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The Peace Formula

The Peace Formula

 

• The earth is the property of God, but we, the living entities, especially the so-called civilized human beings, are claiming God's property as our own, under both an individual and collective false conception. If you want peace, you have to remove this false conception from your mind and from the world. This false claim of proprietorship by the human race on earth is partly or wholly the cause of all disturbances of peace on earth.

 

• Lord Krsna says that He is the factual enjoyer of all activities of the living entities, that He is the Supreme Lord of all universes, and that He is the well-wishing friend of all beings. When the people of the world know this as the formula for peace, it is then and there that peace will prevail.Men are claiming proprietary rights on the property of God because they have now become godless. You cannot be happy and peaceful in a godless society. In the

 

• Therefore, if you want peace at all, you will have to change your consciousness into Krsna consciousness, both individually and collectively, by the simple process of chanting the holy name of God. This is a standard and recognized process for achieving peace in the world. We therefore recommend that everyone become Krsna conscious by chanting Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

 

• Peace and prosperity will be the immediate worldwide result.This is practical, simple, and sublime. Four hundred and eighty years ago this formula was introduced in India by Lord Sri Caitanya, and now it is available in your country. Take to this simple process of chanting as above mentioned, realize your factual position by reading the the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, and reestablish your lost relationship with Krsna, God. Peace and prosperity will be the immediate worldwide result.

 

Srila Prabhupada - Science of Self-Realization

 

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H.G. Vidvan Gauranga prabhu speaks on S.B. 4.13.36-37 - from a live broadcast on Mayapur.TV

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H.H. Bhakti Vidya Purna Swami speaks on S.B.4.13.38-39 - from a live broadcast on Mayapur.TV

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

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Grace of the Lord

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It’s cream that we want!

Transcribed by Hina
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Vrndavana)

Let us just read things we like and select things that we like. Let us not be too much in the mood of a scholarly student. Let us just be devotees and just go straight for the nectar. Why not? Why not just stick our fingers in the cream…right? Go straight for the cream! Why would we go through the whole discipline of eating the rice and the dahl that we get everyday. It's cream that we want!

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Half mind – Dull!

Transcribed By Hina
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Cranberra March 2011)

Prabhupada many times used to say to some of his disciples:
"You are dull …..you are very dull!. You are not registering. It's all going, and it's just happening but you are not there! Only half present! Half mind – Dull!"
Yes this is our condition since currently we are chanting but we are not appreciating.
Partially, because we are covered by ignorance!

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Serious Residents

Transcribed by Annie
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, March 2011, Melbourne)

We are residents of Kaliyuga. We are inclined towards sin, inclined to cut corners, inclined to be slack, inclined to sense gratification, inclined to cheat, inclined towards dishonesty, to say "Oh! It's too difficult!' inclined to make endless excuses to escape. We have to be serious.

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The Gopis Love – no self interest?

Transcribed by Bhakta Jan
(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Sydney, Australia, March 2011)

Ramananda Raya was such a devotee, because Ramananda Raya, he understood the pure love that the Gopis had for Krishna. He was able to explain that and he explained how it was completely selfless and how in their worship there was nothing like:
"Give me"
"Bless, please bless my house"
"Bless my family, bless my this, bless my that, bless my car…Lord while you're blessing may You as well bless everything."

No, nothing like that! The Gopis, they couldn't care less about their own things, they had no self-interest at all…………..

"Well, Well is that true Maharaja, is that true? You know, when Akrura came, he came to Vrndavana with his chariot to take Krishna and Balarama to Mathura, isn't it so? And Krishna and Balarama stood on that chariot and they were laughing and it really looked like they wanted to go. Everyone was in shock. Yashoda was totally shocked, totally shocked!
The cowherd boys were lying unconscious in the forest and the Gopis were grabbing the reins and said: "He cannot go!" But Akrura, being a powerful Kyshatria, just drove away, leaving the residents of Vrinadavana broken hearted in separation.
And Vrindavana just shrivelled up, the Yamuna dried up and everyone was just broken hearted. Why? If Krishna wanted to go to Mathura why didn't the Gopis dance in front of the chariot? If they loved Him so much, if they were totally surrendered to Him, and they loved Him completely, they should have danced, they should have been happy, 'O.K. we are going to Mathura' 'Jay! Jay, jay, going to Mathura!' They should have danced in front of him. 'Yes, if that makes Krishna happy, it makes us happy! We have no other desire than the happiness of Krishna. Wherever He wants to go.' Isn't it?"
But it looks like these Gopis had some selfish desire after all, because they wanted to keep Krishna in Vrndavana for themselves. When Krishna was going off to Mathura, they knew very well, that these ladies of Mathura are very sophisticated, "We are never going to see Him again" It looks like that doesn't it?"
No! That was not the reason, it was not jealousy! That was not the reason, it was not selfishness! Then what was it?
What it was, was that the Gopis knew, the Gopis knew very well:
"Krishna has gone mad. He has lost it. He has lost it! He has totally gone mad! He is leaving Vrndavana! He is insane! He is hurting Himself now, because outside of Vrndavana, He cannot be happy. Therefore we cannot let Him go! We cannot let Him fall prey to this madness; we must save Him and stop Him from leaving Vrndavana, because only in Vrndavana, this is the only place where He can be happy."

And in this way, the Gopis were completely selfless even when they stopped the chariot of Akrura.
There was no self-interest. Amazing!
Ramananda Roy understood this topmost love and explained it to be the highest, the highest devotional service.

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Turtle lane and the Fast Lane

Transcribed by Bhakta Frederick
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, January 2011)

Some years ago in Germany, they had on the Autobahn, where there is no speed limit, they had a sign, and the sign said: "Turtles to the right,"
Yes, You saw a whole line of turtles walking and then in the middle lane there's a medium speed and in the fast lane there's a whatever, unlimited speed.
But all the turtles to the right – so in the Sankirtana movement of Lord Caitanya, there also are different lanes and many of us may be in the turtle lane!
What to do, right!?
If you then look at Rupa Gosvami, Sanatana Gosvami, Srinivasa Acarya they are in the fast lane – It's just inconceivable – "whoosh!' They flash their lights!" – and they don't eat, they don't sleep, they just fly by and we are looking like – how is this all possible!!!? "This is inconceivable"
So in this way we are just, well, struggling a bit, but we do our best. Our best is to be faithful – faithful in chanting and then we come together and have these kirtan gatherings and tank up and get some energy. We will walk away from here with something, with some strength, some energy to apply ourselves once again, and then in the end… in the end, we are very optimistic, because we know that there is the mercy of Srila Prabhupada.
That mercy of Srila Prabhupada extends even further than what Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu brought. It it said Lord Nityananda made a channel – a channel to make Krishna-prema descend into this world, and then Prabhupada brought it to the modern world in the West.
Then Prabhupada, on the strength of his service – on the strength of his extraordinary service, he attracts Krishna, and by attracting Krishna he can even attract the mercy of Krishna upon those who are not very pure and serious at all.
And that is our hope, that simply by taking shelter of Srila Prabhupada, Krishna's mercy will be attracted.

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Life without devotional service

Sometimes we are not happy in our life because our life is void, it is empty. We haven't filled our lives with blessings and service. If we fill our life with blessings and service then there is no question of emptiness, loneliness or unhappiness. Then it doesn't exist. It all comes from emptiness and that emptiness is simply due to the fact that we haven't filled our life with devotional service.     

(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 01 April 2011, Durban, SA)

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We Have All Hope

Transcribed by Bhakta Frederick
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 2011)

"I know that my chanting is poor. I know that all that I am offering is broken names and that I'm not really chanting very purely.
But I have hope: 'hope against hope' that with Prabhupada's mercy it will be possible to go back to Godhead."
Therefore, let us come together again and again, and let us chant together again and again so that we can feed of off each other's strength and inspiration, and in that way carry on faithfully.
Just simply faithfully chant throughout a lifetime and take shelter of these four regulative principles.
Then we have all hope, by the words of Srila Prabhupada, by his service – that we can go back to Godhead – and then I am sure we will get Krishna-prema on the way also and even if it be latest at the door of the spiritual world.

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No Doubt

Transcribed by Madhumati Devi Dasi
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Stockholm 2011)

The material activities that interfere in our devotional service in a way blocks our absorption in pure devotional service to some extent – but devotional service is so powerful that it will always act and therefore gradually that devotional service will take over – There is no doubt about it…..

That is the illusory energy where we think that our Maya is so strong that it cannot be overcomed

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Bigger Picture!

Transcribed by Annie
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, Melbourne, March 2011)

When we look at all the devastation in the world and all the pain and suffering, then we become, "It's too much! It is! It really is!"
The only way to rise above it is to look at the bigger reality – how there's eternity and how these temporary ups and downs are not so important. The bigger picture!
We should go up from this reality. We should not allow ourselves to become so involved in this reality.
So again and again we have to remind ourselves, because through our being embodied, we are inclined to become involved in this reality.
It is difficult, you know. We cannot see the whole picture. We are like a small piece in a chess board – all we see is our own square. We don't see the whole board.

But we have to always remember. No, No! It's part of a bigger plan and Krsna is simply purifying the living beings and bringing them back to Him.
The living being is going through this cycle of birth and death and then he gets a chance to express independent desire and then it will be taken away.
In this way, slowly, the living being is being cured from this particular conditioning so that he can return back to Krsna in the eternal spiritual world, and once he returns there, it's like he's been away only for a moment. Only for a moment! All this time in the material world .. only a moment in eternity. So we have to practise again and again to see the bigger picture!

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THIS IS A SYSTEM OF RECREATION

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Jaya Srila Prabhupada!

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