Moving in the Temple, Moving to the Dhāma
Moving into the temple is for one’s training and development. You can continue like that, or you can do it for some time, and then continue in the community.
Moving into the temple is for one’s training and development. You can continue like that, or you can do it for some time, and then continue in the community.
If it is accepted that Kṛṣṇa made the nature, not us, then it just makes it so much easier. You figure out what you do, and then you know where your strengths are and your weaknesses are. And then others also know.
We are just being asked to do what they do in the spiritual world. For them, because of their attachment to Kṛṣṇa that particular form and situation is manifest, while for us that has come because of our conditioned mentality. But the principle is the same.
Religion is not a matter of faith, religion is the laws of God. So, the living entity is the eternal servant of Kṛṣṇa. Without being servant you don’t accomplish anything.
Lord does everything that you want out of His affection for you. He will wait forever for you to come back. That is called someone who has serious affection.
Excerpts from various lectures of His Holiness Bhaktividyā Pūrṇa Svāmī on the origin and fall of jīva.
Sometimes we find ourselves attracted to young women, just minding their own business and walking by, and this attraction is disturbing, to us and to the women. How can that go away?
Everybody is following Prabhupada as the Founder-acharya, so if we’re involved in something that’s useful within that mission, then taking the instruction of guru to see that you’re doing that, that’s following the instruction of the guru.