SB 8.6.12 purport….In this verse, the cultivation of bhakti-yoga is compared to many material activities. By friction one can get fire from wood, by digging the earth one can get food grains and water, and by agitating the milk bag of the cow one can get nectarean milk. Milk is compared to nectar, which one […]
Hare Krsna– I have been studying the economic world situation lately and have been listening to one very smart man who very nicely explains world economics in a way the common man can understand and he sells gold/silver bullion and coins. As we all know Srila Prabhupada has also spoken out against paper currency as a form […]
Hare Krsna-please watch the 17 minute talk (above) from a German devotee who moved from the corporate world with a 6 figure income to one of simplicity by moving out of the city and growing his own food and following the advice of Srila Prabhupada The below texts- especially at the end -show us how […]
-Renunciants and great sages who see all living beings equally, who are friendly to everyone and who flawlessly practice in the forest the vows of brahmacarya, vānaprastha and sannyāsa desire to see the all-auspicious lotus feet of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. May that same Supreme Personality of Godhead be my destination. This verse describes […]
SB 8.3.1 purport…As explained later, Gajendra was formerly King Indradyumna, and somehow or other in his next life he became King of the elephants. Now Gajendra was in danger, and although he was in a body other than that of a human being, he remembered the stotra he had chanted in his previous life. Yatate ca tato […]
SB 8.2.29-O King, the elephant and the crocodile fought in this way, pulling one another in and out of the water, for one thousand years. Upon seeing the fight, the demigods were very surprised. SB 8.2.30-Thereafter, because of being pulled into the water and fighting for many long years, the elephant became diminished in his […]
SB 1.8.26-My Lord, Your Lordship can easily be approached, but only by those who are materially exhausted. One who is on the path of [material] progress, trying to improve himself with respectable parentage, great opulence, high education and bodily beauty, cannot approach You with sincere feeling. PURPORT– Being materially advanced means taking birth in an aristocratic family […]
SB 7.15.70—I had a beautiful face and a pleasing, attractive bodily structure. Decorated with flower garlands and sandalwood pulp, I was most pleasing to the women of my city. Thus I was bewildered, always feeling lusty desires. PURPORT-From the description of the beauty of Nārada Muni when he was one of the denizens of Gandharvaloka, […]
SB 7.15.25-One must conquer the modes of passion and ignorance by developing the mode of goodness, and then one must become detached from the mode of goodness by promoting oneself to the platform of śuddha-sattva. All this can be automatically done if one engages in the service of the spiritual master with faith and devotion. […]
SB 7.5.30–Prahlāda Mahārāja replied: Because of their uncontrolled senses, persons too addicted to materialistic life make progress toward hellish conditions and repeatedly chew that which has already been chewed. Their inclinations toward Kṛṣṇa are never aroused, either by the instructions of others, by their own efforts, or by a combination of both. April 16 1974 Bombay lecture—the […]
