Sometimes you spent too much of your youth in the wrong place, but you're having a great time...

Oh, this Summer heat
Everyday repeat, repeat
Rises from asphalt
Skin, sweat & salt

There's sin in every stone
Sinking deep into my bone
I'm ready to spent it all
On red again

I've walked too long
On the streets of Babylon
Spent too much, rambled on
Wasted days, never found out what it takes
To hang on in Babylon

I met you first
When we were 15
Not yet cursed
By what we'd seen

All we wanted
Was a revolution
As we were haunted
By our confusion

I've walked...

I remember, I remember
The forests of my childhood
The sheer unending wildwood
Seering falcons fly
Under suffocating skies

I only dance
In the shadows
I've fallen
Oh so low
With my back
Against the mirror
Never saw myself
Any clearer

Streets of Babylon [demo]

Srila Prabhupada Hindi Lecture 21

Choices - Sri Prahlad

Семинар Гопипаранадханы прабху по главам 1 и 2 Второй песни "Шримад-Бхагаватам". Перевод на русский: Мадана-мохан дас

05-Первые наставления Шукадевы Госвами — Глава 2(2) Второй песни

Vinati

Vinati (Prayer)sau sau baar swami

Krishna Krishna Govinda

Jai Ram Ram Bolo Sitaram

Shri Radhe Govinda Man Bhaj Le Hari Ka Pyara Naam Hai

So, now Nimai is standing before him, soaking wet from the bath in the Ganga with the shaved head and Kesava Bharati says, “You are the Supreme Lord and if this is how you want to teach the world to make me your guru, I am your servant.” And then he gave the two pieces of saffron cloth to our beloved Lord Gauranga. The Lord put on the saffron dress of a sanyasi. When the people saw him without his beautiful golden robes, without his jewellery and his garlands, without his luxurious cascading hair, their hearts were broken. But still, in the saffron robes of a sanyasi, he was so unlimitedly beautiful. He charmed their hearts. They fell unconditionally in love with this form of Mahaprabhu as a sanyasi. Then, the Lord did something that was wonderful.

Lord Gauranga Mahaprabhu Accepting Sannyas

So, if we are bored, if we are not finding ecstasy and excitement and adventure at every moment, that means we are not Krishna Conscious. That means we are still material conscious, it means we are forgetful of Krishna, it means we still have to go through all these artificial devices just to forget the boredom, the frustration of the bodily concept of life.  It is a fact. So, while we are in this state, a devotee wants to purify his senses by always engaging them in the loving service of the Lord, by worshiping the deity, by having wonderful wonderful sankirtan with so many loving devotees, by hearing the glories of the Lord in the Srimad Bhagvatam, by engaging in the service of the Lord, whether it be cooking for the deities or cleaning the children’s toilets, a devotee simply feels such bliss and such love just by keeping his senses always with Krishna in His service. Nothing is ordinary.

Nothing Is Routine For A Devotee

Chaitanya mahaprabhu said, “Krishna is non different than his name, nämnäm akäri bahudhä nija-sarva-çaktis, all of his powers are within his name. But then my lord said, if a devotee is chanting the holy names but offends Vaishnavas, Krishna is so displeased, that Krishna through his name may destroy you out of mercy. Krishna’s name is Krishna, he is a person. It is not something mechanical, we ,must chant in a way that pleases the holy name. The seventh offence to the holy name is to commit sinful activities on th trength of chanting. If we think let me chant and then I can do any thing sinful and then I will rectify it by chanting again, if that is our mentality you are offending god in his name and the first of all offences is to blaspheme devotees of the lord. Why are these offences? It is not just something mechanical. It must be understood in a very personalized way. These are offences because they displease Krishna substantially.

Krishna Krishna Govinda

Nityananda Charan Das

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