The Meaning Of Goswami!
The tortoise, as soon as he likes he discloses his senses, and when he likes he pulls them within. That is the position of a pure devotee. He can wind up the senses whenever he likes and he can exhibit the senses whenever he likes. On the whole, the senses are under his control. He is not under the control of the senses as are the ordinary persons. That is the meaning of Goswami.
- From Srila Prabhupada's letter to Himavati -- Hawaii 23 March, 1969
The tortoise, as soon as he likes he discloses his senses, and when he likes he pulls them within. That is the position of a pure devotee. He can wind up the senses whenever he likes and he can exhibit the senses whenever he likes. On the whole, the senses are under his control. He is not under the control of the senses as are the ordinary persons. That is the meaning of Goswami.
- From Srila Prabhupada's letter to Himavati -- Hawaii 23 March, 1969
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No Defense From Death!
We may discover so many defending instruments or weapons, but there is no defense from the cruel hands of death. However you may be advanced in manufacturing so many nice things, you cannot manufacture anything which can save you from death or from disease or from old age.
- Srila Prabhupada, Lecture (Day after Lord Rama's Appearance Day) -- Los Angeles, April 16, 1970
We may discover so many defending instruments or weapons, but there is no defense from the cruel hands of death. However you may be advanced in manufacturing so many nice things, you cannot manufacture anything which can save you from death or from disease or from old age.
- Srila Prabhupada, Lecture (Day after Lord Rama's Appearance Day) -- Los Angeles, April 16, 1970
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Topic:
*Death for a devotee!*
*Prabhupāda:* So mṛtyu, death, is stopped as soon as you take Kṛṣṇa consciousness very seriously, immediately, from that moment, as soon as you are initiated. You promise before the spiritual master, "Yes, I am initiated, I shall act like this," and if you follow, then your death is stopped from that point. No more death. No more death. Simply an official business, just like you sleep and again you awake, similarly, a devotee's death is like that. It is like sleeping, and next moment in the spiritual kingdom, immediately. Immediately. When he will rise, he will see that, "I am with Kṛṣṇa. I am with Kṛṣṇa.".
From lecture on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.8 (Los Angeles, 5 Jan 1974)
*Death for a devotee!*
*Prabhupāda:* So mṛtyu, death, is stopped as soon as you take Kṛṣṇa consciousness very seriously, immediately, from that moment, as soon as you are initiated. You promise before the spiritual master, "Yes, I am initiated, I shall act like this," and if you follow, then your death is stopped from that point. No more death. No more death. Simply an official business, just like you sleep and again you awake, similarly, a devotee's death is like that. It is like sleeping, and next moment in the spiritual kingdom, immediately. Immediately. When he will rise, he will see that, "I am with Kṛṣṇa. I am with Kṛṣṇa.".
From lecture on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.8 (Los Angeles, 5 Jan 1974)
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Caring For Sick Devotees!
One of the symptoms of a devotee is that he is kind, so if our Godbrother becomes ill it is our duty to help him get the proper medicine and treatment so that he can recover. There is no question of ill treating of our own Godbrothers simply because they are sick, nor should you allow such neglect to go on. So long we have this material body there will be sickness, but we have to remain on the transcendental platform nevertheless.
- From Srila Prabhupada's letter to Sukadeva -- Bombay 5 April, 1974
One of the symptoms of a devotee is that he is kind, so if our Godbrother becomes ill it is our duty to help him get the proper medicine and treatment so that he can recover. There is no question of ill treating of our own Godbrothers simply because they are sick, nor should you allow such neglect to go on. So long we have this material body there will be sickness, but we have to remain on the transcendental platform nevertheless.
- From Srila Prabhupada's letter to Sukadeva -- Bombay 5 April, 1974
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Success And Failure!
"If you are steady either in success of failure, that is called yoga. That is called yoga." Don't mind for the success or failure. Do act on behalf of the Supreme Lord. And if you are steady in that position, then your working in spiritual platform is successful.
-From Srila Prabhupada's lecture on Bhagavad- gita 2.48-49 -- New York, April 1, 1966
"If you are steady either in success of failure, that is called yoga. That is called yoga." Don't mind for the success or failure. Do act on behalf of the Supreme Lord. And if you are steady in that position, then your working in spiritual platform is successful.
-From Srila Prabhupada's lecture on Bhagavad- gita 2.48-49 -- New York, April 1, 1966
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Proper Utilization Of Time!
We take a newspaper and we read what the politician says, what so many nonsense things. We waste our time. Srama eva hi kevalam [SB 1.2.8]. We should increase our taste for hearing and chanting about Visnu, Krsna.
- From Srila Prabhupada's lecture on Srimad -Bhagavatam 7.5.23-24 -- Vrndavana, March 31, 1976
We take a newspaper and we read what the politician says, what so many nonsense things. We waste our time. Srama eva hi kevalam [SB 1.2.8]. We should increase our taste for hearing and chanting about Visnu, Krsna.
- From Srila Prabhupada's lecture on Srimad -Bhagavatam 7.5.23-24 -- Vrndavana, March 31, 1976
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The spiritual planet, Goloka Vṛndāvana, the eternal abode of Lord Kṛṣṇa, is shaped like the whorl of a lotus flower. Even when the Lord descends to any one of the mundane planets, He does so by manifesting His own abode as it is. Thus His feet remain always on the same big whorl of the lotus flower. His feet are also as beautiful as the lotus flower. Therefore it is said that Lord Kṛṣṇa has lotus feet.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.6 Purport:
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.16.6 Purport:
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At Tirupati, there are so many hills. From the distant place, your vision is not clear. You simply see something like cloudy, the same mountain. But if you make little further progress, you see the same mountain or hill greenish. And if you actually go in the same hill, you will find there are so many animals, so many men and so many houses. So object is the same, but from different angle vision, it appears differently. Similarly, unless one can understand Krsna perfectly, he realizes the Absolute Truth as impersonal, nirakara Brahman.
From Srila Prabhupada's lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.11 - Tirupati, April 26, 1974
From Srila Prabhupada's lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.11 - Tirupati, April 26, 1974
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