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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

Some time ago I tried distributing books at UCLA (the University of California at Los Angeles). Before long I was dreading my encounters with the kids there -- they were so smart, so quick, so elite, and so uninterested in taking Srila Prabhupada's books. I wouldn't go back there again. They are like great yogis in that their attention on their education is unwavering. Their textbooks probably contain information that they personally formulated in their last life. My mother graduated from UCLA

In the Padmapuranam the Absolute Truth is compared with the Fire. As the Fire illuminates by diffusion of its rays, although it is situated in one place, so also the Absolute Truth, although situated far beyond the reach of our imperfect vision, is omnipresent in all directions by distribution of His varied energies. These energies or potentialities of the Absolute Truth, are innumerable and immeasurable in quantity and quality but primarily all of them can be grouped into three principal divisi

Sri Krishnah Sharanam

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

We were fortunate to be in Rajkot recently for the ratha yatra. On the day of initiation, our beloved guru Maharaja soulfully sang the following beautiful verse and gave very practical explanation for the same. I am sharing herewith some of the nectar from the discourse given by Maharaj.

sri krishnah sharanam samasta jagataam krishnam vinaa kaa gatih
k

Hare krsna 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Everyone is seeking a common factor they can share with others of a similar mindset and in this way experience a sense of identity. The inherent problem in today’s modern society is that our identities are being defined by the body and mind. We live in a culture where our identity is established by the flesh we belong to, but since that changes at every moment our identity changes along with it, and therefore people do

Hare krsna 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Swamy Vivekananda once said, "If you understand the real meaning of Rasa-Lila dance, you have grasped the real message of Bhagavad-Gita" .

We all are ,*Jivatmas* having freedom to do what we want to . However, there is a silent *Paramatma* ( Super-soul) in our heart . This Super-soul, a manifestation of Sri Krishna ,  is silently witnessing all our actions . Therefore, it is known as *Mana-sakshi* ( Conscience) .

A *Satv

While on sankirtan in Hamilton (New Zealand) recently, I met a familiar-looking couple. I had met them on traveling sankirtan in Rotorua during the recent marathon. They had taken a Bhagavad-gita for the husband's father. He is seriously ill, with a terminal disease. They reported that he had been in ecstasy to receive the book for Christmas and had wasted no time in starting to read it. It was very encouraging to hear that a housebound invalid near death had received and embraced Prabhupada's