Category: Yatras

Protect your treasure – Initiation lecture

Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 1.1.22
Where: Philadelphia, USA, April 24, 2008
Essence: “The bhakti-lata-bija that is present within our hearts is the most valuable treasure. We need to protect this valuable treasure from thieves like lust, anger, and greed by building a barrier of the four regulative principles, so that it eventually blossoms into a big tree going all the way up to Goloka Vrindavana, and produces fruits and flowers of prema for Radha and Krsna.”

 

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Sunday Feast lecture – “God, what are You doing here?”

Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavad Gita – 4.8
Where: San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 20, 2008
Essence: “The material world is miserable, temporary, and full of ignorance. But still the Lord comes to this world – where the living entities are acting out to be God – out of His intense desire to take us back home with Him to the spiritual world.”

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Signposts on the path to Vraja

Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Sri Caitanya Caritamrta Adi Lila – 16.55-58
Where: Alachua, USA, April 19, 2008
Essence: “The road to Vraja is loaded with brambles and thorns. But the devotees who are singing and dancing on this path of bhakti and are guided by the road map of the Sri Siksastaka prayers with verses like “na dhanam” as signposts will have a smooth ride back home, back to Godhead.”

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Kali-yuga leftovers

Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 1.1.22
Where: Alachua, USA, April 18, 2008
Essence: “Although Kali-yuga is an ocean of faults, there is one good thing left in this age. Just by decorating the tongue with the holy names of Krsna, one can achieve perfection and go back home, back to Godhead.”

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Lord Nrsimhadeva’s insurance policy

Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 7.10.25-29
Where: Alachua, USA, April 18, 2008
Essence: “The coverage of an insurance policy is in proportion to the premium we pay. Similarly, the protection of Lord Nrsimhadeva is in proportion to our level of surrender.”

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Brahmana by qualification

Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 7.10.24
Where: Alachua, USA, April 17, 2008
Essence: “Just as bell metal is turned into gold when mixed with mercury in a chemical process, one who is properly trained and initiated by a bona fide spiritual master immediately becomes a brahmana.”

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Hogs, Dogs, Camels and Asses

Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 2.3.19
Where: Alachua, USA, April 17, 2008
Essence: “In Vedic culture, a living entity is classified according to his level of consciousness. If a living entity is in the body of a human being, but acting like an animal, then he is classified as an animal. Conversely, if an animal’s consciousness is higher than that of a human being, he is considered superior to the human species.”

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Rama Navami Lecture

Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 1.3.22
Where: New Talavana, USA, April 15, 2008
Essence: Lord Rama, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, declares that “It is My eternal principle that, if any living entity takes shelter of Me and utters My name even once, I award them full protection.”

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Good management means delegation

Speaker: His Holiness Indradyumna Swami
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam – 3.25.42
Where: Washington DC, USA, April 12, 2008
Essence: “The Supreme Lord delegates various duties to demigods who help Him maintain order in this Universe. But people with a poor fund of knowledge worship demigods without understanding their actual position as servants of the Lord.”

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