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Even in Goloka, is there a single one that can truly grasp Radharani's beauty in it's fullness other than Sri Krishna? Will any of us ever be able to see in truth the Lotus Face of Srimati Radharani with all of It's qualities in full? Honestly, if even Her deity-form is this beautiful, and we can't even fully appreciate it, then how can we ever truly appreciate Her swarupa?

Thank you very much Sunilsahota Prabhu for sharing your wisdom with me

Thank you, Indulekha Ji. You are a real friend to me.

I'm gonna miss your constant wisdom-filled posting, Indulekha Ji! But, of course your studies are much more important than my dopy sentimentalisms

Hare Krishna Everyone,

 

Thank you so much everyone for engaging me in Krishna katha for approximately one year. It was really a very enjoyable experience. You have engaged me so well that I have become a senior member of Audarya in a short amount of time!

 

I just wanted to say that (starting from this Friday) although I will be still posting, it will be not so frequent. My studies are becoming harder and I will be preparing for college applications around this winter. Please bless me to continue remembering the lotus feet of Lord Nityananda even while I am doing my studies, because otherwise my life is useless.

 

If I have offended anyone with harsh words or anyway else, please be compassionate and forgive me.

 

Thanking everyone once again,

 

Your servant eternally,

indulekhadasi

Jai! I'm very happy for you

Although I can't bless you, I ask Mother Suddha-Saraswati to bless you in your intellectual pursuits, and Lord Nityananda to bless you in your spiritual pursuits!

You have taught me so much, and have led me deeper into Radha-Krishna Consciousness than I ever thought I could be. Thank you so much my dear friend. You've helped me more than I can say throughout the months I've been on Audarya.

I am not going through it again.

 

Without disrespect, let me tell you that other Vaishnava Sampradayas have quite a different view on things, as compared to Hare Krishnas.

And other Vaishnava Sampradayas also have different views to things as compared to Sri Vaishnavas.

The highest love a husband can show his wife is to not use her as a sex toy and/or get her hooked deeper on having sex herself but to see her as a spiritself, part and parcel of Krishna and to help her enter into rasa with Him.

 

This is love. There is no such thing as physical love. Love is purely spiritual. There is love expressed physically of course. In the sense I described it above abstinence is an act of love.

 

Love is from one soul to another soul and not from one body to another. In an act of love the corpse body is purely incidental.

Then could a homosexual couple not express their love in these ways as well?

Oh Radhey....all glories to my spiritual master and the the Holy Names of Nityananda and Gauranga!

 

I am just an ex druggie...trying to love Krishna, because he first loved me. Thanks so much for your blessings...oneday you will realize the depth of that blessing and what being a servant of Radharani means...thx!!! Please receive my prayer that oneday soon you can realize your pure eternal form!

 

If you have a spare $20 oneday, and wish to dive deeply into Naam...buy this book. Guru and Gauranga will give you taste to chant each day...

 

This websites service is excellent too:

 

http://www.exoticindiaart.com/book/details/IDG608/

 

When I bought this book they gave me a free gift card of baby yoghurt thief Krsna.

Sri Krsna was a thief since a baby, a thief as a teenager, and to the extreme he tried to steal Radharani's effulgence coming as Sri Gauranga - the golden one. But Radharani's love was so deep that even Sri Krsna's body as Sri Gauranga was unable to contain that love. In his later life his body manifested wonderous ecstacies....like his limbs elongating and then contracting into his body. Radha's love is the highest of all love. The gopies serve her....feeling her love...they dont need to go to Krsna directly. Gauranga came to give us the gopies love. All glories to that transcendental thief who attracts the whole universe. (Sri GaurangaKrishna- all attractive golden limbed one).

 

 

Quite the inspiring story. It seems that you have truly risen from your own ashes, like the Phoenix.

Thank you so much for your blessings, dear friend. I hope to understand one day what it truly means to be one of Radharani's sakhis. You are truly one of the most pious and devout souls I have ever met. All glories be unto Gopi-Nath! All glories be unto Sri Sri Nitai-Gauranga!

I've shopped from Exotic India before I love their store! I once bought a picture of Parvati Mata from them, and they sent me a card of Lord Krishna in His deity-form. I will be sure to buy the book you suggested one day. Thank you so much for suggesting it Jai Sri Chaitanya!

Don't forget that He also stole Radharani's clothes and Her Heart!

“O all-auspicious Yoga-Maya, I shall then appear with My full six opulences as the son of Devaki, and you will appear as the daughter of mother Yashoda, the queen of Nanda Maharaj. By auspicious presentations, ordinary people will worship you generously, with various items, because you are excellent in fulfilling the material desires of everyone. Lord Krishna blessed Maya Devi by saying: In different places on the earth, people will give you different names, such as Durga, Bhadra-Kali, Vijaya, Vaishnavi, Kumuda, Chandika, Krishnaa, Madhavi, Kanyaka, Maya, Naryani, Ishani, Sharada and Ambika.”

--Srimad Bhagavata Purana, 10.2.9-12

Jai Vaishnavi Mata!

I hope Radhey that your awakening spiritual life can give you peace at this time. I lost a friend a few months back, and I still feel him, worts and all...I have found that I loved him alot since he has been gone. He was a heroin addict most of his adult life...but a heart of gold. Life is eternal I am sure and I feel we will evolve in love birth after birth....love is the nature of the organic whole...Reality the Beautiful.

 

Prasadam means mercy, anything that has touched Sri Krsna's Lotus Feet or His devotees Lotus Feet in devotion is prasadam. Flowers, food, cloth etc....all these things are fully spiritual.

 

Here is some reading for your pleasure about prasadam:

 

Caitanya Caritamrta Antya 16 - click here

TEXT 105

prabhura iṅgite govinda prasāda ānilā

purī-bhāratīre prabhu kichu pāṭhāilā

 

TRANSLATION Following the indications of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Govinda brought the prasādam of Lord Jagannātha. The Lord sent some to Paramānanda Purī and Brahmānanda Bhāratī.

 

TEXT 106

rāmānanda-sārvabhauma-svarūpādi-gaṇe

sabāre prasāda dila kariyā vaṇṭane

 

TRANSLATION Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then gave shares of the prasādam to Rāmānanda Rāya, Sārvabhauma Bhaṭṭācārya, Svarūpa Dāmodara Gosvāmī and all the other devotees.

 

TEXT 107

prasādera saurabhya-mādhurya kari’ āsvādana

alaukika āsvāde sabāra vismita haila mana

 

TRANSLATION As they tasted the uncommon sweetness and fragrance of the prasādam, everyone’s mind was struck with wonder.

 

TEXTS 108–109

prabhu kahe,——“ei saba haya ‘prākṛta’ dravya

aikṣava, karpūra, marica, elāica, lavaṅga, gavya

rasavāsa, guḍatvaka-ādi yata saba

‘prākṛta’ vastura svāda sabāra anubhava

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RANSLATION Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu said, “These ingredients, such as sugar, camphor, black pepper, cardamom, cloves, butter, spices and licorice, are all material. Everyone has tasted these material substances before.

PURPORT

The word prākṛta refers to things tasted for the sense gratification of the conditioned soul. Such things are limited by the material laws. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu wanted to make the point that material things have already been experienced by materially absorbed persons who are interested only in sense gratification.

 

TEXT 110

sei dravye eta āsvāda, gandha lokātīta

āsvāda kariyā dekha,——sabāra pratīta

 

TRANSLATION

“However,” the Lord continued, “in these ingredients there are extraordinary tastes and uncommon fragrances. Just taste them and see the difference in the experience.

 

TEXT 111

āsvāda dūre rahu, yāra gandhe māte mana

āpanā vinā anya mādhurya karāya vismaraṇa

 

TRANSLATION

“Apart from the taste, even the fragrance pleases the mind and makes one forget any other sweetness besides its own.

Antya16.112

TEXT 112

tāte ei dravye kṛṣṇādhara-sparśa haila

adharera guṇa saba ihāte sañcārila

 

TRANSLATION

“Therefore, it is to be understood that the spiritual nectar of Kṛṣṇa’s lips has touched these ordinary ingredients and transferred to them all their spiritual qualities.

PURPORT

Since everyone had previously tasted these ingredients, why had they become extraordinary and spiritually delicious? This was proof that food, prasādam, becomes uncommonly flavorful and delicious by touching Kṛṣṇa’s lips.

 

TEXT 113

alaukika-gandha-svāda, anya-vismāraṇa

mahā-mādaka haya ei kṛṣṇādharera guṇa

 

TRANSLATION

“A fragrance and taste that are uncommon and greatly enchanting and that make one forget all other experiences are attributes of Kṛṣṇa’s lips.

 

TEXT 114

aneka ‘sukṛte’ ihā hañāche samprāpti

sabe ei āsvāda kara kari’ mahā-bhakti”

 

TRANSLATION

“This prasādam has been made available only as a result of many pious activities. Now taste it with great faith and devotion.”

 

TEXT 115

hari-dhvani kari’ sabe kailā āsvādana

āsvādite preme matta ha-ila sabāra mana

 

TRANSLATION

Loudly chanting the holy name of Hari, all of them tasted the prasādam. As they tasted it, their minds became mad in the ecstasy of love.

 

TEXT 116

premāveśe mahāprabhu yabe ājñā dilā

rāmānanda-rāya śloka paḍite lāgilā

 

TRANSLATION

In ecstatic love, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu ordered Rāmānanda Rāya to recite some verses. Thus Rāmānanda Rāya spoke as follows.

 

TEXT 117

surata-vardhanaṁ śoka-nāśanaṁ

svarita-veṇunā suṣṭhu-cumbitam

itara-rāga-vismāraṇaṁ nṛṇāṁ

vitara vīra nas te ’dharāmṛtam

 

TRANSLATION

“‘O hero of charity, please deliver unto us the nectar of Your lips. That nectar increases lusty desires for enjoyment and diminishes lamentation in the material world. Kindly give us the nectar of Your lips, which are touched by Your transcendentally vibrating flute, for that nectar makes all human beings forget all other attachments.’”

PURPORT

This is a quotation from Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (10.31.14).

 

TEXT 118

śloka śuni’ mahāprabhu mahā-tuṣṭa hailā

rādhāra utkaṇṭhā-śloka paḍite lāgilā

 

TRANSLATION

Upon hearing Rāmānanda Rāya quote this verse, Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu was very satisfied. Then He recited the following verse, which had been spoken by Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī in great anxiety.

 

TEXT 119

vrajātula-kulāṅganetara-rasāli-tṛṣṇā-hara-

pradīvyad-adharāmṛtaḥ sukṛti-labhya-phelā-lavaḥ

sudhā-jid-ahivallikā-sudala-vīṭikā-carvitaḥ

sa me madana-mohanaḥ sakhi tanoti jihvā-spṛhām

 

TRANSLATION

“‘My dear friend, the all-surpassing nectar from the lips of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, can be obtained only after many, many pious activities. For the beautiful gopīs of Vṛndāvana, that nectar vanquishes the desire for all other tastes. Madana-mohana always chews pan that surpasses the nectar of heaven. He is certainly increasing the desires of My tongue.’”

PURPORT

This verse is found in the Govinda-līlāmṛta (8.8).

 

Thank you so much Bija Prabhu. We need more caring and open individuals like you in our world. May Radharani and Her Beloved Govinda bless you with all the opulences of spirituality for your kind and comforting words and wise use of scripture.

A gay man express his love the same way that a buisness man decribes the situation of losing his wealth to a bad deal. I got F--ked! Stick this up your a--!

And a straight woman expresses her 'love' the same way many other people describe unpleasant situations:

"Oh man! I just got f--ked! Stick it up my c--t!" or, how about, "Well, just f--k me raw!"

So, I suppose that since we use disgusting words and phrases to describe all sexual acts, we should just give up on expressing physical love with anyone. This argument is ridiculous and foolish.

You are most welcome.

 

We dont know how gay people feel, I agree with your approach.

I think it's a lot better than 'avoiding them' like they're cockroaches on the floor (which some people actually admit to doing).

Most of my Krsna stuff is prasadam hand me downs from a friend. I have a pink shawl from her with sanskrit holy names. The one I was wearing today is green with a beautiful embroided patterned edge.

 

Not everyone chants Nityananda Gauranga on beads, some disagree. Follow your heart....even when I am falling and trying my best to live a spiritual life (as a beginner in bhakti naam yoga) Lord's Nityananda Gauranga never give up. They inspire me within to pick up the japa beads.

I like it that you call your spiritual hand-me-downs prasadam That's a nice way to look at it.

I didn't really chant that much today. Just some Hari Nam... I found out that a (somewhat distanced) friend died, so it wasn't exactly the best day. It's very hard to confront death. Hopefully Radharani will help me through it.

Eventually Lord Gauranga will appear before our eyes and we will see him in all things. Then all jiva's become beautiful hey!

 

Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare!

I can't wait for that day. Jai Gauranga, Jai Gauranga, Jai Gauranga...

And thanks again for the avatar

Congrats on 1000 posts!

No, Balaram leaves Radha and Krishna to Themselves.

Of course He enjoys pastimes with Them as Ananga Manjari.

Well, I suppose He still gets to enjoy pastimes with both of Them as Lakshman

Balaram also has His own set of gopis, and He also has rasa dances, etc.

Sukadeva Goswamī continued: Honored to have the personal audience of Lord Balaram, the young gopis, smiled and asked Him, "Is Krishna, the darling of the city women, living happily?" And it begins

If you think it'd look better, you can cut off the top or something... but I think it looks great Thank you so much!

Oh darn, Indulekha Ji. We can't hold sangha any more until you clean out your inbox.

Thank you so much Indulekha Ji! I would deeply appreciate it!

Sounds nice! Was it expensive? radhey

 

Just kidding. I have this $5 woolie at the moment thats nice, and a shawl a godsister gave me from Vrindavan. I travelled years ago in Latin America, the cloth was very nice.

 

Jai Radhey! Dive into Nitaai-Gaura chanting constantly, its wonderful.

 

Caitanya Bhagavata is a very beautiful book too. Its so simple thats its treasure is deceptively hidden....deeply esoteric and saturated with bhakti. Simple and sublime. Hidden within its simplistic words is the 'art of bhakti yoga'!

 

I think past lives have a big effect too....all the mixed up impressions in the subtle body. I dare to say but, when we can see the bigger picture of this material manifestation and its working, the simple explanations of sin dont fit so well. This energy is so complex.

 

If you absorb yourself in Nitaai-Gaura Naam Tattva the above verses will manifest as truth. All those symptoms will come in due course, as the heart will be very quickly purified.

Does your shawl have the Holy Names on it? I love those. I think they're so wonderful. I saw one not too long ago that had Ram-Darbar on it, and around it was 'Jai Ram!' or 'Jai Sita-Ram!' (I don't remember which one) around the picture. It was so lovely.

I usually just chant, "Jai Nitai-Gauranga!" once before I start chanting my rounds and then I chant it again when I finish. I'll start chanting a round of the Holy Names of Lord Nityananda and Lord Chaitanya now that I know.

I'll have to start reading Chaitanya Bhagavata sometime after I get done w/ Chaitanya Charitamrita.

I agree. I think the matter is much too complex for any of us to judge. None of us here is actually homosexual (that I know of), so none of us really understand why they feel the way they do, and until we do, I say we just support them and love them the way we love and support all of our other brothers and sisters.

Jai! Thank you so much for showing me the wisdom and mercy of the Lord's Holy Names.

Well Radhey I am prepared to get flamed. by bija

 

 

I think the only reason that people even join GALVA is b/c so many other Vaishnavas judge them that they feel they have to hide themselves in such an organization. Really just a sad commentary on these times of discord and cruelty that is the Kali Yuga. quote by radhey

 

Oh never mind Radhey....you must come over and see my new dhoti and kurta...its that delicious pinkish color...it goes so well with that perfume smell of the gopi chandan. And the flowers I picked today are delicious indeed!

 

I joined the Hare Krsna movement because of the music and love of cloth, plus my spiritual yearnings, and disatisfaction with the norms of society. Could some gay men or some non-blokie men have had some samskaras that invoked their initial attraction?

 

I think so. And as time passed their hearts became pure by the grace of sweet Tulasi Devi and Bhakti Devi. Sweet Bhakti Devi the internal potency of Sri Krsna. They began to see what devotion is, how pristine and pure it is!

 

If no change of the heart takes place, and tears do not flow, it is due to the mountains of offences that reside in the heart!

 

Here is the way of liberation! Gratification or imitationism is never the way of freedom!

Sounds nice! Was it expensive?

I think part of the reason that some people are gay is b/c they were the opposite gender in a past life, and they just haven't adjusted yet.

Jai Tulasi Devi! Jai Bhakti Devi! I've just started reading the Chaitanya Charitamrita, so I haven't gotten to that part yet. But I have noticed that I go into a deeper (yet still very small) ecstasy when I chant "Jai Nitai-Gauranga!" over and over again... even before I chant Maha-Mantra I get such ecstatic feelings of joy.

Can someone please explain to me why Unfertilized eggs shouldnt be eaten?

The way I see it The Chicken is a Holy animal that same as The Cow..

The Cow gives us Nourishing Milk and Dairy products and they dont suffer by it.. Now I dont believe they should be ill treated in the collection of that Milk..

I see the Chicken and the egg that same way.. I consider both Animals as a Holy Gift and therefore a Holy Animal. Remember I'm Talking about Unfertilized Eggs.

 

Actualy when it comes to it.. I believe more closely (Not Exactly) to The Jainist Views of Dietary Consumption.

There are cage-free eggs in which the chickens aren't tortured. If you want to eat eggs, then I suggest you get them instead of the regular ones. The only thing is, you don't know if they've been fertilized or not.

Hey Radhe, didn't you want to upload a new avatar once? Did you change your mind? You said it was Krishna at Radharani's lotus feet. What happened?

 

Of course your avatar, is quite beautiful. I was just wondering.

I really wanted to, but I couldn't understand the directions... I think I'm computer illiterate. Here's the pic (I actually got it from a Sikh website... I think they think of Sri Sri Radha-Krishna as prophets or something like that):

"The Beloved Himself is the Milk Maiden (Radharani) and Krishna; He Himself herds the cows in the woods.

The Beloved Himself is the blue-skinned, handsome one; He Himself plays on His flute."

--Sri Guru Granth Sahib (Sikhism's main scripture)

Do you have a pic of Them you could share w/ us?

I don't understand it either. I can't believe he would turn building a monument to his deceased wife into an occasion for mass-torture.

I think the only reason that people even join GALVA is b/c so many other Vaishnavas judge them that they feel they have to hide themselves in such an organization. Really just a sad commentary on these times of discord and cruelty that is the Kali Yuga.