Increasing our love of God
Expressions researched:
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|"increase love of God"
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|"increasing their love of Godhead"
|"increase of love of God"
|"Love of Godhead increases"
|"love of Godhead increases"
|"increases to the point of spontaneous love of Godhead"
|"increases up to love of Godhead"
|"increase their love of Godhead"
|"love of God increases"
|"increases further, it is called love of Godhead"
|"increase our affection for Krsna, love of Godhead"
|"increase your love of Godhead"
|"increase your dormant love of God"
|"increase our love of God"
|"increase your love of God"
|"increasing our love of Godhead"
|" increasing your love of God"
Srimad-Bhagavatam
SB Canto 3
SB Canto 5
Sri Caitanya-caritamrta
CC Madhya-lila
Other Books by Srila Prabhupada
Teachings of Lord Caitanya
Nectar of Devotion
Lectures
Bhagavad-gita As It Is Lectures
Similarly, religion means love of Godhead. Now, that love of Godhead you may learn under certain process. I may learn under certain process. Just like love between boys and girls may be different from India to America. In India there is still. No young man can mix freely with a young girl, but still, there is love. So process may be different, but we have to accept the basic principle. Basic principle is love of God. That is religion. Don't bother about the ritualistic process. Just try to see how much you are increasing your love of God. Then you are religious. That's all. That is bhāgavata-dharma. Śrīmad-Bhāgavata says, sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokṣaje: [SB 1.2.6] "That is first-class religion." What is that? "Where love of God is enthused." That is first-class religion. And if you follow ritualistic processes and your love of Godhead is gone to hell—your love of materialistic life or love of this world is increasing, love of sense gratification is increasing—that is not religion. That is not religion. Test of religion is how much you are increasing your love of God.
So here it is said, "Whenever and wherever there is decline in religious practice..." What is that religion practice? That religion practice is whenever there is decline of love of God. That's all. When people become lover of mammon, matter, that means decline of religion. And when people increase love of Godhead, that means real religion. So Kṛṣṇa comes, or Kṛṣṇa's servant or representative comes, to adjust things. When people forget love of Godhead, somebody, either Kṛṣṇa, God Himself or His representative comes to adjust things.Srimad-Bhagavatam Lectures
- ādau śraddhā tataḥ sādhu-saṅgo 'tha bhajana-kriyā
- tato 'nartha-nivṛttiḥ syāt tato niṣṭhā rucis tataḥ
- athāsaktis tato bhāvas tataḥ premābhyudañcati
- sādhakānām ayaṁ premṇaḥ prādurbhāve bhavet kramaḥ
- [Cc. Madhya 23.14-15]
Sri Isopanisad Lectures
Initiation Lectures
Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Last, "Ten: Attachment to material things while engaged in the practice of chanting."
Prabhupāda: Yes. Bhaktiḥ pareśānubhavo viraktir anyatra syāt [SB 11.2.42]. If by chanting, you see that your love for Kṛṣṇa is increasing and your love for matter and material enjoyment is decreasing, then you must know that you are progressing. If, by the result of chanting, you are increasing your material hankering, that is not progress. Then that is an offense. One should know that "Now I am chanting with offense. I have to rectify it." You have to test whether you are increasing your love of God, Kṛṣṇa. Then you should know that you are in progress. Two things cannot go. Just like hunger and eating cannot go together. If you are actually eating, then hunger must be subsided, if you are actually eating. Similarly, if you are actually making spiritual progress, then the result will be that your material hankering will decrease, not that you are being cured, and the temperature is increasing. No. If you are actually being cured the temperature must decrease. If you are in feverish condition, you are taking medicine, then the fever must decrease. This material hankering is a kind of disease. It is never satisfied. But people are hankering more, more, more, more, more... That means temperature is increasing. And when the temperature is 107 degrees, finish life. That's all.General Lectures
- dharmaḥ svanuṣṭhitaḥ puṁsāṁ
- viṣvaksena-kathāsu yaḥ
- notpādayed ratiṁ yadi
- śrama eva hi kevalam
- [SB 1.2.8]
Correspondence
1968 Correspondence
Page Title: | Increasing our love of God |
Compiler: | Siddha Rupa , Matea, Visnu Murti |
Created: | 03 of Jan, 2008 |
No. of Quotes: | 21 |
Totals by Section: | BG=0, SB=3, CC=7, OB=2, Lec=8, Con=0, Let=1 |