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Prabhupada: Surrender is willing. If you don't like to surrender who can make you obliged to surrender? Surrender is voluntary. "Yes, I surrender." Determination, "Yes I surrender." Who can make you obliged…
December 18, 1972 : Bombay Every morning Srila Prabhupada, Shyamasundara Dasa and I would take Kartikeya's car, an Ambassador, and drive to a waterfront area for walking. After one morning walk, we…
(HH Bhakti Charu Swami. "Ocean of Mercy," p. 198-199) --------------------------------- [Bhakti Charu Maharaja said to Srila Prabhupada:] "What you have done is inconceivable. No one has ever achieved what you have. You…
nityaṁ dadāti kāmasya cchidraṁ tam anu ye ’rayaḥ yoginaḥ kṛta-maitrasya patyur jāyeva puṁścalī An unchaste woman is very easily carried away by paramours, and it sometimes happens that her husband is violently killed…
The Vedas are My(Lord Himself) eternal transcendental sound incarnation. Therefore the Vedas are śabda-brahma. In this world, the brāhmaṇas thoroughly study all the Vedas, and because they assimilate the Vedic conclusions, they…
This is the way of Vedic life. One must stop the process of repeated birth and death and return home, back to Godhead. The words tan-mahimānam avāpa are significant in this regard. Śrīla Śrīdhara…
It is distinctly mentioned here that the Supreme Personality of Godhead did not appear as an ordinary human being. He appeared before King Nābhi and his associates as the best of all…
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu has taught us how to approach the Supreme Lord and ask Him for the ultimate benediction. He said: na dhanaṁ na janaṁ na sundarīṁ kavitāṁ vā jagad-īśa kāmaye. He did not…
Prabhupada is keen for the Western devotees to learn Hindi and has engaged Mr. Saxena in the task of teaching them. Regular classes are now being held, and all the devotees are…
