Bhakti Vikasa Swami2017April

  2. Come and live with the devotees

    Those who are actually engaged in Krsna consciousness, in devotional service, associate with them. Don't think that at home you will be perfect. That is not possible. At home there is no such facilities. Here you will get the facilities. Here the devotees, they are actually following the instruction of mad-asrayah, one who has taken the shelter. They are rising early
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  3. Sundari Radhika Devi Dasi (BVKS)

    We are a preaching movement, and that literally means that everyone should preach. Including women, children, old, sick, temple cat, etc. BUT at the same time, he teaches us what comes first. First is to finish our duties at home, towards our family. That is the prescribed duty for grihastha asrama. That means, that we should not leave our crying baby at home, because we have to run to the temple to cook 50 preparations for festivals or book distribution,...
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  4. Social acts of the Hare Krsna movement

    Indian man: Is there are social act which this Hare Krsna movement has taken? Prabhupada: So what is the best social activity? Our is the best social... Mr. Reddy: Serving the poor and the needy. Prabhupada: Everyone is poor. Who is rich? First of all find out: who is rich? Mr. Reddy: Rich in the sense, luxurious living. Prabhupada: He is not living very luxuriously
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  5. For Ramanavami

    Due to His causeless mercy upon all living entities within the universe, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, along with His plenary extensions, appeared in the family of Maharaja Iksvaku as the Lord of His internal potency, Sita. Under the order of His father, Maharaja Dasaratha, He entered the forest and lived there for considerable years with His wife and younger
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  6. Ramayana and Rama-carita-manasa

    Ramayana... This Tulasi, actually it is not Ramayana. It is called Rama-carita-manasa. Ramayana means Valmiki Ramayana, but people have taken it as Ramayana. Actually, Tulasi dasa has expressed his own feelings about his devotion to Lord Rama, and therefore he has named it Rama-carita-manasa, his mind full with service attitude for Lord Rama. That is the real meaning
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  8. Training for girls

    You ask about marriage, yes, actually I want that every woman in the Society should be married. But what is this training to become wives and mothers? No school is required for that, simply association. And it is not necessary to say that women only can instruct the girls and men only can instruct the boys, not when they are so young. At 12 years, they may be
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  9. Krsna maintains

    The Supreme Lord, Krsna, He's maintaining everyone: yoga-ksemam vahamy aham [Bg. 9.22]. And He'll not maintain a person who has fully surrendered to Him? No. How it can be? Suppose a gentleman is maintaining so many others' children. And he does not maintain his own children? Surely he does. Therefore our principle should be we should not think about our personal
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  10. Put the quantity printed on the book

    Radha-vallabha: That... We have one big framed stat showing the English. You have five or six books that have over one million copies in print. Tamala Krsna: This is very good, putting the quantity on the cover. It's very impressive. [devotees exclaiming among themselves about books] It's like McDonald's. They advertise... Prabhupada: This is the combination of
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