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Gopis performing Devotional Service to the Lordships Sri Sri Radha Krishna

Seeking-right-thing in wrong-place


Thought-a-Week

 

All seeking after joy is the function of the soul. When the desire for joy wakes up in our minds, we commit a blunder in running after worldly objects and enjoyment. It is only when we receive a spiritual sight of Krishna that we understand that His service must, of necessity, be the sole aim in life.

 

--Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura

Real and Apparent (Essay), p. 18

 

Here is a conversation between Srila Prabhupada and some of his disciples about the soul's search for happiness: http://www.krishna.com/seeking-right-thing-wrong-place

 



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You must understand the purport and reproduce it in your own language

This letter of Srila Prabhupada is very appropriate for me. It looks like it's addressed to me :)
And it's true that when I do reproduce in my own language(without distorting) it's accepted easily by my friends and people around.
Your Servant,
Dinesh
Dwijamani DasJanuary 23, 2011 at 6:10pm
Dwijamani Das
Subject: 22 January, 1970
Los Angeles
22 January, 1970
My Dear Dinesh,
Please accept my blessings. I am in due receipt of your letter dated "nil'' and I have also received the package of tapes by separate post. Thank you very much for them.
I am very pleased to learn that both you and your wife have been lecturing on Krishna Consciousness at the George Washington University and there was good response to your program. You simply read our books and if you simply reproduce the purport of Srimad-Bhagavatam or Bhagavad-gita, people will take it very seriously. So, of course, you must understand the purport and reproduce it in your own language. That will be very good, but someway or other if in some way you present the purport of Srimad-Bhagavatam or Bhagavad-gita that will be also very good. The idea is that we should not make any addition or subtraction of mental speculation, but we should endeavor, even if we do not fully understand from our present platform, to present simply the philosophy as we have received it directly and realized it by practical experience.
Regarding the Uher tape recorder, it will be very welcome. Our "Dicto-trans'' dictaphone is not working and is always giving some difficulty; if the Uher is in good condition, it will be most useful. Also I would like to record permanent tapes at the same time that I am making dictaphone tapes. Can you arrange some device so that one control microphone will stop and start recording on both machines simultaneously?
Salt should be added to the vegetables after they are in masala, it should not be cooked directly in the ghee. Regarding recipes for a cookbook, I think Yamuna devi has made one collection of Prasadam recipies so you may contact her in this connection.
Please offer my blessings to your good wife Krishna devi and child. It is very encouraging to me that Visnu Arati is being raised from her very birth in Krishna Consciousness and is spontaneously chanting Hare Krishna. No other yoga system can be so practiced even by a little child.
If Krishna devi is continuing to feel weakness she may reduce any strenuous activity and increase the number of rounds chanting. I hope her health has improved by now.
Your ever well-wisher,
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Dinesh -- Los Angeles 22 January, 1970

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Pay tax2govt? why not2God?

If v dont pay electricity bill4long d line will b cut.Similarly,v take
so much light,air,water from nature&if v dont repay by our
sacrifices(Offerings)&worship God/His representatives,v bcome
sinners.Only by sacrificing d results2Lord Vishnu,1can escape d
reactions of 1's work&become satisfied&peaceful!

--
Yours
Dinesh
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What security is there ?

 
 

Sent to you by dinesh via Google Reader:

 
 

via KKS Blog by noreply@blogger.com (aatish) on 1/24/11

We have so many false shelters.
My family gives me protection, fallible solders what kind of protection can they give us?
My money will protect me - and then you get some economical crises or suddenly your bank has gone bankrupted and you lose your money or it has no more value.
Like that what security is there in this world?
No security. Simply our only security is Krishna.

Transcribed by Madhumati Devi Dasi
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Chowpatty 2010)

 
 

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Yogis(Spiritualists) or Bhogis(Sense enjoyers) ???

Of all d yogis,1who constantly thinks of Me is d
best-LordSriKrsna-BG.So it's not necessary4a yogi2have long
beard,saffron dress,beads,kamandal but Krsna in heart.He may b
travelling beside us in a bus/train/flight in a pant,shirt but
meditating upon Krsna.So not all d beard,saffron r yogis,most r
Bhogis.

--
Yours
Dinesh
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