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admin2024-05-16T10:50:22+00:00December 2nd, 2023|

Austerity at the physical level is necessary and useful, beneficial, but most benefit is derived when we are austere in our speech.

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admin2025-12-01T11:09:40+00:00January 8th, 2023|

Austerities performed for sense gratification provide Sukha that is impermanent pleasure. But austerities performed for self-realization provide eternal happiness.

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admin2025-12-01T11:17:19+00:00November 4th, 2014|

Those, who are getting together and doing “varta”, discussions or maybe studying on their own remembering the pastimes of the Lord, that person is not losing time. He is on time, he is with the time. He is with the Lord. The Lord is time. Those who do not make the best use of the time, they are left behind.

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admin2025-12-01T11:12:04+00:00July 15th, 2014|

Stay close to the Lord. That is the meaning of upavasa. Remember this throughout your life.

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admin2025-12-01T11:20:27+00:00February 4th, 2013|

There are varieties of austerities to be performed by body, some by tongue, some by mind- austerities one must perform.

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admin2025-12-01T12:04:08+00:00January 22nd, 2013|

With austerity comes purification.

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admin2025-12-01T12:02:05+00:00January 16th, 2013|

One of the big austerities in this world these days is to stay together- to cooperate.

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admin2025-12-10T12:35:25+00:00September 12th, 2012|

By mere refraining from food, upavasa is not done. Upavasa means close to the Lord. Vasa or Nivasa means place of stay, place to reside- so Nivasa with Krsna is upavasa. Stay close to the Lord. That is the meaning of upavasa.