Teachings, stories, and glimpses of life from our spiritual family around the world.
They never complain and never become angry. Why is this? Because these ideas and actions take you away from Krsna. A wise person will not accept anything impure. This is natural. So why should anyone…
Read moreFoolish persons are very eager to make friendship with mundane people and jivas. They happily speak about useless and temporary things, even if they have only known each other for only a few moments. They…
Read moreKnowingly or unknowingly, if one performs any act of auspiciousness for the soul, that becomes his sukriti. For example, if one fasts on the day of Ekadasi because food is unavailable, it becomes ‘unknowing’ sukriti.…
Read moreCertain forms of jnana and karma are integral parts of bhakti. Pure jnana is present within bhakti as the search for one’s worshipful deity and as knowledge of the reality of God, bhagavat-tattva-jnana. Pure karma…
Read more1. Souls attain their svarupas by adi rasa. Janmadyasya. 2. Without rasa it is not possible to serve Krishna. This rasa is ever new. 3. Even an animal in vraja has this potency...
Read more1. A devotee happily accepts anything that happens to him. 2. We cannot recognize a sadhu by our eyes. 3. The curse given to Pariksit Maharaja was actually an arrangement by which everyone was able…
Read more1. Krishna is the master of all. 2. Only a sadhu can understand a sadhu. 3. If I bring Krishna's lotus feet in my heart, I will become fearless...
Read more1. Hearing harikatha is also seva. 2. Sadhus travel only for the welfare of others, to distribute harikatha. 3. Simply by hearing with faith, harikatha enters the heart.
Read moreYou think, ‘What is the use of wearing tilaka? I can chant within my mind, so what need is there of beads? One’s diet has nothing to do at all with bhajana. So don’t think…
Read more1. When everyone abandons me, it is Krishna’s mercy. Then I can be one-pointed. 2. Śraddhā is confident, firm faith that by rendering transcendental loving service to Krishna one automatically performs all subsidiary activities. Such…
Read moreIndulging in wine and meat, keeping long hair on one's head, not bathing daily, and smoking marijuana are some of the habits which are accepted by foolish creatures who do not have regulated lives. By…
Read moreIt will first sprout for Srila Gurudeva, the asraya or associate of Krsna. The sadhaka will feel, "He is my life and soul. He is more dear and intimate than my own soul." Then, when…
Read more“The mahā-bhāgavata is more humble than the grass in the street. He thinks he is the most insignificant person in the world. He does not think, ‘I have played the role of servant long enough;…
Read more"Those who identify themselves as disciples cannot defend their identity as “disciple” or guru-dasa if they live whimsically in transgression of the standards of discipline established by sad-guru and the Vaishnavas, or if they abandon…
Read moreTo the extent that I fail to take complete shelter of śrī gurudeva, or that I present myself before him with duplicity or disobey him, I am actually cheating myself. It is important to contemplate…
Read moreKing Purañjana begged his Queen to return to her original beauty. He tried to revive her just as a living entity tries to revive his original consciousness, Kṛṣṇa consciousness, which is very beautiful. All the…
Read moreThen Yogamaya told her, “You cannot go to Vrndavana, because you are not qualified. First you would have to take birth from a gopi’s womb, associate with the gopis, and try to follow them. You…
Read moreGiving respect to each other, and come together at least for festivals, on days like Krsna Janmastami, and Mahaprabhu's birthday. Invite everyone, give classes to each other, remember the words of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and…
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Read moreA question arises: if all souls are eternal servants of Sri Krsna, how could they have become averse to Him? Why did they turn away from Him? The answer is that the jivas who became…
Read moreSvayam Bhagavan Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu has given instructions on ten types of tattva to the faithful jivas. Of these, the first is the principle of evidence (pramana-tattva), and the remaining nine are prameya-tattva the subject…
Read moreThe Supreme Lord has not said, "You go and make your own samsara." Rather, Krishna has said, "Go there and do My samsara." So by Krishna's desire, Gurudeva has come here and opened Krishna's samsara.…
Read moreAlthough Sri Krsna Himself is the origin of bhakti, Sri Guru is His incarnation, or manifestation. Therefore, unless a person sincerely and selflessly serves Sri Guru he will not attain bhakti even if he makes…
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