Connecting bhakti yoga and 12-step recovery. Space for all to share and receive experience, strength, and hope as we work towards spiritual solutions to material problems. You can reach out to us via bhaktirecoverypodcast@gmail.com. For more information about bhakti recovery and/or to join the BRG meetings, visit www.bhaktirecoverygroup.com. Intro music by JivaG & Bhakta Charlie.
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Welcome to the Fan The Spark channel where you will find encouragement and support for expanding your book distribution, sadhana, and understanding of sastra.
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Bhakti Yoga ist der Weg der Hingabe. Wie kannst du Gottesliebe kultivieren? Wie entwickeltst du Hingabe? Was ist überhaupt Gott? In diesem Bhakti Yoga Podcast gibt dir Sukadev von www.yoga-vidya.de viele Tipps, um dein Herz zu öffnen, Gott zu erfahren. Du bekommst Tipps für Gebet, Puja, Arati, Homa, Mantra, Kirtan und mehr. Und am wichtigsten: Bringe alle Handlungen des täglichen Lebens Gott dar.
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"ভক্তিবচন" অনুষ্ঠানটি বিশ্বজুৰি বাইবেল শিক্ষা প্ৰদান কৰা পৰিচৰ্য্যাৰ এটি অংশ ৷ বৰ্তমান ১০০তকৈয়ো অধিক ভাষাত অনুদিত হোৱা এই শিক্ষাসমুহ ড. জে ভাৰ্নন মেকগিৰ দ্বাৰা প্ৰথমতে সজোৱা হৈছিল ৷ প্ৰতিদিনে ৩০ মিনিটৰ এই অনাতাঁৰ অনুষ্ঠানসমুহ এনেদৰে সুশৃংখলভাৱে সজোৱা হৈছিল যে এজন শ্ৰোতাই সহজতেই বাইবেলখন শিকিব পাৰে ৷ এতিয়া সেই অনুষ্ঠানসমুহকেই অনলাইনযোগে আপোনালৈ আগবঢ়োৱা হৈছে ৷ এই অনুষ্ঠানসমুহ শুনি ঈশ্বৰৰ বাক্য শিকিবলৈ আৰম্ভ কৰাৰ বাবে আমি আপোনাৰ ওচৰত অতি কৃতজ্ঞ ৷ আপুনি সোমবাৰৰ পৰা শুক্ৰবাৰলৈ প্ৰতিদিনে একোটাক ...
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Welcome to 'Thinking Bhakti', the podcast where wisdom from the bhakti tradition meets modern issues! Whether you're a dedicated Vaishnava, a spiritual seeker, or just curious about the intersection of faith and current affairs, 'Thinking Bhakti' offers insightful discussions that resonate with those seeking for deeper meaning in our complex world. Swami Revatikaanta, a long-term disciple of Paramahamsa Vishwananda, is a monk and a prolific public speaker with almost two decade’s worth of ex ...
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Thoughtful talks on Advaita and Bhakti from the esoteric teaching of Rāmana Mahārshi by a realized sādhaka.
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Bhaktiworld Media & Entertainment Pvt Ltd, established in 2016, pioneered the digital devotional space in India with the launch of the nation's first online devotional app. Focused on promoting and preserving Sanatan Dharma, Bhaktiworld Media offers an extensive array of Audio and Video Devotional content. Th free app has 18 continuous streaming audio channels , available 24/7. The platform serves as a significant contributor to India's spiritual heritage in the digital Visit- www.bhaktiworl ...
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Paramahamsa Sri Swami Vishwananda’s Mission of Love is a rapidly expanding worldwide movement known as Bhakti Marga: the path of love and devotion. Here to bring about lasting positive change in the world, the message of his mission is that, ultimately, the only thing that can truly bring such change is bhakti: the Love for God, experienced as devotion within each heart.
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Welcome to the Bhakti for Thinkers podcast. Hridayananda dasa Goswami (Howard J. Resnick, Ph.D.) is a renowned scholar and teacher of bhakti yoga. He is celebrated for his unique ability to extract the essential points from the ancient yoga wisdom literatures, and present them in a way that is accessible, insightful, and practical for all. Let the thinking commence!
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In this discourse, Our Spiritual Master KrsnaKnows expounds the Bhakti Yoga Sutras (Path of Love & Devotion) of Devrishi Naradmuni, Narada's Aphorisms on Love Divine( Love and Devotion to Lord) which is called "Narada Bhakti Sutra".
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Das Bhakti Sutra ist der klassische Text zur Entwicklung von Bhakti, von Hingabe, von Gottesliebe. Das Bhakti Sutra gibt dir viele Anregungen, um dein Herz sprechen zu lassen und dir eine höhere Wirklichkeit erfahrbar zu machen. Sukadev, Gründer von Yoga Vidya, hat alle 84 Verse des Bhakti Sutra kommentiert. Alle Kurzvorträge zum Bhakti Sutra sind jetzt im Web, als mp3 Audios und als Videos. Im ersten Vers erklärt Sukadev was Bhakti ist, und warum Bhakti die Grundlage aller Religionen ist. A ...
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Bhakti Yoga" is a book written by Swami Vivekananda that explores the path of devotion and spiritual practice, known as Bhakti Yoga, in the context of Hindu philosophy. The book discusses the nature of love and dedication to the divine, how it can be cultivated, and how it leads to spiritual realization and union with the higher reality. Swami Vivekananda emphasises that different paths of yoga, including Bhakti Yoga, can lead to the same ultimate goal of self-realisation and collaboration w ...
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Become a Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/nectardelbg/subscribe En este podcast encontraremos temáticas de interés espiritual, desde investigaciones científicas hasta periodismo de la vida cotidiana; inspirado en los Hare Krishna y el Bhagavad Gita, una filosofía con más de 5,000 años de antiguedad que nos brindará una visión fresca y filosófica sobre el servicio amoroso del alma. vancha-kalpatarubhyas ca kripa-sindhubhya eva ca patitanam pavanebhyo vaishnavebhyo namo namah
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Bhakti Bodh (Daily Aarti) by Sant Rampal Ji
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Today's podcast is all about The Bhagavad-Gītā As it is, by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada,
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This podcast is all about The Bhagavad-Gītā As it is, by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), commonly known as the Hare Krishna movement. The Bhagavad Gita emphasizes a path of devotion toward lord Krishna. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/sevak/support
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In this Podcast we discuss Bhakti - the yoga of Divine Love. Its teachings are based on Sanathan Dharma or the Eternal Dharma of humanity as presented in the ancient sacred texts from India called the Vedas, written around 3000 BC. The Vedas are the origin of what is popularly known as Hinduism or Sanathan Dharma. For thousands of years, the greatest thinkers, philosophers and gurus have been ardent followers of the Vedic Wisdom. I believe that the Bhagavad Gita and the Bhagavatam, contain a ...
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An Environment of Individual, Spontaneous & Voluntary Service | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | 19 June 2024
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As far as I can remember, I had questions that my parents couldn't answer. One of the main ones was, why do you have to die, and what's life for if you have to die anyway? And when I got into my teens and into high school, I had a sense of existential angst. I really wanted to know more, so I started studying literatures that seemed to me to be spi…
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Growing Up In Bhakti Marga | Thinking Bhakti Podcast EP31
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What does it mean for two young individuals to grow up in a Hindu spiritual community from a very young age, coming from very different backgrounds? Meet Shridara and Lakshmianandani Dasi, a young couple who grew up in Bhakti Marga, as they share their stories about experiencing this unique path and how they have been perceived by the outside world…
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Bhakti-Yoga-Meditation zur Erfahrung Gottes, zur Vertiefung der Erfahrung Gottes. Was ist für dich Gott? Hattest du schon mal eine Erfahrung der Gegenwart Gottes, von Göttlicher Liebe? Wie war das? Angenommen du wärest jetzt erfüllt von göttlicher Gegenwart, wie wäre das? Angenommen du wärest jetzt erfüllt von der Liebe Gottes, wie wäre das? Sukade…
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Come To The Point Of Steady Determination in Chanting | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | ISV | 30 Oct 2021
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I'll read the list again of elements that affect determination.1.Modes of nature we talked about, so try to cultivate sattva in body, mind, environment, and association. 2.Next is sambandha-jñāna. I need a daily reminder of why I'm chanting. Where are we now, in the land of birth, death, old age, and disease? Where are we going? To the param dhāma.…
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Maraṇam before smaraṇam. In other words, before one is able to comprehend or think of the pastimes of Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa at Rādhā-kuṇḍa, one must begin with the simplest of processes. For instance, what is the instruction of the śāstra: 'ataḥ śrī-kṛṣṇa-nāmādi na bhaved grāhyam indriyaiḥ sevonmukhe hi jihvādau svayam eva sphuraty adaḥ.'Yoga doesn't beg…
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The root cause of misery is the material body, and a direct process of devotional service, especially chanting japa, has a way of bringing us to the plane of transcendence, and that means also being able to see clearly who we are. 'Vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ janayaty āśu vairāgyaṁ jñānaṁ ca yad ahaitukam (SB 1.2.7).' Sūta Gosvāmī sa…
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The Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas ultimately bring the point that the soul is an agent. In fact, the āśrute in the Vedānta-sūtra says that if he's not an agent, if the soul, if we aren't agents for our own improvement and change, then there's no purpose to all the śāstra, because, after all, who’s it talking to when it says you can improve if you do this, this…
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Change Your Attitude, Not Your Work | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | ISV | 12 Jan 2025
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"Kurvan nirantaraṁ karma loko 'yam anuvartate tenaiva karmaṇā dhyāyan māṁ parāṁ bhaktim icchati" (Brahma Saṁhitā 5.61), which means that "Kurvan nirantaraṁ karma," everybody's got to work. Sorry if I wrecked your day. Every living entity has to work. Kṛṣṇa says that in the Bhagavad Gita also: "Na hi kaścit kṣaṇam api jātu tiṣṭhaty akarma-kṛt kāryat…
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And today, I just want to mention a principle that's very helpful in staying in the moment and continuing chanting despite the phenomena that the mind will drag us in various ways, as Kṛṣṇa mentions in the Bhagavad Gitā. So, that's a principle called applied procrastination. Procrastination—everybody knows how to procrastinate because all you do is…
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Bhaktivinoda calls out "Except for the lotus feet of Lord Nityananda there is no other shelter!" ( Translation, Verse 11)To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/------------------------------------------------------------Add to your wisdom literature collection:iskconsv.com/book-store…
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Bhaktivinoda calls out "Except for the lotus feet of Lord Nityananda there is no other shelter!" ( Translation, Verse 11)To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/------------------------------------------------------------Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskcon…
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So there's a way to cultivate this awareness that Kṛṣṇa and His name are non-different. There's nothing else to be had except for the Holy Name. And Kṛṣṇa fulfills all desires more than we can expect. Another name of Kṛṣṇa is Vañchatītāt. Atita means ‘above’ or ‘to rise above’, and vañchā means ‘desire’. So whatever desire we have, Kṛṣṇa can fulfil…
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The Art of Spiritual Resilience | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | SB 1.8.25 | Toronto | 17 Aug 2024
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The cause of our various dispositions and the way we hate some things, like other things, is because of our association with the modes of material nature. So Kunti says all of this is bad, actually. And therefore, when I'm subjected to reversals of fortune, and I'm jarred by it, and therefore, I take shelter of Kṛṣṇa, this is a blessing.Oftentimes,…
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And as I was walking back down the steps, I was thinking of how famous The Buddha is; millions, if not billions, of people worship The Buddha around the world. And if you mention his name anywhere, people recognize something about him. And I was thinking, how is he famous? He was just sitting there.And I was thinking of how people flying on jets an…
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You Gotta Have a Better Place to Go | SB 1.4.1-2 | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | ISV | 11 Jan 2025
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The first nine cantos then give us the ways in which to overcome the various attachments that we have: Vīta rāga bhaya Krodha, the attachment to material energy finished by the time you finish nine cantos. No thank you. No más. I'm not interested anymore. I got a better place to go. And then that idea that the fear that one has of a personal relati…
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Make a Conscious Choice to Refrain From Criticism | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | GYR | Māyāpur | 31 Dec 2022
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And finally, I knew a devotee who was a sādhu and who, when asked why he was wearing the dress he was wearing, "What is your religion?" he would say, "My religion is to find faults within myself and to overcome them, and if we make that our religion, rather than the religion of finding the faults in others and helping them to overcome them by criti…
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Determination To Serve Brings Us Closer to Kṛṣṇa | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | GYR | Purī | 26 Dec 2022
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Kr̥ṣṇa says, "catur-vidhā bhajante māṁ janāḥ su-kṛtino ’rjuna ārto jijñāsur arthārthī jñānī ca bharatarṣabha (BG 7.16)." He names the motives of many different kinds of people. Everyone's still okay, and he says they're all pious souls, but of all of them, the best ones are the ones that are in knowledge of the Absolute Truth, and they just want to…
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I was listening to Prabhupāda this morning, and he was saying that we cannot imitate Haridāsa Ṭhākura. He said, "If you try to imitate Haridāsa Ṭhākura, then you'll simply sleep." And then he said also that all of us should sacrifice some time for Kṛṣṇa everyday. And he said, "If you take time to chant japa, this is the best sacrifice of time. We m…
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HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa's & HG Nirākulā Dāsi's Reflections | Global Youth Retreat | Māyāpur | 3 Jan 2025
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There's lots and lots of service, and you're qualified for it. Once you take more service for the saṅkīrtana movement, which is your legacy, the more you'll feel empowered. Please feel free to expand your services. You're becoming mature and thoughtful. You already have talent, and please take the baton. That starts with getting some service that's…
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Earnestly Hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam At Least Once a Day | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | GYR | Purī | 24 Dec 2022
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We can remember also that the situation I'm in now can be remedied by the process of hearing Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, and if we take advantage of it, then very naturally, if we're in that state of mind of seriously hearing the Bhāgavatam, then, as the Sanskrit says in this verse, "Of those who hear in earnestness -śraddhayā," and nityam means always or r…
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The Best Remedy: Become One Minded With The Mantra | Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | GYR | Purī | 27 Dec 2022
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Best remedy is to sit down very tightly and chant Hare Krishna very loudly and hear for a long time until he feels himself one-minded and fixed on Krishna's Lotus Feet.(excerpt from a letter by Śrīla Prabhupāda to Mohanananda,Feb. 27, 1972, Mayapur )------------------------------------------------------------To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa…
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Realize The Path of Bhakti: The Ultimate Purpose of Creation | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | 5 Jan 2025
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Kṛṣṇa gives facility for everyone to either try to ensconce oneself in the material energy and pull the covers over their head and just be absorbed in the material energy. However, His ultimate purpose is to give an opportunity for everyone to realize the path of bhakti. Amongst the Vedas that I mentioned, Brahmā manifested earlier. He also manifes…
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Bhaktivinod Ṭhākura recommends that in Harinām Cintāmani, you should dominate that you can try various ways and be inventive. Another very realistic way to become focused is to remember Queen Kuntī's admonition that if you're puffed up, feeling that you have something, then you won't take shelter of The Holy Name. And the best way to concentrate, o…
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Anything sung in the praise of the Lord is śruti-mantra. There are songs of Ṭhākura Narottama dāsa, one of the ācāryas in the Gauḍīya sampradāya, composed in simple Bengali language. But Ṭhākura Viśvanātha Cakravartī, another very learned ācārya of the same sampradāya, has approved the songs by Ṭhākura Narottama dāsa to be as good as Vedic mantras.…
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This is the relationship with the Lord and His devotees. The Lord is always trying to satisfy His devotees, and the devotees are always trying to satisfy the Lord. And there's a competition going on constantly in that way. And so, when Caitanya Mahāprabhu, took sannyās and left this place, some of the devotees decamped. They went elsewhere. They sa…
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Humans are very adaptive, and when they see somebody else doing something, then they tend to think, 'I can do this too.' And as Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā, all our states of consciousness have come because of our previous sangas. There was a curious case about how people used to think that they couldn't run a mile in under four minutes, and it…
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So Bhaktivinod Ṭhākur had come to see the Siddha Mahātmā and received many important instructions from him. Around those instructions for worshiping Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu in the age of Kali Yuga, he passed them on to his followers and disciples. Therefore, this particular place is our home. Home is where the heart is. The mood of bhakti that we'…
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All the services are absolute, whether you sweep the floor, or whether you wash pots, or whether you worship the Deity, or go on book distribution - they're all devotional service and they're all absolute. There is a special quality to going out to meet conditioned souls, and therefore it's emphasized. And Prabhupāda, very practically, told us that…
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Just managing expectations is a life-changing experience, because we're the ones who develop our own expectations, and we can manage them. If you just think about managing your expectations, start with not expecting anything. I'm just going to be here, and if I get anything, then that will be fine. I give the example of book distribution. Don't go …
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And next thing you know, if you have a hero complex, where you think, "Yeah, let me fix everybody's problems, and I'm so great anyway, no wonder they want me." And next thing you know, you're at 110% and you rise to the level of your own incompetence, and then you may feel a little fried. because the feeling of being fried is that I want to please …
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One of the sayings in Japan, when things are tough, they say 'gaman,' which means just keep going. And with the devotional service, there are different periods of our life where we are at a crossroads, and things seem difficult. What should I do? What's going to happen? There's only one solution. Ultimately, it's 'gaman' with your Japa. And I was t…
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Visit to Śrī Śrī Gandharvikā Giridhārī Temple | Global Youth Retreat | Sridhama Māyāpur | 1 Jan 2025
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Just take a circular motion around and you'll notice that, at intervals, the four great Āchāryas for the four Sampradāyas are positioned in little shrines around the temple, and you can offer respects to each one. And you'll see behind each Āchārya who their originator is. For instance, we have our Brahmā Sampradāya represented back there. We have …
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I remember first coming to the temple in San Francisco and not being able to look at the Deities. I looked at the flowers instead; that was as much specificity as I could handle. And if you tell somebody God plays a flute, it's like, how do you know and how would a god play a flute? It is almost abhorrent to people to know that there's a God who ha…
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Best remedy is to sit down very tightly and chant Hare Krishna very loudly and hear for the a long time until he feels himself one-minded and fixed on Krishna's Lotus Feet.(excerpt from Śrīla Prabhupāda's Letter to Mohanananda, Dated: Feb. 27, 1972, Location: Mayapur)------------------------------------------------------------To connect with His Gr…
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The Anatomy of a Fall Down | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | ISV | 31 Jul 2013
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Kṛṣṇa is always protecting us from Māyā. It's a matter of us taking advantage of it. Once, the devotee said, 'But Prabhupāda, Māyā is so strong.' Prabhupāda said, 'Māyā is not so strong. You're so weak. Just like when you keep yourself healthy through a good diet, exercise, and the right kind of attitude, then you don't fall sick.' Similarly, in de…
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How to Make a Comeback | HG Vaisesika Prabhu | ISV | 4 Jan 2015
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We know from watching sports, everyone loves a big comeback. Somebody's way down, one team's way down, and somehow or other, they pull it out in the last inning, in the last few minutes, or something like that. How do you, where do you get the strength to do that? Make a comeback? And all of us need to know the science of making a comeback, because…
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Every other sound in the material world is an annoyance except for the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahāmantra. And Caitanya Mahāprabhu's clarion call to the world, taking the harinām out into the street was a way of waking everybody up and saying no matter how pious you think you are, you're just in a pit in this mature world. Come out! The saṅkīrtana movement star…
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So coming to the Yogapīṭha and recognizing, through understanding the philosophy of Bhagavad Gītā and Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, that a perfect relationship is available with the perfect person. It makes the heart jump to think that this could be possible. In fact, we've been disappointed so many times. Krishna says, "Vita Raghava, you have to give up this…
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