If any problem comes in your life, it means that you have done something wrong in the past, and now the result is coming. Why are you now afraid to taste the result? You must taste it. If you are fearing, if you don’t want the result, still it will take place. You will have to taste all of your bad actions, and this is similarly true regarding your good actions…
Therefore the Gita, which is told by Krsna, gives auspiciousness of the entire universe. Having heard it, people may cross over the ocean of birth and death. Time is short, and therefore I am speaking in brief…
Beholding new sphūrtis everywhere he looks, he exclaims, “Oh, Śrī Kṛṣṇa performed this pastime here.” He then beholds another sphūrti: “And He performed that pastime over there!” In an unbroken chain, Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes are stirred up in his heart…
O Master, Your heart always melts because of Your compassion for the destitute! O Lord of Mathurā, when will I see You again? O beloved Lord of my life, because I am hankering so fervently to see You, my heart has become intensely restless. What shall I do now…?
Once we will be qualified, we will understand. We will read Sri Jiva Gosvami, Sri Rupa Gosvami or Sri Sanatana Gosvami and recognize that everything is there in Srila Bhaktivedanta Svami Maharaja’s books. He has written something for general persons, for beginners. But his real conclusion is this:
I brought you here to touch this place, and to touch the feet of these trees. These trees are exalted devotees. They previously saw the Lord’s pastimes as trees, and now they are performing austerities in this form. One day they will have gopi forms, and at that time they will be able to enter rasa-lila and other such pastimes. This scenery is so beautiful. If anyone has a camera he should take a picture of it…
If you want to preach the Bhagavad-Dharma, first you must be a bhagavat. You may have great taste for speaking and singing, but are you speaking and singing of Hari, or of Maya? Unless you are a Bhagavata yourself, your preaching is not Bhagavad-Dharma or Bhagavata-pracara, it is maya-dharma and maya-pracara…
Mother Yaśodā watched as her naughty child cried bitterly and rubbed His eyes with both His hands. The black ointment from around His eyes mixed with His tears and spread everywhere. Seeing her son with His eyes full of fear at the sight of the stick she was brandishing, Yaśodā took Him by the hand and began to gently reproach Him in order to instil fear in Him…
Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s form is so captivating that even He is astonished when He sees Himself. His beautiful form embodies the topmost limit of exceedingly good fortune and opulence. Indeed, ornaments usually beautify the person wearing them, but Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s form is so beautiful that He actually increases the beauty of His ornaments…