Can somebody go back to Godhead without initiation? May 22 197 Melbourne Devotee 7: Prabhupāda, can a person go back to a spiritual planet without initiation? Prabhupāda: Huh? Devotee 7: Can a person go back to a spiritual planet… Prabhupāda: No, there is no more init… Initiation here required when the living entity is in darkness. […]
Sound- when it becomes material or spiritual May 21 1975 melbourne Madhudviṣa: When you were speaking with the priest yesterday, he was saying the chanting is material because it comes out of the mouth and it’s made like a material sound vibration. Would it be possible for them to run scientific tests on the chanting, the sound […]
May 14 1975 Australia– Prabhupāda: But therefore, there are two ways of living. One way of living is called material enjoyment, or sense enjoyment. This is one way of life. In Sanskrit it is called pravṛtti-mārga, “How to enjoy more, more, more, more, more.” This is called pravṛtti-mārga. That is going on. The whole… At the present moment the whole […]
Lectures : Bhagavad-gita Lectures : Bg 10: Lectures : Bhagavad-gita 10.2-3 — New York, January 1, 1967 : 670101BG.NY : Jñāne prayāsam udapāsya namanta eva and san-mukharitāṁ bhavadīya-vārtām. San-mukharitām means just try to hear about the glories of the Supreme Lord from the mouth of realized souls. Don’t go to the unauthorized persons. Now, how you […]
“I am in due receipt of your letter dated May 14th, 1969, and I have received a similar letter from Brahmananda also that you are finding some difficulty in keeping pace regularly with the routine work. My advice to you under the circumstances is that at least for one hour you must all go to have […]
SB 2.9.20 Answers by Citing the Lord’ s Version 17365/530501 There are many renegades from the Brahma-sampradaya whose only business is to make men more forgetful of the Lord and thus entangle them more and more in material existence. Such persons are never dear to the Lord, and the Lord sends them deeper into the darkest region of […]
Hare Krsna-below we have some verses/purports by Srila Prabhupada describing how the devotee should begin to meditate upon the Lord which begins with His Lotus Feet and corresponds to studying the first and second cantos of Srimad Bhagavatam. He also mentions (at the end) how if we are not free of gross sex life, then […]
Below we have two separate quotes from Jaiva Dharma(Bhaktivinode Thakur) which should prove to everybody the folly of “bad association”. There is a common saying-“the road to hell is paved with good intentions” and it also applies to us devotees who are in ignorance of all the very subtle aspects of this great Vaisnava philosophy. […]
“I am in due receipt of your letter dated May 14th, 1969, and I have received a similar letter from Brahmananda also that you are finding some difficulty in keeping pace regularly with the routine work. My advice to you under the circumstances is that at least for one hour you must all go to have […]
Dont be lazy to discuss siddhanta Allahabad jan 15 1977– And to pin our staunch faith in Viṣṇu, we should discuss about Viṣṇu-tattva . That is called siddhānta. Siddhānta boliyā citte nā kara alasa: “Don’t be lazy to discuss about siddhānta.” Ihā haite kṛṣṇe lāge sudṛḍha mānasa: “The more you discuss the thesis—not thesis; the factual presentation […]
