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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

When Śrīla Prabhupāda asked for questions (after delivering a lecture in Hamburg, Germany), one devotee asked if it was possible to become Krishna conscious in this very lifetime. “It is possible in one second, provided you are serious,” Prabhupāda said. “It is not difficult. Bahūnām janmanām ante jnānavān mām prapadyate: ‘After many, many births, when one is intelligent, wise, fully grown in wisdom, he surrenders unto

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

February 8, 1970

Dear Swamiji:

Thank you very much for your kindness in sending me your long and interesting letter of January 30, together with the last issue of Back to Godhead. So far I have had a few discussions with members of your society here, but they were not entirely satisfactory from my point of view. But now I have your much more authoritative letter, whereby the discussion moves to a h

So mind is the basic principle of another form of body. Therefore our Krsna consciousness movement is training the mind how to remain Krsna conscious at the time of death, because Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita, yam yam vapi smaran bhavam [Bg. 8.6]. Therefore in Bengali poetry there is a saying, bhajan kara sadhan kara mate janle haya,(?) means "You are doing everything in spiritual life, but everything will be examined at the time of death. How you have practiced your bhajana, sadhana, this wi

Value of Human life

 Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Matajis,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudev.

This human form of life is very rare to achieve. After going through 84 lakhs species of life and by the supervision of the Lord we get this human form and after getting the human form also, most of us spend the life without any knowledge of spirit soul.

• How should I increase my fortune?
• How should I pass the exam?
• How to impress my boss?
• How the earth moves around the sun?
• How beautiful the weather is today.

The list is endless. Throughout the day and throughout our lives we are either busy understanding as “How things work in this world” and “How can it be utilized to fulfill the mundane requirements of our life”. 

Do we ever bother to ask ‘Why’?

• Why should I earn money?
• Why am I working?
• Why someone in this world is born rich and      someone as poor

TEXT 31

Some may be born with extraordinary qualities whilst some may be too ordinary. Some may have magnetic persona while some may not attract the attention of others. Every individual possess certain qualities and do not posses certain other qualities. However one quality which is inherent in every living being irrespective of his caste, creed, religion, gender and wealth is his ability to love. Love is the innate quality of a soul.

Every soul has the ability to love and also be loved. Love makes us h

So we are not aware what is the aim of life. So Krsna is very kind. He therefore comes. He came just before the beginning of this Kali-yuga, the most fallen age, and left for us the Bhagavad-gita. And then, after Him, after His departure... It is said in the Srimad-Bhagavatam, "After departure of Krsna from this planet to His own abode, the principle of religion and knowledge, where it is kept?" So the answer is: "It is kept in the Srimad-Bhagavatam." Adhuna udita. So Krsna is nondifferent from

Realization of One's Ineligibility

Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Matajis,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudev!

We recently came across a powerful statement of Srila Bhakti Siddantha Saraswati Thakur Maharaj - "The root of it all is humility or the due realization of one’s ineligibility. If our unfitness for devotional service is revealed to us eith

Acceptance

I tried something different with my japa today.

This is a very crude attempt to describe it verbally.

Up until now I have been trying to think about focussing on the sound of the mantra and not getting caught up in my thoughts.

Often it feels like a constant battle. The current of my thoughts and emotions carries me out of the present moment, until I realize I'm not in the present moment and I bring myself back to the present, to the simple awareness of the sound of my voice, the syll

This is beginning of successful life. Adau sraddha, this sraddha, or this niscayatmika buddhi, or vyavasayatmika buddhi, is the beginning of spiritual life. If one has no faith in the words of the authorities, then he has no hope. Samsayatma vinasyati. Vinasyati means he does not get any chance to enter into spiritual life. We are in the material world. We are... Vinasyatsu. We are in an atmosphere of being finished. That everyone, we know. This body... I am concerned with this body, and the bod

Pearl Drops

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

January 23, 1970

Swami A.C. Bhaktivedanta

Dear Swamiji:

Thank you very much for sending me a copy of your letter to the Los Angeles Times, now also published in the Daily Californian. I think you will agree with me that apart from publicity, little is gained by discussing religious or philosophic issues through interviews and letters in the press; but allow me to make two brief observations.

First, I know that devotion to Kr

chanting hare krishna is very joy full and have my satisfaction and also unexpressed feeling i had ji

Fire of Bhakti - 5

Srila Prabhupada was sent by the Lord to fulfil Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s prediction "Prtvithe ache yata nagaradi grama, sarvatra pracara haibe more nama" - In every town and village of the world, My name will be heard. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura wrote in his Sajjona-tosani, “Soon there will be a time when the chanting of Krishna’s name will be heard in England, France, Russia, Germany and America.”

In 1965, at the age of 69, when ordinary persons are thinking of retirement, he left Vrindavan &