Thought for the day – Inner Beauty

“Wow…that’s beautiful!” Is either a cry or a thought when faced with the mountain sunset, a spectacular view or a well formed man or woman. But where is the beauty, where is the appreciation of beauty, where is the ability to discern beauty? It is within our own consciousness. For the essence of who andContinue reading “Thought for the day – Inner Beauty”

Teaching for the day – Detachment

SB 3.32.5 — Those who are intelligent and are of purified consciousness are completely satisfied in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Freed from the modes of material nature, they do not act for sense gratification; rather, since they are situated in their own occupational duties, they act as one is expected to act. SB 3.32.6 — By executing one’s occupational duties, actingContinue reading “Teaching for the day – Detachment”

Teaching for the day – the body

SB 3.31.29 — With the growth of the body, the living entity, in order to vanquish his soul, increases his false prestige and anger and thereby creates enmity towards similarly lusty people. SB 3.31.30 — By such ignorance the living entity accepts the material body, which is made of five elements, as himself. With this misunderstanding, he accepts nonpermanentContinue reading “Teaching for the day – the body”

Teaching for the day – Hell

SB 3.30.29 — Lord Kapila continued: My dear mother, it is sometimes said that we experience hell or heaven on this planet, for hellish punishments are sometimes visible on this planet also. SB 3.30.30 — After leaving this body, the man who maintained himself and his family members by sinful activities suffers a hellish life, and his relatives sufferContinue reading “Teaching for the day – Hell”