For one who is sincerely engaged in devotional service of the Lord, the Lord helps them in every possible way. The life of King Purushottama deva of Puri is an example for this.
Whatever work we do, or whomever we deal with in our day to day life, we should see Krishna in every opportunity. As said in the Srimad Bhagavatam, by the association of Vaishnavas, rising to the mode of pure goodness in interactions, we're cut free from the matrix of matter.
Many a times we keep blaming people around us for our failures, for our lack of progress in spiritual/material lives. We never want to take ownership of our mistakes and try blaming everything around us.
Our real ego is to be a servant of Krishna. We lose this consciousness so easily by getting lost into the details of Krishna's material energy, trying to enjoy it in so many gross or subtle ways, which are completely useless for pleasing anybody, including our false ego even.
In Malaysia, there are two islands. To join the islands there are twenty four miles wide sea. They have constructed a bridge in which only six miles of bridge, three miles this side and three miles that side they have the pillars. In between the whole bridge is hanging. Who can build it?
By good behavior and freedom from envy one should counteract sufferings due to other living entities, by meditation in trance one should counteract sufferings due to providence, and by practicing hatha-yoga, praanaayaama and so forth one should counteract sufferings due to the body and mind.
Try to study. By studying, the more you will be ready for preaching. Our way is that we do not always only speak about the pastimes, we try to derive some practical instruction so that the hearers can get something. Take Putana's story, what will you tell about the story to the hearers?
Once a black cobra entered a carpenter's workshop at night. It accidentally bumped into a double-edged metal axe and got very sklightly injured. In anger and seeking revenge, the snake bit the axe with full force and as a result its mouth started bleeding. Out of fury and arrogance, it tried to strangle and kill the object causing pain by wrapping itself very tightly around the blades.
This is in conclusion of the previous offering titled "Worship Krishna" wherein we were hearing nectarean class given by our beloved spiritual master H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj in Chatsburg, Durban, South Africa.
The purpose of this article is to convey the deeper meaning behind the situations each of us are facing. Devotees indeed experience a direct link between their offenses and eventually miseries that occur in their lives. These 'bullets of time' serve to purify us.
One of the basic teachings of Krishna consciousness is that we are all helplessly existing under the grip of higher powers. The demigod servants of the Lord, control our every moment in this material world according to our good and bad deeds, fastened to the wheel of time like bulls tied by their nose.
This is in continuation of the previous offering titled "Worship Krishna" wherein we were hearing nectarean class given by our beloved spiritual master H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj in Chatsburg, Durban, South Africa.
This is in continuation of the previous offering titled "Worship Krishna" wherein we were hearing nectarean class given by our beloved spiritual master H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj in Chatsburg, Durban, South Africa.
This is in continuation of the previous offering titled "Worship Krishna" wherein we were hearing nectarean class given by our beloved spiritual master H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj in Chatsburg, Durban, South Africa.
This is in continuation of the previous offering titled "Worship Krishna" wherein we were hearing nectarean class given by our beloved spiritual master H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj in Chatsburg.
This is in continuation of the previous offering titled "Worship Krishna" wherein we were hearing nectarean class given by our beloved spiritual master H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj in Chatsburg.
This is in continuation of the previous offering titled "Worship Krishna" wherein we were hearing nectarean class given by our beloved spiritual master H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj in Chatsburg.
Lord Sri Krishna narrates story of Avanti Brahmana to Sri Uddhava in Srimad Bhagavatam 11th canto 23 chapter in response to Uddhava's question as how one should tolerate the disturbances and offences.
This is in continuation of the previous offering titled "Worship Krishna" wherein we were hearing nectarean class given by our beloved spiritual master H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj in Chatsburg.
This is in continuation of the previous offering titled "Worship Krishna" wherein we were hearing nectarean class given by our beloved spiritual master H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj in Chatsburg.
This is in continuation of the previous offering titled "Worship Krishna" wherein we were hearing nectarean class given by our beloved spiritual master H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj in Chatsburg.
While Maharaj would always ask us to deeply study the verses from the shastras and memorize them, he would also warn us of not getting into the mood of a dry scholars. He would always request us to lovingly study the verses, with the conviction that they are non-different from Krishna.
The following is humble effort to transcribe one of the nectarean classes given by our beloved spiritual master H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj in Chatsburg.
It should be a common experience to all of us to become despondent or discouraged at times in our lives. We may try to point out various reasons for such despondent feelings - unfavorable results, misunderstanding in relationships, financial troubles and many such reasons.
This is in conclusion of the previous topic titled "Effects of Glorifying the Supreme Lord" wherein we were hearing from Narada Muni as to how by glorifying the Supreme Lord, He immediately appears in the glorificatio and that glorification itself becomes boat that helps us to cross over ocean of neiscence.
This is in continuation of the previous offering titled, "Mercy of the Spiritual Master" wherein we saw how one attains the Supreme Lord by the mercy of spiritual master. We shall continue to meditate on this topic.
This is in continuation of the previous offering titled, "Mercy of the Spiritual Master" wherein we saw how one attains the Supreme Lord by the mercy of spiritual master. We shall continue to meditate on this topic.
By the mercy of the spiritual master one receives the benediction of Krishna. Without the grace of the spiritual master, one cannot make any advancement.
This is in continuation of the previous topic "Effects of Glorifying Supreme Lord", wherein we were transcribing verse the class given by our beloved spiritual master H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj on Srimad Bhagavatam verse 1.6.33.