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04 Jul 2023 06:46

So without becoming a disciple in the bhakti-yoga, nobody can study Kṛṣṇa. It is not possible. Bhaktyā mām abhijānāti yāvān yaś cāsmi tattvataḥ [Bg. 18.55]. So the whole thing, Bhagavad-gītā is there, how to understand Kṛṣṇa. As soon as you understand Kṛṣṇa, tyaktvā dehaṁ punar janma naiti mām eti kaunteya [Bg. 4.9] = there is no more again birth in this material world. You go back to home, back to Godhead.

*SP lecture on BG 1.31*
July 24,1973 London.

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03 Jul 2023 08:39

No More Offenses!

I remember being present when you were giving darsana in Bhaktivedanta Manor once, and a devotee referred to a passage you wrote in the eighth chapter of The Nectar of Devotion: "The chanting of Hare Krsna is beneficial for eradicating all sins, but if one becomes an offender to the holy names of the Lord, then he has no chance of being delivered." The devotee appealed to you, that "isn't there some way of becoming free from these offenses?" You looked at him very gravely and replied, "You are asking this question because you want to offend. Then you want to do something to escape those reactions. But you must stop your offenses. No more offenses."

- Bhakti Caitanya Swami, Vyasa-puja offering, 2000.

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02 Jul 2023 11:01

False devotees may think that simply shedding tears will lead one to the transcendental plane, even if one has not had a factual change in heart, but such a practice is useless if there is no transcendental realization. False devotees, lacking the conclusion of transcendental knowledge, think that artificially shedding tears will deliver them. Similarly, other false devotees think that studying books of the previous ācāryas is unadvisable, like studying dry empiric philosophies. But Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī, following the previous ācāryas, has inculcated the conclusions of the scriptures in the six theses called the Ṣaṭ-sandarbhas. False devotees who have very little knowledge of such conclusions fail to achieve pure devotion for want of zeal in accepting the favorable directions for devotional service given by self-realized devotees. Such false devotees are like impersonalists, who also consider devotional service no better than ordinary fruitive actions.

- Excerpt from CC Adi 2.117, Purport

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02 Jul 2023 06:36

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01 Jul 2023 07:46

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27 Jun 2023 06:08

Krsna's Slap!

A devotee does not take suffering seriously. Tat te 'nukampam susumiksamanah [SB 10.14.8]. A devotee thinks, "It is the favor of Krsna that He has put me into suffering." They never see suffering as suffering. It is favor of Krsna. That is devotee's vision. [break] It is exactly like a son who knows his father well. If the father slaps, the son never protests. He knows that "It is good for me." Similarly, a devotee never is disturbed when there is suffering given by Krsna. The karmi is different. The karmi is suffering... He is suffering just like criminal is suffering. A criminal is given slap by the police. That slap and the father is giving slap, that slap is different. Although it looks the same thing, but there is a great difference.

- Srila Prabhupada, Morning Walk -- May 1, 1974, Bombay

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26 Jun 2023 06:17

You Are Not Krsna!

Umapati: [rephrasing question from devotee] The question was that Krsna had said that He would not take part in the Battle of Kuruksetra, but later on He did. So He had actually changed His word. So does the devotee also sometimes do that -- say one thing but later on change his mind?

Prabhupada: You are not Krsna. [laughing] You are servant of Krsna. Don't try to imitate the master. That is folly. You are servant, you remain always servant. Don't try to imitate the master. Krsna has lifted the hill. Can you do that [laughing] by imitation? Don't try to imitate. Follow His instruction. That is wanted. Krsna can do anything. He is God.

- Srila Prabhupada/ Talk on Bhagavad-gita 15.15 -- August 5, 1976, New Mayapur

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24 Jun 2023 06:16

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22 Jun 2023 05:52

That Will Save Us
Our attention should always be how we are executing our spiritual life. That is very simple. We observe strictly the regulative principles and chant sixteen rounds minimum. That will save us.

Srimad Bhagavatam 2.3.19 Lecture - Los Angeles, 1972

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21 Jun 2023 06:15

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20 Jun 2023 05:49

The gopis are always liberated souls because they are fully in Krsna consciousness. They only pretended to be entangled in household affairs in Vrndavana. Because of their separation from Krsna, He might have asked them to return with Him to His capital city, Dvaraka. But the inhabitants of Vrndavana, the gopis, were not interested in the idea of going with Krsna to Dvaraka. They wanted to remain busy in Vrndavana and thus feel the presence of Krsna in every step of their lives. They immediately invited Krsna to come back to Vrndavana. This transcendental emotional existence of the gopis is the basic principle of Lord Caitanya's teaching. The Ratha-yatra festival observed by Lord Caitanya is the emotional process of taking Krsna back to Vrndavana. Srimati Radharani refused to go with Krsna to Dvaraka to enjoy His company in the atmosphere of royal opulence, for She wanted to enjoy His company in the original Vrndavana atmosphere. Lord Krsna, being profoundly attached to the gopis, never goes away from Vrndavana, and the gopis and other residents of Vrndavana remain fully satisfied in Krsna consciousness.

From Srila Prabhupada's Krsna Book ch. 82: Lord Krsna and Balarama Meet the Inhabitants of Vrndavana