In this world a person’s disappearance day is considered somewhat of a bad thing, so why do I call this a sacred day? If anyone dies in this world, there is suffering and lamentation; a feeling of separation. We are also feeling separation today, but actually, today is the day that Srivasa Pandita joined the maha-rasa of Krsna..
Human life should be very peaceful. It is for cultivating spiritual knowledge, not for working hard like hogs and dogs all day just to find some stool…
A devotee should think, “Anyone who serves Gurudeva, even if a dog serves him, I am indebted to him. I will try to serve these servants of my Gurudeva in all respects…”
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…
The brahmana feared, because of what was said in his dream, that his dynasty would be destroyed. He therefore left that deity there, in the forest of Tulasi plants that Saci-devi was maintaining. It was a very big area of Tulasi plants; it was like a jungle…
There is another history, which is in the Brahma-vaivarta Purana. Ganga is a sakhi, a gopi like Lalita, Visakha, Srimati Radhika, Candravali and others like them. One day Sri Krsna was sitting with Ganga-sakhi, and He was engaged in some pleasant talks. In the meantime Srimati Radhika came and saw them, and She thought, “Oh, Krsna is meeting with Ganga-sakhi..?”