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This verse (Bhag. 7.15.40) was spoken by Narada to Yudhisthira Maharaja regarding a householder's liberation from material bondage. ON THE SPIRITUAL PLATFORM, ONE DOES NOT UNNECESSARILY CARE FOR THE BODY. SRILA NAROTTAMA DASA THAKURA HAS SAID...
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As far as the urges of the genitals are concerned, there are two--proper and improper, or legal and illicit sex. When a man is properly mature, he can marry according to the rules and regulations of the sastras and use his genitals for begetting nice children.
Materialistic activities are regulated by the institution of varnasrama-dharma. Without varnasrama-dharma, materialistic activities constitute animal life. Yet even in human life, while observing the principles of varna and asrama--brahmana, ksatriya, vaisya, sudra, brahmacarya...
On your recommendation I am accepting Danny Miller and Michael McKinly for first initiation into Hare Krishna chanting. YOU CAN HAVE SANNYASIS CHANT ON THEIR BEADS, AND GIVE THEM THEIR SPIRITUAL NAMES AND BEADS AT THE FIRE SACRIFICE. They must abide by the regulative principles...
Anyone who is steady in his determination for the advanced stage of spiritual realization and CAN EQUALLY TOLERATE THE ONSLAUGHTS OF DISTRESS AND HAPPINESS IS CERTAINLY A PERSON ELIGIBLE FOR LIBERATION. In the varnasrama institution, THE FOURTH...
Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of 29 January, 1972, and I am very pleased to note that you are so enthusiastic to push on Krishna Consciousness and follow yourself very faithfully the regulative principles chalked out by our great predecessors. If you simply go on in this way...
It has become the norm in ISKCON to use this catch phrase, "Its offensive". But devotees are realising this is code for someone who has something to hide. In association with this there are other similar terms like "He's senior", or "Who's your...
Well, they do not believe in astrology. Therefore they cannot take any step. They do not believe in next life, so they cannot take any step. And whether it is a fact or not, because they do not believe in next life, so what is the use of taking step? Is it as good as to say that Jawaharlal Nehru has become Indra. If somebody says like that, so they'll have to discard this thing also, and they have to discard that thing also.