Hare Krsna-below we have a few descriptions from The Srimad Bhagavatam, Bhagavad Gita and lectures, of the actual characteristics of a mukta purusa, or liberated person-and only this type of person is liberated from the material energy, known as maya. As you can see, these qualifications are enormous and only a fraction of the qualities […]
“For a materialistic person, material wealth and opulence are only illusory. Actually they are not possessions but entanglements because by enjoying the material world a conditioned soul becomes more and more entangled by incurring debts for his present enjoyment. Unfortunately, a conditioned soul considers property for which he is in debt to be his own, and he is very busy […]
Its the Bhakti Krsna wants-There is no “Krsna must eat what I have made”—NO Hare Krsna-below we have a few instructions by Srila Prabhupada where he explains the rules of what and how to offer food to the Lord, who Krsna will accept this food from and who He wont accept it from. These are […]
Stopping the waves of material Desire SB 4.22.39–TRANSLATION–The devotees, who are always engaged in the service of the toes of the lotus feet of the Lord, can very easily overcome hard-knotted desires for fruitive activities.Because this is very difficult, the non devotees—the jñānīs and yogīs—although trying to stop the waves of sense gratification, cannot do […]
Hare Krsna-this is a very instructive purport by Srila Prabhupada for those devotees who are serious about really getting rid of all the dirt of material desire in the heart. And he explains the nature of that “dirt”, what it looks like and how to rid ourselves of these unlawful and illicit desires. damaghosa das […]
Unless one is under the shelter of a realized spiritual master, his understanding of the Supreme issimply 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 accepthis words verbatim,” then one should not accept him as spiritual master. […]
SB 3.9.7-O my Lord, persons who are bereft of the all-auspicious performance of chanting and hearing about Your transcendental activities are certainly unfortunate and are also bereft of good sense. They engage in inauspicious activities, enjoying sense gratification for a very little while. PURPORT-The next question is why people are against such auspicious activities as […]
►760423rc.mel Conversations Prabhupada: Production…. You take the total land as God’s property, and all the population, they are sons of God. Then whole problem solved. Everything solved. If economic problem is solved, then social, political, religious, philosophical, everything is solved.
SB 6.2.5-6–Translation-People in general are not very advanced in knowledge by which to discriminate between religion and irreligion. The innocent, unenlightened citizen is like an ignorant animal sleeping in peace with its head on the lap of its master, faithfully believing in the master’s protection. If a leader is actually kindhearted and deserves to be […]
The results of breaking the 4th regulative principle- no gambling and no speculation Adi 7.107–TRANSLATION “The material defects of mistakes, illusions, cheating and sensory inefficiency do not exist in the words of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. PURPORT A mistake is the acceptance of an object to be different than what it is or the […]
