If you associate with the devotees of the temple every week, if your come here every week, if you chant the holy name on the regular basis, your intelligence will be sharp and you will be able to understand and be reminded about the goal of life. And if on the other hand we miss this opportunity then you never know when you will get this opportunity.
(His Holiness Gopal Krishna Goswami, BG 7.3, 19.05.2001, Moscow)
To a world where truth gets masked by glittering advertisements and simplicity seems to be lost in oblivion, life seems to be an unending race of insecurity, resistance and perpetual dissatisfaction. There is something which is getting negatively programmed in our subconscious being. The greatest reason of unhappiness can be attributed to the aggressive advertisement strategy which makes you feel lost and it’s a constant dilemma in which one is bound to live. If you have that, you are great
Devotional Service
If you follow your Guru’s instructions and regulations of Vaidhi Bhakti, it is guaranteed that you will be able to get rid of your anarthas. Krsna is giving that guarantee.
SB 5.5.2, 12.05.2009 ,New Delhi
The holy name is the most valuable asset that you can possess!
- By H.H.Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj
Importance of Association
If you want to give up your inferior taste, if you want to give up your affiliation of material energy; then associate with devotees, associate with those who are more advanced. Take advantage of 'Sadhu', 'Guru' & 'Krishna'.Paramatma and Bhagavan are the personal aspects of the Lord. Paramatma guides every living being. Our coming to Krishna Consciousness is by the guidance of paramatma. Paramatma guides us : My dear child, go in this direction and you’ll find a temple and the Hare Krishna people will be chanting there. Go there and you will get some maha-prasadam.
(His Holiness Bhakit Swarup Damodar Swami, 31st May 2006, New Jersey, USA)
Lord Sri Krishna says, "My dear Arjuna, there are different classes of men. One class of men, they are sleeping. And another class of men, they are awake. They are not sleeping." And how is this so? This chanting, which we have performed just now, is the wakening process for the sleeping soul. The soul is sleeping, covered by this material body. These bodily activities are in the sleeping stage. Just as we see dreams in the sleeping stage, similarly, all these bodily activities are dreams. Just
This human form of life is the most precious commodity. Because in this human form of life one can actually develop the rational thinking to be able to judge what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is bad, what is moral and what is immoral, what is ethical and what is unethical.
(H H Bhakti Swaroop Damodar Swami, 1980, San Francisco, California, USA)
Cawnpore
12 July, 1947
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Mahatma Gandhijee
Bhangi Colony
New Delhi.
Dear Friend Mahatmajee,
Please accept my respectful Namaskar. I am your unknown friend but I had to write to you at times and again although you never cared to reply them. I sent you my papers "Back to Godhead" but your secretaries told me that you have very little time to read the letters and much less for reading the magazines. I asked for an interview with you but your busy secretaries never cared to reply this. Anyway as
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You write to say that simply you want to surrender, but according to the preface of T.L.C. you'll find that surrender means
(1) To Act favorably to develop Krishna Consciousness;
(2) To reject everything unfavorable;
(3) To have full faith in Krishna that He will give protection to His pure devotee;
(4) To keep oneself as one of the dependent devotees of the Lord;
(5) To have no separate interest besides the interest of the Lord;
(6) To always feel meek and humble.
These six things are surrender, And
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Question to Radhanath Swami: How exactly does this chanting of God's holy names work?
Radhanath Swami: It begins by regular chanting, like treatment begins with regular intake of medicines. And then we try to go deeper into the holy name by living according to the qualities of a true devotee, i.e. to live our life with humility, with tolerance and forgiveness, offering honor and respect to others, while demanding no respect for ourselves. We should live by the principles of morality, we should li
Question to Radhanath Swami: When only in distress one is able to pray from the heart, otherwise those prayers spring from the mind, and are mechanically offered. Why is it so? Why only in distress does the mind shut down and allow us to pray from the heart?
Radhanath Swami: What you are talking about is sometimes human nature. But we should cultivate a higher standard.
When you are successful and everything is going your way, you could thank God for the blessings. "I don't deserve this. Yet, you
We urge everyone throughout the entire world to chant the holy names of God for achieving the perfection of existence. We are not meant to suffer at all. Suffering is artificial. We are meant by nature to be completely peaceful, happy, satisfied, and successful. Chanting the holy names of God is the way prescribed in the Brihad-Naradiya Purana for attaining our natural, original perfect consciousness:
harer nama harer nama
harer namaiva kevalam
kalau nasty eva nasty eva
nasty eva gatir anyatha
"In th
So we are so much indebted to the sun, to the moon, to the heavenly king, because they are supplying our necessities. The Indra sends the cloud. By the electrical action... We have got experience. And the cloud gives you sufficient rain. Ghanavad vatarhit(?). Most munificent. The cloud gives you rain even where you do not require. On the hill you do not require, on the ocean you do not require, but when there is cloud, there is no miserly behavior. "Take even samudra, you tDevotee: "We would like to know what would please you the most."
Prabhupada's reply was brief and to the point. "Understand Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam, become perfect and distribute this knowledge to your fellow countrymen."
(Sunday, 25 April 1976 - From "The Great Transcendental Adventure")
Srila Prabhupada's letter to H.H. Tamala Krsna Maharaja, Bombay 28th December 1974: "I
was extremely pleased to hear your report from your travelling buses. It sounds as if your program is very very wo
