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Impossible To Calculate Krsna's Opulence

Posted by Gavin Swinden on November 21, 2022 at 23:22

(It is said that Ananta, Anantadeva, Śeṣaśāyī Anantadeva, He has got thousands and thousands of hoods, and He is chanting, describing about Kṛṣṇa, in ananta, unlimited mouths, for unlimited time—it is still unable)

"We do not know what is actually opulence. Aiśvaryasya samāgrasya. What is Kṛṣṇa's opulence, it is impossible to calculate. It is said that Ananta, Anantadeva, Śeṣaśāyī Anantadeva, He has got thousands and thousands of hoods, and He is chanting, describing about Kṛṣṇa, in ananta, unlimited mouths, for unlimited time—it is still unable. Advaitam acyutam anādim ananta-rūpam ādyaṁ purāṇa-puruṣaṁ nava-yauvanaṁ ca."

(Prabhupada Lecture, November 22, 1976, Vrindavana)

Krsna Can Perform Unlimited Mystic Power Through His Devotee

Posted by Gavin Swinden on November 21, 2022 at 23:20

(But Kṛṣṇa can perform unlimited mystic powers through His devotee. This is Kṛṣṇa's activity. A devotee never takes the credit of any wonderful thing)

"That is first-class yogī. You want yogic power, mystic power, but if you keep Kṛṣṇa within your core of heart, naturally by the grace of Kṛṣṇa, you can perform all . . . Not the devotee can perform. Devotee is simply dependent on Kṛṣṇa. But Kṛṣṇa can perform unlimited mystic powers through His devotee. This is Kṛṣṇa's activity. A devotee never takes the credit of any wonderful thing. But it is a fact. What wonderful thing we can play? Kṛṣṇa can do that."

(Prabhupada Lecture, November 22, 1976, Vrindavana)

If We Create Disturbance The Supreme Consciousness Is Disturbed

Posted by Gavin Swinden on November 21, 2022 at 23:18

(As I feel pains and pleasure on account of some disturbance on this body, similarly, as soon as we create some disturbance with this universal atmosphere, the supreme consciousness is disturbed)

"As I have got my consciousness all over this body, similarly, the superconsciousness is there all over the universe. As I feel pains and pleasure on account of some disturbance on this body, similarly, as soon as we create some disturbance with this universal atmosphere, the supreme consciousness is disturbed. That disturbance is going on.

Therefore, in spite of all arrangement . . . pūrṇam idaṁ pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇāt pūrṇam udacyate (Īśopaniṣad, Invocation). That, by God's creation, everything is complete. There is no flaw. But because we are creating disturbances, the world situation is different. We are creating disturbances. By God's creation, everything is nice. Everything is fine.

Take, for example, within this planet there is sufficient place to grow food for all the populati

Jagat-Guru Dasa THE DISCOURSE BETWEEN THE CHAND KAZI AND LORD CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on November 21, 2022 at 4:21

Jagat-Guru Dasa

THE DISCOURSE BETWEEN THE CHAND KAZI AND LORD CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU

No one should perform saṅkīrtana on the streets of the city. Today I am excusing the offense and returning home. The next time I see someone performing such saṅkīrtana, I shall certainly chastise him by not only confiscating ALL HIS PROPERTY but also converting him INTO A MUSLIM.

After saying this, the Kazi returned home, and the devotees, greatly shocked that they were forbidden to chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, submitted their grief to Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Lord Caitanya ordered, Go perform saṅkīrtana! Today I shall KILL ALL THE MUSLIMS. Understanding the anxiety within the people’s minds, the Lord called them together and spoke to them as follows.

In the evening I shall perform saṅkīrtana in each and every town. Therefore you should all decorate the city in the evening. In the evening, burn torchlights in every home. I shall give protection to everyone. Let us see what kind of Kazi com

By Spreading Krsna Consciousness We Become Liberated

Posted by Gavin Swinden on November 21, 2022 at 3:17

(Kṛṣṇa also came for the same purpose: to spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Ya idaṁ paramaṁ guhyaṁ mad-bhakteṣv abhidhāsyati (BG 18.68). And Caitanya Mahāprabhu also came for the same purpose: to spread Kṛṣṇa consciousness. So if we follow their footsteps and be fully engaged in spreading Kṛṣṇa consciousness, then immediately we become liberated)

"Similarly, if we take our cause very seriously, our . . . What is our cause? That is explained by Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Our this Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement means to serve Kṛṣṇa. That is explained by Śrīla Rūpa Gosvāmī:

īhā yasya harer dāsyekarmaṇā manasā vacānikhilāsv apy avasthāsujīvan-muktaḥ sa ucyate(Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu 1.2.187)

If you become fully absorbed in the thought of serving Kṛṣṇa, īhā. Īhā means complete absorption in the thought, "How I shall serve Kṛṣṇa?" What is serving Kṛṣṇa? That is explained by Kṛṣṇa, that He . . . We can see from his practical behavior, ācāraṇa. Not only His ācāraṇa, behavior, but later on, His incarnati

Devotees Not Disturbed by Material World

Posted by Gavin Swinden on November 21, 2022 at 0:47

(Try to become Kṛṣṇa conscious, and then you'll not be disturbed with all these external, ephemeral changes of the material world)

"That means, spiritual progress means, he's making progress towards eternal life. Spiritual life means eternal, blissful life of knowledge. That is spiritual life. So here is the recommendation. Try to become Kṛṣṇa conscious, and then you'll not be disturbed with all these external, ephemeral changes of the material world.

Not only of this body, practically . . . practically one who is advanced in spiritual life, he's not agitated by the so-called political upheavals or social disturbances. No. He knows these are simply external, ephe . . . just like in the dream. It is also a dream. The . . . our present existence, it is also dream, exactly like we dream at night. In dreaming, we create so many things.

So this material world is also a gross dreaming. Gross dreaming. That is subtle dreaming, and this is gross dreaming. That is the action of the mind, body,

Material Sky Is Also Part Of Spiritual Sky

Posted by Gavin Swinden on November 20, 2022 at 7:28

(Similarly, the unlimited sky, spiritual sky, and some portion of it, when it is covered by mahat-tattva, or a spiritual cloud, the portion which is covered, it is called material sky)

"We have been discussing about the transcendental world. The transcendental world is above this material sky. The material sky is also a part of the transcendental sky, or spiritual sky—it is covered only. This thing we have already explained. Just like the sky, some part of the sky is covered by cloud.

The cloud cannot cover the whole sky. That is not possible. That is not in the power of the cloud. Only insignificant portion of the cloud, er, sky, is covered by cloud. Similarly, the unlimited sky, spiritual sky, and some portion of it, when it is covered by mahat-tattva, or a spiritual cloud, the portion which is covered, it is called material sky."

(Prabhupada Lecture, November 20, 1966, New York)

No Rival In The Spiritual Sky

Posted by Gavin Swinden on November 20, 2022 at 7:25

(But in the spiritual sky there is no rival. In the spiritual sky the Supreme Lord is the Supreme. And those who wanted to become rival, they are put into this material sky, under condition of the material nature. This is the difference between spiritual sky and material sky)

"So there, in the spiritual sky, there are spiritual planets, and on each planet the Lord is manifested. There are innumerable planets. So here it is, that information is given in the Bhagavad-gītā, that puruṣaḥ sa paraḥ pārtha: "That spiritual sky, the predominating Personality of Godhead is transcendental."

Just like here, in every country, in every planet, there is a predominating personality. In your country, the predominating personality is President Johnson. Similarly, in every country there is a predominating personality. Similarly, every planet there is a predominating personality. So the same system is there also. But there is no rival. Puruṣaḥ sa paraḥ pārtha. There, the Personality of Godhead, there is

Vaisnava Philosophical School

Posted by Gavin Swinden on November 20, 2022 at 7:22

(We belong to the Vaiṣṇava philosophical school. Vaiṣṇava. Vaiṣṇava means we want to worship God as He is, and we keep our separate identity eternally to serve Him) 🙏💖

"So there are different kinds of liberations. Now, any one, any of these five kinds of liberations you can have. But out of the five, the sāyujya-mukti, or the liberation by becoming merged into the existence of the Supreme, is not accepted by the Vaiṣṇava philosopher. We belong to the Vaiṣṇava philosophical school. Vaiṣṇava. Vaiṣṇava means we want to worship God as He is, and we keep our separate identity eternally to serve Him. That is Vaiṣṇava philosophy.

And the Māyāvāda philosophy and impersonalist philosophy is that they want to close their individual identity and merge into the existence of the Supreme. Now, here Lord Kṛṣṇa does not advise you . . . that is a suicidal policy. That policy is neither recommended by Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, in the Bhagavad-gītā, neither the Vaiṣṇava philosophers they

Krsna Is Not Far Away

Posted by Gavin Swinden on November 19, 2022 at 0:19

(Kṛṣṇa is not far away. Kṛṣṇa is everywhere. But He's still nearer. He is within your heart)

"If you actually come in contact with Kṛṣṇa, and Kṛṣṇa is within your heart . . . Kṛṣṇa is not far away. Kṛṣṇa is everywhere. But He's still nearer. He is within your heart. Īśvaraḥ sarva . . . so if you become attached to Kṛṣṇa . . . when Kṛṣṇa sees now you are attached to Kṛṣṇa, then hṛdy antaḥ-stho abhadrāṇi vidhunoti suhṛt satām (SB 1.2.17). He is friend of the devotees. He's friend of everyone, but a special friend of the devotees. Suhṛt satām. Therefore you have to become a devotee.

Therefore it is said, na yujyamānayā bhaktyā. Bhaktyā means devotee. Who performs devotional service unless he's a devotee? Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā, bhaktyā mām abhijānāti (BG 18.55). So if we become devotee, if we take to devotional service, then Kṛṣṇa says, teṣām evānukampārtham (BG 10.11), "For special favor." Special favor. What is that? Teṣām evānukampārtham aham ajñāna-jaṁ tamaḥ nāśayāmi. Kṛṣṇa

Your Eternal Right

Posted by Gavin Swinden on November 18, 2022 at 23:24

(Because you have got the right to have that prerogative. You have got the right. Therefore you want. You are eternal. You are blissful. You are full of knowledge. Simply you are covered by this material entanglement; therefore you have forgotten yourself)

"Now, suppose if you are placed in some country where you can understand that "In this country I'll have no more death, no more miseries, no more old age, no more disease," will you not be happy? Suppose you are transferred to a country where these things are available. Oh, yes, I shall . . . I must be happy. If I can get some place where going I'll have not to die again or not to become old and not to have any diseases, oh, certainly I shall accept it.

That is my desire, heart's desire. I want. I want that. Why you want that? Because you have got the right to have that prerogative. You have got the right. Therefore you want. You are eternal. You are blissful. You are full of knowledge. Simply you are covered by this material entang

We Are Spiritual Energy Seeking The Same Energy

Posted by Gavin Swinden on November 18, 2022 at 0:27

(Because we are spiritual energy. We are . . . the same energy. We are seeking after the same energy)

"Daivī prakṛti means they are no more interested with this material world. They are interested with the spiritual energy. Because we are spiritual energy. We are . . . the same energy. We are seeking after the same energy. Just like water can mix with water. Oil cannot mix with water. If you put a drop of oil with water, the oil will remain separate. But if you put a drop of water with water, immediately mixes.

Similarly, we are spirit soul. As soon as we are in the spiritual world, in spiritual activities, then we are one. There is no discordance. There is no opposing elements. But so long we exist in the material world, everything opposing. Everything opposing. Therefore it is struggle. Struggle for existence. Suppose if you are thrown into the sea, however expert swimmer you may be, it is struggle. It is struggle for existence. But if you are on the land, there is no such struggle.

Krsna Is Always Ready To Help Us

Posted by Gavin Swinden on November 17, 2022 at 2:48

(Kṛṣṇa is always ready to help you, provided you want to take His help)

"Kṛṣṇa is always ready to help you, provided you want to take His help. He is ready. He has come to help you. Otherwise, what is the use of Kṛṣṇa's coming here and canvassing, sarva-dharmān parityajya mām ekam (BG 18.66)? That is for our interest."

(Prabhupada Lecture, November 17, 1976, Vrindavana)

Krsna Consciousness Means To Stop Changing Dress

Posted by Gavin Swinden on November 17, 2022 at 2:46

(You can have a permanent life, permanent dress, permanent knowledge if you become free from this dress-changing problem. That is called mukti. The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is to stop this business of dress-changing)

Prabhupāda: "Try to understand: You are now in my presence dressed in a certain type of covering. Now, if you change this covering, does it mean you are finished?"

Indian man: "No, sir."

Prabhupāda: "Similarly, this body, this material body, has been explained as dress. So if I change my dress . . . now, suppose I am now human being and I change my dress to become a demigod, or I change my dress to become a dog. It does not mean that I am finished. I have simply changed my dress, according to my karma. Karmaṇā daiva-netreṇa jantur deha upapatti (SB 3.31.1).

By your karma, you'll have a dress. After death, as it is explained in this verse, na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre (BG 2.20): the living soul is not destroyed after the destruction of this body. Therefore he remains, a

Maya Captures As Soon As We Forget Krsna

Posted by Gavin Swinden on November 16, 2022 at 4:22

"As soon as I forget Kṛṣṇa, this māyā, or illusion, ocean of illusion, is there. It at once captures me."

(Prabhupada Lecture, November 16, 1966, New York)

Krsna Is Dancing With You When You Chant

Posted by Gavin Swinden on November 16, 2022 at 4:20

(Therefore, when you vibrate this sound, this means this sound, Kṛṣṇa, and the original Kṛṣṇa, the same, identical. So you are not only dancing, but Kṛṣṇa is also dancing with you)

"It is said that Kṛṣṇa appears . . . when we chant this Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare / Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare, this sound is nondifferent from Kṛṣṇa. Therefore, when you vibrate this sound, this means this sound, Kṛṣṇa, and the original Kṛṣṇa, the same, identical. So you are not only dancing, but Kṛṣṇa is also dancing with you"

(Prabhupada Lecture, November 16, 1966, New York)

Today November 14, by the Solar calendar is the 45th anniversary of the disappearance of our Divine Lord and Master Srila Prabhupada.

Posted by Tamohara dasa ADMIN. on November 15, 2022 at 5:45

Today November 14, by the Solar calendar is the 45th anniversary of the disappearance of our Divine Lord and Master Srila Prabhupada.

Jaya Gouranga Das

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Today November 14, by the Solar calendar is the 45th anniversary of the disappearance of our Divine Lord and Master Srila Prabhupada.

I know that physical presence, Vapu, is not that important.

But for many of us that physical presence of His Divine Grace was so very important, it really meant so much.

I can speak for myself and say that being in the Divine presence of Srila Prabhupada, was like being in the presence of Krishna Himself.

Nothing can compare to it.

That is of course because Srila Prabhupada is Krishna’s pure and direct representative.

From the very first time I personally met Srila Prabhupada in July of 1972 I experienced that Divinity.

I remember how I brought some flowers for Him and when I gave them to Him, He so gracefully and kindly accepted them from my hand and after smelling them, He sm

Krsna Consciousness Means Liberated Stage

Posted by Gavin Swinden on November 14, 2022 at 23:46

(So Kṛṣṇa is present everywhere. One has to gain the knowledge how to see Kṛṣṇa. That is Kṛṣṇa consciousness. That is mukti. If you remain always in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that means you are on the liberated stage)

"Kṛṣṇa comes to teach us. Kṛṣṇa is very, very anxious.

yadā yadā hi dharmasya

glānir bhavati bhārata . . .

tadātmānaṁ sṛjāmy aham

(BG 4.7)

Kṛṣṇa comes Himself—Kṛṣṇa leaves behind Him His word. Vapu and vāṇī. Vāṇī means the words. That is also Kṛṣṇa. That is also . . . just like we do not see Kṛṣṇa now. We can see Kṛṣṇa if we actually advance. Here is Kṛṣṇa. But they will say: "Oh, this is an idol. This is an idol. This is not Kṛṣṇa." But Kṛṣṇa, if you think that you have not seen Kṛṣṇa, so Kṛṣṇa is present by His word also, Bhagavad-gītā. That is vāṇī, kṛṣṇa-vāṇī.

So this, this stage can be achieved when one is advanced in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that Kṛṣṇa is present as the Deity, Kṛṣṇa is present by His words in Bhagavad-gītā, Kṛṣṇa is present as the taste in the water, Kṛṣṇa is pr

Without God's Mercy You Cannot Get Bread

Posted by Gavin Swinden on November 14, 2022 at 0:41

(But this is also fact, that without God's mercy, you cannot get even bread. Although bread you can manufacture, but the ingredients of the bread, the wheat, that is not in your hand)

"People have become materialistic more and more because, just like in our country, "If you want economic development, then why you should go to temple?" The Communist theory is also like that, that, "If you want material happiness, why you are going to church and accepting, 'O God, give us our daily bread'? The bread, you manufacture. You just work for it."

In one side, it is good. But this is also fact, that without God's mercy, you cannot get even bread. Although bread you can manufacture, but the ingredients of the bread, the wheat, that is not in your hand. You cannot manufacture in the factory. That is in the hand of prakṛti, nature, and prakṛti is working under the control of the Supreme Lord."

(Prabhupada Lecture, November 14, 1973, Delhi)

Ignite That Krsna Consciousness

Posted by Gavin Swinden on November 13, 2022 at 23:55

(Because we have fallen down from the original fire, Kṛṣṇa, therefore our spiritual life or enlightenment is now covered, and as soon as again we ignite that spiritual consciousness, that is called Kṛṣṇa consciousness)

"Just like a small spark of the fire when it falls down on the ground, it almost it becomes extinguished or it becomes extinguished, that is our position. Because we have fallen down from the original fire, Kṛṣṇa, therefore our spiritual life or enlightenment is now covered, and as soon as again we ignite that spiritual consciousness, that is called Kṛṣṇa consciousness."

(Prabhupada Lecture, November 14, 1971, Delhi)

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By Spreading Krsna Consciousness We Become Liberated

Devotees Not Disturbed by Material World

Material Sky Is Also Part Of Spiritual Sky

No Rival In The Spiritual Sky

Vaisnava Philosophical School

Krsna Is Not Far Away

Your Eternal Right

We Are Spiritual Energy Seeking The Same Energy

Krsna Is Always Ready To Help Us

Krsna Consciousness Means To Stop Changing Dress

Maya Captures As Soon As We Forget Krsna

Krsna Is Dancing With You When You Chant

Today November 14, by the Solar calendar is the 45th anniversary of the disappearance of our Divine Lord and Master Srila Prabhupada.

Krsna Consciousness Means Liberated Stage

Without God's Mercy You Cannot Get Bread

Ignite That Krsna Consciousness

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