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
Devotee: "Now hear, O son of Prtha (Arjuna), how by practicing yoga in full consciousness of Me, with mind attached to Me, you can know Me in full, free from doubt." Purport.Prabhupada: Arjuna's mother was known as Prtha. Prtha. Her father's name was
Bhagavan: ...the original beauty.Prabhupada: Original beauty, just like animals. They remain naked. So the, the original beauty is animal. Because the animals, they do not dress. In the human society, they cover. Animals do not cover. Therefore origi
Prabhupada: Actually, they do not want God. They want maya. Otherwise, if anyone wants God, Krsna, there is no difficulty. Krsna says, man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam namaskuru, mam evaisyasi asamsayah [Bg. 18.65]. Four things. "Just always th
Prabhupada: ...is that nrpa-linga-dharam sudram. The sudras, fourth-class men, they are on the government executive. This is one defect. And another defect is ghnantam go-mithunam pada, maintaining large-scale slaughterhouse. These are the two defect
Prabhupada:The first business is to fix up the mind at the lotus feet of Krsna. Then engage the tongue in describing the activities of Krsna. Therefore Krsna has acted in so many ways so that we can remember the history of the activities of Krsna and
Prabhupada: ...meeting, our life members are not coming?Mahamsa: Yes, it is (indistinct). Many life members came, Prabhupada. There were many cars also. [break]Prabhupada: No mangoes are hanging. [break] "Krsna is everything," is little difficult for
Prabhupada: Anthropomorphic. That means man worship.Satsvarupa: They deify a man. He's a man but the people make him as a god.Prabhupada: Yes.Satsvarupa: They say that about Krsna, that Krsna was a man, and then later His followers deified Him. That
Giriraja:yat tvayoktam vacas tenamoho 'yam vigato mama[Bg. 11.1]"Arjuna said: I have heard Your instruction on confidential spiritual matters, which You have so kindly delivered unto me, and my illusion is now dispelled."Prabhupada: There must be the
Devotee (1) (girl): March 23rd, Stow Lake, walk with Swamiji.Prabhupada: First thing is that calculation of Candra, moon planet, there are different views. Different scientists, they have different views. It is not a standard. They have not agreed to
Prabhupada: So if we are chanting the name of God, what is your objection to accept the name of the Lord?Professor Durckheim: What's the objection to?Prabhupada: Objection to accept the name which we are chanting?Professor Durckheim: I don't know.Pra
Prabhupada: ...to stop him for taking another Nobel Prize. Where is? (laughter) I am giving him notes that life is not from matter. Matter is from life. So he is going to write thesis on this.Paramahamsa: Jaya. Vedanta-sutra.Prabhupada: This is the f
By constant chanting, then one come to realize Parabrahman (the Supreme Brahman), or the Absolute Truth.Any person, under any circumstances, can reach an elevated state of consciousness by properly hearing the Bhagavad-gītā, and then, by constantly c
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
atyāhāraḥ prayāsaś caprajalpo niyamāgrahaḥjana-sańgaś ca laulyaḿ caṣaḍbhir bhaktir vinaśyatiOne's devotional service is spoiled when one becomes too entangled in the following six activities:(1) eating more than necessary or collecting more funds tha
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 'vyabhicāreṇabhakti-yogena sevatesa guṇān samatītya
Mantra: "man" means "mind" and "tra" means "to deliver".Thus a mantra is a transcendental sound vibration with potency to liberate the mind from material conditioning."Hare" is the vocative case (addressing form) of "Hari". This is another name for K
There are no hard and fast rules for chanting the Hare Krishna maha-mantra.One can chant anywhere, anytime, in any situation.In fact, the Caitanya-caritamrta (Antya-lila, 20.18) describes that chanting the holy name at any time or place, even during
