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Perfection of pure devotional service is attained when all attention is diverted toward the transcendental

words, serving Him with the body, mind, and words) – these nine processes are accepted as pure devotional service

This is bhakti, pure devotional service, for as mentioned by Rūpa Gosvāmī, devotional service should

We should not be like the Māyāvādī philosophers, who try to find God by speculative deduction. “God is not this, and God is not that.” But what God is they do not know. , not that.” As much as they advance, they will always find “Not this, not that.” That is not possible.

Unfortunately, however, we do not know this. We are conducting scientific research, but we do not know that every living entity is a spiritual soul The soul does not die with the annihilation of the body (na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre). But although the soul does not die, it accepts another body, and this is called bhava-roga, the material

Kṛṣṇa’s energy and Kṛṣṇa Himself are not different (śakti-śakti-mator abhedaḥ). As long as the sunshine is present the sun is present, and if the sun were not present the sun’s energy would also not be there. Although the Māyāvādī philosophers do not accept the energetic but only the impersonal energy, we must

Bodily comfort, however, is not enough. Suppose a man is very comfortably situated. Does it mean he will not die? Of course not.

Kuntīdevī, however, was not an inhabitant of Vṛndāvana. It is not necessary to understand Kṛṣṇa and how He creates. Kṛṣṇa explains Himself in Bhagavad-gītā, and we should not try to understand much more. We should not bother very much to know Kṛṣṇa. That is not possible.

Thus the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana do not care who is God and who is not. Those who think of first analyzing Kṛṣṇa to determine whether He is God are not first-class devotees. It is not possible at all. Kṛṣṇa reveals Himself to a certain extent, and that much is sufficient.

They are trying to go to the moon, but actually they do not know what it is. They have been trying for the last twenty years to go there and stay, but they are simply seeing, “Not this, not that. Thus they can report on what is not on the moon, but do they know what is there? No, they do not know. And this is only one planet or one star.

They know what they don’t want, but they do not know what they do want. That they do not know.

God does not die, so I also shall not die. That is my position. Describing the soul, Kṛṣṇa says that the soul is never born (na jāyate), and if one is not born how can

It is not that the living entity takes birth. That which does not take birth does not die; death is meant for that which has been created, and that which is not created has no death. Although we may see that a child is born, actually it is not born. Nityaḥ śāśvato ’yaṁ purāṇaḥ.

child is born, he grows, and his body develops, but if the child is born dead – if the spirit soul is not present – the body will not develop. Therefore the spirit is the basis for the development of matter, and not vice versa. Why does a dead child not grow? Because the spirit is not present. were to fry such a seed in fire and then sow it, it would fail to grow because the spirit soul would not

It is not that they think, “Kṛṣṇa is God, and therefore I love Him.” In Vṛndāvana Kṛṣṇa does not play as God; He plays there as an ordinary cowherd boy, and although at times He proves that He is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the devotees there do not care to know it.

It is not that because we do not stop material duties, we should not stop meat-eating.

well established now that we have our kingdom back, and if You therefore want to leave us, that is not We are not free yet. We are not. And we have no protection other than Your lotus feet. That is our position.” Thus she indirectly says to Kṛṣṇa, “Do not leave us. Don’t think that we are now safe.

Therefore why should we not accept it? If one does not accept this – if one thinks that there is no life after death – one is foolish.

We should not love Kṛṣṇa for some material gain. It is not that we should say, “Kṛṣṇa, give us our daily bread, and then I shall love You.

accept the bodily necessities of eating, sleeping, mating, and defending, although the soul itself does not The soul does not need to eat anything; whatever we eat is for the upkeep of the body. But a civilization that simply looks after these bodily necessities and does not care for the necessities Suppose one merely washes one’s coat but does not take care of one’s body. Or suppose one has a bird in a cage but merely takes care of the cage, not the bird within it.