Gurudāsa Sannyāsa and Harināma Initiations
This accepting of this daṇḍa means full faith in the Supreme.
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This accepting of this daṇḍa means full faith in the Supreme.
That is also faith, that \"Simply engaging tongue in the service of the Lord, I shall understand.\" So this is also blind faith.
Have you got the old pictures when I am acting as priest in Boston, like that?
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 6.1.40 Nitāi: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] \" yamadūtā ūcuḥ veda-praṇihito dharmo hy adharmas tad-viparyayaḥ vedo nārāyaṇaḥ sākṣāt svayambhūr iti śuśruma []\" [break] [02:23] “The Yamadūtas replied: What is established by the Vedas as duty, that is called religious principles, and irreligion is the opposite of that. The Vedas are directly the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Nārāyaṇa, and are self-born. Thus we have heard from Yamarāja.Prabhupāda:Devotees:…
He knows that \"I am part and parcel of Kṛṣṇa.\" That is pure consciousness.
Nitāi: “The questions asked of the Yamadūtas by the Viṣṇudūtas are: What is the process of meeting out punishment to others? Who is actually a...—
Because as soon as you get gold, then you are no more interested in Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Nitāi: “Śukadeva Gosvāmī continued to speak: After the messengers of Yamarāja thus addressed the Viṣṇudūtas, those perfected beings who are personal...—
If the human life is wasted for sense gratification, that is suicidal.
Nitāi: “Dear sirs, whose servant are you, where have you come from, and for what reason are you forbidding us to touch the body of Ajāmila? Are you...—
Civilization is finished unless you take to Kṛṣṇa conscious.
Devotee: [leads chanting of verse, etc.] \" ūcur niṣedhitās tāṁs te vaivasvata-puraḥsarāḥ ke yūyaṁ pratiṣeddhāro dharma-rājasya śāsanam []\" [01:57] “Being forbidden in this way, the order carriers of the son of the sun-god, Yamarāja, immediately replied: Who are all of you who have the audacity to oppose the ruling jurisdiction of Yamarāja, the king of religious principles?Prabhupāda:Devotees:
\"By spiritual life\" means if you become servant of God, then you will live and you will have peace.
Now your country, Kṛṣṇa has given so nice, you see, so nice flowers, and so nice Vaiṣṇavas.
So these Gosvāmīs were studying many kinds of Vedic literatures.
Apart from these historical references in the matter of Ratha-yātrā festival, there is another spiritual meaning: that the Lord is situated in everyone's heart, and this body is just like ratha, or car.
When our eyes are anointed with love of God, we can see Him everywhere.
My dear boys and girls, I thank you very much for your kindly receiving me to serve you.
So this human form of life is meant for spiritual realization.
So Kṛṣṇa appeared, and immediately He was transferred to a friend's house by His father.
Therefore in the Vedas it is said that the living entities are maintained by the Supreme Lord.
So the answer, \"What is the best religious principle?
That means within very short time he realized Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Materialism means sense gratification, and spiritualism means to love God.
But in the transcendental kingdom the Lord is always served with all great respect and obeisances and devotion, many thousands of goddess of fortune.
So these two kinds of things are going on, parallel.
Actually God or Paramātmā or Kṛṣṇa, They are all sac-cid-ānanda-vigraha, transcendental forms.
This is the philosophy of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that you have to take shelter of Kṛṣṇa in either of these aspects, and you have to develop your attachment for either of these aspect.
Śāstra means direction—both past, present and future.
So when Arjuna decided not to fight, Kṛṣṇa instructed him this Bhagavad-gītā.
Again, after creation of the universes, He enters each and every universe.
Not only Kṛṣṇa, even a perfect yogī, he can also expand.
Kṛṣṇa's name is Yogeśvara, and Lord Śiva's name is Yogīśvara.
It is not regularly in the material world, but it is heard that there is a stone which you touch with an iron and it becomes gold.
Brāhmaṇas means those who are interested in spiritual life, they are called brāhmaṇas, intelligent class.
Just like in the spiritual sky they can live only spiritual body, and material body cannot live there.
The living entity is described in the Bhagavad-gītā as sarvaga.
Tri-kāla-jñā means they could understand, they could know what was in the past, what there shall be in the future and what is at present.
So Kṛṣṇa says mayi, \"unto Me\"; āsakta, \"attachment.
Therefore that is Kṛṣṇa consciousness, ideal Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
So he was agitating in the school amongst his class fellows to become Kṛṣṇa conscious.
Oh, yes, Swāmījī. It can also..., it can be an amplification system.
But meditation as this Maharshi or any other svāmī or...
In the fire of Kṛṣṇa consciousness all māyā burnt to ashes.
The basis of this teaching is Bhagavad-gītā As It Is.
So you haven't got to engage your major portion of time for this purpose.
Then the rāsa dance should be stopped, and Kṛṣṇa will talk with the gopīs.