May 11
It is completely contradictory to think of the welfare of others while defending one’s own false ego. Only a person who is actually free from false ego can genuinely feel compassion for the welfare of others.
May 11, 2001, Moscow
Niranjana Swami's Quote Of The Day
May 10
One of the characteristics of devotional service is that devotional service surpasses liberation. What does it mean, it surpasses liberation? It means that devotees are so satisfied in devotional service that they don’t even think about liberation. May 10, 1994, Vinnica
May 9
Pull yourself away from the television sets! Pull yourself away from the computer games! And wake up! How long will you sleep on the lap of the witch called maya? She is just lulling you to sleep and now Lord Caitanya is calling “Wake up conditioned souls!” You have this one very valuable chance in this human form of life to go back to Godhead, so don’t waste it. So whether you are happy or in distress, Bhaktivinoda Thakur is saying –" please chant the names of Hari."
May 9, 2005, Kiev
May 8
Take up this instruction, carry out this order: tell everyone you meet about Krishna and kick out and reject everything within the heart that will obstruct you in becoming a true servant of the Lord, and intensely pray within your heart for the association of those vaishnavas who will help you to root out all of this pride. This should be our intense prayer.
May 8, 2005, Kiev
May 7
Going to the temple should be like going to the spiritual world. In the spiritual world it is very harmonious, Krishna is at the centre. Everybody is thinking about Krishna. Everybody is desiring to serve Krishna. All service is rendered for Krishna's pleasure. Everything you see is supposed to remind you of Krishna.
May 7, 2011, Simferopol
May 6
We should always think of ourselves that we are fallen and worthy of mercy, but we can not demand it. There is a difference between feeling oneself worthy for mercy and demanding it. Demanding it means that we forget that ultimately the decision is up to the Lord or the decision is up to the devotee of the Lord.
May 6, 2001, Divnomorsk
May 5
Patient means that whether now, ten years from now, a hundred years from now or many lives from now, I will some day get Krishna's mercy, and I have to go on simply performing my sadhana and chanting with firm faith that when the time has come for Krishna to give His mercy, He will give it to me.
May 5, 2008, Kiev
May 5
Patient means that whether now, ten years from now, a hundred years from now or many lives from now, I will some day get Krishna's mercy, and I have to go on simply performing my sadhana and chanting with firm faith that when the time has come for Krishna to give His mercy, He will give it to me.
May 5, 2008, Kiev
May 4
Lord Caitanya came to teach us how to chant the Holy Names of the Lord with feelings of separation from Krishna. Without separation there is actually no full understanding of union. Feelings of separation increase feelings of union.
May 4, 2004, Dnepropetrovsk
May 3
So although Krishna may allow the living entity to do something independently, it is not that the living entity is acting according to Krishna's will. If somebody commits a criminal act, should we say it is Krishna's will? No, one should actually see that as a misuse of independence.
May 3, 1994, Kiev