Responsibility
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Here is a very strong piece of instruction from Maharaj’s diary.
The keyword is responsibility. Conditional souls are lazy. They have an inborn tendency not to accept responsibility. Especially there is a tendency in the conditioned soul not to accept responsibility for his spiritual growth, for improving himself. A person may be busy, busy, busy doing so many tasks putting in 70 hours a week, but if by doing so, he av
The modern civilization is that "Eat, drink, be merry and enjoy. Do not care for what is future life." That is condemned civilization. We should know that there is future life, there is birth after death, and we must be prepared.
By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
| nija nija bole jiva paya bhakti; bhakti labhibare sakalera nahi sakti. |
| "Those who get a chance to render devotional service by chanting of the Hare Krishna Maha-mantra do so because of their good fortune generated by previous pious activities (sukrti). Thus it is not possible for everyone to take up this process." |
| sukrti-janera bhakti drdha koribare; ailama yuga-dharma namera pracare. |
| "The advent of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu to preach and establish the chanti |
The word 'sraddha' (faith) in the above verse means 'sraddhabhasa' (the partial presence of faith). And why not? when faith is directed to the Lord alone and not to the Lord's devotees, such faith is called 'chaya' (shadow) or pratibimba (reflection). That is the faith of ordinary materialistic people. It is not the spiritual faith of pure devotional service. Because a bhaktabhasa (a person who is partially a devotee) has faith and worship that are material (prakrta) in nature, a bhakt
| prabhu bale, "jana 'laksesvara' bali kare? prati-dina laksa-nama ye grahana kare". (121) |
| satatam kirtayanto mam, yatantas ca drdha-vratah namasyantas ca mam bhaktya nitya-yukta upasate |
| satam ninda namnah paramam aparadham vitanute yatah khyatim yatam katham u sahate tad-vigarham |
| jara sraddha haya name sei adhikari jara mukhe krsna-nama, sei se acrai |
| desa-kala-awaucadi niyama sakala sri nama-grahane nai nama se prabhala |
| yajnanam japa-yajno 'smi |
| harer nama harer nama, harer namaiva kevalam; kalau nasty eva nasty eva, nasty eva gatir anyatha. |
| Purport by Srila |
| hare krishna hare krishna, krishna krishna hare hare hare rama hare rama, rama rama hare hare shodashaitani namani, dvatrimshad varnakani hi kalau yuge maha-mantrah, sammato jivatarane (I) |
| Purport by Sr |
| hare krishna hare krishna, krishna krishna hare hare hare rama hare rama, rama rama hare hare shodashaitani namani, dvatrimshad varnakani hi kalau yuge maha-mantrah, sammato jivatarane (I) |
| Purport by Sr |
