Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 11.15.15
Where: Melbourne, Australia, December 2, 2009
Essence: “The Lord makes arrangement to bring back a genuine and sincere devotee who may have fallen down due to past conditioning, bad association or some temporary weakness.”
Category: Yatras
Charge!
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 11.15.10
Where: Melbourne, Australia, November 27, 2009
Essence: “It takes billions of births for a living entity to realize the temporary miserable nature of this material world. But the Lord is so tolerant that He accompanies the living entity as he travels through various species of life until he comes to the point of taking shelter of His lotus feet.”
Mystic Powers
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 11.15.4-5
Where: Melbourne, Australia, November 25, 2009
Essence: “A devotee is much more satisfied to be in a loving relationship with Krsna by which he can shed one genuine tear of love of God than acquiring any mystic powers by which he can fly all over the universe or walk over the water.”
Ghosts!
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 4.18.15-18
Where: Sydney, Australia, November 24, 2009
Essence: “When Krsna was attacked by various horrifying demons in Vrindavana, the gopis would smear His body with turmeric and purify Him with the tail of a little calf and mother Yasoda would chant the names of Lord Visnu to protect her baby from all inauspiciousness.”
Simple Living – High Thinking
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 4.18.11
Where: Sydney, Australia, November 19, 2009
Essence: “The material world is created to maintain each and every living entity provided it lives in harmony with the rules of God. All we have to do is take what is necessary to keep the body and soul together and leave the rest.”
Catch the Disease
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 1.8.42
Where: Moscow, Russia, May 31, 2009
Essence: “Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura says that just as it is more dangerous than associating with women is associating with a man who is attached to women, more valuable than serving the Lord Himself is serving the devotees of the Lord who are attached to Him.”
A Plug for Facebook
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.”
You are not a Statue
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 2.3.22
Where: St. Petersburg, Russia, May 30, 2009
Essence: When taking the darsan of the Deity in the Temple, neophyte devotees become restless after a few minutes. However, advanced devotees think “It took me a million lives to get here. I am not going anywhere.”
One Essential Instruction
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 2.3.22
Where: St. Petersburg, Russia, May 29, 2009
Essence: “The darsan of the Deity of the Lord who is worshipped very nicely and dressed with beautiful ornaments is more attractive than anything else in this world.”
Fortune Favors the Bold – Initiation Lecture
Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Where: Krasnoyarsk, Russia, May 27, 2009
Essence: “The gopis are so enamored by Krsna’s beauty that they don’t even consider the beauty of a cintamani stone which is more valuable than all the jewels in this world.”