Spiritual Activities

[Govindaram]

 

<font color="red"> By His Divine Grace Bhaktivendanta Srila Prabhupada</font color>

 

 

Bhagavad-gita 2.1 Ahmedabad, December 6, 1972 (excerpts)

Spiritual life begins, first of all, sraddha, some faith.

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So we have to learn that thing, that how we have to see the beauty of spiritual life.

 

 

Bg. 4.42 Purport (excerpt)

When we come to spiritual activities, we find that these are also divided into two: namely, understanding of one's own self (or one's constitutional position), and the truth regarding the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

 

 

Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.9.1 Mayapur, February 8, 1976 (excerpt)

So vasudeve bhagavati... To full... Surrender to Krishna means to become spiritually active.

 

 

Letter to: Swami Bhaktivedanta: Hawaii 14 March, 1969 (excerpt)

Material nature is simply temporary manifestation within the jurisdiction of spiritual nature.

 

 

Bhagavad-gita 7.1-3, London, August 4, 1971 (excerpt)

Then why do you don't (understand) another spiritual body? What is the difficulty. You accept another body after death. Dehantaram. So instead of accepting a material body, you accept a spiritual body. That's all. What is the difficulty to understand?

 

 

Evening Darsana, August 9, 1976, Tehran (excerpt)

Similarly, from this physical platform, if you begin these spiritual activities, then stage will come when you'll act only spiritually, there will be no more material activity. That is the stage of bhakti, that is real platform of bhakti, when one is acting only spiritually, there is no material activity.

 

 

Bhagavad-gita 6.1, Los Angeles, February 13, 1969 (excerpt)

So if this world is become full in Krishna consciousness, nobody is working for sense gratification, only for satisfaction of Krishna, this world becomes spiritual world immediately. This requires little time to understand. Anything used for Krishna, simply for Krishna's satisfaction, it is spiritual. Just like we are using this microphone for talking about Krishna, then it is spiritual. Otherwise what is the difference between this prasada and ordinary food? We are distributing prasada, people will say, "What is prasada? The same fruit we eat, and you have simply cut into pieces it has become prasada?" They can say that. How it is prasada? But it is prasada. You go on eating this prasada, you become spiritualized. Actually it is prasada. Just like the same example, if I take that iron, hot iron, if I say "It is fire." Somebody may say, "Oh, why it is fire? It is iron." I say, "Touch it." You see? These are crude examples, but that is the...

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<font color="green">just a few Quotes complied from the Folio Infobase. </font color>