Person With Impure Vision
Only one with impure vision considers Krishna to be impure.
Lecture on "Understanding Krishna through Bhagavad Gita" – Salem – 8th Nov'06
Only one with impure vision considers Krishna to be impure.
Lecture on "Understanding Krishna through Bhagavad Gita" – Salem – 8th Nov'06
Real intelligence is to see that for all our attempts to manipulate the material world we have to suffer.
Lecture on “Overcoming the IIT disadvantage” delivered at IIT Chennai on 19th Nov 2006
To manage a sankirtana party nicely is more precious than all other activities. That is the verdict of Bhagavad-gita and the mission of Lord Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
Letter to Tamala Krsna – Bombay 13 November, 1975.
Religious fighting is due to ignorance of who the Supreme person is and what He expects.
Lecture on “Overcoming the IIT disadvantage” delivered at IIT Chennai on 19th Nov 2006
One achieves bhakti [love of God] by hearing and chanting about the Supreme Lord's special qualities, even while engaged in the ordinary activities of life in this world.
One who has not listened to the messages about the prowess and marvelous acts of the Personality of Godhead and has not sung or chanted loudly the worthy songs about the Lord is to be considered to possess earholes like the holes of snakes and a tongue like the tongue of a frog.
Through the popularizing of hari-kirtana, or the sankirtana movement, the brahminical culture and ksatriya government will automatically come back, and people will be extremely happy.
Purport on Srimad Bhagavatam 7.2.11
Those who are actually advanced in knowledge are able to appreciate the essential value of this age of Kali. Such enlightened persons worship Kali-yuga because in this fallen age all perfection of life can easily be achieved by the performance of sankirtana, the congregational chanting of the Lord's holy names.
If someone is shaving with a straight edge razor and they are a little careless, they can easily cut themselves. So, spiritual life is like a razor’s edge: just that it takes a little bit of bodily identification, a little bit of mental concoction and we may get off the track. Maybe in a future life we will get a chance. Nothing is lost is in this endeavour.
In this age, it is more important to create devotees than to construct temples.