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Bhakti Yoga-Devotional Service to the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna

Bhakti Yoga-Devotional Service to the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna
Gopis performing Devotional Service to the Lordships Sri Sri Radha Krishna

Why Depressed and Disappointed?

Why Depressed and Disappointed?

                                                                                                        by Srila Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja

 

     If you have strong faith, you will get Krishna.  You have faith, but it is not strong. It is soft faith. At any time it can break and you feel yourself disappointed, depressed. Why such feelings? Why disappointed? Why depressed? Because you do not have strong faith in Krishna.  You have no faith in sadhu-sastra-guru vakya  You have lost faith, therefore you feel disappointed and depressed.

 

     Faith is the most important thing. It has been stressed in Bhagavad-gita, in Srimad Bhagavatam, and all of our acaryas have said it. Rupa Goswami says in Bhakti-rasamrta-sindhu (1.4.15-16) that everything begins with sraddha:

 

adau sraddha tatah sadhu-sango 'tha bhajana-kriya

tato 'nartha-nivrttih syat tato nistha rucis tatah

 

athasaktis tato bhavas tatah premabhyudancati

sadhakanam ayam premna pradurbhave bhavet kramah

    

     "First comes sraddha, faith; next sadhu-sanga, association with saintly persons; after that bhajana-kriya, spiritual practices; then anartha-nivrtti, cessation of all offenses or obstacles; next nistha, firmness; which is followed by ruci, taste; after that asakti, attachment; then bhava; and then appears prema.  These are the different stages leading to prema's appearance within the heart of a spiritual practitioner."

 

     It's a gradual process. Mahaprabhu said the same thing:

 

ucca sankirtane kari sraddhara pracara

 

"Loudly chant the holy names and preach with faith."

 

     When my guru-maharaja came to the West, what did he have with him? Only strong faith in Krishna, strong faith in the words of his guru, strong faith in the holy name. He had nothing else. It is a question of strong faith in Gopal.  But people are lacking faith. You should develp strong faith. Caitanya-caritamrta (madhya 22.62) states:

 

'sraddha'-sabde----visvasa kahe sudrdha niscaya

krsne bhakti kaile sarva-karma krta haya .

    

     "Sraddha" is defined as confident, firm faith that by rendering transcendental loving service to Krishna one automatically performs all subsidiary activities.  Such faith is favorable to the discharge of devotional service."  

 

Chant Loudly!

 

     If you develop krsna-bhakti, all of your duties and obligations are finished.  You are thinking, "This is my duty, my responsibility, to look after the maintenance of my family, my wife, and my children.  But it is said, krsne bhakti kaile sarva-karma krta haya --- "All of your work is finished." Everyone says this, but they are only speaking from the lips. In their heart, 99.9% people have no faith.  Therefore Guaranga Mahaprabhu has said, ucca sankirtane kari sraddhara pracara — "Chant loudly: hare krsna hare krsna, krsna krsna hare hare, hare rama hare rama, rama rama hare hare. Inculcate sraddha, faith unto those people who have not developed sraddha."

 

     My guru-maharaja did that. When he first arrived here he came with only a pair of kartalas. He simply went to a park and chanted Hare Krishna.  The hippies were rolling on the ground, half-naked, taking strong drugs like LSD and marijuana, and becoming mad.  My guru-maharaja just played karatalas and chanted, and thereby he inculcated sraddha in them. Cora-vesya-satha—the thieves, the prostitutes, and the cheaters — sadhu is able to inculcate sraddha even into them. That is Mahaprabhu's instruction; agre sraddha diya --- "First inculcate sraddha unto them." Then when they are sraddhavan, when they ahve developed sraddha, strong faith in the holy name, strong faith in Krishna, and sadhu-sastra-guru-vakya, then they are eligible to be initiated.

 

     There is the offense to the holy name known as sraddha-hina-jane namopadesa---"giving someone nama-upadesa, instructions on chanting, if they are lacking in sraddha." So agre-sraddha—first one must have sraddha.

 

     How can one develop sraddha? That is another question—for this reason we perform loud sankirtan. Doing so you can develop sraddha. Don't feel depressed or disappointed; Mahaprabhu is there, Krishna is there, Srila Prabhupada is there. Chant loudly and fill the atmosphere with transcendental sound vibration!  You should have full faith in the holy name, in Gopal, in Krishna and Mahaprabhu.  Don't feel depressed at any time, under any circumstances.  There is no quetion of pessimism in Mahaprabhu's movement. There is all optimism.  I have seen during my tour that now this pessimism is widespread amongst the devotees in America.  Seing that, I feel very sorry. I am crying in my heart. What has happened?  My guru-maharja came here first. He sowed the seed here. Now what has happened?  They have lost faith — such a sorry state of affairs.

 

     How is it that a small boy immediately developed faith and got Krishna? He cried out, "O Gopal! Where are You? My mother has said to call you!" And immediately Gopal appeared..


--
Yours
Dinesh
Blog:http://dinesh-krsna.blogspot.com


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This unusual image happens almost never


 

The unusual image happens almost never. It happened in Rio de Janeiro by the end of February 2012!  


You are strong


A strong person knows how to keep his life in order. Even with tears in his eyes, he manages to say with a smile, "I'm fine".


Send this to a strong person. I just did.


God is good. The change comes. God saw your sadness and said hard times are over.


                Be honest and who hurts you makes you * STRONG *,


               Anyone who criticizes you makes you * IMPORTANT *,


              Who causes you envy you VALUABLE *,


And sometimes it's fun to know that those who wish you the worst ... You have to endure BEST happen *! *

I ask God to take care of you, I ask God to enlighten you, I ask God to be always by your side and I pray to God that you never miss Happiness.

You give to the nine most want, include me if I want to ... In nine minutes you will receive good news.

Do not ask, just do it!

 

Yours
Dinesh
Blog:http://dinesh-krsna.blogspot.com


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Who are you five?

>>> THE LORD APPEARED IN HIS FORM OF HAMSA BEFORE BRAHMA AND THE FOUR SAGES HEADED BY SANAKA AND REVEALED TO THEM VARIOUS CONFIDENTIAL TRUTHS <<<

The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: Once, the mental sons of Lord Brahmā, namely, the sages headed by Sanaka, inquired from their father about the difficult subject matter of the supreme goal of yoga.

The sages headed by Sanaka said: O Lord, people's minds are naturally attracted to material sense objects, and similarly the s
ense objects in the form of desire enter within the mind. Therefore, how can a person who desires liberation, who desires to cross over activities of sense gratification, destroy this mutual relationship between the sense objects and the mind? Please explain this to us.

The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: My dear Uddhava, Brahmā himself, who is born directly from the body of the Lord and who is the creator of all living entities within the material world, being the best of the demigods, seriously contemplated the question of his sons headed by Sanaka. The intelligence of Brahmā, however, was affected by his own activities of creation, and thus he could not discover the essential answer to this question.

Lord Brahmā desired to attain the answer to the question that was puzzling him, and thus he fixed his mind on Me, the Supreme Lord. At that time, in My form of Haḿsa, I became visible to Lord Brahmā.

Thus seeing Me, the sages, placing Brahmā in the lead, came forward and worshiped My lotus feet. Then they frankly asked Me, "Who are You?"

The sages, being eager to understand the ultimate truth of the yoga system, thus inquired from Me. 

My dear brāhmaṇas, if, when asking Me who I am, you believe that I am also a jīva soul and that there is no ultimate difference between us — since all souls are ultimately one without individuality — then how is your question possible or appropriate? Ultimately, what is the real situation or resting place both of yourselves and of Me?


If by asking Me "Who are You?" you were referring to the material body, then I must point out that all material bodies are constituted of five elements, namely earth, water, fire, air and ether. Thus, you should have asked, "Who are you five?" If you consider that all material bodies are ultimately one, being constituted essentially of the same elements, then your question is still meaningless, since there would be no deep purpose in distinguishing one body from another. Thus, it appears that in asking My identity, you are merely speaking words, without any real meaning or purpose.


Within this world, whatever is perceived by the mind, speech, eyes or other senses is Me alone and nothing besides Me. All of you please understand this by a straightforward analysis of the facts.

My dear sons, the mind has a natural proclivity to enter into the material sense objects, and similarly the sense objects enter into the mind; but both this material mind and the sense objects are merely designations that cover the spirit soul, who is part and parcel of Me.

A person who has thus achieved Me by understanding that he is not different from Me realizes that the material mind is lodged within the sense objects because of constant sense gratification, and that the material objects are existing prominently within the material mind. Having understood My transcendental nature, he gives up both the material mind and its objects.

Waking, sleeping and deep sleep are the three functions of the intelligence and are caused by the modes of material nature. The living entity within the body is ascertained to possess characteristics different from these three states and thus remains us a witness to them.

The spirit soul is trapped in the bondage of material intelligence, which awards him constant engagement in the illusory modes of nature. But I am the fourth stage of consciousness, beyond wakefulness, dreaming and deep sleep. Becoming situated in Me, the soul should give up the bondage of material consciousness. At that time, the living entity will automatically renounce the material sense objects and the material mind.

The false ego of the living entity places him in bondage and awards him exactly the opposite of what he really desires. Therefore, an intelligent person should give up his constant anxiety to enjoy material life and remain situated in the Lord, who is beyond the functions of material consciousness.

According to My instructions, one should fix the mind on Me alone. If, however, one continues to see many different values and goals in life rather than seeing everything within Me, then although apparently awake, one is actually dreaming due to incomplete knowledge, just as one may dream that one has wakened from a dream.
— 
Purport by A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada
--
Yours
Dinesh
Blog:http://dinesh-krsna.blogspot.com


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Srimad Bhagavatam Class by H.G.Sri Radha Govinda Dasi, Sri Dham Mayapur


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Morning meditations - this universe is just one seed in a bag full of mustard seeds


From Śrīla Prabhupāda: "One of His devotees requested Caitanya Mahaprabhu, "My dear Lord, You have come personally. You kindly take all the living entities to the spiritual world. Be kind enough upon them. And if you think that they are so sinful they cannot be taken, then transfer all their sins unto me. You take them. You take them." So Caitanya Mahaprabhu began to smile that "Even if I take the all the living entities of the universe, but do you know, this universe is only one fragmental part of other, all other universes. There are many other universes." And He compared that "In a bag where, bag full of mustard seeds..." Just imagine, a big bag of mustard seeds. "And this universe is just like one mustard seed." There are so many universes, so many universes. And it is confirmed in the Brahma-samhita"  London, Bhagavad-gita 1.24-25 "If You Stay with Krsna"  Hear the lecture 


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