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SIMPLE LESSONS ON BHAGAVAD-GITA. 1.

Posted by padmavati mataji on May 2, 2013 at 12:42pm

Pranam Dearest Devotee. Hare Krishna.
May you be blessed with full surrender at the Lotus
Feet of the God of Gods, the Supreme Absolute Truth, the
Original Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of Godhead,
Lord Krishna, Who is the Source of all spiritual and material
worlds. Everything emanates from Him. The wise who
perfectly know this engage in His devotional service and
worship Him with all their hearts. The thoughts of His pure
devotees dwell in Him, their lives are fully devoted to His
service, and they derive great satisfaction and bliss from
always enlightening one another and conversing about Him.
To those who are constantly devoted to serving Him with love,
He gives the understanding by which they can come to Him.
To show them special mercy, Lord Krishna, dwelling in their
hearts, destroy with the shining lamp of knowledge the
darkness of ignorance. Those who fix their mind on His
personal form and are always engaged in worshipping Him
with great and transcendental faith are considered by Him to
be most perfect. Those who worship Him, giving up all their
activities unto Him, and being devoted to Him without
deviation, engaged in devotional service and always meditates
on Him, having fixed their minds on Him, will be delivered
from the ocean of birth and death by Lord Krishna. With love
and best wishes, take care, bye. Radhe Radhe.

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    padmavati mataji May 6, 2013 at 12:33pm

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    padmavati mataji May 6, 2013 at 12:32pm
    Pranam Dearest Devotee. Hare Krishna. 
    May you be blessed with the shelter of the God of Gods,
    the Absolute Truth and the Primeval cause of all the causes
    of the creation, sustenance and destruction of the manifested
    universes, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Krishna,
    Who is the ultimate Goal, the Sustainer, the Supreme Master,
    the Supreme Witness, the Supreme abode, the Supreme Refuge,
    the most dear Friend. I offer my respectful obeisances unto Him.
    Austerity of the body consists in worship Lord Krishna, the
    brahmanas, the spiritual master and superiors like the father
    and mother, and  in cleanliness, simplicity,  celibacy  and
    non-violence. Austerity of speech consists in speaking words
    that are truthful, pleasing, beneficial, and not agitating to others,
    and also in regularly reciting Vedic literature. And satisfaction,
    simplicity, gravity, self-control and purification of one`s existence
    are  the  austerities of the  mind.  This  three-fold  austerity,
    performed  with  transcendental faith by men not expecting
    material benefits but engaged only for the sake of Lord Krishna,
    is  called  austerity  in  goodness.  Penance performed  out of
    foolishness, with self-torture or to destroy or injure others, is
    said to be in the mode of ignorance. With love and best wishes,
    take care, bye.  Radhe Radhe.
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    padmavati mataji May 6, 2013 at 12:31pm
    Pranam Dearest Devotee. Hare Krishna.
    May you be blessed with full surrender at the Lotus Feet
    of the All-pervading Personality of Godhead, Lord Krishna,
    Who is the Absolute Truth and the primeval cause of all
    the causes of the creation, sustenance and destruction of
    the manifested universes. He is outside and inside of all
    living beings, of the moving and the non-moving.
    Everywhere are His Hands and legs, His Eyes, Heads and
    Faces, and He has Ears everywhere. I offer my respectful
    obeisances  unto  Him.  One  can  understand  Lord
    Krishna as He is, as the Supreme Personality of
    Godhead, only by devotional service. And when one is
    in full consciousness of Lord Krishna by such devotion,
    one can enter the Kingdom of Lord Krishna. Though
    engaged in all kinds of activities, the pure devotees of
    Lord Krishna, under His protection, reaches the eternal
    and imperishable abode by His grace. In all activities
    just depend on Lord Krishna and work always under
    His protection. In such devotional service, be fully
    conscious of Him. If you become conscious of Lord
    Krishna, you will pass over all the obstacles of
    conditioned life by His grace. If however, you do not
    work in such consciousness but act through false ego,
    not hearing Him, you will be lost. Always think of Lord
    Krishna, become His devotee, worship Him and offer
    your homage to Him. Thus you will come to Him
    without fail. Lord Krishna promises you this because
    He is your very dear friend. With love and best wishes,
    take care, bye.  Radhe Radhe.
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    padmavati mataji May 6, 2013 at 12:30pm
    Pranam Dearest Devotee. Hare Krishna.
    May you receive transcendental blessings,
    grace and mercy from the God of Gods, the
    God of love, the Lord of Lords, the Lord of
    immeasurable power, the Original Spiritual
    Master  of  all the  paramahamsas,  the
    Master of  the self-realized, the Ultimate
    resting place and Source of everything, the
    Supreme  Personality of  Godhead, Lord
    Krishna. I offer my respectful obeisances
     unto Him. The living entities in this conditioned
    world are the eternal fragmental parts of Lord
    Krishna. Due to conditioned life, they are
    struggling very hard with the six senses, which
    includes the mind. The living entity in the
    material world carries his different conceptions
    of life from one body to another, as the air
    carries aromas. Thus he takes one type of body
    and again quits it to take another. The
    living entity, thus taking another gross body,
    obtains a certain type of ear, eye, tongue, nose
    and sense of touch, which are grouped about
    the mind. He thus enjoys a particular set of sense
    objects. With love and best wishes, take care, bye. 
    Radhe Radhe.  
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    padmavati mataji May 6, 2013 at 12:30pm

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    padmavati mataji May 6, 2013 at 12:29pm
    Pranam Dearest Devotee. Hare Krishna.
    May you be blessed with full surrender at the Lotus Feet
    of the All-pervading Personality of Godhead, Lord Krishna,
    Who is the Absolute Truth and the primeval cause of all
    the causes of the creation, sustenance and destruction of
    the manifested universes. He is outside and inside of all
    living beings, of the moving and the non-moving.
    Everywhere are His Hands and legs, His Eyes, Heads and
    Faces, and He has Ears everywhere. I offer my respectful
    obeisances  unto  Him.  One  can  understand  Lord
    Krishna as He is, as the Supreme Personality of
    Godhead, only by devotional service. And when one is
    in full consciousness of Lord Krishna by such devotion,
    one can enter the Kingdom of Lord Krishna. Though
    engaged in all kinds of activities, the pure devotees of
    Lord Krishna, under His protection, reaches the eternal
    and imperishable abode by His grace. In all activities
    just depend on Lord Krishna and work always under
    His protection. In such devotional service, be fully
    conscious of Him. If you become conscious of Lord
    Krishna, you will pass over all the obstacles of
    conditioned life by His grace. If however, you do not
    work in such consciousness but act through false ego,
    not hearing Him, you will be lost. Always think of Lord
    Krishna, become His devotee, worship Him and offer
    your homage to Him. Thus you will come to Him
    without fail. Lord Krishna promises you this because
    He is your very dear friend. With love and best wishes,
    take care, bye.  Radhe Radhe.
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    padmavati mataji May 6, 2013 at 12:28pm
    Pranam Dearest Devotee. Hare Krishna.
    May you receive transcendental blessings, grace
    and mercy from the  God of Gods,  the  Supreme
    Personality  of Godhead, Lord Krishna, Who  is
    Omniscient,  Insurmountable  and Self-manifest.
    Lord Krishna personally bestows upon all eternal
    entities their particular natures through the agency
    of  His  Inconceivable  potency.  He is  the Fire  of
    digestion in the bodies of all living entities. He is
    the Source of light to all luminous objects. He is
    the Compiler of the Vedas and the Knower of the
    Vedas. One  whose happiness  is within,  who  is
    active  and  rejoices  within,  and whose  aim  is
    inward is actually the perfect mystic. He is  liberated
    in the Supreme, and ultimately he attains the Supreme.
    Those who are beyond the dualities that arise from
    doubts, whose  minds are  engages within, who  are
    always busy working for the welfare of all living beings,
    and who are  free from all sins  achieve liberation  in
    the Supreme. Those who are free from anger and all
    material desires, who are  self-realized, self-disciplined
    and constantly endeavouring for perfection, are assured
    of liberation  in the Supreme  in the very  near future.
    With love and best wishes, take care, bye. Radhe Radhe.
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    padmavati mataji May 6, 2013 at 12:27pm
    Pranam Dearest Devotee. Hare Krishna.
    May you be blessed with the shelter of the God of Gods,
    the Absolute Truth and the Primeval cause of all the
    causes of the creation, sustenance and destruction of
    the manifested universes, the Supreme Personality of
    Godhead, Lord Krishna, Who is the Original fragrance
    of the earth, the Heat in fire, the Life of all that lives,
    the Penances of all ascetics. He is knowledge, He is
    the Object of knowledge, and He is Goal of knowledge. 
    A person who  has  given  up  all  desires  for  sense
    gratification,  who  lives free  from desires, who has
    given up all sense of proprietorship and is devoid of
    false ego, he alone can attain real peace. Being freed
    from attachment, fear and anger, being fully absorbed
    in Lord Krishna and taking refuge in Him, many persons
    in the past became purified by knowledge of Him, and
    thus they all attained transcendental love for Him. Even
    if you are considered to be the most sinful of all sinners,
    when  you are  situated in  the boat of  transcendental
    knowledge you will be able to cross over the ocean of
    miseries. One who performs his duty without attachment,
    surrendering the results unto Lord Krishna, is unaffected
    by sinful action, as a lotus leaf is untouched by water.
    With love and best wishes, take care, bye. Radhe Radhe.
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    padmavati mataji May 6, 2013 at 12:27pm
    Pranam Dearest Devotee. Hare Krishna.
    May you be blessed with full surrender at the Lotus
    Feet of the God of Gods, the Supreme Absolute Truth,
    the Original Bhagavan, the Supreme Personality of
    Godhead, Lord Krishna, Who is the Original fragrance
    of the earth, the Heat in fire, the Life of all that lives,
    the Penances of all ascetics. One who is not disturbed
    even amidst the threefold miseries or elated when
    there is happiness, and who is free from attachment,
    fear and anger is called a sage of steady mind. In the
    material world, one who is unaffected by whatever
    good or evil he may obtain, neither praising it nor
    despising it, is firmly fixed in perfect knowledge.
    One who is able to withdraw his senses from sense
    objects, as the tortoise draws its limbs within the
    shell, is firmly fixed in perfect consciousness. One
    who restrains his senses, keeping them under full
    control, and fixes his consciousness on Lord Krishna,
    is known as a person of steady intelligence. A
    person who is free from all attachment and aversion
    and able to control his senses through regulative
    principles of freedom can obtain the complete
    mercy of Lord Krishna. A person who is not
    disturbed by the incessant flow of desires that enter
    like rivers into the ocean, which is ever being filled
    but is always still, can alone achieve peace, and
    not the person who strives to satisfy such desires.
    With love and best wishes, take care, bye. Radhe Radhe.
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