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Speaker: SrilaPrabhupada
Source: How to see the Absolute truth
To understand the Absolute Truth, even brahma-darsanam, Absolute Truth, you have come to the light, not in the darkness. If you want to see the sun at least, then you have come to the sunshine. Not that in the dark room,...
Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: How to see the Absolute truth
If you want, nature will give you facility. Prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani sarvasah [Bg. 3.27]. Prakrti means nature. He’s giving, by nature. Just like, if you infect, if you become infected with some disease, so you’ll get that disease. It is nature’s...
Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: The eternal struggle
Hiranyakasipu wanted to become immortal, so he underwent such severe penances that the whole universe trembled. Lord Brahma had to come to pacify him “What do you want?”
Hiranyakasipu said, “I want to become immortal!”
Lord Brahma replied, “Although I have a very long duration...
Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Devotee Doesn’t Want Anything
Just like Caitanya Mahaprabhu teaches: aslisya va pada-ratam pinastu mam marma-hatam karotu va adarsanat. A devotee desires to see Krsna. But he says: “I don’t mind if You break my heart by not being present. I don’t mind. You break my heart.”...
SB 1.2.26: Those who are serious about liberation are certainly nonenvious, and they respect all. Yet they reject the horrible and ghastly forms of the demigods and worship only the all-blissful forms of Lord Viṣṇu and His plenary portions.
Highly qualified brāhmaṇas situated in the mode of goodness have no grudges against...
Source:SB 1.2.28-29
Lord Viṣṇu, or Vāsudeva, is always transcendentally situated. Even though He accepts the quality of goodness of the material world, He is still transcendental to all the material modes. The following example will clear that matter more explicitly. In the prison house there are the prisoners and the managers...
