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Every service has some attractive feature that drives the servitor progressively on and on. Every one of us within this world is perpetually engaged in some sort of service, and the impetus for Driven by affection for his wife and children, a family man works day and night. A philanthropist works in the same way for love of the greater family, and a nationalist for the cause of his country and countrymen.

Lord Caitanya met the two brothers Dabira Khāsa and Sākara Mallika in a village known as Rāmakeli in the district of Maldah, and after that meeting the brothers decided to retire from government service and join Lord Caitanya. Dabira Khāsa, who was later to become Rūpa Gosvāmī, retired from his post and collected all the money emergency expenditures and personal difficulties.

Bhakti, the Art of Eternal Love was prepared from the introduction and first chapter of Śrīla Prabhupāda Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, called The Nectar of Devotion, along with transcripts of lectures he gave on that book in 1972 and 1973 in Vṛndāvana, Mumbai, and Kolkata.

Those who are cultivating spiritual life and executing devotional service are always engaged in activity Thinking, feeling, and willing are all activities of the mind, and when we will to do something, the , following in the footsteps of the great ācāryas and the personal spiritual master. There are activities of the body, activities of the mind, and activities of speech. In this way one can always think of the activities and pastimes of the Lord.

In this way there is a chain of sinful activities and their concomitant distresses, and the conditioned He is suffering in the present life the results of sinful activities from his past life, and he is meanwhile from some chronic disease, if one is suffering from some legal implication, if one is born in a low and

Mundane workers labor very hard day and night in order to relish a certain kind of rasa that is understood The relish or taste of the mundane rasa does not long endure, and therefore mundane workers are always Material engagement means accepting a particular status for some time and then changing it. This position of changing back and forth is technically known as bhoga-tyāga, which means a position of alternating sense enjoyment and renunciation.

Bhakti involves three things: the lover, the beloved, and the loving relationship. The lover, the individual soul, is eternal; the beloved, the Supreme Soul, is eternal; and the loving

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

That requires a special kind of love, the love between the individual soul and the Supreme Soul, God. So the spiritual love between the individual soul and the Supreme Soul is the most important kind of love we experience is just a reflection of the original loving exchange between the individual soul and And the process for awakening that love is called bhakti-yoga, the art of eternal love.

The Lord has three general energies – namely, the external energy, the internal energy, and the marginal The living entities are called marginal energy, and the material cosmic manifestation is the action of And when they engage in activities under the internal, spiritual energy, their activities are called In other words, energy is a sort of strength, and this strength can be spiritualized by the mercy of both the bona fide spiritual master and Kṛṣṇa.

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

an extremely advanced expert in bhakti-yoga named Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī wrote a handbook on its theory and Fortunately for us, a modern master of the knowledge and techniques of bhakti-yoga, His Divine Grace Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, translated the book into English and began training his students in its

Before he came to America in 1965, Śrīla Prabhupāda lived in a quiet room in the Rādhā-Dāmodara temple, and through his window he could see and draw inspiration from the samādhi of Rūpa Gosvāmī. And in the courtyard, near Rūpa Gosvāmī’s samādhi, he gave for his disciples a series of lectures on

He and his brother Sanātana were then named Dabira Khāsa and Sākara Mallika 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, Dabira Khāsa and Sākara Mallika. 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 Muslim family, and

Love is one of the words we use most and understand least. Some love lasts a few days, some lasts a lifetime, and some lasts forever.

All activities may be divided into two classes: one class may be for achieving a certain goal, and the In Sanskrit, these activities are called pravṛtti and nivṛtti – positive and negative action. For instance, a diseased person has to be cautious and take medicine in order to avoid making his illness

Change is going on perpetually, and we cannot be happy in either state, because of our eternal constitutional Sense gratification does not endure for long, and it is therefore called capala-sukha, or flickering For example, an ordinary family man who works very hard day and night and is successful in giving comforts At death everything is finished, and one has to begin a new chapter of life in a new situation, perhaps

effects described as “almost mature” refer to the distress from which one is suffering at present, and Its beginning, its fruition and results, and how one suffers such results in the form of distress, are some disease, it is often very difficult to ascertain the cause of the disease, where it originated, and And as in the medical field, for precaution’s sake, the doctor injects a vaccination to prevent the growing

given by Rūpa Gosvāmī in his Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, can be summarized thus: his service is favorable and to keep the purity of such Kṛṣṇa conscious activities, one must be freed from all material desires and And “philosophical speculation” refers to the sort of speculation which ultimately arrives at a conclusion speculation, then, must be Kṛṣṇa, with the understanding that Kṛṣṇa is everything, the cause of all causes, and

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 spontaneous eagerness to serve There are twelve kinds of rasas, which are explained in The Nectar of Devotion, and by renovating our relationship with Kṛṣṇa in five primary rasas we can live eternally in full knowledge and bliss.