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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
ISKCON Chicago, 1974
Reporter: In Los Angeles, do you live in richness, do you have a car, and a
chauffer, and a yacht?
Srila Prabhupada: Why not? I am the guru of the richest country, why shall I
not have a car? If I am guru of the richest country, then why shall I not
have a car?
Reporter: So, you have one?
Srila Prabhupada: I have many. In each center I’ve got at least one dozen
cars. Just now I’m coming from Europe, Germany. They’ve got vans. They go
into the interior villages. Volkswagen? So our dev
Question: How to Do Perfect Japa? |
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What is the proper method, technique, or way of doing perfect japa? How one can avoid different kinds of thoughts while doing japa? |
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Answer: Precisely Follow These Instructions |
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The perfection of japa is to hear and chant each syllable and to call out to the Lord and His energy like a small child crying for its mother begging to be engaged in their pure devotional service. If you will totally absorb yourself in such a way, you will experience such a sweet taste |
Symptoms of one in illusion
When there is no illumination, knowledge is absent. One in the mode of ignorance does not work by a regulative principle; he wants to act whimsically, for no purpose. Even though he has the capacity to work, he makes no endeavor. This is called illusion. Although consciousness is going on, life is inactive. These are the symptoms of one in the mode of ignorance.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Bg 14.13
Symptoms of one chiefly under the influence of the mode of ignorance are lazines
utsisrksor dhatu-malam
nirabhidyata vai gudam
tatah payus tato mitra
utsarga ubhayasrayah
utsisrksoh -- desiring to evacuate; dhatu-malam -- refuse of eatables; nirabhidyata -- became open; vai -- certainly; gudam -- the evacuating hole; tatah -- thereafter; payuh -- the evacuating sense organ; tatah -- thereafter; mitrah -- the controlling demigod; utsargah -- the substance evacuated; ubhaya -- both; asrayah -- shelter.
We have all heard it at school in the science class… In the begining there was nothing… and from that nothing came a big bang, caused by no one coming from nowhere… It created all the mass of the universe completely by chance [according to Einstein's Theory]…
The mass then contracted and automatically formed all the planets and set them into motion, all orbiting around the sun [all by an impossibly unlikely coincidence!] Then some chemicals appeared from nowhere and mixed themselves together [onc
