Tape Recorder and Heart Recorder
Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Goswami Maharaja Srila Gurudeva:
“I never believed in computers and tape recorders; they can cheat us. I always used my heart.”
Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayana Goswami Maharaja Srila Gurudeva:
“I never believed in computers and tape recorders; they can cheat us. I always used my heart.”
…If you think of yourself as the master who is supporting and nourishing your children, then you cannot renounce—you cannot. But by thinking of them as the servants of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa, you can serve and nourish them in that relationship.
…He accomplished a miracle in his last ten years. In the midst of oceans, in forests and cities, on the tops of mountains and almost everywhere else, his glory is manifest. But I think his real glory is that he has established the same mission that Srila Rupa Gosvami established, which came from the very heart of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Everything he said came from Srila Rupa Gosvami, and his mission would have not existed had he left out Srila Rupa Gosvami.
Devotion has two stages: (1) the stage of practice (sādhana-bhakti) and (2) the stage of perfection (prema-bhakti). Eternally perfect love of God is called prema-bhakti, and it is the living entity’s only eternal religion, or constitutional occupation. This pure love of God, although eternally perfect, remains in the covered state in those…
If there is no bhakti, or even a part of bhakti, ignorance cannot go. To the degree that bhakti manifests, in the same proportion, ignorance, unwanted desires, and anarthas disappear; otherwise they can never go. It is absurd to think, “First I should purify my heart, and then I will chant and remember Krsna.” First the sun should come, and then darkness will go…
You should see by the instance of the creeper. The creeper is lying down on the earth. If there is a tree, or a bamboo or anything to support the creeper, then the creeper will go up, otherwise not. So if the conditioned souls take the help of the lotus feet of Krsna, and the devotees like Lalita, Visakha…
Even though a devotee of Kṛṣṇa may not be born in a brāhmaṇa family or a gosvāmī line, to not refer to him as “Gosvāmī” or “Prabhu” is considered viewing him with mundane vision. Devotees born in gosvāmī lines and those born in any other caste should be treated equally. Regardless of the caste in which a devotee has taken birth, to assign material attributes to him is offensive. But if any person who has made any degree of progress along the path of bhakti considers himself a devotee and begins engaging in material misconduct, he will certainly fall…