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We may have a neighbor who is very wealthy, influential, wise, strong and beautiful, and we may speculate Our imagination is limited, and our senses are imperfect. We simply have to become very humble and submissive and pray to Kṛṣṇa sincerely, “Kṛṣṇa, it is not possible Kindly explain how it is I can know You, and then it will be possible.”

He then began to cry, and finally Kṛṣṇa came. “I am very poor, and what can I promise my teacher?” The little boy was very satisfied with this, and the next day he went to his teacher and said, “I will Kṛṣṇa appeared and gave him a quart of yogurt. The teacher looked at the quart and said, “What is this?

Caitanya Mahāprabhu returned from South India with a copy of Brahma-saṁhitā, He gave it to His disciples and told them that it was a summary of the Vedānta and the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. In each universe there is a Brahmā, a supervisor, who is the supreme creature and manager. When He exhales, all the universes are created, and when He inhales, they all return into His body. In this way so many universes and Brahmās are coming and going.

There are five kinds of mukti, liberation, and one is sārṣṭi. In the Vaikuṇṭha planets, everyone is four-handed like Nārāyaṇa, and everyone is equally opulent. In Goloka Vṛndāvana, Kṛṣṇa and the cowherd boys are equally opulent.

We want to enjoy this material world with its wealth and possessions. As long as we are after material possessions, we cannot transcend the cycle of birth and death. However, we have to give all this up and take shelter of Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Kṛṣṇa is present in His original form, and He is described in Vedic literatures. We can also get a body like a demigod’s and go to the heavenly planets.

Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Rūpa Gosvāmī in his Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu, Nārada Muni in the Nārada Pañcarātra and Generally, people want dharma, artha, kāma and mokṣa, in that order. People want material opulence in order to gratify their senses (kāma), and when they are frustrated in In this way, dharma, artha, kāma and mokṣa are going on. and takes care of him.

Because we have forgotten Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa has given us all these Vedas and Purāṇas. In this Kali-yuga, people are forgetting Kṛṣṇa more and more. He is anxious because his boy has left home and is suffering. Similarly, Kṛṣṇa’s son leaves the spiritual sky and takes up one material body after another and in this

This is the process of karma-kāṇḍīya, and people perform yajñas and pious activities in order to be elevated able to enjoy himself more, have a longer life span, more opulence, more beautiful women, nice gardens and highest planet in the material world down to the lowest, all are places of misery wherein repeated birth and

One can take everything, and yet the same will remain. One plus one equals one, and one minus one equals one. There are no cheaters and cheated in such a relationship. We may love our son with our heart and soul, but that very son may some day be our enemy. Our enthusiasm will increase more and more.

We are part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa, but somehow or other we have forgotten this.

Arjuna accepted Kṛṣṇa as his friend, and Kṛṣṇa was his best friend. Similarly, Parīkṣit Mahārāja simply heard about Kṛṣṇa and developed love. The living entity gets into the body just as a person gets into a car, and he goes this way and that. This is the process of birth and death. We drive one car for a while, and the car is finally broken, or it is smashed.

We are all nityas, eternal, and Kṛṣṇa guides and plays with us. In the spiritual world, Kṛṣṇa and His devotees are friends, and they play together as cowherd boys. Kṛṣṇa comes before such atheists as death and takes everything away – all power, opulence, money – everything The theists worship God while they are living, and their only business in this life is serving God. After death, they render the same service; thus there is no difference between Vaikuṇṭha and a temple

In the śāstras it is said that the forest is characterized by sattva-guṇa, goodness, and the city is rajo-guṇa, passion, because in the city there is a great deal of illicit sex, intoxication, gambling and Formerly, when people were aspiring for spiritual realization, they left the cities and went to the forests Before taking sannyāsa, a man would leave his family and go to the forest to begin practicing austerities

infallible, without beginning, although expanded into unlimited forms, still the same original, the oldest, and (Brahma-saṁhitā 5.33) Kṛṣṇa has many millions of expansions, and He is also situated in everyone’s heart He is not only within human beings but within animals, trees, plants, aquatics and so forth.

, if anyone worships Him with unflinching faith, one has automatically achieved all other opulences and The Lord promises herein that He takes His devotee to the other side of birth and death. Lord Caitanya, therefore, recommended that one who aspires to go beyond birth and death should have no

The devotees accept the Supreme Lord as the most dear personality and reciprocate with Him in different It is clearly confirmed herein that the relationships cannot be destroyed, and therefore the opulences Personality of Godhead as our dearmost object – as a friend, as a son, as a preceptor or as a well-wisher – and there will be no cheating and no end to such love. Bhagavad-gītā is spoken directly by the Supreme Lord, and Arjuna accepted Kṛṣṇa as his guru, or spiritual

How liberation is imperceptibly achieved by a pure devotee and what the symptoms are have been explained if he is in the mode of passion, he will remain here in a society where activity is very prominent, and Considering his past life and his mischievous activities, he thinks that he is fit to be sent to the A devotee always prays, “For my misdeeds, may I be born again and again, but my only prayer is that I The devotee has such mental strength, and he prays to the Lord: “May I be born again and again, but let

He will always give His friendly advice and protection to the devotee. Here we may have a very loving son or child, but the father and mother, or those who are affectionate In Bengal there are many such instances, and even after the death of the devotee, the Deity performs worship only the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His different forms such as Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇa, Sītā-Rāma and elevate himself to the higher planets, but during the dissolution of the material world, the deity and

Formerly there were no presses to print these literatures, and these important Vedic writings were written These literatures were not very cheap, and only highly qualified brāhmaṇas were able to keep them. One should not consider Bhagavad-gītā or Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam to be ordinary books, and one should take

Thus even though one is promoted to the higher planetary system for enjoyment and a long duration of But as far as the devotees are concerned, their assets – the achievement of devotional service and the is called śānta-rūpa because it is in the mode of pure goodness, undisturbed by the modes of passion and in the devotional service of the Lord, his position of transcendental service cannot be destroyed, and the pleasure and service simply increase unlimitedly.