Archive for the ‘Sanga 2000’ Category
Ekadasi is not about fasting but about coming closer to the Lord. If fasting is only making me go to sleep, if it is only making me proud, what is the value of that? Will I be brought nearer to the Lord by that?
Read MoreThe Gita has nothing to do with whether or not women can be trusted. Trust me. Prabhupada trusted his women disciples, and his male disciples often proved untrustworthy.
Read MoreWe are interested in turyatitah gopala. This is the fifth dimension, in which one comes face to face with Gopal Krishna in Vraja Dhama, from adhoksaja to aprakrta, from God consciousness to Krishna consciousness.
Read MoreAnartha nivritti deals with overcoming various states of mind, and nistha with fixation of intelligence. They are like two sides of a mountain peak, one going up (anartha nivritti) the other going down (nistha) into the valley of love of God.
Read MoreThe problem lies to a large extent with neophyte followers who cannot adjust to the fact that other gurus have different opinions. A much deeper understanding of the dynamics of guru tattva is needed.
Read MoreThere are demons in Krishna’s prakata lila, but only rumors of them in the nitya lila. So there may be prostitutes in the nitya lila of Dvaraka but only rumors of customers.
Read MoreThe tension between a literal and figurative understanding of scripture usually involves the eligibility of the practitioner. Spiritual progress turns black and white into grey.
Read MoreYou are making much of the color of one’s cloth. Here we are speaking of substance over form. Would you also condemn the Tinkrori Baba, a previous Mahanta at Radha kunda, for wearing burlap and not white?
Read MoreShe has no capacity to harmonize subtle differences. Vraja means the land of harmony. This we saw in our siksa Gurudeva, Srila Sridhara Maharaja, that great harmonizer, the personification of Vraja itself.
Read MoreEveryone is trying to please Krishna, but Krishna is trying to please Radha. Prabhupada was well aware of this, and by pointing it out to Krishna so sweetly he got his attention, and thus the power to execute his Gurudeva’s order was bestowed.
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