“While teaching Rupa Gosvami, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, guru-krsna-prasade paya bhakti-lata-bija: one can achieve the seed of devotional service by the mercy of the guru, the spiritual master, and then by the mercy of Krsna. This is the secret of success. First one should try to please the spiritual master, and then one should attempt to please the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura also says, yasya prasadad bhagavat-prasado. One should not attempt to please the S
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“A sleeping person imagines an alternative reality for himself and, seeing himself as having various names and forms, forgets his waking identity, which is distinct from the dream. Similarly, the senses of one whose consciousness is bewildered by illusion perceive only the names and forms of material objects. Thus such a person loses his memory and cannot know You.”
-Bhag. 10.84.24-25
These two beautiful passages from the Bhagavatam were the topic of our discussion this morning as our small g
Sri Narasimha Kavacha ( श्री नृसिंह कवच )
श्री नृसिंह कवच- हिंदी अनुवाद के साथ - Corrected.pdf
Sri Narasimha Kavacha (श्री नृसिंह कवच -हिंदी अनुवाद के साथ)
(1) अनुवाद- आज हम भगवान नृसिहं के कवच को पढने जा रहे हैं जो प्रहलाद महाराज जी ने भगवान की स्तुति के रूप में गाया था। यह कवच हर प्रकार के पुण्यों को प्रदान करता है तथा सभी उपद्रवों से मनुष्यों की रक्षा करता है। (2) इस कवच का पाठ करते समय मनुष्य को भगवान नृसिंह, जो संपूर्ण देवताओं के स्वामी हैं और स्वर्ण के सिंहासन |
प्रेम ध्वनि
- जय, नित्यलीला ओम विष्णुपद परमहंसा परिव्रजकाचार्य अश्त्रोत शत श्रीश्रीमद हिज़ डिवाइन ग्रेस श्रीला ए.सी. भक्तिवेदांता स्वामी महाराज प्रभुपाद की जय,
- जय, ओम विष्णु-पद परमहंसा परिव्रजकाचार्य अश्त्रोत-शत श्री श्रीमद भक्ति सिद्धांत सरस्वती गोस्वामी महाराज प्रभुपाद की जय,,
- अनंत-कोटि वैष्णव-वृंद की जय,,
- नामाचार्य हरिदास ठाकुर की जय,
- इस्कोन फाउंडर आचार्य श्रील प्रभुपाद की जय,
- प्रेम से कहो श्री कृष्ण-चैतन्य,प्रभुनित्यानंद,जयअद्वैता,गदाधारा,श्रीवासादी-गौरभक्तावृंदा की जय,
- श्री-श्री राधा-कृष्ण
Question: Maharaj, I have not done anything for Krishna. Why would He care about me?
Kadamba Kanana Swami:Long before… what happened is this… One day, you were in a street and you did not remember your name. You stood there, looking and you did not know your name or where you are from. You were suffering from amnesia! You had lost your memory and your identity. Anyway – some people saw you and they kind of took care of you. They noticed which languages you spoke and someone of the same language
Many people say “By your mercy, I will surrender” or “Give me your blessings so that I will surrender” or “When Krishna wants”. Srila Prabhupada says these are spoken under “FALSE PRETENSE”–These are just “PLEA’S” Not to Surrender.
Srila Prabhupada: Surrender is willing. If you don’t like to surrender who can make you obliged to surrender? Surrender is voluntary. “Yes I surrender.” Determination, “Yes I surrender.” Who can make you obliged to surrender? Nobody can make. Even Krsna can not work.
From Back to Godhead
Few of us realize as the farmer does how completely we’re at the mercy of nature. Even if the farmer lives not by selling crops but by selling cows for slaughter, still he’s keenly aware how much he relies on the bounty of the fields to fatten his herd. After he cuts his alfalfa, for instance, he needs two days to “make hay while the sun shines,” then more rain to make his crop grow for another cutting. And even if he irrigates his land, his river or well will go dry if rai
This essay is taken from the book “The Art of teaching” by Burijana dasa. It is written for gurukula teachers, but is equally applicable to all devotees.
Teachers wishing success in their service must cultivate the mode of goodness. But wait a minute! Am I hearing protests from hard-pressed devotees sincerely striving to serve their Lord with a passion? Are they not crying out from the distance that there’s no need for goodness? Are they not emphatically stating that devotees are transcendental
I was always intrigued with this verse and am often in my walks reminded of this tree of knowledge by reflections seen as an ordinary tree by a pond of water or an image of a double-up upright and upside-down pos
Bhuliṅgapakṣi nyāyaḥ (bhulinga bird)
The Bhuliṅga bird gets his food by picking a flash from lion's jaws.
This Bhuliṅga bird has God-given courage to gather his food from the mouth of a lion, risking its own life. More or less everyone is compelled to risk his own life for one's own, and family maintenance. According to the amount of courage one has received from Śrī Hari, to that extent his occupation has greater risk involved. The bottom line is that one must sacrifice every last drop of blood o
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We have to conquer in relationships. We can never take them for granted and we can never think, “Now this person’s commitment is assured, so there is no need to put in effort.” When there is a marriage and the ring goes on the finger, it does not mean much; it is just a little piece of metal. Marriage actually means that one has to conquer. So we should not think that now that the ring is there, there is no need to conquer the other person.
This is the same in the relationship between a guru a
“This material world is certified by the Lord in the Bhagavad-gita as a dangerous place full of calamities. Less intelligent persons prepare plans to adjust to those calamities without knowing that the nature of this place is itself full of calamities. They have no information of the abode of the Lord, which is full of bliss and without trace of calamity. The duty of the sane person, therefore, is to be undisturbed by worldly calamities, which are sure to happen in all circumstances. Suffering
I met up with Ajamila at the corner of Wellesley and Sherbourn. We hadn’t seen each other since the lockdown started although the occasional meet by phone. He’s doing well and is singing bhajans on-line.
Bhajans are songs expressing devotional sentiments, in this case, to honour Krishna.
I had a thought that before long we could possibly sing and play together at this very corner by the library. There is a nice flow of pedestrian traffic, a good intersection for exposing mantras where there
How many of you want to see Krishna and meet Him? Here is a good news - Krishna is more eager to show Himself to us than we are to see Him. We just need to be excited to want to see Him. Krishna is always somewhere around the corner waiting to reveal His darshan to us.
He could reveal Himself in any Mahamantra that we chant. He could pop out of any page of the Bhagavad-Gita or Srimad-Bhagvatam that we read. He can show Himself in any of His deity that we see. He could reveal Himself through a
गीता की महिमा
वैदिक ज्ञान का सार है गीता,
जीवन जीने का है ये तरीका ।।
भगवान के मुख से है कही हुई,
यह औषधि स्वयं कृष्ण की दी हुई।।
पहले भी कही थी यह सूर्य देव को,
वापिस दोहरा रहे हैं कृष्ण अर्जुन को।।
पहले तो अर्जुन ने कृष्ण को गुरु स्वीकारा,
जब ज्ञान हुआ तो उन्हें भगवान पुकारा।।
पर पूछता रहा प्रश्न अंत तक वो डटकर,
संशय का बादल जब तक उड न गया छट कर।।
अर्जुन का ज्ञान पाना तो एक बहाना था,
असल में तो उन्हे हमें ही सब बताना था।।
अगर जरा सी श्रद्धा है तो सुनना जरूर,
गीता का ये वाणी अमृत पीना जरूर ।।
गीता का मकसद हम
Bakabandhana nyāyaḥ (catching crane)
A man had a wish to capture a crane. He devised a tedious plan. First he secures a piece of butter, which he put on crane's head. Then he waited until the sun heated the butter, which than melted, ran down its head over its eyes, which blinded the crane. In that moment the man seized the opportunity to catch the crane. Later he belauded himself amongst his friends, describing in detail the foolishly complicated plan to catch the bird.
Why to perform actions in
Since 13th February I have been locked down here in Kerala, near Kochi. I was the last arrival here. At the airport I was to be quaranteened even though I arrived from South Africa via Mumbai where I was cleared and took connecting flight to Kochi. My disciples conferred to put me in Kerala because I was visiting for health reasons at least twice a year since several years, I would be better off during lock down. But at the airport I informed my disciples the situation to be quarantined. But af
Giriraj Swami read and spoke from Srimad-Bhagavatam 7.5.12.
“Everyone should be friendly for the service of the Lord. Everyone should praise another’s service to the Lord and not be proud of his own service. This is the way of Vaisnava thinking, Vaikuntha thinking. There may be rivalries and apparent competition between servants in performing service, but in the Vaikuntha planets the service of another servant is appreciated, not condemned. This is Vaikuntha competition. There is no question of
The place was the Weston Family Quarry Garden at the Evergreen Brickworks where two young boys were fishing for gold or catfish, whatever would go for the bait.
“What have you got there? Worms?” I asked.
“No, bread. We already caught 3 catfish but we threw them back in the pond. That’s what you’re supposed to do.”
I asked the boys if they would allow me to film them. They declined but still we consider each other friends.
“They (meaning the fish) are really enthusiastic (for the bre
