One of the principles: the less you claim to have or to know, the more you're open to learn, and the more grateful you are for what you get. There's a way in which entitlement—thinking that I deserve more, leads to disappointment, to the degree we have this sense of entitlement. And also in learning, one may see, "The more I know, the more I know I don't know." Oftentimes people, including myself, when I'm hearing some valuable information or getting a lesson from someone, I may think, my unruly mind may say, "I already know that." One of my colleagues, who speaks all around the world, says there are four words that block all learning. Should I say what they are? I'm going to write them in the chat.

There they are: "I already know that." So how can you receive more knowledge if you already know something? "I know that. I know that." And oftentimes due to a sense of knowing more than other people, we can't listen to what other people say, because my mind's saying, "I already know that. I already know that, already know that. I know more than this person. When they stop talking, then I'm going to say something more valuable." So of course, we want to listen to those who are most qualified to teach us something. But in the Bhagavad-gītā, Kṛṣṇa talks about this principle of knowledge. When you're akiñcana and you come as an empty slate, then you can take in so much, even if somebody is not as qualified as you, you might hear something from them that will edify you.

In the Gītā, Kṛṣṇa says that there are three ways you should approach somebody teaching you knowledge. One is that you should be open to hear. It's called praṇipāta. The other one is that you should be in a mood of service—that somebody's giving me something, I should give them service. And you should also be ready to ask questions that are relevant so you can get more out of that person. All this takes place when you are willing to be akiñcana—to, said the golden monk and Queen Kuntī.You can learn so much when you claim to know nothing
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The Art of Receiving #1 The Power of Empty | HG Vaisesika Dasa | April 4 2025

The person who's representing Kṛṣṇa is 'priya' dear to Kṛṣṇa. So there's a philosophy Prabhupāda used to say, "Love me, love my dog." So there's a way that, if you're walking around SLO, if you just approach somebody and try to talk to them directly, appreciate them, they may be taken aback. But if they're walking their dog and you say, "Nice dog," they'll stop and they'll say, "Oh, do you have a dog too?" And then you can say, "Well, what kind of dog is it?" You'll immediately have a rapport—"love me, love my dog." 

So in a similar way, Prabhupāda said, if you appreciate the representative of Kṛṣṇa, then you very quickly please Kṛṣṇa. So that the path to Kṛṣṇa is direct, but it's indirect at the same time. You become the servant of the servant of the servant of the servant. That way, it pleases Kṛṣṇa, and you're able to have direct contact with Kṛṣṇa, although it seems indirect.
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The Meaning of Morning Prayers | HG Vaisesika Dasa | 03 May 2025 | SLO

Once, the spiritual master of my spiritual master, my Param-Guru Mahārāja (Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura) had said that he wanted a magazine published every day about Kṛṣṇa-kathā and distributed in many places. Someone said, "But how will you have enough news?" He said, "The spiritual world is full of the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa and His devotees eternally. In the material world, the news is old within a few hours. And," he said, "what to speak of one day or every day, we can publish a magazine every second, every minute, about the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa." Practically speaking, that's been done in the form of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. These are the pastimes of Kṛṣṇa, and as is mentioned in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in the commentary by our ācāryas, the Bhāgavatam that we have—that you see here on the bottom shelf—this is the short version. There are longer versions in the higher planetary systems, some of them with hundreds of volumes, some of them with thousands, and some of them with millions, because Kṛṣṇa's pastimes are unlimited. And not only that, they're ever-fresh news. In this world, you may read half the newspaper or maybe a couple of pages and then just throw it in the dustbin. But the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is revered and worshiped and read thousands and thousands of times again and again, and it's always fresh.

Therefore, satāṁ prasaṅgān mama vīrya-saṁvido—when one is in the association of devotees and hears these topics of Kṛṣṇa, then one becomes enlivened and purified. And what's the result of that? 'bhavanti hṛt-karṇa-rasāyanāḥ kathāḥ,' says Kapila-deva speaking in the Third Canto of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, that when you hear about Kṛṣṇa, the sound vibration acts like medicine. It goes in the ear—most medicine, how do you take it? Orally? Ayurvedic medicine—you take a little medicated ghee, right? But this, He said, this medicine you take in the ear, and it goes from the ear to your heart, and then one begins to change one's course in life.

How to Spiritualize Your Life & Transcend The Effects of Karma | HG Vaisesika Dasa | 20 Jun 2024 | UK

When we would stay at Govardhana Hill during Kārtik every year, he would come on parikramā with thousands and thousands of devotees. The Govardhana āshram is a quiet place, and during the festival season, sometimes during the day, a yātrā will come in and swarm the place for half an hour, an hour, and then go away. Mahārāja was so personal that he would stop in to see any of his godbrothers, whatever room they were in. And I can remember many times when he would just burst in the room, and then the room would be flooded because devotees would come in with him. Sometimes I'd be sitting doing a pūjā or getting ready for something, and all of a sudden the door would fling open, and Mahārāja would come in with his devotees, and we'd offer obeisances. He would grab my hand, and he'd always have some encouraging words to say. He would say something personal, and it was 99.9% of the time about book distribution, that we have to distribute more, we have to double it. He would say encouraging things, and he would stop in and see other godbrothers, and then he would go on his way.

When he came here to ISV, we invariably asked him to make a video for us. Luckily, we have those and we have the pictures of them. One of the times I remember, he sat outside there in front of the hedge in a chair, and we had all he camera set up, and he had the microphone, and it was a blissful time that we had to sit around him and feel that here's one of the senior most leaders in our movement, and he's a book distributor, and he's for us. He would take the time to sit down and go through the rigors of making a video. "Did that go through? Did that take? Fix the microphone, move a little to the left." He didn't mind because he knew the influence he would have by advocating for book distribution, so he would take the time to do that, and we would sit with him and listen to him speak, and it did have a huge effect on people all over the world, as it still is now.

Last year, because the devotees were dedicating their activities in distributing books to Mahārāja, and they were especially inspired, which is also the mode of the devotees after their spiritual master leaves the world—where to take shelter? The tirobhāva means when the light of the spiritual master's personal presence goes out, then what light does one follow? One must follow the order of the spiritual master, and one must reconstitute everything one's heard and seen in one's guru to understand how to conduct one's own life. How did my guru speak? How would he make a decision about a particular issue that's going on? We all of you who are his disciples and all of us who are his loving godbrothers and anyone else have a catalog of all he said and the way he said it and the way he reacted to circumstances that we can remember and bring out as we go through the maze which is the material world and trying to find our way through darkness and conduct our services. A heartfelt moment I had with Mahārāja was after...

(excerpt from the talk, 24 Apr 2025, ISV)

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Take Advantage of Association While You Have It | HH Gopal Kṛṣṇa Maharaj's Disappearance Day, 24 Apr

As we make progress in devotional service, it's vital to be aware of who we're tuned into, and to that degree, Prabhupāda was meticulous in instructing us about the process of hearing. And I'll just give a couple of examples, and I will stop in a moment.

One was when the devotees first went to India, they came to understand that there was a bigger universe, spiritual universe, outside of ISKCON. Prabhupāda had a few books: Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, The Nectar of Devotion, Teachings of Lord Caitanya, and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam was coming out volume by volume. Prabhupāda brought a bunch of devotees to India because he was eager to get the movement started there. So when they came there, they started to notice things. For instance, wow! there are other devotees in the world. There is Prabhupāda’s own origin from the Gauḍīya Maṭh. And then there were books from the Gauḍīya Maṭh, what to speak of even then there was Gita Press. You could go get anything, if you could read Devanāgarī, that is. Of course, nowadays, there's Rāsi Bihārī Lāl’s; that's a more recent thing that wasn't there in the 70s. 

Rāsi Bihārī Lāl is the biggest little bookstore in the world. So if you walk up the stairs, you'll notice one floor after another. I hope they have strong beams in there, because that's all they have, is books all the way to the rafters. And you can find books from anybody, because they're indiscriminate. They're not promoting Guru Paramparā and such; they're promoting the sale of books. So anybody could walk in there and pick out any stack of books they wish and go home and read it. It could have mistranslations, it could have misconceptions. It could have anything.
As Śivarāma Mahārāja once commented, anybody could go buy books in the cloth market in India. He was referring to Rāsi Bihārī Lāl’s, and if you're listening, Rāsi Bihārī Lāl Prabhu, no offense, I still want to buy tilakas sometimes.

So a controversy came up, because devotees did find some books that they could read from the Gauḍīya Maṭh, and the temple president had understood from Prabhupāda that being exclusivistic in one's hearing is not limiting. It's the opposite. Counterintuitively, the more you refine your hearing to the Guru Paramparā specifically, and you're careful to hear from those who are authorized. And one may say, "Authorized, everybody's authorized." Well, you can take that point of view, but that it's not very refined.

In fact, that goes to who can come into the circle of devotees who are cultivating a particular mood and speak? And some people would say, "Well, they're followers of Lord Caitanya, it doesn't matter," okay, but it does.
Prabhupāda said it himself when Mukunda Mahārāja had wondered what would happen if Prabhupāda left, because early on, Prabhupāda had severe health problems, and he was going to go back to India. And Mukunda Mahārāja, this is in the Līlāmṛta, had brought up to him, "Well, maybe we'll bring over some senior devotee from the Gauḍīya Maṭh to take your place."

Prabhupāda was quiet about it until later, and then, in a more parokṣavād, indirect way, he had indicated that that was not a sanguine idea.He mentioned at that time the famous mantra, which was, "If they say one word different, then it will cause confusion."
(excerpt from the talk)

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Tune Your Ears To The Sampradaya & Become A Chaste Listener | HG Vaisesika Dasa | 26 Apr 2025

Prabhupāda also says that one can be attentive when one has a sense of love for Kṛṣṇa, and following the process of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa requires some adjustment to one's lifestyle and also consciousness, in that we remember that "I'm helpless," as Kuntī says, "let go of any sense that you have a maintainer or protector, and just take shelter of Kṛṣṇa, then your chanting will be effective." 'Janmaiśvarya-śruta-śrībhir edhamāna-madaḥ pumān naivārhaty abhidhātuṁ vai tvām akiñcana-gocaram (ŚB 1.8.26). 

So it's the one opportunity we have. Of course, every moment is an opportunity, but this is very deliberate to aim our consciousness like an arrow towards Kṛṣṇa, and we can be very focused by feeling ourselves helpless. And as Caitanya Mahāprabhu said: "tṛṇād api su-nīcena
taror iva sahiṣṇunā amāninā māna-dena kīrtanīyaḥ sadā hariḥ"
(Śikṣāṣṭakaṁ, Verse 3) being utterly dependent on Kṛṣṇa and realizing our own ineptitude.
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Aim Your Consciousness Towards Kṛṣṇa | HG Vaisesika Dasa | 26 Apr 2025

This uncontrolled mind is the greatest enemy of the living entity. If one neglects it or gives it a chance, it will grow more and more powerful and will become victorious. Although it is not factual, it is very strong. It covers the constitutional position of the soul. O King, please try to conquer this mind by the weapon of service to the lotus feet of the spiritual master and of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Do this with great care.

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Disobey Your Mind | Youth Jam | HG Vaisesika Dasa | 27 Apr 2025

Once, when we were in a spot where there was no light whatsoever, no moon and no cities nearby, I stepped out of the car, and the stars were so bright, I was almost knocked on my back. I had an existential moment thinking, "Oh, I'm in a universe I forgot. And look at all these planets that abound." There's a universal form of the Lord described in the Bhagavad-gītā and the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. But beyond that, there's the original beauty of the Supreme Personality of God Himself that's so captivating that He's known as Kṛṣṇa. It means He captivates everyone. There was a song written by George Harrison many years ago, "There's something in the way she moves." Actually it was originally "in the way He moves," but the producers thought, "Well, that won't fly." He was talking about Kṛṣṇa, "That attracts me like no other lover," and he was just singing a song. And there are myriad songs, not just from one who heard about Kṛṣṇa from someone else, but you go to the great ācāryas and poets, and they'll be saying—they'll—they'll want to write the choicest poetry. That's why Kṛṣṇa is called uttama-śloka. 

Everyone wants to write something to try to describe the limit of Kṛṣṇa's beauty, and they never get to that point of describing the limit, because it's unlimited. It's always becoming more beautiful and more captivating. And without this beauty, we're relegated to the reflection of beauty in the material world. Whatever natural scene we see, if you've ever noticed, it can't completely satisfy the heart. It doesn't reciprocate. There's a verisimilitude. It's the reflection of reality, and therefore we're attracted to it, and it's breathtaking for a moment, but you can't keep it within you. You can't—it doesn't reciprocate with you. But Kṛṣṇa is beauty, because His beauty, His opulence is non-different from Himself. By seeing Kṛṣṇa, the ultimate object for the for meditation—dheyam sadā—one can continuously, says the Bhāgavatam, look at Kṛṣṇa's beauty, and you'll never get tired of it. Other scenes you make you might get used to. If you've seen the ocean enough times, then you think, "Oh, I'm going to go somewhere else." Seeing enough sunsets, you forget about it, like, "Oh, that's suns to get in my eyes. Close the curtains. Let's watch TV." The Bhāgavatam says that everyone's looking for that beauty everywhere. There's never a time we're satisfied by it, until we see Kṛṣṇa, who's the source of all beauty. And this is what's available through bhakti-yoga—is the beautiful form of Kṛṣṇa and the descriptions of His beauty. And Rūpa Gosvāmī said, "This is the second element by which one doesn't even care about—" one who has seen the beauty of Kṛṣṇa and is pursuing the beauty of Kṛṣṇa no longer cares about liberation. They're only addicted to that. "I just want to see the beauty of Kṛṣṇa."
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Three Things The Material World Lacks | HG Vaisesika Dasa | 27 Apr 2025

Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! he
Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! he
Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! rakṣa mām
Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! pāhi mām

That is, “O Lord Kṛṣṇa, please protect Me and maintain Me.” He also chanted:

Rāma! Rāghava! Rāma! Rāghava! Rāma! Rāghava! rakṣa mām
Kṛṣṇa! Keśava! Kṛṣṇa! Keśava! Kṛṣṇa! Keśava! pāhi mām

That is, “O Lord Rāma, descendant of King Raghu, please protect Me. O Kṛṣṇa, O Keśava, killer of the Keśī demon, please maintain Me.”

https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/madhya/7/96/

Chanting this verse, Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, known as Gaurahari, went on His way. As soon as He saw someone, He would request him to chant “Hari! Hari!” (CC Madhya 7.97)

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Krishna Krishna Krishna He | HG Vaisesiak Dasa | 27 Apr 2025

I find that when something looks too hard, then it's easy to get discouraged. If you put the bar low enough, and someone says, "So anybody could do that," that's a good place for it, which is what Lord Caitanya is doing there. So oftentimes, devotees become intimidated because they think, "It's too hard," or "It's too much," but there are many encouraging statements like that in the śāstra. Can you hand me a Bhagavad-gītā? Is there one available right there? If you can't get a Bhagavad-gītā in a Hare Krishna temple, I don't know.

So, at 3.31, this is one of my favorite encouraging purports, and it has to do with doing what you can with what you have now, because there's another phenomenon, which is, "Because I can't do everything, I won't do anything." And in this verse, Krishna says, "One who executes his duties according to My injunctions and who follows this teaching faithfully, without envy, becomes free from the bondage of the fruit of actions." And Prabhupāda writes the following in his purport: "The injunction of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, is the essence of all Vedic wisdom, and therefore is eternally true without exception. As the Vedas are eternal, so this truth of Kṛṣṇa consciousness is also eternal. One should have firm faith in this injunction without envying the Lord. There are many philosophers who write comments on the Bhagavad-gītā but have no faith in Kṛṣṇa. They will never be liberated from the bondage of the fruit of action, but an ordinary man with firm faith in the eternal injunctions of the Lord, even though unable to execute such orders, becomes liberated from the bondage of the law of karma. In the beginning of Kṛṣṇa consciousness, one may not fully discharge the injunctions of the Lord, but because one is not resentful of this principle and works sincerely, without consideration of defeat and hopelessness, he will surely be promoted to the stage of pure Kṛṣṇa consciousness." Do you find that encouraging?
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Be Sincere and Keep Going | HG Vaisesika Dasa | Sacramento | 29 Apr 2025

A class on Srimad Bhagavatam 6.1.44 given by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada on December 26, 1970 in Surat, India.

Srimad Bhagavatam 6.1.44

sambhavanti hi bhadrāṇi
 viparītāni cānaghāḥ
kāriṇāṁ guṇa-saṅgo ’sti
 dehavān na hy akarma-kṛt

O inhabitants of Vaikuṇṭha, you are sinless, but those within this material world are all karmīs, whether acting piously or impiously. Both kinds of action are possible for them because they are contaminated by the three modes of nature and must act accordingly. One who has accepted a material body cannot be inactive, and sinful action is inevitable for one acting under the modes of material nature. Therefore all the living entities within this material world are punishable.

1970 Original Audio

Srimad Bhagavatam 6.1.44 - December 26, 1970 - Surat

His Divine Grace, A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977) is widely regarded as the worlds pre-eminent exponent of the teachings and practices of bhakti-yoga to the Western world. He is the Founder-Acharya (spiritual master) of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a world-wide movement dedicated to the philosophy and practice of Krishna Consciousness.

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Srimad Bhagavatam 6.1.44 - December 26, 1970 - Surat

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