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that great Māyāvādī sannyāsīs – very highly educated and almost realized souls – may sometimes take to political activities or to social welfare activities. any ultimate transcendental happiness in the impersonal understanding and therefore must come down to the material platform and take to such mundane affairs. There are many instances, especially in India, where these Māyāvādī sannyāsīs descend to the material
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The Nectar of Devotion is not presented to condemn any way of materialistic life, but the attempt is to give information to religionists, philosophers, and people in general how to love Kṛṣṇa. At the present moment we are inventing so many ways to utilize our propensity to love, but factually We are trying to keep our body fit by all means, but we are neglecting to supply food to the stomach.
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We may dream of something dangerous, that a tiger or snake is coming, and then we want to change to another Similarly, our attempt to become happy in this material world by manufacturing some artificial means Real happiness is to take shelter of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa.
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takes charge of us, He gradually educates us from within and without so that we may go back home, back to From the material point of view it is auspicious to achieve wealth, education, beauty, high parentage Real auspiciousness is to go back home, back to Godhead, for an eternal life of bliss and knowledge. And that can be achieved only by engagement in pure devotional service to Lord Kṛṣṇa, without any material And to achieve that we have to follow the rules and regulations, chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra daily
Bhakti: the art of eternal love Introduction
We invite you to share in Rūpa Gosvāmī’s teachings on bhakti-yoga, the art of eternal love, as they have come down to us from his foremost modern follower in disciplic succession. If we can learn to love God through bhakti-yoga, then we can learn to love everything and everyone else
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activities for which we are suffering at the present moment, and we may be suffering in the future due to But all of these reactions to sinful deeds can immediately be stopped if we take to Kṛṣṇa consciousness This verse is in connection with Lord Kṛṣṇa’s instruction to Uddhava, where He says, “My dear Uddhava The purport is that as the blazing fire can burn any amount of fuel to ashes, so devotional service to Therefore, Arjuna was not subjected to any sinful reaction.
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Karma, or fruitive activities, is sometimes understood to consist of ritualistic activities. But if one becomes attracted simply to ritualistic activities without understanding Kṛṣṇa, his activities are unfavorable to Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam describes nine different processes, besides which everything done is unfavorable to
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This is also magic, but whereas the prākāmya power acts to create wonderful effects within the scope of nature, kāmāvasāyitā permits one to contradict nature – in other words, to do the impossible.
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As long as one identifies himself as belonging to a certain family, a certain society, or a certain nation , he is said to be covered with designations. When one is fully aware that he does not belong to any family, society, or country but is eternally related to Kṛṣṇa, he then realizes that his energy should be employed not in the interests of so-called family
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The basic principle of the living condition is that we have a general propensity to love someone. The missing point, however, is where to repose our love so that everyone can become happy. At the present moment the human society teaches one to love his country or family or his personal self , but there is no information where to repose the loving propensity so that everyone can become happy for Kṛṣṇa and how to be situated in that position where we can enjoy our blissful life.
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Our attempts to mitigate discomfort are like the attempts of a laborer to get some relief when carrying When he is too uncomfortable, he shifts the burden from his head to his shoulder. Similarly, we are trying to get material comforts by producing so many scientific inventions, but they For instance, in America the people have to accept so much danger just to drive around in their motorcars They have so many cars that they have to construct more roads and highways, one on top of another.
Boundless Love
If we learn how to love Kṛṣṇa, then it is very easy to immediately and simultaneously love every living It is not possible to water the tree part by part, nor is it possible to feed the different parts of to give information to religionists, philosophers, and people in general how to love Kṛṣṇa. At the present moment we are inventing so many ways to utilize our propensity to love, but factually We are trying to keep our body fit by all means, but we are neglecting to supply food to the stomach.