What is mental speculation?
Dear Vaisnavi, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I listened to the TED talk by Jim Holt that you mentioned in the Bhagavad-gita class last week. I found it to … Read More
No Material Impediments to Love of God – by Srila Prabhupada
No Material Impediments to Love of God. “Love of God cannot be checked by any material impediments. You cannot say that ‘I am very poor. Oh, how can I love God?’ You cannot say, ‘I am … Read More
The Full Moonlight of Krishna Consciousness – by Srila Prabhupada
smerāṁ bhaṅgi traya paricitaṁ sāci-vistīrṇa dṛṣṭiṁ vaṁśī nyastādhara kiśalayam ujjvalāṁ candrakeṇa govindākhyāṁ hari-tanum itaḥ keśi-tīrthopakaṇṭhe mā prekṣiṣṭhās tava yadi sakhe bandhu-saṅge ‘sti raṇgaḥ This is a very nice verse composed by Rūpa Gosvāmī, that one friend … Read More
Nanda Grama, the beginning of Krishna’s father town
A short version: Nanda Grama (or Nandagaon) is the town of Nanda Maharaja, the father of Sri Krishna, build on a hill known as Nandisvara. On top of the hill there is the palace of Nanda … Read More
There are also divisions with 24 or 25 elements
Ego, spiritual: true identity of the living entity, another name for the soul (see: jîva, âtmâ, ahamkâra). Ekâdas’î: day of contemplation of vaishnava s, day of abstaining from cereal and beans at the eleventh day after … Read More
O Pārtha, how can a person who knows that the soul is indestructible
Lecture on BG 2.21-22 — London, August 26, 1973 Pradyumna: Translation: “O Pārtha, how can a person who knows that the soul is indestructible, unborn, eternal and immutable kill anyone or cause anyone to kill?” “As … Read More
The Flag of Devotion
By Keshava Murari das Arjuna and Krishna preparing for battle “The emblem of Hanuman on the flag of Arjuna is another sign of victory because Hanuman cooperated with Lord Rama in the battle between Rama … Read More
Ramanujacarya
Feb 4–Disappearance SILA RAMANUJACHARYA– HDGSP comments from His Books on SRILA RAMANUJACHARYA — Sriman Ramanujacarya’s guru was not from a brahmana family, but still, he accepted guru. >>> Ref. VedaBase => Bhagavad-gita 2.26 – November 30, … Read More
Srila Prabhupada has a special message for those who want to COMPROMISE His movement
HDGSP has a special message for those who want to COMPROMISE His movement–” Prabhupāda: Ardha-kukkuṭī-nyāya [Cc. Ādi 5.176]. [If you have faith in one but disrespect the other, your logic is like the logic of accepting … Read More
The Pandavas did not suffer
Indian (2): Then what was the necessity for the Pāṇḍavas to suffer when they had themselves surrendered to the Lord Kṛṣṇa, and they have suffered? Prabhupāda: They have not suffered. They have served Kṛṣṇa’s purposes. Kṛṣṇa … Read More
We should pay close attention to the welfare of others and ourselves
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura : “We should pay close attention to the welfare of others and ourselves. We will not live in this world for too long. If we give up our bodies while chanting Hari’s … Read More
What India (Bharat-varsa) really looked like in 1945 without the “bogus territories” called Pakistan and Bangladesh.
What India (Bharat-varsa) really looked like in 1945 without the “bogus territories” called Pakistan and Bangladesh. We should never forget that barbaric Islam never existed until the 6th Century AD, and that their book the … Read More
Jiva Tattva, Narasimha Swami – 11-Conclusion: Bewilderment due to Vaisnava aparadha
11-Conclusion: Bewilderment due to Vaisnava aparadha Whenever Srila Prabhupada made statements indicating that we fell from the spiritual world, he did not quote sastra nor make subsidiary statements to back himself up (as he usually did … Read More
Don’t make God your order-supplier
Srila Prabhupada: So the danger is as soon as approach God with a motive, and if we are frustrated… Naturally you’ll be frustrated. But you cannot make God as order-supplier. God is not order-supplier. The real … Read More
