Lecture | Live Now | Srila Gopal Krishna Goswami

Guru Maharaj is here and having not only the official gun but also giving us darshan. So let us all welcome His Holiness Gopal Krishna Guru Maharaj.

Hari Bhagwan! Hari Bhagwan!

Hari, Hari, Hari Bhagwan!

Thank you. Kartal, kartal.

Yes, Gurumukh.

Understand. Madhavan is both of the two senses, one of the two senses. He won't stand to fight Maya. So what he does? He is called Madhavan. Madhavan. The Madhavan name also implies he gives pleasure to everyone. Madhavan means he is patient, always in love. You are hearing clearly? Yes, yes. Mother Mary was a banshee of the Lord and he also Sanskrita. When the Lord sent it as Lakṣmaṇa, Lakṣmaṇa was a little unhappy. Lakṣmaṇa saw, Lakṣmaṇa saw, and he was into depression. For example, when the Lord is born in Benares, Benares, He made a voice. He had to put in here the voice. That's right. And that's all. He was not willing to go.

No, you must go.

Ram is in trouble. Lakshman said, Ram can never be in trouble. I didn't know he was so, so zen, that kind of guy. He never did that. He never went to that group. He just wanted to release the air. So my friend, he decided, no, I don't want to kill. I don't want to kill a cat, whatever. All of a When Śrīla got married, came to live in Rām's palace, she saw that she was totally unemployed. There was no work she could do. Why? She was born a nun. That's when we do all the work. That's when we have to go and spend more time meditating more. How can I serve? So even before he started pouring out, even in his explanation of the goal, he knew it. He said, "That's been a lot of growth." So she said to him, "What do they want me to do now? Anything I want to do, I couldn't go back to the meeting and do it." Well, I mind-blowing. was very complex. Who's greater guru? If I suppose Sita, then Lakshmana will not be happy. If I suppose Ravana, Sita will not be happy. So they couldn't decide. They said, let's go to the guru. They went to the guru and he said, okay, say hi to the pretty lady. Peace in the family. You have to look after all around or inside the family. And naturally, you look after— you have a problem looking after the administration or the school. We divided the work into lectures and So naturally I said, "I am in love, feeling that I want to appear as Lord's older brother." So when Lord appeared as Kṛṣṇa, when Mother and Father appeared, when God appeared, and naturally I felt, "Oh, He appeared as God."— and he had no brother at all. Now, the second appearance, mother and the older brother. So, Yogi went ahead to hold my head. After that, he calms down. We're going to to leave them behind in a new home. So they wake up and they didn't have a place to wake up. They get fed. They're in a foreign-born family. It's quite simple. And they were dragged, tons of us, playing a chariot. Never knew what they were saying. And I had only And Kōhei said, "You fool! You are carrying a sister! You don't know the age of this sister!" Because the woman said, "The age I have a sister, they will kill." So, he was very responsible for it.

That's—

so, Prasad Raaval, his plan was, "Kill my sister, so there will be no age gap." Then he will go after this. But it was very diplomatic. But he was saying, "You are worrying the age gap." child. So every time a child is born, I'll bring him to you and if you feel then he's near to you, then we will— you want to bring all the children. And I said, okay, later I'm going to stay in life and of course, that kind of— The Vādhā main business is what? Serving Kṛṣṇa. His house is meditation area. Kṛṣṇa is birthday. Kṛṣṇa and Vādhā perform. Anybody who wants to participate. Then he came to me, demon. Prasad RAVAL. Prasad RAVAL. Talk about your life, he said. All the demons killed by you, they are all Kṛṣṇa. All these demons And by repeating these stories, we move our consciousness. We have another anecdote then concerning the advice of the Baba. The Baba is always blessed to select, and he travels and he comes upon Supreme Masterji. There was a tree, and in the tree in that area there were many sweet fruits. And Vidyasura, in the form of an ass, was a little bit of an ass than human. So as Krishna Maharaja came This tree inside has very delicious fruits, so delicious that if you eat it, you will know it. But we don't have access to any of these fruits. Very powerful demon, and his demons wanted to be near him. So Prasad RAVAL said, okay, what do you want me to do? So there was a Devasa who wanted to marry his daughter in the form of an ass. So when he came there, He shook the trees and then he was born out, somebody with a forehead shaking his feet and running. And then he saw all these beautiful flowers. What about them? He took the ash, put it on his feet feet. So that all around, instrument on his feet, and he's like from bottom to the demon, no problem at all. And we will get it. I don't want to ask him to be in depth with us, in depth on the He said to me, 'Prasad Raaval, you have many demons. Oh, it will be difficult to kill.' I said, 'Now, any always work for me to do?' Then he said, 'Can you kill this powerful demon? It is in a forest nearby, and inside that is a demon.' Whoa, then, Prasad, even in school there was something against me before. So please, please, please, I beg. So Baba said, okay, and he went to his sleep. And the next morning, Baba did not wake me. And so, Baba would He's a president. So now we wonder, is he really appreciative here of all of us? And in Barampur, we, in that evening, came to a temple. It was a mosque, a mosque of a very evil man. He was a no-good man. Dancer. I'm saying what we do. You are the same like dancer. And it made more room to give Krishna more growth. So Krishna saw Nāma Sūra coming. He wanted to make a plan to trap Nāma Sūra. Krishna knew that Kṛṣṇa was coming with intention of kidnapping. Kidnapping whom? Lord Kṛṣṇa's mother. So Kṛṣṇa said, "Let's think of a plan." He said, "Okay, we divide everyone into two parties. One will be Kṛṣṇa's party, one will be Bharata's party. And if your party loses, then I will carry the other party members— to understand that. Through body, you will never experience nirvana. You will lose that. It's a craving. It's a loss. So, you'll feel it a lot. But then, balance will come. Okay. And in Prasada, the initial goal was to take Balaram away from Krishna's abhi-bhava. And he would be left. But he didn't know that Balaram, Krishna, everything, and everything. So he, Balaram, came close to that And Bala went on increasing his weight and as he increased his weight, what happened? As he increased his weight, the demand for the cattle, for the cattle, for the cattle numbers were So here is Prasad, who is a real, a sincere devotee, who is being portrayed as a true Christian, how a man who performs the way that he— Balaam did not take part in the battle of Persia. That Persia they were looking for. Balaam did not want to take any part. went into all the religious places of India, went to all the tirthas and to the pilgrims. So, as we were going, we came to Amritsar. Where is Amritsar? I think that's— Amritsar is one of the very sacred places. Near Lakṇa, and people go there and visualize God. The bāṇa over there, namaskār to bāṇa, mantra, namaskār. Over there, very elaborate worship was going on. These stages there of Govinda-yajña, they were going to last for 1000 years. And they selected Rāmāṇiṣuṣa to be their guide. They gave him special powers. He said, "For 1000 years, you will not die. Nothing will happen to you." So when Mahārāja came to a Navashrāṇa, what they were doing All the sages, all the saints were present. They all got up and offered a victim. They all offered a victim. And there was one sage who did not get up. Who was that? Prasad Raaval. Prasad Raaval. Why didn't he get up? Every God falls in proud. He thought that because he owned a vyāsa, he was sitting on a vyāsa, that he doesn't have to get up. But in front of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, everybody has to get up. So all the sages, they bowed down. Some of them, they said, "Prabhupāda, this is the Supreme Lord. You came to establish dharma." Mahārāja Prasada RAVALA thought, It was his duty to protect them. What did Prasad RAVAL do? What did he do? With a blade of grass, he just struck it and then he killed one person. He died. When he died, all the sages present cried, "Oh, now what's going to happen?" Especially Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi. That's who we do the yoga. Now he's dead. What is it? It's wrong, what happened? He's wrong, that. It's not proper what he did. You can't do that. Somebody was empowered by us to do the yajña for thousands of years. Now how will we do the yajña? Mahārāja said, okay, if you want me to do one, I will give him birth and bring him back to life again. And the king said, oh, you know, If the prayer is that, then it will be so. Then what to do? Then the sage said, "You must perform a torment." So the uparasa said, "Okay, let me moderate whatever you want." He said, "Next day I will be there." So all this, termina, he goes to all the places of worship and passes good and his tool and to damage it. Now, we can't form any argument, we can't form any sacrifice. The father gave him a hammer, the mother was there. So, it's like, "Please take care of this tool." The father took care of his business. Prasad RAVAL. Prasad RAVAL. Prasad RAVAL. The father was pretty keen to travel. He was travelling, he heard that the Mahāprabhuṣeṣa had ended, and Bāla Rāma thought, "Why don't I go there and show the path of completion?" Bāla Rāma arrived at the location where the Mahāprabhuṣeṣa was taking place, and Bāla Rāma In Hindi, it is shiv saleh na bhoda, never be helpless. And then Sai Baba, he was— he was born out of a special feeling for people, and it was very sensational to see him give them everything Balaam would come here, actually after you were there. We were then in New Zealand, we were here fighting the anti-apartheid, and the battle was going on for years and years in that society while they were immature yet. So, Balaam came there, he didn't say anything. He had a sword fight, but when he saw nobody was being victorious, Aram said, "In this battle, none of the two are going to win." Why? Because then an explosion would come and escape to fight with the club. And he was saying, "This is the game." because he has many students. So, Maharaman tried to preach them, but he was a— the others did not respond, did not cooperate very well. Maharaman also known as Daaji. He would have been now in heaven, Daaji Maharaj. Kamsa was saying, "I'll leave it to kill Krishna." So the demon said, "You want me to go and kill Krishna? How will I recognize him?" Anything. So he said, "He'll be the only one," Kamsa said, "he'll be the only one wearing a name of Durga." So he became— he searched everywhere. And there he saw someone having food and having his Krishna, but his Krishna's cap was off. He got that. So he could wear it. Then he was a Krishna. So he would have to make all the way he not Krishna announced, actually it was Balarama, and then had even went away from Krishna. Balarama took that feather and came to Lord Krishna. He said, 'Get back.' Actually, I didn't even one day see what happened. I got beaten so badly, I didn't even— he had bluish clothes and he appeared and the older brother got up quickly. And then the British came. We prayed to Mahārāja to give us special strength. We wanted to treat others special, but we didn't receive special strength. And special strength comes by Holding— Any question? Or Gibson. Yeah, yeah, it's very attractive. I seen him in the art of fighting, in the way he was not— he was not much of a hero, but he was nice. He smiled. I don't mean I fight for— he has trained enough. He got enough to be ashamed of. We had a fight and you're going to have a fight. I respect that. So, yeah.

In the pastime of Lord Balarama, He in the Rāmaśrāmya, the Rāmaśrāmya, there are sometimes the atheists quote this particular instance saying that, you know, Lord Balarama, he couldn't tolerate, he just, you know, killed on the spot. So how can we explain to such a person about this particular pastime?

Lord Balarama, he killed a maharaja, but he killed him with a shoe, with one knee. That is something extraordinary. I think it is If you read it in some other culture, you will see it is a one-word literature. So in Canada, we have very positive view of our Hindu. And of course, many parts of the country, Okay, how many of you have the Krishna book here? How many of you read the Krishna book? Thank you.

Hare Krishna. So, we are very grateful. What a wonderful lecture. We were so blessed by his association. He came all the way from Seattle, traveling 5 hours just to give us the blessing association. We are so blessed. So, let's give Prasadam. So, let's have Prasadam downstairs. Thank you so much all for coming. And please don't forget, next week is a wonderful program. And Subhadra Prasad. Thank you.

And unfortunately, unfortunately, today there's a big program in Ashburn, so everybody should attend.