Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!
Dear Swami Gaurangapada and assembled devotees,
please accept my humble obiesances.
Their Lordships look exquisite in flower garments. Jaya Radhe! Jaya Gurudeva!
For slideshow click here
aspiring service...Nava.
Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!
Dear Bhakta Tommy and Bhaktin Candace, it is always my pleasure to have your association and to serve you both. Thx.
y.s. Nava.
Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!
Dear Swami Gaurangapada and assembled devotees,
please accept my simple obiesances.
Real Peace Formula
Amid the antiwar protests of late 1966, Shrila Prabhupaada put out a
mimeographed leaflet (among the very first of his publications in America) from his small storefront temple on New York's Second Avenue. Shrila Prabhupaada's followers and sympathizers handed this leaflet out by the thousands on the streets of New York, and later in San Francisco, Montreal, and other cities. His "Peace Formula" was an entirely new approach to the antiwar question, and for thousands of Americans, it provided the perfect solution.
The great mistake of modern civilization is to encroach upon others'
property as though it were one's own and to thereby create an
unnecessary disturbance of the laws of nature. These laws are very
strong. No living entity can violate them. Only one who is Krishna
conscious can easily overcome the stringency of the laws of nature and thus become happy and peaceful in the world. As a state is protected by the department of law and order, so the state of universe, of which this earth is only an insignificant fragment, is protected by the laws of nature. This material nature is one of the different potencies of God, who is the ultimate proprietor of everything
that be. This earth is, therefore, the property of God, but we, the living
entities, especially the so-called civilized human beings, are claiming
God's property as our own, under both an individual and collective false conception. If you want peace, you have to remove this false conception from your mind and from the world. This false claim of proprietorship by the human race on earth is partly or wholly the cause of all disturbances of peace on earth. Foolish and so-called civilized men are claiming proprietary rights on the property of God because they have now become godless. You cannot be happy and peaceful in a godless society. In the Bhagavad-gitaa Lord Krishna
says that He is the factual enjoyer of all activities of the living entities,
that He is the Supreme Lord of all universes, and that He is the wellwishing friend of all beings. When the people of the world know this as the formula for peace, it is then and there that peace will prevail. Therefore, if you want peace at all, you will have to change your consciousness into Krishna consciousness, both individually and collectively, by the simple process of chanting the holy name of God. This is a standard and recognized process for achieving peace in the world. We therefore recommend that everyone become Krishna conscious by chanting Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Raama, Hare Raama, Raama Raama, Hare Hare.
This is practical, simple, and sublime. Four hundred and eighty years ago this formula was introduced in India by Lord Shri Chaitanya, and now it is available in your country. Take to this simple process of chanting as above mentioned, realize your factual position by reading the Bhagavadgitaa As It Is, and reestablish your lost relationship with Krishna, God. Peace and prosperity will be the immediate worldwide result.Click here for Bhagavad Gita As It Is by Srila Prabhupada
y.s. Nava.
Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!
Dearest Hadai Nityananda Prabhu, please accept my well wishes and simple dandavats.
Yes. Thank you! Your warm response if very helpful for understanding...all glories to Srila Gurudeva!
Thanks Hadai.
y.s. Nava.
Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!
Please accept my humble obeisances
Dear Nava,
Thank you for sharing. Candace and I enjoyed watching and listening.
Aspiring Service,
bhaktatommy
Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!
Dear Swamiji, Nava Prabhu and devotees, please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.
This is a very good straightforward question and sometimes we wonder within our own experience if it is possible that we have a relationship with Lord Sri Krishna in more than one Bhava. Why do we ask ourselves this question? Because in our own experience we feel sometimes an inclination towards the Lord in a parental mood and at other times we are feeling more like a friend or maybe even in the mood of a lover of the Lord. These feelings are on the relative level and sprout from carefully studying the scriptures. When we read for days about the dealings of Lord Sri Krishna with the cowherd boys our meditation during chanting tends to contemplate the subjects we are reading about and we dive deeper into the realization of the cowherd boys and their relationship with the Lord. The same is when we read about Lord Sri Krishna�s dealings with His parents and with the gopies. We identify with these pastimes because we contemplate them during our japa meditation and during kirtan and during our daily lives. I call this as being on the relative level because this inducement from the scriptures is variable as we move from one subject to another. We tend to identify with these pastimes and thus we go through different identifications. But we have to understand that these identifications are temporary and not absolute.
On the absolute level we have to understand that whatever our constitutional relationship is with Lord Sri Krishna: it is perfect. Whether it is as a blade of grass in one of the Vaikuntha planets or as a gopi in Vrindavan dhama our relationship with the Lord is perfect and we are fully satisfied in whatever that might be. From the relative level it seems that it is more favorable to be a gopi than a blade of grass however such considerations are not valid on the absolute level. In this context we should not approach the Lord �as a gopi� or �as a blade of grass� or in any superficial conceived constitutional position. Our real position will be revealed from within and it will be perfect in all aspects.
Coming to a straightforward answer: yes it is possible because in the absolute realm of Lord Sri Krishna everything is possible. There are no limits and the possibilities are eternally expanding. In the scriptures we find confirmation of different personalities that incarnate as a combined form like Prahlada and Sri Advaitacharya etc.
From the point of view of how we experience our relationship with the Lord, the kind of love we feel at different times means that whatever bhava we are in constitutionally, doesn�t exclude the understanding and to a certain extend the feelings of the �other bhavas�. Srimati Radharani and the gopies are very well aware of the Bhava of Yashoda and Nanda Maharaja and they can �identify� to a large extend with the parental affection they have for Lord Sri Krishna. However they remain in their constitutional position as their predominating feelings are in the conjugal realm.
So to a certain extend the bhavas are mixed for every spiritual soul as far as having an understanding about the feelings of all relationships with Lord Sri Krishna. However each soul has a pre-dominant relationship with Lord Sri Krishna in which he or she is most identified with and as such will always gravitate mostly to that bhava.
I hope this gives some clarification. Sometimes when we analyze our questions carefully we find that the answers are already within the question. I saw your latest video Nava, singing so beautifully Jaya Radha Madava, and just seeing your devotion gives me a feel for where your question comes from�and from that feeling I have tried to give the best answer�I hope it resonates.
Aspiring to be the eternal servant of the Vaisnavas,
Hadai Nityananda dasa
Nityananda Gauranga Hare Krishna!
Nityananda! Gauranga! Hare Krsna!
Dear Swami Gaurangapada, Bhakta Tommy and assembled devotees,
please accept my simple obiesances.
In regards to your question Tommy there are two quotes from books which come to mind.
First is Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 verse 20 (purport by disciples of Srila Prabhupada):
Verse 20: O Lord, O supreme creator and master, You have no material birth, yet to defeat the false pride of the faithless demons and show mercy to Your saintly devotees, You take birth among the demigods, sages, human beings, animals, and even aquatics.
Purport: Among the demigods Lord Krsna appears in such forms as Vamana-deva, among the sages as Parasurama, among human beings as Lord Krsna Himself and as Lord Ramacandra, and among animals as the boar incarnation. Lord Krsna appears among the aquatics as Matsya, the gigantic fish. Indeed, the plenary expansions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead are innuemerable, as the Lord relentlessly comes down within the universes to smash the false pride of the atheists and show mercy to the saintly devotees.
In another sense, the Lord never appears. since He exists eternally. His appearnce is like that of the sun, which is always present in the sky but which periodically appears to our vision.
Also we find in the Krsna Book (SB canto 10) by Srila Prabhupada a similar translation:
Chapter 14 Prayers offered by Lord Brahma to Lord Krsna:
“Persons who are unaware of Your inconceivable energy cannot
understand that You alone expand Yourself as the creator (Brahma), the
maintainer (Visnu) and the annihilator (Siva). Persons who are not in
awareness of things as they are contemplate that I, Brahma, am the
creator, Visnu is the maintainer, and Lord Siva is the annihilator.
Actually, You alone are everything—creator, maintainer and
annihilator. Similarly, You expand Yourself in different incarnations:
among the demigods You incarnate as Vamanadeva, among the great
sages You incarnate as Parasurama, among the human beings You appear
as Yourself, Lord Krsna, or as Lord Rama, among the animals You appear
as the boar incarnation, and among the aquatics You appear as the fish
incarnation. And yet You have no appearance or disappearance: You are
always eternal. Your appearance and disappearance are made possible by
Your inconceivable energy just to give protection to the faithful
devotees and to annihilate the faithless demons. O my Lord, O all-pervading
Supreme Personality of Godhead, O Supersoul, controller of
all mystic powers, no one can appreciate Your transcendental pastimes
as they are exhibited within these three worlds. No one can estimate
how You have expanded Your yogamaya and Your incarnations and how
You act by Your transcendental energy. My dear Lord, this whole cosmic
manifestation is just like a flashing dream, and its temporary existence
simply disturbs the mind. As a result, we are full of anxiety in this
existence; to live within this material world means simply to suffer and
to be full of all miseries. And yet this temporary existence of the
material world appears to be pleasing and dear on account of its having
evolved from Your body, which is eternal and full of bliss and
knowledge....."I do not know if this was what you were thinking of.
y.s. Nava.
