Nitya - an essential subject

When we practice something daily or on a regular basis, we become experts in it after a while. Hence, the phrase 'practice makes perfect' holds strong and true. Similarly, if we implement devotional service in our lives and practice it daily, we will, by the Lord's mercy, be able to attain perfect love for Lord Krishna (the Supreme Person). Thus the essential word is 'nityam', which means 'always'. By 'nityaṁ bhāgavata-sevayā' - reading Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam daily, one is ultimately able to reach spiritual perfection.

Srila Prabhupada's books, lectures, conversations and letters offer a comprehensive presentation of this essential subject as seen in the Vaniquotes Nitya category. An introduction from his teachings is given below in the following 8 quotes.

Quotes from Srila Prabhupada's teachings


vanipedia.org 		According to the mīmāṁsā philosophers, everything is eternal, nitya, and according to the Sāṅkhya philosophers everything is mithyā, or anitya—impermanent. Nonetheless, without real knowledge of ātma—, the soul, such philosophers must be bewildered and must continue to lament as śūdras. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.2.49)



vanipedia.org 		Even those who are liberated from this material contamination, they are called mukta-jīva, liberated soul. And there are nitya-mukta. Nitya-mukta and nitya-baddha. Nitya means eternally, and mukta means liberated. And again, nitya, eternally, baddha, conditioned. So just like there are many persons in the state who have never seen what is the prison life, and there are many persons in the state, the majority of one's life is passed in the prison. (Bhagavad-gītā Lecture, 20 April 1976, Melbourne)



vanipedia.org 		It is said that the gopīs are divided into five groups, namely the sakhīs, nitya-sakhīs, prāṇa-sakhīs, priya-sakhīs and parama-preṣṭha-sakhīs. All these fair-complexioned associates of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, the Queen of Vṛndāvana-dhāma, are expert artists in evoking erotic sentiments in Kṛṣṇa. (Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Ādi-līlā 4.217)



vanipedia.org 		Previously also, Devakī had been the Lord's mother and Vasudeva the Lord's father, and they were named Pṛśni and Sutapā. When the Supreme Personality of Godhead appears, He accepts His eternal father and mother, and they accept Kṛṣṇa as their son. This pastime takes place eternally and is therefore called nitya-līlā. Thus there was no cause for surprise or ridicule. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.3.32)



vanipedia.org 		The living entity has senses, and if the senses stopped working, the living entity would no longer be a living entity; he would be exactly like stone or wood. This is not possible. Because he is living, he is nitya and cetana—eternally sentient. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.15.34)



vanipedia.org 		There are innumerable universes, and the Lord is appearing in one of these universes at every moment. Therefore His pastimes are called nitya-līlā, eternal pastimes. The Lord's appearance as a child in the house of Devakī takes place continuously in one universe after another. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.1.23)



vanipedia.org 		This is the purport of sanātana-dharma. Sanātana means nitya, or "eternal," and kṛṣṇa-dāsa means "servant of Kṛṣṇa." The eternal occupational duty of the human being is to serve Kṛṣṇa. This is the sum and substance of the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement. (Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 8.14.4)


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