Saturday 11 June 2016

Kṛṣṇa also feels little pain, and therefore He comes down:


"We have got intimate connection with Kṛṣṇa, and we are fallen. Therefore Kṛṣṇa also feels little pain, and therefore He comes down:

paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ, vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām, dharma-saṁsthāpanārthāya, sambhavāmi yuge yuge.

Kṛṣṇa is feeling pain. So you become Kṛṣṇa conscious, then Kṛṣṇa will feel pleasure. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement."

-(Lecture on SB 1.7.7 -- Vrndavana, April 24, 1975, by His Dive Grace)

Srila Prabhupad ki jai..\o/

Devotional service begins with hearing the holy name chanted by a pure Vaisnava:


Because living entities are minute, atomic parts and parcels of the Lord, devotional service is already present within them in a dormant condition. Devotional service begins with śravaṇa kīrtana, hearing and chanting. When a man is sleeping, he can be awakened by sound vibration; therefore every conditioned soul should be given the chance to hear the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra chanted by a pure Vaiṣṇava. One who hears the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra thus vibrated is awakened to spiritual consciousness, or Kṛṣṇa consciousness. In this way one's mind gradually becomes purified, as stated by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu (ceto-darpaṇa-mārjanam). When the mind is purified, the senses are also purified. Instead of using the senses for sense gratification, the awakened devotee employs the senses in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. This is the process by which dormant love for Kṛṣṇa is awakened.
- (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta'75,Madhya,22.105p by His Divine Grace)

Srila Prabhupad ki jai..\o/

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Friday 10 June 2016

PROUD TO BE HUMAN BEING?


Your are called intelligent not because of your ability to dine in the sky but to understand the purpose of our existence - Love of God which is above the activities of animals: eating, sleeping, mating & defending.

DARSHAN: Sri Rukmini Krishna Chandra ji..


Srila Prabhupada on how to revive Original Indian Culture:


So it is a long process how Indians, especially educated Indians, have become victimized by the slowly deteriorating position of Indian culture, but there is no use tracing out the history but generally we have lost our own culture and our leaders are not very serious to revive our own culture to the point. But still the mass of people, not being very much advanced in education, stick to the Indian culture. For example, lakhs of people still visit Jagannatha Puri during the Rathayatra Festival, lakhs still visit the Kumbha mela, and lakhs still visit the holy places of India, but there is no encouragement by the leaders. It is only a continuation of the original culture.

So there is no hopelessness; if we revive Krishna consciousness in a systematic way, within a very short time we can revive our original Indian culture on the basis of the teachings of Lord Krishna and the Bhagavad-gita. So we have to work very hard for this purpose and if you follow the path of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, it will be very easily done.

-(Letter to Gaur Govinda, Vrindavan 18th September 1976)

Srila Prabhupad ki jai..\o/

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Devotional service begins with chanting of the holy name:


[Yamaraja to the Yamadutas]: Devotional service, beginning with the chanting of the holy name of the Lord, is the ultimate religious principle for the living entity in human society.

The Bhāgavatam further says, sa vai puṁsāṁ paro dharmo yato bhaktir adhokṣaje: [SB 1.2.6] the supreme religion is that which teaches its followers how to love the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is beyond the reach of experimental knowledge. Such a religious system begins with tan-nāma-grahaṇa, chanting of the holy name of the Lord (śravaṇaṁ kīrtanaṁ viṣṇoḥ smaraṇaṁ pāda-sevanam [SB 7.5.23]). After chanting the holy name of the Lord and dancing in ecstasy, one gradually sees the form of the Lord, the pastimes of the Lord and the transcendental qualities of the Lord. This way one fully understands the situation of the Personality of Godhead. 

-(Srimad-Bhagavatam, 6.3.22, by His Divine Grace)

Chanting the holy name is the basic principle of spiritual advancement:


[Lord Kapila to Devahuti]: "A devotee should always try to hear about spiritual matters and should always utilize his time in chanting the holy name of the Lord. His behavior should always be straightforward and simple, and although he is not envious but friendly to everyone, he should avoid the company of persons who are not spiritually advanced."

".. It is especially mentioned here, nāma-saṅkīrtanāc ca: one should chant the holy names of the Lord—Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare—either individually or with others. Lord Caitanya has given special stress to chanting of these holy names of the Lord as the basic principle of spiritual advancement. .." - (Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.29.18, by His Divine Grace)

Hare Krishna Mahamantra ki jai.. \o/
Srila Prabhupad ki jai..\o/

Tuesday 7 June 2016

Krishna Personally Comes.


Srila Prabhupada said, He (Krishna) asked me to come here and I said that I did not want to go because it was such a dirty place. He (Krishna) told me if you go I will arrange so many nice palaces for you to live in. I said but I do not want to go. He (Krishna) said you just go and write these books and I will make it comfortable for you. So Srila Prabhupada said because He asked me to write these books I came.

Once in Bombay Srila Prabhupada ordered me to come to his room and listen to him preach to some life members. I sat there and listened for almost an hour. After they left he started to chastise me. Why are you not coming here every day to listen to me preach? You are one of my leaders if you do not learn how to preach from me then what will happen? Then he quoted a verse in Sanskrit from Bhagavad Gita and asked me if I knew this verse in English, where it was in the Gita, and what the meaning was. I unfortunately had no answers. Are you reading my books everyday? He asked. I admitted my neglect. If you do not read my books everyday then how will you learn? You are going out to make life members and collect big donations but you are not reading my books. You must read my books every day!

Then he said, even I read my books every day. Do you know why? I proffered no answer and waited for the revelation. Because every time I read these books even I learn something! I sat in stunned silence. Then he asked do you know why I learn something every time I read these books? Now I was completely bewildered. Because I have not written these books. What transpired next was simply amazing. He looked at me very intently making strong direct eye contact. He spoke with great authority but with a mystical mood bordering on the ecstatic as he began to describe how his books are written.

Every day he said, when I sit down here to write these books, he was now looking into space waving his hands in the air his voice filled with transcendental emotion, Krishna personally comes and dictates every word. I got the sense that Krishna was present in the room at that moment but I was too blind to see Him. Now Srila Prabhupada returned his eyes to mine. Therefore he said, whenever I read these books even I learn something and if you read my books everyday you will also learn something every time you read them.
- (Written by Bhagavat das.)

Srila Prabhupad ki Jai.. \o/

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In Kali-yuga, one can attain liberation and return to the spiritual kingdom by chanting the holy name:


TEXT 344
kaler doṣa-nidhe rājann
asti hy eko mahān guṇaḥ
kīrtanād eva kṛṣṇasya
mukta-bandhaḥ paraṁ vrajet

" 'My dear King, although Kali-yuga is full of faults, there is still one good quality about this age. It is that simply by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, one can become free from material bondage and be promoted to the transcendental kingdom.' "

- Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (12.3.51)
[cited: Sri Caitanya-caritamrta'75,Madhya,20.344]


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He is Srila Prabhupada, who is higher than the paramahamsa:


I am the lowest of the all creatures... 

" Devotee: You must be higher than the paramahaṁsa stage, Prabhupāda.

Srila Prabhupada : I am lower than you. I am lower than you.

Devotee: You are so beautiful. You are paramahaṁsa, but still, you are preaching to us.

Srila Prabhupada : No, I am lower than you. I am the lowest of the all creatures. I am simply trying to execute the order of my spiritual master. That's all. That should be the business of everyone. Try best. Try your best to execute the higher order. That is the safest way of progressing. One may be in the lowest stage, but if he tries to execute the duty entrusted upon him, he is perfect. He may be in lowest stage, but because he is trying to execute the duty entrusted to him, then he is perfect. That is the consideration. "

-(Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam 6.1.34-39 - Surat, December 19, 1970)

So, He is Srila Prabhupada, who is higher than the paramahamsa ... heart emoticon
Srila Prabhupad ki jai.. \o/


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Saturday 4 June 2016

Bala Mukunda Lila:


Bala Mukunda ki jai..heart emoticon

"Why do the best of the sages reject even heavenly nectar
and instead drink the water from My lotus feet?"
Thinking in this way, Bala-Mukunda eagerly sucks His own lotus foot.

Checking For Himself The Sweetness of His Own Toe,
Wondering What Makes People Drink the Water Touched by It
(The Lord and His Maya)

Leela Sukha (Bilvamangala Thakur) in one of his Krishna Karnamritha slokas 2.57 describes the baby (Bala-Mukunda) that floats on the pralaya waters on top of a banyan leaf after swallowing the universe and its contents for their protection:

kararavindhena padharavindam 
mukharavindhe vinivesayantham
vatasya patrasya pute shayanam 
balam-mukundam manasa smarami

(Translation) With His soft lotus hands, our baby Mukunda has grabbed His lotus like toe and placed it in His lotus mouth, decorated with red lips, and sucks on it in amusement as He rests on the tender shoot of a Pupil leaf contemplating on the next cycle of creation.


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In the service of Krishna there may be sometimes transcendental competition but there cannot be any disruption:


"..I am very sorry that Satyavrata has left us on some petty sentimental thing. Please ask him to come back and excuse me if I have struck his sentiment. I think he should be permanently on the editorial board and you can give him any serious engagement as you please. He may be replaced in the place of Hayagriva if he is not going to join us. Recently I received one letter from Hayagriva and I replied it promptly. The thing is, everyone of us should think as servant of Krishna. In the service of Krishna there may be sometimes transcendental competition but there cannot be any disruption. Please call Satyavrata and give him serious engagement as he likes to take. He is a good soul and he must be satisfied.

I wanted Teachings of Lord Caitanya to be immediately printed, therefore I said that it may not be delayed by further editorial work, but if you think that it needs further editorial work, please do it through Satyavrata, and forthwith prepare the manuscript ready for printing..." - (Letter to: Rayarama, Los Angeles, 11 January, 1968, by His Divine Grace)

Srila Prabhupad ki jai.. \o/


What is the human mission? Knowledge means to know that the mission of the human form of life:


"Fulfilling the demands of the body is animal life, and fulfilling the mission of spirit soul is the human mission." 
- (Srimad Bhagavatam, 3.3.19p)

Srila Prabhupad ki jai..\o/
Picture: Vrindavana

How can we understand that Krishna is the supreme consciousness?


"..The Supreme Lord is represented throughout everything, whatever you see, matter or spirit or anything, physical, chemical—whatever you can give name—there are so many things. But they are not separated from God. God is linked up in everywhere. Īśāvāsyam idaṁ sarvam [Īśo mantra 1]. Just like our Bhagavad-gītā, we have begun that yena sarvam idaṁ tatam: "That thing which is present all over the body, that you are." So this is individual consciousness: "I am present all over my body." Similarly, the supreme consciousness, he is present all over the universe, all over. This is only a small manifestation of God's energy, very minute. In the Bhagavad-gītā you will find, ekāṁśena sthito jagat [Bg. 10.42]. This jagat... Jagat means this material manifestation. This material manifestation is a one-fourth part demonstration of this whole energy of the Supreme Lord, one-fourth part. So nothing is different from God. .." - (Lecture on Mahā-mantra, New York, September 8, 1966, by His Divine Grace)

Srila Prabhupad ki jai.. \o/

Guru Mukha Padma Vakya: VAIRAGYA VIDYA


Unless there is vairägya, there is no question of happiness. But we cannot attain vairägya immediately; therefore the vidhi-märga, vidhi-märga-bhakti, to rise early in the morning, to attend mangala ärati, to offer Deity flowers, fruits, and in this way we shall be engaged twenty-four hours. Then vairägya-vidyä will gradually develop. Anarthopasamam säksäd bhakti-yogam adhoksaje.

So our request is that you have taken to this vairägya-vidyä. So vairägya-vidyä, we do not say that you starve, don't eat anything, don't sleep at all. No. IT SHOULD BE REGULATED. Anäsaktasya visayän yathärtham upayunjataù. Don't be attached to eating, sleeping. That is not good. But you must eat, you must sleep as little as possible, and try to conquer over it. My mind dictating, "Sleep seventeen hours." No. That is tapasya. Tapasä brahmacaryena. Why shall you sleep more than four hours or five hours or utmost six hours? That's all, not more than that. That is vairägya-vidyä.
- (Lecture: Vrindavan November 18, 1976)

Srila Prabhupad ki jai..\o/

Friday 3 June 2016

A true life story of a devotee,Diana Dauenhauer mataji, her experience with Srila Prabhupada.:


" On 24th December 1982 (the night of Christmas eve), in 3 o'clock in the morning,, in Gunduliceva street where I grew up, Swami was standing beside my bed calling me „Dina.. Dina“. When I woke up He said: „I come to tell you that this is the life in which you have to surrender, because in your previous life you didn't finish the process“. In 4.15, that very night, I have abandoned my whole life and I went to live in the Hare Krishna temple. There I found out that the Swami, who was standing next to my bed that morning was called Srila Prabhupada. I received my first and second initiation 6 months later.

My mother, Bahlika devi dasi, who left this world in 2002, joined me soon.On her last night before she passed away she said to me very clearly "Daivi look, Radharani is here!". She left this world on Ekadashi morning.

During these 30+ years since Srila Prabhupada came for me, Krishna has blessed me with tremendous happiness and also suffering. Today, all I can say is that for me there is no doubt of Srila Prabhupad's authority, Krishna's existence, Absolute Truth as written in the Bhagavad-Gita and in Krishna Consciousness as the highest process. Also, for me there is no doubt that the only meaning of life is to preach Krishna Consciencesness and save the suffering, lost, ignorant and scared souls that are surrounding us and who do not know how to stop the suffering, fear, pain and death, and while preaching we do not have to worry about saving ourselves, because we are already saved. Finally, I have no doubt that the best way to save others is to give them Bhagavad-Gita, because through Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna and Srila Prabhupada will preach the Truth in a perfect way, which none of as can do.

Also I would like to note that every devotee deserves respect, care, love and patience because every devotee is the best among man. All glories, all glories to His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada! All glories to the Sankirtan and sankirtan devotees! All glories to the all devotees of Lord Krishna ! Hare Krishna! "

Jai ananta koti Vaishnava brinda ki .. \o/
Jai Srila Prabhupada..\o/


Courtesy: Thank you mataji Diana Dauenhauer for sharing this wonderful past time which was originally posted on December 29, 2011.

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Truthfulness demands that the facts be presented as they are for the benefit of others. That is the definition of truth. ..


"Satyam, truthfulness, means that facts should be presented as they are, for the benefit of others. Facts should not be misrepresented. According to social conventions, it is said that one can speak the truth only when it is palatable to others. But that is not truthfulness. The truth should be spoken in a straightforward way, so that others will understand actually what the facts are. If a man is a thief and if people are warned that he is a thief, that is truth. Although sometimes the truth is unpalatable, one should not refrain from speaking it. Truthfulness demands that the facts be presented as they are for the benefit of others. That is the definition of truth."
- (Bhagavad Gita As It Is 10/4-5 by His Divine Grace)

Srila Prabhupad ki jai ..\o/

Prabhupad explains, what is real initiation...


"The chanting Hare Krishna is our main business, that is real initiation..."

-(Letter to Tamala Krsna -- Montreal 19 August, 1968)

Srila Prabhupad ki jai ..\o/

Because the Lord and His holy name are identical, when a pure devotee chants, the Lord is immediately present:


"After due consideration, all the devotees began chanting the holy name congregationally. Lord Caitanya's mind was thus pacified by the ecstasy of the chanting.

Being absolute, Lord Jagannātha is identical in person, form, picture, kīrtana and all other circumstances. Therefore when Caitanya Mahāprabhu heard the chanting of the holy name of the Lord, He was pacified. Previously, He had been feeling very morose due to separation from Jagannātha. The conclusion is that whenever a kīrtana of pure devotees takes place, the Lord is immediately present. By chanting the holy names of the Lord, we associate with the Lord personally." - (C.C, Madhya, 1.126)

Srila Prabhupad ki Jai.. \o/

Darshan: Sri Sri Rukmini Krishna Chandra.. heart emoticon


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Thursday 2 June 2016

Even a man in the lowest class (caṇḍāla) can be delivered.


"One does not have to undergo initiation or execute the activities required before initiation. One simply has to vibrate the holy name with his lips. Thus even a man in the lowest class (caṇḍāla) can be delivered.
- (CC Madhya 15.108)

Srila Prabhupad ki jai.. \o/

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In reality, who is a Miser or who is a Magnanimous ?


TEXT 17

dehy anya-deha-vivare jaṭharāgnināsṛg-
viṇ-mūtra-kūpa-patito bhṛśa-tapta-dehaḥ
icchann ito vivasituṁ gaṇayan sva-māsān
nirvāsyate kṛpaṇa-dhīr bhagavan kadā nu
TRANSLATION
Fallen into a pool of blood, stool and urine within the abdomen of his mother, his own body scorched by the mother’s gastric fire, the embodied soul, anxious to get out, counts his months and prays, “O my Lord, when shall I, a wretched soul, be released from this confinement?”

PURPORT
The precarious condition of the living entity within the womb of his mother is described here. On one side of where the child is floating is the heat of gastric fire, and on the other side are urine, stool, blood and discharges. After seven months the child, who has regained his consciousness, feels the horrible condition of his existence and prays to the Lord. Counting the months until his release, he becomes greatly anxious to get out of the confinement. The so-called civilized man does not take account of this horrible condition of life, and sometimes, for the purpose of sense gratification, he tries to kill the child by methods of contraception or abortion. Unserious about the horrible condition in the womb, such persons continue in materialism, grossly misusing the chance of the human form of life.

The word kṛpaṇa-dhīḥ is significant in this verse. Dhī means “intelligence,” and kṛpaṇa means “miserly.” Conditional life is for persons who are of miserly intelligence or who do not properly utilize their intelligence. In the human form of life the intelligence is developed, and one has to utilize that developed intelligence to get out of the cycle of birth and death. One who does not do so is a miser, just like a person who has immense wealth but does not utilize it, keeping it simply to see. A person who does not actually utilize his human intelligence to get out of the clutches of māyā, the cycle of birth and death, is accepted as miserly. The exact opposite of miserly is udāra, “very magnanimous.” brāhmaṇa is called udāra because he utilizes his human intelligence for spiritual realization. He uses that intelligence to preach Kṛṣṇa consciousness for the benefit of the public, and therefore he is magnanimous.
- (Srimad-Bhagavatam,3.31,17, Lord Kapila's Instructions on the Movements of the Living Entities)

Srila Prabhupad ki jai .. \o/

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To attain the offenseless stage, one must be on guard in the following manner.


"When we speak of hearing and chanting, it means that not only should one chant and hear of the holy name of the Lord as Rāma, Kṛṣṇa (or systematically the sixteen names Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare), but one should also read and hear the Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in the association of devotees. The primary practice of bhakti-yoga will cause the seed already sowed in heart to sprout, and by a regular watering process, as mentioned above, the bhakti-yoga creeper will begin to grow. By systematic nurturing, the creeper will grow to such an extent that it will penetrate the coverings of the universe, as we have heard in the previous verses, reach the effulgent sky, the brahmajyoti, and go farther and farther and reach the spiritual sky, where there are innumerable spiritual planets called Vaikuṇṭhalokas. Above all of them is Kṛṣṇaloka, or Goloka Vṛndāvana, wherein the growing creeper enters and takes repose at the lotus feet of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the original Personality of Godhead. When one reaches the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa at Goloka Vṛndāvana, the watering process of hearing and reading, as also chanting of the holy name in the pure devotional stage, fructifies, and the fruits grown there in the form of love of God are tangibly tasted by the devotee, even though he is here in this material world. The ripe fruits of love of God are relished only by the devotees constantly engaged in the watering process as described above. But the working devotee must always be mindful so that the creeper which has so grown will not be cut off. Therefore he should be mindful of the following considerations:

(1) Offense by one at the feet of a pure devotee may be likened to the mad elephant who devastates a very good garden if it enters.
(2) One must be very careful to guard himself against such offenses at the feet of pure devotees, just as one protects a creeper by all-around fencing.
(3) It so happens that by the watering process some weeds are also grown, and unless such weeds are uprooted, the nurturing of the main creeper, or the creeper of bhakti-yoga, may be hampered.
(4) Actually these weeds are material enjoyment, merging of the self in the Absolute without separate individuality, and many other desires in the field of religion, economic development, sense enjoyment and emancipation.
(5) There are many other weeds, like disobedience to the tenets of the revered scriptures, unnecessary engagements, killing animals, and hankering after material gain, prestige and adoration.
(6) If sufficient care is not taken, then the watering process may only help to breed the weeds, stunting the healthy growth of the main creeper and resulting in no fructification of the ultimate requirement: love of God.
(7) The devotee must therefore be very careful to uproot the different weeds in the very beginning. Only then will the healthy growth of the main creeper not be stunted.
(8) And by so doing, the devotee is able to relish the fruit of love of God and thus live practically with Lord Kṛṣṇa, even in this life, and be able to see the Lord in every step.

The highest perfection of life is to enjoy life constantly in the association of the Lord, and one who can relish this does not aspire after any temporary enjoyment of the material world via other media." - (Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.2.30p, Srila Prabhupad)

Hare Krishna Mahamantra ki jai..\o/
Srila Prabhupad ki jai .. \o/


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Krishna's causeless Mercy is always there


Krishna's causeless Mercy is always there.
If we take up that causeless Mercy a little seriously than further
causeless Mercies are bestowed one after another unceasingly.
Krishna is more anxious to bestow His benediction
upon us than we are ready to take it.

- (Letter to Mandali Bhadra -- Los Angeles 3 February, 1970)


Srila Prabhupad ki jai.. \o/

The three stages of chanting the holy name:


"..The simple process of offenselessly chanting and hearing the holy name of the Lord will gradually promote one very soon to the stage of emancipation. There are three stages in chanting the holy name of the Lord. The first stage is the offensive chanting of the holy name, and the second is the reflective stage of chanting the holy name. The third stage is the offenseless chanting of the holy name of the Lord. In the second stage only, the stage of reflection, between the offensive and offenseless stages, one automatically attains the stage of emancipation. And in the offenseless stage, one actually enters into the kingdom of God, although physically he may apparently be within the material world. .." 

- (Srimad-Bhagavatam 2.2.30p, Srila Prabhupad)

Hare Krishna Mahamantra ki jai..\o/
Srila Prabhupad ki jai .. \o/


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Never expect any good from the so called society, friendship and love.


Never expect any good from the so called society, friendship and love. Only Krishna is the genuine friend of all living beings and it is He only who can give us all benediction. The more you advance in Krishna Consciousness, chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna, the more you become spiritually advanced and happy in all respects.

- (Letter to: Ballabhim New York, April 22, 1967, His Divine Grace)