Krsna consciousness is described by Krsna in the Bhagavad-gita, man-mana bhava mad-bhaktah. That's all. Always think of Me, man-manah, and bhava mad-bhaktah, be ready always to serve Me. Bhakta means, where there is bhakti and Bhagavan. Then bhakta. If there is no Bhagavan, and there is no activities to serve Bhagavan, there is no bhakta also. They are demons. So bhakta means there must be Bhagavan. Sevya, sevaka, and seva. Sevya sevaka seva, three things. Sevya means who is to be served, the ma

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Brahma worships Lord Krishna

Nowadays it is becoming fashionable for people to claim that they are becoming God by meditation. This means that by meditation it is possible to transform oneself into God; in other words, God meditates, and by His meditation He becomes God. This is all nonsense. God is God, and He was always God and will always be God. Even as an infan

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

If you are passing through thorns, you must be very careful. Otherwise the thorns will get stuck up with your garment, and you will be inconvenienced. It is said in the Vedas, ksurasya dhārā niśitā duratyayā¹. Just like we shave with a razor – the razor is very sharp. So if we can carefully handle the razor, we get our cheeks very clean and the business is done. Bu

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By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The word pāpa-yonayah means “born into a lower class.”  According to the Vedic system of classification, women, vaisyas, and sudras belong to a lower social order. A low life means a life without Krishna consciousness. High and low positions in society are calculated by considering a person’s Krishna consciousness. A brāhmana is considered to be on the highest plat

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Once upon a time during the culmination of Satyayuga, there lived a Brahmana belonging to the lineage of Muni Atri in Haridwara whose name was Devasharma. He was very Expert in the knowledge of the Vedas and its sub parts and was very regular in performing various religious practices.He had one daughter who name was Gunavati, who was married to his disciple named as Chandra. Chandra was properly trained in the matter of sense control and was very dear to his father in law-Devasharma.

Once upon a

VTE Nectar of Instruction ONLINE Course

Dear Vaishnavas, Please accept my sincere obeisances. Jaya Srila Prabhupada! Guru-parampara ki jaya!

In 4 days from now (12th of November) we are starting with the Nectar of Instruction Bhakti Sastri online module. You are free to enroll to the module. As previously, we are keeping limited number of attendees in the class (30 max.)

For six weeks we will be discovering Srila Prabhupada's translation and commentary to Srila Rupa Goswami's Upadesamrita. Rupa Gos

Time was passing!

The sound of fans as usually was the prominent sound as like cars in Mumbai streets.

Every one of Devotees were sitting before the computer and doing their service.

But suddenly! All sound disappeared. It became darker.

And this peace told us that POWER HAS GONE!

-          Oh Gopinath!

-          Oh Madhav!

-          Oh Giridhari!

-          Oh Govinda! …

And etc were the guilty responses of my friends according to their beloved Forms of Krishna.

Since our duty really was not

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“Receptive” implies being open to ideas and suggestions. 

It means you are inclined and willing to receive whatever it is that you need at that moment – data, creativity, a new idea, or whatever. It’s the opposite of being closed minded and stubborn. 

People who are receptive are willing to have a “beginner’s mind,” the willingness to learn, even if they are considered the expert. Because they are not defensive, these peo

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Even after the destruction of this body, consciousness is not destroyed. Rather, consciousness is transferred to another type of body and again makes us aware of the material conception of life. That is also described in the Bhagavad-gita. At the time of death, if our consciousness is pure, we can be sure that our next life will not be material -- our next life will be spiritual. If our consciousness is not pure at the

-          Stop! Stop! Please wait!

Shouting in this way one aged Devotee came running to the bus. But because bus waited for him for another several minutes another senior Devotee within the bus spoke to him with anger.

It was noon time. As usually in yatras in the morning Devotees are taken to the places of pilgrimage and in the noon time they have to be on time for noon Prasadam. If someone is late then there won’t be any Prasadam left.

So this time this bus was late and all Devotees were ang

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Krishna can be in constant companionship with us because He is omnipotent. Therefore, He can be fully in touch with us by His words. His words and He are not different. That is omnipotence. Omnipotence means that everything relating to Him has the same potency. For example, here in this material world, if we are thirsty and we want water, simply repeating "Water, water, water, water," will not satisfy our thirst, becaus

Priest: Do you have what I might call a training in contemplation?

Srila Prabhupada: We worship God in nine ways. One is smaranam, remembering God's activities. That is contemplation.

Priest: You know, in Christian mysticism we have a process of contemplation that St. Theresa of Avila described in her book Interior Mansion. Anybody is able to make an ordinary prayer, but the real mystic prayer is not given to everyone.

Srila Prabhupada: Our mystic prayer is to think of God's activities. Anyone can

Srimad-Bhagavatam 5.5.26 Lecture
Vrindavana, November 13, 1976

Pradyumna: "My dear sons, you should not envy any living entity, be he moving or nonmoving. Knowing that I am situated in them, you should offer resects to all of them at every moment. In this way you offer respect to Me." [SB 5.5.26]

Prabhupada: You read the purport.

Pradyumna: "In this verse the word vivikta-drgbhih, meaning "without envy," is used. [break] ...living entities are the abode of the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His

ALL GLORIES TO SRILA PRABHUPADA

siksa-guruke ta'jani krsnera s varupa
antaryami, bhakta-srestha,--ei dui rupa

Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami states that the instructing
spiritual master is a bona fide representative of Sri Krishna. Sri Krishna
Himself teaches us as the instructing spiritual master from within and
without. From within He teaches as Paramatma-, our constant companion,
and from without He teaches from Bhagavad-gita as the instructing
spiritual master. There are two kinds of instructing s

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

By His Divene Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The Devotee Community at Bhaktivedanta Manor, London

Everyone who has accepted a material body must maintain the necessities of the body by acting or earning some livelihood. A devotee should only work for such income as is absolutely necessary. He should be satisfied always with such income and should not endeavor to earn more and more simply to accumulate the unne

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

If you want to be a happier, less-stressed person, there is no better place to start than with becoming aware of “anticipatory thinking,” or an imagined future.

Essentially, this type of thinking involves imagining how much better your life will be when certain conditions are met – or how stressful, or difficult something is going to be at some point down the road. 

Typical anticipatory thinking sounds something like this