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“If one offers Me with love and devotion a leaf, a flower, fruit or water, I will accept it.”

The point is that we should offer something to Kṛṣṇa with devotion. It is not that Kṛṣṇa is hungry and …

vairāgya-vidyā-nija-bhakti-yoga- śikṣārtham ekaḥ puruṣaḥ purāṇaḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya-śarīra-dhari kṛpāmbudhir yas tam ahaṁ prapadye

“Let me take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who has descended in the form of Lord …

When a person advances in bhakti-yoga, he will automatically become detached from material attractions. There are many American and European …

ye hi saṁsparśa-jā bhogā duḥkha-yonaya eva te ādy-antavantaḥ kaunteya na teṣu ramate budhaḥ

“An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with the material …

Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura says, anādi karama-phale, paḍi’ bhavārṇava-jale, taribāre nā dekhi upāya. If we are thrown into the ocean, there is …

We may be a Hindu or a Muslim or a Christian for fifty or sixty years, or at the utmost …

TEXT 12

maitreya uvāca iti sva-mātur niravadyam īpsitaṁ niśamya puṁsām apavarga-vardhanam dhiyābhinandyātmavatāṁ satāṁ gatir babhāṣa īṣat-smita-śobhitānanaḥ

After hearing of His mother’s uncontaminated desire for transcendental realization, the Lord thanked her within Himself for her questions, and …

Devahūti has surrendered her confession of material entanglement and her desire to gain release. Her questions to Lord Kapila are …

Those who are sat are thus transcendentalists advanced in spiritual life, and when they hear questions from those who want …

There is, however, another kind of kathā – kṛṣṇa-kathā. There are literatures which may be nicely presented from the literary …

na yad vacaś citra-padaṁ harer yaśo jagat-pavitraṁ pragṛṇīta karhicit tad vāyasaṁ tīrtham uśanti mānasā na yatra haṁsā niramanty uśik-kṣayāḥ

“Those words which do not describe the glories of the Lord, who alone can sanctify the atmosphere of the whole …

Worldly literatures are like places where crows take pleasure. In the bird society, there are crows and swans, and crows …

atha me deva sammoham apākraṣṭuṁ tvam arhasi yo ’vagraho ’haṁ mametīty etasmin yojitas tvayā

“Now be pleased, my Lord, to dispel my great delusion. Due to my feeling of false ego, I have been …