Krishna's Mercy
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The Promise Of Yoga Seems Like A Good Deal
May 02, 2022 18:22 - 4 minutes - 1.61 MB“The unsuccessful yogi, after many, many years of enjoyment on the planets of the pious living entities, is born into a family of righteous people, or into a family of rich aristocracy.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 6.41)
Worshiping To The Extent Of Their Knowledge
May 01, 2022 18:21 - 5 minutes - 1.86 MB“Demons think of everyone as a friend or enemy, but Vaishnavas say that since everyone is a servant of the Lord, everyone is on the same platform. Therefore a Vaishnava treats other living entities neither as friends nor as enemies, but instead tries to spread Krishna consciousness, teaching everyone that we are all one as servants of the Supreme Lord but are uselessly wasting our valuable lives by creating nations, communities and other groups of friends and enemies.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Sh...
What If It Is All Just A Game
April 30, 2022 18:20 - 5 minutes - 1.94 MB“The value of a moment’s association with a devotee of the Lord cannot even be compared to the attainment of heavenly planets or liberation from matter, and what to speak of worldly benedictions in the form of material prosperity, which is for those who are meant for death.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 1.18.13)
What If My Pati Doesn’t Deserve Service
April 29, 2022 19:28 - 6 minutes - 2.18 MB“I shall happily reside in the forest, considering it to be just like my paternal home, paying no attention to the three worlds and only thinking of devotion to my husband.” (Sita Devi speaking to Lord Rama, Valmiki Ramayana, Ayodhya Kand, 27.12)
Why Couldn’t Dasharatha Just Wait
April 28, 2022 19:27 - 5 minutes - 1.73 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)
What If He Already Accepted My Sins
April 27, 2022 19:27 - 6 minutes - 2.08 MB“Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me. I shall deliver you from all sinful reaction. Do not fear.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 18.66)
What Exactly Do You Want From Heaven
April 26, 2022 19:26 - 6 minutes - 2.09 MB“When they have thus enjoyed heavenly sense pleasure, they return to this mortal planet again. Thus, through the Vedic principles, they achieve only flickering happiness.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 9.21)
What Is The Best Atonement
April 25, 2022 19:26 - 5 minutes - 1.92 MB“One should give up all other processes of self-realization and simply execute devotional service in Krishna consciousness. That will enable one to reach the highest perfection of life. There is no need for one to consider the sinful actions of his past life because the Supreme Lord fully takes charge of him. Therefore one should not futilely try to deliver himself in spiritual realization. Let everyone take shelter of the supreme omnipotent Godhead Krishna. That is the highest perfection of...
Why The Steady Emphasis On Death In Vedic Literature
April 24, 2022 19:25 - 6 minutes - 2.36 MB“Driven by a virtuous or evil purpose, each living entity performs some work, which has consequences associated with it. After death, the same person steadily reaps all those auspicious and inauspicious results.” (Hanuman speaking to Tara, Valmiki Ramayana, Kishkindha Kand, 21.2)
Where Does Intelligence Come From
April 23, 2022 19:25 - 5 minutes - 2 MB“I am seated in everyone's heart, and from Me come remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness. By all the Vedas am I to be known; indeed I am the compiler of Vedanta, and I am the knower of the Vedas.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 15.15)
What Are You Looking For In Heaven
April 22, 2022 19:24 - 5 minutes - 1.94 MB“When they have thus enjoyed heavenly sense pleasure, they return to this mortal planet again. Thus, through the Vedic principles, they achieve only flickering happiness.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 9.21)
It’s Amazing To See People Who Think They Have Conquered God
April 21, 2022 19:24 - 4 minutes - 1.62 MB“When Shalva thought that Krishna had been bewildered by his mystic representations, he became encouraged and began to attack the Lord with greater strength and energy by showering volumes of arrows upon Him. But the enthusiasm of Shalva can be compared to the speedy march of flies into a fire.” (Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vol 2, Ch 22)
Turning God Into A Vending Machine
April 20, 2022 19:23 - 5 minutes - 1.94 MB“At that time, Nityananda Prabhu had heard the story of Sakshi-gopala from the townspeople. He now recited this again, and Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu heard the narration with great pleasure.” (Chaitanya Charitamrita, Madhya 5.9)
Who Is Going To Believe That A Deity Can Talk
April 19, 2022 19:22 - 6 minutes - 2.18 MB“At that time, Nityananda Prabhu had heard the story of Sakshi-gopala from the townspeople. He now recited this again, and Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu heard the narration with great pleasure.” (Chaitanya Charitamrita, Madhya 5.9)
What If I Regret My Time In This Life
April 18, 2022 19:22 - 5 minutes - 2.04 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)
Why The Emphasis On Service
April 17, 2022 19:21 - 6 minutes - 2.21 MB“Generally, people are convinced of the impersonal feature of the Absolute Truth. Because they do not associate with devotees, they cannot understand that the Absolute Truth can be a person and have personal activities. This is a very difficult subject matter, and unless one has personal understanding of the Absolute Truth, there is no meaning to devotion. Service or devotion cannot be offered to anything impersonal. Service must be offered to a person.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Shrimad Bhagavata...
Why The Strict Requirement On Association
April 16, 2022 19:21 - 4 minutes - 1.58 MB“The spiritually powerful message of Godhead can be properly discussed only in a society of devotees, and it is greatly pleasing to hear in that association. If one hears from devotees, the way of transcendental experience quickly opens to him, and gradually he attains a taste in knowledge that in due course develops into attraction and devotion.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 3.25.25)
You Don’t Have To Reinvent The Wheel
April 15, 2022 19:55 - 4 minutes - 1.64 MB“Just as within the earth are found every kind of seed and within the sky live all the stars, Tulsidas knows that Shri Rama’s holy name is the reservoir of all dharma.” (Dohavali, 29)
Two Simple Ways To Understand Action and Inaction
April 14, 2022 19:54 - 4 minutes - 1.64 MB“One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intelligent among men, and he is in the transcendental position, although engaged in all sorts of activities.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 4.18)
Three Reasons To Be Skeptical Of Rama and Lakshmana Approaching In Kishkindha
April 13, 2022 19:54 - 4 minutes - 1.51 MB“Abandoning his beggar form and reassuming his monkey form, the elephant among monkeys [Hanuman] placed those two heroes on his back and departed.” (Valmiki Ramayana, Kishkindha Kand, 4.34)
What Would You Say Is The Answer To Life
April 12, 2022 19:53 - 5 minutes - 1.94 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)
Will Not God’s Mercy Arrive On Its Own
April 11, 2022 19:53 - 4 minutes - 1.71 MB“O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 2.14)
Three Ways To View The Almighty In Relation To Us
April 10, 2022 19:52 - 6 minutes - 2.15 MB“It should be understood that all species of life, O son of Kunti, are made possible by birth in this material nature, and that I am the seed-giving father.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 14.4)
Rama Navami 2022
April 09, 2022 19:52 - 5 minutes - 1.73 MB“Taking the oath, Janaka gave away Sita to Rama in all politeness and happiness in a beautiful scene that was reminiscent of when the king of mountains gave away Parvati to Shiva and when the ocean gave away Lakshmi to Vishnu.” (Janaki Mangala, Chand 18.1)
What Is The Vedic Explanation For Creation
April 08, 2022 19:51 - 5 minutes - 1.83 MB“Darwin's theory stating that no human being existed from the beginning but that humans evolved after many, many years is simply a nonsensical theory. From Vedic literature we find that the first creature within the universe is Lord Brahma. Being the most intelligent personality, Lord Brahma could take charge of creating all the variety found within this material world.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 4.28.53 Purport)
Three Issues With Anarthas
April 07, 2022 19:50 - 5 minutes - 1.9 MB“Liberation from material contamination is called anartha-nivritti, indicating a diminishing of all unwanted things. This is the test of development in devotional service. If one actually develops the devotional attitude, he must be freed from the material contamination of illicit sex, intoxication, gambling and meat-eating. These are the preliminary symptoms. When one is freed from all material contamination, his firm faith awakens in devotional service.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Chaitanya Chari...
If Only There Were A Link To Our Origin
April 06, 2022 19:50 - 5 minutes - 1.92 MB“Since Krishna is the supreme father, His affection for the living entity is eternal. When the living entity falls down into the material world, the Supreme Lord, through His svamsha expansion (Paramatma), keeps company with the living entity. In this way the living entity may some day return home, back to Godhead.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 4.28.53 Purport)
Are We Not The Same As God
April 05, 2022 19:49 - 5 minutes - 1.92 MB“The Supreme Personality of Godhead expands Himself into many. In order to enjoy bliss more and more, the Supreme Lord expands Himself in different categories. As mentioned in the Varaha Purana, He expands Himself in vishnu-tattva (the svamsha expansion) and in His marginal potency (the vibhinnamsha, or the living entity). These expanded living entities are innumerable, just as the minute molecules of sunshine are innumerable expansions of the sun.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 4....
Five Steps In the Increasing Outpouring Of Affection
April 04, 2022 19:49 - 5 minutes - 1.97 MB“For one who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, I am never lost, nor is he ever lost to Me.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 6.30)
The Two Schemes Of The Mind
April 03, 2022 19:48 - 6 minutes - 2.08 MB“In dreams we sometimes enjoy eating sweet rice and sometimes suffer as if one of our beloved family members had died. Because the same mind and body exist in the same material world of duality when we are awake, the so-called happiness and distress of this world are no better than the false, superficial happiness of dreams. The mind is the via medium in both dreams and wakefulness, and everything created by the mind in terms of sankalpa and vikalpa, acceptance and rejection, is called manod...
Isn’t There Acceptance And Rejection Within Devotional Life
April 02, 2022 19:48 - 5 minutes - 1.84 MB“In dreams we sometimes enjoy eating sweet rice and sometimes suffer as if one of our beloved family members had died. Because the same mind and body exist in the same material world of duality when we are awake, the so-called happiness and distress of this world are no better than the false, superficial happiness of dreams. The mind is the via medium in both dreams and wakefulness, and everything created by the mind in terms of sankalpa and vikalpa, acceptance and rejection, is called manod...
The General Propensity To Love Someone Else
April 01, 2022 15:40 - 3 minutes - 1.29 MB“The basic principle of the living condition is that we have a general propensity to love someone. No one can live without loving someone else. This propensity is present in every living being. Even an animal like a tiger has this loving propensity at least in a dormant stage, and it is certainly present in the human beings.” (The Nectar of Devotion, Preface)
Approaching Bhishma
March 31, 2022 15:40 - 5 minutes - 1.74 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)
Why Didn’t Bhishma Depart Sooner
March 30, 2022 15:39 - 5 minutes - 1.98 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)
A Unique Transcendental Taste
March 29, 2022 15:39 - 5 minutes - 1.88 MB“O Rama, You should know that just as fish cannot survive when taken out of water, neither Sita nor I can live without You for even a moment.” (Lakshmana speaking to Lord Rama, Valmiki Ramayana, Ayodhya Kand, 53.31)
He Must Agree To The Reforming Process
March 28, 2022 15:38 - 5 minutes - 1.75 MB“Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 4.34)
Is God The Source Of Darkness
March 27, 2022 15:38 - 5 minutes - 1.94 MB“The kshatriya family is the protector of the human race, according to the Vedic system. When the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared as Lord Ramachandra, He appeared in the family descending from the sun-god, known as Raghu-vamsha; and when He appeared as Lord Krishna, He did so in the family of Yadu-vamsha.” (Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vol 1, Introduction)
Three Ways Rama Is Divakara
March 26, 2022 15:37 - 4 minutes - 1.47 MB“The kshatriya family is the protector of the human race, according to the Vedic system. When the Supreme Personality of Godhead appeared as Lord Ramachandra, He appeared in the family descending from the sun-god, known as Raghu-vamsha; and when He appeared as Lord Krishna, He did so in the family of Yadu-vamsha.” (Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vol 1, Introduction)
Who Is A Real Sannyasi
March 25, 2022 15:37 - 5 minutes - 1.83 MB“The Supreme Lord said, To give up the results of all activities is called renunciation [tyaga] by the wise. And that state is called the renounced order of life [sannyasa] by great learned men.” (Bhagavad-gita, 18.2)
Are Intentions Good Enough
March 24, 2022 15:36 - 4 minutes - 1.51 MB“Although the Lord was present in Vaikuntha, He was present also in the heart of the brahmana when he was meditating on the worshiping process. Thus, we can understand that things offered by the devotees even in meditation are accepted by the Lord, and they help one achieve the desired result.” (The Nectar of Devotion, Ch 10)
Five Basic Principles To Live By
March 23, 2022 15:35 - 6 minutes - 2.33 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)
Judging The World From My Throne
March 22, 2022 15:35 - 5 minutes - 1.75 MB“Apaishunam means that one should not find fault with others or correct them unnecessarily. Of course to call a thief a thief is not faultfinding, but to call an honest person a thief is very much offensive for one who is making advancement in spiritual life.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Bhagavad-gita, 16.1-3 Purport)
Loving My Enemies
March 21, 2022 15:34 - 4 minutes - 1.69 MB“O scion of Bharata [Arjuna], O conquerer of the foe, all living entities are born into delusion, overcome by the dualities of desire and hate.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 7.27)
Time Enough At Last
March 20, 2022 15:34 - 4 minutes - 1.66 MB“A living being is finished as soon as there is nothing to possess. Therefore a living being cannot be, in the real sense of the term, a renouncer. A living being renounces something for gaining something more valuable. A student sacrifices his childish proclivities to gain better education. A servant gives up his job for a better job. Similarly, a devotee renounces the material world not for nothing but for something tangible in spiritual value.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 1.8....
How The Atheist Meets God
March 19, 2022 15:33 - 5 minutes - 2.03 MB“Driven by a virtuous or evil purpose, each living entity performs some work, which has consequences associated with it. After death, the same person steadily reaps all those auspicious and inauspicious results.” (Hanuman speaking to Tara, Valmiki Ramayana, Kishkindha Kand, 21.2)
What If I Am Not Feeling It From Bhakti
March 18, 2022 14:41 - 5 minutes - 2.02 MB“Once upon a time, seeing that her maidservant was engaged in different household duties, mother Yashoda personally took charge of churning butter. And while she churned butter, she sang the childhood pastimes of Krishna and enjoyed thinking of her son.” (Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vol 1, Ch 9)
Holi 2022
March 17, 2022 14:40 - 4 minutes - 1.64 MB“Daityas, as truly as Vishnu is present in your weapons and in my body, so truly shall those weapons fail to harm me.” (Prahlada Maharaja speaking to Hiranyakashipu’s attendants, Vishnu Purana)
Gaura Purnima 2022
March 16, 2022 14:40 - 5 minutes - 1.83 MB“Ishvara (the Supreme Lord), jiva (the living entity), prakriti (nature), eternal time and karma (activity) are all explained in the Bhagavad-gita. Out of these five, the Lord, the living entities, material nature and time are eternal.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Bhagavad-gita, Introduction)
Five Topics Triggering Needless Debate
March 15, 2022 14:39 - 8 minutes - 2.93 MB“Men who are ignorant cannot appreciate activities in Krishna consciousness, and therefore Lord Krishna advises us not to disturb them and simply waste valuable time. But the devotees of the Lord are more kind than the Lord because they understand the purpose of the Lord. Consequently they undertake all kinds of risks, even to the point of approaching ignorant men to try to engage them in the acts of Krishna consciousness, which are absolutely necessary for the human being.” (Shrila Prabhupa...
Four Ways Hanuman Shows Versatility
March 14, 2022 14:39 - 4 minutes - 1.64 MB“Abandoning his beggar form and reassuming his monkey form, the elephant among monkeys [Hanuman] placed those two heroes on his back and departed.” (Valmiki Ramayana, Kishkindha Kand, 4.34)