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Posted: 16 years 7 weeks ago
This is the name of a clever title to a Buddhist book, turning the old saying, "Don't just sit there, do something", on its' head.
The implication of "don't just do something" is don't just run around in worldly pursuits with no idea of who you really are and no connection to God. The next part placed at the end, "sit there", means for us, sit there to chant Hare Krishna, and/or remember and meditate on Krishna.
We should be "busy" for Krishna, yet we have to be in the right consciousness,...
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Posted: 16 years 7 weeks ago
I was told this was a Yiddish saying. It expresses to me, one of the frustrations of the material world, namely that by the time most people figure out how the world works, they are too old to really apply it. Of course they are meaning how the world works for material enjoyment, so even if you had all that knowledge, it would still be imperfect and temporary. In the next life you have to figure it out all over again.
Sometimes we hear people say if only I could be young again with my current...
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Posted: 16 years 7 weeks ago
The ways of the modern world can make it seem difficult do dedicate some quality time in the morning for some type of spiritual practice, like chanting "japa" or the soft repetition of the Hare Krishna mantra on beads, or other types of meditation.
For those of us who lived in a Temple ashram as a single person for a number of years, we developed the habit of rising early for morning worship, devotional singing, japa, engaging in Temple service, and hearing scripture. Never the less, when we...
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Posted: 16 years 7 weeks ago
One of my favorite activities is offering the Lord my prayers for perfection, and reciting notable prayers.
Offering prayers is one of the nine main classifications of devotional service (these 9 methods of devotional service are also part of a larger number of 64 practices favorable for developing love for Krishna, listed in the Nectar of Devotion, chapter six).
The nine main kinds of devotional service are hearing about Krishna, chanting about him, remembering him, serving him, worshiping him...
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Posted: 16 years 7 weeks ago
Prabhupada replied to a devotee who said he was "the most fallen", that he wasn't the "most anything"----implying that this could be another type of vanity. "The most fallen" status is for those pure devotees who have realized it.
Though our ambition as devotees is to follow Lord Chaitanya and revive our natural humility as souls, feeling lower than a blade of grass, practicing tolerance as the tree, offering all respect to others, without desiring any recognition, what we are talking about...
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Posted: 16 years 7 weeks agoThis is the name of a clever title to a Buddhist book, turning the old saying, "Don't just sit there, do something", on its' head. The implication of "don't just do something" is don't just run around in worldly pursuits with no idea of who you really are and no connection to God. The next part placed at the end, "sit there", means for us, sit there to chant Hare Krishna, and/or remember and meditate on Krishna. We should be "busy" for Krishna, yet we have to be in the right consciousness,...0 Comment(s)