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Lord Caitanya met the two brothers Dabir Khās and Sākara Mallik in a village known as Rāmakeli in the district of Maldah, and after that meeting the brothers decided to retire from government service and Dabir Khāsa, who was later to become Rūpa Gosvāmī, retired from his post and collected all the money He divided the money in a very exemplary manner, which should be followed by devotees in particular and emergency expenditures and personal difficulties.

Every service has some attractive feature which drives the servitor progressively on and on. Driven by affection for his wife and children, a family man works day and night. of his country and countrymen. of alternating sense enjoyment and renunciation. For example, an ordinary family man who works very hard day and night and is successful in giving comforts

Anyone who knows the science of Kṛṣṇa and is engaged in the service of the Lord is accepted as being That is the original principle accepted by all Vedic literatures, especially the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam The principle of Lord Caitanya’s movement in educating and elevating everyone to the exalted post of

He and his brother Sanātana were then named Dabir Khās and Sākara Mallik respectively, and they held At that time, five hundred years ago, the Hindu society was very rigid, and if a member of the brāhmaṇa That was the position of the two brothers, Dabir Khās and Sākara Mallik. It is the grace of Lord Caitanya that He accepted these two exalted personalities as His disciples and accepted Haridāsa Ṭhākura as His disciple, although Haridāsa happened to be born of a Muhammadan family, and

In the primary stage a child loves his parents, then his brothers and sisters, and as he daily grows This theme is the sum and substance of The Nectar of Devotion, which teaches us how to love Kṛṣṇa in

bhakti-rasa, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness, will immediately bring one to an auspicious life free from anxieties and purified senses are employed in the service of the Lord, one becomes situated in bhakti-rasa life, and gradually, when one is elevated, devotional service becomes automatic and is characterized by spontaneous There are twelve kinds of rasas, as will be explained in this book, and by renovating our relationship with Kṛṣṇa in five primary rasas we can live eternally in full knowledge and bliss.

I beg to offer my sincere thanks to all my friends and disciples who are helping me to push forward the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement in the Western countries, and I beg to acknowledge, with thanks, the contribution

Even an animal like a tiger has this loving propensity at least in a dormant stage, and it is certainly That missing point is Kṛṣṇa, and The Nectar of Devotion teaches us how to stimulate our original love for Kṛṣṇa and how to be situated in that position where we can enjoy our blissful life.

world, having all facilities for material comfort, is producing a class of men completely confused and to such confused men to learn the art of devotional service as directed in The Nectar of Devotion, and thus fulfill all our desires in this life and the next. any way of materialistic life, but the attempt is to give information to religionists, philosophers and Real self-realization and realization of Kṛṣṇa go together simultaneously.

Gosvāmī Prabhupāda elaborated on the teachings of the Lord with profound knowledge of revealed scriptures and were all highly learned scholars, not only in Sanskrit but also in foreign languages such as Persian and Persons engaged in the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement may take advantage of this great literature and be

Rūpa Gosvāmī first met Lord Caitanya at Prayāga (Allahabad, India), and at the Daśāśvamedha bathing ghāṭa

We have failed to create peace and harmony in human society, even by such great attempts as the United The Nectar of Devotion teaches all men how to perform the simple and natural method of loving Kṛṣṇa, If we learn how to love Kṛṣṇa, then it is very easy to immediately and simultaneously love every living pouring water on the root of a tree or supplying foodstuffs to the stomach is universally scientific and

It continues perpetually and is therefore called amṛta, that which does not die but exists eternally. This daiva is explained in the Bhagavad-gītā as the prime cause of everything, and in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam