August 2015 – Page 2 – Light of Godhead

Creator is existing but not the creation

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: The Material World – A chance

In the material nature, you cannot have anything permanent. That is material nature. It is just like the flashlight. When you pass through roads and avenue, there are three colors — red, blue and yellow. They’re passing through, always. Not that the blue is always existing, or red is always existing, or the yellow is always. Passing, simply. That is the nature, material nature..…

Everything is created and it is maintained for some time. Just like my body, your

light-of-godhead2015-08-06T22:02:55+00:00August 5th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Creation, Krsna|Tags: Creator, Flashlights|

Necessity is fire

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: How To Derive The Ultimate Benefit

Just like earth, from the earth the tree grows. So tree grows means wood. Now, if you ignite the wood, first of all there is smoke, then there is fire. So my necessity is fire, neither the wood, nor the earth, nor the smoke. Similarly, for getting out of these material clutches one has to take shelter of Visnu — not of Lord Brahma nor Lord Siva.

light-of-godhead2015-08-06T21:44:13+00:00August 5th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Demigod worship, Liberation|Tags: Earth, Fire, Smoke, Wood|

No other method will relieve us

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: The Material World – A Chance

Just like one is a prisoner. So if he pleases the superintendent of prison, he can get some little facilities. Now I have seen, practically, that one young boy, he was imprisoned for some criminal act. So he was typing in the office of the jail superintendent. So that means he was educated, but he was put into ordinary prison term. He was breaking some stone. But he satisfied the jail superintendent that “I am not accustomed to

light-of-godhead2015-08-06T21:36:06+00:00August 5th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Demigod worship, Liberation|Tags: Government, Prisoner, Superintendent, Temporary|

The Material World – A Chance

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada

Source: The Material World – A Chance

Just like, I’ll give you very nice example. Just there will be a great fair. Just like, we had in this Allahabad, Magha-mela. So because government knew that many people will come to take bath in the Ganges, confluence of Ganges and Yamuna, all of a sudden, a great city, practically, was developed. Those who have seen — so many houses, camps, electric lights, post office, everything. Temporary, created.

light-of-godhead2015-08-06T21:34:09+00:00August 5th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Creation|Tags: Fair, Ganges, Magha-mela, Temporary|

The original candle

Source: SB 3.21.32 Purport

There are different manifestations of the Lord. He is one, but He has become many. He divides Himself into two different expansions, one called kalā and the other vibhinnāṁśa. Ordinary living entities are called vibhinnāṁśa expansions, and the unlimited expansions of viṣṇu-tattva, such as Vāmana, Govinda, Nārāyaṇa, Pradyumna, Vāsudeva and Ananta, are called svāṁśa-kalā. Svāṁśa refers to a direct expansion, and kalā denotes an expansion from the expansion of the original Lord. Baladeva is an expansion of Kṛṣṇa, and from Baladeva the next expansion is Saṅkarṣaṇa; thus Saṅkarṣaṇa is kalā, but Baladeva is svāṁśa. There is no difference, however, among Them.

light-of-godhead2015-08-06T21:07:41+00:00August 5th, 2015|Categories: Baladeva, Krsna, Lords expansions, Philosophical concepts|Tags: Kala, Svamsa|