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 […]
1.) #8) A devotee must visit a Viṣṇu temple at least once or twice every day, morning and evening NOD Ch 6 2.)….The actual import of the verse is that one must see the form of Govinda if one at all wants to forget the nonsense of material friendship, love and society. (Below, is the […]
Conv Mayapur Feb 4 1976 Prabhupāda: They are all in the material world, karmīs. Karma–kāṇḍa,ritualistic ceremonies. Prahlāda Mahārāja has described them. What is that very word used? And meaning is "one who cannot control their senses." Avijita–indriya. Ajitendriyāṇām, ajita, "one who could not conquer the senses," they are called karmīs. Ajitendriyāṇām. So all these penances,silence, […]
Harikeśa: You so completely destroy the opposition, it’s very hard to say anything more. Prabhupāda: Yes. That you have to prove. You can eulogize your Guru Mahārāja, but you have to learn it and face the public and be strong to defend yourself. That is success. Not by praising your Guru Mahārāja. You’ll praise your […]
Pradyumna: "As long as one identifies himself as belonging to a certain family, a certain society, or a certain person, he is said to covered with designations. When one is fully aware that he does not belong to any family, society, or country, but is eternally related to Kṛṣṇa, he then realizes that his energy […]
Bhakti begins when is…, one is actually liberated from the influence of the modes of material nature. That is real bhakti. Otherwise, when you are, we are in training, that is called prakṛta–bhakta. Actually, we are in the material state, but we are being trained up, the Deity worship. This is, following the rules and […]
Hare Krsna to all Pranams All glories to Srila Prabhupada Below are 5 different quotes which explain how we can utilize everything we surround ourselves with and then connect these objects or persons to Krsna in some way of bhakti (devotional service) and thereby re kindle our original consciousness of God,Krsna-namely that everything is spiritual […]
Prabhupāda: Yes, we should not be very much proud that "I have created wonderful." Why? What wonderful? What? I am not a magician that I can create wonderful. Sometimes people, they give me so much honor. "Swamijī, you have created wonderful." I do not feel that I have created wonderful. What I have done? I […]
Kṛṣṇa says, kaunteya pratijānīhi na me bhaktaḥpraṇaśyati (Bg. 9.31). You just declare, "My devotee will never be vanquished by māyā." Māyā cannot do anything. Simply you have to become strong. And what is that strength? Chant HareKṛṣṇa Hare Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa Hare Hare, loudly. Yes. Woman devotee: What is māyā? I know that it’s attractive… […]
Hare Krsna to all Pranams All glories to Srila Prabhupada Recently I had the misfortune of taking some of my arotika paraphernalia to a funeral ceremony and– the ghee lamp got left behind. I dont think anybody realized how much I was missing that ghee lamp. Most devotees would think, its just a brass ghee […]
