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July 26, 2020
Just have patience
A girl is married to a husband. She’s hankering after a child. So if she thinks that “Now I am married, I must have immediately a child.” Is it possible? Just have patience. You just become faithful wife, serve your husband, and let your love grown up and because you are husband and wife, it is sure you’ll have children. But don’t be impatient. Similarly, when you are in Krsna consciousness, your perfection is guaranteed. But but you’ll have patience, determination. That “I must execute. I should not be impatient.” That impatience is due to loss of determination. And how that loss determination is there? Due to excessive sex life.
From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Bhagavad-gita 6.16-24 — 17 February, 1969
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July 25, 2020
Simple living and chanting
No luxuries. Live very simple life and you save time for chanting Hare Krsna. That is my desire. Don’t waste time for bodily comforts. You have got this body. You have to eat something. You have to cover yourself. So produce your own food and produce your own cloth. Don’t waste time for luxury, and chant Hare Krsna.
Srila Prabhupada, 8 October, 1977
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July 24, 2020
Suicide is criminal
Suicide is not justified. It is violation of nature’s law. Nature gives you a certain type of body to live in it for certain days, and suicide means you go against the laws of nature, you untimely stop the duration of life. Therefore he becomes a criminal. Suicide is criminal even in ordinary state laws. One cannot make suicide.
From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Bhagavad-gita 2.9 — 21 February, 1973
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July 22, 2020
Giving up all unwanted bad habits
When we are children, innocent, we have no bad habits, but as we grow and associate with bad company, we also acquire all these bad habits. So to give up all these bad habits means we have to associate with sadhus or devotees, saintly persons. Then we can give it up. This is called anartha-nivrtti, means giving up all unwanted bad habits.
From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Bhagavad-gita 2.11 (with Spanish translator) — 11 February, 1975
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Anxiety, material and spiritual
Spiritual anxiety means you are advancing in spiritual life, and material anxiety means you are going downhill.
From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Bhagavad-gita 16.11-12 — 7 February,
1975
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July 21, 2020
Save yourself: don’t be alone:
Maya is so strong that as soon as I am sitting in a solitary place, then I’ll think of money and women. Therefore we should live always in assembly and chant Hare Krsna and save ourself from the danger of material falldown.
From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Bhagavad-gita 16.11-12 — 7 February, 1975
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July 20, 2020
Difference between materialist and spiritualist
Atmarama means one who is satisfied with his self. He is called atmarama. Because self is the basic principle of this body, the soul, so one who is satisfied with his soul, he is called atmarama, or self-realized person. One who seeks pleasure externally, he is materialist, and one who seeks pleasure internally, he is spiritualist. That is the difference.
Material pleasure is circumstantial, in contact with this body. Similarly material distress. So those who are atmarama, enjoying in the platform of soul, they are not concerned with this external pleasure and pain.
From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Bhagavad-gita 5.17-25 — 8 February, 1969
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July 19, 2020
Spiritual Advice to Businessmen
If you want perfection in your business, then you must try to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Otherwise you are simply wasting your time.
Srila Prabhupada; as quoted in Journey of Self-discovery 6.3: Spiritual Advice to Businessmen.
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July 18, 2020
Material = dirty, spiritual = clean
The more you cleanse the temple, the more you decorate the Deity, more your heart becomes cleansed and you become spiritually decorated. So cleanliness is next to godliness. Material world means dirty things and spiritual world means clean.
Srila Prabhupada — 4 February, 1977
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July 17, 2020
Only hope for world peace
All over the world, there cannot be peace unless you reform the whole social structure, and that can be done only by this movement, Krsna consciousness. Only by this movement.
From Srila Prabhupada’s lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 6.1.56–62 — January 3, 1971, Surat
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