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Speaker: Radhanath Swami
Source: Pure Devotional ServiceThis verse “Om apavithra” signifies the essence of human life, the essence of initiation. “Whether one is pure or impure, one who remembers lotus eyed Supreme Lord Sri Krsna becomes purified both within and without “. This verse says one who remembers Krsna even while...
Source: SB 1.3.9
So to become obedient servant and to have no discrimination of sex and food, that means dogs and they are not human beings. And camel, although he is a big animal, he takes pleasure in eating his own blood. How is that? You will find the camels are very...
Source: BG 2.12 Purport
Those who are envious of Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead have no bona fide access to the great literature. The non-devotee’s approach to the teachings of the Gītā is something like that of a bee licking on a bottle of honey. One cannot have a taste of...
Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Crow-And-Tal-Fruit Logic
Srila Prabhupada encourages us to get out of the material world – not endlessly speculate on how we got here.
Srila Prabhupada dictated this essay in reply to a question about the origin of the living entity: Were we originally with Krishna, or did we fall...
Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Disappearance day of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati
A rich man’s son is loitering in the street, forgetting his father’s opulence and property. And somebody, out of sympathy, giving him some food. But other person comes to him and says, “Oh, my dear boy, I know you. You are...
Srila Sanatana Gosvami also states that when bell metal is treated with mercury, it can produce gold. Srila Sanatana Gosvami mentions this in regard to the initiation of low-class men to turn them into brahmanas. Sanatana Gosvami said:
yatha kancanatam yati
kamsyam rasa-vidhanatah
tatha diksa-vidhanena
dvijatvam jayate nrnam
“As...
