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by Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Māhārāja
How can one know Bhagavān? Only by His mercy can one know Him. How can one attain that mercy? ...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
In this mundane plane, pūjā is often performed with an eye on personal gain – we desire something in return for our reverential act. ...
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by Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Māhārāja
One should offer [tell] the topics on one’s mind to the sādhus and śrī guru, whom one is to consider his bandhus, or well-wishing friends [guardian angels]. One should inquire from them only and one should hear only from them. We should have at least one such bandhu, parama-bāndhava (utmost well-wisher), to whom we can open our heart. ...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
Rather than listening to Bhāgavata discourses spoken by liberated paramahaṁsa Vaiṣṇavas, those who make a fuss of listening to the Bhāgavatam from professional orators or others whose discourses are full of tendencies that are harmful to the culture of true well-being, do so for sensuous gratification through poetic, literary, grammatical and other such false appreciations. ...
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by Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Māhārāja
Having taste for hari-kathā is a sign of immense good fortune. This is why you have such eagerness to hear hari-kathā from my mouth as well. However, aside from one or two stories, I do not know any hari-kathā. ...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
It is, as it were, as a hand attached to the body of God, who is all existence, all intelligence, all bliss. With His hand, God rubs His own feet. The hand of God is His own limb. In this case God is serving Himself. God Himself appears as the Guru in order to teach how to serve Himself. ...
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by Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Māhārāja
Kindly plead for the grace of most worshipful Śrīla Gurudeva upon this destitute (dīna) and wretched (hīna) person by mentioning me at his reddish lotus feet, and convey my infinite prostrated obesiences at his lotus feet. ...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
He who wants to be employed in the service of God should never cast a covetous eye on any worldly object. Through vision of the partial appearances of the external, physical world, the vision of God is shut out. ...
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by Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Māhārāja
Daughter, your dear most [Śrī Bhagavān] is always very close by, always with you. Your [true] near and dear ones are never far from you, nor can they ever be. Ever. Do not be restless. ...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
It is our duty to determine who is guru and who is of no-consequence (laghu). He alone is guru who serves that complete substantive entity – the only object of worship for all persons of any consequence (gurus). ...
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by Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Māhārāja
Our ācāryas have explained that Śrī Prabhodānanda Sarasvatī and Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī are contemporaries of each other. When Prabhodānanda Sarasvatī met Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu near the famous South Indian Śrī Raṅganāthajī temple, Prakāśānanda Sarasvatī was giving teachings on monism (advaitvāda) to his thousands of disciples at Kāśī. ...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
The name of the Personality of Godhead is Viṣṇu. The personal face is designated ‘[Param] Brahman’ in Sanskrit, to denote ‘magnanimous’, ‘large’, ‘big’ and so on, and represents the macrocosmic view. ...
