Episodes
Saturday Jul 02, 2022
Saturday Jul 02, 2022
Gaudiya Vaishnava is a religious movement within Vaishnavism, one of the main Hindu schools of thought. It is also known as Chaitanya Vaishnavism as this movement originated with Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who is an incarnation of Lord Sri Krishna. Worship of God in Gaudiya Vaishnavism is through Bhakti yoga or devotional service. The philosophy explains that the jiva (self or soul) is identical to God and at the same time different. This concept is called Achintya Bheda Abheda, or “inconceivable oneness and difference.” The human mind cannot understand this concept, but it can be experienced in Bhakti yoga.
Friday Jul 01, 2022
LORD RAM BANISHES SITA | निर्दोष थे राम | HG GAURMANDAL DAS | Q&A 03
Friday Jul 01, 2022
Friday Jul 01, 2022
Ramayana is the pride of every Indian, the history which happened ages ago (Ramayana) is still as popular and as new as ever, and Shri Ram and Mother Sita are the life and soul of an Indian. Whenever it comes to an ideal government, the most appropriate example is Rama-Rajya. Although Lord Rama was an ideal King, Lord Ram left Sita. Why? In Bhagavad Puran (9.10.54) it is said: eka-patnī-vrata-dharo rājarṣi-caritaḥ śuciḥ sva-dharmaṁ gṛha-medhīyaṁ śikṣayan svayam ācarat Lord Rāmacandra took a vow to accept only one wife and have no connection with any other women. He was a saintly king, and everything in His character was good, untinged by qualities like anger. He taught good behavior for everyone, especially for householders, in terms of varṇāśrama-dharma. Thus He taught the general public by His personal activities. Everywhere Rama is glorified. Furthermore, it is said that during Rama’s reign the forests, the rivers, the hills and mountains, the states, the seven islands, and the seven seas were all favorable in supplying the necessities of life for all living beings. But how could such a magnanimous soul, Lord Rama exile Sita?
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
REAL FORM OF KRISHNA | HG GAURMANDAL DAS | Q&A 02
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Thursday Jun 30, 2022
Krishna's complexion is as polished as a powdered eye ointment. It surpasses the beauty of a newly formed cloud and is softer than a blue lotus flower. Indeed, His complexion is so pleasing that it attracts the eyes and minds of everyone, and it is so powerful that it defies all comparison. [CC.AN.64] The luster of Kṛṣṇa’s body is more brilliant than that of a newly formed cloud, and His yellow dress is more attractive than newly arrived lightning. A peacock feather decorates His head, and on His neck hangs a lovely necklace of brilliant pearls. As He holds His charming flute to His lips, His face looks as beautiful as the full autumn moon. By such beauty, Madana-Mohana, the enchanter of Cupid, is increasing the desire of My eyes to see Him. [CC.AN.63]
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT I YOU EAT LUST | HG GAURMANDAL DAS | Q&A 01
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Srila Prabhupada says "As far as controlling "Kam" or lust, the best thing is don't eat any highly spiced foodstuffs and always." According to Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita, lust results from a mode of passion, and he describes what causes us to develop a mode of passion and its symptoms. Krishna then describes what type of food one eats when one associates with passion, which is spicy, hot, causes burning to the heart, and leads to misery. The types of food vary according to the mode they belong to, such as Satvik, Rajasik, and Tamasik. Rajasik food will intensify our mode of passion, resulting in lust. "You are what you eat." Your body is purified or impurified according to the foodstuffs you eat. we have enough food, grains, milk, butter, and fruits to consume which is stavik in nature and will help us to conquer lust. Eating meat is not at all recommended because it is not sanctified. You become holy and healthy in mind and body if you offer Krsna satvik food and then honor it. Then you can understand Kṛṣṇa consciousness. You can make progress in that way. If your body is not sanctified, if it is impure, how can you understand the pure consciousness or Kṛṣṇa consciousness?
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
THE FIRST CREATED BEING (SB 7.9.35-36) | SREESHA GOVIND DAS
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Wednesday Jun 29, 2022
Who was the first created being? Modern understanding is that our predecessors were less intelligent and uncultured. They were not having any scientific understanding of the world like we have today. Quite averse to this Vedas states "The first created living being is endowed with perfect knowledge and intelligence by the Lord."Let us understand:Who is this first created Being?How he takes birth?Were our predecessors less intelligent?
Saturday Jun 25, 2022
REAL RENUNCIATION (SB 7.9.34-35) | HG SREESHA GOVIND DAS
Saturday Jun 25, 2022
Saturday Jun 25, 2022
When we talk about Bhagavad Gita, we often hear this word "Renunciation". General understanding of Renunciation is to give up one's property, wealth, belongings etc. That is why many people shun away from Bhagavad Gita considering they have to leave everything in order to understand Gita. Srila Rūpa Gosvāmī one of the foremost Vaishnava Acharya talks about the real understanding of renunciation. One need not to give up his property, wealth, belongings etc. but he should give up only ONE THING.Lets us understand:What is Real Renunciation?What is that "One Thing" one should renounce?Do I need to leave everything in order to understand Bhagavad Gita?
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
THE MYSTIC SLUMBER (SB 7.9.31) | HG SREESHA GOVIND DAS
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Wednesday Jun 22, 2022
Śrīla Madhvācārya states that the Lord is turya-sthitaḥ, always situated in transcendence. He is not at all effected by the modes of nature. Even if He sleeps He is not in ignorance. He is situated in different dimensions. Just by His exhaling millions of universes are getting produced. He manages this creation with three kinds of Vishnus.Let us understand:1. How does Lord Sleep?2. How these 3 kinds of Lord Vishnus work?3. Our connection with different Vishnus forms.
Saturday Jun 18, 2022
CAUSE & EFFECT (SB 7.9.31 ) | HG SREESHA GOVIN DAS
Saturday Jun 18, 2022
Saturday Jun 18, 2022
Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, one of the great Vaisnava Acharya has sung __keśava tuyā jagata vicitra__: "My dear Lord, Your creation is full of varieties." The varieties are one and at the same time different. Indeed it is not easy to understand how this material world is working?This world is full of causes and effects. The effect of a particular cause itself is a cause for some other effect. The Supreme Lord exists in everything as the cause and effect, yet He is separate, existing beyond this cosmic manifestation.Let us understand How to perceive Lord in this series of Causes and Effects.
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
TRANSCENDENTAL MORALITY (SB 7.9.29) | HG SREESHA GOVIND DAS
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
Wednesday Jun 15, 2022
"Being Moral" is considered as a very nice quality from the social point of view. But if a person does not understand the real purpose of morality he will be considered a "Mundane Moralist". If one simply sticks to moral principles, ethics and morals, then he will be entrapped by the prideness that "Oh, I am very moral. I do not speak lies. I do not steal. There are many examples where a devotee has transcended the so-called "Mundane Morality" in order to serve the Lord. Let us understand:How Krishna Consciousness is beyond Mundane Morality?Who are the devotees who have proved this?Can we also follow them?
Saturday Jun 11, 2022
WHO CAN UNDERSTAND GITA (SB 7.9.28 ) | HG SREESHA GOVIND DAS
Saturday Jun 11, 2022
Saturday Jun 11, 2022
The Bhagavad-gita can be consulted in all critical times, not only for solace from all kinds of mental agonies, but also for the way out of great entanglements which may embarrass one in some critical hour. If one properly follows the instructions of Bhagavad-gita, one can be freed from all miseries and anxieties in this life, and one's next life will be spiritual.Let's discuss- How to understand Bhagavad Gita?- Who can understand Gita?- What are the qualification required?
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
PERFECTION OF DESIRE (SB 7.9.27) | HG SREESHA GOVIND DAS
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
Wednesday Jun 08, 2022
To Desire is one of the essential characteristic of a living entity. This ability to desire can be a boon or a curse. Since people don't know how to use this ability to desire they end up making their lives miserable. Some people out of frustration propose to become "desireless" or to "banish all desires altogether" but both are impossible.As long as one continues to try to artificially stop the waves of desires, he will certainly be defeated.Let us understandHow to deal with desires ?What is the perfection of desires ?How to become "DESIRELESS" ?
Saturday Jun 04, 2022
Saturday Jun 04, 2022
What Is the Point of Spirituality? The rational intellect can’t make a person a better human being on this earth. It may be good for gaining material wealth but the qualities like unconditional love, self-honesty, joy, humility, and modesty in a human being are achieved only through spirituality. If you want to understand yourself better then spiritual lessons are the best way to achieve it. Once you attain spirituality, then you are able to achieve any goal of your life with maximum ease. The spiritual lectures assist and guide you in your daily life. Spiritual growth or awareness helps you to Discover Your Permanent Happiness. The BIG Secret To Winning At Life - Explained For Teenagers You need to integrate spirituality into all the decisions of your life both private as well as business. It assists you in everything you do or don’t do. Spiritualism is not something like a leisure activity that you will apply on mornings or evenings or on holidays. You should integrate it completely into your life like clothing. When we move out of our home, we ensure that we are adequately dressed all day around. We don’t dress up only on some rare occasions in our life. We always wrap ourselves in some clothes. And nobody on this earth likes to walk naked around. Spirituality cannot be attained overnight. Once you connect yourself with this world you keep on achieving it from one day to the other. It needs a lot of training. But the question is where to attain it in the world. We come across thousands of WebPages and publications on the internet dealing with the spirituality topic. They tell us about how to become a better spiritual being on this earth. But there is a lot of difference between the practical training and the theoretical lessons. The Hare Krishna Movement Center of spiritualism trains a person on how to integrate and wear it as daily clothing. The quality, reliability, and truthfulness of the lectures of the Hare Krishna Movement reflect in the character of the devotees.
Saturday Jun 04, 2022
THE CAUSELESS MECRY (SB 7.9.26) |HG SREESHA GOVIND DAS
Saturday Jun 04, 2022
Saturday Jun 04, 2022
The living beings in different species of life are undergoing different terms of engagement according to their fruitive actions and reactions. But in the execution of different activities, one who secures some resources in bhakti-yoga can understand the importance of service to the Lord through the causeless mercy of the Lord, as well as that of the spiritual master.Let us understand in this session.
Friday Jun 03, 2022
Friday Jun 03, 2022
Worshipping deities in the temple, meditation and scholarship of Vedanta doesn't necessitate or ensure spiritual life. Rather at times they may even take a person far away from spirituality.
So what exactly is Spirituality?
Let us explore this and more in the 1st episode of QnA Live...
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
THE POST DATED CHEQUE (SB 7.9.25) | HG SREESHA GOVIND DAS
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
Wednesday Jun 01, 2022
As one cannot stop a blazing fire by constantly pouring ghee upon it, one cannot satisfy oneself by increasing plans for sense enjoyment want to be happy in the material world, but this will never be possible; we shall simply increase the blazing fire of desires. In order to become happy we have to follow the instructions of Lord Krishna. Otherwise in the name of happiness we will simply receive a promise of future happiness, a post dated cheque. Let us understand this
Saturday May 28, 2022
TEN OFFENES TO HOLY NAME (SPECIAL SESSION ) | HG SREESHA GOVIND DAS
Saturday May 28, 2022
Saturday May 28, 2022
Chanting of Hare Krishna Mahamantra is the most effective way of Self-Realization in this age of Kali but there are ten offences against the holy name that one should avoid while chanting. Every devotee of Sri Krishna must take note of these offences and carefully avoid them in order to make progress.Let us understand:What are the 10 Offences?How to avoid them?How to Chant effectively?Importance of Offence less Chanting.
Wednesday May 25, 2022
ACTIONS OF INTELLIGENT MAN (SB 7.9.23-24) | HG SREESHA GOVIND DAS
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Wednesday May 25, 2022
Intelligence refers to the power to analyze things in their proper perspective, and knowledge refers to understanding what is spirit and what is matter. Mind is the instrument for feeling different material experiences, but intelligence is deliberative and can change everything for the better. The intelligent person, therefore, can attain salvation from the illusion of material existence by proper use of intelligence. An intelligent person can detect the awkward position of material existence and thus begin to inquire as to what he is, why he is subjected to different kinds of miseries, and how to get rid of all miseries, and thus, by good association, an advanced intelligent person can turn towards the better life of self-realization.Let us understand some of the activities of Intelligent person.
Saturday May 21, 2022
THE WHEEL OF TIME (SB 7.9.22) | HG SREESHA GOVIND DAS
Saturday May 21, 2022
Saturday May 21, 2022
In this material world, We are being crushed by the wheel of time with sixteen spokes. At the same time, we are thinking that we are very happy. This is called māyā. This is māyā's grace, that in any condition of life, the suffering is very, very acute, but the living entity who is suffering, he thinks, "I am enjoying." This is called māyā. Illusory energy of the Lord keeps everyone always busy. A person works very very hard hoping against hope that he will be happy here some day.In order to become happy he indulges in sense gratification and 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘀𝗲 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗸𝗶𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘇𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.Let us understand how to save ourselves from the spoke of this wheel.
Wednesday May 18, 2022
DEITY WHO WAS A WITNESS-STORY OF SAKSHI GOPAL JI | HG SREESHA GOVIND DAS
Wednesday May 18, 2022
Wednesday May 18, 2022
We cannot see spirit, and God is the Supreme Spirit. Actually, He is everything—spirit and matter—but we cannot see Him in His spiritual identity. Therefore, to show kindness toward living entitles, He appears out of His unbounded mercy in the form of a wooden or stone Deity so that we can see Him."Atheists say Deity is simply a stone but they don't know that this so-called stone can talk, walk, laugh, exchange emotions and perform wonders. For a stone hearted person Deity will always remain like a stone but for a devotee Deity can walk out of the altar.Let us understand one such lila where a Deity walked for 100 days to save his devotee's promise.
Thursday May 12, 2022
TAKING INSPIRTAION FROM THE LORD (SB 7.9.20) | HG SREESHA GOVIND DAS
Thursday May 12, 2022
Thursday May 12, 2022
The Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul within the core of everyone's heart, gives inspirations for action according to one's mentality. All of these mentalities are merely facilities given by Krishna to the person acting. Bhagavad-gitā therefore says, mattaḥ smṛtir jñānam apohanaṁ ca: [Bg. 15.15] everyone works according to the inspiration given by the Supersoul. Because everyone has a different goal of life, everyone acts differently, as guided by the Supreme Personality of Godhead.Let us understand how to take inspiration from the Lord inside the heart.
DEDICATED TO
Srila Prabhupada
(Founder-Acharya of the Worldwide Hare Krishna Movement)
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada came to New York in 1965 and in twelve short years made the chanting of 'Hare Krishna' known throughout the world. He started a spiritual revolution wherein devotion, simplicity and compassion became the direction for living. Coming from a lineage of self-realised teachers, Srila Prabhupada gave a fearless exposition of devotional wisdom which had been kept locked within India for centuries.