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Prahlāda Mahārāja replied: O best of the asuras, King of the demons, as far as I have learned from my spiritual master, any person who has accepted a temporary body and temporary household life is certainly embarrassed by anxiety because of having fallen in a dark well where there is no water but only suffering. One should give up this position and go to the forest [vana]. More clearly, one should go to Vṛndāvana, where only Kṛṣṇa consciousness is prevalent, and should thus take shelter of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 7.5.5
- Prahlāda Mahārāja, the Saintly Son of HiraṇyakaśipuNarasimha Caturdasi Festival Simhachalam/DE, 2018Download
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If you cannot take to this practice, then engage yourself in the cultivation of knowledge. Better than knowledge, however, is meditation, and better than meditation is renunciation of the fruits of action, for by such renunciation one can attain peace of mind.Bhagavad-gītā 12.12
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Arjuna said: O my dear Kṛṣṇa, I wish to know about prakṛti [nature], puruṣa [the enjoyer], and the field and the knower of the field, and of knowledge and the object of knowledge. The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: This body, O son of Kuntī, is called the field, and one who knows this body is called the knower of the field.Bhagavad-gītā 13.1-2
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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Adi 17.79-89)
April 9th, 2018 | Posted by in class | lecture - (Comments Off)
One day the Lord performed saṅkīrtana with all His devotees, and when they were greatly fatigued they sat down.Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Adi 17.79-89)
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Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Antya 2.7-10)
October 29th, 2017 | Posted by in class | lecture - (Comments Off)
When Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was personally present, anyone in the world who met Him even once was fully satisfied and became spiritually advanced.Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta (Antya 2.7-10)
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O lord, your shadow is seen in irreligion, which brings about varieties of irreligious creations. The three modes of nature — goodness, passion and ignorance — are your three eyes. All the Vedic literatures, which are full of verses, are emanations from you because their compilers wrote the various scriptures after receiving your glance.Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 8.7.30-31
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