What does it mean to be Krsna Conscious?? Dec 10 1975 Vrndavana conversation-– Hare Krsna-below is a very nice conversation where Srila Prabhupada sets us straight about what it means to be Krsna or God Conscious. If any of us were there during this pop quiz session, then I am sure many other answers could have […]
Madhya TEXTS 17.48-49 keha yadi tāṅra mukhe śune kṛṣṇa-nāma tāṅra mukhe āna śune tāṅra mukhe āna sabe ‘kṛṣṇa’ ‘hari’ bali’ nāce, kānde, hāse paramparāya ‘vaiṣṇava’ ha-ila sarva deśe TRANSLATION–When someone heard the chanting of the holy name from the mouth of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and someone else heard this chanting from that second person, and […]
Regarding propaganda against animal slaughter in BTG (Back to Godhead) magazine, please do not print any picture showing how a cow is being murdered in our BTG. This will pollute the whole atmosphere. We are not meant for moving anyone’s sentiment against animal slaughter, we are neither Buddhists or Jains, whose main propaganda is against […]
Krsna Book 2-29…three little tidbits of nectar from this one chapter in Krsna Book…. “When a person dreams at night, hallucinatory figures created by the dream are accepted as real, and the imaginary dream body is accepted as one’s real body. For the time being one forgets that besides the body created in hallucination, there is another, real body in his awakened state. Similarly, in […]
Hare Krsna Question- If some devotee does some tangible service, in good Krsna consciousness for some years, but later comes under the spell of maya,disobeying his guru, what is the result of his later “service”.? If he is not presently following all the orders of the bona fide spiritual master but thinks he is, does […]
Getting rid of unwanted weeds in the heart— Below we have a fairly good look at what happens to the practicing Hare Krsna devotee who does not take care to observe and stop any or all offenses he or she may be making in the process of trying to cleanse his or her heart, by […]
Hare Krsna-Below are some very interesting statements from Krsna Book Vol 2 where different parts of our philosophy are explained nicely. 1.King Yudhisthira wanted to establish that Lord Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and not just some extra ordinary super human being. 2.One who satisfies Gods senses, then his own senses becomes satisfied. […]
Hare Krsna This morning I was reading in the collected teachings book Vol #5—where Srila Prabhupada was saying that it is not astonishing that even by 1980 the majority of the population could be chanting Hare Krsna mantra. He said this on April 16 1972. So as many of us all know he left us […]
Oct 2 1975 Mauritius Brahmānanda: The acreage… For a cow to eat requires so many acres for that one cow, and then that cow is slaughtered and it only feeds a few men, whereas that same acreage could feed hundreds of men by grains. Prabhupāda: Yes. Devotee: Seventeen times.
Unless one is under the shelter of a realized spiritual master, his understanding of the Supreme is simply foolishness” quote from TLC LA July 13 1971—Prabhupāda: Unless one is prepared that “I am accepting somebody as my spiritual master. I must accept whatever he says,” if there is any doubt, that “I cannot accept his words […]
