Hare Krishna Society

720624SB.LA Lectures

The parampara system means… Just like we claim parampara system from Krsna. So whatever Krsna says or He said 5,000 years ago, we are repeating the same thing. That is called parampara system. Not that “The world has changed. Scientific advancement is very great. Now we can interpret in this way and that way.” This is all nonsense. All nonsense. You cannot change a single alphabet. They are all unmistakable. They cannot be changed. So that is niscayam atmanah. If you want to know positively, what is God, then we should take lesson from a self-realized soul who has understood, who has seen. Jnaninas tattva-darsinah. Just like here it is tattva-niscayam atmanah. So tattvam, the truth, so one must have seen the truth, realized the truth. Tad-vijnanartham sa gurum evabhigacchet. That is guru. Means one who has seen the truth. How he has seen the truth? Through the parampara system. Krsna said this, and then Brahma said the same thing, then Narada said the same thing, Vyasadeva said the same thing, and then disciplic succession, Madhvacarya, Madhavendra Puri, Isvara Puri, Lord Caitanya, Sad-gosvami, Krsnadasa Kaviraja Gosvami, Srinivasa Acarya, Narottama dasa Thakura, Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura. In this way. Jagannatha dasa Babaji, Gaura Kisora

dasa Babaji, Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati. Then we are speaking. The same thing. Not that “Because we are modernized… Your modern science has changed.” Nothing has changed. It is all foolishness.

Continue reading →

720404SB.MEL Lectures

So the conclusion is the expert manager, the bank manager, so, if some man in the establishment, is absent, he can do the work immediately because he has learned all the things. Bank manager becomes from the lower clerk. When I was manager in Bose’s laboratory there was a strike. So there was no packer. So I asked all the clerks to, “Come on. Let us pack.” As soon as we begin packing, the strike was broken. So a man claiming to be in the high position, he must be expert in everything. He must be expert in everything. So therefore a Vaisnava is called daksa, expert. Expert. So our, this Krsna consciousness movement being the highest, topmost quality, so in case we require to do the work, some lower quality, we cannot say that “I do not know.” We must do it.

Continue reading →

Devotee (1): Srila Prabhupada, if Krsna is everywhere, why do we

stress the importance of living a very strict life in the temple

atmosphere?

Prabhupada: But have you got the eyes to see Krsna everywhere?

Devotee (1): No, Srila Prabhupada.

Prabhupada: Then you must attention give to temple. When you have got

the eyes to see Krsna everywhere, you may not require temple worship.

But why do you try to imitate that? You have no eyes to see that. Yes.

Continue reading →

Hare Krsna to All

Pranams

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Below we have part 3/4 from Vol 5 of the Srimad Bhagavatam lectures series by Srila

Prabhupada. I just love reading these lectures every day and want to share the nectar

I get from him to all who also want to listen to the illuminating words of a pure devotee

of Lord Krsna. These are only short snipets of lectures where I have taken out only part

of a part of what is contained within them. I do hope all who receive this series enjoys them

as much as I do.

If you want off this list, please let me know.

thanks

Hare Krsna

Damaghosa das

Some topics covered below:

* Process of going back to Home means the 26 pure qualities manifest

* Go to mangal arotik- or sell one Krsna book that day if you miss..

* Guru means simply repeating

* understanding SB-1 verse takes 7 months or 1,500 years for whole thing

* Street kirtan is all auspicious for all

* How he began in NY with a tom tom drum-no prasadam at all

* Benefit of selling one book

* How to see God everywhere

* When we see God everywhere then we dont need a temple

* Having this body is like piling up garbage

Go ahead and dive in…..

Continue reading →

Hare Krsna to All

Pranams

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Below is one of my favorite lectures delivered by Srila Prabhupada.

Why is that ?

Because he explains so clearly, so nicely, in such a way that practically

anyone can understand-WHY we remain in this material world-even as devotees.

Spend a little “quality time” here with the Lord’s empowered representative and

see what I mean..

Hare Krsna

Damaghosa das

720420SB.TOKYO Lectures

Karandhara: Translation: (SB 2.9.1) Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: O King, unless one is influenced by the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, there is no meaning to the relationship of the pure soul in pure consciousness with the material body. It is just like the dreamer seeing his own body working.” Prabhupada: So, purport? Karandhara: “Purport. The question of Maharaja Pariksit is perfectly answered as to how a living entity began his material life, although he is apart from the material body and the mind.” Prabhupada: It is a very important question. Pariksit Maharaja inquired… Many people inquired that “How the living entity was with Krsna, he became fallen in this material world?” Is not done? This question is raised? So this question is answered here, that “How the living entity who was with Krsna became fallen down in contact with this material qualities?” So this is the answer. Read the translation. Karandhara: “Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said: O king, unless one is influenced by the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead…” Prabhupada: It is simply the influence of the material energy, nothing. Actually he has not fallen. Another example given is given. Just like the moon is covered with scattered cloud, the passing cloud.

Continue reading →

Adi 4.40 Thus He spread kirtana even among the untouchables. He wove a wreath of the holy name and prema with which He garlanded the entire material world.

Adi 4.41 In this way, assuming the sentiment of a devotee, He preached devotional service while practicing it Himself.

PURPORT

When Rupa Gosvami met Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu at Prayaga (Allahabad), he offered his respectful obeisances by submitting that Lord Caitanya was more magnanimous than any other avatara of Krsna because He was distributing love of Krsna. His mission was to enhance love of Godhead. In the human form of life the highest achievement is to attain the platform of love of Godhead. Lord Caitanya did not invent a system of religion, as people sometimes assume. Religious systems are meant to show the existence of God, who is then generally approached as the cosmic order-supplier. But Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu’s transcendental mission is to distribute love of Godhead to everyone. Anyone who accepts God as the Supreme can take to the process of chanting Hare Krsna and become a lover of God. Therefore Lord Caitanya is the most magnanimous. This munificent broadcasting of devotional service is possible only for Krsna Himself. Therefore Lord Caitanya is Krsna. Continue reading →

Hare Krsna to All

Pranams

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

As Most of you know this Wednesday is the appearance day of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu.

Below is some more nectar that can be realized from His inexhaustible glories.

damaghosa das

Eight Forms of Gaura’s Name by Sri Raghunandan Goswami

The following verse gives Gaura’s name in the eight cases of Sanskrit Grammar:

gauraù sac-caritämåtämåta-nidhir gauraà sadaiva stuve gaureëa prathitaà rahasya-bhajanaà gauräya sarvaà dade gauräd asti kåpälur atra na paro gaurasya bhåtyo ’bhavam gaure gauravam äcarämi bhagavan gaura prabho rakña mäm

(1) Gauraù — Gaura’s ecstatic transcendental pastimes are like an ocean of nectar. (Gaura as the subject)

(2) Gauram — It is Lord Gaura who is eternally worshipable. (Gaura as the object)

(3) Gaureëa — It is through Gaura that the confidential secrets of krsna-bhajana were revealed. (Gaura as the instrument of action)

(4) Gauräya — Unto Gaura everything should be given. (Gaura as the recipient of action)

(5) Gaurät — No one is more merciful than Gaura. (Gaura in a comparative sense) Continue reading →

Hare Krsna to All

Pranams

All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Below we have part 2/of 4 parts of Vol 5 of the Srimad Bhagavatam lectures by Srila Prabhupada.

I am sending this out in 4 parts so as not to overwhelm anyone by the sheer masiveness of the siksa contained in our Jagat Gurus bhasyas of this sacred and ancient text.

So here it is…..

Damaghosa das

——————

Some topics covered below:

* Scientists dont pray to God for permission to go to moon planet,

but when in personal danger-THEN they pray.

German women prayed to God for their menfolk to come back from the war-but did

not come back, so they became atheists.

* car civilization they think is so advanced, but comes with millions of major problems.

Happy village life with pracically no problems they call that “primitive”.

* vedic civilization had no petrol or food problems

* Evolution means evolution of consciousness

* devotees who preach are the Lords weapons

* How to overthrow the govt

* before coming to KC look at a photo of your face and compare to now

* Vedic life-regulated-now nobody is regulated therefore so many diseases, problems

* Vedic life was one of independence.

* material opulence not good for spiritual life

* namabhasa stage(without offense in canting) is mukti

Continue reading →

More than enough here in part two!! Now being printed and filed!! Will ROB, Read On Bus! 🙂 The demonic presence is now suffering from scattered reception, their atomic vibrational cohesion is slowing and at the point that during interface with the fourth dimension they will dissipate in their bodies in the same manner that the sun dissipates urine in the street. That is a fact and is happening NOW! 🙂 The fun part is that, even reading this they have no idea what I am talking about. Nice, then they will be caught by surprise, the most valuable part of any attack.

Ys Hasti Gopala Dasa

Srila Prabhupada’s Works Are Conclusive.

By Hasti Gopala Dasa Toronto Canada

All of Srila Prabhupada’s original literary works are conclusive, in other words their content puts an end to doubt, questions or uncertainty, they inform decisively. Any illegal changes to these literary works leaves them inconclusive, or not finally settled, interminate. Logically that is a fact because the presence of literary changes without reference to the original texts leaves the readers unknowingly abandoned. This we know from the perspective of the original texts and their pundits. This reality is observed by those engaged in surreptitious changes disguised as a benefit to humanity. Their observations we suspect, are then used to perpetrate an alternative path of reality for the reader once the former path has been revealed as false. Unfortunately, for them the simple act of constant changes themselves reveals an activity with no purpose when viewed in the light of the Hare Krsna movements original successes.

Continue reading →

The following narration is from the visionary Memories series of Shriman Siddhanta das Adhikary. It is the remembrance of Shriman Bahushiras das Adhikary given in DVD 44 and in vol. 3, p. 334 of the book Memories-Anecdotes of a Modern-Day Saint.

After Shrila Prabhupada’s disappearance, [Patita Pavana das] asked if I’d like to assist Satswarupa’s Lilamrita project by interviewing people in India who had known Shrila Prabhupada. One of them was Acharya Prabhakar Misra, Prabhupada’s first disciple. Acharya Prabhakar Misra was clean-cut, well-behaved and articulate. His demeanor impressed me. He held a MA and PhD and was a very cultured Sanskrit scholar and teacher. In Jhansi, Prabhupada had told Acharya Prabhakar. “I met you because I saw you in a dream and I knew that I was supposed to come here.” Prabhupada and he would do bhajan together. They’d hold Rathayatra festivals and they’d have programme in villages in the area.

Acharya Prabhakar said that on Shri Krishna Janmashtami in 1954, he had to go to Delhi. When he returned to Jhansi, he took a little rest, woke up at 1:00 am and heard Shrila Prabhupada ecstatically playing mridanga in the temple room. Prabhupada was chanting in total bliss. Acharya Prabhakar went upstairs and saw Shrila Prabhupada bouncing around the temple room performing kirtan. Prabhupada was wearing a kadamba flower garland that went all the way down to his feet. Kadamba flowers are very rare in Jhansi and when they are available they are usually the size of a golf ball. But the ones Prabhupada was wearing were big, the size of tennis balls. And he said that the atmosphere right down to the atoms in the room was not material, aprakrita. The place was surcharged with the fragrance of the heavenly planets. Acharya Prabhakar wanted to ask Shrila Prabhupada, “Where did this garland come from? It is not available from the market.” But Shrila Prabhupada would not answer. His Divine Grace just kept on performing kirtan, bouncing round the room and chanting. The next morning Acharya Prabhakar asked Shrila Prabhupada, “Where did you get the garland, why did it have such a rich fragrance, and why were you feeling so blissful?”

Continue reading →

Hare Krishna Society

What is the parampara system?-SP No one has the right to change it !

Vaisnava can do any kind of work for Krsna- and is expert at it–SP

Why deity worship is essential and not optional-SP

Srila Prabhupada’s SB classes-summary file–VOLUME 5 P:III

Why we choose to remain in this material world, life after life-SP

Wednesday March 7th -The appearance day of Lord Gaurahari

8 different forms of Lord Gauras Names

Srila Prabhupada’s SB classes-summary file–VOLUME 5 P:II

Part 2 : Comment upon ISKCON Law – GBC Elections & Term Limits: Detrimental Or Beneficial

When Lord Krishna Garlanded Prabhupada