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Lecture - Gunagrahi dasa Goswami - SB 7.10.36-38

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Lecture given by Gunagrahi dasa Goswami on Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 7, Chapter 10, Texts 36-38.  The video starts with about 2min 30sec of the end of Guru Puja kirtan.  The lecture covers preaching in ways that attract people to Krishna Consciousness.  Some devotees share their initial reaction to meeting the devotees for the first time.

The audio of the other speakers is a bit quiet.  I did my best to increase the volume, but it is still hard to hear.  You may wish to listen with headphones to hear those sections better.

TRANSLATION

Being cursed by the brahmanas, the same two associates took birth again as Kumbhakarna and the ten-headed Ravana. These two Rakshasas were killed by Lord Ramacandra’s extraordinary power.

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Pierced by the arrows of Lord Ramacandra, both Kumbhakarna and Ravana lay on the ground and left their bodies, fully absorbed in thought of the Lord, just as they had in their previous births as Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakasipu.

TRANSLATION

They both took birth again in human society as Sisupala and Dantavakra and continued in the same enmity toward the Lord. It is they who merged into the body of the Lord in your presence.

Dallas, TX
2008-06-13

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TRANSLATION

Being cursed by the brahmanas, the same two associates took birth again as Kumbhakarna and the ten-headed Ravana. These two Rakshasas were killed by Lord Ramacandra’s extraordinary power.

TRANSLATION

Pierced by the arrows of Lord Ramacandra, both Kumbhakarna and Ravana lay on the ground and left their bodies, fully absorbed in thought of the Lord, just as they had in their previous births as Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakasipu.

TRANSLATION

They both took birth again in human society as Sisupala and Dantavakra and continued in the same enmity toward the Lord. It is they who merged into the body of the Lord in your presence.

PURPORT

Vairanubandhena. Acting like the Lord’s enemy is also beneficial for the living entity. Kamad dveshad bhayat snehad. Whether in lusty desire, anger, fear or envy of the Lord, somehow or other, as recommended by Srila Rupa Gosvami (tasmat kenapy upayena), one should become attached to the Supreme Personality of Godhead and ultimately achieve the goal of returning home, back to Godhead. What, then, is to be said of one who is related to the Supreme Personality of Godhead as a servant, friend, father, mother or conjugal lover?

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Lecture - Nityananda Prabhu - SB 7.10.34-35

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Lecture given by Nityananda Prabhu on Canto 7, Chapter 10, Texts 34 and 35.  He stresses the dangers of offending the Vaishnava (devotee of the Lord) and the importance of love of God.

TRANSLATION

O King Yudhishthira, after all the demigods, headed by Lord Brahma, were properly worshiped by Prahlada Maharaja, they offered Prahlada their utmost benedictions and then returned to their respective abodes.

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Thus the two associates of Lord Vishnu who had become Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakasipu, the sons of Diti, were both killed. By illusion they had thought that the Supreme Lord, who is situated in everyone’s heart, was their enemy.

Dallas, TX
2008-06-12

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TRANSLATION

O King Yudhishthira, after all the demigods, headed by Lord Brahma, were properly worshiped by Prahlada Maharaja, they offered Prahlada their utmost benedictions and then returned to their respective abodes.

TRANSLATION

Thus the two associates of Lord Vishnu who had become Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakasipu, the sons of Diti, were both killed. By illusion they had thought that the Supreme Lord, who is situated in everyone’s heart, was their enemy.

PURPORT

The discourse concerning Lord Nrisimhadeva and Prahlada Maharaja began when Maharaja Yudhishthira asked Narada how Sisupala had merged into the body of Krishna. Sisupala and Dantavakra were the same Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakasipu. Here Narada Muni is relating how in three different births the associates of Lord Vishnu were killed by Lord Vishnu Himself. First they were the demons Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakasipu.

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Gurukuli Bhajans - Hari das

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Houston and Dallas Gurukulis singing bhajans at the Dallas temple.  Hari das leads this set of Hare Krishna bhajans.

Dallas, TX
2008-06-04

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Gurukuli Bhajans - Anish

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Houston and Dallas Gurukulis singing bhajans at the Dallas temple.  Anish leads this set of Hare Krishna bhajans.

Dallas, TX
2008-06-04

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Gurukuli Bhajans at New Talavan

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We visited New Talavan for a couple of days.  One night the gurukulis got together and sang bhajans.  This is a sampling of those bhajans.

New Talavan, MS
2008-05-25

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Lecture - Kesava Bharati Dasa Goswami - SB 7.10.15-17

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Kesava Bharati Dasa Goswami spoke on Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 7, Chapter 10, Texts 15-17.  These verses are prayers by Prahlad Maharaj to Lord Nrsimhadev.  Very important verses.

Towards the end of the lecture, he read some quotes from Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur.  They give details on how we should think in order to acheive the ideal consciousness as preachers.

TRANSLATION

Prahlada Maharaja said: O Supreme Lord, because You are so merciful to the fallen souls, I ask You for only one benediction. I know that my father, at the time of his death, had already been purified by Your glance upon him, but because of his ignorance of Your beautiful power and supremacy, he was unnecessarily angry at You, falsely thinking that You were the killer of his brother. Thus he directly blasphemed Your Lordship, the spiritual master of all living beings, and committed heavily sinful activities directed against me, Your devotee. I wish that he be excused for these sinful activities.

Dallas, TX
2008-05-31

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TRANSLATION

Prahlada Maharaja said: O Supreme Lord, because You are so merciful to the fallen souls, I ask You for only one benediction. I know that my father, at the time of his death, had already been purified by Your glance upon him, but because of his ignorance of Your beautiful power and supremacy, he was unnecessarily angry at You, falsely thinking that You were the killer of his brother. Thus he directly blasphemed Your Lordship, the spiritual master of all living beings, and committed heavily sinful activities directed against me, Your devotee. I wish that he be excused for these sinful activities.

PURPORT

Although Hiranyakasipu was purified as soon as he came in contact with the Lord’s lap and the Lord saw him, Prahlada Maharaja still wanted to hear from the Lord’s own mouth that his father had been purified by the Lord’s causeless mercy. Prahlada Maharaja offered this prayer to the Lord for the sake of his father. As a Vaishnava son, despite all the inconveniences imposed upon him by his father, he could not forget his father’s affection.

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Lecture - Kesava Bharati Dasa Goswami - SB 7.10.13

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Kesava Bharati Dasa Goswami gave this morning’s Srimad Bhagavatam Lecture on Canto 7, Chapter 10, Text 13.

TRANSLATION

My dear Prahlada, while you are in this material world you will exhaust all the reactions of pious activity by feeling happiness, and by acting piously you will neutralize impious activity. Because of the powerful time factor, you will give up your body, but the glories of your activities will be sung in the upper planetary systems, and being fully freed from all bondage, you will return home, back to Godhead.

Dallas, TX
2008-05-29

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TRANSLATION

My dear Prahlada, while you are in this material world you will exhaust all the reactions of pious activity by feeling happiness, and by acting piously you will neutralize impious activity. Because of the powerful time factor, you will give up your body, but the glories of your activities will be sung in the upper planetary systems, and being fully freed from all bondage, you will return home, back to Godhead.

PURPORT

Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura says: evam prahladasyamsena sadhana-siddhatvam nitya-siddhatvam ca naradadivaj jneyam. There are two classes of devotees — the sadhana-siddha and the nitya-siddha. Prahlada Maharaja is a mixed siddha; that is, he is perfect partly because of executing devotional service and partly because of eternal perfection. Thus he is compared to such devotees as Narada. Formerly, Narada Muni was the son of a maidservant, and therefore in his next birth he attained perfection (sadhana-siddhi) because of having executed devotional service. Yet he is also a nitya-siddha because he never forgets the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

The word kusalena is very important. One should live in the material world very expertly. The material world is known as the world of duality because one sometimes has to act impiously and sometimes has to act piously. Although one does not want to act impiously, the world is so fashioned that there is always danger (padam padam yad vipadam). Thus even when performing devotional service a devotee has to create many enemies. Prahlada Maharaja himself had experience of this, for even his father became his enemy. A devotee should expertly manage to think always of the Supreme Lord so that the reactions of suffering cannot touch him. This is the expert management of papa-punya — pious and impious activities. An exalted devotee like Prahlada Maharaja is jivan-mukta; he is liberated even in this very life in the material body.

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Lecture - Kesava Bharati Dasa Goswami - SB 7.10.12

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Kesava Bharati Dasa Goswami gave this morning’s lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 7, Text 10, Verse 12.  

TRANSLATION

It does not matter that you are in the material world. You should always, continuously, hear the instructions and messages given by Me and always be absorbed in thought of Me, for I am the Supersoul existing in the core of everyone’s heart. Therefore, give up fruitive activities and worship Me.

The audio is a bit rough for the first half (trying out a new mic) but improves afterwards.

Dallas, TX
2008-05-28

Click “Continue reading…” below for the full verse and purport.

TRANSLATION

It does not matter that you are in the material world. You should always, continuously, hear the instructions and messages given by Me and always be absorbed in thought of Me, for I am the Supersoul existing in the core of everyone’s heart. Therefore, give up fruitive activities and worship Me.

PURPORT

When a devotee becomes materially very opulent, one should not think that he is enjoying the results of his fruitive activities. A devotee in this material world uses all material opulences for the service of the Lord because he is planning how to serve the Lord with these opulences, as advised by the Lord Himself. Whatever material opulence is within his possession he engages to expand the glories and service of the Lord. A devotee never performs any fruitive or ritualistic ceremony to enjoy the results of such karma. Rather, a devotee knows that karma-kanda is meant for the less intelligent man. Narottama dasa Thakura says in his prema-bhakti-candrika, karma-kanda, jnana-kanda, kevala vishera bhanda: both karma-kanda and jnana-kanda — fruitive activities and speculation about the Supreme Lord — are like pots of poison. One who is attracted to karma-kanda and jnana-kanda spoils his existence as a human being. Therefore a devotee is never interested in karma-kanda or jnana-kanda, but is simply interested in favorable service to the Lord (anukulyena krishnanusilanam), or cultivation of spiritual activities in devotional service.