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13:0013:00, 30 June 2025 diff hist +28‎ 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 +28‎ 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 +28‎ 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 +31‎ 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 +88‎ 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 +31‎ 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 +79‎ 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 +105‎ 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 +150‎ 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 +147‎ 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 +168‎ 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 +51‎ 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 +172‎ 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
06:2106:21, 30 June 2025 diff hist +62‎ We associate with the three qualities of material nature, our position in this material world is full of dangers, but when we engage in the devotional service of God by the process of sravanam & kirtanam, we immediately become vimukta-sanga, or liberated ‎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 +51‎ 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 +104‎ 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 +198‎ 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 +62‎ 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 +221‎ 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 −21‎ 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 +319‎ 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 +154‎ 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 +126‎ 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 +51‎ 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

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 +60‎ 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 +107‎ 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 +107‎ 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 +34‎ 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 +541‎ 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 +62‎ 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
11:1411:14, 29 June 2025 diff hist +107‎ There are many rascals, they say you can chant any name. Why? Why the sastra says sravanam kirtanam visnoh, chanting and hearing about Visnu, not for any other god? ‎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
10:5710:57, 29 June 2025 diff hist +168‎ Srimad-Bhagavatam was recited by Sukadeva Gosvami and heard by Pariksit Maharaja, and we in turn have to hear about Krsna and then chant about Him (sravanam kirtanam visnoh) - SB 7.5.23 ‎No edit summary current
10:1310:13, 29 June 2025 diff hist +270‎ Sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam (SB 7.5.23). The word smaranam means "remembering." If we chant and hear, then remembrance will automatically come, and then we shall engage in worshiping Krsna's lotus feet - sevanam ‎No edit summary current
10:1210:12, 29 June 2025 diff hist +51‎ Sravanam kirtanam visnoh (SB 7.5.23). One must simply hear about and describe Lord Visnu and His various incarnations. This narration concerning Prahlada Maharaja and Lord Nrsimhadeva, therefore, has properly described spiritual, transcendental subjects ‎No edit summary current
10:1210:12, 29 June 2025 diff hist +126‎ Sravanam kirtanam visnoh. This is knife. If you want to get rid of this entanglement of material existence, one body after another, then this is the only instrument by which you can unknot the knot and come out of the entanglement ‎No edit summary current
09:3009:30, 29 June 2025 diff hist +126‎ Sravanam kirtanam visnoh, clearly state. But these bogus, so-called swamis and yogis, they cheat people, bluff people by their own concoction. That is the difficulty ‎No edit summary current
09:2809:28, 29 June 2025 diff hist +278‎ Sravanam is very essential. Sravanam kirtanam visnoh smaranam pada-sevanam (SB 7.5.23). So in all our centers, this process should be followed ‎No edit summary current
07:1407:14, 29 June 2025 diff hist +31‎ Sravanam - hearing. Somebody is speaking, and somebody is hearing. So both speaking and hearing, both of them are in the process of devotional service. But that talking or speaking and hearing, not about newspaper, Nixon news - Visnu ‎No edit summary current

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