Prabhupada: Who thinks we are Krsna? We do not think. We do not think like that.

Devotee: Belong to Krsna.

Devotee (2): We are Krsna's.

Prabhupada: We are servants of Krsna. We are Krsna's. Just like you are son of your father, similarly, we are servants of Krsna. We are not Krsna. Who says that we are Krsna? We do not say. We are servants of Krsna.

Indian: (indistinct)

Prabhupada: [break] ... and chant Hare Krsna. Where is the difficulty? This is the short cut. This is the shortest cut.

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Hare Krishna!


"I am always with you. Never mind if I am physically absent."


All Glories Srila Prabhupada!

"I envy no one, nor am I partial to anyone...."
Bg.9.29


"Unto those who are constantly devoted and worship Me with love, I give the understanding by which they may come to Me."  Lord Sri Krsna

isvarah paramah krsnah, sac-cid-ananda vigrahah
anadir adir govindah, satva-karana-karanam:


"Krishna is the cause of all causes. He is the primal cause, and He is the very form of eternal being, knowledge, and bliss." (Brahma-samhita 5.1)

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yada pasyah pasyate rukma-varnam,
kartaram isam purusam brahma yonim


"One who sees that golden-colored Personality of Godhead, the Supreme Lord, the supreme actor, who is the source of the Supreme Brahman, is liberated." (Mundaka 'Vpanisad 3.1.3) [See Caitanya Caritamrita, Adi 2.22 Purport]


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"Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer or give away, and whatever austerities you perform — do that, O son of Kunti
, as an offering to Me." - Bg.9.27


The Most Confidential Knowledge


Bg.9.1-34.

"So, my dear boys and girls, about six years ago I came to your country single-handed, with this pair of cymbals. Now you are so many chanting Hare Krishna. That is my success. It was the prediction of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu: prthivite ache yata nagaradi grama, sarvatra pracara hoibe mora noma. Lord Caitanya desired that 'In all the towns—in as many towns and villages as there are on the surface of the globe—My name will be broadcast.' He is Krishna Himself—svayam krsna, krsna caitanya-namine — simply changing His name as Krishna Caitanya. So His prediction will never go in vain. That's a fact. So my plan was that T shall go to America...  If I can convince the younger generation of America, they will take it up.' If you kindly take this Krishna consciousness movement seriously, your country will be saved, and the whole world will be saved." - (Lecture, May 18,1972, Los Angeles)

Thank you very much!


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Chant Hare Krishna and be happy!


Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati;422.How does a genuine disciple think?(p.338)



For the genuine devotee of a spiritual master, the genuine disciple, the spiritual master is his entire life, his ideal. His vow is to serve the spiritual master, and though he adores both Krishna and the spiritual master equally, he gives special preference to his spiritual master.







Śrīla
Prabhupāda  Quote  of  the  Day:




 "They were always serving Krishna in the mood of separation"







His Divine Grace Śrīla A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda
Founder~Acharya of the Krsna Consciousness Movement




7 May, 1975
Perth, Australia
Letter to Lalita Priya devi

"We should follow in the footsteps of Lord Caitanya and the six Goswamis of Vrndavana.
They were always serving Krishna in the mood of separation. They never said that "now I have seen Krishna" or "last night I danced with Krishna" - no. They were crying where is Krishna, and they were always searching after Him, wondering when they would finally be able to see Him.
We should also desire intensely to see and be with Krishna, but first thing is to become purified through devotional service.
It is not possible otherwise. So, keep on helping me to spread this Krishna Consciousness movement, following the rules and regulations very carefully,
and your life will be perfected and you will see Krishna."

courtesy Nityananda Rama Prabhu, acbssp

 


"Pamho Tamohara Prabhu, agtACBSP!

Thank you for keeping me engaged in this wonderful krsna katha which is our best medicine to overcome the material disease. This (above) is a proper article prabhu, because HDG Gour Govinda Maharajah used to say that this mood of separation is the last limit of bhakti, called bhakti naipunya.

HE say: but when there is separation it is very acute,very painful burning like poison. two opposites are there poison is there and nectar is there.....outside burning but inside immense pleasure..... like the karmi they are feeling separation from material enjoyment therefore the blazing fire is finished them to ash. But the fire of Krsna consciuosness burn everything including the desire for enjoyment, one cannot understand how krsna is eternally brahamacari. HE has more then sixteen thousand wives in Dvaraka and produced so many sons. HE is a great grhastha,is HE a brahmacari ? SRILA GAURA GOVINDA MAHARAJ used to say this as the most deep point of our kc philosophy.

We have not love for SRI KRSNA yet because if we had that we were already all dead, like maharaj ugrasena, HE fell flat to the ground dead when HE heard that SRI KRSNA left the planet. Like all the members of the yadu dynasty, they could not live without the separation of SRI YADUNANDANAji. 

All the brahma gaudiya vaisnava sampradaya acharyas done the spiritual revolution by saving a lot of fallen souls by this mood of separation from SRI KRSNA in vani seva, because all the vapu forms that we are using at the moment are all temporary, but the vani seva is eternal. In this immense pleasure coming from vipralambha rasambhode service in separation from our lost spiritual bodies, thank you for your sat-sanga" agtys ys

a.c seva das haribol











 




Hare Krishna!  Please accept my humble obeisances.  All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

Thank you for all the nectar, Prabhus!  Along the same line:  Śvetāśvatara
Upaniṣad (6.23):
yasya
deve
parābhaktir


yathā
deve
tathā
gurau


tasyaite kathitā hy
arthāḥ


prakāśante
mahātmanaḥ


[ŚU6.23]

"Unto those great souls who have implicit faith in both the Lord and the spiritual master, all the imports of Vedic knowledge are automatically revealed."

Your servant,

Citi-Sakti Devi Dasi

 








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"So we should associate by vibration, and not by the physical presence. That is real association.".  Srila Prabhupada lecture, Srimad Bhagavatam, August 18, 1968



        "I am always with you. Never mind if I am physically absent."
  - Srila Prabhupada letter to Jayananda, September 16, 1969

Nanda Balarama Krishna










"So far as your question about controversy amongst the disciples . . . that is a fact. But this controversy is not material. Just like in a national program, different political parties are sometimes in conflict and make propaganda against each other, but their central point is always service to the country. Similarly, amongst the disciples . . . there may be some controversy, but the central point is how to preach the mission of His Divine Grace. If the central point is fixed up then there is no harm in such controversy. Every individual being must have his opinion; that is the significance of individuality, but all such differences of opinions must coincide in Krishna. In the battlefield of Kuruksetra were Arjuna and Bhisma who were fighting with one another, and because Krishna was on the side of Arjuna, sometimes Bhisma pierced the body of Krishna also with arrows. But still they remained the greatest devotees of the Lord.'"


(Srila Prabhupada's Letter to Mandali Bhadra, July 28, 1969)



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From now on unless I order you do something change or in addition, go on with the usual standard way..."
Srila Prabhupada
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You are not expected to do it all or understand much at first. In the long run, we hope you will in fact renounce all personal claims to the world and surrender your life word deeds and everything you possess in His service, as according to your heart's understanding of Srila Prabhupada's directions to you. That is pure devotional service, so the standards are the world's highest in that sense. But there is otherwise no material qualifications for developing love of Godhead! Any and all have this right and inherent capacity. We the disciples have done so, have committed to the group of devotees eternally serving Godhead under the directions of Srila Prabhupada. So it is not a cheap internet site thing. But as you take, it is up to you, take more or less, we are giving it freely. Srila Prabhupada uses the example of an electric current; the current is there, but the electric light bulbs use according to their capacity.  - your servant tdv


From Srila Prabhupada’s June 22, 1972 letter to Hamsaduta
“So especially you must encourage the students to read our books throughout the day as much as possible, and give them all good advice how to understand the books, and inspire them to study the things from every point of view. In this way, by constantly engaging our tongues in the service of the Lord, either by discussing His philosophy or by chanting Hare Krishna, the truth is that Krishna Himself will reveal Himself to us and we shall understand how to do everything properly.

Now we have got so many students and so many temples but I am fearful that if we expand too much in this way that we shall become weakened and gradually the whole thing will become lost. Just like milk. We may thin it more and more with water for cheating the customer, but in the end it will cease to be any longer milk.
Better to boil the milk now very vigorously and make it thick and sweet, that is the best process. So let us concentrate on training our devotees very thoroughly in the knowledge of Krishna Consciousness from our books, from tapes, by discussing always, and in so many ways instruct them in the right propositions.”
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HDG 108 Sri Srimad A.C. Bhaktivedanta GoSwami Maharajah Srila Prabhupada, our founder- acarya and eternal spiritual master, Jagad-Guru

"Lord Ṛṣabhadeva told His sons: My dear boys, of all the living entities who have accepted material bodies in this world, one who has been awarded this human form should not work hard day and night simply for sense gratification, which is available even for dogs and hogs that eat stool. One should engage in penance and austerity to attain the divine position of devotional service. By such activity, one’s heart is purified, and when one attains this position, he attains eternal, blissful life, which is transcendental to material happiness and which continues forever."


"Bala Krsna !, Bhaja Krsna !,  Lala Krsna Nama !
Krsna Mata,  Krsna Pita,  Krsna dharma prana."
These are the first words used  in Harinam sankirtana of Mahaprabhu, by Lord Nityananada and Srila Haridasa Thakura, whom were sent door to door in Navadvipa.




Who is Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī?
Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī is an eternal associate of Bhagavān. He is the spiritual master of the whole world (jagad-guru) and the emperor among the devotees. In śrī kṛṣṇa-līlā, he is the maidservant of Śrīmatī Rādhikā named Śrī Rūpa Mañjarī. Śrī Rūpa Prabhu is an intimate associate of Śrī Gaurāṅga.
His existence does not stem from jīva-tattva (the existential principle of the atomic living soul), but from svarūpa-śakti-tattva (the existential principle of the supreme, internal potency of reality), which is the master of jīva-tattva. He is the beloved associate of Śrī Rādhā, the daughter of Vṛṣabhānu Mahārāja.


 
BY HIS DIVINE GRACE A. C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA
My advice to you under the circumstances is that at least for one hour you must all go to have sankirtana outside on the streets or in the park. That is your life and soul, first business. The next business is completing the chanting of 16 rounds every day. The next business is your editing. And if you find extra time then you can attend the temple ceremonies. Otherwise you can stop these activities. But outdoor kirtana, your editing work, and chanting of 16 rounds must be done. Outdoor kirtana must be done, even at the cost of suspending all editorial work. That is your first and foremost business. Temple worship is not so important. If need be, the whole temple can be locked. But the outdoor kirtana cannot be stopped.
(Letter to Rayarama, 17 May 1969)


 
Srila Prabhupada Lecture
Srimad Bhagavatam 1.3.15
“Advancement means… But we don’t change our Vedic knowledge. We do not say, “Now, Kṛṣṇa, five thousand years ago, said like this. Now we are advanced. We change this line.” Of course, others are doing. In the scriptures… Just like the Christians, they are changing the words. But you cannot do that. Then where is the authority? If you change the word of the scripture, then where is the authority of the scripture? Just like in lawbooks, there is some law made already. Whimsically you cannot, I mean to say, erase the words and put something that “It should be changed like this.” That will not be accepted. Law, if there is change… Actually, there is no change. There cannot be change. Real law means there is no change. Just like day and night, it is coming. The fortnight, the dark period and the light period, it is coming for millions and millions and time immemorial. The same law is going, going on. You cannot change. So as soon as you change, that means it is imperfect. You change.
So Vedic laws are not like that. You cannot change. Five thousand years ago Kṛṣṇa said, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja: [Bg. 18.66] “You give up all other religious principles. Simply surrender unto Me.” We are preaching the same thing. No change. No change. There is no possibility of change. Then how Kṛṣṇa is authority? So change means imperfect knowledge."

idam bhagavatam nama
puranam brahma-sammitam
uttama-shloka-caritam
cakara bhagavan rishih
nihsreyasaya lokasya
dhanyam svasty-ayanam mahat



“This Srimad Bhagavatam is the literary incarnation of God, and it is compiled by Srila Vyasadeva, the incarnation of God. It is meant for the ultimate good of all people, and it is all-successful, all blissful and all-perfect.”



Wow, I feel enveloped by Krishna devotion on your site. I love it. I will definitely take time out to go there often.
I am so inspired by your effort there. I will definitely go there for the nectar.


Sincerely your servant,  Sacisuta Dasa



RRdasa's comment; "This site is supremely great. Krsna`s blessings is with this site. Haribol."

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"AGTSP. One day Prabhu and I were talking about Krsna consciousness networks on the internet, so he said that he saw a network with lots of people and over a hundred groups, but very little action, but your network has just just a few groups but very inspiring and the blogs are packed with knowledge and spiritual food for thought. So I told him that I heard about it sometime ago but did not check it out. So I had a look recently and I was amazed at what I saw. I agree with him. This site has everything. It is marvellous. Thank You Tamoharadasa Prabhu. Srila Prabhupada and Krsna will be very pleased with you. Take care. Hare Krsna."


Yogeshwara Prabhu



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Hare Krsna! Now, I have an idea of where you come from prabhu. I fell in love with the temple and the devotees this week. Something incredible happened to me this week : I understand pure devotional service. Now, I can picture myself in a temple for life.. I am forever grateful to you for showing me this. Please accept my humble and respectful obeisances prabhuji. Haribol!

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You are not expected to do it all or understand much at first. In the long run, we hope you will in fact renounce all personal claims to the world and surrender your life word deeds and everything you possess in His service, as according to your heart's understanding of Srila Prabhupada's directions to you. That is pure devotional service, so the standards are the world's highest in that sense. But there is otherwise no material qualifications for developing love of Godhead! Any and all have this right and inherent capacity. We the disciples have done so, have committed to the group of devotees eternally serving Godhead under the directions of Srila Prabhupada. So it is not a cheap internet site thing. But as you take, it is up to you, take more or less, we are giving it freely. Srila Prabhupada uses the example of an electric current; the current is there, but the electric light bulbs use according to their capacity.      - Tdasa,  pamdo