“Lord Kṛṣṇa’s name is Madana-mohana, for He can subdue the god Cupid, or lust. Only by engaging in the service of Madana-mohana can one curb the dictates of Madana, Cupid. Otherwise, attempts to control the senses will fail.” sb/3/31/36 “If you increase your attraction for Kṛṣṇa, then naturally you lose attraction for sex. That is […]
Understanding our position 1.) SB 1.2.6-purport–The material existence of the living being is a diseased condition of actual life.Actual life is spiritual existence, or brahma-bhūta [SB 4.30.20] existence, where life is eternal, blissful and full of knowledge. Material existence is temporary, illusory and full of miseries. There is no happiness at all. There is just the futile attempt […]
April 15 1977 Bombay Prabhupāda: Simply fighting. They are not peaceful. That’s all. Where is peace? You’ll be surprised. During gas scarcity the gas was being supplied in Honolulu. This was in our presence. So the gas supply, whatever they had, distributed, and they had one sign board, “No more gas.” So next man was so angry that he […]
SB 10.7.1-2 King Parīkṣit said: My lord, Śukadeva Gosvāmī, all the various activities exhibited by the incarnations of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are certainly pleasing to the ear and to the mind. Simply by one’s hearing of these activities, the dirty things in one’s mind immediately vanish. Generally we are reluctant to hear about the […]
Madhya 16. 156-168 When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu finally arrived at the border of the state of Orissa, a government officer came there to meet Him. For two or four days, the government officer served the Lord. He also gave the Lord detailed information of what was ahead. He informed the Lord that the territory ahead was ruled by a […]
This week we had two Gaura Purnima Festivals-our ashram and another one down the road in another city. This report is of this second one on Sunday, a few days later. Hare Krsna damaghosa das —————————– Sri Krsna Caitanya kirtan https://youtu.be/AnQ66UPQbYQ class on Gaure Purnima https://youtu.be/_p50_VFOpNo Parama Karuna bhajan https://youtu.be/uPPJySDRMk0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrpSPQszILw SB 2.3.22-The eyes which do not look at the symbolic representations of the Personality of Godhead Vishnu [His forms, name, quality, etc.] are like those printed on the plumes of the peacock, and the legs which do not move to the holy places [where the Lord is remembered] are considered to be like tree […]
1.)-SB -3.5.2-Vidura said: O great sage, everyone in this world engages in fruitive activities to attain happiness, but one finds neither satiation nor the mitigation of distress. On the contrary, one is only aggravated by such activities. Please, therefore, give us directions on how one should live for real happiness. PURPORT–Vidura asked Maitreya some common questions, which […]
(Srila Prabhupada Lecture, Honolulu, January 20, 1974) “If you love these material things, then you should know that you are not in love with God. If you are in love with God, then you’ll forget material love. That is the test. Bhaktiḥ pareśānubhavo viraktir anyatra syāt (SB 11.2.42). Bhakti, love of Godhead, the symptom is that he’s no more […]
SB 7.2.57 purport- Yamarāja once asked Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira, “What is the most wonderful thing within this world?” Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira replied (Mahābhārata, Vana–parva313.116): Hundreds and thousands of living entities meet death at every moment,but a foolish living being nonetheless thinks himself deathless and does not prepare for death. This is the most wonderful thing in this world.Everyone has to die because everyone is […]
