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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...
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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 Sri K???a 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...
