We are now here in their temple. They should save us and give us shelter so that we can preach Sanatana-dharma in the line of Guru Nanak – teaching that Krsna and Rama are the Supreme Personality of Godhead. By chanting and remembering the Supreme Lord we can be happy, otherwise we can never be so. This is the mission of our Sanatana Vedic dharma, of Guru Nanak, and of Arjuna Singh and his guru-parampara up to the present time…
If you are strong during my visit here, you will be strong forever. Even if you are alone, you will be very strong and qualified to teach others. How can a lazy man, a person who is not doing bhajana, help others? So think of this as a training period, and do not miss any of the devotional programs or functions…
Without knowing the real meaning, what we feel and read is the wrong reading of the environment – it is maya. We miss the universal purpose, and from local interest we read, “Oh, this is for this purpose, this is for that purpose.” But this is local interest. What we conceive, feel, trust and believe, is not in consonance with the universal reading..
No one can deny this. If we cannot deny Sukadeva Gosvami, Sanatana Gosvami, Rupa Gosvami, Vyasadeva, Ramanuja, and Madhvacarya, then we cannot deny Srila Prabhupada Bhaktsiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. Srila Prabhupada was so bold. He was jagad-guru. Following in the line of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, he brought about revolutionary transformation in the Gaudiya Vaisnava Sampradaya and restored its lost dignity…
[Devotee:] My mother recently died, in September. I was not able to place Tulasi leaves in her mouth, but I did hold a ceremony, and we read passages from the third and sixth cantos of Srimad Bhagavatam. I surrounded her dead body with Tulasi leaves. I didn’t put the leaves in her mouth just…
In recent times, the original explanation of slokas like this have been discarded, and other, different explanations are now given instead. According to the new explanations, those who make them claim that “One should only take shelter of our Gurudeva, or of someone else who comes from our group. One should never go to anyone outside of our group. It doesn’t matter who they are…
Try not to do any worldly activities on Ekadasi. We should utilize at least one day in two weeks to be closer to Sri Sri Radha and Krsna, and in that way you will not lose your bhakti. Your bhakti will certainly increase by Their association, and therefore Krsna has arranged this opportunity – He Himself has become Ekadasi. In the form of Ekadasi, He invites us: “Today you should give your eleven senses to Me.” This is a very good thing – Krsna has become Ekadasi – so we should try to observe it…
I want a revolution like this: we should come to the real path, in the real sense. Krsna will arrange for someone to come after me; and after that anyone else will come, and this will not be ruined. The world will be ruined, but this line is eternal. Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has said that this line is eternal…
Previously, all bhavas up to vatsalya (parental love) had been given, but not madhurya, and especially not manjari-bhava. Caitanya Mahaprabhu distributed manjari-bhava to the fortunate jivas, and for ordinary people He gave harinama sankirtana and the knowledge that we are all eternal servants of Krsna…