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But nothing will make us happy unless we come to our real position, which is that we are all parts and parcels of God and that our real business is to associate with God and help all living entities by cooperating So if we don’t take advantage of this civilized human life to understand who God is, who we are, and what our relationship is, but instead simply waste our life like cats and dogs, going here and there meant to teach people how to take full advantage of the human form of life by trying to understand God and

Nowadays it has become a fashion that any man can come and say that he is God or an incarnation of God , and some fools and rascals will accept it: “Oh, he is God.” For each avatāra there is a description in the Vedas: He will appear at such and such a place, in such and such a form, and He will act like this.

Śrīla Prabhupāda: Yes, the whole process is meant to purify us, and eating is part of that purification I think you have a saying, “You are what you eat,” and that’s a fact. Our bodily constitution and mental atmosphere are determined according to how and what we eat. If a tuberculosis patient eats something and you eat the remnants, you will be infected with tuberculosis

Actually there are only three words: Hare, Kṛṣṇa, and Rāma. But they are very nicely arranged for chanting so that everyone can take the mantra and chant Hare Kṛṣṇa They are chanting very gladly, and they are getting the results. What is the difficulty? We are distributing this chanting free of charge, and it is very simple. And Kṛṣṇa is easily understood simply by chanting this mantra, Hare Kṛṣṇa.

Faill: You mean things like meat, alcohol, and tobacco just reinforce bodily consciousness?

So when men want to satisfy their senses, they become mad, and in this madness they’ll do anything and example, there have been many instances in material life where someone has become mad after something and We are mad, and therefore our minds are fully absorbed in karma. This is very unfortunate, because our body, although temporary, is the reservoir of all misfortunes and They do not know the real value of life, and therefore they are neglecting the most valuable form of

The Supersoul, being seated in everyone’s heart, can witness everyone’s activities, past, present, and In the Upaniṣads the Supersoul is said to be sitting with the individual soul as a friend and witness But He instructs His friend, so that he may ultimately give up all other engagements and simply surrender unto God for perpetual bliss and eternal life, full of knowledge. This is the last instruction of the Bhagavad-gītā, the most authorized and widely read book on all forms

A spiritual body is a body that is free from death, birth, disease, and old age. It is an eternal body, full of knowledge and bliss. If we want a tiger’s body, with tigerlike strength and teeth with which to capture animals and suck fresh And if we want the body of a saintly person, a devotee engaged only in the service of the Lord, then

These three words, namely Hare, Kṛṣṇa, and Rāma, are the transcendental seeds of the mahā-mantra. The chanting is a spiritual call for the Lord and His energy to give protection to the conditioned soul Mother Harā helps the devotee achieve the Lord Father’s grace, and the Lord reveals Himself to the devotee

There is much evidence in Vedic literature that Caitanya Mahāprabhu is an incarnation of Kṛṣṇa, and this is confirmed by scholars and devotees. And in this age His bodily complexion will not be blackish. it may be white, it may be red, or it may be yellow, because these four colors – white, red, yellow, and Therefore, since the red, white, and blackish colors were already taken by former incarnations, the remaining

To work very hard and satisfy oneself by sense gratification is the business of hogs, not human beings Especially in India, so many great sages, so many great kings, and so many brahmacārīs and sannyāsīs Lord Buddha was a prince who gave up everything and engaged himself in tapasya. This is life. name India was named Bhārata-varṣa, was twenty-four years old, he gave up his kingdom, his young wife, and young children and went away for tapasya.

Both the fire and the spark are fire, but one is big and the other is very small. Unlike the relationship between the spark and the fire, however, our relationship with God is eternal This is the sum and substance of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. are different processes of self-realization, but in the present age of Kali, people are very fallen, and Actually we are not our bodies but spiritual sparks, parts and parcels of God.

And who worships Him? The process is very simple. Caitanya is in the middle, accompanied by His principal associates – Nityānanda, Advaita, Gadādhara, and Anyone can have this picture in his home, chant this Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, and thus worship Lord Caitanya Without much bother, if one simply keeps a picture of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu at home and chants Hare Anyone, anywhere, can sit down on the road or beneath a tree and chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra and worship

In this age of Kali the duration of life is diminished, and men are not moved to understand self-realization , and if they are, they are invariably misled by so many deceitful leaders. Therefore Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s process of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa is the best and the simplest method.

eat anything because He is God, but in the Bhagavad-gītā [9.26] He says, “If one offers Me with love and He never says, “Give Me meat and wine.”

Śikṣā means “instruction,” and aṣṭaka means “eight.” He has given us eight verses to help us understand this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement, and I shall explain Our students can chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra twenty-four hours a day, and they will never get tired. They will continue to dance and chant. And anyone can try it; because it is not material, one will never get tired of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa.

The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam says that as long as there is no self-realization, we have so many duties and debts There are demigods controlling the sun, the moon, and the air. departments, so for the heating department there is the sun-god, for the air department there is Vāyu, and Also, there are great sages and philosophers who have given us knowledge, and we are indebted to them And Kṛṣṇa says, “If one takes shelter of Me, then he doesn’t have to take shelter of anyone else.”

To stop the repetition of birth and death in different forms of life, we must transcend the covering of material nature and come to the platform of pure consciousness. But if out of ignorance we commit sinful activities and violate nature’s laws, then we will be degraded must take advantage of the rare opportunity of human life by understanding his relationship with God and Then he can get out of the cycle of birth and death in different forms of life and go back home, back

There Kṛṣṇa says, “Whenever I appear, My mission is to deliver the pious devotees and to annihilate the If we see a picture of Viṣṇu we will notice that He has a conchshell, lotus flower, club, and disc. Within this world there are two classes of men – the demons and the devotees. Those who are devotees are called godly persons, and those who are nondevotees, atheists, are called So Kṛṣṇa, or God, comes with two missions: to give protection to the devotees and to destroy the demons

In the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam there is a list of the avatāras, and there is mention of Lord Buddha’s name. This Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam was written five thousand years ago, and it mentions different names for future It says that in the future the Lord would appear as Lord Buddha, his mother’s name would be Añjanā, and So Buddha appeared twenty-six hundred years ago, and the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which was written five thousand Similarly, there is mention of Lord Caitanya, and similarly the last avatāra of this Kali-yuga is also