My dear Lord, I dedicate my life and soul unto Your lotus feet. I have selected Your Lordship as my husband, and I therefore request You to accept me as Your wife. You are the supreme powerful, O lotus-eyed one. Now I belong to You. If that which is enjoyable for the lion to eat is taken away by the jackal, it will be a ludicrous affair; therefore I request You to immediately take care of me before I am taken away by Śiśupāla and other princes like him.
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= | <div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam" class="section" sec_index="1" parent="compilation" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam"><h2>Srimad-Bhagavatam</h2> | ||
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<div id="SB_Canto_6" class="sub_section" sec_index="6" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam" text="SB Canto 6"><h3>SB Canto 6</h3> | |||
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< | <div id="SB6446_0" class="quote" parent="SB_Canto_6" book="SB" index="181" link="SB 6.4.46" link_text="SB 6.4.46"> | ||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:SB 6.4.46|SB 6.4.46, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">My dear brāhmaṇa, austerity in the form of meditation is My heart, Vedic knowledge in the form of hymns and mantras constitutes My body, and spiritual activities and ecstatic emotions are My actual form. The ritualistic ceremonies and sacrifices, when properly conducted, are the various limbs of My body, the unseen good fortune proceeding from pious or spiritual activities constitutes My mind, and the demigods who execute My orders in various departments are My life and soul.</p> | |||
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== | <div id="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" class="section" sec_index="2" parent="compilation" text="Sri Caitanya-caritamrta"><h2>Sri Caitanya-caritamrta</h2> | ||
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< | <div id="CC_Adi-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Adi-lila"><h3>CC Adi-lila</h3> | ||
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=== | <div id="CCAdi4248_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Adi-lila" book="CC" index="575" link="CC Adi 4.248" link_text="CC Adi 4.248"> | ||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Adi 4.248|CC Adi 4.248, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Thus although I am the source of happiness for the entire world, the beauty and attributes of Śrī Rādhikā are My life and soul.</p> | |||
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< | <div id="CC_Madhya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Madhya-lila"><h3>CC Madhya-lila</h3> | ||
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<div id="CCMadhya155_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="54" link="CC Madhya 1.55" link_text="CC Madhya 1.55"> | |||
<div class="heading">Caitanya Mahāprabhu used to think, "Now I have gotten the Lord of My life and soul." | |||
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 1.55|CC Madhya 1.55, Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="purport text"><p style="display: inline;">Caitanya Mahāprabhu was a sannyāsī; He left home and everything else. He could certainly not be induced by any mundane lusty desires. So when He used the word madana-dahane ("in the fire of lusty desire"), He meant that out of pure love for Kṛṣṇa He was burning in the fire of separation from Kṛṣṇa. Whenever He met Jagannātha, either in the temple or during the Ratha-yātrā, Caitanya Mahāprabhu used to think, "Now I have gotten the Lord of My life and soul."</p> | |||
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< | <div id="CCMadhya240_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="326" link="CC Madhya 2.40" link_text="CC Madhya 2.40"> | ||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.40|CC Madhya 2.40, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued, "My dear friends, you are all My life and soul; therefore I tell you that I possess no wealth of love for Kṛṣṇa. Consequently My life is poverty-stricken. My limbs and senses are useless."</p> | |||
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<div id="CCMadhya274_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="360" link="CC Madhya 2.74" link_text="CC Madhya 2.74"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.74|CC Madhya 2.74, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">In the attitude of Rādhārāṇī, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu addressed the gopīs: ""My dear friends, where is that Kṛṣṇa, Cupid personified, who has the effulgence of a kadamba flower, who is sweetness itself, the nectar of My eyes and mind, He who loosens the hair of the gopīs, who is the supreme source of transcendental bliss and My life and soul? Has He come before My eyes again?""</p> | |||
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<div id="CCMadhya275_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="361" link="CC Madhya 2.75" link_text="CC Madhya 2.75"> | |||
== | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 2.75|CC Madhya 2.75, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then began to talk like this: "Is Cupid personified present with the effulgence and reflection of the kadamba tree? Is He the same person, personified sweetness, who is the pleasure of My eyes and mind, who is My life and soul? Has Kṛṣṇa actually come before My eyes ?"</p> | ||
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<div id="CCMadhya13150_4" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="2880" link="CC Madhya 13.150" link_text="CC Madhya 13.150"> | |||
< | <span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 13.150|CC Madhya 13.150, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Kṛṣṇa continued: “All the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana-dhāma—My mother, father, cowherd boyfriends and everything else—are like My life and soul. And among all the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana, the gopīs are My very life and soul. And among the gopīs, You, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, are the chief. Therefore You are the very life of My life.</p> | ||
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<div id="CCMadhya15100_5" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3296" link="CC Madhya 15.100" link_text="CC Madhya 15.100"> | |||
<div class="heading">With folded hands I offer my prayers unto Kṛṣṇa, Nanda Mahārāja's son, who is my life and soul. | |||
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.100|CC Madhya 15.100, Translation and Purport]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “"Kṛṣṇa, the son of Nanda Mahārāja, is my life and soul." By this statement I am sold into the hands of the descendants of Guṇarāja Khān.</p> | |||
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= | <div class="purport text"><p>The full verse referred to here is:</p> | ||
:eka-bhāve vanda hari yoḍa kari' hāta | |||
:nandanandana kṛṣṇa—mora prāṇa-nātha | |||
<p>“With folded hands I offer my prayers unto Kṛṣṇa, Nanda Mahārāja's son, who is my life and soul.”</p> | |||
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<div id="CCMadhya15157_6" class="quote" parent="CC_Madhya-lila" book="CC" index="3352" link="CC Madhya 15.157" link_text="CC Madhya 15.157"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Madhya 15.157|CC Madhya 15.157, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued, "I accept this Murāri Gupta as My life and soul. When I hear of his humility, it perturbs My very life."</p> | |||
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<div id="CC_Antya-lila" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Sri_Caitanya-caritamrta" text="CC Antya-lila"><h3>CC Antya-lila</h3> | |||
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<div id="CCAntya125_0" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2076" link="CC Antya 12.5" link_text="CC Antya 12.5"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 12.5|CC Antya 12.5, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord would cry, "O My Lord Kṛṣṇa, My life and soul! O son of Mahārāja Nanda, where shall I go? Where shall I attain You? O Supreme Personality who play with Your flute to Your mouth!"</p> | |||
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<div id="CCAntya1681_1" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2669" link="CC Antya 16.81" link_text="CC Antya 16.81"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 16.81|CC Antya 16.81, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">The Lord asked him, "Where is Kṛṣṇa, My life and soul? Please show Me Kṛṣṇa." Saying this, He caught the doorkeeper's hand.</p> | |||
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<div id="CCAntya1950_2" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="2983" link="CC Antya 19.50" link_text="CC Antya 19.50"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 19.50|CC Antya 19.50, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“But this is the fault of My own destiny. Why should I needlessly accuse you? There is no intimate relationship between you and Me. Kṛṣṇa, however, is My life and soul. It is We who live together, and it is He who has become so cruel.</p> | |||
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<div id="CCAntya2058_3" class="quote" parent="CC_Antya-lila" book="CC" index="3104" link="CC Antya 20.58" link_text="CC Antya 20.58"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:CC Antya 20.58|CC Antya 20.58, Translation]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="trans text"><p style="display: inline;">“Kṛṣṇa is My life and soul. Kṛṣṇa is the treasure of My life. Indeed, Kṛṣṇa is the very life of My life. I therefore keep Him always in My heart and try to please Him by rendering service. That is My constant meditation.</p> | |||
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<div id="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" class="section" sec_index="3" parent="compilation" text="Other Books by Srila Prabhupada"><h2>Other Books by Srila Prabhupada</h2> | |||
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<div id="Krsna_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" class="sub_section" sec_index="4" parent="Other_Books_by_Srila_Prabhupada" text="Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead"><h3>Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead</h3> | |||
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<div id="KB52_0" class="quote" parent="Krsna,_The_Supreme_Personality_of_Godhead" book="OB" index="56" link="KB 52" link_text="Krsna Book 52"> | |||
<div class="heading">My dear Lord, I dedicate my life and soul unto Your lotus feet. | |||
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:KB 52|Krsna Book 52]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">My dear Lord, I dedicate my life and soul unto Your lotus feet. I have selected Your Lordship as my husband, and I therefore request You to accept me as Your wife. You are the supreme powerful, O lotus-eyed one. Now I belong to You. If that which is enjoyable for the lion to eat is taken away by the jackal, it will be a ludicrous affair; therefore I request You to immediately take care of me before I am taken away by Śiśupāla and other princes like him.</p> | |||
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<div id="Lectures" class="section" sec_index="4" parent="compilation" text="Lectures"><h2>Lectures</h2> | |||
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<div id="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="0" parent="Lectures" text="Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures"><h3>Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures</h3> | |||
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<div id="LectureonBG22LondonAugust31973_0" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="34" link="Lecture on BG 2.2 -- London, August 3, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.2 -- London, August 3, 1973"> | |||
<div class="heading">The instruction which I have received from my spiritual master, that is my life and soul. | |||
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.2 -- London, August 3, 1973|Lecture on BG 2.2 -- London, August 3, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura says that "The instruction which I have received from my spiritual master, that is my life and soul." This is called niścayātmikā-buddhiḥ, means assurance: "Whatever I have received, the order from my spiritual master, that will give me salvation." Or even no salvation. It doesn't matter. A real devotee, a servant, does not expect anything, but kāryam: "It is my duty. It is my duty."</p> | |||
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<div id="LectureonBG22122LondonAugust261973_1" class="quote" parent="Bhagavad-gita_As_It_Is_Lectures" book="Lec" index="84" link="Lecture on BG 2.21-22 -- London, August 26, 1973" link_text="Lecture on BG 2.21-22 -- London, August 26, 1973"> | |||
<div class="heading">Since the time I have engaged my life and soul, my consciousness, in the service of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa. | |||
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on BG 2.21-22 -- London, August 26, 1973|Lecture on BG 2.21-22 -- London, August 26, 1973]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Yāmunācārya says,</p> | |||
:yad-avadhi mama cetaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravinde | |||
:nava-nava-rasa-dhāmany udyataṁ rantum āsīt | |||
:tad-avadhi bata nārī-saṅgame smaryamāne | |||
:bhavati mukha-vikāraḥ suṣṭhu niṣṭhīvanaṁ ca | |||
<p>"Yad-avadhi, since the time, mama cetaḥ, I have engaged my life and soul, my consciousness, in the service of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa..."</p> | |||
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<div id="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="1" parent="Lectures" text="Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures"><h3>Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures</h3> | |||
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<div id="LectureonSB1848MayapuraOctober281974_0" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="257" link="Lecture on SB 1.8.48 -- Mayapura, October 28, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.8.48 -- Mayapura, October 28, 1974"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.8.48 -- Mayapura, October 28, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.8.48 -- Mayapura, October 28, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">If we become fixed up in this resolution, that "Whatever we have heard from my guru, the representative of Kṛṣṇa, I must execute. I do not care for my personal convenience or inconvenience. This is my life and soul," then your life is perfect.</p> | |||
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<div id="LectureonSB11624LosAngelesJuly141974_1" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="343" link="Lecture on SB 1.16.24 -- Los Angeles, July 14, 1974" link_text="Lecture on SB 1.16.24 -- Los Angeles, July 14, 1974"> | |||
<div class="heading">Viśvanātha Cakravartī says that "Whatever I am ordered by the spiritual master, that is my life and soul. | |||
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 1.16.24 -- Los Angeles, July 14, 1974|Lecture on SB 1.16.24 -- Los Angeles, July 14, 1974]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Viśvanātha Cakravartī says that "Whatever I am ordered by the spiritual master, that is my life and soul. I don't care for liberation. My only business is to serve my spiritual master."</p> | |||
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<div id="LectureonSB32630BombayJanuary71975_2" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="490" link="Lecture on SB 3.26.30 -- Bombay, January 7, 1975" link_text="Lecture on SB 3.26.30 -- Bombay, January 7, 1975"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 3.26.30 -- Bombay, January 7, 1975|Lecture on SB 3.26.30 -- Bombay, January 7, 1975]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">So this is called vyavasāyātmikā buddhi. Vyavasāyātmikā buddhi, niścayātmikā buddhi means, with good faith, that "I must execute it. That is my life and soul." If we take that, then our life is successful.</p> | |||
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<div id="LectureonSB7126BombayApril171976_3" class="quote" parent="Srimad-Bhagavatam_Lectures" book="Lec" index="866" link="Lecture on SB 7.12.6 -- Bombay, April 17, 1976" link_text="Lecture on SB 7.12.6 -- Bombay, April 17, 1976"> | |||
<div class="heading">Viśvanātha Cakravartī said. "That is my life. Whether I will be successful or not successful, it doesn't matter. I must take the words of my Guru Mahārāja as my life and soul." | |||
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Lecture on SB 7.12.6 -- Bombay, April 17, 1976|Lecture on SB 7.12.6 -- Bombay, April 17, 1976]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Faithful to whom? To the spiritual master. Whatever he says, the brahmacārī should take it: "Yes, it is my life and soul." That is the explanation given by Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura. He is explaining with reference to the verse vyavasāyātmikā buddhir ekeha kuru-nandana ([[Vanisource:BG 2.41 (1972)|BG 2.41]]). He very nicely explains. You have perhaps read it, Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura's... Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura has taught very, very nicely about guru. Therefore he has written in Gurvaṣṭaka, yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ **. He is example, practical example of guru-bhakti, Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura. He accepted his guru, Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura. So he said that "I am not interested for my salvation or going back to Godhead. I am not interested." Interested means it may come; it may not come. "That I don't mind. But I am interested only with the words of my guru." Viśvanātha Cakravartī said. "That is my life. Whether I will be successful or not successful, it doesn't matter. I must take the words of my Guru Mahārāja as my life and soul."</p> | |||
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<div id="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Lectures" text="Nectar of Devotion Lectures"><h3>Nectar of Devotion Lectures</h3> | |||
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<div id="TheNectarofDevotionVrndavanaOctober291972_0" class="quote" parent="Nectar_of_Devotion_Lectures" book="Lec" index="26" link="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 29, 1972" link_text="The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 29, 1972"> | |||
<div class="heading">Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura says that "Whatever order I get from my spiritual master, that is my life and soul. | |||
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 29, 1972|The Nectar of Devotion -- Vrndavana, October 29, 1972]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura says that "Whatever order I get from my spiritual master, that is my life and soul. I must execute it thoroughly, without caring for my personal convenience or inconvenience". That is called vyavasāyātmikā-buddhi.</p> | |||
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<div id="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="section" sec_index="5" parent="compilation" text="Conversations and Morning Walks"><h2>Conversations and Morning Walks</h2> | |||
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<div id="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="7" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1974 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1974 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> | |||
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<div id="MorningWalkApril51974Bombay_0" class="quote" parent="1974_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="55" link="Morning Walk -- April 5, 1974, Bombay" link_text="Morning Walk -- April 5, 1974, Bombay"> | |||
<div class="heading">Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura explained that "Whatever order I receive from my guru, that is my life and soul. I don't mind whether I'll be liberated or not, whether I will be successful or not". That is not my concern. | |||
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Morning Walk -- April 5, 1974, Bombay|Morning Walk -- April 5, 1974, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Yes. Therefore, to receive the order of Kṛṣṇa, tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum eva abhigacchet (MU 1.2.12), one should approach the bona fide representative of Kṛṣṇa and take order from Him what to do, and that is his only duty. That is his only duty. Otherwise he will manufacture so many duties. That will not be helpful to him. That niscayatmika-buddhiḥ, that has been very nicely explained by Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura, that "Whatever order I receive from my guru, that is my life and soul. I don't mind whether I'll be liberated or not, whether I will be successful or not. That is not my concern. My only concern is to see whether I am factually, faithfully carrying out the order of my guru."</p> | |||
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<div id="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="9" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1976 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1976 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> | |||
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<div id="RoomConversationDecember311976Bombay_0" class="quote" parent="1976_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="365" link="Room Conversation -- December 31, 1976, Bombay" link_text="Room Conversation -- December 31, 1976, Bombay"> | |||
<div class="heading">Our book distribution is my life and soul according to the order of my Guru Mahārāja. | |||
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- December 31, 1976, Bombay|Room Conversation -- December 31, 1976, Bombay]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Our book distribution is the most important task in our society. Therefore I am giving so much stress and I am working so hard on this. Because this is my life and soul according to the order of my Guru Mahārāja. And by his grace it is to some extent successful. And I took it seriously. I take it seriously still now. That is my life and soul.</p> | |||
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<div id="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" class="sub_section" sec_index="10" parent="Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" text="1977 Conversations and Morning Walks"><h3>1977 Conversations and Morning Walks</h3> | |||
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<div id="RoomConversationFebruary21977Bhuvanesvara_0" class="quote" parent="1977_Conversations_and_Morning_Walks" book="Con" index="75" link="Room Conversation -- February 2, 1977, Bhuvanesvara" link_text="Room Conversation -- February 2, 1977, Bhuvanesvara"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Room Conversation -- February 2, 1977, Bhuvanesvara|Room Conversation -- February 2, 1977, Bhuvanesvara]]: </span><div class="text"><p style="display: inline;">Prabhupāda: Anyone who has got this consciousness that "It is my duty to serve Kṛṣṇa. I must serve Him with my life and soul and everything," he's a sannyāsī.</p> | |||
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<div id="Correspondence" class="section" sec_index="6" parent="compilation" text="Correspondence"><h2>Correspondence</h2> | |||
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<div id="1967_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="2" parent="Correspondence" text="1967 Correspondence"><h3>1967 Correspondence</h3> | |||
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<div id="LettertoMukundaNewYork10June1967_0" class="quote" parent="1967_Correspondence" book="Let" index="100" link="Letter to Mukunda -- New York 10 June, 1967" link_text="Letter to Mukunda -- New York 10 June, 1967"> | |||
<div class="heading">My life and soul is to preach Krishna Consciousness. | |||
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<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mukunda -- New York 10 June, 1967|Letter to Mukunda -- New York 10 June, 1967]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">The idea is that if I get that permanent visa, then I shall settle things up in that way. I do not mind whether I am in the U.S.A. or Vrndavana, because my life and soul is to preach Krishna Consciousness.</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="1968_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="3" parent="Correspondence" text="1968 Correspondence"><h3>1968 Correspondence</h3> | |||
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<div id="LettertoMahapurusaLosAngeles7March1968_0" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="108" link="Letter to Mahapurusa -- Los Angeles 7 March, 1968" link_text="Letter to Mahapurusa -- Los Angeles 7 March, 1968"> | |||
<div class="heading">"My dear brothers, you simply worship Lord Caitanya; talk of Lord Caitanya; speak Lord Caitanya's Name, so anyone who does so, he is my life and soul." Thus spoke Lord Nityananda. | |||
</div> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Mahapurusa -- Los Angeles 7 March, 1968|Letter to Mahapurusa -- Los Angeles 7 March, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You can also chant the prayer you asked about. This was spoken by Lord Nityananda while He was preaching in the town. He was addressing the people: "My dear brothers, you simply worship Lord Caitanya; talk of Lord Caitanya; speak Lord Caitanya's Name, so anyone who does so, he is my life and soul.'' Thus spoke Lord Nityananda.</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="LettertoBalaiAdvaitaMontreal19August1968_1" class="quote" parent="1968_Correspondence" book="Let" index="265" link="Letter to Balai, Advaita -- Montreal 19 August, 1968" link_text="Letter to Balai, Advaita -- Montreal 19 August, 1968"> | |||
<div class="heading">The printing of Bhagavatam and other Vaisnava literature is my life and soul. | |||
</div> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Balai, Advaita -- Montreal 19 August, 1968|Letter to Balai, Advaita -- Montreal 19 August, 1968]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">You say that NY is the best place, so we must start the press in the best place. That is first consideration, and Krishna will give us all strength, and printing of Bhagavatam and other Vaisnava literature is my life and soul, so press is the biggest mrdanga, recognized by my Guru Maharaja, so I shall request you to qualify yourself for such work as soon as possible, and with Krishna's Name, let us start it as soon as possible.</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="1970_Correspondence" class="sub_section" sec_index="5" parent="Correspondence" text="1970 Correspondence"><h3>1970 Correspondence</h3> | |||
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<div id="LettertoGurudasaLosAngeles16April1970_0" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="237" link="Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 16 April, 1970" link_text="Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 16 April, 1970"> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 16 April, 1970|Letter to Gurudasa -- Los Angeles 16 April, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">BTG is my life and soul. Please therefore try to distribute BTG as many as it is possible.</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="LettertoDamodaraLosAngeles4May1970_1" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="286" link="Letter to Damodara -- Los Angeles 4 May, 1970" link_text="Letter to Damodara -- Los Angeles 4 May, 1970"> | |||
<div class="heading">Each and every ISKCON Center is my life and soul for preaching this movement. | |||
</div> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Damodara -- Los Angeles 4 May, 1970|Letter to Damodara -- Los Angeles 4 May, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">As each and every ISKCON Center is my life and soul for preaching this movement, I hope you are doing your best to conduct the regular routine duties of the Temple—chanting regularly the beads, observing the restrictive regulations, taking Sankirtana Party to the streets, and selling our magazines and books.</p> | |||
</div> | |||
</div> | |||
<div id="LettertoBalimardanaLosAngeles15July1970_3" class="quote" parent="1970_Correspondence" book="Let" index="425" link="Letter to Bali-mardana -- Los Angeles 15 July, 1970" link_text="Letter to Bali-mardana -- Los Angeles 15 July, 1970"> | |||
<div class="heading">I have taken this work as my life and soul on the order of my Spiritual Master. | |||
</div> | |||
<span class="link">[[Vanisource:Letter to Bali-mardana -- Los Angeles 15 July, 1970|Letter to Bali-mardana -- Los Angeles 15 July, 1970]]: </span><div style="display: inline;" class="text"><p style="display: inline;">I am also very glad to know that you think Melbourne a good place for establishing a temple and you are eager to accept this establishment of temples in the Australia area as your life and soul. Yes, as I have taken this work as my life and soul on the order of my Spiritual Master, similarly if you take my desires as life and soul, then the whole thing is immediately connected with Krsna. That is the meaning of Parampara system.</p> | |||
</div> | |||
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Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 6
My dear brāhmaṇa, austerity in the form of meditation is My heart, Vedic knowledge in the form of hymns and mantras constitutes My body, and spiritual activities and ecstatic emotions are My actual form. The ritualistic ceremonies and sacrifices, when properly conducted, are the various limbs of My body, the unseen good fortune proceeding from pious or spiritual activities constitutes My mind, and the demigods who execute My orders in various departments are My life and soul.
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
CC Adi-lila
“Thus although I am the source of happiness for the entire world, the beauty and attributes of Śrī Rādhikā are My life and soul.
CC Madhya-lila
Caitanya Mahāprabhu was a sannyāsī; He left home and everything else. He could certainly not be induced by any mundane lusty desires. So when He used the word madana-dahane ("in the fire of lusty desire"), He meant that out of pure love for Kṛṣṇa He was burning in the fire of separation from Kṛṣṇa. Whenever He met Jagannātha, either in the temple or during the Ratha-yātrā, Caitanya Mahāprabhu used to think, "Now I have gotten the Lord of My life and soul."
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued, "My dear friends, you are all My life and soul; therefore I tell you that I possess no wealth of love for Kṛṣṇa. Consequently My life is poverty-stricken. My limbs and senses are useless."
In the attitude of Rādhārāṇī, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu addressed the gopīs: ""My dear friends, where is that Kṛṣṇa, Cupid personified, who has the effulgence of a kadamba flower, who is sweetness itself, the nectar of My eyes and mind, He who loosens the hair of the gopīs, who is the supreme source of transcendental bliss and My life and soul? Has He come before My eyes again?""
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then began to talk like this: "Is Cupid personified present with the effulgence and reflection of the kadamba tree? Is He the same person, personified sweetness, who is the pleasure of My eyes and mind, who is My life and soul? Has Kṛṣṇa actually come before My eyes ?"
Śrī Kṛṣṇa continued: “All the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana-dhāma—My mother, father, cowherd boyfriends and everything else—are like My life and soul. And among all the inhabitants of Vṛndāvana, the gopīs are My very life and soul. And among the gopīs, You, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī, are the chief. Therefore You are the very life of My life.
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “"Kṛṣṇa, the son of Nanda Mahārāja, is my life and soul." By this statement I am sold into the hands of the descendants of Guṇarāja Khān.
The full verse referred to here is:
- eka-bhāve vanda hari yoḍa kari' hāta
- nandanandana kṛṣṇa—mora prāṇa-nātha
“With folded hands I offer my prayers unto Kṛṣṇa, Nanda Mahārāja's son, who is my life and soul.”
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu continued, "I accept this Murāri Gupta as My life and soul. When I hear of his humility, it perturbs My very life."
CC Antya-lila
The Lord would cry, "O My Lord Kṛṣṇa, My life and soul! O son of Mahārāja Nanda, where shall I go? Where shall I attain You? O Supreme Personality who play with Your flute to Your mouth!"
The Lord asked him, "Where is Kṛṣṇa, My life and soul? Please show Me Kṛṣṇa." Saying this, He caught the doorkeeper's hand.
“But this is the fault of My own destiny. Why should I needlessly accuse you? There is no intimate relationship between you and Me. Kṛṣṇa, however, is My life and soul. It is We who live together, and it is He who has become so cruel.
“Kṛṣṇa is My life and soul. Kṛṣṇa is the treasure of My life. Indeed, Kṛṣṇa is the very life of My life. I therefore keep Him always in My heart and try to please Him by rendering service. That is My constant meditation.
Other Books by Srila Prabhupada
Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
So Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura says that "The instruction which I have received from my spiritual master, that is my life and soul." This is called niścayātmikā-buddhiḥ, means assurance: "Whatever I have received, the order from my spiritual master, that will give me salvation." Or even no salvation. It doesn't matter. A real devotee, a servant, does not expect anything, but kāryam: "It is my duty. It is my duty."
Yāmunācārya says,
- yad-avadhi mama cetaḥ kṛṣṇa-padāravinde
- nava-nava-rasa-dhāmany udyataṁ rantum āsīt
- tad-avadhi bata nārī-saṅgame smaryamāne
- bhavati mukha-vikāraḥ suṣṭhu niṣṭhīvanaṁ ca
"Yad-avadhi, since the time, mama cetaḥ, I have engaged my life and soul, my consciousness, in the service of the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa..."
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
If we become fixed up in this resolution, that "Whatever we have heard from my guru, the representative of Kṛṣṇa, I must execute. I do not care for my personal convenience or inconvenience. This is my life and soul," then your life is perfect.
Viśvanātha Cakravartī says that "Whatever I am ordered by the spiritual master, that is my life and soul. I don't care for liberation. My only business is to serve my spiritual master."
So this is called vyavasāyātmikā buddhi. Vyavasāyātmikā buddhi, niścayātmikā buddhi means, with good faith, that "I must execute it. That is my life and soul." If we take that, then our life is successful.
Faithful to whom? To the spiritual master. Whatever he says, the brahmacārī should take it: "Yes, it is my life and soul." That is the explanation given by Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura. He is explaining with reference to the verse vyavasāyātmikā buddhir ekeha kuru-nandana (BG 2.41). He very nicely explains. You have perhaps read it, Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura's... Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura has taught very, very nicely about guru. Therefore he has written in Gurvaṣṭaka, yasya prasādād bhagavat-prasādaḥ **. He is example, practical example of guru-bhakti, Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura. He accepted his guru, Narottama dāsa Ṭhākura. So he said that "I am not interested for my salvation or going back to Godhead. I am not interested." Interested means it may come; it may not come. "That I don't mind. But I am interested only with the words of my guru." Viśvanātha Cakravartī said. "That is my life. Whether I will be successful or not successful, it doesn't matter. I must take the words of my Guru Mahārāja as my life and soul."
Nectar of Devotion Lectures
Śrīla Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura says that "Whatever order I get from my spiritual master, that is my life and soul. I must execute it thoroughly, without caring for my personal convenience or inconvenience". That is called vyavasāyātmikā-buddhi.
Conversations and Morning Walks
1974 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: Yes. Therefore, to receive the order of Kṛṣṇa, tad-vijñānārthaṁ sa gurum eva abhigacchet (MU 1.2.12), one should approach the bona fide representative of Kṛṣṇa and take order from Him what to do, and that is his only duty. That is his only duty. Otherwise he will manufacture so many duties. That will not be helpful to him. That niscayatmika-buddhiḥ, that has been very nicely explained by Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura, that "Whatever order I receive from my guru, that is my life and soul. I don't mind whether I'll be liberated or not, whether I will be successful or not. That is not my concern. My only concern is to see whether I am factually, faithfully carrying out the order of my guru."
1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: Our book distribution is the most important task in our society. Therefore I am giving so much stress and I am working so hard on this. Because this is my life and soul according to the order of my Guru Mahārāja. And by his grace it is to some extent successful. And I took it seriously. I take it seriously still now. That is my life and soul.
1977 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: Anyone who has got this consciousness that "It is my duty to serve Kṛṣṇa. I must serve Him with my life and soul and everything," he's a sannyāsī.
Correspondence
1967 Correspondence
The idea is that if I get that permanent visa, then I shall settle things up in that way. I do not mind whether I am in the U.S.A. or Vrndavana, because my life and soul is to preach Krishna Consciousness.
1968 Correspondence
You can also chant the prayer you asked about. This was spoken by Lord Nityananda while He was preaching in the town. He was addressing the people: "My dear brothers, you simply worship Lord Caitanya; talk of Lord Caitanya; speak Lord Caitanya's Name, so anyone who does so, he is my life and soul. Thus spoke Lord Nityananda.
You say that NY is the best place, so we must start the press in the best place. That is first consideration, and Krishna will give us all strength, and printing of Bhagavatam and other Vaisnava literature is my life and soul, so press is the biggest mrdanga, recognized by my Guru Maharaja, so I shall request you to qualify yourself for such work as soon as possible, and with Krishna's Name, let us start it as soon as possible.
1970 Correspondence
BTG is my life and soul. Please therefore try to distribute BTG as many as it is possible.
As each and every ISKCON Center is my life and soul for preaching this movement, I hope you are doing your best to conduct the regular routine duties of the Temple—chanting regularly the beads, observing the restrictive regulations, taking Sankirtana Party to the streets, and selling our magazines and books.
I am also very glad to know that you think Melbourne a good place for establishing a temple and you are eager to accept this establishment of temples in the Australia area as your life and soul. Yes, as I have taken this work as my life and soul on the order of my Spiritual Master, similarly if you take my desires as life and soul, then the whole thing is immediately connected with Krsna. That is the meaning of Parampara system.