Guru means one who can deliver me from this duhkhalayam asasvatam [Bg. 8.15]. Maya... We are in the duhkhalayam asasvatam [Bg. 8.15], but under the influence of maya we are thinking we are living very very happily, or we not trying to solve the question. No. This kind of solution will not help you, because you have to die. Whatever you make solution, Krsna says, mrtyuh sarva-haras caham [Bg. 10.34]. If you don't agree to surrender to Krsna, "All right, make your arrangement. But at the time of d

Devotion at Work

By associating with those who have more faith or by praying to Lord Caitanya, Srila Prabhupada said we should cry for their bhakti and mercy. But if you are not able to cry for their mercy then we should cry that we are not able to cry for their mercy...and if you cannot cry for not able to cry for their mercy then you should cry for not able to cry for not able to cry for their mercy...... (HH Jayapataka Swami ,Sunday Feast Class, Tirupathi 21st Oct 2012)

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By Niraj Bidawatka

When the Pāndavas were living in exile, ayakśa asked Yudhisthira, the eldest Pāndava about the greatest wonder of the world. None of the other Pāndavas – Bhima, Arjuna, Sahadeva and Nakula – could answer this question. However Yudhisthira gave the correct answer. He replied that everybody is seeing that so many people aredying every day but still everyone is thinking that “I will not die”; this is the

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By Niraj Bidawatka

According to the Vedas, there are 8.4 million species of life and the conditioned soul is continuously passing through the different species according to his karma, under divine supervision. The Bhagavad Gita (2.22) says that just as one gives up an old shirt to put on a new one, the soul gives up an old body to acquire a new kind of a body (vasāmsi jirnāni yathā vihāya). Thus there are 8.4 million (84

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Conversations with HDG A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

One gentleman collected a dried up outer cover of a big squash thrown on the street, a bamboo stick and a wire. He combined all the three things and prepared a string instrument. He joined the bamboo with the dry cover of squash and fitted the string and it began to ting, ting, ting. It is called ektara. There is an instrument in India, which is called ektara. T

So actually we are in the darkness. This whole world is dark. It is... It requires, therefore, the sunlight, the moonlight, the electric light, the fire, the lamp, because it is dark. Because it is dark. But there is a spiritual world where here is no need of. Na yatra bhasyate suryo na sasanko na pavakah. In the Bhagavad-gita you'll find, na yatra bhasyate suryah. There is no need of this surya. There is no need of surya. Surya is required, the sun is required, because this world, material worl

Work and Devotion

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The advanced devotee who chants the holy name of the Lord in a perfectly offenseless manner and is friendly to everyone can actually relish the transcendental taste of glorifying the Lord. And the result of such realization is reflected in the cessation of all material desires, etc., as mentioned above.* The neophytes, due to their being in the lower stage of devotional service, are invariably envious, so much so that they invent their own ways and means of devotional regulations without followi

So this arca-vigraha which you are worshiping, it is recommended by sadhu, by acarya, by sastra. It is not poetic imagination. Don't think that Krsna's form has been carved by the sculptor by some poetic imagination. No. Sadhu sastra guru vakya. It is confirmed by the sadhu, by sastra, by acarya. So why? To give us facility. Give us facility. We cannot see God by this blunt, materialistic eyes. Materialistic eyes means everything we think in the, with reference to our sense gratification. That i

The following incident took place in late 1940s. An Indian citizen named Durga Yadhav was suffering from typhoid since many weeks. One fine day his body temperature went very low, he became cold and this continued for several hours. The doctor and his family members thought he was dead. But to everyones amazement Durga Yadhav came back to life again and shared an extraordinary experience with his family. He said when he was lying on the bed, one time 10 strange men  came to him. They pulled him

Effects of Vaishnava Aparadha

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Lord Nrsimhadeva Kills the Demon Hiranyakasipu There was once a great demon who was overwhelmed with rage: his brother Hiranyaksa had just been killed by the incarnation of Vishnu known as Lord Varaha. Thus he became very determined to become the emperor of the entire universe. In order to increase his power, he performed very powerful austerities. This penance was so severe that it disturbed the demigods. In fact, the demigods requested Lord Brahma to stop him. The chief of the demigods, Lord B