Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Where: Moscow, Russia, May 31, 2009
Essence: “Material energy in itself is neither good nor bad. It just depends on how you use it.”
Category: Material existence
Rain Drops
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavad Gita – 10.8
Where: Krasnoyarsk, Russia, May 25, 2009
Essence: “A rain drop is in a pure uncontaminated state until it touches the muddy ground. Similarly, the living entity is uncontaminated until it falls down into this material world. And that contamination is the misidentification with the body.”
Standard Public Lecture – Day 2
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Where: Omsk, Russia, May 23, 2009
Essence: “Science believes that every seven years all the cells of our body are replaced by new ones. So, if we are sixty years old, we have already changed our bodies eight and a half times.”
Standard Public Lecture – Day 1
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Where: Omsk, Russia, May 22, 2009
Essence: “If the animals could vote and they were asked if human beings should be vegetarian, they would vote ‘Yes’.”
Changing a Leopard’s Spots – Arrival Address
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Where: Vladimir, Russia, May 12, 2009
Essence: “Give up the sand bags of material desires and let the Helium of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra take you back home, back to Godhead.”
Dear to His Heart
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 11.5.35
Where: Laguna Beach, USA, Mar 14, 2009
Essence: “The Lord is not so interested in having to maintain the conditioned souls in the material world. Rather, it is getting them out of the holocaust of material existence and taking them back to Godhead that’s really dear to His heart.”
Coming and Going
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Where: Detroit, USA, Feb 16, 2009
Essence: “Our entrance into this life and our departure are very mysterious and fascinating things. They capture the attention of everyone – except a learned sage who is in full knowledge of the reality.”
Confidential companions
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 11.5.38
Where: Melbourne, Australia, Jan 28, 2009
Essence: “The same personalities who appeared 5000 years ago in their original female forms as gopis, sakhis, and manjaris in Lord Krsna’s pastimes appeared 500 years ago in Lord Caitanya’s pastimes in male forms.”
Better to have loved and lost
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 11.5.35
Where: Melbourne, Australia, Jan 25, 2009
Essence: “Kali-yuga is so degraded that it is a great challenge to deliver the fallen conditioned souls. But still, the Lord comes to deliver a few fallen conditioned souls, rather than not try at all.”
Stolen by illusion
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 11.5.31-32
Where: Melbourne, Australia, Jan 22, 2009
Essence: “In this age of Kali, the intelligence of men is stolen by illusion and they have a tendency to imitate their idols. Therefore, instead of coming as Himself, the Lord comes as His devotee to propagate the congregational chanting of the Holy names.”