Radhanath Swami

Because Lord Ramachandra wanted to teach the world, although he is a Supreme Personality of Godhead, in the role of a human being, he wanted to give all credit to his devotees. He wanted to teach the world give all credit to your seniors.

She was creating all kinds of terrible mystical illusions. But whatever she did, Lord Rama dispelled. She was becoming angrier, angrier, angrier that they could not even see her, how to shoot her, how to fight with her, she was invisible. She kept tormenting them with various attacks in various ways.

Kandarpa was burnt, not into ashes, into nothing. His body simply ceased to exist and Vishwamitra Muni explained, because of that, Kandarpa had no body. Therefore, these days when he attacks people, nobody sees him.

Even a moment of not seeing him, my heart becomes filled with the anxiety of separation. If I do not see him for an hour, I have to run, run, try to find to, to look at him. I cannot live without him.

When they would play and fall to the ground, Dasaratha would be right there to pick them up and he would wipe the dust from their face and dust from their body. He would just cry upon seeing his children. He gave them so much love, so much affection.

This personality was so beautiful. He was very large like a mountain. He had a bluish complexion. He had beautiful, beautiful silken garments, and he had an effulgence which was glaring gold. He was so pleasing to see. In his hands, there was a pure golden pot filled to the top with celestial nectar in the form of Payasam, milk cooked with rice and sugar.

All of the buildings were made of the most precious stones and jewels. There were beautiful parks. Every tree had fruits and flowers blossoming practically throughout the year. All the animals were friendly with one another and the birds were always singing very, very sweetly.

You should not interfere with my benediction. The Supreme Lord will appear as a human being and he will kill him.” So Yamaraja to honor Brahma’s desire, he disappeared.

Whenever they would see rishis doing yagna, they would destroy their yagnas and they would just tear them apart and eat them. They were ghastly beings, horrible, cruel, anywhere they went, there was just baths of blood everywhere. That is when he got his name Ravana. There was just weeping and crying anywhere he travelled.

Ravana, he became so arrogant due to the powers of the benedictions that he had received. He sent a messenger to Kuvera, who had his abode in Sri Lanka. It was a beautiful golden city, the most opulent place on earth. It was the headquarters of the treasury of the demigods when he was on this earth planet

That is why Krishna says, cātur-varṇyaṁ mayā sṛṣṭaṁ guṇa-karma-vibhāgaśaḥ, it is not by birth that we evaluate a person's position, it is by one's activities.

Rakshasas, their race is equal in power and strength to the demigods except they're evil instead of good. They have duration of lives, power, strength, like the demigods, except instead of being in the mode of goodness, they're very deeply entrenched in the mode of ignorance. Human beings are insignificant.

When demons come to this world, they create terrible suffering to the inhabitants and that suffering is an impetus for people to come to the proper understanding that we are helpless without the mercy of the lord.

Krishna can lift the Govardhan Hill with his little finger. What is impossible for Krishna? What Krishna will do for his devotees if the devotees have a sincere desire to serve, to serve each other.

We should also be very enthusiastic, enthusiastic to chant and dance in the Kirtan; enthusiastic to hear the wonderful ambrosial sound vibration of the glories of the Lord, and his devotees; enthusiasm in whatever wonderful devotional activity comes by the mercy of the Lord.

Because India started taking to the ways of the West, sinful materialistic life. Therefore, God’s wrath is most on India than anywhere else. Because the people of India know better.

A great man is willing to admit his own faults, and a foolish man is always trying to blame everyone else, for his own faults. Anyone can do that; anyone can find faults in others, but only a very great soul can admit his own faults.

It’s like a child, a child is told by his parents, “Do not touch the fire, it’s hot.” The child says, “But I want to touch it.” Parent says, “You are crazy, do not touch it, you will burn yourself.” The child says, “But I am going to touch it any way.” What can the parent do?

Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has taught us that we should expect absolutely no respect for oneself but offer all respect to all others, according to what they deserve. This is the most important instruction that Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has given. He claims that this verse is the most important of all verses. To be more humble than the grass; to be more tolerant than the tree; to offer all respect to others a...

These six opulences are beauty, knowledge, strength, wealth, fame and renunciation and having any of these to a large degree makes a person very powerful.

This is how Krishna glorifies his devotee by showing that the devotee never gives up his faith, never gives up his devotion and his loyalty to the Lord under any circumstance.

The devotees are factually, the pure devotees of the Lord, who were beyond religion in the sense of artha, kama, dharma, moksha. They are transcendental; they are beyond the modes of material nature.

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We are concerned with what we do with our consciousness before we leave the body. Let others worry about what happens to body afterwards.

if you want to understand the real significance behind it, you have to go beyond the television set.