Footsteps of Maharaja Prahlada
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|"footprint of Prahlada Maharaja"
|"follow prahlada"
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Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 1
SB Canto 5
SB Canto 7
SB Canto 8
Lectures
Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
- premāñjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena
- santaḥ sadaiva hṛdayeṣu vilokayanti
- yaṁ śyāmasundaram acintya-guṇa-svarūpaṁ
- govindam ādi-puruṣaṁ tam ahaṁ bhajāmi
- [Bs. 5.38]
Then you can offer your prayers to Kṛṣṇa, Govinda, and then your life is successful. This is Kṛṣṇa consciousness process. So try to follow the path chalked out by Prahlāda Mahārāja. He is one of the mahājanas. Out of the twelve mahājanas, he is also one of them. He is our guru. So try to follow Prahlāda Mahārāja's instruction and behavior also. Just see his behavior, how he attained the stage of prema gradually.
So you should be ambitious. Our goal of life. That is the, Caitanya Mahāprabhu's mission, prema pum-artho mahān. He doesn't say, dharmārtha-kāma-mokṣa [SB 4.8.41]. He never says. To become religious, that is not, but that is the beginning, because without religion, everyone is animal, cats and dog.- jagāi madhāi haite muñi se pāpiṣṭha
- mora nāma yei laya tāra puṇya kṣaya
"I am so low grade that if somebody takes my name, whatever little pious action is there is lost." In this way he's presenting. And Sanātana Gosvāmī, presenting himself, nīca jāti nīca karma nīca saṅga... They are not artificial. A Vaiṣṇava actually thinks like that. That is Vaiṣṇava. He is never proud of... And just opposite number: "Oh, I have got this. I have got this. Who is equal to me? I am so rich. I am so this and that." That is the distinction.
So we have to learn this tṛṇād api sunīcena taror api sahiṣṇunā and follow the footprint of Prahlāda Mahārāja. Then surely we shall be accepted by Nṛsiṁhadeva, Kṛṣṇa, without any failure.So Prahlāda Mahārāja became guru. Out of the twelve mahājanas he is one of them.
- svayambhūr nāradaḥ śaṁbhuḥ
- kapilaḥ kaumāro manuḥ
- prahlādo janako bhīṣmaḥ...
- [SB 6.3.20]
Conversations and Morning Walks
1976 Conversations and Morning Walks
Prabhupāda: Yes, now just see how people are being misguided. Throughout the whole world, the education is for economic development. And here it is condemned that one should not waste his time for so-called economic development. Now our preaching is here, and who will accept it? They'll call us all crazy fellows. We are thinking they are crazy, they're wasting time for economic development, and they are thinking of us, that "These people are crazy, they are doing nothing, escaping." Escaping, do they not say like that?
Nalinīkaṇṭha: Yes.
Prabhupāda: This is the position. We are following the footprints of Prahlāda Mahārāja. We are following the instruction. There is no need of economic development. Live nature's life. Just like other animals, they have no question of economic development. They do not think of economic development. But still they are having the material facilities-eating, sleeping, sex and defense—there is. But there is no endeavor for economic development. So man, being advanced, why he should be less than the animals? His real business is how to develop Kṛṣṇa consciousness, not economic development. That is condemned here. Dr. Wolfe will not agree with us. (laughs) All right, read the purport.Page Title: | Footsteps of Maharaja Prahlada |
Compiler: | Visnu Murti, Kanupriya |
Created: | 27 of dec, 2007 |
No. of Quotes: | 21 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=10, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=10, Con=1, Let=0 |