When there is misery, we tend to spend most of the time meditating on it. Especially in case of praise/condemnation from others, we keep meditating on it and fill our ears with the same topic. We gain nothing out of it.
When a person realizes You, he no longer cares about his good and bad fortune arising from past pious and sinful acts, since it is You alone who control this good and bad fortune.
Krishna is present as Paramatma in everyone's heart. Since Jaya and Vijaya, in this instance failed to see Krishna in the heart of the sages, they ended up offending them.
Running after the sense gratification will not solve our problems. Day in and day out we are discussing these things. But please remember that unless you come to serious sadhana life will not be successful.
But a person free from all attachment and aversion and able to control his senses through regulative principles of freedom can obtain the complete mercy of the Lord
t is indeed most difficult for embodied souls to understand the pastimes of the universal controllers, for such lords bow down to and offer praise to the very living beings they rule.
In spite of the cursing and counter-cursing between the parties of Daksha and Siva, because he is the greatest Vaishnava he was so sober that he did not say anything.
I don't hate computers. But to be slave of computers is greatest misery we have created. So much so, we cannot write a letter by hand. Myself, I like to write a letter by hand. I don't like to write using computers. You write or dictate or type. You write the letter today and letter will be dispatched or posted next month.
Srila Prabhupada toiled and moiled for the whole of 10 or 11 years. Not just 10 or 11. 10 or 11 years was his direct manifestation. He was preparing for the whole of his lifetime.
If a person enjoys a brahmana's property without receiving due permission, that property destroys three generations of his family. But if he takes it by force or gets the government or other outsiders to help him usurp it, then ten generations of his ancestors and ten generations of his descendants are all destroyed.
As long as the subjects follow the king, they are obedient to the king, they will be prosperous. Leader is one and you have to blindly follow the leader.
Anything, that comes in the way of the devotional service, the river is big here. You just throw it into the river. Please, devotional service should be the first preference.
Even a man's brothers, wife, parents and friends united with him in love will immediately break off their affectionate relationships and become enemies over a single coin. For even a small amount of money these relatives and friends become very agitated and their anger is inflamed.
Whatever pure fame is possessed by the famous and whatever praiseworthy qualities are found in the virtuous are destroyed by even a small amount of greed, just as one's attractive physical beauty is ruined by a trace of white leprosy
If you don't go submissively and very sincerely to Bhagavatam, you will not see Him. Otherwise as I told you earlier, if you neglect Bhagavatam, you are neglecting Krishna and so He will also neglect you
If you neglect Bhagavatam class, then Krishna also neglects you and leaves you. Please don't do this. Srila Prabhupada was very clear - Do anything and everything, but don't make this a ritual. It should be a lively with devotional service.
Disparity in human society is due to the lack of principles in a Godless civilisation." You must remember this sentence. You must engrave this sentence in your brains.
The beauty of singing the verses and understanding these verses is that we should be very peaceful in chanting them. Each word should be pronounced very clearly. It is Prabhupada's mercy. He has done such hard work.