I don’t know if this is correct but I always thought of Gajendra as example of krpa-siddha, because he wasn’t even in a human form when the Lord freed him from his predicament, although of course he had been a devotee previously, but in his elephant life he wasn’t looking for perfection, but in a moment of distress he called out to the Lord and He immediately came

Hare Krishna,

Yummy 😋

Jai Gurudev

Jai

Jai Srila Prabhupada

Amazing! Smart man

Certainly things can’t function properly without 4 regs and 16 rounds, however, I know of rtvikvadis who do all those things, and mangal arati and krsna-prasada, and distribute Prabhupada’s books and still, they are basically a type of apa-sampradaya. How can that be? The only way I could understand this is they are chanting with offenses. It’s quite amazing how things can go wrong even when it seems to be right.

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Talking about offenses, recently I was hearing to one of Bhakti Vikāsa Maharaj’s talks on the topic and he mentioned the incident in which Rupa Goswami laughed and a physically disabled devotee thought he was laughing at him and felt offended. Although Rupa Goswami wasn’t actually deriding him, the fact that the devotee took offense affected Rupa’s hability to see the Lord’s pastimes, but certainly wasn’t a bad enough effect that Rupa would completely fall from his position. So based on this I would think the repercussions of offenses can vary, depending on wether or not it was done with bad intention, knowing or unknowingly and also the level of the devotee. For example, insulting a topmost devotee would be worse than insulting a neophyte, but if one thinks he can offend devotees because “they are just neophytes”, that is a very bad attitude in itself that could bring more devastation to his devotional service. Prabhupada also often mentions that a neophyte can fall from his position but a madhyama adhikari cannot fall from his position and that for an uttama there is no question of falling, but one would also expect that more advanced devotees would have proper attitude and not commit deliberate offenses. It seems as well that one could have their devotional service gravely impaired although superficially they continue to carry on the same activities as before, however it could be noticed that it’s like they are deeply covered by a thick wall of ignorance, due to which they cannot properly understand spiritual science and appears to be impossible to change their minds, for example Jiva Goswami calls them acikitsya (incorrigible), which is probably one of the worse things that could happen to someone, they may still worship Deity and do so many things, but their situation is actually very bad. Why would Krishna allow them to continue to be involved in something related to Bhakti? I guess they are still playing some part in the bigger picture, for example, maintaining the Lord’s temple in a context where no one else is available to do so. The story of Pariksit Maharaj also comes to mind, of how taking offenses or consider there have been offenses where actually there weren’t, or not very serious ones, could make things worse than they originally were.

Hare Krishna, dandavat pranams. The sound in the recent lectures is buzzing (when speaker speaks). Can you fix it somehow? Maybe you have new mic or bad mic settings?

I don’t remember where I saw this, but I think the renounced orders also would depend on varna, for example, sannyasa is for brahamanas, other orders would take only vanaprastha, except maybe for sudras, I’m not sure. It seems not all ashrams are adequate for all varnas, even brahmacaria would not be for all the varnas.

Hare Krishna 🙏. I will pray to Krishna that it gets completed on time. Beautiful plan, keep chanting 📿 the holy name, Hare Krishna 🙏.

Hare Krishna

Nectar class prabhu. Dandavats pranam

This Tamil walla should allow others to talk. That would qualify him as a leader.

Hilarious

Rsi kumara ur my hero

I appreciate the class. One thing I feel should be added to the answer to the question about why the girls were married so early is that by the descriptions in Bhagavatam we can understand that Rukmini and Krishna‘s other consorts like the gopis were fully developed physically. They were not mentally or physically children, but adults. Children today take more time to develop.

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In Vedic culture, specially for the higher classes, people didn’t marry because “they fell in love”. In many cases husband and wife had not even seen each other before the day they married. And for the girl specially it’s important that it happens before puberty because when she does develop attraction to someone, that it will be to the person she is already married to. Maharaj stresses this point a lot in Mothers and masters, that people who fall in love also fall out of love and Vedic marriage is not even based on mutual liking, what to speak of “attraction”.

Jaya!!! Can't wait to visit! HH Bhakti Vikas Maharaja ki jayy! Srila Prabhupada ki jaya!

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H.G. Mahotsaha das Prabhu ji ki jaya🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤

Shat Shat Pranam Guru Maharaj 🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉🎉❤🎉🎉❤❤

Hare Krishna

Harinaam sankirtan yajna ki jaya🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤❤❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤

Hare krishana

Hare krishana

Very nice 😅

Sorry, but IsKcon Mumbai has been giving Free Meals, Free Bed-rooms, Free Gifts from foreign friends to many people who can afford to pay.Example Mr.Siddharth.Hosangadi+Shoba.Hosangadi+Bhaskar.Hosangadi.Complaint by a devotee witness....

They look happy and it is not material happiness!

The mic is not working Can't hear the other devotee speaking

Please adjust the sound Very garbling and crash for such a beautiful bajan

Bol Bol!!!!! Haribol!!!!

Jaya! Books are the basis!!! The basis of ISKCON, that of our spiritual journey and also the spiritual journey of all the spirit souls!

Haribol!🙏

Thanks a lot Prabhu for your motivation.. My spirit to serve our beloved spiritual master is back. Thanks a lot for inspiring us and motivating us with your enthusiasm to serve Prabhupada. Srila Prabhupada ki Jay😃🙌🏻

I can’t tell how proud I am to see that he is initiated now. Bhakta Nick is gone and here is Navini Hoda Prabhu! All blessings to him!!🙏🏼

What is the name of that van?

Fire of motivation for book distribution, thanks for sharing prabhu, Hare Krishna, dandwat pranam

❤Great analogy that scientists are trying to put something together from a kit that has missing pieces!

haribol

Thank you prabhuji for your encouragement for book distribution

Thankyou Prabhuji... Hare Krishna 🙏

Ah Hungary devotees... I was wondering why was of one them had her saree draped in the style of the showy modern deviated section of ISKCON. In the west, I've observed that only the mtjs at Krishna Life drape their sarees so modestly just as they did during Srila Prabhupada's time. In the future, whoever comes to learn Srimad-Bhagavatam distribution, make it mandatory that they first dress themselves as per Srimad-Bhagavatam. As it is said in the video, all your activities should centered upon and based on Srimad Bhagavatam.

Fantastic prabhuji foe your infectious enthusiasm! Thank you for your encouraging words 🙏 hare Krishna

Hare Krishna Prabhuji Dandavat Pranam

Get to do what needs to be done! Thank you Prabhu ❤

If you are doing great on your sankirtan, you don't have to use derogatory words like sissy to uplift yourself at the expense of others.. Yiou are dustributing books? Good. you are chanting 16 rounds. Good.. But you have to be careful using offensive words like sissy. You live with karmis and all kinds of devotees. You have exercise and show your kindness, not berate ot degrade others.