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(There is no educational institution all over the world to understand this science, although it is the most important science for the human being) 🙏💖
 
11007309869?profile=RESIZE_710x"Modern education, they do not know even what is soul, what is this body, how the transmigration of the soul taking place. All blunt. There is no educational institution all over the world to understand this science, although it is the most important science for the human being."
 
(His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Lercture, March 29, 1974, Bombay)
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(Kṛṣṇa is within your heart, so when you read Bhagavad-gītā or Kṛṣṇa Book with little seriousness, then Kṛṣṇa understands, "Now he is serious to understand Me." He's with the . . . you haven't got to search out Kṛṣṇa. He's already within you. Simply you have to become little serious) 🙏💖
 
11007308869?profile=RESIZE_584x"If you simply read Kṛṣṇa Book, although it looks like story, then you become delivered from these clutches of repetition of birth and death. It is so nice. Because you will understand Kṛṣṇa, what is Kṛṣṇa, and here it is said, janma karma me divyaṁ ye jānāti tattvataḥ (BG 4.9).
 
It is explained. The people who are reading Kṛṣṇa Book very seriously, and tries to understand Kṛṣṇa, he will understand. Kṛṣṇa is very kind. As soon as he begins reading Kṛṣṇa book with a little faith and adherence, Kṛṣṇa will be very much pleased. Śṛṇvatāṁ sva-kathāḥ kṛṣṇaḥ puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ (SB 1.2.17).
 
Kṛṣṇa is within your heart, so when you read Bhagavad-gītā or Kṛṣṇa Book with little seriousness, then Kṛṣṇa
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We are proposing successful life

"We are proposing successful life. So whatever you do, you just become Kṛṣṇa conscious, and at least he will feel that, "I am . . . my future hope is there. There is Kṛṣṇa." That is successful life. At least he is hopeful that he is going to Kṛṣṇa."
(His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Lecture, March 23, 1969, Hawaii)
 
Srila Prabhupada; " This is unsuccessful life, laboring whole life, and he does not know where he is going. Next life, what is, whether cat or dog or animal or this or that, he does not know. He's in the darkness."
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(And as soon as the heart is cleansed of all dirty things, material contamination, then we can see what is our relationship with Kṛṣṇa. Therefore, Kṛṣṇa recommends that "Somehow or other, you try to be attached to Me.") 🙏💖
 
11004736076?profile=RESIZE_584x"With every living entity there is an eternal relationship with Kṛṣṇa. But we have forgotten that. That is our position. But if we practice this yoga, as Kṛṣṇa recommends, mayy āsakta-manāḥ . . . if we become attached, then our original relationship will be revealed.
 
That is called svarūpa-siddhi. How we are . . . how I am related with Kṛṣṇa, that will be revealed. I have got a relationship with Kṛṣṇa eternally. Now it is covered. So practice this yoga means reviving our original relationship with Kṛṣṇa. In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta it is said:
 
nitya-siddha kṛṣṇa-prema 'sādhya' kabhu nayaśravaṇādi-śuddha-citte karaye udaya(CC Madhya 22.107)
It is simply awakened. Not that artificially we are imposing some impression to the minds of our students that they a
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(The whole thing is misunderstanding. We, as pure soul, pure consciousness, naturally we are aloof from material contamination) 🙏💖
 
11004667485?profile=RESIZE_710x"The saṅkīrtana just now we have performed, it is vibration of the transcendental sound. This will help us in clearing the dust which we have accumulated on the surface of our mind. The whole thing is misunderstanding.
We, as pure soul, pure consciousness, naturally we are aloof from material contamination. But due to our long association with this material atmosphere, we have accumulated a great, thick layer of dust on the mind. So as soon as the dust is cleared off, then we can see ourself, what we are.
 
So we are discussing for the last few days on the constitutional position of ourself, myself, yourself—the soul, pure soul. Now, we have discussed that this pure soul is distinct from this material body. And we can understand this constitution of the soul by the presence of consciousness."
 
(His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhu
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(So one of the qualification of the spirit soul is sarva-ga. Sarva-ga means he can go anywhere and everywhere. Nārada, because he is free, he has got full spiritual body, he can go anywhere he likes) 🙏💖
 
11004666477?profile=RESIZE_710x"As spirit soul we are free, sarva-ga. We can go everywhere, anywhere. Even those who get some mystic powers by perfection of yoga practice, they can also exhibit some powers. So why? As we become free from material conditions, our original freedom comes.
 
So one of the qualification of the spirit soul is sarva-ga. Sarva-ga means he can go anywhere and everywhere. Nārada, because he is free, he has got full spiritual body, he can go anywhere he likes."
 
(His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Lecture, March 28, 1968, San Francisco)
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(Nobody can count how many living entities are there. Paramāṇu. Just like we cannot count how many paramāṇus or atoms are there within this universe. It is not possible) 🙏💖
 
11003872300?profile=RESIZE_710x"There are unlimited number of living entities, asaṅkhya. The living entities, they are also calculated in the Padma Purāna:
 
keśāgra-śata-bhāgasya
satadhā kalpitasya ca
jčvo bhāgasya vijùeyaḼ
sa anantāya kalpate
(Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣad 5.9)
 
Anantāya: there is no limit. Nobody can count how many living entities are there. Paramāṇu. Just like we cannot count how many paramāṇus or atoms are there within this universe. It is not possible. Similarly, we cannot count.
In the Vedas also it is stated, nityo nityānām cetanaś cetanānām (Kaṭha Upaniṣad 2.2.13). So the nitya, eternal; and cetana means living being. So Kṛṣṇa, or God, He is the chief living being, or the chief eternal, nityo nityānām, and we living entities—innumerable.
 
He is one, but we are many, plural number, nityo nityānām. So one nitya is sin
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(When we surrender to the Adhokᚣaja . . . adhokᚣaja means the supreme transcendence, or Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa's another name is Adhokᚣaja) đŸ™đŸ’–
 
11003871500?profile=RESIZE_584x"ParaḼ means superior, transcendental. Sa vai puᚁsāᚁ paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokᚣaje (SB 1.2.6). When we surrender to the Adhokᚣaja . . . adhokᚣaja means the supreme transcendence, or Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa's another name is Adhokᚣaja. Ahaituky apratihatā.
 
AhaitukÄŤ means without any cause. Without any cause. Not that, "Kṛṣṇa is such and such; therefore I surrender." No. Without any cause. Ahaituky apratihatā: and it cannot be checked. Nobody can check. If you want to surrender to Kṛṣṇa, there is no checking, there is no hindrance.
 
You can do it in any position. You can do it. Ahaituky apratihatā yenātmā suprasÄŤdati. Then you will, Ätmā, your Ätmā, your soul, your mind, your body will be satisfied. This is the process."
 
(His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Lecture, March 27, 1974, Bombay)
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Spiritnet ; Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON online temple has elected Prabhu Gavin Swinden as Temple President and online manager. Tamohara dasa is now a GBC, semiretired. We have two active ritvik priests for purposes of new initiations; Radha Manohara dasa Adhikari, in Uganda, and Tamohara dasa, vanaprastha, in Winnipeg, Canada.11003678500?profile=RESIZE_180x180

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(It is described that Yamuna River is flowing with her waves, but when Kṛṣṇa appears on the bank of the Yamuna, the waves stop to hear Kṛṣṇa's flute) 🙏💖
 
11003184465?profile=RESIZE_710x"In the spiritual world there is no display of inferior energy; there is only that superior energy, cetana, cidya-vat. The spiritual world is therefore called living world. There is no manifestation of this acetana, or inanimate. There are also varieties, as we have got here.
 
There is water, there are trees, there is land. Not nirviśeṣa, not impersonal—everything is there—but they are all made of the superior energy. It is described that Yamuna River is flowing with her waves, but when Kṛṣṇa appears on the bank of the Yamuna, the waves stop to hear Kṛṣṇa's flute.
 
These are the description. When Kṛṣṇa passes through the roads of Vṛndāvana, the fruits and flowers, they offer their obeisances, and Kṛṣṇa understands, and He takes. So this is the position of the spiritual world."
 
(His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Sril
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(We are very teeny, so we think that this Pacific Ocean, the greatest. The frog philosophy. Everyone is thinking that his understanding is the greatest. He has no idea that how greatest God is. We say "God is great," but we do not know how great He is) 🙏💖
 
11002445892?profile=RESIZE_584x"Now, in our idea, because we are very teeny, we can see this Pacific Ocean before us—"the greatest." But even in comparison to the universe, it is not even a drop of water. In comparison to the universe there are millions and trillions of Pacific Oceans floating in the sky.
 
So what is this Pacific Ocean in comparison to the universe? Therefore it is not greatest. But to our idea, we are thinking it is the greatest. This is called relative truth. This is scientifically truth, Professor Einstein's theory, relativity. We think something very great or greatest according to our capacity of understanding.
 
We are very teeny, so we think that this Pacific Ocean, the greatest. The frog philosophy. Everyone is thinking that his unde
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(Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. So Rādhā's name is first. Why? Nobody can be better devotee than Rādhārāṇī. So as soon as Rādhā's name is there, Kṛṣṇa is more pleased) 🙏💖
 
11002443482?profile=RESIZE_710x"Just like we say: "Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa." Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. So Rādhā's name is first. Why? Nobody can be better devotee than Rādhārāṇī. So as soon as Rādhā's name is there, Kṛṣṇa is more pleased. So that is the way. So if we glorify the devotees, the character of the devotees, before the Lord, He's more pleased than to glorify Himself, directly."
 
(His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Lecture, March 24, 1969, Hawaii)
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(And as soon as you are spiritually purified, then all misunderstandings of this material world immediately vanquished. That is called Kṛṣṇa consciousness) 🙏💖
 
11001948869?profile=RESIZE_584x"Exactly like if you take one iron rod, put into the fire, it becomes warmer, warmer, and at last it becomes red hot. When it is red hot, it is no longer iron, it is fire.
Similarly, if you constantly become in touch with the Supreme Lord by chanting His holy name, which is not different from the Supreme Lord, then you become spiritually purified.
And as soon as you are spiritually purified, then all misunderstandings of this material world immediately vanquished. That is called Kṛṣṇa consciousness."
 
(His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Lecture, March 23, 1971, Bombay)
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(So it will increase. You cannot stop Kṛṣṇa's glories. You cannot stop Kṛṣṇa's supremacy. That is not possible) 🙏💖
 
11001891459?profile=RESIZE_710x"So it will increase. You cannot stop Kṛṣṇa's glories. You cannot stop Kṛṣṇa's supremacy. That is not possible. Mattaḥ parataraṁ nānyat kiñcid asti dhanañjaya (BG 7.7).
Therefore it is sure and certain that if you work very sincerely for Kṛṣṇa to spread His message, the message of Bhagavad-gītā, there cannot be any check. It is not possible.
Ahaituky apratihatā (SB 1.2.6). Apratihatā means it cannot be checked by any material condition. You go on with your duty sincerely, there will be no power to check your progress."
 
(His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Lecture, March 23, 1976, Calcutta)
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(That is successful life. At least he is hopeful that he is going to Kṛṣṇa) 🙏💖
 
11001890093?profile=RESIZE_710x"We are proposing successful life. So whatever you do, you just become Kṛṣṇa conscious, and at least he will feel that, "I am . . . my future hope is there. There is Kṛṣṇa." That is successful life. At least he is hopeful that he is going to Kṛṣṇa."
 
(His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Lecture, March 23, 1969, Hawaii)
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(Actually the knowledge terminates when you understand Kṛṣṇa. He is the source of everything) 🙏💖
 
11000829084?profile=RESIZE_710x"So this knowledge means to understand the original source. That is philosophy: find out the original source. That is knowledge. So the vedaiś ca sarvair aham eva vedyo (BG 15.15). Actually the knowledge terminates when you understand Kṛṣṇa. He is the source of everything."
 
(His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Lecture, December 10, 1976, Hyderabad)
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(You have got Kṛṣṇa within your heart. Simply you have to realize it; simply you have to become qualified, bona fide, to speak with Him) 🙏💖
 
11000828497?profile=RESIZE_710x"You have got Kṛṣṇa within your heart. Simply you have to realize it; simply you have to become qualified, bona fide, to speak with Him. That's all. That is the qualification. That requires training. As soon as we are trained up to talk with the Supreme Lord, who is living within my heart, then our life is successful. Kṛṣṇa says:
 
teᚣāᚁ satata-yuktānāᚁ
bhajatāᚁ prčti-pōrvakam
buddhi-yogaᚁ dadāmi taᚁ
(BG 10.10)
 
"I give intelligence to the person who is always engaged in devotional service with love." So Brahmā was educated by Kṛṣṇa through the heart, tene brahma hṛdā ya ādi-kavaye."
 
(His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Lecture, March 21, 1972, Bombay)
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(Lord Jesus Christ also said in one place that, "If we are lost of our soul and if we gain the whole world, then what is the gain?" Actually that is the fact. We are losing ourself) 🙏💖
 
11000293489?profile=RESIZE_584x"Without understanding our relationship with the Supreme Lord, whatever we are creating by our industrialization, economic development or so on, so, it is all defeat, because we are losing the chance. Lord Jesus Christ also said in one place that, "If we are lost of our soul and if we gain the whole world, then what is the gain?"
 
Actually that is the fact. We are losing ourself. Suppose after making huge amass of money, amassing in the bank balance, and if I die and if I take birth in the next life as a cat and dog, then what is the benefit of amassing such a huge amount of bank balance? We should understand this."
 
(His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada Lecture, March 18, 1972, Bombay)
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