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Question: What determines whether a devotee goes to a Vaikuntha planet or to Goloka Vrndavana?

Question: What determines whether a devotee goes to a Vaikuntha planet or to Goloka Vrndavana?............   Prabhupada: Those devotees who are following viddhi marg are meant for going to Vaikuntha planets and those who are following raga marg are meant for going to Krsnaloka. It is generally that the followers of Lord Caitanya are going to Goloka Vrndavana. There is no difference between the Vaikuntha planets and Krsnaloka, it is a matter of personal taste only.>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Tamala Krsna  --  Los Angeles 21 June, 1970 Question: Does the soul ever become weak or strong on account of its association and contact with material nature?....  Prabhupada: It is not the spirit soul that becomes weak or strong but it is his determination to become Krsna Conscious that he become weak or strong. By the influence of the modes of passion and ignorance he becomes weak and by the influence of the mode of goodness he becomes strong. But by the ass...
  Question: His Divine Grace Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur always sat very erect, and it is stated here in the Bhagavad-gita that one should sit erect. Will this aid us in our concentrating on chanting our japa?......... Prabhupada: No, no. It doesn't require any sitting posture. But if you can sit, it helps you. It helps you. If you can sit straight like this, it will be very nice; it can help, yes, you can concentrate even in chanting and hearing. Therefore these things are required. But we are not very much particular about this. But he was brahmacari; he could sit like that. [laughter] That is the sign of brahmacari. He was not a false brahmacari, but he was real brahmacari yes. >>> Ref. VedaBase => Bhagavad-gita 6.35–45  – February 20, 1969, Los Angeles Hare Krishna 🙏 For Authorized Spiritual Articles,Posters , Quote etc . .  kindly download Telegram application in Google play store and Follow the below link  for telegram Suddha Bhakti channel 👇...

What happens at the time of Death, if a devotee is unable to remember or chant the name of Krsna??.......

Question: What happens at the time of Death, if a devotee is unable to remember or chant the name of Krsna??....... Srila Prabhupada says, ''So if you become Krsna conscious once, even if at that time you are so-called unconscious, [death] still, Krsna is with you; He is not forgetful. Krsna remembers, ''he has done so much for Me.'' There is no cause for hopelessness''..... Prabhupäda: So if you become Krsna conscious once, even if at that time you are so-called unconscious, still, Krsna is with you; He is not forgetful. He is not forgetful. Therefore He will give you the proper result. Don't think that at the time of your death, because you are so completely out of consciousness, therefore there is frustration. No. There is no frustration. There is no frustration. Because your activities are already recorded by the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is situated within your heart, so therefore there is no question of frustration. You just practice....

Kātyāyanī vrata

During the month of Mārgaśīrṣa, every day early in the morning the young daughters of the cowherds would take one another's hands and, singing of Kṛṣṇa's transcendental qualities, go to the Yamunā to bathe. Desiring to obtain Kṛṣṇa as their husband, they would then worship the goddess Kātyāyanī with incense, flowers and other items. One day, the young gopīs left their garments on the shore as usual and began playing in the water while chanting of Lord Kṛṣṇa's activities. Suddenly Kṛṣṇa Himself came there, took away all the garments and climbed a nearby kadamba tree. Wanting to tease the gopīs, Kṛṣṇa said, "I understand how fatigued you gopīs are from your austerities, so please come onto the shore and take back your clothes." The gopīs then pretended to become angry and said the cold water of the Yamunā was giving them great pain. If Kṛṣṇa did not give them back their garments, they said, they would inform King Kaṁsa of all that had happened. But if He did give th...