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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

Negative thoughts are dangerous!

There were 2children@the top of 2 different trees. Suddenly a cyclone
hit&one parent told to tightly catch hold of the tree to child1&the
other Parent told child2 to not fall down.
The mind of child2 rather than thinking about holding the tree
tightly,thought about not falling down. For this the child2's mind has
to first think about falling down&then add a 'not' to it. And so
child2 fell down from the tree whereas child1 was at the top safely.
This is like when we tell someone not to think of a white elephant,the
mind first tries to think of such a thing,even though it doesnt exist.
Therefore it's better to avoid people who are always talking negative
things to us. In our case, it will be like instead of saying 'No Maya'
'No Maya' we can say 'Yes Krishna' 'Yes Krishna' because if we simply
thinking only No Maya we are sure to get into Maya because she's
alluring us every moment to think that we can enjoy here in this
material world.

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Yours
Dinesh
Blog:http://dinesh-krsna.blogspot.com
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The living entity is the cause of the various sufferings and enjoyments in this world-BG#13.23

 
Bhagavad-gita As It Is | Part [BG.13.23]
  
 
TEXT 21:
 
karya-karana-kartritve
hetuh prakritir ucyate
purushah sukha-duhkhanam
bhoktritve hetur ucyate
 
 
TRANSLATION:
 
Nature is said to be the cause of all material causes and effects, whereas the living entity is the cause of the various sufferings and enjoyments in this world.
 
 
 
PURPORT:
 
The different manifestations of body and senses among the living entities are due to material nature. There are 8,400,000 different species of life, and these varieties are creations of the material nature. They arise from the different sensual pleasures of the living entity, who thus desires to live in this body or that. When he is put into different bodies, he enjoys different kinds of happiness and distress. His material happiness and distress are due to his body, and not to himself as he is. In his original state there is no doubt of enjoyment; therefore that is his real state. Because of the desire to lord it over material nature, he is in the material world. In the spiritual world there is no such thing. The spiritual world is pure, but in the material world everyone is struggling hard to acquire different kinds of pleasures for the body. It might be more clear to state that this body is the effect of the senses. The senses are instruments for gratifying desire. Now, the sum total—body and instrument senses—are offered by material nature, and as will be clear in the next verse, the living entity is blessed or damned with circumstances according to his past desire and activity. According to one's desires and activities, material nature places one in various residential quarters. The being himself is the cause of his attaining such residential quarters and his attendant enjoyment or suffering. Once placed in some particular kind of body, he comes under the control of nature because the body, being matter, acts according to the laws of nature. At that time, the living entity has no power to change that law. Suppose an entity is put into the body of a dog. As soon as he is put into the body of a dog, he must act like a dog. He cannot act otherwise. And if the living entity is put into the body of a hog, then he is forced to eat stool and act like a hog. Similarly, if the living entity is put into the body of a demigod, he must act according to his body. This is the law of nature. But in all circumstances, the Supersoul is with the individual soul. That is explained in the Vedas (Mundaka Upanishad 3.1.1) as follows: dva suparna sayuja sakhayah. The Supreme Lord is so kind upon the living entity that He always accompanies the individual soul and in all circumstances is present as the Supersoul, or Paramatma. 
 
 
Translation and commentary by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
  
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Yours
Dinesh
 

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When was Bhagavatam written by Vyasadeva?

From Bhagavata Mahatmya, Padma Purana, Uttara Khanda:
Saunaka asked, "O Suta Gosvami, when did Sukadeva recite the Bhagavatam to Pariksita, Gokarna to Dhundhukari, and the Kumaras to Narada Muni?"
Suta Gosvami replied, "About thirty years after Lord Krsna's departure to His abode, on the ninth day of the bright fortnight in the month of Bhadra, Sukadeva recited Bhagavatam to Pariksit. Two hundred years later in the month of Asadha, on the ninth day of the bright fortnight Gokarna recited Bhagavatam to Dhundhukari. Thirty years later, in the month of Karttika on the ninth day of the bright fortnight, the Kumaras recited it to Narada Muni."
SUMMARY
3150 BC: Battle of Kuruksetra
February 18, 3102 BC (around): Krsna's disappearance, beginning of Kali Yuga (Thus Krsna was present for around 125+48 = 173 years)
30 years after i.e 3072 BC: Sukadeva Goswami speaks Bhadra Navami Bhagavatam to Maharaj Pariksit
200 years later i.e. 2872 BC: Gokarna recited Bhagavatam to Dhundhukari on Asadha Navami
30 years later i.e. 2842 BC: Kumaras recited to Narada Muni on Karttika Navami
Around 2000 BC: Suta Goswami recited to the sages at Naimisaranya (long after the battle of Kuruksetra)
1000 BC: Compiling of Mahabharata
500 BC: Compiling of Ramayana
900 AD: Vyasadeva completed writing the 12 Canto of the Bhagavatam
The first and the the last three dates have been picked up from the Introduction of Sri Krsna-samhita by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura. He gives the date of the writing of the Srimad Bhagavatam as being around 900 AD in the opinion of modern scholars and goes on to give very foolproof evidences regarding this which the modern scholars give. Though Bhaktivinoda Thakura himself put a lot of effort into writing this Intro., he leaves it upto the reader to accept it or not.
And he writes while trying to figure out a date of compiling of the Bhagavatam as per the modern scholars:
"Now we will consider the modern scholars view on the date of the appearance of Srimad Bhagavatam, the jewel of all scriptures. Not understanding our statements, third-grade people may lose all faith and consider it a recent work. Therefore they should read this section..."

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


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Divine Marriage and Divorce

By HH.Radhanath Swami

When I was about eight years old my parents were considering divorce. I remember my mother putting mascara on in front of a mirror and I was sitting on her bed watching her. I thought it was a very strange thing, women putting on mascara, so I was watching. And my mother said to me very seriously, "everyone likes your father and everyone likes me, but we no longer like each other, so we are going to separate". I cried, it was very painful, just the thought of it. Some hours later my father came home from work and I knew my mother was going to discuss this with him. He went in the bedroom and they closed the door. I was so disturbed that I secretly put my ear against the door to hear what they were saying.

My mother told my father how much I had been crying, and I heard them both say that for the rest of their lives they would stay together because this is what was best for the children. They never separated. As the years passed, I can honestly say, I never saw any two people that loved each other so much. Their love was very deep. It wasn't about romance, because romance, you know it comes and goes. It wasn't just about personality, or having complimentary views on things. It was about heart to heart, sensible responsibility to each other for a higher principle. Because they chose to go through those difficulties together for the higher principle of their love for their children, I feel God awarded them with deep affection and love for each other.

Beside the higher principle of children is the principle of God, the principle of our vows before the Lord to help each other to become pure, to become enlightened within our lives. That higher principle is why traditionally, marriages of all different cultures involve taking vows in a spiritual place - so that the union is consecrated as a partnership in the service of the Divine. What is a diamond? A diamond is the queen of all jewels. But a diamond is nothing but a piece of coal that's been under pressure for millions of years. Gold, the king of metals, is purified when it is put in fire. This is mother nature speaking to us. This is wisdom - that by faithfully passing through the good times and the bad times - the easy times and the hard with each other, and for each other, for this higher value - then marriage has the potential to make us spiritually perfect. It will do that if we just understand the yoga of marriage.

From a spiritual perspective one should feel that their partner is something more than just my husband or my wife. A husband should feel towards his wife that this is the daughter of God - this is God's deeply beloved daughter that has been entrusted in my care. How you treat her is how God will receive you. How you speak to her, how you act toward her, how you protect her are all important. Protection is said to be on three levels - physical, emotional and spiritual. To give that protection, to be forgiving to each other and to honor your spouse as God's property, God's gift, is how you will make spiritual progress. And a wife should feel that her partner is not just her husband but he is God's beloved child entrusted in her care to protect, to be faithful to, and to encourage. If you see each other in this light, marriage really is yoga. Your relationship will be yoga in essence and you will make great spiritual progress.

Feelings of affection may come and go but the foundation of a healthy relationship is respect. Respect for each other and care for each other. Through respect and care affection can grow into deep love on the level of the soul. Physically we care for each other by providing the basic necessities of life. Depending on the particular nature of your occupation and relationship one must provide housing, clothing, health care and other physical needs. But emotional care is very essential. Lack of emotional care can really send a marriage off track. Everyone needs appreciation and everyone needs encouragement. So many ladies come to me and say "my husband just doesn't care about me - he doesn't like anything I do". When I go to the husband, I ask "do you care about her?" And he will say "yes, of course". I'll ask, "do you like what she does"? "Yes I love what she does". "Do ever tell her"? And he will say, "why should I tell her, she should know". Communication is so important. Sometimes in a marriage we communicate with everybody except the person we are living with. Communication - honest communication where we really do express our appreciation for each other, express our affection for each other, and express it in such a way that we encourage each other is very critical for a healthy relationship.

Marriage shouldn't be just something that we are tolerating somehow or other because we took vows. It should be something very dynamic, very flowing and very real. It should be and very connected to the Divine, so that the struggles are not just depressing - the struggles are spiritual challenges that we have to meet together and every time we overcome those challenges we come to a higher spiritual platform. By following marriage in this way it becomes a path of perfection.


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


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New year or Old year?

              
          Every year we are looking for long-lasting new new ways of enjoying the senses. But whichever way it's done,it brings only misery and make the self even more frustrated because of the limits&temporary nature of the pleasure.With the false hope of enjoying more&more,we get drowned into the material ocean deeper and deeper until we realize we are lost into it. Every year seems to be new,But we are the same old person who lost one valuable year in human life. Every new year shows we add one old year to our age. 

There are Friends who send me messages saying 366 days of happiness,which is never going to happen in this world as long as we are exploiting the resources of material nature for our sense pleasure. There are means to derive happiness within rather than seeking elsewhere in the resources of the worldly objects.

By making our intelligence&mind fixed in Krishna consciousness,we get the strength to deal with the senses who are bad masters driving us mad with the chariot of body,Perception of evil of birth,death,old age,disease is real knowledge & to get out of the cycle of birth and death within this life should be the resolution for every new year of our every old year.

Every year we add new new ways of enjoying the senses but in the end our desire to enjoy the fruitive activities get vanquished at death.The impressions in the mind get even more stronger and make the senses drive us mad&prepare us to enter the doors of hell even within this world.

One must elevate oneself in mind by performing the prescribed duties and not degrade. For an unbridled horse puts his Passenger in a precarious state so does the uncontrolled mind which puts the next destination of the soul in dangerous condition.

Also the happiness and distress we experience is only because of the sense perception and mental concoction. Being desirous of sense enjoyment and opulent life, foolish and ignorant men say that there's nothing more than this. They think that lust&sex life is the cause of all creation & the only means of enjoyment.

As long as we dont change our consciousness it's going to be the same old year.Because we will be doing the same old eating,sleeping.mating,defending which we have been doing from time immemorial in a variety of bodies with variety of senses that are centered about the mind. New year or old year is in our hands.New-Krishna consciousness,Old-animal consciousness.
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Yours
Dinesh
Blog:http://dinesh-krsna.blogspot.com

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