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Everyone is engaged in these material activities, and the basic principle of material activity is gṛhastha, family life. Family life, according to Vedic system, or anywhere, is responsible life to maintain the…
Because Krsna wants us to enter His elite group of personal associates, He is ever eager to help us develop our love for Him. Dhruva Maharaja performed austerities to gain a kingdom…
Akiñcana, Akiñcana means do not possess anything material. Akiñcana-gocara. Queen Kuntī, when she was receiving Kṛṣṇa, she said, "My dear Kṛṣṇa, You are Akiñcana-gocara. You are realized by a person who has…
Lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.11.2 by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami. Recorded on 05.June.2019 at ISKCON Jamnagar, Gujarat, India Is Varnashrma-Dharma is eternal to know please watch? When Varnashrma becomes asura Varnashrma to…
The human life is so valuable, and I shall waste it simply by sleeping? Therefore the Gosvamis, our predecessor gurus, they have shown. They conquered over these things, Nidra, sleeping... Nidra is…
The practice of forcing one's wife to drink one's own semen is a black art practiced by extremely lusty persons. Those who practice this very abominable activity say that if a wife…
Prabhupada: How Krishna can become male? (your question),". . . I read from Srimad-Bhagavatam, chap. 11, text 7, 'Oh, Creator of the Universe, You are our mother, well-wisher, Lord, father, the spiritual…
Vamanadeva is Lord Krishna's avatar (incarnation) as a dwarf brahmana during a period of intense conflict between the appointed directors of the universe (devas, or "demigods") and asuras ("demons"). The Srimad-Bhagavatam tells…
Srila Prabhupada, "So all the demigods, they are appointed by the Supreme Lord to execute the law and order. Because this material world is a chaotic condition, therefore there is a necessity…
[Translation from Hindi] Saharanpur, JNN: ISKCON Kurukshetra President and Katha-vyasa Sakshi-Gopal Das said a sinful man has no taste for hearing Krishna-katha. All the time he persists in scheming, and because of…
