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Hare Krsna, The ultimate goal of life is to always remember Krsna and never forget Him for even a moment. “The highest perfection of human life, achieved either by complete knowledge of matter and spirit, by practice of mystic powers, or by perfect discharge of occupational duty, is to remember the Personality of Godhead atContinue reading “SB 3.33.23-37: Attaining the Ultimate Goal of Life”

Hare Krsna, To understand Devahuti’s later life, it is important to revisit Lord Kapila’s key instructions. I would like to highlight a few verses that summarize His teachings. SB 3.25.20: “Every learned man knows very well that attachment for the material is the greatest entanglement of the spirit soul. But that same attachment, when appliedContinue reading “SB 3.33.9-22: Meditation of Devahuti’s Later Life Example”

Hare Krsna, What I liked about Devahuti’s prayers is that she nailed down the essence of Lord Kapiladeva’s teachings. After hearing her son’s instructions, she got down to the most basic and most important lesson for all of us. And that is the glories of chanting of the Holy Name of the Lord. In herContinue reading “SB 3.33.1-8: Meditations on the Prayers of Devahuti”

Hare Krsna, It is amazing to see the similarities between Lord Narayana’s instructions to Lord Brahma and Lord Kapila’s instructions to Mother Devahuti. In the last Catuh-sloki verse, Lord Narayana said, “A person who is searching after the Supreme Absolute Truth, the Personality of Godhead, must certainly search for it up to this, in allContinue reading “SB 3.32.31-43: The Lord’s Essential Instruction”

Hare Krsna, SB 1.2.11 Sūta Gosvāmī said: Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this nondual substance Brahman, Paramātmā or Bhagavān. SB 3.32.26 Lord Kapiladeva continued: The Supreme Personality of Godhead alone is complete transcendental knowledge, but according to the different processes of understanding He appears differently, either as impersonal Brahman, as Paramātmā, as theContinue reading “SB 3.32.26-30: How and Why the Absolute Truth Appears Differently”

Hare Krsna, Conditioned living entities are called marginal energy of the Lord. The Supreme Lord is the energetic and we are the energies of the Lord. The Lord has two other energies  – internal (antaranga-sakti) and external (bahiranga-sakti). We are called marginal or tatashta sakti of the Lord because we are situated at the junctionContinue reading “SB 3.32.12-25: Binding Actions vs. Transcendental Actions”

Hare Krsna, This material world is like an international airport. People from different origins and desired destinations come to the airport to take the right flight. The airlines ensure that they serve different routes to fulfill the needs of the flyers. The airport provides a platform for the flyers and various airlines to operate fromContinue reading “SB 3.32.1-11: Different Types of Worship Result in Different Destinations”

Hare Krsna, The concluding lesson of Chapter 31 is how a jiva, after attaining the human form, undergoes great pains in the womb of the mother, during birth, as an infant and as a child. By the laws of karma, one takes birth in this material world. The goal of life is to free oneselfContinue reading “SB 3.31.43-48: Final Instructions of SB 3.31”

Hare Krsna, My understanding so far from whatever we have studied on the attachment between males and females is that association with the opposite sex is not the issue. The issue is when we start thinking of them as objects of enjoyment and attachment. This is the beginning of material attachment. It is very difficultContinue reading “SB 3.31.34-42: Attachments Between Males and Females”

Hare Krsna, In the previous chapter (SB 3.30.5), we studied that once Indra, the King of heaven, was cursed by his spiritual master, Bṛhaspati, on account of his misbehavior, and he became a hog on this planet. After many days, when Brahmā wanted to recall him to his heavenly kingdom, Indra, in the form ofContinue reading “SB 3.31.22-33: The Continuous Cycle of Samsara”