Lord Sri Krishna says, "My dear Arjuna, there are different classes of men. One class of men, they are sleeping. And another class of men, they are awake. They are not sleeping." And how is this so? This chanting, which we have performed just now, is the wakening process for the sleeping soul. The soul is sleeping, covered by this material body. These bodily activities are in the sleeping stage. Just as we see dreams in the sleeping stage, similarly, all these bodily activities are dreams. Just
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This human form of life is the most precious commodity. Because in this human form of life one can actually develop the rational thinking to be able to judge what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is bad, what is moral and what is immoral, what is ethical and what is unethical.
(H H Bhakti Swaroop Damodar Swami, 1980, San Francisco, California, USA)
Cawnpore
12 July, 1947
47-07-12
Mahatma Gandhijee
Bhangi Colony
New Delhi.
Dear Friend Mahatmajee,
Please accept my respectful Namaskar. I am your unknown friend but I had to write to you at times and again although you never cared to reply them. I sent you my papers "Back to Godhead" but your secretaries told me that you have very little time to read the letters and much less for reading the magazines. I asked for an interview with you but your busy secretaries never cared to reply this. Anyway as
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His request approved, the CNN News photographer quickly used a cell phone to call the local airport to charter a flight.
He was told a twin-engine plane would be waiting for him at the airport. Arriving at the airfield, he spotted a plane warming up outside a hanger.He jumped in with his bag, slammed the door shut, and shouted, 'Let's go'.
The pilot taxied out, swung the plane into the wind and took off. Once in the air, the photographer instructed the pilot, 'Fly over the valley and make l
You write to say that simply you want to surrender, but according to the preface of T.L.C. you'll find that surrender means
(1) To Act favorably to develop Krishna Consciousness;
(2) To reject everything unfavorable;
(3) To have full faith in Krishna that He will give protection to His pure devotee;
(4) To keep oneself as one of the dependent devotees of the Lord;
(5) To have no separate interest besides the interest of the Lord;
(6) To always feel meek and humble.
These six things are surrender, And
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Question to Radhanath Swami: How exactly does this chanting of God's holy names work?
Radhanath Swami: It begins by regular chanting, like treatment begins with regular intake of medicines. And then we try to go deeper into the holy name by living according to the qualities of a true devotee, i.e. to live our life with humility, with tolerance and forgiveness, offering honor and respect to others, while demanding no respect for ourselves. We should live by the principles of morality, we should li
Question to Radhanath Swami: When only in distress one is able to pray from the heart, otherwise those prayers spring from the mind, and are mechanically offered. Why is it so? Why only in distress does the mind shut down and allow us to pray from the heart?
Radhanath Swami: What you are talking about is sometimes human nature. But we should cultivate a higher standard.
When you are successful and everything is going your way, you could thank God for the blessings. "I don't deserve this. Yet, you
We urge everyone throughout the entire world to chant the holy names of God for achieving the perfection of existence. We are not meant to suffer at all. Suffering is artificial. We are meant by nature to be completely peaceful, happy, satisfied, and successful. Chanting the holy names of God is the way prescribed in the Brihad-Naradiya Purana for attaining our natural, original perfect consciousness:
harer nama harer nama
harer namaiva kevalam
kalau nasty eva nasty eva
nasty eva gatir anyatha
"In th
Indebted to the sun.
So we are so much indebted to the sun, to the moon, to the heavenly king, because they are supplying our necessities. The Indra sends the cloud. By the electrical action... We have got experience. And the cloud gives you sufficient rain. Ghanavad vatarhit(?). Most munificent. The cloud gives you rain even where you do not require. On the hill you do not require, on the ocean you do not require, but when there is cloud, there is no miserly behavior. "Take even samudra, you tsaid: "but I am not ready" and death said:"well you're next on my list.
So the guy told death: "ok why don't you take a sit and I will get you
something to eat before we go", and death said "all right then".
The guy gave death some food with sleeping pills in it, death finished eating and
fell asleep and the guy removed his name from top of the list to the
bottom of the list so when death woke up he said to the guy: "I will sta
Devotee: "We would like to know what would please you the most."
Prabhupada's reply was brief and to the point. "Understand Bhagavad-gita and Srimad-Bhagavatam, become perfect and distribute this knowledge to your fellow countrymen."
(Sunday, 25 April 1976 - From "The Great Transcendental Adventure")
Srila Prabhupada's letter to H.H. Tamala Krsna Maharaja, Bombay 28th December 1974: "I
was extremely pleased to hear your report from your travelling buses. It sounds as if your program is very very wo
Krsna Balram
If one engages only in caring for the necessities of the body, not caring for the eternal necessities of life, then he is part of a civilization whose advancement puts the living entities in the darkest region of ignorance. Sleeping in that darkest region, one does not get any refreshment, but, rather, gradually becomes fatigued. He invents many processes to adjust this fatigued condition, but he fails and thus remains confused. The only path for mitigating his fatigue in the struggl
Early in the morning, around 1.30am, Bali-mardana awoke to hear Srila Prabhupada ringing his bell. Running into the room, he found Prabhupada sitting behind a small bookstand, his large volume of Srimad-Bhagavatam open in front of him. The whole room was dark, save for the light of the desk lamp.
Bali-mardana: Srila Prabhupada was wearing his glasses and he motioned me to come closer. It turned out that he didn't need anything, but rather he wanted to talk to m
asisrpsoh purah purya
nabhi-dvaram apanatah
tatrapanas tato mrtyuh
prthaktvam ubhayasrayam
asisrpsoh -- desiring to go everywhere; purah -- in different bodies; puryah -- from one body; nabhi-dvaram -- the navel or abdominal hole; apanatah -- was manifested; tatra -- thereupon; apanah -- stopping of the vital force; tatah -- thereafter; mrtyuh -- death; prthaktvam -- separately; ubhaya -- both; asrayam -- shelter.
The Fate Of Modern Man
We are 5000 years into Kali Yuga, we still have another 427,000 years to go before Lord Krishna appears on a white horse as Lord Kalki to end this age.
The following statements are from the Srimad Bhagavatam canto 12, which was written more than 5000 years ago. These are the predictions for the current age of Kali Yuga. Having read the predictions you will see that the Vedic scriptures are infallible. Every prediction is becoming a reality. The recent Tsumani, and Katrina na
There is a little story, very interesting. So one poor boy, he was student
in a school, and the teacher’s annual ceremony of father’s death would be
held. So he requested all his student, “What you will give me,
contribution?” Formerly the teacher was not taking any salary. But whatever
he wanted, the students will bring either from parents’ house or by begging.
That was the system. The teacher would not charge anything. A brahmana
cannot be…, charge anything.
So this teacher, t
