Material existence – Page 3

Pavarga – material conditional life

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Everyone can serve Krishna

So Suta Gosvami is describing the purpose of religiosity. Dharmasya hy apavargyasya. Dharma, to accept a system of religion means to accept the path of liberation. Apavargyasya. This apavarga is very significant word. Pavarga and apavarga. Pavarga means pa, pha, ba, bha, ma. In grammatical ways, ka, kha, ga, gha, ka-varga, ca-varga, ta-varga, ta-varga, and pa-varga. Five vargas. Vargiya varnas. And there are antah-stha varnas. This is grammatical.

So dharmasya hy apavargyasya. “A” means negation, negation of pavarga. Pa means parisrama,

light-of-godhead2015-05-22T04:55:07+00:00May 21st, 2015|Categories: Dharma, Material existence|Tags: Apavarga, Pavarga|

If Krsna is not satisfied we starve

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Senses On Strike

There is a story in the Hitopadesa: Udarendriyanam. Udara. Udara means this belly, abdomen, and indriya means senses. Udarendriyanam. What is that? All the different parts of the body, hands, legs, fingers and everyone, they held a meeting, that “We are working day and night, and this rascal abdomen is sitting down and eating only. (laughter) He is doing nothing. We are collecting everything, and putting into the stomach, and he is eating, very…, sitting nice. So strike: ‘We shall not work.’

light-of-godhead2015-05-22T05:00:31+00:00May 13th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Real satisfaction, Senses, Service attitude|Tags: Senses on strike|

At least lift your anchor

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: At Least Lift Your Anchor

Perhaps you all remember that a bridegroom party was to go to the bride’s home. In India the marriage party, bridegroom party, the bride, his father, his relatives, go with the bride, bridegroom, to the bride’s home, and the marriage ceremony takes place there in the presence of all kinds of relatives. That is the system. So the marriage was to take place in a different village some miles away, and in Bengal the land is full of rivers. The rivers are

light-of-godhead2015-09-28T21:32:59+00:00May 13th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Material enjoyment, Videos|Tags: Anchor, Boat, Marriage Party, Motivated|

Take you to your father

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Disappearance day of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati

A rich man’s son is loitering in the street, forgetting his father’s opulence and property. And somebody, out of sympathy, giving him some food. But other person comes to him and says, “Oh, my dear boy, I know you. You are the son of such and such rich man. Why you are loitering in the street? Come on, I shall take you to your father.” So if that gentleman takes that loitering boy to his father, the father is glad, and

light-of-godhead2015-08-31T21:13:19+00:00May 7th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Eternal father, Social welfare, Videos|Tags: Panacea|

Better spend time curing the disease

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Crow-And-Tal-Fruit Logic

Srila Prabhupada encourages us to get out of the material world – not endlessly speculate on how we got here.

Srila Prabhupada dictated this essay in reply to a question about the origin of the living entity: Were we originally with Krishna, or did we fall from Krishna’s impersonal energy, the brahmajyoti? The essay was an addendum to a letter Prabhupada wrote to his disciple Madhudvisa Dasa in June of 1972.

Because he

light-of-godhead2015-10-17T22:23:32+00:00May 6th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Fall-down, Pastimes of Srila Prabhupada, Videos|Tags: How we fall, No wasting time|

Do not be like camels

Source: SB 1.3.9

So to become obedient servant and to have no discrimination of sex and food, that means dogs and they are not human beings. And camel, although he is a big animal, he takes pleasure in eating his own blood. How is that? You will find the camels are very fond of eating thorns. So the thorns they eat, and the thorns cut the tongue, and the blood comes out. It makes a taste, and he is thinking that the thorns are very tasteful. That is camel.

light-of-godhead2015-05-25T00:18:56+00:00May 6th, 2015|Categories: Analogies, Sex-life|Tags: Camel, Illusory enjoyment|

Disappearance of Jayananda prabhu

Speaker: Tamal Krishna Goswami
Source: TKG’s Diary: Prabhupada’s Final Days

3rd May 1977:
Today we received word that Jayananda Prabhu had given up his body. When Srila Prabhupada was informed he said, “Yes, sooner or later we must all go.” Afterwards, tears came to His Divine Grace’s eyes. “He was one of my very best disciples. He was the first to give me five thousand dollars, which was used for printing Teachings of Lord Caitanya. He used to drive me in the car, and while driving he would be chanting.

light-of-godhead2015-05-25T22:16:30+00:00May 1st, 2015|Categories: Death, Ideal disciple, Jayananda, Pastimes of Srila Prabhupada, Ratha-yatra|

Lord’s protection from death

Source: SB 7.10.29

“Everyone is sure to die, for no one is excused from the hands of death, which is but a feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead: mrtyu sarva-haras caham [Bg. 10.34]). When one becomes a devotee, however, he is not destined to die according to a limited duration of life. Everyone has a limited duration of life, but a devotee’s lifetime can be extended by the mercy of the Supreme Lord, who is able to nullify the results of one’s karma: karmani nirdahati

light-of-godhead2015-05-25T00:27:08+00:00April 26th, 2015|Categories: Death, Lords protection|

Srila Prabhupada stroke on Jaladuta

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Chant Hare Kṛṣṇa and Fight

As Prabhupāda sat in his hotel room that evening with a few disciples at his feet, he reminisced about how he had come to America in 1965 and had suffered two heart attacks at sea. “They say that anyone who gets a third heart attack,” said Prabhupāda, “they must expire. I had two attacks on the ship, and then in New York a third one-paralyzed. Left side was paralyzed. I do not know how I was saved. And one

light-of-godhead2015-05-25T00:28:53+00:00April 26th, 2015|Categories: Death, Lords protection, Pastimes of Srila Prabhupada|

Came here to give

Speaker: Srila Prabhupada
Source: Gandhari – chaste and faithful

There is a proverb: apanar dhana bilaye diye bhiksa mage parer dvare(?). They have lost their own culture, and they are now beggars. They are going to beg from door to door in the foreign countries. When I was speaking in Berkeley University sometimes in the year 1966, one Indian student stood up and he said, “Swamiji, what this Krsna consciousness movement will do? We require now technology.” So I replied, “Yes. You are after technology. So you are a beggar. I am

light-of-godhead2015-10-07T20:57:13+00:00March 23rd, 2015|Categories: Pastimes of Srila Prabhupada, Social welfare|Tags: No Compromise|