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Prabhupada: Oh yes. There are varieties. Ananda, ananda, pleasure means varieties. Variety is the mother of enjoyment. Without varieties, just like we prepare from grains, sugar, ghee, hundreds of varieties. If you simply give grain, ghee and sugar, it will not be enjoyable. But the same thing, you prepare in varieties and give you a plate, oh, you'll say, "Oh, so nice thing." The ingredients are the same. Grains, ghee and sugar, that's all. Similarly, this material world, the ingredients are th

BG 08.05 - And whoever, at the end of his life, quits his body remembering Me alone at once attains My nature. Of this there is no doubt.

In this verse the importance of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is stressed. Anyone who quits his body in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is at once transferred to the transcendental nature of the Supreme Lord. The Supreme Lord is the purest of the pure. Therefore anyone who is constantly Kṛṣṇa conscious is also the purest of the pure. The word smaran ("remembering") is important. Rem

BG 02.20 - For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any time. He has not come into being, does not come into being, and will not come into being. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain.

Qualitatively, the small atomic fragmental part of the Supreme Spirit is one with the Supreme. He undergoes no changes like the body. Sometimes the soul is called the steady, or kūṭa-stha. The body is subject to six kinds of transformations. It takes its b

BG 02.12 - Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be.

The same Vedic truth given to Arjuna is given to all persons in the world who pose themselves as very learned but factually have but a poor fund of knowledge. The Lord says clearly that He Himself, Arjuna and all the kings who are assembled on the battlefield are eternally individual beings and that the Lord is eternally the maintainer of the individual living entit

Srila Prabhupäda:
krsnadasa Kaviräja, the author of
Caitanya-
caritämåta:
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He is not
making a show. He is feeling like that
. "I am the lowest. Everyone is best,
but I am the lowest. Everyone is en
gaged in krshna's service. I am not
engaged." Caitanya Mahäprabhu s
aid "Oh, I have not a pinch of
devotion to krshna. I cry to make
a show. If I had been a devotee of
krshna, I would have died long ago. Bu
t I am living. That
is the proof that
I do not love krshna." That is the vision of the best devo

The process of chanting the holy name of the Lord is so powerful that by this chanting even householders can very easily gain the ultimate result achieved by person in the renounced order. — Srimad Bhagavatam, 07.15.74

In this age, chanting of Hare Krishna Mantra is the prime business of the devotee, and preaching of this Hare Krishna Mantra by outdoor Sankirtana and propagation of literature is our more important business. Side by side, Deity worship is recommended, but when there is a question

If one has killed an animal, one must himself be killed by that same animal. This is called mamsa. Mam means “me,” and sa means “he.” As I am eating an animal, that animal will have the opportunity to eat me.
Srimad Bhagavatam 10.10.14,
Srila Prabhupada

A devotee is not afraid of going to hell if he has the opportunity to hear the glories of the Lord constantly. This is the advantage of chanting Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. One may be put in any condition, but God gives him the prerogative to chant Hare Krishna. In any condition of life, if one goes on chanting he will never be unhappy.
Purport on Srimad Bhagavatam 3.15.49

Even by fighting, you can be a great devotee, just li

The dog is also sleeping on the side of a street without any difficulty and the king is sleeping on the palace, very nice apartment. A Krishna conscious person, he’s also sleeping. But there are different grades. The Krishna conscious person while sleeping, is chanting Hare Krishna. This can be done. If you practice this Hare Krishna, even in sleeping you’ll chant Hare Krishna. Everything depends on practice.
Lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.2 — Boston, April 28, 1969

“The death and birth is simply change of the body; the subtle body and the gross body.

Just like every night we die. The gross body remains inactive on the bed, and the subtle body takes me away. I dream, I go in the dreamland. I have gone to some friend, I am talking with somebody, I am working in a different way. That is our daily experience. This means that we have got two kinds of body. One body is this gross body, and the other body is subtle body, made of mind, intelligence, and ego. So foo

(1) Chant these 100 Names of Lord Gaura daily.

(2) Chant a minimum of 16 rounds of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra daily
on a tulasi mala with 108 beads. If possible gradually try to increase
the quality & quantity of your chanting till you can chant 64 rounds
daily as per the instructions of Lord Caitanya and all acaryas.

3) Follow the four regulative principles:

A) No eating of meat, fish, eggs, onion, garlic, etc.
B) No intoxication including tea, coffee, etc.
C) No gambling including frivolous sport

A living entity who plays the part on behalf of Krsna. God’s representative means the Guru.

1. Guru’s Instructions
We should follow his orders. We should please him if we want to please God.

2. Guru is not God
The Guru should be accepted as God. He is the external manifestation of Krsna but different from the incarnations of Krsna.

3. Symptoms of a Guru
The general symptoms of a Guru are described in the Vedas. To become a Guru is not an easy task. It is a risky job. A guru comes in a disciplic suc

He is always feeling that ‘ I am the lowest, everyone is best, everyone is engaged in Krsna’s service I am not engaged.’(Quote Krsnadasa kaviraja)
He says ‘ oh I have not a pinch of devotion to Krsna, I cry to make a show. If I had been a devotee of Krsna, I would have died long ago. But I am living. That is the proof that I do not love Krsna.’(Quote Caitanya Mahaprabhu)
He is always absorbed in Krsna’s love and he say ‘everything is going on but I am the lowest’ therefore I cannot see God.
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"O King, one who is My devotee and is fixed in vow, whether man or woman, for the purpose of dharma, should accept these various austerities and observances. I shall now describe to you all of them along with their respective results.

01) No salt - One's voice becomes sweet.
02) No oil - One's life is prolonged and gets progeny.
03) No oil massages - One's body becomes beautiful.
04) No cooking with oil - One's enemies are vanished.
05) No licorice and oil - One becomes wealthy.
06) Give up wearing

Whoever worships Tulasi Devi with her eight names and their meanings--Vrinda, Vrindavani, Viswapavani, Visvapujita, Tulasi, Puspasara, Nandini, and Krsna Jivani--and properly sings this hymn of eight verses, acquires the merit of performing an Asvamedha (horse) sacrifice.

Vrndavani – One who first manifested in vrindavan.
Vrnda – The goddess of all plants.
Visvapujita – One who the whole universe worships.
Puspasara – The topmost of all flowers, without whom Krsna does not like to look upon other

"There are no hard and fast rules for chanting Hare Krishna. One can chant Hare Krishnaanywhere... It is not at all difficult. While walking, our students take their beads with them and chant. Where is the loss? But the gain is very great, for by chanting we associate with Krsna personally. Suppose we were to associate personally with the President. How proud we would feel. 'Oh, I am with the President.' So should we not feel very much proud if we were to associate with the supreme president, wh

Every year in the UK we feed our livestock enough food to feed 250,000,000 people while in the world 30,000,000 people die of starvation
20 vegetarians can live off the land required by one meat eater
Every 3 seconds a child dies of starvation somewhere in the world
If Americans reduced their meat consumption by 10% it would free 12,000,000 tons of grain—enough to feed 60,000,000 people (the population of Great Britain)
If all Americans became vegetarian, it would free enough grain to feed 600,00

Bhakti Charu Swami says on Etiquette

Vaisnava etiquette is a combination of two words: Vaisnava and etiquette. Vaisnava everybody knows and etiquette means the activity and behaviour of a Vaisnava.

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