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Swami BAP | 091 | Ritvik guru

Thakura Bhaktivinoda is acknowledged by all his sincere followers as possessing the powers of the pure devotee of Godhead. His words have to be received from the lips of a pure devotee. If his words are listened from the lips of a non-devotee they will certainly deceive. If his works are studied in the light of one's own worldly experience their meaning will refuse to disclose itself to such readers. His works belong to the class of the eternal revealed literature of the world and must be a ...

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Do we belong to the relative or to the absolute? If we would belong to the relative and it is natural to die then why we do not want this? It is natural that we need food so nobody is upset by the fact that he needs to take food. It is natural that we have to go to the bathroom, it is not such a pleasant thing but still we all submit to the process. But when it comes to death we are really upset about it and we do so many things in this world to try to avoid it. Death is a relative thing an ...

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There is a story in the Mahabharata about the Kauravas who sent the Pandavas into the forest to be in exile. And these Kauravas they thought: "Let us make the Pandavas envious by having a big party right next to were they are exiled, we are going to have a big feast and we are going to sing and dance and these guys (the Pandavas) cannot come out because they are in exile, let's really torture them in this way." So they (the Kauravas) were in the middle of their partying when suddenly the Ga ...

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There is no possibility of doing Krishna bhakti without Guru bhakti. You cannot engage in Krishna bhakti without honoring the Guru, without honoring the Vaishnavas. In Sri Bhakti Rasamrita sindhu by Srila Rupa Goswami Prabhupada there is a discussion about the angas of bhakti. Anga means limb, like my arms or my legs and angi means the body. So the angi has angas. Rupa Goswami gives the angas of Krishna bhakti, 64 limbs of bhakti to Krishna. In listing those angas of Krishna bhakti what is ...

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There is a law in physics which says that every action has a corresponding reaction. People learn about it in school but they do not learn how to apply this law in real life. They think that this is a law for the mechanical department, or maybe it is a law for the chemical department, but they do not think that this is a law for the life department. You are functioning under this law. Every one of your actions will bring about a corresponding reaction, no exception to the rule. Everybody te ...

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Srila B.B. Bodhayan Maharaja recently said that: "A community of Vaishnavas which is somewhat maintained but where nobody accepts anybody specifically, it is just a factory of laziness and chaos." These are a bit strong words but you see that in Vedic culture there is quite an autocratic system present which obviously only functions under the principles of love, trust and justice. We hear from the Ramayana that any complain any citizen had, specifically a brahmin, he could go right away to ...

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One of my godbrothers went to the beach in Jagannath Puri, he was a hippie. As he walked he saw something shining on the beach. He went down and looked and there was a little Krishna deity. So he picked Him up and immediately he was attracted to the Deity and without having any other introduction or knowledge about it he carried the Deity to his home and started to offer food to Him. Very shortly after that he went to Hyderabad and met the devotees on the street and they invited him to meet ...

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Krishna is vanquished by exclusive devotion. This sentence alone should drive us mad, should let us fall on the ground and cry and cry and cry, if our hearts would be soft enough. God the Creator, vanquished by pure devotion. As a matter of fact He is addicted to pure devotion, He wants it. As a matter of fact He has given you your loving capacity so that you can reach to real devotion. Exclusive devotion is the goal of our life. Exclusive devotion means exclusive love to Krishna in every m ...

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How important are we? That is actually only answerable in connection with the cause of our existence. The cause supposedly is an indicator to the purpose, and when the purpose is fulfilled and the cause is thus satisfied we can thus define what was the value. How important are we, if we could not talk about this subject we would not know if we are important at all. If we want to be important without knowing the reason why we exist or why we are important then that would bring about a state ...

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Humanity is in great need for some new revival of spiritual, mystical, non-sectarian consciousness which puts love first and doctrine second. Because if love is first then doctrine will be helpful to realize more love, but if doctrine is first it usually becomes dogma and dogma is often being executed without love which results in loss of faith.

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Money is a certain energy and it has the tendency of growing, it becomes more and more and more. There is a famous saying which says that the rich become richer and the poor poorer. Why the rich become richer? Because they use their riches to create circumstances in which the poor people cannot rise. This is called eliminating competition.

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Sit in a comfortable position, either in a yoga posture or in a chair which is not too soft. Try to keep your column in a position as straight as you can do comfortably. Now mentally thank all those who have helped you along your way, both physically as well as spiritually. To remove from your consciousness all the guilt ask mentally to be forgiven from all those whom you have caused pain and sadness either knowingly or unknowingly.

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Only dearest confidants are entitled to enter into the night-pastimes of Radha-Krishna. Sakhis always try for the union of Radha-Krishna. Actually Radha-Krishna are very much eager for mutual union at night. When Radha-Krishna's union is manifest, Vrinda devi with dearest Sakhis worship Radha-Krishna in various ways. After that Radha-Krishna with those Sakhis move in the forest, sing songs and perform the rasa-lila with dancing. Our revered guru-varga used to caution us by saying that only ...

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The internal symptom of devotion is a stage of perfection. On that stage one worships Krishna in the mood of separation (vipralamabha). The Siksastakam describes this mood as follows:"My dear Lord Govinda, because of separation from you, I consider even a moment a great millennium, tears flow from my eyes like torrents of rains and I see the entire world as void. In my agitation a day never ends, for every moment seems like a millennium. Pouring incessant tears, my eyes are like clouds in t ...

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O Supreme Lord Sri Krishna! When by uttering your Holy Name, my eyes will be adorned with sacred glamour of the rolling down of tears, while uttering, my voice will be choked, the whole body will be saturated with thrilling sensation?

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Srila Prabhupada is the saviour of our soul. Of course he would give all the credit to Lord Chaitanya and Lord Nityananda, but I knew that through him so he is my saviour. Srila Prabhupada was not only a saviour in the world of individual meditation processes and speaking about transcendence, he was also that utmost revolutionary of giving a spiritual guidelines andclarity to the whole world on how they should behave, how they can solve their problems, socially, politically, economically, e ...

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Even though attachment is the root cause of material downfall and pain, if that attachment is transfered to a sadhu and Krishna then that very attachment will automatically open the door to liberation. Have you ever seen an automatic door? You can see them in the Airports in Europe. You approach the door and by electronic sensor the door opens, knowing that somebody is coming. In a similar way your hearts feelings are scanned by a spiritual sensor and the obstruction from leaving this mater ...

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Devotion and willpower have very much in common. If you have devotion you get the willpower to do something. Usually when people are personally ambitious they have the highest performance. The willpower to do service, the willpower not to fight with others, the willpower to fulfill my duty, the willpower to expand Krishna-consciousness, this willpower is what Krishna wants to see and then He will give you His blessings and the chance to do more things for Him. The willpower here is devotion ...

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The colors in this world are mixed by 3 prime colors: blue, red and yellow. They create all the other colors which exist. White and black are also included there in a mysterious fashion. The colors are really an array, just like the rainbow, of showing the variety which exists in the development of characters.

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The identity therapy is taking you to become more aware of your limitations in this world and it will show you how to go further. It will help you to understand that there is no underlying chaos in this creation, everything is orderly organized. Therefore our life also has to be orderly organized in order to get to some beautiful conclusion.

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