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14:3514:35, 30 June 2025 diff hist +54‎ Those who are engaged in the service of this temple, they are discharging devotional service, pada-sevanam ‎No edit summary current
14:3414:34, 30 June 2025 diff hist +93‎ Pada-sevanam means to rise early in the morning, open the door of temple and wipe it out, all the dust, and give some light. The pada-sevanam ‎No edit summary current
13:5613:56, 30 June 2025 diff hist +54‎ Pada-sevanam includes: seeing the form of the Lord, touching the form of the Lord, circumambulating the form or temple of the Lord, visiting such places as Jagannatha Puri, Dvaraka and Mathura to see the Lord's form, and bathing in the Ganges or Yamuna ‎No edit summary current
13:5613:56, 30 June 2025 diff hist −52‎ Pada-sevanam: Laksmi, goddess of fortune, simply engaged herself in massaging the lotus feet of Visnu. Pada-sevanam. Arcanam: Prthu Maharaja, he engaged himself in the arcana. Vandanam. Dasyam: Hanuman. Akrura, Akrura, he simply offered prayers to Krsna ‎No edit summary current
13:5613:56, 30 June 2025 diff hist +54‎ Pada-sevanam. According to one's taste and strength, hearing, chanting and remembrance may be followed by pada-sevanam. One obtains the perfection of remembering when one constantly thinks of the lotus feet of the Lord ‎No edit summary current
13:4013:40, 30 June 2025 diff hist −1‎ Bathing in the Ganges and serving a pure Vaisnava are also known as tadiya-upasanam. This is also pada-sevanam. The word tadiya means "in relationship with the Lord ‎No edit summary current
13:3913:39, 30 June 2025 diff hist +54‎ Being intensely attached to thinking of the Lord's lotus feet is called pada-sevanam. When one is particularly adherent to the process of pada-sevanam, this process gradually includes other processes ‎No edit summary current
13:3913:39, 30 June 2025 diff hist +74‎ Bathing in the Ganges and serving a pure Vaisnava are also known as tadiya-upasanam. This is also pada-sevanam. The word tadiya means "in relationship with the Lord ‎No edit summary
13:3813:38, 30 June 2025 diff hist +69‎ Arcanam. After pada-sevanam comes the process of arcanam, worship of the Deity. If one is interested in the process of arcanam, one must positively take shelter of a bona fide spiritual master and learn the process from him ‎No edit summary current
13:1113:11, 30 June 2025 diff hist +28‎ This concentration (concentrating the mind on the form of Visnu) is called samadhi, and it is the real goal of yoga. Thus the astanga-yoga system aims at coming to the point of smaranam, or remembering the Supreme Lord ‎No edit summary current
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

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