| Always remember Krishna Who is your dear most friend and always serve Him just to please Him, and He will give you all intelligence how to be a first-class devotee. |
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| We should learn to forget and forgive minor incidents because whenever there are two men in a place, there is always some misunderstanding. |
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| Dedicate your life for Krishna. That is the perfection. Even if there are some faults, dedicated life is noble life. Maybe, due to our past habits, we may commit some faulty action, but that dedicated life is sublime. |
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| Depend on Krishna, because after all, He is the ultimate Master of all situations. It is not the doctor, or the medicine, or the place, but it is
ultimately Krishna who is the Master to do everything. |
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| There is a story that one fool was sitting on a branch of a tree and he was cutting off. And somebody said, “You’ll fall down.” But when he fell down he said, “Oh, you are a great astrologer.” So who goes to the astrologer? Only fools and rascals. No sane man goes. What is to happen, that will happen. Why shall I go to astrologer? |
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| The tortoise, as soon as he likes he discloses his senses, and when he likes he pulls them within. That is the position of a pure devotee. He can wind up the senses whenever he likes, and he can exhibit the senses whenever he likes. The senses are under his control. He is not under the control of the senses, as are the ordinary persons. That is the meaning of Goswami. |
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| Today, 15th March, now it is 7:35, gone, as soon as it is 7:36, you cannot bring back that 15th March, evening, 7:35, again. Even if you pay millions of dollars, “Please come back again,” no, finished. Chanakya Pandita says, “Time is so valuable that if you pay millions of golden coins, you cannot get back even a moment.” What is lost is lost for good. “If you such valuable time spoil for nothing, without any profit, just imagine how much you are losing, how greatly you are loser.” |
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| Love affairs in the material world are only shadows or reflections of the real love with Krishna. If you love Krishna in any capacity, you shall never be frustrated because everything in Krishna is perfect, eternal, blissful and full of knowledge. |
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| There are four classes of men: lazy intelligent, busy intelligent, lazy fool and busy fool. First-class man is lazy intelligent. Busy fool is very dangerous. |
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| If Krishna, wants to kill somebody, nobody can protect him. And if Krishna wants to protect him, nobody can kill him. |
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| Five plus five is equal to ten. Two plus two is equal to four. So Krishna plus everything is Vrindavan. Do not forget Krishna, and you shall always be in Vrindavan. |
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| A snake can be charmed by herbs and mantra, but the man, envious, cannot be. Therefore he is more dangerous than the snake. |
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| We should always remember that our body is not for sense gratification; it is for Krishna’s service only. And to render very good sound service to Krishna we should not neglect the upkeep of the body. |
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| We are trapped souls in a state of forgetfulness of Krishna, and Krishna is giving you the chance now to re-establish your relationship with Him by this chanting process. So take full advantage of it and be happy. |
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| An old father required massaging so all the children wanted to serve the father. The father divided the right and left portion of his body to be served by the children. Later along with the service, there was some quarrel between the children, and they were competing by hitting the parts of the father that was assigned to the opposing party. The father said that you are hitting my different parts due to your opposition to one another, but I am therefore dying. If there is any misunderstanding, please live peacefully. |
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| Unless we cooperate with the Supreme Lord, our life is baffled. A screw that has fallen from a machine has no value. But when the same screw is again attached to the machine, it has value. We are part and parcel of God. Without God, what is our value? No value! We should come back to our position of attachment to God. Then we have value. |
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| When we are children, innocent, we have no bad habits, but as we grow and associate with bad company, we also acquire all these bad habits. To give up all these bad habits means we have to associate with sadhus or devotees, saintly persons. Then we can give it up. This is called anartha-nivrtti means giving up all unwanted bad habits. |
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| Something has dropped in the water, in the river. You cannot see the things dropped within the water by agitating the water. Just stand still for some time. As soon as the water is settled up, you will see the things as they are. So as soon as our enthusiasm is agitated, it is better to sit down in any temple suitable and chant Hare Krishna. There is no question of being disappointed. After all, we commit so many mistakes. That is human nature. To err is human. That is not fault. But try to rectify with cool head. |
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| If you catch up Krishna’s lotus feet very tightly, then you will not fall down. |
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| In the spiritual world also there is competition for the best satisfaction of Krishna. |
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| This life of material existence is just like hard wood, and if we can carve Krishna out of it, that is the success of our life. |
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| These temples, they are just like oasis in the desert for the conditioned souls to quench the thirst of their desire for real happiness. |
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| If you want perfection in your business, then you must try to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Otherwise you are simply wasting your time. |
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| One who seeks pleasure externally, he is materialist, and one who seeks pleasure internally, he is spiritualist. |
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| Everyone is being controlled by God, but a devotee is so exalted that Krishna says, “I wish to be controlled by you.” This is Krishna’s position. |
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| This Krishna consciousness temple is the hospital for the diseased spirit soul. And everyone is diseased. Come to this hospital. We shall take care of you and cure your material disease. |
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| Cleanliness is next to Godliness. This point should be very carefully observed, and then you will advance very quickly to the perfectional stage of Krishna consciousness. |
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| The difficulty is sometimes Krishna’s ashirvad (blessing) may be just the opposite. Krishna will take away. So at that time they become atheist. |
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| It is better not to have a fruit tree than to have a poison fruit tree. |
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| Any nonsense you do and if you say, “It is the latest fashion,” everyone will do. |
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| Anyone who carries Krishna within himself, constantly, can go anywhere and turn the place into a sacred pilgrimage. |
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| Think of Krishna always and try to work sincerely, and everything will come automatically. |
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| If by the tongue you chant Hare Krishna mantra, and by the tongue you taste prasadam, you will be perfect, simply by executing these two things. |
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| If one is a poor man, he can go to some friends’ house and accept food and then come back, but one should never accept residence in other’s house. |
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