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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Ritvik guru - Not in line with our acaryas
by Swami B.A. Paramadvaiti | 15.1 MB | Posted on April 15, 2008 | Recorded in Vrindavan/India on March 19, 2008 | Entry #091 |
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 approached for their right understanding through their exposition by the pure devotee. If no help from the pure devotee is sought, the works of Thakura Bhaktivinoda will be grossly misunderstood by their readers. The attentive reader of those works will find that he is always directed to throw himself upon the mercy of the pure devotee if he is not to remain unwarrantably self-satisfied by the deluding results of his wrong method of study.
Guru bhakti, Krishna bhakti - Guest speaker: Swami B.V. Tripurari
by Swami B.A. Paramadvaiti | 15.3 MB | Posted on March 16, 2008 | Recorded in Vrindavan/India on October 28, 2007 | Entry #090 |
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 the first thing that he says? What is the first anga of Krishna bhakti? He says guru padasraya... we have to take shelter of the feet of the Guru, to come and sit and hear. So this is the first anga of the angi of Krishna bhakti.
The World Vaishnava Association - How to serve all Vaishnavas
by Swami B.A. Paramadvaiti | 12.5 MB | Posted on August 31, 2007 | Recorded in Nandafalva/Hungary on August 3, 2006 | Entry #089 |
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 Gandharvas, who are some very powerful people, they found out about their party. Having a grudge against the Kauravas, the Gandharvas came and invaded their party and they took everybody prisoner. One messenger went to Yudhishtira and said: "Somebody took the Kauravas as prisoners, their whole party was destroyed by the Gandharvas." And then Yudhishtira said: "Oh, then we have to go and free them, we have to protect them, Bhima go and get your weapons, we are going to go and help the Kauravas." Bhima said: "Never, never I will do this, move one finger for these Kauravas. No Yudhishtira, you cannot ask me that, anything else you can ask me." Then Yudhishtira said: "Listen Bhima, you are right, they are rascals and they should be chastised, they are real nonsense and they have done real stupid things, but when we are under attack we are 105 (The Kauravas are 100 brothers and the Pandavas 5 brothers), because we have a family relationship. If a foreign interest, a foreign danger approaches, even though I have a misgiving with my brother or with my nephew, when we are under attack we are 105." In India the junior submits to the senior unlike in the west where we even fight with our father. We have no understanding of tradition, of keeping something unified and strong. So Bhima finally said that if this is your order Yudhishtira I obey. They went and they freed the Kauravas and defeated the Gandharvas. This shows you how powerful these 5 brothers were, what the whole Kauravas could not do. So in the same way when we are under attack, we are one Vaishnavas, doesn't matter wether we are Ramanujas, Madhvacharyas or Vallabhacharyas.
Egoism - Thinking that we are the center of the universe
by Swami B.A. Paramadvaiti | 20.3 MB | Posted on July 24, 2007 | Recorded in Berlin/Germany on July 15, 2007 | Entry #088 |
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 teaches it in every school in the world, but they do not apply it to their own life. If I use a little bit too much salt then what happens to the food? It becomes spoiled. If I cook it too long, or too little, too much salt, too little salt, every detail has a reaction. So then why do you think that life has no reactions? Why you think that you can kill, intoxicate, you can abort children, you can do anything without getting a reaction? You know why you think in that way? Because you idiot think that you are the center of the universe.
