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QUESTIONS ASKED TO SRILA PRABHUPADA. PART 207. ON DEVOTEE STANDARDS AND ETIQUETTE.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: So that should be standard for our movement on ekādaśī day?
Prabhupāda: Standard is sixteen, but if one can chant more, then he is welcome.
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: It's not mandatory for ekādaśī.
Jayapatākā: Recommended.
Prabhupāda: No. Ekādaśī means
TEACHINGS FROM STOTRA-RATNA. PART 1.
The word muni means one who can agitate his mind in various ways for mental speculation without coming to a factual conclusion. It is said that every muni has a different angle of vision, and unless a muni differs from other munis, he cannot be calle
Read more…QUESTIONS ASKED TO SRILA PRABHUPADA. PART 208. ON DEVOTEE STANDARDS AND ETIQUETTE.
Mohsin Hassan: Now what do you expect from your disciple, basic thing?
Prabhupāda: They will also preach, just as I am preaching. They'll preach the same thing. As I am preaching according to my spiritual master's instruction, similarly they will prea
Read more…QUESTIONS ASKED TO SRILA PRABHUPADA. PART 211. ON CHANTING THE HOLY NAME.
Dr. Sharma: Can I ask one more question, Swamiji? In chanting, they also say later on, gaṅgāmāyī ki jaya, yamunāmāyī ki jaya. We also have in Rāmāyaṇa jato jaya sankara sata nama haya(?) (indistinct). Śaṅkara's kīrtana in saṅkīrtana. Some people, jus
Read more…TEACHINGS FROM STOTRA-RATNA. PART 2.
"O my Lord, those influenced by demoniac principles cannot realize You, although You are clearly the Supreme by dint of Your exalted activities, forms, character and uncommon power, which are confirmed by all the revealed scriptures in the quality of
Read more…QUESTIONS ASKED TO SRILA PRABHUPADA. PART 210. ON CHANTING THE HOLY NAME.
Guest (1): Are we supposed to chant twenty-four hours?
Prabhupāda: Not only chanting. There are other engagements.
(Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam---------San Francisco).
Indian man (5): Swamijī? Are we (indistinct) to believe in that by chanting the ho
Read more…TEACHINGS FROM UPASANA-KANDA. PART 1.
The impersonal aspect of the Absolute Truth is not the highest. Above the impersonal feature is the Paramātmā feature, and above this is the personal feature of the Absolute Truth, or Bhagavān. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam gives information about the Absolute T
Read more…QUESTIONS ASKED TO SRILA PRABHUPADA. PART 202. ON THE DEITY AND DEITY WORSHIP.
Guest: What is the purpose of the Deity worship?
Madhudviṣa: What is the purpose of Deity worship?
Prabhupāda: Deity means Kṛṣṇa's Deity. Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa's Deity is not different. The whole idea, spiritual knowledge, means to understand God. So vedaiś
Read more…QUESTIONS ASKED TO SRILA PRABHUPADA. PART 201. ON THE DEITY AND DEITY WORSHIP.
Acyutānanda: The Deities' name is Rādhā-Parthasarathi.
Prabhupāda: Hm?
Acyutānanda: The name of the Delhi Deities is Rādhā-Parthasarathi. So how do we understand? Because Partha means Arjuna. So Rādhā, how does Rādhā get there?
Prabhupāda: When Kṛṣṇa is
Read more…THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RELIGIOUS PRINCIPLES
Religion consists of the prescribed codes enunciated by the Personality of Godhead Himself. Whenever there is gross misuse or neglect of the principles of religion, the Supreme Lord appears Himself to restore religious principles. This is stated in B
Read more…THE SIGNIFICANCE OF ACQUIRING KNOWLEDGE.
One who works for the satisfaction of the Lord only, however difficult such work may be, is working under the principles of buddhi-yoga and finds himself always in transcendental bliss. By such transcendental engagement, one achieves all transcendent
Read more…THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SILENCE .
Silence means that one is always thinking of self-realization. The person in Kṛṣṇa consciousness observes perfect silence in this sense.
(Bhagavad-Gita-------17:16-------purport).
One must observe silence, acquire steadiness by practicing different yo
Read more…QUESTIONS ASKED TO SRILA PRABHUPADA. PART 198. ON THE DEITY AND DEITY WORSHIP.
Regarding your questions: Once prasadam (water, or foodstuffs) is offered to the Lord, His Plate should remain on the altar for about 15-20 minutes (while the portion in the pots may be taken by the devotees). Water need only remain there for a few m
Read more…QUESTIONS ASKED TO SRILA PRABHUPADA. PART 200. ON THE DEITY AND DEITY WORSHIP.
Bhānu: Śrīla Prabhupāda? Since we are going to have three altars, then we should also have three different plates, a different plate for each altar?
Prabhupāda: Yes. That is already known to you. Bhānu knows very well. You have seen in Los Angeles. Wh
Read more…QUESTIONS ASKED TO SRILA PRABHUPADA. PART 199. ON THE DEITY AND DEITY WORSHIP.
So far your questions about Lord Jagannatha and Ratha-yatra Festival, the first Ratha-yatra Festival was 5,000 years before, when Krsna and Balarama and Subhadra came from Dvaraka to Kuruksetra. So far the festival at Puri, there is no such history,
Read more…QUESTIONS ASKED TO SRILA PRABHUPADA. PART 197. ON THE DEITY AND DEITY WORSHIP.
Regarding your question about why we dress the Deities in very opulent fashion and not as simple cowherds boy and girl, this is an intelligent question and the answer is that according to the regulative principles we cannot worship Radha-Krishna now.
Read more…QUESTIONS ASKED TO SRILA PRABHUPADA. PART 191. ON THE DEITY AND DEITY WORSHIP.
Kṛṣṇa-kāntī: If someone looks at the Deity of Kṛṣṇa and thinks it's only stone or wood, for him it's still material?
Prabhupāda: That is his ignorance. How it can be material? The stone is also Kṛṣṇa's energy. Just like electricity energy is there eve
QUESTIONS ASKED TO SRILA PRABHUPADA. PART 181. ON SRIMATI RADHARANI, HER EXPANSIONS AND ASSOCIATES.
Madhudviṣa: Śrīla Prabhupāda, you spoke of inferior energy and superior energy. Those are two general categories. Are there other categories of energies besides that, and specificallyhow could we understand Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī? Is She...
Prabhupāda: She
Read more…QUESTIONS ASKED TO SRILA PRABHUPADA. PART 177. ON REWARD, PUNISHMENT AND SUFFERING.
Question: If Kṛṣṇa is all-good, why does He send us to this world full of miseries?
Prabhupāda: Just like the government is good, but why do you go to prison house? When you go to the prison house, it is not the government who puts you in the prison h
