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1 July 2025
- 04:2004:20, 1 July 2025 diff hist +9,702 Although the Christians and Muhammadans do not worship the Deity, they offer prayers to the Lord, and that is also bhakti. Arcanam vandanam No edit summary current
30 June 2025
- 14:3514:35, 30 June 2025 diff hist +3,856 Those who are engaged in the service of this temple, they are discharging devotional service, pada-sevanam No edit summary current
- 14:3414:34, 30 June 2025 diff hist +93 Pada-sevanam means to rise early in the morning, open the door of temple and wipe it out, all the dust, and give some light. The pada-sevanam No edit summary current
- 13:5613:56, 30 June 2025 diff hist +39,374 Pada-sevanam includes: seeing the form of the Lord, touching the form of the Lord, circumambulating the form or temple of the Lord, visiting such places as Jagannatha Puri, Dvaraka and Mathura to see the Lord's form, and bathing in the Ganges or Yamuna No edit summary current
- 13:5613:56, 30 June 2025 diff hist +39,362 Pada-sevanam. According to one's taste and strength, hearing, chanting and remembrance may be followed by pada-sevanam. One obtains the perfection of remembering when one constantly thinks of the lotus feet of the Lord No edit summary current
- 13:4013:40, 30 June 2025 diff hist +39,439 Bathing in the Ganges and serving a pure Vaisnava are also known as tadiya-upasanam. This is also pada-sevanam. The word tadiya means "in relationship with the Lord No edit summary current
- 13:3913:39, 30 June 2025 diff hist +39,409 Being intensely attached to thinking of the Lord's lotus feet is called pada-sevanam. When one is particularly adherent to the process of pada-sevanam, this process gradually includes other processes No edit summary current
- 13:3813:38, 30 June 2025 diff hist +39,442 Arcanam. After pada-sevanam comes the process of arcanam, worship of the Deity. If one is interested in the process of arcanam, one must positively take shelter of a bona fide spiritual master and learn the process from him No edit summary current
- 13:1113:11, 30 June 2025 diff hist +19,747 This concentration (concentrating the mind on the form of Visnu) is called samadhi, and it is the real goal of yoga. Thus the astanga-yoga system aims at coming to the point of smaranam, or remembering the Supreme Lord No edit summary current
- 13:0013:00, 30 June 2025 diff hist +32,431 The next process (after hearing and chanting) is smaranam - always remembering Krsna. When one is perfect in chanting and hearing, he will always remember Krsna. In this third stage, he becomes the greatest yogi No edit summary current
- 12:5912:59, 30 June 2025 diff hist +5,909 The Mundaka Upanisad confirms that the Supreme Lord, in whom everything is resting, can be realized by those who engage constantly in thinking of Him. This constant thinking of Krsna is smaranam, one of the methods of devotional service. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 12:5312:53, 30 June 2025 diff hist +3,221 Meditation means remembering, smaranam. There are nine different kinds of devotional service, of which smaranam is one process; the yogi remembers the form of Visnu within his heart No edit summary current
- 08:2708:27, 30 June 2025 diff hist +18,289 Kunti is remembering how Krsna saved her and her sons one time after another. This is smaranam, thinking of Krsna. - Krsna, You are so kind to us that You saved us from many great dangers. Without You there was no hope No edit summary current
- 08:2608:26, 30 June 2025 diff hist +5,492 Devotional service are discharged in nine different ways: To hear about the Lord from proper source; & kirtanam, to glorify the Lord; smaranam, meditating upon the Lord; pada-sevanam, to engage oneself in the service; arcanam, worshiping No edit summary current
- 08:2508:25, 30 June 2025 diff hist +105 Brahmacarya is described in the sastras that smaranam kirtanam kelih preksanam guhyam asanam. Sex life, smaranam, thinking of sex life, that is against brahmacarya. Complete celibacy means one should not think of even sex life. Or talk of sex life No edit summary current
- 08:2508:25, 30 June 2025 diff hist +12,945 As soon as you remember Krsna, it is devotional service, smaranam. Where is the difficulty? Where is the difficulty for becoming Krsna conscious? No edit summary current
- 08:2108:21, 30 June 2025 diff hist +7,621 As soon as you become expert in hearing and chanting, then the next stage is smaranam. Smaranam, thinking of. Anything you speak or hear, later on you contemplate, you meditate, smaranam. So smaranam is the third stage No edit summary current
- 08:0508:05, 30 June 2025 diff hist +3,612 As stated in the Hari-bhakti-vilasa at the end of the Twentieth Vilasa (20.366, 379, 382): evam ekantinam prayah kirtanam smaranam prabhoh, kurvatam parama-pritya krtyam anyan na rocate No edit summary current
- 07:1607:16, 30 June 2025 diff hist +135 You do not forget this business of sravanam kirtanam visnoh (SB 7.5.23). Visnu is of the . . . we should always engage ourselves in hearing and talking. Talking is also chanting No edit summary current
- 07:1607:16, 30 June 2025 diff hist +5,687 Writing means sravanam kirtanam. Sravanam means hearing from the authority and again repeat it. This is our business, sravanam kirtanam visnoh, about Visnu, not for any politician or any other man No edit summary current
- 07:1407:14, 30 June 2025 diff hist +7,663 When there is question of hearing, there must be speaking or chanting. So we are speaking and chanting about Krsna. That is bhakti. Simply always be engaged in hearing and chanting about Krsna. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh No edit summary current
- 07:1407:14, 30 June 2025 diff hist +19,865 When there is hearing, there must also be speaking or chanting. So we speak and chant about Krsna (sravanam kirtanam visnoh). And as soon as one becomes expert in hearing and chanting, the next stage is smaranam, thinking or meditation No edit summary current
- 06:3806:38, 30 June 2025 diff hist +3,389 Whatever he (the disciple) possesses he offers to the spiritual master, the guru, who engages him in sravanam kirtanam visnoh - SB 7.5.23 No edit summary current
- 06:3006:30, 30 June 2025 diff hist +10,922 We should take this opportunity to become devotees of Krsna by following the processes of bhakti-yoga-sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam arcanam. We can take one or all of the nine processes of devotional service and make our lives successful No edit summary current
- 05:4605:46, 30 June 2025 diff hist +217 We are opening several centers of Krsna consciousness movement. Not only we are . . . here are many other centers also to hear about God. That is very essential. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam No edit summary current
- 05:4605:46, 30 June 2025 diff hist +4,233 To remain immune from the material qualities, one must engage himself in devotional service - sravanam kirtanam visnoh (SB 7.5.23). That is the perfection of life No edit summary current
- 05:4605:46, 30 June 2025 diff hist +3,331 Through the association of devotees, one can engage in the service of the Lord by hearing and chanting (sravanam kirtanam). Thus one can revive his dormant KC and, sticking to the cultivation of KC, return home, back to Godhead, even in this life No edit summary current
- 05:4505:45, 30 June 2025 diff hist +5,802 Those who are in Krsna consciousness, or who are practicing bhakti-yoga (sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam), can return to Godhead without even practicing the muktasana process No edit summary current
- 05:4305:43, 30 June 2025 diff hist +31 This sravanam kirtanam, especially, is very essential for understanding Krsna. Our this sravana-kirtana process, hearing and chanting, is helping us, recruiting members in Krsna consciousness all over the world. It is practical No edit summary current
- 04:5904:59, 30 June 2025 diff hist +9,118 This ninefold process (sravanam, kirtanam, etc.) is described in this verse (SB 4.21.34) as visuddha-vijnana-ghanah, or satisfying the Supreme Personality of Godhead directly by transcendental knowledge concentrated on the form of the Supreme Lord, Visnu No edit summary current
- 04:5804:58, 30 June 2025 diff hist +12,717 This is the business of a devotee - hearing and chanting about the Lord. This is sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam (SB 7.5.23). Now this sravanam kirtanam is taking place all over the world through the Krsna consciousness movement No edit summary current
- 04:4504:45, 30 June 2025 diff hist +4,759 The transcendental bliss derived from sravanam kirtanam by pure devotees cannot be compared to brahmananda, or the impersonal conception of transcendental bliss derived by merging into the Absolute No edit summary current
- 04:4404:44, 30 June 2025 diff hist +6,874 The sublime punya-karma is devotional service. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam. This is the topmost punya-karma No edit summary current
- 04:4304:43, 30 June 2025 diff hist +4,796 The spiritual activities of bhakti-marga-sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam (SB 7.5.23) - lead one to understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 04:2604:26, 30 June 2025 diff hist +5,355 The simple endeavor involved in the devotional service of sravanam kirtanam visnoh (SB 7.5.23), hearing and chanting the holy name of the Lord, can make one successful in pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead No edit summary current
- 04:2404:24, 30 June 2025 diff hist +14,018 The process of devotional service is a very happy one. Why? Devotional service consists of sravanam kirtanam visnoh. BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 04:2204:22, 30 June 2025 diff hist +572 The process introduced by Caitanya Mahaprabhu . . . It is not introduced by Caitanya Mahaprabhu; it is the sanction in the sastras: sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam (SB 7.5.23). This is standard method No edit summary current
- 03:4003:40, 30 June 2025 diff hist +26 Category:Remaining Attached No edit summary current
29 June 2025
- 12:5812:58, 29 June 2025 diff hist +58 The neophyte is advised to execute devotional service in the seven other fields (sravanam kirtanam, etc.). If one can successfully execute the preliminary seven items, he can in the future be situated on the platform of sakhyam atma-nivedanam No edit summary current
- 12:5512:55, 29 June 2025 diff hist +32,330 The more one chants the names of Krsna, the more he becomes attached. Thus service by sravanam and kirtanam, hearing and chanting about Krsna, is the beginning. The next process is smaranam - always remembering Krsna No edit summary current
- 12:4912:49, 29 June 2025 diff hist +70 The Lord is so friendly to the living entity that He remains within the heart so that one can always contact Him without difficulty. One can do this simply by devotional service (sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam. pada-sevanam) - SB 7.5.23 No edit summary current
- 12:3312:33, 29 June 2025 diff hist +3,814 The human form of life is meant for God realization, but this process, which begins with sravanam kirtanam visnoh - hearing and chanting of the holy name of the Lord - is disturbed as long as our senses are materially attracted No edit summary current
- 12:3212:32, 29 June 2025 diff hist +39,487 The chronological process is sravanam kirtanam visnoh. This same process of chronological understanding holds true in chanting and remembering No edit summary current
- 12:2912:29, 29 June 2025 diff hist +4,933 They (devotees) are concerned only with glorifying the Supreme Lord and His auspicious activities. Pure devotional service is sravanam kirtanam - SB 7.5.23 No edit summary current
- 12:1712:17, 29 June 2025 diff hist +3,440 There are nine items to be executed in devotional service. These are enumerated in the following verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam (SB 7.5.23): sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam arcanam vandanam dasyam sakhyam atma-nivedanam No edit summary current
- 12:0912:09, 29 June 2025 diff hist +19,142 There are nine different processes of devotional service, of which sravanam kirtanam (SB 7.5.23), hearing and chanting, are the most important No edit summary current
- 11:1311:13, 29 June 2025 diff hist +104 That is preaching. Our process is anusrnuyat. We hear from the superior and reproduce it. That is sravanam-kirtanam. Then perfect No edit summary current
- 11:0711:07, 29 June 2025 diff hist +101 That is devotion: sravanam kirtanam visnoh, smaranam, and remembering Him (Visnu). BG 1972 purports No edit summary current
- 10:5710:57, 29 June 2025 diff hist +221 Sudama was a friend of Krsna. So "I am the servant of Krsna's friend, Sudama dasa." So in this way our relationship with Krsna we always remember. That remembrance is also self-realization process. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam - SB 7.5.23 No edit summary current
- 10:5710:57, 29 June 2025 diff hist +51 Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s philosophy holds that devotional service to Krsna always exists in everyone’s heart. It simply has to be awakened by the process of sravanam kirtanam visnoh - SB 7.5.23 No edit summary current