Kapila Muni is so merciful that He has given such simple ways for us to practice devotional service and perfect our lives even though we are the most fallen living entities of this most degraded age of kali. Actually this is like a bumper prize for us, which 100% we don't deserve at all. Just like we are so careful to utilize the best available opportunity to earn and save wealth in our life when the market is good, we should also take full advantage of this simple process.
Anyone who takes pride in doing responsible work but does not give credit to the Supreme Lord is certainly falsely proud and cannot execute anything nicely
By offering food to the deity and by decorating and serving the deity, one gets the same result that one derives from serving the Lord personally in Vaikunta
.Maharaj emphasises that material sound vibrations always create disturbance and spiritual sound vibrations are meant to create peace. This is because this sound vibration helps us to revive our dormant consciousness
This is the humility the Lord expects from us and infact, only a devotee who has this humility and willingness to do anything to please the Lord, will become the rightful heir to receive the Lord's mercy.
Sons ought to render service to their father exactly to this extent. One should obey the command of his father or spiritual master with due deference, saying, "Yes, sir."
Maharaj said - "Please study Bhagavatam nicely. Practise it in your life. You should also help others to study and thereby elevate their lives. But we fail to understand the importance of this. We think that we are going to stay here forever. We always feel what we have now is going to be permanently with us.
We are all incapable at every level of our existence. We have to understand our incapability and at the same time realize how magnanimous the Lord is in accepting our meager service although He is served by thousands of Lakshmis in His abode.
One who is not envious but who is a kind friend to all living entities, who does not think himself a proprietor, who is free from false ego and equal both in happiness and distress, who is always satisfied and engaged in devotional service with determination and whose mind and intelligence are in agreement with Me--he is very dear to Me
Krishna is the only supreme truth to whom we can surrender. This is completely stamped. It is decided for us that Krishna is the only one who can give some benediction to us. In the whole of the material and spiritual manifestation, He is the only supreme autocrat. We have to surrender to Him
Due to our strong attachment with material modes, we somehow or the other fail to see or easily overlook our own faults, but never miss out on finding faults of other devotees who are also engaged in the service of the Lord.
Everything animate or inanimate helplessly follows the order of Krishna. This buddhi is visuddha buddhi or purified intelligence. Those who understand this transcendental fact of the full control of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are not stuck anywhere in the material world because in any situation they think that it is under the control of Krishna. If He wants, what can we do? That is how we are completely out of anxiety – out of petty differences. That is the purpose of Bhagavatam- to clear our intelligence.
She also was breathing very heavily, and she did not know the factual remedy for the painful situation. Not finding any remedy, she said to her son: My dear son, don't wish for anything inauspicious for others. Anyone who inflicts pains upon others suffers himself from that pain
Being beyond the range of limited sense perception, You are the eternally irreproachable factor covered by the curtain of deluding energy. You are invisible to the foolish observer, exactly as an actor dressed as a player is not recognized.
We all know the story of Ajamila that although Ajamila was referring to the small child and not to the original Narayana, the name of Narayana is so powerful that even by chanting his son’s name he was becoming purified. Although calling for his son, he was unknowingly chanting the name of Narayana, and the holy name of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is so transcendentally powerful that his chanting was counted and recorded.
Then that supreme authority, personified by sound and unseen by eyes, but most wonderful, stopped speaking. Feeling a sense of gratitude, I offered my obeisances unto Him, bowing my head.
When it is not the mango season, no matter how hard we try, we cannot get mangoes but when it is the season time, even if we do not want mangoes, we will have them.
The highest devotion is attained in slow degrees by the method of constant endeavor for self-realization with the help of scriptural evidence, theistic conduct and perseverance in practice.
Maharaj said that "audience" means there is an active interaction with a living entity and there is love involved in that interaction. So, audience signifies "living and loving".
We belong to the clan of Srila Prabhupada who was completely merciful. saṁsāriṇāṁ karuṇayāha purāṇa-guhyaṁ. (SB 1.2.3) He came out of the country and toiled and moiled so much for delivering us.
As soon as a man is born, he dies at every moment. Thus, death is devouring every living entity at every moment, but the last stroke is called death itself. That death is Krishna.
Krishna is very pleased with you that whatever we are punished, we have accepted it. Krishna says, ‘This is the candidate. He has learnt to be immune to the difficulties. Now I must come to him.’
Silent does not mean that one should not speak; silent means that one should not speak nonsense. One should speak only of essentials, and the most essential speech for the devotee is to speak for the sake of the Supreme Lord.