Entries for the Polish festival Category

Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Where: Miedzyzdroj, Poland, July 19, 2009
Essence: “The lower species of life are nothing but punishment for all the sinful activities performed during the human form of life. So, at the end of this punishment when we get back to the human form of life, we should utilize it properly to get out of this cycle of birth and death and return back to the kingdom of God.”

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Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami and Sri Prahlada Das
Where: Dallas, USA, Feb 14, 2009
Essence: “Our message to the people of India is that we should not make material progress at the expense of our spiritual culture. They both can, in fact, go together very nicely.”

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Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Where: Poland, August 08, 2008
Essence: “There are millions of species of life, each with a special gift. Birds can fly, fish can swim, butterfly is always beautiful and the human form of life is blessed with intelligence by which one can discover the deeper spiritual nature within and get out of this repetition of birth and death. That is the real goal of life.”

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Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavad Gita – 9.34
Where: San Jose, USA, March 28, 2008
Essence: “It is very difficult to always remember Krsna because we are unchaste to the Supreme Lover. We maintain affection to His illusory energy and her kingdom. When we give up the attraction to this world, we get attracted to Krsna and can remember Him always.”

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Artist: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami.
Where: Aug 18′th 2007, Poland.
Courtesy: Candrasekhar Acarya Das.
Essence: “We would like to acknowledge the service of each and every member of this tour. Every body’s service was essential on this tour. Not only were you working very hard, not only were you working very sincerely and very effectively, I think the outstanding feature was that every one was serving in a loving spirit together and that loving mood created “vaikunta atmosphere” at our festivals.”

“People felt so comfortable back in the spiritual world; therefore they felt so free to dance, they felt so free to sing, they felt so free to express spiritual emotions even in public. And that is something miraculous. I wanted to take this opportunity, a very deep moment, to thank every one of you very much for the wonderful service you have done for Srila Prabhupada and Lord Caitanya.”

“Srila Prabhupada being the personality he is, intimate associate of the Lord, is capable of bestowing upon you unlimited blessings.”

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Artist: His Holiness BhakthiVaibhava Swami.
Where: Aug 18′th 2007, Poland.
Courtesy: Candrasekhar Acarya Das.
Essence: “Yes, I was really in ecstasy when I saw people overwhelmed in Krishna Consciousness. Usually people chant, dance, just participate, but when I saw people here, it is different…They exhibited symptoms of advanced stages of Krishna Consciousness. They are very blissful…That is very difficult to achieve…What emotions people exhibit? It is unbelievable…”

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Artist: Sri Prahlad Das
Where: Aug 15′th 2007, Poland.
Courtesy: Candrasekhar Acarya Das.
Essence: “We have beautiful artistic performances on stage, dance performances, theatre, puppets…Around the stage we have lot of booths..We have vegetarian restaurant…we are very famous for our cooking. We cook superb…so come hungry to the festival…and there are lots and lots of other attractions as well..”

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Artist: Sri Prahlad Das
Where: Aug 15′th 2007, Poland.
Courtesy: Candrasekhar Acarya Das.

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Artist: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami 
Where: Aug 15′th 2007, Poland.
Courtesy: Candrasekhar Acarya Das.
Essence: “Amazing thing about this festival is that it is a great cultural event. We have been doing this for the past 19 years. We had 41 festivals this year and tens and thousands of people come to each festival. Most amazing thing is, the festival is completely free. But you have to bring with you three things to get in. You got to bring with you your dancing shoes, because you are going to do lots of dancing. You have to come with empty stomach, because we have delicious food…and most importantly, you have to come with your great vacation smile, because that is the biggest smile and you are going to be really happy at the festival.”

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Artist: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami 
Where: Aug 14′th 2007, Poland.
Courtesy: Candrasekhar Acarya Das.
Essence: “We are westeners and we adopted eastern Spiritual Culture. When asked why is that?, devotees reply - this philosophy answers every question one may have about Spiritual Life. It answers most important questions in life. Another reason is that the way of life is very conducive to understand the Absolute Truth. Way of life is - Simple living and High thinking. Central to this Spiritual process is Kirtan. Kirtan means Glorification of God by singing God’s names. In the Scriptures it is said that in this age, easy and most sublime means to awaken our original Love for God is by chanting Holy Names…This is the essence of Spiritual Culture of India.”

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