2013

Recognising Guru: What Is Your Obstacle?
"Brother, you see Bhakti Vinod Thakur as your father, but I see him as my spiritual master. That is the difference. What you see is a father (baba), and that is the obstacle (badha) that prevents you from getting Radharani (Radha)."
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Chastity and Service Attachment
Why are we not prospering in our spiritual life? How to understand what is service, and what is service attachment? Several educational pastimes of Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj and Srila Gurudev, Srila B.S. Govinda Maharaj.
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Come What May
"So many obstacle will come, but our life is service to the Lord, our heart is service to the Lord, and we are grateful for anything that happens."
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At a Crossroads
Guidance for those who are uncertain about their life situation and those facing an important choice in their life: to join the temple or remain a householder?
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Correction: Try and Pray
How to help others in their service, when you know they are doing something wrong, without hurting their feelings and discouraging them? Is there anything that can secure your life in Krishna consciousness?
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Blessed and Blissful Service Life
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj is telling the devotees what their life should be like after initiation, what they should do and should not do: "Follow these things and you will get the result and go forward quickly."
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Setting on the Right Track (2)
Lecture delivered at Sri Jagannath Mishra's Anandotsav in 2013, part two: "I am praying to you all that you do not forget your service to your Guru, to the Vaishnavs, Bhagavan. I am bowing at your lotus feet: if you serve my Guru, I will serve you my whole life; if you serve my Guru, I will sacrifice my life to serve you."
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Mahaprabhu Enters Sri Puri Dham
"Atharnala is the place through which Mahaprabhu first entered Puri after He took sannyas. Engrossed in the thoughts about Lord Jagannath, Mahaprabhu began to run from there. He was actually walking, but walking so fast that the devotees had to run to follow Him."
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Rescuing Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya
"You know that Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya was a big scholar, a big pandit—but at first he did not get mercy from the Lord: "Those who have got mercy from the Lord can understand Him."
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Gundicha Marjan: "Let Jagannath Come to My House"
"Another meaning of Gundicha marjan is cleaning the heart, and Mahaprabhu Himself was showing how to do it. At first He swept, then poured water and then with His own cloth, uttariya, He washed the temple. He was showing how thoroughly you must clean your heart..."
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Raghav's Bags
"In Mahaprabhu's times, Damayanti, the sister of Raghav Pandit, would make so much food for Mahaprabhu during the whole year, and at the Ratha Yatra time, on the Gundicha marjan day, they would bring bags full of food for Mahaprabhu."
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Anything for Guru's Service
You can do anything for the service to your Guru, but for your own self you cannot do any sinful work; but we do just the opposite: for our own happiness we are not afraid to do any sinful work, and we are always afraid to do something for Gurudev.
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At Ramananda Ray's Garden
"Pradyumna Misra came to Mahaprabhu and asked, 'Prabhu, can You speak some Krishna-katha?' Mahaprabhu replied, 'I do not know so much, but Ramananda Ray knows more than Me...'"
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Misconception and Misbehaviour
Two educational Pastimes of Mahaprabhu with Brahmananda Bharati and Ramachandra Puri that took place in Sri Jagannath Puri Dham.
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First Visit to Sri Puri Dham
"This temple was made by the mercy of Gurudev, although it is a very small temple, but it is very nice and sweet. I came to Puri first time through service—without service Gurudev would not have sent me here and I would not come myself."
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Burning Your Bridges
"Maya always creates attachment. You have had this attachment to the family life not only in this birth, but for many lives, and that attachment is so strong that when you now want to leave it, the attachment does not want to leave you. Attachment is a kind of disease."
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Transform Your Life
"Even if you stay in your house you can still practise properly. Last words of Gurudev were, 'Wherever you stay, you must maintain your spiritual life.' How should you maintain it? I will tell you now."
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Rejected and Dejected?
Time to change the perspective: "If you can see your bad qualities yourself, that is a good symptom. If we think we are pure and great Vaishnavs, it is a big problem. You have heard about Indra and Brahma, haven't you? There is also a story about Satyakam and Jabala..."
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Selfless Dedication
"We are all here serving Chaitanya Saraswat Math, and we must not see our own interest so much. We must not take from Gurudev, we must only want to give something to Gurudev, then we will be able to serve our Gurudev's mission and also get the real result."
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Henpecked and Kicked
"I am not against married life, but I am against this stroin life. When a brahmachari gets married and becomes a servant of his wife, it is very bad."
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Festival: Vision and Focus
"Gurudev's disappearance festival means Vaishnav seva. Vaishnav is the main focus for us. Appearance and disappearance look different, but following Vaishnavs' vision we think that on these two tithis Gurudev always takes worships from us."
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Madhukori Bhiksa
"To do madhukori means like bees that go flower to flower and collect nectar drop by drop, the sadhus go begging for the service to the Lord—not for their own pleasure. They collect a handful at a time and give what they collect for the service to their Guru."
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Sleeping Habit
"To maintain the brahmacharya life, you must wake up for mangal arati—then your sannyas, your brahmacharya will last longer... If at your young age you sleep for 10-12 hours, it is very bad for your future."
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Spare Yourself
"Computer eats your brain. Gurudev told this to me. Devotees also want to engage me in computers, but I do not want to. Sometimes they give me a smartphone, but they do not understand why I do not take it."
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Devotion: Transformation of Heart
"Even if you are a householder, you can practise—if you maintain your svadharma, without markata-vairagya, phalgu-vairagya, without looking at others' wives, then you can stay in your house and maintain your life properly, then such life is also good for you."
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Devotees' Love
"In this age, people live in family life, they love each other, but in this world when somebody loves somebody, it is for their own selfish interest, but Mahaprabhu's interest, Mahaprabhu's love and affection is not like that."
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Brain Treatment
"Actually this body is not only for eating, sleeping, and enjoying. We enjoyed in our previous lives, but it is like a mad man who is walking in the street searching for some dirty paper. If you give the man some dirty paper, it cannot give any benefit to him."
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Sanatan-Dharma: Universal Religion
"Everything in this world is born and exists for the service to the Lord, and the sanatan-dharma (your religion) is to use everything for the service to the Lord. It is not only my religion, or your religion—everybody's religion should be one."
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Cheating Yourself Out of Happiness
"There are so many religions in this world, but Srimad Bhagavatam says it is all cheating. Why is it cheating? ...Ultimately, it will depend upon your faith—if you have 20% faith, that is the kind of happiness you will get."
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Mahaprabhu's Humility, Tolerance, and Honour to Others
"For our benefit, Krishna taught Arjuna many things in Srimad Bhagavad-gita, but then the Lord Himself comes as Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and shows Himself how to practise that. This is the main attraction for us."
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When One Feels Hopeless
"What is there to be hopeless about? You must think that when maya attacks you it is not maya's fault, it is your own fault. Why does maya attack you? Because you are not following properly."
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Awake, Aware, and Avid
"If you can wake up for mangal arati, then you will not fall into danger any day. 'Danger' means being removed from the service of the Lord. Everybody thinks danger means a woman, but many things will come—opulence, etc. Maya has many forms."
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Of Plants and Play
"If you always want to play, you can play but with service—that place should be with service connection, then it will be sadhana-bhakti (devotional practice), otherwise it will karma."
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Selfless and Proper Renunciation
"People pray to Nrisinghadev for something and in return promise to give some offering or sacrifice, but when Nrisinghadev asked Prahlad Maharaj, 'What do you want?' he said, 'Please remove this asking desire from me.' We are just the opposite."
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Imaginary Things
(1) I do not know why people call Gundicha Bari "masir bari"—is this name written anywhere in the scriptures? (2) You should feel pity for the souls seeing how much they suffer—because of their suffering they come with all their material desires to Nrisinghadev. (3) Oh, a new guest has come! My friend, you have become amavasyar chand... (4) Hiranyakasipu sent Prahlad Maharaj to two teachers. What are these two teachers' names? [Silence.]
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Service Anxiety
"Sometimes we are afraid of the Lord, but you should not be afraid of Him. When we have a family, a husband, children, etc. we take care of them as our own family, so a devotee also takes care of Krishna as a member of his family."
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Surrender: "You Are Not Independent"
"What does surrender mean? We say we have surrendered, or we are surrendering, we have renounced everything, but it may be false renunciation, false surrender. The main thing about surrender is not to follow your mind, but to follow your Gurudev's instruction."
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Beyond Material Environment
"They talk about pollution, about environment, saving the nature, saving health, but this is not high thinking. If we preach to them, if we tell them something about the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and Mahaprabhu's conception, they will easily understand that they are actually wasting their time..."
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Clear Your Mind
"Lord Nrisinghadev wants to give you what you want, and we are foolish, but Prahlad Maharaj is not foolish: he did not ask for anything. Your Gurudev's hand is already on your head—you have got his mercy, you always have his shelter; but now you are drying up..."
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Our Plight and Path
"We become blind by getting some material things and cannot see which way is good, which way is bad, but if by some sukriti we can find a sadhu, the sadhu can break that bondage of the illusory environment, then we will get the nirmal dham."
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Ignorance Is Bliss?
"We do not want to learn, we do not want to follow our Guru. If we actually wanted to follow Gurudev's instruction, Mahaprabhu's instruction, we could easily get the result. There is one story about two very naughty brothers, Lalu and Kalu..."
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Possessiveness or Chastity?
"'It is my service,' 'It is his service,' 'It is my things,' 'It is your things.' When such mentality comes to us, it is foolishness, it is ignorance. We must understand clearly that it is not like this."
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No Pain, No Gain
"...Suddenly, the jar began to speak, 'Hey! Where are you going? I know you are getting some austerity, you are very disturbed because your Guru is giving you so much service, but you listen to my story first.'"
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Guru-World: Apply Judgement
There are many kinds of guru in this world. Who is a Guru? There are many religions in this world. What is a religion? If you apply some judgement you can understand what is real.
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Cheap and Easy
"If you think of quantity, you can say easy things, like everything is equal (if you worship Kali, if you worship Durga, Brahma, Siva, or Krishna, it is all the same). We do not think so. This is a mayavadi conception, and we do not follow that kind of things."
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Humbug
"Prabhupad told one story about bogus sadhus. There was once a landlord who had many good cows. He kept many cowherd men to take care of the cow and also a milkman who would come every day to milk the cows..."
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Ludicrous Laziness
"Prabhupad Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur always taught about brahmacharis. He told these two stories 'Pi-pu, Phi-sho' and 'Gomph-kejure' about lazy, idle people..."
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Dispatching Sri Damodar Pandit
"Mahaprabhu knows devotees—who is a 10% devotee, who is a 20% devotee, who is a 50% devotee, who is a real devotee—He knows all of His associates. Mahaprabhu knew also that Damodar Pandit was very honest, and once He wanted to know..."
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From All Walks of Life
"I am not trying to discourage anyone. There are four types of people who come to Krishna consciousness, and in each case, if they practise Krishna consciousness, they can succeed."
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Management, Attachment, and Service
"Gurudev always gave examples and his word was very strong. One time, I went to Gurudev and asked him something briefly, without explaining much, but if you heard what Gurudev said, you would run away."
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Patience Is a Virtue
"If somebody wants to serve the Lord, it is necessary to practise with enthusiasm. If you do not have that eagerness to practise, you will not get the result. Sometimes we become frustrated..."
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Fishing and Matchmaking
"Guru has connection with the lost servant and with the Lord and, as a middleman, whatever message he gets from the Lord, he supplies it to the lost servant, and when we tell some message to the Guru, he sends it to the Lord. That is the Guru's duty."
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Enthusiasm for Service: the Yajna-Patnis
"One of the qualities that are favourable to devotion is enthusiasm. 'Oh, when will the day come? When will the day come? When will I do my service? When will I go to the temple?'—this kind of enthusiasm, utsaha, is necessary to have."
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Lured and Lashed
"If you enter the illusory environment, you become attacked by it and cannot run away from there—you get beaten so much but cannot run away; but the Guru can break the illusory environment and let us see the chinmaya dham, transcendental abode."
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Enthusiasm for Service: Jar, Stool, Banana Skin
"Why do we not get energy? Why do we not get happiness through our service? Because we have some material desire inside—desire for something else. This material desire is like stool, discard it and you will get happiness."
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Brahmachari's Plight
"Actually I feel hopeless about brahmacharis because I am always unhappy with their service. These are very hard and painful words for me to say, but what can I do? I have to say it because it is the truth..."
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Service: Faith and Surrender
"If somebody has Gurudev's photo, the Deities' photo in their house, they can worship themselves—their house becomes a temple. Even though they cannot come to the temple, they should cook for the Deities and take prasad. Not all devotees may be doing it, but it is necessary."
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Sure Is Only Death
"Krishna will protect you, Krishna will save you. If you are meant to die, you can go to even a rathole and die there. Nobody can protect themselves, you know that."
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Q&A: Friendship, Offences, Chastity, Dependence
His Divine Grace Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj is answering devotees' questions: Is friendship possible? Why do we lose enthusiasm? How does affection come? How to please Gurudev? How to preach to new people on the street? How to awake chastity and surrender?
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My Only Shelter
"I will serve those who take shelter of Nitai-Chaitanya, who serve Nitai-Chaitanya. I do not have any quality or qualification to serve Nitai-Chaitanya, but I will serve those who are serving Nitai-Chaitanya!"
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Do Not Waste Your Time
"When you come to Gurudev and practise under his guidance, you should think that having finished your 84 lakhs of lives you do not have to return there."
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Practise and Believe
"If you remove material desires from your heart, you will get great happiness through that. If we practise, we will be able to believe, but our problem is that if we do not see something we do not believe in it."
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The Calamity Within
"You will face so much austerity in your spiritual life, but please do not leave Krishna consciousness. You want to get the Supreme Personality but how much patience do you have? How much quality do you have? How much of your ego can you leave?"
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Sincere Campaign
"You are chanting the Holy Name yourself and you should engage others in chanting: you must tell others about it. It may give them some austerity to hear it and they may not want to hear it, but tell them again and again—try and try, again and again."
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Anugatya: Gurudev's Example
"When you surrender to your Guru, Krishna thinks that your jivatma and His body are equal—at that time the disciple cannot leave his Guru, and the Guru also cannot leave his disciple. This kind of connection we have seen in Gurudev and Guru Maharaj..."
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Half-Hen Logic
"If you pay obeisance to the Lord and not to the Lord's servant, the Lord will not take that obeisance. That is why when we do puja, we first do Guru-puja. If you do not take shelter of asraya-vigraha, you cannot take shelter of visaya-vigraha—He will not accept you."
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Greatness of Gaudiya
Question: Gurudev, could you explain what Gaudiya is? What does the word 'gaudiya' mean?
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Simple, Sweet and Pure
"We can easily put on a show and convert people for a few days or a few years, but it is very difficult to actually take them from the illusory environment to their destination. Make yourself pure through practising, then you will be able to digest these simple things."
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Embarking on New Life
"Somebody is very poor, somebody comes to earn money or knowledge, etc., but we do not come for that. We have come to our Guru through his love and affection. If we can please him through service to him, that is our happiness."
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Remedy for Stagnation
"You must be always alert that maya is near you. As soon as we start to neglect our daily service—if we keep even a little distance, we do not do so many activities and start some material works—then slowly, slowly that service will be removed. How to keep it?"
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Frustrated Journey
"We must understand what is our main conception and what is our real goal. We must be careful and we must try to remove any material attachment to this world as soon as it comes otherwise some attachment can come and we will not be able to follow our heart..."
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Harmonising the Ego
"When I joined the mission and Gurudev gave me service, he told me first to guard the goshala and then to be the night guard of the temple. If I have ego, I will think, "Oh, what for have I come here? To be a security guard?" But I harmonised with myself..."
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Unconditional Service
"I promised to the Lord to serve Him, but I had forgotten about it because of the illusory environment. My guru has come to me, reminded me of it—I must surrender to him and he will engage me in the service of the Lord. That is called unconditional service."
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Chaste Journey
"Everybody knows what my message is, everybody knows what I want from them. I want everyone to protect Gurudev's mission, to help protect Gurudev's mission—I want everyone not to go their own way but stay in Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math's boat."
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Lord Jagannath: Discovery
"The Lord did not give any direction, so King Indradyumna had to find out himself where the Lord was. All he knew was that the Lord was there and was waiting for him."
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Lord Jagannath: Deity appearance
"Kind Indradyumna built the Jagannath temple and thought, 'Where is the Lord?! The Lord said, "I will come," but He is not coming!'"
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Core Qualities of Disciple
"Disciple has to be always surrendered, this is first of all, and the second main quality is faith—it is necessary to have both surrender and strongest faith. If I fully surrender to my Guru, then faith will come automatically..."
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Our Mantra, Our Japa
"The main thing is that through service you must be able to always remember your Guru, remember the Lord. That is your main mantram—always think about your Guru, think about your Gurudev's service."
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Heart to Heart
"Heart to heart connection with Guru and Krishna comes through service: through pleasing your Guru, through making your Guru happy, that connection is transferred to your heart. This transcendental power comes from above automatically."
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Srivas Pandit's Devotion
"Srivas Pandit: 'You can get a son, a daughter, a father, a mother in every birth, but you will not get the Lord in every birth Lord. This life is very important, you can get the Lord in this life, then why should I misuse it? Why should I not use this opportunity?'"
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Internal Dissatisfaction
"If somebody has ego, they cannot find any fault in themselves. If we follow Gurudev's instruction clearly, we can easily find out whether we are going in the right or wrong direction. 'I am not practising properly, I am doing wrong,' this kind of feeling will always knock in you."
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The Wheel of Time
"One day this whole world will also be demolished. After that, Krishna will be again alone. He will make Brahma, and Brahma will again create this environment. Everything will appear again..."
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Balaram's Position in Kuruksetra Lila
"There are so many big stories in Mahabharat—it describes the fighting and so many other things—but if you read it you will see much contradiction about spiritual life."
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Ekadasi Tithi: One of the Practices
"We follow viddhi-marga (we worship the Lord and Guru), that is why we follow Ekadasi. Also, because Mahaprabhu told to do so. We are devotees of Mahaprabhu, so we follow whatever Mahaprabhu tells us to do."
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Danda-Bhangi Pastime
"Nityananda Prabhu says, 'If Mahaprabhu takes sannyas, why must He take the eka-danda sannyas? He can take tridanda-sannyas! If He has to teach others, He must give full teaching. Why will He take eka-danda sannyas?'"
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Fighting Material Desires
"If you have even a little bit of desire for this world, it will be very difficult for you to get to the transcendental world. If you still have some material desire, you must remove it. But the question is how you can do it."
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Sri Guru-Puja: What Is Puja?
"It is necessary to understand what is the meaning of Guru-puja. In this age of Kali, it is very difficult to harmonise. If you think you cannot follow proper etiquette towards other Vaishnavs, if you think it is not necessary to do it, I can give you an example."
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Sri Guru-Puja: Homage Without Damage
"It is very difficult, so many austerities will come, but I am tellling you: little by little, slowly, slowly you can harmonise with the devotees. Do not neglect the etiquette. Try to serve in harmony, speaking good about others, without speaking against anybody, etc."
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On Standby
"It is very difficult, so many austerities will come, but I am tellling you: little by little, slowly, slowly you can harmonise with the devotees. Do not neglect the etiquette. Try to serve in harmony, speaking good about others, without speaking against anybody, etc."
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Why Is Vaishnav Higher?
"Here Indian people mostly worship Ganesh (Ganapatya), Siva (Sivaite), the Sun (Saura), Mother Kali, Mother Durga. Those who worship Vishnu are called Vaishnavs—they always worship Krishna..."
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Why So Many Paths?
"They give different paths because if night does not come, you will not be able to understand what is day. Krishna also does not talk directly about bhakti-yoga at first. First He had spoken about many yogas, He did not say, 'Hey, first is the bhakti-yoga!'"
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Vaishnav: Living Scripture and More
"Sadhu-sanga is necessary, but sadhu-sanga does not mean only staying with the sadhu: sometimes you can be disturbing instead. When you are Gurudev's association, some light can come at any moment and within a moment you can be glorious."
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Vaishnav Dharma
"Vaishnav dharma is not Hindu dharma, Vaishnav dharma (jaiva dharma) is everybody's religion, and this is what we preach about. Jaiva dharma is the religion of everybody—even a tree, a bird, an ant, etc. Even a mosquito's religion is jaiva dharma, not Hindu dharma."
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Protect the Mission, Protect Yourself
"Gurudev's last word is wherever you live, you must maintain your spiritual life, your practitioner's life, but I doubt that everybody is following it. We must follow Gurudev's instruction. We must join the mission and practise properly."
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Healthy Practice
Why are there still miseries in a practitioner's life despite the fact they practise spiritual life? Is the medicine different for each person? How to get determination to do service?
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Looking for Advice?
"The mind does not know what is the right way and what is the wrong way. We cannot control our mind, but the Guru, Vaishnavs, Bhagavan can, so the intelligent men will always take good association and will always leave bad association."
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Cut No Slack
"Ego can take everything away—it can remove your service, it can take Krishna away. We think we have been initiated for many years but still have not reached our destination, we do not feel so much enthusiasm for service and begin to slacken. This is very bad for us."
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Step Forward
"Krishna is always waiting for our service, but the main thing that we must understand is that we must not only say we are disciples of Mahaprabhu—you will get the result when you follow His instruction, follow His advice."
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Eating Out
"One time, soon after I joined the temple, I asked Gurudev why we must avoid the outside food—like, if you go to some restaurant, there is some vegetarian food, why must we avoid it? And I heard the answer from Gurudev..."
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Perfect Resolve
"Enjoyment will never go away from you, but what will go away? Krishna consciousness—the most important thing. You will never get this opportunity again. That is why it is necessary to understand what this life is for, what Krishna consciousness is, and that is why good association is so necessary."
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Relief and Relish
What is it that can give you an extraordinary relief and what is it that you can relish in this very lifetime? "Our time is always going, our life is always passing, but you will not get this kind of opportunity again."
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Devotional Take on Naughty Neighbours
"If your neighbours are not good, you can pray to Krishna, to the Lord. Also, if you have power to preach, then through your association the neighbours will become good. Otherwise pray. I am not joking..."
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Die To Live
"It means a surrendered mood. You must think, 'I have joined Krishna consciousness, and it is my life, this is what I am alive for, this is what I got this human body for.' Everything in this world is for the service to Krishna, and we must do everything for Him."
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Advantage of Adversity
"When some problem comes in your service, at that time more feelings, more desire and strength will come to you for your service, and you can reach your own destination quicker."
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Faith: Internal Substance
"Faith means anugatya and saranagati. We need to get some proper advice because our mind is blind and always disturbed. Always sing, 'When will Nityananda Prabhu give His mercy? When will all these material things be removed from my heart!?'"
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Bhakti-Yoga: Our Right and Duty
"We spend all day and night in the search of some food, we work the whole day just for food and some comfort in life, but we neither understand nor try to understand what our real problem is..."
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Devotion Comes From the Heart
"The main thing is that devotion comes from the heart, it is not necessary to show anything. Devotional feelings come in the heart, you cannot understand such feelings..."
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Prasad and Service
"When you cook something, when you want to use something for the service, you must offer it to the Deities. It is a necessary process. You must remember also about Nama-aparadh and Vaishnav-aparadh, they are the worst."
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One-Way Ticket to the World of Faith
"You have taken initiation and have already got the passport, but now you need to get the visa. The kind of visa you will get depends upon your service—whether you get a tourist visa, a working visa, a permanent visa, or a business visa, depends upon your service..."
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At Gauri Das Pandit's House
"Gauri Das Pandit was a grihastha devotee who lived in Kalna. His brother was the father of Jahnava and Vasudha. Once, Mahaprabhu and Nityananda Prabhu came to Kalna by boat and decided to visit Gauri Das Pandit's house..."
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Careful and Sincere
"There are so many enemies who are like many naughty managers within us. They can easily remove devotion and faith from our heart if we do not take proper care from the beginning. If you have some problem, you must careful with that."
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Scale Your Service: Disease or Devotion?
"Once Gurudev told a story to the devotees. A high caste brahmin went to the market to buy some fish. When he came to the market, he saw a lady selling fish and asked her to weigh a big fish for him..."
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Ekadasi: Make Your Guru Happy
"Mahaprabhu told us to follow the Ekadasi vrata and we follow it to please our Guru, to please our Guru-varga, and make Mahaprabhu happy."
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Appearance of Lord Jagannath
"Previously, Jagannath, Baladev, Subhadra were one Vishnu-murti, and His name was Nil-Madhav. He was served about a hundred kilometres away from Puri by one savar named Vishvavasu..."
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Nectar of Devotion
"We do not want to do Hari-bhajan—we do not want to worship, we do not want to serve—but Gurudev forcefully takes us, gives us proper adjustment, proper nourishment and engages us in service! Such is his power."
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Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
"It is better if you stay far and worship Me from far. You can worship My vigraha, then, through separation, you will feel even happier."
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Power of Proper Practice
"If you can continuously practise every day, then you can be perfect, but if you do not practise, everything will be damaged and rust will come... Can you show me anyone who has been doing sravan and kirtan continuously and fell down?"
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Tama-Sanga
"It is very sad to see what people are doing with their life time. They think this is the highest lifestyle, but it is the same as a dog's lifestyle!"
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Sri Lalita Devi: Prema-Guru
The Appearance Day of she who manages the Pastimes of Sri Radha Krishna, who is able to teach Srimati Radhika, who is able to intensify the feelings of the Divine Couple, and without whose mercy we shall never be able to reach Krishna.
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"Save Me, Enlist Me!"
"When will Nityananda give me some mercy and my material desires become removed from my heart?... We do not have any quality, qualification, or anything else, but on the appearance day of Sri Lalita Devi we can pray to her that she may take us into her circle and give some us service..."
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Krishna's Dearmost
"She appeared on this day in Raval. Mother Kirtida and King Vrisabhanu lived in Raval, near Gokula. We often say that Varshana is the birthplace of Srimati Radharani, but they came there later—Her birthplace is in Raval..."
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Beyond Emotions
Question: "Sometimes I feel that emotions can cheat us and take us away from Krishna. I do not know what is the proper way to approach my emotions during practising..."
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Dedication to Sadhana
"What we need is Krishnendriya tarpan (doing everything for the Lord), not nijendriya tarpan (doing something for my own self). This is called service. Everything can be practising life, everything can be sadhana."
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Care for Service
"People do not understand what is service, what is the relation with the Deities. You have some relation with your family, with your mother, father, children, etc., and this same kind of relation should come to you towards the Lord."
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Second Initiation
"Actually, in this age of Kali the Holy Name is the best. Even millions of millions of yajna (sacrifices), yoga, asan cannot equal to the Holy Name. The Holy Name is the best practice for this age of Kali. So, what is the second initiation necessary for?"
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Preaching Tactics
"When Mahaprabhu preached, He converted the biggest men. Two kinds of preaching are necessary—on the one hand preaching to the big fallen souls, and on the other hand, to the big famous men who control others. Do you know the story of Alexander the Great?"
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Guru's Department
"If you go to the Lord, Krishna may not be able to it, but the Guru can give you what Krishna cannot do. If Krishna cannot save you, the Guru can save you. That is the power of the Guru."
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Key Virtues
"If you go to the Lord, Krishna may not be able to it, but the Guru can give you what Krishna cannot do. If Krishna cannot save you, the Guru can save you. That is the power of the Guru."
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At Srivas Pandit's House
Not only the Lord is always present there, but He personally takes care of His great devotee's needs, but "our eyes are blind by the dust of the material world, so how can we see the supra-mundane things?"
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Revolt!—and Surrender
"If you can do both, sravan-kirtan and service, then nothing will be able to remove you from your spiritual life. You must try very hard. The life of a brahmachari is an austere life, but if you can tolerate it, it will be very good for you."
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Sri Vyasa Puja Day: Appreciating Mercy
"You have already got it from Gurudev. We have lost our address and Krishna sent Gurudev to take us to our address. So, we already understand what is our real home. Always be successful in your spiritual life, always proceed in your spiritual life."
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Sri Vyasa Puja Day: My Only Prayer
"I am very happy to see you all. You are celebrating this festival, but actually for me this day is not a day to take puja from others, but today is the day when I must give puja to all the devotees..."
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ON THIS PAGE:

JANUARY
• Pray and Practise

FEBRUARY
• Sri Guru: Medium and Shelter
• Recognising Guru: Chastity and Service Attachment
• Come What May
• At a Crossroads
• Correction: Try and Pray

MARCH
• Seize the Day
• Blessed and Blissful Service Life
• Setting on the Right Track (1)
• Setting on the Right Track (2)

APRIL
• Chanting: Any Place
• Mahaprabhu Enters Sri Puri Dham
• Rescuing Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya
• Gundicha Marjan: "Let Jagannath Come to My House"
• Raghav's Bags
• Anything for Guru's Service
• At Ramananda Ray's Garden
• Srila Jagadananda Pandit's Irresistible Service
• Misconception and Misbehaviour
• First Visit to Sri Puri Dham
• Burning Your Bridges
• Transform Your Life
• Rejected and Dejected?
• Happy Birthday
• Selfless Dedication
• Henpecked and Kicked
• Abhidheya: the Main Practice
• Be Conscious
• Festival: Vision and Focus
• Weaknesses
• Madhukori Bhiksa
• Service in Separation
• Sleeping Habit
• Spare Yourself
• Crazy Inside Out
• Devotion: Transformation of Heart
• Mission of Chaitanya Saraswat Math
• Devotees' Love
• Brain Treatment
• Sanatan-Dharma: Universal Religion
• Cheating Yourself Out of Happiness
• Mahaprabhu's Humility, Tolerance, and Honour to Others
• When One Feels Hopeless

MAY
• Entrance to Service Planet
• Awake, Aware, and Avid
• Of Plants and Play
• Selfless and Proper Renunciation
• Imaginary Things
• Pratistha: Self-Destruction
• Service Anxiety
• Surrender: "You Are Not Independent"
• Beyond Material Environment
• Clear Your Mind
• Monkey's Life
• Our Plight and Path
• Ignorance Is Bliss?
• Possessiveness or Chastity?
• No Pain, No Gain
• Guru-World: Apply Judgement

JUNE
• Sweet and Deep
• Cheap and Easy
• Humbug
• Ludicrous Laziness
• Dispatching Sri Damodar Pandit
• Daring Determination
• From All Walks of Life
• Management, Attachment, and Service
• Patience Is a Virtue
• Fishing and Matchmaking
• In the Face of Austerity
• Enthusiasm for Service: the Yajna-Patnis
• Lured and Lashed
• Enthusiasm for Service: Jar, Stool, Banana Skin
• Brahmachari's Plight
• Service: Faith and Surrender
• Sure Is Only Death
• Q&A: Friendship, Offences, Chastity, Dependence
• My Only Shelter
• Firm and Fearless
• Do Not Waste Your Time
• Practise and Believe
• The Calamity Within
• Sincere Campaign
• Floating On the Surface

JULY
• Reforming Lifestyle
• What Is Anugatya?
• Anugatya: Gurudev's Example
• Half-Hen Logic
• Greatness of Gaudiya
• Simple, Sweet and Pure
• Embarking on New Life
• Remedy for Stagnation
• How Affection Develops
• Frustrated Journey
• Harmonising the Ego
• Useless Independence
• Unconditional Service
• Chaste Journey
• Regulated Life
• Lord Jagannath: Discovery
• Lord Jagannath: Deity appearance
• Austerity: Part of Service
• Core Qualities of Disciple
• Our Mantra, Our Japa
• Heart to Heart
• Srivas Pandit's Devotion
• Internal Dissatisfaction
• The Wheel of Time
• Balaram's Position in Kuruksetra Lila
• Ekadasi Tithi: One of the Practices
• Main Teaching
• Danda-Bhangi Pastime
• Fighting Material Desires
• Sri Guru-Tattva: The Captain of Your Boat
• Sri Guru-Puja: Who Is Guru?
• Sri Guru-Puja: What Is Puja?
• Sri Guru-Puja: Homage Without Damage
• On Standby
• Maya Devi's Service
• Why Is Vaishnav Higher?
• Why So Many Paths?
• Vaishnav: Living Scripture and More
• Vaishnav Dharma
• Protect the Mission, Protect Yourself
• Protect Your Service
• Healthy Practice
• The Wealth of Service Happiness
• Looking for Advice?
• Cut No Slack
• Step Forward
• Eating Out
• Perfect Resolve
• Relief and Relish
• Devotional Take on Naughty Neighbours

AUGUST
• Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math: Gate to Bhakti-Jagat
• Die To Live
• Advantage of Adversity
• Will You Forget It Too?
• Faith: Internal Substance
• Bhakti-Yoga: Our Right and Duty
• Devotion Comes From the Heart
• Prasad and Service
• What Will Your Parrot Say?
• Cast Off Prejudice
• One-Way Ticket to the World of Faith
• Srila Rupa Goswami Prabhu
• "This Is Your Life"
• Srila Rupa Goswami and Gauridas Pandit: Disappearance Day
• Careful and Sincere
• At Gauri Das Pandit's House
• Observing Ekadasi
• Scale Your Service: Disease or Devotion?
• Ekadasi: Make Your Guru Happy
• Appearance of Lord Jagannath
• Nectar of Devotion
• Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
• Krishna—Purnatama Bhagavan
• Connect With the Centre

SEPTEMBER
• Games of Maya Devi
• Srila Gopal Bhatta Goswami's Miracle
• Detained by Karma
• Power of Proper Practice
• Tama-Sanga
• Karma-Buddhi
• Sri Lalita Devi: Prema-Guru
• Approaching, Not Encroaching
• "Save Me, Enlist Me!"
• Krishna's Dearmost
• Krishna's Dearmost
• Keep Connection
• Beyond Emotions
• Dedication to Sadhana
• Care for Service
• Second Initiation

OCTOBER
• Watch Out for Dacoits
• Preaching Tactics
• Guru's Department
• Key Virtues
• Not So Fast!
• At Srivas Pandit's House
• Revolt!—and Surrender
• Sri Vyasa Puja Day: My Mood and Request
• Sri Vyasa Puja Day: Appreciating Mercy
• Sri Vyasa Puja Day: My Only Prayer
• Chaste and Selfless
• Stuck
• My Joy and Happiness
• Actions Speak Louder Than Words
• Entering Exclusive Devotional Mood
• Good Association: Root of Devotion
• Honouring Maha-Prasad
• Saltamami