The Complete Science of Bhakti Yoga #4

Posted by Vrindavana Das LNS on February 16, 2013 at 2:37pm

When one has got that vision, transcendental vision, samah sarvesu bhutesu mad-bhakti, then the devotional service begins. Not that with blunt eyes and senses one can serve God, devotional service.

atah sri-krsna-namadi
na bhaved grahyam indriyaih
sevonmukhe hi jihvadau
svayam eva sphuraty adah
[Cc. Madhya 17.136]

This is the process. So when our senses are engaged in the service of the Lord, sarvopadhi-vinirmuktam tat-paratvena nirmalam [Cc. Madhya 19.170], when our senses become purified, hrsikena

The Complete Science of Bhakti Yoga #3

Posted by Vrindavana Das LNS on February 16, 2013 at 2:33pm

So by this devotional process, adau sraddha tatah sadhu-sangah, that love... Sadhakanam ayam premnah pradurbhave bhavet kramah [Cc. Madhya 23.14-15].

There are stages, or steps, one after another, if we practice. Sadhu-sange, sato vrtteh sadbhir bhaktih prasidhyati. Srila Rupa Gosvami says that potent love for Krsna can be reinstated again, invoked again, by the prescribed method. Sadhu-sange sato vrtteh sadbhir bhaktih prasidhyati. Utsahan dhairyat niscayat. When you get little taste of love of

The Complete Science of Bhakti Yoga #2

Posted by Vrindavana Das LNS on February 16, 2013 at 2:27pm

So these six Gosvamis, they were not ordinary men, but still, for Caitanya Mahaprabhu's service, they left everything. Tyaktva turnam asesa-mandala-pati-srenim sada tucchavat bhutva dina-ganesakau karunaya kaupina-kantasritau. So krsna-bhakti, devotional service of Krsna, is so exalted that a devotee can kick out even mukti. They do not want. A devotee doesn't want. Just like Caitanya Mahaprabhu says,

na dhanam na janam na sundarim
kavitam va jagadisa kamaye
mama janmani janmanisvare
bhavatad bhakti

The Complete Science of Bhakti Yoga #1

Posted by Vrindavana Das LNS on February 16, 2013 at 2:24pm

Pradyumna: (reading) "A living entity is offered a particular type of body as a result of his action in the present body. These activities are taken into account by superior authority known as daiva, or the authority of God. This daiva is explained in the Bhagavad-gita as the prime cause of everything, and in the Srimad-Bhagavatam it is stated that a man takes his next body by daiva-netrena, which means by the supervision of the authority of the Supreme. In an ordinary sense, daiva is explained

Our Superior Engagement

Posted by Vrindavana Das LNS on February 16, 2013 at 2:20pm

Prabhupada:

sa vai pumsam paro dharmo
yato bhaktir adhoksaje
ahaituky apratihata
yayatma suprasidati
[SB 1.2.6]

This is a verse from Srimad-Bhagavatam, First Canto, Chapter Two, text number six. There was a big meeting of great sages, saintly persons, about 2,500 years ago at Naimisaranya. Naimisaranya still... Those who have gone to India, they know. Near Lucknow there is a place. It is called now, railway station, Nimsar. So there is Naimisaranya. So there in the meeting the questions were put by t

Krishna takes only bright side

Posted by Vrindavana Das LNS on February 16, 2013 at 12:32pm

Pradyumna: (leads chanting, etc.)

sa vai pumsam paro dharmo
yato bhaktir adhoksaje
ahaituky apratihata
yayatma suprasidati
[SB 1.2.6]

Prabhupada: Yes, go on, you have no book? (another devotee leads chanting)

Pradyumna: (devotees chant word meanings responsively:) sah -- that; vai -- certainly; pumsam -- for mankind; parah -- sublime; dharmah -- occupation; yatah -- by which; bhaktih -- devotional service; adhoksaje -- unto the Transcendence; ahaituki -- causeless; apratihata -- unbroken; yaya -- by w

East and West should co-operate

Posted by Vrindavana Das LNS on February 16, 2013 at 12:30pm

Pradyumna: (leads chanting, etc.)

sa vai pumsam paro dharmo
yato bhaktir adhoksaje
ahaituky apratihata
yayatma suprasidati
[SB 1.2.6]

Translation (not on tape) "The supreme occupation [dharma] for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendent Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted to completely satisfy the self."

Prabhupada: This is a speech of Suta Gosvami in Naimisaranya. Formerly, great sages used to assemble in the fore

Bhakti is not a business

Posted by Vrindavana Das LNS on February 16, 2013 at 12:27pm

Pradyumna: Translation: "The supreme occupation, or dharma, for all humanity is that by which men can attain to loving devotional service unto the transcendental Lord. Such devotional service must be unmotivated and uninterrupted in order to completely satisfy the self."

Prabhupada:

sa vai pumsam paro dharmo
yato bhaktir adhoksaje
ahaituky apratihata
yayatma suprasidati
[SB 1.2.6]

Atma suprasidati. Atma sometimes means this body, atma means the mind, and atma means the soul also. So generally, people

The Religion Above All Cheating

Posted by Vrindavana Das LNS on February 16, 2013 at 12:24pm

Prabhupada:

munayah sadhu prsto 'ham
bhavadbhir loka-mangalam
yat-krtah krsna-samprasno
yenatma suprasidati
[SB 1.2.5]

By the sages in Naimisaranya, the question was put before Suta Gosvami that "After Krsna's departure from this world to His own abode, where the responsibility was given for religious propaganda?" So it was krsna-samprasno, question about Krsna. And the question was that religious principle, where did it rest? Because religion means the law of God. Dharmam tu saksad bhagavat-pranitam

The Ultimate Gain in Life

Posted by Vrindavana Das LNS on February 16, 2013 at 12:22pm

Prabhupada:

sa vai pumsam paro dharmo
yato bhaktir adhoksaje
ahaituky apratihata
yayatma suprasidati
[SB 1.2.6]

Yayatma suprasidati. Everyone is seeking after happiness. Atyantika-duhkha-nivrttih. The struggle for existence is to minimize miserable condition of life and increase enjoyment. We the living entities, we are part and parcel of God. Mamaivamso jiva-bhutah [Bg. 15.7]. Jiva-bhuta, jivas, all jivas, living entities, they are part and parcel of Krsna, or God. When we speak of "Krsna," means Go

Dogs' philosophy revealed

Posted by Vrindavana Das LNS on February 16, 2013 at 12:20pm

Nitai: Translation: "Before reciting this Srimad-Bhagavatam, which is our very means of conquest, I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Personality of Godhead Narayana, unto Nara-narayana Rsi, the supermost human being, unto mother Sarasvati, the goddess of learning, and unto Srila Vyasadeva, the author."

Prabhupada: This is the parampara system. As you get knowledge, step by step... Krsna is the original spiritual master, and then from Krsna, Lord Brahma learned the Vedic knowledge. Tene bra

Darkness of Disobedience

Posted by Vrindavana Das LNS on February 16, 2013 at 12:17pm

Nitai: (leads chanting, etc.)

yah svanubhavam akhila-sruti-saram ekam
adhyatma-dipam atititirsatam tamo 'ndham
samsarinam karunayaha purana-guhyam
tam vyasa-sunum upayami gurum muninam
[SB 1.2.3]

Translation: "Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto him, Suka, the spiritual master of all sages, the son of Vyasadeva, who, out of his causeless compassion for those gross materialists who struggle to cross over the darkest regions of material existence, spoke this most confidential supplement to the c

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Why do bad things happen to good people like me!

Posted by Purushottam Nitai Das on February 16, 2013 at 10:20am

Almost all the time we complain. Sometimes we may be vocal about it but most of the time we silently complain. Why did it happen to me? Why always bad things happen to good people like me? We always consider ourselves a victim of an unjust system. Occasionally we console ourselves philosophically that may be its happening because of my some previous bad karma which I might have done unknowingly!

Yes, in our life’s journey we face adversities which either we may foresee or it may fall on us like

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Thought Of The Day

Posted by Shalabh Gupta on February 16, 2013 at 9:51am

So our first business is that if we want to stop this repetition of birth and death -- and sometimes we are very happy, sometimes we are very unhappy, sometimes we are in fearfulness, sometimes in so many other calamities -- then our first business is that we shall stop all these material desires. Anyabhilasita-sunyam [Brs. 1.1.11]. To stop means... The desire cannot be stopped. Because we are living entities, life, we are not dead stone, that desires will be stopped. No. Desires are to be purif

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Purify Your Existence

Posted by vinay kalson on February 16, 2013 at 12:12am

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Lord Krsna provides everything we need to bring the spiritual world into our lives.

A lecture given in Mumbai, India, on September 25, 1973

This lecture was given on the anniversary of the appearance of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, whose disappearance, or passing, we honor this July.

Srila Prabhupada

FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu started the sankirtana movement, or the

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Activity in Liberation

Posted by vinay kalson on February 16, 2013 at 12:08am

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Action takes on its true purpose for a person with realized knowledge.

A lecture given in London on August 24, 1971

yah svanubhavam akhila-sruti-saram ekam
adhyatma-dipam atititirsatam tamo 'naham
samsarinam karunayaha purana-guhyam
tam vyasa-sunum upayami gurum muninam

"Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto him [Suka], the spiritual master of all sages, the son of Vy

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The Taste of Krsna

Posted by vinay kalson on February 16, 2013 at 12:06am

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Srila Prabhupada

The Supreme Lord reveals Himself to us through His countless energies.

A lecture given in Mumbai, India, on February 23, 1974

raso 'ham apsu kaunteya
prabhasmi sasi-suryayoh
pranavah sarva-vedesu
sabdah khe paurusam nrsu

"O son of Kunti, Arjuna, I am the taste of water, the light of the sun and moon, the syllable om in the Vedic mantras. I am the sound in ether and ability

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Meditation and the present age

Posted by vinay kalson on February 15, 2013 at 11:42pm

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

The Bhagavad-Gita is an authoritative statement given to Arjuna by Lord Krishna. It must be borne in the mind that the Bhagavad-Gita was spoken on a battlefield. Before the battle, Arjuna declined to fight with his own kinsmen. After the Bhagavad-Gita was spoken, he changed his mind and fought. There was not much time for this discussion -- one hour at the most -- for the opposing armies were already lined up, and eager

Supreme Destination is for All

Posted by Vrindavana Das LNS on February 15, 2013 at 10:26pm

Nitai: (leads chanting, etc.)

suta uvaca
yam pravrajantam anupetam apeta-krtyam
dvaipayano viraha-katara ajuhava
putreti tan-mayataya taravo 'bhinedus
tam sarva-bhuta-hrdayam munim anato 'smi
[SB 1.2.2]

"Srila Suta Gosvami said: Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto that great sage, Sukadeva Gosvami, who can enter the hearts of all. When he went away to take up the renounced order of life, sannyasa, leaving aside home without undergoing the sacred thread ceremony, his father, Vyasadeva, cried out

the Skin disease....

Posted by viknesh dev on February 15, 2013 at 10:25pm

Is the material body, simply a bag of stool, urine, blood, mucus, and other horrible things?

Once upon a time a prince met a very beautiful young girl. Immediately upon seeing her beauty, the prince decided to marry the beautiful girl. But she didn’t want to marry him, as she knew that the prince was only interested in her material senses, her beauty, and not her real self.

The girl said to the prince “If I remove my beauty, will you still marry me?” The prince said “Yes, I am ready to marry you u

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The Complete Science of Bhakti Yoga #4

The Complete Science of Bhakti Yoga #3

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The Complete Science of Bhakti Yoga #1

Our Superior Engagement

Krishna takes only bright side

East and West should co-operate

Bhakti is not a business

The Religion Above All Cheating

The Ultimate Gain in Life

Dogs' philosophy revealed

Darkness of Disobedience

Why do bad things happen to good people like me!

Thought Of The Day

Purify Your Existence

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Activity in Liberation

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The Taste of Krsna

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Meditation and the present age

Supreme Destination is for All

the Skin disease....

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