Sound Bhakti

When there is a conversation, Kavirāja Gosvāmī points out that different sampradāyas may accept Vāmana as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Some of them may see Nārāyaṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He said none of these are incorrect. However, there is a point to be made through nānā-śāstra-vicāraṇaika-nipuṇau—triangulating through the śāstra that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of G...

In the Brahma-saṁhitā also it is said that the Lord is always visible to the devotees whose eyes have been anointed with the tinge of devotional service. So we have to take information of the transcendental form of the Lord from persons who have actually seen Him with perfect eyes smeared with devotional service. In the material world also we do not always see things with our own eyes; we sometime...

You can be non-envious by being self-satisfied, because if you realize that you already have a relationship with Kṛṣṇa, and therefore you don't need anything else, you don't need anybody else's portion. You have a direct eternal relationship with Kṛṣṇa. If you can understand that and appreciate it—that Kṛṣṇa provides everything for you, whatever you want, it comes from Kṛṣṇa and your direct relati...

As from wood, fire can be manifested, or as butter can be churned out of milk, so also the presence of the Lord as Paramātmā can be felt by the process of legitimate hearing and chanting of the transcendental subjects which are especially treated in the Vedic literatures like the Upaniṣads and Vedānta. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the bona fide explanation of these Vedic literatures. The Lord can be reali...

Question: what helps the devotee cross that line from having inauspicious things or troublesome things to the heart almost removed to having them completely eliminated? Excerpt from the answer: You got to keep going. It's the same as medicine. When you go to a doctor after you've vetted him or her, and decided this is a qualified doctor, he or she may give you some medicine. And after you've check...

The devotee Bhāgavata is a direct representative of Bhagavān, the Personality of Godhead. So by pleasing the devotee Bhāgavata one can receive the benefit of the book Bhāgavata. Human reason fails to understand how by serving the devotee Bhāgavata or the book Bhāgavata one gets gradual promotion on the path of devotion. But actually these are facts explained by Śrīla Nāradadeva, who happened to be...

Pracodayāt, that’s there in the mantra that you chant three times a day meditating on how my spiritual master let me be enthused as he enthused me. And what is that enthusiasm? It's for ananyā-bhakti. Otherwise, what's the enthusiasm? When we come for Maṅgala-āratīk, we're exposing ourselves to the full force of all of the paramparā. It's like we're standing under a waterfall from the guru-parampa...

The servants of God come to propagate God consciousness, and intelligent people should cooperate with them in every respect. By serving the servant of God, one can please God more than by directly serving the Lord. The Lord is more pleased when He sees that His servants are properly respected, because such servants risk everything for the service of the Lord, and so are very dear to the Lord. The...

Question: Do we get blessings simply by asking or we have to do something? You have to do something. tad viddhi praṇipātena paripraśnena sevayā (BG 4.34) Three thing. You have to be praṇipāt, which means that you go there willing to accept the instruction. I think it was about Gaura Kiśora Dāsa Bābājī Mahārāja. Some rich guy came. He had lots of friends, money, influence. One thing he didn't have...

Kṛṣṇa is the complete whole, and everything else is His part and parcel. The relation is one of the servant and the served. It is transcendental and is completely distinct from our experience in material existence. This relation of servant and the served is the most congenial form of intimacy. One can realize it as devotional service progresses. (SB 1.2.6, purport) --------------------------------...

He (Prabhupāda) wanted devotees to be well-rounded in his books, to be able to teach them. Prabhupāda didn't tell us that we had to go out and read every commentary in the world and learn Sanskrit. He felt and expressed many times that the books that he had supplied were enough of a bulwark against all the arguments in the world—that if you learn them well, then you'll be able to go out and teach...

To take shelter of the lotus feet of the Lord means to take shelter of the pure devotees. The pure devotees whose only business is serving are honored by the names Prabhupāda and Viṣṇupāda, which indicate such devotees to be representatives of the lotus feet of the Lord. Anyone, therefore, who takes shelter of the lotus feet of a pure devotee by accepting the pure devotee as his spiritual master c...

There was a group assembled by the BBT and GBC combinedly in 2019 in Tirupati, called the Editorial Review Panel of eleven highly trusted and literary devotees who nonpartisan go through every sentence in the Bhagavad-gītā and look at all the history of everything that happened and the standards. They took months just to lay down a foundation for, "Okay, no mistakes, but no unnecessary changes." T...

In the Vedas, the above-mentioned four activities are prescribed in the regulative way so that there will not be any undue competition for sense gratification. But Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is transcendental to all these sense gratificatory activities. It is purely transcendental literature which can be understood only by the pure devotees of the Lord who are transcendental to competitive sense gratificat...

Whatever work we have done on ourselves, we have the moral right —(that's not the phrase, but something like that) to suggest it to others; otherwise, we're hypocritical. You find also that if you are sense controlled, other living entities notice it, because it's so rare. People notice it in the way you walk, in the way you talk to them, and especially the way you react to them, because people ar...

Whatever work we have done on ourselves, we have the moral right —(that's not the phrase, but something like that) to suggest it to others; otherwise, we're hypocritical. You find also that if you are sense controlled, other living entities notice it, because it's so rare. People notice it in the way you walk, in the way you talk to them, and especially the way you react to them, because people ar...

As long as the Lord remained at Purī, thousands of His devotees used to come to see Him during the Ratha-yātrā car festival of Lord Jagannātha. And during the car festival, the washing of the Guṇḍicā temple under the direct supervision of the Lord was an important function. The Lord’s congregational saṅkīrtana movement at Purī was a unique exhibition for the mass of people. That is the way to turn...

You may have heard somebody, in a positive light, talk about a cult, and they'll say about a musical band or maybe a famous person—they'll say they have a "cult-like" following. Have you ever heard that? They're saying it to show the devotion of the people in it. Now, sociologically, if you are an objective observer, every sociological system is cult-like. Humans are naturally cultish in the benig...

Nithyanānda Prabhu heard all of these stories and decided that these two fallen souls must be the first to be delivered. If they were delivered from their sinful life, then the good name of Lord Caitanya would be even still more glorified. Thinking in this way, Nithyanānda Prabhu and Haridāsa pushed their way through the crowd and asked the two brothers to chant the holy name of Lord Hari. The dru...

When a living being is perfect, he is aware of everything that happens, and since the Supreme Person is all-perfect, it is quite natural that He knows everything in all detail. Consequently the perfect personality is addressed in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as Vāsudeva, or one who lives everywhere in full consciousness and in full possession of His complete energy. All of this is clearly explained in th...

kṛṣṇa kṛpā rūpa, kṛpā se samaratha tava kṛpā hī sīńche maiń to' kańgāla, 'kṛṣṇa' 'kṛṣṇa' kahi dhāuń tava piche piche Krsna is yours. You have the power to give Him to me. I am simply your servant running behind you shouting, "Krsna! Krsna!" (4) Full song: https://versecircle.com/?s=1512 ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dās...

kṛṣṇa hoite catur-mukha, hoy kṛṣṇa-sevonmukha, brahmā hoite nāradera mati nārada hoite vyāsa, madhwa kohe vyāsa-dāsa, pūrṇaprajña padmanābha gati In the beginning of creation the science of devotional service was received by the four-headed Brahma from the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna. Devarsi Narada's understanding of this divine science was obtained from Brahma. The great sage Krsna Dvaipayana...

Verse for discussion: https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/11/2/31/ Prabhupāda once said, "God helps those who help themselves." And helping oneself means, he said, putting yourself in front of transcendental sound vibration. There's a great, great advantage to just showing up. Some people say, "I'm unqualified. I, I can't go there." Well, go there, and then you become qualified. Some people say, "I'...

Prabhupāda once said, "God helps those who help themselves." And helping oneself means, he said, putting yourself in front of transcendental sound vibration. There's a great, great advantage to just showing up. Some people say, "I'm unqualified. I, I can't go there." Well, go there, and then you become qualified. Some people say, "I'm overqualified." Those people aren't advanced enough for me. So...

Deep inside everybody knows God's there, but they're like (gestures ignoring ). When you ignore God and you push Him away, you hold back, there is one result. There is one obligation for such a person. There is one way to pass your time if you are holding away God. It comes in one word: pachinko. Pachinko is the stupidest thing. What is it? The whole material world could be described in one word:...