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Çré Madhväcärya has brought our attention to this quotation from the Näräyaëa-saàhitä:

dväparéyair janair viñëuù

païcarätraiç tu kevalaiù

kalau tu näma-mätreëa

    püjyate bhagavän hariù

"In the Dväpara-yuga one could satisfy Kåñëa or Viñëu only by worshiping opulently according to the päïcarätriké system, but in the age of Kali one can satisfy and worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead Hari simply by chanting His holy name.

("Çré Caitanya-caritämåta Antya-lélä 7.12)

In this age of Kali, real reli

Our daily chanting of the Hare Krishna mahamantra on japa beads is the most significant event of our day. It is our daily opportunity to have a personal, private meeting with God. Therefore the mood in which we chant is of the utmost importance. If our minds are wandering somewhere else during our japa, it will be difficult to remember Krishna throughout the day, and our day will be a struggle. But if we fix our minds nicely on on the mahamantra during our japa meditation, it will be easy to rem

Touching Krishna's Kingdom

(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)

I am trying to share herewith a few of the points from the nectarean lectures given by Maharaja in June 2009 when Maharaja was here in Abudhabi on his way back to India from London. Maharaja was discussing the various qualities we have to develop so that we can enter into the Kingdom of Krishna. I am trying to post herewith a few of the points acco

Fire covered by smoke in Hypocrisy of Virtue all around.

A desire to dwell in a place to lose all pity desires, to miseries of this world.

A work to lose every materialistic opulence to your parallel delusions.

While living years in darkness born by ignorance.

When things seeming a circle and me running in it.

I don’t want to be stabbed again by illusions and fallibility.

O Supreme Lord! Hide me as I surrender in realm of your syllables.

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Only the dvijas (the brähmaëas) and the devas (the demigods) can be delivered from material existence by the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Whatever is spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead is a mantra and is suitable for delivering the conditioned souls from mental speculation. The conditioned souls are engaged in a struggle for existence (manaù ñañöhänéndriyäëi prakåti-sthäni karñati [Bg. 15.7]). Deliverance from this struggle constitutes the highest benefit, but un

Create a temple in your home and teach your family, how to come together to chant. The family that prays together stays together. When we pray, the holy name is a prayer; it is the most powerful prayer of the heart. And individually, we should train our consciousness to be in connection to the holy name from chanting of Japa, individual meditation and through this process of purification, our home is Vaikuntha, our life is the life of the devotee of God. It is very simple. And there is absolutel

Q. Both in spiritual life and also in material life people speak of attitude. What should be the approach of a spiritual aspirants towards other spiritual aspirants and with materialists? 

A. The answer to this can be found in a number of places, where qualifications of a madhyama adhikari are described. Amongst spiritual aspirants, there are those more advanced, those who are peers and those who are less advanced. In all cases, we should try to render service to thevaisnavas (devotees of the Lor

What kind of disease does greed inflict on the soul and what exactly is greed anyway?

A former investment banking securities salesman whose business was obliterated in the mortgage market meltdown lamented that the greed of others destroys many economic lives. Greed is simply the desire to want more than you have, he explained. “It’s a natural state.” He is right of course. But for some, so is murder and rape. The evolution of our species necessitates we don’t give into every natural desire.

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Many men come here and by their talents, earn huge amounts of money, but it remains here, and he goes alone with his works only to accept another different kind of body, forgetting everything behind. But if he acquires some spiritual assets it goes with him, and even if it is not perfect in this life, it begins again from that point in next life.

-By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada