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Five Ways To Advance When You Have No Sentiment Towards Krishna

March 28, 2024 01:00 - 8 minutes - 11.9 MB

“By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 9.4)

Five Ways I Experience A False Sense Of Happiness

March 27, 2024 01:00 - 11 minutes - 15.1 MB

“After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogis in devotion, never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 8.15)

Five People Who Offer Prayers In Bhagavata Purana

March 26, 2024 01:00 - 12 minutes - 16.7 MB

“Our dear Lord, You are appearing as the best of the Yadu dynasty, and we are offering our respectful humble obeisances unto Your lotus feet. Before this appearance, You also appeared as the fish incarnation, the horse incarnation, the tortoise incarnation, the swan incarnation, as King Ramachandra, as Parashurama, and as many other incarnations.” (Demigods praying to Krishna in the womb of Devaki, Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vol 1, Ch 2)

Holi 2024

March 25, 2024 01:00 - 8 minutes - 11.5 MB

“Prahlada Maharaja continued: The great saint Narada Muni brought my mother to his ashrama and assured her of all protection, saying, ‘My dear child, please remain at my ashrama until the arrival of your husband.’” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 7.7.12)

Gaura Purnima 2024

March 24, 2024 01:00 - 6 minutes - 9.49 MB

“When the Supreme Personality of Godhead is pleased with the living entity because of his devotional service, one becomes a pandita and does not make distinctions between enemies, friends and himself. Intelligently, he then thinks, ‘Every one of us is an eternal servant of God, and therefore we are not different from one another.’” (Prahlada Maharaja, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 7.5.12)

Five Rhetorical Questions To Explain Why Someone Would Offer Prayers

March 23, 2024 01:00 - 7 minutes - 11 MB

“Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Brahman, the ultimate, the supreme abode and purifier, the Absolute Truth and the eternal divine person. You are the primal God, transcendental and original, and You are the unborn and all-pervading beauty.” (Bhagavad-gita, 10.12)

They Were Born That Way

March 22, 2024 01:00 - 6 minutes - 8.33 MB

“The one who was without a caste, who took birth from a ground of sins – even that woman was liberated. O you of greatly foolish mind, how can you desire happiness while forgetting such a Lord?” (Dohavali, 156)

Five Ways Hiranyakashipu Highlighted The Glories Of Vishnu

March 21, 2024 01:00 - 9 minutes - 12.8 MB

“Prahlada Maharaja, a small child of only five years, became the object of envy for his great father, Hiranyakashipu, only because of his becoming a pure devotee of the Lord. The demon father employed all his weapons to kill the devotee son, Prahlada, but by the grace of the Lord he was saved from all sorts of dangerous actions by his father. He was thrown in a fire, in boiling oil, from the top of a hill, underneath the legs of an elephant, and he was administered poison.” (Shrila Prabhupad...

Five Mythologies People Already Tend To Believe

March 20, 2024 01:00 - 13 minutes - 18.6 MB

“Know that all beautiful, glorious, and mighty creations spring from but a spark of My splendor.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 10.41)

Five Ways To Look Down At The People Of Gokula

March 19, 2024 01:00 - 8 minutes - 11 MB

“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what means will it be accomplished?” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10.24.3)

How Could Indra Attack Such Innocent People

March 18, 2024 01:00 - 6 minutes - 8.97 MB

“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what means will it be accomplished?” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10.24.3)

Does Vedic Literature Provide Any Secular Advice

March 17, 2024 01:00 - 7 minutes - 10.9 MB

“Tulsi knows, has heard, and has understood that Shri Rama is an ocean of mercy because He made jewels and gold expensive, while keeping the most important things like water and grains inexpensive.” (Dohavali, 149)

Five Extracurricular Activities Which Do Not Really Matter Once Life Is Over

March 16, 2024 01:00 - 7 minutes - 6.89 MB

“In the tender age of childhood, when everyone is bewildered, one passes ten years. Similarly, in boyhood, engaged in sporting and playing, one passes another ten years. In this way, twenty years are wasted. Similarly, in old age, when one is an invalid, unable to perform even material activities, one passes another twenty years wastefully.” (Prahlada Maharaja, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 7.6.7)

Five Reasons To Show The Universal Form

March 15, 2024 01:00 - 7 minutes - 6.73 MB

“Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature and My supreme dominion over all that be.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 9.11)

Five Ways An Adult Could Have Responded To The Questions About Indra-Yajna

March 14, 2024 01:00 - 6 minutes - 5.71 MB

“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what means will it be accomplished?” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10.24.3)

How Do We Build Self-Esteem While Trying To Remain Humble

March 13, 2024 01:00 - 5 minutes - 5.34 MB

“Devotional service is very simple, and anyone can adopt it. Let one remain what he is; he need only install the Deity of the Supreme Lord in his house. The Deity may be Radha-Krishna or Lakshmi-Narayana (there are many other forms of the Lord). In this way a brahmana, kshatriya, vaishya or shudra can worship the Deity with the results of his honest labor.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 4.20.9 Purport)

Five People Who Struggle For A Meeting

March 12, 2024 01:00 - 6 minutes - 5.96 MB

“In the Hari-bhakti-sudhadaya there is another example, forwarded by Maharaj Dhruva. He says there, ‘My dear Lord, I have practiced austerities and penances because I was desiring to receive something from You, but in exchange You have allowed me to see You, who are never visible even to the great sages and saintly persons. I had been searching out some pieces of broken glass, but instead I have found the most valuable jewel. I am therefore fully satisfied, my Lord. I do not wish to ask anyt...

Five Positions Without A Vacancy

March 11, 2024 01:00 - 7 minutes - 6.68 MB

“Devotional service must not be executed for some material purpose. One should not even have a desire to merge into the Absolute Truth. One has to render such service out of love only. Ahaituki, apratihata. Devotional service must be without ulterior motives; then material conditions cannot check it. Gradually one can rise to the platform of spontaneous loving service.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Chaitanya Charitamrita, Madhya 22.109 Purport)

Five Situations Where You Are Helpless

March 10, 2024 02:00 - 6 minutes - 5.95 MB

“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what means will it be accomplished?” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10 24 3)

Five Kim Phalam Questions For Bhakti Activities

March 09, 2024 02:00 - 6 minutes - 6.25 MB

“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what means will it be accomplished?” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10.24.3)

Getting Others To Understand The Bhakti Path

March 08, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes - 5.29 MB

“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what means will it be accomplished?” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10.24.3)

Five Areas Of Competition In The Anartha Olympics

March 07, 2024 02:00 - 7 minutes - 6.96 MB

“In spite of achieving the power to control in all directions and in spite of enjoying all types of dear sense gratification as much as possible, Hiranyakashipu was dissatisfied because instead of controlling his senses he remained their servant.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 7.4.19)

What Can Repression Accomplish

March 06, 2024 02:00 - 7 minutes - 6.64 MB

“In spite of achieving the power to control in all directions and in spite of enjoying all types of dear sense gratification as much as possible, Hiranyakashipu was dissatisfied because instead of controlling his senses he remained their servant.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 7.4.19)

Five Inauspicious Conditions Through Which A Sadhu Cuts

March 05, 2024 02:00 - 6 minutes - 6.01 MB

“It is the duty of a mendicant (parivrajakacharya) to experience all varieties of God’s creation by traveling alone through all forests, hills, towns, villages, etc., to gain faith in God and strength of mind as well as to enlighten the inhabitants with the message of God. A sannyasi is duty-bound to take all these risks without fear, and the most typical sannyasi of the present age is Lord Chaitanya, who traveled in the same manner through the central Indian jungles, enlightening even the t...

Five Faults With The Kshatriya Occupation

March 04, 2024 02:00 - 8 minutes - 6.85 MB

“Every endeavor is covered by some sort of fault, just as fire is covered by smoke. Therefore one should not give up the work which is born of his nature, O son of Kunti, even if such work is full of fault.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 18.48)

Five Questions About Daily Activities

March 03, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes - 4.72 MB

“O King, it is therefore essential that every human being hear about, glorify and remember the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, always and everywhere.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 2.2.36)

Conquering Time And Space

March 02, 2024 02:00 - 4 minutes - 4.14 MB

“O my Lord Krishna, a devotee who abandons the path of empiric philosophical speculation aimed at merging in the existence of the Supreme and engages himself in hearing Your glories and activities from a bona fide sadhu, or saint, and who lives an honest life in the occupational engagement of his social life, can conquer Your sympathy and mercy even though You are ajita, or unconquerable.” (Lord Brahma, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10.14.3)

Five Places Where Uncultured Behavior Suddenly Manifests

March 01, 2024 02:00 - 6 minutes - 5.8 MB

“The one who was without a caste, who took birth from a ground of sins – even that woman was liberated. O you of greatly foolish mind, how can you desire happiness while forgetting such a Lord?” (Dohavali, 156)

Without A Caste

February 29, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes - 5.23 MB

“The one who was without a caste, who took birth from a ground of sins – even that woman was liberated. O you of greatly foolish mind, how can you desire happiness while forgetting such a Lord?” (Dohavali, 156)

What About Someone Who Has Heard Everything Already

February 28, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes - 4.62 MB

“One must give aural reception to any knowledge one wants to receive, either material or spiritual. Therefore shrotram is very important. The Vedic knowledge is called shruti; knowledge has to be received by hearing. By hearing only can we have access to either material or spiritual enjoyment.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 3.26.32 Purport)

Five Appreciations For The Devas

February 27, 2024 02:00 - 7 minutes - 6.92 MB

“Our dear Lord, You are appearing as the best of the Yadu dynasty, and we are offering our respectful humble obeisances unto Your lotus feet. Before this appearance, You also appeared as the fish incarnation, the horse incarnation, the tortoise incarnation, the swan incarnation, as King Ramachandra, as Parashurama, and as many other incarnations.” (Demigods praying to Krishna in the womb of Devaki, Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vol 1, Ch 2)

Graduating Beyond General Awareness

February 26, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes - 5.04 MB

“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what means will it be accomplished?” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10.24.3)

Five Kinds Of Resting Places Associated With Travel

February 25, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes - 5.27 MB

“Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Brahman, the ultimate, the supreme abode and purifier, the Absolute Truth and the eternal divine person. You are the primal God, transcendental and original, and You are the unborn and all-pervading beauty.” (Bhagavad-gita, 10.12)

Five Reasons I Do Not Require Sentimental Religion

February 24, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes - 4.95 MB

“Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation. The ultimate goal is Krishna, because the philosophers who are also sincerely searching after the Absolute Truth come in the end to Krishna consciousness. This is also stated in the Bhagavad-gita. The whole process is to understand the real position of the self in relation to the Superself.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Bhagavad-gita, 3.3 Purport)

Five Disruptions In The Modern Day Which Make Me Lose It

February 23, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes - 4.99 MB

“While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 2.62)

Five Questions In Response To The Criticism of Renouncing Family

February 22, 2024 02:00 - 7 minutes - 7.18 MB

“The wealth, home, happiness, well-wishers, mother, father, and brother which do not help in turning one’s face towards Shri Rama’s lotus feet should burn.” (Dohavali, 139)

Five Insights Into Krishna As Giridhari

February 21, 2024 02:00 - 6 minutes - 5.84 MB

“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what means will it be accomplished?” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10.24.3)

Five Responses To The Kim Phalam Question About Reading Vedic Literature

February 20, 2024 02:00 - 6 minutes - 6.27 MB

“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what means will it be accomplished?” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10.24.3)

Five Questions Where The Phalam Is Already Covered

February 19, 2024 02:00 - 6 minutes - 6.04 MB

“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what means will it be accomplished?” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10.24.3)

Five Questions A Son Can Ask About A Religious Function

February 18, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes - 4.96 MB

“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what means will it be accomplished?” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10 24 3)

Five Cases Of A Penalty For Delayed Admission

February 17, 2024 02:00 - 9 minutes - 8.53 MB

“After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 7.19)

Five Criticisms To Cancel Out Authority

February 16, 2024 02:00 - 10 minutes - 4.79 MB

“Suta Gosvami said: Thus Bhishmadeva merged himself in the Supersoul, Lord Shri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, with his mind, speech, sight and actions, and thus he became silent, and his breathing stopped.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 1.9.43)

Five Factors Not Related To My Decision For Bhakti

November 17, 2023 02:00 - 7 minutes - 2.6 MB

“The sages, knowing Me as the ultimate purpose of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attain peace from the pangs of material miseries.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 5.29)

How Can You Expect People To Not Be Envious

November 16, 2023 02:00 - 7 minutes - 2.42 MB

“After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 7.19)

A Solution On Every Page

November 15, 2023 02:00 - 6 minutes - 2.22 MB

“This Bhagavata Purana is as brilliant as the sun, and it has arisen just after the departure of Lord Krishna to His own abode, accompanied by religion, knowledge, etc. Persons who have lost their vision due to the dense darkness of ignorance in the age of Kali shall get light from this Purana.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 1.3.43)

Five Complaints Against Those Outside Of The Proper Caste

November 14, 2023 02:00 - 9 minutes - 3.38 MB

“It is certainly a person’s conduct which speaks to whether they are high-born or low-born, heroic or cowardly, or pure or impure.” (Lord Rama, Valmiki Ramayana, Ayodhya Kand, 109.4)

Govardhana Puja 2023

November 13, 2023 02:00 - 8 minutes - 2.92 MB

“O sober Vidura, King Indra, his honor having been insulted, poured water incessantly on Vrindavana, and thus the inhabitants of Vraja, the land of cows, were greatly distressed. But the compassionate Lord Krishna saved them from danger with His pastime umbrella, the Govardhana Hill.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 3.2.33)

Diwali 2023

November 12, 2023 02:00 - 5 minutes - 1.97 MB

“Mind, why are you not worshiping Shri Rama, whose bow is like time, with weapons of arrows representing the different units of time, such as paramanu, lava, nimesha, barasa, yuga, and kalpa?” (Dohavali, 130)

Three Pairs Of Characteristics Determined By Conduct

November 11, 2023 02:00 - 6 minutes - 2.39 MB

“It is certainly a person’s conduct which speaks to whether they are high-born or low-born, heroic or cowardly, or pure or impure.” (Lord Rama, Valmiki Ramayana, Ayodhya Kand, 109.4)

Is Not Arjuna The Biggest Fool In The World

November 10, 2023 02:00 - 6 minutes - 2.07 MB

“O son of Pritha, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 9.13)