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EVOLUTION AND THE SOUL.
The conditioned souls rotating in the evolutionary cycle from the aquatics up to the form of Brahmā are all in the form of māyā, or the form obtained by one's own actions and awarded by material nature. The material forms of the conditioned soulsare
Read more…LORD KRISHNA IS THE PROPERTY OF HIS PURE DEVOTEE.
The person who has not at any time received the dust of the feet of the Lord's pure devotee upon his head is certainly a dead body. And the person who has never experienced the aroma of the tulasī leaves from the lotus feet of the Lord is also a dead
Read more…THE DESIRE TO PLEASE THE SENSES OF LORD KRISHNA.
The desire to gratify one's own senses is kāma (lust), but the desire to please the senses of Lord Kṛṣṇa is prema (love).
The revealed scriptures describe pure love as follows:
sarvathā dhvaṁsa-rahitaṁ saty api dhvaṁsa-kāraṇe
yad bhāva-bandhanaṁ yūnoḥ
THE DEALINGS OF LOVE BETWEEN RADHA AND KRISHNA.
The Lord is neither impersonal nor impotent. Rather, He is sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha (Bs. 5.1), the eternal form of knowledge and bliss. Thus He has all the symptoms of spiritual bliss. Feeling separation from one's beloved is also an item of spiritual
Read more…ACTIVITIES OF THE SOUL.
The conception of the universal form of the Supreme Lord, which includes all the demigods and their different planets, is called adhidaivata. And present in the body along with the individual soul is the Supersoul, a plenary representation of Lord Kṛ
Read more…DISEASE OF THE SOUL.
The soul's activity becomes adulterated in contact with matter, and as such the diseased activities are expressed in the form of lust, desire, hankering, inactivity, foolishness and sleep. The effect of devotional service becomes manifest by complete
Read more…THE CRUEL HANDS OF DEATH.
This material world is the world of duality, in contrast with the oneness of the absolute realm. The world of duality is composed of matter and spirit, whereas the absolute world is complete spirit without any tinge of the material qualities. In the
Read more…Q. WHAT IS DEATH ?
O Arjuna, I give heat, and I withhold and send forth the rain. I am immortality, and I am also death personified. Both spirit and matter are in Me.
(BHAGAVAD-GITA-------9:19-------TRANSLATION).
I am all-devouring death, and I am the generating princip
Read more…SHRIMATI RADHARANI HAS 25 TRANSCENDENTAL QUALITIES.
Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī’s transcendental body is brilliant in luster and full of all transcendental fragrances. Lord Kṛṣṇa’s affection for Her is like a perfumed massage.
Sugandhi udvartana refers to a paste made of several perfumes and fragrant oils. This
SHRIMATI RADHARANI IS THE TOPMOST SERVITOR OF LORD KRISHNA.
If you want śānti, individually or collectively, nationally or internationally, then you must become Kṛṣṇa conscious. What is that Kṛṣṇa consciousness? The summary is that Kṛṣṇa is the supreme enjoyer: bhoktā. We are not bhoktā. We are simply servant
Read more…THE TOPMOST GOPI IS SHRIMATI RADHARANI.
It was Lord Śiva who said, “I do not know the truth about Kṛṣṇa, but a devotee of Lord Kṛṣṇa knows all the truth. Out of all the devotees of Lord Kṛṣṇa, Prahlāda is the greatest.”
Above Prahlāda, the Pāṇḍavas are supposedly more advanced. Above the P
THE GIVING UP OF THE BODY.
The distinction between the jīva and the īśvara will be explained in the Thirteenth Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā. The Lord is kṣetra-jña, conscious, as is the living being, but the living being is conscious of his particular body, whereas the Lord is con
Read more…Q. WHAT IS THE TIME FACTOR ?
The complete universe is a manifestation of varieties of entities, beginning from the atoms up to the gigantic universe itself, and all is under the control of the Supreme Lord in His form of kāla, or eternal time. The controlling time has different
Read more…SHRIMATI RADHARANI IS THE BELOVED CONSORT OF LORD KRISHNA.
Rādhā is the beloved consort of Kṛṣṇa, and She is the wealth of His life. Without Her, the gopīs cannot give Him pleasure.
(Sri Caitanya Caritamrta------1:4;218-------translation).
In His spiritual form, Kṛṣṇa enjoys His spiritual energy, and that is
Read more…SHRIMATI RADHARANI FULFILLS ALL THE DESIRES OF LORD KRISHNA.
Śrīmatī Rādhikā fulfills all the desires of Lord Kṛṣṇa. This is the meaning of “sarva-kānti.”
(Sri Caitanya Caritamrta-------1:4:94-------translation).
Lord Kṛṣṇa’s desire in the rāsa-līlā circle is perfectly complete, but Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the bin
Read more…SHRIMATI RADHARANI IS THE MOST EXALTED DEVOTEE OF LORD KRISHNA.
Among the gopīs, Śrīmatī Rādhikā is the foremost. She surpasses all in beauty, in good qualities, in good fortune and, above all, in love."
Among all the gopīs, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the most exalted. She is the most beautiful, the most qualified and,
BEFORE MEETING DEATH.
One can attain Kṛṣṇa consciousness or divine life at once, within a second—or one may not attain such a state of life even after millions of births. It is only a matter of understanding and accepting the fact. Khaṭvāṅga Mahārāja attained this state o
Read more…MATERIAL HAPPINESS.
Without knowing that one's self-interest is in Viṣṇu (or Kṛṣṇa), conditioned souls are attracted by bodily relationships, hoping to be happy in such situations. In such a blind conception of life, they forget even the causes of material happiness.
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SPIRITUAL HAPPINESS.
Spiritual feelings of happiness and intense ecstasies have no mundane comparison. Therefore it is very difficult to give expression to such feelings. We can just have a glimpse of such ecstasy in the words of Śrī Nārada Muni. Each and every part of t
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