KKS – 29TH NOV2008namo brahmanya-deväya go-brähmana-hitäya ca/ jagad-dhitäya krsnäya govindäya namo namah.As Advaita Acarya continued his worship, he chanted that verse. Advaita Acarya fell prostate before the Lord, seeking shelter at His lotus feet. Lord Gauranga lifted His lotus feet and placed it on Advaita Acarya’s head. Upon seeing this the devotees became mad with [...]

KKS -29 Nov 08We will just read something from the Caitanya Bhagavata; because Srila Prabhupada said that the nature of scripture is that it is sweet on all sides- it doesn’t matter where you begin, it is always sweet. “Lord Visvambhara, looked at Advaita Acarya and said, ‘I have descended to this world in response [...]

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Birth place of Srila Vasudeva Datta:Srila Vasudeva Datta was a very close associate of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu said, “Vasudeva owns my body. He can do with it whatever he likes. He can sell it in the market place; I am his property.” So in this way, Srila Vasudeva Datta was a very [...]

Mamgachi Parikrama: The following are excerpts from a lecture given by HH Kadamba Kanana Maharaja, 29 Nov ’08:Birthplace of Srila Vrndavana das Thakura We are here now at this place for our purification. We’ve come to Mayapur for that very purpose- to get some mercy- and now we’ve come here today, to this place, hearing [...]

MYSTIC OPULENCE (part2)( KKS FEB 06)Whatever sounds come from Krishna’ flute is equally unlimited as He is …so just by thinking about such things…Krishna playing his flute, and of course we know Krishna plays many flutes, not one flute, He has many flutes, one is a small flute with nine holes but then there are [...]

MYSTIC OPULENCE (part1)KKS FEB 06B.G 9.5na ca mat-sthani bhutani pasya me yogam aisvaram bhuta-bhrn na ca bhuta-stho mamatma bhuta-bhavanahSYNONYMS na–never; ca–also; mat-sthani–situated in Me; bhutani–all creation; pasya–just see; me–My; yogam aisvaram–inconceivable mystic power; bhuta-bhrt–maintainer of all living entities; na–never; ca–also; bhuta-sthah–in the cosmic manifestation; mama–My; atma–Self; bhuta-bhavanah–is the source of all manifestations. TRANSLATION And yet [...]

KKS:That means we have to free them from karma, free from sinful reactions. This is the highest position of selflessness, greater than being a doctor! Greater that we sacrifice our life for the Absolute Truth than for the mundane truth of science…Greater than any such thing, we give everything for the benefit of all in [...]

KKS- Amsterdam 2008: For Krsna, we can do all kinds of things we would have never done and what can we say, everyone has to in this, overcome some things that one really hates. Like me for example- I hate making phone calls, God do I hate making phone calls! I really hate it, it’s [...]

KKS- AMSTERDAM 2008:Austerity in the same way; there is no need to perform any separate austerity because austerity in itself is not a limb of bhakti. Bhakti has 64 limbs. That means that if there are 64 types of activities which give us bhakti and austerity is not amongst them. Austerity though, is glorified in [...]

KKS SUMMER 07 :And we’re still chanting the same maha-mantra that we’ve always chanted and the amazing thing is that it’s still ever fresh and still giving us always, new experiences. And that’s why here, we don’t need to have a free Hare Krsna temple where we invite Buddhists and a jazz piano players who [...]

So these two qualities, they come together- this quality of humility and the quality of being able to develop love of God. It is not possible to develop love of God if there is no humility in our hearts. So we see that a person who is proud, how can he hear? His ears are [...]

KKS -LENASIA 2005….we should try and turn on the light of surrender and not tell ourselves, “Well, it’s a gradual process. I don’t have to…”. No we have to surrender as soon as possible. There’s an urgency! We might die and the process maybe incompleted. What if we have not fully surrendered? Imagine we die? [...]

KKS- Radhadesh 2007…by now, Hare Krsna is sort of accepted. You know, when I use to live in the 70’s in the temple, and I was in Amsterdam, people would…especially the Amsterdam construction workers would go, “Hey, *young Jourig! Hey, Young Jourig!” I can’t translate that very well! But if you missed out on it, [...]

KKS- Radhadesh 2007Everyone is trying to be a proprietor, ‘My house, my garden, my fence, yes, my gate- mine, I and Mine!’ but no, here it’s said that actually, we are not actually the owner in this world. So we are caretakers, not owner in this world. Mankind doesn’t own this world. ‘God, that’s a [...]

KKS – Melbourne Australia 2004We have to come to the point where we are simply dedicated servants of the desires of the Supreme Lord, hrsikena hrsikesa-sevanam bhaktir ucyate, we have to come to the point where we are only serving Krsna, the master of the senses and put our senses in the service of Krsna’s [...]

KKS in Australia 2004.In 1999 I was doing a seminar which is called “From ’66 to ‘99”, you can look at my fingers- from ’66 to ’99! So in ’66 everything was, ‘ Yes, Yes we’re all going back to Godhead! No doubt about it.’ In ’99, the mood was, ‘If your guru is a [...]

Excerpt from KKS Diary of a spiritual journey 22Bhaktivionode Thakura writes; “Krsna’s activities are of two types: daily and occasional. In Goloka all the eightfold pastimes unfold daily. In the earthly pastimes, occasional pastimes are joined to the eightfold pastimes. Krsna’s coming to and going from Vraja and his killing of the demons are occasional [...]

….I guess some feedback now… Question: In the description with Srimati Radharani you mentioned that Krsnadas Kaviraja Goswami says that the first shower is the compassion. I thought you might comment on that…(inaudible) Maharaja: So, thus Lord Caitanya, when He was meditating on this amazing, amazing state of consciousness of Srimati Radharani and as He [...]