Search

Now give up [pause] [japa]

[break] Initiation…, initiation does not mean that it is a ceremony and it is finished. No. It is progressing. It …

So at least for one year chanting regularly, observing the rules and regulation, one comes to the platform of spiritual …

And so far men are concerned, they are offered the sacred thread. Not the woman. The idea is woman, every …

So marriage is so much compulsory according to Vedic civilization for woman. Woman’s independence is never allowed by Vedic smṛti. …

Now you will see how much husband takes care of the wife, how much it is obliging. You will see …

So the idea spread here. So many women in this country say that “We are not going to be slave, …

This is also in India. But the śāstra does not allow that. It is not slavery, actually; it is grand …

So this combination, Vedic idea that woman must be under the… They have got three stages of life. First stage …

Even you’ll find in the picture of Rāmacandra and Sītā, Rāmacandra has got sacred thread but Sītā hasn’t got. That …

[Bg. 9.32]

For… From becoming Kṛṣṇa consciousness there is no, I mean to say, deter, anything that can hamper for becoming Kṛṣṇa …

So at the present moment everyone is śūdrā. Then why the sacred thread is offered? No, the sacred thread is …

[Hari-bhakti-vilāsa 2.12]

If you can chemically manipulate the bell metal, then it becomes gold. It is chemical process. Similarly, by this purificatory …

[aside: Try to sit down like that. You have to learn from him. No, your case is different.]

So the whole thing is purificatory process. We are pure soul. Somehow or other we are in contamination of, in …

Similarly, because we are spirit soul, in the material world we are unable to adjust, that…, so we always misadjustment. …

So this is the going-on misconception of life. Majority. “It is folly to be wise when ignorance is bliss.” So, …

My Guru Mahārāja used to say, “If I can deliver one soul from the clutches of māyā, then my whole …