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Prabhupada: Karma-yogi means one who does everything for Krsna. He’s
karma-yogi.
Guest (1): One who does everything for…?
Prabhupada: For Krsna.
Guest (1): For Krsna.
Prabhupada: Just like you are doing, doing some work. For whom you are
doing?
Guest (1): For my own benefit.
Prabhupada: That’s all. So that is karma. But when you do the same
thing for Krsna, that is karma-yoga.
Guest (1): But (Hindi), if you do it for others, for Krsna, for
Krsna’s…
Prabhupada: Others… Others means… That is also a humbug. You
cannot do anything for others. You do everything for yourself. That is
a false propaganda. You see? That is humbugism. So either you can do
for yourself or for Krsna. That’s all.
Guest (1): I see. (Gujarati)
Prabhupada: (break) …become a slogan nowadays. Nobody does for
others. “For others,” “For the poor,” these are all humbug.
Guest (1): You think people are doing something hospitals, that is for
others?
Prabhupada: Yes. That is also punya-karma.
Guest (1): (Hindi) Helping these temples, hospitals…?
Prabhupada: Yes. Temple construction is different from hospital
construction. That is for Krsna.
Guest (1): But suppose somebody’s doing hospitals. Is it not for
others?
Prabhupada: Yes. But how many you can give shelter? A few. There are
so many suffering people. You cannot provide hospitals for all of
them. The hospitals are increasing, and the disease also increasing.
Guest (1): No, as you say that doing for others is humbug.
Prabhupada: No, no. Humbug means he cannot do it.
Guest (1): Accha.
Prabhupada: He cannot do it. He can do to his satisfaction only. That
is… That is also for his satisfaction.
Guest (1): I see.
Prabhupada: Because by opening hospital, you cannot stop disease. That
is not possible. Then what you are doing for the others? That is for
your satisfaction. Try to understand. Because you cannot do anything,
but still, you are wasting your time. That is for your satisfaction.
Guest (1): Naturally for myself.
Prabhupada: Yes. Hare Krsna. You cannot do anything. The hospitals are
increasing, beds are increasing, and the diseases are increasing. Then
what can you do?
Guest (1): We can do our own satisfaction.
Prabhupada: That’s all. (break) …done not meant for Krsna, that is
for his own satisfaction. Just like Arjuna wanted to become
nonviolent: “No, no, Krsna. I cannot kill my kinsmen.” That is a good
proposal. But that was his satisfaction.
Guest (1): That is very correct.
Prabhupada: Yes. That was his satisfaction. But Krsna wanted that “You
must fight.” And when he agreed to that, that is his perfection.
Before that, he was trying to satisfy he.
Guest (1): Yes. When he surrendered to Krsna, that was his…
Prabhupada: Yes, that is the only purpose of life. Anything that is
done, that is useless waste of time. Therefore Krsna particularly
said, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vra… That is ekam.
You try to satisfy Krsna only. That will give you perfection.
Otherwise your own satisfaction, that’s all.
Guest (1): Yes, very correct, very correct.
Prabhupada: Whatever you do, that is your satisfaction. That is karma.
Guest (1): But not yogi.
Prabhupada: No, karma. (break) …for your own sense satisfaction,
that is karma. And if you do it for Krsna’s satisfaction, that is
karma-yoga.
Makhanlal: Pure bhakti and karma-yoga considered to be exactly the
same?
Prabhupada: Exactly the same.
Prabhupada: Pure bhakti is above karma-yoga. Pure bhakti is above
karma-yoga.
Bhagavata: That is the difference between the Chapter Karma-yoga and
Karma-yoga in Krsna Consciousness.
Prabhupada: Yes. Pure, pure devotion means Sravanam kirtanam.
Guest (1): I read fifteen percent power cut from today in the state.
They have not able to do the service in electric. (break)
Prabhupada: …cut, cent percent. (break)
Makhanlal: …you’re performing, is the vaidhi-bhakti stage of…
Prabhupada: Yes.
Makhanlal: …of the sadhana-bhakti, the regulative principles.
Prabhupada: Yes, vaidhi-bhakti means regulative principles, and when
you are accustomed, automatically you perform, that is raga-bhakti.
Makhanlal: So vaidhi-bhakti is considered superior to karma-yoga then.
Prabhupada: No. Karma-yoga is better.
Makhanlal: Karma-yoga is better?
Prabhupada: Yes.
Indian man: Pure bhakti is superior.
Prabhupada: Pure bhakti is sravanam kirtanam. Sravanam kirtanam
visnu-smaranam pada-sevanam, that is pure bhakti. (break)
Yasomatinandana: …formed by anybody.
Prabhupada: Eh?
Yasomatinandana: Karma-yoga.
Prabhupada: Unless one is inclined to take to devotion, it is not
possible to take to karma-yoga. Who can sacrifice the profit?
Yasomatinandana: Does karma-yoga mean to follow exactly the sastras?
Prabhupada: Karma-yoga means yat karosi yaj juhosi kurusva tat
mad-arpanam.
Yasomatinandana: Doing only for Krsna.
Prabhupada: Yes. That is karma-yoga.
Devotee: Which means?
Prabhupada: “Whatever you do, the result give Me.”
Devotee: To Krsna.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Yasomatinandana: So we are also, those who are on the vaidhi-bhakti
(indistinct) on karma-yoga path because we are…
Prabhupada: Yes. They are acting under the order of the spiritual
master. That is bhakti-yoga.
Bhagavata: So when one follows the nine activities of devotion purely,
that is pure bhakti.
Prabhupada: Yes.
Bhagavata: Then when he’s following those nine activities, then he’s
superior.
Prabhupada: Eh? Continue reading →

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So this bhakti, it is not simply sentiment, but it is
to understand actually what is God. It is science of God. Otherwise
how it is said in the Bhagavad-gita that brahma-bhutah prasannatma?
One who has understood the Supreme, the Absolute, he is called
brahmana, brahma-bhutah. And the symptom is that… How can I
understand that he is a brahmana and has understood Brahman? The
immediate answer is brahma-bhutah. The test is, one who is completely
in knowledge of Brahman, the symptom will be prasannatma: he will be
always cheerful. There is no question of anxiety for him. That is
brahma-bhutah. Prasannatma na socati na kanksati. There is no
lamentation; there is no desire. That is brahma-bhutah stage. There is
no [material] desire.
.. And next, by becoming into brahma-bhutah stage, what are other
symptoms? Samah sarvesu bhutesu: “Oh, he is equal to everyone.” Then,
when one has attained this perfection of life, then he can execute
devotional service. Mad-bhaktim labhate param. And by that devotional
service, one can understand what is God.

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So that is not the way. Tarko apratisthah. If you want to
understand the Absolute Truth by your arguments, it is not possible.
Tarko apratisthah srutayo vibhinnam. Srutayo means scriptures. If you
want to understand the Absolute Truth by studying different
scriptures… Just like the Hindus have got their different
scriptures. They have got four Vedas, eighteen Puranas, Mahabharata,
Ramayana, Vedanta-sutra, 108 Upanisads, so many, similarly, in other
countries also, they have got Bible or Buddhist literature or
Muhammadan. They are all scripture. But you cannot conclude about the
Absolute Truth simply by studying scriptures. It is not possible.
Srutayor vibhinnah. Vibhinnah means there are different… Continue reading →

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Prabhupada: Gradually, you’ll understand Krsna,
by eating only. Krsna is not so easy to be understood, but we are
giving you facility to eat krsna-prasadam so that one day you can
understand this movement. This is the policy. Actually, that is the
policy. We are not poor-feeding. That is not our philosophy. Like
Vivekananda. Daridra-narayana-seva. No, we are not after that. We are
giving you prasadam. And that is fact, that by eating, eating, eating,
eating, you one day will become Krsna conscious. Simply by eating.
Because you are so dull, you cannot understand the philosophy. You
know the belly like the animals. So therefore we are giving facility,
“All right, fill up your belly, fill up your belly. And you’ll be
infected.” As you take foodstuff from a infected area, you become
infected with some disease, so this is Krsna infected, prasadam. You
take it, and one day you’ll be diseased with Krsna consciousness.

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Krsna is living everywhere–that is, that is the vision of the higher devotees.
Actually He’s living, but still, because we are in the lower
condition, we should know that here is Krsna in the temple. Krsna is
everywhere, but for us, because we have no such vision to see Krsna
anywhere and everywhere, therefore we should come here in the temple
and see Krsna, “Here is Krsna. Krsna has kindly appeared here in a
manner in which I can see Him. That is Krsna’s mercy.” That is temple.
We cannot see… Krsna has completely spiritual body, but we have no
eyes to see what is that spiritual body. Sac-cid-ananda-vigraha. We
are accustomed to see this material, jada, gross things. We can see
stone, we can see metal, we can see wood. We can see all these
material elements. But Krsna is everything. Therefore to be visible to
our imperfect eyes, Krsna has appeared in the stone form, but Krsna is
not stone. It is not that we are worshiping stone; we are worshiping
Krsna. But because we cannot see except stone, therefore Krsna has
kindly appeared in the form carved from the stone. This is the
conclusion.

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Jai Srila Prabhupada!

My dear Lord Krishna, great personalities and devotees in full Krishna consciousness always think of Your lotus feet and remain fully satisfied by drinking the nectar of transcendental bliss. The nectar which they constantly drink sometimes comes out of their mouths and is sprinkled on others as the narration of Your transcendental activities. This nectar coming from the mouth of a devotee is so powerful that if one is fortunate enough to take the opportunity to drink it, he is immediately freed from the continuous journey of birth and death. Krishna bk, Draupadi meets the queens of Krishna.

Hare Krsna to all

Pranams
All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Today, after the swell of around million touristas have left our town, we went to see the tulip fields close by to us. As one can see, so many varieties are grown here and this is only the tip of the iceberg in terms of what is available. Just before the tulips the daffodils appeared , yet another spectacular display of Krsnas amazing energy.
In the Bhagavad Gita it states–“Sarva kama dugha mahi” from the earth all our necessities are given to us.
When one looks at just the vivid colors present in these flowers, one could ask why dont we see those colors in the mud or earth? Yet that is where they all came from. How did all that color come from just mud?
We dont see those colors there, yet here they are in the flowers. Continue reading →

A Heart Touching Pastime Of Srila Prabhupada :

Sripada Hrdayananda Babaji Maharaja was born in Radha Kunda and has been a pujari for 78 years. He lives next to the Radha Damodara Temple. At the beginning of the interview, upon being asked if he knew Srila Prabhupada, Babaji Maharaja began to cry, “Never have I seen anyone do sadhana like he did. I have lived all my life in Vraja and I have never seen anyone like him. Prabhupada did many arduous things, he worked very hard there at the Radha Damodara Temple. At that time it was austere, undeveloped, and very muddy and dirty with no facilities.
“Many years later, when I heard that it was actually he who had been chosen by Caitanya Mahaprabhu to spread the Hare Krsna Maha-Mantra around the world, I was not surprised. Continue reading →

No way to calculate the value of accepting initiation from a bona fide spiritual master

Dear Ravendra Gupta,

Please accept my blessings. I have only recently received your

letter of February 6, 1974, due to travelling.

I am very glad to hear you are following my instructions by

chanting 16 rounds daily. In order to chant offenselessly, so that the

chanting will have the greatest effect, one must avoid the four sinful

activities. You have asked “How serious would it be for me if I should

miss the golden opportunity to become your initiated disciple?” You

should know that the value of accepting a bonafide spiritual master is

more than we can calculate. It is not a mere formality. Of course

everyone is encouraged to chant Hare Krishna, but until one gives up

sinful activities and becomes determined to serve Krishna through His

representative then the firm fixing up of devotional service will not

take hold, and there is every chance that one will fall prey to all

sorts of material desires and have to come back again in the next

life–and one cannot guarantee that he will be born in the form of

life he may desire Continue reading →

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aksara-dvayam. If anyone simply chants these two alphabets, ha,
ri–hari–then baddha-parikaras tena moksaya gamanam pratiti:
“Although he is a conditioned soul, his path for liberation is open.”
Yasya smrtya ca namoktva tapa-yajna-kriyadisu, nunam tam purnakam yati
sadyah vande acyutam ity adi-vacanam.(?) There is another quotation,
that yasya smrtya ca moktva tapo-yajna-kriyadisu. These are pious
activities: austerity and sacrifice, tapas, yajna, and kriya, pious
activities. Everything is done simply by chanting this Hare Krsna
mantra. There is no need of doing anything. Simply by chanting, one
can achieve the result of japa, yajna, and other ritualistic
performances prescribed in the Vedas. And this is specially advised to
the karma-kandiyas, those who are very much fond of performing
ritualistic ceremony. For them this instruction is specially meant,
that if you chant simply Hare Krsna mantra without any offense, then
you’ll get all the results of japa, yajna, and other ritualistic
performances.

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NoD 7 Hearing and speaking Srimad-Bhagavatam is the
religious process which elevates one to the platform of serving and
loving the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”

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atah sri-krsna-namadi
na bhaved grahyam indriyaih
sevonmukhe hi jihvadau
svayam eva sphuraty adah

Krsna, His name, His fame, His attributes, His activities…
Sri-krsna-namadi na bhaved… Namadi means “beginning from the holy
name.” So not possible… So if we keep ourself on the material
platform, then for thousand years we may chant, it will be difficult.
That is called namaparadha. Of course, holy name is so powerful that
even by chanting with offense, gradually he becomes pure. Therefore we
should not give up chanting. Any circumstances, we should go on
chanting Hare Krsna. But the warning is that if we keep us on the
material platform, then it will be not possible to understand Krsna,
His holy name, His attribute, His form, His activities. It will not be
possible. Continue reading →

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Bhakti yoga vs karma yoga

Who is a brahmana? And who can understand God?–SP

The “infection” of Prasadam– has entered….-SP

Importance of Deity worship and devotee Association–SP

Jai Srila Prabhupada!

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This Prabhupada Story- you are really going to like….

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