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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
The fact is that once a person becomes truly conversant with the message of Śrī Caitanyadeva, about the function of transcendental love, all petty narrowness is eliminated once and for all...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
Her ageing father looked at the divine child with intense adoration, but when he was away, she liked to playfully meddle with his things, and even try on the flower garlands he had made for the Lord. Daily she engaged in ornamenting herself with these garlands...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
Our saint did not hear the priest, as he had lost his senses for the time being. This infuriated the priest and he took a pebble and threw it at the saint. The pebble cut his face and drops of blood trickled from the wound. He came to his senses, opened his eyes slowly, and seeing the brāhmaṇa at a distance, realized the situation in a moment...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
Once one’s self-conception of being the servant of Śrī Bhagvān has awakened, how can one leave that direct service to His lotus feet and again busy oneself in serving māyā?...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
It is better to commit suicide by swallowing poison than to associate with people who desire things other than Śrī Kṛṣṇa, or seek to enjoy of such things. Having begun to serve Śrī Hari, if such a person becomes attached to things other than Śrī Kṛṣṇa, he is thereby utterly ruined...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
The basic principle is that this animate world is made up of jīvas, and the inanimate world is constituted of matter. Of these, the jīvas have been manifested by The Supreme Lord’s taṭasthā-śakti (intermediary potency), and this phenomenal world has been manifested by His bahiraṅgā-śakti (outward, material potency). He is consequently to be deemed the cause of all causes...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
...Simply by breaking the external frame we must not conclude that we will all of a sudden become immeasurable. We are decidedly always measurable things. This measurement, or the very platform of finitude, is quite sufficient for us not to consider ourselves to be the Oversoul...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
Sri nama is Sri Krsna Himself. Not just Sri Krsna Himself, but indeed sri nama is directly the form of the supremely original Sri Krsna Himself (svayam-rupa Sri Krsna). There is no other means to dispel our misfortune than engaging in sri nama-bhajana. Only the ecstasy of chanting the holy names of Sri Krsna can...
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by Śrī Śrīmad Bhaktivedānta Vāmana Gosvāmī Mahārāja
Our debt to sri guru and the Vai??avas for their unlimited compassion and supra-mundane affection can never be repaid. When a person performs hari-bhajana, he gets an understanding and appreciation of that debt, and his life becomes blessed...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
There are many obstacles in the way of the search for the Truth. Those obstacles serve to eclipse the real nature of the seer of the Truth, of the search, and of the object of the search. It is the enlightening potency of words that alone is able to destroy all those obstacles...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
...those who conceive of this subject matter while their consciousness is riddled with anarthas do not conceive what it truly is. All those esoteric truths that are revealed solely through one’s advancing practice of chanting the holy names are to be considered the introduction to one’s svarūpa, one’s true spiritual identity...
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by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Prabhupāda
The outward feature is not to be trusted. Lime-water outwardly resembles milk. The apparent face is not identical with the immanence, the soul or the substratum. In determining the self, it is necessary to find our real position. Are we products of material things? Are we the Oversoul? This problem requires solution as we shall leave the external body after a time...
