Tuesday 6 April 2010

Notes from Mathura Meets Vrindavan 6th April 2010

Here are some notes from His Holiness Gaura Govind Swami Maharaj’s book “Mathura meets Vrindavan”

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Bhakti is not the vritti, the natural faculty or occupation of the tatashta-jiva-shakti, the marginal living entities.

Also, it is not the vritti of the bahiranga-maaya-shakti, the external energy.

Rather, Bhakti is the vritti of Bhagavan’s internal energy, the Svarupa Shakti.

Because of this Bhakti, Bhagavan and Bhakta are not available here in the material world.

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His Holiness Gaura Govind Swami Maharaj Ki Jaya.

His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada Ki Jaya

Monday 5 April 2010

His Grace Gauranga Prabhu at home

There are times when life to too good and you have done nothing at all to deserve this.

This happened to us a couple a months ago when His Grace Gauranga Prabhu came home for a visit. I feel this kind of unconditional mercy keeps us alive in Krishna Consciousness.

 

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Some rare photos

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Sunday 4 April 2010

Srila Prabhupada , A true sadhu

This Friday with HG Rupa Vilas Prabhu, we were discussing the First Canto, 10th chapter of the Bhagavatam.

His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada is so direct. He does not speak around the issue. He is direct.

Before i reproduce His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada’s words here, i want to post some other things here so that you can see that i am not a fanatic. His words are so true now.

This video is from http://www.themeatrix.com/ 

This one is from you tube

 

Here is what His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada explains @ http://vedabase.net/sb/1/10/4/en

Canto 1: Creation   
Chapter 10: Departure of Lord Krsna for Dvaraka

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 1.10.4

kamam vavarsa parjanyah
sarva-kama-dugha mahi
sisicuh sma vrajan gavah
payasodhasvatir muda

SYNONYMS

kamam -- everything needed; vavarsa -- was showered; parjanyah -- rains; sarva -- everything; kama -- necessities; dugha -- producer; mahi -- the land; sisicuh sma -- moisten; vrajan -- pasturing grounds; gavah -- the cow; payasa udhasvatih -- due to swollen milk bags; muda -- because of a joyful attitude.

TRANSLATION

During the reign of Maharaja Yudhisthira, the clouds showered all the water that people needed, and the earth produced all the necessities of man in profusion. Due to its fatty milk bag and cheerful attitude, the cow used to moisten the grazing ground with milk.

PURPORT

The basic principle of economic development is centered on land and cows. The necessities of human society are food grains, fruits, milk, minerals, clothing, wood, etc. One requires all these items to fulfill the material needs of the body. Certainly one does not require flesh and fish or iron tools and machinery. During the regime of Maharaja Yudhisthira, all over the world there were regulated rainfalls. Rainfalls are not in the control of the human being. The heavenly King Indradeva is the controller of rains, and he is the servant of the Lord. When the Lord is obeyed by the king and the people under the king's administration, there are regulated rains from the horizon, and these rains are the causes of all varieties of production on the land. Not only do regulated rains help ample production of grains and fruits, but when they combine with astronomical influences there is ample production of valuable stones and pearls. Grains and vegetables can sumptuously feed a man and animals, and a fatty cow delivers enough milk to supply a man sumptuously with vigor and vitality. If there is enough milk, enough grains, enough fruit, enough cotton, enough silk and enough jewels, then why do the people need cinemas, houses of prostitution, slaughterhouses, etc.? What is the need of an artificial luxurious life of cinema, cars, radio, flesh and hotels? Has this civilization produced anything but quarreling individually and nationally? Has this civilization enhanced the cause of equality and fraternity by sending thousands of men into a hellish factory and the war fields at the whims of a particular man?

It is said here that the cows used to moisten the pasturing land with milk because their milk bags were fatty and the animals were joyful. Do they not require, therefore, proper protection for a joyful life by being fed with a sufficient quantity of grass in the field? Why should men kill cows for their selfish purposes? Why should man not be satisfied with grains, fruits and milk, which, combined together, can produce hundreds and thousands of palatable dishes. Why are there slaughterhouses all over the world to kill innocent animals? Maharaja Pariksit, grandson of Maharaja Yudhisthira, while touring his vast kingdom, saw a black man attempting to kill a cow. The King at once arrested the butcher and chastised him sufficiently. Should not a king or executive head protect the lives of the poor animals who are unable to defend themselves? Is this humanity? Are not the animals of a country citizens also? Then why are they allowed to be butchered in organized slaughterhouses? Are these the signs of equality, fraternity and nonviolence?

Therefore, in contrast with the modern, advanced, civilized form of government, an autocracy like Maharaja Yudhisthira's is by far superior to a so-called democracy in which animals are killed and a man less than an animal is allowed to cast votes for another less-than-animal man.

We are all creatures of material nature. In the Bhagavad-gita it is said that the Lord Himself is the seed-giving father and material nature is the mother of all living beings in all shapes. Thus mother material nature has enough foodstuff both for animals and for men, by the grace of the Father Almighty, Sri Krsna. The human being is the elder brother of all other living beings. He is endowed with intelligence more powerful than animals for realizing the course of nature and the indications of the Almighty Father. Human civilizations should depend on the production of material nature without artificially attempting economic development to turn the world into a chaos of artificial greed and power only for the purpose of artificial luxuries and sense gratification. This is but the life of dogs and hogs.