Keep it real!

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Keep it real!

11 Aug 2014 by Kristin Leave a Comment

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, September 2013, Cape Town, South Africa, Bhagavad-gita 9.9)

Krsna is full of love and full of kindness. We are too focused on the reality of the body, on this life we are going through… Whereas Krsna is not illusioned by the material forms, Krsna is seeing the soul. He is interested in the service the soul has rendered because that is actually blissful activity. Anything else is never blissful.Any material activity is never everblissful! Sometimes we are hoping that it is going to be. We hope that the material energy will be fulfilling our desires and as soon as there is a little enjoyment we say, “Yes, yes, yes! Now I am happy. Now I am so happy!”

But how happy are you really? Are you really happy? Who are you trying to convince? Material happiness is not going to be possible.

This verse (BG 9.9), takes us to this aspect of the material world, that Krsna has nothing to do with the material world. He is not interested in the material world; he did not want the material world. He does not particularly want to do anything with the material world. It is not his design, his plan. It is all the plan of the living beings. Krsna’s plan is something totally different – it is the spiritual world, and Krsna makes endless efforts to bring all living beings back to the spiritual world, in someway or other but to become a resident of spiritual world requires a certain quality, so Krsna does make many arrangements for us to learn.

Yours

Dinesh

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Poking mind - you stupid stop it

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Our mind is like a baby poking us every time. We tolerate for most of the times but sometimes the poking gets too annoying to finally get our attention on it's cravings. If we give way to what is being asked it may turn us to ditch and at that time the same mind says, you stupid why did you do this? You don't have any sense?

In the Bhagavatham 11th canto it is mentioned that a horse rider will go in the way of horse initially to get it to full control. The horse rider will give way to the different things that a horse does in the beginning to understand the horse and eventually gains full control of the horse. Similarly the Vedic samskaras from birth to death help us to control the horse like or baby like mind in a protected safe way so that we don't get totally lost!!!

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Prove if God exists by logic

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University Student:Can you prove if God exists by logic???

Srila Prabhupada:Material nature is the mother. Living entities are the children. Therefore there must be a father. The father is God

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Dinesh

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Yoga is simply a show when it's intention is Bhoga

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Without mind control and sense control, self realization is simply a show. No path of real self realization can give success if one still holds on to sensual pleasure.

Therefore in the initial stages, the beginners are also expected to be well versed in the philosophy to strengthen the intelligence in order to fix the mind on the process with the power of intelligence. The philosophy of Sankhya helps us to understand our real position with respect to the material manifestation and The Lord.

Different sages have different numbers as we see in the 11th canto of Bhagavatham, but the essence is the same in the Sankhya. Some say 24, others 25, while some other sages say 27 which includes 3 modes of material nature.

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A cloud is compared to a qualified person because it pours rain and gives sustenance to many people

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During the rainy season, lightning appears in one group of clouds and then immediately in another group of clouds. This phenomenon is compared to a lusty woman who does not fix her mind on one man. A cloud is compared to a qualified person because it pours rain and gives sustenance to many people; a man who is qualified similarly gives sustenance to many living creatures, such as family members or many workers in business. Unfortunately, his whole life can be disturbed by a wife who divorces him.

When the husband is disturbed, the whole family is ruined, the children are dispersed, or the business is closed, and everything is affected. It is therefore recommended that a woman desiring to advance in Krsna consciousness peacefully live with a husband and that the couple should not separate under any condition. The husband and wife should control sex indulgence and concentrate their minds on Krsna consciousness so their life may be successful.

After all, in the material world a man requires a woman, and a woman requires a man. When they are combined, they should live peacefully in Krsna consciousness and should not be restless, like the lightning, flashing from one group of clouds to another. - Light of Bhagavata, Srila Prabhupada.

Yours

Dinesh

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