Chanting vs. Meetings
This chanting should go on. Instead of meetings, resolutions, dissolutions, revolutions and then no solutions, there should be chanting. – Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
This chanting should go on. Instead of meetings, resolutions, dissolutions, revolutions and then no solutions, there should be chanting. – Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
“Acharya means one who knows shastra. He will not speak anything which is not in the shastra. He will never say, “In my opinion you can do like this.” No. He must give evidence from the shastra. Therefore our practice is, whenever we speak something, immediately we quote from authoritative shastra…”
One can become perfectly successful in the mission of his life if he acts exactly according to the words he hears from the mouth of his spiritual master.” This acceptance of the words of the spiritual master is called srauta-vakya…
If at the beginning of every year, every month, every day and every moment, I do not remember my gurudeva, who saves me from absorption in that which has no connection to my constitutional nature or are separate from kṛṣṇa-bhakti, then I will definitely fall into greater and greater difficulty…
Ekadasi-devi proclaims, “I will help the conditioned souls remain unaffected by any form of sin that may trouble them. I am ready to fight. No sin will dare torment those who have taken shelter of me. I will cleanse and purify the souls of all sins. I will defeat any form of sin that will try to enter the bhakta’s hearts. I will give the bhaktas ekadasa-bhava and siddha-pranali. I will give the souls the tendency to serve God. From early morning to evening, I will help the souls engage…