Archive for the ‘Bhagavad Gita’ Category
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavad Gita – 4.9.
Where: Houston, March 23, 2008
Essence: “The Lord is the seed-giving father of all living entities and He loves each and every one of His sons and daughters intensely. So, out of infinite compassion, He comes to this world of birth and death where those very children are inimical towards Him.”
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavad Gita – 4.8
Where: New Varsana, New Zealand, Jan 12, 2008
Essence: “Like the other incarnations, holy name – the sound incarnation of the Lord delivers the devotees, annihilates the demoniac mentality and establishes dharma. Therefore, having obtained the association of the holy name, one should feel very fortunate and spread its glories far and wide.”
Artist: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavad Gita - 9.6
Where: Sydney, Dec 5, 2007
Essence: “More important than knowing how the universe is created, it is important to know why it is created. Scientists are interested in knowing the how and the details. We are interested in knowing the why. We will tell them what it is all about – to bring us ultimately to the point of surrender to God.”
Artist: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavad Gita 5.18.
Where: Aug 5′th 2007, Kostryn, Poland.
Ocassion: Wood Stock Festival, 2007
Courtesy: Candrasekhar Acarya Das.
Essence: “Materially we are very different, but Spiritually we all are same atleast in quality. We all are Spiritual entities, parts and parcels of God. God is the Supreme Person, he is the Original Person and all of us are part of his greater Spiritual family. This is what we have in common. And if we accept and see the true equality, spiritual quality of all living entities, then we can live together very peacefully. Saintly people have this vision…Actually this vision extends even beyond human beings. It includes all living entities…It is not only in the interest of the poor animals that we treat them properly, it is also in our interest.”
Where: Jul 27′th 2007, Poland.
Courtesy: Candrasekhar Acarya Das.
Essence: “Real key to happiness you see in their (devotees) faces is not the discipline they are following, but the inner joy they are experiencing by chanting names of God – Hare Krsna Hare Krsna…Krsna is very blissful and when you associate with him through his name, you will also become blissful. You can also chant and experience the joy that comes from it. This is universal song of peace and happiness.”
Verse: Srimad Bhagavad Gita – 7.2
Artist: His Holiness Trivikrama Swami
Where: Jul 24′th 2007, Poland.
Courtesy: Candrasekhar Acarya Das.
Essence: “Pure devotional service is rarely attained. If we don’t take advantage of this oppurtunity, it will be a great loss. What is the oppurtunity – we have our good intelligence, we are connected with devotees, we have captain of our ship Srila Prabhupada, we have direction of Bhagavad Gita and Srimad Bhagavatham. Everything is favourable to carry us over the ocean of material existence. Only we have to agree to be carried.”
Where: Jul 22′nd 2007, Polish Festival, Rewal.
Courtesy: Candrasekhar Acarya Das.
Essence: “We are not the body, but spirit, living spark within this body. We really are somebody, part of God’s family and he loves us. He reciprocates equally with all living entities. But if we leave Spiritual World and are lost in this material world, we are nobody. If we want to be happy we have to go back to Spiritual World…That should be our ultimate goal of life…What is the process to return to Spiritual World? The easiest and most sublime process to awaken love for God is to chant his Holy Names.”
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavad Gita – 7.3.
Where: New Windsor, USA, March 24, 2007.
Essence: “The goal of human form of life is to awaken our divine consciousness and awaken our dormant love for God. In this age of Kali this can be very easily achieved by chanting the holy names of the Lord: Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.”
Where: March 16′th 2007, Atlanta.
Courtesy: Cintamani Dasi.
Essence: “If you strike that balance between accepting what is necessary for keeping body and soul together and use greater balance of your time for self-realization, there is a good chance that when you leave this body, you have no attachments for this world and all your attachments have gone to God, then punar janma na vidhyate.”
Verse: Srimad Bhagavad Gita 2.18.
Where: March 4′th 2007, Seattle.
Essence: …Maya is not holding on to us. It is we who are holding on to Maya…
