From: Dr Satish Chander Gosain
Bhakti Yoga - The Topmost Yogic Practice!
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One should not deprecate the Supreme Lord for the creation of this miserable world, just as one should not blame the king for creating a prisonhouse in the government. The prisonhouse is a necessary institution of the governmental establishment for those who are disobedient to the laws of the government. Similarly, this material world, full of miseries, is a temporary creation of the Lord for those who have forgotten Him and are trying to lord it over the false manifestation.
He, however, is always anxious to get the fallen souls back home, back to Godhead, and for this He has given so many chances to the conditioned souls via the authoritative scriptures, His representatives, and personal incarnations also. Since He has no direct attachment to this material world, He is not to be blamed for its creation.
- SB 2.7.50 Purport by Srila Prabhupada
Never blame Krishna for anything.
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Subject: Reviving the pure consciousness
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śrī-śuka uvāca
ātma-māyām ṛte rājan
parasyānubhavātmanaḥ
na ghaṭetārtha-sambandhaḥ
svapna-draṣṭur ivāñjasā
[Srimad Bhagavatam 2.9.1]
Sri Sukadeva Goswami 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. That relationship is just like a dreamer's seeing his
own body working.
Purport by Srila Prabhupada
Maharaja Pariksit's question as to how a living entity began his
material life, although he is apart from the material body and mind,
is perfectly answered.
The spirit soul is distinct from the material conception of his life,
but he is absorbed in such a material conception because of being
influenced by the external energy of the Lord, called atma-maya.
The external energy is controlled by the Lord, and the living entities
are controlled by the external energy — by the will of the Lord.
Therefore, although the living entity is purely conscious in his pure
state, he is subordinate to the will of the Lord in being influenced
by the external energy of the Lord. In the Bhagavad-gita (15.15) also
the same thing is confirmed; the Lord is present within the heart of
every living entity, and all the living entity's consciousness and
forgetfulness are influenced by the Lord.
Now the next question automatically made will be why the Lord
influences the living entity to such consciousness and forgetfulness?
The answer is that the Lord clearly wishes that every living entity be
in his pure consciousness as a part and parcel of the Lord and thus be
engaged in the loving service of the Lord as he is constitutionally
made; but because the living entity is partially independent also, he
may not be willing to serve the Lord, but may try to become as
independent as the Lord is. All the nondevotee living entities are
desirous of becoming equally as powerful as the Lord, although they
are not fit to become so. The living entities are illusioned by the
will of the Lord because they wanted to become like Him.
Like a person who thinks of becoming a king without possessing the
necessary qualification, when the living entity desires to become the
Lord Himself, he is put in a condition of dreaming that he is a king.
Therefore first the sinful will of the living entity is to become the
Lord, and the consequent will of the Lord is that the living entity
forget his factual life and thus dream of the land of utopia where he
may become one like the Lord.
The child cries to have the moon from the mother, and the mother gives
the child a mirror to satisfy the crying and disturbing child with the
reflection of the moon. All these stages are dreaming illusions only.
The fact is that as soon as he desired it, he was put under the
control of atma-maya by the direction of the Lord. Therefore the
living entity in his material condition is dreaming falsely that this
is "mine" and this is "I." The dream is that the conditioned soul
thinks of his material body as "I" or falsely thinks that he is the
Lord and that everything in connection with that material body is
"mine." This continues life after life, as long as the living entity
is not purely conscious of his identity as the subordinate part and
parcel of the Lord.
In his pure consciousness, however, there is no such misconceived
dream, and in that pure conscious state the living entity does not
forget that he is never the Lord, but that he is eternally the
servitor of the Lord in transcendental love.
In the one stage of human life the misconception is prominent in the
shape of "It is my body," "It is my house," "It is my family," "It is
my caste," "It is my nation," "It is my country,". And in another
stage of speculative knowledge, the same misconception of "mine" is
transformed into "I am," or "It is all I am," etc. But the real
significance of "I" can be realized only when one is situated in the
consciousness of "I am the eternal servitor of the Lord." This is pure
consciousness, and the whole Vedic literatures teach us this
conception of life.
So the science of bhakti-yoga, of worshiping the Lord, glorifying the
Lord, hearing the Srimad Bhagavatam from the right sources and being
always in the association of pure devotees, should be adopted in
earnestness to make one's life perfect.
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The only way to counteract the effects of this age of Kali is chanting
the Holy Names of Lord Krsna. There is no other way. There is no other
way. There is no other way. (Brhan Naradiya Purana)
Chant and be happy - "Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare/
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare"
Reviving the pure consciousness
Focusing on Our fortune.
By Sri Srila B. R. Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj.
by Ananga Manjari Devi Dasi on Monday, November 1, 2010 at 10:14pm
Why is happiness eluding us? Because we are never satisfied. No matter how much we get, we always hanker for more. Such is the nature of every one of us in all fields and walks of life. How then could finite material objects and flickering bodily or intellectual pleasures satiate our infinite hankerings? For as long as we go on searching for happiness within the material plane, our efforts and endeavours are destined to be irrevocably frustrated. Due to their natural limitations, material objects and goals simply cannot satisfy our limitless hankerings. Only by seeking out the beauty and love of the unlimited spiritual realm can we hope to be successful in our common quest for lasting happiness.
Waiting to help us
The Lord is always there, even in the worst period of our lives. He is waiting, waiting to help us. We must only look up for His grace, with sincerity with all sincerity. He is everywhere, waiting; "My boy, look at Me. Don't make much of the external environment. I am here, very near to you. You have cast your focus aside, you have cast your consciousness outside. Make it internal and you will find Me here. Make it above. You are looking down to secure servants and comforts, but if you look up, for existence higher than you, you will find Me in that plane. Look up! Don't look down, searching for servants." You want to become a master and thus are searching for servants, hunting after things for your service. Take the opposite course, become a servant and search for your master, your Lord, then you will be uplifted, taken up to a higher domain. If you want to live in a higher domain you will have to serve. If you want to be a master, then you will have to come down in the lower zone, where you can be a master. This is neither exaggeration nor imagination, it is something scientific. You can enjoy only those that are of a lower position. So, by attempting to enjoy, mean association becomes inevitable. Only by preparing for higher service will you be able to come in contact with your soul's higher position. Sacrificeby sacrifice you go up; by enjoying spirit you will have to go down. We are to understand what is exploitation and enjoyment, and what is higher service. Divine service is pure, and in that service there is also a pure type of joy and ecstasy. By giving we become gainers and by extorting we become losers. This scientific truth should be understood.
Wealth in Giving
> By robbing things from others, someone can find superficial satisfaction, but underground there is some suspicion that the result won't be very good: "The reaction will come to attack me." To exploit by stealing provides some sort of enjoyment, but happiness is also enjoyed by big donors through their giving in chariy. There is a difference in quality between these two sorts of happiness, and we are to distinguish between them. In different planes there are different conceptions of happiness, and a comparison is to be drawn between the qualitative differences in the pleasure derived. We are to conceive of different planes of life. The life of higher service is divine life. The Absolute God is there. Everything is for Him. Everything here is for His pleasure. But, in which way can we attain divine life? What is mundane? And what is divine? We are to differentiate between them. We have to examine them in order to accept the divine life. What is God? God is not an order supplier. If I am sick, I am not to just ask, "Oh God, cure my sickness!" And if I am poor, I should not only pray, "Oh God, give me money!" Such mercenary connection is not very happy, but still it has some meaning because at least there is thought that there is some supernatural power and that He can do wonders. However, it is better to want God without expecting anything mundane from Him. We should want God who is the source of all this opulence the reservoir of all rasa, love, beauty, charm, affection, ecstasy and eternal fulfilment and we should not want anything else which we consider valuable. We are to depend on Him: "Oh Lord, give me what is good. I am an imperfect being, I do not know what is good and and what is bad. Please provide whatever You consider to be good for me." This is an improvement over praying to Him for mundane benefits. But best is to accept the creed of unalloyed service to the Highest: "I want You, my Lord, nothing else." And what will be our connection with Him? Service. "I want only Your service." At the beginning we might think we are being losers, but ultimately we will gain. Apparently we are giving ourselves, we are sacrificing our selfish interests, but in the subtle senses we gain thereby. This ontological truth should be appreciated. It is neither a dogma, nor blind faith. It is based on higher unprejudiced reasons.
The Key to Fulfilment
Our life is unfulfilled and we want fulfilment, there is no doubt. But, what type of fulfilment should we hanker for and search after? We know we are in want, and at the same time we feel that we yearn to remove our want and obtain satisfaction. No doubt this is so for everyone. But how to make progress from unfulfilled life towards fulfilment? To do that we are to search for God. We must search for Him —by Srila B. R. Sridhar Dev-Goswami Maharaj
© Sri Chaitanya Saraswat Mission 2008
Focusing on our fortune-Worth Reading!
Kirtans of Mother Karnamrita
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Song Name: Adharam Madhuram
Official Name: Śrī Śrī Madhurāṣṭakam
Author: Sri Vallabhacarya
(98)
ISKCON desire tree
(1)
adharaṁ madhuraṁ vadanaṁ madhuraṁ
nayanaṁ madhuraṁ hasitaṁ madhuraṁ
hṛdayaṁ madhuraṁ gamanaṁ madhuraṁ
madhurādhi-pater akhilaṁ madhuraṁ
(2)
vacanaṁ madhuraṁ caritaṁ madhuraṁ
vasanaṁ madhuraṁ valitaṁ madhuraṁ
calitaṁ madhuraṁ bhramitaṁ madhuraṁ
madhurādhi-pater akhilaṁ madhuraṁ
(3)
veṇur madhuro reṇur madhuraḥ
pāṇir madhuraḥ pādau madhurau
nṛtyaṁ madhuraṁ sakhyaṁ madhuraṁ
madhurādhi-pater akhilaṁ madhuraṁ
(4)
gītaṁ madhuraṁ pītaṁ madhuraṁ
bhuktaṁ madhuraṁ suptam madhuraṁ
rūpaṁ madhuraṁ tilakaṁ madhuraṁ
madhurādhi-pater akhilaṁ madhuraṁ
(5)
karaṇaṁ madhuraṁ taraṇaṁ madhuraṁ
haraṇaṁ madhuraṁ ramaṇaṁ madhuraṁ
vamitaṁ madhuraṁ śamitaṁ madhuraṁ
madhurādhi-pater akhilaṁ madhuraṁ
(6)
guñjā madhurā mālā madhurā
yamunā madhurā vīcī madhurā
salilaṁ madhuraṁ kamalaṁ madhuraṁ
madhurādhi-pater akhilaṁ madhuraṁ
(7)
gopī madhurā līlā madhurā
yuktaṁ madhuraṁ bhuktaṁ madhuraṁ
hṛṣṭaṁ madhuraṁ śiṣṭaṁ madhuraṁ
madhurādhi-pater akhilaṁ madhuraṁ
(8)
gopā madhurā gāvo madhurā
yaṣṭir madhurā sṛṣṭir madhurā
dalitaṁ madhuraṁ phalitaṁ madhuraṁ
madhurādhi-pater akhilaṁ madhuraṁ
TRANSLATION
1) His lips are sweet, His face is sweet His eyes are sweet, His smile is sweet His heart is sweet, His gait is sweet—Everything is sweet about the Emperor of sweetness!
2) His words are sweet, His character is sweet His dress is sweet, His belly-folds are sweet His movements are sweet, His wandering is sweet—Everything is sweet about the Emperor of sweetness!
3) His flute is sweet, His foot-dust is sweet His hands are sweet, His feet are sweet His dancing is sweet, His friendship is sweet—Everything is sweet about the Emperor of sweetness!
4) His singing is sweet, His yellow cloth is sweet His eating is sweet, His sleeping is sweet His beauty is sweet, His tilaka is sweet—Everything is sweet about the Emperor of sweetness!
5) His deeds are sweet, His liberating is sweet His stealing is sweet, His love-sports are sweet His oblations are sweet, His tranquility is sweet—Everything is sweet about the Emperor of sweetness!
6) His gunja-berry necklace is sweet, His flower garland is sweet His Yamuna river is sweet, His ripples are sweet His water is sweet, His lotuses are sweet—Everything is sweet about the Emperor of sweetness!
7) His gopis are sweet, His pastimes are sweet, His union is sweet, His food is sweet, His delight is sweet, His courtesy is sweet — Everything is sweet about the Emperor of sweetness!
8) His gopas are sweet, His cows are sweet His staff is sweet, His creation is sweet His trampling is sweet, His fruitfulness is sweet—Everything is sweet about the Emperor of sweetness!
Madhurastakam
Karnamrita dasi - Story of Pingala
SMART QUESTION COACHING
Creating a Culture of Pure Chanting
SMART QUESTION COACHING
From: Dr Satish Gosain (Sri Krishna Hari Das)
*Hare Krishna* !**
*The wood-cutter and the axe*
Once upon a time a strong wood-cutter asked a timber merchant for a job. The
timber merchant was happy to oblige. The pay was good and so were the
work-conditions. Therefore, the wood-cutter was determined to do his best.
The timber merchant presented the wood-cutter with an axe and showed him
where to work. The first day, the wood-cutter brought eighteen trees.
"Congratulations !" the boss said. "Go on working like that."
Motivated by the boss's words, the wood-cutter tried harder the next day,
but he could cut down only fifteen trees. The third day he tried even
harder but cut down only ten trees. Day after day, he brought fewer and
fewer trees.
"I must be losing my strength," the wood-cutter thought. He went to the
timber merchant and apologized, saying that he could not understand what was
going on.
"When was the last time you sharpened your axe ?" the timber merchant asked.
"Sharpened ? I have had no time to sharpen my axe. I have been busy trying
to cut trees," said the wood-cutter.
*Moral of this story*
Our lives are like that. We sometimes become so busy that we do not have
time to sharpen our axe. In today's world, it seems that everyone is busier
but unhappier than ever. Why is that ?
Could it be that we have forgotten how to stay sharp ?
There is nothing wrong with activity and hard work, but Krishna does not want
us to become so busy that we neglect what is truly important in life, such
as taking time to pray and to read the scripture. We all need time to
relax, to think and chant, to learn and grow.
If we do not take time to sharpen our axe, we will become dull and lose our
effectiveness. So start today. The only way you can do your job
moreeffectively and add
a lot of value to it is by chanting the holy names of the Supreme God.
Krishna has time to listen, but do you have time to pray ?
*Questions for your own introspection*
*and necessary action*
01) What practical steps are you taking to sharpen your own axe (head
and heart) on daily basis ?
02) What are your valuable realizations after you have adopted the
above measures ?
03) How did this story contribute to your own life ? Could you kindly
give me your valuable feedback, please ?
04) Could you kindly pass on this instructive story to others, if you
are benefitted please ?
*Source* : Page 15 and 16 from the book "Tales of wisdom" of the
Vaishnava Seva Kendra, Belgaum, India.
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Chant Hare Krishna and Be Happy...
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare
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Instructive story for spiritual upliftment -- The wood-cutter and the axe.
beyond what we can perceive