if we apply our devotional service unto the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna, then the result will be that janayaty asu vairagyam, very soon you'll be detached from this material attraction.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on April 11, 2021 at 16:29

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

Bhagavad-gita 2.58-59 Lecture
66/04/27
New York
"vasudeve bhagavati
bhakti-yogah prayojitah
janayaty asu vairagyam
jnanam ca yad ahaitukam
[SB 1.2.7]
"If somebody engages himself in the devotional service of Vasudeva, then very quickly this detachment develops. And knowledge." Knowledge also. Without knowledge, there cannot be detachment. Without knowledge, one cannot be detached. And what is that knowledge? The knowledge is that "I am not this matter; I am spirit soul." So... But this knowledge is... Although it is very easy thing to say, that "I am not this body, but I am spirit soul," but actually to have perfect knowledge, that is a great job. It is not very easy. For getting that supreme knowledge so many, I mean to say, transcendentalists, they were trying life after life, just to get detached. But the easiest process is that if one is engaged in the devotional service. That is the

Misdirected energy leads to dead ends. Latch a-hold firmly instead, to constancy in divine devotional service

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on January 1, 2021 at 18:21

Misdirected energy leads to dead ends. Latch a-hold firmly instead, to constancy in divine devotional service, as that will last and grow ever more satisfying in your esteem and appreciation, come what may, with no barriers or loss. "Unto those who are steady in their devotion, I give the knowledge by which they can come to Me." Sri Krsna, Bhagavada Gita As It Is. "In this endeavor, there is no loss." All things and beings are within His grasp and realm and control, and when we act willfully and sincerely in knowledge, in accordance with His Will, then that is pure Krsna consciousness, and the source of immortality. In this age, special dispensation is given, so that it can be relatively easily obtained, and is simple.

Sreedham Navadvip, a group of nine islands representing the nine methods of devotional practices

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on January 26, 2020 at 15:30

Santanu Bhattacharyya

Sreedham Navadvip, a group of nine islands representing the nine methods of devotional practices . . . .
1.Hearing(Simantadvip),
2.Chanting(Godrumdvip),
3.Meditating(Madhyadvip),
4.Serving-Lord's Lotus Feet(Koladvip),
5.Worshipping(Ritudvip),
6.Greeting(Jahnudvip),
7.Serving as servent(Modadrumdvip),
8.Friendship(Rudradvip),
9.Self-surrender(Antardvip, the whorl of the Lotus).,

Without complete resignation to the Lotus Feet of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the eight other devotional ptactices are doomed to failure .

if we simply want to remain in the lowest stage of devotional service, then we are not making progress. Then we shall simply enjoy the material field, without entering into the spiritual platform.(c)

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on January 21, 2021 at 7:30

Real bhakti… that is raganuga-bhakti. This raganuga-bhakti, we have to come after surpassing the vaidhi-bhakti [regulative process]. In the material world, if we do not try to make further and further progress in devotional service, if we are simply sticking to the shastric [scriptural] regulation process and do not try to go beyond that...
The shastric process is kanishtha-adhikara, lowest stage of devotional service… This is nice beginning, but one has to go above this… If I become satisfied only with these regulative principles for worshiping… but if I have no other idea, then sa bhaktah prakrtah smrtah. Prakrta means on the material platform.
…So any devotee can fall down if he remains prakrta-bhakta. So he has to raise himself above this in the madhyama-adhikara [intermediate stage]…
Therefore, if we do not associate with the advanced devotees, uttama-adhikari, if we simply want to remain in the lowest stage of devotional service, then we are not making progress. Then we shall si

“‘Unless one is initiated by a bona fide spiritual master, all his devotional activities are useless. A person who is not properly initiated can descend again into the animal species.’”

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 7, 2018 at 18:13

According to the Vaiṣṇava regulative principles, one must be initiated as a brāhmaṇa. The Hari-bhakti-vilāsa (2.6) quotes the following injunction from the Viṣṇu-yāmala:

adīkṣitasya vāmorukṛtaṁ sarvaṁ nirarthakam
paśu-yonim avāpnotidīkṣā-virahito janaḥ

“‘Unless one is initiated by a bona fide spiritual master, all his devotional activities are useless. A person who is not properly initiated can descend again into the animal species.’”

Hari-bhakti-vilāsa (2.10) further quotes:
ato guruṁ praṇamyaivaṁsarva-svaṁ vinivedya ca
gṛhṇīyād vaiṣṇavaṁ mantraṁdīkṣā-pūrvaṁ vidhānataḥ

“‘It is the duty of every human being to surrender to a bona fide spiritual master. Giving him everything — body, mind and intelligence — one must take Vaiṣṇava initiation from him.’”

"One should not proudly think that one can understand the transcendental loving service of the Lord simply by reading books... One must accept a Vaisnava guru (adau gurv-asrayam), and then by questions and answers one should gradually

Nondevotee; hastled endlessly by corrupt demons, eventually wants to escape material existence, takes to devotional service imitation.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on January 10, 2018 at 9:30

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Nondevotee; hastled endlessly by corrupt demons, eventually wants to escape material existence, takes to devotional service imitation

Neophyte; Wants to find liberation, therefore starts to build an internal dream world of "service", composed of pretty pictures of Sri Krsna and endless repeated ritual. Thinking themselves now advanced compared to the "karmis", they criticize real and advanced devotees, saying, "oh, they are involved with politics and everything (I am rightly running away from like a scared rabbit), those prabhus are in maya!"

Advanced devotee; Realizing that they are eternal servants of Radha Krsna, now, no matter where they are, they are actually doing something REAL in THIS LIFE HERE AND NOW, as best they can, to fix things, as desired by Sri Gurudeva, including fielding insults from neophytes who say the actual devotees are in maya for fighting to the very death to fix things. An advanced devotee is Krsna conscious, and at the same time is

By a false display of religious sentiments, they present a show of devotional service

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on May 15, 2017 at 18:15

"Just like Judas betrayed Jesus Christ, so Tamal, Jayapataka, Bhavananda etc., betrayed Srila Prabhupada. Just as Jesus Chris predicted his predicament, so did Srila Prabhupada:" Quote SP follows;

"By a false display of religious sentiments, they present a show of devotional service while indulging in all sorts of immoral activities. In this way they pass as spiritual masters and devotees of God. Such violators of religious principles have no respect for the authoritative Acaryas, the holy teachers in the strict disciplic succession… Instead, to mislead the people in general they themselves become so-called Acaryas,…

These rogues are the most dangerous elements in human society. Because there is no religious government, they escape punishment by the law of the state. They cannot, however, escape the law of the Supreme, who has clearly declared in the Bhagavad-gita that envious demons in the garb of religious propagandists shall be thrown into the darkest regions of hell (Bg. 16.19-20).

Your conviction that we have to supply the demands of Krishna and not to demand anything from Him is the pure devotional philosophy

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 24, 2017 at 14:54

Krishna is the ultimate Person. We are just trying to serve Him. Your conviction that we have to supply the demands of Krishna and not to demand anything from Him is the pure devotional philosophy

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Srila Prabhupada Letter, April 13, 1967

The Meaning of Perfect, by His Divine Grace

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 10, 2015 at 9:00

Courtesy Ines Naradic, ie Naradakunda devi dasi; Meaning of Perfect

Prabhupada: Yes. Acarya is explained, bhakti-samsanah: “One who’s preaching the cult of devotional service, he’s acarya.” Then why should you find any discrepancy?
Jayadvaita: Because we see … For instance, sometimes the acarya may seem to forget something or not to know something, so from our point of view, if someone has forgotten, that is an imperfection.
Prabhupada: Then you do not understand. Acarya is not God, omniscient. He is servant of God. His business is to preach bhakti cult. That is acarya.
Jayadvaita: And that is the perfection.
Prabhupada: That is the perfection. Hare Krsna.
Jayadvaita: So we have a misunderstanding about what perfection is?
Prabhupada: Yes. Perfection is here, how he is preaching bhakti cult. That’s all.
Satsvarupa: Prabhupada, in one purport in the Bhagavad-gita, you write that a disciple of a bona fide spiritual master is supposed to know everything.
Prabhupada: Yes, if he follows th

Srila Prabhupada's Message

Posted by Welcome on October 28, 2011 at 6:00

The whole corporate capitalist system depends upon consumerism. Unless we are convinced of the necessity of purchasing thier goods, the market collapses.

The embodied soul suffers under two layers of misconception; a subtle original one in which she wishes to be God-like, and a gross one of loss of self and identification with a form and format laid out by Maya devi to fulfill the desires. If one hears from a bonafide source of knowledge as to what really is the Self, then the illusion is broken. The awakened soul then has to engage in the processes of devotional service, hopefully under the supervision of the perfect spirtual master, in order to fully "change the heart" and realize love of Godhead.

Thus, we can see the importance to the elites of maintaining a state of adequate false ego among the masses, to ensure that the materialist false-ego societies will continue to buy and sell their products to enrich the elites, thing

Scientific Reasoning vs Spiritual Belief Systems; a Realistic Comparison by Natural Observation Tamoharadasa MSc.

Posted by Welcome on October 28, 2020 at 8:30

“Scientific Reasoning vs Spiritual Belief Systems; a Realistic Comparison by Natural Observation”

BY: TAMOHARADASA V. (acbsp), MSc.

If we observe the real situation of the world around us, we can gain insight into what is the best direction for people to go; science or spiritual knowledge. A system of thought that correlates or explains more of what we can observe around us would, by Occam’s razor alone, have to be taken as more correct or true. And we also take it as a given that by following our own essential natures and thus a system of thought most akin to that nature, we will be most satisfied and happy.

At a basic physical level, gravity and the other forces of nature have no meaning except in relationship to things other than themselves. The law of Gravity, for example, must have an object, such as a planet, upon which to act. So the basic laws have their existence only in relation to there being an “other” to interact with.

Even at a molecular level, we observe that molecu

Cry in Ecstasy

Posted by Welcome on January 5, 2011 at 15:30

So think carefuly on this; are you chanting the pure Names? Have you become deathless and seen Krishna, have you all mystic powers in full, and remembrance of past lives and insite into future events accurately ? No ?? Then you are a cheat and have been cheated also !

Then you have been found unworthy. You have not done enough, or any, pure devotional service !

Think on that, your Beloveds have rejected you, as you are insincere and impure, unworthy.

You have chanted shamefacedly for years and not once uttered Suddha Nama, the Pure Name. What kind of yogi are you? You are not a devotee, just a want-to-be, a neophyte. But you have given it your all for your whole lifetime!

You have been placed on the doorstep outside the kirtana hall and not allowed in to Mahaprabhu's kirtana, you are not pure or worthy.

Krishna and Balarama find you a scary demon, they have sent you here far away, where they don't have to see your envy-smeared shrunken face. You have been kicked out of your Home and

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if we apply our devotional service unto the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna, then the result will be that janayaty asu vairagyam, very soon you'll be detached from this material attraction.

Misdirected energy leads to dead ends. Latch a-hold firmly instead, to constancy in divine devotional service

Sreedham Navadvip, a group of nine islands representing the nine methods of devotional practices

if we simply want to remain in the lowest stage of devotional service, then we are not making progress. Then we shall simply enjoy the material field, without entering into the spiritual platform.(c)

“‘Unless one is initiated by a bona fide spiritual master, all his devotional activities are useless. A person who is not properly initiated can descend again into the animal species.’”

Nondevotee; hastled endlessly by corrupt demons, eventually wants to escape material existence, takes to devotional service imitation.

Tamohara Dasa

By a false display of religious sentiments, they present a show of devotional service

Your conviction that we have to supply the demands of Krishna and not to demand anything from Him is the pure devotional philosophy

The Meaning of Perfect, by His Divine Grace

Srila Prabhupada's Message

Scientific Reasoning vs Spiritual Belief Systems; a Realistic Comparison by Natural Observation Tamoharadasa MSc.

“Scientific Reasoning vs Spiritual Belief Systems; a Realistic Comparison by Natural Observation”

Cry in Ecstasy

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