His Holiness
Niranjana Swami
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Swami Prabhupada
Niranjana Swami
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Quotes Of The Day
Niranjana Swami
October 19, 2025 - Lecture on Brihad-bhagavatamrita
How fortunate it is to have taken a human birth so soon after the appearance of Lord Caitanya. We should not be interested in attaining the upper planetary systems, where we will have a long wait to graduate from the material world. We should take full advantage of the facility which Lord Caitanya has given through the distribution of His holy name and through the instructions of His followers, who have elaborated upon His teachings to make Krishna consciousness and prema-bhakti so fully accessible even in this age of Kali-yuga.
Srila Prabhupada
Lecture on Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.2.19, Vrndavana, October 30, 1972
That story of the yajnika-brahmanas... Not story; fact. They could not understand Krsna. When the yajnika-brahmanas were engaged in sacrifice, Krsna and Balarama was requested by their friends, cowherd boys, "My dear Krsna, Balarama, we are hungry. Please give us some food." They knew Krsna. That's all. Krsna said that "There is a sacrifice. A great ceremony is going on. The brahmanas, the yajnika-brahmanas, are engaged. Go there and ask some food." So they approached. You'll find this description in the Krsna book. So the brahmanas refused, because they could not understand Krsna. They thought that "Unless the sacrifice is finished, how the foodstuff can be distributed?" But they were so ignorant that they could not understand that the person for whom the sacrifice was being performed, He's asking personally. That is ignorance. Simply by becoming brahmana, one cannot understand Krsna. He must become a devotee. Because Krsna is understood by simply devotional service. Bhaktya mam abhijanati [Bg 18.55].
