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The Lord has different names a...

The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is MadhusГјdana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses

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The artist draws a picture of ...

The artist draws a picture of a rose very nicely with all attention and artistic sense, and yet it does not become as perfect as the real rose. If that is the real fact, how can we say that the real rose has taken its shape without Intelligence behind the beauty?

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Religion without philosophy is...

Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.

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Books are the basis; purity is...

Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.

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A devotee should be fixed in t...

A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.

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The holy name of Krishna has e...

The holy name of Krishna has extraordinary spiritual potency because the name of God is nondifferent from God Himself.

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This chanting of the Hare Kris...

This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.

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The highest summit of spiritua...

The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

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Therefore a person fully absor...

Therefore a person fully absorbed in the bodily concept of life is surely killing himself by not making spiritual progress. Such a person is called pasu-ghna. Especially excluded from spiritual life are the animal hunters, who are not interested in hearing and chanting the holy name of the Lord. Such hunters are always unhappy, both in this life and in the next. It is therefore said that a hunter should neither die nor live because for such persons both living and dying are troublesome.

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You should not be carried away...

You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.

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Just try to learn the truth by...

Just try to learn the truth by approaching a spiritual master. Inquire from him submissively and render service unto him. The self-realized soul can impart knowledge unto you because he has seen the truth.

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By the grace of the spiritual ...

By the grace of the spiritual master the cloud of the mercy of the Personality of Godhead is brought in, and then only, when the rains of Krishna consciousness fall, can the fire of material existence be extinguished.

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When a pure devotee or spiritu...

When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead in the Parampara System.

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In the last stage of the spiri...

In the last stage of the spiritual master's life, the devotees of the spiritual master should take preaching activities into their own hands. In this way the spiritual master can sit down in a solitary place and render nirjana-bhajana.

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The spiritual master and Krish...

The spiritual master and Krishna are two parallel lines. The train, on two tracks, moves forward. The spiritual Master and Krishna are like these two tracks. They must be served simultaneously. Krishna helps one to find bona fide Spiritual Master and bona fide Spiritual Master helps one to understand Krishna. If one does not get bona fide Spiritual Master, then how he can ever understand Krishna ? You cannot serve Krishna without Spiritual Master, or serve just Spiritual Master without serving Krishna. They must be ser

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First birth is from your paren...

First birth is from your parents, but real birth, real life, begins when one accepts a bona fide spiritual master and renders service unto him. Then the path is open for going back to home, back to Godhead, to live eternally in full knowledge and full bliss and in association with the Supreme Personality of Godhead Himself, Lord Krishna.

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Krishna was conceived
in...

Krishna was conceived
in the womb of Devaki
mysteriously as the sun setting
in the West imparts his rays
to the rising moon in the East.

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A disciple serves the spiritua...

A disciple serves the spiritual master with the sole purpose of getting instructions from him.

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In spiritual life, one must co...

In spiritual life, one must conduct one's whole life under the guidance of the guru. Only one who executes his spiritual life under the direction of the spiritual master can achieve the mercy of Krishna.

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It is imperative that one appr...

It is imperative that one approaches a spiritual master, for by such association one proportionately develops his consciousness towards the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

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