Krishna's Mercy
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How Do I Determine What Work Is Tied To My Nature
April 07, 2020 01:00 - 4 minutes - 1.68 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)
The Two Kinds Of Education Policy
April 06, 2020 01:00 - 5 minutes - 1.86 MB“Out of many thousands among men, one may endeavor for perfection, and of those who have achieved perfection, hardly one knows Me in truth.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 7.3)
Four Times The Shastra Police Would Have Ruined Everything
April 05, 2020 01:00 - 6 minutes - 2.3 MB“The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna, therefore advised the cowherd men to stop the Indra-yajna and begin the Govardhana Puja in order to chastise Indra who was very much puffed up at being the supreme controller of the heavenly planets.” (Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vol 1, Ch 24)
Five Common Occupations And Their Faults
April 04, 2020 01:00 - 6 minutes - 2.39 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)
Three Things I Think I Might Need In Serving Krishna
April 03, 2020 01:00 - 5 minutes - 1.76 MB“In the human society, whether one is a laborer, merchant, warrior, administrator, or farmer, or even if one belongs to the highest class and is a literary man, a scientist or a theologian, he has to work in order to maintain his existence. The Lord therefore tells Arjuna that he need not give up his occupation, but while he is engaged in his occupation he should remember Krishna.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Bhagavad-gita, Introduction)
Rama Navami 2020
April 02, 2020 01:00 - 4 minutes - 1.5 MB“Just as a tree starts to blossom during the proper season, so the doer of sinful deeds inevitably reaps the horrible fruit of their actions at the appropriate time.” (Lord Rama speaking to Khara, Valmiki Ramayana, Aranya Kand, 29.8)
Two Questions To Ask The “Religious Dogma” Protester
April 01, 2020 01:00 - 5 minutes - 2.05 MB“But ignorant and faithless persons who doubt the revealed scriptures do not attain God consciousness. For the doubting soul there is happiness neither in this world nor in the next.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 4.40)
The Three Step Process Of Advancement For A Community
March 31, 2020 01:00 - 5 minutes - 1.85 MB“One who is not in transcendental consciousness can have neither a controlled mind nor steady intelligence, without which there is no possibility of peace. And how can there be any happiness without peace?” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 2.66)
Three Potential Accusations Against Hanuman's Character
March 30, 2020 01:00 - 5 minutes - 1.9 MB“Though all of these unsuspecting wives of Ravana were seen by me, my mind has not been disturbed even a little.” (Hanuman, Valmiki Ramayana, Sundara Kand, 11.40)
Why Is Stopping At Brahman Realization Considered Catastrophic
March 29, 2020 01:00 - 5 minutes - 1.73 MB“The king went and received blessings and then paid so much honor and respect after that. When he saw Rama, he experienced a happiness one hundred times that of Brahman realization.” (Janaki Mangala, Chand 5.2)
The Eyes They Never Close
March 28, 2020 01:00 - 5 minutes - 1.8 MB“Everywhere are His hands and legs, His eyes and faces, and He hears everything. In this way the Supersoul exists.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 13.14)
What To Do If A Bhakti Institution Is Hindering My Progress
March 27, 2020 01:00 - 5 minutes - 2.06 MB“The supreme occupation [dharma] for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendent Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted to completely satisfy the self.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 1.2.6)
Four Things Hari Might Take Away From Me
March 26, 2020 01:00 - 5 minutes - 1.92 MB“Shrila Vishvanatha Chakravarti Thakura explains in this regard that the very word harih means ‘one who takes away.’ If one connects himself with Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Lord takes away all his miseries, and in the beginning the Lord also superficially appears to take away all his material possessions, reputation, education and beauty.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 8.19.32 Purport)
Four Reasons I Would Not Want To Have Dinner With God
March 25, 2020 01:00 - 6 minutes - 2.13 MB“If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water, I will accept it.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 9.26)
Five Difficult Questions With Corresponding Answers From Shastra
March 24, 2020 01:00 - 9 minutes - 3.19 MB“Just as a tree starts to blossom during the proper season, so the doer of sinful deeds inevitably reaps the horrible fruit of their actions at the appropriate time.” (Lord Rama speaking to Khara, Valmiki Ramayana, Aranya Kand, 29.8)
There Are No Atheists In Foxholes
December 18, 2019 02:00 - 3 minutes - 1.31 MB“The bewildered spirit soul, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, thinks himself to be the doer of activities, which are in actuality carried out by nature.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 3.27)
Four Places We Go To Beg
December 17, 2019 02:00 - 5 minutes - 2.02 MB“When your personal and supreme interests can be easily obtained from one place, it is not sensible for you in weakness to beg at the doors of others, O Tulsi.” (Dohavali, 54)
Four Ways Krishna Cannot Be Realized
December 16, 2019 02:00 - 4 minutes - 1.69 MB“One can understand the Supreme Personality as He is only by devotional service. And when one is in full consciousness of the Supreme Lord by such devotion, he can enter into the kingdom of God.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 18.55)
Why Isn’t Mahaprabhu’s Word Enough
December 15, 2019 02:00 - 4 minutes - 1.53 MB“At Rameshvara, Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu had a chance to read the Kurma Purana, in which He discovered that the form of Sita kidnapped by Ravana was not that of the real Sita but a mere shadow representation.” (Chaitanya Charitamrita, Madhya 1.117)
Three Objects Found In Space
December 14, 2019 02:00 - 5 minutes - 1.72 MB"For the ordinary person it is almost inconceivable how the huge material creation is resting in Him. But the Lord is giving an example which may help us to understand. Space is the biggest manifestation we can conceive. The cosmic manifestation rests in space. Space permits the movement of even the atoms and on up to the greatest planets, the sun and the moon. Although the sky (or wind or air) is great, still it is situated within space. Space is not beyond the sky." (Shrila Prabhupada, Bha...
Isn’t Intimacy Between Husband And Wife Good For The Relationship
December 13, 2019 02:00 - 4 minutes - 1.7 MB“The highest pleasure in terms of matter is sex pleasure. The whole world is moving under its spell, and a materialist cannot work at all without this motivation. But a person engaged in Krishna consciousness can work with greater vigor without sex pleasure, which he avoids. That is the test in spiritual realization. Spiritual realization and sex pleasure go ill together. A Krishna conscious person is not attracted to any kind of sense pleasure due to his being a liberated soul.” (Shrila Pra...
What Does It Mean To Be Non-Envious
December 12, 2019 02:00 - 5 minutes - 1.83 MB“I have heard, O Sita, that your hand in marriage was won by the renowned Raghava on the occasion of the self-choice ceremony [svayamvara]. O Maithili, I wish to hear that story in detail. Therefore please narrate to me the entire sequence of events as you experienced them.” (118.24-25)
Four Special Qualifications In Arjuna
December 11, 2019 02:00 - 5 minutes - 1.74 MB“The Supreme Lord said: My dear Arjuna, because you are never envious of Me, I shall impart to you this most secret wisdom, knowing which you shall be relieved of the miseries of material existence.” (Bhagavad-gita, 9.1)
Four Places We Can Find Krishna
December 10, 2019 02:00 - 4 minutes - 1.45 MB“I am the Self, O Gudakesha, seated in the hearts of all creatures. I am the beginning, the middle and the end of all beings.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 10.20)
Why Is Detachment Superior To Attachment
December 09, 2019 02:00 - 5 minutes - 1.78 MB“The real form of this tree cannot be perceived in this world. No one can understand where it ends, where it begins, or where its foundation is. But with determination one must cut down this tree with the weapon of detachment. So doing, one must seek that place from which, having once gone, one never returns, and there surrender to that Supreme Personality of Godhead from whom everything has begun and in whom everything is abiding since time immemorial.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 15.3-4)
Three Tasks Where My Efforts Go Unappreciated
December 08, 2019 02:00 - 5 minutes - 1.78 MB“I am His younger brother, Lakshmana by name. Due to His transcendental qualities, I have taken up service to Him, as He is grateful and very knowledgeable.” (Lakshmana speaking to Hanuman about Rama, Valmiki Ramayana, Kishkindha Kand, 4.12)
What If Someone Doesn’t Want To Give Up Material Attachment
December 07, 2019 02:00 - 4 minutes - 1.46 MB“The embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, though the taste for sense objects remains. But, ceasing such engagements by experiencing a higher taste, he is fixed in consciousness.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 2.59)
Three Cases Helped By Political Favoritism
December 06, 2019 02:00 - 4 minutes - 1.68 MB“O son of Kunti, all that you do, all that you eat, all that you offer and give away, as well as all austerities that you may perform, should be done as an offering unto Me.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 9.27)
Five Reasons Krishna Did Not Fight In Arjuna’s Place
December 05, 2019 02:00 - 6 minutes - 2.34 MB“Therefore, Arjuna, you should always think of Me in the form of Krishna and at the same time carry out your prescribed duty of fighting. With your activities dedicated to Me and your mind and intelligence fixed on Me, you will attain Me without doubt.” (Bhagavad-gita, 8.7)
Why So Much Emphasis On Not Criticizing Others
December 04, 2019 02:00 - 5 minutes - 1.84 MB“Offending or blaspheming a Vaishnava has been described as the greatest offense, and it has been compared to a mad elephant. When a mad elephant enters a garden, it ruins all the creepers, flowers and trees. Similarly, if a devotee properly executing his devotional service becomes an offender at the lotus feet of his spiritual master or a Vaishnava, his devotional service is spoiled.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Chaitanya Charitamrita, Antya 3.213 Purport)
Evolution’s End
December 03, 2019 02:00 - 4 minutes - 1.61 MB“Anyone who quits his body, at the end of life, remembering Me, attains immediately to My nature; and there is no doubt of this.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 8.5)
Four Places Shri Hanuman Gets To Visit
December 02, 2019 02:00 - 4 minutes - 1.63 MB“Covered with various flowers, shoots and buds, that monkey, resembling a cloud, became beautiful to behold, looking like a mountain with fireflies.” (Valmiki Ramayana, Sundara Kand, 1.51)
What Determines The Particular Pose For A Deity
December 01, 2019 02:00 - 3 minutes - 1.28 MB“Being the eternal servant of Lord Ramachandra, Hanumanji has been respectfully worshiped for many hundreds and thousands of years.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Chaitanya Charitamrita, Madhya 8.300 Purport)
Three Distinct Appearances Of The Sun During The Day
November 30, 2019 02:00 - 5 minutes - 1.92 MB“Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion—at that time I descend Myself.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 4.7)
Two Ways Sita And Rama Could Have Reacted While Looking Down From The Aerial Car
November 29, 2019 02:00 - 5 minutes - 1.86 MB“Seeing the city of Kishkindha, which was formerly protected by Vali, Sita, who was feeling shy out of love, then spoke the following humble words to Rama: ‘O King, I wish to enter Your capital city of Ayodhya with You, accompanied by the beloved wives of Sugriva, headed by Tara, as well as the wives of the other Vanara leaders.’” (Valmiki Ramayana, Yuddha Kand, 123.23-25)
Five Circumstances Sita Knew Since Birth
November 28, 2019 02:00 - 5 minutes - 2.01 MB“I shall go with you today to the forest. There is no doubt about it. I cannot be prevented, O greatly fortunate one. I am ready to go.” (Sita Devi speaking to Lord Rama, Valmiki Ramayana, Ayodhya Kand, 27.15)
If No One Returns From Krishna’s Abode Doesn’t That Indicate A Lack Of Freedom
November 27, 2019 02:00 - 4 minutes - 1.67 MB“From the highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and death take place. But one who attains to My abode, O son of Kunti, never takes birth again.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 8.16)
Five Aspects Of Nature That Remind Me Of Krishna
November 26, 2019 02:00 - 5 minutes - 1.88 MB“The Blessed Lord said: There is a banyan tree which has its roots upward and its branches down and whose leaves are the Vedic hymns. One who knows this tree is the knower of the Vedas.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 15.1)
Is It Bad To Ask Krishna For Stuff
November 25, 2019 02:00 - 5 minutes - 1.82 MB“Once Narada took a parijata flower and presented it to Krishna's senior wife, Shri Rukminidevi. On account of this, Satyabhama developed an inferiority complex; she also wanted a flower from Krishna.” (Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vol 2, Ch 4)
Three Instances Of Jati-Smara
November 24, 2019 02:00 - 6 minutes - 2.1 MB“My dear Lord, I had a great desire that someday I might be able to see You personally. I think that my tendency to perform ritualistic and charitable activities, combined with this great desire to see You personally, has enabled me to retain the memory of who I was in my former life, even though I became a lizard.” (King Nriga, Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vol 2, Ch 9)
Three Takeaways From The Image Of Baby Krishna Next To Radha
November 23, 2019 02:00 - 4 minutes - 1.53 MB“To perform devotional service means to follow in the footsteps of Radharani, and devotees in Vrindavana put themselves under the care of Radharani in order to achieve perfection in their devotional service. In other words, devotional service is not an activity of the material world; it is directly under the control of Radharani.” (The Nectar of Devotion, Ch 1)
The Four Principal Defects Of Man, With Examples
November 22, 2019 02:00 - 5 minutes - 1.83 MB“Vedic knowledge is not a question of research. Our research work is imperfect because we are researching things with imperfect senses. We have to accept perfect knowledge which comes down, as is stated in Bhagavad-gita, by the parampara disciplic succession. We have to receive knowledge from the proper source in disciplic succession beginning with the supreme spiritual master, the Lord Himself, and handed down to a succession of spiritual masters.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Bhagavad-gita, Introdu...
If We Have Imperfect Senses How Can We Realize God
November 21, 2019 02:00 - 4 minutes - 1.46 MB“Vedic knowledge is not a question of research. Our research work is imperfect because we are researching things with imperfect senses. We have to accept perfect knowledge which comes down, as is stated in Bhagavad-gita, by the parampara disciplic succession. We have to receive knowledge from the proper source in disciplic succession beginning with the supreme spiritual master, the Lord Himself, and handed down to a succession of spiritual masters.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Bhagavad-gita, Introdu...
Four Daily Activities That I Struggle With
November 16, 2019 02:00 - 5 minutes - 1.97 MB“O best of the Bharatas, now please hear from Me about the three kinds of happiness which the conditioned soul enjoys, and by which he sometimes comes to the end of all distress. That which in the beginning may be just like poison but at the end is just like nectar and which awakens one to self-realization is said to be happiness in the mode of goodness.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 18.36-37)
Doesn’t Failure Put My Faith At Risk
November 15, 2019 02:00 - 5 minutes - 1.91 MB“Being prayed for by the demigods, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth Himself, directly appeared with His expansion and expansions of the expansion. Their holy names were Rama, Lakshmana, Bharata and Shatrughna. These celebrated incarnations thus appeared in four forms as the sons of Maharaja Dasharatha.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 9.10.2)
Four Ways The Tree Relates To Bhakti Life
November 14, 2019 02:00 - 4 minutes - 1.55 MB“O son of Kunti [Arjuna], I am the taste of water, the light of the sun and the moon, the syllable om in the Vedic mantras; I am the sound in ether and ability in man.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 7.8)
Why Is Material Life So Difficult
November 13, 2019 02:00 - 4 minutes - 1.5 MB“The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are struggling very hard with the six senses, which include the mind.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 15.7)
Five Ways To Spot A Vishnu Bhakta
November 12, 2019 02:00 - 5 minutes - 2 MB“Always chanting My glories, endeavoring with great determination, bowing down before Me, these great souls perpetually worship Me with devotion.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 9.14)
Why Wouldn’t Krishna Just Walk Around As Narayana
November 11, 2019 02:00 - 4 minutes - 1.51 MB“Vasudeva saw that wonderful child born as a baby with four hands, holding conchshell, club, disc, and lotus flower, decorated with the mark of Shrivatsa, wearing the jeweled necklace of kaustubha stone, dressed in yellow silk, appearing dazzling like a bright blackish cloud, wearing a helmet bedecked with the vaidurya stone, valuable bracelets, earrings and similar other ornaments all over His body and an abundance of hair on His head.” (Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vol 1, C...
What To Say To Someone Who Says They Have No Need For Religion
November 10, 2019 02:00 - 4 minutes - 1.55 MB“When your personal and supreme interests can be easily obtained from one place, it is not sensible for you in weakness to beg at the doors of others, O Tulsi.” (Dohavali, 54)