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- H.G. Sankarshan das Adhikari, USA: Friday 8 July 2011--Finding the Real Heaven in Hawaii--and--Enlightening Others With Krishna Consciousness
- Japa Group: Talking About Chanting
- Balabhadra dasa: Latest ISCOWP News
- ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Today's Darsana
- Vraja Kishor, JP: Devotion and Science
- ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Bhakti Sara Dasa
- ISKCON News.com: Lost Sentence Appears In Newly Discovered Page Of Gita Transcription X
- ISKCON News.com: Investigators Turn to Final Vault at Indian Treasure Temple
- ISKCON News.com: 100 000 Copies of Bhagavad-gita in US Motels
- Krishna Lounge, LA, USA: Kirtan 2011-06-30
- Krishna Lounge, LA, USA: Spiritual Death by Over-Collecting
- Dandavats.com: Disapperance day of Srila Gadadhara Pandita
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H.G. Sankarshan das Adhikari, USA: Friday 8 July 2011--Finding the Real Heaven in Hawaii--and--Enlightening Others With Krishna Consciousness
A daily broadcast of the Ultimate Self Realization Course Friday 8 July 2011 The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna, and His eternal consort, Srimati Radharani are enjoying transcendental pastimes in the topmost planet of the spiritual world, Sri Goloka Vrindavan. They are beckoning us to rejoin them. (Click on photo to see a larger image.) Our Mission: To help everyone awaken their original Krishna consciousness, which is eternal, full of knowledge and full of bliss. Such a global awakening will, in one stroke, solve all the problems of the world society bringing in a new era of unprecedented peace and prosperity for all. May that day, which the world so desperately needs, come very soon. We request you to participate in this mission by reviving your dormant Krishna consciousness and assisting us in spreading this science all over the world. Dedicated with love to ISKCON Founder-Acharya: His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, our beloved spiritual master, and to you, our dear readers. Today's Thought: Finding the Real Heaven in Hawaii Uploaded from Hawaii, USA No matter where one may go within this vast material existence, he will find that every place is predominated by the unavoidable and inescapable fourfold miseries of birth, death, old age, and disease. Now we have arrived in Hawaii where I am giving a series of lectures on the transcendental science of Krishna consciousness. Even though this place is famous for its heavenly atmosphere, we still see that the hellish material miseries reign supreme here, just like they do everywhere else. Everybody in Hawaii is born, gets sick, gets old, and dies. But by the mercy of Sri Guru and Sri Krishna one can live here or anywhere in real heaven by reconnecting with Lord Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead and thus conquering over these miseries. Sankarshan Das Adhikari The Fourfold Material Miseries Rule Supreme Even in Heavenly Hawaii http://www.backtohome.com/images/2011-Spring/Melbourne_Radio.JPG Answers According to the Vedic Version: Question: Enlightening Others With Krishna Consciousness Thank you so much for sacrificing so much of yourself in helping others revive their original consciousness and in so doing taking them out of their miseries. Maharaja, I wanted to ask how to enlighten others in the science of Krishna consciousness. I am trying to give Krishna consciousness to my eldest brother, but I think I am coming across as fanatical. It hurts to see him stuck and bewildered by this material world. I want to give him the tool by which he can free himself and others. Because I am the younger sister it's hard to get him to listen. He thinks I am brain washed. He asked me a question the other day, How do you make people believe? There are so many religions in the world, which one to follow if any? What is the answer to this question? I forwarded one of your lessons to him, Transcending the Dualities of Material Existence. He didn't read it at first saying he must be wary of harmful information. I told him he wouldn't be able to identify harmful information because he has not yet seen good. He has read it now. He didn't like one sentence The final conclusion is that everyone must come to Krishna consciousness as soon as possible for achieving their much desired peace, happiness, love, and success. He says it sounds like an ultimatum. What do I tell him? Thank you kindly, Anusuya. Answer: Teach Others Who They Actually Are. We have no interest in getting anyone to believe in and join another nonsense religion. Our interest is to enlighten others with the knowledge of their real identity so they can become free from all suffering. It is due to ignorance only that the human civilization is descending into an ever-increasingly miserable quagmire of delusion. He said that my statement sounds like an ultimatum. This shows his ignorance of the English language. An ultimatum is a final demand whose rejection will end negotiations and cause a resort to force or other direct stringent action. We are simply stating the fact that as long as people remain ignorant of their actual identity they will never achieve the perfection of their existence. We are not putting a gun to their heads with the ultimatum that they must become Krishna conscious or we will blow their brains out. We are simply giving people the opportunity to attain unlimited peace, love, and happiness by realizing the Absolute Truth regarding the individual self and its relationship with the Supreme Self. If he has a problem with our offer to help people achieve genuine, undying happiness, that is his problem. We hope and pray that he will some day come to understand the liberating reality of his existence. 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•Japa Group: Talking About Chanting
Hare Krsna dear devotees. I am very enthusiastic with the Japa Room on mayapur tv, we have started this service and we can see how we contribute a lot to ourselves when we talk about chanting. When we preach to anyone about the Holy names and emphasise the importance of it we become dear to the Lord because He is there in His Holy names, so we feel His love and appreciation inside us.
I would like to invite you all to practice this preaching about the Holy names, talk to people about Japa and tell them how chanting the maha mantra with love and affection makes a lot of difference, I am very sure you will feel a lot of peace inside and the Lord will shower His blessings unto you.
Wishing you a wonderful weekend engaged in service and chanting,
your servant,
Aruna devi
•Balabhadra dasa: Latest ISCOWP News
•ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Today's Darsana
Srila Krsnadasa Kaviraja Goswami glorifies Srimati Radhika so eloquently in his Sri Radhikastakam:
".. May that Srimati Radhika-who by Her ever-fresh beauty, ever-fresh playfulness, and ever-fresh wealth of affection causes all the young maidens of Vraja, who are abound in love to Sri Krishna, to tremble in anxiety; and who is immersed in samadhi upon Sri Krishna's beauty, attire, and playful pastimes--always bestow upon me the service of Her lotus feet..."
Srimati Radhika, whose darsana is rarely attained even by Parvati-devi and other goddesses, who gives great pleasure to Her sakhis, who Herself becomes elated upon meeting with Sri Krishna, and who is Krishna's dearest lover, very quickly makes that person who prays to Her, singing this astaka, a recipient for the nectar of Her service.
•Vraja Kishor, JP: Devotion and Science
The 13th chapter of Bhagavad Gita is about science. It divides science into 3 divisions:
- The thing that is to be known (called prakriti or kshetra or jneyam)
- The entity who will know it (called purusha or kshetra-jna)
- The methodology by which that entity gains knowledge of that thing (jnanam)
In the chapter, Krsna discusses each of these three topics in summary detail – the more elaborate detail is elsewhere in the Vedas, especially in the Vedanta-Sutra. Towards the end of the chapter, in the 19th text, Krsna makes a perhaps unexpected statement:
mad-bhakta etad vijnaana, mad-bhaavaay opapadyate
This statement can be misunderstood to mean, “only my devotee can understand science.” The real meaning is “only my devotee can really understand science.” Then comes the “,” in the quote, at which pause the question arises in the mind: “well, what do you mean ‘really understand’?” Then following the comma, Krsna answers, “To fully and really understand science causes one to attain my-bhava. Only the devotees can understand science to this full extent causing them to actuate a tangible intimate relationship with the divine form of the ultimate subject of all science.”
Through emperical science we can understand these topics to a small extent. Through shastra-svadhyaya (study of the veda) we can understand the topics to a deeper (or at least different) extent. Through renunciation and yoga we can understand still further. Through vedanta and moksha we can understand to a great extent. So, no one is saying that ONLY the bhakta can know about these topics. Really what we are saying is that only the bhakta can FULLY know about them.
Here is Krsna’s direct quote: “mad-bhakta etad vijnaana, mad-bhaavaayopapadyate.” Which fairly literally means “my devotee can realize this in such a way that causes him or her to attain bhaava bhakti and thus my personal abode.”
(mad-bhaava means “my nature” – “Krsna’s-bhava” – which means both “bhava for Krsna” and the “bhava (nature/existence) of Krsna”)
Prabhupada’s translation uses the words “thoroughly” and “thus” to indicate this point. He says, “Only my devotees can understand this thoroughly and thus attain to my nature.” The direct meaning is that Krsna’s devotees understand the subjects and processes of science more thoroughly than anyone else does.
What is the evidence of this, what is the proof or symptom of an understanding of knowledge that is superior to all others? The evidence is what follows “thus” – which in Sanskrit is: mad-bhaavaayopapadyate, “only they understand it so well that they attain to Krsna-bhava as a result of their understanding.” No other actually becomes one with the subject, the liberated mokshi comes close but it is a false oneness. The bhakta, however actually and truly becomes one with the subject of knowledge – that is how deep they understand it. This is what Krsna-bhava-upapadyate means. It means that the devotee becomes one with the nature (bhava) of Krsna. This, is the definition of Bhava Bhakti. It is when the nature of Krsna (which is Krsna’s shakti, his nature is his prakriti, his energy his shakti – specifically his INTERNAL shakti) enters into the soul like sunlight, water and nurtition entering a seed, causing it to sprout. In bhava bhakti the bhakta BECOMES ONE with the internal shakti as an eternal individualized expression of the samvit, sandini, and hladini shakti of Sri Krsna – and thereby becomes qualified to directly please the senses of Sri Krsna.
So we should not think, as I usually do, “Oh the 13th chapter and onward is dry stuff. Just give me the ninth chapter and the tenth canto please.” On the contrary if because of devotion we carefully study jnana – that study of jnana becomes a route to Sri Krishna Bhavanamrita – it becomes a route to Krsna-bhava, which is the budding state of Krsna prema, which – like it or not, know it or not, is what every single molecular organism in our body is aching for at every moment.
Thus this second half of the shloka is an important “hook” fastening the jnana section of the Gita to the previous bhakti section and ensuring that we do not lose perspective and focus that bhakti, not jnana, is Krsna’s main concern and theme of the Bhagavad Gita.
•ISKCON Melbourne, AU: Daily Class - Bhakti Sara Dasa
Srimad Bhagavatam 12.12.14-15 - Krsna bestows His causeless mercy to one who submissively & attentively hears Srimad Bhagavatam (...susrusubhis tat-ksanat).
•ISKCON News.com: Lost Sentence Appears In Newly Discovered Page Of Gita Transcription X
 | A sentence handwritten by Srila Prabhupada for a purport of Bhagavad-gita As It Is but never included in any edition of the book has come to light at the Bhaktivedanta Archives. |
•ISKCON News.com: Investigators Turn to Final Vault at Indian Treasure Temple
 | Onlookers and devotees thronged the shrine in the bustling centre of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of India's southern Kerala state, as officials said treasure worth more than $20 billion had been found -- more than India's education budget. |
•ISKCON News.com: 100 000 Copies of Bhagavad-gita in US Motels
 | On June 16-17, 2011, ISKCON devotees from the Motel Gita Project attended the annual convention of the Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) in Las Vegas, Nevada, requesting the owners of hotels and motels to include a copy of “Bhagavad-gita As It Is” in their guest rooms, as is commonly done with Gideon’s Bibles. |
•Krishna Lounge, LA, USA: Kirtan 2011-06-30
•Krishna Lounge, LA, USA: Spiritual Death by Over-Collecting
In the materialistic concept of life one tends to be attracted to collecting things. This over-collecting leads to over-endeavoring which is the cause of one’s spiritual death and many other problems.
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•Dandavats.com: Disapperance day of Srila Gadadhara Pandita
Payonidhi das: The incarnation of love who previously was the queen of Vrindavan, Radha, is now the beloved of Gaura named Srila Gadadhara Pandit. Svarupa Damodar himself indicated that he was Vraja’s goddess of fortune, the Lakshmi who was previously the beloved of Shyamasundara in Vrindavan
