Where: Apr 22’nd 2007, Hungary.
Verse: Srimad Bhagavad Gita 18.55.
Courtesy: Braja Gopali Dasi.
Essence: “…If you don’t make it, he has to come back. Don’t make things difficult for your Spiritual Master, he wants to go back to Goloka..just do your part..”
Category: Supreme Personality of Godhead
Holy Name – Sound Incarnation
Verse: Sri Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya Lila – 24.285.
Where: Apr 22’nd 2007, Hungary.
Courtesy: Braja Gopali Dasi.
Essence: “Does the Holy Name deliver the pious? Yes. That’s why devotees dance in the kirtan. It doesn’t kill the demons as other incarnations, but kills the demoniac tendencies. How is the Hare Krishna movement, chanting all over the world establishing dharma? Because when people become devotees, they naturally follow all the principles.”
How to become Atmarama
Verse: Sri Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya Lila – 24.283-284.
Where: Apr 21’st 2007, Hungary.
Courtesy: Braja Gopali Dasi.
Essence: “…If we can become free from tendency towards pride and chant Hare Krishna as Maha Prabhu wants us to chant in the trinad api verse, then against all odds, in Kali yuga we can become Atmarama.”
Lord Caitanya – Most Merciful
Verse: Sri Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya Lila – 14.1-14.
Where: March 22’nd 2007, North Carolina.
Courtesy: Cintamani Dasi.
Essence: “…This is the great mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, even the most fallen can advance in Krishna Consciousness and can advance to what? the highest stage of Krishna Consciousness, we can go back home back to Godhead, go back to Goloka.”
Wake up from sleep of Material Existence
Where: March 21’st 2007, Alachua.
Essence: “…in the false dream of material happiness, there is no real future, there is disappointment.”
Courtesy: Alachua Live.
Important ingredient of chanting
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatham – 7.5.11
Where: Mar 18′th 2007, Alachua.
Occasion: Sunday Love Feast.
Courtesy: Cintamani Dasi.
Essence: “Chanting Hare Krsna is the basic activity in Krishna consciousness. But quality of that chanting is important..What is the most important ingredient of chanting? It is humility”
Right Order
Where: March 15’th 2007, Atlanta.
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatham – 1.2.17
Courtesy: Cintamani Dasi.
Essence: “When we are diseased, we consider sense gratification which is very bitter to be sweet. But after we advance sometime in Krishna Consciousness, then what happens? That we consider sweet (sense gratification) we realize it is bitter..and the Holy Name which we consider to be bitter, we don’t have any taste, eventually when we get cured, we think it is sweet. Then everything is in right order.”
Initiation Lecture – Glories of the Holy Name
Ocassion: Initiation.
Where: Mar 15’th 2007, Atlanta.
Courtesy: Cintamani Dasi.
Essence: …Holy Name is the mercy incarnation..it is the easy and sublime means of deliverance in kali yuga….
How to attract Lord’s Mercy
Verse: Sri Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya Lila – 14.1-14.
Where: March 13’th 2007, Atlanta.
Essence: “…One act of devotional service done sincerely attracts the mercy of the lord.”
Courtesy: Cintamani Dasi.
Lord Caitanya – The Yuga Avataar
Where: March 3’rd 2007, Seattle.
Ocassion: Gaura Poornima 2007.
Essence: [please suggest one!]