Understanding acharaya’s controversial statements
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Podcast: Download by “right-click and save content” Lecture Summary: Not compromising doesn’t mean confronting unnecessarily Eg. Not compromising = doing surgery; confronting unnecessarily = not giving pain-medication, not being aware of patient’s particular complications Lord Chaitanya’s social sensitivity Eg. Didn’t insist that Haridas Thakura be allowed entry in Jagannatha temple Eg. Took prasad only at […]

Krishna demonstrates prevailing definition of success – and transcends it
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Lecture Podcast: Download by “right-click and save content” Lecture Summary: People mold their life according to their culture’s definition of success Eg. Indian youth “Engineer or doctor” Eg. Kings would build magnificent temples Purification means changing our definition of success, otherwise we check and choke our spiritual progress because what we desire internally undermines what […]

Gaur Purnima Special – Lord Chaitanya makes the abominable age worshipable
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The material world is like a jail; here we eternal joyful souls are sentenced to life in temporary miserable bodies. This jail becomes especially wretched in the present dark age of Kali because people live disharmoniously and incur grievous karmic reactions. The Puranas are replete with grim references to the miseries of Kali-yuga. Yet Srimad […]