Jayadvaita: Just like sometimes we'll hear our men. They'll be chanting... Like yesterday I heard that someone was chanting, "Nitai-Gaura, Nitai-Gaura, Nitai-Nitai-Gaura." Like that, I'll hear different mantras. Someone is chanting: "Radhe, Radhe, Ra
Prabhupada: This is called hog life, how to maintain this body. Kastan kaman. Kaman means necessities of life. Very, with great difficulty... [break] ...kaman. Life can be easily maintained by agriculture and cow protection. No. They will start big,
Prabhupada: (in car) ...samsare mayara janeiya, moha janeiya, jiva ke karaye gadha. This mayara vaibhava, this material advancement is advancement of maya. Big, big building, nice road, nice motor car, nice... Surely it is material advancement, admit
Prabhupada: The people are thropping. Thropping, thropping? What is called?Bhagavan: Shopping? Throbbing?Prabhupada: Throbbing or throbbing?Brahmanada: Groping?Prabhupada: No. Throbbing?Bhagavan: Groving? What does that mean?Prabhupada: (Bengali) Cat
Prabhupada: Hare Krsna. Jaya. So they are guests. They are coming. Krsna says everything practical. He never says that "You press your nose and everything will come." He never said like that. "You become a yogi by pressing your nose, and keep your he
Madhudvisa: They take great trouble to bring trees from all over the different parts of the world to put in the botanical gardens.Prabhupada: Very nice gardens. Hardly there is such nice botanical gardens in the world. I have seen many botanical... V
Prabhupada: ...own Christian priests, they asked me that "Why Christianity is dwindling? What we have done?" So I told them, "What you have not done?" (laughter)Cyavana: Yes.Prabhupada: "You have violated from the very beginning the orders of Christ,
sā tv asmin parama-prema-rūpā(Devotional service manifests as the most elevated, pure love for God.(Sri Narada Bhakti Sutra).amṛta-svarūpā caThis pure love for God is eternal.(Sri Narada Bhakti Sutra).yat prāpya na kiñcid vāñchati na śocati na dveṣṭi
jambunadosnisa-viraji-mukta-mala-mani-dyoti-sikhandakasyabhangya nrnam lolupayan drsah sri-govindadevah saranam mamastu"May Lord Govindadeva, who charms the eyes of all living beings with the graceful movement of the peacock feather in His golden cro
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vande gurūn īśa-bhaktānīśam īśāvatārakāntat-prakāśāḿś ca tac-chaktīḥkṛṣṇa-caitanya-saḿjñakamI offer my respectful obeisances unto the spiritual masters, the devotees of the Lord, the Lord's incarnations, His plenary portions, His energies and the pri
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cintāmaṇi-prakara-sadmasu kalpa-vṛkṣa-lakṣāvṛteṣu surabhir abhipālayantamlakṣmī-sahasra-śata-sambhrama-sevyamānaḿgovindam ādi-puruṣaḿ tam ahaḿ bhajāmiI worship Govinda, the primeval Lord,the first progenitor who is tending the cows,yielding all desir
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āpannaḥ saḿsṛtiḿ ghorāḿyan-nāma vivaśo gṛṇantataḥ sadyo vimucyetayad bibheti svayaḿ bhayamLiving beings who are entangled in the complicated meshes of birth and death can be freed immediately by even unconsciously chanting the holy name of Kṛṣṇa, whi
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tulayāma lavenāpina svargaḿ nāpunar-bhavambhagavat-sańgi-sańgasyamartyānāḿ kim utāśiṣaḥThe value of a moment's association with the devotee of the Lord cannot even be compared to the attainment of heavenly planets or liberation from matter, and what
yo māḿ paśyati sarvatrasarvaḿ ca mayi paśyatitasyāhaḿ na praṇaśyāmisa ca me na praṇaśyatiFor one who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, I am never lost, nor is he ever lost to Me. (B.G. 6:30).sādhibhūtādhidaivaḿ māḿsādhiyajñaḿ ca ye viduḥp
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Lord Kṛṣṇa enlightened Brahmā with the knowledge of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam before the creation of this universe.The first verse of the Bhāgavatam states, tene brahma hṛdā ya ādi-kavaye: "Lord Kṛṣṇa expanded perfect knowledge into the heart of Lord Brahmā.
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Let me offer my obeisances unto Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who has manifested Himself in five as a devotee, expansion of a devotee, incarnation of a devotee, pure devo
There are six characteristics of pure devotional service, which are as follows: (1) Pure devotional service brings immediate relief from all kinds of material distress. (2) Pure devotional service is the beginning of all auspiciousness. (3) Pure devotion
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dehino 'smin yathā dehekaumāraḿ yauvanaḿ jarātathā dehāntara-prāptirdhīras tatra na muhyatiAs the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person
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tapta-kanchana-gaurangiradhe vrindavaneshvarivrishabhanu-sute devipranamami hari-priyeO Srimati Radharani, I offer my respects to You whose bodily complexion is like molten gold.O Goddess, You are the queen of Vrindavana. You are the daughter of King
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oḿ ajñāna-timirāndhasyajñānāñjana-śalākayācakṣur unmīlitaḿ yenatasmai śrī-gurave namaḥśrī-caitanya-mano-'bhīṣṭaḿsthāpitaḿ yena bhū-talesvayaḿ rūpaḥ kadā mahyaḿdadāti sva-padāntikamI was born in the darkest ignorance,and my spiritual master opened my
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