• Krishna and His name are non-different (Namo namino abhinatwa)
• The Lord's name has descended from Goloka (Goloker premadhana harinaam sankitan)
• Invested with the Lord's spiritual potency
• Purifies the heart and mind
• The chanting process is simple, sublime, and all-auspicious; even a child can take part
• Frees one from sinful reaction and material bondage;
• Chanting "Rama" gives the same result as chanting the 1000 names of Vishnu
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The opportunity to engage in sense gratification is also available in the hellish planets. Hence to engage in sense gratification in the human form of life especially when one has begun the process of devotional service, especially after one has been initiated into the process of Krishna Consciousness, is a very shameful act.
(Gopal Krishna Goswami, SB 7.9.43 – 45, 18.07.1983, Calgary)
One by one, the Vaishnavas of yore have departed from this world, thereby indicating to us to be more attentive in our search for our ultimate goal of life (paramartha). Our lifespan is extremely limited and yet, in spite of having the opportunity, facility, and knowledge of the path to Sri Krishna's Holy Feet, we are not endeavoring to fully immerse ourselves in bhajana. Under the impressions of many, many past lives we have forgotten our own identity. Instead, this body and all that is relate
We are actors in a play who have forgotten they are in a play.
gopyas tapah kim acaran yad amushya rūpam
lāvanya-sāram asamordh vam ananya-siddham
drigbhih pibanty anusavābhinavam durāpam
ekānta-dhāma yaśasah śriya aiśvarasya
"What great penance and austerities the damsels of Vrindāvana must have undergone, for they are able to drink the nectar of Krishna, who is all beauty, all strength, all riches, all fame and whose bodily luster is the center of all beauty."
The body of Krishna, the ocean of the eternal beauty of youth, can be seen to move in waves of beauty
by H.H. Bir Govind Maharaj at 4th May 2007
I mentioned that I would write about living longer in the present body. In order to understand this topic one has to understand the larger topic of how the material energy affects the bodies and minds of devotees, whether or not they are aware of it, or even in denial of it.
If we had the siddhis that yogis have, such as laghima, becoming light enough to float on a sunbeam, or mahima, becoming very big or heavy—and I am not talking about getting fat—or pr
Those who possess Krishna prem are neither enjoyers nor renunciants. They are not karmis, fruitive workers; neither are they gyanies persons cultivating knowledge of the impersonal Brahman. Those who perform activities opposed to scriptural injunctions honor karmis, who abide by scriptural injunctions and when karmis who are eager to enjoy the results of their endeavors see the external renunciation of gyanies and renunciants, they may be attracted to them. However, those who hanker for bhagavat
This story is taken from the Holy Biography of Nityalilapravishta Om Visnupada Paramahamsa 108 SriSrila Bhakti Dayita Madhava Gosvami Maharaja
Some ducks were swimming in a pond which was foul and stagnant. With great glee they were living by eating snails, worms, prawns, etc., in that putrid environment. One day, they saw their cousins flying overhead in the azure sky. They were in all respects, from feather to size, very beautiful. The ducks on the pond reasoned that the handsome appearance of
As many of us are convinced by Srila Prabhupada, “Simply by cleansing the cage of the bird, one does not satisfy the bird.” SB 1.2.8p Then natural question arises, “Can one simply by not cleansing the cage of the bird, satisfy the bird?”
Unfortunately this is not just joke, this is sad reality, what we are facing in so many situations by studying the real cases of Sri Sri Radha’s Krishna’s Beloved Devotees. Even Lord Sri Krishna is sad to feel this from inside and see this from outside, who we ar
"HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE. HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE."
I feel lucky and secured that it is my privelege to get the entry in ISKCON because for getting Ishwarprapti or moksha - of course Srila Prabhupada will be kind enough I should do maximum chanting and seva.
I need help of other devotees of Srila Prabhapada.
Abhoy Bhattacharjee
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 Krishna 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.
(His Holiness Gopal Krsna Goswami)
"A man just got married and was returning home with his wife. They were crossing a lake in a boat when suddenly a great storm arose. The man was a warrior, but the woman became very much afraid because it seemed almost hopeless -- THE BOAT WAS SMALL AND THE STORM WAS REALLY HUGE, AND ANY MOMENT THEY WERE GOING TO BE DROWNED. But the man sat silently, calm and quiet, as if nothing was happening.
The woman was trembling and she said, "Are you not afraid? This may be our last moment of life! IT DO
