As soon as the ease vanishes, you are suffering from disease. Because you are not at ease, then you are diseased. Then one thing you understand from this is that medicines cannot cure our disease

Arjuna didn't know really what is happening. So he immediately went to Krishna for guidance. This is the way to stop the reverses. Reverses are bound to come. But we have full faith as we saw in the first seed verse.

"There is nothing to be lamented, when a matter is beyond the control of any human being." We are all conditioned souls. There are few conditions we cannot avoid. For example birth is a condition. And those who are born, they have to die.

Please, we are self-sufficient to understand Bhagavatam with the help of Prabhupada. How can we neglect such a highly merciful soul? Please don't fall prey to the misguidances. Please come to this realisation and dig into your own heels.

We have the bones in our body, flesh in our body, blood in our body. All this are His energy in the form of water and earth. All this are His energy in the form of water and earth. But we know that apart from the water inside the body, there is great mass of water outside the body.

Our bodies, buildings, hills etc are all created and at the moment they are being maintained. But time is running out. Time is working on every body in the material world.

In the material world, the process and goal are different. In spiritual world the process and goal are same. Our goal is to know about the Supreme Lord, the Supreme Absolute Truth Krishna and re-establish our own relationship with Him.

Our beloved spiritual master H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj says that the root word of shaastra comes from shaasan which means to rule. If we let scriptures rule our life, then our life will be glorious.

Lust includes all kinds of unwanted desires. The lives of demons like Ravana, Hiranyakashipu, Hiranyaksha, Kamsa etc all show how when their unwanted or undeserving desires were the seed for their downfall

Lord Sri Krishna repeatedly insists in this chapter that  we all need to realize Krishna in every one and see all equal. When we follow His instructions bad tendencies of rivalry, envy and abusiveness, along with false ego, are very quickly destroyed

The Lord here gives Arjuna a highly specific, prolific and outright outstanding assurance - something so unique that only and only the Supreme Lord can give.

In our lives, when we see certain triggers or sources of apprehension, we begin to speculate, often ignoring the variability and uncertainty of the Lord's plans. The duck curve represents one such speculation

Recently in my class, the professor was talking about how variabilities and uncertainties can be big game changers when it comes to planning operations in pricing of energy or power.

Lord Krishna affirms in verses 19 and 20 of Bhagavad Gita that he casts the envious and mischievous people into various species of demoniac species life after life.

Demons like Hiranyakasha, Hiranyakashipu, Ravana - were all envious of Supreme Lord. Considering their own selves to be Supreme, they under-estimate the greatness of Supreme Lord.

The following is an old Chinese wisdom story. A farmer had a neighbour who was a hunter, and who owned ferocious and poorly trained hunting dogs.

But self-complacent nature makes us lazy. When we are self-complacent, we never try to improve ourselves or mend our bad habits.

I was in Rajkot since 2007, but somehow whenever I used to see the temple from outside, I never got inspiration to enter. Slowly when I started reading Gujarati letters

In Rajkot, the specialty of the temple is that anybody and everybody who has come here, Maharaj has engaged them in seva - whether they are qualified for that or not it did not matter

Maharaj always saw good in everyone and never liked criticism. Whenever someone criticize about others to him, Maharaj just cut them off and thereby stopped the idea of finding faults.

Once Maharaj shared with me an incident which occurred many years ago in one of the temples in the West. There was some misunderstandings between the temple president and one congregation devotee.

One devotee, who was once a temple president for one of the temples in US shared with us about an interesting exchange which he had with Maharaj many years ago when Maharaj had visited the temple for the first time

Simply by seeing Maharaj, I became so attracted to the process of bhakti and started visiting the temple daily in the evenings

"How did Maharaj establish your family in UK?" He said that Maharaj took almost 2 to 3 years before the family could join him in London and those years were very difficult years

if we are in difficulty, turn the difficulty into opportunity. When we don't turn the difficulty into opportunity to increase our bhakti, then we lose the connection with Maharaj

"In year 2007 when we met Maharaj in Rajkot, one of our Godbrother, HG Shyamcaran Prabhu along with his wife and daughter met Maharaj. They were telling how their daughter Gaurangi was studying shlokas but was not interested to study the translation. Maharaj immediately spoke with the daughter lovingly and asked her what verses she had studied

We are all from different backgrounds and different nature. But Maharaj never hated us. He never wanted us to be with whatever this mterial body would have given to us. Maharaj wanted us to rise above all material designations, material things and material ideas. He was very particular about this. Very particular

"For those who don't know about Anand Prabhuji, based on my frequent visits here as well as what I have heard from Vaishnavseva Prabhu, his sadhana is impeccable. What is the important lesson we have to take away from him is that, he has not even physically met Maharaj, never had a single day's physical association with our spiritual master

Usually in beginning of Krishna consciousness, we are attracted by either seeing the devotees or listening to kirtans or prasadam or reading books. And in the beginning, when we chant the holy names, we get lot of bliss and taste and this makes us enthusiastic to take the process seriously.

I am very fortunate to be here. When I came here, I was bored with material life. And whatever I knew about spiritual life was based on my understanding of Srila Prabhupada's books. I used to follow very hard and fast rules.

This is in continuation of the previous offering titled "Srila Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj Vyasa Puja 2016", wherein we were hearing some of the glorifications of Maharaj, which were shared by the devotees in Sri Sri Radha Neel Madhav dham, Rajkot on the auspicious occasion of his Vyasa Puja in the morning. Now we shall hear the memories shared by the devotees in the evening.