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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

Lord of the Gopis, I am a wicked materialist always addicted to worldy desires!


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Tips for attaining success in Krsna Consciousness

 
 

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via Gita Coaching by akrura@gmail.com on 8/24/10

One way to attain success in Krsna consciousness is to follow these tips:

CHANTING
1.Chant 16 rounds in one go attentively first thing in the morning
2.Chant the holy name constantly
3.Find happiness in chanting the holy name
4.Send reports to your Chanting Success Partner (CSP)
5.Read about the effects of chanting from Sri Namamrta
6.Write your realizations about chanting
7.Inspire devotees to chant more
8.Make chanting the main pillar of success of your life
9.Make chanting the main pillar of success of your family and community
10.Pray to the holy name

SELF RENEWAL
11.Renew body: get up at 4:00 am, dance in kirtan, eat more fruit and vegetables, walk in nature or park
12.Renew mind: learn from Srila Prabhupada's books, learn from professionals, plan weekly and daily
13.Renew heart: always seek first to understand, give unconditionally, cultivate pure motives
14.Renew spirit: chant attentively, read Prabhupada's books, listen to Prabhupada's lectures, pray, attend temple programs, preach, remember your eternal position

SERVICE
15.Be focused on the basic principles and practices of Krsna consciousness
16.Look for opportunities to support and guide devotees to help them succeed in all areas
17.Serve devotees by helping them connect with Krsna
18.Inspire people to chant the holy name and surrender to Krsna
19.Inspire people by to love and serve Krsna
20.Preach Krsna consciousness with courage and humility
21.Glorify Krsna through preaching and singing
22.Inspire secular leaders to follow Srimad Bhagavatam
23.Remember that anything is possible by Krsna's mercy

RELATIONSHIPS
24.Help more, judge less
25.Ask inspiring questions, talk less
26.Give people your love and care
27.See yourself as people's servant
28.Speak and act out of love, not out of fear
29.Be devoted to Krsna and love Him to the best of your ability

 
 

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Police Dept is horrible for the criminals!

The police department may be horrible for the criminals, but to the government it is a department as good as university department.  Similarly, Mahaamaaya is horrible to the conditioned soul, but to the liberated soul, there is no fear of Mahaamaaya, because he is protected by Yogamaaya.

His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
In his letter to Madhusudhana, 29th July, 1968.
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She is looking at me or not? **Confused???

Excerpt from

THE WAY OF DEATH by HH Jayadvaita Swami

by H.H.Jayadvaita Swami

According to an authoritative book on body language there is one device: you are not looking at her but while you are not looking at her she looks at you and keeps looking at you, and keeps looking at you until you get the creping feeling that someone is looking at you. Then, because you get this feeling that she is looking at you, you turn toward her. And that's when she turns away. And it is done with a certain gesture – what are you looking at me for??! And that of course creates further interest. Now, that she has turned away, he is totally confused, this is what is called in the hypnosis the "confusion technique". Now he is confused, was she looking at me, or was she not looking at me? I thought she was looking at me but now I was looking at her. He is completely bewildered and he does not know what's going on except that his mind is drown in thinking about the women – was she looking at me, or was she not looking at me? Was I looking at her?

So sanair, slowly the woman attracts the man. One of our ISKCON teachers of young ladies confided with me that at a certain age the girls discover that if they move in certain way, dress in certain way, they can melt the guy down. And that power becomes a kind of fascination for the girl, she has to use it.

So women all over the world would act in a way that's attractive, it's just their nature. They are constructed by the world's great expert, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He says, "mama maya durataya", my illusory energy is practically unsurpassable because I did really god job in constructing it. Particularly in the form of woman. Some place in the second canto, I think, it is said that Lord Brahma after creating so many things saw that the material energy was not sufficiently manifest, and therefore he created the form of the woman to finish the job.

So the woman is naturally made in such a way that she will be attractive to man and she will act in a way that will be attractive to man. Even if she is chaste and she is shy, that will be attractive to man. How chaste and shy that girl is! That will be attractive. Women are by nature attractive because Krsna made them in that way.
So sanair maya, maya means that what it's not what you think it is. Yopayati sanair maya yosid deva-vinirmita. The woman who slowly attracts one tam ikseta, one should see in this way – atmano mrtyum, as death.

And not just an ordinary death but ätmano måtyum, death for the soul. Death of this body, that's inevitable. For one who is born death is certain. But this is ätmano måtyum, death for the soul. The killer of the soul is mentioned in Isopanisad. How does one kill the soul? The soul is described as eternal, everlasting. So how do you kill the soul? You kill the soul by identifying it with material energy. You kill spirit by identifying with matter. Soul is sat cid ananda but matter is temporary. Matter is a source of misery and covers knowledge. So when the soul is identifying with matter then it is practically killing himself. Or if you get the soul to identify with matter you are killing the soul.

And how is the soul identifying with matter? By association, attraction between man and woman.

pumsah striya mithuna-bhavam etad
tayor mitho hrdaya-granthim ahuh
ato grha-ksetra-sutapta-vittair
janasya moho 'yam aham mameti

The attraction between male and female is the basic principle of material existence. On the basis of this misconception, which ties together the hearts of the male and female, one becomes attracted to his body, home, property, children, relatives and wealth. In this way one increases life's illusions and thinks in terms of "I and mine." (Bhagavatam 5.5.8)

Full Lecture:http://dinesh-krsna.blogspot.com/2010/07/way-of-death-must-read-many-subtle.html

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Freedom!

 
 

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via KKS Blog by noreply@blogger.com (aatish) on 8/22/10

The human form of life is the life of responsibility where one is responsible for his actions and where every action has a reaction. So that is there. But the human form of life offers us that freedom to choose, to choose for the Supreme Lord. That freedom is given to us and as soon as we take up this devotional service we become further empowered. The human form of life is already more empowered than the animal form of life – but when one takes up service to Krishna then we become empowered and with that empowerment we gain our freedom. Empowerment is what freedom is about…

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur is explaining that the jiva that is taking up devotional service is empowered witht the Cit and the Anand Shaktis. That is logical because the spirit soul who is the spiritual world in the condition of Sat Cit Ananda, eternity full of bliss and full of knowledge. But in this material world eternity is not attained. In this material world we are in a temporary situation, in a temporary body- but the other two: full bliss and full knowledge can be obtained within this material body.

Like that, one becomes empowered – this knowledge potency and this bliss potency – first to limited degrees but to ever increasing degrees, there is basically no limit to that.

It is there that we find our freedom!

(Kadamba Kanana swami, New Radha Kunda August 2010)

 
 

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