SB 7th canto Chapter 14-Instructions for civilized human beings SB 7.14.36-The entire universe, which is full of living entities, is like a tree whose root is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Acyuta [Kṛṣṇa]. Therefore simply by worshiping Lord Kṛṣṇa one can worship all living entities. PURPORT…people are very much anxious to give service to other living […]
June18-1977-Vrndavana Upendra: The reason the original faith was placed in the scientists was because radio, airplanes, tape recorders have been manufactured, and people are impressed by these originally. Prabhupāda: So what is the benefit? Without radio, people were dying, or with radio they are not living? Upendra: They say they are living more comfortably. Prabhupāda: Nonsense comfortably… […]
This chapter describes the occupational duties of the householder according to the time, the country and the performer. When Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja became very much inquisitive about the occupational duties for the householder, Nārada Muni advised him that a gṛhastha’s first duty is to be fully dependent on Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa, and to try to satisfy Him in all respects […]
This short exchange between Prahlada maharaj and a saintly paramahamsa can teach us many things about how to go about our daily lives. The instructions are eternal or timeless as well as the benefits. Hare Krsna damaghosa das —————————- SB 7.13.31-Materialistic activities are always mixed with three kinds of miserable conditions—adhyātmika, adhidaivika and adhibautika. Therefore, even […]
Hare Krsna Pranams All glories to Srila Prabhupada So much panic and fear going around these days and I think devotees, especially should have more faith in the Holy Names of God, and Srila Prabhupada-and less listening to the karmi mudhas. Just consider this one statement by Prabhupada about how the Plague in Calcutta was […]
761102rc.vrn When men are uncivilized, they do not how to grow food, they kill animals in the jungle and eat. When they are civilized, they know how to grow food now and the nice food grains, fruit, flowers… Jan 15 1975 SF-..Not that for your foodstuff, getting your food grain or earning your livelihood, you have to […]
July 31 1975 New Orleans Devotee (3): But does he focus his mind upon the two-armed…? Prabhupāda: There is no question of focus or no focus. One who sees Kṛṣṇa, he sees everything. Yasmin vijñāte sarvam evaṁ vijñātaṁ bhavanti. There is no question of imagination. This is fact. What is that? Satsvarūpa:nāhaṁ prakāśaḥ sarvasya yoga-māyā-samāvṛtaḥ […]
https://prabhupadabooks.com/classes/philosophy/syamasundara/john_dewey Śyāmasundara: Today we are discussing the American philosopher John Dewey. Last time we were discussing William James, who is called a pragmatist. His philosophy deals…, believes that practice is better than theory. So this John Dewey is more or less a successor in this same line of philosophizing. He says that practical consequences are […]
The teachers Ṣaṇḍa and Amarka instructed Prahlāda Mahārāja in the three kinds of material advancement called religion, economic development and sense gratification. Prahlāda, however, being situated above such instructions, did not like them, for such instructions are based on the duality of worldly affairs, which involve one in a materialistic way of life marked by […]
Concentrated reading of Srila Prabhupadas books is a form of samadhi-smaranam The following purport is taken from SB 7th canto where Prabhupada describes the 9 process of bhakti (3) Smaraṇam. After one regularly performs the processes of hearing and chanting and after the core of one’s heart is cleansed, smaraṇam, remembering, is recommended. In Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam […]
