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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...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
Chanting the holy name with knowledge of one’s relationship with Him is the only service to Kṛṣṇa that is available to the fallen jīvas, and by it, they are able to attain the sole object of their existence: love for Kṛṣṇa...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
Humankind’s highest purpose is to attain unconditional and unending bhakti for the Transcendent Source, which is the perfect fulfilment of self...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
In a like manner, most philosophers or religious sects conceive of the undifferentiated Truth – because it the opposite of differentiated matter – as the ultimate object of attainment. Thus they endeavour to approximate that undifferentiated Truth with the help of their personal experiences, which in turn are a product of their material senses...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
The comparative study of religions attempted in this journal seeks to avoid any foul against any practice or doctrine that is really in keeping with the religion of unmixed service to the Absolute, as professed by all the revealed creeds of the world...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
It is possible to ascertain the comparative value of different religious practices and doctrines that are now current in the world. For such a purpose, it will be necessary to accept interpretations of them that are offered by their actual followers...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
Those who may hesitate to accept the above view of the real nature of the dance of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya should find it impossible to explain the occurrence of the corresponding activity in our present life, and also the extraordinary value that is attached to it, especially by those who are most anxious to deny its propriety in the conception of the Absolute Personality...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam declares that the loving devotee of Kṛṣṇa is maddened by the ecstasy of joy. Oblivious of the salutary conventions of theistic society that provide the performance of worship in the most dignified manner and with all due solemnity, the devotee laughs, cries, dances and sings in ecstasy...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
The very act of remembering his free, natural condition – that he is meant for serving Krsna – restores the soul to his unalloyed senses and frees him from the bondage of fruitive work and cures him of the disease of illusion. As he has been in bondage from before his coming under the domain of divisible time, his bondage is called eternal and he is said to be eternally fettered...
