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The initiation means bhajana-kriyā. Actually executing devotional service: initiation.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on January 8, 2022 at 11:54
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The initiation means bhajana-kriyā. Actually executing devotional service: initiation. And if one actually executes devotional service, then anartha-nivṛttiḥ syāt, then all nonsense habits will disappear. Then I'll not have to stress on the point these four regulative principles. Automatically it will go away. That is the test. How one has properly utilized his initiation will be tested that he has no more attraction for these four principles: illicit sex, intoxication, gambling, and meat-eating. They will automatically go. There is no need of asking. Anartha-nivṛttiḥ syāt. Then ruci. When one is freed from all these prohibitive principles, then he develops a taste, tato ruci. Tato niṣṭhā: then he's steadily confirmed. Athāsaktiḥ. Then attachment: he cannot go. He cannot go. Athāsaktis tato bhāvaḥ. Then ecstasy. And then he comes to the platform of love of Godhead. So when that platform is reached, then everything is successful. And if that platform is not reached, then everything is
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Srila Prabhupada speaks - "If I have written one book, my words are my meaning.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 9, 2021 at 10:30
from Yasodanandan  Prabhu et al; 
Srila Prabhupada speaks - "If I have written one book, my words are my meaning.
Why you should give meaning? I shall kick on your face."
Prabhupāda: Majority or minority, it doesn't matter. But why you should take Bhagavad-gītā to establish your rascal theories? That means you are cheating.
Hare Krishna, here are a few quotes from Srila Prabhupada's instructions that clearly explain the following:
a.) What is speculation?
b.) How is the Gita misinterpreted?
c.) How should the Gita be preached?
d.) Mission of Caitanya Mahaprabhu
e.) Criticism of making compromise in philosophy for personal gain
f.) Offense of disobedience to the order of Guru
g.) Srila Prabhupada's explanation to why he presented the Bhagavad Gita "As It Is"
h.) Importance of reading the Gita "As It Is" with the guidance of a bona fide Guru
i.) Getting association with Krsna by reading Bhagavad Gita
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Paramahaṁsa: My question is: A pure devotee, when he comments Bhagavad-gītā, som
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preacher must strictly follow the rules and regulations laid down in the shastras yet at the same time devise a means by which the preaching work to reclaim the fallen may go with full force.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on September 18, 2019 at 5:22

"An acarya who comes for the service of the Lord cannot be expected to conform to a stereotype, for he must find the ways and means by which Krishna Consciousness may be spread...
Therefore it is a principle that a preacher must strictly follow the rules and regulations laid down in the shastras yet at the same time devise a means by which the preaching work to reclaim the fallen may go with full force." Chaitanya Charitamrta A.L. ch. 7, purport of verses 32 and 38

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Mūḍhas means asses.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on September 17, 2017 at 18:11
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Dhira Madhava Das

''The karmīs who are working for sense gratification day and night, they have been called as mūḍhas. Mūḍhas means asses. The ass works very hard, the washerman's cloth loaded on the back of the ass to the greatest extent so that he cannot move. But what does he get in exchange? A morsel of grass. That's all. He knows it, that in exchange of... "None of the cloth belongs to me; still, I am carrying so much burden, and in exchange I'll get a few pieces of grass," which is available anywhere. But he's thinking that "This washerman will supply me grass." This is ass, ass-mentality. Therefore they are called mūḍha.'' 740408BG.BOM

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To serve Krsna means practically, and means using everything.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on January 13, 2017 at 9:36
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To serve Krsna means practically, and means using everything. -T dasa

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‎Biren Chauhan‎ to ONLY PRABHUPADA

"The real question is, How can we remain unpolluted by material contamination while in the material world? It was Rūpa Gosvāmī who explained that we can remain uncontaminated while in the world if we simply make it our ambition to serve Kṛṣṇa. One may then justifiably ask, "How can I serve?" Obviously this is not simply a matter of meditation, which is just an activity of the mind, but of practical work. Love of Kṛṣṇa's service can be attained only by working for Kṛṣṇa. In such work, we should leave no resource unused. Whatever is there, whatever we have, should be used for Kṛṣṇa. We can use everything: typewriters, automobiles, airplanes, missiles-anything. If we simply speak to people about Kṛṣṇa consciousness, we are also rendering service. If our minds, senses, speech, money and energies are thus engaged in the service of Kṛṣṇa, we cannot be con

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So change means imperfect knowledge

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on December 28, 2015 at 16:00

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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 i

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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

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this means you are associating with Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī directly

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on June 14, 2015 at 11:26
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"But in this life, if we develop Kṛṣṇa consciousness by association of devotees... As Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura has sung...

tāṅdera caraṇa-sevi-bhakta-sane vāsa

One's aim of life should be to serve the ācāryas. Ācārya upāsanam. So our ācārya in the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Sampradāya, the śrī-rūpa sanātana bhaṭṭa-raghunātha, śrī-jīva gopāla-bhaṭṭa dāsa-raghunātha, the Six Gosvāmīns, and if we associate with them... this book, Nectar of Devotion, Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, if you read regularly, try to understand, this means you are associating with Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī directly. And if you act accordingly, then you are serving their lotus feet."

Srila Prabhupada The Nectar of Devotion Vrndavana, October 20, 1972

NOTE: So similarly if we read Prabhupada's books regularly and try to understand, then we are associating with Srila Prabhupada directly. And if we act accordingly, then we are serving His lotus Feet...As Prabhupada often says "Where is the difficulty?"

Jaya Srila Prabh

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