Krishna's Mercy
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Five Kim Phalam Questions For Bhakti Activities
March 09, 2024 02:00 - 6 minutes - 6.25 MB“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what means will it be accomplished?” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10.24.3)
Getting Others To Understand The Bhakti Path
March 08, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes - 5.29 MB“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what means will it be accomplished?” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10.24.3)
Five Areas Of Competition In The Anartha Olympics
March 07, 2024 02:00 - 7 minutes - 6.96 MB“In spite of achieving the power to control in all directions and in spite of enjoying all types of dear sense gratification as much as possible, Hiranyakashipu was dissatisfied because instead of controlling his senses he remained their servant.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 7.4.19)
What Can Repression Accomplish
March 06, 2024 02:00 - 7 minutes - 6.64 MB“In spite of achieving the power to control in all directions and in spite of enjoying all types of dear sense gratification as much as possible, Hiranyakashipu was dissatisfied because instead of controlling his senses he remained their servant.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 7.4.19)
Five Inauspicious Conditions Through Which A Sadhu Cuts
March 05, 2024 02:00 - 6 minutes - 6.01 MB“It is the duty of a mendicant (parivrajakacharya) to experience all varieties of God’s creation by traveling alone through all forests, hills, towns, villages, etc., to gain faith in God and strength of mind as well as to enlighten the inhabitants with the message of God. A sannyasi is duty-bound to take all these risks without fear, and the most typical sannyasi of the present age is Lord Chaitanya, who traveled in the same manner through the central Indian jungles, enlightening even the t...
Five Faults With The Kshatriya Occupation
March 04, 2024 02:00 - 8 minutes - 6.85 MB“Every endeavor is covered by some sort of fault, just as fire is covered by smoke. Therefore one should not give up the work which is born of his nature, O son of Kunti, even if such work is full of fault.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 18.48)
Five Questions About Daily Activities
March 03, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes - 4.72 MB“O King, it is therefore essential that every human being hear about, glorify and remember the Supreme Lord, the Personality of Godhead, always and everywhere.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 2.2.36)
Conquering Time And Space
March 02, 2024 02:00 - 4 minutes - 4.14 MB“O my Lord Krishna, a devotee who abandons the path of empiric philosophical speculation aimed at merging in the existence of the Supreme and engages himself in hearing Your glories and activities from a bona fide sadhu, or saint, and who lives an honest life in the occupational engagement of his social life, can conquer Your sympathy and mercy even though You are ajita, or unconquerable.” (Lord Brahma, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10.14.3)
Five Places Where Uncultured Behavior Suddenly Manifests
March 01, 2024 02:00 - 6 minutes - 5.8 MB“The one who was without a caste, who took birth from a ground of sins – even that woman was liberated. O you of greatly foolish mind, how can you desire happiness while forgetting such a Lord?” (Dohavali, 156)
Without A Caste
February 29, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes - 5.23 MB“The one who was without a caste, who took birth from a ground of sins – even that woman was liberated. O you of greatly foolish mind, how can you desire happiness while forgetting such a Lord?” (Dohavali, 156)
What About Someone Who Has Heard Everything Already
February 28, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes - 4.62 MB“One must give aural reception to any knowledge one wants to receive, either material or spiritual. Therefore shrotram is very important. The Vedic knowledge is called shruti; knowledge has to be received by hearing. By hearing only can we have access to either material or spiritual enjoyment.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Shrimad Bhagavatam, 3.26.32 Purport)
Five Appreciations For The Devas
February 27, 2024 02:00 - 7 minutes - 6.92 MB“Our dear Lord, You are appearing as the best of the Yadu dynasty, and we are offering our respectful humble obeisances unto Your lotus feet. Before this appearance, You also appeared as the fish incarnation, the horse incarnation, the tortoise incarnation, the swan incarnation, as King Ramachandra, as Parashurama, and as many other incarnations.” (Demigods praying to Krishna in the womb of Devaki, Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vol 1, Ch 2)
Graduating Beyond General Awareness
February 26, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes - 5.04 MB“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what means will it be accomplished?” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10.24.3)
Five Kinds Of Resting Places Associated With Travel
February 25, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes - 5.27 MB“Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Brahman, the ultimate, the supreme abode and purifier, the Absolute Truth and the eternal divine person. You are the primal God, transcendental and original, and You are the unborn and all-pervading beauty.” (Bhagavad-gita, 10.12)
Five Reasons I Do Not Require Sentimental Religion
February 24, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes - 4.95 MB“Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation. The ultimate goal is Krishna, because the philosophers who are also sincerely searching after the Absolute Truth come in the end to Krishna consciousness. This is also stated in the Bhagavad-gita. The whole process is to understand the real position of the self in relation to the Superself.” (Shrila Prabhupada, Bhagavad-gita, 3.3 Purport)
Five Disruptions In The Modern Day Which Make Me Lose It
February 23, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes - 4.99 MB“While contemplating the objects of the senses, a person develops attachment for them, and from such attachment lust develops, and from lust anger arises.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 2.62)
Five Questions In Response To The Criticism of Renouncing Family
February 22, 2024 02:00 - 7 minutes - 7.18 MB“The wealth, home, happiness, well-wishers, mother, father, and brother which do not help in turning one’s face towards Shri Rama’s lotus feet should burn.” (Dohavali, 139)
Five Insights Into Krishna As Giridhari
February 21, 2024 02:00 - 6 minutes - 5.84 MB“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what means will it be accomplished?” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10.24.3)
Five Responses To The Kim Phalam Question About Reading Vedic Literature
February 20, 2024 02:00 - 6 minutes - 6.27 MB“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what means will it be accomplished?” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10.24.3)
Five Questions Where The Phalam Is Already Covered
February 19, 2024 02:00 - 6 minutes - 6.04 MB“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what means will it be accomplished?” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10.24.3)
Five Questions A Son Can Ask About A Religious Function
February 18, 2024 02:00 - 5 minutes - 4.96 MB“My dear father, I am very respectfully and humbly inquiring. What is this arrangement? Why you are busy in making some sacrificial ceremony, what is the reason, and what is the result? For whose benefit is it and by what means will it be accomplished?” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10 24 3)
Five Cases Of A Penalty For Delayed Admission
February 17, 2024 02:00 - 9 minutes - 8.53 MB“After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 7.19)
Five Criticisms To Cancel Out Authority
February 16, 2024 02:00 - 10 minutes - 4.79 MB“Suta Gosvami said: Thus Bhishmadeva merged himself in the Supersoul, Lord Shri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, with his mind, speech, sight and actions, and thus he became silent, and his breathing stopped.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 1.9.43)
Five Factors Not Related To My Decision For Bhakti
November 17, 2023 02:00 - 7 minutes - 2.6 MB“The sages, knowing Me as the ultimate purpose of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities, attain peace from the pangs of material miseries.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 5.29)
How Can You Expect People To Not Be Envious
November 16, 2023 02:00 - 7 minutes - 2.42 MB“After many births and deaths, he who is actually in knowledge surrenders unto Me, knowing Me to be the cause of all causes and all that is. Such a great soul is very rare.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 7.19)
A Solution On Every Page
November 15, 2023 02:00 - 6 minutes - 2.22 MB“This Bhagavata Purana is as brilliant as the sun, and it has arisen just after the departure of Lord Krishna to His own abode, accompanied by religion, knowledge, etc. Persons who have lost their vision due to the dense darkness of ignorance in the age of Kali shall get light from this Purana.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 1.3.43)
Five Complaints Against Those Outside Of The Proper Caste
November 14, 2023 02:00 - 9 minutes - 3.38 MB“It is certainly a person’s conduct which speaks to whether they are high-born or low-born, heroic or cowardly, or pure or impure.” (Lord Rama, Valmiki Ramayana, Ayodhya Kand, 109.4)
Govardhana Puja 2023
November 13, 2023 02:00 - 8 minutes - 2.92 MB“O sober Vidura, King Indra, his honor having been insulted, poured water incessantly on Vrindavana, and thus the inhabitants of Vraja, the land of cows, were greatly distressed. But the compassionate Lord Krishna saved them from danger with His pastime umbrella, the Govardhana Hill.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 3.2.33)
Diwali 2023
November 12, 2023 02:00 - 5 minutes - 1.97 MB“Mind, why are you not worshiping Shri Rama, whose bow is like time, with weapons of arrows representing the different units of time, such as paramanu, lava, nimesha, barasa, yuga, and kalpa?” (Dohavali, 130)
Three Pairs Of Characteristics Determined By Conduct
November 11, 2023 02:00 - 6 minutes - 2.39 MB“It is certainly a person’s conduct which speaks to whether they are high-born or low-born, heroic or cowardly, or pure or impure.” (Lord Rama, Valmiki Ramayana, Ayodhya Kand, 109.4)
Is Not Arjuna The Biggest Fool In The World
November 10, 2023 02:00 - 6 minutes - 2.07 MB“O son of Pritha, those who are not deluded, the great souls, are under the protection of the divine nature. They are fully engaged in devotional service because they know Me as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, original and inexhaustible.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 9.13)
Five Things Shri Hanuman Has To Worry About
November 09, 2023 02:00 - 7 minutes - 2.57 MB“How can I ensure that the purpose of my task does not get destroyed? How shall I avoid mental disparity, and how do I ensure that my crossing of the ocean does not go for naught?” (Hanuman, Valmiki Ramayana, Sundara Kand, 2.41)
Five Things Arjuna Has To Concentrate On For His Occupational Duty
November 08, 2023 02:00 - 7 minutes - 2.55 MB“You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 2.47)
Two Reasons Someone Might Reject Religion
November 07, 2023 02:00 - 8 minutes - 2.76 MB“It should be understood that all species of life, O son of Kunti, are made possible by birth in this material nature, and that I am the seed-giving father.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 14.4)
Casualties In Bhakti
November 06, 2023 02:00 - 6 minutes - 2.07 MB“Wherever there is Krishna, the master of all mystics, and wherever there is Arjuna, the supreme archer, there will also certainly be opulence, victory, extraordinary power, and morality. That is my opinion.” (Bhagavad-gita, 18.78)
Five Things Accomplished By Damodara-Lila
November 05, 2023 01:00 - 8 minutes - 3.03 MB“While mother Yashoda was very busy with household affairs, the Supreme Lord, Krishna, observed twin trees known as yamala-arjuna, which in a former millennium had been the demigod sons of Kuvera.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10.9.22)
Two People Who Tried To Bind Krishna
November 04, 2023 01:00 - 6 minutes - 2.33 MB“This new rope also was short by a measurement of two fingers, and when another rope was joined to it, it was still two fingers too short. As many ropes as she joined, all of them failed; their shortness could not be overcome.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 10.9.16)
Five Chemicals Produced By Sub-Living Entities
November 03, 2023 01:00 - 6 minutes - 2.33 MB“It should be understood that all species of life, O son of Kunti, are made possible by birth in this material nature, and that I am the seed-giving father.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 14.4)
Five Kinds Of Work Shri Krishna Shows
November 02, 2023 01:00 - 8 minutes - 2.85 MB“O son of Pritha, there is no work prescribed for Me within all the three planetary systems. Nor am I in want of anything, nor have I need to obtain anything—and yet I am engaged in work.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 3.22)
Five Ways Bhagavad-gita Inspires Others To Motivate Themselves
November 01, 2023 01:00 - 9 minutes - 3.12 MB“For, if I did not engage in work, O Partha, certainly all men would follow My path.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 3.23)
Two Ways Parents Respond To Being Hated By Their Children
October 31, 2023 01:00 - 6 minutes - 2.09 MB“In the way that parents intervene when the children play with a snake or put a hand in fire, Sita and Rama are like the mother and father who protect Tulsidas in the manner of a small child.” (Dohavali, 147)
Two Situations Where Parents Immediately Intervene Immediately
October 30, 2023 01:00 - 5 minutes - 2.02 MB“In the way that parents intervene when the children play with a snake or put a hand in fire, Sita and Rama are like the mother and father who protect Tulsidas in the manner of a small child.” (Dohavali, 147)
Two Simple Ways To Understand Renunciation
October 29, 2023 01:00 - 7 minutes - 2.51 MB“You have a right to perform your prescribed duty, but you are not entitled to the fruits of action. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, and never be attached to not doing your duty.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 2.47)
How To Be Independently Thoughtful And Competent
October 28, 2023 01:00 - 6 minutes - 2.08 MB“How can I ensure that the purpose of my task does not get destroyed? How shall I avoid mental disparity, and how do I ensure that my crossing of the ocean does not go for naught?” (Hanuman, Valmiki Ramayana, Sundara Kand, 2.41)
A Reward For Their Suffering
November 19, 2022 18:54 - 5 minutes - 1.94 MB“I gave you the benediction that I would take birth as your son three times. The first time I was known as Prishnigarbha, born of Prishni and Sutapa, the next birth I was Upendra born of Aditi and Kashyapa, and now for the third time I am born as Krishna from you, Devaki and Vasudeva. I appeared in this Vishnu form just to convince you that I am the same Supreme Personality of Godhead again taken birth.” (Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vol 1, Ch 3)
Are Not Yoga And Parenting Incompatible
November 18, 2022 18:54 - 5 minutes - 1.91 MB“Then a voice, sounding like a human being, was heard from the sky which said, ‘O king, this child is rightfully your daughter.’ Thereupon my father, the righteous King of Mithila, was greatly pleased. Obtaining me as his daughter, that ruler of men felt highly blessed and fortunate.” (Sita Devi speaking to Anasuya, Valmiki Ramayana, Ayodhya Kand, 118.31-32)
The Science Of Why Something Works
November 17, 2022 18:53 - 5 minutes - 1.96 MB“Man’s knowledge should be developed to explore the technology which deals with the difference between a living man and a dead man, a living body and a dead body. That spiritual knowledge was taught by Krishna in the beginning of Bhagavad-gita. Arjuna was talking to Krishna as a friend. Of course, whatever he was saying was right, but it was right only to a certain point. Beyond that point there are other subject matters of knowledge, which are called adhokshaja because our direct perception...
An Ever-Changing Life
November 16, 2022 18:52 - 5 minutes - 2.05 MB“I shall happily reside in the forest, considering it to be just like my paternal home, paying no attention to the three worlds and only thinking of devotion to my husband.” (Sita Devi speaking to Lord Rama, Valmiki Ramayana, Ayodhya Kand, 27.12)
Four Ways Hanuman Is Associated With Mountains
November 15, 2022 18:52 - 5 minutes - 1.8 MB“Covered with flowers, Hanuman, the son of the wind, became brilliant in the middle of the Ashoka grove, looking like a mountain of flowers.” (Valmiki Ramayana, Sundara Kand, 14.11)
Tolerating A Kick To The Chest
November 14, 2022 18:51 - 6 minutes - 2.18 MB“My dear father, O great sage, I know that your feet are very soft, like a lotus flower, and that My chest is as hard as a thunderbolt. I am therefore afraid that you may have felt some pain by touching My chest with your feet. Let Me therefore touch your feet to relieve the pain you have suffered.” (Lord Vishnu, Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Vol 2, Ch 34)