Prabhupada: ...ago Bengali culture was very much adored all over India. Even one big politician, Gandhi's guru, Goke, Gokule, he remarked, "What Bengal thinks today, other provinces will think tomorrow." He said like that. And actually all big, big m
Prabhupada: ...no more desire of material enjoyment he is fit for sannyasa. Anyone who sees: "Oh, this car is very nice. This beautiful wife is very... A very beautiful woman is very nice," he should not think of taking sannyasa. Visa-bhaksanad apy a
Prabhupada: ...means ahankara-vimudhatma. The more we get material possession, our false egotism increases. "I have got this. I have got this. Who is more powerful than me?" Adhyo 'bhijanavan asmi ko 'nyo 'sti sadrso maya. These are described in the
Acyutananda: It's shallow. [break] ...that the Vaisnavas say that the gold ring is smaller in quantity than the gold mine, but the only way in this material world.... That is only a material example, because something can be separated from the genera
Prabhupada: So why the moon is, particularly rises from the eastern side? The moon, according to the...Pusta Krsna: Scientists.Prabhupada: The moon is going round like this. So why the moon is rising from the eastern side? It is going around. Why it
Prabhupada: one has to pass examination, severe test of examination. All the big, big devotees we see. Narada Muni, before becoming Narada Muni, he had to pass through severe examination, test. That chance is there in the human form of life, to pass
Hrdayananda: ...puffed up with knowledge.Prabhupada: What is their knowledge, nonsense? He has know...? Have they knowledge?Bhagavan: They're trying to prove that sense gratification is bona fide.Guru-krpa: ...and the explanation of...Prabhupada: And
Prabhupada: Everything is theory. No practical. [break] ...ten direction. Eight direction, corner, and northeast, east-west, and up and down. So everywhere He is present. So Krsna has got ten hands. So my father used to say, "When Krsna takes your mo
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
Mental equilibrium is to fix the mind on Lord Krishna.Mere peacefulness without Krishna consciousnessis dull and useless state of mind.Discipline means first to control one`s own senses.If one wants to discipline one`s children, disciplesor followers
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kunty uvācanamasye puruṣaḿ tvādyamīśvaraḿ prakṛteḥ paramalakṣyaḿ sarva-bhūtānāmantar bahir avasthitamŚrīmatī Kuntī said: O Kṛṣṇa, I offer my obeisances unto You because You are the original personality and are unaffected by the qualities of the mater
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oḿ namo bhagavate tubhyaḿvāsudevāya dhīmahipradyumnāyāniruddhāyanamaḥ sańkarṣaṇāya caLet us all chant the glories of Vāsudeva along with His plenary expansions Pradyumna, Aniruddha and Sańkarṣaṇa.arjuna uvācakṛṣṇa kṛṣṇa mahā-bāhobhaktānām abhayańkara
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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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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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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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Simply by chanting Hare Krishna one can be freed from all undesirable habits. Chanting Hare Krishna with strong attachment one achieves the fruit of love of God very soon.
By chanting Hare Krishna we are engaging in the devotional service, the divine s
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aviksatmesvari kascid vrndavana-mahesvarimtat padamboja-maka gati dasyati katarapatita tat-saras tire ruda tyartha-ravakulamtac chri-vaktreksanavaptyai namanyetani sanjagauSome maidservant, unable to find her mistress, has fallen on the bank of Radha
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pañca-tattvātmakaḿ kṛṣṇaḿbhakta-rūpa-svarūpakambhaktāvatāraḿ bhaktākhyaḿnamāmi bhakta-śaktikamLet 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
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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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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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