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19:2219:22, 4 January 2025 diff hist +29‎ Sukadeva Gosvami continued: Having thus spoken, the great saint Devarsi Narada returned to his asrama, known as Narayana-asrama, and Nalakuvara and Manigriva became twin arjuna trees - SB 10.10.23 ‎No edit summary current
19:2219:22, 4 January 2025 diff hist +29‎ Once Narada became angry with the two sons of Kuvera, Nalakuvara and Manigriva, and he chastised them by turning them into trees. The result was that later they were liberated by Lord Sri Krsna ‎No edit summary current
19:2019:20, 4 January 2025 diff hist +29‎ Madhavendra Puri sowed the seed of ecstatic love for Krsna within this material world and then departed. That seed later became a great tree in the form of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu ‎No edit summary current
19:1919:19, 4 January 2025 diff hist +29‎ By the curse of Narada Muni, Nalakuvara and Manigriva became twin arjuna trees and remained in the courtyard of mother Yasoda and Nanda Maharaja ‎No edit summary current
19:1819:18, 4 January 2025 diff hist +29‎ By inducing a prostitute to disturb Haridasa Thakura, Ramacandra Khan caused a seed of offense at his lotus feet to germinate. This seed later became a tree, and when it fructified, Ramacandra Khan ate its fruits ‎No edit summary current
19:1719:17, 4 January 2025 diff hist +29‎ Although you fell from the higher planet Svargaloka and became trees, you were most favored by him. I knew of all these incidents from the very beginning ‎No edit summary current
19:1619:16, 4 January 2025 diff hist +29‎ Although you (Nalakuvara and Manigrvia) fell from the higher planet Svargaloka and became trees, you were most favored by him. I (Krsna) knew of all these incidents from the very beginning - SB 10.10.40 ‎No edit summary current
17:5717:57, 4 January 2025 diff hist +29‎ When a green bird enters a green tree it does not become one with the tree: it retains its identity as a bird, although it appears to merge with the greenness of the tree ‎No edit summary current
17:5517:55, 4 January 2025 diff hist +29‎ Ultimately such activities end in death. Materialists do not consider that after giving up the body they may become embodied as lower animals, plants or trees ‎No edit summary current
17:5417:54, 4 January 2025 diff hist +29‎ Those who worship the so-called void also attain such results - one becomes bereft of life's symptoms and becomes just like a tree or other nonmoving entity ‎No edit summary current
17:4717:47, 4 January 2025 diff hist +29‎ Those who are very abominable, sinful, they go down planetary system or become lower than human being - animals, trees, birds, beasts, like that ‎No edit summary current
17:4617:46, 4 January 2025 diff hist +29‎ This civilization has spread in the Western countries - they want to remain naked. There are so many nudie clubs. So next life they'll be given chance to become tree, to stand naked for thousands of years. This is laws of nature ‎No edit summary current
17:4417:44, 4 January 2025 diff hist +29‎ The seed of material enjoyment, watered by the course of material nature, fructifies to become a tree of material entanglement that endows the living entity with all kinds of material enjoyment ‎No edit summary current

10:4210:42, 15 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ The offenders Nalakuvara and Manigriva, even though living amongst the demigods, had to undergo the punishment of becoming trees in their next lives, although by the grace of a devotee they were later delivered by the Lord ‎No edit summary current

17:5017:50, 13 December 2024 diff hist +30‎ The life was meant for understanding Krsna, but he is cultivating the culture of naked civilization, how to become naked. "So all right, next time you'll remain naked for many thousands of years, standing in one place as tree." This is going on ‎No edit summary current
17:4817:48, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ The great sage Narada thought it fitting that, although the brothers would be punished to become trees, by his mercy they would continue to keep their memory and be able to know why they were being punished ‎No edit summary current
17:3417:34, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ These senseless, shameless persons who are advancing in their knowledge by becoming naked, they are going to be tree next life. The naked tree is standing naked for many thousands of years. Or animals - they have no shame ‎No edit summary current
17:2917:29, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ These senseless, shameless persons who are advancing in their knowledge by becoming naked, they are going to be tree next life ‎No edit summary current
17:2517:25, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ There are many worshipable objects - the impersonalists worship the brahmajyoti, for instance - but by worshiping objects other than Radha and Krsna, one becomes bereft of life's symptoms and becomes just like a tree or other nonmoving entity ‎No edit summary current
17:0817:08, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ So Krsna will give you opportunity to remain naked, become animals, trees, like that. So that is not our aim of life. Our aim of life, the human form of life, is meant for understanding the Absolute Truth ‎No edit summary current
17:0517:05, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ Sometimes if people hear that by acting in such a way they will become a tree, a dog, a cat, an insect or even a human being, they say that they do not even care to know this ‎No edit summary current
17:0417:04, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ So-called comfortable life for few years, and then becoming a dog and hog, a tree? It is possibility ‎No edit summary current
17:0017:00, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ Presently in the Western countries it has become fashionable to run around naked. Therefore nature will give these people an opportunity to stand naked like trees for many years ‎No edit summary current
16:2316:23, 13 December 2024 diff hist +26‎ One should have sufficient knowledge to understand his constitutional position as a living entity. And he must develop renouncement, vairagya. Because attachment sometimes leads me to become a tree, a mouse, a serpent in the same house ‎No edit summary current
16:0616:06, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ Now this nudie movement is there, how to remain naked. That means next life they are preparing for becoming tree: Thousand years, stand up here, naked. Nobody will object ‎No edit summary current
16:0516:05, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ Now this civilization has spread in the Western countries - they want to remain naked. There are so many nudie clubs. So next life they'll be given chance to become tree, to stand naked for thousands of years ‎No edit summary current
16:0416:04, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ Nonetheless, after they (Nalakuvara and Manigriva) become trees and until they are released, by my (Narada Muni's) mercy they will have remembrance of their past sinful activities ‎No edit summary current
16:0316:03, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ Narada then said, "Yes, you (Nalakuvera and Manigriva) shall become trees, arjuna trees, and you will stand at the courtyard of Nanda Maharaj. But Krsna Himself will appear in time as the foster son of Nanda, and He will deliver you" ‎No edit summary current
15:5915:59, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ Narada became angry with their behavior and cursed them thusly, "You have no sense, so it is better if you become trees instead of the sons of Kuvera" ‎No edit summary current
15:5515:55, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ It is up to you to make your choice whether you are going to dance with Krsna or you want to become naked tree standing for ten thousands of years. That is your choice. A living entity has got this independence ‎No edit summary current
15:0715:07, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ It is the human being who requires to be properly dressed. That is the law of nature. If we violate, then the punishment is, "All right, you become tree and stand up naked for ten thousand years." This is the nature's law ‎No edit summary current
14:2614:26, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ In the Western countries especially, they are now trying to become naked, nudies. So nature will give them to stand naked like a tree, or tree, for many years - You're so fond of become nudie. All right, you stand up here for 10000 years without any dress ‎No edit summary current
14:2414:24, 13 December 2024 diff hist +11‎ In the sastra it is stated that those who want to remain naked, they are punished in the next life to become tree, that - You wanted to be naked. Now you stand naked ‎No edit summary current
14:2214:22, 13 December 2024 diff hist −18‎ In the case of felling the gigantic arjuna trees, the Lord's mission was to deliver the two sons of Kuvera, who were condemned to become trees by the curse of Narada, as well as to play like a crawling child in the yard of Yasoda ‎No edit summary current
14:2114:21, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ In the case of felling the gigantic arjuna trees, the Lord's mission was to deliver the two sons of Kuvera, who were condemned to become trees by the curse of Narada, as well as to play like a crawling child in the yard of Yasoda ‎No edit summary
12:2612:26, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ In their former birth, these two sons, known as Nalakuvara and Manigriva, were extremely opulent and fortunate. But because of pride and false prestige, they did not care about anyone, and thus Narada Muni cursed them to become trees - SB 10.9.23 ‎No edit summary current
12:2412:24, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ If you think that natural life, animal life, to become naked and do all nonsense, then "All right. You, next life you become a tree, naked. Stand up naked for ten thousands of years." You want to be naked? That's all right ‎No edit summary current
12:2112:21, 13 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ If your next life you become a tree, you stand up for ten thousand years in one place. Would you like? In childhood the teacher says: "Stand up on the bench," that was so much troublesome ‎No edit summary current
12:1912:19, 13 December 2024 diff hist +9‎ If they become so dull-headed, then God's power will make him a tree: Stand here. Stand up here for three thousand years. That's all. You are so dull-headed that you have no sense, so become a tree so that even if you are cut, you cannot protest ‎No edit summary current
12:1712:17, 13 December 2024 diff hist −1‎ If he gets a superior body, then that is also an entanglement, even if he goes to the heavenly planets. But if he becomes a cat or dog, then his life is lost. Or a tree - there is every chance of it ‎No edit summary current
12:1512:15, 13 December 2024 diff hist +28‎ If he gets a superior body, then that is also an entanglement, even if he goes to the heavenly planets. But if he becomes a cat or dog, then his life is lost. Or a tree - there is every chance of it ‎No edit summary

15:2315:23, 11 December 2024 diff hist +29‎ Caitanya Mahaprabhu has said, taror api sahisnuna. You will have many enemies, many envious persons, when you become pure devotee, but you should tolerate. Taror api sahisnuna. Be tolerant just like a tree and be humble just like a grass ‎No edit summary current

19:4919:49, 7 December 2024 diff hist +19‎ m Attending classes ‎No edit summary current

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