Question: Why Our Wishes Are Not Granted? |
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Answer: Get What You Deserve, Not What is Desired |
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Our prayers are granted in accordance with what we deserve, not what we desire. |
Question: Why Soul First Gets a Material Body? |
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Gurudeva, |
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Answer: He Desires to Enjoy the Lord's Energy |
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When the pure living entity in the spiritual world misuses his minute independence by desiring to lord it over the e |
Question: Liberated Soul Can Become Conditioned? |
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it is said that we have an eternal relationship with Lord Krishna. This means we had this relationship from time immemorial. Now let us consider a particular time when we were conditioned. Does this not mean that we were previously liberated? So, how can someone be conditioned after liberation? If we were conditioned from the beginning, then how can we say, "back to Godhead"? If we can be conditioned even after liberation, what is the meaning of "s |
 Rama
rodanair gokule davanalam asayati hyasau
visosayati tenokto ramo bhakta-sukhavahah
When the residents of Gokula were crying due to fear of the forest fire, Krsna immediately swallowed it and gave His devotees great joy. In this way, He is known as Rama. Jiva Goswami |
 Rama
ramayaty-acyutam premna nikunja-vana-mandire
rama nigadita radha ramo yutas taya punah
Radharani is known as Rama because She enjoys loving pastimes with Acyuta (Krsna) in a secret forest pavilion. Since He is always by Her side, He is known as Rama. Jiva Goswami |
One who has unflinching devotion for the Supreme Lord and is directed by the
spiritual master, can see the Supreme Personality of Godhead by revelation. For
one who does not take personal training under the guidance of a bona fide
spiritual master, it is impossible to even begin to understand Krsna.
By H.D.G Srila Prabhupada
Namacharya Srila Haridas Thakur Ki Jay...
Today is the Disappearance Day of Namacharya Srila Hari Das Thakur.
ricikasya muneh putro namna brahma mahatapah
prahladena samam jato haridasakhyako’pi san
murari-gupta-caranaish caitanya-caritamrite
ukto muni-sutah pratas tulasi-patram aharan
adhautam abhishaptas tam pitra yavanatam gatah
sa eva haridasa san jatah parama-bhaktiman
Hari Das Thakur is a combined incarnation of Brahma Mahatapa, the son of Richika Muni and Prahlad. The respected Murari Gupta ha
The whole business of spiritual life is to give up material desires, and if you are maintaining material desires in spite of chanting the Hare Krsna mantra, then spiritual progress will become very very difficult. This is comparable to someone who is trying to light fire and pour water on it at the same time. That is not possible.Freedom by surrender
by H.H. Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj
SURRENDER
My mind, my body, my hearth and shore,
I offer it to your lotus feet, o Nandakishore.
In goodtimes or badtimes in life or in death,
Of your two merciful feet, I am in debt.
Kill me or protect me its your wish alright,
As I am your eternal servant it is your supreme right.
If I do have to take birth again,
O lord, let it be in a devotee’s home, I Yen.
Life as a worm, surrendered at your lotus feet, I desire.
Rather than Lord Brahma’s birth inimical to you, my sire.
Free from the desire for enjo
SECTARIAN PREJUDICE
Srila
Thakur BhaktivinodeSri Caitanya-siksamirta 3.3
To be controlled by prejudice causes manyproblems. From prejudice arises partiality;from partiality comes disrespect for truth.
Wearing the signs of the vaishnava is one ofthe methods of cultivating devotion, involving the body. But to think that that is the distinguishing characteristic of a vaishnava is aprejudice arising from sectarianism.
Controlled by such false beliefs, a person may not respect a real vaishnava who is no
"The actual consciousness that one needs to achieve is nirmama and nishkinchana , to have nothing. Having nothing can be achieved by a grihastha if he accepts everything as Krishna's.
Bhaktivinod Thakura prayed,''Manasa deho geho, jo kichu mora, arpilo tua pade Nanda Kishore", "My mind, my body, my household, whatever normally one would consider their's, whatever it may be, I am simply offering at your Lotus Feet, Nanda Kishore. Everything is Yours."
If someone takes up their service in
Sri Siksastakam: songs of Srila Bhaktivinode Thakura
7th August 2011
Venue: ISKCON Radhadesh, Belgium
What we have understood so far is that chanting the Holy Name is the way to
achieve ultimate
perfection. We become what we actually are. The process is simple: we are
spirit souls and by chanting we regain our actual spiritual identity.
But there is a factor that makes it difficult: maya, or illusion. We are
spirit souls, but forgetting our actual identity we think that we are this
body. Maya means that
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura was born on Sunday, Sept. 2, 1838 in Biranagara
(Ulagrama) in the Nadia district of Bengal. He was the seventh son of Raja
Krsnananda Datta, a great devotee of Lord Nityananda. He was also known as the
great grandson of Madana Mohana and the third son of his Godfather
Anandacandra. He would be known as daitya-kulera prahlada (Prahlada in the
family of demons). This was because Vaisnavism was not very much respected in
his family; on his mother's side, there was
BHAKTIVINOD THAKUR reestablished the teachings of Lord Chaitanya which by then had been largely misrepresented or lost. Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur wrote almost one hundred books to explain the science of Krishna consciousness expose pseudo incarnations of God, and defeat misconceptions about the path of devotional service. Srila Bhaktivinod Thaknr was both an active preacher and the Deputy Magistrate for Jagannath Puri, Orissa, as well as the father of ten children. One of his sons was Srila Bhakt
