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Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks |
The whole New York City is flooded with the snow, and we are all put into inconvenience. That's a sort of suffering. But you have no control. You cannot stop snow falling. |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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You must hear about the Supreme Personality of Godhead and nothing more. That should be your profession. Then what will be the result? The result will be sthane sthitah. |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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Story of Narada Muni and the cobbler. |
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There is a nice story about Sanatana Gosvami, of whom we are now studying. Sanatana Gosvami and Rupa Gosvami, two brothers, they went to Vrndavana for devotional service. |
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Saksi-gopala. |
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By the order of the sastra, by the guidance of the spiritual master, you are being trained up as apprentice. This is called abhidheya - practice. |
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Bilvamangala Thakura voluntarily made himself blind. |
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Bilvamangala and the prostitute Cintamani. |
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Cut coat tail is the latest fashion. |
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I will give you one example how Krsna sometimes breaks His promise. It is very nice story. |
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To understand yourself, that you are not this body, you are Brahman, and when you act factually in that Brahman stage, that is called bhakti. |
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Five millions and four thousands of Manus are there in one Brahma's life. Five million and four hundred thousand of manvantaravatara, incarnation of Manu, in one brahmanda. |
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Bhakti minus respect, that is not bhakti. With love, with respect, with designated duties, if you be engaged in Krsna consciousness, then your life will be successful. |
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The intelligent man, who is not crazy, he should understand that I am not this body. |
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Brahma is the first creature in this universe. He is the first living entity. He accepts his inability to understand about Krsna, and what to speak of others. |
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There are many authentic Vedic literatures. They are accepted by the spiritual societies. And one's learning is proved if he can give evidences from these Vedic literatures. |
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How can you write or how you can speak unless you think of Him? You are hearing about Krsna; you have to think, then you can speak. Otherwise not. |
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Who wrote the other Lord Caitanya? That other play? |
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Caitanya Mahaprabhu does not follow the formality, only the sannyasis should be the spiritual master. Anyone who knows the science of Krsna, he can be spiritual master. |
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You mentioned something about Caitanya dancing with Haridasa? |
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I want to work, I want to work. |
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Alexander and the thief. |
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First thing is that calculation of Candra, moon planet, there are different views. Different scientists, they have different views. It is not a standard. |
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You are all chanting sixteen rounds? No? (laughs). |
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Krsna does not say that you have to become like this, like that, like that, then you can serve Him. Does not say. |
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Physical conception is temporary. The vibration conception is eternal. |
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Devotee means he can act anything and everything for the Lord. That is bhakti-yoga. But under the direction. Not whimsically. |
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Actually we are serving money. Any why you are serving money? Because with the money we can satisfy our senses. |
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Man is rational. Man is animal, but rational animal. The special gift to man is that he can decide what is good, what is bad. He has got an extra knowledge than the animals. |
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We have to follow the footprints of the acaryas. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah. We cannot understand higher things unless we follow the footprint of great personalities. |
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Even in his own apartment one can keep a picture of Krsna and offer a lamp, a candle, and one, I mean to say, incense. He will feel tremendously spiritually advanced. |
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The sun is your witness, the moon is your witness, the day is your witness, the night is your witness, the sky is your witness. So how you can supersede the laws of the Lord? |
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Never think that service is perfect. That will keep you in the perfect stage. Yes. We should always think that our service is not complete. |
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Of course, I am old man. I may die. If you have taken up this formula very nicely, then you will go on preaching, and it may be spread all over the world. Very simple thing. |
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Maya is also serving Krsna, but there is no thanks. |
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Our program is to love, to place your love in the proper place. That is our program. Everyone wants to love, but he is being frustrated on account of his love being misplaced. |
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Lord Caitanya's mission - that the only lovable object is Krsna and His land Vrndavana. |
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All these loving affairs are also temporary and they are not pure. They are simply a perverted reflection of the pure love that is existing between you and Krsna. |
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Anything, whatever you see or experience or try to understand, there must be some definition. So when you speak of God, do you know what is the definition of God? |
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Is Rama synonymous with Jesus? |
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When you are too much influenced with the modes of passion, you become lusty. And when your lust is not fulfilled, then you are angry. |
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You cannot declare that "I am free. I am not subordinate." If you are wishing that "I don't wish to be subordinate, don't wish to bow down," that is your disease. |
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Krsna consciousness movement means to approach the original person. The original person is not dead. |
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Spiritual master is eternal. |
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If Lord Jesus Christ says, "Through me," that means he's representative of God, and hari-nama is God. So either through the representative of God or God, the same thing. |
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Lord Buddha said, "Meditate," but the followers of the Lord Buddha could not. They failed. We are giving new light, that "Meditation will fail. You take this". |
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The dancing has got great value; that, if you dance with us, you'll feel. It is not that some crazy fellows are dancing. No. The most intelligent persons, they are dancing. |
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People are not inclined to surrender; therefore he has to learn so many things. |
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Transcendental. "You are beyond". |
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Maya can cover the minute particles of the spirit soul, but maya cannot cover the supreme whole. |
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If you are serious to understand, we should submit our doubtful questions and then understand. |
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Function of soul is Krsna consciousness, working in Krsna consciousness. |
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You can establish relationship with Krsna any way. There are twelve kinds of rasas, humor. |
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Eko bahunam vidadhati kaman. The meaning is that one living force is supplying all the demands of all other living entities. |
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Lord Jesus Christ, he gave information of God. Although he was crucified, he never changed his opinion. |
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One who is inquisitive to understand the Absolute Truth, he requires a spiritual master. |
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If you are anxious to serve Krsna, that is the real asset. |
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A sannyasi cannot meet his wife. A sannyasi is forbidden to go home. |
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Don't remain in this darkness. Just transfer yourself to the kingdom of light. |
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Darwin has taken the idea of evolution from this Padma Purana. You won't find any philosophy, any doctrine in the world which is not found in the Vedic literature. |
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Aryans means those who are advanced. |
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We shudder as soon as we hear that we have to become servant of God. |
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Dependence is not bad if there is dependence on the proper place. |
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We have not manufactured a new type of religious sect or method of philosophy. |
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Prabhupada? How do we explain to impersonalists inductively the existence of the Personality of Godhead? |
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Prabhupada, can you explain mahamaya and yogamaya? Was Arjuna under yogamaya or mahamaya? |
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Krsna consciousness movement means that we have to train our senses to satisfy Krsna. That's all. |
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Christ consciousness and Krsna consciousness, the words are so similar. Please combine the words, explain how the words came to us. |
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While we are chanting our rounds, or while we are chanting out loud in kirtana, is it all right to be engaging our mind in thinking? |
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There are so many ducks. As soon as somebody goes there with some little food, oh, they go gather: "quack! quack! quack! quack!". |
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When you understand your actual position, then your activities actually begin. |
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Whatever you see in yourself, that is there in God. So God cannot be impersonal, because we are all persons. |
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Krsna is all-attractive. Krsna is beautiful. Krsna has so many activities. The whole Vedic literature is full of Krsna's activities. |
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Mind is the vehicle for being attached. |
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How you can think of Krsna unless you develop love for Krsna? |
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What is the difference between bhava and prema? |
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I would like you to explain the origin and significance of what you, what they call the Jagannatha car festival. |
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Krsna consciousness movement means to approach the original Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna. This is Krsna consciousness. Directly. |
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Ten offenses to avoid while chanting the maha-mantra. |
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Within six months you'll become God - very foolish conclusion. |
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Initiation means beginning of the activities. |
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This initiation means the third stage of Krsna consciousness. Those who are being initiated, they should remember that they have to follow the rules and regulations. |
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Radharani dasi means you are maidservant of Radharani. Don't think that you are maidservant of this world. |
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Ten offenses to avoid while chanting the maha-mantra - 1 to 5. |
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Ten offenses to avoid while chanting the maha-mantra - 6 to 10. |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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Mr Chakravarti and the circus. |
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There is an instructive story about a saintly person blessing, "You may either live or die". |
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Spirit soul is evergreen. The body is changing. That is to be understood. Body is changing. That everyone can understand. |
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Without understanding our real position we are perplexed with these all worldly problems, which are all false. |
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Gopis, they are not conditioned souls. They are liberated spirits. |
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Just like we keep conchshell in the Deities' room. Conchshell is considered very pure, transcendental; otherwise, how we can keep before Deity and you blow conchshell? |
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In Ayur-veda, cow dung dried and burned into ashes is used as toothpowder. It is very antiseptic toothpowder. |
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My spiritual master found Me a great fool. |
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The Mayavadi theory is that the ultimate spirit is impersonal. |
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Spiritually, eternally, the fragments are fragments, and the Supreme is Supreme. Krsna is the Supreme, and we are fragmental parts. We are fragments eternally. |
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In Christian theology, the individual goes to the church and prays God, "Give us our daily bread." Why he's asking God? |
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This voidism, impersonalism, they are artificial ways of negating the perplexing variegatedness of this material existence. |
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Jayananda looks like Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. (laughter) Yes. He was tall and stout and strong, Caitanya Mahaprabhu. (laughing) Yes. Very good. |
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Krsna consciousness persons, they are not after will-o'-the-wisp, phantasmagoria. No. They're actually making progress to the concrete Supreme Personality of Godhead. |
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My policy is following the footstep of Rupa Gosvami. He says that somehow or other, let them become first of all attached to Krsna. |
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What is the difference between an incarnation and an avatara? |
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Prabhupada, when I'm serving you sometimes I feel very nice, but then when I think of how bad and imperfect this service is, I feel terrible. Which is right to feel? |
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Is taking prasadam one of the exchanges of love, where we accept food from a lover? |
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There is an instructive story about a saintly person blessing, "You may either live or die". |
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Krsna consciousness movement means to become Vaisnava and feel for the suffering humanity. |
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This Krsna consciousness movement is directly offering the spiritual platform which is above the mode of goodness. |
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How one is spiritually advanced will be tested how he has acquired all the good qualities. Not that a yogi talking with a cigarette in hand. |
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In the Bhagavad-gita it is stated that there are three planetary system, upper, lower and middle. |
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Vrndavana, that is ninety miles off from New Delhi. The atmosphere is almost the same. So, if I could live at Vrndavana, I could live at New Delhi also. |
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Now, if you cooperate, then I can change the whole thing in your country. This Krsna consciousness movement is so nice. Provided you cooperate. |
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I am old man, 73 years old; I may die at any moment. But I am now assured my movement will go on. These boys will carry it. My mission is in that way successful. |
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From our practical experience we can say we got this chance. We got this chance. We got very nice parents. And I was born in a family, a very pure family. |
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This Krsna consciousness practice is turning this material body into spiritual body. |
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Those who are advanced in Krsna consciousness, they have to work for Krsna. |
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Everything is there in Krsna consciousness. We want music, there is music. We want dancing, there is dancing. |
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A devotee may seem to be living in some place which is far from Vrndavana, but he's living in Vrndavana. That's a fact. |
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A devotee has no demand. He simply engages himself to serve Krsna for the satisfaction of Krsna. |
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Yoga system is not that, that you go on doing all nonsense in sense gratification and simply sit down meditation. This is simply colossal hoax. It has no meaning. |
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When you actually connect yourself with God, then you feel yourself many millions of times satisfied than enjoying this material world. |
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By nature we are living entities, we must act. It is not possible to stop activities. |
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You keep Krsna on the mind. The maya, darkness will never be able to come. That is the first-class yoga system. |
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You have to get out from this entanglement by this yoga, or perfect yoga of Krsna consciousness. |
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The whole yoga system means to make the mind our friend. |
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This Padma Purana is meant for the persons who are in the modes of goodness. |
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If God is not a person, then how His sons become persons? |
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That is the purpose. Any religious system. If it teaches you how to love God, then it is first-class. Otherwise it is useless. |
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Temple is the only secluded place for this age. You cannot go in a secluded place in a forest. |
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Srimad-Bhagavatam is the supreme jnana-yoga and bhakti-yoga combined. |
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If you simply hear sincerely and submissively, then you will understand Krsna. Krsna will reveal to you. |
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Nobody is better meditator than these boys. They are simply concentrating on Krsna. Their whole business is Krsna. |
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They are anxious, they are full of anxiety because they have captured something nonpermanent. |
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Yoga practice should be performed to understand Krsna, that's all. Or to make your lost relationship with Krsna reestablished. That is yoga practice. |
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Where do you find void? This void philosophy is another illusion. There cannot be any void. |
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That planet, Krsna planet, Goloka Vrndavana, that is self-illuminated. |
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If sun can penetrate within your room, cannot Krsna penetrate within your heart and room and every corner? |
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Whole misconsciousness has come into existence due to this body. |
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To fix up the mind means to keep your mind in Krsna, then finished, all yoga. You are perfect yogi. |
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Motionless means, when you are fixed up in Krsna, there is no more material motion. That is motionless. This material propensities will not anymore disturb you. |
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Enjoyment alone is not possible. Enjoyment means two - Krsna and you. |
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When you are in Krsna consciousness, your perfection is guaranteed. |
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Just see, a sparrow is trying to dry up the ocean. This is called determination. |
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If you commit mistake, by taking less food, that mistake is not bad. |
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That endeavor, that "I shall go and preach Krsna consciousness," is the best service to the Lord. |
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This is the only method. That you chant loudly and hear. Hare Krsna. |
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Gosvami is not a hereditary title. It is a qualification. |
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There are many commentators, they deviate from Krsna. I do not know why. That is their nefarious motive. |
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You should take sympathy with every living being, that he is part and parcel of Krsna. |
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In one sense the heat is also fire, the illumination is also fire. Similarly this material energy is also Krsna. |
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If you love Krsna, then your universal love is counted. Otherwise it is nonsense. |
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This Maha-Visnu is plenary portion of the plenary portion of Krsna. Krsna is the original. |
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One who is in Krsna consciousness, he's already on the Brahman platform. That means liberated. |
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Here is the crucial test of yoga system - if you can concentrate your mind on the form of Visnu. |
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One who has concentrated his mind, someway or other in Krsna, he has already attained the perfection of yoga. This is the substance of Krsna consciousness movement. |
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One who is trying to concentrate his mind on the imperson, or voidness, it is very difficult and troublesome. |
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When we accept any self-realization process, it is practically declaring war against the illusory energy, maya. |
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If you keep divine association, then your consciousness is made divine. |
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God is pure, and His kingdom is also pure, and anyone who wants to enter there, he must be pure also. |
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If you simply follow these four principles, then you become immediately uncontaminated. |
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Bhakti-yoga is the highest platform of yoga principles. |
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If you have got any, I mean to say, affection for the spiritual master, then you should finish your business in this life so that he may not come again to reclaim you. |
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If you absorb your mind with Krsna then it is samadhi. |
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You have got the tongue and you have got the ear. Chant Hare Krsna and use this instrument to hear. Finished. All perfection is there. |
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If you want to know how God is great then you have to take reference of this Vedic literature. No other literature. |
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When we speak of service, there is no motive. Service is love. |
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Other yoga system there must be mixture of bhakti. But bhakti-yoga is unadulterated devotion. |
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Please engage me in your service, that's all. That should be the demand. |
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I am giving them the right information - that service you have to render. But instead of serving your senses, please serve Radha-Krsna, then you'll be happy. |
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A devotee in love, wants to love Krsna in His original form. |
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Unless you accept God there is no question of bhakti-yoga. |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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This Krsna consciousness movement is like this, that whatever qualification you have got, that is sufficient. You begin with that qualification. |
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That is my personal experience. In the beginning, when my Guru Maharaja ordered me, I thought it that "I shall first of all become very rich man; then I shall preach". |
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Don't worry. Krsna will give you better place. |
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You just give service to Krsna, impressing people that these Krsna conscious people are not hippies. |
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I wish to narrate one short story, that one man, one boy, was attracted by a beautiful girl. So the girl does not agree, and the boy is persistent. |
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Alexander and the Cynic. |
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Next book is coming, Nectar of Devotion. |
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If we vibrate sound Krsna, then I am immediately in contact with Krsna, and if Krsna is whole spirit, then immediately I become spiritualized. |
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We are begging you, "Don't spoil your life. Please take this mantra. Chant wherever you like." It has no hard and fast rules you have to follow. |
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Bilvamangala Thakura voluntarily made himself blind. |
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Bilvamangala and the prostitute Cintamani. |
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Don't be disappointed, don't be confused. Your life has value. You, in this life, you can realize your eternal life, eternal blissful life of knowledge. |
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My spiritual master took this risk, preaching work, and he inspired us also to do that preaching work. And we are also imploring you to take this preaching work. |
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Don't make it a stool society. You see? Make it a honey society. At least, give chance, those who are seeking after honey. Don't cheat people. So they'll come. |
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The whole world is infected with the maya's influence, and this Krsna consciousness movement, Hare Krsna mantra, is disinfectant. It is sure. |
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Without literature, how can we enlighten the people at large? My Guru Maharaja used to say that this press is brhad-mrdanga. |
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Citta means... |
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Bilvamangala and the prostitute Cintamani. |
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If for fifty years one chants simply Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, he is sure to become perfect. There is no doubt about it. |
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Any nonsense can come to me, and I shall prove that there is God; that is my Krsna consciousness movement. |
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A devotee should not be angry. But that does not mean that he has lost his capacity of anger. No. Everything is there. |
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First birth, then growth, then to stay, then to produce by-product, then dwindling, then vanish. This is the law of material nature. |
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Before that moment (death) comes, one should be very dexterous to realize Krsna conscious. |
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Whatever we are seeing, animate or inanimate, there is control of the Supreme Lord. |
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Two energies are working in this material world: the spiritual energy and the material energy. |
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The beginning of real human civilization is observance of the institute of four varnas and four asramas. That is the beginning of civilized life. |
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When our eyes are anointed with love of God, we can see Him everywhere. |
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If you want to learn this Krsna consciousness movement, we have got enough books. You can scientifically and philosophically study. |
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I am very insignificant. I have no capacity. My business is only to convey the message of Krsna. Just like a postal peon; his business is to convey the letter. |
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My Guru Maharaja ordered me that "You go and preach this philosophy to the Western world." So under his order I came, and I presented Bhagavad-gita As It Is, as you have read. |
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Simply wonderful. |
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When you will be strong enough, the eyes will say, "Please take me to the cinema," and you will say, "No, you cannot go to the cinema." Then you are ruler. |
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You cannot stop war and go on killing animals. That is not possible. |
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You know, your religion is not the only one which teaches this particular precept. |
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You came, sir, to this country in 1965, as I said, on instructions or orders given you by your spiritual master. By the way, who was your spiritual master? |
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How many followers have you got now throughout the world or can you not count? |
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Fifteen days after Krsna's birth, Radharani appeared. Radharani is Krsna's pleasure potency. |
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The loving affairs of Radha and Krsna is not ordinary, these material loving affairs, although it appears like that. |
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One can be out of distress when he approaches Visnu. |
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Radharani is hari-priya, very dear to Krsna. So if we approach Krsna through Radharani, through the mercy of Radharani, then it becomes very easy. |
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We should adore, we should worship Bhaktivinoda Thakura, because in the modern age he reintroduced the disciplic succession. |
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One has to purify his existentional life; otherwise, if he does not purify his existence, then he has to transmigrate from one body to another, and that is material existence. |
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Nature, under the order of Krsna, is giving chances to us, giving chance to us to come out of the entanglement of birth and death. |
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Without becoming devata he'll be entangled. He'll be entangled. He'll have to. He has to continue this four process of birth, death, disease, and old age. That he has to. |
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We know that gambling is allowed on the kali-puja day. We know. Especially northern Indian people, mercantile people, they take it, advantage, gambling. |
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My dear boys and girls, about six years ago I came to your country single-handed, with this pair of cymbals. Now you are so many chanting Hare Krsna. That is my success. |
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Krsna consciousness movement is propagating God's name, God's glory, God's activities, God's beauty, God's love. |
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That's my credit. I did not like to take the position of Krsna. I remained a servant of Krsna, and I spoke what Krsna said. That's all. This is my secret. |
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Those who are 24-hours engaged in rendering loving devotional service to the Lord. To such person Krsna gives intelligence, not others. |
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Shah Jahan. |
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There is a story that a mouse approached a saintly person. |
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Simply sit down and hear about Krsna. That's all. But that hearing must be from a person who is realized. Then it will act. |
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Prajalpa means talking nonsense. Just like as soon as the crows, they gather together, caw caw caw caw. |
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One who does not hear about the brave activities of Krsna, they are satisfied with teeny activities of this material world. |
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There is an instructive story about a saintly person blessing, "You may either live or die". |
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The Indians who are outside India, they have got a special duty. |
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In order to enjoy this material world we have come here. Every one of us who is existing within this material world has a desire to lord it over the material nature. |
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This institute, Krsna consciousness movement has spread because the students who have joined us, they have given aural reception, by hearing. |
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It is said that one who is learned, he does not lament either for the living or for the dead body. |
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How can we know ourselves through Krsna consciousness? |
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Well, his question it is why must we do something to become God when we're already God? |
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In the English dictionary the name of Krsna as stated "a Hindu god." But actually, that is not the fact. Krsna is the name of God. Krsna means the all-attractive, all-good. |
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Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that each and every name of God is as powerful as God. Because God is Absolute, therefore there is no difference between His name, form, pastimes. |
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Do we believe in reincarnation? She wants to know if we believe in reincarnation. |
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He wants to know if you believe that the Virgin Mary who is the mother of Jesus is the same as Parvati. |
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He wants to know more about those who are asleep and those who are awake in our eyes. What is a sleeper and who is awake? |
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The thief who wanted to plunder child Krsna's jewels. |
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Even the lion cannot sleep: he has to work to eat. |
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We are getting the sword one after another, simply by hearing. |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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Mr Chakravarti and the circus. |
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Even the lion cannot sleep: he has to work to eat. |
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We are trying to spread this Krsna consciousness movement for total benefit of the human society. |
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This is the problem at the present moment. People are not educated about the vital force of this body. |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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After getting my telephone, I was disturbed always. Some of my students asking, phoning me, cling, cling, and "Swamiji, how you are feeling?" At twelve o'clock at night. |
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In our society, you are all Godbrothers, Godsisters. Or those who are married, they are like mothers. So you should be very careful. Then you will remain dhira, sober. |
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Our relationship is just like sometimes there is wind and some straws gather together, and as soon as the wind is finished the straws are again strewn everywhere. |
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I may control my disciples, but I am controlled by somebody else, by my spiritual master. So nobody can say that "I am the absolute controller". |
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Krsna has sent me so many spiritual masters. |
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If we actually serious to get out of these material clutches, then we should hear regularly about Krsna from a pure devotee of Krsna. |
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Forget good government for millions of years, unless you establish this varnasrama-dharma. |
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Our business is not to be attracted by the glimmer of this material world, but to be attracted by Krsna. That is Krsna consciousness movement. |
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Vaidhi-bhakti, that is apprenticeship. Real bhakti, para-bhakti, that is raganuga-bhakti. |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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Here is the recommendation. Try to become Krsna conscious. And then you'll not be disturbed with all these external, ephemeral changes of the material world. |
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We are trying to educate people to understand the value of life, the value of spiritual life especially, Bhagavata. |
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The motor accident dying in America is not very astonishment, if one is little slow, immediately: tarak taka tak. |
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If you hear about Krsna, then you should know that you are touching Krsna by aural reception. |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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Mirabhai challenged Rupa Gosvami, "I know that only Krsna is purusa here, and everyone is woman". |
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As we have understood by the parampara system from my Guru Maharaja, so any of my students who will understand, he will keep it running on. This is the process. |
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If you take the lift of bhakti, then immediately you come in contact with Krsna directly, instead of going by step by step by step. |
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Parantapa means... |
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I saw one hotel man in Calcutta cutting the throat of a chicken: he was laughing and his son was crying. |
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Our policy is not bhoga-tyaga. Our policy is satisfaction of Krsna. That is pure bhakti. |
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Srimad-Bhagavatam is the original explanation of Vedanta-sutra. |
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If we want to understand Krsna, then we have to follow. Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah. Evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduh. |
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Mrgari the hunter. |
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Out of many, many thousands and millions of people, one takes to the scientific institute of varnasrama-dharma. That means followers of the Vedas, strictly. |
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In our Krsna conscious society, if there is no mutual cooperation, then it will fall down immediately. |
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My only request is that you take some interest, active interest in this movement, try to understand it, and if you cooperate, the whole human society will be happy. |
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There is a story that a mouse approached a saintly person. |
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We do not think in terms of that simply my brother is good, I am good. And all bad. This kind of narrow, crippled consciousness we hate, we kick out. |
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As I am puppet of my Guru Maharaja, if you become my puppet, then that is success. Our success is there when we become puppet of the predecessor. |
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We can convert the crows into swans. That is our philosophy. One who was crow is now swimming like swan. That we can do. |
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This Krsna consciousness movement is meant for giving food, means diet and medicine, to the soul. The medicine is the Hare Krsna maha-mantra. |
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So if we simply become renouncer, that will not help us. Then again we shall become enjoyer, so-called enjoyer. That is like pendulum, balancing, tak, tak, this way, this way. |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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Even the lion cannot sleep: he has to work to eat. |
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Krsna will remain perpetually with you if you love Krsna. |
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I will give you one example how Krsna sometimes breaks His promise. It is very nice story. |
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Do you direct us also through the heart? Besides the Paramatma. |
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There is nobody better than Krsna. Therefore the order given by Krsna is dharma. Our Krsna consciousness movement is that dharma. |
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With priti, with love. Chant every name, "Hare Krsna," and hear. Here is Krsna; here is Radharani. That kind of chanting, quality. |
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I will give you one example how Krsna sometimes breaks His promise. It is very nice story. |
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Mrgari the hunter. |
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Sanskrit language means... |
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If you think that "It is hackneyed, it is troublesome, but what can I do? These people ask me to do it. I have to do it," that is not Krsna consciousness. |
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If you kindly hear about Krsna and your heart becomes purified, the original dormant Krsna consciousness is immediately awakened. |
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ABCD. |
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Sometimes in disguise the king used to see whether this varnasrama-dharma is being maintained, properly being observed, whether somebody is simply wasting time like hippies. |
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Krsna has enemies. Arisudana. And He has to kill them. Krsna has got two businesses: paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam. |
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Unqualified guru means who does not know how to guide the disciple. Guru's duty is to guide. So such kind of guru can be at least rejected. |
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Bhiksa is also sometimes prohibited from a person who is too much materialist. But bhiksa is allowed for sannyasis, for brahmana. |
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Whatever you do, it must have some relationship with the satisfaction of Krsna. If Krsna is satisfied, then you act. That is Krsna consciousness. |
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Krsna has got loving propensities with His pleasure potency, Srimati Radharani. Similarly, because we are part and parcel of Krsna, we have also got this loving propensity. |
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Because we, with our teeny brain, we cannot find out what is the actual niscitam, fixed-up sreya. That we do not know. That you have to ask from Krsna. Or his representative. |
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A Vaisnava is praying guru: "Sir, you are devotee of Krsna. You can give me Krsna if you like." This is the position of sisya. |
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The principle is to understand things in reality one has to approach Krsna as Arjuna has approached. |
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You can make your own opinion to understand God. So all foolish rascals, they're making their own opinion. No, that is not possible. |
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There is no yajna in this age. There is no yajnic brahmana. This is the only yajna: chant Hare Krsna mantra and dance in ecstasy. This is the only yajna. |
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Even the lion cannot sleep: he has to work to eat. |
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Friendly talking cannot decide any serious question. When there is some serious matter, it must be spoken between authorities. |
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Krsna is mentioned here as Hrsikesa. He is solid. He is Acyuta. He is solid. He is not changed. |
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Bhismadeva, in Rajasuya-yajna, admitted that "Nobody is better brahmacari than Krsna. He was within the gopis, all young girls, but He remained a brahmacari". |
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Because your senses are engaged in the service of the Hrsikesa, the senses have no other opportunity to be engaged. Locked up. |
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By my mental speculation, by rascal interpretation, by showing one's scholarship, you cannot understand Bhagavad-gita. That is not possible. Submissive. |
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Simply chant Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare - Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare, and gradually you'll realize how to become immortal. |
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We living entities, we never die, never take birth. Nityah sasvato yam, na hanyate hanyamane sarire. Every one of us, we are eternal. |
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Law means the word given by the state. You cannot make law at home. That is not possible. Whatever the government gives you, that "You should act like this," that is law. |
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Indians are meant for para-upakara. Indians are not meant for exploiting others. That is not Indians' business. Indian history is all along for para-upakara. |
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My dear sons and daughters, I am so much obliged to you that you have become so enthusiastic for offering Vyasa-puja. Now try to understand. |
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I have to thank you. It is all due to you. It is not my credit, but it is your credit that you are helping me in executing the order of my Guru Maharaja. |
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This body, antavat, it will be finished. However you may try, so scientifically, applying cosmetic and other things, you cannot save the body. That is not possible. |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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Mrgari the hunter. |
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Anything about Krsna is Krsna. This is called absolute knowledge. So either you chant the Krsna's name or you worship Krsna's form - everything is Krsna. |
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It may be that government may take action against me because I'm speaking something revolutionary. Yes. But that is the fact. Why you should work? |
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Without literature, how can we enlighten the people at large? My Guru Maharaja used to say that this press is brhad-mrdanga. |
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Our business is how to become recognized by Krsna. |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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Bhakti means when you engage your senses for the service of the master of the senses, Hrsikesa. That is called is bhakti. Bhakti is not sentiment. |
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Blind civilization. |
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Before going to your Moon planet here is the information: "Anywhere you go rascal these things will follow, janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi and inconveniences. You'll have to suffer". |
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This movement was started only for the satisfaction of my spiritual master. He wanted. So I thought, "Let me try in this old age". |
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The first thing is we must hear. Srotavyah. Just try to hear what is God, what is His kingdom, how He acts, how He is cheerful. These things are to be heard. Sravanam. |
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If you do not know who is Bhagavan, if you do not know who is Hari, if you do not know who is Isvara, then what you will hear about Him? That is the problem. |
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There is a story that a mouse approached a saintly person. |
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They (priests) must have (sex) because they have no spiritual knowledge. Anyone who is not spiritually advanced, he cannot avoid the sex. |
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Krsna consciousness movement means you have to keep yourself always connected with the original powerhouse. |
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My health is not always going on nicely. Still, why I am trying? I want to begin one revolution against godless civilization. That is my ambition. |
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Unless we take care of the books and preach and read ourself, understand the philosophy, this Hare Krsna will be finished within few years. |
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Devotional life means renounced life. Vairagya-vidya, vairagya means renunciation. Anyone who has no more interest in materialistic way of life, that is bhakti-yoga. |
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If we fully depend on Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then He will guide us how to make progress back to home, back to Godhead. |
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Spiritual master is servant authority, and God is the master authority. Therefore sevya bhagavan, seva bhagavan. |
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You carry my order due to the basic principle is love. And our whole philosophy is love. |
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The spiritual master's mercy is described, mukham karoti vacalam. Mukham means dumb, one who cannot speak. He becomes a great lecturer or speaker. |
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We want some generation who can preach Krsna consciousness; so if they learn simply English and Sanskrit, they will be able to read this book, and that is sufficient. |
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Just like a devotee wants to satisfy the Lord in all respects, similarly more than the devotee, the Lord wants to satisfy the devotee. This is the exchange of loving affairs. |
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Krsna can be present more acutely in separation. That is Caitanya Mahaprabhu's teaching: to love Krsna in separation. |
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A devotee cannot be equally interested with material pleasure and transcendental pleasure. |
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The more you develop your consciousness, the more you become a freedom lover. |
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Without Krsna being friend of everyone, nobody can live for a moment. Krsna is protecting everyone, supplying food to everyone. |
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Rascal guru will say, "Yes, you can eat anything. You can do anything. Religion has nothing to do with eating". |
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Complete freedom. Eternity, blissful and full of knowledge. That is spiritual life. Completely distinct from this bodily concept of life. |
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People do not understand what is material bondage, but those who are in Krsna consciousness, they are educated what is bondage and what is liberation. |
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Karl Marx. He is thinking how the laborer, the worker, their senses will be gratified. That is his philosophy. |
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We cannot cheat Krsna. Krsna can immediately understand how much serious and sincere you are for understanding Krsna or approaching Him or going back to home, back to Godhead. |
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How do we enter into the modes of goodness? |
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Asrama means situation for spiritual cultivation. |
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Acarya's duty is to point out the sastric injunction. They're already there in the Vedas. |
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We should be prepared to sacrifice anything for perfection of this human form of life. Then perfection is guaranteed. Simply we should be very serious, that's all. |
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We may be very powerful so long Krsna keeps us powerful. We are not independently powerful, even in the case of Arjuna. |
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Everything will be null and void when there is no God. That's all. The modern civilization has got everything, but without God consciousness, any moment it will be finished. |
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If the king is real representative of God, then simply by pleasing the king, you please the almighty father, God. |
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Prabhupada, could you tell us something about Krsna's rasa-lila? |
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Humbleness is very good in devotional service. |
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By the grace of Kunti, we can understand that although the Supreme Person is invisible, now He has appeared to be visible, Krsna. |
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We are sitting down and inquiring about Krsna. This is life. This is life. And what is this life? Working day and night like the ass? No. That is not life. |
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Actually there is no scarcity. The scarcity is Krsna consciousness. So if you become Krsna conscious then everything is ample. There is no scarcity. |
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You drink something, become intoxicated. But as soon as that intoxication is over, all your intoxicated dreams are over, finished. |
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You drink something, become intoxicated. But as soon as that intoxication is over, all your intoxicated dreams are over, finished. |
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I started my own factory, the business was very successful, but everything was dismantled; I was forced to come to this position to carry out my order of my Guru Maharaja. |
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We write: "We trust in God," but we make discrimination. If you trust in God, then you must be equally kind and merciful to all living entities. That is God consciousness. |
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Brahma's past, present and future is different from my past, present and future. But Krsna has no past, present and future. Therefore He's eternal. |
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There is a verse that: "Sadhu is My heart, and I am also the sadhu's heart." The sadhu is always thinking of Krsna and Krsna is always thinking of His devotee, sadhu. |
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The vital force is the atma, the living being, living entity or soul. So because the vital force, the soul is there, the whole body is working. |
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We are requesting everyone: "Please chant, chant, chant." And they are replying: "Can't, can't." This is their misfortune. |
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If one is not born, how he can die? There is no question of death. Death is for a thing which has got a birth. If one has no birth, there is no question of death. |
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Kuntidevi knows that Krsna is unborn. Krsna does not take birth, but it appears like that to some fools. Therefore they say that Krsna has taken birth. |
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Krsna consciousness movement is trying to save people from going down to animal life. |
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If you simply look after the bodily necessities and do not care to look after the necessity of the soul, that is foolish civilization. |
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If we analyze, what is the fault of Jesus Christ, there is no fault. The only fault he was preaching about God. And still he'd find so many enemies. He was cruelly crucified. |
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Nobody will marry the husband who has married sixty-four times. |
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We have created unnecessary problems simply by forgetting Krsna. This is the material nature. Bhave 'smin klisyamananam. Therefore you have to work so hard. |
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Bhagavata-dharma means the relationship between the devotees and the Lord. The Lord is Bhagavan and the devotee is bhagavata, or in relationship with Bhagavan. |
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This age called Kali, it is not very good time. Simply disagreement, fighting, quarreling, misunderstanding. |
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Bhakti means realization of God consciousness. And the symptom of God consciousness is that he is averse to all material activities. He has no interest. |
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There are different types of concepts of God. Generally, they take it as an idea but we don't take it as idea. We take God as concrete fact. |
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According to Bhagavad-gita, only a devotee of Krsna, a person who is intimately related with Krsna, he can understand what is Bhagavad-gita. |
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One can see when the eyes are anointed with the ointment of bhakti. The eyes have cleansed to see God. That is revelation.. |
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To understand Krsna, God, we require to purify our senses. |
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The Western philosophy is hedonism, that eat, drink, be merry and enjoy. |
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So long you are in the bodily concept of life, you are no better than the animal. That is the Bhagavata philosophy. You are animal. |
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Your coat is cut according to your body. Similarly, this material body is cut according our spiritual body. So we have got our spiritual body. This material body is covering. |
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We cannot be happy by material prosperity, that is a fact. |
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Formerly every brahmana used to learn these two sciences, Ayur-veda and Jyotir-veda. |
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As soon as we get a car, however rotten it may be, we think that it is very nice, and identify with that car. |
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God is one, God cannot be two. It is not that Hindus have got one God and Christians have got another God. No. God cannot be two. |
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This human form of life is especially meant for inquiring about the absolute truth. In animal life we cannot do. |
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Nobody can be wiser than God. |
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I began in this New York in that storefront simply by chanting. So I did not bribe you American boys and girls to come after me. This is the only asset was chanting. |
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Atmavit means one who knows atma. |
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Unless there is some living force behind the matter there cannot be anything created. We have no such experience. |
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Bhagavatam says that the original source of everything is sentient. Conscious. And consciously is controlling everything. |
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God created the ingredients and the manufacturer also, and Brahma created this universe. But he's not the original creator. The original creator is Krsna. |
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If we do not love Krsna, then our hearts will be harder and harder and harder. Heart is there for love, but why you are so hard-hearted? |
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First thing is that we have to learn how to love. Sa vai pumsam paro dharmo. That is first-class religion. |
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All these politicians, they're spoiling the situation. |
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Our only request is that you make your life successful. Come to the real understanding of your existence and this is possible simply by chanting Hare Krsna. |
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There is seven planetary systems over us and seven planetary systems down also. |
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In this material world we find almost everyone has forgotten God. |
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The fruits are meant for human being. The tiger does not come to eat your fruits. So tiger's food is another animal. Man's food is fruit, food grains, milk products. |
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Bhagavad-gita is known also Gitopanisad, the essence of Vedic knowledge, and one of the most important of the various Upanisads in Vedic literature. |
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The speaker of the Bhagavad-gita is Lord Sri Krsna. He is mentioned in every page of the Bhagavad-gita as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Bhagavan. |
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Unless one receives this Bhagavad-gita in a submissive spirit and aural reception, it is very difficult to understand Bhagavad-gita because it is a great mystery. |
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The Lord lives within the core of heart in every living being, therefore He is conscious of the psychic movements, activities, of the particular jiva. We should not forget. |
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We are given the opportunity for leaving this material world and get our eternal life in the eternal kingdom. |
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Acts of this life, the activities of this life are preparation ground for the next life. We are preparing for our next life by our activities of this life. |
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At the time of death, either we can remain in the material energy, or this material world, or we can transfer into the spiritual world. |
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Go means senses. So unless you become gosvami, your life is spoiled. Gosvami. You cannot be dictated by the senses. You have to dictate to the senses. |
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The every living entity is sanatana. And Krsna is sanatana. And there is place, sanatana. So our business is how to transfer ourself in that sanatana-dhama. |
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You should not stop working, but you have to work cautiously for the supreme cause. That is the way of working on the spiritual platform. |
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At the present status of our life we have not only forgotten the Supreme Lord, but also we have forgotten our eternal relationship with the Lord. |
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We must work for Krsna's sake. We shall go to the Krsna's temple, or we shall go for selling Krsna's books, or meeting some Krsna devotee. |
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There is no literature throughout the universe like Srimad-Bhagavatam. There is no comparison. There is no competition. Every word is for the good of the human society. |
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So we may not create any disruption amongst our solidarity. Then things will not make progress. |
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Alexander and the thief. |
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Inside, we should be pure, purely thinking, no contamination. We should not think anyone as my enemy. |
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Not only guru. Anyone who is spiritually advanced, he has no more material body. |
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Story of Narada Muni and the cobbler. |
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Our Krsna consciousness society is a bhakta-sanga, is a society of devotees. Never try to go away. Never try to go away. Discrepancies there may be. You should adjust. |
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As soon as any of the disciples in the succession distort the knowledge, then it is lost. |
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From frying pan to the fire. |
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We are surrendering, but we are not surrendering to Krsna. This is the disease. This is the disease. And Krsna consciousness movement means to cure this disease. |
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By the supervision of the external energy, and superior superintendent, we are transferred to a different body by the subtle body. |
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If we want to stop this miserable condition of getting another material body, then we must know what is karma, what is vikarma. That is Krsna's proposal. |
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If one wants to understand something about Bhagavad-gita, about the spiritual movement, he may consult me. |
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From frying pan to the fire. |
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Krsna consciousness movement means everyone wants to become friend of everyone. |
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Our business is to go back to the spiritual world, not that we remain in the material world and change body from bad to worse or worse to good. That is not our business. |
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Alexander and the thief. |
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The truth is that this body is formed on the basis of that spiritual spark. That is the truth. |
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Yamaraja is one of the GBC of Krsna. Yes. As we have got twelve GBC's, similarly Krsna has got GBC's. |
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The Vedic civilization is varnasrama-dharma. If the varnasrama-dharma is not properly protected, then there will be population who are called varna-sankara, mixed population. |
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Mrgari the hunter. |
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The story of the learned scholar and the boatman. |
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Christian method, the offering prayer. That is bhakti, that is bhakti. |
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Sruti means by hearing from the Supreme. So our process is sruti. Sruti means we hear from the highest authority. That is our process, and that is very easy. |
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If my mother would not have been little strict, I would not have gotten any education. My father was very lenient. So she used to force me. One man would take me to school. |
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Napoleon constructed strong-built arches, but where he has gone, nobody knows. |
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Just like a rabbit. Enemy is in his front, and he is going to die, but he thinks, "Let me close my eyes. I am out of danger." This is atheistic view. |
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Present life means so long we possess this material body, it is full of inauspicity. |
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Because you are eternal, you are not meant for death, but nature is forcing you, Must die. |
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There is a very humorous story that one man... He was a yogi. |
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If you can see twenty-four hours Krsna, within and without, then the that is the end of all tapasya. |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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A vaisya will find out some business. He'll find out some business. So there is a practical story. |
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I am not manufacturing the words "foolish" and "rascal." It is said by Krsna. |
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Our Krsna consciousness movement is the only movement - I can declare very proudly - which can actually do some benefit to the human society. |
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Our test tube is: if one does not know Krsna, if one does not know how to follow Bhagavad-gita, we immediately take him as a rascal. That's all. |
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Krsna sometimes became sick and nobody could cure Him. |
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Krsna consciousness movement means they are creating a society of swans, not of crows. |
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I saw one hotel man in Calcutta cutting the throat of a chicken: he was laughing and his son was crying. |
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Alexander and the thief. |
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Bilvamangala Thakura voluntarily made himself blind. |
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Bilvamangala and the prostitute Cintamani. |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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I have got hundreds and thousands of servants who I haven't got to pay. This is spiritual relationship. |
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Bhakti is not applicable anywhere except in relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead. That is bhakti. |
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Shah Jahan. |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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Saguna means... |
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Saguna means... |
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As soon as we hear about Krsna attentively and try to assimilate it, then the purification of the heart begins. |
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Krsna dictated that "You are sitting here (in Radha-Damodara Temple) very peacefully without any botheration. No, you go to the Western countries. Teach them". |
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To surrender to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, that is religion. Not only surrender, but to act as He desires, or you become a lover of God. This is first-class religion. |
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Radha-Krsna lila is not material. One who understands Radha-Krsna lila as material, they are misled. Krsna cannot enjoy anything material. |
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First spiritual knowledge is this, that "I am not this body." Then the spiritual knowledge begins. Otherwise there is no possibility of spiritual knowledge. |
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You should be fully conscious, that "Everything belongs to Krsna and nothing to us." Then Krsna becomes your suhrt. He takes charge. |
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Shortcut of "demon-cracy" is "democracy." All the demons and rogues, they gather together, somehow or other votes, and occupy the seat, and the business is plundering. |
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Krsna is available so cheaply for the people, especially kalau, in this age of Kali. Still, we are reluctant to chant the holy name. |
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God has nothing to do. He is self-sufficient. Neither He has got any aspiration. |
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Cleanliness is next to godliness. Actually, our material conditioned life means the mind is covered with dirt, all unclean, dirty things. That is the disease. |
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The material world is shadow reflection of the spiritual world. Unless the original thing is there in the spiritual world, it cannot be reflected in the material world. |
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Because he's a rascal, he's his greatest enemy. So just get out of this rascaldom, and you become your friend. Nobody is enemy. You are yourself your enemy. Nobody is enemy. |
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Adhoksaja means knowledge which beyond your perception. But there is source of knowledge, adhoksaja. Therefore God's another name is Adhoksaja. |
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A man is suffering from some disease, infected. That does not mean when the physician comes to treat him he is also infected. He knows how to protect himself, disinfectant. |
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Everyone is in agreement with God. That is spiritual world. Therefore there is no question of revolution. |
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Either you are in temple or outside the temple, you'll be able to see Krsna always - if you practice. |
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Deity worship is arcanam. Chanting is vandanam. Dasyam, to work for Krsna, go and see people, preach Krsna consciousness, distribute books. |
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I am speaking to you; this is also kirtanam. And you are hearing; this is bhakti. Sravanam kirtanam, about Krsna. The chanting, dancing about Krsna, this is bhakti. |
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Grow grass, let them (the cows) pasture. |
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Geneva lake. And a few steps forward, a French lake. So either to the French or Geneva, it does not belong. It belongs to God. He's a fool. Why don't you say, "God's lake"? |
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It is a fact that so long you'll be here in this material world, however you may try to adjust things to become happy, it will be never possible. It will be never possible. |
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Instead of serving our senses, if we serve the senses of Krsna, that is perfection of life. So you learn how to serve the senses of Krsna, you'll be happy. That's all. |
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If you are defective, if you have got so many defects in your life, how you can become teacher? You are a cheater. |
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I am writing all these books simply for selling, not for reading. This is not good. |
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Prasanna means happy mode of life. Brahma-bhutah prasannatma. What is the happy mode of life? Na socati na kanksati. He does not lament. He does not hanker. |
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Majority wants to be godless. So government is following that. Therefore they are against our movement. |
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Sravanam kirtanam, this is our main business. Sravanam. If you don't hear, what you will do? You will do simply sense gratification. That's all. |
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Some people use the argument, Srila Prabhupada, that by this advancement of technology, it will free us to think of philosophical. |
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To write books, that is also krsna-kirtana. And to read books, that is also krsna-kirtana. Not that simply this kirtana is kirtana. |
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When you chant, that is also kirtana; when you distribute book, that is also kirtana. When you read book, that is also kirtana. |
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We have got fifty bighas of land, and I have calculated in Mayapur, setting aside twenty bighas for the temple and grazing ground for the cows, thirty bighas of land. |
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You can criticize, if you are right. You cannot criticize wrongly. |
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The leaders are rascals. |
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If you make a revolution of this sankirtana movement, everyone chanting and dancing, the government will be changed immediately. So push this movement. |
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Bhakti means the business between Bhagavan and bhakta. That is bhakti. If there is no Bhagavan then where is bhakti. |
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Sometimes a diksa-guru is not present always. Therefore one can take learning, instruction, from an advanced devotee. That is called the siksa-guru. |
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I was reading in the newspaper that a few days ago India exploded a nuclear bomb, an atomic bomb, underground. This was the first step. |
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I find an overall bad atmosphere in India. Resentment against many of the devotees. Party politics and different things like that are going on. |
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He says, "That may be so, but in the Bhagavad-gita Krsna orders Arjuna that 'You must kill.' ". |
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He says that he is a fruitarian. He does not eat vegetables. He says that to be good consciousness in spiritual life, one must not eat any vegetables but only fruit. |
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He says but he doesn't sit on a throne and he doesn't ask people to pay obeisances in front of him. |
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Srila Prabhupada, earlier you were speaking that Krsna means everything past, present and future and... |
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So an interpretation of a scripture, whether it be Bible or Bhagavad-gita, cannot simply be an opinion, but it must be based on logic and reason. |
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Prabhupada, Jesus had a relationship with Krsna, or God, as his father. |
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Not in ISKCON. No, no it doesn't. They do not respect sannyasis. |
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My organization is not directly concerned with giving people brains. |
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Krsna is benevolent, and the material nature is not. |
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It is written in many scriptures that God is light. |
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Well, they say "You are distributing food, and we are also distributing food. You are opening schools, and we are also opening schools." |
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This gentleman says that real wisdom is not manifested by any exterior show, and that it is interior, and the real sage cannot be seen. |
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They say that this is, the body is made by God. Why cover it up? Nakedness is the work of God. |
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The difference between the transcendentalists and the scientists is that they do not know the standard of research. |
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You said that researches are all right, but there has to be a standard. |
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We are learning here Krsna's service. So Krsna's service is here, and if you are perfect, then Krsna's service is there after death also, the same thing. |
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Any moment, any time you spend for thinking of Krsna, working for Krsna, chanting for Krsna, eating for Krsna, dancing for Krsna, that time is saved. |
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If you catch up Krsna's lotus feet very tightly, then you will not fall down. |
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Our only duty is to carry out the order of the Supreme. Other things is already done by Him. |
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One cannot become guru unless he knows krsna-tattva. Not ordinary man. |
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One who is engaged in Krsna's service with firm faith and devotion, it means he has already freed himself from all kinds of reactions of sinful activities. This is the test. |
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Not that sitting one place doing nothing and become Krsna conscious. Then there will be fall down. Don't imitate Haridasa Thakura. That is not possible. You must work. |
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So-called brahmacari, so-called grhastha, or so-called sannyasi, then you will fall down. |
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People want to be satisfied with little benefit, with little benefit. No, that is not our mission. We want the supreme benefit. |
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Jugala-piriti: the loving dealings between Radha and Krsna. Jugala means "couple"; piriti means "love." |
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Our religion does not say asceticism. Our religion teaches to love God. You can love God in this dress. There is no harm. |
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This human life is meant for understanding God. That is the only business of human life. |
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A sudra, if he is working, he cannot take brahmana initiation, but he can take hari-nama, is that it? |
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According to Vedic culture, is seaweed edible? |
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All that karma is erased as soon as he surrenders to Krsna? |
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Also based on karma, that one man is meant to have more than another of material things? Is that an argument against...? |
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And Bon Maharaja also has told he is a graduate. What is he? |
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Any kind of living entity who takes prasadam or hears the name, that it will come back at least to human form of life. Is that correct? |
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Any other type of concentration (meditation) you do? |
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Are sudras supposed to take sannyasa also? |
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Are you God? |
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At Radha-Damodara, did you cook yourself? |
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Brahmana is not to accept any employment? |
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But from '65-'66 how did you manage? You didn't have any money with you. |
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But isn't the Krsna consciousness has not spread in the Arab world? |
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But still, somebody must have seen Krsna... to actually paint Him? |
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But why should He (God) create them (the jivas) in the first instance? |
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Can changing the type of service one's performing, can that help him to achieve the desired perfection in relationship with the spiritual master and Krsna? |
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Can our religion bring something more than other religions? |
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Can you say something about the training for a brahmana (in the varnasrama college)? |
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Did the residents of Vrndavana see the many expansions or did they only see one Krsna? |
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Did you write all these books? |
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Do people naturally act sinfully, or is that something that they develop? |
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Do we have a meaning, do we have a definition for the third eye? |
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Do we use machines and modern methods on our asramas and farms. |
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Do you believe in love of God, and that God is a person? Some people say that God is not a person, and we say God is a person. |
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Do you believe in the Holy Bible? |
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Do you have an opinion on the Hebrew scripture, the Kabbalah? |
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Do you have the powers of Jesus? Can you say to a person, "Rise up and walk," when they're paralyzed? |
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Do you see a time coming when all mankind will be united? |
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Do you think meditation is a way to see God inside yourself? |
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Do you think that in the future all religions and all these spiritual groups will come together and form one group? |
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Do you think that the Russian society is not put off by this bhajana? |
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Do you think that, that stage (to be united on the spiritual platform) is possible within this generation? |
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Does a devotee, who is working as a sudra, get second initiation? |
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Does God need service? |
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Does He (Krsna) also appear through Maha-Visnu? |
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Does karma-yoga mean to follow exactly the sastras? |
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Does Krsna makes us ignorant or are we ignorant? |
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Does such a comet (comet Kohoutek) affect consciousness as well as matter? |
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We are thinking independent and we are planning so many things independently to become happy. It is not possible. That is not possible. That is maya's illusory play. |
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Because you have accepted this material body, you are foolishly thinking that you are not eternal. Otherwise, as God is eternal, you are also eternal. |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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Mrgari the hunter. |
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Apart from his life, we are especially stressing on the mission of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. |
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Sometimes some man comes in our society; after staying for days, he goes away. This is praksepata, thrown away. Unless he's very sincere, he cannot stay with us. |
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A hunter spread his net. So some little birds, they fell down in the net and they are crying. |
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We have to be trained up in that platform, how to become the best servant, not only servant directly, but servants, of the servant. This is called parampara servant. |
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Krsna consciousness movement means we have to give up this nonsense idea of becoming master. |
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Big, big monkey, big, big belly, Ceylon jumping, melancholy. |
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I saw one hotel man in Calcutta cutting the throat of a chicken: he was laughing and his son was crying. |
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When I was a child my father gave me one red gun, and then I was not more than eight years. Then, after getting one, I said, "I must have another one". |
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The rabbit killed a big lion by intelligence. |
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You require a leader; we require a leader. That is wanted. Without leader we cannot go. But if you select a bad leader, blind leader, then you remain blind. |
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How does the spirit soul of a beast enter into the form of a human being? |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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This initiation by the grace of guru and Krsna, do not take it very leniently. Take it very seriously. It is a great opportunity. |
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We are servant; we take the remnants of foodstuff left by Krsna. We are neither vegetarian nor nonvegetarian. We are prasad-ian. |
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First of all, I started the book. That is, by Krsna's grace, it is becoming successful. Then diorama. Then I shall give next idea. |
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Even the lion cannot sleep: he has to work to eat. |
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Mrgari the hunter. |
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This Krsna consciousness movement is for very intelligent, high-class, fortunate persons. Because they are going to guide the destiny of the human society. |
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Here in this Bhagavad-gita, it is ordered that the human society must be divided into four divisions, and they should cooperate for understanding God. |
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As cats and dogs, if they are practiced to run here and there, either on legs or on cars, is that advancement of civilization? |
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Krsna consciousness movement is trying to create at least one section first-class men so that people may see, "Oh, here are ideal men". |
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I never came here because American boys or people wanted me. They did not feel any need of my presence. But I came here, because it is my duty. My Guru Maharaja ordered me. |
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Krsna consciousness does not mean to keep a set of men lazy, who cannot work. That is not Krsna consciousness. Everyone must work to his capacity. Prescribed duties. |
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Krsna consciousness movement is how to increase detachment for this material life. Therefore it is called vairagya-vidya. |
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Prabhupada, you were a chemist before, but I think you are the greatest alchemist to have taken so many leaden souls and turned them into golden Vaisnavas. |
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This movement is sri-caitanya-mano-'bhistam. |
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Could you tell me a little bit about your background, when you were young, what types of things you did...? |
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Do you think that some day the Krsna consciousness movement will spread to all the people in the world? |
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Servant's business is to surrender, not to argue with the master or to claim that "I am equal with you." These are all fanatic, mad proposal. |
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Our Gaudiya Matha people, those who were leaders, they wanted to supersede the order of Guru Maharaja. Therefore it was failure. |
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Anything grown in the garden, that is hundred times valuable than it is purchased from the market. |
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Bhagavad-gita teaches how to become a brave hero in the battlefield. |
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Woman should stay under the father, under the husband, and under the elderly sons. Nothing more. |
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We are all recklessly wasteful sons of God. |
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When you see the sunshine, moonshine. Krsna says "I am the sunshine, I am the moonshine." So as soon as you see in the morning, sunshine, you see Krsna. |
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Neophyte is neophyte. Why do you bring him to become a devotee? A devotee is different. A "one plus one equal to two," he's not mathematician. He's learning. |
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He says it's always been difficult for him to keep walking or climbing up the stairs in the right direction. |
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Liberty means whatever you like, you can do. That is liberty. But at the present moment, you cannot do that. |
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Spiritual training means... |
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If my mother would not have been little strict, I would not have gotten any education. My father was very lenient. So she used to force me. One man would take me to school. |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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There is no credit for me, but it is only a teeny attempt, and humble attempt. So if one man could do, if you say, some success, why not all of us? |
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The world is full of rascals, therefore there is need of so many gurus to teach them. But what is that qualification of the guru? How everyone can become guru? |
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You become a guru at your home. It is not that you have to make a gigantic show of becoming guru. The father has to become guru, the mother has to become guru. |
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My life is ended, now eighty-one. But so long I shall live I shall make no compromise, krsnas tu bhagavan svayam. Drdha-vrata. And that is a fact. Why shall I mislead people? |
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Never mind we die by preaching. Still, it will be glorious. |
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Tin, tin, tin, tin - International Society String Band, combined together, now we have become a stringed instrument. |
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What is that difficulty? |
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Even the lion cannot sleep; he has to work to eat. |
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Don't think that Krsna consciousness movement, those who are Krsna conscious, they'll become lazy and imitate Haridasa Thakura. That is not Krsna consciousness. |
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We do not allow any lazy man. He must be engaged. That is Krsna consciousness movement. That is Krsna's order. |
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I saw one hotel man in Calcutta cutting the throat of a chicken: he was laughing and his son was crying. |
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Bhakti means three things: bhakta, Bhagavan, and the service. That is bhakti. They're individual. |
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Shah Jahan. |
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To become a spiritual master is not easy job. One must be very learned scholar and must have full realization of the self and everything. |
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If we take the position of Arjuna - sisyas te 'ham sadhi mam prapannam - then Krsna will speak to the disciple like Arjuna, and everything will be clear. |
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Big, big monkey, big, big belly, Ceylon jumping, melancholy. |
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When I do not act for any material purpose, that means my sense activities are purified, and that is bhakti. |
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My disciples they are part and parcel of me. Whole mission is going on with their cooperation. But if he says that I am equal to my Guru Maharaja, then that is offense. |
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Can you explain to me what is good sex life and bad sex life? |
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How to seek a master? How to find a master? |
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Any question, any problem, it is solved not by the whims of the student, but it is solved by the expert master by explaining it very elaborately. |
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So long one wants to become Brahman, he is ignorant. |
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That much intelligence, we must have that intelligence, that who is master. Suppose if you want gold, if you do not know where gold can be purchased, then he is cheated. |
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Very simple thing, that you are part and parcel of God. God is eternal. So if you understand God, then you become eternal. |
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Why do we say like that? Why? Why you are bringing physical concept He is a person, He is saying. Why do you say physical, material, and this and that way. He is father. |
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Because one cannot understand, therefore He has explained karma-yoga, jnana-yoga, dhyana-yoga, hatha-yoga, this yoga. And He has explained also the meaning. |
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I have no higher consciousness. |
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I planned that "I must go to America." Yes. That was the reason. Otherwise, generally they go to London. I did not go to London. |
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After you pass the examination, there is no more test. But before coming to the post of recognized devotee, Krsna tests very severely. That one has to pass. |
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I have explained, chanting outside the temple and chanting in the temple, it increases the value thousand times. |
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This movement will go for ten thousand years without any impediment. You should take this opportunity. You work sincerely; it will increase, it will increase. |
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You mentioned that soon there will not be so much use for automobiles. What will be our means of spreading the sankirtana movement? |
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Frozen means nasty. I never take frozen. In the beginning I thought, "Oh, it is very nice. You can get fresh vegetable." But they are not at all fresh. |
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Follow the rules and regulations, worship the Deity, and chant Hare Krsna mantra, as you have given, then you will remain as strong as Krsna. |
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Hard struggle. So Krsna gave us some facility. Now we have got some framework. Do it very cautiously. |
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A devotee, very often after chanting why they develop very, very high. I see a lot of devotees, they falls down back to the maya. What is the reason? |
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According to karma (varieties of the body, according to the mentality)? |
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A lot of them are very young people coming into the movement. Do you think they really understand what they're going into when they join the Krsna movement? |
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According to yoga, a yogi becomes sama-duhkha-sukhah svasthah sama-lostasma-kancanah, tulya-priyapriyo dhiras tulya-nindatma-samstutih. Can it be achieved by sankirtana? |
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After the scattering of these Aryans, they have come different place. How is it that we brought all the cultural heritage in north, east and western countries? |
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After you realize that you're not the body, then what comes next? |
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Am I to understand that women cannot go back to Godhead without being reincarnated to the male? |
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And Krsna consciousness can help me attain this (happiness)? |
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And anxiety for Krsna (anxiety for one's self is maya? - That is material)? |
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And how long does this go on (are you say that we were perhaps something else before we were born as well? And we keep coming back in something else next time)? |
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And how to surrender to God, how to do this? |
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And it is sure to go through in this life if you try this (take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead)? |
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And that they should not bump each other or dance with each other personally, distracting the attention from the Deity? Shouldn't all the dancing be focused toward the Deity? |
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And the interpretation is by you yourself? |
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And the purpose of sastra is to direct this minute independence so that it is not misused? |
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And then were you at the university or the school or somewhere? |
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And to your mind is it possible to come to God consciousness through other means than yours? |
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And what do you mean by surrendering, sir? |
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How to surrender? |
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And what will be the benefit of classifying men according to their qualities? |
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And you are sure this is the truth? |
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And you choose the leaders, or Krsna does and tells you, how does that work? |
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Another question comes. Why, how the caste system has crippled our society so much, was accepted by...? |
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Apart from giving spiritual enlightenment, do you also..., are you also concerned for people's physical well-being? |
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Are fasting and other dietary regulations necessary for leading a spiritual life? |
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Are persons who are trying to cut down appetite, they should eat cool foods? |
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Are the prajapatis responsible for propagating human species or all species of life? |
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What is the response in the Islamic countries? |
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Are there any other Vedic scriptures that you believe speak to a situation that is greatly misunderstood today besides this? |
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There are no changes in the higher nature? |
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And that mental process, if you are working, is it a wrong mental process? |
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And what is favorable to Krsna? How one knows? |
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If one surrenders, how to know that Krsna has accepted? |
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So how can one be out of this cakra? |
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So I have no other goal but to have the phala of past karmas. Or can I change my fate? |
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How can all sections of Hindus be made to take an equal interest and have the same sense of belonging to the Hindu religion? |
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And you in turn choose others (I have been chosen by my spiritual master)? |
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In the family. Any formal? |
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And your own schooling, then, in the local schools in Calcutta? |
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Anxiety for one's self is maya? |
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They use flesh for curing diseases? |
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Are there different prajapatis for the different species? |
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Animal-killing is only allowed when it is absolutely necessary, for medicine. Suppose by killing one animal hundreds of lives are saved, so that is allowed. |
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How does one establish clearly (your studies of philosophy will be perfect when you establish, "Yes, there is God.")? |
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There are so many translations (of the Gita). How does one decide...? |
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I wanted to know if Bhagavad-gita As It Is, you'd have to read Sanskrit, wouldn't you? |
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Are there any centers of the society in the Communist world? |
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What is the response in Iran? |
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Your movement is spreading largely. Do you think that it will be welcome in the Communist countries? |
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You have some project here. Can you kindly explain what is that? |
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You are selling your books in Moscow? |
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This sankalpa-vikalpa is there as long as we have our independence, though. Even as devotees, that accepting and rejecting? That is there even in devotees? |
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Is there any limit to the number of chances that the disciple has? |
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Would you accept conclusions from science that..., only if it agreed with the Vedic scriptures? |
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What about that sometimes people ask us what about the pictures of man on the moon? |
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Do you feel - maybe you answered this, but I didn't understand the answer - do you feel that astronauts did land somewhere, but it was some other planet? |
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Are there different reasons for these higher worlds (this is only one-fourth part manifestation of God's property. The three-fourth part is the spiritual world)? |
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Is there time in the higher nature? |
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Are there many places, let's say, beyond the physical? |
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Do you want to give ... authorization to take sannyasa as soon as possible? |
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A devotee is only supposed to want service, and sometimes he very much wants to be liberated to be finished with all this difficulty, isn't it? |
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Also they bump one another with the drum or with each other's bodies, they dance and they bump like this. That is not bona fide is it? It is very popular in our movement now. |
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We are not for facility; we are for service. |
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Siddhanta, what is Krsna, if you study from the sastras, then siddhanta boliya citte, don't be lazy in understanding Krsna. |
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I am the servant of the servant of the servant of Krsna - That is purification. Then desire. Then you'll not desire anything except Krsna's service. That is perfection. |
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You believe or not believe, the words of Krsna cannot be false. That's a fact. You may be rascal, you do not believe, but those who are dhira, they believe. |
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Why we offer our respect to mother? Because when you are helpless, we cannot eat anything, the mother supplies milk from the breast. Mother means who supplies the food. |
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Modern education there is no real knowledge. Real knowledge begins in the Bhagavad-gita. |
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Bhakti-yoga means not only dedicating life to Krsna but also to serve the Vaisnava, tat-purusa. Tat-purusa means to serve a person who has dedicated his life to Krsna. |
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Whichever asrama is suitable for you, you accept, but sincere. Don't be hypocrite. |
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Everyone will become guru when he is expert disciple, but why this immature attempt? Guru is not a thing, imitation. When one is mature, he becomes guru automatically. |
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We have to follow the injunction of the sastra. We cannot manufacture our own ways of spiritual advancement. That is not possible. |
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Family attachment is the greatest impediment in the matter of advancing in Krsna consciousness, but if the whole family is Krsna conscious, that is very nice. |
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We have to become dhira from adhira. But this Krsna consciousness movement is so nice that adhira can be dhira. This is the profit of this movement. |
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This is Rupa Gosvami's instruction. Somehow or other, you become attached to Krsna. Then your life is successful. |
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Guru means whatever instruction he'll give, we have to accept without any argument. Vedic knowledge is like that. You cannot interpret. As it is, you have to accept. |
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Pandita does not mean one who has got degree. Pandita means sama-cittah. |
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Don't think that our books are simply meant for selling; they are meant for reading also. |
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Change is no rectification. If somebody is not working he should be trained up. |
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Big sankirtana is book distribution and small sankirtana is with mrdanga. Big sankirtana is going on all over the world. Small sankirtana locally. |
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As soon as there is bhajana-kriya, or devotional service, immediately anartha-nivrtthi syat. Anartha means unwanted things, they become vanquished. |
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And he has known 'missing link'? (before the caveman was the missing link). |
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If you stop kirtana, then it is ordinary. |
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If you print books, some day somebody will read. But if we keep money, it creates disturbance. I am therefore always insisting, "Print books, Print books". |
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If I purchase from you and give it, distribute it free to somebody else, that is not wrong thing. |
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I am dealing with all neophytes. If I don't keep them alive by personal presence. |
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How to become completely free from all our attachment of this material world, that is being exemplified by Rsabhadeva. He doesn't take care even of the body. |
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He was my spiritual master, and whatever he taught, we are speaking, that's all. We don't talk any nonsense. |
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Gaura-Nitai is worshiped simply by kirtana. |
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My spiritual master appointed me that "You do this." Similarly I shall appoint somebody else, this is the way. |
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Krsna consciousness means our mission is to present before you what Krsna says. That's all. We are not concerned what other says. |
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My only endeavor is to understand God, that's all. There is no sectarian. And I am selling my books all over the world. So it's not that everyone is foolish. |
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The acarya's parampara is there. Evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduh. |
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Service and reading are nondifferent? |
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Preaching means kirtana, not that simply with mrdanga we can have musical kirtana. No. Preaching is also kirtana. |
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Our business is to stop slaughter. Meat-eating we cannot stop. |
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Even dog is afraid, what to speak of man. The animals, when they are taken to be slaughtered, they cry. So animal is afraid of death, why not man? Everyone is afraid. |
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You should always remember that you are helping me. Without your help I cannot do anything, so you do not be disturbed. Try to help me. That is my request. |
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Why you should give any importance to weakness? Weakness is weakness. Rectify it. |
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We must learn how to see Krsna. So we should not think that "Here is a stone statue." As soon as we think of stone statue, then our this feeling, bhava, will be lost. |
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We don't manufacture any ideas. That is not our business. Therefore we present this Bhagavad-gita as it is. As it is. We don't change it. |
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The upper portion of the sugarcane will be fodder for the cows. |
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The library party said that everywhere in Delhi they went, they found that you had already placed your three volumes of Bhagavatam. |
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No one is getting any salary here (in New Mayapura), they are just working and taking... |
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Misery of life is to be like this only. To live like this without the divine knowledge or without... |
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It would be easier for them if they didn't live in the cities, because the cities make it so hard for anybody to understand there is a God. |
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In regards to the organization of the movement. |
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In Bhagavatam, Srila Prabhupada, you are mentioning that prostitute is needed in the society. |
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If you can appreciate krsna-prasadam without filling up to the neck... |
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If someone forces his mind, Srila Prabhupada, to think of Krsna... |
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His argument is that "I should never be allowed to misuse my independence". |
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He says that maya keeps making him full of material desires. |
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He said that you remarked that our society is not love-making society. But there are so many of these things are going on. |
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He (Sai Baba) says, "Rice is the equivalent of God in man while the husk can be compared to desire which reduces God to man". |
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Even if there is one bhakta, that is Vrndavana. |
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And then the materialist says, "If Krsna is all good, then how is there any evil?". |
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All they could say was how Prabhupada, how he is empowered by Lord Gauranga. |
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Prabhupada, your temples are the real spaceships. We can go to the other planets and to Krsnaloka from your temples. |
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One of the things which this council handles is freedom of religion throughout the world. |
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No, even in Ramayana and Mahabharata we find this kind of, Ekalavya was discriminated, Karna was discriminated. |
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Whenever they make some report about India, they always make some joke about how the people will think the animals are sacred and how this is actually the real problem. |
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They may say that we have arbitrarily given some specific duties to different people. |
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They have fashioned a way for the spacemen that they can drink their own urine and eat their own stool. |
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They are advertising that "These Hindus, they are so fool, they are worshiping an animal, a cow". |
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There was some trouble with your movement in America recently. |
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There are too many sections of religion, Hindu religion. |
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There are so many children in the world that are suffering. |
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Then they will say, "Well, you are proselytizing by rice". |
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Srila Prabhupada, you said yesterday, or a few days ago, that this movement will go on unimpeded for ten thousand years... |
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Srila Prabhupada, sometimes when we go preaching, people do not want to take Krsna consciousness. Sometimes they actually... |
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Srila Prabhupada, it mentions in The Nectar of Devotion that in the viddhi-marga there are many things we don't want to do but we must do in order to make advancement. |
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Sometimes if we are faced with a service we think is beyond our means. |
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Sometimes devotees, they want to love Krsna, but they fall down, they can't seem to... |
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Another definition of Krsna is He's full with six kinds of opulences. So He's sufficient to fulfill His desire. He doesn't require anyone's service. |
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Because people are in darkness, we require many millions of gurus to enlighten them. |
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Before me so many swamis, yogis went there. They came and go. No effect. Now I have created a community which will continue. |
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Can you tell me a little bit about the future direction of the movement, how you plan to expand? |
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Every one of you become guru and deliver the residents of your neighborhood. Ei desa. Wherever you are living, just deliver them. Become their guru. |
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Here in our institute, we teach all the students practically how to become God conscious. Theoretical knowledge will not help us. There must be practical behavior. |
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How many Mahesh Yogi has brought, disciples like this? This is my answer. Thousands of them are working here on my behalf. Just see their character and behavior. |
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I am now eighty years old, I am working twenty-four hours. I think I work more than my young disciples. |
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If you remain to your principles, you can make the whole world your disciple. |
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It is not that you have become a student and you'll remain student. No. One day you shall become also guru and make more students, more students, more. |
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Jahnava devi was-Nityananda's wife. She became. If she is able to go to the highest perfection of life, why it is not possible to become guru? But, not so many. |
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Keep your movement very pure. You don't mind if somebody goes away. But we must keep our principles pure. |
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Master is one: Krsna. There cannot be two master. The master can expand Himself as masters. That is another thing. The master is one. |
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Money is not our aim. Our aim is how people will understand Krsna. |
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My Guru Maharaja left alone, so he has sent so many gurus to take care of me. You are all my Guru Maharaja's representatives. |
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My spiritual master appointed me that "You do this." Similarly I shall appoint somebody else, this is the way. |
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Nobody can protect anyone. That is not possible. Everyone has to take care of himself. This world is like that. Don't depend. Only Krsna can protect you - nobody else. |
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Now there should be one rule that unless they are husband-wife, man and woman should not worship together. |
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Oh. Yes, there was no hope for my coming (to New Mayapura). Now I've come, they (the devotees) must be (ecstatic). |
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One should remain perpetually a student, but he has to act as guru. |
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Otherwise it is ordinary movement. This same man, he's guru, so long he gives the real knowledge of Krsna. And the same man, he's ordinary man, as soon as he cannot give. |
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Our duty is only to become Krsna conscious. Other things will be supplied by Krsna. |
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Prahlada Maharaja and every Vaisnava who is actually following the parampara system of Vaisnava duty, they are anxious. |
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Prahlada Maharaja was put into so many trials when he was only a child, still he never forgot Krsna. That is the sign of maha-bhagavata. In any circumstances. |
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Say that all the ten thousand devotees, each of them is a moon, not a star. |
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Sometimes, Srila Prabhupada, devotees want to know what your greatest pleasure would be, how you would want your disciples to... |
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The central point is to love Krsna and offer Him service, but that service may be of variety. |
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The man, the man or woman, one who are very much sexually attached, he is a rascal. One should give up his company. And another rascal who is not a devotee of Krsna. |
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The real platform of unity is Krsna consciousness. Our members, although they speak different languages from different countries, but still they are united. |
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The temple is not a free hotel for learning how to gratify senses. No. This is not our aim and object. |
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Ultimate is always be absorbed in glorifying the Lord, but not in the beginning. In the beginning you must work very hard; you come to the stage of pure devotional platform. |
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Vietnam, send all the men to fight, and kill them. As soon as there is overpopulation, they declare war so that people may be killed. |
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You make a choice; you can change it. But as soon as you change it, God knows what you are going to do. This is very common sense. |
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This whole science is understood through service only. Everything becomes revealed. Everything is revelation. Unless one is very sincere servant, there is no revelation. |
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They must be engaged twenty-four hours. That is wanted. It is not a lazy free hotel. Anyone lives, he must be engaged twenty-four hours. |
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This is an opportunity, this human form of life, to decide where you want to go. Are you going to hell or heaven or back to home, or back to Godhead? That you have to decide. |
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Envy means the cow has got right to live. He does not allow the cow to live. That is envy. |
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Who is my disciple? First of all let him follow strictly the disciplined rules. |
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When one is jealous of God, then gradually jealous of everyone. |
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We have got everything in writing, in books, in instructions. Our duty is to take them rightly and utilize it properly, advance in Krsna consciousness. |
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We are not idle preachers, we are working. All, very hard, more than the karmis. |
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We cannot become sympathetic with everyone. That is not our policy. |
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Even if there is one bhakta, that is Vrndavana. |
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Devotee's business is to glorify. He doesn't take any credit for himself. Actually, there is nothing to be taken credit. The all credit goes to Krsna. |
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The industries, they are mentioned in the Bhagavad-gita as ugra-karma. Ugra-karma means ferocious activities. |
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My request is that the inhabitants of Bombay, especially those who are our members, they will kindly take active part, how to make this institution very successful in Bombay. |
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Today is very auspicious day. With great difficulty we have got now sanction. Now please cooperate with this attempt as far as possible. |
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If you want to get out of the maya's activities, prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani, then you have to take to Krsna consciousness. There is no way out. |
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Yoga means connecting link. Our link is now separated. |
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Here is the chance of getting freedom from this evolutionary process. |
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By the characteristics we can understand who is a godly man and who is a demonic man. |
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Our Krsna consciousness movement is meant for educating everyone to become divine. That is the program. |
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So don't believe your so-called senses as the source of knowledge. No. The source of knowledge should be by hearing. |
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Don't misuse this opportunity. Some way or other, you have come in contact with this movement. Properly utilize it. Don't go to the darkness. Always remain in bright light. |
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Guru means one who has complete knowledge of Vedic version, and not only that, he is a staunch or fixed-up devotee of the Supreme Lord. These are the qualification. |
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This Krsna consciousness movement is meant for making things very simplified. Accept God, accept your position as God's servant and serve God. That's all, three words. |
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One of the devotional quality is titiksa, tolerance. That should be learned, how to tolerate in every condition of life. |
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In the material world, even if you promote to the highest planetary system, Brahmaloka, still, you'll have to come back again. |
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If cats and dogs can live at the mercy of God, the devotees can live very comfortably by the mercy of God. There is no such question. |
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If there's another way to go to God. If there is another way? |
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If you all, ladies and gentlemen present here, take advantage of hearing about God from this institution, you will also become God conscious. |
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This is bhakti-marga, means simply to satisfy Krsna. That is bhakti-marga, no other desire, no other motive. |
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Krsna has appeared as the son of mother Saci, and Balarama has appeared as Nityananda, and Their business is to deliver all fallen souls, especially in this age, Kali-yuga. |
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We are passing through many varieties of life, and this human form of life is a good chance to get out of this chain of changing body one after another. |
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The rules and regulation are that nobody should accept blindly any guru, and nobody should blindly accept any disciple. They must behave, one another, at least for one year. |
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These centers are being opened just to give the opportunity to the people who are suffering not only in this life, life after life. |
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Vrscika means... |
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To save us from death... That is the first business of humankind. We are teaching this Krsna consciousness movement for this purpose only. |
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The logic of the frog in the well. |
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The conception of one world state can only be fulfilled if we can follow the infallible authority. An imperfect human being cannot create an ideology acceptable to everyone. |
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That is my greatest encouragement, that even in my absence, things are going on very nicely, improving. |
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Our mission is to establish the desire of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. That is our business. |
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Now, at least for me, this Krsna consciousness movement is no more theoretical. It is practical. I can solve all problems. |
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You should always remember this. A little mistake will spoil the whole scheme, little mistake. Nature is very strong. |
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This Krsna consciousness movement means we want to become friends of everyone. |
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Without literature, how can we enlighten the people at large? My Guru Maharaja used to say that this press is brhad-mrdanga. |
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Srila Prabhupada, if the knowledge was handed down by the saintly kings, evam parampara-praptam (BG 4.2), how is it that the knowledge was lost? |
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Krsna consciousness movement is, that don't hear the cheaters and don't try to cheat others. Be honest and hear from the authorities. That is Krsna consciousness. |
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The preacher must love the people. Why at eighty years old I have come here if I do not love? So who can love better than a preacher? He loves even the animals. |
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It is your kindness that you accepted me. But I never expected. I never expected that "These people will accept". |
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My life? According to sastra, if we have actually developed Krsna consciousness, we are going to Krsna. I may not, but they will go. |
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Alexander and the thief. |
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Why did you choose to go to America and propagate the teachings of Lord Krsna in a western country? |
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Devahuti's position is a perfect woman. She got good father, she got good husband, and she got excellent son. So woman has got three stages in life. Man has got ten stages. |
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Cut coat tail is the latest fashion. |
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Stag and the jackal. |
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Our Krsna consciousness movement is teaching people that "Don't live irresponsibly". |
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Our Krsna consciousness movement is teaching people how to go back to home, back to Godhead. |
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Krsna consciousness movement means brahminical culture. |
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Unless he is pleased, what I am worth? It is due to his pleasure. |
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Too much attachment for material enjoyment is disqualification for spiritual life. |
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She can become equal with man. Spiritually advanced man and woman, they are equal. So long one is materially encaged, this is not possible. |
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How does one become humble and remain humble? |
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I would have collected millions of dollars if I would have cheated like that. But I do not want that. I want one student who follows my instruction. I don't want millions. |
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I will never die, I shall live for my books, and you will utilize. |
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Krsna consciousness movement is a fight against all the owls. |
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My Guru Maharaja passed in 1936, and I started this movement in 1965, thirty years after. Then? I am getting the mercy of guru. This is vani. |
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Prabhupada? If you say that purity is required for faith to develop, what are the symptoms by which one can be said to be pure? |
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This is not life, that "Because I can run in more speed than the dog, therefore I am civilized". |
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So this civilization, modern civilization, is just like madman civilization. They have no knowledge of past life, neither they are interested in the future life. |
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In my absence you read the books: what I talk, I have written in the books. |
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Read our books, chant Hare Krsna, live very simple life, produce your own necessities. Don't go to the town. |
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Everyone is poor. Who is rich? Unless one has got knowledge of Krsna, he is poor. |
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Maya is so strong that after being kicked so many lives, life after life, still he is thinking, "I am purusa. I am enjoyer." This is the disease. |
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A devotee is neither karmi nor jnani. Therefore bhakti means jnana-karmady-anavrtam. If one is involved in jnana and karma he cannot become bhakta. |
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Krsna consciousness movement is most scientific movement to get the whole human society from the pitch of darkness. |
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Jackal without tail is the fashion. |
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They are making scientific researches to become happy, but these rascals, they do not know how to stop death. So what is the nice? But they have no brain to understand. |
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This Krsna consciousness movement is preaching that "This material world is not your home. Don't try to be happy here". |
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You have violated from the very beginning the orders of Christ, 'Thou shall not kill,' and you are killing, only killing. So what you have not done? |
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They must be moved. Government means, nowadays, all rascals. They are elected by rascals and they are rascals. That is the difficulty. |
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In the Kali-yuga there is no good men at all—all bad. Strong you will have to become to deal with all bad men. |
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About the creation. I have read it from Bible too, about Adam and Eve. Do you think that it's true? |
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Swamiji, do you think that Bible, about the Adam, Adam is Brahma? It has been copied from the Indian philosophy to put it there in different name? |
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You learn from the sastra. You learn from Bhagavad-gita what Krsna says and do it. Then you are not responsible for anything. Just like there is lawbook. |
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How would you know what to consume and what not, Swamiji? |
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The frogs in the well, they cannot understand. You should be not a frog in the well; you should be liberal to hear from the authorities, Vedas. Then you will understand. |
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Gradually we shall develop a society that all these unnecessary rubbish things should be rejected. That is the idea. |
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This movement is not started by me. This was started long, long years ago by Krsna Himself. |
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At the present moment, as soon as one wants to be educated, he requires money. But in the Vedic society there is no question of money. Education free. |
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If we follow Bhagavad-gita from all angles of vision - social, political, economical, religious, cultural - you will be perfect. This is Bhagavad-gita. |
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When we become puzzled with these material affairs, what to do - to do or not to do, this is the example - at that time we must approach a guru. That is the instruction. |
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Even if we don't surrender to Krsna in this life, will everyone surrender to Krsna? Will everyone go back to Godhead eventually? |
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You must always remain dressed like a Vaisnava. That is necessity. So preksaniya: "is very beautiful to see." Otherwise how they became impressed? |
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Brahma is the first created being, so Brahma was instructed the sruti, perfect knowledge, by Krsna. Krsna is the original spiritual master. Vedanta-vit. |
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Even the lion cannot sleep: he has to work to eat. |
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Vrndavana means that Krsna is the center. He is the lovable object of everyone. |
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Vivasvan, the sun-god, he explained to Manu, and Manu explained to his son. In this way, by the disciplic succession the knowledge has come down. |
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This material body is simply outward covering of the spiritual body by physical atmosphere, but real body is within. |
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Those who are not enthusiastic, lazy, lethargetic, they cannot advance in spiritual life. |
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The difference between the life of the fish and my life. |
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Because the mind is now contaminated, and under the creation of senses and sense activities, we are making millions and trillions of ideas and become entangled in that idea. |
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Fortunately, we had the good opportunity of learning bhagavata-dharma from our very childhood. My father was a devotee, and he trained us. |
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If I ask the dog that "What is your next life?" he cannot say. "Gow! gow!" That's all. |
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Bhagavata-dharma is not meant for such persons who are envious. It is meant for the paramo nirmatsaranam, who has given up this envy or envious attitude ultimately. |
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To become Krsna conscious means we have to give up all these so-called or cheating type of religious system. |
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If you manufacture your program of enjoyment, then you will be slapped. And if you enjoy according to the direction of the father, then you'll enjoy. |
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Krsna is feeling pain. So you become Krsna conscious, then Krsna will feel pleasure. That is Krsna consciousness movement. |
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Unless we accept inconceivable power of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there is no meaning of God. |
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Real good is: "He has forgotten God. Revive his consciousness." That is real good. Then he'll saved from the so-called good and bad and everything. That is wanted. |
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We have got so many books. Whoever comes here must read the books, devotee, the inmates of the temple, outsider, then you will understand what is Krsna consciousness. |
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The greatest contribution to the human society is knowledge. To keep them in ignorance, in darkness, that is not human society, that is cats' and dogs'. |
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Real perfection of yoga means to fix up the mind at the lotus feet of Krsna. |
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Bad work means maya and good work means God. There are two things: God and maya. If we do not act in godly situation then we must be acting in maya's clutches. |
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Dictatorship is good, provided the dictator is highly qualified spiritually. That is the Vedic verdict. |
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The conclusion is that everyone should take to this Krsna consciousness movement; otherwise, he is awaiting punishment by Yamaraja. |
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People misunderstand that Bhagavad-gita is ordinary warfare, violence. But it is not that. It is arranged by Krsna because, to fulfill His mission. |
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Nowadays the education is how to make friendship with others' wife and how to take away others' money by tricks. This is not education. |
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God is witness. He is along with us always. Whatever we are desiring, whatever we are working, He is witness and He is giving the result. |
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That is the birthright in India - they are automatically Krsna conscious. Automatically. Therefore all the demigods, they also desire to take birth in India. |
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You are taking this pledge for serving (as a sannyasi) in front of Krsna, Vaisnava, guru and fire. So you shall be very much cautious not to forget your duty. |
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Krsna consciousness movement is little difficult for ordinary persons who are interested with the material gross and subtle elements. For them it is little difficult. |
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As we are servant of Krsna, it is our duty to present the real thing. Now you accept, not accept. That is not my business. |
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Bhakti does not mean that you give up your living conscience. Attachment is the function of the living being. |
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First of all we must understand what is spirit and what is Krsna and what is Radharani, and then we try to understand what is Krsna and Radharani's loving affairs. |
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If we keep to the vani to the words of spiritual master, then we remain very fixed up. |
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In the material world a servant works when money is paid, wages. A devotee is not like that. A devotee serves Krsna out of duty. That is God consciousness. |
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Krsna consciousness movement means vairagya-vidya: to get detached. |
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Material life means everyone is trying to become victorious in the struggle of existence without God consciousness. That is our material disease. |
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Majority or minority, it doesn't matter. But why you should take Bhagavad-gita to establish your rascal theories? That means you are cheating. |
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Our business is to conquer over the demands of the body. The demands of the body is eating, sleeping, sex and defense. So spiritual life means make it almost nil. |
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Only hope is that you distribute books, as much as possible, whole Europe, whole America. If they come to some day, they will realize what is this value. |
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Not during while I am talking. You don't take. That disturbs me. My attention goes to your photograph. It is very much disturbing. |
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These transcendental literature, we have taken much pain to translate them into English so that you can understand. We have got fifty books. So take advantage. |
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The superior energy is not produced by the inferior energy. That is nonsense. The inferior energy is produced by the superior energy. This is perfect. |
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Moon planet is further (than the sun)? |
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That democracy is the ruination of civilization... So we want to remain in the minority. We don't want to be ruled by the majority. |
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Those who are not devotees, Godless, without any God consciousness, they are all asuras. So this movement is to make asuras as suras. |
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This Krsna consciousness movement is educating that the varieties of service should be concentrated for the satisfaction of Krsna. That is pravrtti. |
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You can conjecture that "Swamiji may be like this, may be like that, may be...," and if I say, "All right, sit down. I shall explain what I am," then where is the difficulty? |
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When my Guru Maharaja ordered me (I became the spiritual leader of Krsna consciousness). This is the guru-parampara. |
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At the time of death some people becomes unconscious. |
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At the temple there is much maya and the people who live in the temple are phonies. |
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As you have explained, Lord Krsna forbade Arjuna to do this duty. |
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Adolf Hitler adopted the idea of Aryan, but his criteria for Aryan was one who had blond hair and blue eyes. |
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God is the whole, and we are parts, and we are evolving to integrate ourselves with that whole. |
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God is light and that, within us, inside of us. |
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But you give brahminical initiation to unmarried women. |
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But sir, I often wonder that Jesus Christ was so wonderful, I mean brotherhood and all these things, and these, practically people following his creed are warring like this. |
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But it can also mean that He is not everywhere because... |
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He's saying that he accepts that we can receive perfect knowledge, but then because I am imperfect I make an imperfect interpretation. |
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He says that because he doesn't know what the transcendence is, there's no value for him. It's only a name. He doesn't know why to look for it. |
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He has understood from what he thinks is Indian philosophy that you cannot give God a name because that would be limiting God. |
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He has said that we have given the name Krsna to God, but actually there are so many names of God, that it doesn't matter what the name of God is. |
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He (God) is a nice master. |
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In other words, Srila Prabhupada, without practice of the method, it's very difficult to understand the philosophical concepts. |
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If the temple president doesn't understand it, teach him. |
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Krsna is doing it. He is taking the water from the sea and putting it up in the sky, and it becomes very pure. |
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Krsna consciousness is the oldest teaching of God, or Krsna. But the Gita was written about five thousand years ago. |
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It's a lot of fun to drive fast cars and have sex and see movies and... This is fun you know. It's the only way to enjoy! |
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Krsna consciousness is the oldest teaching of God, or Krsna. But the Gita was written about five thousand years ago. |
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In the Christian Bible it says that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and you can only get to God through him. |
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In the Christian Bible it says that God created all of earth. He created the waters, he created the animals, but He created the human being in His image, which was the same. |
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In the Bible they say that the animals don't have soul; therefore it's not the same as killing. |
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Srila Prabhupada, it's very difficult to control my mind when I chant. It wanders. |
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Srila Prabhupada, from time immemorial we see that in India every time there has been a religious reform... |
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Sri Vallabhacaryaji, a devotee to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, wrote commentary on Srimad-Bhagavata, and Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu rejected his commentary. |
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Lord Siva is the greatest Vaisnava. |
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Sometimes there is some disagreement, that "Why one should not live outside the temple?". |
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Sometimes people ask where Swami Prabhupada get his meanings for different words, because they would differ, they would disagree and pick some other word. |
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Some of us are Muslims, and in the Koran Mohammed says that eating meat is all right. In fact it is required to be a good Muslim, to eat meat. |
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She's saying that Christ said that "I am the way". |
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She says that she sees it as a mantra, and from her point of view it seems like we're repeating this mantra over and over again, and it's something like hypnotism. |
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Most people would go crazy if they didn't have any work. |
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Maybe religion is simply imagination or a big business. |
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This is the end of their knowledge. A pile of junk. |
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They say God's name should never be spoken out loud. |
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The sun, you see, is a ball of fire. Nothing can exist there. |
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The majority believe that Christ is also God, not just His son, but he is God also. |
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The foolish Darwin's theories, they also claim that monkey is our forefather. |
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The argument could come that "If He is directing the wanderings of all living entities then I don't have to worry about surrendering. He will direct me to it". |
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Srila Prabhupada, of course, in fact, we are fallen, and sometimes I would like every time to think about Krsna, and... |
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Your calculation of the world. If it is preached anywhere, that is preached on the world. It was not spread, you can say, but it was preached. |
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You say that because the earth isn't too hot or too cold. But they say that just by chance it came into this order. |
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We are born as human being with inherent weaknesses and shortcomings, like kama, krodha, moha, lobha... |
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Unfortunately, many people have put their faith in the material scientists today. |
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Repetition of chewing the chewed. This is material life. |
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Actually that is the fact. We are traveling all over the universe. Not only that we have come to this planet. We have traveled many other planets. |
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Don't aspire for material enjoyment. Enjoyment is there. Don't think that "If I stop my material enjoyment, then my life of enjoyment is finished." No. It is not finished. |
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That is the defect of Western civilization. Vox populi, taking opinion of the public. But what is the value of this public? Drunkards, smokers, meat-eaters, woman-hunters. |
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Unless you change the society, how you can make social welfare? If you keep them as it is, then where is the question of welfare? |
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You can eat meat, but you cannot eat meat by killing your father and mother. That is human sense. You are taking milk from the cow; it is your mother. |
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To make the whole human society happy, this God consciousness movement must spread. |
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Ambudhi means the ocean. So this ocean does not increase, but when you come to the spiritual ocean of ananda, blissfulness, it will increase daily. |
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