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Vedic Thoughts

2003 / Back to Godhead Magazine #37-03, 2003

The leaders of society, despite all their materialistic plans, are misleaders, for they have no plan to revive our lost relationship with the Lord.

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Mukunda-mālā-stotra, Text 1, Purport

It is directly seen, realized, and applicable to all times, places, and persons that by offenselessly remembering the holy names of Śrī Caitanya, all material desires of the conditioned souls are diminished; in other words, the conditioned souls attain freedom from the conceptions of being entangled in other desires, like material enjoyment and mental speculations.

Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura Śrī Caitanya Bhāgavata, Ādi-khaṅḍa, 14.89–90, Commentary

O descendant of King Bharata, one who desires to be free from all miseries must hear about, glorify, and also remember the Personality of Godhead, who is the Supersoul, the controller, and the savior from all miseries.

Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 2.1.5

All the demigods and all the transcendental philosophers who desire liberation bow down to the Supreme Lord.

Nṛsiṁha-tāpanī Upaniṣad (Pūrva-khaṅḍa 2.4)

If one chants the holy name of the Lord, even in a helpless condition or without desiring to do so, all the reactions of his sinful life depart, just as when a lion roars, all the small animals flee in fear.

Garuḍa Purāṅa (Quoted in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.2.7, Purport)

Anyone, even a person in an impure state, who absorbs his mind in Him [the Supreme Lord] for just a moment at the time of death burns up all traces of sinful reactions and immediately attains the supreme transcendental destination in a pure, spiritual form as effulgent as the sun.

Śrī Uddhava, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 10.46.32

All the bodies of the Supreme Lord are eternal and everlasting. They are never subject to material destruction or born of matter. They are the embodiment of supreme bliss and are completely transcendental.

Mahā-Varāha Purāṅa

The pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu are full of nectar, and the pastimes of Lord Kṛṣṅa are like camphor. When one mixes these, they taste very sweet. By the mercy of the pure devotees, whoever tastes them can understand the depths of that sweetness.

Śrīla Kṛṣṅadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā 25.277

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