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04.26.2024
Artistic Expression In Disciplic Succession
“In the middle of the day, it is exceedingly pleasant to go about and it is delightful to the touch. In the daytime the sun is pleasing, while the shade and water are not pleasing.” (Lakshmana speaking to Lord Rama,...
04.25.2024
Five Delightful Experiences Based On A Contrast
“In the middle of the day, it is exceedingly pleasant to go about and it is delightful to the touch. In the daytime the sun is pleasing, while the shade and water are not pleasing.” (Lakshmana speaking to Lord Rama,...
04.24.2024
Five Ways The Winter Season Glorifies The Supreme Lord
“In the middle of the day, it is exceedingly pleasant to go about and it is delightful to the touch. In the daytime the sun is pleasing, while the shade and water are not pleasing.” (Lakshmana speaking to Lord Rama,...
04.23.2024
Five Purposes To The Maha-Mantra
“This knowledge is the king of education, the most secret of all secrets. It is the purest knowledge, and because it gives direct perception of the self by realization, it is the perfection of religion. It is everlasting, and it...
04.22.2024
Five Ways To View Time
“Mind, why are you not worshiping Shri Rama, whose bow is like time, with weapons of arrows representing the different units of time, such as paramanu, lava, nimesha, barasa, yuga, and kalpa?” (Dohavali, 130)
04.21.2024
Four Areas Where The Animals Appear To Have It Better In Kali-Yuga
“O learned one, in this iron age of Kali men have but short lives. They are quarrelsome, lazy, misguided, unlucky and, above all, always disturbed.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 1.1.10)
04.20.2024
Three Sanskrit Words Used To Explain Complex Subjects
“First a child is shown the branches of a tree, and then he is shown the moon through the branches. This is called shakha-chandra-nyaya. The idea is that first one must be given a simpler example. Then the more difficult...
04.19.2024
Changing But Staying The Same
“Seeing Sita, like trying to decipher knowledge from the Vedas which has become barely perceptible after lack of use, his mind became doubtful. As Sita was not decorated, with difficulty Hanuman could recognize her, like understanding a text which has...
04.18.2024
Five Times I Was Elated Over Something Trivial
“The foolish cannot understand how a living entity can quit his body, nor can they understand what sort of body he enjoys under the spell of the modes of nature. But one whose eyes are trained in knowledge can see...
04.17.2024
Five Things Shabari Had Going Against Her
“The one who was without a caste, who took birth from a ground of sins – even that woman was liberated. O you of greatly foolish mind, how can you desire happiness while forgetting such a Lord?” (Dohavali, 156)
04.16.2024
Rama Navami 2024
“Like the demigods obtaining ambrosia, King Dasharatha, after performing great austerities and great deeds, obtained You as a son.” (Lakshmana speaking to Lord Rama, Valmiki Ramayana, Aranya Kand, 66.3)
04.15.2024
How Your Heart Beats When You Run For Cover
“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what...
04.14.2024
Five Ways I Consider Myself Fortunate In Modern Times
“O learned one, in this iron age of Kali men have but short lives. They are quarrelsome, lazy, misguided, unlucky and, above all, always disturbed.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 1.1.10)
04.13.2024
Four Processes For Advancement In Krishna Consciousness
“If you cannot take to this practice, then engage yourself in the cultivation of knowledge. Better than knowledge, however, is meditation, and better than meditation is renunciation of the fruits of action, for by such renunciation one can attain peace...
04.12.2024
Five Experiences With A Repeating Sequence Of Events
“Prahlada Maharaja replied: Because of their uncontrolled senses, persons too addicted to materialistic life make progress toward hellish conditions and repeatedly chew that which has already been chewed. Their inclinations toward Krishna are never aroused, either by the instructions of...
04.11.2024
Five Answers For A Long Time
“Mind, why are you not worshiping Shri Rama, whose bow is like time, with weapons of arrows representing the different units of time, such as paramanu, lava, nimesha, barasa, yuga, and kalpa?” (Dohavali, 130)
04.10.2024
Five Requests To The Person Of Exceptional Ability
“O greatest of all personalities, O supreme form, though I see here before me Your actual position, I yet wish to see how You have entered into this cosmic manifestation. I want to see that form of Yours.” (Arjuna, Bhagavad-gita,...
04.09.2024
Five People I Trust In My Decision For Worship
“Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Brahman, the ultimate, the supreme abode and purifier, the Absolute Truth and the eternal divine person. You are the primal God, transcendental and original, and You are the unborn and all-pervading beauty. All the...
04.08.2024
Five Ways I Can Ask Someone To Do Something
“The Supreme Lord said, To give up the results of all activities is called renunciation [tyaga] by the wise. And that state is called the renounced order of life [sannyasa] by great learned men.” (Bhagavad-gita, 18.2)
04.07.2024
Five Reasons To Not Worship Govardhana
“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what...
04.06.2024
Five Results Of The First Govardhana Puja
“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what...
04.05.2024
Five Headwinds Faced By Vasudeva And Devaki
“While Vasudeva was carrying his son Krishna in the falling rain, Lord Shesha in the shape of a serpent spread His hood over the head of Vasudeva so that he would not be hampered by the rainfall. Vasudeva came onto...
04.04.2024
Five Things To Learn From Prahlada's Time In The Womb
“Narada Muni delivered his instructions both to me, who was within the womb, and to my mother, who was engaged in rendering him service. Because he is naturally extremely kind to the fallen souls, being in a transcendental position, he...
04.03.2024
Five Things I Will Get Around To Doing
“Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, offer obeisances and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 9.34)
04.02.2024
Five Reflections Upon Entering The House Of Worship
“Engage your mind always in thinking of Me, offer obeisances and worship Me. Being completely absorbed in Me, surely you will come to Me.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 9.34)
04.01.2024
Five Questions After The Potential Achievement Is Complete
“The king went and received blessings and then paid so much honor and respect after that. When he saw Rama, he experienced a happiness one hundred times that of Brahman realization.” (Janaki Mangala, Chand 5.2)
03.31.2024
Five Times I Got Burned For Telling The Truth
“The Vedas mainly deal with the subject of the three modes of material nature. Rise above these modes, O Arjuna. Be transcendental to all of them. Be free from all dualities and from all anxieties for gain and safety, and...
03.30.2024
Five Aspects To Formal Training In Knowledge
"My dear Lord, a person who has received a little favor from You can understand You very quickly. But those who are trying to understand You by the ascending process may go on speculating for millions of years and still...
03.29.2024
Four Questions To Ask About Suffering In The Material World
“In the Bhagavad-gita (13.9) it is stated, janma-mrityu-jara-vyadhi-duhkha-doshanudarshanam: one who is actually advancing must always consider the four principles of miserable life, namely, birth, death, old age and disease. One cannot be saved from all these miseries unless he takes...
03.28.2024
Five Ways To Advance When You Have No Sentiment Towards Krishna
“By Me, in My unmanifested form, this entire universe is pervaded. All beings are in Me, but I am not in them.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 9.4)
03.27.2024
Five Ways I Experience A False Sense Of Happiness
“After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogis in devotion, never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 8.15)
03.26.2024
Five People Who Offer Prayers In Bhagavata Purana
“Our dear Lord, You are appearing as the best of the Yadu dynasty, and we are offering our respectful humble obeisances unto Your lotus feet. Before this appearance, You also appeared as the fish incarnation, the horse incarnation, the tortoise...
03.25.2024
Holi 2024
“Prahlada Maharaja continued: The great saint Narada Muni brought my mother to his ashrama and assured her of all protection, saying, ‘My dear child, please remain at my ashrama until the arrival of your husband.’” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 7.7.12)
03.24.2024
Gaura Purnima 2024
“When the Supreme Personality of Godhead is pleased with the living entity because of his devotional service, one becomes a pandita and does not make distinctions between enemies, friends and himself. Intelligently, he then thinks, ‘Every one of us is...
03.23.2024
Five Rhetorical Questions To Explain Why Someone Would Offer Prayers
“Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Brahman, the ultimate, the supreme abode and purifier, the Absolute Truth and the eternal divine person. You are the primal God, transcendental and original, and You are the unborn and all-pervading beauty.” (Bhagavad-gita, 10.12)
03.22.2024
They Were Born That Way
“The one who was without a caste, who took birth from a ground of sins – even that woman was liberated. O you of greatly foolish mind, how can you desire happiness while forgetting such a Lord?” (Dohavali, 156)
03.21.2024
Five Ways Hiranyakashipu Highlighted The Glories Of Vishnu
“Prahlada Maharaja, a small child of only five years, became the object of envy for his great father, Hiranyakashipu, only because of his becoming a pure devotee of the Lord. The demon father employed all his weapons to kill the...
03.20.2024
Five Mythologies People Already Tend To Believe
“Know that all beautiful, glorious, and mighty creations spring from but a spark of My splendor.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 10.41)
03.19.2024
Five Ways To Look Down At The People Of Gokula
“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what...
03.18.2024
How Could Indra Attack Such Innocent People
“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what...
03.17.2024
Does Vedic Literature Provide Any Secular Advice
“Tulsi knows, has heard, and has understood that Shri Rama is an ocean of mercy because He made jewels and gold expensive, while keeping the most important things like water and grains inexpensive.” (Dohavali, 149)
03.16.2024
Five Extracurricular Activities Which Do Not Really Matter Once Life Is Over
“In the tender age of childhood, when everyone is bewildered, one passes ten years. Similarly, in boyhood, engaged in sporting and playing, one passes another ten years. In this way, twenty years are wasted. Similarly, in old age, when one...
03.15.2024
Five Reasons To Show The Universal Form
“Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature and My supreme dominion over all that be.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 9.11)
03.14.2024
Five Ways An Adult Could Have Responded To The Questions About Indra-Yajna
“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what...
03.13.2024
How Do We Build Self-Esteem While Trying To Remain Humble
“Devotional service is very simple, and anyone can adopt it. Let one remain what he is; he need only install the Deity of the Supreme Lord in his house. The Deity may be Radha-Krishna or Lakshmi-Narayana (there are many other...
03.12.2024
Five People Who Struggle For A Meeting
“In the Hari-bhakti-sudhadaya there is another example, forwarded by Maharaj Dhruva. He says there, ‘My dear Lord, I have practiced austerities and penances because I was desiring to receive something from You, but in exchange You have allowed me to...
03.11.2024
Five Positions Without A Vacancy
“Devotional service must not be executed for some material purpose. One should not even have a desire to merge into the Absolute Truth. One has to render such service out of love only. Ahaituki, apratihata. Devotional service must be without...
03.10.2024
Five Situations Where You Are Helpless
“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what...
03.09.2024
Five Kim Phalam Questions For Bhakti Activities
“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what...
03.08.2024
Getting Others To Understand The Bhakti Path
“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what...

What's Krishna's Mercy about?

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Krishna's Mercy episodes:

Artistic Expression In Disciplic Succession

Five Delightful Experiences Based On A Contrast

Five Ways The Winter Season Glorifies The Supreme Lord

Five Purposes To The Maha-Mantra

Five Ways To View Time

Four Areas Where The Animals Appear To Have It Better In Kali-Yuga

Three Sanskrit Words Used To Explain Complex Subjects

Changing But Staying The Same

Five Times I Was Elated Over Something Trivial

Five Things Shabari Had Going Against Her

Rama Navami 2024

How Your Heart Beats When You Run For Cover

Five Ways I Consider Myself Fortunate In Modern Times

Four Processes For Advancement In Krishna Consciousness

Five Experiences With A Repeating Sequence Of Events

Five Answers For A Long Time

Five Requests To The Person Of Exceptional Ability

Five People I Trust In My Decision For Worship

Five Ways I Can Ask Someone To Do Something

Five Reasons To Not Worship Govardhana

Five Results Of The First Govardhana Puja

Five Headwinds Faced By Vasudeva And Devaki

Five Things To Learn From Prahlada's Time In The Womb

Five Things I Will Get Around To Doing

Five Reflections Upon Entering The House Of Worship

Five Questions After The Potential Achievement Is Complete

Five Times I Got Burned For Telling The Truth

Five Aspects To Formal Training In Knowledge

Four Questions To Ask About Suffering In The Material World

Five Ways To Advance When You Have No Sentiment Towards Krishna

Five Ways I Experience A False Sense Of Happiness

Five People Who Offer Prayers In Bhagavata Purana

Holi 2024

Gaura Purnima 2024

Five Rhetorical Questions To Explain Why Someone Would Offer Prayers

They Were Born That Way

Five Ways Hiranyakashipu Highlighted The Glories Of Vishnu

Five Mythologies People Already Tend To Believe

Five Ways To Look Down At The People Of Gokula

How Could Indra Attack Such Innocent People

Does Vedic Literature Provide Any Secular Advice

Five Extracurricular Activities Which Do Not Really Matter Once Life Is Over

Five Reasons To Show The Universal Form

Five Ways An Adult Could Have Responded To The Questions About Indra-Yajna

How Do We Build Self-Esteem While Trying To Remain Humble

Five People Who Struggle For A Meeting

Five Positions Without A Vacancy

Five Situations Where You Are Helpless

Five Kim Phalam Questions For Bhakti Activities

Getting Others To Understand The Bhakti Path