July 17
Kirtan is the means for conquering the mind. To engage in smaranam one has to be very very advanced. Only very few can engage in smaranam, but kirtan is accessible and available to anyone.
July 17, 2002, Tallin
Niranjana Swami's Quote Of The Day
July 17
Kirtan is the means for conquering the mind. To engage in smaranam one has to be very very advanced. Only very few can engage in smaranam, but kirtan is accessible and available to anyone.
July 17, 2002, Tallin
July 16
If we want actually to become joyful, happy and peaceful, and all our desires completely fulfilled, then, the method of satisfying the Lord in this age - is to take up this congregational chanting and glorification of the Lord.
July 16, 2000, Kaunas
July 14
Devotional service is a completely spiritual process. He has nothing what so ever to do with this material world.
July 15, 1993, Moscow
July 13
So if I really want to serve the Lord, than first and foremost I should chant the Holy Name of the Lord without offense.
July 13, 2005, Ekaterinburg
July 12
As long as one continues to have that desire, even there may still be many other desires within the heart, but if he goes on fanning that spiritual desire, gradually all the other material desires will be burned up. Just by that desire to achieve Krsna.
July 12, 2005, Ekaterinburg
July 11
One must have spiritual strength. If there is no spiritual strength, then the Lord will not manifest to such a person, neither before him nor in his mind, nor in his heart.
July 11, 2005, Ekaterinburg
July 10
Somebody gives you something very valuable, then you put it in the prominent place and you use it. If you use it all the time, then you will be able to appreciate its value. If you never use it, then how is it valuable? ... So if somebody gives you an instruction what helps you to remember Krsna, lock it in your heart. Then you will get spiritual strength.
July 10, 2005, St. Petersburg
July 8
What constitutes something of great value? What makes it valuable? Everybody calculates that which is valuable in terms of it's material opulence. But we should understand, that this quality of being valuable can exist only in relationship to Krsna.
July 9, 1993, Moscow
July 8
When Krsna refers to the regulative principles of devotional service, He is talking about regulative principles of hearing and chanting, that one has to regulate his life in hearing and chanting the glories of the Lord in the association of devotees and one has to regulate his life also in worshiping the deities, that’s performing those activities which are connected to the Lord. So by strictly following those regulative principles and hearing regularly the pastimes of the Lord, then one becomes qualified for the spontaneous devotional service.
July 8, 2000, Riga