Vaishnava Calendar

We act according to our whims, and the resultant action is there immediately. Nature’s law, God’s law, is there. It is not God’s creation that somebody is suffering from some painful condition and somebody is enjoying. No. We infect ourselves with some contamination because this material world is full of contamination. You must remain very cautious. Otherwise you will have to suffer.

By rendering devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead, Sri Krishna, one immediately acquires causeless knowledge and detachment from the world.

Always think of the Lotus Feet of Sri Krishna and you will find no difficulties in executing the tasks allotted to you by Krishna.

The occupational activities a man performs according to his own position are only so much useless labor if they do not provide attraction for the message of the Personality of Godhead.

Compassion for the eternal soul is self-realization.

Living beings entangled in the complicated meshes of birth and death can be freed at once by even unconsciously chanting the holy name of Krsna, which is feared by fear personified.

If one chants the holy names of the lord, even in helpless condition or without desiring to do so, all the reactions of his sinful life departs, just as when lion roars, all the small animals flee in fear.

I envy no one, nor am I partial to anyone. I am equal to all. But whoever renders service unto Me in devotion is a friend, is in Me, and I am also a friend to him.

Without being self-controlled, without being disciplined and without being fully obedient, no one can become successful in following the instructions of the spiritual master, and without doing so, no one is able to go back to Godhead.

One, who worships the Supreme Lord and His holy name with undivided faith, knowing them to be identical, is considered an elevated, first class devotee, even if he does not understand the intricacies of his own spiritual identity.

Even if devotees excuse those who insult them, Krishna takes a different position and He is strict on this matter. Krishna will not excuse or tolerate any insult of His devotees. If we want to please Krishna, we must never insult His devotees.

Devotional service, beginning with the chanting of the holy name of the Lord, is the ultimate religious principle for the living entity in human society.

Now that we have become your devotees, your holy names have affectionately created a jubilant festival in our mouths. Your bodily splendor, like a dark rain cloud, has become the black ointment of our eyes, and the music of your flute has become the ornament of our ears. We no longer take pleasure in material desires. 0 Almighty Lord, material desires no longer appear beautiful to us.

Because Krishna\'s form, qualities, pastimes, etc. are all on the absolute platform, material senses cannot therefore appreciate them. When a conditioned soul is awakened to Krishna consciousness and renders service by using his tongue to chant the Lord\'s Holy name and taste the remnants of the Lord\'s food, the tongue is purified and one gradually comes to understand who Krishna really is.

Those who fix their minds on My personal form and are always engaged in worshiping Me with great and transcendental faith are considered by Me to be most perfect.

It is the duty of the spiritual master to find fault with his students so that they may make progress, not that he should always be praising them. So if you find some criticism, kindly accept it in that spirit. I am only interested in that you, along all my other students, should become Krishna Conscious.

The living entity is bound around the neck by the chain of maya because he has forgotten that he is eternally a servant of Krishna.

I am seated in everyone\'s heart, and from me comes remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness.

When a pure devotee or spiritual master speaks, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara system.

O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.

When transcendental devotional service, by which love for Krishna is attained, is executed by the senses, it is called Saadhana Bhakthi, or the regulative discharge of devotional service. Such devotion eternally exists within the heart of every living entity. The awakening of this eternal devotion is the potentiality of devotional service in practice.