Our Status Of Spiritual Strength
I may inform you that in order to maintain our status of spiritual strength, everyone of us must very rigidly chant daily sixteen rounds without fail and follow the regulative principles strictly.
LETTER TO DAMODARA - LOS ANGELES, FEBRUARY 22, 1970
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Читать полностью…But pure devotees do not even want to go to Krishna's abode. Simply our prayer should be, My dear Krishna, please remind me to always chant Your Holy Name, please do not put me into forgetfulness. You are sitting within me as Supersoul, so you can put me into forgetfulness or into remembering You. So please do not put me into forgetfulness. Please always remind me to chant, even You send me into the hell, it doesn't matter, just so long as I can always chant Hare Krishna.
Letter to Devananda
November 23, 1968
Shedding Three Tons Of Blood!
They have forgotten Krsna, they have forgotten God, and I am trying to make them Krsna conscious. It is a very difficult job. I have to shed my blood three tons before I make one convinced in Krsna consciousness. That is my experience. I have to talk with him, especially these Europeans and Americans. They do not accept anything so blindly.
- Srila Prabhupada, Conversation -- April 18, 1972, Hong Kong
Asirvada (Blessing)
All these men, they simply want asirvada. They don't want Krsna. They want asirvada so that their nefarious activities may continue peacefully. The difficulty is sometimes Krsna's asirvada may be just the opposite. Krsna will take away. So at that time they become atheist.
- Srila Prabhupada -- Tokyo, April 25, 1972
Our Dearmost Friend!
Always remember Krsna Who is your dearmost friend and always serve Him just to please Him, and He will give you all intelligence how to be a first-class devotee.
- From Srila Prabhupada's letter to Mr. DDD -- Los Angeles 3 March, 1970
कभी-कभी असुरगण भक्त को यह घोषित करते हैं कि वे ईश्वर के अस्तित्व को इसलिए नहीं मानते; क्योंकि वे उन्हें देख नहीं सकते। किन्तु असुर जो कुछ नहीं जानता उसका वर्णन स्वयं श्रीभगवान् ने श्रीमद्भगवद्गीता (७.२५) में किया है—नाहं प्रकाशः सर्वस्य योगमायासमावृतः—“मैं कभी अल्पज्ञ तथा अज्ञानी के समक्ष प्रकट नहीं होता। उनके लिए मैं योगमाया से आवृत रहा करता हूँ।" श्रीभगवान् केवल भक्तों द्वारा देखे जाने हेतु अनावृत रहते हैं, परन्तु अभक्त उन्हें नहीं देख सकते।
(SB 7.8.12 तात्पर्य)
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"I offer my respectful obeisances unto Lord Nṛsiṁha-deva, the source of all power. O my Lord who possess nails and teeth just like thunderbolts, kindly vanquish our demonlike desires for fruitive activity in this material world. Please appear in our hearts and drive away our ignorance so that by Your mercy we may become fearless in the struggle for existence in this material world."
Srimad Bhagavatam 5.18.8
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Читать полностью…All Perfections Come From The Holy Name
The Lord and His name are the same. This will be understood clearly when the coverings in your heart are removed. By chanting without offenses you will personally realize that all perfections come from the holy name.
From Srila Prabhupadera Patravali Vol. I, pp. 4-5
At least in my life, as with so many devotees, whatever has happened to me in Krsna consciousness began with reading one of Srila Prabhupada's books. Looking back at what that Krsna book did for me, I can very confidently state that Srila Prabhupada's book s are not really books at all, at least not in the ordinary sense. Srila Prabhupada's books are not simply pieces of paper with ink on them. Srila Prabhupada's books are mercy incarnations of Krsna in literary form, presenting Himself through His chosen re presentative. Krsna is personally present in every letter, along with his pure devotee Srila Prabhupada. It must be so, otherwise how could they alter and uplift lives as they do?
- Bhakti Vikasa Swami
From the book 'My Memories of Srila Prabhupada'
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Читать полностью…Kṛṣṇa Please Pick Me Up
We must simply pray, “Kṛṣṇa, please pick me up.” As soon as we forget Kṛṣṇa, the ocean of illusion is there, and it at once captures us. The chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa is most important in order to escape from this ocean.
RĀJA-VIDYĀ THE KING OF KNOWLEDGE: CHAPTER 2
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Читать полностью…Mangala-ārātrika means auspicious beginning of your day. If you stand before mangala-ārātrika... In Vṛndāvana you see now, every temple, as soon as there is four o'clock, the ding-dong bell immediately begins.
The Nectar of Devotion lecture- Vrndavana, November 13, 1972
How can I avoid getting bored when I chant Japa?
And we cannot finish even sixteen rounds, because we have not created our taste for chanting. Still we are in the nāmāparādha stage. But don't be disappointed. Go on chanting.
NECTAR OF DEVOTION LECTURE - VṚNDĀVANA, OCTOBER 31, 1972
So this is Vaiṣṇava.
Hanumān was ordered to bring some medicine from some mountain. And he was a monkey, he was animal, he did not know how to pick up it—"Take the whole mountain. Execute the order. And then Rāmacandra and Lakṣmana, They'll find out what is that medicine." So this is Vaiṣṇava. In one's own capacity he should give the best service to the Lord.
Arrival Talk -- Aligarh, October 9, 1976