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God cannot be impersonal

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: We Are Controlled

The creation is from a person, not from the impersonal feature of the Absolute Truth. Creation, there must be brain; otherwise how there is question of creation? We are part and parcel of Krsna. We are…, we have also creative power. So as soon as there is question of creative power, there must be a brain behind the creation, and brain means a person. Creation cannot be possible from void or impersonal thing. We have several times discussed this point, that the government, this word, appears to be impersonal, but

light-of-godhead2015-09-25T14:03:48+00:00September 24th, 2015|Categories: Absolute truth, Analogies, Creation|Tags: Government, Impersonal, King, Person|

SB-1.2.28-29: Vasudeva – Our ultimate goal

SB 1.2.28-29: In the revealed scriptures, the ultimate object of knowledge is Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead. The purpose ofperforming sacrifice is to please Him. Yoga is for realizing Him. All fruitive activities are ultimately rewarded by Him only. He is supreme knowledge, and all severe austerities are performed to know Him. Religion [dharma] is rendering loving service unto Him. He is the supreme goal of life.

That Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead, is the only object of worship is confirmed in these two ślokas. In the Vedic literature there is the same objective: establishing one’s relationship and ultimately reviving our lost loving service unto Him. That is the sum and substance of the Vedas. In the Bhagavad-gītā the same theory is confirmed by the Lord in His own words: the ultimate purpose of the Vedas is to know Him only.

light-of-godhead2015-09-25T16:32:08+00:00September 18th, 2015|Categories: Canto 1, Dharma, Srimad Bhagavatam notes, Vasudeva|

Three phases of the Absolute truth

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 1.2.28–29, Nov. 8, 1972, Vrindavana

The Absolute Truth is one. One who knows the Absolute Truth, he knows that Brahman, Paramatma, Bhagavan, the same objective, but they are realized by different devotees or different knower in different features. The example is given in this connection: Just like if you see from a very distant place one hill, you’ll find just like a cloud, hazy cloud. If you push forward further you’ll find something green. But when you actually approach the hill, you’ll find there are many

light-of-godhead2020-11-24T10:27:51+00:00September 17th, 2015|Categories: Absolute truth, Analogies|Tags: Hill|

Where is the technology?

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Kamsa’s And Ravana’s State

In Boston I was invited in the Massachusetts Technological Institute? Yes. So I, first of all I questioned the students that “You have got technological department. So where is the technology where we can understand the difference between a dead man and a living man? What is the thing is lost that a body’s called dead body? What is that technology.” So I talked on this point. The students appreciated very much. Actually, there is no technology why a

light-of-godhead2015-09-24T00:54:35+00:00September 17th, 2015|Categories: Knowledge, Pastimes of Srila Prabhupada|Tags: Dead, Living, Technology|

The Lord is always transcendental

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 of the prison house. Both the managers and the prisoners are bound by the laws of the king. But even though the king sometimes comes in the prison, he is not bound by the

light-of-godhead2015-09-25T16:35:34+00:00September 17th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Transcendental goodness, Vishnu|Tags: King, Laws, Managers, Prison house, Prisoners|

SB-1.2.26-27: Just worship Krsna

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 the mode of worship of others. They have all respect for other demigods, even though they may look ghastly, like Kāla-bhairava or Mahākālī. They know very well that these horrible features of the Supreme Lord are all different servitors of the Lord under different conditions, yet they reject the worship of both horrible and attractive features of the demigods, and they concentrate only on the forms of Viṣṇu because they are serious about liberation from the material conditions. The demigods, even to the stage of Brahmā, the supreme of all the demigods, cannot offer liberation to anyone.

light-of-godhead2015-09-24T01:17:19+00:00September 10th, 2015|Categories: Canto 1, Demigod worship, Goodness, Srimad Bhagavatam notes|

Love of Krsna

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.” Because a devotee is always anxious to see Krsna. Just like Radharani. She’s always anxious to see Krsna. But Krsna does not come. Just like Krsna left all the gopis, immediately went to Mathura. Renouncement. So much

light-of-godhead2015-09-24T13:30:20+00:00September 9th, 2015|Categories: Chastity, Gopis, Krsna, Lord Caitanya, Prema, Renunciation, Stories|Tags: Lampata|

Come to Krsna and you will be saved

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: People Are Being Killed

Mumuksavo ghora-rupan. We are therefore restricting not to worship any other. Therefore when I started this mission many friends advised me “Why don’t you make it ‘God consciousness’?” This is bogus, God consciousness. “Krsna consciousness.” Otherwise, they’ll put so many gods. “Here is another god, here is another god, here is another god, here is another god, here is another incarnation, here is another avatara,” all nonsense. Place actual who is God. Krsnas tu bhagavan svayam. Narayana-kalah santah. So try to understand our mission.

light-of-godhead2015-09-24T00:50:49+00:00September 9th, 2015|Categories: Demigod worship, Kali, Krsna, Pastimes of Srila Prabhupada|Tags: ISKCON|

Envious of Krsna

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: People Are Being Killed

As it is mentioned: narayana-kalah santa bhajanti hy anasuyavah. Anasuyava. Asuya. Asuya means envious. Just like when we present Krsna, especially in India… This botheration is not there in other countries, outside India, because they had no information. I have placed before them that “Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. You are searching after God. Here is God. Here is God’s name, here is God’s address, here is God’s activities. You try to understand God. Why you are speculating?”

light-of-godhead2015-09-24T00:52:21+00:00September 9th, 2015|Categories: Envy, Kali, Krsna, Pastimes of Srila Prabhupada|Tags: India|

Real nonviolence

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: People Are Being Killed

Sometimes in the year 1950 or ’51 I went to Jhansi, and it happened so that the…, the friend in whose house I was staying, he was a leader, and there was a meeting for Gandhi’s disappearance day. So I was asked to speak. At that time I was not sannyasi. I was asked to speak something on nonviolence. So I explained that violence means if you have got some right and if somebody by force stops you to utilize your right,

light-of-godhead2015-09-24T00:53:19+00:00September 9th, 2015|Categories: Gandhi, Nonviolence, Pastimes of Srila Prabhupada|Tags: India, Liberation, Nonviolence, Violence|

SB 1.2.24-25: Beyond sense perception

SB 1.2.24: Firewood is a transformation of earth, but smoke is better than the raw wood. And fire is still better, for by fire we can derive the benefits of superior knowledge [through Vedic sacrifices]. Similarly, passion [rajas] is better than ignorance [tamas], but goodness [sattva] is best because by goodness one can come to realize the Absolute Truth.

As explained above, one can get release from the conditioned life of material existence by devotional service to the Personality of Godhead. It is further comprehended herein that one has to rise to the platform of the mode of goodness (sattva) so that one can be eligible for the devotional service of the Lord. But if there are impediments on the progressive path, anyone, even from the platform of tamas, can gradually rise to the sattva platform by the expert direction of the spiritual master. Sincere candidates must, therefore, approach an expert spiritual master for such a progressive march, and the bona fide, expert spiritual master is competent to direct a disciple from any stage of life: tamas, rajas or sattva.

light-of-godhead2015-09-07T22:46:59+00:00August 14th, 2015|Categories: Canto 1, God realization, Goodness, Srimad Bhagavatam notes|Tags: Performing duty|

We cannot speculate

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Teach What Krsna has Said

So we have to follow mahajana because we are tiny living entities. We cannot speculate. This is nonsense. Speculation is nonsense. Panthas tu koti-sata-vatsara-sampragamyo vayor athapi manaso [Bs. 5.34]. If we speculate we shall never reach the Absolute Truth. That is not possible. But power is very limited. How long I shall speculate? This is called kupa-manduka-nyaya. Just like a frog in the well is informed by his friend, “My dear friend, Mr. Frog, or Dr. Frog, I have seen

light-of-godhead2017-07-04T19:25:58+00:00August 14th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, God realization|Tags: Frog, Speculation|

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