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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam must be read in the company of true Vaiṣṇavas. Śrīla Svarūpa Gosvāmī Prabhupāda said, “Go and read the Bhāgavatam with a Vaiṣṇava.” The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam cannot be chanted through the mouth of a person who is not himself a bhāgavata, or true devotee of God...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
In Śrī Caitanya-caritāmrta it has been declared: “One should first practice dharma before teaching it to another; unless you do it yourself, you cannot teach it.” Platform speakers or professional priests cannot claim to be gurus. If I were a professional discourser on the Bhāgavata and I happened upon an advertisement that the position of a sweeper had become vacant and that it carried an emolument higher than what I earn from my discourses...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
The heart of one who is ever engaged in śrī nāma saṅkīrtana becomes illuminated with truly pure and virtuous spiritual goodness. And when the flower of śrī nāma fully opens within such a pure heart, the divine Couple appear there, , engaged in Their...
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by Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti-prajñāna Keśava Gosvāmī Mahārāja
Nowadays, many people in the sārasvata-bhaktivinoda-dhārā, or the line of thought of Śrīla Sarasvatī Ṭhākura and Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, stray from the line of thought following Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī (rūpānuga-vicāra-dhārā), and licking the feet of the ‘īcaḍe-pākā’ sahajiyās, say, “What’s the use of preaching? What is there in performing kīrtana? Do bhajana, just do bhajana.”..
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
All of you are the order of my gurus. I have accepted you as my gurus. Just by being touched by my śrīla gurudeva’s lotus feet, I lost all sense of this external world. I do not know if any transcendental agent equal to him in greatness has ever appeared in this world. How may those who are busy with the likes of lust and anger present in this world, ever know him?...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
When the conviction that all entities connected with Godhead are objects of my worship as much as Godhead Himself, dawns upon our souls, we are freed from the clutches of grief, infatuation and fear. The only method by which this desideratum is realizable is the service of Godhead...
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by Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Mahārāja
The whole world is eternally indebted to Śrī Kṛṣṇadvaipāyana Vyāsa. He divided the Vedas... to help general people who are trying to study them. He compiled Vedānta... in order to reconcile apparent contradictions... He composed the different Purāṇas and the Mahābhārata and finally, in order to make Vedānta-sūtra easily understandable, he himself manifested the spotless mahā-purāṇa, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, as the commentary on Vedānta-sūtra...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
The Divine Entity is the lotus feet of sri guru in the order of the spiritual successors of Sri Vyasa – he whose chanting actually awakens our recollection of the divinity, just by listening to it. All of us are His servants...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
Śrī Caitanyadeva has commanded that society should ever remain under the control of the religion of pure devotion. It is then that the society will have its true value as being favourable to the practice of serving God; otherwise it will be the contra-divine society worthy of asuras, or people with demonic characteristics...
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by Śrīla Bhaktivedānta Vāmana Gosvāmī Mahārāja
In the mornings, once you have completed your morning functions, bathed, and completed your ahnika, it fosters auspiciousness to read and recite devotional songs and hymns or prayers. When that is finished, it is imperative to chant śrī-nāma on your beads...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
Always apply your mind to the service of Bhagavan and no one will be able to harm you. If you become restless, or if you express dissatisfaction with anyone during your sojourn on this Earth, your mind will not gravitate to the subject of how to serve Bhagavan...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
Only when the jīva attains transcendental knowledge, and is therefore freed from every non-spiritual pre-occupation, does he employ himself in serving the transcendent Supreme Godhead. Loving service to the Supreme Godhead is the only means and the only end of renouncing the activities of the external world...
