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Discussing SB 1.7 in Kids Bhagavatam

While contemplating our impending move to India, I was debating whether to start a new chapter. I asked the kids to see what their reaction is. Maharathi very eagerly said, “This is the chapter about Pandavas I want to hear you cannot stop”. I also noticed he is developing a genuine desire to chant chant the Holy Names. The other day he was saying, my only business is to chant. I added, “And to tell others to chant”.

To serve their eagerness, last Saturday we started “SB 1.7 –

2019-10-20T21:53:24+00:00October 20th, 2019|Categories: Material existence, Sessions, Vyasadeva|Tags: , , |

Jagannatha dasa Babaji

Speaker: Giriraj Swami
Source: Tamal Krishna Goswami’s and Jagannatha dasa Babaji’s Disappearance Day

Today is Srila Jagannatha dasa Babaji Maharaja’s disappearance day. He comes in the Gaudiya Vaishnava disciplic succession after Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura and Srila Baladeva Vidyabhusana. He was a renounced ascetic, fully engaged in chanting the holy names of Krishna and meditating on His pastimes. For some time, he made his residence at Surya-kunda in Vraja-dhama, near the temple of Suryadeva, where Srimati Radharani used to come and worship the sun-god—or, I should say,where She used to come to meet Krishna on the pretext of coming to worship

2019-03-28T17:33:23+00:00February 21st, 2018|Categories: Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Jagannatha dasa babaji, Lord Caitanya|

Seeing Krishna everywhere

Speaker: HDG Srila Prabhupada
Source: Expert at everything

“Actually, there is nothing but Krishna all around us. This is explained in the Gita. He is the taste of water, the light of the moon, the fragrance of the flower, the light of the sun, the sound in the sky, the power of the strong, and so on. So one who is actually making progress in Krishna consciousness, he can see Krishna everywhere. At any stage of life, who can avoid the sunlight, the moonlight, the fragrance of the flower, the taste of the water, the sound of the sky,

2019-03-28T14:43:25+00:00February 21st, 2018|Categories: Correspondence, Krsna, Krsna consciousness, Sadhana-bhakti|

Still considered saintly

Speakar: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Breaking Ground

There is a story about how habit is second nature. There was a thief, and he went on pilgrimage with some friends. So at night when the others were sleeping, because his habit was to steal at night, he got up and was taking someone’s baggage. But then he was thinking, “Oh, I have come to this holy place of pilgrimage, but still I am committing theft by habit. No, I shall not do it.”

So then he took someone’s bag and put it in another’s place, and for the whole night

2016-06-15T04:55:21+00:00June 15th, 2016|Categories: Conditioning, Krsna, Stories|Tags: , |

How Suka became Sukhadeva

Speaker: Radha Krishna prabhu

When Radha and Krishna wound up Their pastimes in Earth, They instructed their male parrot Suka, who is Radharani’s personal parrot, to stay back and speak the Srimad Bhagavatam. After They left Suka felt great separation for whilst Radharani was on Earth She would always speak to him about Krishna. So he was daily hearing Krishna katha. But now he was not getting any more stories or talks about Krishna and so he became very unhappy. He felt he would die. Then once he heard that Siva speaks the Bhagavatam in his abode.

2018-09-21T16:00:45+00:00May 18th, 2016|Categories: Krsna, Radharani, Stories, sukhadeva goswami, Vyasadeva|Tags: , |

Example of attachment

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Increase your attachment to the Lord

So the temple is the facility how to become the first-class yogi and how to become the first-class devotee simply by increasing your attachment. This attachment, there is one example that one brahmana, he was daily seeing Lord Ramacandra and then he was breaking his fast. So Ramacandra was out of His station for some royal business. So this brahmana did not take even water seven days. So when Ramacandra returned, Laksmana informed Lord Ramacandra, “Here is Your devotee, My Lord. Because You were absent for seven days and he could

2016-05-02T18:58:05+00:00May 2nd, 2016|Categories: Attachment, Deity worship, Lord Rama, Stories|

Time destroys everything

Speaker: Indradyumna Swami
Source: The Hourglass

One time I was listening to Srila Prabhupada speak in France. He was saying time will destroy everything. One time Napoleon is adored in France. Here is France, where is your Napoleon now. Nobody thought Roman empire, Greek empire will perish. Even British empire, one time it was said “sun never sets on the British empire”. Now they occupy an island and “the sun never rises on the empire”.

2018-02-20T20:34:56+00:00April 28th, 2016|Categories: Pastimes of Srila Prabhupada, Stories, Time|Tags: , |

Krsna is self-effulgent

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source:  How not to be in the material world

Just like in krsna-lila, Krsna was stealing butter. So the neighboring friends of Yasoda-mata, was complaining… It is not a complaint; it was just to see the fun of Krsna. Krsna was sitting, and they were complaining. They were seeing the bodily feature, how Krsna is feeling. So other ladies complaining, “Mother Yasoda, your son comes to our house and steals butter. You see. We try to conceal them in a darkness so that this boy cannot see. But still He finds out. So better you take away all

2016-04-18T17:59:53+00:00April 18th, 2016|Categories: Brahman, Krsna, Mother Yasoda, Stories|Tags: , |

Turn your home into Vaikunta

Source: Goloka Vrndavana Is Everywhere

Bhaktivinoda Thakura, the father of sankirtana movement within two hundred years. He was acarya and a householder, grhastha. He was very responsible officer, magistrate, householder. But he was a great devotee. Not only devote, acarya in the line of Caitanya Mahaprabhu disciplic succession, acarya. So he sung, ye dine grhete bhajana dekhi, grhete goloka bhaya: “The day whenever we find there is bhajana,” means worshiping the Supreme Lord, “at that time immediately the house becomes Vaikuntha.” Actually, that is so. Vaikuntha or Goloka Vrndavana is not material things.

As Krsna is worship

2016-03-11T22:32:54+00:00March 11th, 2016|Categories: Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Holy name, Sadhana-bhakti, Vaikuntha, Vrndavana|

Tiny experience

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: SB 6.1.1-2, Melbourne, May 22, 1975

Devotee: “It says in the scriptures that Lord Brahma rides on a swan. Do we take this to mean it’s a real swan, or is it symbolic?”
Prabhupada: “Not symbolic, it is fact. Why do you say symbolic?”
Devotee: “Because it’s rather unusual.”
Prabhupada: “Unusual? What experience have you got? (laughter) You have no experience. Have you got experience of other planetary systems, what is there? Your experience is very tiny. So you should not calculate Brahma’s life and other things by your tiny experience…Your experience is nothing. Therefore, you have to

2016-02-18T22:23:31+00:00February 18th, 2016|Categories: Brahma, Krsna, Transcendental knowledge|Tags: |

Living with Krsna

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Make Sure To Pass That Final Examination At Death

Satatam means anywhere and anytime. Just like my residence is at Vrndavana. That is the place of Krsna, when Krsna advented Himself He was there. So now I am in America, in your country, but that does not mean that out of Vrndavana. Because if I think of Krsna always, so it is as good as I am in India. In Vrndavana, I am as good as in New York, in this apartment. The consciousness is there. So Krsna consciousness means you already live with Krsna in

2016-02-18T22:14:25+00:00February 18th, 2016|Categories: Krsna, Remembering, Vrndavana|

Seperation from Krsna

Speaker:  Indradyumna Swami
Source:  Indradyumna Swami with Srila Prabhupada

Indradyumna Swami: “Srila Prabhupada you’ve mentioned several times in recent lectures that a pure devotee can see Krsna everywhere – that He’s never out of your vision. And at the same time in Siksastakam prayers Lord Chaitanya explains that, Govinda, I am feeling Your separation to be 12 years of more. I am feeling vacant in His absence.’ Could you explain this?”
Srila Prabhupada: “Yes. He’s playing how you can become mad without seeing Krsna. That is higher stage. It cannot be explained. But when you gradually go higher you’ll

2018-02-20T20:31:37+00:00February 9th, 2016|Categories: Indradyumna Swami, Lord Caitanya, Pastimes of Srila Prabhupada, Prema|Tags: |