Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 7.5.55
Where: Barnaul, Russia, May 21, 2009
Essence: “The Lord acts through the spiritual master to deliver the devotees. So, when the spiritual master gives us the analysis and the treatment of our disease of the material existence, we should be locked in all ears for receiving it.”
Category: Mahajanas
A Love Story
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 7.8.29
Where: Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, May 8, 2009
Essence: “A pure devotee can sacrifice even his very life for the Lord’s service, if necessary. And the Lord, in reciprocation, manifests as an incarnation to save even one pure devotee like Prahlada Maharaja. This is the remarkable nature of love in Krsna consciousness.”
Why Didn’t You Do It?
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 5.19.10
Where: Washington DC, USA, Feb 28, 2009
Essence: “Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu could have liberated all the three worlds in an instant, if He had desired to do so. But He wanted His pure devotee, Srila Prabhupada, to do it because He takes pleasure in making His devotees famous.”
The words of a sadhu
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 2.1.16
Where: Sydney, Australia, Dec 28, 2008
Essence: “Sadhu means one who cuts our material attachments. He does not speak to flatter the audience but rather speaks the truth which may be painful but is for the ultimate benefit.”
Lakshmi – the goddess of fortune
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 4.8.23
Where: Sydney, Australia, Dec 27, 2008
Essence: “Anyone who takes to the worship of the Supreme Lord automatically receives the blessings of the goddess of fortune because she herself is always seeking the pleasure of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”
Kartikeya – the son of Lord Siva
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 4.7.56-59
Where: Sydney, Australia, Dec 10, 2008
Essence: “Lord Brahma offered Taraka the benediction that he cannot be killed by any living entity except the son of Lord Siva.”
Blessing in disguise
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 6.5.44
Where: Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, May 19, 2008
Essence: “The symptoms of a sadhu are that he is tolerant, merciful, and friendly to all living entities. These qualities were exemplified by Narada Muni who silently tolerated the curse of Prajapati Daksa to deliver him instead.”
The beautiful Hiranyakasipu
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 7.3.1
Where: Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, May 18, 2008
Essence: Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur once said: “In Satya-yuga, Hiranyakasipu, more than Prahlada, by the adoption of the method of negative propaganda, proclaimed greatly the glory of Lord Nrsimhadeva.”
Rascals
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 7.8.1
Where: Karuna Bhavan, Scotland, U.K, May 8, 2008
Essence: “In the previous ages, it was very easy to distinguish between devotees and demons. The Lord would kill these demons with His gadha and sudarsana cakra. But in this age of Kali these demons live within our hearts, and the Lord destroys them by employing the most powerful weapon in the form of the chanting of His holy names.”
The blessed Hiranyakasipu said
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 7.8.5
Where: London, U.K, May 7, 2008
Essence: “O most impudent, most unintelligent disruptor of the family, O lowest of mankind, you have violated my power to rule you, and therefore you are an obstinate fool. Today I shall send you to the place of Yamarāja.”