Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavad Gita – 4.8
Where: New Varsana, New Zealand, Jan 12, 2008
Essence: “Like the other incarnations, holy name – the sound incarnation of the Lord delivers the devotees, annihilates the demoniac mentality and establishes dharma. Therefore, having obtained the association of the holy name, one should feel very fortunate and spread its glories far and wide.”
Category: Lord Caitanya
Take advantage of the human life
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 1.2.13
Where: Govinda Valley, Australia, Dec 27, 2007
Essence: “Understanding that the human form of life is very rare and precious, one has to take advantage of it and cross over the ocean of material existence by chanting, dancing and feasting. Otherwise what is the difference between the human life and the animal life?”
Spiritual perspective on festivals – Arrival address
Artist: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Where: Sydney, Dec 4, 2007
Essence: “Festival means there is something for everyone. Wherever there is a festival of chanting Hare Krishna anyone who walks into that atmosphere is going to become naturally Krishna Conscious. They may not know how it is happening. People do not know this great science.”
Lord Caitanya’s pastimes with Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya
Artist: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Where: Sri Jagannatha puri, Nov 23, 2007
Pastimes:
1. Lord Caitanya’s travel to Puri after taking sanyasa.
2. Lord Caitanya’s deliverance of Srila Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya
Lord Caitanya’s pastimes with Srila Haridas thakura
Artist: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Where: Sri Jagannatha puri, Nov 22, 2007
Pastimes:
Guard against vaisnava aparadh
Artist: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Where: Saubari-muni ashram, Vrindavana, Nov 1, 2007
Essence: “Bhakti is the permanent asset which even death cannot take away. Nevertheless we see that a vaisnava aparadh can take those assets from you. How careful we should be of vaisnava aparadh?”
Give mercy a chance
Artist: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami.
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 3.19.30
Where: Vrindavana, Oct 26, 2007
Essence: “If Lord’s mercy is powerful enough to deliver demons like Hiranyakasipu, Hiranyaksa, Ravana and Kumbhakarna, it should be powerful enough to deliver us. But we should give that mercy a chance by chanting attentively with reverence, affection and eventually with love.”
Importance of celebrating Janmastami
Artist: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami.
Where: Sept 4′th 2007, New Govindadwip, Ireland.
Essence: “Understanding how the Lord’s appearance is transcendental, guarantees no more birth in this material world. Upon leaving this body with such understanding, one goes back to the spiritual sky and never comes back again. Therefore, people should know about Janmastami.”
Unlimited Blessings – Farewell talk
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.”
Unique Festival – Krishna’s Village of Peace
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatham – 7.8.3-4
Where: Aug 1′st 2007, Kostryn, Poland.
Ocassion: Wood Stock Festival, 2007
Courtesy: Candrasekhar Acarya Das.
Essence:“We have golden oppurtunity to preach in this Maha Maha Mahostava. We find more people than you can meet in 10, 20 years all in one place. By combined effort we can inject Krishna Consciousness in a very potent way. These are rare moments. We have our routine devotional service and these Golden moments. We have to take advantage of them..These are historic moments.Vaishnavas coming together is very auspiscious. And they preaching together is extremely auspiscious…This is my favorite type of festival…We all coming together to preach, this is something unique, very very special…This is all nectar because it is all to fulfill desire of Lord Caitanya and Srila Prabhupada to deliver these young students.”