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How to Handle Criticism ?

(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)

Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Matajis,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudev.

Recently I was going through the diary which contained my conversations with our beloved Gurudev, HDG Mahavishnu Gosvami Maharaj. I seek the permission of the devotees to allow me to share the contents

One should try hard to constantly chant the holy names of Krishna clearly and lovingly rather than trying to increase the number of rounds.

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur

in ‘Harinama Cintamani’ as quoted in ‘Page No.109 of ‘Sri Bhaktivinoda Vani Vaibhava’.

 When faults in others misguide and delude you,  have patience, introspect, find faults in yourself. Know that others cannot harm you unless you harm yourself.

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura, discourse in Dhaka, Bangladesh, 1935.

So actually, Krsna has no birth. Krsna doesn't require. He can appear in any family. He... Just like Krsna appeared, matsya-avatara, in the family of fish. Kesava dhrta-mina-sarira, jaya jagadisa hare. Krsna took birth as a pig. Kesava dhrta-varaha-sarira, jaya jagadisa hare. Krsna is free. He can appear anywhere, everywhere. That is... Just like isvarah sarva-bhutanam hrd-dese arjuna tisthati [Bg. 18.61]. He's situated in everyone's heart. So He is with everyone's... Every living being has got

Just Hear about Krishna

(Part -2)

Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Matajis,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudev.

This is the concluding part of the transcription of a lecture delivered by HDG Srila Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj in September 2008 at Singapore on the verse 3.29.11-12.

mad-guna-shruti-maatrenaa / mayi sarva-guhaashaye
mano-gatir avicchinnaa / yathaa gangaambhaso 'mbud

Hare krsna

 Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

There are so many scientists. They are discovering vitamin value from foodstuff. Now, what is the vitamin value in the dry grass? If there is no vitamin value in dry grass, how the cow is producing so much milk that is full of vitamins A and D? Nowadays the physician prescribes some artificial vitamins for maintaining your body. It is God's wish. Is there any brain of the human being who can produce fruits, grains, mil

Hare krsna 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

This human form of life should be utilized how to make a solution of the problem. That is Vedic civilization. They stress more on the solution of the problems, not to create problems. The solution of problem in human life is how to stop death. For example, we have made a horseless carriage motorcar, that is advancement but it is not the solution of the problem. I don't consider that although I have got car, still, I h

More memories of Yamuna from “By His Example”

The population of Rockport said goodbye to us. Our friends, Uddhava, Ramanuja, Lillavati, and Murari—our future but uninitiated-at-this-point friends—came back up to fetch us and told us that the Swami was coming to the temple more and leading wild chants three times a week, morning and evenings. “We have been cooking big feasts on Sundays and many people are coming to the temple.”

Back in San Francisco

Our old apartment on Willard Street with the p

So Krsna has nothing to do. He is the Supreme. Why He shall have some thing to do? Na tasya karyam karanam... This is the definition in the Vedas: "God has nothing to do. He is self-sufficient. Neither He has got any aspiration." Just like we are thinking of purchasing this land, that land. Why Krsna will think like that? Because every land is belonging to Him. So He has nothing to purchase. Everything is there. So why He comes? That is the same way, as Krsna says personally. He comes for paritr

Just Hear about Krishna

(Part -2)

Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Matajis,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudev.

This is the continued humble attempt at transcribing a lecture delivered by HDG Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj in September 2008 at Singapore on the verse SB 3.29.11-12.

mad-guna-shruti-maatrenaa / mayi sarva-guhaashaye
mano-gatir avichinnaa / yathaa gangaambhaso 'mbudhau

When I was teaching in gurukulas, the students would occasionally find out that another child didn't like one sort of food or another and would tease them: “Eww—you don't like mangoes? That means you don't like Prabhupada and Krishna!” These eight- or nine-year-olds were probably joking, or half joking, to the extent that kids are capable. But when adults insist in the rudest language that other devotees who don't share their opinions on one detail or another regarding devotional practice or ass

So those who are thinking of first of all analyzing Krsna, whether He's God, they are not first-class devotee. Those who have got spontaneous love for Krsna, they are first-class devotees. How you will analyze Krsna? He's unlimited. It is impossible. So this business... We should not try to analyze, to know Krsna. It is impossible. We have got limited perception, limited potency of our senses, how we can study Krsna? It is not possible at all. Krsna reveals Himself, that much sufficient.

By H.D.

Just Hear about Krishna

(Part -1)

Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Matajis,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva.

When our beloved spiritual master, HDG Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj came to Singapore in September 2008, he gave an inspiring class on SB 3.29.11-12. This is a humble attempt at transcribing the same lecture.

mad-guna-shruti-maatrenaa / mayi sarva-guhaashaye
mano-gati

BY GURUDAS

ORIGINAL ARTICLE: DANDAVATS.COM

I am saddened by my feeling of separation from you, that I will not see you again on this planet, yet I still feel close to you. Our relationship transcends material boundaries and You are in my, and many peoples hearts. Let us all pray for your continued spiritual journey, which makes me happy, as you are not in pain anymore, and with our beloved Spiritual Master, and Radha and Krishna.

I fell in love with you upon viewing your powerful presence
I fell i

Question: Accepting and Rejecting Sri Guru
Dear Gurudeva,

How does one choose/judge the correct guru who can guide him properly on the pathway of Krishna consciousness?

Also, when can we know that our guru is acting wrongly, like Maharaja Bali who rejected his guru Sukracharya when he was told not to surrender to Krishna in His form as Lord Vamanadeva?

Was Maharaja Bali wrong for acting against the wishes of his Gurudeva, or was he right for acting in the favor of Krishna?

Please forgive me if my qu

As Krsna is anandamaya... We see Krsna is always engaged in pastimes, either with the cowherd boys or with the gopis or with His father, mother, or in the fight of battlefield, Kuruksetra, or in killing some demon. But His pastimes are always there. He's never inactive. He's never inactive. There it is said, visvatmann ajasya akartuh. He has nothing to do, but still He is acting. Akartuh. Akartuh means He has nothing to do. Here, so far we are concerned, we have to do something in the material w

Qualities Enacted in Spiritual Association of the Lord

(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)

Notes from an evening program with His Holiness Mahavishnu Gosvami Maharaja, in London, July 6, 2008. Maharaja shared from his vast treasure house of transcendental realizations, concerning the qualities of the Lord and His devotees enacted in spiritual association.

THE LORD IS EQUAL TO ALL
There is a Hindi poem by Su

Sri Bhagavada Gita (Chapter 10 Text 7)

He who knows in truth this glory and power of Mine engages in unalloyed devotional service; of this there is no doubt.

PURPORT


The highest summit of spiritual perfection is knowledge of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Unless one is firmly convinced of the different opulences of the Supreme Lord, he cannot engage in devotional service. Generally people know that God is great, but they do not know in detail how God is great. Here are the details. If one know

If you can keep yourself always in company with Krsna, then all perfection is there.All perfection is there. And Krsna has agreed especially in this age. Nama-rupe kali-kale krsna-avatara, Krsna has incarnated in this age as the holy name. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that: "My dear Lord, You are so kind that You are giving Me Your association by, in the form of Your holy name  "And this holy name can be chanted in any situation. There is no hard and fast rule." You can chant Hare Krsna an

Qualities dear to Sri Krishna

(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)

The following is a summary from a lecture given by H.H. MahaVishnu Goswami January 2009. The lecture is based on verses 12.13-14 where Lord Krishna lists a number of eleven good qualities in His devotees. Maharaja speaks on these qualities of a devotee and on how to develop these good qualities.

advestaa sarva-bhutaanaam
maitrah karuna eva ca