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Bhishma Panchak Vrat Katha [कैसे, कब और क्यों करें]
https://youtu.be/bbWFetCNPwc

Curious about what I do on the Ship? [Inside View of my Workplace]
https://youtu.be/9QEpAxifYP0

I Will Never Visit Temple | Short Film
https://youtu.be/f4VtfX_Mqr0

*A mouse was very much harassed by a cat, and therefore the mouse approached a saintly person to request to become a cat. When the mouse became a cat, he was harassed by a dog, and then when he became a dog, he was harassed by a tiger. But when he became a tiger, he stared at the saintly person, and when the saintly person asked him, “What do you want?” the tiger said, “I want to eat you.” Then the saintly person cursed him, saying, “May you again become a mouse.” A similar thing is going on all over the universe. One is going up and down, sometimes becoming a mouse, sometimes a tiger, and so on. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said:*

brahmāṇḍa bhramite kona bhāgyavān jīva
guru-kṛṣṇa-prasāde pāya bhakti-latā-bīja
(Cc. Madhya 19.151)*

*The living entities are promoted and degraded by the laws of nature, but if one is very, very fortunate, by association with saintly persons he gets the seed of devotional service, and his life becomes successful.*

Srimad Bhagavatam 10.10.13

Clarification on ISKCON's Initiation System: Ritvik or Living Guru? | Prabhupada's Instructions
https://youtu.be/vCBOrRBtLRA

*The body is subject to its own principles of birth, death, old age and disease, but one who is situated in spiritual life (yato bhaktir adhokṣaje) has no birth, no death, no old age and no disease. One may argue that we may see a person who is spiritually engaged twenty-four hours a day but is still suffering from disease. In fact, however, he is neither suffering nor diseased; otherwise he could not be engaged twenty-four hours a day in spiritual activities. The example may be given in this connection that sometimes dirty foam or garbage is seen floating on the water of the Ganges. This is called nīra-dharma, a function of the water. But one who goes to the Ganges does not mind the foam and dirty things floating in the water. With his hand, he pushes away such nasty things, bathes in the Ganges and gains the beneficial results. Therefore, one who is situated in the spiritual status of life is unaffected by foam and garbage — or any superficial dirty things. This is confirmed by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī:*

īhā yasya harer dāsye
karmaṇā manasā girā
nikhilāsv apy avasthāsu
jīvan-muktaḥ sa ucyate

*“A person acting in the service of Kṛṣṇa with his body, mind and words is a liberated person, even within the material world.” (Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.2.187) Therefore, one is forbidden to regard the guru as an ordinary human being (guruṣu nara-matir … nārakī saḥ). The spiritual master, or ācārya, is always situated in the spiritual status of life. Birth, death, old age and disease do not affect him. According to the Hari-bhakti-vilāsa, therefore, after the disappearance of an ācārya, his body is never burnt to ashes, for it is a spiritual body. The spiritual body is always unaffected by material conditions.*

Srimad Bhagavatam 10.4.20

तिरूपति बालाजी लड्डू प्रसाद का सच [Watch this if your FAITH is SHATTERED]
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गृहस्थों सावधान! ये ऋण नहीं चुकाया तो.... | Grihastha Dharma Series Ch 6
https://youtu.be/iH4ucrs20IY

Spiritual Benefits of Smelling Incense Sticks and Flowers Offered to the Lord

https://youtu.be/-t3XWfHsQaw

नीम का पेड़ पहले कड़वा नहीं था। बाली जिस राज्य में राजा था उसी राज्य में भगवान राम सुग्रीव की मदद करने के लिए आये। बाली राजा होकर अधर्म कर रहा था। तो इस अधर्म का नाश करने के लिए भगवान राम ने नीम के पेड़ के पीछे से बाली के ऊपर बाण चलाया और बाली का वध कर दिया। तो बाली ने मरते समय नीम को श्राप दिया कि तुम्हारा सम्पूर्ण वृक्ष कड़वा हो जाएगा। तब से नीम का पेड़ पूरी तरह से कड़वा हो गया। तो नीम भगवान की शरण में जाते हैं कि मैंने तो आपकी मदद की तो मुझे श्राप क्यों मिला। तब भगवान ने कहा यह अभिशाप तुम्हारे लिए वरदान है, कलयुग में तुम्हारे शरीर के हर अंग से जो कुछ भी निकलेगा वह दवाई बनेगा और सब उपयोगी होगा। और इतना ही नहीं जब मैं द्वापर के अंत में कलि में प्रकट होऊंगा जगन्नाथ पुरी में तो तुम्हारे लकड़ी का ही मेरा शरीर बनेगा। यह सुन कर नीम बड़ा ख़ुश हुआ।

श्रीमान शचि कुमार गौर प्रभु, लेक्चर 11 जून 2019
इस्कॉन मंदिर, द्वारका, नई दिल्ली

A devotee does not consider a dangerous position to be dangerous, for in such a dangerous position he can fervently pray to the Lord in great ecstasy. Thus a devotee regards danger as a good opportunity. Tat te ’nukampāṁ susamīkṣamāṇaḥ. When a devotee is in great danger, he sees that danger to be the great mercy of the Lord because it is an opportunity to think of the Lord very sincerely and with undiverted attention. Tat te ’nukampāṁ susamīkṣamāṇo bhuñjāna evātma-kṛtaṁ vipākam (Bhāg. 10.14.8). He does not accuse the Supreme Personality of Godhead for having let His devotee fall into such a dangerous condition. Rather, he considers that dangerous condition to be due to his past misdeeds and takes it as an opportunity to pray to the Lord and offer thanks for having been given such an opportunity. When a devotee lives in this way, his salvation — his going back home, back to Godhead — is guaranteed.

Srimad Bhagavatam 8.3.32

If we take into account whose property is the vast ocean, whose property is the vast land, how the sky exists, how the numberless millions of stars and planets are set in the sky, who has made this universe and whose property it is, we should certainly come to the conclusion that there is a proprietor of everything. When we claim proprietorship over a certain piece of land, whether individually or for our families or nations, we should also consider how we became the proprietors. The land was there before our birth, before we came to the land. How did it become our property? Such deliberation will help us understand that there is a supreme proprietor of everything — the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

Srimad Bhagavatam 8.1.11

अहिल्या अपने पति गौतम ऋषि के श्राप की वजह से पत्थर की हो गईं थी। भगवान राम ने जब पत्थर की मूरत पर अपना पैर रखा और वह दुबारा मनुष्य शरीर में आ गयीं तो अहिल्या ने भगवान का बारम्बार धन्यवाद किया, भगवान को प्रणाम किया और कहा कि आपके जिन चरणों से जल निकलती है उस गंगा को शिव अपनी जटाओं में धारण करके अपने आपको धन्य मानते हैं, जो ब्रह्मा उस जल को कमंडल में रखकर अपने आपको धन्य समझते हैं वो चरण साक्षात अपने मेरे ऊपर रख दिया, इतनी बड़ी कृपा आपकी और इतनी बड़ी कृपा मेरे पति की, अगर उन्होंने श्राप नहीं दिया होता तो मैं सौ जन्मों तक भी आपका दर्शन न पाती।

If one wants to achieve success at the end of his life, the process of remembering Kṛṣṇa is essential. Therefore one should constantly, incessantly chant the mahā-mantra – Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. Lord Caitanya has advised that one be as tolerant as a tree (taror api sahiṣṇunā). There may be so many impediments for a person who is chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. Nonetheless, tolerating all these impediments, one should continue to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare, so that at the end of one’s life one can have the full benefit of Kṛṣṇa consciousness.

Bhagavad Gita 8.5

The sword of knowledge, is given by Kṛṣṇa, and when one serves the guru and Kṛṣṇa in order to hold the sword of Kṛṣṇa’s instructions, Balarāma gives one strength. Balarāma is Nityānanda. Vrajendra-nandana yei, śacī-suta haila sei, balarāma ha-ila nitāi. This bala — Balarāma — comes with Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, and both of Them are so merciful that in this Age of Kali one may very easily take shelter of Their lotus feet. They come especially to deliver the fallen souls of this age. Pāpī tāpī yata chila, hari-nāme uddhārila. Their weapon is saṅkīrtana, hari-nāma. Thus one should accept the sword of knowledge from Kṛṣṇan and be strong with the mercy of Balarāma.

Srimad Bhagavatam 7.15.45

When karma-yoga increases in knowledge and renunciation, the stage is called jñāna-yoga. When jñāna-yoga increases in meditation on the Supersoul by different physical processes, and the mind is on Him, it is called aṣṭāṅga-yoga. And when one surpasses the aṣṭāṅga-yoga and comes to the point of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Kṛṣṇa, it is called bhakti-yoga, the culmination.

Bhagavad Gita 6.47

*The Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, is the father of all living entities in different species and forms. One who is intelligent can see that all living entities in the 8,400,000 bodily forms are part of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and are His sons. Everything within the material and spiritual worlds is the property of the Supreme Lord (īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam), and therefore everything has a relationship with Him.*

Srimad Bhagavatam 7.14.7

*The Sanskrit word vibhu means the Supreme Lord who is full of unlimited knowledge, riches, strength, fame, beauty and renunciation. He is always satisfied in Himself, undisturbed by sinful or pious activities. He does not create a particular situation for any living entity, but the living entity, bewildered by ignorance, desires to be put into certain conditions of life, and thereby his chain of action and reaction begins.*

Bhagavad Gita 5.15

शिक्षाष्टकम - अनुवाद सहित
[The 8 Life Changing Verses]

Must listen today on the auspicious occasion of Gaur Purnima

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