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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
We are now interested in the acquisition of all kinds of worldly facilities. We find it useful to study those sciences that deal with the objects we wish to acquire. But we need not remain confined to such investigation. We are fit to be attracted, also, by the science of supra-mundane reality. We are attracted by One who is existence, knowledge and bliss. He attracts us in different degrees, for He has given us the fitness to be attracted in different measures....
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By Sri Srimad Bhakti Dayita Madhava Gosvami Maharaja
Spiritually-inclined people saw that I was becoming indifferent to material affairs and that I was engaged in the cultivation of spiritual practices. They started to honour me, considering me a sadhu (saint), and thus I became respected. I had resolved to one-pointedly cultivate spiritual life by submitting myself for rectification as a disciple. Unfortunately, however, I once again started to hanker for the luxuries of this body and for worldly prestige, impelled by my previous bad samskaras (impressions)....
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
No matter how many difficulties we must face, we pray that we may always be able to follow in the footsteps of the devotees of Bhagavān. When we realize our own ineptitude, humility (dainya) arises. That humility is the root of accepting guidance from Bhagavān’s devotees. Only when I truly admit my own incompetence shall I become capable of perceiving the beauty and the glories of the lotus feet of Bhagavān’s devotees....
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By Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Nārāyaṇa Gosvāmī Mahārāja
Then, in recent times, from the same stage in Śrīdhāma Māyāpura, our Paramagurudeva, paramahaṁsa parivrājakācārya oṁ viṣṇupāda Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Gosvāmī Mahārāja, preached the message of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam throughout the entire world, demonstrating the perfect ideal of śrī vyāsa-pūjā....
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By Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Trivikrama Gosvāmī Mahārāja
So, that qualification can neither be attained, nor understood by fallen souls, who are still bound. As long as we are bound we cannot understand it. And not only that, however free from bondage we may be, we still cannot understand it unless and until She and Her followers, the sakhīs, bless us....
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by Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Trivikrama Gosvami Maharaja
One day, the exceptionally kind and compassionate Sri Narada Gosvami was walking through the forest on his way to Prayaga. He planned to bathe there, in the confluence of the three sacred rivers Ganga, Yamuna and Sarasvati. Along the way he saw a deer lying on the forest floor. The deer was writhing in agony, for it had been pierced by an arrow and its legs broken. This sight struck Narada’s heart with intense pangs of grief....
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
The servants of Śrīla Gurudeva are Vaiṣṇavas. Only those who have taken shelter of the lotus feet of a bona-fide guru by accepting initiation (dīkṣā) from him are Vaiṣṇavas. One’s guru-bhakti is the gauge for determining the level of his kṛṣṇa-bhakti, or his vaiṣṇavatā (his standing as a Vaiṣṇava)....
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by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura
With the wisdom that Sri Krsna resides in the heart of all jivas, one should honour every living being. A deeper respect should naturally be shown to the religious jiva, and, beyond this, it is imperative to feel even deeper honour for the brahmana-jiva and the vaisnava-praya jiva. But above all, it is enjoined that one must worship and serve the lotus feet of a vaisnava-jiva....
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by Sri Srimad Bhakti Srirupa Siddhanti Gosvami Maharaja
The baddha-jiva is extremely insignificant; it is impossible for him to realise the magnitude of Sri Guru....
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By Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Vāmana Gosvāmī Mahārāja
Your weeping is so overwhelming that it has rent everyone’s heart. In your letter, you referred to yourself as my ‘fallen daughter’. In the shower of your tears, even the heart of a stone-hearted person like me is torn asunder. Śrī Bhagavān shall fulfil your heart’s desires....
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Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Vamana Gosvami Maharaja
Javala was a widow. She had one young son named Satyakama. One day, Satyakama approached her and said, “Mother, I want to adopt a vow of sacred celibacy and take up residence in the school of my guru. But to do so, I must know my family lineage.”...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
Our consciousness possesses a two-fold potentiality. It becomes cognizant of material categories, but it is open to the influence of the spiritual as distinguished from the mundane. Lord Caitanya is our only support and the source of our animation. He is the only object of our worship. As a matter of fact, every activity of ours owes its possibility and existence to His initiative and works as a natural result of His own activities....
