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(But there are multi-millions and millions of living entities in the vaikuṇṭha-loka, (spiritual world) they never fall down. They are called nitya-siddha.They never come here) 🙏💖
 
10962098263?profile=RESIZE_710x"Nitya-siddha means there are living entities, every living entity is part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa. So one who does not fall down, he is called nitya-siddha. One who does not fall down.
 
Just like in this material world there are millions and millions of living entities, but they have fallen down. But there are multi-millions and millions of living entities in the vaikuṇṭha-loka, they never fall down.
 
They are called nitya-siddha. They never come here. So we have no information. This is only one-fourth manifestation of God's creation, and the three-fourths creation of God is there. Not creation; it is everlasting."
 
(Prabhupada Lecture, February 11, 1976, Mayapur)
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(These godless persons, when they're actually in danger, they think of God. I have seen it. Automatically they think of God. So this godlessness is not our natural life. To love God, that is our natural life) 🙏💖
 
10961616097?profile=RESIZE_710x"But our relationship with God is so permanent that artificially we may try to banish God some way or other—it cannot be. To become atheist, not to believe in God, they're simply artificial.
These godless persons, when they're actually in danger, they think of God. I have seen it. Automatically they think of God. So this godlessness is not our natural life. To love God, that is our natural life."
 
(Prabhupada Lecture, February 10, 1969, Los Angeles)
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(It grows, penetrating through the cover of the universe, reaches the spiritual world) 🙏💖
 
10961614654?profile=RESIZE_584x"It has been described in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta that at the present moment we have to become the gardener and water the bhakti-latā (seed of devotion) creeper.
 
Then it grows. It grows, penetrating through the cover of the universe, reaches the spiritual world. Then it grows still more, and when the creeper catches some shelter, some other big tree . . .
 
similarly, this bhakti-latā creeper goes up and up, and when it catches the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa, then it is satisfied, and the bhakta who nourished this bhakti-latā-bīja, when he goes back to home, back to Godhead, he relishes the
 
fruit grown in that bhakti-latā-bīja."
 
(Prabhupada Lecture, February 10, 1974, Vrindavana)
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(Because self is the basic principle of this body, the soul, so one who is satisfied with his soul, he is called ātmārāma, or self-realized person) 🙏💖
 
10960567069?profile=RESIZE_710x"There is a word ātmārāma, in Sanskrit. Ātmārāma means one who is satisfied with his self. He is called ātmārāma.
Because self is the basic principle of this body, the soul, so one who is satisfied with his soul, he is called ātmārāma, or self-realized person.
One who seeks pleasure externally, he is materialist, and one who seeks pleasure internally, he is spiritualist. That is the difference. Yes."
 
(Prabhupada Lecture, February 8, 1969, Los Angeles)
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(Similarly, everyone will be captured by the laws of nature, but a devotee will be carried with great care to Vaikuṇṭha, and others will be thrown again into this material existence) 🙏💖
 
10960563088?profile=RESIZE_400x"So we should be ready always that this "ka-kara-kaa," this material vibration, this lecturing, this planning, at any moment can be finished. Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. If you are finished, then you go to Vaikuṇṭha immediately. Don't be practicing "ka-kara-kaa."
 
Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa. Even if we are finished . . . we can be finished. We are . . . now modern life is that we are traveling in aeroplane. It can be crashed at any moment. But those who are ka-kara-kaa's, they'll be finished; and they are chanting, they will go to Vaikuṇṭha. Finishing will be there.
 
It is not that because we are Kṛṣṇa conscious we will not be finished. The example is that you'll be captured by the mouth of a cat, but when the cat captures with its mouth, its kitties they feel very good pleasure. And when he captures a rat, oh, it finish
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 "We do not belong to any varṇa and āśrama. But we have to show these rascal. Just like Dhruva Mahārāja. He, he was perfect Vaiṣṇava, but when he was king, he was fighting like anything. Not that "Oh, I am now become Vaiṣṇava. I cannot kill." What is this? He killed like anything. When the Yakṣas attacked his kingdom, he was killing like anything that the Yakṣa-rāja came and asked him to pardon this. He immediately accepted. So he wanted to give him some benediction, that "You are so great that simply on my request, you have stopped killing these rascals, Yakṣas. So you can take some benediction from me." He said, "That's all right. Thank you. You give me the benediction that I may be a pure lover of Kṛṣṇa. That's all." This benediction he asked. Although he was so powerful and the Yakṣa-rāja, he could give him the wealth of the whole universe, but he made that "Thank you very much. You give me this benediction that I may remain a pure devotee of Kṛṣṇa." Thi
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(Everything is dependent. We are dependent. Without light, without air, without rain or water, how we can live? So we are completely dependent, but on account of false prestige, less intelligence, we are thinking that we are free, we can. . . "I am God. I can do anything." This is demonic attitude) 🙏💖
 
10957524100?profile=RESIZE_710x"These asuras, these demons, the rascals, they are simply falsely proud. That's all. They have no possession of pride; still, they are proud. So, that. . . I was speaking about the sun. So Kṛṣṇa has given you the sunlight so that you can see. Kṛṣṇa has given you the nice breeze; therefore you can live; you can breathe.
 
Everything is dependent. We are dependent. Without light, without air, without rain or water, how we can live? So we are completely dependent, but on account of false prestige, less intelligence, we are thinking that we are free, we can. . . "I am God. I can do anything." This is demonic attitude.
 
Completely being dependent, as soon as the death comes, immediatel
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(So, "Anyone who worships My devotee, he renders devotional service better than by worshiping Me direct.") 🙏💖
 
10957522287?profile=RESIZE_584x"They are worshipable, Vaiṣṇava. As God is worshipable, similarly, the Vaiṣṇava, or the God's servant, they are also worshipable. And Kṛṣṇa says, mad bhakta-pūjābhyadhikā (SB 11.19.21).
So, "Anyone who worships My devotee, he renders devotional service better than by worshiping Me direct."
 
(Prabhupada Lecture, February 6, 1971, Gorakhpur)
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(The sun-god, or the sun planet, is the eye of all other planets. Because unless there is sunshine—you may be very proud of your tiny eyes—you cannot see. Therefore real eye is the sun, not your these balls, tiny balls) 🙏💖
 
10957519689?profile=RESIZE_710x"The living entities are maintained by God, and God is the maintainer. That is the difference. Eko yo bahūnāṁ vidadhāti kāmān. We cannot maintain ourself. God maintains. Therefore, according to the Christian principle, they go to the church to beg bread from God.
 
Actually, that is the fact. That is the fact. We are not independent. We are dependent on God in so many things. God has engaged the servant, the sun-god. He's also demigod. He is working under the order of the Supreme Lord. Yasyājñayā bhramati sambhṛta-kāla-cakraḥ.
 
In the Vedic literature we get information of the sun-god on the sun planet, yac-cakṣur eṣa savitā sakala-grahāṇām. The sun-god, or the sun planet, is the eye of all other planets. Because unless there is sunshine—you may be very proud
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(Simply by understanding Kṛṣṇa, you become purified and you escape the contamination of birth, death, old age and disease) 🙏💖
 
10954656888?profile=RESIZE_584x"So the human form is not to become a dog, hog, pig. You should become a perfect human being. Śuddhyet sattva. Purify your existence. Why you are subjected to birth, death, old age and disease? Because we are impure.
Now, if we purify our existence, then there will be no such thing as birth, death, old age and disease. That is the version of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Kṛṣṇa Himself. Simply by understanding Kṛṣṇa, you become purified and you escape the contamination of birth, death, old age and disease."
 
(Prabhupada Lecture, February 5, 1976, Mayapur)
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(They are searching after God. We are giving God: "Here is God. Here is His name. Here is His address. Here is occupation. Here is His father's name, His mother's name." Everything there is) 🙏💖

10954656471?profile=RESIZE_584x"So you can research, make research work throughout the whole life, where is the original source of everything. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. If you not dull, if you are intelligent and if you take the sūtra, this code, janmādy asya yataḥ (SB 1.1.1), the original source of everything. . . That is knowledge, that is philosophy, that is science—to find out the original source. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

So we are not searching after the original consciousness, but we are giving to the people directly that "Here is the original source of everything, Kṛṣṇa. Without your research work, you take it." That is our mission. They are searching after God. We are giving God: "Here is God. Here is His name. Here is His address. Here is occupation. Here is His father's name, His mother's name." Everything th

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(Our fighting weapon is Hare Kṛṣṇa movement. That's all. Sāṅgopāṅgāstra-pārṣadam (BG 9.14). Astra. That astra is yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana, this saṅkīrtana, this astra weapon. They're now afraid of this astra more than atomic weapon. Is it not?") 🙏💖
 
10953729677?profile=RESIZE_710xNanda-kumāra: "The outcome of the battle is already decided. Just like in Bhagavad-gītā, we've already won. We just have to keep . . . keep fighting."
 
Prabhupāda: "They are now feeling the pressure of the opposite party. So . . . fight is fight. When there is fight, my Guru Mahārāja used to say: "Some of our soldiers will die. It doesn't matter." You don't expect that not a single soldier of your party will not die. No, some of them will die. Still, fight must go on. Fight cannot be stopped. So fight like brave soldiers, Kṛṣṇa will help you. Don't make any compromise. No truce with these demons. Fight must be. Our fighting weapon is Hare Kṛṣṇa movement. That's all. Sāṅgopāṅgāstra-pārṣadam (BG 9.14). Astra. That astra is yajñaiḥ saṅkīrtana, this 
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(This is fact. When there is Hare Kṛṣṇa chanting, these ghostly, demonic living entities, they'll not be able to stay there. They'll go away) 🙏💖
 
10953726652?profile=RESIZE_710x"It is practically experienced, I know that the ghost, if you go in a house ghostly-haunted, if you chant Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra they'll go away. They cannot tolerate. In my life there was several incidences like that. In my household life, I was doing business in Lucknow.
 
So there was one house, very big house, worth thousands of rupees' rent, but it was ghostly haunted. So nobody would take that house. I took it at two hundred rupees, (laughter) and very big house. And I was. . . All the servants, they complained, "Sir, there is ghost."
 
So I was chanting. He was living in several spots, especially on the gate side. So I could understand. But I would chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, and I was saved. Everyone was saved. There was. . . And, say, in 1969 I was guest in the house of John Lennon in London. So there was a ghost in. . . It was a big plot.
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(There are two kinds of people all over the universe. There is asuraloka and devaloka, planet. So devāsura fight, that is going on perpetually, daiva and asura, divine nature and demonic nature) 🙏💖
 
10953722859?profile=RESIZE_710x"There are two kinds of people all over the universe. There is asuraloka and devaloka, planet. So devāsura fight, that is going on perpetually, daiva and asura, divine nature and demonic nature.
There are many people, they do not like us because we are preaching God consciousness.
 
This is our fault. Even in our country, in India, the government do not like us, because nowadays, everywhere practically, the demonic people being very much increased, the government is also demonic. So they do not like people in divine nature.
 
They will tolerate all kinds of noise—barking of the dogs, the motorcar passing, the aeroplane on overhead—but as soon as there is kīrtana (chanting), they're disturbed. They'll tolerate so many different types of noise, but they'll not tolerate kīrtana."
 
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(He is within this universe. He is within your heart, within my heart. He is within everything. "Everything" means even within the atom, paramāṇu) 🙏💖
 
10953169260?profile=RESIZE_710x"So similarly, Kṛṣṇa is present in everyone's heart, localized. This is impersonal expansion. Just like sunshine is impersonal expansion of the sun rays, so similarly, Brahman effulgence is the impersonal expansion of Kṛṣṇa's bodily rays. And the portion by which He is present everywhere, aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-stham. . . .
 
He is within this universe. He is within your heart, within my heart. He is within everything. "Everything" means even within the atom, paramāṇu. That is His Paramātmā feature. And the last and ultimate feature is Kṛṣṇa's personal body, sac-cid-ānanda-vigrahaḥ."
 
(Prabhupada Lecture, February 2, 1975, Honolulu)
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(So how it will be possible to become free and again fly unless he's taken and washed all these dirty things? Then he can fly. Freedom) 🙏💖
 
10951994691?profile=RESIZE_710xSvarūpa Dāmodara: "That's the basic point that I was driving at, that we shouldn't be too much entangled in this material . . ."
 
Prabhupāda: "They must be entangled. They are trying in the false way, wrong way. He is suffering on account of being placed in this material atmosphere, and he's trying to adjust things with this material . . . that means he's becoming more and more entangled.
 
Sometimes we have seen a fly falls down in the bee honey and he becomes entangled. So how it will be possible to become free and again fly unless he's taken and washed all these dirty things? Then he can fly. Freedom. And so long he'll try to adjust things in the prakṛti-sthāni (material atmosphere), that is nonsense, all nonsense."
 
(Prabhupada Conversation, January 31, 1977, Bhuvanesvara)
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(But at heart we have got a tendency to think like that, that "How I can avoid these rules and regulation?" That tendency's there. That is possible when you are liberated) 🙏💖
 
10951390685?profile=RESIZE_584x"You cannot avoid the rules and regulation of your birth; you cannot avoid the rules and regulation of your death; you cannot avoid the rules and regulation of falling sick; you cannot avoid the rules and regulation of your becoming old. You have to follow.
 
But at heart we have got a tendency to think like that, that "How I can avoid these rules and regulation?" That tendency's there. That is possible when you are liberated. So long you are under the rules and regulation of the material nature, you cannot avoid.
 
But when you're liberated from the clutches of māyā, then you can avoid. That is our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement: how to become liberated from these rules and regulation."
 
(Prabhupada Conversation, January 30, 1974, Tokyo)
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Krsna Is Within The Palms Of A Devotee

(For a devotee, Kṛṣṇa is within the palms of a devotee. Ajita, jito 'py asau. Although Kṛṣṇa is not conquerable, but He likes to be conquered by His devotee. That is the position) 🙏💖
 
"In this way, Kṛṣṇa becomes practically dependent on the devotees. Kṛṣṇa is the master, controller of everything, but to the pure devotee He becomes dependent. So why the pure devotee will ask for anything else? Adurlabham ātma-bhaktau. For a devotee, Kṛṣṇa is within the palms of a devotee.
 
Ajita, jito 'py asau. Although Kṛṣṇa is not conquerable, but He likes to be conquered by His devotee. That is the position. Just like He willingly placed Himself to be conquered by Mother Yaśodā, to be conquered by Rādhārāṇī, to be conquered by His friends. Kṛṣṇa became defeated, and He has to take His friend on the shoulder."
 
10951388457?profile=RESIZE_710x(Prabhupada Lecture, January 30, 1973, Calcutta)
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(But we can again revive our brightness and shine with the Supreme Person) 🙏💖
 
10950478075?profile=RESIZE_400x"But we can again revive our brightness and shine with the Supreme Person. As the sun and the sunshine, they are together shining, there is light, similarly, when we are again posted in our own constitutional position, and Kṛṣṇa is like the sun and we are shining particles, then our life is successful.
 
That is wanted. Therefore Kṛṣṇa comes, the puruṣottama, to take us back. "Why you are now covered, your shining is stopped? You are morose. You are suffering threefold miserable condition of material existence. Why you are rotting here?"
 
Sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja (BG 18.66). Kṛṣṇa comes Himself. He is within everyone's heart. He's instructing. He is ready to instruct, but He'll only instruct to such persons who have engaged themselves in devotional service."
 
(Prabhupada Lecture, January 28, 1974, Honolulu)
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