The unavoidable reality is that this material world is a blazing inferno of misery and that we are presently stuck in it burning endlessly in the cycle of birth and death. We may not like to hear this news thinking that it is too negative or too depressing, but the most liberating and ecstatic thing is to precisely know what is real. Knowledge of the truth is empowering and liberating. It is not stifling. Just like if we become diseased, if we know precisely what is our disease, we can then take
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I am beside myself with grief and am speechless while trying to digest the reality that His Grace Gopiparanadhana Prabhu has been taken away by Krishna. Krishna’s plan is always perfect but when it manifests in the passing away of such an intimate, loving Godbrother as Gopiparanadhana Prabhu it is painful. But our solace is in our deep confidence that he has attained the ultimate perfection of life, entrance into Radha Giridhari’s eternal lila.Gopiparanadhana Prabhu was an all-attractive persona
In Bhagavad-gita it is recommended that even though one enters the renounced order of life, he still cannot give up the performance of yajna, dana and tapasya. They are never to be given up. Tapasya is meant for the renounced order of life; those who are retired from worldly activities should perform tapasya, penances and austerities. Those who are in the material world, the ksatriyas and vaisyas, must give charity. Brahmacaris, in the beginning of their lives, should perform different kinds of
Question: Self-Confidence for a Devotee? |
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Dear Guru Maharaja: |
raja-vidya raja-guhyam
pavitram idam uttamam
pratyaksavagamam dharmyam
su-sukham kartum avyayam.
"This knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct perception of the self by realisation, it is the perfection of religion. It is everlasting, a
