Prabhupada: ...yatha jnasyasi tac chrnu. We are reciting from Bhagavad-gita, Seventh Chapter. The yoga system is called attachment for Krsna, or krsna-yoga. Yoga means connecting, link, and if we always keep ourself connecting link with Krsna, then w
The Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (1.1.11) defines pure devotion thus:
anyābhilāṣitā-śūnyaṁ
jñāna-karmādy-anāvṛtam
ānukūlyena kṛṣṇānu-
śīlanaṁ bhaktir uttamā
(CC.2:19:167)
"One should render transcendental loving service to the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa favorably and
“Actually your body is transcendental, never material. You are thinking of it, however, in terms of a material conception.
Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura gives his opinion about how a person completely engaged in the service of the Lord tran
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kṛṣṇa-bhakti — abhidheya, sarva-śāstre kaya
ataeva muni-gaṇa kariyāche niścaya
A human being's activities should be centered only on devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa. That is the verdict of all Vedic literatures, and all saintly people have firmly conc
In many places devotional service has been compared to a creeper.
One has to sow the seed of the devotional creeper, bhakti-latā, within his heart.
As he regularly hears and chants, the seed will fructify and gradually grow
into a mature plant and then
The attitude of the disciple should be to satisfy the bona fide spiritual master.
Then it will be very easy for him to understand spiritual knowledge.
This is confirmed in the Vedas, and Rūpa Gosvāmī will further explain
that for a person who has unflin
Śuddha-bhakti, the activity of the soul proper, in other words,
engagement in the transcendental loving service of the Lord,
is performed in a liberated condition.
(The Nectar of Instruction).
māḿ ca yo 'vyabhicāreṇa
bhakti-yogena sevate
sa guṇān samatītya
Q.197. HOW CAN ONE BE PURIFIED OF ALL CONTAMINATION CAUSED BY PREVIOUS FRUITIVE ACTIVITIES ?
A. BY SRILA PRABHUPADA.
Q. 189. HOW CAN ONE ACHIEVE THE HIGHEST STANDARD OF DEVOTIONAL SERVICE ?
A. BY SRILA PRABHUPADA.
Q. 187. HOW CAN THE MIND BE ABSORBED IN THE SUPREME LORD ?
A. BY SRILA PRABHUPADA.
viṣayān dhyāyataś cittaḿ
viṣayeṣu viṣajjate
mām anusmarataś cittaḿ
mayy eva pravilīyate
SYNONYMS
viṣayān — objects of sense gratification; dhyāyataḥ — of one who is meditatin
Q. 178. WHEN DOES REAL DEVOTION AND DEVOTIONAL SERVICE BEGIN ?
A. BY SRILA PRABHUPADA.
Q. 175. WHAT AWAKENS DEVOTIONAL SERVICE ?
A. BY SRILA PRABHUPADA.
I am not looking someone way. But Actually we have around only looking Non-natural thing. and our mind always try to get it . How can convert with krishna.
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dadāti pratigṛhṇāti
guhyam ākhyāti pṛcchati
bhuńkte bhojayate caiva
ṣaḍ-vidhaḿ prīti-lakṣaṇam
SYNONYMS
dadāti — gives charity; pratigṛhṇāti — accepts in return; guhyam — confidential topics; ākhyāti — explains; pṛcchati — enquires; bhuńkte — eats; bhojaya
sā tv asmin parama-prema-rūpā
SYNONYMS
sā — it; tu — and; asmin — for Him (the Supreme Lord); parama — highest; prema — pure love; rūpā — having as its form.
TRANSLATION
Devotional service manifests as the most elevated, pure love for God.
PURPORT
As state
