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What is goal of Life and How to achieve it? HH Romapada Swami talks about the Goal of Life and the means to achieve it. He refers to the conversation between Lord Chaitanya and Ramananda Roy where in Mahaprabhu gives importance to the verse “…sthāne sthitāḥ śruti-gatāṁ tanu-vāṅ-manobhir..” . The Read more

How to overcome Jaundice or Avidya? Jaundice is a liver disease. The nature of jaundice is, it is best cured by consuming rock candy. Although the medicine by nature is sweet, it tastes very bitter. The nature of sugar is very sweet, but one cannot taste sweetness when one has disease. Similarly, Krishna is as Read more

How to connect to transcendence? The happiness in the material world is compared to punishment that criminals used to get by kings in the olden days. The criminals were taken in a boat and were immersed in water for a while until the criminal’s lungs are about to burst. They are lifted up until they take Read more

What is compassion? Compassion has different elements. It’s the quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it. There is a cognitive and active element. Another definition is sympathy, a deep awareness of and sympathy for another’s suffering. I feel for you, I understand you Read more

The problem with this material existence is we don’t belong to this material world. For this, the classic example   Srila Prabhupada gives is fish out of water. For us being in water is unnatural situation but for fish it is natural. You take fish out of water and give him all material things like computer, […]Read more

Chant one mantra at a time: In our body where is the mind? We are making our mouth go Hare Krishna Hare Krishna… Mahamantra where is the mind? Often it is thinking about the past or planning about the future, but not present, be present with the Holy name. The first key in chanting is […]Read more

Fear is one of the propensities and is one of the six gates to hell. It is an animal propensity and prominent. It is discussed in Prahalad’s prayers extensively and several times. Fear and fearlessness. So, this fearlessness position is the spiritual position, Vaikuntha position no anxiety, no fear. So, minimally Read more

Over accumulation of material stuff  inhibits or  disturbs Bhakti, and eating too much disturbs Bhakti. Eating too little is better than eating too much and its true because Srila Prabhupada said eat what is required and over eating is not good. There is another verse by Rupa Goswami in nectar of devotion that God Read more