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Any process you accept, rejecting devotional service, the result will be that there is no profit.
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Any process you accept, rejecting devotional service, the result will be that there is no profit.
So little endeavor is sufficient to begin our business with Him.
The letters may be different, but it is a transcendental sound.
You have no hope for spiritual advancement.\" This is the statement.
\"My dear friends, O sons of the demons, it is certain that no one bereft of knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead has been able to liberate himself from material bondage at any time or in any country.
But the things are going on that people want to be bluffed, and the bluffers take advantage of it, and therefore...
In the Vedic version it is said simply Kṛṣṇa put His glance over material nature, and she produced so many children.
These are the, I mean to say, human assets which makes a human being distinct from the animal.
Now what we've been doing with the dead cows is burying them.
So, vitteṣu nityābhiniviṣṭa-cetā, if we become too much attached for getting money, that is the material world.
In the Bhagavad-gītā it is stated that yogīs should sit down in a secluded, sacred place, and they are seeking after America's big, big cities.
They don't say, \"Keep some papers and you become rich.
I was surprised that \"How Ṛṣi Kumāra can fall down like this?
So, more we become implicated in this material world, more we suffer from the threefold miseries, ādhyātmika, ādhibhautika, ādhidaivika.
This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is especially distributing knowledge about God.
Are the prajāpatis responsible for propagating human species or all species of life?
One way is this entanglement, this kind of happy life, household life.
performance of sacrifice, study of the Vedas, austerity and simplicity, nonviolence, truthfulness, freedom from anger, renunciation, tranquility, aversion to fault-finding, compassion and freedom from covetousness, gentleness, modesty and steady…
And if you allow one second, he'll fill the whole body up by sucking the...
Another example is given: aṅgāraḥ śata-dhautena malinatvaṁ na muñcati.
So, the beginning of instruction was kaumāra ācaret prājño dharmān bhāgavatān iha [[sb/7/6/1|[SB.
You have spent so much money. What is the price of this machine?
This means from India, the farther you go to the western side, you'll find only rascals and misbehaved.
Marriage was, this boy and this girl should be married, it is a religious function where the father and mother will see their horoscope and see if they are compatible, they will agree, they will live peacefully.
So handcuff is bondage; either it is made of gold or iron, it doesn't matter.
You come to consult me about every activity because I can give you the common cause.
Well, Śrīla Prabhupāda, we've distributed about 70,000 magazines so far this month.
Then, remaining thirty years, and twenty years in old age, invalidity, not fulfillment of desires, what to do.
But the śakti, the energy, is coming from the Supreme.
Just like anyone who is outlaw, does not believe in the government's law, he'll suffer.
We are farming a lot of land that is not our land.
So the temple worship should go on; at the same time, śravaṇaṁ kīrtanam of Viṣṇu must go on.
But this dome will go up another twelve feet, and four feet from the top there is...
Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means presenting a new life of civilization: how to become a servant of Kṛṣṇa.
But the bhakti process is so transcendental that by discharge of devotional service you will be far above the sattva-guna.
Abhadra, in human understanding, means it is not civilized.
That kind of śānti, or peace, is going on perpetually—there is never śānti; it is simply formality.
Just like according to Vedic culture, we are supposed to follow the varṇāśrama-dharma.
So the materialistic person, they read the newspaper, but we read Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.
This human life is meant for understanding God, because we are part and parcel of God and we have forgotten.
Actually, we cannot be happy by material prosperity.
And because he was king, all the great sages and kings in all parts of the world, they came to see him, and the problem was what to do at the time of death.
This Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is spreading that message.
So Brahmā's days, even one day, the span of one day, it is very difficult to calculate.
They will never make any progress in spiritual life if I utilize Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra for my material purposes.
Kaṁsa was always thinking of Kṛṣṇa, but it is not Kṛṣṇa consciousness because he was thinking of Kṛṣṇa as enemy.
Therefore janma ādi means birth is also coming from Him, maintained also by Him, and when it is destroyed, it goes unto Him.
His Divine Grace has been so kind that he has come to us with a great new program to re-spiritualizing the whole world, the bhāgavata-dharma discourses.
Therefore such child, they are all fortunate child.
So the statement of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam that tal labhyate duḥkhavad anyataḥ sukham [[sb/1/5/18|[SB.