Kirtan Premi 05.08.22 Sunday Night @NRR

Sri Vallabha Prabhu - Janmashtami - 2022

He was seeing these two devas, they were so arrogant, they were so disrespectful. They were destroying their own possibilities. Narada Muni felt especially compassionate toward them. And he told them, “Because you are so much infatuated by all your powers and wealth, and beauty, and you think yourself better than everyone.” The quality of the great soul is amāninā māna-dena. that we shouldn't care about being res… being respected ourselves, but we should find the greatest joy in giving respect to others. We could evaluate how much we are progressing by just applying that principle to our own way of thinking in life, our values. He said, “You are standing before a great sage naked like a tree, I bless you to become trees.”

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Deliverance of Nalakuvera and Manigriva

Srimad Bhagavatam Class (SB 5.5.15) by HH Radhanath Swami at ISKCON Gita Nagari on 06May2023

Anger could be used in God’s service too.  Hanuman was very angry, but his anger was to help people.  Sometimes a mother is angry with the child, “Don’t do this or I will punish you!” Now if anger is an outburst of uncontrolled emotion due to frustration that is very karmically entangling.  But if anger is a tool to actually do things in a very effective way, then it is an asset in our life.

Fighting Anger with Spiritual Strength

But we think nothing is happening and we go on making offenses and we go on committing sinful acts, but then ultimately that tidal wave is going reach the shore of the present moment and cause spiritual devastation. Like the mad elephant, in all the efforts we made to create our spiritual assets on the shore of life are just washed away, devastated by the tidal wave of our own reactions. So, there was a great lesson both collectively and individually that we must be very careful to take very, very seriously.

Vaishnava Apradh Is Like Tidal Waves, Be Very Careful

Prabhupada explains that Ratha Yatra is the emotional act of devotional service, where the gopis within the heart of their hearts, they were bringing, Krishna, Balaram and Subhadra back to Vrindavan. And that is the journey of Lord Jagannath, from the Puri temple to Gundicha. Gundicha is non-different than Vrindavan. And this was the emotional state of how Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu celebrated Ratha Yatra. So, Jagannath is so intoxicated with Balaram, because they are about to return to Vrindavan. They are put on their chariots.

Ratha Yatra Is the Representation of The Lord Returning to Vrindavan

Complete Spiritual Voice_www.BigGyan.org

Lalasamayi Prarthana

Complete lectures given by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada on Canto 1, Srimad Bhagavatam.

Anyone Can Become Devotee - Srimad Bhagavatam 1.7.51-52

Living Name

R11 How to chant with the intention to serve

Thakura- Ei Baro Karuna Koro 08.26.19 @NRR

Radhanath Swami is a Vaishnava sanyassi (a monk in a Krishna-bhakti lineage) and teacher of the devotional path of Bhakti-yoga. He is author of The Journey Home, a memoir of his search for spiritual truth. His teachings draw from the sacred texts of India such as The Bhagavad-gita, Srimad Bhagavatam, and Ramayana, and aim to reveal the practical application of the sacred traditions, while focusing on the shared essence which unites apparently disparate religious or spiritual paths.
Born Richard Slavin, on December 7, 1950, in his teens he came to confront a deep sense of alienation from suburban Chicago life and the civil injustices of mid-century America. At the age of nineteen, while on a summer trip to Europe, his internal struggles culminated in a commitment to search for God wherever it might lead him. Meditating on the Isle of Crete, he felt a supernatural calling and the next morning set off alone to find spiritual India. The Journey Home documents his odyssey as a penniless hitch-hiker though Greece, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan and finally India. There he lived as a wandering ascetic, first amongst the forest dwelling Himalayan yogis and later amongst a wide variety of gurus and spiritual practitioners throughout India and Nepal. Ultimately, he was led to the holy town of Vrindavan, where he found his path amongst the Bhakti-yogis.
In Vrindavan he found the teacher he was searching for in A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977) the founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), and representative of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, (the Krishna-bhakti tradition stemming from the 16th century mystic avatar Sri Chaitanya). In choosing Bhaktivedanta Swami, as his guru, Radhanath Swami felt compelled to shear his matted locks and reenter Western society with a mission to share the sacred wisdom he had received. This return exemplifies the form of devotional yoga which is at the heart of Radhanath Swami’s teachings, a spiritual practice expressed as tangible action meant to bring about personal fulfillment and benefit the world.
At the the age of 31 he took the monastic vows of a Vaishnava sanyassin and became known as Radhanath Swami.
Today Radhanath Swami travels regularly throughout India, Europe and North America, sharing the teachings of Bhakti-yoga. He resides much of the year at the Radha Gopinath Ashram in Chowpatty, Mumbai. For the past twenty-five years he has guided the community’s development and has directed a number of acclaimed social action projects including Midday Meals, which daily serves more than 260,000 plates of sanctified vegetarian food to the children of the slums of Mumbai. He has also worked to establish missionary hospitals and eye camps, eco-friendly farms, schools and ashrams, an orphanage, and a number of emergency relief programs throughout India.


Fighting Anger with Spiritual Strength

Radhanath Swami

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