No way to calculate the value of accepting initiation from a bona fide spiritual master Dear Ravendra Gupta, Please accept my blessings. I have only recently received your letter of February 6, 1974, due to travelling. I am very glad to hear you are following my instructions by chanting 16 rounds daily. In order to chant […]
710110SB.CAL Lectures 229576/530501 aksara-dvayam. If anyone simply chants these two alphabets, ha, ri–hari–then baddha-parikaras tena moksaya gamanam pratiti: “Although he is a conditioned soul, his path for liberation is open.” Yasya smrtya ca namoktva tapa-yajna-kriyadisu, nunam tam purnakam yati sadyah vande acyutam ity adi-vacanam.(?) There is another quotation, that yasya smrtya ca moktva tapo-yajna-kriyadisu. These […]
NoD 7 Hearing and speaking Srimad-Bhagavatam is the religious process which elevates one to the platform of serving and loving the Supreme Personality of Godhead.” 750628SB.DEN Lectures 227240/530501 atah sri-krsna-namadi na bhaved grahyam indriyaih sevonmukhe hi jihvadau svayam eva sphuraty adah Krsna, His name, His fame, His attributes, His activities… Sri-krsna-namadi na bhaved… Namadi means […]
Story Why Cow Killing Started in India Share it now! Those were the times when India was at the peak of Mughal Rule. The rulers of a large part of India were Muslims and guess what; they had banned Cow Slaughter in that Mughal Empire. Nobody dared to kill cows and eat beef during the Muslim Empire. The Mughal […]
Hare Krsna to all Pranams All glories to Srila Prabhupada To pursue material life means that one has given up the desire to go back to Godhead, by trying to make for himself, thru plan making, a comfortable situation within this universe. That said, here are a few things given by Jagat Guru Srila Prabhupada about […]
Hare Krsna to all Pranams All glories to Srila Prabhupada Below are a few points about the basics of Krsna Consciousness.This means we are originally servants, and to regain this mentality one must chant Hare Krsna mantra. The problem arises when we add our “own” twist to the tune…. ————————- 67-10-14.Bra Letter: Brahmananda “Swami Kirtanananda […]
Kuresh, the famous, intimate disciple of Srila Ramanujacharya once asked his guru the meaning of the well-known Bhagavad-gītā verse 18.66: sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja ahaṁ tvā sarva-pāpebhyo mokṣayiṣyāmi mā śucaḥ “Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto me. I will deliver you from all sinful reactions. Do not fear.” Yudhisthir hears […]
KB 15 Killing of Dhenukasura Krsna then spoke to His elder brother Balarama as follows: “My dear brother, You are superior to all of us, and Your lotus feet are worshiped by the demigods. Just see how these trees, full with fruits, have bent down to worship Your lotus feet. It appears that they are […]
Hare Krsna to all Pranams All glories to Srila Prabhupada Below we have put three different things together. 1 Prabhupada explaining how spiritual life is easily done. Take the dust from a pure devotees lotus feet and then–all our anarthas will be finished ! 2. Krsna is in everyones heart- and especially for the devotee we should not give […]
760210SB.MAY Lectures 232164/530501 Krsna says in the Bhagavad-gita, mattah parataram nanyat. Nobody is greater in every respect. Not that “Krsna is shorter at least in this respect.” He is shorter in one respect, that He could not repay back the obligation He received from the gopis. He was only shorter to the gopis. That is His […]
