TEXT 17
yas tv atma-ratir eva syad
atma-trptas ca manavah
atmany eva ca santustas
tasya karyam na vidyate
SYNONYMS
yah--one who; tu--but; atma-ratih--takes pleasure; eva--certainly; syat--remains; atma-trptah--self-illuminated; ca--and; manavah--a man; atmani--in himself; eva--only; ca--and; santustah--perfectly satiated; tasya--his; karyam--duty; na--does not; vidyate--exist.
TRANSLATION
One who is, however, taking pleasure in the self, who is illuminated in the self, who rejoices in and is satisf
So our lusty desires, sense gratification, cannot be satisfied even throughout the whole life. The account is being given of the whole life, hundred years. So out of hundred years, fifty years wasted by sleeping, twenty years wasted by playing like boy and young man, and twenty years as old man, diseased, invalidated, and balance ten years... Because ninety years he has been so much attached to materialistic way of life, naturally the balance ten years, sesam, he cannot utilize in any other way.
TEXT 16
evam pravartitam cakram
nanuvartayatiha yah
aghayur indriyaramo
mogham partha sa jivati
SYNONYMS
evam--thus prescribed; pravartitam--established by the Vedas;cakram--cycle; na--does not; anuvartayati--adopt; iha--in this life; yah--one who; agha-ayuh--life full of sins; indriya-aramah--satisfied in sense gratification; mogham--useless; partha--O son of Prtha (Arjuna); sah--one who does so; jivati--lives.
TRANSLATION
My dear Arjuna, a man who does not follow this prescribed Vedic system of sac
So this chanting of Hare Krsna is so important that you can think always that "Death is coming. Death is at my door. Let me finish my chanting. Let me finish my chanting." Always you should think like that, that "Death is already coming, so let me chant." So this is called bhagavata-dharma, and Krsna consciousness movement means bhagavata-dharma.
By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
New York City - July 26, 1971:
If personal qualities were absent from the origin
of everything, they would not be present in the material world.
THE WORD Govinda refers to one who gives pleasure to the cows and the senses. There are many incarnations of Godhead, but Govinda [Krsna] is the adi-purusa, or the original person. As such He is not technically an incarnation
Date: 20 March 2013, Srimad Bhagavatam Canto - 5, Chapter - 24, Text 27 - 29
Why I Want To Take Sannyasa by Ekalavya Das
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Srila Madhavendra Puri appeared in the 14th century. He was a guru of the Brahma or Madhva sampradaya, one of the four (Brahma, Sri, Rudra and Sanaka) Vaishnava lineages that purify the world in the age of Kali.
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Our Ukrainian team traveling around Bangladesh returned to Dhaka on the 16th of November - just in time for Srila Prabhupada’s disappearance day celebration…..
Swamibag temple area had been converted into a huge Pandal tent. HH Jayapataka Swami was there, and devotees had come from all around Bangladesh to get his association. As in previous years he initiated around two thousand devotees - something which requires quite some coordination and organisation…..!
I had been contempl
In May 2012, a Chaplain from El-Paso, Texas, Steven Cottingham, emailed me in the hope of getting some books for the inmates he served. He said,
“My name is Steven. I serve in 5 jails, 3 federal prisons, and 2 state prisons and there are people asking for books in each of these institutions. What I do is place books in each institution’s Religious Services library, so it is cost-effective that way. Do you have books we could have?”
Of course I was very happy to
Suffering is Reduced for Krishna's Devotees
Srila Prabhupada:
"Sometimes it so happens that we have to suffer for our past sinful activities. But because we have taken to Krishna Consciousness and serving Krishna, we should know that any suffering we have to bear have been far reduced by the mercy of the Lord. Suffering must be there so long as we are conditioned in this material world, but for the devotees the suffering is minimized compared to that of the nondevotees. We have to tolerate any di
The following article has been written by Radha Dasi, from Australia. She is very sincere and Krsna is thus giving her the intelligence and guidance about how to develop the prison ministry in Australia. Please support her any way you can!
By the mercy of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada and my Guru Maharaja, I received the inspiration to serve the ISKCON Prison Ministry.
On Vyasa-puja day, while chanting my japa, the inspiration came to me to serve in the prison minis
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
"Everyone must perform sacrifice," Lord Krsna says. And He comes
as Caitanya Mahaprabhu to show us how easy it can be.
A lecture in London on September 5, 1973
yajna-dana-tapah-karma
na tyajyam karyam eva tat
yajno danam tapas caiva
pavanani manisinam
"Acts of sacrifice, charity, and penance are not to be given up; they must be performed. Indeed, sacrifice, charity, and pen
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
All religious scriptures prescribe pious acts,
but pious acts alone aren't enough for liberation.
A lecture at Kumbha-mela in Allahabad, India, on January 16, 1971
na niskrtair uditair brahma-vadibhis
tatha visuddhyaty aghavan vratadibhih
yatha harer nama-padair udahrtais
tad uttamasloka-gunopalambhakam
"By following the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies or undergoing atonemen
TEXT 15
karma brahmodbhavam viddhi
brahmaksara-samudbhavam
tasmat sarva-gatam brahma
nityam yajne pratisthitam
SYNONYMS
karma--work; brahma--Vedas; udbhavam--produced from; viddhi--one should know; brahma--the Vedas; aksara--the Supreme Brahman (Personality of Godhead); samudbhavam--directly manifested; tasmat--therefore; sarva-gatam--all-pervading; brahma--transcendence; nityam--eternally; yajne--in sacrifice; pratisthitam--situated.
TRANSLATION
Regulated activities are prescribed in the Vedas, and
TEXT 14
annad bhavanti bhutani
parjanyad anna-sambhavah
yajnad bhavati parjanyo
yajnah karma-samudbhavah
SYNONYMS
annat--from grains; bhavanti--grow; bhutani--the material bodies; parjanyat--from rains; anna--of food grains; sambhavah--are made possible; yajnat--from the performance of sacrifice; bhavati--becomes possible; parjanyah--rains; yajnah--performance of yajna; karma--prescribed duties; samudbhavah--born of.
TRANSLATION
All living bodies subsist on food grains, which are produced from rain
This is perfection. Krsna says that "You give up all these nonsense engagement. Simply surrender unto Me, and I shall give you relief." Our continuation of material life means full of sinful activities. We act some way, and we get a similar body. And again the life continues and again we get another body, another body, another body. But in the human form of body, you can get the highest perfection, Krsna consciousness, and that will stop your continuation of this material life.
By H.D.G. Srila P
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
When we're ready, Krsna will release us from the grip of illusion and bring us to His world of freedom.
A lecture given in New York, July 25, 1966
janma karma ca me divyam
evam yo vetti tattvatah
tyaktva deham punar janma
naiti mam eti so 'rjuna
"One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Hamburg, September 4, 1969 Janmastami
visnu-saktih para prokta
ksetrajnakhya tatha para
avidya-karma-samjnanya
trtiya saktir isyate
"The potency of Lord Visnu is summarized in three categories, namely the spiritual potency, the living entities, and ignorance. The spiritual potency is full of knowledge; the living entities, although belonging to the spiritual potency, are
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