If that greed is not coming, then their life is bogus. They should go to the Ramanuja, Sri sampradaya or any other sampradaya. This is the speciality of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, that He has not come to give only vaidhi-bhakti. He came to give and sow a seed in the heart of devotees. What seed? Krsna-seva-vasana, the desire to serve Radha-Krsna conjugal…
When they offer something to Radha-Krsna, they think that they are not offering it to Mahaprabhu, and when they offer it to Mahaprabhu, they cannot believe that they are giving it to Radha-Krsna. Bhaktivinoda Thakura is saying, “In confusion—let them do so.” Or here, Gopala Guru Gosvami is saying to Vijaya Kumara, “Let them do so, but you should not follow all these things.”…
Who is Krsna? You will only have to remember that He is simply Yasoda-nandana. He doesn’t have any of this opulence. There is no need for arguments to establish that Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and that He is the God of gods, sarvesvari. You don’t need to know anything like this. Only remember that He is Yasoda-nandana, Gopi-kanta, Radha-kanta…
You can pray only. At your stage, you cannot judge whether anyone is a bona-fide Guru or not because you don’t have all this knowledge. So anyone cannot judge whether he is a qualified Guru or not. Anyone cannot understand, cannot judge. But Krsna can help. You can only pray honestly that, “O Krsna, help me. I cannot recognize who is a bona-
fide Guru or not, but I want to serve You, so help me.” Hearing the prayers of a true, sincere devotee like this, Krsna Himself comes or He sends any good devotee like a Vaisnava acarya to help any sincere devotees…
Srila Gurudeva: I am advising you to follow a very sincere devotee like Sanatana Gosvami. How did he become happy? He was prime minister at that time, but he left this and took shelter at the lotus feet of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. I am going to describe something about his life and precepts. At that time he was the prime minister of a king. We should know that by our own efforts, by our own activities, we cannot do anything if there is no mercy from the Supreme Personality of Godhead or His associates. Sanatana Gosvami was the eldest of three brothers. The three brothers were all engaged in the service of Hussain Shah, the Muslim king in India. But they wanted to have devotion for the Supreme Personality of Godhead…
Rupa Gosvami actually fulfilled the inner desires of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. How? By writing Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu. If he had only done Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu though, he could not have fulfilled the mano-bhista of Caitanya Mahaprabhu…
CATURTHA-YĀMA-SĀDHANA Madhyāhna-kālīya-bhajana ~ ruci-bhajana ~ second prahara until three-and-a-half praharas (approximately 11:00 a.m. — 3:30 p.m.) TEXT 1 A nāma-sādhaka has no desire other than unadulterated devotional service to Kṛṣṇa (ahaitukī-kṛṣṇa-bhakti). The fourth verse of Śikṣāṣṭaka states: na dhanaṁ na janaṁ na sundarīṁ kavitāṁ vā jagadīśa kāmaye mama janmani janmanīśvare bhavatād bhaktir ahaitukī tvayi O…
What is the glory of Navadvīpa? “I pray to all the living entities of Vṛndāvana, including the grass, bushes, insects and birds.” This verse is also applicable to Navadvīpa-dhāma. Every living entity here, every tree and creeper, is sat-cit-ānanda, made of eternity, full of knowledge and bliss, and they assist the Lord’s pastimes…
Note down these principles in your heart and on your paper, and, when needed, you can boldly say, “This is our philosophy.” Svayaṁ Bhagavān Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has given instructions on ten types of tattva to the faithful jīvas. Of these, the first is the principle of evidence (pramāṇa-tattva), and the remaining nine are prameya-tattva the subject which is established by pramāṇa-tattva. The teachings of the Vedas received through Guru-paramparā are known as āmnāya…