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TEXT 24

avyaktam vyaktim apannam
manyante mam abuddhayah
param bhavam ajananto
mamavyayam anuttamam

SYNONYMS

avyaktam--nonmanifested; vyaktim--personality; apannam--achieved; manyante--think; mam--unto Me; abuddhayah--less intelligent persons; param--supreme; bhavam--state of being; ajanantah--without knowing; mama--My; avyayam--imperishable; anuttamam--the finest.

TRANSLATION

Unintelligent men, who know Me not, think that I have assumed this form and personality. Due to their small knowledge, they

Hare Krsna,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

What does it mean to be enlightened? It means to be out of darkness and in the light of Krsna consciousness. If we're facing the sun can we be in darkness? The material world is a dark place where the main interest in peoples mind is in trying to satisfy the senses which can never be satisfied, this means they've turned their face from Krsna to maya, darkness. To be in the bodily consciousness means to be in dark

Prabhupada: No, this is for spiritual realization. If you chant, then, gradually, you realize yourself that you are a spiritual being; you are not this body. Then his spiritual life begins. Actually human life is meant for spiritual realization, and if one does not spiritually realize his identity, then he remains an animal. That is the difference between animal and man. Man is supposed to be spiritually realized.

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

Lecture on The Art of Book Distribution by HG Navina Nirada Prabhu on 01 Sept 2009 at Atlanta

(HG Navina Nirada Prabhu gave lecture on Fearless and Honest Person.)

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Lecture on Material Happiness Is Sweet Rice Mixed With Sand by Shikshashtakam Prabhu on 07
Aug 2005

(His Grace Shikshashtakam Prabhu joined full time as a bramachari ISKCON in 1998)

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Lecture on The Journey to Improve Japa by HH Indradyumna Swami on 28 March 2007 at New York

(Indradyumna Swami is a disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a Sannyasi traveling preacher, and a guru or spiritual teacher in the Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition. Each year Indradyumna Swami circles the globe teaching the message of the Bhagavad Gita and introducing people to kirtan chanting of the Hare Krishna maha mantra

Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Class by HH Bhakti Caitanya Swami on 27 Nov 2013 at ISKCON Vrindavan
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 04, Chapter 31, Text 24)

(Originally from New Zealand, Bhakti Caitanya Swami joined the Hare Krishna movement in London, early in 1973. Almost a year before, as a philosophy student at Auckland University, he had first seen his future spiritual master walking across the campus with his followers. Srila Prabhupada initiated Bhakti Caitanya Swami later in 1973, giving him the

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupa

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupa

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupa

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupa

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupa

TEXT 23

antavat tu phalam tesam
tad bhavaty alpa-medhasam
devan deva-yajo yanti
mad-bhakta yanti mam api

SYNONYMS

anta-vat tu--limited and temporary; phalam--fruits; tesam--their; tat--that; bhavati--becomes; alpa-medhasam--of those of small intelligence; devan--demigods' planets; deva-yajah--worshipers of demigods; yanti--achieve; mat--My; bhaktah--devotees; yanti--attain; mam--to Me; api--surely.

TRANSLATION

Men of small intelligence worship the demigods, and their fruits are limited and temporar

The size of the soul is one ten - thousandth part of the tip of the hair. It means that if we take the tip of the hair and cut it into one ten - thousand parts then that extremely tiny part is the actual size of the soul.

Svetasvatara Upanisad (5.9) confirms the size of the soul:

balagra – sata – bhagasya
satadha kalpitasya ca
bhago jivah sa vijneyah
sa canantyaya kalpate

“When the upper point of a hair is divided into one hundred parts and again each of such parts is further divided into one hundr

Prabhupada: So that is the defect, that the modern civilization, they are not taking care of the spirit soul; they are simply taking care of the machine, body. Therefore the problems are there. You asked, "How to solve the problems?" The problems are there on account of this, that they are not taking care of the driver; they are simply taking care of the machine body. So if you take care of the driver, then he will remain sane, he will drive nicely, the body will not be disastrous, he will live

Panch-Koshas, Path of Self Realization and Krishna Bhakti.

                                                                            By Veerendra Ekbote

              As the title suggests the material bodies of all living entities in this material world are comprised of 5 shells or Panch-koshas. Amongst the 84,00,000 species existing in this material creation the human form of life is very rare because we achieve it after many cycles of birth and death and is the highest form of life in the e

Panch-Koshas, Path of Self Realization and Krishna Bhakti.

                                                                            By Veerendra Ekbote

              As the title suggests the material bodies of all living entities in this material world are comprised of 5 shells or Panch-koshas. Amongst the 84,00,000 species existing in this material creation the human form of life is very rare because we achieve it after many cycles of birth and death and is the highest form of life in the e