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  padmavati mataji January 26, 2013 at 1:48pm

  Pranam My Dearest Rajesh Sharma Prabhu. 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 seed of all existences, the Intelligence  of

  the intelligent,  the Prowess  of all powerful people, the Strength

  of  the strong devoid of  passion and ignorance.  In Krishna

  consciousness, hearing and chanting are emphasized very much.

  You have heard a lot about chanting. So why is hearing from

  authority stressed so much ? Through hearing, you begin bhakti.

  From being in  bondage, you become a seeker. Through hearing,

  you carry out your spiritual practices. Through hearing, the nine

  processes of bhakti are understood. Through hearing, bad habits

  and bad manners are changed. Through hearing, you rid yourself

  of bad company.  Through hearing, your thinking becomes clear.

  As you have to eat again and again in your daily life, so also you

  engage in hearing again and again. Through hearing, your intellect

  becomes firm. Through hearing, you will begin to reflect on your

  life, and you will attain inner contentment. Through hearing,

  detachment arises within you. Through hearing, attachment to

  sensual  pleasures are cut.  Through hearing,  pride is broken. 

  Through hearing, the sense of  "I" and  "mine" is broken. Through

  hearing,  your  doubts  are  cleared. Through  hearing,  your

  misunderstanding is dispelled. Through hearing, one gains conviction.

  Through hearing, your mind becomes controlled. Through hearing,

  you  become  aware  that  you are  more  than  this  material body.

  Through hearing, your understanding increases. Through hearing,

  your intelligence becomes developed. Through hearing, you become

  strong to turn away from worldly entanglements. Through hearing,

  your fascination with material objects are no more. Through hearing,

  you become strong in knowledge. Through hearing, you will be free

  from the miseries of material existence. Through hearing, there will

  arise in you a weariness with material pursuits. Though hearing,

  you become inspired and you become committed to regular spiritual

  practises. Through hearing, you attain peace. With love and best

  wishes, take care, bye.            
• Volunteer

  padmavati mataji January 26, 2013 at 1:48pm

  
• Volunteer

  padmavati mataji January 12, 2013 at 1:55pm

  Pranam My Dearest Rajesh Prabhu. Hare Krishna.

  May you receive transcendental blessings, grace

  and mercy from the God of Gods, the Father and

  Spiritual Master of this entire universe, and also

  its Supreme Controller, the Supreme Personality

  of Godhead, Lord Krishna. His devotee has strong

  and firm faith in the understanding that if one is

  engaged in Krishna consciousness in the service

  of Lord Krishna, then one is freed from all other

  obligations. A pure devotee of Lord Krishna does

  not have to perform any of the ritualistic functions

  enjoined in the Vedas, nor is a pure devotee

  required to worship any demigods. Being a devotee

  of Lord Krishna, one is understood to have 

  performed all kinds of Vedic rituals and all kinds

  of worship to the demigods. One does not develop

  devotional service for Lord Krishna by performing

  the Vedic ritualistic ceremonies or worshipping

  the demigods, but it should be understood that

  one who is engaged fully in the service of Lord

  Krishna has already fulfilled all Vedic injunctions.

  In the Bhagavad-Gita, Lord Krishna said that the

  worshippers of the demigods attain the abodes of

  the demigods. The system of worshipping demigods

  like Lord Brahma, Lord Shiva, Lord Ganesha, Goddess

  Durga is condemned in the Bhagavad-Gita, but not

  forbidden, and the less intelligent people worship the

  demigods for material benefit. It is stated in the Srimad

  Bhagavatam that a person of broader intelligence,

  whether he is full of all material desires, without any

  material desires, or desiring liberation, must by all

  means worship the Supreme Whole, the Personality of

  Godhead, Lord Krishna. With love and best wishes,

  take care, bye.    
• Volunteer

  padmavati mataji January 12, 2013 at 1:55pm

  
• Volunteer

  padmavati mataji January 10, 2013 at 12:40pm

  Pranam My Dearest Rajesh Sharma Prabhu. Hare Krishna.

  May you be blessed with the shelter of the God of Gods,

  Lord of Lords, Lord of the universe, the ultimate resting

  place, the Source of everything, the Supreme Personality

  of Godhead, Lord Krishna, Whose love is the perfection

  of real knowledge in understanding things as they are.

  Our minds can never be vacant. One`s mind is continually

  occupied with some kind of thought, and the subject matter

  of such thought cannot be outside the eight elements of

  the energies of Lord Krishna. One who knows this is actually

  a wise person and surrenders to Lord Krishna. The gopis are

  the best example of this perfect stage of knowledge. Their

  minds are always in Lord Krishna. The mind is nothing but

  the energy of Lord Krishna. Actually, any person who can

  think, feel and will cannot be separated from Lord Krishna.

  But the stage in which one can understand one`s eternal

  relationship with Lord Krishna is called Krishna consciousness.

  The diseased condition in which one cannot understand one`s

  relationship with Lord Krishna is the contaminated stage, or

  maya. With love and best wishes, take care, bye.
• Volunteer

  padmavati mataji January 5, 2013 at 3:21pm

  
• Volunteer

  padmavati mataji January 5, 2013 at 3:20pm

  Pranam My Dearest Rajesh Prabhu. Hare Krishna.

  May you receive transcendental blessings, grace and mercy

  from the God of Gods, the Father and Spiritual Master of this

  entire universe, and also its Supreme Controller, the Supreme

  Personality of Godhead, Lord Krishna, Who is the giver of life

  and the giver of death. At the time of death, our state of

  consciousness determines our next birth. Death destroys the body

  made of five gross elements, but the subtle body, consisting of

  mind, intelligence, and false ego , remains. As the air carries the

  scent of the place it blows over, so the soul carries a person`s

  subtle body of mind, intelligence and false ego, along with his

  state of consciousness, on to his next birth, and his body is

  determined accordingly. When a breeze blows over a garden,

  it carries the fragrance of flowers with it, but when it blows over a

  rubbish heap, the breeze is filled with stench. Similarly, the

  activities a person performs during his lifetime continuously

  influence his mentality, and at the time of death the cumulative

  effect of these activities determines his state of consciousness.

  Thus the subtle body formed during one`s lifetime is carried

  over to one`s next birth and manifests as the soul`s next gross

  body. Naturally therefore, the gross body reflects one`s state

  of consciousness. The face is the index of the mind. And the

  mind is the product of the activities of one`s present and previous

  lives. In other words, one`s mind, intelligence and false ego,

  which are influenced by one`s habits in this and previous births,

  form the matrix that determine the type of body and mentality

  one will have in the next life. Hence the connection between

  one`s previous, present, and future lives is the mind, intelligence

  and false ego. With love and best wishes, take care, bye.
• Volunteer

  padmavati mataji January 2, 2013 at 1:56pm

  
• Volunteer

  padmavati mataji January 2, 2013 at 1:55pm

  Pranam My Dearest Rajesh Sharma. Hare Krishna.

  May you receive transcendental blessings, grace and mercy

  from the God of Gods, the Greatest of all mystics, the basis

  of the Impersonal Brahman, which is immortal, imperishable

  and eternal, the ultimate Supreme Truth, the Source of

  innumerable Vaikuntha planets, the Original Bhagavan,

  the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Krishna, Whose

  body is free from the characteristics of material bodies. All

  material bodies go through six phases:- birth, growth,

  maturity, reproduction, decline and destruction. But Lord

  Krishna does not take material birth, since He is the original

  reality. We take our material birth within a particular material

  atmosphere, in material bodies that are mixtures of various

  material elements. Since Lord Krishna existed long before the

  creation of any material atmosphere or element, there is no

  question of material birth for His transcendental body. He is

  full and complete. When one`s material body becomes mature,

  one can no longer enjoy as in youth, but Lord Krishna`s body

  never reaches so-called middle age, since His body is always

  full of spiritual youthful bliss. Lord Krishna`s transcendental

  body is free from the transformations of material bodies. The

  Lord does, however, create innumerable worlds and expand

  Himself as innumerable living entities. But the Lord`s so-called

  reproduction is completely spiritual and does not take place

  at a certain phase of bodily existence, rather it constitutes the

  Lord`s eternal preference to expand His spiritual bliss and 

  glories. With love and best wishes, take care, bye.
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  Hari December 26, 2012 at 9:56pm

  Haribol!