Nectar of Devotion ACBSP - Kartik 1972 Vrndavan

KI 25_24_Cows—Oceans Of Affection

KI 25_25_Pretending to be a Dog

KI 25_27_Where are You, Radharani

Cc Madhya 20.393-406
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Whoever hears or recites these descriptions of the expansions of Kṛṣṇa’s body is certainly a very fortunate man. Although this is very difficult to understand, one can nonetheless acquire some knowledge about the different features of Kṛṣṇa’s body.
(Cc Madhya 20.405)

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#68.1 Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu Instructs Sanatana Gosvami-7 | Govardhana Readings |m14 Oct 2025

Cc Madhya 21.1-149
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Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura gives the following summary of the twenty-first chapter. In this chapter Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu fully describes Kṛṣṇaloka, the spiritual sky, the Causal Ocean and the material world, which consists of innumerable universes. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then describes Lord Brahmā’s interview with Kṛṣṇa at Dvārakā and the Lord’s curbing the pride of Brahmā. There is also a description of one of Kṛṣṇa’s pastimes with Brahmā. In this chapter the author of the Caitanya-caritāmṛta has presented some nice poems about the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa and Kṛṣṇa’s superexcellent beauty. Throughout the rest of the chapter, our intimate relationship (sambandha) with Kṛṣṇa is described.
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#68.2 | The Opulence and Sweetness of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa | Govardhan Readings | 14 Oct 2025

The topic today is 10 Principles to Develop Determination. Let's think first about the word determination. It has the word terminus in it, and that means, essentially, that one can finish what one starts. If you have ever started to read a book and then found that you only got to the second chapter, or if you had an idea to write in your notebook every day for the year, but you found in your drawer five to seven notebooks that were a quarter filled because you started and then you stopped, then maybe you felt frustrated and thought, 'Why couldn't I finish?'

What to speak of finishing devotional practices, many people take vows and then later on, they give them up. It's practically commonplace. In fact, those who do follow vows stand out because people say, 'How is it they're still doing it?' And Prabhupāda told us, once, "Don't be amazed at who stops following their vows, be amazed at who does, as it's far more extraordinary." Those who do have the determination to continue and at least put together one lifetime in full dedication to Kṛṣṇa are notable.

So, let's talk about some of the principles of determination today. My intention by mentioning these principles is that you can take them with you. Many of them are very practical, and you can enact them yourself, especially if you make a note or listen to this later and go through the ten and find out how you can execute each one of them. I guarantee you'll find an increase in the determination in your life, and maybe other benefits will come from this as well.

As a preface to expressing how to develop determination, I'll start with the precursors—how to prepare the field to enact these ten that I'm going to mention today. And first is...

00:09 – Introduction and importance of determination

05:57– Foundations for determination: making decisions, commitment, and emotional   motivation.

31:59– Principle 1: Work from Your Natural StrengthStart with your innate strengths and work within your capacity.

41:51 – Principle 2: Choose Deliberate Practice Over Luck

44:40– Principle 3:  Identify and Avoid Distractions, Be Intentional

50:36–  Principle 4: Narrow Your Choices

54:30 – Principle 5: Write Your Own Constitution

58:53 – Principle 6: Strengthen the Bonds That Free You

1:03:01 – Principle 7: Create a Personal Values List (truth, service, honesty, etc.).

1:08:00 – Principle 8: Realign Actions Regularly

1:09:30 – Principle 9: Ask: What’s the Best Investment of My Attention Right Now?

1:13:09–  Principle 10: Write a Priorities List

1:17:36 –  Applying the Principles: Tips & Motivation

1:21:23 –  Q&A and Reflections

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Ten Principles to Develop Determination | HG Vaisesika Dasa | GEV | 30 Oct 2025

Cc Madhya 22.1-50
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In the twenty-second chapter, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu describes the process of devotional service. In the beginning He describes the truth about the living entity and the superexcellence of devotional service. He then describes the uselessness of mental speculation and mystic yoga. In all circumstances the living entity is recommended to accept the path of devotional service as personally explained by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. The speculative method of the so-called jñānīs is considered a waste of time, and that is proved in this chapter. An intelligent person should abandon the processes of karma-kāṇḍa, jñāna-kāṇḍa and mystic yoga. One should give up all these useless processes and take seriously to the path of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. In this way one’s life will be successful. If one takes to Kṛṣṇa consciousness fully, even though he may sometimes be agitated due to having previously practiced mental speculation and yogic mysticism, he will be saved by Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself. The fact is that devotional service is bestowed by the blessings of a pure devotee (sa mahātmā su-durlabhaḥ). A pure devotee is the supreme transcendentalist, and one has to receive his mercy for one’s dormant Kṛṣṇa consciousness to be awakened. One has to associate with pure devotees. If one has firm faith in the words of a great soul, pure devotional service will awaken.
In this chapter Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu differentiates between a pure devotee and others. He also describes the characteristics of a pure devotee. A devotee’s most formidable enemy is association with women in an enjoying spirit. Association with nondevotees is also condemned because it is also a formidable enemy on the path of devotional service. One has to fully surrender unto the lotus feet of Kṛṣṇa and give up attraction for women and nondevotees.
The six symptoms of fully surrendered souls are also described in this chapter. Devotional service has been divided into two categories — regulative devotional service and spontaneous love. There are sixty-four items listed in regulative devotional service, and out of these sixty-four the last five are considered very important. By practicing even one of the nine processes of devotional service, one can become successful. Speculative knowledge and mystic yoga can never help one in devotional service. Pious activity, nonviolence, sense control and regulation are not separate from devotional service in its pure form. If one engages in devotional service, all good qualities follow. One does not have to cultivate them separately. Spontaneous devotional service arises when one follows a pure devotee who is awakened to spontaneous love of God. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu describes the symptoms of devotees who are already situated in spontaneous love of God. He also describes the devotees who are trying to follow in the footsteps of the pure devotees.
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# 69 | The Process of Devotional Service -1 | Govardhana Readings | 15 Oct 2025

Cc Madhya 22.51-98 
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That's my point: everybody can rise. That's what Lord Caitanya is saying. And that's what Vyāsadeva says in the Vedānta-sūtra. He said the śāstras are all saying you should rise to the highest level, therefore you can, because if you couldn't rise to the highest level, then the śāstra would be illogical to say, "Rise to the highest platform."

There's also the way of defining what a pure devotee is. In Bhagavad-gītā, Kṛṣṇa says (BG 9.30):
api cet su-duracaro
bhajate mam ananya-bhak
sadhur eva sa mantavyaḥ 
samyag vyavasito hi saḥ

Which means that even if somebody at this point is encumbered by some worldliness, because their determination and intention is fixed properly, then Kṛṣṇa says emphatically, you have to consider them sādhus, and that's a big name: they're called a Sādhu.

What's more, you find the nuances and definitions in the Nectar of Instruction, verse number five, in the purport. Prabhupāda describes kaniṣṭha, madhyama, and uttama more in the context of, let's say, our ISKCON society, and then he describes a neophyte as somebody who just joined and is just making their way, getting chastised by everybody for sitting in the wrong direction. Then there's the madhyama-adhikārī.

But then he gives the uttama-adhikārī: he says somebody who's been practicing for a long time and has shown they're steady in the process, and they preach, and they know śāstra. Now, those are verifiable. You can see if somebody is doing that because they either show up or they don't. And then, do they know śāstra? Well, I mean, there are different levels of knowing śāstra. But if they know the basic śāstra enough to establish that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead and some other things, that's pretty good. And then, that they preach.

If you try to take other kinds of definitions of uttama-adhikārī which are bandied about a lot, like, "How do you judge somebody's faith?" and "Okay, they have to be seeing Kṛṣṇa directly." We'll just ask them, "Are you seeing Kṛṣṇa directly?" Even the Six Gosvāmīs say, "No, we don't see Kṛṣṇa, we're looking for Him." And if somebody does say they saw Kṛṣṇa last night and were dancing with Him, how are you going to prove otherwise? Say, "Yeah, I dance with Him every night." And then say, "Okay, well, prove me wrong that I wasn't dancing with Him." So that's not the means by which we judge whether somebody is a kaniṣṭha, madhyama, or uttama; it has to be verifiable signs.

Madhvācārya says, when you're discerning an advanced devotee, you can't judge by the ecstatic emotions, because some pure devotees hide their emotions. That's in that verse: evaṁ-vrataḥ sva-priya-nāma-kīrtyā. He said there are only two ways by which you can judge the pure devotee, and that's: one is by their steadiness, and the other is by what they say. Do they speak about Kṛṣṇa and is their speech merciful?.
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#70 | The Process of Devotional Service -1 | Govardhana Readings | 15 Oct 2025

It's a secret. In the Kali-yuga: Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa have combined into one form, and it is by worshiping that one form, which is Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu—who is the combination of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa—that Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura makes an explanation about, he says, " (ese) bṛndābane rādhā-śyāmer pa’be daraśan  gaura-kṛpā ha’le he."

He says, "Oh this is the most wonderful thing you are ever going to hear! This is the biggest news!" Turn off all other apps; they're not important anymore. There's only one thing that's important, and that is Rādhā and Krṣṇa have combined into one form, as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. And if you come and bow down to the lotus feet of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu and take his process of chanting the Hare Krṣṇa mahāmantra and spread it all over the world, then 'se se Vṛndāvane Rādhā-Śyāme pābe darśan.' You can enter into the pastimes of Rādhā and Krṣṇa, the love affair. The only thing that's worth thinking about: the love affair, the ādī-rasa that's going on in the spiritual world. And you'll be carried to the spiritual world by diving into the ocean of saṅkīrtan of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. You'll come up on the beach, and you'll drag yourself up on the beach after being washed away by the saṅkīrtan movement. You'll look up, and you'll see Rādhā and Krṣṇa and their divine pastimes by the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu!

Therefore, Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākur gave us this very special song to sing, to remember that the Kali-yuga, it's the worst age.

prāyeṇālpāyuṣaḥ sabhya 
kalāv asmin yuge janāḥ 
mandāḥ sumanda-matayo 
manda-bhāgyā hy upadrutāḥ (ŚB 1.1.10)

This means, according to sages at Naimiṣāraṇya, in this Iron Age of Kali, men have but short lives.Tell me if you agree! They are quarrelsome, lazy, misguided, unlucky, and always disturbed. However, if one dives into the ocean of saṅkīrtan and then swims for a while, you'll run into a beach, and when you crawl up on the beach, you'll look, and you'll see the pastimes of Rādhā and Krṣṇa by the mercy of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu.
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Get Carried to The Spiritual World by Diving in The Ocean of Sankirtana | KIR | 24 Oct 2025

Cc Madhya 22.99-133
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Question: In regards to assimilating sinful reactions of disciples, what's your experience?

Excerpt from the answer: 
My experience is very practical, and that is that when you enter into any relationship, there's going to be a deep concern for the other person. For instance, I'll give you an example: Rādhanāth Swāmī, he has a few disciples, and recently, when I was speaking to him, he had been consoling a lot of people: before they were dying, while they were dying, then the families after, and practically just one after another.

And he said, "Yeah, that's a thing when you have disciples, because some of them die," and, I mean, they all do eventually, but maybe not before you, and then you're part of that. It's heart-wrenching when somebody you love passes away. And in the meantime, before that comes, when you're connected deeply to people who you care about in a spiritual relationship, they go through changes. You know, they make vows, and then they say, "Oh, I can't follow the vows now." Or they say, "You know, this happened in my life, and what do I do about that? Such and such hit me," and that keeps you up all night. I mean, I don't know about dreams, but definitely people calling late in the night with a text saying, "What do I do now? I got locked out of the house," or something like that. I mean, that's real-life experience of what happens. So, you know, it's on a very practical level.

When we love people, we have a deep relationship where we're part of their lives, and they're part of our lives, and that's something, you know, you want to take on if you love somebody and you want to help them. But you have to go through it with them. It's not compartmentalized. It's part of your life. They're part of your life, and you're part of theirs. And that's an all-encompassing experience. That's my experience of it.
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#71 | The Process of Devotional Service -3 | Govardhana Readings | 15 Oct 2025

Part 1 of Srila Prabhupada's series of classes on the Nectar of Devotion given in Vrindavan, India.

A transcript of the class can be read here: https://goo.gl/dBqCUC.

1972 Original Audio

Bhakti Means Devotional Service (Nectar of Devotion Part 1) - October 16, 1972 - Vrindavan

Part 2 of Srila Prabhupada's series of classes on the Nectar of Devotion given in Vrindavan, India.

A transcript of the class can be read here: https://goo.gl/xu1ufL.

You Just Become My Devotee (Nectar of Devotion Part 2) - October 17, 1972 - Vrindavan

Part 3 of Srila Prabhupada's series of classes on the Nectar of Devotion given in Vrindavan, India.

A transcript of the class can be read here: https://goo.gl/rD2LT9.

Nectar of Devotion Part 3 - October 18, 1972 - Vrindavan

Part 4 of Srila Prabhupada's series of classes on the Nectar of Devotion given in Vrindavan, India.

A transcript of the class can be read here: https://goo.gl/jBe84Z.

Nectar of Devotion Part 4 - October 20, 1972 - Vrindavan

Part 5 of Srila Prabhupada's series of classes on the Nectar of Devotion given in Vrindavan, India.

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Nectar of Devotion Part 5 - October 21, 1972 - Vrindavan

Part 8 of Srila Prabhupada's series of classes on the Nectar of Devotion given in Vrindavan, India.

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Nectar of Devotion Part 8 - October 26, 1972 - Vrindavan

His Divine Grace, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977) is widely regarded as the worlds pre-eminent exponent of the teachings and practices of bhakti-yoga to the Western world. He is the Founder-Acharya (spiritual master) of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a world-wide movement dedicated to the philosophy and practice of Krishna Consciousness.

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Nectar of Devotion Part 8 - October 26, 1972 - Vrindavan

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