Category:Always Engaging in God's Service
Theme Analysis
The concept of liberation in Kṛṣṇa consciousness is entirely active. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that a person who is always engaging in God's service with their body, mind, and words is to be considered completely liberated right now, even while living in the material world. This state of constant engagement is the true definition of bhakti-yoga. Because the soul is eternally active, attempting to artificially stop its activities through silent meditation is incredibly difficult and often leads to falldown. The practical and joyful alternative is to redirect that natural activity toward satisfying the Supreme Lord.
A major theme in this category is the practical methodology of sense control. Śrīla Prabhupāda emphasizes that we must keep our senses, particularly the tongue and the mind, busy twenty-four hours a day. By strictly following a daily program—chanting sixteen rounds, worshiping the Deity, tasting only kṛṣṇa-prasādam, and associating with devotees—Māyā has no opportunity to enter. This constant engagement protects the devotee from sinful activities. Furthermore, Śrīla Prabhupāda highlights the supreme examples of such dedication. Exalted personalities like Mother Lakṣmījī, the Pāṇḍavas, and Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī (who minimized his sleep to less than two hours a day) demonstrate that a pure devotee is never tired of executing devotional service. Because they do not desire personal gain or material liberation, their hearts become the perfect, permanent home for the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
- Active Liberation: A person who is constantly planning and executing service for Kṛṣṇa is already liberated (jīvan-mukta), guaranteeing their return back to Godhead.
- Practical Sense Control: The only effective way to control the senses is to keep them fully occupied in spiritual activities, leaving no room for material engagement or sinful infection.
- The Supreme Examples: Great devotees, from the eternal goddess of fortune to the six Gosvāmīs, prove that pure love manifests as continuous, untiring service to the Lord.
- Beyond Material Desires: A devotee who is always engaged in God's service loses all attraction for material opulence, economic development, and even the desire for impersonal liberation.
- Explore the synthesized essence of this category in this Vanipedia article: Always Engaging in God's Service - The Practical Path to Liberation.
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Pages in category "Always Engaging in God's Service"
The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total.
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- A KC person being always situated in the transcendental loving service of God, automatically becomes the controller of the senses. His senses, being always engaged in the service of Krsna, have no chance of becoming otherwise engaged. BG 1972 purports
- A person who is always engaged in the service of the Lord or is always thinking and planning how to serve the Lord is to be considered completely liberated at present and in the future. His going home, back to Godhead, is guaranteed. BG 1972 purports
- A pure devotee always engages in the service of the Lord without demanding anything. The Lord is present everywhere and knows the necessities of His devotees; consequently there is no need to disturb Him by asking Him for material benefits
- A pure devotee cannot remain a moment without being absorbed in thoughts of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This constant thinking of the Lord is described in Bhagavad-gita as satata-yuktanam, always engaging in the Lord's service
- A pure devotee does not think in terms of his personal gain or loss because he is fully surrendered to the Lord. He is concerned only with the service of the Lord and always engages in that service, and for this reason his heart is the Lord's home
- A pure Vaisnava has unflinching faith in the Lord, and he does not deviate at all. He is always engaged in perfect Deity worship
- Anything about Krsna, that is sadhu. One who is questioning, he's also sadhu. One who is answering, he's also sadhu. And what to speak of one who is always engaged in the service of the Lord. He must be a sadhu
- As a king, Prthu Maharaja was ordered by Lord Visnu to keep himself always aloof from the activities of the bodily situation and to engage always in the service of the Lord and thus keep himself in the liberated stage
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- Devotional service is actual liberation. When one is attracted by the beauty of the Supreme Personality of Godhead and his mind is always engaged at the Lord's lotus feet, he is no longer interested in subjects that do not help him in self-realization
- Devotional service to the Lord is very simple: one should always engage in the service of the Lord, chant always the transcendental vibration Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare. BG 1972 purports
- Devotional service to the Lord is very simple: one should always engage in the service of the Lord, observe the fasting days commemorating the appearances and disappearances of the Lord and His devotees. BG 1972 purports
- Devotional service to the Lord is very simple: one should always engage in the service of the Lord, read of the different activities of the Lord, His reciprocation of love with His devotees. BG 1972 purports
- Devotional service to the Lord is very simple: one should always engage in the service of the Lord, should eat the remnants of foodstuffs offered to the Deity. BG 1972 purports
- Devotional service to the Lord is very simple: one should always engage in the service of the Lord, smell the flowers offered to the lotus feet of the Lord, see the places where the Lord had His transcendental pastimes. BG 1972 purports
- Do not forget our most important business which is to develop pure Krsna Consciousness by following our strict regulations and Vaisnava standards, and always be engaged in service
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- He (Sikhi Mahiti) and his brother and sister always engaged in rendering service to the Lord (Caitnaya). Murari Mahiti, the younger brother of Sikhi Mahiti, is described in the Madhya-lila, Chapter Ten, verse 44 - of Caitnaya-caritamrta
- He (Srila Raghunatha dasa) has enjoined that we should not perform religious or irreligious activities as prescribed in the Vedas. The best course is to engage always in the service of Krsna & Radharani. That is the perfection of everything in this life
- His (a Krsna conscious person's) ideal in this (sleeping keeping to a minimum) respect is Srila Rupa Gosvami, who was always engaged in the service of Krsna and who could not sleep more than two hours a day, and sometimes not even that. BG 1972 purports
- How to become careful (to not infect with sinful activities)? If you always engage yourself in Krsna's service. Therefore the Deity worship in the temple is there to keep us always engaged. The class, reading, hearing, kirtana - in so many ways
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- If even the enemies of the Lord achieve salvation by constantly thinking about the Lord, what is to be said of pure devotees who always engage in the Lord's service and who think of nothing but the Lord in every activity
- If you are always engaged seriously in Krsna's service, Krsna will give you all opportunity for advancing in Krsna consciousness or blissful spiritual life
- In the Hayasirsiya-sri-narayana-vyuha-stava, it is stated: My dear Lord, I do not pray for any of these (economic development, sense gratification or liberation). I simply pray that I may always be engaged as a servant of Your lotus feet
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- Laksmiji was present near Narayana, engaged in the service of the Lord, and still, without contact with Laksmiji, Narayana begot Brahma. That is the omnipotency of the Lord
- Lord Indra says to Lord Krsna, "Pure devotees who are always engaged in Lord Narayana’s service are promoted to the Vaikunthalokas. However, my Lord Krsna, Your Goloka Vrndavana-dhama is very difficult to attain"
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- O Lord, for those who always engage in Your service, which is more exalted than liberation, all material opulence is insignificant. They do not even care for liberation, not to speak of the benefits of kama, artha and dharma
- O Lord, we can understand that Hiranyakasipu was the same Jaya who engaged in Your service but was cursed by brahmanas and who thus received the body of a demon. We understand that his having now been killed is Your special mercy upon him
- Once engaged in the supreme governmental service of the Lord, no living being wishes to be relieved from the engagement
- One should always be absorbed in thought of Krsna, one should become His devotee, one should always engage in His service and worship Him as the supreme great, and one should always offer Him obeisances
- One should always engage in the service of the Lord in the association of the Lord's devotees
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- Sadhu who is always engaged in the service of the Lord, he is sadhu, bhakta
- She (Mother Laksmiji) is always engaged in the service of the Lord, and there is hardly any opportunity for any other devotee to intrude upon His daily activities
- Sikhi Mahiti always engaged in serving the Lord (Caitanya) in his mind. One night, while he was rendering such service, he fell asleep, and while he was asleep his brother and sister came to awaken him. At that time he was in full ecstasy
- Srila Rupa Gosvami says that if a person is always engaged in the service of the Lord with his body, words and mind, he is to be considered liberated, although living in the material world
- Such (a yogi in samadhi) devotee of the Lord engages himself twenty-four hours daily in the service of the Lord so that his whole attention is engrossed with the thoughts of the Lord in ninefold devotional service
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- The best thing is that fix up your mind in Krsna, in Krsna consciousness. Then you will be happy, the mind always engaged in Krsna's business, planning how to satisfy Krsna. That you are. . . require. That is intelligence
- The brahmana is always engaged in the worship of Lord Visnu. Therefore the brahmanas are eligible to accept all kinds of charity. But if the brahmanas receive excess charity, they are to distribute it for the service of Visnu
- The function of the tongue is to taste and to vibrate. Therefore, by systematic regulation, the tongue should always be engaged in tasting the remnants of foodstuffs offered to Krsna and chanting Hare Krsna. BG 1972 purports
- The presence of Krsna in all aspects of the creation is perceived by the mahatmas, the great souls, who are always engaged in the worship of Krsna
- The pure devotee is always engaged in increasing the transcendental happiness of the Lord
- The specific qualification of all the Pandava brothers was that they always engaged their senses in the Lord's service
- The test of advanced spiritual consciousness is that one becomes fearless. He envies no one, and he is always engaged in the Lord’s service
- They (sages) are sincere friends to all living entities, and at the risk of great personal inconvenience they are always engaged in the service of the Lord for the good of all people
- They (Sri Nityananda, Sri Gadadhara and Sri Advaita and many devotees like Srivasa) are always engaged in chanting the name of the Lord and are always describing Lord Krsna. Therefore this is the best among all the places in the universe
- This Deity worship and chanting of Hare Krsna maha-mantra . . . be always engaged in this business. It is a very important business
- This Krsna consciousness movement is therefore the greatest boon to humanity because it keeps one always engaged in Krsna's service
- This perfectional stage (purified senses are always engaged in the transcendental service of the Lord) of sense engagement is called bhakti-yoga
- To be always engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord, or to remain in Krsna consciousness, is to be factually liberated from the mode of passion and all material contamination. BG 1972 purports
- Try to engage yourself always in Krsna's service, and maya will not be able to touch you. Sa vai manah krsna-padaravindayoh
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- When one actually becomes advanced through such engagements, then he may not work physically, but he is always engaged within by constantly thinking of Krsna. In the preliminary stage, one is always advised to engage one's senses in the service of Krsna
- When one's mind is always engaged at the Lord's lotus feet he loses all attraction for material activities