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Love begins with this give and take, by Srila Prabhupada

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on January 5, 2022 at 8:37

Love begins with this give and take
You give something to your lover; he gives you something to you. In this way love develops. Dadāti pratigṛhṇāti. The development takes place, loving affairs, by giving and taking.
Dadāti pratigṛhṇāti bhuṅkte bhojayate caiva [Upadeśāmṛta 4]. When you create loving transaction with any boy or girl or any man, any friend, the give and take. So Kṛṣṇa is teaching us give and take. "You give something," Kṛṣṇa is begging. "You try to love Me. You learn how to love Me. Give Me." "Sir, I have nothing to give You." "Oh, you cannot collect a little fruit and flower and leaf and little water?" "Oh, yes. Why not? Anyone can collect."
So the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is so nice. You can make direct friendship with Kṛṣṇa. You can become direct servant of Kṛṣṇa. Or, in higher stages, you can become father, mother of Kṛṣṇa. Or you can become lover of Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is prepared to establish loving relationship.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.8 Lecture, July 22, 1971,New York

Prabhupāda: Why you take advantage of chants one? Why not sixteen? Opportunist. [laughter] Not devotee.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on March 26, 2021 at 12:03

Kirru Kumar

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Makhanlāl: In the Sixth Canto of the Bhāgavatam you made a statement that if a devotee chants the holy name even once inoffensively, this protects him eternally. Is it possible for a devotee...

Prabhupāda: Why you take advantage of chants one? Why not sixteen? Opportunist. [laughter] Not devotee.

Makhanlāl: If one has even some small amount...

Prabhupāda: This material calculation is not made by a devotee. When one is devotee, he'll chant more and more. He'll aspire, "If I could get millions of tongues and trillions of ear, then I could finish. That is devotee. And one is thinking how to finish it by chanting once, he's not devotee. That is neophyte stage. Therefore the regulation is you must chant sixteen rounds at least. Because he'll simply try to avoid it by his so-called intelligence.

Makhanlāl: It's possible for even a neophyte to chant offenselessly?

Prabhupāda: Not possible, but he has to do it. This is offense, to think that "I have chanted once; my

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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Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on July 6, 2019 at 3:30

Sudip Nair said; almost the entire population of young devotees get preached to remain humble, not criticize and not expose anything with the fear of committing Vaisnava Apradha. The poisoners use this tactic to keep them under their control so that no one sees through their deception. And even 99.99% of them ....., have no guts to openly expose the poisoners with the fear of getting...... blocked"

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Joshua Davis “It is the duty of the disciples to take charge of the mission of the spiritual master and execute it properly. Otherwise the disciple should decide to die along with the spiritual master. In other words, to execute the will of the spiritual master, the disciple should be prepared to lay down his life and abandon all personal considerations.”
(Srimad-Bhagavatam, 4.28.50, purport)

Dave Everitt ; You know someone is a complete moron and should not be around your children, if he answers 'yes' to any

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur ; If we take up the practical activities of the Madhva and the Gaudiya Vaisnavas

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on July 24, 2018 at 7:57

Avadhoot Maharaj

Thus spake Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur ;

If we take up the practical activities of the Madhva and the Gaudiya Vaisnavas for the purpose of such comparison, we find that the former put themselves under a severe reserve in their propagatory methods, whereas the latter are vigorously proselytizing. The Madhvas keep up the old habits and ideas, whereas the Gaudiya Vaisnavas have advanced towards and utilized everything facilitating the true cause of devotion. The former are very fond of archana according to the pancharatrika system; whereas the latter, though not different to adopt archana, yet in addition to that, they perform bhajana like the Dasakuta section of the Madhva community. The Gaudiya Vaisnavas give more stress to bhajana than to archana of the Vyasakuta section of the latter community. The habits and customs of the Southern Indian Vaisnavas are different from those of Northern Indian Gaudiya Vaisnavas, though both of them have a common bas

in this age, Kali-yuga, it is advised that no one take sannyāsa.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on January 17, 2018 at 20:07

Now, from this we may take the lesson that in our fight with māyā we should not be in a position in which our strength, enthusiasm and senses will be unable to fight vigorously. Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement has actually declared war against the illusory energy, in which all the living entities are rotting in a false understanding of civilization. The soldiers in this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement must always possess physical strength, enthusiasm and sensual power. To keep themselves fit, they must therefore place themselves in a normal condition of life. What constitutes a normal condition will not be the same for everyone, and therefore there are divisions of varṇāśrama—brāhmaṇa, kṣatriya, vaiśya, śūdra, brahmacarya, gṛhastha, vānaprastha and sannyāsa. Especially in this age, Kali-yuga, it is advised that no one take sannyāsa.

aśvamedhaṁ gavālambhaṁ
sannyāsaṁ pala-paitṛkam
devareṇa sutotpattiṁ
kalau pañca vivarjayet
[Cc. Ādi 17.164]

(Brahma-vaivarta Purāṇa)

From this we can underst

Our philosophy is that you produce your food anywhere. You stay, and keep cows, take milk, produce vegetables, food grains, and chant Hare Krsna

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on August 14, 2015 at 17:00

Madhava Das‎Back to Village - Srila Prabhupada Mission

“Our philosophy is.....

“Our philosophy is that you produce your food anywhere. You stay, and keep cows, take milk, produce vegetables, food grains, and chant Hare Kåñëa. That's all. This is our philosophy. Make your life successful. By becoming Kåñëa conscious, you become free from all these troubles of material condition. This is our education. Don't be after these motorcars, television, and all nonsense things, sporting, wine, women. Don't be after these. Simply eat sufficiently, keep your health nicely, chant Hare Kåñëa, realize Kåñëa, and go back to home. This is our philosophy.”

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Morning Walk at Villa Borghese -- May 25, 1974, Rome

"I CAME HERE TO TAKE THEIR SUFFERING", SAID PRABHUPADA

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on December 14, 2013 at 7:30

"I CAME HERE TO TAKE THEIR SUFFERING", SAID PRABHUPADA

It was the beginning of 1977. Prabhupada was in Bombay temple. He was very sick. He had stopped all food intake – he was taking 1/4 a cup of orange juice per day. His body had only bones left – there was no flesh. And yet, he was insisting that he wanted to go to London. The doctors had given up responsibility. But as always, he was adamant

At this time, one Pancaratrika Pandit from Bangalore named Sampat Kumar Bhattacarya came to know about Srila Prabhupada’s situation. So, he took a flight from Bangalore to Bombay – which in those days was a huge thing for a Brahmin priest – and met Prabhupada, and asked for a private meeting. Generally, nobody was allowed a private meeting, but when he said that he specially came by flight from Bangalore to meet Srila Prabhupada, he was allowed a private meeting. So, everybody was asked to go out, and they talked.

The conversation was like this: Sampat Kumar: ‘Swamiji, I am feeling very pained

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Love begins with this give and take, by Srila Prabhupada

Prabhupāda: Why you take advantage of chants one? Why not sixteen? Opportunist. [laughter] Not devotee.

Srila Prabhupada speaks - "If I have written one book, my words are my meaning.

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Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur ; If we take up the practical activities of the Madhva and the Gaudiya Vaisnavas

Avadhoot Maharaj

in this age, Kali-yuga, it is advised that no one take sannyāsa.

Our philosophy is that you produce your food anywhere. You stay, and keep cows, take milk, produce vegetables, food grains, and chant Hare Krsna

"I CAME HERE TO TAKE THEIR SUFFERING", SAID PRABHUPADA

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