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Symptoms of Ecstatic Love
The bodily symptoms which are manifested by a devotee in expressing ecstatic love for Kṛṣṇa are called anubhāva. Practical examples of anubhāva are as follows: dancing, rolling on the ground, singing very loudly, stretching the body, crying loudly, yawning, breathing very heavily, neglecting the presence of others, drooling, laughing like a madman, wheeling the head and belching. When there is an extraordinary excess of ecstatic love, with all of these bodily symptoms manifested, one feels relieved transcendentally.
These symptoms are divided into two parts: one is called śīta, and the other is called kṣepaṇa. When there is yawning, it is called śīta, and when there is dancing it is called kṣepaṇa.
Dancing
While watching the rāsa dance performed by Lord Kṛṣṇa and the gopīs, Lord Śiva beheld the beautiful face of Kṛṣṇa and immediately began to dance and beat upon his small ḍiṇḍima drum. While Lord Śiva was dancing in ecstasy, his eldest son, Ganeśa, joi
"There are two classes of human beings, namely the envious and the obedient. Since the Supreme Lord is one and the father of all living beings, the envious living beings are also His sons, but they are known as the asuras. But the living beings who are obedient to the supreme father are called devatas, or demigods, because they are not contaminated by the material conception of life. Not only are the asuras envious of the Lord in even denying the existence of the Lord, but they are also envious of all other living beings. The predominance of asuras in the world is occasionally rectified by the Lord when He eliminates them from the world and establishes a rule of devatas like the Pandavas. His designation as kala in disguise is significant. He is not at all dangerous, but He is the transcendental form of eternity, knowledge and bliss. For the devotees His factual form is disclosed, and for the nondevotees He appears like kala-rup
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Kanistha, Madhyama, Uttama"
72/12/13 Ahmedabad, Bhagavad-gita 7.1
Prabhupada:
sri-bhagavan uvaca
mayy asakta-manah partha
yogam yunjan mad-asrayah
asamsayam samagram mam
yatha jnasyasi tac chrnu
[Bg. 7.1]
So by the end of the Sixth Chapter, Krsna has explained the asta, astanga-yoga-siddhi. Astanga-yoga-siddhi, that yoginam api sarvesam mad-gatenantar-atmana [Bg. 6.47]. Always who is thinking of Krsna within himself, sraddhavan, with faith and knowledge, he is first-class yogi. So how this first-class yoga system helps me? Because the other yoga systems, they will disagree, that "Simply by thinking of Krsna within one's heart, how one becomes perfect?" That is explained from the Seventh Chapter of Bhagavad-gita, how simply by understanding Krsna, you become well aware of everything, this yoga system. In the Vedas also it is stated, kasmin tu bhagavo vijnate sarvam idam vijnatam bhavati. If you, if you simply understand Krsna, then you know everything. Krsna is the root of everything. Therefo
Prabhupada:
sri-bhagavan uvaca
mayy asakta-manah partha
yogam yunjan mad-asrayah
asamsayam samagram mam
yatha jnasyasi tac chrnu
[Bg. 7.1]
So by the end of the Sixth Chapter, Krsna has explained the asta, astanga-yoga-siddhi. Astanga-yoga-siddhi, that yoginam api sarvesam mad-gatenantar-atmana [Bg. 6.47]. Always who is thinking of Krsna within himself, sraddhavan, with faith and knowledge, he is first-class yogi. So how this first-class yoga system helps me? Because the other yoga systems, they will disagree, that "Simply by thinking of Krsna within one's heart, how one becomes perfect?" That is explained from the Seventh Chapter of Bhagavad-gita, how simply by understanding Krsna, you become well aware of everything, this yoga system. In the Vedas also it is stated, kasmin tu bhagavo vijnate sarvam idam vijnatam bhavati. If you, if you simply understand Krsna, then you know everything. Krsna is the root of everything. Therefo
Chapter 16, Verse 1-3
The Blessed Lord said: Fearlessness, purification of one's existence, cultivation of spiritual knowledge, charity, self-control, performance of sacrifice, study of the Vedas, austerity and simplicity; nonviolence, truthfulness, freedom from anger; renunciation, tranquility, aversion to faultfinding, compassion and freedom from covetousness; gentleness, modesty and steady determination; vigor, forgiveness, fortitude, cleanliness, freedom from envy and the passion for honor-these transcendental qualities, O son of Bharata, belong to godly men endowed with divine nature.
Chapter 16, Verse 4
Arrogance, pride, anger, conceit, harshness and ignorance-these qualities belong to those of demonic nature, O son of Prtha.
Chapter 16, Verse 5
The transcendental qualities are conducive to liberation, whereas the demonic qualities make for bondage. Do not worry, O son of Pandu, for you are born with the divine qualities.
Chapter 16, Verse 6
O son of Prtha, in this world there a
“We, Vaiṣṇavas, have two considerations: apāra-vicāra and tattva-vicāra – apparent consideration and absolute consideration. All the Vaishnava philosophy is based on tattva-vicāra, on absolute consideration and not on apparent consideration, not on apāra-vicāra.”
Evening program
Sydney – November 6, 1990
[https://youtu.be/xyUylMaZ48o](https://youtu.be/xyUylMaZ48o)
"Vamsidas Babaji never locked the door of his kuti when he went out for bhiksa or to bathe in the Ganga. If someone asked him why he did not lock the kuti, he said, “If the owner of the house Himself does not keep a watch and has a soft corner for the thief, what is the use of locking the house? I do not even keep the keys of the lock with me. The lock has three keys. All the three are with the three boys. One is with Gaura, one with Nitai and one with Gadadhara.”
After entrusting the lock and the keys to the three boys, Baba used to be free from anxiety. If while he was out a cow entered the kuti and turned everything topsy turvy, he would be angry with the boys. If some one stole something from the kuti he would say, “Gaura has a soft corner for Nadiyavasis, the residents of His own Dhama. Therefore He gives things away to them. I am after all an outsider.” Once a gold necklace, given by someone to Gaura, was stolen, when he had gone out for bhiksa. On returning to the kuti he kep
Today we are observing the disappearance of His Holiness Srila Gour Govinda
Swami Maharaj. And my dear friend Madhavananda Prabhu has given me some of
the manuscript of an incredibly outstanding book that he is compiling. I
would like to share some excerpts beginning with the parallels of Dhruva
Maharaj and Gour Govinda Maharaj.
Gour Govinda Maharaj was also from a very early time in his childhood
inspired by his mother to worship the Deity of Gopal and here at Sri Mayapur
Dhama like Dhruva Maharaj with a photo of Gopal in his hand surrounded by
devotees doing kirtana he entered into the ultimate trance and went back to
the spiritual world. He was born on Sept 2nd 1929 near Orissa in a village
called Jagannatha-pura. He was named Braja-bandhu. His family was very, very
serious devotees coming from the very old tradition of Gaudiya Vasinavaism.
His mother from a village of Gadeigiri worshipped for all her life the Deity
of Gopal Jui. That deity was worshipped in her family for over thr
"So in politics this is nonsense, non-violence. It is nonsense, cowardism. In politics in sweet words you cannot get. There must be fight, arms. That is army. 'If you don't agree, then fist.' That is politics. There must be violence. Otherwise you cannot control. When there is educated good men, then you can argue. But when people are ruffians, there is no question of good..."
(Srila Prabhupada, Morning Walk, December 30th, 1973, Los Angeles)
(Srila Prabhupada, Morning Walk, December 30th, 1973, Los Angeles)
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Abnormalcy of the Demonics, Tamohara dasa acbssp, MS.
Posted by Editor/TP/ritvik on January 11, 2022 at 20:57 in News and World Events (Change)
"Living entities seperated from Krsna/God, either by too much genetic change to His design, or too much ego-desire to play at being God, both cannot enter normalcy or God's Kingdom. Tortured in deviated genetically altered mundane material bodies, the rebels suffer, just as souls who refuse God's Kingdom due to childish selfishness or sense of wild adventure, and fall to Earth or other mundane worlds, suffer spiritual loss, a loss of true nature and eternal blissful life.
Ever after, the seperatists simply try to recover from their losses, but it is not possible, because we are by nature eternal servitors of Krsna,and when we lose that precious nature, we suffer. Both an excessively altered body and selfishly altered ego, are in a rejected status, seperated from God. Those in such statuses often feel resentment towards the pure, even wage war aga
1. Tdasa ; We consider ourselves simply the modern followers of HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad, as he taught and set the perfect examples. There is no such thing as "ritvik philosophy", per se, as we are simply following Prabhupada's philosophy.
Srila Prabhupada said;
"Simply work cooperatively for spreading this movement all over the world. The standards I have already given you, now try to maintain them at all times under standard procedure. Do not try to innovate or create anything or manufacture anything, that will ruin everything. Simply do as I am doing and be always serious and sincere to serve Krsna, and He will give you intelligence how to do everything."
Letter to Bali Mardan & Pusta Krsna, September18, 1972
Srila Prabhupada ;
" From now on unless I order you do something change or in addition, go on with the usual standard way. "
"Kṛṣṇa consciousness does not meant to be one-sided. Kṛṣṇa is all-pervading, the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement also should be all-perv
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Srila Prabhupada has told us:
"Machines mean unemployment for the many. The tractor they're using means unemployment for bulls and plowmen. Then the bulls must be killed. This is going on. Unemployment, then kill them. Send all the men to fight in Vietnam and kill them. As soon as there is overpopulation of unemployed, they declare war so that people may be killed."
(Morning Walk, Mayapur, February 12, 1976)
So these wars are not right wars, righteous wars. No. They are play of the diplomats, politicians--they engage. When they cannot manage things very nicely, they engage people into war. That's all. Divert the attention. But war is not meant for that.
[Bhagavad-gita Lecture 2.32 London, September 2, 1973]
"The Krishna Consciousness movement can solve all the problems of life, all the problems in the world. Social, political, philosophical, religious, economic—everything can be solved by Krishna consciousness. It is very scientific and authorized. It is not a mental concoction or a se
Devotee:
In the early '80s, in Bangalore, I was required to make at least two Life Members a month.
I was a bad Life Membership maker and one month I had only ten days left. I was looking in the telephone directory for Bengali names and I found a 'Ganguly.' I called and said, "I'm speaking from the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. I want to come and see you today."
Mr. Ganguly sounded positive. He said, "Oh, you are from the Hare Krishna Movement?
Please see me at eleven o'clock."
I took the membership form, a small set of books, a poster and so on, and I went to see him. To my surprise, I
found that his was a huge place, almost equal to the aeronautical engineering place in Bangalore. I lost hope - there was no way this man was going to become a member.
I went to one secretary, then another, then another, and when my appointment time came, I was still with secretaries. Ganguly was the top man. I thought, "Since I came all this way, I should see him."
Finally t
"I, this life, I shall get recognition by Kṛṣṇa, that I have sacrificed everything for Kṛṣṇa," this is required."
(Prabhupada Lecture, December 26, 1972, Bombay)
The initiation means bhajana-kriyā. Actually executing devotional service: initiation. And if one actually executes devotional service, then anartha-nivṛttiḥ syāt, then all nonsense habits will disappear. Then I'll not have to stress on the point these four regulative principles. Automatically it will go away. That is the test. How one has properly utilized his initiation will be tested that he has no more attraction for these four principles: illicit sex, intoxication, gambling, and meat-eating. They will automatically go. There is no need of asking. Anartha-nivṛttiḥ syāt. Then ruci. When one is freed from all these prohibitive principles, then he develops a taste, tato ruci. Tato niṣṭhā: then he's steadily confirmed. Athāsaktiḥ. Then attachment: he cannot go. He cannot go. Athāsaktis tato bhāvaḥ. Then ecstasy. And then he comes to the platform of love of Godhead. So when that platform is reached, then everything is successful. And if that platform is not reached, then everything is
Love begins with this give and take
You give something to your lover; he gives you something to you. In this way love develops. Dadāti pratigṛhṇāti. The development takes place, loving affairs, by giving and taking.
Dadāti pratigṛhṇāti bhuṅkte bhojayate caiva [Upadeśāmṛta 4]. When you create loving transaction with any boy or girl or any man, any friend, the give and take. So Kṛṣṇa is teaching us give and take. "You give something," Kṛṣṇa is begging. "You try to love Me. You learn how to love Me. Give Me." "Sir, I have nothing to give You." "Oh, you cannot collect a little fruit and flower and leaf and little water?" "Oh, yes. Why not? Anyone can collect."
So the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is so nice. You can make direct friendship with Kṛṣṇa. You can become direct servant of Kṛṣṇa. Or, in higher stages, you can become father, mother of Kṛṣṇa. Or you can become lover of Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is prepared to establish loving relationship.
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.8 Lecture, July 22, 1971,New York
His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada’s Appearance Day
His Divine Grace Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Gosvami Prabhupada’s Appearance Day
By Prabhupadanugas EU, on February 22nd, 2011
Srila Prabhupada celebrating Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Maharaja’s appearance day
Malati, Gorakhpur, February 15, 1971: This lecture was recorded on February 15, 1971, in the morning, and it was in Gorakhpur, in U.P., India. It was on the occasion of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati’s Appearance Day. That day, we fasted in the morning up till noon time. Then we offered a regular noon meal, and in the evening time there was the feast of four preparations: puris, halava, vegetable, and chutney.
Prabhupada:
etavatalam agha-nirharanaya pumsam sankirtanam bhagavato guna-karma-namnam vikrusya putram aghavan yad ajamilo ’pi narayaneti mriyamana iyaya mukti
Srila Gour Govinda Swami Pastimes, 1978. The Neighbor's Speakers
Posted by Editor/TP/ritvik (spirit a.Tom) on December 20, 2021 at 20:30
So, one weekend in early summer a local family held a wedding; rather a loud wedding. I did not know it was a wedding, thought they were just partying. They had a speaker system playing Filmi songs all day for a day or two in advance. Being a hard core neophyte, I decided this was annoying, did not understand India so well, went for a walk over there. Srila Gour Govinda was rather amused at my determination, and made the usual shaking of head hand waving kind of gesture as if to say, they are all in maya, they will not listen, to my overly puritanical request. I did not understand this was only for a day or two...
They greeted me exceeding nicely, such that i felt abashed, but asked them to quiet it down please! They had me sit, brought sweets, gave me money. They turned it down in half, I left.
An hour late they had gradually turned it back up. LOL, Oh
