Year 13
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“I Will Gratify My Malice by Stopping the Course of the World”
by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura PrabhupādaIf we disregard, or ignore, the devotees of God for elevating ourselves, we will be cast into the prison of three dimensions and spring towards [our materiality’s] inflation instead of contraction. ...
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By My Command, Be Guru And Save This Land
by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura PrabhupādaHe who wants to be employed in the service of God should never cast a covetous eye on any worldly object. Through vision of the partial appearances of the external, physical world, the vision of God is shut out. ...
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Debarred from Truly Tasting the Bhāgavatam
by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura PrabhupādaRather than listening to Bhāgavata discourses spoken by liberated paramahaṁsa Vaiṣṇavas, those who make a fuss of listening to the Bhāgavatam from professional orators or others whose discourses are full of tendencies that are harmful to the culture of true well-being, do so for sensuous gratification through poetic, literary, grammatical and other such false appreciations....
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Everything in This World Is Changing
by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura PrabhupādaThe name of the Personality of Godhead is Viṣṇu. The personal face is designated ‘[Param] Brahman’ in Sanskrit, to denote ‘magnanimous’, ‘large’, ‘big’ and so on, and represents the macrocosmic view....
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God's True Form Is Not an Idol
by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura PrabhupādaThe worship of mūrtis of God prepared from imagination may be called idolatry, but God’s sat-cid-ānanda body is not such a thing. His body and soul are not different from each other....
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Guru is the Hand of God
by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura PrabhupādaIt is, as it were, as a hand attached to the body of God, who is all existence, all intelligence, all bliss. With His hand, God rubs His own feet. The hand of God is His own limb. In this case God is serving Himself. God Himself appears as the Guru in order to teach how to serve Himself....
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If He Can’t Save Me From the Jaws of Death, He Is Not a Real Guru
by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura PrabhupādaIt is our duty to determine who is guru and who is of no-consequence (laghu). He alone is guru who serves that complete substantive entity – the only object of worship for all persons of any consequence (gurus)....
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My Friend Renders More Intimate Service Than I Can
by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura PrabhupādaI will be all more pleased if I find that another person competes in my line to serve my All-love in a better way perhaps than I can. ...
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Our Best Friends Are The Servants Of God
by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura PrabhupādaOur best friends are the servants of God with whom we ally. Yet I shall also speak about service to Hari with such friends of mine who possess lesser power to understand and have thus taken up the duties of kṣatriyas, vaiśyas and śudras – if they are not antagonistic....
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Selfish Worship is Not Bhakti
by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura PrabhupādaIn this mundane plane, pūjā is often performed with an eye on personal gain – we desire something in return for our reverential act. ...
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The Necessity of Guileless Humility
by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura PrabhupādaAn external exhibition of humility is not the quality of lowliness that makes one humbler than the blade of grass. A mere show of humility is nothing but insincerity, or hypocrisy. Calling out in a manner that our subordinate will respond to does not reach Godhead....
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The Root of It All Is Humility
by Śrīla Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura PrabhupādaIf conviction in our lack of fitness for the service of God is revealed to us either instinctively or by the instruction of others, then only are we in a position to appreciate the beauty of the lotus feet of God’s devotees....
