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As revealed by the Lord in 'Bhagavad-Gita As It Is', the Supreme Personality of Godhead can be known in His real nature by dint of pure devotional service only. Thus, only the great devotees of the Lord who are able to clear the mind of all material dust by rigid devotional service can experience the Lord as He is. 

'Jitendriya' means one who has full control over the senses. The senses are active parts of the body, and their activities cannot be stopped. The artificial means of the yogic process

The standard of material education is sense gratification, but the highest standard of spiritual education is knowledge of the science of The Supreme Lord. Srimad Bhagavatam (4.29.49) states: “That work which pleases the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the highest work, and that science or knowledge which places one in full Krishna consciousness is the highest knowledge.” 

Similarly, Prahlada Maharaja, while instructing his childhood friends at school, stated that hearing of the Lord, chanting

There are many worshipable objects. For example, the impersonalists worship the brahmajyoti, but by such worship one becomes bereft of life’s symptoms and becomes just like a tree or other nonmoving living entity. Those who worship the so-called void also attain such results. Those who are after material enjoyment (bhukti) worship the demigods and achieve their planets and thus enjoy material happiness. 

Here a fundamental question arises that those who are after material happiness and those who

To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the innocuous living entities is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is enmity toward poor animals, and therefore the innocent living creatures are always anxious. The reaction of these innocent animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always the strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally. 

During the previous Yuga when the holy Vedic Civilisation was prevalent, during th

This world is compared to a forest fire caused by the cohesion of bamboo bushes. Such a forest fire takes place automatically, for bamboo cohesion occurs without external cause. Similarly, in the material world the wrath of those who want to impose their supremacy over material nature interacts, and the fire of war takes place, exhausting the unwanted population. The Lord has nothing to do with Such fires or wars that take place. But because He wants to maintain the creation, He desires the mass

Sitting by the beach this morning, after I finished my power-chanting, marvelled by the Lord's incredible natural creations, I decided to spend some more time relishing nectarean kirtans as the beautiful, glowing sun rose slowly over me, bringing a gleaming light to the beautiful white sand and blue sea. Its glittering, golden rays  felt like Lord's soft touch on my head. The cool coast breeze and the tiny droplets of water splashing against the rocks, which brushed my face felt like God's divin

Fear keeps us focused on the past and constantly worried about the future. It creates desperation and indecision that paralyzes our logic, thinking and actions. We can’t live freely because we can’t stop living in fear - fear of the unknown, fear of the future.

The control by time lays its inevitable hands all over the space within the universe, as there is control by time all over the planets. All the big gigantic planets, including the sun, are being controlled by the force of air, as the cloud

The whole material world is thriving on the delusion of becoming independent of the laws of nature. 

Beginning from Ravana, who wanted to prepare a direct staircase to the planets of heaven, down to the present age, we are trying to overcome the laws of nature. We are trying now to approach distant planetary systems by electronic mechanical power. But the highest goal of human civilization is to work hard under the guidance of the Lord and become completely dependent on Him. 

The greatest attainme

In the material world, to be dependent on the mercy of someone else is the utmost sign of misfortune, but in the case of our transcendental relation with the Lord, it is the most fortunate case when we can live completely dependent on Him.

As we can envision from our holy scriptures, that the sagacious Pandavas are most fortunate because with all good fortune they were entirely dependent on the mercy of the Lord. The material disease is due to thinking of becoming independent of everything. But t

The Supreme Lord cannot be seen by our present conditional vision. In order to see Him, one has to change his present vision by developing a different condition of life full of spontaneous love of Godhead. When Lord Krishna was personally present on the face of the globe, not everyone could see Him as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Materialists like Ravana, Hiranyakashipu, Kansa, Jarasandha and Shishupala were highly qualified personalities by acquisition of material assets, but they were u

In the Srimad Bhagavad-Gita the Lord asserts that He appears in every millennium just to reestablish the way of religion. The way of religion is made by the Supreme Lord. No one can manufacture a new path of religion, as is the fashion for certain ambitious persons. The factual way of religion is to accept the Lord as the supreme authority and thus render service unto Him in spontaneous love. 

A living being cannot help but render service because he is constitutionally made for that purpose. The

Since the Lord's appearance in this material world is bewildering, there are different opinions about the birth of the Unborn. Let's comprehend the fact.

In the Bhagavad-Gita the Lord says that He takes His birth in the material world, although He is the Lord of all creations and He is unborn. The Lord says, "Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all sentient beings, I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form".

It is imperative to comprehend that this body is just a covering of something much deeper i.e. the soul. This body is a perennial source of misery. For the time being, we may feel some happiness, but actually it is a reservoir of pain, not pleasure. For example, formerly, this was done by the government servants to criminals, the man was dragged in the middle of the river and he was drowned for few seconds by holding his hair, and when he would almost suffocate, they would draw his head out of t

When the Lord descends on this material world by His all-merciful energy, He plays like a human being, and therefore it appears that the Lord is partial to His devotees only, but that is not a fact. Despite such apparent manifestation of partiality, His mercy is equally distributed.

In the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra all persons who died in the fight in the presence of the Lord got salvation without the necessary qualifications because death before the presence of the Lord purifies the passing soul

The Lord's mercy upon the fallen souls is equally distributed. He has no one as the specific object of hostility. The very conception of the Personality of Godhead as a human being is misleading. His pastimes appear to be exactly like a human being's, but actually they are transcendental and without any tinge of material contamination. He is undoubtedly known as partial to His pure devotees, but in fact He is never partial, as much as the sun is never partial to anyone. By utilizing the sun rays

People entangled in the web of material conception of life think that devotional service is flattering the Lord to get special mercy. Factually the pure devotees who are engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord are not a mercantile community. A mercantile house renders service to someone in exchange for values. The pure devotee does not render service unto the Lord for such exchange, and therefore the full mercy of the Lord is open for him. Suffering and needy men, inquisitive pe

Eternal time is the witness of all our actions, good and bad, and thus resultant reactions are destined by this Supersoul feature of the Lord, who resides in everyone's hearts. 

We should never say that we do not know why and for what we are suffering. We may forget the misdeed for which we may suffer at this present moment, but we must remember that Lord is our constant companion, and therefore He knows everything, past, present and future. And because the Supreme Personality destines all action

The Lord is the prime cause of all causes, the origin and creator of everything. Since He belongs to the devotees, and the devotees are parts and parcels of the Lord reciprocally, the devotees are certainly transcendental to the modes of material nature. That is a natural conclusion.

Such unalloyed devotees are distinct from the mixed devotees who approach the Lord for mitigation of miseries and poverty or because of inquisitiveness and speculation. The unalloyed devotees and the Lord are transce

The material disease is due to hankering after sense objects and lording it over material nature. This hankering is due to an interaction of the three modes of nature, and neither the Lord nor the devotees have attachment for such false enjoyment.

Therefore, the Lord and the devotees are called 'nivṛtta-guṇa-vṛtti' or one who is transcendental to the actions of the modes of material nature and devoid of affection for them. The perfect 'nivṛtta-guṇa-vṛtti' is the Supreme Lord because He never beco

The Supreme Personality of Godhead has no direct connection with material activities. All His acts and deeds, which are exhibited even in this material world, are spiritual and without affection for the modes of material nature.

In the Bhagavad-gītā the Lord says that all His acts, even His appearance and disappearance in and out of the material world, are transcendental. 

One who knows this, one who understands this nature of the Lord, perfectly and accordingly dovetails his actions for the pleas