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Bhakti Yoga-Devotional Service to the Supreme Lord Sri Krishna

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Gopis performing Devotional Service to the Lordships Sri Sri Radha Krishna

Staying on board

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via KKS Blog by Harsarani dd on 3/29/13

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 5 February 2013, Prague, Czech Republic, Srimad Bhagavatam 7.10.43-44)

boat on stormy oceanKrsna will take care of us but for the non-devotees, he takes care through his external energy. Devotees are never captured by maya. They're under the protection of Krsna, even if they are still a little bit influenced by maya. There is a description in the scriptures about the jnana-plavena, the boat of transcendental knowledge and we should all get on board of this boat of transcendental knowledge.

So you know, after a big lecture, it sounds very convincing and you finally say, 'Yes, I will get on board on this boat of transcendental knowledge.'

But the problem is that the boat is rocking on the waves of the three modes of material nature. So, it is not so easy and the deck is very slippery and if you are not careful, there are waves coming onto the deck sometimes. So, being on the boat is not just like a picnic, you have to hold yourself. If the sea is a little rough, you don't go stand in the front where the waves are coming on the deck.

So, in the beginning of spiritual life, when we first get on board of the boat and we don't get a cabin yet, we are deck passengers and it's slippery. The shocks are strong; the modes of material nature; they shock our lives. Sometimes, a devotee goes over board. Lifeboats and everything to save him.

So like this, in the beginning, it can be a little difficult to stay on the boat of transcendental knowledge; maya is still shaking us. But after sometime, they give you a the cabin, then you are very comfortable in your cabin and you don't worry so much anymore about material energy.

In the beginning, in spiritual life, you see maya, 'Oh no, take it away!' So like this, in the beginning, we maybe a little bit weak but with time, we become strong if we faithfully follow the process. And the materialist, they are out there in the ocean with the sharks and the materialists will suffer a lot!

 


 
 

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    • Kaliyuga!

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    via KKS Blog by Ragalekha on 3/31/13

    (Kadamba Kanana Swami, 13 March 2013, Mayapur, India, Srimad Bhagavatam 4.30.17)

    kaliyugaIt is kaliyuga, an ocean of faults! Sometimes devotees come together and have some kaliyuga katha, "Oh, you know, it's really bad out there!  Oh yeah!  So bad! Things that they are eating; the things that they are doing. We get into kaliyuga." 

    Once, I was in Karoli where the deity of Madana Mohan is and I said the same thing to the pujari.  I said, "You are in such a nice place. You don't know what it's like out there, kaliyuga."

    He said, "Yeah kaliyuga. There are a thousand kaliyugas in a day of Brahma. They come and go very quick."

    He wasn't impressed by kaliyuga but we are because we are affected by kaliyuga, we feel the burden of kaliyuga within our hearts. One devotee told me, "I stopped chanting. I just have no taste, no taste."

    Yeah well, that is ok. The first reason why we are chanting is for purification.  If we cannot with taste then let us chant out of fear, fear of hell! I am sorry to say but let us chant out of fear of hell and lets look for some purification. There is a  hell as described in the fifth canto.

    The telephone rang in the temple and I usually never pick it up because I am a visitor. It was at ten o' clock at night and I just picked it up. This lady goes, "It's not true!  It's not true! That all my family is going to hell."

    I said, "Okay, calm down lady! Calm down! Start at the beginning, not at the end." Someone had given her the book A Second Chance and she read it. As you can understand, it is kind of a heavy book. So chant! If you have no taste then chant for purification. That is the first step. It can root out, agham dhunvanti kartsnyena niharam iva bhaskarah (SB 6.1.15), it roots out the sins from the heart, from the very root, for good. So that is good. Then we become attracted with time and more and more attracted and finally krsna kirtana gana nartana parau premamrtambho nidhi (Sad Goswami Astakam Verse 1). Eventually, we will experience that this chanting is like an ocean of transcendental love!

     


     
     

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    • Prasadam - Rice, potato gravy, Pappad- lunch actually evening when i finished this prep and cleaning

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    • Breakfast Prasadam - Vegetable Semiya

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    • There is nothing other than these 24 elements, in this material world, even in the body of a cinema star.

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    Kapila Muni, 5th Incarnation, Sankhya Philosophy explained

    Verse 1.3.10: Kapila muni is called devahuti putra kapila. His father was Kardama muni.

    He is known for his knowledge. He expounded the sankhya philosophy, the 24 different material elements, but everything in relation to Bhakti. There is another non-devotee kapila, but to not confuse ourselves, we refer to this Kapila Muni as Devahuti-putra Kapila.

    There are 8 gross material elements(Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego), 5 knowledge acquiring senses (eyes, nose, ear, mouth, skin), 5 sense objects (taste, sight, perception, sound, smell), 5 working senses (hands, legs, rectum, genitals, mouth), false ego and mahat-tattva. He has delineated very nicely this whole material world into these 24 elements. There is nothing other than these 24 elements, in this material world, even in the body of a cinema star.

    If we understand this and get a realization out of it, we will make a lot lot of progress. Please contemplate on it. 

    But it's not so easy, the illusory energy hides everything and brings all the conditioned souls who wanted to become Gods to the level of dogs. For instance the mind of a man is by design  created to get attracted by the form of a woman. We cannot take a chance here and say that all men and women are only just material elements and so it does nt matter if men and women mix together,no it's not that. It's by design itself created that way and is a mechanical and automatic thing, so staying away in separate is the best solution. We take advantage of the positive and get rid of the negative.


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    Dinesh

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