When one’s mind is attached to Kṛṣṇa (mayy āsakta-manāḥ), one can fulfill the mission of life in one human birth. If one misses this opportunity, one does not know where he is going, how long he will remain in the cycle of birth and death, and when he will again achieve the human form of life and the chance to return home, back to Godhead. The most intelligent person, therefore, uses every moment of his life to render loving service to the Lord.
Things that are very difficult to do become easy to execute if one somehow or other simply remembers Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. But if one does not remember Him, even easy things become very difficult. To this Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu I offer my respectful obeisances.
We pray that at that time, if any merit remains from our pious activities, we may again take birth in Bhārata-varṣa as human beings able to remember the lotus feet of the Lord. The Lord is so kind that He personally comes to the land of Bhārata-varṣa and expands the good fortune of its people.
Our Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is therefore called kṛṣṇa-bhāvanāmṛta-saṅgha, the association of persons who are simply satisfied in thoughts of Kṛṣṇa. Being absorbed in thoughts of Kṛṣṇa is neither expensive nor troublesome.
Our spiritual master HH Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj says that we are all zeroes. Even if we are not alone and have so many friends and family with us, still we are all zeroes. Zeroes have no value as long as it is not prefixed by 1 in the beginning.
One who desires to advance in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and spiritual understanding must give the utmost importance to brahminical culture and must understand Kṛṣṇa (kṛṣṇāya govindāya). Then his life will be successful.
Although each one of us are saved by mercy of Sri Guru and Srila Prabhupada, most of the time we don't realise their greatness, kindness, nor do we acknowledge it or try to serve with feeling of gratitude. As a result we are unable to do 'kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ'.
Materialistic activities are unnecessary for the soul, and therefore the devotees are freed from such activities. The devotees are situated in liberation (brahma-bhūyāya kalpate), and therefore they cannot be called back to their material homes and materialistic activities.
If one becomes like a mad elephant and commits offenses at the lotus feet of a Vaiṣṇava, his entire spiritual career is halted. One should therefore be very careful not to commit offenses at the lotus feet of a Vaiṣṇava.
We should know in perfect consciousness that human life is bestowed upon the conditioned soul to achieve spiritual success, and the easiest possible procedure to attain this end is to chant the holy name of the Lord.
I am not lying, I left my family and my house, just to increase my devotional service. That is my motive to come to the temple. I was not the inspector general, I just came to increase my devotional service. So my pointed attention is at this point.
Dwarka is a safe place, I don’t blame you and even now it is a safe place. If you want to escape the material world, you come to Dwarka and stay there, don’t bring material world with you.
Devotional service means we have to be active, and this action requires us to be pure, completely pure activity. And this one (envy) is the greatest obstacle in it.
And basically, we are envious of each other, that’s why we are in this body. And we are all suffering because of envious nature. To get rid of envy, many times they question, why should I give up? It is better to be envious of each other. Why should I give up? But unless you get rid of this inebriety from your life, your devotional service would be incomplete.
Unless we come to Prabhupada, this is the greatness of Srila Prabhupada, not we alone, but nobody can avoid Prabhupada. The time is coming very soon, that the world must recognise the greatest living entity, if we can call him living entity. Please, please, please, and we are at his lotus feet, why are we delaying to go to him.
Don’t be miser in pronunciation, should be clear and very magnanimous as I told you. We are approaching the most magnanimous person, so we should be very magnanimous.
Should not expect respect for ourselves. Well, living entities are bound to insult you, so be ready for it. So, if you are ready for the insult you will not feel it. If you are not ready, then you will be angry. So be ready for this.
I don’t know why, but we always try to dump him (father) down. Then we lose the good will. He may not curse us, being his children. He is always very magnanimous, but eventually his heart is troubled, so he may not give blessings you know. This is the thing.
With all the awe and reverence for our elders, we are at ease then. If you don’t have awe and reverence for your own people, then you will always be disturbed. That is the very bad thing we have in our life. And then what happens is that we do so many things, and because there are no blessings, so we are not really very successful. Maybe economically you maybe successful but even then there is something short.
Come what may, fortunately if you have parents, still, please, don’t worry about what they are, but take care of them. pitru mātru samam daivam nāsty iha loke. In this world, on this planet, there is no daiva like pitā and mātā. This we have to resolve once for all
We have fortunately, Prabhupada’s mercy, that just following his instructions, everything is ready made for us, we don’t have to carry another research or anything. Just follow his instructions and our life, human existence will be successful.
Dying man is not interested in any other thing than to chant Krishna’s names. That’s it. Dying man will not be satisfied with millions of dollars, staying in Yugoslavia or India or whatever. He says I am going. Let me finish the job of chanting. And let me go to Krishna. This is , this is the point. And that’s why these things have got to be forsaken like a poison.
When we are overwhelmed with problems in life, we become so very disturbed and our hearts become practically occupied with the problems making us problem conscious instead of Krishna conscious.
Hearing of the holy name gradually promotes one to the stage of hearing about His form, His attributes, His pastimes, and so on, and thus the necessity of the chanting of His glories develops successively. This process is recommended not only for the successful execution of devotional service, but also even for those who are materially attached
Remembering the transcendental pastimes of Lord Krishna, as mentioned in the Vedas and Sastras and discussing it in the group of devotees, is the only way to enter into Krishna's Happy World.
We should be very humble, that is our qualification. Never get proud at all. Pride will throw you away from Krishna. That's why Surdas teaches us how to be humble with Krishna and how to be humble with our relationships also.
Srila Prabhupada has explained the scriptures in such a way that as soon as there is some element, you come to the scriptures and it will go away definitely. This is Krishna’s lotus feet. And scriptures are non different from Krishna. Please remember this. All these factors trouble you, but they will never trouble you, when you go to Krishna. All these things are coming from Krishna.
Unless the body is in working condition, we will not be able to sit here, we will not be able to understand anything. That’s why body must be in a very nice working condition.