After receiving initiation at Gaya from Srila Iswara Puri, Sri Gaurasundar, the son of Mother Sachi, returned to Nadiya with a happy heart. One day, Vishwambhar gave transcendental knowledge to some pure brahmin boys of Nabadwip who were his students. Lord Gaura Hari said: pana eka satya vastu - krsnera carana sei vidya - yathe hari-bhaktira laksana
You should study only the one truth - Krishna's feet. One who knows that truth has the ornament of devotion for the Lord. (Text 11)
The sastras describe that anything other than this is ignorance. Do not study anything other than devotion to Sri Sri Radha-Krishna! (Text 12)
Persons intoxicated with pride in their learning, wealth, and birth do not attain Krishna. By devotional service one easily attains Krishna, the Lord of the Yadus. (Text 13)
Krishna is conquered by the nectar of devotional service. To prove this I quote these words from the sastras: (Text 14)
Where was the hunter Dharma's piety, Dhruva's maturity, and Gajendra's knowledge? Where was Kubja's beauty? Where was Sudama's wealth? Where was Vidura's noble birth? Where was Ugrasena's chivalrous strength? Lord Madhava is pleased only by devotional service and not by material qualifications. (Text 15: quoting Rupa Goswami's Padyavali, text 8).
--Adapted from Srila Lochan Das Thakur's Caitanya-mangala, Madhya 1.11-15


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What pleases Krishna?

People used to travel by different means such as walking, bullock
carts, chariots driven by horses, cars, superfast trains,
airplanes,ships in the ocean,boats in rivers. But all these are within
the world. Later in the 1950s,people were eager to travel in outer
space and other planets by using rockets,spaceships. People want to
travel to the highest places in the Universe but they have not found
any means yet to do so.
This eagerness to travel is quite common for dwellers of other
planetary systems as well. We find saucers of other planetary systems
flying around this world. They are much more faster than ours.
This kind of architecture of spaceships is found even in the
Bhagavatam. We find Vimanas with their proper structure for travelling
in space. The temple structures even though not flying are also called
as Vimanas. It could be because temples are helping us to take us to
the Spiritual world :)
We find in the Bhagavatam that Dhuruva was taken by Pushpaka Vimana.
Actually that Vimana is Spiritual one unlike the material ones.

To understand an object we use our different senses. Lets take the
example of Milk. Milk when seen with eyes we get the knowledge that
it's in white colour. With the touch of fingers we understand it's in
liquid state. With our nose,we smell the fragrance and with tongue we
taste it. With eyes we cannot taste.
Only when we experience this through all our different senses,we get
the complete knowledge of what milk is all about.

Similarly there are different levels of God realization and different
means to attain different realizations. The Vedas are like desiretrees
which can give whatever one desires. There are 3 categories in the
Vedic literature based on 3 modes.
Goodness-Vishnu(example-Garuda purana,Vishnu purana), Passion-Brahma,
Ignorance-Shiva(example skanda purana)
Mahabharata & Ramayana are itihasaas.
There are 3 things
1.Sambhanda(foundational knowledge)
2.Abhideya(Process)
3.Prayojana(results)
First thing is we need to have the knowledge of what is what. Only if
we know where we are, we can think about where we want to go.
Then secondly we have to practice based on the acquired knowledge.
And finally we yield the results of our practice.
The jnanis and yogis will attain Brahman.Those practicing Bhakti will
go to Vaikuntha but those who read Srimad Bhagavatam and understand
Krishna will go to Goloka.
Srimad Bhagavatam is nirguna,not in the modes whereas the Vedas deal
mainly with the 3 modes of material nature. The mature ripen fruit of
all the Vedas is Srimad Bhagavatam.One can have complete knowledge of
the Supreme Lord only by approaching Bhagavatam. Knowledge of the
Supreme Lord as Shyama Sundara with His 2 handed form is the perfect
and complete knowledge.Krishna is always surrounded by His intimate
associates with different rasas. The highest destination one can reach
by travelling is the Devotional Service taught by Lord Chaitanya.
(Excuse me for any errors or misinterpretation. I was not very brisk
during the class due to excessive travelling in a short period. Anyone
can correct or add more)
Notes from a presentation by HH.Bhanu Swami Maharaj

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The complete knowledge of the complete person,Lord Sri Krishna

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A new day everyday… Posted: 28 Aug 2011 09:17 PM PDT This movement is made of the mercy of Krsna and the problem is that being conditioned souls, we are very inspired and excited when something is new but then after a little while it becomes routine. So by now it's just, 'this Hare Krsna movement, we are apart of it…' and it's just routine and it's apart of our life. So when spiritual life has become a routine then it means we are taking the mercy for granted. We are no longer seeing the mercy, no longer appreciating the mercy.So we have to everyday again make a special endeavor to attract the mercy of Krsna. One has to renew day by day his surrender. Everyday start again, 'today I'm going to start again. I'm going to make a renewed endeavor to attract the mercy of Krsna.' Everyday again and again. It's not like, 'oh, I'm trying and it just doesn't work, I've been trying now for the last seven years and I'm just a conditioned soul, there is no hope for me…' No. Then today, realizing that we are that, then today we make a special endeavor, today do something extra. You don't have to be superman, (dramatic) 'tadada, tadadada, tadadada….super bhaktas in town!' We always want to be super bhakta. But we can just do something nice for Krsna today. Instead of making it 'another day in KC' we can make this a special day! (Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, June 2011, London)

When the impossible becomes possible… Posted: 28 Aug 2011 09:15 PM PDT It's not that we have to do the impossible. We can always meditate in Krsna consciousness on all the things that are impossible but rather than thinking about the impossible, let's do the possible. And the more we start to do all the small things that are possible then one day we find that the impossible has become possible. That's the nature of doing many small things. When we are able to take up many small things then at one point a big step becomes possible. This is a very important point in Krsna consciousness.(Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, June 2011, London)

The Mercy of Srila Prabhupada! Posted: 28 Aug 2011 01:00 PM PDT (Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2011) Krishna made arrangements for the conditioned souls to receive transcendental knowledge, and He created the Vedas – the entire mountain of all vedic knowledge! Then just at the edge of this mountain, the ocean of mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu had reached and the wave of Mahaprabhu's mercy washed onto the beach, and left a watermark there…on the beach…a line. On that ocean of Mahaprabhu's mercy came an extremely powerful wave, which was the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and had extended still further than the mercy of Mahaprabhu…and this made a further watermark, high up on that beach. So in this way, we have on the one hand the vedic injunctions, and on the other hand we cannot follow all the vedic injunctions. It's very difficult to follow. We have the mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu and even that we find difficult to follow. Then we have the mercy of Srila Prabhupada and even that we find difficult to follow…that's more or less were it's at. For example, if you read the book 'The Hari Bhakti Vilasa', which is a compilation of many quotes from many various vedic sources. It is said that they ask a question: "If anyone eats on Ekadasi…well it says in the 'Hari Bhakti Vilasa' that, if we eat on Ekadasi, then in the next life one will become a hog!". So what do you think of that? So if you eat anything, than you become a hog according to the 'Hari Bhakti Vilasa'. Really sorry – including the French fries and those Ekadasi goodies….I'm so sorry. So there is an extended license here, that we are getting over the 'Hari Bhakti Vilasa'. We have to understand that Srila Prabhupada just gave us a little bit more leeway and there you go, you are getting ready for tomorrow, and usually eat more on Ekadasi day! So that's the Hare Krishna Movement!

Attacks by the Russians Posted: 28 Aug 2011 12:23 PM PDT The blog has been hacked some days ago and the hackers messed up the layout and installed some nasty programs to send spam emails. I have deleted all the nasty files and cleaned up the blog software. Also all user passwords have been reset, so you have to create a new one. Sorry for the inconvenience. I hope this will not happen again. If anything on this blog is not working properly then please let me know.

Hope against hope Posted: 28 Aug 2011 12:30 AM PDT Just do some service for Krsna. We don't have to be in anxiety, we can become very peaceful because we can serve Krsna so easily in a very natural way and automatically we'll become more and more attached to Krsna just by serving. But what if we leave this world before we would become very advanced? Then there is no problem also. There is no problem at all because then there is asa-bandha, hope against hope. It means that even if there is no reason to hope that we will ever be successful because we ourselves are not pure but still we hope that Krsna will give us the mercy because we know that He is very soft hearted and very merciful. So although we are not qualified we will surely get the mercy. And Prabhupada and our spiritual master, they have prayed for us. And if our service is not good enough, Krsna looks at the service of our spiritual master and our spiritual master is asking, 'dear Krsna, please take this disciple of mine back to Godhead.' Then what can Krsna do….Krsna says, 'okay then let him or her go…' So asa-bandha, hope against hope. (Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, June 2011, New Ekachakra, Slovakia)

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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2011)

We are fighting the illusion on different levels – on the gross level.it's
not difficult. We are walking around down town London and we've seen it
all before. We know what it's like in the pubs. We know what that life is
like. If one forgets something in the pub late at night, and one goes back
the next morning to pick it up…the smell in the morning in that pub is
inconceivable. One might think:

"Was I really there last night? I didn't smell anything then, but in the
morning, what a smell…. hell!"

That kind of grossness…the grossness of outright sinful activities are not
difficult to pierce through, but the more subtle effect of maya is the hope
that maybe after all, it can still attack us! And then in this age we are
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