Lecture on Jagannatha Snana Leela by Bhakti Rasamrita Swami on 15 June 2011
(His Holiness Bhakti Rasamrita Swami completed his B.E. from M.S University Baroda, MBA from Bombay University & worked for some time in a multinational Bank.)
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TEXT 31
nayam loko 'sty ayajnasya
kuto 'nyah kuru-sattama
SYNONYMS
na--never; ayam--this; lokah--planet; asti--there is; ayajnasya--of the foolish; kutah--where is; anyah--the other; kuru-sat-tama--O best amongst the Kurus.
TRANSLATION
O best of the Kuru dynasty, without sacrifice one can never live happily on this planet or in this life: what then of the next?
PURPORT
Whatever form of material existence one is in, one is invariably ignorant of his real situation. In other words, existence in the ma
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
If you want to get out of this entanglement, there is complete arrangement, facility, complete facility. "Those who are engaged in devotional service," Kṛṣṇa says, yoga-ksemam vahamy aham BG 10.10 , "I take personal charge for their maintenance." This is complete arrangement.
So therefore there is complete facility for the small complete units. We are complete units, small. God is great and we are small. So small... Just
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Mike Robinson: How do you know that the animal has a soul?
Srila Prabhupada: You can know, also. Here is the scientific proof: the animal eats, you eat; the animal sleeps, you sleep; the animal has sex, you have sex; the animal also defends, you also defend. Then what is the difference between you and the animal? How can you say that you have a soul but the animal doesn't?
Mike Robinson: I can see that completely. But the
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada..
It doesn't matter what kind of action you are engaged in. You can be united with God through any action provided that, performing it, you give up all desire for its result.You don't want anything of God but still you love Him. That is pure bhakti, love of God with no motive behind it. Prahlada had it. He sought neither kingdom nor riches; he sought Hari alone
A man may be united with God either through action or through
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada..
The human form of life is called arthada because the body can very nicely help the embodied soul to achieve the highest perfection. Prahlada Maharaja said that even though temporary, the body can give us the highest perfectional achievement. In the process of evolution from the lower to the higher grade of living, the human form of life is a great boon.
But maya is so strong that in spite of achieving this great boon of
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada..
Hare Krishna everyone,
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Here's some of Manidhara's seminar:
When I saw Prabhupada my dreams were over to enjoy this world. It's time to get real. So I joined the movement and within a couple of days I was on the street distributing books.
In Kali yuga there are no sruti dharas, whatever they hear it goes in one ear and out the other. Therefore we need books, and we have the best books these books can purify anyone who takes to reading them.
Sankirtan helps us come to the point of why we came to the Krsna consciousness
Lecture on Panihati by Bhakti Charu Swami on 03 June 2011 at California
(Bhakti Charu Swami continued to translate all of Srila Prabhupada’s works, more than fifty volumes, into Bengali. Bhakti Charu Swami is an initiating spiritual master in ISKCON and has disciples all over the world.)
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Lecture on Successful Balanced and Healthy Life by Bhakti Vijnana Goswami
(Bhakti Vijnana Goswami was born in Tashkent, former Soviet Union. He took to spiritual life in 1980, during a difficult time during the communist era in the former Soviet Union, when the National Security forces were harassing any type of spiritual practitioner.)
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Lecture on Divorce is Kaliyuga Phenomena by Bhakti Visrambha Madhava Swami on 22 Jan 2012 at Kovaca
(His Holiness Bhakti Visrambha Madhava Swami took his first Initiation from Srila Prabhupada on 9th July, 1974 in San Francisco, by the recommendation of Srila Tamala Krishna Goswami and Vishnjana Swami.)
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Lecture on Spiritualism in Modern Life by Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 03 Oct 2006 at Punjab
(From 1977 to 1979 His Holiness was based in India, mostly traveling in West Bengal preaching Krishna consciousness and distributing Srila Prabhupada's books.)
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By HH Bir Krishna Goswami’s
Our Need for Autonomy
Autonomy is an interesting concept. It is defined as: “independence or freedom, as of the will or one’s actions.”
It is a basic need of the soul to be autonomous, which basically means the soul needs to be free to express itself.
Outside of Krishna consciousness autonomy is not possible for the soul. Why is this? Krishna das Kaviraja Goswami explains this quite nicely in the Caitanya Caritamrta:
“Because a devotee of Lord Krsna is desireles
Seminar on "Archa Vigraha ki Seva" by Ruparaghunath Prabhu on 16 June 2013 at Bhaktivedanta Hospital, Mumbai (Hindi)
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The IPL Fever
IPL has been the latest fever
Keeping everyone busier than ever
Man and woman, young and old
All were game for this pot of gold.
TV channels were busy with TRP ratings
Teams were busy anticipating and speculating
The game was spinning real big money
That was sweeter than the sweetest honey.
Children skipped their playtime
Housewives shortened their kitchen time
Men were constantly meditating on the game
Hoping their team would clinch the game.
And look what was the end result of this game?
So it is the duty of Caitanya Mahaprabhu's representative to take instruction from Caitanya Mahaprabhu and spread it. That is here said, yogya-patra hao tumi bhakti pravartaite: "You are the fit person." Then Caitanya Mahaprabhu gives you instruction. If you are unfit, then there will be no instruction. And what is the fitness? Fitness is he must be very eager to serve Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Just like Sanatana Gosvami approached: "My Lord, You have released me from this material occupation. Now or
