Entries for the Initiation Category

Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Where: Brisbane, Australia, February 9, 2010
Essence: “”The material world is compared to a vast ocean of misery. But there is a shore on the other side - the spiritual world - from where we actually came and belong to.”

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Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam - 7.9.28
Where: Sydney, Australia, December 29, 2009
Essence: “Faith means to put your trust in something sublime. So, the spiritual master’s duty is to cause his disciples to lose their faith in the material existence and to awaken their faith in Krsna and the process of devotional service.”

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Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Sri Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya Lila - 19.151
Where: Melbourne, Australia, December 12, 2009
Essence: “The chanting of the Hare Krsna mantra frees one from past sinful reactions and material desires but to get the love of God - which is the highest goal of the Gaudiya Vaisnavas - one has to receive this mantra from a bonafide spiritual master.”

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Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Where: Hong Kong, November 16, 2009
Essence: “People are wandering aimlessly just living their destiny, without a spiritual master. However, when they surrender unto the spiritual master, he takes charge and by his grace everything comes.”

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Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam - 1.1.22
Where: Vrindavana, India, October 16, 2009
Essence: “Just as a material father plants a seed in the womb of the mother and conception takes place, so at the time of initiation the spiritual father plants the seed of devotion in the heart of the disciple and spiritual birth takes place.”

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Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Where: Krasnoyarsk, Russia, May 27, 2009
Essence: “The gopis are so enamored by Krsna’s beauty that they don’t even consider the beauty of a cintamani stone which is more valuable than all the jewels in this world.”

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Speaker: Sri Prahlada Das
Where: Atlanta, USA, Feb 8, 2009
Essence: “By establishing our vows of spiritual practice, the spiritual master helps us to nurture the seed of devotion, so that it can ultimately produce the fruits of prema-bhakti and reunite us with Radha and Krsna.”

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Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Where: Sri Vrindavan dhama, India, Oct 31, 2008
Essence: “A vaisnava’s most valuable possession is the japa mala. The devotee is constantly chanting, digging for the treasure. By constant chanting we will find that treasure - the love of Godhead in due course of time.

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Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Where: Poland, August 15, 2008
Essence: Initiation means to begin the process of devotional service in earnest. Srila Prabhupada explains earnest as: “Never look back and think that you have left anything valuable behind. And never envy the position of the materialistic sense enjoyers.”

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Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam - 1.1.22
Where: Philadelphia, USA, April 24, 2008
Essence: “The bhakti-lata-bija that is present within our hearts is the most valuable treasure. We need to protect this valuable treasure from thieves like lust, anger, and greed by building a barrier of the four regulative principles, so that it eventually blossoms into a big tree going all the way up to Goloka Vrindavana, and produces fruits and flowers of prema for Radha and Krsna.”

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