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Greeting Deities & Guru Puja – 15.06.2014 Iskcon London
This talk is a part of the "Fascinating Mahabharata Characters" series. To know more about this course, please visit: bhakticourses.com
(Kadamba Kanana Swami, 29 April 2014, Radhadesh, Belgium, Srimad Bhagavatam 6.4.49-50)
I like in the Bhagavad-gita that when austerity is mentioned – there is the austerity of the body, austerity of speech and austerity of the mind. It is mentioned that the austerity of the mind is to be satisfied. So, since when is it an austerity to be satisfied!?
To be satisfied when everything is in place, all the auspicious things are there and then the mind still goes, “But…” out of habit.
“No, no, dear mind, this time there is no but. There is actually no but.”
“Really? Not a little but?”
“No, no buts. It is alright. It is actually nice. It is actually good. It is okay. Radhadesh is actually a nice place. Yes, it is!” the mind can say. In this place, especially in November, it is like when the sun is over and the skies get permanently grey and can be for the next three months. It is the time when it rains and the drizzle really sets in. It is the time of preparation. It is the time when one thinks, “Why am I here?” I always used to run away to Greece before Krsna consciousness. So that is November in this part of the world. It is an austere time but as a devotee, one can say, “No, this November is nice. This is the time when we read. Finally, the festivals are over. Jaya! No more festivals. Great! The end of all of it, now it’s quiet. People don’t come. Yay!”
In Vrindavan, the winter is austere but in a way, it was the only time of the year when one had some time to himself. Now even that is spoilt. Even now there is never peace. My point is that if one is positive, one can find the positive in every situation and that is something to learn.
Over the past two weeks the garden has been transformed. All of our early season crops and flowers have been planted.
A few new items include:
1000 Beauregard Sweet Potatoes
3 varieties of bush green beans
2 varieties of pole beans
radishes
watermelons
a small field of giant golden amaranth
sunflowers
75 strawberries
50 new asparagus
We are also at the stage in which we are harvesting some of our earlier spring plantings. This week we picked 3 bushels of spinach from the teaching garden. There are many types of mixed greens and head lettuce we will be picking for this weekend. We have also picked delicious sugar snap peas and beets. In the coming weeks we look forward to providing the temple and community with many types of fresh produce.
From Grisham P
Einstein compares religion to feet and science to eyes, whereas Prabhupada compares Eastern wisdom to eyes and Western technology to feet. Why the difference?
Another relevant quote:
"You know in the West we have built a large, beautiful ship. It has all the comforts in it. but one thing is missing: It has no compass and does not know where to go."
Werner Heisenberg to Albert Einstein, Quoted by Dr Abdul Kalam in Ignited Minds
Albert Einstein's full quote:
"Science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration towards truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot imagine a scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
Professor Sir John Polkinghorne: “Physics is powerless to explain its faith in the mathematical intelligibility of the universe.”
Physicist Paul Davies: “Science can proceed only if the scientist adopts an essentially theological worldview ... even the most atheistic scientist accepts as an act of faith the existence of a law-like order in nature that is at least in part comprehensible to us”.
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This talk is a part of the "Fascinating Mahabharata Characters" series. To know more about this course, please visit: bhakticourses.com