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(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 22 December 2014, Cape Town, South Africa, Srimad Bhagavatam 9.19.19)

Vanaprashta is not as scary as it seems. The spirit is that we simply dedicate the rest of our life to preparing for the next! Up to fifty years old, we can work on this life but then after fifty, we start to work on the next and that is the big change actually. Fifty is the warning that your time is running out; your number is up.

“Well, I’m still young!” The mind goes like that. I also think that I am not so old for my age (laughter). But then, this last journey, I was in Johannesburg in transit at the airport, I got into the bus to take us to the plane and these young people stood up for me (to offer me their seat)! And I was thinking, “God, it’s gone really bad now.” First time that has ever happened to me. I must look really old; it is getting pretty obvious. I didn’t realise that. So, it creeps upon you, little-by-little, old age and although you may think that it is not that bad, everybody else does think it! Anyway, I took the seat… what to do! It was comfy, I must say.

So time is running out! One has to get very serious about spiritual life therefore no more expanding the facility in this world. Wind it down and simplify…

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“In all the books and from all the previous acharyas we find that it is important that we are focussing on the end result — prema bhakti. Even if we are in a conditioned state, if we make anything else our goal we will be distracted and diverted. So, how to keep this focus on pure devotional service always as the aim of our life? By hearing and chanting in the association of saintly people.”

—Radhanatha Swami

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Harinama the “Venezuela” style (4 min video)
Srila Prabhupada: Chant Hare Krishna as many times as possible and be liberated. Thank you very much. Vrindavana, November 14, 1976.
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Latest Go Pooja At Bhaktivedanta Swami Goshala (Album 11 photos)
Narsing Chaitanya Prabhu & Family adopted a cow named Basanti. May the Lord grants them eternal shelter under His lotus feet & May Go Mata bless them!!!
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New York City Harinam in the subway despite the cold (8 min video)
Srila Prabhupada: “In Dvapara-yuga one could satisfy Krishna or Visnu only by worshiping Him gorgeously according to the pancaratriki system, but in the Age of Kali one can satisfy and worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead Hari simply by chanting the holy name.” (Narayana-samhita)
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Helping everyone to come closer to Krishna by Badahari Prabhu (1 min video)
Srila Prabhupada: If one renders even a small amount of sincere devotional service, Krishna becomes obliged to elevate such person; and what to speak of one whose entire life and soul has been dedicated to Krishna’s service. Letter to Harer Nama, November 6, 1969.
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What Comes First, Love Or Trust?
Radhanath Swami: That’s a beautiful question. They are like a coin with the head side and the tail side. If you have heads and tails on the coin, it’s the same coin.
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Harinama at Burleigh Heads - 25 January 2015 - ISKCON New Govardhana - Sri Sri Radha Govardhanadhari (Album 20 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare-these sixteen names composed of thirty-two syllables are the only means to counteract the evil effects of Kali-yuga. In all the Vedas it is seen that to cross the ocean of nescience there is no alternative to the chanting of the holy name.” (Kali-santarana Upanisad)
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ISKCON Communications Ministry has issued a media release about the film "Wolfpack" that was screened at Sundance Film Festival in the USA on Sunday. The film has received a significant amount of media attention. Wolfpack portrays a true story of a family in New York City where the father locked his children inside their four-bedroom apartment for years--except for occasional supervised visits outside. 

Brihat Mridanga Awards in Bali (Album 21 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: “The essence of all Vedic knowledge-comprehending the three kinds of Vedic activity, the Vedic hymns, and the processes for satisfying the demigods-is included in the eight syllables Hare Krishna Hare Krishna. This is the reality of all Vedanta. The chanting of the holy name is the only means to cross the ocean of nescience.” (Narada-pancharatra)
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December book distribution awards & mahaprasad on Jan 17 @ ISKCON Baroda (Album 188 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: In the material world, everything is full of anxiety
(kuntha), whereas in the spiritual world (Vaikuntha) everything is free from anxiety. Therefore those who are afflicted by a combination of anxieties cannot understand the Hare Krishna mantra, which is free from all anxiety.
(Sri-Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 7.74 Purport)
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Israeli soldiers join a Harinam party in Tel-Aviv 26/01/2015 (Album 159 photos)
Srila Prabhupada: Many people come and inquire whether they have to give up family life to join the Society, but that is not our mission. One can remain comfortably in his residence. We simply request everyone to chant the Hare Krishna maha-mantra.
(Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya-lila, 7.128 Purport).
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Text 1 invokes blessings by respecting those who are attached to understanding Śrī Rūpa’s words.

Text 2 is also introductory. It states that this book is something of a sequel to Bhakti-Rasāmṛta-Sindhu-Bindu

Text 3 begins defining the difference between Vaidhi and Rāgānugā

3: Śāstra is the stimulus for Vaidhi. Lobha is especially the stimulus for Rāgānugā.

“especially” (eva) might mean that śāstra is also a stimulus for Rāgānugā, but the primary stimulus is lobha. Maybe he say something about it later.

4: The qualification to practice either depends (respectively) on the stability of one’s comprehending śāstra and ones feeling lobha.

Text 5 begins defining Lobha

5: He quotes BRS 1.2.292: “Lobha arises when one’s concentration naturally goes towards the sweetness of [a certain] bhāva, without prompting from logic or śāstra’s advice.”

He then explains this verse: When one hears about the sweet bhāvas of śṛṇgār, etc in vraja-līlā one feels, “I want those same feelings.” That “greed” (lobha) must come naturally, not as a result of logic or śāstra’s advice. If it doesn’t come naturally it is not actually greed. This “greed” never arises from such things. It arises on its own, and doesn’t take any consideration of “worthy” or “unworthy.” It arises by hearing about the desired bhāva, or witnessing it.

Text 6: What is the cause of getting lobha after hearing or seeing the desired bhāva?

Kṛpā is the cause. bhagavat-kṛpā or the kṛpā of a devotee who seeks rāga.

bhakta-kṛpā can be either from the past or from the present. When it is from the past, it causes one to take shelter of a guru. When it is in the present, it arises as a result of taking shelter of a guru.

He quotes the last verse in the BRS section on Rāgānugā: “The sole cause of lobha is the mercy of Krishna and his devotee.”  

“Gopi-bhartuh pada-kamalayor dasa-dasanudasah. My only true identity is that I am the servant of the servant  of the servant  of the servant of the Lord of the gopis — Sri Krishna. After offering this Prayer, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu invited everyone to bring Jagannatha together to Sri Vrindavan Dham . In this way he taught us what our sense of identity should be. We are not these bodies, we are not the proprietors, we are the  servants of the servants  of the servants of Krishna.”

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