Krsna The Reservoir Of Pleasure

KRSNA THE RESERVOIR OF PLEASURE This was taken from a talk By His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada!I am in no way connected to the group Chakra, I am an Initiated Deciple By My Guru,His Holiness Radhanath Swami Maharaja,In disiplic succession,to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada,So I am a Member Of ISKCON,,Though This page, was not sactioned or authorized by The International Society for Krsna Consciousness, or the GBC,Though I think it is the responsibility of every DEVOTEE To spread Krsna Conciousness, any way he can.All respect and love to all Vaisnavas!

HARE KRSNA HARE KRSNA KRSNA KRSNA HARE HARE HARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE People chant Hare Krsna for lots of reasons. Some people are just curious. Some want material benefits, or relief from anxiety. But the best reason to chant Hare Krsna is to get to know Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Just as you can get acquainted with someone by associating with him, you can find out about Krsna by associating with His name, because the sound “Krsna” is the same as Krsna Himself. It’s called the sound incarnation of God. “Hare Krsna” is a call to the Lord, to engage us in His service. The process is simple and sublime. Find out more in this Page of Krsna The reservoir of Pleasure. His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Founder..Acarya of the International Society for Krsna consciousness. How can we find pleasure that lasts? A talk by His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada Krsna—this sound is transcendental. Krsna means the highest pleasure. Each of us, every living being, seeks pleasure. But we do not know how to seek pleasure perfectly. With a materialistic concept of life, we are frustrated at every step in satisfying our desire for pleasure, because we have no information regarding the real level on which to have real pleasure. For the last few weeks we have been learning that we are not this body; we are consciousness. Not exactly conscousness, for consciousness is actually the symptom of our real identity: we are pure soul, now merged within this material body .Modern material science lays no stress on this; therefore, the scientists are sometimes misled in their understanding of spirit soul. But spirit soul is a fact, which anyone can understand by the presence of consciousness. Any child can understand that consciousness is the symptom of the spirit soul. Even after the destruction of this body, our consciousness is not destroyed. Rather, our consciousness is transferred to another type of body and again makes us aware of the material conception of life. That is also described in the Bhagavad-gita At the time of death, if our consciousness is pure, we can be sure that our next life will not be material—our next life will be spiritual. If our consciousness is not pure at the point of death, then, after leaving this body, we shall have to take another material body. That is the process which is going on. That is nature’s law. The material body has two divisions: the subtle body and the gross body. Just as we may cover ourselves with a shirt and coat, so the pure soul is covered by the “shirt and coat” of the subtle and gross bodies. Our bones, blood, flesh, and our different senses (like our eyes, ears, and skin) make up our gross body; and our mind, intelligence, and false ego make up our subtle body. False ego means the misconception that I am matter, that I am a product of this material world. This misconception makes me localized. For example, because I have taken my birth in India, I think myself Indian. Because I have taken my birth in America, I think myself American. But, as pure soul, I am neither Indian nor American. I am pure soul. These others are designations. American, or Indian, or German, or Englishman; cat or dog, or bee or bat, man or wife: all these are designations. In spiritual consciousness we become free from all such designations. That freedom is achieved when we are constantly in touch with the supreme The International Society for Krishna Consciousness is simply intended to keep us in constant touch with Krsna, Krsna can be in constant companionship with us because He is omnipotent. Therefore, He can be fully in touch with us by His words. His words and He are not different. That is omnipotence.

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KRSNA THE RESERVOUR OF PLEASURE- PT 2 Contintued
KRSNA'S BLESSINGS IN THE CHANTING OF HIS NAME
HOW TO SEE AND KNOW GOD
SRILA PRABHUPADA SPEAKS OUT
Omnipotence means that everything relating to Him has the same potency. For example, here in this material world, if we are thirsty and we want water, simply repeating “water, water, water, water,” will not satisfy cause this word does not have the same potency as water itself. We require the water in substance. Then our thirst will be satisfied. But in the transcendental, absolute world, there is no such difference. Krsna's name, Krsna’s quality, Krsna’s word—everything is Krsna and provides the same satisfaction. Some people argue that Arjuna was talking with Krsna because Krsna was present before him—whereas in my case Krsna is not present, so how can I get directions? But that is not a fact. Krsna is present by His words—the Bhagavadgita. In India, when we speak on the Bhagavad-gita or Srimad-Bhagavatam, we regularly perform worship with flowers, or with other paraphernalia, as is required for worshiping, In the Sikh religion also, although they have no form of the Deity, they worship the book Grantha Sahab. Perhaps some of you are acquainted with this Sikh community. They worship this Grantha. Similarly, the Muslims worship the Koran. Similarly, in the Christian world, the Bible is worshiped. It is a fact that Lord Jesus Christ is present by his words. Krsna is also present by His words. These personalities, either God or the Son of God, who come from the transcendental world, keep their transcendental identities without being contaminated by the material world. That is their omnipotence. We are in the habit of saying that God is omnipotent. Omnipotence means that He is not different from His name, from His quality, from His pastimes, from His instruction. Therefore, the discussion of Bhagavadgita is as good as discussion with Krsna Himself.
Krsna is seated in your heart, and in my heart too. Isvarah sarva-bhutanam, hr-dese ‘rjuna tisthati (Bg. 18.61). God is situated in everyone’s heart. God is not away from us. He is present. He is so friendly that He remains with us in our repeated change of births. He is waiting to see when we shall turn to Him. He is so kind that though we may forget Him, He never forgets us. Although a son may forget his father, a father never forgets his son. Similarly, God, the original father of everything, everybody, all living entities, will never forsake us. We may have different bodies, but they are our shirt-coats. That has nothing to do with our real identity. Our real identity is pure soul, and that pure soul is part and parcel of the Supreme Lord. There are 8,400,000 species of life. Even the biologist and the anthropologist cannot calculate this accurately, but from authoritative, revealed scripture we get this information. Human beings represent 400,000 species, and there are 8,000,000 other species. But Krsna, the Supreme Lord, claims that all of them, whether beast, man, snake, god, semi-god, demigod—anything whatever —all of them are, in reality, His sons. The father gives the seed, and the mother receives the seed. The body is then formed, according to the mothers body. And when the body is completely formed, it comes out— either from cats, from dogs, or from man. That is the process of generation. The father gives the seed, and it is emulsified with two kinds of secretion in the womb of the mother, and on the first night the body is formed just like a pea. Then, gradually, it develops. There are nine holes that develop: two ears, two eyes, nostri1s, a mouth, a navel, a penis, and an anus. According to his last karma, or action, one gets this body to enjoy, or to suffer. That is the process of birth and death. And after finishing this life, again one dies, and again one enters into the womb of some mother. Another type of body then comes out. This is the process of reincarnation.

We should be very diligent as to how we can discontinue this process of’ repeated birth and death and change of body. That is the prerogative of the human form of life. We can stop this process of repeated birth and death. We can get our actual spiritual form again and be blissful and full of knowledge and have eternal life. That is the purpose of evolution. We should not miss this. The entire process of liberation begins just as we have now begun this chanting and hearing. I wish to point out that this chanting of the holy name of God (Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare) and hearing the truths of the Gita is as good as bodily association with Krsna. That is stated in the Gita. This process is called kirtana. Even if one does not understand the language, still, just by hearing, he acquires some piety. His assets lead him to a pious life, even if he does not understand—it has such power. There are two topics concerning Krsna. Two kinds of topics, actually. One topic is this Bhagavad-gita. It is spoken by Krsna. And the other topic concerning Krsna is Srimad-Bhagavatam. That is spoken about Krsna. So there are two types of krsna-katha (topics), and both of them are equally potent because they are connected with Krsna. Because the Bhagavad-gita is spoken on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra, some people have asked what we have to do with the battlefield. We have nothing to do with any battlefield. We are after knowledge of the spiritual sphere. Then, why should we bother about this battlefield? Because Krsna is on the battlefield, and therefore the whole battlefield has become Krsna-ized. Just as when an electric current is passed into some metal, the whole metal becomes surcharged with electricity, so too, when Krsna is interested in some matter, that matter becomes Krsna-ized. Otherwise, there wouldn’t be any need at all of talking about the Battlefield of Kuruksetra. That is His omnipotence. The Original Bhagavad Gita As it is By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada I am Distrbuting This 1973 Gita,Newly Printed,With a Beautiful Hard Cover,Unchanged,With Vedic And English Traslations,and original Paintings,for a small Donation of $10.50 plus shipping,just to cover printing.I am trying to get started Distributing, these Beautiful Big Books,worth 20.00 to 40.00 dollars easly, in a book store,So Please take advantage of this oppertunity!Make a Donation,And Get this Wonderful,Beautiful Book! I am Just Tring to Give these books away,For the cost of Printing! Just Came in--Original Krsna Book Back In Print!!Krsna Book [1970 edition, 2 Volume Set, Introduction by George Harrison]. Completly unchanged in original Two Volume Set,Just asking For a Donation of $10.50 a Book,Plus shipping,Or $20.00 plus shipping for the Set!Limited Books on Hand ,So please take advantage of this offer!I am giving these books away at cost of printing ,as my service to everyone, who took the time ,to read this page!Hare Krsna. Your Servant KRSNAJOE (Jaya Kesava Dasa) We have accumulated many inauspicious things within our hearts due to our material contamination during the course of many, many births. Many, many births—not only this birth, but past births as well. So, when we search into our hearts with the krsna-katha, then the contamination we have accumulated will be washed off. Our hearts will be cleansed of all rubbish. And, as soon as all the rubbish is cleared off, then we are situated in pure consciousness. It is very difficult to eradicate all the false designations from oneself. For example, I am Indian. It is not very easy to immediately think that I am not Indian, but pure soul. Similarly, it is not a very easy task for anyone to end his identification with these bodily designations. But still, if we continue hearing the Krsna-kathd, it will be very easy. Make an experiment. Make an experiment to see how easily you’ll be able to free yourse1f from all these designations. Of course, it is not possible to clear out the rubbish from the mind all of a sudden, but by hearing krsna-kathd we are immediately aware that the influence of the material nature becomes slackened. The material nature is working in three modes —goodness, passion, and ignorance. Ignorance is hopeless life. Passion is materialistic. One who is influenced by the mode of passion wants this false enjoyment of material existence. Because he does not know the truth, he wants to squeeze out the energy of the body just to enjoy this matter.
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