I was thinking about how today, in the world because people don’t know this. This means they don’t know that Kṛṣṇa is the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Everything emanates from Him. They try to solve the problems of life through their own devices. They make adjustments—politically, economically, physically, socially—and all of them create more complications. That is, when we try to solve our problems through our own intellects, we always create more problems. This is something Prahlād Mahārāj mentions in his prayers to Lord Nṛsiṁhadev, that the so-called remedies of this world are often times worse than the disease itself. And so, while I was reading the Puruṣa Sūkta, I was thinking how the ultimate solution to life always traces back to what Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā: “man-manā bhava mad-bhakto (18.65) – Just remember Me.” In the Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Kavirāja Gosvāmī mentions that if you remember Lord Caitanya, then difficult things become easy. And if you forget Him, then what should become simple becomes very complicated (CC Adi 14.1).Near the end of the Puruṣa Sūkta, it is mentioned in a benedictory verse that anyone who becomes aware of The Supreme Puruṣa, who is the source of this manifested world, becomes liberated. It’s something that Kṛṣṇa says in the Bhagavad-gītā also, everything’s there in the Gītā, right? (excerpt from the talk) https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/a… ———————————————————— To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-st… ———————————————————— Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/ https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/ https://thefourquestionsbook.com/ ———————————————————— Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpar… Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca… For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpar… For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spar… ———————————————————— #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose

Anybody need an attitude lift? Yes, lift your attitude. One, two, three, lift. So much of our progress has to do with our attitude, and it’s easy to get pushed down by the three modes of material nature. The way to rise above it is by chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. And I’m going to repeat the first verse that came from the Antya Līlā, Caitanya-caritāmṛta, written by Kṛṣṇadāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī. Simply by chanting The Holy Name of Lord Kṛṣṇa, one can be freed from all undesirable habits. Simply by chanting The Holy Name of Lord Kṛṣṇa, one can be freed from all undesirable habits. That’s what everybody’s talking about and preparing for: how can I overcome undesirable habits? There are millions of self-help books, courses, psychology majors, everything. How can I overcome undesirable habits? But this one process, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa is the way to rise above it. Correct. Who can prove it with śāstra? Give me a Sanskrit verse. Why does it work? Because we’re not blind followers. We need evidence. (excerpt from the talk) https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/a… ———————————————————— To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-st… ———————————————————— Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/ https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/ https://thefourquestionsbook.com/ ———————————————————— Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpar… Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca… For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpar… For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spar… ———————————————————— #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose #makejapagreatagain #mantra #mantrameditation #chantharekrishnaandbehappy

Youth of the world, join together in the practice of devotional service ISKCON of Silicon Valley

‘Brahmāṇḍa bhramite kono bhāgyavān jīva guru-kṛṣṇa-kṛpāya pāya bhakti-latā-bīja’ (CC. Madhya 19.151) means we are aimlessly moving from one body to the next, one universe to the next, and then, by the grace of Kṛṣṇa, one gets a guru, by the grace of the Guru, one gets Kṛṣṇa. And so, Lord Nityānanda is the original guru, and he reveals the importance of Śrī Chaitanya Mahāprabhu to all the devotees and reveals that He’s the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Caitanya Mahāprabhu took sanyāsa and He headed for this place, Jagannātha Puri. And this is a stop before you get to Puri. It’s about six miles away. Of course, they were walking; this is pretty far along from Navadvīpa when they stopped here. From the Caitanya Charitāmrita you will note that they stopped in various places and what did they do? They engaged in Kṛṣṇa Kathā. In fact Nityānanda had heard from others the story of Kṣīra-corā gopīnātha. He told that story here, and the devotees just enjoyed it. Everything was going fine until Śrī Chaitanya Mahāprabhu asked Nityānanda to hold his dandā. You know when you ask somebody to hold your bead bag and say you’ll be right back? Then you come back and say, “Where’s my bag?” “Oh, I don’t have it anymore.” I never had that happen, but somebody actually cut off my śikhā when they were helping buzz me up. Since then, I learned how to do it myself. They thought it was funny. I didn’t think it was that funny. They were like, “ha ha ha, it’ll grow back.” It’s a big deal to a brahmacārī, okay? So, Nityānanda had broken his dandā in three parts and threw it away, apparently in this river. When Caitanya Mahāprabhu came back and asked for His dandā, Nitai said, “You know, you broke it because you were in ecstasy. I tried to save you from fainting, and we both fell on the dandā and it broke and now it’s gone.” He had different excuses for why the dandā was gone. Now both Vṛndāvana Dāsa Ṭhākura and ā Dāsa Kavirāja Gosvāmī, and then our ācāryas like Śrīla Bhaktisiddhānta Sarasvatī Ṭhākura, mention the importance of this pastime. It is still enigmatic, even though they give different descriptions, because it’s enigmatic in and of itself that Supreme is one, but He expands Himself into many. That’s why I brought up that verse ‘Vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvaṁ yaj jñānam advayam’ in an attempt to build a foundational basis for this talk today. Because there’s a way in which it’s incomprehensible how the Supreme is everything and He is one, advaya but at the same time he has variety. But it makes a lot of sense to me anyway because the Supreme is all-cognizant, full of bliss, eternality, and ānanda. and that’s why I also mentioned that for there to be ānanda there has to be loving relationship. So, how is this a significant and loving relationship between Caitanya Mahāprabhu and Lord Nityānanda? Why did He break the dandā? Even more mysteriously, why did Caitanya Mahāprabhu dictate from within that Nityānanda should break the dandā? It is even more curious why Caitanya Mahāprabhu then became angry if he’s the one, as Vṛndāvana Dāsa Ṭhākura says, who inspired Nitāi to break it the first place? To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-st… ———————————————————— Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/ (USA only) https://thefourquestionsbook.com/ ———————————————————— Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpar… Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca… For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpar… For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spar… ———————————————————— #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose

Hearing and chanting Krishna’s name, instruction, and pastimes is the mainstay of devotional service. Please join us here for spiritual rejuvenation. ISKCON of Silicon Valley

This is a good example of vaidhi-bhakti. You’re disturbed when you’re three minutes late. This means a very strict idea of how to follow the process. I have a god brother, Saurī Dāsa, who lived with him in the ashram in Hawaii and other places, and he’s down to the second. Everything’s like, “Get out of my way. We got to do this now,” and everything has to be fixed and regulated. He gets up at the same time, and actually, in the beginning of the practice of devotional service, or throughout, we find that the great devotees, Raghunātha Dāsa Goswāmī’s practice was like lines in stone, very strictly following. This leads to more advanced stages of the practice of devotional service. So that’s good to hear that your mind becomes disturbed by being three minutes late.Hare Kṛṣṇa. I’ll read something for our last section. This is from the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam six canto, Ajāmila delivered by the Viṣṇudūtas. “One who chants the holy name of the Lord is immediately freed from the reactions of unlimited sins, even if he chants indirectly to indicate something else, jokingly for musical entertainment or even neglectfully. This is accepted by all the learned scholars of the scriptures. If one chants the holy name of Hari and then dies because of an accidental misfortune, such as falling from the top of a house, slipping and suffering broken bones while traveling on the road, being bitten by a serpent, being afflicted with pain and high fever, or being injured by a weapon, one is immediately absolved from having to enter hellish life, even though he is sinful.” ———————————————————— To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-st… ———————————————————— Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/ https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/ https://thefourquestionsbook.com/ ———————————————————— Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpar… Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca… For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpar… For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spar… ———————————————————— #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose #makejapagreatagain #mantra #mantrameditation #chantharekrishnaandbehappy #harekrishna