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Exercising Care and Caution in Spiritual Life

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by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada

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The more we realize the value of human opportunity, 
the more we will be careful to avoid misusing it.
 
Do Not Miss the Opportunity
 
One should be very careful to understand that this human life is attained after many, many births in the evolutionary process.
 
(Bhagavatam 4.29 1a–2a)
 
Those who have taken to Krsna consciousness should be very careful that not a sing
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Karma-yoga

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by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

What turns our karma into yoga, a devotional offering to God?

Simple Definitions

Karma overcoated with devotional service is called karma-yoga. (Bhag. 1.2.15, purport)

When a person knows the goal of life but is addicted to the fruits of activities, he is acting inkarma-yoga. (Bg. 10.10, purport)

This Fifth Chapter is a practical explanation of Krsna consciousness, gener

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Srila Prabhupada

“Srila Prabhupada lived with the spirit of the Lord’s compassion shining through his heart. Through his example he showed how to live as a true well wisher and friend of every living being. The genuine essence of all spiritual teachings can be understood by observing his qualities, hearing his words and reading his books.” - Radhanath Swami

His Divine Grace, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977) is widely regarded as the worlds pre-eminent exponent of the teachings and practices of Bhak

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 2.31

TEXT 31
 
sva-dharmam api cāvekṣya
na vikampitum arhasi
dharmyād dhi yuddhāc chreyo 'nyat
kṣatriyasya na vidyate
 
SYNONYMS
 
svadharmam—one's own religious principles; api—also; ca—indeed; avekṣya—considering; na—never; vikampitum—to hesitate; arhasi—you deserve; dharmyāt—from religious principles; hi—indeed; yuddhāt—of fighting; śreyaḥ—better engagements; anyat—anything else; kṣatriyasya—of the kṣatriya; na—does not; vidyate—exist.
 
TRANSLATION
 
Considering your specific duty as a kṣatriya, you should kn
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Thought Of The Day

Just like if you go to the physician and the physician is giving medicine and he's taking the medicine and cured, again he is affected with the disease, again going, so why it is happening? It is happening because he does not follow the rules and regulation given by the physician. Therefore it is happening. The physician... As soon as you go to a physician, you have to accept something "do not" and something "do." That is called regulative principle. Without regulative principle you cannot corre

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बांके बिहारी मंदिर भारत में मथुरा जिले के वृंदावन धाम में रमण रेती पर स्थित है। यह भारत के प्राचीन और प्रसिद्ध मंदिरों में से एक है। बां

के बिहारी कृष्ण का ही एक रूप है जो इसमें प्रदर्शित किया गया है। इसका निर्माण १८६४ में स्वामी हरिदास ने करवाया था
श्री बाँकेबिहारी जी का संक्षिप्त इतिहास
श्रीधाम वृन्दावन, यह एक ऐसी पावन भूमि है, जिस भूमि पर आने मात्र से ही सभी पापों का नाश हो जाता है। ऐसा आख़िर कौन व्यक्ति होगा जो इस पवित्र भूमि पर आना नहीं चाहेगा तथा श्री बाँकेबिहारी जी के दर्शन कर अपने को कृतार्
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See the Opportunity in Calamity

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

 

In spiritual life, every calamity is a steppingstone towards the highest perfection.
 
Letter to a Dying Devotee, February 6, 1975, Evanston, Illinois, 
 
My dear Audolomi das: Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated Feb. 2, 1975 and have noted the contents carefully. It is the mercy of Krsna that you are getting fair warning of your nearing
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Factors That Bind and Liberate Us

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by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

`Our actions can either entangle us or award us eternal freedom. 
It’s upto us what we choose.
 
Struggle of the Living Entity
 

Struggle of The Living Entity

Because I am a spirit soul, I have nothing to do with this material atmosphere. Asango ’yam purusah: “This spirit soul has nothing to do.” But on account of his material association by different processes, we have grown this material body, and w
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Thought Of The Day

If one has no sense to understand Krsna consciousness, or God consciousness, he is no better than the dog and cat. No credit. According to Vedic civilization anyone who is thinking, "I am this body," and doing accordingly -- for the bodily pleasure he is working so hard -- so that is not knowledge. Here it is suggested that prayascittam vimarsanam. If you want to be saved from the tribulation offered by the material nature, then you have to very thoughtful, thinking that what is the actual posit

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Bhgavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 2.30

TEXT 30
 
dehī nityam avadhyo 'yaṁ
dehe sarvasya bhārata
tasmāt sarvāṇi bhūtāni
na tvaṁ śocitum arhasi
 
SYNONYMS
 
dehī—the owner of the material body; nityam—eternally; avadhyaḥ—cannot be killed; ayam—this soul; dehe—in the body; sarvasya—of everyone; bhārata—O descendant of Bharata; tasmāt—therefore; sarvāṇi—all; bhūtāni—living entities (that are born); na—never; tvam—yourself; śocitum —to lament; arhasi- deserve.
 
TRANSLATION
 
O descendant of Bharata, he who dwells in the body is eternal and can never
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Newton, the great scientist, was a firm believer in God. However one of his atheistic friends would not agree with him that there is a supreme designer behind everything. So one day Newton made a gyroscope – a replica of the solar system. When his friend came then he was struck with the preciseness of the model. He asked Newton - How did you make it. Newton replied – I did not do it. It came by chance. His friend laughed and said – Do you think that I am a fool that I will believe you? But Newto

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Adam Lanza killed 26 including 20 kids and his mother in Newtown, Conn.,elementary school, USA on Dec 24. Is it just the tip of the iceberg? Are we preparing ourselves to witness more such mayhem? Such tragedies shake our conscience and force us to introspect. How can one stoop so low that he can mercilessly massacre innocent children and his own mother? While murdering them what he would have been thinking and feeling? What was the state of his mind at that moment when he would be seeing the de

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This ancient Vedic text gives an accurate map of the planetary orbits known to modern astronomy.

TODAY WE TAKE for granted that the earth is a sphere, but the early Greeks tended to think it was flat. For example, in the fifth century B.C. the philosopher Thales thought of the earth as a disk floating on water like a log. (1) About a century later, Anaxagoras taught that it is flat like a lid and stays suspended in air. (2) A few decades later, the famous atomist Democritus argued that the earth

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The Geocentric and Heliocentric model

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How do we reconcile the Vedic idea that the sun moves around the earth with the scientific idea that the earth moves around the sun?

Quotes by scientists about how absolute motion has never been proven:

From Galileo was Wrong by Robert A Sungnis, PhD and Robert J Bennet, PhD

“…the unsuccessful attempts to establish a motion of the Earth…”

Albert Einstein27

“Briefly, everything occurs as if the Earth were at rest…”

Henrick Lorentz28

“There was just one alternative; the earth’s true velocity through spac

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characteristics of people in kaliyuga

By the time the age of Kali ends, the bodies of all creatures will be greatly reduced in size, and the religious principles of followers of varṇāśrama will be ruined. The path of the Vedas will be completely forgotten in human society, and so-called religion will be mostly atheistic. The kings will mostly be thieves, the occupations of men will be stealing, lying and needless violence, and all the social classes will be reduced to the lowest level of śūdras. Cows will be like goats, spiritual he

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On the Road With Lord Caitanya

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Back To Godhead Volume-20 Number-11, 1985

On the Road With Lord Caitanya by Lokanatha Swami

Pada-yatra's chief organizer tells how this roundabout tour of India is a direct route to Lord Caitanya's mercy.

Sankirtan

In 1976, Srila Prabhupada asked me to start a party that would travel in India by bullock cart to the towns and villages in India and perform kirtana[congregational chanting of Hare Krsna]. That program was successful, and

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Do Not Spoil This Human Life

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Back To Godhead Volume-20 Number-11, 1985

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Even the animals enjoy sense pleasure. 
What is the extra dimension for human beings?

A lecture in Tittenhurst, England, in September 1969 

nayam deho deha-bhajam nr-loke
kastan kaman arhate vid-bhujam ye
tapo divyam putraka yena sattvam
suddhyed yasmad brahma-saukhyam tv anantam

"My dear boys, of all the living entities who have acc

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Question to Radhanath Swami: Is it the innate nature of the mind to be disturbed continuously and ultimately get depressed?

2514891662?profile=originalRadhanath Swami: It is the not the nature of the mind to pursue selfishness and egoism and thus experience frustration and depression in due course of time. It is the nature of the mind to pursue the needs of the soul and thus find peace, compassion, happiness and ecstatic enlightenment. It is the actual nature of the mind to always be filled with transcendental pleasure. Th

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Question to Radhanath Swami: In the path of Bhakti we are told to refrain from certain activities like meat eating for developing our love for God. But can’t I love God and simultaneously do these things? Love is not to be bound by rules and regulations. Why then do we have rules and regulations on the path of Bhakti?

Radhanath Swami: Unconditional love is a very high and pure platform. To get there we have to honestly begin from where we are. The beginning of love is to do what the beloved want

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