2020
JANUARY 2020
3 January 2020 (morning class; Vijayawada)
Do Not Delay
"Those who say that they will practise Krishna consciousness when they retire
are actually cheating Lord Krishna. When a representative of the Lord comes
to you, do not lose time. Take initiation, surrender and take shelter of the
Lord through the guru."
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Golden Opportunity
"Krishna has given us this opportunity, we must not wait for a long time. The
Lord's representative has come to us to tell us what is necessary for our
spiritual life. If you want to get love and affection of your Gurudev, follow
Gurudev's instruction with chastity."
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3 January 2020 (evening class; Vijayawada)
Joy of Sankirtan
"Chanting the Holy Name in good association is the highest attainment in this
age of Kali. Through chanting the Holy Name we can get the highest service of
the Lord and the Lord's associate. You must think and realise one thing
perfectly..."
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Beacon Light for Lost
Souls
"In this age of Kali, there are so many conceptions, there are so many gurus,
but actually Sri Sukadev Goswami and Srila Vyasadev have told what is the
real conception in Srimad Bhagavatam. If you read scriptures, you will
see what is the real conception."
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Our Dear and Near
"You must understand who your real relative is. Krishna is your real
relative, and Krishna will not leave you. If you chant His Holy Name, if you
remember Him, He will always help you, He will always support you. It is
necessary to have the strongest faith."
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Uncompromising Chastity
"This is an example for you all. This is a lesson for you all. You must have
chastity for your Guru. Chastity is the main thing. Everybody has a guru, but
not everybody has proper chastity to their guru."
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On Dawdling and Patience
"Take shelter of a real guru. You must not delay. And have patience—no matter
how long it may take, we must have tolerance and give honour to others. If
you can join this family and this unlimited service, then one day you will
get service. There is no doubt about that."
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Hijacked Souls
"We are very fortunate because we were born in India and we can freely chant
the Holy Name, but in many countries there are restrictions against following
the religion of this culture, but they still secretly practise Krishna
consciousness properly."
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4 January 2020 (Nama-hatta, Vijayawada)
Main Goal
"We are fallen souls, but on the other hand we are also very fortunate
because we have got connection with Mahaprabhu's line, Srila Rupa Goswami's
line—we have taken shelter of a bona fide guru and we are trying to follow
his order."
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Keep Sankirtan Fire
Ablaze
"Sometimes you think that there are only very few of you devotees here, but
you must start the fire, and the wind will come. If you engage yourself in
sankirtan-yajna, you can make Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu and Sriman
Nityananda Prabhu happy through that."
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Sacrifice Your Life
"People will not listen to you because they have too much attachment to
materialist life—they cannot sacrifice anything; but you must sacrifice your
life for your guru, Vaishnavs and Bhagavan. That is called surrender."
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4 January 2020 (Nama-hatta, noon, Vijayawada)
Now Is the Time
"Do you think that you can chant the Holy Name and serve Deities or the Lord
in any birth? This lifetime is a great opportunity, the best opportunity—you
have got a human body now, and now is the perfect time to serve devotees and
Vaishnavs."
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Leave Maya's Service
"Maya Devi is so strong—you have so much material attachment. This is why you
cannot join, you cannot come to service plane—you are not taking advantage of
this greatest, highest service opportunity."
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Before Too Late
"When you have teeth, you have to take care of your teeth; what your teeth
are gone, you will not be able to eat properly. When you have a guru, the
guru gives everything to you, but when you reject him and do not follow his
instruction, then you will repent and think."
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Sincere Service Mood
"Krishna Himself says, 'I do not take anything from a non-devotee's hand. If
My devotee gives Me something with devotion, that is sufficient for Me.' You
can be doing something external, but it may not be service—you must serve
with heart."
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4 January 2020 (Evening class, Vijayawada)
Come with Us
"The Harinam is extremely powerful in this age of Kali—chanting the Holy Name
is the only way we can get to our real home. Those who can do Sri Nabadwip
Dham parikrama in good association of devotees and chanting the Holy
Name are very fortunate souls."
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"I Am Saranga's Murari!"
"Remembering the last day of Nabadwip Dham parikrama, I want to tell
you some very important thing. We always glorify Mamgachhi (Modadrumdwip) and
speak about the birthplace of Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur, but there is also
one small temple beside it..."
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Not Just Words
"I will tell you another pastime of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu chanting the
Holy Name. The Holy Name is not only some letters. This Hare Krishna
maha-mantra is pure, and this pastime is the evidence of that."
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Purity of Heart
"Only a only bona fide guru, who descends from Goloka Vrindavan, an associate
of the Lord, can distribute this Holy Name in this world—if you take
initiation from such guru, you can get real benefit in your spiritual life.
But it is necessary to be a real devotee."
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Run After Devotion, Not
Visaya
"We say we want devotion, but at the same time we want this, that, we want a
house, we want opulence, etc.—Krishna will give everything to you, 'Here,
take it!' but you will not get pure devotion..."
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5 January 2020 (Vijayawada)
Surrendered Service
"I see that how much you try to make me happy. You are giving everything you
have—man, buddhi, anankar (mind, intelligence, ego)—to the Lord, to
their guru. That is called surrender mood. You give everything you have for
the service of the Lord."
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Seva Opportunity
"You must practise properly. I am also inviting you all to our temple. I have
told you—I am giving you an opportunity to serve. Actually, it is very hard
to get there—you cannot serve big things with little sukriti."
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My Last Word
"Atma-nivedanam is surrender. Surrender means you must give everything
you have. You must stop thinking about other things. To be surrendered means,
'All I know is my Lord—I only know my Guru, I do not know anybody else. This
is my last word.'"
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Courtyard of Vrindavan
"The kind of kirtan you can chant depends upon your adhikar,
and the quality of your kirtan depends upon your devotion. Srila
Narottam Das Thakur sings, 'Vrndavane chabutara tahe mora
mano-ghera—My entire mind dwells within the courtyard of Vrindavan.' But
we all know where our mind goes..."
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Entering Higher Study
"Why do the teachings of Sri Rupa-Raghunath not enter our ears? What is the
purpose of this body? How can one live in Mathura? What is the result of
sincere service? What is the reason of our suffering? What is devotion?"
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Outdoors Preaching
Campaign
"It is necessary to try. Try and try, and you will be successful. You do not
have to leave your work for this. You can go on Saturday and Sunday, or every
day. Try to give more time to service, then you will be successful. I have
told you how to do it. If you do in this way, you will be successful."
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18 January 2020 (First Programme at New Uluberia
Temple, Bengali evening class)
উলুবেড়িয়ায় হরিকথা
ওঁ বিষ্ণুপাদ শ্রী শ্রীল ভক্তি নির্ম্মল আচার্য্য মহারাজের পদ্মমুখনিঃসৃত
শ্রীহরিকথামৃত: "যাঁরা এখানে উলুবেড়িয়ায় সিনিয়র ভক্তরা আছেন, তাঁরা অনেক দিন
ধরে চেষ্টা করছেন, অনেক দিন ধরে আপনাদের গ্রামে গ্রামে, দরজায় দরজায় গিয়ে বলেন,
‘বল কৃষ্ণ কহ কৃষ্ণ কর কৃষ্ণ শিক্ষা’—এই কথা ভিক্ষা করছেন আপনাদের জন্য । যাঁর
ভাগ্য হয়েছে, যাঁর পূর্ব্ব পূর্ব্ব জন্মের সুকৃতি ছিল, তাঁরা এই সাধুসঙ্গের
প্রভাবে এসে সাধুসঙ্গ করেন, তাঁদের হৃদয়টা একটু পরিষ্কার হয়েছে, হৃদয়টা নির্ম্মল
হয়েছে । ওই সিনিয়র ভক্তরার এখন অনেক বয়স হয়ে গিয়েছে, কিন্তু তাঁরা আপনাদেরকে
নবদ্বীপ, পরী, বন্দাবন, অনেক জায়গায় জায়গায় নিয়ে যান যাতে আপনি সত্যিকারের
কৃষ্ণপথে আসতে পারেন—তার জন্য তাঁরা আপ্রাণ চেষ্টা করে গিয়েছেন ।"
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FEBRUARY 2020
5 February 2020 (Sri Ekachakra Dham)
Facing Austerity
"Whatever you want to do, you must have the strongest desire. Even in the
material life, does anything come without austerity? No. Therefore, 'I want
austerity! I want problems! If more problems come, it is OK, let them come! I
want to see how many problems you can give me, Prabhu.'"
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Distinction of Sri
Rupanuga Line
"In this world, people serve the Lord in three ways. First, somebody worships
the Lord because they are afraid. Second, people worship the Lord because
have some material desire. Third, somebody worships the Lord out of duty.
This is not right."
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Treacherous Desires
"If you have some material desire and want it to be fulfilled, Krishna will
give that to you happily. On the other hand, Krishna says, 'I am not a
fool—why will I give them visaya? Instead, I will give them My lotus
feet and make them forget visaya!"
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Inconceivable Mercy
"We can understand Krishna consciousness if we have a desire to serve the
Lord—if we have enthusiasm. You can see how merciful Lord Krishna is, but
Mahaprabhu is more merciful than Krishna, and Nityananda Prabhu is even more
merciful than Gauranga."
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Victory over Visaya
"If we take prasad, all kinds of bad elements, bad diseases will be
removed; if we chant the Holy Name, all Nama-aparadhas will go away;
if we do service, all seva-aparadhas will go away—we do it, but why
are we not getting the result?"
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Power of Sukriti
"Sanda and Amarka taught Prahlad Maharaj nonsense things, but Prahlad Maharaj
did not take that association. Prahlad Maharaj had some previous
sukriti (actions related with the Lord), and through that
sukriti he could receive the proper teaching from Narad
Goswami."
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Atma-Buddhi
"If you have fifty kilogrammes of rice on your head, you feel so much
pressure—even if you come into an A/C room, you will not get any comfort
there because you have heavy things on your head. We still have ego, we still
cannot even understand that we are eternal servants of the Lord."
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Buddhi-Suddhi
"You recite mantras for the archan, you chant that the cloth is clean,
the chamara is clean, the peacock fan is clean, the
pancha-pradip is clean, etc. Everything is clean, but do you ever
think, 'Is my mind clean?'"
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Zest for Service
"I think that the Lord arranges everything that is necessary for His
service—only our desire, wish, will is necessary. If you have desire ('I will
do it!'), you will succeed. It is necessary to have desire, otherwise sitting
idle, laziness will not take you far."
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8 February 2020 (Evening class at Sri Ekachakra Dham)
Grand Festival
"Without Nityananda Prabhu's mercy, without Gurudev's mercy, we are not able
to do it. We do not know for how many days in this life we can do this
service like this, but we are always enthusiastic, we are always trying to
serve Gurudev or Nityananda Prabhu, and it is Their matter whether they will
accept our service or not."
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My Gratitude
"So many devotees are helping us with this festival—somebody cannot help
physically, but they are helping through their mind, through their funds,
etc. I am not only thanking them, I am very grateful to them because they are
doing so much for Gurudev."
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Guard Your Service Life
"Whatever problem comes, we will not run away from our service. Problems will
always come—we are in the battlefield, and we will fight against maya until
our death. That is our conception. We will not fight against men, but we will
fight against ourselves."
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Do Not Fear Sacrifice
"Life should be for service. What the guru and Vaishnavs tell, that is
service, and you must serve with love. You must sacrifice in your life. Those
who can make sacrifice in their life, they get the real benefit."
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Hidden Service
"Srivas Pandit's faith is super strongest. Everybody's faith is not like
that. When somebody puts some poison in others' brain, they change their
mind. Our faith must be strong. Practise, practise and practise."
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Spiritual Promotion
"You struggle so much in your life, but how many days have we got in this
lifetime? We do not want to be demoted. We want to be promoted, and this
promotion will come through service—through the service to the guru and
Vaishnavs. That is the main thing."
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Puja with Love
"Pujari must serve with love and affection. When you do puja,
you must do it with love, wearing clean clothes, etc. Actually, I have always
been afraid to do puja. I never go inside the Deities' room. Gurudev
also said he was afraid..."
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15 February 2020 (West Bengal Preaching, Bengali
class)
Our Mistake
"You are doing so many things in this world, but you are not doing the one
thing which is necessary for your life. You love your family who are merely
disguised dacoits, but you do not love the Lord. We do not do that which is
the most important duty in human life."
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Spiritual Diet
"We need this, that, and think we cannot do without it, but if you take only
what is necessary to maintain life, that is sufficient. It is not necessary
to want more than that. The more you want, the more restless and unhappy you
will be."
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"Does It Cross Your Mind?"
"We chant so many rounds of the Holy Name—but why are we not getting the
result? 'By honouring the Lord's prasad I conquer all worldly illusions'—but
we take prasad every day, but our material diseases are not going away. So
what should we do?"
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Unload Yourself
"You take a fifty-kilo sack of cauliflower on your head. You will feel pain,
you will struggle—if you come with this sack to an A/C room, will you be
happy? No, you will not—because you have all this load on your head. What
kind of load do we have on our heads? Not cauliflower..."
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Universal Remedy
"You must never think, 'I am doing something, I am serving the Lord!' If you
start thinking like this, you are in a big danger. How will such ego go
away?"
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Test of Attachment
"The Lord tests us in many ways. Krishna tested Kunti Devi, 'If they get
their kingdom back, will they forget Me?' but she understood it. We, on the
other hand, get all kinds of wealth and forget the Lord. "
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Wrong Employment
"You used to serve the Lord at the temple, and now? You have time now, my
friend. Gurudev has opened a large factory, and there are many vacancies
available. Come to this factory."
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Step Forward
"You have heard today beautiful Bhagavat-katha. If we do not try to practise
ourselves, if we do not make a step forward, then we will not be able to
understand anything. You must be careful in your life."
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Value of Faith
"Gurudev says that if you practise Krishna consciousness, you must get the
result; if we can think about Vaishnav Dham, about Vaishnavs, then we will be
able to serve in the Lord's abode. Such faith must be there."
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15 February 2020 (Preaching Programme in West Bengal)
My Question to You
"Once again, we have gathered here as each year. You have all assembled
here—so many people listen to Hari-katha, listen to the message of the Lord.
We have been practising hearing and chanting in the line of pure devotion for
so many years, but...."
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MARCH 2020
2 March 2020 (Sri Nrisingha Palli, morning class)
Sri Nabadwip Dham Pracharani
Sobha
"Actually, by the mercy of Gurudev, we are starting to arrange the parikrama
of Sri Sri Nabadwip Dham. This year, we started the arrangement many days
before. You can see in the internet that we have been doing 'Sri Nabadwip
Dham Pracharani Sobha'..."
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Prime Festival
"Gurudev wrote a very nice poem, you can read it and see how strongly he is
writing about Sri Nabadwip Dham parikrima. And Gurudev told me to go
door to door, come inside each door and please pull them to come and join Sri
Nabadwip Dham parikrama..."
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Importance of Sri Nabadwip
Dham
"We must understand clearly how important Sri Nabadwip Dham is. All the
demigods do not get a chance to serve the Lord, but they also want to be born
in a human body to serve the Lord, they wait, 'What will I get a human body
and serve the Lord?'"
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Watch Your Step
"We must utilise our life in this way. Do you undertand it? We must think how
much our devotional life is increasing, we must think when we increase our
devotion. It is necessary to think about this. And we must not ask the Lord
for anything."
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Material Greed
"People worship Me and ask Me to fulfil their material desires, but I am not
a fool. They want to take soil, eat cow dung and stool, but I will not give
it to them. Instead, I will give them Myself, then they will forget all about
these material desires."
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Undaunted Devotion
"Always be careful. When we have some material desires, we cannot understand
Krishna consciousness because when your material desires are very strong,
then you cannot hear properly. This is what happened once to Chitraketu."
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2 March 2020 (evening class)
Evening Kirtans
• Vandana • Krsna haite sevon mukha • Sri Guru charana-padma • Sri Krishna
Chaitanya Prabhu daya kara more • Ohe Vaishnava Thakura dayara sagara
• Nitai-pada-kamala • Emona durmati samsara bhitare • Gaya Gora madhur
svare.
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Complete Engagement
"Everybody has got birth and entered this world, but we do not know what will
happen in our life—that depends upon the Lord. We must use this body for the
service of the Lord—we must use all senses, all parts of this body, mind,
etc. properly."
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Our Target
"Sri Sri Nabadwip Dham parikrama is very important for our life. What
is necessary so to preach Krishna consciousness—to preach the message of Sri
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, to go door to door. This is the main thing in our
lives."
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Loving Service
"A husband loves his wife, or a child loves his parents—we must serve the
Lord with even more love and affection than that. We must really, truly
understand these things."
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Selfless and
Unconditional Service
"Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Sometimes there is some
comparison of the devotees of Krishna and the devotees of Lord Rama. We must
be anxious to make our Guru and Vaishnavs happy. This is our main purpose in
life."
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Double Lock Your Mouth
"I want to tell you something about the obstacles in our spiritual life.
Besides that, Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur, and Srila Gurudev
also, always warn us against para-charcha. Always keep yourself
engaged. Those who criticise others do not realise what it does to their
practising life."
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Concentrate On Your Life
"When we speak Hari-katha, it is easy to say things, but it is very difficult
to actually apply it for ourselves. It is necessary to practise it yourself
first. We say we will start practising from tomorrow, but no—start now. There
is no time."
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Hanuman's Service Drive
"I will give you some example of Hanuman's love for Rama, of his desire to
serve Rama. We can see how much Ramachandra loves Hanuman and how much
Hanuman loves Him. It is necessary to have such service desire."
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Plane of Faith
"If you have no faith, then it is a problem. Our life is always based on
faith. This is what our guru-varga and Gurudev say—we must have faith in
that. We must tell, tell, and tell ourselves that every day, then faith will
come."
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Concluding kirtans
His Divine Grace concludes the evening class on 2 March 2020 with
'Sarvasva tomara charane sampiya' and 'Hari Haraye Nama Krsna'.
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3 March 2020 (Evening Programme)
Sri Nrisingha Palli : evening kirtans
His Divine Grace Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj chants Vandana prayers and
holy kirtans prior to the evening class:
• Sri Guru charana-padma
• Sri Krishna Chaitanya Prabhu daya kara
more
• Ohe Vaishnava Thakura dayara sagara
• Nitai-pada-kamala
• Emona durmati samsara bhitare
• Gaya Gora madhur svare
• Jaya Radha-Madhava
• Hare Krishna maha-mantra
• Jaya-dhvani.
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Parikrama Plan
"We are very happy that our Sri Nabadwip Dham parikrama is going to
start soon. However, there is one thing that you all must remember. From next
year, our parikrama will be five days, independent from where we do
it—from the main Math or from here."
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"By seeing you all I become blessed and inspired"
Srila Bhakti Kusum Ashram Maharaj's speech in English during the evening
class: "First of all, I would like to offer my humble obeisances to Srila
Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj who all these years has been proceeding this
Sri Nabadwip Dham with Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math, representing the Founder
Acharya of this Mission, Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj,
as well as his beloved disciple and successor Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda
Dev-Goswami Maharaj..."
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Parikrama: More Than
Pilgrimage (1)
"You all say that you will come and tolerate so many austerities wherever I
am. Hearing and seeing this, I get enthusiasm to do this parikrama.
There is one thing, however, that I have never told any year, but I want to
say it today."
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Parikrama: More Than
Pilgrimage (2)
"We come, dance and say 'Hari bol! Hari bol!' but we have not been able to
capture anything within our hearts. We have only seen some beautiful
buildings, temples, etc. You go to Mayapur, you goggle at great buildings,
many things, etc. but this is not the point! You must understand what is the
result of this parikrama."
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Parikrama: More Than
Pilgrimage (3)
"You must not imitate the behaviour of the Guru and Vaishnavs. There are such
people in our country. Such aul, baul, kartabhaja, neda, etc. people
chant kirtan showing ecstasy, they do so many things, but true saints
do not behave in this way."
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Parikrama: More Than
Pilgrimage (4)
"Many also cannot come, but we do not know when we have to leave this world.
However, you all have come here despite all the difficulties, you are
fortunate. This is your own house, and I am your own."
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Parikrama: More Than
Pilgrimage (5)
"I also pray to you all—I pray that your feet dust will always remain on my
head. You must not come to grasp my feet; rather, if I can take the feet dust
of all those who come to do this parikrama, then I will consider myself
fortunate."
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4 March 2020 (Morning Bengali class; Adhivas of Sri
Nabadwip Dham parikrama)
Charity Begins at Home: Practise
Yourself First
"We can say many things, but the main thing is to what extent can we actually
manifest it in ourselves? It is easy to say these things, but it is very
difficult to practise these things in our life. To what extent do we
practise it ourselves?"
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Kirtan-Seva
"You must always remember how we must practise Krishna consciousness
properly. It is necessary to wake up early, to come for the
mangal-arati, to chant kirtans in the morning. Bhagavan Gaura
Hari is always satisfied through kirtan-seva..."
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Stay Within Service
Line
"Always remember that you are all members of this Chaitanya Saraswat family.
If you leave this family, you will be in danger—you can be removed from the
service of the Lord. Gurudev has taken you out of maya's family and
made you all members of Krishna's family. This is your great fortune."
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"Give Me Your Mercy"
"I know what I am saying is heavy and you may not like it. When Gurudev gives
you service, that is his mercy, but instead, when Gurudev gives you service,
you forget about it. When you call me, you keep telling me, 'Gurudev, please
give me your mercy!' but you think that it is not necessary to do what I have
told you to do."
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Soul-Searching and
Hole-Searching
"You can examine yourself and check it yourself—you are practising Krishna
consciousness, you are chanting kirtans, chanting many rounds of the
Holy Name, but are you getting the result?"
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Service Hardships
"If some obstacles or danger come when you are doing service to the Lord,
this is the Lord's mercy. What is more important, the guru or his photo? What
is bigger, the word of the scripture or the word of the guru?"
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4 March 2020 (Late afternoon programme, prior to evening
arati; Sri Nabadwip Dham Parikrama adhivas)
Late Afternoon Kirtans
Entering the assembly of Vaishnavs and devotees, His Divine Grace Om
Vishnupad Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj chants several kirtans before commencing
the pre-arati late afternoon class: •
Parama karuna • Gaurangera duti pada • Yasosa Nandana Krsna • Hare Krsna maha-mantra
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Careless Life
"The Name of Krishna is so sweet. Always remember what I am telling you. When
you lose appetite, you become worried, but when you chant the Holy Name less,
it should worry you even more. Still, we do not want to chant the Holy
Name..."
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Bankarai Krishna's
Trick
"On the one hand, the Lord says He will not give you material things, and on
the other hand, He says that He will give you material things. How can that
be? Krishna is known as Bankarai, it means He is very crafty—whenever
something goes one way, Krishna always finds a clever way around it."
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Patita-Pavan
"We worship Lord Sri Krishna, who is so merciful, but Gauranga Mahaprabhu is
even more merciful. Nityananda Prabhu said, 'Prabhu, what are you doing? If
You do not rescue them, then why is Your name patita-pavan?'"
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Stench of Barren
Hearts
"The holy narrations about the Lord—Sri Rupa-Raghunath katha—will never
enter our ears and will never take a seat within our hearts for as long as we
have material desires. Srila Gaura Kishor Das Babaji Maharaj said very
beautiful words..."
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Chitraketu's Example
"Always remember this and always be alert. Whatever your situation is—whether
you live in a forest, in a jungle or anywhere else—always chant the Holy
Name, and you will get supreme benefit."
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Evening Arati
Amidst holy Vaishnavs and fortunate devotees, His Divine Grace Om
Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj leads the evening arati at Sri
Nrisingha Palli Temple chanting •
Nitai Chaitanya arati • Gaura Arati
and • Saraswat Arati.
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4 March 2020 (Evening class, Bengali; Sri Nabadwip Dham
Parikrama adhivas)
Live In Sadhu-Sanga
"It is necessary to keep good association. Do not gossip, do not discuss
'village talks,' 'village news'—only glorify Lord Krishna, only glorify the
Supreme Lord, then you will get supreme benefit."
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Entering Line of
Devotion
"Bona fide disciples always place the order of their Guru on their heads and
follow that. Many think, 'I have taken initiation from a very big guru.'
There is no question of somebody being a big guru or a small guru. When you
get enrolled into a school, you must study and practise."
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Qualities in Vaishnav
Domain
"When it comes to Vaishnavs, there is no question of someone being small or
big, this is not external, material world where people judge who is whose
disciple, where people think that you must pay obeisance only to those who
are older. Everybody has different kind of devotion, and everybody should be
given honour."
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4 March 2020 (First day of Sri Nabadwip Dham parikrama,
evening Bengali class)
Evening Kirtans
His Divine Grace Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Nirmal Acharya Maharaj chants
the glories of the Lord and Vaishnavs amidst the holy assembly at the evening
programme on the first day of Sri Nabadwip Dham parikrama:
• Vandanam
• Gurudev bada krpa kara
• Sri Krishna Chaitanya Prabhu jive daya kari'
• Thakura Vaishnava-gana
• Nitai-guna-mani amara
• Yadi Gaura na ha'ta tabe ki ha-ita
• Hari Hari viphale janama
• Hare Krishna maha-mantra
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Preparing for
Parikrama of Antardwip
"Tomorrow is the parikrama of Sri Antardwip, it is the island of
atma-nivedan, or saranagati. We sing about 'goptrtve varan'
(embracing Lord's guirdianship), but these only words for us—we do not apply
it in our own lives. We forget that Krishna protects us."
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6 March 2020 (Second day of Sri Nabadwip Dham parikrama,
evening Bengali class)
Dham-Consciousness
"Walk here with your head and heart. Every single particle of dust here is
the holy dust from the lotus feet of Vaishnavs and great souls who are here
in Sri Nabadwip Dham. All demigods come here and roll in the holy dust of
this abode, but we cannot see it."
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World of Spiritual
Practice
"Do you know what is the most important thing? The main thing is that we must
practise Krishna consciousness... The problem is that we cannot tolerate
anything, we have little patience. Can you not manage without grains on
ekadasi? If you try, you definitely can."
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28 March 2020 (Special class for worldwide devotees)
World Pandemic: Use Your
Time Wisely
"All over the world, all devotees at this moment always think and are always
afraid of COVID-19, coronavirus. We cannot do anything about it—when the time
comes, we will have to leave our body. However, as many days as we may have,
we must not waste our time! Now that all the devotees are always in their
house, it is a good time—they can read many books such as Srimad
Bhagavatam, Chaitanya-charitamrita and all our good books. They
can concentrate their mind on Krishna consciousness and chant more rounds of
the Holy Name. They can do more service in their houses."
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World Pandemic: The Only
Relief
"In this situation that is happening in this world, only the chanting of the
Holy Name, only service to the Lord can give relief to us. We must think
about this, we must tell others to please avoid eating fish, meat, avoid this
kind of sinful works."
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Nurture Faith and
Faithfulness
"You can serve by following my instruction. My instruction is chanting the
Holy Name, not to spend time always thinking nonsense things, and to always
practise the panchanga. Do this properly, read our Math's books. I
have published many books, read those books."
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Where There Is a Will There Is a
Way
"Answers to questions: How should we act if somebody offends us? How can we
concentrate our mind when chanting? How can we get relief from ego? How
should I instruct my child? How can we develop sincerity and enthusiasm in
our service?"
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Advice to Householder
Devotees
"The husband will work. The wife will cook, offer the bhog, take the offered
prasadam first, and then the husband will take the remnants after her. That
is Srila Gaura Kishor Das Babaji Maharaj's advice..."
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"Try Your Best"
"We must try to rectify ourselves. We are everybody's servants. When you take
initiation, you do not become a devotee—you only get admission into a
spiritual school, but after that you must practise. You will become perfect
through practise."
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Proper Service Is Chaste
Service
"So, there are different ways to satisfy the Lord or satisfy your guru. There
is not only one source. Whatever service Gurudev gives me, I must do it
attentively, with faith, and without thinking about other things."
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Be Careful and Wise
"Do not worry—Krishna will arrange everything. It is not necessary to think
about anything. None of us knows what His arrangement is, but whatever
arrangement it is, I can say that it will be good for devotees. Krishna is
always with His devotees."
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APRIL 2020
2 April 2020 (Sri Rama-Navami, appearance of Lord
Ramachandra)
Rama-Avatar
"Today is a very good day—the appearance day of Lord Ramachandra. There are
different kinds of moods—santa, dasya, sakhya, vatsalya, madhura-rasa.
Moreover, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and the Lord are also different.
You can easily understand it from the difference between Rama-lila and
Krishna-lila."
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Reading from Guidance 4
"I am writing here something comparing the pastimes of Ramachandra and the
pastimes of Krsihna-chandra, as well as Nanda Maharaj and Vasudev's
vatsalya-rasa..."
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Peculiarity of Lord's
Pastimes
"I have read Ramayan, but I am telling you the gist point... There are
many incarnations—Narayan, Ramachandra, Vamanadev, Balaram, and others, but
Krishna is the full Supreme Personality of Godhead. However, Gaura-lila is
even higher..."
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5 April 2020 (Holy Disappearance Day of Srila B.S. Govinda
Dev-Goswami Maharaj)
Unthinkable Situation
"Today is our Gurudev's disappearance tithi. Actually, never in my
life did I expect that this day could come. When this tithi is coming,
I always try to stay alone, but Gurudev gave me service to take care of you
all, then how can I be cruel and stay alone?"
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"Gurudev Is My
Everything"
"We must not misinterpret what Gurudev told. Devotees all over the world can
realise easily what is Srila Sridhar Maharaj's conception, what is Gurudev's
conception, and they can understand whether they are following it or not.
Your main focus must be always to please your Guru properly. Name and fame is
for your guru—you must not preach for your name and fame, you must preach to
please your guru."
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Tirobhav kirtans
His Divine Grace sings • Gurudev
krpa bindu diya • Emona durmati • Ye anila prema dhana • Sri rupa manjari pada • Hari haraye.
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26 April 2020 (Speaking to devotees worldwide)
No Quarantine in
Practising Life
"It has been one month now since we have been indoors. It is a little boring,
but we cannot do anything. This disease can affect our body and make us sick,
that is why we must be always careful. We keep social distance, but not
mental distance—not heart distance."
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Heart of Devotional
Life
"We can leave this world at any moment, we do not even know if we will stay
in this world until tomorrow; but even if we stay only until tomorrow, we can
still chant the Holy Name, we can remember our guru-varga, their
instruction—that will be good for us."
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Proper Receiver and Proper
Mother
"(1) To be a proper receiver actually means
you must attentively concentrate your mind, concentrate your life and think
only how to fulfil Gurudev's desire, how to make Gurudev happy, how to make
the Lord happy. (2) If a mother becomes a
good devotee herself, then she will be able to teach her children Krishna
consciousness properly with her good association."
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Meaning of Chastity
"Chastity is a very high thing. Those who have chastity, do not think about
anything else, they do not want to hear anything else, they do not want to
listen to anything else, they do not want to know anything else—they only
know their Guru."
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Embarking On New Life
"Today is your chance, you have got this opportunity to be admitted to this
spiritual school, but only taking initiation, only taking shelter of a Guru
is not sufficient—you must serve under the guidance of your Guru after
that."
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Go Forward
"Everybody is now staying at home—what are you all doing? Krishna has given
you this time to practise. Chant the Holy Name, chant all kirtans,
read books. Do whatever you can according to your capacity. Jump to the Lord
and give everything to Him!"
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MAY 2020
3 May 2020 (Speaking online to worldwide devotees)
Your Golden Opportunity
"The whole world is shaking thinking we will die, but this is the time to
chant the glories of the Lord—to glorify Bhagavan Krishna's Name, beauty,
pastimes. That is why the Lord has brought this kind of situation (this
lockdown) into our lives."
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Pass Your Life in
Service
"It is the religion of the ears, eyes, mind to always want to listen to some
interesting things, to all kinds of stories, bad things; but we have no
attachment to our service... If I am attached to my service, I will always
ignore bad things, bad talks, stories. Now is the time. Pass your life in
service."
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How to Increase
Surrender
"Saranagati comes when you follow 100% what Gurudev told—you should
try to follow 200%, then if your attempt will perhaps turn out less, it will
be 100%. Always try to listen to what your Guru says, always think how to
fulfil Gurudev's desire."
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No Such Thing As
Personal Affairs
"You must be open—you must give everything to your Guru. Keep all your
personal things, everything at your Guru's lotus feet. We must realise how we
can involve ourselves, involve our own things in the service of the
Lord."
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Everything Has Its
Limit
"If you do wrong every day and you know it, it is not good. Mercy has its
limit. Gurudev will not say anything, but he can tolerate it for some time,
and if you keep on doing wrong every day, then Gurudev's tolerance has its
limit. One day seva will run away from you."
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Affection for Devotees
"Love and affection for devotees increases by serving without offence, by
chanting the Holy Name without offence, by practising properly and by not
keeping in your heart any bad intention: envy is a disease, pratistha
is a very big disease."
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Life Sacrifice
"Gurudev told me, 'If somebody wants to chant this Holy Name, if somebody
wants to join the family of Krishna and wants to spend the rest of their life
living a spiritual life, you can give initiation to them.' It is necessary to
sacrifice your life for the service of the Lord."
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6 May 2020 (Appearance of Lord Nrisinghadev, online
class)
Sri Nrisingha-Chaturdasi:
Auspicious Day
"Today is a very auspicious day—the appearance day of Sri Nrisinghadev. Every
year we make a big festival for Lord Nrisinghadev. On this day, I am also
remembering our beloved Gurudev because he joined Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math
on the appearance day of Lord Nrisinghadev."
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10 May 2020
Devotional Lifestyle
"By the mercy of Gurudev, you get the relationship with the Lord, and if you
are a good practitioner, you will take care of your practising life by
controlling these six urges. Those who can tolerate these six urges and who
take shelter of the Holy Name of Krishna, are always victorious."
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Undevotional Lifestyle
"If we think that we have these faults, then we must always try to reduce
them, we must always try to avoid these faults because these faults slowly,
slowly destroy your devotion. It is necessary to control the six urges and it
is necessary to remove the six faults."
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Six Good Qualities
"You must always make yourself busy with the service of the Lord, with all
kinds of devotional activities. When we pray in the Vaishnav song, we ask for
six good qualities, and it is necessary to have such qualities."
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"May I Always Remain a
Disciple"
"Actually, what I am telling is not so easy to practise, but I am also
thinking that I must speak about it—if I keep telling about it again and
again, then if I listen to it myself all the time, I will be able to practise
it properly one day, too."
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Be in Good Association and Be Good
Association
"(1) Sometimes, we are staying with some bad
association, sometimes we may live together, but we must ignore and avoid
such kind of association. (2) It is
necessary to be a proper mother—to be a mother like Yasoda, a mother like
Sachi Mata, not a mother like Kaikeyi."
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Krishna's Arrangement
"Krishna is always powerful, Krishna can do anything. Even what is meant to
happen may not happen, and what is not mean to happen may happen. It is not
necessary to be worried about it. Who will commit suicide, who will leave,
who will stay—everything is Krishna's arrangement."
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First Requirement
"Your mind tells you, 'Oh, it is necessary to relax'—do not listen to your
mind. Tell yourself, 'I have service, and I must do that service first.' It
is necessary to do what is required, and your first requirement is your
service."
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17 May 2020
Mahaprabhu's
Teachings (1): No False Renunciation
"A house is not a place for only enjoyment—your house is Krishna's house,
Vaishnavs' house, guru-varga's house, your house is meant for the
service of the Lord. It is not necessary to show monkey renunciation—you can
keep your house, enjoy your life but without material attachment. Be sincere
in your heart, practise with heart and soul."
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Mahaprabhu's
Teachings (2): Never Stop Your Krishna-Sankirtan
"Engage in Krishna-seva, Guru-seva, Vaishnav-seva always, non-stop. Chant the
Holy Name when you are working, taking prasadam, cooking, cutting vegetables.
Always chant the Holy Name, incessantly. Never stop your
Krishna-sankirtan."
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Mahaprabhu's
Teachings (3): No Caste Consideration
"Those who come from a lower caste, who come from a mlechha family, who come
from some bad family, are not unfit to worship the Lord—they also have the
qualification, the right to chanting the Name of the Lord."
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Mahaprabhu's
Teachings (4): Pillars of Renunciation
"At first, Mahaprabhu told Srila Raghunath Das Goswami to go back to his
house, but after that his house became unfavourable to practising Krishna
consciousness, so Mahaprabhu arranged for Srila Raghunath Das Goswami to come
and meet with Him. At that time, Mahaprabhu gave him advice, 'What will a
vairagi do?'...."
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Mahaprabhu's
Teachings (5): Exclusive Dharma
"We must know the message of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, and we must know what
for we must practise, what is necessary in our spiritual life, what are the
main things in our spiritual life. Actually, there are not so many main
things."
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Questions and Answers
• Can a lady lead Nagar-sankirtan?
• What is the difference between Gokula
and Goloka?
• Guru as Radharani or Guru as
Nityananda Prabhu?
• Diksa-guru and siksa-guru
• Ratha-yatra
• Daily kirtans.
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24 May 2020
Our Mantra
"Our main mantra is this: we must concentrate our mind, all our
senses, our everything in one place—at the lotus feet of Srila Gurudev. Srila
Gurudev is our only hope, we have no other way. Only Sri Gurudev can take us
to the Lord and engage us in the service of the Lord. We must have a greatest
desire for that, then one day we will get an opportunity to engage in
service."
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Exclusive Devotional
Life
"Always keep yourself engaged in the services of the Lord from the beginning
of the day, from the mangal-arati early in the morning, until you go
to sleep. We must think, 'How can I serve devotees more? How can I follow
Gurudev's guidance properly?'"
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Dham-Seva
"There are many ways you can do dham-seva. Our guru-varga make
temples in many holy places, and you can help and serve those places in
whichever way you can, depending on how much capacity you have. Not everybody
has the capacity to give money, but if everybody gives their heart, their
support, that is sufficient."
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Dealing with
Misconception
"When you go to sell your things, you will always preach in favour of your
things. Every shopkeeper always praises his own shop—one shopkeeper says, 'My
shop's sweets are very nice,' and other shopkeepers will also say, 'My sweets
are very nice,' and you can decide which is better only if you taste the
sweets."
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Sri Ramananda Sambad
"Raya Ramananda is actually an incarnation of Visakha. Mahaprabhu met
Ramananda Raya for the first time on the bank of the Godavari in South India.
Mahaprabhu was sitting and waiting for him..."
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Questions and Answers (1)
• Do we come to this line by our free
will or is it a pre-defined fate?
• Raya Ramananda's service
• Building temple against government rules?
• Drinking milk and suffering cows?
• Using Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math's
name for preaching?
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Questions and Answers (2)
• Reading scriptures on our own?
• News after the recent cyclone amphan
• How to keep service enthusiasm?
• Can we sew a white outfit for Srimati
Radharani?
• How to recognise who is a Vaishnav?
• What does 'prabhu' mean in Srila Guru
Maharaj's arati song?
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31 May 2020
Your Love and Affection
"I can see devotees' faces and remember Gurudev. When I see them, when I
remember their good association, good things always come to my heart, to my
mind. Because everybody is giving so much love and affection to me, I am
alive and I can survive."
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Sacred Chamber of
Devotional Mood
"When a country's soldiers join the military life, they promise that they
will give their life for the country. In the same way, when we join Krishna
consciousness, we must promise that we will give our life for Gurudev. This
life is not for others! This life is for Gurudev."
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"How Much Will You
Sacrifice?"
"This human life is not for behaving like animals. We are not animals. We
have some other service here. There are so many services. Do not be lazy.
Krishna has given you this opportunity to pay more attention to the service
of the Lord in your house."
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Service Abode of
Eternal Happiness
"When transcendental feeling comes to you, you will not think about any
disease or anything else. There is no suffering in the eternal abode of
Goloka Vrindavan. We should realise the nature of that happiness. It is
possible to understand that happiness through service. Pure spiritual souls
are always happy."
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Simplicity and
Duplicity
• Simplicity — "to be a
Vaishnav, to be a sadhu, you must first be simple. Do not be a 'zigzag'
person. Simplicity comes through practice, and how one practises depends upon
the practitioner."
• Duplicity — "if you chant the
Holy Name without offence, then you can feel that Krishna's Name, beauty,
pastimes are non-different from Krishna. But if you chant the Holy Name and
think about other things, if you have material desires, then you will not
feel anything."
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Practitioner's Pure
Pride
"We are servants of the Lord, servants of Gurudev. That is our quality. That
is our designation. There is no question of pride here. We are servants, we
are dogs of our Guru, that is our pride. When you become a proper servitor of
Gurudev, then your material pride will automatically leave you."
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Questions and Answers
• A follow-up on ladies leading
sankirtan and playing the mridanga
• How does the gayatri mantra help us?
• How to serve Gurudev without thinking
what benefit I get from it?
• How to maintain faith that
Krishna will protect us?
• Why did Srila Gadadhar Pandir never go
to Vrindavan?
• How can we fight pratistha?
• What is the proper way to ask
questions?
• Should we
be affectionate only with Vaishnavs or with everybody?
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JUNE 2020
4 June 2020 (Danda-Mahotsav of Srila Raghunath Das Goswami
in Sri Panihati)
Srila
Raghunath Das Goswami's Exemplary Pastimes
"Today is an important day. Nityananda Prabhu's mercy, that is non-different
from Gurudev's mercy, is very important for devotees. Without the mercy of
Gurudev, without the mercy of Nityananda Prabhu, we cannot reach our proper
destination—we cannot reach Chaitanya Mahaprabhu or Lord Krishna. This is the
main meaning of this festival."
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Give Your Life for
Service
"Everybody has to leave this world, but for as many days as we stay in this
world, we must serve and give love and affection to devotees. We must give
our heart, mind, body, speech, everything for the service of devotees and
Srila Gurudev."
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Perfect House Life
"You can stay in householder life, you can stay in your house, but that house
must be always a place for practising Krishna consciousness. People create a
comfortable life for themselves, enjoy with their family and everything, but
these are not proper grihasthas."
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Pride and Devotion
"When our heart and eyes become clean, then we can see everything. Because
our eyes are too much full of dust of maya, we cannot see proper things.
Devotion means a very strong attachment, love and affection for Krishna
consciousness."
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Gaudiya Siddhanta
"Nityananda Prabhu knows who is Lord Krishna, who is Lord Chaitanya
Mahaprabhu, but He is more involved with Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Our life
is also like this. We cannot think of our life without our Gurudev."
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Practise More and
Better
"You must always stay within service. You must practise and practise every
day, with attachment to your service. Also, you must think tonight what
service you will do tomorrow and how you can improve and increase that
service."
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7 June 2020
Latest News
"I came back from yesterday in the evening. I had been to Nabadwip, Nrisingha
Palli, and also Mamgachi, Srila Vrindavan Das Thakur's place. I am trying to
do some service in Nabadwip Dham. I cannot do service alone, but everybody is
helping me, and because of their help, by the mercy of Gurudev, I am able to
fulfil his desire."
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Initiating and
Self-Declared Gurus: Open Address to Members of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat
Math
"It is my humble request to all of our devotees to listen to what I am
saying. I am telling you what is Gurudev's opinion. I have been quiet for so
many years, but I am asked all these questions and if I keep quiet, then
everybody will think that I support it. There are so many things that I
should clarify."
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Permanent Solution
"What Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math gives is the proper treatment—it gives
treatment to the jiva soul. If you give medicine to people, that is
only a temporary protection, but what Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math gives, is a
permanent solution."
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Chaste Service
Consciousness
"If somebody wants to take initiation, they must follow Sri Chaitanya
Saraswat Math's line; they must follow the rules and regulation. They must
always take prasadam, always chant the Holy Name, and engage in service. You
are not a servant of Krishna—if you are ready to become a servant of
devotees, then you can take shelter of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math."
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Service Without
Sahajiyaism
"You must do service under the guidance of Gurudev, then you will know what
is necessary to do. We are not independent, we are always under the guidance
of Gurudev. We do not want to be sahajiyas. Vraja-basis do
raga-marga seva, but we must follow viddhi-marga."
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Perfect Vision
"We are told to be slow and steady, but when some service is going on, we
sometimes do it fast because everybody's character is not the same. Being
slow does not mean laziness. If you keep a perfect aim and continue steadily
to your aim, then you will succeed."
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14 June 2020
Service Code
"We always do service with some little fault, little mistake, and the Lord
does not easily accept such service, but if we ask great Vaishnavs, Gurudev,
for forgiveness, they will always forgive us. That is why, it will be good if
we serve the Lord through Gurudev."
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Love for Guru, Not
Yourself
"We are becoming very selfish—we always think about ourselves, about our own
happiness, but we do not know whether happiness will come or not. The
happiness you get in this material life is very temporary. We must realise
what it means to be a proper disciple and we must try to be proper disciples
of our Guru."
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Service Eagerness and
Attachment
"This pure conception of Krishna consciousness is very sweet. It is necessary
to connect with it and to have faith, proper surrender, humility, tolerance,
and to give honour to others. Be patient. Do not be proud. Always reject
pratistha. We are tiny servitors, but we will try to do small
service."
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Our Greatest Aspiration
"We sometimes cannot consider ourselves a proper disciple—we always consider
ourselves a guru. That is the problem in our life. We have no quality, no
qualification to serve Vaishnavs, but the Guru and Vaishnavs are always very
kind, they will accept our service, so relying on their kindness, we will try
to serve them properly."
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Treasure of Devotion
"Everybody will die one day, but you have got this human body, so what is
your duty? We are not meant to live like cats and dogs. We have got so many
facilities—eyes, mouth, ears, etc. What will we do with them?"
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Questions and Answers
• How to be tolerant internally, not
just show it externally?
• What is sahajiya bhajan?
• How can we use everything in service,
even sad and dangerous things?
• How can we know that Gurudev is happy
with us?
• Western style offerings are out of place
in India?
• How can my child get sukriti to live in
Krishna consciousness?
• How to concentrate on
Krishna consciousness when mind is distracted?
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21 June 2020 (Disappearance day of Srila Bhaktivinod
Thakur, Srila Gadadhar Pandit Goswami)
Observing Gundicha
Marjan
"Tomorrow is Gundicha Marjan, everybody will join it. You should clean the
place where you are staying, and also clean your heart through chanting the
Hare Krishna maha-mantra. Clean your hearts through sravan and
kirtan, through practising."
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23 June 2020 (Sri Ratha Yatra festival)
Special Day of Special
Mercy
"By the mercy of Gurudev and Lord Jagannath, Baladev, Subhadra, we are
present here today, and, even though we are so far, we pay our obeisance to
Them from here. I spend this Ratha-yatra time in Puri every year, but even
though this year we could not go there, my mind, my heart, and everything is
still in Puri with all the devotees."
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Follow Rules and
Regulations
"You must follow rules and regulations. Always. Follow rules and regulations
properly. This is good for everybody. Our line is strict about it and we
should follow these things. I know it is easy to say it, but it is hard to
follow it."
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Serving Gaura Nitai
Deities
"The correct vision regarding Deities is that you must serve with love and
affection, with full faith. It is actually a little difficult to serve Radha
Krishna and Mahaprabhu, it is easier to serve Nitai Gauranga because They are
always merciful and do not take any offence."
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Eternal Humble Prayer
"'When will You place Your lotus feet on my head? I have no quality, no
qualification, I am such a tiny thing—please accept me as Your dog.
Please...' Always pray and cry to the Lord in this way. You say, 'Yes, I am
giving everything to you,' but in the meantime you always keep the key with
you. This is not surrender."
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Dangerous Query
"Different Vaishnavs have different vision. They are all our
guru-varga and we cannot make any offence to our guru-varga. We
must give respect to what they do. That is our simplicity and our tradition.
We do not think, 'Why did he do this?' What they have done is final for
us."
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Closing Kirtan
His Divine Grace chants 'Hari Haraye Nama Krsna' and a little of the
kirtan lines usually sung in Jagannath Puri Dham.
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28 June 2020
Asadhu-Sanga Saps
Spiritual Strength
"If there is some fault in your heart, if you do some wrong and, thinking
that nobody can see you doing it, you continue doing wrong, then it will
slowly increase, and it will harm your spiritual life. We must always avoid
bad association."
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Be Responsible for Your
Spiritual Life
"We must be responsible for our service and for our spiritual life, otherwise
Guru and Vaishnavs will not be happy. Being responsible for your service is
one of the main qualities of a servitor. It is necessary to have proper
dedication and to always accept the advice of your guardian. We should not
follow our mind. If we can follow all these things, then it can give a proper
solution to all our problems."
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Turn Your House Into
Temple
"You can turn your house into a temple. Your house can be Goloka Vrindavan.
What kind of house is that? It is a house where proper practising is going on
every day. You can practise all the things that proper householders practise.
What is the problem?"
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On Ego and Envy
"Ego can also be good if you think, 'I am a servant of devotees.' However,
envy is much worse than ego—envy is not given any place. Envy takes one to a
helpless position. If you have envy or jealousy, it is easy for you to go to
hell."
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Emotion and Devotion
"Practise and practise, and when you make yourself perfect, then it will
manifest in your dealings, in your behaviour, in your humility, etc. that you
have become perfect—then you can easily understand what is the difference
between emotion and devotion."
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Applying Intelligence
• Is it important to study the meaning of slokas and scriptures? • We
should ask our guardian, but I do not want to bother you; • How can we avoid
quarrelling and fighting? • If somebody speaks bad about our guru-parampara,
speaks nonsense, or does nonsense, how do we see Krishna in that?
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Waning Values
"Gurudev said that the storekeeper or the temple manager will be the one who
always thinks about everybody. A manager is a great servant, a big guardian.
You must be a real mother. But this kind of love and affection is not there
any more..."
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Abode of Highest
Pastimes
"Whether Vrindavan is a village or a town, it does not matter. What matters
is that Vrindavan is the highest place because, firstly, our guru-varga has
said so, and, secondly, because we can see what pastimes go on in
Vrindavan."
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JULY 2020
5 July 2020 (Sri Guru Purnima)
Sri Guru Purnima:
Remembrance Day
"Today is a very good and auspicious day, the day of Sri Guru Purnima. On
this day, we can pray to our Gurudev that he may engage us in service more
and more, so that we could progress in our spiritual life, so that we could
submit ourselves to him as a devotee."
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Sri Guru Purnima Kirtans (2020)
His Divine Grace sings:
• Gurudev krpa bindu diya
• Kabe Sri Chaitanya more karibena daya
• Akrodha paramananda Nityananda Raya
• Sarvasva tomara charane sampiya
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Sri Guru Purnima
Address
"My body is here, but my heart, my mind, my everything is with you. I am
always thinking about you, I am always thinking about your good, how you can
become better and better, how you can run the mission more and more
successfully. Any service I can help you with, I will always try to do it,
and I will try my best. That is my promise on this Guru Purnima day."
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Will-O'-the-Wisp of
Worldly Wishes
"If you give Maya chance, then Maya will attack you. As soon as you get a
weak spot, Maya will attack you. It does not matter whether you are young or
old. If you try to control your elements, you can control them
from a young age."
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Eternal Priorities
"You cannot follow all the very strict rules that the six goswamis
followed properly in Vrindavan. So, think only about doing your service
properly, about practising properly, about avoiding bad association
properly—give much importance to all this."
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Questions and Answers
• Should we associate with those who cannot rectify themselves? • What is
full surrender? • What is guru-seva? • Can we serve prasadam while it is
being offered at the altar? • Do jiva souls have bodies in Vaikuntha? • Can
devotees have programmes in meat-eaters' households?
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12 July 2020
Price of Mercy
"There are things that money cannot buy. You can never buy love and affection
with money. The kind of mercy of Gurudev you will get depends on your
devotion, your faith. If you always think about yourself, you will not
understand it. If you cannot sacrifice your life properly for the service to
your Guru, then what kind of surrender have you done?"
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Disciples' Plight
"We have taken initiation from Gurudev, but we do not know what the relation
between a Guru and a disciple should be like. You must sacrifice your life
for your Gurudev, for your Gurudev's mission, and your Gurudev's devotees. If
you can give your life for all this, then you can be considered a proper
disciple of your Gurudev."
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Plane of Adherence
"Always leave everything to the Lord—whatever His desire is, that will
happen. No one can stop it. It is not necessary to be afraid. If we surrender
ourselves to the Guru, to the Lord, then we will have no problem."
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'How Much Do You Hanker
In Your Heart?'
"It is not necessary to show your devotion externally. Always keep your
devotion in your heart. We are not going to talk in a public place about how
we worship and how we practise. How much do you hanker within yourself, in
your heart? That is the question..."
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No Hopscotchy Devotion
"You can worship Lord Siva, but do not come to Lord Siva with your material
things. We must give honour and worship Krishna's expansions, there is
nothing bad about it. Devotees should know everything—we cannot jump
immediately to Krishna."
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Simple Service, Earnest
Heart
"It is necessary to have the strongest faith. You cannot see everything with
your eyes. We will serve Mahaprabhu, devotees, our Guru, and whether they
accept it or not, that is up to them. Simple things are sufficient for
us."
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Debunking Proximity
Complex
"If you become too familiar with the Guru, you can make more offences. It is
very difficult to avoid it. Association means a heart-to-heart connection. It
is not a bodily association. We always give honour to Gurudev very
carefully."
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19 July 2020
Devotees' Humility
"Devotees are always humble. Whatever they do, they always think, 'Gurudev is
my own'—that is the real connection with Gurudev. Those who are qualified
will not tell anything about their practising life—they will only think that
they are simple, small persons who have no quality, no qualification. This is
how devotees show their devotion."
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Relation With Guru: Watch
Out
"Srila Gurudev gave much honour and much respect to everybody, both his
godbrothers and his disciples. However, a disciple should also understand—if
Gurudev gives me respect, it does not mean I will now jump and sit on his
head."
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Maintaining Gurudev's
Legacy
"They do something but they cannot understand how much offence they are
making. We must understand how to make Gurudev happy, how to follow Gurudev's
line, and how to maintain Gurudev's legacy. We must think about these
things."
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Worshipful Stance
"We chant the Holy Name, we practise kirtan, and we should do that in a
worshipful mood. We can only worship Radha-Krishna's combined form and their
lotus feet. We do not want to become sahajiyas. There are things that we must
understand within ourselves but cannot express to others."
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Emotion and Devotion
"If you stay with a great sadhu, if you practise properly, if you
follow rules and regulations, then your material desires will be removed.
I can challenge anyone that it is so. Devotion comes automatically through
humility, tolerance, giving honour to others, through proper practising."
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Exclusive Devotional
Vision
"We must follow our guru-varga's instruction and ideal. The main thing for us
is that we must make our Gurudev happy, so we will not come to pass judgement
about what Gurudev has told, we must follow whatever Gurudev says."
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Kali-Yuga's Saviour
"There are so many stories in this world, but we must follow scriptures—we do
not follow gossips. We must believe what Srimad Bhagavatam says. In
the age of Kali, it is necessary to give Krishna-prema through chanting of
the Holy Name."
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kirtan)
26 July 2020 (Speaking online to devotees in
Vijayawada)
Reaching Devotees'
Hearts
"You are very fortunate souls—you are all staying under the guidance of Srila
Rupa Goswami, Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur, you are practising
properly—it gives very much happiness to me."
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Perfect Result Comes Through Perfect Practice
Glory of our family members in Vijayawada: "When I was at your house,
I saw your service mood, and your mood is very pure and very perfect, you
have a simple heart. You all live perfectly and you make your Guru happy
properly. You understand how to reach the Lord and how to reach Goloka
Vrindavan. I am sure that you will get benefit through your service
mood."
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26 July 2020
Our Programme
"My service is that I want to make everybody happy. You are all Gurudev's
devotees, well-wishers, friends, that is why I want to serve you all. We
still cannot gather many people, but we are trying to preach and serve
devotees from afar as much as possible."
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Sanctity of Initiation
"What is called initiation? What is initiation about? People say, 'We all
know the Hare Krishna maha-mantra—we can chant it easily on our own
and get our benefit.' This is not so. We can chant, we can do service and
other things, but without proper guidance, without a guru, all our attempts
will be unscientific."
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Cooking: Integral
Part of Practising Life
"You must understand that when you come to practising life, you will get some
austerity. Try to practise properly. Try to change yourself. This is how you
can proceed in your spiritual life. I know it is sometimes very difficult,
but you must still try to follow what I am saying, you must still try to
cook, try to serve. That is good for you—you will get more energy for
service, you will get more happiness in your heart."
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Adjustment of
Consciousness
"You are the property of your Guru, you are not anybody else's property.
Devotees always practise wherever they go. If you are staying with some
nondevotees for some purpose, you are not going to stay there for a long
time, so stay there but you must practise there—you must chant,
etc."
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Royal Road to Success
"As many days we are alive, we will always remember our Guru, we will always
chant the Holy Names and we will always concentrate our mind on the service
of the Lord. That is the main thing for us, and this is what everybody should
follow."
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AUGUST 2020
2 August 2020
Step Up Your Service
"We should not waste our time on our own enjoyment, we must give our time for
the enjoyment and happiness of our Lord, our Gurudev. I know everybody will
be working, it is Monday, the first day of the week days, but we must still
do some service for Baladev Prabhu's appearance day. Remember this. If you
only fast and give some flower to Gurudev, that is not sufficient."
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Disciple's Core Quality
"To receive and digest chastisement, it is necessary to have tolerance. How
many devotees can tolerate chastisement? Very few. When Gurudev chastises
you, you must be quiet—you have no right to say a single word."
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On Cows and
Baladev-Tattva
"(1) Krishna likes cows, and if we can make cows happy,
Krishna will always be happy. (2) Sachi Mata understood
that Nityananda Prabhu was non-different from Baladev—that Baladev Himself
had come as Nityananda Prabhu."
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Sweeter Than the
Sweetest
"Krishna's pastimes are very sweet. Krishna's beauty, Krishna's pastimes,
Krishna's love, Krishna's smile, everything about Him is sweet, sweeter, and
sweeter than the sweetest..."
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Prasadam—Pivot of
Practising
"You are not to take what is not offered to the Lord. Always take
prasadam, then all your diseases will be removed. Always cook with
care and always make sure what you have cooked is edible. If the cook is not
good, then neither Krishna, nor Gurudev will be happy."
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Clear Conception
"You can read Srila Sridhar Maharaj's book Sri Sri
Prapanna-jivanamritam and remind yourself of many good things (practise
smaran). I have also given you books—Guidance 4, Guidance 3. You can
read all these books and you can get everything in them."
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Ideal Service Mood
"In this world, there are all sorts of misconceptions prominent all over the
world, but you must establish the conception of Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math,
the conception of Srila Sridhar Maharaj, Prabhupad Srila Bhakti Siddhanta
Saraswati Thakur. When you get some pleasure in your heart through service,
then no matter how much disturbance comes, nothing will be able to stop
you—you will still feel more and more enthusiasm, attachment and enjoyment
through that service."
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9 August 2020
Festival of Sheltered
Souls
"What is our goal in the age of Kali? We worship Radha-Krishna's combined
form that comes in Kali-yuga as Gauranga Mahaprabhu. However, first, before
worshipping Gauranga Mahaprabhu, we are to take shelter of Gurudev. First we
must take shelter of Gurudev, only then will we worship Lord Chaitanya
Mahaprabhu."
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"I Am Very Proud of You"
"I am very proud of you all because our Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math devotees
have humility, tolerance, they give honour to others, and they show others
perfect behaviour, perfect practice and perfect mood. Humility, tolerance,
etc. is the religion of Vaishnavs. It is their quality, their ornaments,
their glory. Vaishnavs are always humble, they always emanate lustre and
delight."
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Blossomed Relationship
"I know very well 'my parents,' 'my sister,' 'my husband,' 'my wife'—these
are mine, but we do not think that the Lord is mine, that Gurudev is mine.
How many per cent devotees can feel that?"
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Realm of Inconceivable
Pastimes
"Bad things, good things happen, but we harmonise—we think that everything
happens by the will of the Lord. If you practise properly, then you can step
by step proceed to your real goal and enter the real nitya-lila—then
you will see Radha-Krishna's pastimes everywhere."
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Primary Advice
"We have some consciousness in this human body, we must use it properly. Our
duty is to do our service properly, to try more and more and more, to do more
and more for our Guru's happiness, to try to make our Guru happier and
happier. We will always try our best."
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Service, Karma, and
Devotion
"You cannot buy guru-bhakti with money. Guru-bhakti comes
through love and affection, it comes from within one's heart—it comes by
practising, by giving your heart. Those who are surrendered souls, are always
busy with service—maya cannot attack them."
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Recommendation
• Is "Madhava-tithi" only ekadasi? • What is your advice to those who want to take
initiation? • What do we read on Janmastami
day? • Is it possible to take medication on
Janmastami?
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Proper Line—Proper
Success
"We always run behind false renunciation, false ego, we have so many bad
elements, so many desires. If you think in a proper way and practise under
the guidance of a bona fide guru, you will succeed. Those who have proper
quality and qualification, can surrender within one minute."
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12 August 2020 (Sri Krishna Janmastami Maha-Mahotsav)
Prayerful Meditation
"Lord Krishna and Srimati Radharani are our meditation, we always worship
Them, but we do not want to become sahajiyas—it is not cheap, it is the
highest attainment! We must pray to the Lord today. We must express what is
our present position. We are in this situation at present—how can the Lord
rescue us from this kind of situation?"
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Misconceptions
about Lord Krishna's Appearance
"Without Lord Krishna's appearance life is meaningless. If you read Srimad
Bhagavad-gita, you can easily understand the meaning of Janmastami and
who Krishna is. People can say many things, but our vision is not like
that—we see it in a different way."
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Guidance 3)
Entering Another Plane
"If you can fulfil Gurudev's desire, if you can follow everything and become
a 100% devotee, a surrendered soul, then you will have the strongest faith
that what Gurudev said ('If you follow Krishna consciousness properly, you
will not have to come again') is the truth."
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16 August 2020
Thorns of Spiritual
Life
"We think there is so much suffering, so many problems outside, but we do not
think that we have some problems inside us. Sometimes, some good symptoms
come to us in our service, but at this moment some bad elements come and Maya
takes us away from the service."
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Surrendered Existence
"Practise all this, then you will understand what is necessary for your
spiritual life and what this human body is for. You have got this human body
by a great mercy of the Lord, and you must use this human body, every part
and parcel of this body, for the service of the Lord."
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Practising Deficiency
"We sometimes do not understand why we lose our faith, why we cannot give our
heart, mind, everything to the service of the Lord—this happens because there
is practising deficiency. Many things can come, that is why we can lose our
faith, lose our Krishna consciousness life."
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Do Not Get Swayed
"When Maya attacks you, when Maya gives so much trouble to you and so many
problems come to you, will you remember Me or will you forget Me? It is up to
you. If you can remember the Lord despite any difficulties, then it is very
good."
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Priorities In Spiritual
Life
"If every householder devotee says, 'I have some job in my house, I cannot do
it,' then who will serve at the temple? Even if you live in a house, you must
live as a proper householder devotee. Turn your house into a temple."
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22 August 2020 (West London Temple Anniversary)
West London Temple:
Auspicious Day
"It is a very auspicious day today for the London devotees, as well as all
over world. Gurudev can see everything, he is watching everything because all
devotees are fulfilling his desire. It is our happiness that we can be
together, without any false ego."
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23 August 2020
Spiritual
Sustenance: Association and Service Mood
"Wherever there is a Vaishnav, wherever there is connection with a Vaishnav
and great devotees, it will always be good for us. So, we must be always
determined, always intent on good association. It is necessary to have a good
intention to become a good devotee."
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Spiritual
Sustenance: Exclusive Mood
"Devotee must be always careful and serious about their service—devotees
always think about Krishna. Any time, all the time think about Krishna. You
must utilise your heart, your, everything for the service to the Lord."
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Fruits of Inconceivable
Mercy
"Nityananda Prabhu's and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's mercy is inconceivable.
Therefore, our devotees must always be inspired, must always preach properly.
They should live and behave properly, they should do their service properly,
and they should talk humbly."
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Absorbed in Service
"Why will devotees leave their service? They must do their service until
death! But such is human nature, what can you do?... When Krishna came to
Vidura's house, Vidura's wife did not know anything, she was so overwhelmed
and excited."
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Corrupted Life
"We are not political men. Our 'candidate' is only Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
We do not involve ourselves with politics or politicians. We do not want any
political party movements. There is corruption in every country..."
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Worshippable Sita
Thakurani
"Advaita Acharya's wife, Sri Sita Thakurani, is worshipped by everyone all
over the world. I have not read much about her, but we know that when
Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was born, Advaita Prabhu sent her with some
gifts to Jagannath Misra's house..."
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Service Succession
"Will you follow the instruction of the scriptures or will you follow your
Gurudev's instruction? That is our question. What is important for you? You
will never get the mercy of Krishna without worshipping Radharani..."
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30 August 2020
Appearance of Universal
Guru
"You all know who is Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur. He is there in our
guru-parampara. Our Param Gurudev Om Vishnupad Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar
Dev-Goswami Maharaj wrote his pranam mantra, and everything is there
in that mantra..."
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31 August 2020 (Appearance day of Srila Bhaktivinod
Thakur)
Online Assembly of Dham-Bhusana
Vaishnavs
"We have got an opportunity to speak and hear about Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur
in this class amidst the pandemic situation through the medium of zoom. Today
is a very auspicious day, and we have all gathered here today to observe this
holy day..."
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SEPTEMBER 2020
1 September 2020 (Disappearance of Srila Haridas
Thakur)
Proper Service Life
"The Lord becomes happy through kirtan. What does it mean to serve
Deities with faith? We have no right to enter the Deities' room to worship
the Deities, we have no right to enter the kitchen to cook, but we can
connect everything we do with the Lord."
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Glories of Srila
Haridas Thakur (1)
"Today is the disappearance day of Srila Haridas Thakur. We can speak and
hear today about the glories of Srila Haridas Thakur. Singing the glories of
the Vaishnavs rescues and protects the jiva soul."
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Glories of Srila
Haridas Thakur (2)
"When Srila Haridas Thakur lived in a bhajan kutir in Benapole, many
people used to come to him, and the local landlord Ramachandra Khan became
envious. He arranged for a very beautiful young prostitute, 'I will pay you.
You have to seduce him by hook or by crook!'"
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Glories of Srila
Haridas Thakur (3)
"One day, Srila Haridas Thakur told Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, 'Prabhu, when
You come to live in Puri, I will stay there with You.' Mahaprabhu agreed,
and, as He was staying in Kashi Misra's house in Puri, He asked Kashi Misra
and Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya to arrange some place where Srila Haridas Thakur
could make his bhajan kutir."
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Glories of Srila
Haridas Thakur (4)
"The next day, Mahaprabhu came to Srila Haridas Thakur in the morning. He
asked, 'What is the news, Haridas?' Srila Haridas Thakur said, 'As You wish,
Prabhu.' Then, Mahaprabhu ordered all the devotees to circumambulate Srila
Haridas Thakur with kirtan..."
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Kirtan)
6 September 2020
No More Wasting Time
"Now, all countries are one by one lifting lockdown and we are again getting
chance to preach and do sankirtan—we must restart our preaching. As it
is, we have already lost almost six months of our spiritual time, we do not
want to lose another moment."
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Guru-Varga's Prasad
"We always tell what Srila Guru Maharaj, Srila Gurudev and all the
godbrothers of Srila Guru Maharaj told about Srila Guru Maharaj, we always
enjoy taking their prasad. That is our happiness. If we hear from our
guru-varga and read their lectures, it is good for us."
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Devotion to Devotees
"Some preach that you must become a Krishna-bhakta, but we do not preach like
this; we preach that you must be Krishna's devotees' devotee. First become a
Vaishnav-das, then a Guru-das, and only after that a Krishna-das. First you
must be a servant of Vaishnavs."
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Service Zest
"Now disciples live in the lap of luxury. They blackmail Gurudev saying, "If
I do not get this, I will leave the temple!" Such is the service in this
world. If your service is conditional, then this is not the proper
relationship between the Guru and the disciple. That is why doubts start
coming, 'Will I enter that planet?'"
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Supreme and
Inconceivable Glories of Sri Guru
"What are your glories, Gurudev? Your glories are known to all liberated
souls—the entire Goloka-mandal sings your glories—but I am a fallen soul, how
shall I talk about Gurudev? Gurudev's position is extremely high, talks about
him are very high."
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Entering Transcendental
Plane
"You cannot worship the Lord with a mundane body. Only an eternal,
transcendental body can worship or serve the Lord. If you serve the Lord
thinking that Krishna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and you give your
everything for the service to Krishna, then your body becomes
transcendental."
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Purposeful Preaching
"Preaching is necessary. When you preach, you get pleasure, you get
everything. I have told you that when I tell something, I myself get
energy—devotees listen to it and I am also listening to it and I myself
become purified..."
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13 September 2020
Devotees' Core
Principle
"All Gaudiya Vaishnavs follow ekadasi tithi, and it is good for you
also to follow it because even Sriman Mahaprabhu Himself told to do so. If we
want to follow Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, we must follow His instruction."
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Sustaining Mahaprabhu's
Line
"Mahaprabhu's line was maintained by Srila Narottam Das Thakur, Acharya
Srinivas, Sri Shyamananda Prabhu. After them, so much darkness came down upon
the sky of Gaura-desh. The preaching movement again emerged through Srila
Bhaktivinod Thakur."
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"I Am Proud, I Am
Astonished, and I Am Grateful"
"Wherever I may be, I come back to Kolkata on Sunday just to get your good
association. I see your smiling faces and I know that your love and affection
has no alloy—your love and affection is not cheating, it is actual love and
affection."
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Ekadasi Struggle?
"You think that you will break ekadasi, that you will do what you like
in your life, but you do not think that after that austerity will come—you
have no idea what hell is like, what kind of austerity you will get there.
What austerity is there in following ekadasi?"
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Redundant Rituals
"Those who do not follow Krishna consciousness, who are not devotees, can do
follow as many Hindu rituals and rules as they like, but we do not do it. We
know that we are jiva souls—we are eternal servants of the Lord, and
we always remember that."
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Primary and Paramount
Necessity
"Teach Srimad Bhagavad-gita everywhere, it will be good. Most people
cannot understand Srimad Bhagavatam or Chaitanya-charitamrita,
it is very difficult for them, but everybody knows Srimad
Bhagavad-gita, so everybody can easily understand its message."
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20 September 2020
Continuing Service
Movement
"We can practise Vaishnav-sanga, sadhu-sanga from anywhere. We must
always remember Krishna, chant the Holy Name, practise and do our service
from wherever we are. We must continue our service movement."
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Keep Your Guru In Your
Heart
"Our hearts are always full of kanak, kamini, pratistha—we always think about
our own enjoyment, we always think about our own safety. It is necessary to
have the strongest faith. You must keep some place in your heart for your
Guru."
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Unparalleled Vairagya
"Always read the pastimes of great Vaishnavs. We can read their biographies
and see how much tolerance they have, how much austerity they got in their
spiritual life. If we think about it, we will be astonished—we cannot imagine
how austere their life is."
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Pillars of Devotional
Life
"We must leave everything for the happiness of the Lord, for the happiness of
our Guru. We must learn how previous Vaishnavs maintained their lives, and we
must follow their example, their path. We must try to live and maintain our
life the way sadhus do. We must try to do that. We must try to practise
that."
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Best Behaviour
"Everybody must live in harmony with each other. If we think we have become
great devotees, it is wrong because we are fallen souls and we are only
trying to serve our Guru under his guidance. This is our main aim in life. We
must fight against ourselves."
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Repository of Nectar
"Gurudev explains this sloka very nicely. When somebody is taking and
relishing honey, some drops fall from their mouth, and Srila Sridhar Maharaj
is collecting these drops. This is actually the essence of our spiritual
life."
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Awkward Medicines and Health
Issues
"You must maintain this body well. If the doctor has prescribed some medicine
for your disease, then you should take it because it is necessary for your
health, but if the doctor prescribes eating meat, etc., you should not follow
it."
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Adjusting with Others
and Yourself
"If somebody preaches, it is good! Why will we criticise them? People come
for Krishna consciousness and we do not care who comes from what country, who
is lower, who is lowest. Only if somebody is bad association, you must always
avoid such association."
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27 September 2020
Bhakta-Bhav
"We should always remember devotees' service mood. Embracing
bhakta-bhav, Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu appeared as a devotee and He
shows what is the mood of a devotee. We can see His teachings and realise
what is necessary to have if we want to have the mood of a devotee."
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"My Nature"
"Whenever I get time, I like to read books. To this day, I still like
reading. I have a habit to always read. Whenever some new books come out, I
read it. Actually, I do not want to teach anybody, I want to learn myself
more and more. That is my nature."
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Good News
"I have got some good news today, not everybody may have heard it, so I want
to tell you about it... I have been praying to Krishna for that—and now they
have filed a case, I am sure one day justice will happen."
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Father-Son Pastime
"It is stated in Sri Hari-bhakti-vilas that those who observe this
ekadasi attain a liberated form upon leaving their body. I will be
reading about a pastime of Sri Govinda from Gopal-champu by Srila Jiva
Goswami Prabhu. Listen to it properly. This is a pastime of Nanda Maharaj and
Lord Krishna, and it happened tomorrow, the day after ekadasi."
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OCTOBER 2020
4 October 2020
"Try Your Best"
"You must depend upon Gurudev in everything—give everything to your Guru. All
Vraja gopis gave everything, their deha (body) and dehi
(the very soul), to fulfil the desire of Lord Krishna. Our guru-varga
are not ordinary persons. I am sure that those who follow Gurudev and have
taken shelter at the lotus feet of Gurudev, will reach their
destination."
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Surrendered Soul's
Solace
"Through our qualification, we will not get anything, but we can get
everything by the mercy of the Guru. Yet, the problem is that some material
things always come to our life. We are supposed to be surrendered souls—if
you are a surrendered soul, then what should be your thoughts?"
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Approaching Bhagavatam
"One must not read Bhagavatam or give Bhagavatam class for
money, wealth, property, pratistha, etc. You must listen to Srimad
Bhagavatam from a pure Vaishnav who knows Bhagavatam and who knows
the meaning of Bhagavatam."
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Disciples' Dedication
"Devotees always want to learn—they want to know more. It is necessary to
have desire to learn, to practise more and more; it will be good for us all.
Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu Himself comes as a devotee and shows us what is
necessary and how we must be practising. If we learn His teachings properly,
we will get so much benefit through that."
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Restaurant Devotion vs Pure
Devotion
"We work outside, we do not cook and take some food in a hotel (shop, cafe,
restaurant) where they mix veg and non-veg food. It is a problem. It is
possible to do this for one-two days as an exception, but if you do it every
day saying, 'Oh, I have no energy to cook!' This is wrong. It is better if
you cook and do the offering, then it will be pure devotion."
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Unimaginable
"Separation is a very high thing, you cannot imagine it. What sort of
separation is there in Vrindavan? When Uddhav Maharaj heard about it, he was
astounded. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu showed this separation mood in
Gambhira..."
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Loving Care and Service
"There is love and affection in Vaishnavism. This is what Mahaprabhu showed
by His own example. Krishna shows it too—He is merciful even to those who
come to kill Him. This is what true religion is. You should understand that
Vaishnavism comes from the original source."
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11 October 2020
"Please Be Careful"
"Please be careful. I am concerned about you all because if your health is
good, then you can do more and more service. We have this body and disease
will come, but we must not 'invite' disease ourselves. This is my request for
everybody. If you can do what I am saying, I will be very happy."
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"The Unrenounceable"
His Divine Grace reads a chapter from Guidance, Volume 3, for the benefit of
all souls: "I will discuss today about kanak, kamini, pratistha, about
anartha and paramartha. 'Even if you renounce everything, there is still
something that cannot be renounced—that is either ‘paramārtha’ (greatest
wealth; spiritual asset) or ‘parama anartha’ (greatest evil; unwanted
elements)....'"
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Sincere Chanting
"This Hare Krishna maha-mantra is not just alphabet letters—it is the
pure Name. So, it must be chanted with service mood. If you always show that
you are chanting japa, but your mind always goes to bad elements, your
heart is covered by bad elements—that is not good."
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Parts of Service Life
"(1) Mahaprabhu said, "Follow pure ekadasi." If the ekadasi day
becomes viddha, there is no fast on this day. (2) Someone will say
that this is too much, this is fanaticism, but this is what real chastity is.
(3) You have all these bad things in you, but if you surrender properly, you
can transform everything into service."
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Cruelty-Free Service
Life
"We must give love and affection for everybody. There is a soul existing in
the body of every bird, beast or any other living entity, and therefore
Krishna is also present there. We have got this human body after 8,400,000
births, but our bad fortune is that we still cannot understand it."
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"If You Love Me..."
"When you give some offering or puja to your Guru, you think it is only a
photograph, but no, you must have strongest faith that Gurudev is there. You
think, "We give a garland to Gurudev's photograph, it is just a formality,
Gurudev does not really accept it"—why do you think so?"
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Service Aspiration
"Serving your Guru, serving the Lord is the main thing. I have already shown
you how you can go to the spiritual world. Whether you get there or not does
not depend upon your age or life duration—it only depends on your service, it
depends on your heart."
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17 October 2020 (Divine Appearance Day of His Divine Grace,
Sri Vyasa Puja Maha-Mahotsav)
"Inconceivable,
Unbelievable, and Unimaginable"
"Everybody is giving their love and affection and all together making this
day for me. Actually, I am getting shy to make my birthday festival, but
devotees are always enthusiastic to make this festival, even in this pandemic
situation..."
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Clearing
Contradictions
"Everybody's vision and feelings are not the same. Sometimes, you look like a
man, but at other times, you deal or talk with others like a demon. Krishna
lives in all living entities. However, we sometimes see there is also a demon
living in the heart of the jiva soul."
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A Very Busy Day
"Phone calls have been coming today from all over the world starting from
3:30-4 o'clock in the morning. Everyone is calling me continuously. Not only
in foreign countries they are making big festivals today, but also in all the
temples, centres here in India..."
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Service with Full
Enthusiasm
"The most important thing is that all the devotees are with me. 'Maharaj,
where you are, that is Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math—and we will go wherever
you are!' When I hear devotees say this, my heart overflows."
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18 October 2020
My Fortune and My
Promise
"Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math is my real family. I am very fortunate and very
grateful. I will try to serve all the devotees to the best of my ability
until my death, until the moment I leave this body. That is my promise."
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Rare Jewels
"I always remember so many great souls who are not with us anymore. So many
householder devotees have made this kind of sacrifice—actually, they look
like householders, but their mind, heart, their everything is more than a
sannyasi."
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Root of Devotion
"If you want to conquer illusory environment, it is necessary to have the
mercy of Guru and Vaishnavs. Guru-kripa is the root of your creeper of
devotion. If you cut your creeper at the root, your devotion, your practice
will dry just like a tree dries up when uprooted."
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Remembering Right
Things
"First practise chanting the Holy Name, concentrate your mind on service, and
when you come to the highest position in your worship (bhajan), then you can
ask such questions. We must first practise Krishna consciousness properly,
chant the Holy Name, because our heart, mind is always busy with nonsense
things."
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Shifting Priorities
"Why is it necessary to be sad? It is maya that always makes us
unhappy. Whether you are happy or unhappy, always remember Lord Krishna. That
is the ultimate advice. Always chant the Holy Name, never forget the Lord—not
when you are happy, not when you are sad."
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25 October 2020
Loving Service
"You are all liberated souls, you are trying to make your Guru happy—you are
giving everything for the service of your Guru. You are doing this and
getting taste. You can enter your home through your service mood."
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Do Not Jump Into Maya
"If you send a letter to the Lord, you will not get any answer, but if you
send a letter to your Guru, you will immediately get an answer from the Lord
because Gurudev is the closest, dearmost friend of the Lord. We must proceed
in our spiritual life following this process."
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Srila Lochan Das Thakur
Mahasay
"Srila Lochan Das Thakur is a follower of Sriman Nityananda Prabhu—he
belonged to His line. Srila Lochan Das Thakur was born in Burdwan district
and he was a disciple of Sri Narahari Thakur. The name of Srila Lochan Das
Thakur's father is Sri Kamalakar Das, and his mother's name is Sri
Sadanandi..."
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About Sri Sri
Gaura-Gadadhar
"Know your place when you serve, do not cross the line. Sri Sri
Gaura-Gadadhar are extremely high Deities. They are worshipped only in very
rare places, that is because the relationship between Sri Gaura and Sri Gadai
is a very confidential, very high."
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Fundamental Mood of
Kirtan
"The perfect mood is humility, tolerance and giving honour to others. Chant
the Holy Name without offence, try to engage yourself in the service of the
mission, of your guru. Chant without offence, serve without offence, and you
will succeed in your spiritual life."
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Sincere Ego-Free
Relationship
"Everybody's focus must be one—everybody must think that we are all
godbrothers and godsisters, and our main goal is to serve our Guru, to please
our Guru. This is not a competition. This is not some fight. Do not become
jealous. If envy comes to you, then you yourself will be getting pain from
that—you yourself will be losing."
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Nonsense Sacrifice
"People used to cut people's necks, and now in lieu of that, since it is not
possible to kill people, they kill a buffalo... People cannot control their
material desires, anger, and many other bad elements within. They will suffer
in the age of Kali!"
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26 October 2020
Messenger of Eternal
World
"Please forgive my offence. Actually, I am just a fallen soul, I have no
quality to speak anything in glorification of such a highly qualified
personality who used to be a scientist previously and then a great
preacher..."
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NOVEMBER 2020
1 November 2020
Our Main Problem
"Our main problem is that we are always busy with our body. Almost the entire
world is always thinking about their temporary bodies. Such is our situation.
Almost everybody here is very much attached to their body."
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Search For Original
Source
"We always want pleasure, happiness, love affection, but we will never get it
from this material world. Our Gurudev has told us very clearly how we must
practise, how we can attain our destination, where the source is and how to
reach that kind of source. Those who can give proper attention to this, must
succeed."
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Vyasadev's Gift (1)
"When Gurudev was in Australia in 1992, he gave one lecture. I have got the
Bengali translation of that lecture and was proof reading it today. It is a
very nice lecture, I want to tell you about it."
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Vyasadev's Gift (2)
"Who we are? What must we do? How can we get relief? This is all
transcendental knowledge of atma-tattva. Those who do not see anything
[who have no real, transcendental vision] ask so many questions, but we must
understand what is the main purpose of this life. If you read Srimad
Bhagavatam, you will understand it."
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Leave Questioning Mood
"I have told you—there is only one question, and the answer is also only one.
Surrender to the Lord. Have full faith. Shyness, shame, fear—keep everything
at the lotus feet of Lord Sri Krishna, Srimati Radharani, or Gurudev. Do not
see things in the mundane, material way. You must see everything in the
transcendental way."
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Fancy Living, Shallow
Thinking
"People live like cats and dogs—they use their life for animal enjoyment and
have no appreciation, no time to respect sadhus and to follow Krishna
consciousness. All the great sadhus and all scriptures tell us about
devotion to Lord Krishna, but we have no time to read about it—we always
think about our body."
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Service Hankering
"You can make your Guru happy even through some small service. The most
important thing is that whatever service you do, you must do it with your
heart. Whatever you do, do it properly. This is how you can make your Guru
happy with your service."
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8 November 2020 (adhivas of appearance day of Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj)
Our Great Fortune
"Today is a very auspicious day because tomorrow is the appearance day of our
Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math's Founder Acharya—our Param Gurudev, Om Vishnupad
Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj. I am giving my full humble
obeisance at the lotus feet of my beloved Gurudev, and our Param
Gurudev...."
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Srila Sridhar Maharaj:
Appearance and Early Days
"The name of Srila Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj's father is Upendra Chandra
Bhattacharya. His birthpalce is in Hapaniya. His mother's name was Sri Gauri
Devi. By the will of the Lord, when Srila Sridhar Maharaj appeared, he was
the eldest son. How did his parents get this kind of son? There is some
history behind it."
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Srila Sridhar Maharaj: Powerful
Preaching
"When Srila Sridhar Maharaj left his house and joined Gaudiya Mission, Srila
Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur was very pleased. Even before taking
sannyas, Srila Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj was a great preacher. He was
always very enthusiastic to preach."
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"Service Is My Vow"
"Many people ask me, many people criticise me, but I am a fallen soul, I only
know what Gurudev told me—he told me, 'Service is the vow, service is the
life force, and service is the duty.' This is what I am following."
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Forgetting Yourself
"Give respect to everybody. Basically, tridandi sannyas means to be
humble, tolerant, and give honour to others. However, I am bound to say that
sometimes they take sannyas or saffron, and their ego becomes very
big. They forget that they must serve more. It makes me very sad."
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Joy of Good Association
"I do not want to go preaching alone, when there are only two-three devotees.
I always want devotees' association. 'Ekaki amara nahi paya bala
hari-nama-sankirtane. When I am alone, I get no strength to chant.'
Devotees' enthusiasm gives me inspiration."
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9 November 2020 (Appearance day of Srila B.R. Sridhar
Dev-Goswami Maharaj)
Srila Sridhar Maharaj:
Expanding Gaudiya Math
"Even though I have heard about this a hundred times, it is still my bad
fortune—I am a fallen soul—I still have no quality, no qualification to
glorify Srila Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj. Despite this, I will try, by the
mercy of Gurudev and devotees, to describe something that I did not mention
yesterday."
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Srila Sridhar Maharaj:
Scriptural Expertise
"Srila Sridhar Maharaj wrote many articles, many works in this life. Srila
Prabhupad told about his writing, 'If you can publish this kind of Hari-katha
in our monthly newspaper, it will increase the value of our publication.'
Srila Prabhupad also remarked that Srila Sridhar Maharaj was 'sastra-nipun'
[expert in scriptures]."
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Srila Sridhar Maharaj:
Emporium of Greatness
"Even Srila Sridhar Maharaj's godbrothers wanted to hear his Hari-katha
because only he could explain Srila Prabhupad's teaching authentically. Srila
Sridhar Maharaj did not want to be a king, but he made so many kings in his
life. We hear of many symptoms of a Vaishnav, and we see that Srila Sridhar
Maharaj possesses all of them."
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15 November 2020 (Sri Govardhan Puja Adhivas)
Sri Vraja-Mandal Tattva
"When Krishna wanted to appear in this world, He ordered Srimati Radharani to
also come to this world, but Srimati Radharani said, 'I cannot come to a
place where there is no Vrindavan, no Yamuna, no Giri Govardhan!' So, Sri
Krishna personally brought some land from His own abode. That is why Sri
Vraja-mandal is non-different from Goloka Vrindavan."
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Appearance of Sri
Giriraj Govardhan
"There is one island province to the west of India called Salmalidvip. This
is the place where Govardhan appeared as a son of Drona Parvat, Drona Hill.
When Govardhan appeared there, all demigods became very happy and showered
flowers from the sky..."
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Sri Govardhan Puja
"Tomorrow is the day when Nanda Maharaj made Govardhan puja, and after
that, in Kali-yuga, this annakut utsav was arranged by Sriman
Madhavendra Puri. Everybody must worship Govardhan to the best of your
capacity."
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Do Not Play With Fire
"If you commit aparadh, you can lose your service. You must control yourself.
Give up ego. You think you are managing the temple? Who are you? Have you
forgotten your identification that you are a servant of the Lord? Please do
not fight. You have so much service in this world—do your service. Do your
service within your capacity, and do not cross the line. This is very
dangerous for your spiritual life."
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Gupta Govardhan and Other Esoteric
Pastimes
"There are nine islands in Nabadwip, and Srila Sridhar Maharaj discovered the
aparadh-bhanjan-pat and Gupta Govardhan in Koladwip. It is Govardhan
as it is, but Srila Sridhar Maharaj himself identified Sri Govinda Kunda and
said that it was Gupta Govardhan...."
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Internal and External
Evolution
"No matter what problems may come, you must not leave your service.
Today doing, tomorrow not doing—not like that. You are an eternal servant,
you are not a servant for two hours. Everybody wants to get to their
destination, but some come late or miss their train."
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18 November 2020 (Disappearance of Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta
Swami Maharaj Srila Prabhupad)
Srila Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaj Prabhupad's Mission
His Divine Grace Srila B.N. Acharya Maharaj reads and translates from Sri
Nabadwip Dham Mahatmya-mukta-mala [the text of the chapter is presented
here], "We have heard a hundred times that if we glorify Vaishnavs, it
gives great benefit, but even though we have heard it a thousand times, how
much are we able to glorify Vaishnavs from our heart? How much can we serve
Vaishnavs with heart and soul? This is the question. I do not know such words
to describe the glory of this kind of personality, but I have heard something
from Gurudev's lotus mouth and I want to say something from what I have
heard..."
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22 November 2020 (Disappearance of Sri Gadadhar Das
Goswami, Srila Dhananjaya Pandit, and Srila Srinivas Acharya Prabhu)
Core of Life
"We always want the association of the grantha-bhagavat and
Vaishnav-bhagavat—if we can get this kind of association, it is very
good for us. All Vaishnavs, all guru-varga come to this world to give
nourishment to such fallen souls as myself. Otherwise, if such personalities
did not come to this world, what hope would we have?"
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Sri Gadadhar Das
Goswami
"Sri Gadadhar Das Goswami is an eternal associate of Sriman Mahaprabhu and
Sriman Nityananda Prabhu. At first, he lived in Katwa, and later, after
Mahaprabhu's disappearance, he moved to a village on the bank of the
Ganges...."
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Appearance of Acharya
Srinivas
"Having received Mahaprabhu's blessing and mercy, Chaitanya Das and his wife
returned to their house in Gaura-desh. Their son was born and, seeing his
beautiful son, Chaitanya Das immediately declared, 'I will give this son to
the lotus feet of Mahaprabhu for His service.'"
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Acharya Srinivas:
Collecting Mercy
"Srinivas Acharya received Sri Narahari Thakur and Govinda Gosh Thakur's
mercy from his childhood. Later, when Acharya Srinivas's father left his
body, Srinivas and his mother then came to his mother's family house in
Jajigram..."
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Acharya Srinivas:
Rescuing Scriptures
"So many things are written about Acharya Srinivas. There is a famous pastime
of Srila Srinivas Acharya and Raja Birhambir. Srila Srinivas Acharya, Srila
Narottam Das Thakur, and Srila Shyamananda Prabhu were once travelling with
all the books of Srila Rupa Goswami, Srila Sanatan Goswami, and
others..."
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Take Care of Yourself
"Always do service, always think about your Guru, think about your spiritual
life. This is what I want from you. Devotees go to work, but they must think
about their spiritual life—they must set some time for their spiritual life,
spiritual benefit."
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29 November 2020
Ongoing Agenda
"By the mercy of Gurudev, I am today in Nrisingha Palli. I know that it is
our zoom programme today, but I also had so much service here at the
construction site today and there is still much left to do tomorrow—and it
turned out that the connection here is very nice. So, I am giving this online
class today from here."
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Sober Householder Life
"Even if you live as a householder, you can still try to preach. It is
possible. I am telling to everyone—the minimum requirement for all
householders is that you must give 50% of your labour to your family and
minimum 50% to your Gurudev. You must spend minimum 50% of your time on
service and spiritual life."
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Learn, Practise, and
Preach
"We must preach properly. We must reach everyone, door to door. Practising
must be door to door! I like this kind of preaching that was inaugurated by
Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur, Srila Prabhupad. Mahaprabhu said, 'Preach village
to village!' Srila Prabhupad said, 'Go door to door!' and our Gurudev and
Guru Maharaj said, 'Reach to everyone, heart to heart.'"
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Duare Duare
Prachar
"This is very urgent, very important. You may have a temple, and you think,
'Oh, I am opening a centre, everyone must come to me!' It is not so easy for
people to come to your temple in this age of Kali! You have to take your
temple and go to everyone's door!"
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Superficial
Speculation
"(1) This is what is said in the scriptures. If your
position is like this or you can bring yourself to this position, or level,
then, yes, Krishna will hear your prayer. (2) Why was it
necessary? What is the reason of it? We cannot judge what is necessary and
what is not necessary. If something is to happen by the will of Krishna, who
can stop it? It does not depend on us or anybody else."
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Cow's Milk
"What makes you think you can take such a decision not to offer milk to the
Lord? I do not support this. You must offer milk to the Deities, and if you
personally do not like to take milk, that is your decision. We do not take
any food—we take prasadam."
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Danger of Deviation
"This is the first explanation Krishna gives. When Arjuna heard it, he was
not happy—he still did not want to fight. Only when Krishna spoke about
bhakti-yoga did Arjuna gradually start to understand it and eventually
changed his mind. However, we think in another way..."
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My Solace
"Gurudev is always in my heart, and I think and understand that I am also
always in Gurudev's heart, then they can only try to throw me out of a
building, but they can never throw me out of Gurudev's heart and out of
devotees' hearts. That is my solace."
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DECEMBER 2020
6 December 2020
Soul's Ultimate
Happiness
"It is important and necessary for us to hear these things—how we must
practise, how we will get our real benefit. These are the main things in our
spiritual life. Sixty thousand rishis asked Srila Suta Goswami a question,
'What is ultimately good for a jiva soul?'"
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Burning One's Own
Fortune
"If somebody thinks they came to the temple and wasted their life there, it
means they do not see their own fault. Use your eyes to see your own faults,
not others'. Those who have tolerance can stay longer, can practise more,
whereas those who stay at the temple but think about material things,
material enjoyment, leave the temple and go to another life."
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Dhenukasur's Fate
"If you have the means (the capacity) to spend money for the Lord, you must
do it. Otherwise you will reap the fate of those trees that were cursed and
had to be born in a forest where not even birds or beasts entered, only some
demon donkey lived there."
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Internal Purity
"Mercy is always necessary, and we must always try to be good. We must
listen properly from our Guru, we must give ourselves to the service of our
Gurudev without any second thoughts. Gurudev always says that you must have a
good character, you must always tell the truth, and follow his instruction,
you must not follow your mind."
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Stay In Gurudev's Heart
"You must try to stay in Gurudev's heart through your service, good
behaviour, and good practice. We are alive in this world now, and we are
suffering from so many diseases and elements, so we must always practise
Krishna consciousness—we must always remember our Gurudev, Guru Maharaj,
Prabhupad, as well as the Supreme Personality of Godhead."
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13 December 2020
Do Away With Gossiping
"We do service, we have so many good qualities, we worship the Lord and His
devotees, but if we at the same time nurture some bad qualities inside us,
we cannot progress in our spiritual life. Never speak bad about
anybody. It is not necessary to say such things."
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Be Part of Krishna Consciousness
Movement
"You always charge the battery of your phone, and in the same way you must
charge your spiritual 'battery'. I am telling this to everybody through you.
Every country must have programmes in this way. Everybody must join
Krishna-sankirtan movement."
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Humility—Not To
Misconceptions
"If we do not expose other conceptions' faults, how will we prove the
superiority of our consciousness? When I told you not to criticise, I mean
not to criticise Vaishnavs and not to gossip or discuss others. If you can
understand these things, you can harmonise it."
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Initiation: Beyond
Formality
"If you only take the initiation and a few days later forget your guru,
forget the service of your guru, then how can you be happy through that? If
you do not think about all this and just take initiation, what will be the
result?"
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Fight Your Ego
"They are Gurudev's devotees, they must do something for their practising
life. If you always search others' faults, the whole life will finish and one
day death will come and you will not be able to overcome it. If they think,
'We know everything!' they have a big problem."
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Sober Interaction
"If you follow our guru-varga, then 'sweet relationship' means you
sometimes talk with others, but you talk for service. Except for
Krishna-katha, everything else is nonsense talks. So, it will be better if
you talk with others only about Krishna-katha. Try to avoid other kinds of
relationship, it will be good for you, good for everybody also."
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'You Are My All-In-All'
"Everybody should remember Gurudev's appearance day, always think about it
every day. When Gurudev left this world, I thought my head, shoulders,
everything was gone, I was like a doll, or a statue, but when I see you all,
I get back my life, my heart, etc."
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20 December 2020
Perfect Time For
Preaching
"It is necessary to practise. Always practise Krishna consciousness, always
remember the Absolute. Everything has its proper time and it is necessary to
do things in good time. In this world, people say that the young age is for
enjoyment, but this is completely incorrect. If you do not try to preach and
practise from your young age, what will become of you in your old age?"
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Preaching Plan and
Programme
"I have been attending some programmes before Gurudev's appearance day and I
will have more programmes after the festival. I want to make an assembly Sri
Dham Pracharani Sobha dedicated to the preaching of the glorification of Sri
Nabadwip Dham, guru-varga, as well as the glory and teachings of Sri
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. This is my view and my idea."
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Keep Yourself Busy With
Service
"You may have seen something, but it is not necessary to broadcast these
things. This is called gramya-katha and prajalpa. This is not
good for any devotee. Actually, devotees are always busy with their service,
when will they get time for all this? Do not waste your time on others'
faults."
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Practical Choice
"(1) We cannot stop our spiritual practice. Otherwise
time will pass and our life will finish while we are waiting for all the
problems to go away. (2) Gurudev always thinks in a
practical way—the worship of Radha-Krishna is very high, but the worship of
Nitai Gaurachandra is simpler."
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Embody Proper
Conception
"Devotees must be always humble, it is necessary for everyone. Learn to be
humble, tolerant and to give honour to others from Mahaprabhu and Gurudev.
You must apply all these things in your life. These are the main things in
one's life."
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Real Relationship
"It is not necessary to become a great guru—we must become great disciples.
If you worship the Lord understanding your relationship with Him, then your
ego will be removed. We must understand that we are servants of devotees.
When this relationship comes, your ego will be removed."
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Try to Forget
"How can I tell you it is easy to forget it. It is not easy. Even I cannot do
that, then how will you do it? When somebody abuses you, it is not something
you can forget. It is not that easy... But at least you can try."
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27 December 2020
Bound by Loving Service
"It is necessary to understand how one should serve their Guru. You will
serve your Guru with much love and affection. They do not know how close the
relationship between Gurudev and me was. Gurudev gradually started to depend
on me—when he came to Nabadwip, he would always depend on me in everything,
and he said, 'I am coming here only because I know I can come and you will
take care of everything.'"
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Deep Service Mood
"Chatak bird always waits for rain, and we too should have this hankering for
service. By hook or by crook, I always wanted to please Gurudev. It is
necessary to have service mood, and to have service mood you must have love
and affection and always engage in sravanam, kirtanam, smaranam,
etc."
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Ideal of Surrender
"Sri Sri Prapanna-jivanamritam is an important book in our line. There
are so many highest things written here in a very beautiful way. I read it
today again after many years, and I liked it a lot, I am thinking I must read
it again and again."
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Spiritual Chastity
"Actually, Gaudiya mission is very big, and our line is the line of Srila
Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj—we find all perfection, all fulfilment in this
line. Do not bring other conceptions to Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Math. Be
chaste to our Guru."
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