20 points📜about purosattama masa

How to follow the Purushottama Vrata? (Note : health should not be compromised for austerity)

1) Chant Hare Krsna Mahamantra and meditate on Krsna’s forms, qualities and pastimes. Daily
chant extra rounds: 20, 24, 32 or 64 roundss

2) Keep celibacy for one month. (Sleep on the floor – optional).

3) Bathe daily before sunrise (best in a holy place, or at least 3 days in a month).

4) Eat on leaf plates sitting on the floor (optional).

5) No cooking in oil or rubbing of oil on your body.(optional)

6) No eating or rubbing of mustard oil.(optional)

7) Diets: eat satvik food only. Best to eat once(optional) a day after sunset or noon.

 No cutting of hair or nails (optional).

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9) Take a vow to remain peaceful and truthful throughout the month.

10) Be careful not to blaspheme any devotees, brahmanas, saints, cows, sastras or people who
follow this vrata.

11) Daily offer dandavats to Bhagavan Sri Krsna and the Vaishnava.

12) Daily offer Aratika and perform Parikrama around Tulasi Devi.

13) Daily perform parikrama around the temple (4 times).

14) Daily offer ghee lamp to Radha-Krsna Deities or picture.

15) Daily offer Radha-Krsna Deities or picture roses, lotus flowers and Tulasi leaves or as many
as you can.

16) Try your best to please Radha and Krsna by performing devotional austerities according to
your abilities.

17) Daily read Srimad Bhagavatam, especially Lord Brahma’s prayers to Krishna (Canto 10,
Chapter 14), and Bhagavad-gita (Chapter 15)

18) Give charity as per your capacity to temples, brahmans and go sevak(cow care taker).

19) Recommended to daily chant Sri Jagannathastakam, Sri Cauragraganya-purusastakam, Sri

Nanda-Nandanastakam, Jaya Radha Madhava, and other Radha-Krsna bhajanas and prayers.

20) Bhaktivinoda Thakura: Perform the Nirapeksa Vrata, which means 30 days of concentrated,
one-pointed worship and service to Radha-Govinda by hearing, chanting, remembering Their
divine names, forms, qualities, pastimes. All day and night, hear about Bhagavan Sri Krsna,
chant the Hare Krsna Mahamantra, take only mahaprasada.
What is the Hedonism ?

1. Advancement of civilization means, the so-called civilization, material civ..., means how much
you are able to gratify your senses.

2. That is civilization. How much you are given facilities to gratify your senses.

3. This is the modern idea, hedonism. More eat, more drink-eat, drink, be merry, and enjoy.
Sense gratification

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Śrīla Prabhupāda
Lecture on SB 1.5.33 -- Vrndavana, August 14, 1974: