Tag: Mayavada

Mayavada—Closer Than We Think

31 Jan 2025 | Spiritual Practice

Those who follow the path of bhakti yoga, devotional service to the Lord, see impersonalism, Mayavada, a doctrine declaring this world to be an illusory manifestation without any personal origin, as a daily challenge. They explore to what degree this "poison," as Srila Prabhupada used to call it, still affects our lives.

The Cult of Endless Forgiveness

15 Oct 2024 | Devotee Conduct

In urgent need to forgive everybody everywhere all the time, we hear occasionally, as if in need to be forgiven themselves, the preachers of such an unconditional cult of forgiveness spreading their “love.”

One of the many offerings

06 Sep 2024 | Remembering Śrīla Prabhupāda

Dear Srila Prabhupada! Please accept my dandavats at your lotus feet. All glory to you, who taught us the meaning of life and exposed the illusion we are living in.

The Fall Down of Any Mission

22 Aug 2024 | Preaching & Mission

Regardless of its material or spiritual nature, any mission initated by a Founder is doomed to fail for the same reason: it becomes depersonalised.

Don't Criticise-Analyse!

16 Jul 2024 | Devotee Conduct

Already in his early days of preaching in the West, Srila Prabhupada, realising the obstinate nature of the western people, pointed out: “Ladies and gentlemen, I am not criticising; I am analysing!”

Real Public Relationship Preaching Programme

07 May 2024 | Śrīla Prabhupāda said

Already at the first meeting with his spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada, by that time a Gandhi activist, when arguing that first one has to establish oneself in a political sense, then one can preach the message of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Srila Prabhupada was deeply impressed by the firm faith in a pure spiritual way to solve problems Bhaktisiddhanta maharaja demonstrated to him.

The supremely merciful credit of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu

23 Mar 2024 | Scriptures & Tradition

If one finds himself in a position of receiving in an unexpected manner a credit that can change their life instantly, one surely may be amazed by this act of causeless mercy. It is this causeless mercy that is manifesting via Lord Caitanya, the most merciful incarnation of the Lord.

Do Something!

20 Mar 2024 | Śrīla Prabhupāda said

In his presentation of Krsna Consciousness, Srila Prabhupada was unique. Most of the acharyas in the line of our guru parampara exhibited amazing potency in terms of laying down the rules and regulations...

Spiritual Master: Who is It?

17 Nov 2023 | Guru & Discipleship

Accepting a spiritual master is a condition. The Supreme Personality of the Godhead is established for those who would like to see Him. Quite contrary to the sahajiya understanding of many, God cannot be realised on the basis of our intuition or by the strength of our mental and sensual perception. After all, to indulge in illusory concepts is one of the basic qualities of the conditioned soul. God is real; our perception may be illusory.

To Forgive or Not Forgive

25 Aug 2023 | Devotee Conduct

As a hungry man sees the need to lecture about food, a cruel man writes volumes of books about love, and an asocial man may present himself as the ultimate social mediator, one may wonder why some among the ISKCON leaders stress the need for absolute forgiveness so rigidly as if seeking some amnesty for themselves.

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