Showing posts with label Slokas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Slokas. Show all posts

Friday, October 31, 2008


äyur harati vai pumsäm
udyann astam ca yann asau
tasyarte yat-ksano nita
uttama-sloka-värtayä


Both by rising and by setting, the sun decreases the duration of life of everyone, except one who utilizes the time by discussing topics of the all-good Personality of Godhead.


(SB 2.3.17)

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Dasanudaso bhavitasmi bhuyah?!

aham hare tava padaika-mula
dasanudaso bhavitasmi bhuyah
manah smaretsu-pater gunams te
grnita vak karma karotu kayah

O my Lord, O Supreme Personality of Godhead, will I again be able to be a servant of Your eternal servants who find shelter only at Your lotus feet? O Lord of my life, may I again become their servant so that my mind may always think of Your transcendental attributes, my words always glorify those attributes, and my body always engage in the loving service of Your Lordship?

Sunday, June 1, 2008

The occupational duty..

dharmah svanusthitah pumsām
visvaksena-kathāsu yah
notpādayed yadi ratim
śrama eva hi kevalam
The occupational activities a man performs according to his own position are only so much useless labor if they do not provoke attraction for the message of the Personality of Godhead.

Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Promise for protection

nehābhikrama-nāśo 'sti
pratyavāyo na vidyate
sv-alpam apy asya dharmasya
trāyate mahato bhayāt

In this endeavor there is no loss or diminution, and a little advancement on this path can protect one from the most dangerous type of fear

Monday, April 7, 2008

The Supreme Occupation

sa vai pumsām paro dharmo
yato bhaktir adhoksaje
ahaituky apratihatā
yayātmā suprasīdati

The supreme occupation [dharma] for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendent Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted to completely satisfy the self.
SB 1.2.6

vāsudeve bhagavati
bhakti-yogah prayojitah
janayaty āśu vairāgyam
jñānam ca yad ahaitukam

By rendering devotional service unto the Personality of Godhead, Śrī Krsna, one immediately acquires causeless knowledge and detachment from the world.
SB 1.2.7

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Before reciting this Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam

nārāyanam namaskrtya
naram caiva narottamam
devīm sarasvatīm vyāsam
tato jayam udīrayet

Before reciting this Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, which is the very means of conquest, one should offer respectful obeisances unto the Personality of Godhead, Nārāyana, unto Nara-nārāyana Rsi, the supermost human being, unto mother Sarasvatī, the goddess of learning, and unto Śrīla Vyāsadeva, the author.
SB 1.2.4

Cleanse the desire for material enjoyment


śrnvatām sva-kathāh krsnah
punya-śravana-kīrtanah
hrdy antah stho hy abhadrāni
vidhunoti suhrt satām

Śrī Krsna, the Personality of Godhead, who is the Paramātmā [Supersoul] in everyone's heart and the benefactor of the truthful devotee, cleanses desire for material enjoyment from the heart of the devotee who has developed the urge to hear His messages, which are in themselves virtuous when properly heard and chanted.
SB 1.2.17

Feared by Fear Personified

āpannah samsrtim ghorām
yan-nāma vivaśo grnan
tatah sadyo vimucyeta
yad bibheti svayam bhayam

Living beings who are entangled in the complicated meshes of birth and death can be freed immediately by even unconsciously chanting the holy name of Krsna, which is feared by fear personified.
SB 1.1.14

Sunday, September 30, 2007


नमः पंकज नाभाया
नमः पंकज मालिने
नमः पंकज नेत्राया
नमस्ते पन्कजान्घ्राये


namah pankaja-nabhaya
namah pankaja-maline
namah pankaja-netraya
namas te pankajanghraye

My respectful obeisances are unto You, O Lord, whose abdomen is marked with a depression like a lotus flower, who are always decorated with garlands of lotus flowers, whose glance is as cool as the lotus and whose feet at engraved with lotuses.



Saturday, September 29, 2007

King Kulasekhar says..



krsna tvadiya-pada-pankaja-panjarantam
adyaiva me visatu manasa-raja-hamsa
prana-prayana samaye kapha vata pittaih
kanthavarodhana-vidhau smaranam kutas te


My Lord Krsna, I pray that the swan of my mind may immediately sink down to the stems of the lotus feet of Your Lordship and be locked up in their network; otherwise at the time of my final breath, when my throat is choked up with cough, how will it be possible to think of You?

Bowing down to the Original Personality


kunti uvaca
namasye purusam tvadyam
isvaram prakrteh param
alaksyam sarva-bhutanam
antar bahir avasthitam

Srimati Kunti said:
O Krsna, I offer my obeisances unto You because You are the original personality and are unaffected by the qualities of the material world. You are existing both within and without everyhting, yet You are invisible to all.