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Why a living entity is superior energy?–SP

LA april 30 70

Prabhupāda: Why a living entity is superior energy? Can anyone explain? Why living…? Yes? Stand up.

Devotee: Well, it is stated that the living entity, or the jīva soul, belongs to the jīva-tattva, that categoristic…, falls into that categoristic of the Lord’s energy. He is… Spark…

Prabhupāda: No, the question is why the living entity is called superior energy? That is the question. The material, matter—earth, water, air, fire, sky—the inferior energy; and why the living is called superior energy? Who can explain? Yes? Stand up.

Devotee: Well, the individual living entities are all part and parcel of the Supreme Lord…

Prabhupāda: The part and parcel, this material energy also, part and parcel. Because energy…

Devotee: It’s separated. Material energy’s separated, whereas the superior energy…

Prabhupāda: Separated, and this also, living entities also separated. In this sense. One sense, nothing is separated; but at the same time, separated. But the question is why the living entity’s called superior energy?

Devotee: The living entities are conscious and the material energy’s not.

Prabhupāda: Yes, that is also one of the reasons. Living entity’s conscious, whereas the material energy is not conscious. This is one of the… Yes?

Devotee: The living entity is also eternal, unchanging, whereas the material energy is subject to change repeatedly.

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Bonds of Love: Praharana Devi Dasi

Praharana became a devotee in Toronto in the fall of ’71. At the time she was studying science at the University of Western Ontario. She received a copy of Sri Isopanisad from a friend. It made so much sense that it prompted her to start chanting even though she had never met a devotee. She was also very attracted to Spiritual Sky incense, with the beautiful picture of Vishnu on its packaging and its exotic scents. At that time, Govindam, with Yamuna and George Harrison, was a hit on the radio, and for some reason it was being played every morning when her clock radio alarm activated. It seemed mystical to her. A few months later the Toronto devotees visited the university where she was attending and served a prasada feast. She was reluctant to go to the program when she saw how the devotees were dressed and the way they carried on during their kirtana – one devotee had neck beads the size of golf balls – but curiosity and hunger somehow got her to the feast. There she bought a Macmillan Gita and read it within a few days – after which she wanted to quit school and move into the temple. She spent a week at the temple during her spring break. However, Jagadisa and Laxmimoni told her that since she was only a few months from graduating, she should get her degree. So she received her degree and moved into the temple. In retrospect, she is grateful for that short delay because sixteen years later, as a single mother receiving almost no child support from a devotee ex-husband, she was able to go back to school for her master’s degree and subsequently find a job. Continue reading →

June 11 1974 Paris

Prabhupāda: Yes. Śakuni, yes. They’re vultures, and their civilization is vulture-eater. The animal-eaters, they’re like jackals, vultures, dogs. They’re similar to these animals, the animal-eaters. It is not human food.Here is human food. Here is civilized food, human food. Let them learn it. Uncivilized, vultures, rākṣasas, and they’re leaders. Therefore, I say all fourth-class men, they are leaders. Therefore the whole world is in chaotic condition. We require first-class men to lead. We are first-class men. Take our advice, and then everything will be all right. We are creating first-class men. What is the use of fourth-class men leading? All fourth-class men. If I say so frankly, people will be very angry. All fourth-class men. Basically, they’re all fourth-class men. … So the human being, having higher intelligence, they should learn how to control the senses. This is human life. Human life means controlling. I give this example. Just like in the… In your country, there is no such shop. In our country, the confectioner’s shop is on the roadside, very nice. You have seen in India. They have prepared very nice, nice preparation and exhibited. People come and purchase. So animals, cows, as soon as they take some opportunity, they push their head and take something. Get away.

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Now, the animal, the cow is passing, and a human being is also passing. But the human being, although he’s hungry, he likes to take some of the preparation, but he’ll not do like that animal. He knows that “I have no money. So I shall have to restrain my tongue.” That is human being. The animal pushes the head. So anyone who cannot carry the regulative principles is animal. The law is for human being. “Keep to the left, keep to the right” for… This is not for the dogs. Dogs can keep to the right, keep to the left, anywhere. But he’s not criminal. Because he’s animal. But if a man, instead of keeping to the right, he goes to the left, immediately, he’s criminal. Therefore human society means to abide first-class law. That is human being. The laws must be made for advancement of spiritual life. That is human society.

We cannot violate the mundane morality of this world “for Krsna”-until all our senses are always engaged in His service. This is Paramahamsa stage.

May 6^th 1973 LA

Kṛṣṇa is not hungry. He is self-satisfied, pūrṇa. But if His devotee offers Him something with love and affection, then He accepts. So do not think that “We have made such nice, sumptuous plate for Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa must eat.” No. There is no such thing, “must.” You cannot make Kṛṣṇa must. That is not possible. So Kṛṣṇa will see how much you have love for Him. Then He will accept. Otherwise He’ll reject. Therefore, it is forbidden, those who are non devotee, those who are not initiated, those who are not chanting regularly, their offering to Kṛṣṇa will not be accepted. We must be very careful. We must know our position, whether I am sincerely following the principles of devotional service. Then Kṛṣṇa will accept.

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Hare Krsna–Below you will find some interesting things-but most of all it should become crystal clear in every devotees mind, that there are certain things he should attach himself to and some things he should avoid-if he or she is intelligent and can hear the words from Krsna’s pure devotee, Srila Prabhupada This one is about avoiding those who are envious of the Lords pure devotee.

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.1.)April 28 1974 letter to Rupanuga das-…We shall be very careful about them

(theGaudiya matha) and not mix with them. This is my instruction to you all. They cannot help us in our movement, but they are very competent to harm our natural progress. So we must be very careful about them.

2.)SP letter 9th November, 1975-“All my disciples should avoid all of my God brothers. They should not have any dealings with them nor even correspondence, nor should we give them any of my books, nor should we purchase any of their books, neither should you visit any of their temples. Please avoid them.”

Here is a question for all to ponder-

Why would Srila Prabhupada tell all his disciples to NOT give anybody from the Gaudiya matha his books??

It was and still is an open and well known fact that Srila Prabhupada wanted his books distributed in the millions to all the people of the world in all the different languages.

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Hare Krsna—
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZs2i3Bpxx4

This is a short video presentation(above) about how Chinese wealth has been buying up properties in Canada and USA.

Below is a short version of my story- of how I dealt with rising housing prices-and satisfied Srila Prabhupada and Lord Krsna at the same time.

I have three adult children who all live in Seattle, just 75 miles down the road , south of the border,from Vancouver-and none of them right now are able to afford buying a house in Seattle either today or the near future because of what the market is doing by driving up housing prices thru the roof.

This has become a major problem for people in cities all over the world where concentrated and imported wealth drives out the lower and middle class people, who were the ones who developed these places in the first place.

Ironically,I also just looked at some pamphlets a couple days ago, put out by our local city (Sedro Woolley Wa) and our local county where it explains the average income and average house values. These figures are way below what goes on just 75 miles south of us in Seattle. Here, a house, a very nice house with some land around it, is affordable for the average workers income level. So according to the statistics from the county, this place, where we now live has seen a 70% increase in population in the last 10-20 years, most of it being lately. And the population now is just only 11,000 people. Compare that amount to the population of say Seattle for instance–they have around 3 million people all crammed into one smallish area that has one of the worst traffic problems in America.

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Sri Raghunandana Thakura tirobhava tithi [disappearance day] –

Thursday, July 27, 2017 =Mayapura, West Bengal, India time]

Gaura Goapl and Gopinath of Raghunandana Thakur, Shrikhand).

Srila Prabhupada and Sri Krsna dasa Kaviraja describe

the exalted position and gloriesof Sri Raghunandana Thakura

compiled by Narasimha dasa and Yasoda nandana dasa

kāśīte lekhaka śūdra-śrīcandraśekhara

tāṅra ghare rahilā prabhu svatantra īśvara

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Deity worship to keep us from becoming “transcendental frauds”

Sep t 17 1973 Bombay

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Well, we just fixed up the place. The day you arrived was the first day it was painted. Until then, it was not fit for anyone to come in. It was very nasty.

Prabhupāda: But you are living since a long time there.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: We have been living, but we have not invited others there.

Prabhupāda: No, you invite others or not, whether your program was going on?

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: No, till then it wasn’t, Prabhupāda.

Prabhupāda: Then it was simply a joint mess, that you go and collect and come and eat and sleep.

Tamāla Kṛṣṇa: Yes.

Prabhupāda: That is very dangerous. Then you will all fall down. If you make a joint mess, if you go and collect something and then eat and sleep, then everything will be… Therefore I do not want to keep separate. The temple worship means there will be regulative principles, that you will have to rise early in the morning, you have to attend class, kīrtana… These things, as soon as you give up all these things, zero. Then it will be like karmīs, as they are, hard labor, collecting money, and enjoying senses. That’s all. So that is the pitfall everywhere. In the church, temple, as soon as they get some nice income, then in the name of “priest,” “sādhu,” “sannyāsī,” they do the same thing. Therefore Gosvāmīs, they left everything. That is the danger of viṣaya, viṣaya touch. Viṣaya chāḍiyā se rase majiyā. As soon as we give up this śravaṇam, kīrtanam, then it becomes viṣaya. Viṣaya means materialism. There is no spiritualism. Kṣurasya dhārā, kṣurasya dhārā. Kṣura means sharpened razor. If you are careful, you cleanse very nicely. If you are not careful, immediately blood. Immediately. So the spiritual life is like that. As soon as you become little inattentive, immediately māyā captures, “Yes, come on.” Then everything failure. We have got the tendency to enjoy sense. So senses are strong. As soon as there is opportunity, the senses will take advantage immediately. Then your whole business finished, Choṭa Haridāsa, and rejected by Mahāprabhu, “Get out.” Even associate of Caitanya Mahāprabhu failed, personal associate. So there is chance of falling down even from the personal association of God. Jaya-Vijaya, they had to become demons. So these are the… If we do not follow strictly our regulative principles, routine work, then the whole scheme will be failure. Then, instead of Christianity, it will be “churchianity.” You know this word, “churchianity?” You know? Yes. Everywhere this churchianity is going on. And the real aim is how to enjoy sense, under different cover. That is going on all over the world. Therefore it has come to that Rajneesh. Ramakrishna Mission, Rajneesh mission. Vivekananda has given preached, Yata mata tata patha, Rajneesh also, a mata. They have got also followers. Everyone can manufacture his own way of religion. So sense enjoyment, there is free field. This material world means sense enjoyment. But spiritual life means no sense enjoyment, tapasya. Tapo divyam. Sense enjoyment is there even in the hogs. Then where is the difference between man and hog? The man means the more he has denied sense enjoyment, he is advanced. Otherwise the spirit of sense enjoyment there is in the hogs. That is the difference. Nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke kaṣṭān kāmān arhate viḍ-bhujāṁ ye [SB 5.5.1]. These ordinary men, they are working so hard, but what is their aim? The aim is sense enjoyment. So keeping the point, sense enjoyment, in view, there is no difference between hogs and human beings. Because they are also working day and night, hogs. A particular animal has been mentioned in the śāstra. Nāyaṁ deho deha-bhājāṁ nṛloke. This ayaṁ deho nṛloke, in the human society, is not meant for working so hard simply for sense enjoyment because this spirit is visible even in the hogs. Then what it is meant…? Tapaḥ. Tapasā brahmacaryeṇa [SB 6.1.13]. That is the point. Śamena, damena. Satya-śaucābhyām. Everything is there. And there are different types of sense enjoyment: rūpa, rasa, gandha, śabda, sparśa, six kinds. And each sense, there is an object of sense enjoyment. There is eyes, oh, beautiful woman, sense enjoyment. Maithunam, sex life, there are eight kinds of sex. If one thinks within the mind about sex enjoyment, that is also sex. So anyway, that is the danger, keeping a separate department for money collecting. Then it will turn: “Collect money, eat nicely and sleep nicely.” And to live in the temple, at least, one is forced to rise early in the morning, take bath, to have darśana. They’ll get regulated life. Therefore this temple worship is needed because we are so impure.

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Hare Krishna Society

Why a living entity is superior energy?–SP

Bonds of Love–for Srila Prabhupada–in the early days….

Bonds of Love: Praharana Devi Dasi

If a human cant control his senses-no better than an animal–SP

we cannot violate the mundane morality of this world until—?–SP

“Nor should we give them(Gaudiya matha) any of my books”-SP

How to buy a house/land- in today’s UN- affordable markets

Sri Raghunandana Thakura tirobhava tithi [disappearance day] – Thursday, July 27, 2017 =Mayapura, West Bengal, India time]

Guru Purnima – Srila Sanatana Gowami tirobhava tithi [disappearance day] Sunday, July 9,2017

Sri Gopala Bhatta Goswami writing Hari Bhakti Vilas

Deity Worship to keep from becoming “transcendental frauds”-SP