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In this material world everyone is looking for prestige, but no matter how much prestige they may accrue, they will still be completely humiliated by unavoidable death. And in due course of time all the reputations of even history's most prestigious heroes will vanish into oblivion. The pure devotees, on the other hand, are not seeking personal prestige. They simply desire to spread the name and fame of Lord Sri Krishna all over the world. But because Krishna desires that His pure devotees shoul

We should consider ourselves as the property of Supreme Lord Sri Krishna. This feeling will automatically subdue all desires for enjoyment of the material senses. Supreme Lord Sri Krishna is the embodiment of all transcendental mellows (rasas) so he is competent to accept the prayers of devotees of any of the different mellow.

Absolved of all kinds of material desires, whoever worships Supreme Lord Sri Krishna will surely get the opportunity to savor the highest order of the mellow of the transce

Sankirtan forces us to be very humble. Sankirtan gives us the opportunity to free ourselves from the false ego that has been building within us. When you do not go out on sankirtan, a lot of fat gets built on the body in the form of false ego, and that false ego further enhances the opportunity to develop material desires. Therefore sankirtan means dumping out our false ego. It is so unfortunate that sometimes devotees say, “” I am fried from sankirtan. I can not go out. I can not do this. I can

Malawi Africa discovers Prabhupada's books-Part 2

One of the most amazing encounters was this family of five who came and started looking at all the books. They looked intelligent and aristocratic. Father, mother and three kids in their early teens. I was just meditating that if a family like this took interest it would be really good for our movement here as they seemed highly placed in society. Then while I was explaining to them about the books I saw all members of the family picking up and r

Although it is very difficult to achieve the state of a pure devotee, still our sole aim should be to attain it. All the material practices are quite attractive and appealing but they do not constitute pure devotion. Without achieving the state of self-realization, pure devotional service cannot be attained.All the scriptures and all our previous Spiritual Masters have encoded the pertinence of chanting, while giving up material acts, material knowledge, meditation, sacrifice, fasts and penance.

We don't like to think about it, but death is coming at any minute. This material world is a cosmic death row situated in one corner of the vast unlimited spiritual sky. Everyone here must die sooner or later. There are no survivors. Since we know that death is surely coming, we should do everything possible to be fully ready for it, so what when it comes, it will not defeat us. For those who die in material consciousness death is a defeat because they are dragged down into the animal or plant k

Saturday, 16 January, 2010 This morning I was woken up at seven o’clock by my friend Marina. All this week I have a very hard schedule, I went to sleep late at night and I could hardly get up in the morning. Marina wanted that I met her at the station. I had to get up, to take a bath, to find my car (I did not remember where I had parked it, because I was tired). Thereby I should collect my thoughts and to pluck up my courage.

At eight o’clock I was at the station, I met Marina and we were very h