When Every Ones Undertakes the Path to Spread Krishna Consciousness Amongst Non-Devotees ; then there is hope. I have started a Mission Called Ajapa Mission supporting the ISKCON Mission especially to Spread Srila Prabhupada's dream of making Sriman
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So these six Gosvamis, they were not ordinary men, but still, for Caitanya Mahaprabhu's service, they left everything. Tyaktva turnam asesa-mandala-pati-srenim sada tucchavat bhutva dina-ganesakau karunaya kaupina-kantasritau. So krsna-bhakti, devoti
Pradyumna: (reading) "A living entity is offered a particular type of body as a result of his action in the present body. These activities are taken into account by superior authority known as daiva, or the authority of God. This daiva is explained i
An unalloyed devotee who has developed ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa is always
engaging his words in reciting prayers to the Lord. Within the mind he is
always thinking of Kṛṣṇa, and with his body he either offers obeisances by
bowing down before the Deity or
acirād eva sarvārthaḥ
sidhyaty eṣām abhīpsitaḥ
sad-dharmasyāvabodhāya
yeṣāḿ nirbandhinī matiḥ
Those who are eager to awaken their spiritual consciousness and who thus have unflinching, undeviated intelligence certainly attain the desired goal of life ver
bhagavad-bhakti-hīnasya
jātiḥ śāstraḿ japas tapaḥ
aprāṇasyeva dehasya
maṇḍanaḿ loka-rañjanam
For a person devoid of devotional service, birth in a great family or nation, knowledge of the revealed scriptures, performance of austerities and penance, and c
Persons desiring to follow in the footsteps of such eternal devotees of the Lord
as the Vṛṣṇis and Vṛndāvana denizens are called rāgānugā devotees, which
means that they are trying to attain to the perfection of those devotees.
These rāgānugā devotees d
In Bhagavad-gītā the Lord Himself said, "One can understand Me
only through devotional service." In beginning His teaching of the
Bhagavad Gītā, the Lord said to Arjuna, "Because you are My devotee,
I shall teach these secrets to you." Vedic knowledge m
A devotee should not expect immediate relief from the reactions of his past misdeeds.
No conditioned soul is free from such reactionary experiences, because material
existence means continued suffering or enjoying of past activities. If one has finishe
In the Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa it is said that all the results of traveling on all the
pilgrimages within the three worlds can be achieved simply by touching the
holy land of Mathurā. In many śāstras (scriptures) it is said that simply by
hearing, remembering,
In the Padma Purāṇa there is a statement of submission in feeling by devotees
praying to the Lord: "My Lord, I know that young girls have natural affection
for young boys, and that young boys have natural affection for young girls.
I am praying at Your
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
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
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
THE MEANING OF THE HARE KRISHNA MAHA MANTRA
BY Shrila Jiva Goswami.
HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE
HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE.
Chanting the Hare Krishna mantra will give one full benefit if
one knows and understands the m
THE MEANING OF THE HARE KRISHNA MAHA MANTRA
BY Shrila Bhaktivinode Thakura.
HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE
HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE.
Chanting the Hare Krishna mantra will give one full benefit if
one knows and understan
One morning after bathing in the Ganges, Nimai Pandit
(Lord Caitanya), sat down to teach Sanskrit to His students.
Completely absorbed in Krishna, Nimai Pandit chanted the
holy name of Krishna and nothing else. His students could
not understand His mood.
Sri Nama Mahatmya: The Glories of the holy name by Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura.
krsna-nama dhare kato bal
bisaya-basananale, mora citta sada jwale,
rabi-tapta maru-bhumi-sam
karna-randhra-patha diya, hrdi majhe pravesiya,
barisoya sudha anupam
hrdoya hoite
In the Padma Purana, it is stated, " Even if in the beginning
one chants the holy name with offenses, one will become
free from such offenses by chanting again and again."
In Shri Krishna-Namashtaka, it is stated, " O holy name of
Krishna! You are the li
FROM JAIVA DHARMA BY SRILA BHAKTIVINODA THAKURA.
Vijaya: Please make us understand all these offenses by explaining each sloka completely.
Babaji: The first sloka describes two offenses. It is a great offense to blaspheme, censure, or disrespect bhakta
