Lecture | Live Now | Srila Gopal Krishna Goswami

And he was searching for water. He looked around and he saw that there was a hut where some light was emerging. He went to that. He saw the same young girls under. He saw their faces. He needed it. So He, at this age, he didn't even look for the other king. He had ignored him completely. He was just angry at the king. And when he was coming out, his father, Natsinh, was so angry with Natsinh that he left. All of us left. But the stage was in meditation, he did not interfere. He just followed it. And Sādhu Śrīngī, playing outside the yard with his friends and doing so, came walking by. He said, "Let me go and see what transpired." He made a come and went by. And he saw a death snake, jivagāhaṇ, on his father's neck. He knew that this was the work of the king, and he challenged the king. So he came and he cursed him. What did he curse him for? Read that again, huh? He went upon the rest of the path. He was even a previous aveda and brahmanasara, and he made many walks and moved about. He took his head in a pushkari, which I have a movie like that. Saint Vipassana was not scared of being caught. So, I think, what is the invited all the sages there. There were about 6,000-7,000 sages. And within minutes, when I came into India, I noticed that all the children were there. They had something more modern, more powerful, and truly awakened. Namaskar! A very spiritual place you have come to know? It's divine history we have given— You're at Naju Gate, only special before this on earth. The sea is for holding your soul and it's something more. How many people Yes, that's very significant. And it's like this, that was for me, to be back there, to begin the morning. So, that was for me. Memorize everything that you heard from the lips of Sri Ramana Maharshi. One who can memorize something what he heard once, It's called— Sutthida. Sutthida. Just by hearing once, Prasad RAVAL was able to memorize 80,000 verses. Very good at this. So, she was looking for me. The other giving knowledge, she was sitting there, paying attention, and I thought, she will have some kind of a scene or whatever. She was very handsome. Instruction, and most of them have gone, and the other have come, few of them have come. So in this world, in the way people go about their affairs, there is always a mistake. If one pointed attention, one jury, one jury, one court case, what are the four? Hearing, and amongst us there is this, the presence. Of course, it is boring, so, you know. So there are, you know, many subliminal messages. There was a time, for example, in India, there were no telepathists. Then they came up with one, Dagambar Chana, remember that book? The journey there. I need a chance. There is so much waiting. And everyone keeps waiting. For the Christians, it is important that they believe. They believe. They hear him ask. They are hearing that he is catching them up. They are hearing him. Hearing him say, "Hey." emotions and stuff. There are, as Prabhupāda said many times, many subject matters for hearing. We need to count what is most important. He bhāgavadamīrtha says, śrama eva hi, that conversation, it does not inspire you to send into the world mere patriotism. So before coming to Krishna Consciousness, we were all absorbed in hearing money and power, right? And there's no shortage from which we are getting intense pleasure. As in the Pūrāṇī Rāpaṇu, he is the dean of the new Mahāyāti in Mādhya. We are very happy with Pṛṣāda. We share. What is important is the intention in the show, and if that is important, we want to get through. But you ask, but you ask, I mean, man, you know, that's So, it should be the same thing. With one-pointed attention, that means, with concentration, with determination, we should get ahead. Now, what is the difference between getting a spiritual enlightenment and a geo-seminar? It doesn't matter. You only hear one of the 20 things you'll get. Am I right? There's so many problems all over the video. You hear that one thing, especially doesn't matter. You turn day and night, you don't get tired. And that's the heart of a great Dharma. You stand the whole evening for the Lord. You can stand 10 minutes a day. And He did it for years and years. He never got tired. He was never always here. Someone did a job and he wanted to go on vacation. Why? Why are you getting tired? He sang in Kali Devi, and he was tired. He needed a break. But when he got into spiritual song, spiritual name of the Lord, We just didn't get that. We didn't get that. We began to hold our lives in such a way we can concentrate on getting into this. Getting into any faith is always important if you want spirituality. It is enough to go and study the disciples of Sri Yukteswar in the books and literature. Every animal was beautiful. Now, it's very, very hard. And seeing all that, without having any input given from me, it was within me, "Hey, you know what, let's fix that." And the way it was good, we didn't force it. The main benefit of hearing is healing. Our heart is contaminated. Our heart is polluted. What is it polluted by? What? Mōrikku purukkha. Praying and chanting in the dark is Nippon Dōjin. In the scriptures it is said, there are three main stages. First is the offensive stage. The chanting, the pointing of weapons is everything. Chanting in another way of war, offensive stage. You will discover that you're chanting, cleansing your heart. You will enjoy the movement, breathing. You will not be bothered that every chant will be— recreate that— the heart is being cleansed. Position, think it. Think it. Think of you over the dolphin. I know, I know, I know. That's a good way to learn it. So we hear English, Jenny. So we envision the G-Shock, Jenny. The greater vestibular nerve. Then he come in contact with Anzali, which we have in a book, Papa's, and a child's, a child's book which we have, a book reading. But it is in Polish, we have to make translation for it. So when he came in They have to get through this. In the beginning, I didn't understand what should be the move. There's only one approach. Where is it descending from? Who knows? Spiritual world. It's descending from the spiritual world. It is descending from the spiritual world. There's only one way. That's why the scriptures are big and grand and Buddha's saying, "Small and big." So, small and big, small and big, important and then what? Much, much smaller. It should remain in you. All over the world, when you travel, some places you rarely hear it. Nein, tut aber sein. What to do? 'Kṛṣṇa, you will come to me without fear.' 'Yes, sir.' 'It's really simple, eh?' Buddhism guarantee, if you work for the God, this is what you'll get. You have faith. Meditation and repeating again and again, intense interpreting, and you have blessing. How can that make you think, "I am special or something?" It's not like that. We are living in a world you don't know. How can she become free This is in Tamil. My dear mother, the question is very broad here, and the way to find a solution is by breathing itself. So when you start breathing itself, you begin to get up. That's the only way. So Vishnu's mother, very important. If mind is engaged positively then there won't be any room for negative thoughts. You see another demigod agree? It's real! Emperor Mahārāja—endless. Where was he? He knew the truth and God. Treasureur. Hmm... treasureur. Kūkai rādhara . Who can have that? Where are the treasures of the demigods? So how do you know? In today's society, you see, so much of money, beauty, education, and yet people, with these sons, are joining the worldly abandons, all the females, coming this way. You see, Jnana, Prasad Raaval, They remain janta. They cover their body. But the sangha prayer is so shameless. They deny all the bodies. They are doing wrong. Let me give them a lesson. I say, even if I share this with you, try to understand me. It will be of benefit. He said, "So, now you teach him a lesson." He said, "You two will become trees." And they caught Hiradhan Maharaj. They caught Hiradhan Maharaj. But after that, we had a fortune. Having an audience, that's very good. You go to India and get an audience, especially in the north. So, prasad raavalika. And then, say, say, 6 months for a big band. You get 1 day with a big band. Probably 100 years The Lord put on a true original seed to make our emotions loose enough that they were realized and they understood the mistake. Now one word, maybe all the way to the end. Another word, "Mudang is visualized." You are going to become a minister, but you are going to go to Portugal. We become more intelligent. When you are in the association, you get knowledge, and with that knowledge you understand what's very much more. And therefore, staying in Hovindan into the intermediate state, barely in the world, so we are living trying to minimize. And then you get to the other state, the chanting of beneficial energy will be most beneficial because chanting constantly, this is everything explained, you see. Hearing, chanting, remembering. Remembering, people don't know what kind of energy— we made a home of the Lord. It's so very nice. And then Father Christian was passed, and in a few days we will celebrate Janmashtami. What is it? What is that Janmashtami? The appearance day of the being of study. "Yudhey duhu, yudhehu di, kṛṣṇa parampara." Parampara means strength, spiritual strength, armature strength. "Yudhey kṛṣṇa param divī, indriṇāvam." Therefore, param divī is power of God. And in it is always added that Bhāram is the source of spiritual strength. He wants spiritual strength, but he couldn't do it. And his Bhāram appears with brother, brother, brother. Then who he appeared as Bhāram? He appeared as Lakṣmaṇa. Younger brother to whom? Lakshmi was not very happy. Neither was the emperor. But when the emperor and Sita got married, came to live in the palace, she saw that there's nothing for her to do. Everything that she wanted to do, Lakshmi would do it before her. Lakshmi was good. I only want to have that too. That's it. And that was so great. 24 hours he would be thinking, "I'll get this double batch for Prasad." So when she sat in, she saw whatever she wants to do, that was already planned ahead of her. So this was a big dilemma for Lord Ram. He said, "I can't do all this. If I give a decision and people see that, then Lakshman will be upset. And if I give a decision, people like Lakshman and see that, they will be upset." So he said, "Okay, we go to the Guru." They went to the Guru. He visited that, you know. Then Lakshman, he knows 'Walk around once in the desert before, see if anyone can do it.' And that's what he said. For my birth, I only had one golden knife, the Pancha Tikshu. So the guru rules, he said everything related to the house, we won't see what she does, and everything related to Yeah, I'm in Sri Lanka. The monk already said that. You can go and see my lectures. Lectures. Lectures. I'm in future. I don't want to be at this house. No more. Also, I'm not good on maths. Anyway, we will have a look. Now, I told you, you want to go Ah, shit. And then he goes, "Shit, shit, shit." And he had to go. I made too many mistakes at the end. I don't want to do that again. I'll be a better father. Yeah, I'll be a better father. And then he did it again in England, you know. Lord, Father, Mother, perform many supreme mantras. When the Lord appears, he performs supreme mantras. Actually, very serious. And he is Prasad RAVAL. When the Lord kills the demon, he'll have a trance which is, we're hearing this by some weird guru story, and I don't, I don't trust this speaker. So this is one of the things you can think about. Krishna has many different abilities. Arjuna lowers the general of the enemy, very sad, and he saw the Maharaja fall. I did not know anything about the words. It was made possible by the Lord's mercy. And then I did not start meditating on Krishna's instruction from Bhāgavatam. Anytime we were moving the stretcher, I would say, "I need to just get They began to feel it. Kṛṣṇa right there with them. The Lord is absolute. They meditated on Kṛṣṇa, His instructions. They feel it. Then Arjuna said, "No." The Prabhupāda said, "Similarly, the only God is called Māṣarīra." If you could meditate on Kṛṣṇa's instructions,— then what will happen? When you will feel that, you shall worship Him. Anya Krishna, ājāma. So, another way, we can use them. And then worship. Worship the Lord. So, the Lord is present, ājāma. That's the way we are. You know, unfortunately, many impersonal forms, both of you. God is not a form. God is no form. God is all pervasion. He doesn't have a form. It's not like you have an example. You take a piece of paper and tear it in small pieces, what happens? You have been afraid by the Lord. But in the case of the Lord, now He has provided Him in preliminary way. You should retain this freedom of thought. So, Śrīla Gosvāmī Mahāprabhu is saying, both things, hearing, chanting, meditating, and worshiping, these four activities are not —being in the bodies of the teachers. So that is what we should do. And help us, please. We want to schedule a teacher. We don't have time to schedule. So this is very important. You all did it before. We need to hear it again. Unless he hear of the Sharanama, Sharanama is the father, he will be happy, but without having brainwash. Or it was very a chastisement in, in, let's say, on his father's death. So his— call it the highest teacher in the universe. And then, who is coming in as a guide? It's the main body of my children. And the teacher, the teacher said, you don't know, we have Ramana Maharshi, but you don't know who is teaching And we brainwashed him. English, you know, English. And he learned to talk. When they called him to class, he didn't let them in. What was the best thing that you learned in school? English. English. We're not about to fear letters even in the morning. You shouldn't fear anything. So these are very important activities and it is also important to receive the real knowledge. So we should constantly engage in yoga-jūga. Now I might finish the question. And you may go at another time for rest. Is he going to go in here tonight? Tomorrow, I think. He tested his headphones.

Actually, I am very privileged to always get guidance of His Holiness Gopal Krishna Maharaj. He engaged me from the day one when I joined in IIT Kanpur. He helped me to preach Buddhism first. And during my stay at IIT Kanpur, Maharaj used to often come to visit Kanpur to give lectures to our students, and many of the IIT Kanpur students have taken the shelter of His Lotus Feet.

Haribol!

One of the service that Maharaj engaged me is service to Bhaktivedanta Gurukula. In the beginning, if you have visited Vrindavan, you would have seen this Gurukul attached to the temple. But now this Gurukul has shifted to a bigger place. Now it is in 75 acres of land and we grow there everything. It is in fact, when we purchased, was an alkaline soil. But by the blessings of Maharaj, we could convert this land to cultivable. We are growing wheat, rice, all kinds of vegetables. Around 400 students are studying in this Gurukul.

There you go! Wow!

Temple has been very taken care of. A beautiful temple has been built, and hopefully on the 8th of November, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh will come and inaugurate. So this is, you know, was possible because Maharaj was the, is the, is the GBC for our Gurukul, and he guided us. He helped us. He supported us from fundraising to ISKCON Bureau issues, resolving everything. He was there at any, every step, every stage to help us, and He guided us, and hence we are able to serve. So also Maharaj engaged me in another service in Dehradun where we have started a preaching center in Dehradun. And, uh, anyone from Dehradun? Yeah, so the Dehradun preaching is also growing very nicely. We are going to have a nice massumi. This time we are doing Janmasmin in Dehradun in a much bigger place. And hopefully we will get some land for the temple this year, and with Maharaj's blessings, we will be able to build a temple in Dehradun. Maharaj is an inspiration for me. Of course, he engaged me in the service because that is the most important different blessings you get when you are engaged in a service. That is how you get the direct mercy of the Parampara. And I am really grateful to the Lotus Feet of His Holiness Gopalakrishna Mahārāja. For He is always, He is very kind. But what always, you know, I am always inspired. I have been seeing Mahārāja since 1993 when I came in contact. With the, um, Iskcon, and I have seen him. And always, every day, Mangala-Arati morning, Maharaj will be in the altar without fail. Even if he goes to bed 11 o'clock, 12 o'clock, many times he is also very sick, but he will be there in the Mangala-Arati. His practice, you know, he preaches by his own practice how we should not miss mangala arati, we should be attached to the deity worship, we should be able to chant regularly. What Maharaj was telling today, it is he actually practices and he becomes that example for us. He lives whatever Prabhupāda has given to us by example, and hence is the most bright example for us to follow. I personally feel always connected to Mahārāja, and many, many times when we were in difficulty, I would pray and suddenly Mahārāja would come come in the dream and I know the problem will be solved. So it is a real coincidence that I didn't know that Maharaj will be here because I came here for, you know, I'm the director of the IIT Mandi, so I'm here to promote IIT Mandi and I was really amazed to see that Maharaj is here. It's a double mercy being in the trip and seeing Maharaj. And thank you, Maharaj, for always kindly showing your compassion.

And thank you, thank you.

Vaanaja has already spoken. I don't think that— it is like, you know, in front of the sun, the lantern has no value. Thank you. Yeah, so this is the greatness of Maharaj. He remembers everything. We started actually, Maharaj, when he assigned me the responsibility of Bhaktivedanta Gurukula, he suggested me that If we can use Gurukul to spread the message of Bhagavad Gita, and then I have been working on it, and we created a module for Bhagavad Gita correspondence course, and it was launched with the blessings of Maharaj on 2020 January. We launched this, this This course has been launched in both English as well as Hindi. We have more than 2,000 registrants and around 200, more than 250 students have already taken the certificate from this course. So this is thematic, theme-wise Bhagavad Gita correspondence. Sorry, the 5 aspects of, you know, in Bhagavad Gita that you have prakṛti and karma. So in that way, this Bhagavad-gītā has been presented. There are 60 video lectures and 10 lessons. After every lesson, there are questions, both objective and subjective. So once one registers, so one reads, goes through the first lesson, completes watching all the videos, then answers the question, then is allowed to go to next session, the next lesson. Like that, 10 lessons. Once he completes, then he gets a certificate in correspondence course. Well, now, some, you know, sometimes you will be surprised to people. An army general in Malaysia, he has joined this. So correspondence course is very nice because within ISKCON, the congregations are anyway connected. But there are many out there, they are inquisitive about Bhagavad Gītā. They want to know philosophy. So correspondence course is very good to reach to them. So we have actually gone, you know, reached to many such people. I was in UT Dallas and I met one PhD student there. And he met me and told that he has been registered in the Bhagavad Gītā course. And he said that he wanted to learn Bhagavad Gītā and he was searching and he got this correspondence course. So both Hindi and English we have already launched. Now we have launched the second bigger version, chapter-wise Bhagavad Gītā correspondence. So it's all Mahārāja's mercy. It is his inspiration that made us to launch this correspondence course. Mahārāja that he wants this course to go global because he knows that how Christians are able to preach Bible through correspondence and it has become very successful. And so any one of you want to join this, because anybody can do this service wherever you are. It's like work from service from the home. So anybody wants to be part of this Karaswana's course. I think that if you work together, it can expand. We can go to multiple languages. And, uh, in fact, we have already translated this component in many other languages, including one, including one foreign language, Spanish. And so We are— Oriya is done, Bengali is done, Telugu is done. So we are going in many, many languages and we are going to launch this particular course. English. In this correspondence course, we also assign mentors, those who have who have already done this course and those who are very senior devotees, they act as mentor also. So, so it is, it is complete. You know, we have now around 40 mentors and anyone of you would like also to become mentor in this course, please come forward. We need more mentors because more mentors means we can reach out to many students. So it is not simply putting the course in the in the online and making them go through. No, they, they're not, because anybody who's doing the course, he will have many, many doubts, questions. They have to be sorted out, and hence mentors are a necessity. So anybody would like to be a mentor also, please contact us. We We will be very happy to have you as a mentor as well. Thank you very much. LearnGitaLiveGita.com. If you give LGLG, you will get the link, or LearnGitaLiveGita, LearnGitaLiveGita. So if you give that, you will get that website. So just a question about the correspondence course.

Is that course intended for preaching medium, for more external?

Yeah, yeah, it is very scientific in the sense that it has been targeted to the current youth. So it is a little philosophically, you know, scientifically, little on the higher side, like, you know, the concept Infinity. What is an infinity? So normally people don't understand it. How do you explain what is infinity? So, so many things are, you know, conceptually have been presented based on scientific output. Yes, so that is the positive side. It is directed towards the youth. So anybody would like to preach to current youth, this course would really help. Because there is a lot of science content here. And are we focusing on the pronunciation also? Like how to pronounce the sloka? No, this is philosophy, this is education, not the pronunciation.

Any more questions? Hare Krishna. Thank you. I was curious, in the verse it says how glorification of the Lord purifies this world. So many devotees have, just like this correspondence course is there, but devotees have also brought new and novel ways to glorify the Lord. Just like some devotees in Europe, they started this where they would put a chant of Gauranga on billboards.

And as people are driving down highways, they would read the name of Gauranga. So, Maharaj, I wanted to ask you, what is the best way we can glorify the Lord?

Are there certain ways that are okay, certain ways that are not okay? How do we learn? Yes. Prasad Raaval, chanting has been so much emphasized everywhere, in Gītā and Bhāgavatam and everywhere. And Taittiriya Mahābhāgavatam says, "Kṛṭṇa-niyasādhārī." So how one can really put in practice, practically, "Kṛṭṇa-niyasādhārī"? Thank you, Maharaj.

In Kīrtani and sadāharī, I think one of the ways Kīrtani and sadāharī is to adopt the mood of the spiritual master. My master is constantly serving his master and ultimately to Śrī Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa. So adopting that mood that I am always at the lotus feet of my spiritual master will really help us to chant better.

I have one question.

Like, we talk about the hearing more, but being a grāsta, like we do the job and all, so the hearing means like on chanting, or hearing means like external, the source from the external sources, like Maharaj class or the various sources. So the hearing is the last thing of grahashta because of the three other siddhis. So how to understand that, Brahmārāja?

He says, "Chant as you pour out." And we always couldn't do it. We finally said, "Oh, okay." So we chant in here. And besides, I was doing them in home cook. And whenever we chant in here, we would meditate too. We chant. And we're pouring out for the children. They are in their office. You can chant, you can chant mentally. Mentally, you can always chant anything you want to.