OBSTACLES ON THE PATH OF DEVOTION
Śrī Hari Bhakti-sudhodaya 10.46-50
After a minister of Hiranyakasipu preached toBhakta Prahlad to give up the worship of LordVishnu, Prahlad replied:
vtāni vighnai śreyāsi prabho sarvāi sarvadāśreyastamā kathā siddhyen nivirghnā hari-bhāvanā
O my master, there is no doubt that when-ever one does good, one meets obstacles. It isa fact that in order to perform any auspiciousact there will be many difficulties to overcome.So how can the most auspicious hari-bhajanbe pe
Whatever happened, it happened for good.
Whatever is happening, is happening for good.
Whatever that will happen, it will be for good.
What have you lost for which you cry?
What did you bring with you, which you have lost?
What did you produce, which has destroyed?
You did not bring anything when you were born.
Whatever you have, you have received from Him.
Whatever you will give, you will give to Him.
You came empty handed and
you will go the same way.
Whatever is yours today was somebody else’s y
CLAIMING TO BE GOD
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami Prabhupada
The conditioned life of a living being is
caused by his revolting against the
Lord. There are men called deva,
or godly living beings, and there
are men called asuras, or
demons, who are against the
authority of the Supreme Lord.
In the Bhagavad-gita (Sixteenth
Chapter) a vivid description of the asuras is
given in which it is said that the asuras are
put into lower and lower states of ignorance
life after life and so sink to the lower an
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Chapter-1 Bhagavad Gita
An Overview
1. In verse 1.1,The importance of Kurukṣetra has been described.
a. Kurukṣetra has been described as -Sacred place of pilgrimage -Also referred as dharma-kṣetra because on the Battlefield of Kurukṣetra, the Supreme Personality of Godhead was present on the side of Arjuna
b. The doubt of Dhṛtarāṣṭra has been described about the possibility of his sons' ultimate victory. So, he asked his secretary about the situation of battlefield. He was fearful
Srila Prabhupada came to lecture at Upsala University in Sweden. After the lecture a student raised his hand and said, "In his book Siddhartha, Hermeann Hesse says......" and he went on talking for sometime. Prabhupada let him speak and when he was finished, Prabhupada said,"Who is Hermann Hesse ?" At that time Hermann Hesse was popular. If you didn't know who Hermann Hesse was, you were nobody.
The student replied, "You don't know who Hermann Hesse is? He is the author of this and that."
Prabhupa
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