Hare Krishna Society

Hare Krsna to all

Pranams

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Below is a very famous and very instructive conversation with Srila Prabhupada where he explains how any person today can become aChristain or follower of Jesus Christ if he follows his teachings. Jesus is a pure devotee of Krsna and capable of delivering any soul back to Godhead-IF he follows his teachings.

Srila Prabhupada explains how one can do this even today, Jesus Christ being “gone” now for over 2000 years.

So below, in the conversation, I have added in red letters the name “devotee” instead for the word Christian and ” Bhagavad gita” for Bible.The two words, either devotee or Christian are interchangeable and the same goes for Bhagavad gita and Bible. In this way Srila Prabhupada nicely explains how anyone today can become a Christian or Hare Krsna devotee if he follows either Jesus or Srila Prabhupada-both being physically “gone”. In other words, one does not require a physically living spiritual master on this planet for one to accept him and for him to accept you.

It only requires one must follow either’s teachings.

SB 2.9.8 The potency of transcendental sound is never minimized because the vibrator is apparently absent. Therefore Srimad-Bhagavatam or Bhagavad-gita or any revealed scripture in the world is never to be accepted as an ordinary mundane sound without transcendental potency. One has to receive the transcendental sound from the right source, accept it as a reality and prosecute the direction without hesitation. The secret of success is to receive the sound from the right source of a bona fide spiritual master. Mundane manufactured sound has no potency, and as such, seemingly transcendental sound received from an unauthorized person also has no potency. One should be qualified enough to discern such transcendental potency, and either by discriminating or by fortunate chance if one is able to receive the transcendental sound from the bona fide spiritual master, his path of liberation is guaranteed.

Hare Krsna

Damaghosa das

————————–

THE RITVIK SYSTEM EASILY EXPLAINED BY SRILA PRABHUPADA, SEATTLE 1968

681002LE.SEA Lectures Madhudvisa: Is there any way for a Christian (devotee) to, without the help of a spiritual master ( Prabhupada ), to reach the spiritual sky through believing in the words of Jesus Christ (Prabhupada ) and trying to follow his teachings? Prabhupada: I don’t follow. Tamala Krsna: Can a Christian (devotee) in this age, without a spiritual master, but by reading the Bible (Bhagavad gita) and following Jesus’s (Prabhupadas ) words, reach the… Prabhupada: When you read Bible, (Bhagavad gita) you follow spiritual master.(Prabhupada) How can you say without? As soon as you read Bible, (Bhagavad gita) that means you are following the instruction of Lord Jesus Christ, (Prabhupada) that means you are following spiritual master. So where is the opportunity of being without spiritual master? Madhudvisa: I was referring to a living spiritual master. Prabhupada: Spiritual master is not the question of… Spiritual master is eternal. Spiritual master (Prabhupada) is eternal. So your question is without spiritual master. Without spiritual master (Prabhupada) you cannot be, at any stage of your life. You may accept this spiritual master or that spiritual master . That is a different thing. But you have to accept. As you say that “by reading Bible,” (Bhagavad gita) when you read Bible (Bhagavad gita) that means you are following the spiritual master (Prabhupada ) represented by some priest or some clergyman (ritvik) in the line of Lord Jesus Christ.(Prabhupada) So any case, you have to

follow a spiritual master.There cannot be the question without spiritual master. Is that clear? Madhudvisa: I mean like we couldn’t understand the teachings of the Bhagavad-gita without your help, without your presentation. Prabhupada: Similarly, you have to understand Bible (Bhagavad gita) with the help of the priest (ritvik) in the church. Madhudvisa: Yes. But is he receiving a good interpretation from his disciplic succession or his bishop? Because there seems to be some kind of a discrepancy in the interpretation of the Bible.(Bhagavad gita) There’s many different sects of Christianity (devotees) that interpret the Bible (Bhagavad gita) in different ways. Prabhupada: Of course, there cannot be any interpretation in the Bible.(Bhagavad gita) Then there is no authority of Bible (Bhagavad gita). If you interpret something… Just like “Call a spade a spade.” So if you call something else, that is a different thing. He’s not spiritual master. Just like this is watch. Everybody has called it watch, and if I call it spectacle, then what is the value of my being spiritual master? I’m misleading. (laughter) It is watch, that I must say. So when there is misinterpretation, he’s not a bona fide spiritual master. He’s not spiritual master, what is called a bona fide. then what kind of a spiritual master I am? Reject him immediately. That intelligence you must have, who is a pseudo spiritual master or real spiritual master. Otherwise you’ll be cheated. And that is being done. Everyone is interpreting in his own way. The Bhagavad-gita, there are thousands of editions, and they have tried to interpret in their own way, all nonsense. They should be all thrown away. Simply you have to read Bhagavad-gita as it is. Then you’ll understand. There is no question of interpretation. Then the authority is gone. As soon as you interpret, then there is no authority.

Hare Krsna to all

Pranams

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Because it is Kali yuga, the age of quarrel and hypocrisy, it is very very easy for one

who desires spiritual life to become cheated. He or she will be cheated by practically

everyone who poses as a spiritualist. This is not my opinion, but the words of

Srila Prabhupada, the Acarya or Guru for the worldwide Hare Krsna Movement.

He often would tell us that if you don’t know what gold looks like and someone offers you

pyrite (imitation gold) and wants to sell it to you, then because you don’t actually know what

real gold is, you will be cheated. Therefore it is incumbent upon every aspiring spiritualist, to

make him or herself familiar with the terms of “real gold”. That very valuable information is to follow.

This article is a follow up to the previous one I just sent out yesterday, entitled “The process of accepting a bona fide guru”.

Hare Krsna

Damaghosa das

——————–

A First class person wants to make his life spiritually perfect.

A Second class person wants great riches by political or business means

A Third class person wants riches by industry or mercantile work

A Fourth class person wants only to fill the belly.

Some Qualifications of bona fide guru

“UNLESS ONE IS UNDER THE SHELTER OF A REALIZED SPIRITUAL MASTER, HIS UNDERSTANDING OF THE SUPREME IS SIMPLY FOOLISHNESS.” TLC.

SOME OF THE QUALIFICATIONS OF A BONA FIDE SPIRITUAL MASTER.

1) Above the 4 defects-mistakes, illusion, imperfect senses, cheating.

2) When a devotee is perfectly qualified in chanting the Transcendental vibration of the Holy Names, he is quite fit to become SM and deliver all the people of the world. (TLC)

3) The guru must be situated on the top most platform of devotional service. There are 3 classes of devotees and the guru must be accepted from the top most class. When one has attained the top most position of maha bhagavata, he is to be accepted as a guru and worshipped exactly like Hari, the Personality of Godhead. ONLY such a person is eligible to occupy the post of guru. CC Mad24.330

4) Since one cannot visually experience the presence of the supersoul, He appears before us as a liberated devotee. Such a SM is none other that Krsna Himself. CC Ant 5.171

5) When a pure devotee speaks, he speaks perfectly. How is this? His speech is managed by Krsna Himself within the heart.”

Continue reading →

Hare Krsna to all

Pranams

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Below we have summarized a few lectures by Srila Prabhupada where he nicely explains

who will find a real guru, and how to determine who is a real guru.

He says-

1. accept a guru who is infallible

2.If you dont get a qualified guru, then everything is bogus

3.if you dont find such a guru, that means Krsna is not pleased or your not serious

4.guru must be accepted from highest order- paramahamsa

5.who has been cheated by bogus gurus? He says-“Practically everyone”

Hare Krsna

Damaghosa das

————————–

761003SB.VRN Lectures … Sisyas te ‘ham sadhi mam prapannam: “Now, Krsna, I accept You as my guru. Not as friend.” Because friendly talking is useless waste of time. He accepted Him as guru. When guru speaks, you cannot argue. That is not the process. You should accept a guru who is infallible. Otherwise it is useless. He accepted guru Krsna because Krsna is infallible. If we accept guru, a bogus guru, then it is no benefit. Guru means Krsna’s representative. Not that everyone can be guru.

720911rc.arl Conversations Prabhupada: Just like Dhruva Maharaja. He was advised by his mother that “If you go to the forest you can see God.” So he went there. But when he was very serious, then Krsna sent him Narada Muni. So if you are actually serious about Krsna, then Krsna will send you some of His representative and he will take charge of you. That is the process. If you do not find a guru, that means Krsna is not yet pleased, either you are not serious.

720629rc.sd Conversations Devotee: What determines, Srila Prabhupada, if one is serious or one is not serious? What makes one… Prabhupada: Well, this seriousness comes after many, many births. It is also not so easy. Rupa Gosvami says, tatra laulyam api mulyam ekalam janma-koti-sukrtair na labhyate. He wrote a verse, krsna-bhakti-rasa-bhavita matih kriyatam yadi kuto ‘pi labhyate: “The krsna-bhakti, Krsna consciousness, this thing, if you can purchase somewhere, just immediately purchase it.” Krsna-bhakti-rasa-bhavita matih kriyatam: “Just purchase.” Yadi kuto ‘pi labhyate. First of all, if you want to purchase, the things must be available. Yadi kuto. Therefore kuto ‘pi, “If it is available, immediately purchase.” Then next question is, “What is the value? What is the price I have to pay?” Then he said, tatra laulyam ekalam mulyam, “Simply your serious eagerness to have it. That is the price.” “Oh, that I can have very easily.” “No.” Janma-koti-sukrtair na labhyate: “That laulyam, that seriousness, is not obtained after thousands of years’ pious activities.” It is so difficult. Janma-koti-sukrtair na labhyate. People are acting piously, but that kind of seriousness is not available even after executing pious activities for thousands of lives. So that seriousness is also very difficult, to become very serious that “In this life I shall finish my business and go home, back to home, back to Godhead.” Bahunam janmanam ante jnanavan mam prapadyate. Krsna says, “After many, many births, when actually one becomes in knowledge, he surrenders unto Me.”

761101SB.VRN Lectures So for that there are so many practices, regulative principles, mentioned here. The first thing is hamse gurau mayi bhaktyanuvrtya. This is religion. Adau gurvasrayam. If you do not get a qualified guru, then everything is bogus. If you, by good fortune, if you get the association of a guru, qualified hamsa, paramahamsa… Paramahamsa guru means sannyasi’s last stage is paramahamsa. Kuticaka, bahudaka, parivrajakacarya, and paramahamsa, these are the different stages.

Continue reading →

761101SB.VRN Lectures

So for that there are so many practices, regulative principles, mentioned here. The first thing is hamse gurau mayi bhaktyanuvrtya. This is religion. Adau gurvasrayam. If you do not get a qualified guru, then everything is bogus. If you, by good fortune, if you get the association of a guru, qualified hamsa, paramahamsa… Paramahamsa guru means sannyasi’s last stage is paramahamsa. Kuticaka, bahudaka, parivrajakacarya, and paramahamsa, these are the different stages. When one takes sannyasa, he lives outside the village in a kuti, in a cottage, and the family members goes and delivers him the food, because he is not practiced. So in the beginning, he keeps up this association of neighborhood or family, but he is not practiced. He therefore lives outside the village, and if somebody gives some food, he eats.

Then when he becomes experienced, then he does not accept food from one, either his own home or one home. He takes foodstuff from many homes: “Give me a little piece of capati.” So somebody gives half, because they are also not overburdened. If they have to deliver, so many sannyasis come, and sumptuous food, then how the grhastha will provide? Therefore though… They do not overburden. There may be other sannyasis, therefore little only. Madhupuri. The Gosvamis practiced this madhupuri in Vrndavana.

Continue reading →

Canakya Pandit was a great moralist, strategist and Brahmana Vaisnava. He left behind him some wonderful sayings that we can readily apply to our daily lives and more so, Srila Prabhupada used to quote him frequently.

So here are just 21, of many, which I am sure most of those who take the time to read them will gain valuable insight in human nature and be able to apply these to our daily association with Vaisnavas, and others..

Hare Krsna

Damaghosa das

————————–

1. Separation from chaste wife, insult by ones own kinsmen, an enemy who is saved in battle, the service of a wicked king, poverty, and the assembly of egotistical people, burn the body without fire.

2. The duty of a gentleman is that he should give his daughter in marriage to one who is born in a high family and engage his son in learning higher knowledge, and inspire his friends for religious and pious activities.

3.The beauty of a cuckoo bird is her sweet voice. likewise the beauty of a woman is her chastity, along with her love for her husband. And the beauty of an ugly person is his knowledge and the beauty of an ascetic is his power of forgiveness.

4.If by abandoning one person the whole family can be saved, then one must abandon him gladly. If by abandoning a family the whole village can be saved, then the family has to be sacrificed. If the district is in danger and by abandoning one village the district can be saved, then the village must be sacrificed without hesitation. And for the welfare of ones self, the entire world should be abandoned cheerfully.

5.Queen Sita was stolen away due to her extreme beauty. Ravana was banished due to his extreme vanity. Bali maharaj was tied with a rope due to his being the extreme donor. Therefore a gentleman should not be an extremist.

6.Just as one single tree with one single blossum perfumes the entire forest , in the same way one single

devotee born in a family enlightens the entire history the race. And everyone enjoys the fragrance of his love enlightenment.

7.Nothing can be a burden for a powerful man. No country is far away for a man of efforts. No country is foreign for an educated person and no one is a stranger who has developed the habit of speaking sweet words always.

8.In the country where the foolish people are never respected, where the grain is stored in full capacity, where the husband and wife do not quarrel, there take it for granted, the Goddess of Fortune resides.

Continue reading →

This book Jaiva Dharma, is in Srila Prabhupada’s word “very important”. And after reading it now for the second and third time, I can see why he said this. Since I don’t have it on computer file I must hand type out every quote you will see here below. But it is so important I am willing to take the time and do this and share it with others who have a similar appreciation for Bhaktivinode Thakur’s works.

I hope those of you who take the time to read these statements, will get as much, if not more, out of it than did I.

Hare Krsna,

Damaghosa das

———————-

Chapter 8, Jaiva Dharma-Nitya Dharma and Vaisnava Behavior-translated by Sarvabhavana das starting at pg. 110

He begins this chapter by quoting Manu samhita 6.92 with the 10 characteristics of religiosity. Contentment, forgiveness, not revenging a wrong, self control, remaining in control of the mind in spite of the presence of allurements, honesty, cleanliness, withdrawing the senses from sense objects, scriptural knowledge, education, knowledge of the soul, trutfulness, awareness of reality and freedom from anger, to be not angered when provoked.

Of these, 6 are characteristics directed to oneself and 4 are obligations to others. However the duty or worshipping the Supreme Lord Sri Hari is not clearly delineated in any of these 10 characteristics.

Then he quotes SB 2.3.19 which states that “men who are like dogs, hogs, camels and asses praise those men who never listen to the transcendental pastimes of Sri Krsna, the deliverer from evils.”

This is meant to distinguish ordinary moral persons, who are on the material level, from Vaisnavas who are not in the material world. A huge gulf of difference between the two.

Now he begins to make the distinctions between kanistha (3^rd class), madhyama (2^nd class) and Uttama (1^st class) devotees.

SB 11.2.47—Arcayam eva haraye, pujam yah sraddhayehate, na tad bhaktesu canyesu, sa bhaktah prakrtah smrtah.

A materialistic devotee does not purposefully study the sastra and try to understand the actual standard of pure devotional service. Consequently he does not show proper respect to advanced devotees. He may however follow the regulative principles he has learnt from his spiritual master or family tradition and worship the Deity in the temple. He is to be considered as being on the material platform although he is trying to advance in devotional service.

Such a person is bhakta praya or bhakta abhasa, a neophyte devotee for he is but a little enlightened about the Vaisnava philosophy. One who worships the Deity of the Lord with faith, but neither respects the created living creatures of the Lord nor worships and serves His devotees with devotion is a prakrta-bhakta…To worship the Deity of the Lord with sraddha is certainly bhakti, but without worshipping and serving the devotee of the Lord, one cannot execute suddha –bhakti. This position of serving the Lord but not His pure devotee can be described as being at best a step inside the portals of the realm of bhakti.

Now the Thakur quotes SB 10.84.13—“One who identifies his self as the inert body composed of mucus bile and air who assumes his wife and family are permanently his own, who thinks an earthen image of the land of his birth are worshippable, or who see a place of pilgrimage as merely the water there, but who never identifies himself with, feels kinship with, worships or even visits those who are wise in spiritual truth-such a person is no better than a cow or an ass.”

Continue reading →

The Glories of Bhagavad Gita

from the Hari-bhakti-viläsa 6.214-228

skände avanté-khaëòe çré-vyäsoktau – gétä sugétä kartavyä kim anyaiù çästra-vistaraiù yä svayaà padma-näbhasya mukha-padmäd viniùsåtä In the Skanda-puräëa, Srila Vyasadev says, “Memorize and sing sweetly this Bhagavad-gétä. What need is there to elaborate on other scriptures? She has descended directly from the lotus mouth of Lord Padmanabh.”

sarva-çästra-mayé gétä sarva-deva-mayé yataù sarva-dharma-mayé yasmät tasmäd etäà samabhyaset The Bhagavad-gétä contains the essence of all literatures. It is the sum total of all the demigods and the sum total of all religion. Therefore, one should study the Bhagavadgétä thoroughly.

çälagräma-çilägre tu gétädhyäyaà paöhet tu yaù manvantara-sahasräëi vasate brahmaëaù pure

One who recites a chapter from the Bhagavadgétä in front of a sälagräma-silä resides for a thousand manvantaras in Lord Brahma’s abode. teneñöaà kratubhiù sarvair dattaà tena gaväyutam gétäm abhyasyatä nityaà tenäptaà padam avyayam Such a person attains the result of donating ten thousand cows and the result of conducting all Vedic sacrifices. Those who constantly study the Bhagavad-gétä attain to the eternal spiritual world.

gétädhyäyaà paöhed yas tu çlokaà çlokärdham eva vä bhava-päpa-vinirmukto yäti viñëoù paraà padaà By reading a chapter, a verse or even half a verse from the Bhagavad-gétä, one is liberated from all sins and attains the topmost destination of Lord Vishnu’s planets.

yo nityaà viçva-rüpäkhyam adhyäyaà paöhati dvijaù vibhütià deva-devasya tasya puëyaà vadämy aham A brahmin who studies the tenth and eleventh chapter of the Bhagavad-gétä attains the following result [as described in the next verse].

vedair adhétair yat puëyaà setihäsaiù purätanaiù çlokenaikena tat puëyaà labhate nätra saàçayaù äbrahma-stamba-paryantaà jagat-tåptià karoti saù viçva-rüpaà sadädhyäyaà vibhütià ca paöhet tu yaù By studying a single verse from these two chapters one attains the same result as studying all the Vedas

Itihäsas and Puräëas, of which there is no doubt. One who studies the tenth and eleventh chapters enjoys all pleasures enjoyed by all living entities — from the ordinary blades of grass up to Lord Brahma.

ahany ahani yo martyo gétädhyäyaà paöhet tu vai dvätriàçad-aparädhäàs tu kñamate tasya keçavaù Lord Keshava forgives all thirty-two kinds of offenses for a mortal who recites a chapter of the Bhagavad-gétä.

likhitvä vaiñëavänäà ca gétä-çästraà prayacchati dine dine ca yajate harià cätra na saàçayaù There is no doubt that those who copy and gift this literature to the devotees of the Lord attain the same result as worshiping Lord Hari daily.

Continue reading →

Hare Krsna-pranams to all

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Below we have 6 letters Prabhupada wrote to disciples indicating the

importance of daily reading his books, especially Bhagavad Gita.

If you get knowledge, automatically tapasyä will follow, and then you will make advancement in spiritual life. So to get knowledge is the first item for anyone who is hoping to find his perfection of life. Therefore, I advise you to daily read our books as far as possible and try to understand the subject matter from different angles of vision by discussing frequently with the devotees at the New York temple. (Letter to Bob, 16 June 1972)

Therefore, I recommend you to read our books more and more and try to understand the subject matter from different angles of vision and be always discussing it with your god brothers even while you are working at the press, and when you are working and you cannot read, then listen to the tapes of my lectures and hear in that way. (Letter to Bhargava, 13 June 1972) I am very much stressing nowadays that my students shall increase their reading of my books and try to understand them from different angles of vision. Each çloka can be seen from many, many angles of vision, so become practiced in seeing things like this. If we are selling the books but we do not know what is inside the book, then that will be a farce, especially if you are preaching and selling books to the students of Edinburgh. (Letter to Tribhuvanatha, 16 June 1972)

I am very much stressing at this point that all of my students shall be very much conversant with the philosophy of Krishna consciousness, and that they should read our books very diligently at least one or two hours daily and try to understand the subject matter from varieties of angles. We are holding our morning class in Los Angeles in the temple and I am speaking from 7 to 8 am, and the process is that we are going through some chapters of Srimad Bhägavatam by taking one sloka each day, and reading the Sanskrit aloud. Each word is pronounced by me and repeated by the students and then all

together we chant the sloka several times until we have learned it. And then we discuss the subject matter very minutely and inspect it from all angles of approach and savor the new understandings. So you introduce this system in all of the centers in your zone and you will discover that everyone becomes very much enlivened by these daily classes. Read one sloka and discuss and then go on to the next sloka on the next day, and so on, and even you discuss one verse each day it will take you fifty years to finish the Srimad Bhägavatam in this way. So we have got ample stock for acquiring knowledge. And if the students get knowledge more and more, they will automatically become convinced and very easily perform their duties for tapasyä or renunciation of the material bondage, and that will be their successful advancement in Krishna consciousness. So I want that advancement amongst all of my students, so you are responsible that the standard will be maintained. (Letter to Madhudvisa, 16 June 1972)

Your first job should be to make sure that every one of the devotees in your zone of management is reading regularly our literature and discussing the subject matter seriously from different angles

of seeing, and if they are somehow or other absorbing the knowledge of Krishna consciousness philosophy. If they are fully educated in our philosophy and if they can get all of the knowledge and study it from every viewpoint, then very easily they will perform tapasyä (renunciation) and that will be their advancement in Krishna consciousness. (Letter to Satsvarupa, 16 June 1972)

So especially you must encourage the students to read our books throughout the day as much as possible, and give them all good advice how to understand the books, and inspire them to study the things from every point of view. In this way, by constantly engaging our tongues in the service of the Lord, either by discussing his philosophy or by chanting Hare Krishna, the truth is that Krishna himself will reveal himself to us and we shall understand how to do everything properly. (Letter to Hamsaduta,22 June 1972)

Yes, this program is very nice to try to attract the attention of the students seriously. That will be a great success. They should put intelligent questions and they should be answered properly with reference to modern science and philosophy. That will be very much convincing. I think if you read our books thoroughly you will get a supply of material to answer all the questions. Now I am preparing one book answering all types of philosophical arguments. Every morning, Shyamsundar is putting questions from different angles of vision beginning from Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, etc. and we are trying to answer. We shall discuss also Marx philosophy of communism. It will require some time but I wish that all our preachers should be well versed with all philosophical ideas and after studying all philosophical points of view we will put Krishna Conscious philosophy on the top. (Letter to Madhudvisa, 15 September 1971)

761026SB.VRN Lectures 224955/530501

So if you want to stop these varieties of body, then you should give up all these nonsense desires. Anyabhilasita-sunyam jnana-karmady-anavrtam. You are jnani, you are karmi, you are yogi, but your desires are all different. One yogi wants that “I shall fly in the sky.” One yogi wants, “I shall walk on the water.” One yogi thinks, “I shall create gold and show magic to the rascal people that I am God.” This is going on. One jnani, he is speaking something, one karmi… This is going on. Therefore there are varieties, varieties of desires. You have to stop these nonsense desires. That is wanted. Otherwise, you are implicated. You are implicated. So, therefore you can stop your desires only by becoming Krsna conscious. Otherwise, they will go on. Svamin krtartho ‘smi varam na yace. This is Dhruva Maharaja said. He had desires, very, very great desires that “I shall have, I shall possess a kingdom greater than Brahma, greater than my father.”

He was insulted by his stepmother. This is desire. This is We are Action and reaction. So he desired that “I shall have a great kingdom–greater kingdom than my father.” He went to the forest and he underwent very severe austerities, a five-years-old boy. He saw, Krsna came. So when He wanted to give him, fulfill his desires, he said, svamin krtartho ‘smi varam na yace: “No, no, no, no. I have nothing to ask from You.” This is Krsna consciousness. No more desires. Otherwise, karmi, jnani, yogi, and bhakta. Akamah sarva-kamo va moksa-kama udara-dhih. Moksa-kama, the jnanis they want moksa, to merge into the existence of Brahman. The yogis, they want siddhis, some perfection, material perfection, to show some magic. And the karmis, they want sense gratification. Therefore Caitanya Mahaprabhu said that karmi jnani yogi sakali asanta. Asanta, they cannot be at peace because they are desiring. So long you want, you desire, there will be no peace. Krsna-bhakta–niskama, ataeva santa. So this is the recommendation, nunam pramattah kurute-vikarma. They are mad after sense gratification and doing everything nonsense which is forbidden in the sastra.

You know, those who are too much after fulfilling desires, they even kill his own men. He’ll kill his own child. Because the mother desiring that “I have become pregnant. It is botheration. It will check my sense gratification. Kill.” Vikarma. Nunam pramattah kurute vikarma. He doesn’t see that what will be the result of it. Vikarma. Karma, vikarma, akarma. Karma means prescribed duties, according… Just like law. “You keep to the right,” this is law. And as soon as you keep to the wrong side, left, it is vikarma. This is karma and vikarma. But for sense-gratification we execute vikarma. So therefore we are implicating and we are preparing for the next life. Yam yam vapi smaran bhavam tyajaty ante kalevaram: at the time of death these desires become prominent. Even without desire we get so many ideas and dream at night. So at the time of death, on account of our vikarma, we shall create a situation, and the next life we get a similar body. That’s all. Nunam pramattah kurute. Na sadhu manye yata atmano ‘yam. I have got already one body which is klesada. Everyone has got experience. No one is here who can say that “My body is very nice. There is no klesa.

There is no pains and pleasure. I am very perfect.” That is not possible. As soon as you get a material body, it must be subjected to so many sufferings: adhyatmika, adhibautika, adhidaivika. Tribulations there must be. Material body means klesada. Therefore the Vedic civilization is to stop getting this material body. That is Vedic civilization. Not that increase. That is explained in the Bhagavad-gita. Two things are there. You must accept, you must get the service of Krsna. Otherwise you go on in this way. Mrtyu-samsara-vartamani. Asraddadhanan purusa dharmasyasya parantapa mam aprapya. If you don’t get Krsna, then there is no other way. There is no other alternative. The only alternative is

mrtyu-samsara-vartmani. You get one body and again you die, again get another body. This will go on. Therefore we should not Na sadhu manye. Rsabhadeva, boys, said, “This is not good.” Na sadhu manye yata atmano ‘yam asann api klesada asa dehah. So this culture, this education, is practically nil. Especially in Kali-yuga, it is very regrettable. But the informations are there, the science is there. If one is intelligent, he can take advantage of this science, Krsna consciousness, and mold his life accordingly so that he can stop this process of accepting a body which is klesada. Klesada. That is the perfection of life. And that can be simply done very easily if you simply study Krsna, if you come in this temple and see Krsna. Very simple method. Mayy asakta-manah partha yogam yunjan mad-asrayah.

These are not our manufacture; Krsna says. You come here. The temple is meant for this purpose: that you come, see Krsna, and be attached to Krsna. The more you become attached to Krsna, that is called bhakti-yoga.

mayy asakta-manah partha

yogam yunjan mad-asrayah

asamsayam samagram mam

yatha jnasyasi…

Then what will be the benefit? Suppose I understand you very perfectly. Then what will be the result? The result is,

janma karma ca divyam

me yo janati tattvatah

tyaktva deham punar janma

naiti mam eti

Simply. If you simply know Krsna, then this business, repetition of birth and death, will stop. It is so simple thing. So we should take advantage of it and utilize our human form of life perfectly. Thank you very much. (end)

1. Adi 6.85 Some accept Him ( Lord Caitanya ) whereas others do not, yet everyone is His servant. One who does not accept Him, however, will be ruined by his sinful activities.

2. Conversations reporter (2): What will happen to the movement in the United States when you die? Prabhupada: I will never die. devotees: Jaya! Hari bol! (laughter) Prabhupada: I shall live for my books, and you will utilize.

3. 700704AR.SF Lectures

Pressman: Do you know how many followers there are in the United States now? Prabhupada: Unlimited. (devotees roar) Some of them admit and some of them do not admit. That’s all. (laughter) Everyone is eternally servant of God, but some of them admit and some of them do not admit. That is the difficulty. But anyone who does not admit, he is servant of somebody. That is a fact. He cannot be master. Everyone is servant. But one who knows that “I am servant of Krsna,” his life is perfect. That’s all. Please try to understand this point that everyone is servant. Even your president is servant of the nation. So nobody can say that “I am no one’s servant.” He is servant, but he does not know that actually he is the servant of the Supreme Lord. That is his ignorance. We are just eradicating this ignorance, that “You are servant, but you admit that you are servant of God. That will make your life successful.” That’s all. Therefore I say that there are unlimited followers. Some of them admit and some of them do not admit. That is the difficulty. But if anyone comes to me, I shall make him to admit.

———————————————————————————————————–

We can see from the above statement in Caitanya Caritamrta that Krsna das Kaviraj

explicitly states that Lord Sri Krsna Caitanya Mahaprabhu is the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

And those who accept Him will be saved and those who do not, will be ruined.

This same principle can be applied to Caitanya Mahaprabhus predicted Senapati Bhakta, or Field Commander– A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada has been chosen by Lord Gauranga to represent Him in the coming years of Kali yuga. As Srila Prabhupada once said, after him, only Lord Caitanya can save one.

Therefore the conclusion is this- Lord Caitanya and Srila Prabhupada are the ones whom we must surrender to , because without both of them, we are ruined.

Hare Krsna

Damaghosa das

Hare Krishna Society

Prabhupada explain show anyone today can become a disciple of Jesus or Prabhupada

Some qualifications of a bona fide spiritual master

The process of accepting a bona fide guru-SP

If you do not get qualified guru, then everything is bogus-SP

Some Canakya pandit sayings

Vaisnava Behavior In the book Jaiva Dharma by Bhaktivinode Thakur

Some of the benefits of hearing/reading Bhagavad Gita

Studying Prabhupadas books from different angles of vision–most important

Stopping the repitition of birth and death–SP

3 simple, yet profound statments–by SP