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Sri Caitanya-caritamrita Madhya 25.64: <center> "haraye namaH kRSNa yAdavAya namaH gopAla govinda rAma zrI-madhusUdana" </center> haraye--unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead; namaH--obeisances; kRSNa--Lord KRSNa; yAdavAya--to the descendant of the Yadu family; namaH--obeisances; gopAla--GopAla; govinda--Govinda; rAma--RAma; zrI-madhusUdana--SrI MadhusUdana. They chanted, "Haraye namaH kRSNa yAdavAya namaH, gopAla govinda rAma zrI-madhusUdana." PURPORT This is another way of chanting the Hare KRSNa mahA-mantra. The meaning is as follows: "I offer my respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead, KRSNa. He is the descendant of the Yadu family. Let me offer my respectful obeisances unto GopAla, Govinda, RAma and SrI MadhusUdana." In the Teachings of Lord Kapila (The Son of Devahuti), Srila Prabhupada writes about the mahamantra: Caitanya MahAprabhu teaches us that we should only beg God for His service life after life. This is the actual meaning of the Hare KRSNa mahA-mantra. When we are chanting Hare KRSNa, Hare KRSNa, KRSNa KRSNa, Hare Hare/ Hare RAma, Hare RAma, RAma, RAma, Hare Hare, we are actually addressing God and His energy, HarA. HarA is KRSNa's internal potency, SrImatI RAdhArANI or LakSmI. Jaya rAdhe! This is daivI prakRti, and the devotees take shelter of the daivI prakRti, SrImatI RAdhArANI. Thus the VaiSNavas worship RAdhA-KRSNa, LakSmI-NArAyaNa and SItA-RAma. In the beginning of the Hare KRSNa mahA-mantra we first address the internal energy of KRSNa, Hare. Thus we say, "O RAdhArANI! O Hare! O energy of the Lord!" When we address someone in this way, he usually says, "Yes, what do you want?" The answer is, "Please engage me in Your service." This should be our prayer. We should not say, "O energy of the Lord, O KRSNa, please give me money. Please give me a beautiful wife. Please give me many followers. Please give me some prestigious position. Please give me the presidency." These are all material hankerings, which should be avoided. Lord Buddha advocated that we give up all material desires. It is not possible to become desireless, but it is possible to give up material desires. It is the nature of the living entity to desire; it is not possible to be desireless. If one is desireless, he is dead. Desirelessness means purifying one's desire, and desire is purified when we only desire the service of KRSNa. Lord Caitanya MahAprabhu teaches: <center> na dhanaM na janaM na sundarIM kavitAM vA jagad-Iza kAmaye mama janmani janmanIzvare bhavatAd bhaktir ahaitukI tvayi [Cc. Antya 20.29, SikSASTaka 4] </center> "O almighty Lord, I have no desire to accumulate wealth, nor do I desire beautiful women, nor do I want any number of followers. I only want Your causeless devotional service birth after birth." (SikSASTaka 4) He requests Lord KRSNa's service birth after birth. It is not that He is seeking salvation; rather, He simply wants to serve KRSNa one life after another. The devotees are not anxious to merge into the existence of the Supreme. The Buddhist philosophy advocates nirvANa, the negation of all material desires. Buddha does not offer more than this. SaGkarAcArya gives a little more, saying that we should become desireless in this material world and then enter into the Brahman effulgence. This is called brahma-nirvANa. According to the VaiSNava philosophy, however, we should negate material desires and be situated on the Brahman platform, but in addition we should engage in the devotional service of the Lord. This is called bhakti. MAyAvAdI philosophers cannot understand this, but KRSNa says that this devotional service is on the transcendental platform.

Does this mean that some day soon we can expect a fall/no fall debate to arise amongst Christian theologians? I guess anything that keeps us thinking of God is a good thing ... short of the Kamsa thing.

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Only love can break a heart, but I wanna love my life away, my friend. Didya know he wrote "Hello Mary Lou" and "He's a Rebel"? ............ http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/gene-pitney

You can do anything, but lay offa my blue suede shoes. My theme. <center> Blue. Blue. Blue suede shoes. Blue, blue. Blue suede shoes.</center></center>

Was Elvis a gandharva? A demigod?

Rajo guna folks if they thought they could come back and do the religious thing next life, would just party hearty 'til they die. Tamo guna folks if they thought they could come back and do the religious thing next life, would just sleep in their stupor 'til they die. Sattva guna folks know they come back again, know they've been kings and clowns, and worms and dogs, and are just tired of it all. We get what we need to get us from here to there. If they don't believe in reincarnation, then that is what they need right now. Tomorrow may be a different story. A little love of God can change the whole psychological dynamic. A little positive motivation can go a long way until fear will no longer be their prime incentive to give God a thought.

When I think of how much Krsna loves me, I am stunned and cry. I have to stop for fear of flooding the world, and losing all control of whatever I am. Perhaps one day I'll just let go. Start building your arks now.

Sermon on the Mount, n'est-ce pas.

When the saints come marching in! We are so fortunate. Srila Prabhupada has made us all so very fortunate.

That was very beautiful. Thank you. I have caught a glimpse of that wonder and appreciation as I have read the profound direct words of Srila Sridhara Maharaja. Even now we can still draw strength and hope and peace from this great saint, so beloved of Srila Prabhupada. And I know that Srila Govinda Maharaja is sad that any words he chooses will still fall short, still understate the noble majesty of the guardian of devotion, His Divine Grace Srila Sridhara Goswami Maharaja.

The purport to this verse may have been missed. It is very important. Lord Krishna, Himself is explaining bhedAbheda when He says "Everything rests upon Me", implying that 'everything' and 'Me' are different. What is the 'Me' if it is not everything? That 'Me' is Syamasundara in Vrindavan, krsnas tu bhagavan svayam. All His energies are separate from Him (like pearls) - yet at the same time He is not only the owner of all the energies, but He is always all that is. Everything is Krsna; He is One beyond a second. Yet in another sense as He speaks here, everything rests upon Him as pearls are strung on a thread - and in the bheda perspective He is the thread, distinct from every pearl. It's worth thinking about this verse some more. But then all His words are. Jaya Sri Krsna!

From http://vedabase.net/sb/1/3/8/en In the millennium of the ṛṣis, the Personality of Godhead accepted the third empowered incarnation in the form of Devarṣi NArada, who is a great sage among the demigods. He collected expositions of the Vedas which deal with devotional service and which inspire nonfruitive action. From the purport of http://vedabase.net/sb/1/3/28/en [...] "The Lord’s empowered incarnation Närada and plenary incarnation Varäha, as well as indirectly empowered Lord Buddha, created faith in the mass of people." [...] From the last paragraph at http://vedabase.net/tlc/7/en The four yuga-avatAras are also described in SrImad-BhAgavatam. In the Satya-yuga, the incarnation of God is white; in the TretA-yuga He is red; in the DvApara-yuga, He is blackish; and in the Kali-yuga He is also blackish, but sometimes, in a special Kali-yuga, His color is yellowish (as in the case of Caitanya MahAprabhu). As far as the zaktyAveza-avatAras are concerned, they include Kapila and RSabha, Ananta, BrahmA (sometimes the Lord Himself becomes BrahmA), CatuHsana (the incarnation of knowledge), NArada (the incarnation of devotional service), King PRthu (the incarnation of administrative power), and ParazurAma (the incarnation who subdues evil principles).

When you were scared, did you remember Krsna?

Ksbh, I copied the sanskrit from a 1983 book called Bhagavatpada Vani issued for his September 3rd vyasa-puja celebration. I spent some time with him in Toronto in that era. He was a very sincere and nurturing Prabhupada disciple. His disciples are most fortunate.

Please Lord Krsna, Srila Bhagavatpada must remain with us much longer than this. I need him. We need him. <center> nama om viSNu-pAdAya kRSNa-preSThAya bhUtale srimate gopAl kRSNa goswAmin iti nAmine "I offer my respectful obeisances unto His Divine Grace GopAl KRSNa GoswAmi BhAgavatpAda who is very dear to Lord KRSNa having taken shelter at His Lotus Feet." prabhupAdasya sAhityam yah prakAsya vitiryacA pracAram kRtavAn sAdhu bhAgavatpAdya te namaH "I offer my respectful obeisances unto him, His Divine Grace Srila BhAgavatpAda, who is publishing and distributing literature of Srila PrabhupAda and is engaged in excellent preaching activities." </center> Dear Srila Gopal Krsna Goswami Maharaja, Bhagavatpada, In 1975 you concluded your words of sincere praise for your master in the following way. May you also grant us your extended kindness as you requested of Srila Prabhupada then: [...] "You have established this ISKCON institution to spread Lord Caitanya's teachings to the entire world. My only prayer to the Supreme Lord Sri Krsna, Lord Sri Caitanya and your Guru Maharaja is that you may stay with us for a long time on this planet, so you can continue to guide your fallen children, who now number in the thousands".

Bheda (difference) and abheda (non-difference): Sri Krsna is both - the thread (bheda) and the necklace (abheda), simultaneously. Bhagavad-gita 7.7: <center> mattaH parataraM nAnyat kiJcid asti dhanaJjaya mayi sarvam idaM protaM sUtre maNi-gaNA iva </center> mattaH--beyond Me; para-taram--superior; na--not; anyat kiJcit--anything else; asti--there is; dhanaJjaya--O conqueror of wealth; mayi--in Me; sarvam--all that b e; idam--which we see; protam--is strung; sUtre--on a thread; maNi-gaNAH--pearls; iva--like. O conqueror of wealth, there is no truth superior to Me. Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread.

Acintya-bhedAbheda skit: God: "I AM". gHari: "Am I"?

CAUSE OF ALL CAUSES (bheda - difference) Lord Brahma explains in Sri Brahma-samhita 5.1: <center> IzvaraH paramaH kRSNaH sac-cid-Ananda-vigrahaH anAdir Adir govindaH sarva-kAraNa-kAraNam </center> IzvaraH--the controller; paramaH--supreme; kRSNaH--Lord KRSNa; sat--comprising eternal existence; cit--absolute knowledge; Ananda--and absolute bliss; vigrahaH--whose form; anAdiH--without beginning; AdiH--the origin; govindaH--Lord Govinda; sarva-kAraNa-kAraNam--the cause of all causes . KRSNa who is known as Govinda is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal blissful spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other origin and He is the prime cause of all causes. ALL THAT IS (abheda - non-difference) Lord Krishna explains in Bhagavad-gita 7.19: <center> bahUnAM janmanAm ante jJAnavAn mAM prapadyate vAsudevaH sarvam iti sa mahAtmA su-durlabhaH </center> bahUnAm--many; janmanAm--repeated births and deaths; ante--after; jJAna-vAn--one who is in full knowledge; mAm--unto Me; prapadyate--surrenders; vAsudevaH--the Personality of Godhead, KRSNa; sarvam--everything ; iti--thus; saH--that; mahA-AtmA--great soul; su-durlabhaH--very rare to see. 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.

Since the beginning, for me it has always been the two: 1. The Cause of All Causes, and 2. All That Is. Simultaneously, the Cause of all Causes and All that is - different yet non-different, inconceivably.

In the previous verse: King Malayadhvaja attained perfect knowledge by being able to distinguish the Supersoul from the individual soul. The individual soul is localized, whereas the Supersoul is all-pervasive. He became perfect in knowledge that the material body is not the soul but that the soul is the witness of the material body. And in the following verse: King Malayadhvaja could thus observe that the Supersoul was sitting by his side, and that he, as the individual soul, was sitting by the side of the Supersoul. Since both were together, there was no need for separate interests; thus he ceased from such activities.

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Lord Krishna explains in Bhagavad-gita 4.6 and Bhagavad-gita 4.7: <center> ajo 'pi sann avyayAtmA bhUtAnAm Izvaro 'pi san prakRtiM svAm adhiSThAya sambhavAmy Atma-mAyayA </center> ajaH--unborn; api--although; san--being so; avyaya--without deterioration; AtmA--body; bhUtAnAm--of all those who are born; IzvaraH--the Supreme Lord; api--although; san--being so; prakRtim--in the transcendental form; svAm--of Myself; adhiSThAya--being so situated; sambhavAmi--I do incarnate; Atma-mAyayA--by My internal energy. Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all living entities, I still appear in every millennium in My original transcendental form. PURPORT The Lord has spoken about the peculiarity of His birth: although He may appear like an ordinary person, He remembers everything of His many, many past "births," whereas a common man cannot remember what he has done even a few hours before. If someone is asked what he did exactly at the same time one day earlier, it would be very difficult for a common man to answer immediately. He would surely have to dredge his memory to recall what he was doing exactly at the same time one day before. And yet, men often dare claim to be God, or KRSNa. One should not be misled by such meaningless claims. Then again, the Lord explains His prakRti, or His form. PrakRti means "nature," as well as svarUpa, or "one's own form." The Lord says that He appears in His own body. He does not change His body, as the common living entity changes from one body to another. The conditioned soul may have one kind of body in the present birth, but he has a different body in the next birth. In the material world, the living entity has no fixed body but transmigrates from one body to another. The Lord, however, does not do so. Whenever He appears, He does so in the same original body, by His internal potency. In other words, KRSNa appears in this material world in His original eternal form, with two hands, holding a flute. He appears exactly in His eternal body, uncontaminated by this material world. Although He appears in the same transcendental body and is Lord of the universe, it still appears that He takes His birth like an ordinary living entity. And although His body does not deteriorate like a material body, it still appears that Lord KRSNa grows from childhood to boyhood and from boyhood to youth. But astonishingly enough He never ages beyond youth. At the time of the Battle of KurukSetra, He had many grandchildren at home; or, in other words, He had sufficiently aged by material calculations. Still He looked just like a young man twenty or twenty-five years old. We never see a picture of KRSNa in old age because He never grows old like us, although He is the oldest person in the whole creation--past, present, and future. Neither His body nor His intelligence ever deteriorates or changes. Therefore, it is clear that in spite of His being in the material world, He is the same unborn, eternal form of bliss and knowledge, changeless in His transcendental body and intelligence. Factually, His appearance and disappearance is like the sun's rising, moving before us, and then disappearing from our eyesight. When the sun is out of sight, we think that the sun is set, and when the sun is before our eyes, we think that the sun is on the horizon. Actually, the sun is always in its fixed position, but owing to our defective, insufficient senses, we calculate the appearance and disappearance of the sun in the sky. And because Lord KRSNa's appearance and disappearance are completely different from that of any ordinary, common living entity, it is evident that He is eternal, blissful knowledge by His internal potency--and He is never contaminated by material nature. The Vedas also confirm that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is unborn yet He still appears to take His birth in multimanifestations. The Vedic supplementary literatures also confirm that even though the Lord appears to be taking His birth, He is still without change of body. In the BhAgavatam, He appears before His mother as NArAyaNa, with four hands and the decorations of the six kinds of full opulences. His appearance in His original eternal form is His causeless mercy, bestowed upon the living entities so that they can concentrate on the Supreme Lord as He is, and not on mental concoctions or imaginations, which the impersonalist wrongly thinks the Lord's forms to be. The word mAyA, or Atma-mAyA, refers to the Lord's causeless mercy, according to the Vizva-koza dictionary. The Lord is conscious of all of His previous appearances and disappearances, but a common living entity forgets everything about his past body as soon as he gets another body. He is the Lord of all living entities because He performs wonderful and superhuman activities while He is on this earth. Therefore, the Lord is always the same Absolute Truth and is without differentiation between His form and self, or between His quality and body. A question may now be raised as to why the Lord appears and disappears in this world. This is explained in the next verse. <center> yadA yadA hi dharmasya glAnir bhavati bhArata abhyutthAnam adharmasya tadAtmAnaM sRjAmy aham </center> yadA yadA--whenever and wherever; hi--certainly; dharmasya--of religion; glAniH--discrepancies; bhavati--become manifested; bhArata--O descendant of Bharata; abhyutthAnam--predominance; adharmasya--of irreligion; tadA--at that time; AtmAnam--self; sRjAmi--manifest; aham--I. Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion--at that time I descend Myself. PURPORT The word sRjAmi is significant herein. SRjAmi cannot be used in the sense of creation, because, according to the previous verse, there is no creation of the Lord's form or body, since all of the forms are eternally existent. Therefore, sRjAmi means that the Lord manifests Himself as He is. Although the Lord appears on schedule, namely at the end of the DvApara-yuga of the twenty-eighth millennium of the seventh Manu in one day of BrahmA, He has no obligation to adhere to such rules and regulations, because He is completely free to act in many ways at His will. He therefore appears by His own will whenever there is a predominance of irreligiosity and a disappearance of true religion. Principles of religion are laid down in the Vedas, and any discrepancy in the matter of properly executing the rules of the Vedas makes one irreligious. In the BhAgavatam it is stated that such principles are the laws of the Lord. Only the Lord can manufacture a system of religion. The Vedas are also accepted as originally spoken by the Lord Himself to BrahmA, from within his heart. Therefore, the principles of dharma, or religion, are the direct orders of the Supreme Personality of Godhead (dharmaM tu sAkSAd bhagavat-praNItam [sB 6.3.19]). These principles are clearly indicated throughout the Bhagavad-gItA. The purpose of the Vedas is to establish such principles under the order of the Supreme Lord, and the Lord directly orders, at the end of the GItA, that the highest principle of religion is to surrender unto Him only, and nothing more. The Vedic principles push one towards complete surrender unto Him; and whenever such principles are disturbed by the demoniac, the Lord appears. From the BhAgavatam we understand that Lord Buddha is the incarnation of KRSNa who appeared when materialism was rampant and materialists were using the pretext of the authority of the Vedas. Although there are certain restrictive rules and regulations regarding animal sacrifice for particular purposes in the Vedas, people of demonic tendency still took to animal sacrifice without reference to the Vedic principles. Lord Buddha appeared to stop this nonsense and to establish the Vedic principles of nonviolence. Therefore each and every avatAra, or incarnation of the Lord, has a particular mission, and they are all described in the revealed scriptures. No one should be accepted as an avatAra unless he is referred to by scriptures. It is not a fact that the Lord appears only on Indian soil. He can manifest Himself anywhere and everywhere, and whenever He desires to appear. In each and every incarnation, He speaks as much about religion as can be understood by the particular people under their particular circumstances. But the mission is the same--to lead people to God consciousness and obedience to the principles of religion. Sometimes He descends personally, and sometimes He sends His bona fide representative in the form of His son, or servant, or Himself in some disguised form. The principles of the Bhagavad-gItA were spoken to Arjuna, and, for that matter, to other highly elevated persons, because he was highly advanced compared to ordinary persons in other parts of the world. Two plus two equals four is a mathematical principle that is true in the beginner's arithmetic class and in the advanced class as well. Still, there are higher and lower mathematics. In all incarnations of the Lord, therefore, the same principles are taught, but they appear to be higher and lower in varied circumstances. The higher principles of religion begin with the acceptance of the four orders and the four statuses of social life, as will be explained later. The whole purpose of the mission of incarnations is to arouse KRSNa consciousness everywhere. Such consciousness is manifest and nonmanifest only under different circumstances.

I don't know, but this God job has to be pretty lucrative. Datta says we can love him only through works and money. I'll start another franchise: he says God is always incarnated here in one form or another and now it is him. I will say that many incarnations are always here (yada yada ..... Gita hah hah). I will spout some sanskrit and SPAM the net for suckers, use paypal and amass a fortune. All bow to the Most Holy Goswami gHari, you dogs! Do you love yo' mamma, heathen? Shame on you! There have to be a lot of rubes out there who'll fall for this load of dung from the ego sty. Hmmmm, I could learn that trick where they pull a quarter out of a guy's ear. You have my blessings, little people.