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The Foundation of Bhakti and Key to Prema

Thinking oneself to be even lower and more worthless than insignificant grass which is trampled beneath everyone's feet, being more tolerant than a tree, being prideless, and offering respects to all others according to their respective positions, one s

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Added by Bankebihari dasa on January 8, 2008 at 9:25pm — No Comments

Krishna Only Accepts Love And Affection

KRISHNA ONLY ACCEPTS LOVE AND AFFECTION

Krishna will only accept an offering that is made with love and affection. One incident which show

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Added by Bankebihari dasa on November 18, 2007 at 11:37am — No Comments

One Love

"All of us are in the family of one God. It is not that there is one God in England, another in America, and still another in India. The Christians, Muslims and Hindus are not worshiping different Gods. The names Allah, Brahma, Jehovah, Krsna and Yahweh refer to the same God, called by different names according to differences in language and culture.

If we love the same one God, why do we quarrel? We quarrel because we don’t know what real love is. If we hav

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Added by Bankebihari dasa on October 3, 2007 at 5:04pm — 1 Comment

Acharya Shankara Is Not At Fault

Srila Krishnadäsa Kaviräja Gosvämi, in his book Sri Caitanya Caritämrita Madhya 6/168:

veda nä mäniyä bauddho haya ta’ nästika

vedäçraya nästikya-väda bauddhake adhika

The Buddhists do not accept the authority of the Vedas, therefore they are considered agnostics. However, those who cla

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Added by Bankebihari dasa on October 2, 2007 at 3:23pm — No Comments

The Fundamental Reasons For The Birth Of Mayavadism

"The word 'Mayavadism' ( referring to advaitavada, non-dualism or monism) has long been in use among the followers of Sanatana-dharma in India. However, its mention is not to be found anywhere in the Vedas or Upanishads. The absence of this word in the Vedic Age prompts one to believe that there was not legitimate reason for this school of thought to become popular. Among the Aryans (the adherents of Sanatana-dharma) and since time immemorial, there is no record of disagreement about

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Added by Bankebihari dasa on October 2, 2007 at 3:15pm — No Comments

In The Form Of His Own Devotee

Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu is actually the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krishna Himself. However, He came in the form of His own devotee to teach us the process of transcendental devotional service, by which we can develop pure love and affection for Him. Continue

Added by Bankebihari dasa on October 1, 2007 at 4:14pm — No Comments

FAITH

"Faith is our only hope.

One who endeavours to aquire faith always looks for the association of the faithful.

As one fire-light lights another without dimunition

in the same way

faith ---

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Added by Bankebihari dasa on September 29, 2007 at 1:47pm — No Comments

Chaitanya Avatar

Sometimes Radha and Krishna are combined; sometimes They are separate. They are separate in Dvapara-yuga, and in Kali-yuga (the current age) they are combined as Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Both are eternal expressions of the same Absolute Truth. Summer, autumn, winter and spring continue in a cyclic order; it cannot be said that summer is the beginning and winter comes later. So, the pastimes of Sri Radha and Krishna are eternally being enacted. In ancient times, sometimes Radha and Kr

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Added by Bankebihari dasa on August 20, 2007 at 5:10pm — No Comments

Everything Belongs To Krishna, Including Ourselves

"We should think, 'Everything belongs to the Lord and His delegation, the guru. I am not the master of anything.' That sort of knowledge we should imbibe, and that will be helpful to our real spiritual progress. This is reality... So, proper diksa, spiritual initiation, imparts the divine knowledge that nothing belongs to us; not only that, but everything belongs to God, including ourselves...We are living in a fool's paradise. We should do away with the fool's paradise and

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Added by Bankebihari dasa on July 28, 2007 at 11:01am — No Comments

Our Environment Is Favourable To Us

Sridhar Maharaja: Many years ago, a German scholar expressed his opinion that Bhagavad-gita is the highest spiritual literature. His point was that Bhagavad-gita clearly advises us not to try to correct our environment, but to correct ourselves, to adjust with the environment. That is the key to the advice of Bhagavad-gita: "Cure thyself." We have no power to bring about changes in the environment. That is arranged by the divine will. Our environment, the sum total of all the

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Added by Bankebihari dasa on July 27, 2007 at 3:42pm — 1 Comment