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TEXT 43

jñāna-vairāgya-yuktena bhakti-yogena yoginaḥ kṣemāya pāda-mūlaṁ me praviśanty akuto-bhayam

The yogīs, equipped with transcendental knowledge and renunciation and engaged in devotional service for their eternal benefit, take shelter at …

One who wants to be liberated from the entanglement of this material world and go back home, back to Godhead, …

Devotional service is most important because there is danger in every step in this material world. At any moment our …

Knowledge, jñāna, means understanding our relationship with Kṛṣṇa. A wise man asks, “What is my duty to Kṛṣṇa?” Once we …

Material life means sex. People work hard all day in order to have a little sex at night. In the …

In the material world we are struggling for existence with the hope that someday in the future we will be …

If we study the history of the world, we see that it is simply a history of struggle. Mankind attempts …

TEXT 44

etāvān eva loke ’smin puṁsāṁ niḥśreyasodayaḥ tīvreṇa bhakti-yogena mano mayy arpitaṁ sthiram

Therefore persons whose minds are fixed on the Lord engage in the intensive practice of devotional service. That is the …

Here the words mano mayy arpitam, which mean “the mind being fixed on Me,” are significant. One should fix his …

This verse marks the conclusion of bhakti-yoga, as described by Lord Kapiladeva to His mother. Bhakti-yoga is the business of …

sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekaṁ śaraṇaṁ vraja

“Abandon all varieties of religion and just surrender unto Me.” (Bhagavad-gītā 18.66)

We have to renounce all material engagements and accept the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. We are making one plan after …

Prahlāda Mahārāja rendered the best service to his father, Hiraṇyakaśipu, by having him killed by Lord Nṛsiṁha-deva. Superficially it appeared …

The yogī’s real business is to focus his mind on Kṛṣṇa. That is the real yoga system. There are many …

As we have stated before, there are innumerable forms of God – Rāma, Nṛsiṁha, Varāha, Kṛṣṇa, Kapiladeva, Balarāma and so …