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Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Mathajis Dandavat Pranam
Please explore these wonderful topics, lets discuss and learn
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
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This week we will be discussing Chapter 3 Text 8 from Srimad Bhagavat Gita. Srimad Bhagavat Gita Chapter 3 Text 8
niyataṁ kuru karma tvaṁ Translation: Perform your prescribed duty, for doing so is better than not working. One cannot even maintain one’s physical body without work. Date: Dec 20th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishna Das. |
This week we will be discussing Chapter 3 Text 7 from Srimad Bhagavat Gita. Srimad Bhagavat Gita Chapter 3 Text 7
yas tv indriyāṇi manasā Translation: On the other hand, if a sincere person tries to control the active senses by the mind and begins karma-yoga [in Kṛṣṇa consciousness] without attachment, he is by far superior. Date: Dec 13th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishna Das. |
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This week we will be discussing Chapter 3 Text 6 from Srimad Bhagavat Gita. Srimad Bhagavat Gita Chapter 3 Text 6 karmendriyāṇi
saṁyamya Translation: One who restrains the senses of action but whose mind dwells on sense objects certainly deludes himself and is called a pretender. Date: Dec 6th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishna Das. |
This week we will be discussing Chapter 3 Text 5 from Srimad Bhagavat Gita. Srimad Bhagavat Gita Chapter 3 Text 5 na
hi kaścit kṣaṇam api Translation: Everyone is forced to act helplessly according to the qualities he has acquired from the modes of material nature; therefore no one can refrain from doing something, not even for a moment. Date: Nov 29th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishna Das. |
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Watched Movie : Ganga And Discussed about it Date: Nov 22nd 2014 Speaker: Prem Vilas Prabhu. |
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This week we will be discussing Chapter 3 Text 3 from Srimad Bhagavat Gita. Srimad Bhagavat Gita Chapter 3 Text 3 śrī-bhagavān uvāca
loke ’smin dvi-vidhā niṣṭhā Translation: The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O sinless Arjuna, I have already explained that there are two classes of men who try to realize the self. Some are inclined to understand it by empirical, philosophical speculation, and others by devotional service. Date: Nov 15th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishna Das. |
How are you all doing? We completed Chapter 2 from Srimad Bhagavat Gita and will be entering into 3rd chapter "Karma Yoga". We start 1st verse this week. Also I would like to share this video with you all and my humble request is to see this attention. Its only 42 mins and while watching please write it down your thoughts and questions if you have. we will discuss. Topic: Stop Dreaming and Wake UpLink : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BzjRvMMGYY Srimad Bhagavat Gita Chapter 3 Text 1 jyāyasī
cet karmaṇas te Translation: Arjuna said: O Janārdana, O Keśava, why do You want to engage me in this ghastly warfare, if You think that intelligence is better than fruitive work? Date: Nov 8th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishna Das. |
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This week we will be discussing from Srimad Bhagavath Gita Chapter 2 and text 72. Please try to come on time.BG: 2.72:
eṣā brāhmī sthitiḥ pārtha Translation: That is the way of the spiritual and godly life, after attaining which a man is not bewildered. If one is thus situated even at the hour of death, one can enter into the kingdom of God. Discussion Topics:
Date: Nov 1st 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishna Das. |
This week we will be discussing from Srimad
Bhagavath Gita Chapter 2 and text 71. Please try to come on time.
BG: 2.71: Translation: A person who has given up all desires for sense gratification, who lives free from desires, who has given up all sense of proprietorship and is devoid of false ego — he alone can attain real peace. Discussion Topics:
Date: Oct 25th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishna Das. |
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This week we will be discussing from
Srimad Bhagavath Gita Chapter 2 and text 70. Please try to come on time. Translation: A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires — that enter like rivers into the ocean, which is ever being filled but is always still — can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires. Discussion Topics:
Date: Oct 18th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishna Das. |
This week we will be discussing from Srimad Bhagavath Gita Chapter 2 and text 69.
BG:
2.69: Translation: What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled; and the time of awakening for all beings is night for the introspective sage. Discussion Topics:
The introspective man is always indifferent to materialistic happiness and distress. He goes on with his self-realization activities undisturbed by material reactions. Date: Oct 4th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishna Das. |
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BG:
2.65:prasāde
sarva-duḥkhānāṁ Translation: For one thus satisfied [in Kṛṣṇa consciousness], the threefold miseries of material existence exist no longer; in such satisfied consciousness, one’s intelligence is soon well established.
BG: 2.66:
nāsti buddhir ayuktasya Translation: One who is not connected with the Supreme [in Kṛṣṇa consciousness] can have neither transcendental intelligence nor a steady mind, without which there is no possibility of peace. And how can there be any happiness without peace? Date: Sep 20th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishna Das. |
BG:
2.67:
indriyāṇāḿ hi caratāḿ Translation: As a strong wind sweeps away a boat on the water, even one of the roaming senses on which the mind focuses can carry away a man's intelligence. Discussion: Unless all of the senses are engaged in the service of the Lord, even one of them engaged in sense gratification can deviate the devotee from the path of transcendental advancement. As mentioned in the life of Mahārāja Ambarīṣa, all of the senses must be engaged in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, for that is the correct technique for controlling the mind.
BG: 2.68:
tasmād yasya mahā-bāho Translation:Therefore, O mighty-armed, one whose senses are restrained from their objects is certainly of steady intelligence. Discussion: One can curb the forces of sense gratification only by means of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, or engaging all the senses in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. As enemies are curbed by superior force, the senses can similarly be curbed, not by any human endeavor, but only by keeping them engaged in the service of the Lord. One who has understood this — that only by Kṛṣṇa consciousness is one really established in intelligence and that one should practice this art under the guidance of a bona fide spiritual master — is called sādhaka, or a suitable candidate for liberation. Date: Sep 27th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishna Das. |
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This week we will be discussing from Srimad Bhagavath Gita Chapter 2 and text 64. We had a wonderful discussion last week. This week topic is build on last week. BG: 2.64:
rāga-dveṣa-vimuktais tu Translation: But a person free from all attachment and aversion and able to control his senses through regulative principles of freedom can obtain the complete mercy of the Lord. Purport:
Date: Sep 13th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishna Das. |
This week we will be discussing from Srimad Bhagavath Gita Chapter 2 and text 62 and 63. These verses are very famous verses, such a way that in our daily life we see and live them practically with these aspects. Krishna explains very systematically and scientifically how a person even with a great intelligence, with pious back ground and wonderful intentions and qualities still could end up in miserable and abominable situations where he/she regrets after that like: WHY DID I DO THAT? Lets discuss and learn to over come these propensities for a better and meaningful life.
BG: 2.62:
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BG: 2.63:
Translation: Date: Sep 6th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishna Das.
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BG: 2.60:
yatato
hy api kaunteya
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BG: 2.61: Translation: One who restrains his senses, keeping them under full control, and fixes his consciousness upon Me, is known as a man of steady intelligence. Date: Aug 30th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishna Das. |
BG: 2.59:
viṣayā vinivartante Translation: Though the embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, the taste for sense objects remains. But, ceasing such engagements by experiencing a higher taste, he is fixed in consciousness. Date: Aug 23rd 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishna Das. |
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This week we will discuss Srimad Bhagavath Gita Verses 2.56 and 2.57
BG 2.56:duḥkheṣv anudvigna-manāḥ Translation: One who is not disturbed in mind even amidst the threefold miseries or elated when there is happiness, and who is free from attachment, fear and anger, is called a sage of steady mind.
BG 2.57: yaḥ sarvatrānabhisnehas
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This week we will discuss Srimad Bhagavath Gita Verses 2.54 and 2.55 |
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Bg: 2. 54 Ajuna uvāca
sthita-prajñasya kā bhāṣā Translation: Arjuna said: O Kṛṣṇa, what are the symptoms of one whose consciousness is thus merged in transcendence? How does he speak, and what is his language? How does he sit, and how does he walk? |
Bg 2.55 śrī-bhagavān uvāca
prajahāti yadā kāmān Translation: The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: O Pārtha, when a man gives up all varieties of desire for sense gratification, which arise from mental concoction, and when his mind, thus purified, finds satisfaction in the self alone, then he is said to be in pure transcendental consciousness.
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Date: July 19th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishna Das. |
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This week we will discuss Srimad
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This week we will discuss Srimad Bhagavath Gita Verse 2.52 Bg 2.52
yadā te moha-kalilaṁ Translation: When your intelligence has passed out of the dense forest of delusion, you shall become indifferent to all that has been heard and all that is to be heard. Date: June 28th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishnadas |
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This week we will discuss Srimad Bhagavath Gita Verse 2.51 Bg 2.51
karma-jaṁ buddhi-yuktā hi Translation: By thus engaging in devotional service to the Lord, great sages or devotees free themselves from the results of work in the material world. In this way they become free from the cycle of birth and death and attain the state beyond all miseries [by going back to Godhead]. Date: June 14th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishnadas |
This week we will discuss Srimad Bhagavath Gita Verses 2.49 and 2.50 Bg 2.49
dūreṇa hy avaraṁ karma
Translation: Bg 2.50
buddhi-yukto jahātīha
Translation: Date: June 7th 2014 Speaker: Prem Sindhu Prabhu |
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5. What
is athma, paramathma and its relationship with God 6. Should one listen to inner soul instincts and when? 7. Is devotional path the only path to attain lotus feet of Lord?. Can one take scientific path? 8. Should one focus on only chanting or only doing good services or both? 9. How to know what is good and what is bad from spiritual perspective?. What are the prescribed duties by God? 10. Is humbleness one of a characteristics of devotees?. Can Atheist have humbleness and do good services to humanity and attain Lotus feet of Lord? Date: May 31st 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishnadas
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1. How
was Krishna’s mercy or message is
distributed?. Types of Sampradhayas and disciples succession etc,. Comment: Before we understand how Krishna’s mercy is distributed we have to understand what his mercy is and who is Krishna? God has many names, there are primary and secondary names based on his characteristics and attributes. Govinda – who gives pleasure to cows, Rama – Power house of Pleasure, Achuta – Infallible, Mukunda – who lives liberation etc.. Krishna means all attractive. Any person in this world has any opulence like beauty, or strength, or fame, power, knowledge etc, we naturally get attracted to them. But those opulence’s are temporary, very relative and subjective. God is that person who has all the opulence’s all the time to fullest capacity. He is also merciful and ever well wisher. He is always trying to reach us in many ways to share his opulence’s with his dear children ( all of us) by inviting us back to kingdom of the Lord but time and immemorial we are rejecting him but wants to have his opulence’s in this material world and wants to enjoy with material body, which is not possible because this material world/body is temporary and we can’t enjoy those opulence’s in absolute sense, anytime we try, it will only bind us with so called flickering happiness but eventually gives us nothing but frustration and suffering since we are trying to enjoy separately from God. To experience real happiness we have to go to spiritual world or live in self realization consciousness in this material world by connecting our soul to Super soul. So God is trying to attract us in many ways, some times he comes personally and other times he send his representatives, but we are reluctant to follow his instructions but wants his opulence only, this is struggle for existence or also called madness which was caused by ignorance or Avidya, sine we don’t know who we are, where we come from etc.. but we identify with body and enjoy. Like Ravana wants Sita, Goddess of Fortune but He wants to kill Ram. But God is so kind he is trying and trying and trying to give as many chances as possible thinking we may turn to him .., Like a rain pours water everywhere, it doesn’t matter it falls on ocean, or trees, or rocks etc without any condition. Krishna or God distributes his mercy unconditionally to everyone thru his devotees but most of the people do not recognize since they are covered by Lust, Anger, Greed, Pride, Illusion and Envy but those who are rare, sincere, wants to know God and want to serve God will take his mercy and apply, and also share with others, are actually recipient of his mercy. The meaning of his mercy is to Know God, to Know who we are, to understand our eternal relationship and try to establish that lost relationship and make life as meaningful, also share this gift of his mercy to other, so that they also know God and could go back to Kingdom of God and never return to this material world again. This mercy or knowledge comes down by disciplic succession. There are four authorized sampradayas are given, All are started by Krishna himself. 1. Sri Sampradaya 1. Rudra Sampradaya 3. Kumara Sampradaya and 4. Madva Sampraday. ISKCON is branch of Madva Gaudiya sampradaya, All these sampradayas share the same absolute knowledge given by Krishna, may be there are few differences how the message was presented depends on time, place and circumstances but the message was never changed and always same. When ever this line of disciplic succession broken, Krishna again comes down to this material world and reestablish that lineage. He also said this knowledge should be heard, understand and practice with the devotees with humble attitude by genuinely developing selfless service attitude. 2. 2. Who is Guru and what are different kinds of Gurus?. Comments: Guru means heavy. He carries the message of God. He is authorized representative of God coming in anyone of the four sapradayas mentioned above. Guru will never add or subtract the true message of God but presents as it is which he received from his Guru. He thinks himself as postman carrying the message, never take credit but gives the credit and respect he receives back to His Guru or God. When one is serious and sincere to know God, God send Guru to us and Guru will connect us back to God. Guru is not God but representative of God, so he is more important than anybody else. We have mother and father in every life in what ever species of life we were in but only when we enquire sincerely about God, We will be given opportunity to meet Guru, hear from him, serve him and hence could Please him so that we could Please God. There are two kinds of Gurus. 1. Siksha Guru and 2. Diksha Guru Siksha Guru means who gives as instructions, or helps us guide towards God in favorable way. We can have as many as Siksha Guru’s we can have, it could be person or nature or ant or any body or anything we could learn. Since God as Paramatma sitting on our heart, knows our desires and guides us in right direction based on our intensity and sincerity. God could speak to us in many ways If we are willing to learn or listen and develop divine qualities Diksha Guru is the one who connect us to Krishna thru Guru Parampara or disciplic succession via anyone of the sampradayas mentioned above. We can have only one Diksha Guru. Before we accept Guru we can test Guru and vise versa. Once we accept Guru , We should give life and soul to him to serve him and his mission. 3. 3. What are the different ways to understand the nectar of Bhagavad gita and what is the best way? Comment: There are many ways to understand Gita but most efficient process is thru the devotees especially who loves Krishna without envy. Its very powerful and fast process to understand Gita in the association of Krishna devotees in personal aspect. Like in the mood of Arjuna 4. What is recommended for different Yugas? Comment: There are four Yugas mentioned in Vedas Satya Yuga or Kruta Yuga : People are 100% God Consciousness, everything is available to eat, dont have to struggle or work for livelihood. People are peaceful and very powerful with super natural yogic powers. Their life span is 100,000 years. The recommended process for self realization or God Consciousness is Meditation. They usually mediate on personal aspect of God for long time, meaning many years at a time. Treta Yuga: People are 75% God Consciousness, not everything is available but need to work little bit for livelihood. People are mostly peaceful. Their life span is 10,000 years. The recommended process for self realization or God Consciousness is sacrifices’ or Austerities, or Yagna’s . Their purity is tested based on their end result of Yagna’s Dvapar Yuga: People are 50% God Consciousness, not everything is available but there will be wars, some problems caused by demons, need to work little hard for livelihood. People are very charitable. Their life span is 1,000 years. The recommended process for self realization or God Consciousness is elaborate deity worships and charity. Kali Yuga: People are 25% God Consciousness in the beginning but it will go down as kaliyuga progress. As of now we are done with little over 5500 years already, not everything is available but need to really work hard for livelihood. People are unfortunate, have less memory, miss guided, lazy, spiritual qualities are diminishing rapidly and mostly confused and have demoniac tendencies. In this age, sudra’s rules the land, government put heavy taxes on people, all ways problems, wars, like too much heat or too much cold or no rain, too much rain, Practically everybody thinks he or she is God or there is no God. Their life span is 100 years at starting but it will go down slowly but gradually. The recommended process for self realization or God Consciousness is Sankirthan. Taking names of Lord Hari or chanting the holy names of Krishna individually and collectively The total years of Kaliyaga is approximately 4,300,000 years. Dvapara yuga is two times of Kali yuga, Treta Yuga is three times of Kali yuga and Satya yuga is four times of Kali yuga. Date: May 17th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishnadas
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We are going to read Gita 2.48 and 2.49 this week and try to understand the meaning and discuss how to apply them in our day to day life practically.
yoga-sthaḥ kuru karmāṇi Translation: Perform your duty equipoised, O Arjuna, abandoning all attachment to success or failure. Such equanimity is called yoga.
dūreṇa hy avaraṁ karma Translation: O Dhanañjaya, keep all abominable activities far distant by devotional service, and in that consciousness surrender unto the Lord. Those who want to enjoy the fruits of their work are misers Date: May 3rd 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishnadas |
We are going to read Gita 2.46 and 2.47 this week and try to understand the meaning and discuss how to apply them in our day to day life pratically.
yāvān artha udapāne Translation: All purposes served by a small well can at once be served by a great reservoir of water. Similarly, all the purposes of the Vedas can be served to one who knows the purpose behind them.
karmaṇy evādhikāras te
Translation: You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty. Date: April 26th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishnadas |
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We are going to
read Gita 2.44 and 2.45 this week and
try to understand the meaning and discuss how to apply them in our day to
day life pratically. Date: April 19th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishnadas |
How are you all doing. I would like to
invite you all for this week's program. Spring started, weather is getting
better and I hope you all can make it. Where ever there is a gathering of
devotees to talk about Krishna, his past timers and his pure devotees, that
place is Vaikunta, Devotional service is not depend on time, place and
circumstances. One who would like to aspire and wants to develop such vision,
Krishna will help and guide that wonderful soul.
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I would like to invite you all for this week's program. Spring
started, weather is getting better and I hope you all can make it. Where ever
there is a gathering of devotees to talk about Krishna, his past timers and his
pure devotees, that place is Vaikunta, Devotional service is not depend on time,
place and circumstances. One who would like to aspire and wants to develop such
vision, Krishna will help and guide that wonderful soul. Date: April 5th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishnadas |
This week we are going to have a special guest speaker for Saturday theater program. He is very senior disciple of HH Radhanatha swami maharaj, his name is HG Vrindavan prabhu, lives in Pune, India and he is on preaching tour in west. we are fortunate to have his association, He is very senior devotees and a great scholar. He is going to speak from Srimad Bhagavath Gita and Srimad Bhagavatam. Date: Mar 29th 2014 Guest Speaker: HG Vrindavan Prabhu |
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"Living in the Matrix" The Matrix blends together two opposing genres – modern sci-fi and ancient wisdom from the East. We will walk alongside Neo and Arjuna as they try to understand who they are, why they are here, and what is the purpose and meaning of life. This engaging, discussion based presentation will allow the audience to wrestle with these existential questions, as together, with help from the practical spiritual wisdom of the Gita, we learn to cut through the matrix of the material phenomena. Clips from the movie will be shown and the audience will be engaged in a thought provoking, enlivening dialogue. Date:Feb 15th 2014 Guest Speaker: Gadadhara Pandit Dasa About the Speaker: Gadadhara Pandit Dasa is a monk, lecturer and the first-ever Hindu chaplain for Columbia University and New York University and the Interfaith chaplain at Union Theological Seminary where courses on Hindu scriptures. He has spoken at a recent TEDx conference and was featured in the NPR piece "Long Days and Short Nights of a Hindu Monk." He appeared in the PBS Documentary on the Bhagavad Gita, as well as The New York Times. He is also a regular contributor for the Huffington Post. His life is chronicled in his autobiography: Urban Monk: Exploring Karma, Consciousness, and the Divine. |
Guru
Date:Feb 8th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishnadas |
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Simple Temple
Date:Feb 1st 2014 Guest Speaker: Prem Vilas Prabhu |
Thought Process
vWhat
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Date:Jan 18th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishnadas |
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pṛthivī vāyur ākāśam madhu-hā hariṇo mīnaḥ ete me guravo rājan
pṛthivī — the earth; vāyuḥ — the air; ākāśam — the sky; āpaḥ — the water; agniḥ — the fire; candramāḥ — the moon; raviḥ — the sun; kapotaḥ — the pigeon; ajagaraḥ — the python; sindhuḥ — the sea; pataṅgaḥ — the moth; madhu-kṛt — the honeybee; gajaḥ — the elephant; madhu-hā — the honey thief; hariṇaḥ — the deer; mīnaḥ — the fish; piṅgalā — the prostitute named Piṅgalā; kuraraḥ — the kurara bird; arbhakaḥ — the child; kumārī — the young girl; śara-kṛt — the arrow maker; sarpaḥ — the serpent; ūrṇa-nābhiḥ — the spider; supeśa-kṛt — the wasp; ete — these; me — me; guravaḥ — spiritual masters; rājan — O King; catuḥ-viṁśatiḥ — twenty-four; āśritāḥ — taken shelter of; śikṣā — instruction; vṛttibhiḥ — from the activities; eteṣām — of them; anvaśikṣam — I have properly learned; iha — in this life; ātmanaḥ — about the self.
O King, I have taken shelter of twenty-four gurus, who are the following: the earth, air, sky, water, fire, moon, sun, pigeon and python; the sea, moth, honeybee, elephant and honey thief; the deer, the fish, the prostitute Piṅgalā, the kurara bird and the child; and the young girl, arrow maker, serpent, spider and wasp. My dear King, by studying their activities I have learned the science of the self.
The wasp is known as supeśa-kṛt because it causes the insect that it kills to take a beautiful form in the next life. Date:Jan 25th 2014 Guest Speaker: Prem Sindhu Prabhu |
Know who you are? Are you the body? or Are you the Soul? How the body and soul works and what it made out of? Please learn the anatomy of the body from Sri Bhagavat Gita
Six changes of the body: The body is born, it grows, it stays, it produces by-products, then it begins to decay, and at the last stage it vanishes 7 Chakras in the body:
Knower or proprietor of the body: Soul or Atma - khṣetra-jna Hierarchy: Soul –> False Ego -> Intelligence ->Mind -> Sense Objects and Senses How do we live conscious and balanced life ? - Please come and join to learn Date:Jan 11th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishnadas |
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This week topic is How to keep Krishna in Center? The most amazing gift we ever received is the Association of devotees. There is nothing more important and precious than that, because during that association we get to hear and know about all merciful Lord, Krishna. and could be able to practice his teachings under the guidance of Guru. So please make every attempt to come on time, There are many If's and buts in our lives and they were there in the past, they are here now and will be there in the future. but some how we all got this rare opportunity , lets take advantage Date:Jan 4th 2014 Speaker: Naveen Krishnadas |
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