Being Serious After Taking Initiation
Don’t think that just you take initiation and spiritual master will take you back to Godhead. You have to become serious otherwise opportunity of going back to Godhead will be lost.
Don’t think that just you take initiation and spiritual master will take you back to Godhead. You have to become serious otherwise opportunity of going back to Godhead will be lost.
If one can chant and hear Hare Krishna and always remember Lord Krishna, then he is sure to become fearless of death, which may come at any moment.
Nectar of Devotion, Chapter 2,
Srila Prabhupada
Without being self-controlled, without being disciplined and without being fully obedient, no one can become successful in following the instruction of the spiritual master and without doing so, no one is able to go back to Godhead. — Srimad Bhagavatam, 01.05.24.
When we read Srila Prabhupada’s books, we are sitting in His divine presence, hearing & speaking. When we follow what is in the books we get realizations.
When Nityananda accepts us as His, then there is no more sense gratification.
Books are the basis of our movement. Whatever appreaciation we are getting on account of our books, it is because we are following the path chalked out by exalted devotees. We are not writing something whimsical.
Without electricity Computer is dead. Similarly when the soul leaves the body, he is dead.
Dhanur-veda was taught by Dronacharya with all its confidential secrets of throwing and controlling by Vedic hymns. Gross military science is dependent on material weapons.