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Patita-pāvanāştakam PRAYERS TO THE SAVIOR OF THE FALLEN Accredited to Bhakta Kavi Salabeg TEXT ONE sa-cinta iva laksyase sapadi me caritram smaran  param kalita-sähasah patita-pāvanatva-vratat  na mam aganayaḥ purā na hi vicāra-kālo 'dhunā vratam visṛja vāthavā varada pāvayainam janam O Lord! Bestower of boons! I see you are concerned  Upon contemplating the record of my past activities;  Even so, I have dared come before you  Because of your promise to purify the most fallen.  Previously you cared nothing for me,  But now is no longer the time to make judgments:  Either renege on your promise  Or purify this most fallen soul. TEXT TWO na rāghava! na vāyaso na khalu krsna caidyo 'smy aham  na khalv aham ajāmilo naraka-nāśa nārāyana  pradhānam aparādhinām parivṛdhan ca mām pāpіnаm  kşama-jalanidhe! vidan sapadi savadhāno bhava O Raghava! I am not Jatayu, the vulture king!  O Krishna! I am not Sishupal, the king of Chedi!...

  God has specifically created the human form of life to facilitate the liberation of the conditioned soul. Therefore one who abuses human life prepares his path to hell. As stated in the   Vedas, puruṣatve cāvistarām ātmā:   “In the human form of life there is good possibility of understanding the eternal soul.” The   Vedas   also state: tābhyo gām ānayat tā abruvan na vai no ’yam alam iti tābhyo ’śvam ānayat tā abruvan na vai no ’yam alam iti tābhyaḥ puruṣam ānayat tā abruvan su-kṛtaṁ bata The purport of this  śruti-mantra  is that lower forms of life, such as the cow and horse, are not actually suitable to fulfill the purpose of creation. But human life awards the opportunity to understand one’s eternal relationship with God. Thus, one must control the material senses and fulfill the real purpose of human life. If one takes to Kṛṣṇa consciousness, the Supreme Lord personally feels happiness and gradually reveals Himself to His devotee...

In modern so-called scientific society, the idea is very prevalent that there is no life on other planets but that only on this earth do living entities with intelligence and scientific knowledge exist. The Vedic literature, however, does not accept this foolish theory. The followers of Vedic wisdom are fully aware of various planets inhabited by varieties of living entities such as the demigods, the sages, the Pitas, the Gandharvas, the Pannagas, the Kinnaras, the Caranas, the Siddhas and the Apsaras. The Vedas give information that in all planets–not only within this material sky but also in the spiritual sky–there are varieties of living entities. Although all these living entities are of one spiritual nature, in quality the same as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, they have varieties of bodies due to the embodiment of the spirit soul by the eight material elements, namely earth, water, fire, air, sky, mind, intelligence, and false ego. In the spiritual world, however, there is n...

T he Supreme Absolute Truth, as it is stated in the revealed scriptures, is very subtle and cannot be understood unless one is self-realized by the grace of the Lord. The Lord says that Brahmā may take the answers as He explains them. This means that transcendental knowledge of the absolute Supreme Being can be known if it is made known by the Lord Himself. By the mental speculation of the greatest mundane thinkers, the Absolute Truth cannot be understood. The mental speculators can reach up to the standard of impersonal Brahman realization, but, factually, complete knowledge of transcendence is beyond the knowledge of impersonal Brahman. Thus it is called the supreme confidential wisdom. Out of many liberated souls, someone may be qualified to know the Personality of Godhead. In the  Bhagavad-gītā  it is also said by the Lord Himself that out of many hundreds of thousands of people, one may try for perfection in human life, and out of many liberated souls, one may know Him as...

  The glories of Kamada Ekādaśī are described in the Varaha Purana in the conversation between Lord Krsna and Mahārāja Yudhisthira. Once Mahārāja Yudhisthira asked Lord Krsna, the crown of the Yadu dynasty, "O Lord Vasudeva! Please accept my humble obeisances. O my Lord! Please describe to me the Ekādaśī that occurs during the waxing moon in the month of March/April. Also explain to me the procedure for observing this Ekādaśī and what its benefits are." Lord Krsna replied, "My dear Mahārāja Yudhisthira, please hear attentively the description of this Ekadasi which is recorded in the Purana. One time Mahārāja Dilip, the great grandfather of Lord Ramacandra, asked his spiritual master, sage Vasistha, about the name and procedure for observing the Ekādaśī that occurs during the waxing moon in the month of March/April. "Sage Vasistha replied, 'O King! I will certainly fulfill your desire. The name of this Ekadašī is Kāmadā. This sacred Ekādaśī burns all one's si...

 Living the conditional life is just like plying a boat in the middle of the ocean. One is completely at the mercy of the ocean, and at every moment there is every chance of being drowned in the ocean by slight agitation. If the atmosphere is all right, the boat can ply very easily, undoubtedly, but if there is some storm, fog, wind or cloud, there is every possibility of being drowned in the ocean. No one can control the whims of the ocean, however one may be materially well equipped. One who has crossed the oceans by ship may have sufficient experience of such dependence upon the mercy of the ocean. But one can ply over the ocean of material existence by the grace of the Lord very easily, without any fear of storm or fog. It all depends on the will of the Lord; no one can help if there is some unfortunate danger in the state of conditional life. The devotees of the Lord, however, cross the ocean of material existence without anxiety because a pure devotee is always protected by t...