Thank You Bhaia for touching such important aspect of our sweet Attractor. I also can't believe that Source of Love and beauty can behave like neurotic psychopath. I understand that we exist because for Krishna loving us is source of pleasure.

The Braja Breeze of Bliss (SB 10.21.1 Part 3) | Venu Gīta - Day 4 | ISKCON Atlanta | Amarendra Dāsa

Morning class on Janmastami, in Alachua Florida USA, 19 August 2022.

Sri Krsna's personal splendor richly pervades the entire Creation.  To realize this gives peace and autonomy beyond the dualism of material experience.

Discussing the 'back story' behind the birth/appearance of Sri Krsna from Yashoda and Devaki Mothers.

Also a brief discussion of His Sandhini/Samvit/Hladini potenices and some comments on Sri Rupa's prayer "Krsna-Lilamrtakhya Nama Dasakam", from Stavamala.

SRI KRSNA-JANMASTAMI 2022

Charla de 9 Enero 2023 con amigos de Colombia.

Foto:  Cascada Topacio en la noche

4 Principios de la Libertad / Naturaleza Humana / Dharma Esencial

15 January 2023 - Celebrating the descent of Ganga devi, and the human duty to serve the link between Heaven & Earth by our sacrifices

Om Gangayai Namah (Makara-Sankranti)

2023.09.04 - Гита-нагари. Что заставляет Нерожденного рождаться. Лекция 1

Some reflections on the process of overcoming a fear of God that is not congruent with full trust and full Mercy; filtering out an image of God as dictator that does not serve our full surrender.

Here I am referring to a certain kind of warning statement about seva-aparadha such as mentioned in books like the Hari-bhakti-vilasa, but my point is not actually to make a critique of that book.  Rather I am using this example to (begin to) treat a deeper and broader issue of religious fear.

For your reference, this is mentioned in a related purport of C.C. Antya-lila 12.37 by Srila Swami Prabhupad:

One is forbidden to enter the Deity room or offer anything to the Deity while wearing a shirt or coat. In the tantras it is said:

vastreṇāvṛta-dehas tu
yo naraḥ praṇamed dharim
śvitrī bhavati mūḍhātmā
sapta janmāni bhāvini

”Anyone who offers respects and obeisances to the Deity while wearing garments on the upper portion of his body is condemned to be a leper for seven births.”

Beyond the Fear of God

2004 Kartik

Aindra Prabhu - Kartik Farewell 3 - 12.08.2004

2005 Kartik

Aindra Prabhu - Bahulastami at Radha Kund Pt.2 - 10.24.2005

A class at the Harmony Collective in Ypsilanti, Michigan on the most blessed occasion of Sri Varaha-dvadasi - the divine celebration of Lord Boar.  20 February 2024

Mysteries of The Boar God

Kirtan Premi 17.1.19 24hr Vrindavan Kirtan Mandali

2 - Power of Hearing and Association

My Gurudev, Srila Bhaktivedanta Narayan Gosvami Maharaj, said the greatest expression of love and affection in the world is the giving and receiving of hari-katha (narrations of the glory of God).  But he would also tell us that  recording it or listening to recordings will cheat us of the real thing.  We cant make a personal relationship with that living, transcendental sound vibration through a mechanical device.  To imbibe the sacred wisdom and devotional sentiments which a sadhu pours out from the inner dimension of his pure heart by speaking katha, it is necessary to sit at his lotus feet.  

Moreover, we will have to sit there having offered our ears and mind and heart and life to that saintly person.  There must be a bridge of affection between us.  Then we can 'overlap' with him and his inner things will transfer to us when we listen like that, with so much faith and trust.  That is the essence of association.  "O Gurudeva, i am actually mad, insane, bewildered and powerless to sort myself out.  I lay my scrambled mind and self before you.  May your words, your pure conceptions and moods mold me and make me like you.  And O Hari-katha Prabhu, i know You are Sri Hari Himself, descending in the form of sound just to deliver me.  Please, i am opening the sanctum of my heart with these open ears and begging You to please come sit on the altar here; conquer me and control me in every way, Prabhu.  I am Yours."  

This is the secret science of proper and progressive hearing.  Bow down, give honor, and try to somehow serve  the Hari-katha Himself, the speaker of the katha, the listeners of katha, the place of katha, and the organizers who made it possible for katha and us to be together.  Without 'meeting' that sadhu and katha by deep honor and affection and submission we will only catch the material sound and the shadow of the meaning.  

How can you make a reciprocal exchange of love and honor with a computerized sound file?  The recorded sadhu cannot bathe you with his compassionate glance, and the recorded sound wave isn't comprised of the same trans-auditory nectar which flows from his lips.  Spiritual realization and mood come by personal association.  From recordings we can only get some knowledge.  

Since i am not a saint, hearing from me directly or recorded is about the same.   No question of spiritual realization or moods, this is nuts and bolts stuff - knowledge.  And knowledge has its positive utility too - so long as it is backed by eagerness to know, love and please God.  If not, then even so-called spiritual knowledge will just make us proud and derail us from the path to real happiness.  I present this information here online in hope that even one honest aspirant for true love will be somehow a little bit supported.  Out of the hundreds of millions of people atrophying in cyber-passivity, maybe some wandering pilgrim who still has a shred of will to advance themself by the necessary honest interior labor will come here and be served by these recordings.  

With so much verbiage, finally i am kind of just always saying the same things:   Repair integrity.  Allow for dark grace. Pray for real.  Make affectionate association with transcendental persons your top priority. One Love.  Sri Radhe.

For my many mistakes and faults and pride, please forgive me.  If anything i say helps, that is to the credit of my holy masters only.  To make a donation, chant
 'Hare Krishna'. 

~Sri Gadadhar-Amavasya~
28 April 2014

Beyond the Fear of God

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