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How to Make an Important Decision?

Question: How to Make an Important Decision?


Please accept my humble obeisances. 

All glories to Srila Prabhupada. 

May I ask you a question about decision taking? I have a situation in life when I should make a choice among  four options. The situation is related with my job and place of living. My place of living as well as my working area, professional duties, tasks and responsibilities could be changed very seriously depending on choice I will make. 

How it is possible to make right choice and t

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Reviving the World Religion

Formerly this entire planet was united in one global, peaceful, loving family. The head of government was at Hastinapur, near what is now New Delhi. There was only one global culture whose religion was service to the Supreme Lord. Now, since the advent of Kali Yuga 5,000 years ago, that one-world, spiritually centered culture has disintegrated, and a highly fragmented multi-national, multi-cultural, and multi-religious world society based on greed and exploitation has emerged.

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Fixed up on Spiritual Platform

Hrdayananda: What is the difference between God and ourselves and what
is the relationship?

Prabhupada: God is great; we are small. Otherwise, we the same. God is
also living entity; you are also living entity. God is eternal; you
are also eternal. God is full of bliss; you are also full of bliss. So
quality, there is no difference. Only difference in quantity. Just
like a drop of sea water. It is salty. So this means in the drop there
is salt. But the quantity of the salt in the drop is not equal to t

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Service to Pure Devotee

The Lord is so kind to us that He can be present before us personally
in the form of transcendental sound, but unfortunately we have no
taste for hearing and glorifying the Lord's name and activities. We
have already discussed developing a taste for hearing and chanting the
holy sound. It is done through the medium of service to the pure
devotee of the Lord.

Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.17 purport

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Keep cool headSrila Prabhupada had received a couple of letters from Tusta Krsna in Auckland admitting some personal difficulties. Tusta Krsna had decided to leave New Zealand and go and live on a farm in northern New South Wales. Srila Prabhupada had advised him to "keep a cool head under all circumstances", but made it clear that he was not happy that Tusta Krsna had left New Zealand. Prabhupada feared that without Tusta Krsna there, "the whole New Zealand affair would not go on"."Of course,"
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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 2 Text 14
yasyanuraga-pluta-hasa-rasa-
lilavaloka-pratilabdha-manah
vraja-striyo drgbhir anupravrtta-
dhiyo 'vatasthuh kila krtya-sesah


yasya -- whose; anuraga -- attachment; pluta -- enhanced by; hasa -- laughter; rasa -- humors; lila -- pastimes; avaloka -- glancing; pratilabdha -- obtained thereof; manah -- anguished; vraja-striyah -- damsels of Vraja; drgbhih -- with the eyes; anupravrtta -- following; dhiyah -- by intelligence; avatasthuh -- sat silently; kila
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"Grow More Food!": The Guyana Mood

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Here are some quotes by Srila Prabhupada on the Four Vaisnava Sampradayas.  They are organized first by quotes about all four in general, and then by individual line.



General quotes

 

"There are four Sampradayas from the beginning of the creation. One is called Brahma Sampradaya, and is coming down by disciplic succession from Brahma; another Sampradaya is coming down from Laksmi, called Sri Sampradaya; another is coming down from the Kumaras, they are known as Nimbarka Sampradaya; another Samprada

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Give Krishna to others

By HH Sivarama Swami

Thirty years ago I was doing the Prabhupada marathon at the Chicago
airport. One afternoon, we devotees were so intoxicated by
distributing books that we decided to show that one doesn’t have to
speak to sell books, that book distribution just depends on our state
of consciousness. So we didn’t speak.

Just after loading my bookbag with (20) maha books I tapped a man on
the arm and looked him in the eye. He stopped, expecting me to say
something. I didn’t. I put a book in his hand, p

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They Never Forget the Ecstasy

Question: What Happens to Fallen Devotees?


Please accept my obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

What happens to fallen devotees, that is those who are initiated into the spiritual life but being defeated by Maya go back to karmic material life?

your servant

Francisco
 


Answer: They Never Forget the Ecstasy


Srila Narada Muni,  the liberated space man, has answered your question as follows:

na vai jano jātu kathańcanāvrajen
mukunda-sevy anyavad aṅga saṁsṛtim
smaran mukundāṅghry-upagūhanaṁ punar
vihāt

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Living on the Verge of Death

In this material world, whether we like or not, everyone--young, old, and in between--is living on the verge of death because death can come at any moment even when we least expect it.  This means that whatever we may establish for ourselves here in this world is nothing more than a castle made of sand that will be completely washed away the next time the tide comes in. So whether one thinks that life ends with the death of the body or that one has an eternal existence beyond this body, there is

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Cow protection

Question: Vegans claim that we are contributing to factory farming and
calves being deprived of their mothers’ milk. How do we address this
argument?

Answer: There are two points here, first that a cow gives more milk
than a calf can drink, so it’s not necessarily that they’re being
deprived. However a calf should be able to drink its mothers milk, and
that happens when they’re being taken care of in a natural way in a
gosala. The calves drink their mothers’ milk and the cow gives more
milk. Also, if yo

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Purification from unwanted habits

By HH Sivarama Swami

Devotees often ask what the meaning of steadiness is: some consider
that chanting sixteen rounds a day and following the four regulative
principles means that one is steady, while others say it is steadiness
in one’s service; yet others give different variations of what they
consider steadiness to mean. But these things mentioned—regularly
chanting and regularity in serving—are physical symptoms that may or
may not indicate real steadiness.

Suddha-bhakti-cintamani deals with the sub

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Hare krishna Friends,

One old man was sitting with his 25 year old son in the train. Train is about to leave the station. All passengers are settling down their seat. As train started, young man was filled with lot of joy and curiosity. 
He was sitting on the window side. He put out one hand and feeling the passing air, he shouted, "Papa see all trees are going behind".
Old man smiled and admired son’s feelings. Beside the young man one couple was sitting and listening to all the conversation betwe
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Privilege of serving the Lord

Dhruva Maharaj: “Because of my state of complete foolishness and
paucity of pious activities, although the Lord offered me His personal
service, I wanted material name, fame and prosperity. My case is just
like that of the poor man who, when he satisfied a great emperor who
wanted to give him anything he might ask, out of ignorance asked only
a few broken grains of husked rice.”

PURPORT

In this verse the word svārājyam, which means “complete independence,”
is very significant. A conditioned soul does no

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Success of sankirtana

Wednesday, 1 November 1972 - Vrndavana

Prabhupada continued to speak on Nectar of Devotion for the whole month of Karttika. "We are preaching through the mercy of Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Caitanya Mahaprabhu has recommended that this process of Krsna kirtana go on. This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's blessings. Param vijayate sri-krsna-sankirtanam. So go anywhere and everywhere. Chant Hare Krsna mantra, and you'll become victorious. This is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's blessings. It is not ou
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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 2 Text 12
yan martya-lilaupayikam sva-yoga-
maya-balam darsayata grhitam
vismapanam svasya ca saubhagarddheh
param padam bhusana-bhusanangam


yat -- His eternal form which; martya -- mortal world; lila-upayikam -- just suitable for the pastimes; sva-yoga-maya-balam -- potency of the internal energy; darsayata -- for manifestation; grhitam -- discovered; vismapanam -- wonderful; svasya -- of His own; ca -- and; saubhaga-rddheh -- of the opulent; param -- supreme; pad
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Question: Krishna Consciousness Before Life's Sunset?


Gurudeva,
Namaste

I would like to ask the following questions:
 
I have an intense desire to awaken my original Krishna consciousness. But can it be done before the sunset of my life?

Is it a natural process to awaken my original Krishna consciousness?

If the original Krishna consciousness is eternal, full of knowledge and bliss, why is it that most of the people are after sense gratification? Is it due their karma from past lives?

What is the way-ou

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