting Me as the supreme goal, are very, very dear to Me ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5309:53, 6 November 2023 diff hist 0‎ A devotee is always transcendental to all these disturbances; therefore he is very dear to Krsna. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary current
• 09:5209:52, 6 November 2023 diff hist +2‎ A devotee is always transcendental to all these disturbances; therefore he is very dear to Krsna. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary

30 October 2023

• 12:0312:03, 30 October 2023 diff hist −12‎ First she (Sati) said, "You call Lord Siva inauspicious because he associates with demons in crematoriums, covers his body with the ashes of the dead, and garlands himself with the skulls of human beings ‎No edit summary current
• 12:0212:02, 30 October 2023 diff hist −12‎ But as far as I am concerned," Sati said, "I do not have much knowledge about self-realization. I am poor because I do not know the actual facts. I am attracted by my birthplace, and I want to see it ‎No edit summary
• 11:5711:57, 30 October 2023 diff hist +5‎ You should read Back To Godhead and Srimad Bhagavatam, and surely your life will be sublime. In the future we expect you to be a great preacher of this movement to the world ‎No edit summary
• 11:5611:56, 30 October 2023 diff hist +5‎ We can sit down anywhere on the grass here (in New Mayapura), and whatever available we make our food. This is the idea. Life will be sublime. Man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam. That is real business ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5511:55, 30 October 2023 diff hist +26‎ Take to this (KC) movement; your life will be sublime. Easiest process. There is no charge. There is no fee. We don't charge anything. We don't say that, "I give you some secret mantra. You give me some dollars." No. It is open - Chant Hare Krsna ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5411:54, 30 October 2023 diff hist +5‎ Study our literatures attentively and try to understand the philosophy nicely with the help of your God-brothers. Always work cooperatively to spread Krsna consciousness movement and chant Hare Krsna and your life will be sublime ‎No edit summary
• 11:5311:53, 30 October 2023 diff hist +5‎ So spiritual life is so sublime and so invigorating that you won't feel fatigued. Won't. Once... You have to be engaged. And as you are engaged actually in spiritual life, you won't feel fatigued. You'll be fearless ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5211:52, 30 October 2023 diff hist +5‎ So far as householders are concerned, they may contribute at least half of their income to Krishna. Then life is sublime ‎No edit summary current
• 11:5111:51, 30 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ So any religious person, or any person, without being religious, if anyone joins with us in this sankirtana movement, his life will be sublime. And our method is very simple ‎No edit summary current
• 11:4911:49, 30 October 2023 diff hist +5‎ Please continue with your service to Srimate Tulsi devi and to Radha and Krishna and your life will be sublime ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2311:23, 30 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ Only a fortunate living entity gets the opportunity to associate with Krsna and Krsna's devotee, and in this way he gets the seed of devotional service, the chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra, and then his life becomes sublime ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2211:22, 30 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ Krsna should be the object of love is the central point of Krsna consciousness. Constantly chanting the Hare Krsna mantra & remembering the transcendental pastimes of Krsna, one can be fully in Krsna consciousness & thus make his life sublime & fruitful ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2111:21, 30 October 2023 diff hist +5‎ I have always stressed this point; that if we simply follow the regulative principles, chant regularly daily 16 rounds, and maintain firm faith equally in Krishna and Spiritual Master, that your life will become sublime ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2011:20, 30 October 2023 diff hist −13‎ I don't wish to take much of your time, but our method is very simple, and your life will be sublime. There is no loss. The gain is very great. So if you like, you can take it ‎No edit summary current
• 11:2011:20, 30 October 2023 diff hist +5‎ If you will follow all of the above rules (no illicit sex life, no intoxication, no meat-eating or fish or eggs, and no gambling) very carefully, then surely you will make very nice advancement in Krishna Consciousness and your life will be sublime ‎No edit summary
• 11:1211:12, 30 October 2023 diff hist +5‎ Her name was Cintamani. So the prostitute said, "My dear Bilvamangala, if you have got so intense love for me, oh, had it been for God, for Krsna, how would have been, your life, sublime." Oh, that struck him: "Yes." He at once left ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0411:04, 30 October 2023 diff hist +7‎ When the demigods are bereft of their chariots, when they forget how to use weapons Your Majesty (Kamsa) does not kill them - SB 10.4.35 ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0311:03, 30 October 2023 diff hist +7‎ When they (the demigods) are fearful or attached to something other than fighting, or when their bows are broken and they have thus lost the ability to fight, Your Majesty (Kamsa) does not kill them - SB 10.4.35 ‎No edit summary current
• 11:0211:02, 30 October 2023 diff hist +25‎ The devotees of Lord Krsna are much attracted by the sankirtana movement of Lord Caitanya. This avatara of the Lord does not kill the miscreants, but delivers them by the causeless mercy of the Lord. BG 1972 purports ‎No edit summary
• 11:0111:01, 30 October 2023 diff hist +25‎ These purposes (paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam (BG 4.8)) are visible in the Satya, Treta and Dvapara yugas, but in Kali-yuga the Lord appears disguised. He does not directly kill demons and give protection to the faithful ‎No edit summary
• 11:0011:00, 30 October 2023 diff hist +25‎ Sometimes the question is raised that since vegetables also have life and devotees take vegetable foodstuffs, isn't that violence? Firstly, however, taking some leaves, twigs or fruit from a tree or plant does not kill the plant ‎No edit summary current
• 10:5810:58, 30 October 2023 diff hist +7‎ Even an ordinary ksatriya does not kill a surrendered person and what to speak of Maharaja Pariksit who was by nature compassionate and kind to the poor. He was smiling because the artificially dressed Kali had disclosed his identity as a lower-class man ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4410:44, 30 October 2023 diff hist +7‎ Devotional service to the Lord does not kill the natural desires of the living being, but they are applied in the right cause of devotional service. This qualifies the desire to be transferred to the spiritual sky ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4210:42, 30 October 2023 diff hist +7‎ A real ksatriya does not kill his enemy from behind, nor does a real ksatriya turn his back on the battlefield. According to ksatriya principle and spirit, one either attains victory or dies on the battlefield ‎No edit summary current
• 10:4210:42, 30 October 2023 diff hist +25‎ A person who knows the principles of religion does not kill an enemy who is careless, intoxicated, insane, asleep, afraid or devoid of his chariot. Nor does he kill a boy, a woman, a foolish creature or a surrendered soul ‎No edit summary current