SB 1.8.26-My Lord, Your Lordship can easily be approached, but only by those who are materially exhausted. One who is on the path of [material] progress, trying to improve himself with respectable parentage, great opulence, high education and bodily beauty, cannot approach You with sincere feeling. PURPORT– Being materially advanced means taking birth in an aristocratic family […]
SB 7.15.70—I had a beautiful face and a pleasing, attractive bodily structure. Decorated with flower garlands and sandalwood pulp, I was most pleasing to the women of my city. Thus I was bewildered, always feeling lusty desires. PURPORT-From the description of the beauty of Nārada Muni when he was one of the denizens of Gandharvaloka, […]
Sri Ramanuja Avirbhava Tithi – Monday, March 29, 2018. [Mayapura,west Bengal. Bharat (above). the body of Ramanuja in Sri Rangam . (right) Ramanuja agreed to argue single handed.the king arranged a huge dias and open ground for 12000 jains.Ramanuja centrally seated over the dias should answer all queries. Ramanuja manifested as Adi Sesha with 1000 […]
SB 7.15.25-One must conquer the modes of passion and ignorance by developing the mode of goodness, and then one must become detached from the mode of goodness by promoting oneself to the platform of śuddha-sattva. All this can be automatically done if one engages in the service of the spiritual master with faith and devotion. […]
SB 7.5.30–Prahlāda Mahārāja replied: Because of their uncontrolled senses, persons too addicted to materialistic life make progress toward hellish conditions and repeatedly chew that which has already been chewed. Their inclinations toward Kṛṣṇa are never aroused, either by the instructions of others, by their own efforts, or by a combination of both. April 16 1974 Bombay lecture—the […]
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 […]
