Death is extremely painful & the dying person experiences a pain that is equivalent to 40,000 scorpions biting simultaneously -Garuda Purana.
One CANNOT AVOID death, but certainly one can try to avoid re-birth by going back to GODHEAD.
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INCREDIBLE PREACHING IN ORISSA
I recently learnt through a first-hand experience how villagers in Orissa,India, are naturally seeking shelter of God and with a little training, Krishna consciousness becomes their second nature. And if Krishna consciousness doesn't reach them, there are others ready to mislead them and exploit their God consciousness.
My travels in Orrissa have been an eye opener. I first went to a remote village called Godamatori, two hours' drive from the Khurda Road station
Question: Suicide and Abortion? |
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I would like to know your opinion about suicide. It's a very low act, but it is not like harming other creatures. After committing this act, after leaving the body and that particular unwanted life, where does the soul of the doer go? How about abortion? How about the soul that has already resided in the developing embryo? |
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Answer: Ghost Life and Being Aborted |
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It is not a matter of opinion. According to the stringent laws of material nature if one commits suicide |
Overeating, over-sense gratification, overdependence on another’s mercy and artificial standards of living sap the very vitality of human energy. Therefore, the duration of life is shortened. Srimad Bhagavatam 1st Canto, 1st Chapter, Text 10.
Today, at 69 years old, Chaitanya Prema Dasa is a robust, healthy devotee, visiting the Potomac, Maryland ISKCON temple every Sunday and working at the Pentagon, where he has served for twenty-five years in the Department of the Defense Inspector General. He keeps a small altar with Srila Prabhupada and a large, beautiful picture of Lord Krishna in his office, so that his boss and co-workers see the Lord every time they have meetings there.
Seeing him, you would never guess that back in 1997, a
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In the late 1960s, while Srila Prabhupada was translating and
commenting on his monumental edi
One day as I was passing by the elephants, I suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg.
No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from the ropes they were tied to but for some reason, they did
not. I saw a trainer nearby and asked why these beautiful, magnificent animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away.
"Well," he said, "when they are v
Pastimes of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu with Gopala Capala
It appears that although Gopala Capala was sinful, talkative and insulting, he nevertheless had the qualification of simplicity. Thus he believed Caitanya Mahaprabhu to be the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who had come to deliver all fallen souls, and he appealed for his own deliverance, seeking the mercy of the Lord. He did not know, however, that the deliverance of the fallen does not consist of curing their bodily diseas
cause of suffering in material existence. This conditional life in
material existence is called saḿsāra. One may perform good work and
take his birth in a very nice material condition, but the process
under which birth and death take place is like a terrible fire.
Śrī Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura, in his prayer to the spiritual
master, has described this. Saḿsāra, or the repetition of birth and
death, is compared to a forest fire. A f
Life is meant for inquiring.
So what should be the inquisitiveness in this human form of life? Therefore the Vedanta-sutra says: athato brahma jijnasa. Now this life is meant for inquiring about the Supreme Absolute Truth, or Krsna. Krsna is the Absolute Truth, ultimate goal. So that is human life, when we inquire about. Therefore those who are inquisitive about God, they are not ordinary persons. They have been described in the Bhagavad-gita as sukrtina. Sukrtina means background is pious. JusWatering the root
Actually our position is that we are always rendering service to someone, either to our family, country, or society. If we have no one to serve, sometimes we keep a pet cat or dog and render service to it. All these factors prove that we are constitutionally meant to render service, yet in spite of serving to the best of our ability, we are not satisfied. Nor is the person to whom we are rendering that service satisfied. On the material platform, everyone is frustrated.
The reas
Actually our position is that we are always rendering service to someone, either to our family, country, or society. If we have no one to serve, sometimes we keep a pet cat or dog and render service to it. All these factors prove that we are constitutionally meant to render service, yet in spite of serving to the best of our ability, we are not satisfied. Nor is the person to whom we are rendering that service satisfied. On the material platform, everyone is frustrated.
The reas
(6) One should search out a bona fide spiritual master who can lead him gradually to the stage of spiritual realization, and one must submit himself to such a spiritual master, render him service and ask relevant questions.
Srila Rupa Gosvami describes the qualities of a bona fide spiritual master: "A sober person who can tolerate the urge to speak, the mind's demands, the actions of anger, and the urges of the tongue, belly, and genitals is qualified to make disciples all over the world." A guru
Question: Why Lord Shiva Smokes Marijuana?
My dear Gurudeva,
I beg to clarify a doubt. A Muslim friend of mine argued that Lord Shiva is considered as the greatest Vaishnava, but yet he contradicts Vaishnava principles by smoking marijuana. Why does Lord Shiva smoke marijuana, even though he is considered to be the greatest Vaishnava?
Surender K.
Answer: He Can Smoke It, While We Cannot.
Just as the sun is so powerful it can extract water from urine without being polluted, Lord Shiva is so powerful
Australia at the time had quite a conservative immigration policy. One requirement was that a large amount of money, $1,500, had to be shown to Immigration upon arrival. Upendra managed to collect the fare, but could not rai
mayam vividisan visnor
mayesasya maha-munih
maha-bhagavato rajan
pitaram paryatosayat
mayam -- energies; vividisan -- desiring to know; visnoh -- of the Personality of Godhead; maya-isasya -- of the master of all energies; maha-munih -- the great sage; maha-bhagavatah -- the first-class devotee of the Lord; rajan -- O King; pitaram -- unto his father; paryatosayat -- very much pleased.
tam naradah priyatamo
rikthadanam anuvratah
susrusamanah silena
prasrayena damena ca
tam -- unto him; naradah -- the great sage Narada; priyatamah -- very dear; riktha-adanam -- of the inheritor sons; anuvratah -- very obedient; susrusamanah -- always ready to serve; silena -- by good behavior; prasrayena -- by meekness; damena -- by sense control; ca -- also.
Once there was a sweeper in a well known temple and he was very sincere and devoted.
Every time he saw thousands of devotees coming to take darshan of the Lord,
he thought that the Lord is standing all the time and giving darshan and He must be feeling very tired.
So one day very innocently he asked the Lord whether he can take the place of the Lord for a day
so that the Lord can have some relief and rest.
The Deity of Temple replied, "I do not mind taking a break.
I will transform you like Myself,
If a man's brain can produce a space satellite, one can very easily imagine how brains higher than a man can produce similarily wonderful things which are far superior.
Srimad Bhagavatam 1st Canto 1st Chapter
