Chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa: The Only Positive Vow | Bhaktin Alexandra's Initiation Ceremony

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Once, when I had a legal problem in managing, and it was something that kept me up at night, I consulted Godbrothers, and one of my Godbrothers, Ritadhvaja Swami, so kindly, two days later, sent me a verse. He said, "Vaiś, I think this might help." And he sent me a verse from Pṛthu Mahārāja, who definitely had a problem—Indra. He was trying to do his duty and perform this 100th horse sacrifice. And Indra kept stealing the sacrificial horse and pretending he was a sannyāsī. It was ludicrous and outrageous and very disappointing to Pṛthu Mahārāja, and he became angry. He wanted to kill Indra. The sages, those who were performing the yajña, said, "Don't. Don't do it. It'll contaminate the yajña. We'll do it for you." Then Brahmā intervened, and he came and said, "Wait, everybody, hold it. It's Indra. You can't kill him. And besides, why don't you just tolerate it? Because that's providential." And Pṛthu Mahārāja said, "Okay, we'll tolerate," and he made up with Indra, actually. And Indra kind of apologized, like he usually does. And so there's a way, when I read that, I felt relief. Where else are you going to get relief, except from the Bhagavad-gītā or the Bhāgavatam? I actually felt relief, and it wasn't theoretical. It was visceral. I couldn't sleep, and then I could—that's proof that it's not theoretical. And I came to a point of realizing that I have to tolerate this and take it step by step. I think maybe that's when I invented for myself this mantra of "be methodical but dispassionate." I just keep saying it over and over again. That's what Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā, and that's what problems are for. They're for following the instructions of Kṛṣṇa in the Bhagavad-gītā. If you wondered why you get problems, It's like you go to a class and you sit down, and then the teacher hands out all the papers on the desk and says, "Put away everything. Get out a number two pencil." Have you ever heard that before? Yeah, and that's what Kṛṣṇa does for us, Vaikuṇṭha Nāyaka Prabhu. He says, "Okay, you sit down. Here's your problem for the day. Take out a number two pencil, put away all your other stuff. Let's see how you're going to do now." So what you said was true, and it actually works when we follow Kṛṣṇa's instruction, for instance, Occam's razor—the simplest solution is the best, fewer assumptions, and it's direct. So Prabhupāda, in a lecture, says when you lose a loved one, it's inevitable that you'll feel overwhelmed, heaviness of heart, yes or yes. And so there's a way in which Prabhupāda says, "What are you going to do? You're going to bring them back? Your mind keeps thinking like, can't we revive them, or something like that? And what about the old days when they were here? And what should we do?" Prabhupāda says, "There's only one solution. You know what it is? Tolerate." And when I first heard that, I thought, "That's it? We'll try it and see what happens." And if you tolerate, there's a fruit at the end, because you become wise and you see, as one of my friends always says, observing the events of the world as absurd as many of them are, and he says, "the jagat is on the move," and whatever you think you have now, it's going to go sideways, guaranteed. You think you have something, you'll come out one day and it's at the top of the roof and it's dripping down, it's melted, or it's burnt, or it's sideways, whatever you think you have here. And that's a lesson. The whole material world is not our home, and fortunately, we have a place to repose our affection and our real possessions, as Kapila-deva says in one astounding verse, he said that the assets you get from your practice of devotional service are never lost, hose are yours to keep.. (excerpt from the talk)…

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Five Steps To Make A Comeback | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | ISV | 8 Mar 2025 17:33

3 дня назад17:33

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There's an old saying that wars are won in the general's tent—that winning a war means you have to have a great plan. And generals have battle plans, for instance, for making retreats sometimes. And I have a book on this. Somebody recommended it to me. It's from the U.S. Marine Corps. It's called Warfighting. It's just a pamphlet that talks a lot about planning for battle. It has a lot of metaphors that are helpful for life in general, and there is an appropriate time if one retreats and then makes a comeback. So any battle plans must include a way to make comebacks. And there are famous battles, which I won't go into right now, in which the general artfully retreated at a certain point, but then won the war—retreated from a particular battle, but that had an overall strategy to win the war. So that brings me to the topic of making comebacks, and I'm just going to read an excerpt from this stack of papers. And that is, how to make a comeback when you've stopped your daily japa. Sometimes chanters give up their daily japa because of a lifestyle change. For instance, when preoccupied by starting a new intense work or school schedule or giving birth to a child, some stop chanting because of a traumatic event, like losing a loved one or when they've fallen ill. In these cases, chanters circumstantially break their daily vows of chanting. Others, however, allow their chanting practice to gradually fade, week by week, month by month, their practice grows fainter and until it eventually disappears. There are three reasons why chanters allow their practice to fade: laxity, bad association, and making offenses. (excerpt from the talk) ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/ https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/ https://thefourquestionsbook.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark ------------------------------------------------------------ #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose…

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Bhakti Lessons From The World Around Us | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | 8 Mar 2025 31:53

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You might feel overwhelmed by circumstances, if that's ever happened to anybody, because there's a lot of pressure to perform in the world, academically, socially, and when we take to the water of hearing and chanting, like we're doing here on Youth Jam, it's a natural way we feel revived. What to speak of, we grow. I mean, there are so many ways in which, by watering the heart and the seed within the heart, which is the sincerity to become closer, to come closer to Kṛṣṇa, then it happens quite naturally, as naturally as when you water a plant, it grows. Some of the ways that are naturally effective are to hear in the association of like-minded devotees who are more advanced than oneself. That was a suggestion that Caitanya Mahāprabhu gave to Sanātana Gosvāmī, and it's also mentioned in the Bhāgavatam, a phrase that I picked out when reading Prabhupāda's purports. He said that the holes of the ear appear to be very small, but actually, once the sound goes in, it's as big as the sky. It's unlimited. It's not that you'll fill up, "I've heard enough and now that's it," but you can continue hearing and hearing, you'll never find a satiation point. So, these two points are helpful in calibrating how we continue our devotional service and how to position ourselves so we make advancement here, in the association of like-minded devotees who are more advanced than oneself. If you're the smartest one in the room, you're in the wrong room. Try to be in the room where there are people more advanced than you. (excerpt from the presentation) ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/ https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/ https://thefourquestionsbook.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark ------------------------------------------------------------ #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose…

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Take Advantage of Loving Exchanges & Friendships in Bhakti | Pilgrimage of The Heart | 14 Feb 2025 42:49

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I was just thinking Kṛṣṇa consciousness means Kṛṣṇa's family, and all of the elements that everyone's looking for in their life, for loving exchanges, is there in Kṛṣṇa's pastimes with His mother, His father, His friends, and so forth, but also in the association with devotees. We have Godbrothers, Godsisters, nephews, aunts, uncles, grandchildren—everything's there, only on a spiritual platform. And so I was just appreciating, I could say, after many years in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, that one of the aspects that I relish the most is being with my Godbrothers or Godsisters. And as time goes on, it becomes more relishable, because it's obviously rarer. There are fewer of us. So just thinking to say, take advantage of the deep friendships that you have, the loving exchanges. Rūpa Gosvāmī puts it in his book on devotional service, and says, "dadāti pratigṛhṇāti, guhyam ākhyāti pṛcchati, bhuṅkte bhojayate caiva, ṣaḍ-vidhaṁ prīti-lakṣaṇam"—that have these loving exchanges with the devotees, because it's a mainstay of the process of devotional service. Do you agree? Do you want to say anything about it? (excerpt from the talk) ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/ https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/ https://thefourquestionsbook.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark ------------------------------------------------------------ #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose…

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Put Yourself in Kṛṣṇa's Hands, He Knows You | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | Japa Jolt | 26 Feb 2025 18:33

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When I was just in Māyāpur, one of the events during our stay there was the opening of the Prabhupāda Museum. So I went there by invitation, and one of the aspects that I was treated to was a couple of Godbrothers that I hadn't seen in a long time were sitting outside the museum talking. So I joined in the conversation, and one of them said to me, "My aspiration in this last stage of my life is to realize the verse of Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura: 'There's nothing else to be had in the fourteen worlds except the holy name.'" And of course, I've heard that many times before, and I've also quoted it myself, but hearing it from a Godbrother who's serious—a stalwart, had a special effect on me, and it became a meditation of mine. And it made the chanting of my rounds even more relishable. Because I was thinking, "Where else is there to go? There's nothing else to be had in the fourteen worlds except The Holy Name," and full permission just to be completely present with the Mahāmantra. And what's more, to put it at the very top of my list for priorities, is to hear, chant, remember The Holy Name, and don't worry—everything else will be obtained by chanting The Holy Names without offense. (excerpt from the talk) ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/ https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/ https://thefourquestionsbook.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark ------------------------------------------------------------ #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose #mantrameditation #makejapagreatagain #japajolt #chantharekrishnaandbehappy…

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Sincerity In Spirituality | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | ISV | 01 Mar 2025 1:19:50

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Conclusion: Give up all self-interested desire and serve Kṛṣṇa, and hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam in the association of devotees, to come to that point of complete purification of intention and purpose. Pray by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. "Please, Kṛṣṇa, if You so desire, remove any last vestiges of desire for material enjoyment from my heart." (excerpt from the talk) ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/ https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/ https://thefourquestionsbook.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark ------------------------------------------------------------ #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose…

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There Is Nothing Else To Have In The 14 Worlds Except The Holy Names | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | 1 Mar 25 13:37

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We're in the right company at the right time, and our CEO, Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu, has all the right values, and He wants all of us to be spiritually wealthy. All we have to do is to invest every day, or, if you like, if you don't mind being extremely spiritually wealthy, you could just invest all the time. Nobody can stop you, and there's no limit to it, and there are no layoffs. So we can only lay ourselves off. Lord Caitanya won't do it. We should do the best we can to take advantage of this greatest wealth, because there's nothing else to be had within the fourteen worlds, except for The Holy Name. (excerpt from the talk) ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/ https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/ https://thefourquestionsbook.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark ------------------------------------------------------------ #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose…

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The Ācāryas Are Your Reinforced Concrete | Pilgrimage of The Heart |10 Feb 2025 1:22:29

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Prabhupāda said, "Come to Vṛndāvana for three days or three years." Three years means you have some bona fide service you've been appointed to perform in the Dhāma, or you're here to take a little time to experience the Dhāma, but come here very carefully, gingerly, walk with humility to the various places. And don't assume that you're a great rasika Vaiṣṇava, because you're here. And this is indicated in this prayer of Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura. He was meticulous in inculcating this mood with his disciples, because there's a way in which one may assume and then not have access. So what gives us qualification? As Madhavānanda Prabhu was saying the other day, to enter, we have to have a passport and visa. It means you are given some permission to enter by your Guru, and you're seriously coming in with a mission to serve and to become a better servitor. (excerpt from the talk) ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/ https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/ https://thefourquestionsbook.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark ------------------------------------------------------------ #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose…

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The Topmost Yogi Knows How Much The Material World Stings | Pilgrimage of The Heart | 7 Feb 2025 1:10:33

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When we're facing externally, we've turned away, and we don't realize our relationship. But when we do turn towards Kṛṣṇa, we become insiders, that means we're inside Kṛṣṇa. We're inside the family again. In Gajendra's prayers, Gajendra remarks that, "My Lord, You're never inattentive to me. It's not that when I pray, then that's when You pay attention." He said, "You're always paying attention." In fact, we're intimately connected with Kṛṣṇa, and we're never intimately connected with the material world. 'Asango hi dhyayam puruṣaḥ,' means we never really have a connection here. So, when we come to devotional service by choice, Gajendra says, then You're immediately responsive, because You're already just waiting. In 1.2.17 of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, 'svakītaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ puṇya-śravaṇa-kīrtanaḥ', the Prabhupāda writes in the purport that Kṛṣṇa wants us to come back to Godhead more than we can desire. He said, "Practically nobody wants to go back to Godhead, but Kṛṣṇa wants everybody to go back to Godhead and be insiders." So that's in this verse, samo ’haṁ sarva-bhūteṣu, na me dveṣyo ’sti na priyaḥ—that half of the verse refers to those who are externally focused, and for them, Kṛṣṇa is dutifully sending the checks. He doesn't even put His name on it. It's like some payment, an alimony payment, or something, whatever it is, but the person doesn't want to disturb the other person's mind, so they don't even put the name on it. They just make a direct deposit so that, "Okay, you don't want to...you don't want to know me anymore, so I'll still pay, but I'll just keep it anonymous." You don't even know where the payments are coming from. People don't even realize God's paying them all the time. He's kindly providing, as Prabhupāda said, for every living being, He is giving all their necessities and more, but everyone just thinks Eh.. there is no God. It's like one fish said to the other, "Do you believe in water?" And he goes, "Nah! I've never seen any water. I don't know what they're talking about." But we're enveloped by God's love all the time. He's providing. ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/ https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/ https://thefourquestionsbook.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark ------------------------------------------------------------ #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose…

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Chop Down The Tree of The Material World by Hearing Bhagavan Kathā | Pilgrimage of The Heart | 8 Feb 58:50

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It is helpful to come down to what the basics are, and then, as Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura said, "Follow the simple path strictly." I just received a quote the other day from a friend, in which Prabhupāda said, "It's illegal to collect a lot of obscure quotes from a lot of different śāstras, just to show that you know more than other people about a topic." He said, "You only need a few books, but get to know them really well. Go deeply within several of these books—Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, Bhagavad-gītā, Nectar of Devotion—for the purpose of being very clear about what's important." And Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura said, "Follow the simple path, but do it very strictly." Just because it's simple doesn't mean that you don't have to put your attention to it. You should be very strict about it. And then we also find that it's a lot deeper than we thought. "Oh, just sixteen rounds—that's all you're going to do?" If you actually chant sixteen rounds attentively, you realize that, "Oh, I'm barely doing anything. There's an ocean here, and I haven't even investigated more than just below the surface. What else is there?" And what to speak of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Caitanya-caritāmṛta! Prabhupāda said on a morning walk, when there was an argument about reading many different kinds of books available from different authors, Prabhupāda said, "Yeah, fine, but assimilate what you have." And if you try to assimilate Bhagavad-gītā As It Is, it may be a lot deeper than you thought. Who can actually assimilate Bhagavad-gītā fully before moving on to every book available at Ras Bihari Lal, "the biggest little bookstore in the world"? I hope there's never an earthquake, because that place will really collapse. (excerpt from the talk) ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/ https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/ https://thefourquestionsbook.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark ------------------------------------------------------------ #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose…

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Surrender To Kṛṣṇa Is All Gain And No Risk | Pilgrimage of The Heart | 6 Feb 2025 1:34:04

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So, it's a very exciting life, depending on Kṛṣṇa. And Prabhupāda speaks in one lecture, saying that we have these four regulative principles. One of them is gambling, he said, but we have a replacement for gambling, and that is surrender to Kṛṣṇa. It seems like a gamble, but it's not, as one of Prabhupāda's Godbrothers once said, "Surrender to Kṛṣṇa—it's all gain and no risk." But the material world is all risk and no gain. So whatever you get, you're going to lose anyway. But there's this fear that "I won't survive unless I try to accumulate wealth, protect myself." I'm not saying you shouldn't accumulate some wealth, whatever you need, but there's always a fear. But ananyāś cintayanto māṁ, ye janāḥ paryupāsate... (excerpt from the talk) ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/ https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/ https://thefourquestionsbook.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark ------------------------------------------------------------ #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose…

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Learn To Control The Gateway Sense | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | Pilgrimage of The Heart | Feb 11 2025 41:11

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Prabhupāda would sometimes come and mostly attend Bhagavad-gītā classes. Sometimes in Vṛndāvana He would come and listen to His students speak, and you'll hear on some recorded lectures, Prabhupāda would defer to Pradyumna. Like once, Prabhupāda was sick, and He asked Pradyumna, "You speak." He didn't let him speak that long, but Prabhupāda did attend classes, and He set an example of what you talked about before, and what Viṣṇu-gadā Prabhu was referring to, when somebody's asked to speak there, they've been given that service. One should, as Prabhupāda says, "If you write about Kṛṣṇa consciousness, you should write as a servant, not think that I'm going to become a famous author or famous devotee, because I wrote something and I wrote more books than somebody else." You should think that "I'm doing this as a service," or actually, first off, it's for self-purification. And if one is asked to speak, one should speak for self-purification, and one should feel that one is fully authorized, having been instructed to speak. So, Prabhupāda set that example Himself. (excerpt from the talk) ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/ https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/ https://thefourquestionsbook.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark ------------------------------------------------------------ #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose…

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Don't Be Misinformed - God Is A Person | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | Pilgrimage of The Heart | 5 Feb 2025 1:17:55

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Oftentimes people just aren't fully informed. They're different types of people, and their motives may be different. And oftentimes, when people get a hold of a Śrī Īśopaniṣad, for instance, and they read it, and then they say, "Oh, okay, I'll worship Kṛṣṇa," or we have experience in presenting Kṛṣṇa consciousness in a systematic way to people, and it's often, or always, a conundrum when to bring up the point that God's a person. In fact, in any presentation anywhere, there's always a reticence to cross that bridge. But we have found that people are often more ready than one might think. And it's a relief, actually, to find somebody finally comes out and says it: "God's a person, by the way." And I remember, back in the good old days, when I first got a Back to Godhead magazine, I had read so many books that had this impersonal conception, because that's what was available in my library and in my parents' house and wherever I could get my hands on. And there were directives to offer prayers, and then in the same paragraph, there were descriptions of how "we're God, we just haven't realized it yet." And that was a conundrum for me, because I thought, "Am I praying to myself?" I thought, "Maybe it'll work out. I'll figure it out later." But when I read the Back to Godhead magazine, the revelation came when I was looking at an advertisement for the Śrī Īśopaniṣad, and it said, "The ancient Vedic literatures say, actually, the Supreme Absolute Truth is a Person." And I looked, and there was actually a picture of a person there. And I thought, "Oh, my God, somebody finally came out and said it!" I found it to be a great relief that someone had the strength of purpose to just say, "God's a person." And I got rather excited about it. I wanted to read that book right away and find out, "Well, how is He a person?" And most people are, I believe, at least the ones I've come in contact with, are innocent. They've been given partial information or misinformation, and sometimes it takes a while to sort that out, but it's a much, actually easier concept to accept, that God's a person, than it is with all the workarounds that you have to do for "He's not a person." (excerpt from the talk) ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/ https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/ https://thefourquestionsbook.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark ------------------------------------------------------------ #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose…

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Book Distribution Is A Good Idea | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | ILS | Śrīdhāma Mayāpura | 18 Feb 2025 2:36:40

21 день назад2:36:40

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The word sampradāya has a specific meaning, which is a bequeathment, which means to pass down, and in this case, the greatest gift. And we are a sampradāya of givers, and what we give very specifically—because, although there are many ways that one can try to help others—we give the light of knowledge through the Guru paramparā's teachings so that people can extricate themselves from the material world, as Caitanya Mahāprabhu taught Sanātana Gosvāmī: māyā-mugdha jīvera nāhi svataḥ kṛṣṇa-jñāna—it's not automatic, not svataḥ, that people come out of ignorance. But when jīvera kṛpayā koila kṛṣṇa veda-purāṇa, there's an intervention of knowledge. Then living beings who are within the portal of a human body can very readily come to their senses, and we see it very often, don't we? In book distribution, when somebody makes a U-turn in their life just after getting even a smidgen of information—I know it happened for me. (Excerpt from the presentation) ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/ https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/ https://thefourquestionsbook.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark ------------------------------------------------------------ #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose…

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Kṛṣṇa Can't Leave The Heart Of Those Who Keep Hearing Bhāgvatam | Pilgrimage of The Heart | 4 Feb 25 1:36:25

21 день назад1:36:25