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It is natural to serve

Suddenly the old derelict returns, announcing his entrance: “How are ya?” He is carrying something. He maneuvers his way through the group, straight to the back of the temple, where the Swami is sitting. He opens the toilet room door, puts two rolls of bathroom tissue inside, closes the door, and then turns to the sink, sits some paper towels on top of it and puts two more rolls of bathroom tissue and some more paper towels under the sink. He then stands and turns around

light-of-godhead2015-09-14T06:27:11+00:00May 21st, 2015|Categories: Pastimes of Srila Prabhupada, Service attitude, Videos|Tags: Bathroom tissue, Bum|

Real starvation

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Relieving Our Bodily Burden

Real starvation is of the soul. The soul is not getting spiritual food. Here, in this meeting, this is meant for giving to the starving spirit soul. And as soon as you get some spiritual food, then we become happy. That is the situation. Yayatma suprasidati. Unless you get spiritual food there cannot be satisfaction of the real soul. The same example, within the cage there is the bird. If you simply wash the cage very nicely and cover it and paint

light-of-godhead2015-08-31T21:11:47+00:00May 21st, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Real satisfaction, Videos|Tags: Bird in the cage, Encagement, Freedom, Starvation|

Durvasa muni visits the Pandavas

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: If Krishna Says All Right…

If you simply satisfy Hari, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, then you satisfy all others. Tasmin tusto jagat tustah. Just like you know the story, in Mahabharata, that Duryodhana planned… Duryodhana… Once Duryodhana satisfied Durvasa Muni very nicely, and Durvasa Muni wanted to give him some benediction, “Now you take some benediction, whatever you like.” So Duryodhana was very cunning. His only aim was how to cheat the Pandavas. So he

light-of-godhead2015-10-10T23:01:35+00:00May 13th, 2015|Categories: Durvasa muni, Lords protection, Pandavas, Stories, Videos|Tags: Real satisfaction|

At least lift your anchor

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: At Least Lift Your Anchor

Perhaps you all remember that a bridegroom party was to go to the bride’s home. In India the marriage party, bridegroom party, the bride, his father, his relatives, go with the bride, bridegroom, to the bride’s home, and the marriage ceremony takes place there in the presence of all kinds of relatives. That is the system. So the marriage was to take place in a different village some miles away, and in Bengal the land is full of rivers. The rivers are

light-of-godhead2015-09-28T21:32:59+00:00May 13th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Material enjoyment, Videos|Tags: Anchor, Boat, Marriage Party, Motivated|

Take you to your father

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 the son of such and such rich man. Why you are loitering in the street? Come on, I shall take you to your father.” So if that gentleman takes that loitering boy to his father, the father is glad, and

light-of-godhead2015-08-31T21:13:19+00:00May 7th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Eternal father, Social welfare, Videos|Tags: Panacea|

Better spend time curing the disease

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 from Krishna’s impersonal energy, the brahmajyoti? The essay was an addendum to a letter Prabhupada wrote to his disciple Madhudvisa Dasa in June of 1972.

Because he

light-of-godhead2015-10-17T22:23:32+00:00May 6th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Fall-down, Pastimes of Srila Prabhupada, Videos|Tags: How we fall, No wasting time|

Licking on a bottle of honey

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 honey unless one opens the bottle. Similarly, the mysticism of the Bhagavad-gītā can be understood only by devotees, and no one else can taste it, as it is stated in the Fourth Chapter of the

light-of-godhead2015-10-05T22:03:43+00:00May 6th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Bhagavad Gita, Mayavadi, Videos|Tags: Bee, Honey, Who can understand Gita|