Ads
KKSBlog - News |
Posted: 25 May 2011 12:14 PM PDT (Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2002) |
Posted: 25 May 2011 04:04 AM PDT From Germany it was off to Finland, Helsinki. After a very warm welcome from the devotees, Maharaja gave a small talk in the Helsinki temple and took an early rest to prepare for the next day. The day after we then went to some older house somewhere way out in the nature of Finland, where for three days a retreat was to take place. On the way there we stopped in the town Turku, to bless the city with the chanting of the holy name in the form of harinama. The Harinama was received with a lot of enthusiasm, and some people even joined in the dancing. The retreat was a relaxing weekend, filled with a lot of chanting and singing. Maharaja gave many classes about nama-tattva, which was also the topic of the retreat. There were also many programs for the devotees, like yoga, walks in the nearby forests, a real Finnish sauna and of course prasadam, which was cooked over open fireplaces. If you cannot view the slideshow below, please visit flikr.
|
Posted: 24 May 2011 11:45 AM PDT (Kadamba Kanana Swami, Durban – South Africa, April 2011) The materialistic devotee, the kanishta-adhikari, has weak faith and as a result he is thinking that Krsna is so far away, the spiritual world is so far away… what does it have to do with everyday life? But that is illusion, because the fact of the matter is that Krsna is always with us, every moment. In the Nectar of Instruction, Srila Rupa Goswami is saying that we should always hear, chant and remember the name, fame and glories of Krsna, and in that way we will reside in Vṛndāvana. We must become residents of Vṛndāvana. We must think: my home is the spiritual world. My home is to be with Krsna. Wherever Krsna is present in His eternal abode, that is my residence. Everywhere else, I'm in transit – transit passenger. Durban – transit passenger. Anywhere… South Africa – transit; Europe – transit; America – transit; Vṛndāvana- home! And Srila Rupa Goswami continues to explain that if we cannot physically reside in the Holy Dhama, then we should mentally reside there. And that is the secret of devotees who are very determined. They have accepted that the spiritual world is more important than the material world, and therefore the spiritual world is what has meaning to them. And they spend their time remembering the glories of Krsna, the activities of Krsna, the nature of Krsna, the descriptions about His associates and pastimes, and there, they realise, is where real pleasure is experienced, and the pleasure is especially experienced if somehow or the other they are acting in service for Krsna's pleasure. That is the secret. |
Cleansing agent
Posted: 27 May 2011 02:55 PM PDT
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Durban – South Africa, April 2011)
In the association of Vaisnavas, especially advanced Vaisnavas, we become
uplifted, beyond our normal limitations of holding on to material security
and hesitating about jumping forward in spiritual life. Krsna will catch
us! Krsna will provide! Krsna always protects His devotee.
Always? But some devotees die, in not good ways. Where was Krsna then?
Is He not protecting? Does He protect some devotees and not others? Does
it depend on the degree of ones Krsna Consciousness? Does He only protect
the very advanced devotees and the less advanced ones, like us, not so much?
Na me bhaktah pranasyati My devotee will never perish! What does it
mean? It means exactly what Krsna says: My devotee will never perish!
There is no doubt about it! As long as we understand in the broader sense
what it means. It means that the body, Krsna may or may not protect. But
the destination of the soul, Krsna will surely protect. Without a doubt!
That is very certain! If somehow or another our time or our mission in
this world is not yet fulfilled, Krsna may protect our body so many times I
myself, have slipped out of extremely dangerous situations many times cat
with nine lives and that kind of story! Yes, and there was no doubt, no
doubt that Krsna interfered. It is not possible that by any other means I
would have survived.
But that is not ultimately what is the meaning of na me bhaktah
pranasyati. It means that a devotee, a devotee will come closer and closer
to Krsna, and once we have made steps in Krsnas direction, Krsna will
surely protect our devotional service. That is what it means na me bhaktah
pranasyati. Krsna will protect our devotional service. Therefore, there
is no fear. We just take shelter of devotional service. And other
things, they come, they go. Some hardships sometimes may come, may go,
but it will not really faze us. And our devotional service will continue
and continue and in the association of devotees we become uplifted again
and again.
///////////////////////////////////////////
Change your lifecompletely
Posted: 27 May 2011 03:00 AM PDT
In our modern times Srila Prabhupad is the big famous acharya, who by his
extraordinary devotional service was able to spread Krishna consciousness
all over the world and convinced westerners to take up this way of life
which is not so easy. It is easy to say Im doing yoga, it is easy to say
I'm belonging to this baba or that baba, and not make any change in your
life, but what Prabhupada was asking was not just say that you belong, no
Prabhupada was asking completely change your life, cent per cent,
everything has to change, everything, everythingcompletely. So they say,
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur told us, he said it is a complete
revolution – Krishna consciousness – complete. Yeah, but isn't that a
little too extreme? Can't we add Krishna consciousness to all the good that
we already have? We can begin like that. It begins like that but it cannot
stay like that, because little by little we realize that all the good that
we have is not good enough. Even the best in this world how good is it
really? Is it unadulterated? Is it pure goodness? In this world everything
is mixed, everything is tinged with imperfection. And therefore as one is
advancing in Krishna consciousness gradually there is no more room, no more
room for imperfection. When Krishna is there who is fully perfect and who
has unlimited qualities and pastimes and so on, why preoccupy ourselves
with anything else? Why look at the beautiful sunrise? In the early days of
the Hare Krishna movement Prabhupad was preaching in New York and New York
is one of those places where it's hard to see the sky, due to these
skyscrapers, when you're actually down in the street, down in Manhattan,
you don't get the view of the sky. That's just how it is – New York City.
So Prabhupad was preaching there in this small storefront – Matchless Gifts
storefront and one day they had an excursion to doctor Misra's country
asram and it is said that it was summer and several of the city boys were
sleeping outside. Well, that was amazing, I mean for a New Yorker, and they
were waking up in the morning and they saw the sun rising and Hayagriva who
was a bit of a poet got really into it and started to say it was as if a
painter from his palette hah placed red streaks in the sky and in this way
decorated it with a great variety of different shades of beauty. A poet, as
you can hear And Prabhupad was totally sober in his response and said that
"Actually we are not so interested with the beauty of the creation. We are
interested with the beauty of its maker."
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Stockholm 2011)
KKSblog.com - “My devotee never perishes”
Having a bad association is like having given refuge to a snake in the
house. The snake never minds to hurt the one who have given refuge.
Make sure the snakes make their way out from your contacts. May be FB
or orkut or even real life.Kick them out!
Bad association!
KKSBlog - News |
You are subscribed to email updates from kksblog.com To stop receiving these emails, you may unsubscribe now. | Email delivery powered by Google |
Google Inc., 20 West Kinzie, Chicago IL USA 60610 |
--
Yours
Dinesh
Awakening The Soul
Ads
Visitors
Like us in Facebook
Translate
Total Pageviews
Tell in Facebook!
About this blog
Subscribe to my Blog :)
Popular Posts
-
Ahe Nila saila Lyrics Ahe Nila saila Prabala mata barana Mo arata nalini banaku kala dalana . Ahe Nila saila …………….. Gajaraja ...
-
There are 3 types of friends, 1.Mitra 2.Bandu 3.Suhrt Let's see what Prabhupada says about them, Suhṛt means one who actually desires go...
-
Chanakya Niti Sri Chanakya Niti-Sastra The Political Ethics of Chanakya Pandit Compiled by Miles Davis (Patita Pavana dasa) Chapter ...
-
http://soundcloud.com/gaurav-sharma-108/jai-jai-sundar-nanda-kumar?utm_source=soundcloud&utm_campaign=mshare&utm_medium=email&...
-
Sri Prarthana (Prayers) Srila Narottama dasa Thakura Lalasamayi (Longings) Song 1 1 gauranga bolite habe pulaka-sarira hari hari ...
Search This Blog
Followers
Blog Archive
-
►
2023
(2)
- ► August 2023 (1)
- ► February 2023 (1)
-
►
2021
(4)
- ► December 2021 (2)
- ► March 2021 (1)
-
►
2020
(10)
- ► December 2020 (4)
- ► November 2020 (2)
- ► April 2020 (4)
-
►
2019
(18)
- ► December 2019 (1)
- ► August 2019 (3)
- ► April 2019 (4)
- ► February 2019 (3)
- ► January 2019 (1)
-
►
2018
(14)
- ► April 2018 (2)
- ► March 2018 (3)
- ► February 2018 (2)
- ► January 2018 (1)
-
►
2017
(8)
- ► December 2017 (1)
- ► November 2017 (2)
- ► October 2017 (1)
- ► September 2017 (1)
- ► August 2017 (1)
- ► February 2017 (1)
-
►
2016
(12)
- ► November 2016 (4)
- ► August 2016 (4)
- ► February 2016 (1)
-
►
2015
(48)
- ► December 2015 (5)
- ► November 2015 (1)
- ► August 2015 (1)
- ► April 2015 (4)
- ► March 2015 (5)
- ► February 2015 (13)
- ► January 2015 (9)
-
►
2014
(120)
- ► December 2014 (2)
- ► November 2014 (3)
- ► October 2014 (2)
- ► September 2014 (2)
- ► August 2014 (23)
- ► April 2014 (9)
- ► March 2014 (3)
- ► February 2014 (8)
- ► January 2014 (27)
-
►
2013
(475)
- ► December 2013 (31)
- ► November 2013 (44)
- ► October 2013 (55)
- ► September 2013 (31)
- ► August 2013 (36)
- ► April 2013 (51)
- ► March 2013 (34)
- ► February 2013 (31)
- ► January 2013 (55)
-
►
2012
(563)
- ► December 2012 (37)
- ► November 2012 (28)
- ► October 2012 (36)
- ► September 2012 (29)
- ► August 2012 (42)
- ► April 2012 (30)
- ► March 2012 (44)
- ► February 2012 (75)
- ► January 2012 (125)
-
►
2011
(1100)
- ► December 2011 (76)
- ► November 2011 (75)
- ► October 2011 (90)
- ► September 2011 (96)
- ► August 2011 (153)
- ► April 2011 (86)
- ► March 2011 (58)
- ► February 2011 (51)
- ► January 2011 (56)
-
►
2010
(486)
- ► December 2010 (71)
- ► November 2010 (63)
- ► October 2010 (68)
- ► September 2010 (60)
- ► August 2010 (85)
- ► April 2010 (33)
- ► March 2010 (9)
- ► February 2010 (21)
- ► January 2010 (24)
-
►
2009
(55)
- ► December 2009 (20)
- ► November 2009 (23)
- ► October 2009 (10)
- ► September 2009 (1)
-
►
2008
(18)
- ► October 2008 (1)
- ► September 2008 (2)
- ► April 2008 (1)
- ► March 2008 (4)
- ► February 2008 (8)