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One’s greatness is seen not just in how forcefully they can make the world bend to their will. How forcefully they can get the world to say yes. One’s greatness is also seen in how gracefully they can accept when the world says no. Because accepting setbacks and failures and reversals and even injustices is…
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So, does Krishna have a plan for everyone of us? There are so many Jivas in this world, like billions. So, he has a plan for all of us. And what is the plan? What’s the final goal of the plan? Is it to go back, come back to Godhead? Or is it something of…
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To see notes, click here Spiritualization of emotions. That emotions are an integral part of who we are and what we do. At the same time, our emotions can very easily drag us into trouble. So, is there a way we can spiritualize our emotions? Now, what does spiritualizing emotions means? It broadly has two…
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To see notes, click here Hare Krishna. I’m grateful to be here, all of you today, at the lotus feet of the lordship, Shraddha Nilamadha. And today and tomorrow, I will take a two part series on the topic of dealing with guilt. Here we see, Yudhishthir Maharaj is suffering from a severe attack of…
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And if we ourselves have done something wrong, can we still see the resulting situation as Krishna’s plan or is that more on us? Again the same answer, it’s achintya veda ved, yes and no. So it is that we can say that if you are driving on the road and the GPS tells us…
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Hare Krishna? Okay, so we talked about plans, Prabhu, so when something goes wrong in our life, when something bad happens, is it still Krishna’s plan? Yes and no. Basically, we can say that Prabhupada translated this as Sasyanvito Rajan. In Bhishma’s prayer, he says everything is within Krishna’s plan. And there’s a big difference…
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To see notes, click here Hare Krishna. So I’m grateful to be here with all of you today. And I seek the blessings of all the pro bodh disciples and senior devotees so that I can speak something on the Bhagavatam. I’m especially grateful for the overwhelming participation and appreciation for yesterday’s session. I have…
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The section of Bhagavatam, which is basically introducing us to the characters. Bhagavatam, as we know, is a conversation between Parikshit Maharaj and Shukdev Goswami. And this conversation, the Bhagavatam’s conversation actually begins the core conversation begins from the second canto. It goes to the around twelve point four. So that is the conversation. Now…
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The section of Bhagavatam, which is basically introducing us to the characters. Bhagavatam, as we know, is a conversation between Parikshit Maharaj and Shukdev Goswami. And this conversation, the Bhagavatam’s conversation actually begins the core conversation begins from the second canto. It goes to the around twelve point four. So that is the conversation. Now…
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Question: When we do some activity repeatedly, like drinking or taking drugs, we get addicted to it. But as students, we study for 20, 15, 20 years, why do we never get addicted to studying? Answer Addiction or even for that matter, it’s milder version attachment, is not just a result of repetition. Repetition is…
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Why did mother Sita enter into the earth rather than be united? Be united with Ram when he finally called her back? Answer, ultimately these are pastimes that are meant to function at two levels, their loving reciprocations between the Lord and His devotees, which work according to the Lord’s divine desire for His pleasure…
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Should we aspire for the ecstatic symptoms that are described as characteristics of pure love for Krishna at our stage, or should we aspire just for the removal of anarthas that are troubling us right now? As devotees, we certainly want to develop love for Krishna, and whatever is obstructing us in developing that love…
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Question, how much should devotees read non-devotional books? Answer, there is no should over here. Sri Prabhupada didn’t really present Krishna Consciousness as a rigid set of do’s and don’ts. He focused more on helping us develop Krishna Consciousness. And our primary reading should be reading of Shastra, so that we can become convinced about…
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Question, when we care deeply for someone and have prayed for that person and have seen magic happen in their life, if they suddenly turn upon us and say, what have you ever done for me? How do we respond, especially when prayers are invisible and when we are a sensitive person? Answer, it’s distressing,…
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We often condemn material pleasures, saying that these are unsatisfactory. But then we hear in scripture that even spiritual happiness never really satisfies the heart in the sense that the devotee is always wanting more and more, just as materialists want more and more. So how is the spiritual dissatisfaction different from material dissatisfaction? The…
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Question, in the Bhagavad Gita conclusion, Krishna talks about those who share his message, those who study his message and those who hear his message, how all of them are benefited. Do all of them get the same benefit and how can we ensure that we don’t choose the easier option instead of the tougher…
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Question, what is the Bhagavad Gita perspective on the concept of informational obesity where people have a lot of information but that simply loads their brain just as too much food can load the body? Answer, to some extent this is a distinctively modern problem because it is now that we have access to so…
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Why are some people more inclined to spirituality than others? Answer, there can be broadly three reasons. The first is centered on their past life experiences. Experiences, while some people may or may not believe in the idea of a previous life and that whatever we experienced in a previous life has an effect on…
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How to respond to agnostics who say that God can’t be known? Question, how do we respond to an agnostic who says that God is unknowable? Answer, three steps. First is, based on that very philosophy, that if one is agnostic truly, then maybe one can be agnostic about one’s agnosticism also. That means, if…
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Is it that when we criticize someone, their bad karma gets transferred to us, and if we exaggerate while criticizing, then our good karma gets transferred to them? Answer, karma is a very complicated concept, as Krishna explains, gahana karma nogati. At one level, the essential implication is very logical and essential, that we are…
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Question, how much should we accept the things that are not in our control, especially when it is we who have made some terrible mistake, maybe someone else pushed us or triggered us or even doing something wrong, but we cannot blame that person alone, we are also responsible. And additionally, we feel some regret….
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Question, whenever we are confronted by someone with a different opinion or different ideology, our first nature is that we are given to our impulses and become angry. How do we deal with that? Answer, anger management is a very individual activity and each one of us has to find out what is it that…
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Should devotees fast for Shivratri Question should devotees fast on Shivratri? Answer, since Srila Prabhupada in Krishna book states that devotees sometimes, the Vrajavasis sometimes observe Shivratri and as far as we see, Chaitanya Mahaprabhu would visit Lord Shiva’s temples, but there is no reference to Srila Prabhupada actually observing Shivratri. Now in the Chaitanya…
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