Preaching is also samadhi

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source:  Wonderful cure for illusion

Sridhara Svami says that “This process is for giving liberation from all kinds of material bondage.” Akhilasya bandhasya muktaye tam anusmara smrtya varnayata.(?) And again Sridhara Svami gives note herewith that “Not only you meditate, but you preach. That will help your meditation.” Just like I am speaking to you. I am meditating simultaneously. Unless I remember, how can I speak to you? Unless my attention is concentrated without any diversion in Krsna subject matter, how can I speak to you? So that is also samadhi. Don’t think that one who

2016-03-30T20:04:33+00:00March 30th, 2016|Categories: Liberation, Preaching, Remembering, Sadhana-bhakti, Sridhara swami|Tags: |

Show you are rich

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Impersonalists misguide people

thecounterfeitThere are many Vedantists in Vrndavana, but they do not come to see the temple, because they think themselves that they have become Krsna. That is the Vedanta, so-called Vedanta philosophy conclusion. But Bhagavata says that vimukta-maninah. “They are thinking that they have become liberated.” That is their concoction. Maninah. If somebody thinks that “I have become the richest man in the world,” although he has nothing to show… To become richest man, there must be some symptoms. But if a poor man

2015-08-20T22:17:20+00:00August 14th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Impersonalist, Liberation|Tags: , , , , , |

Necessity is fire

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: How To Derive The Ultimate Benefit

Tukir_(a_way_of_cooking_using_bamboo_as_recipient_to_cook_in_the_fire)Just like earth, from the earth the tree grows. So tree grows means wood. Now, if you ignite the wood, first of all there is smoke, then there is fire. So my necessity is fire, neither the wood, nor the earth, nor the smoke. Similarly, for getting out of these material clutches one has to take shelter of Visnu — not of Lord Brahma nor Lord Siva.

2015-08-06T21:44:13+00:00August 5th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Demigod worship, Liberation|Tags: , , , |

No other method will relieve us

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: The Material World – A Chance

Quotes-by-Srila-Prabhupada-on-What-is-The-Material-World-Meant-For (1)Just like one is a prisoner. So if he pleases the superintendent of prison, he can get some little facilities. Now I have seen, practically, that one young boy, he was imprisoned for some criminal act. So he was typing in the office of the jail superintendent. So that means he was educated, but he was put into ordinary prison term. He was breaking some stone. But he satisfied the jail superintendent that “I am not accustomed to

2015-08-06T21:36:06+00:00August 5th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Demigod worship, Liberation|Tags: , , , |