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.
Category: Yatras
Beware of the demoniac
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatham – 7.2.46
Where: Mar 19’th 2007, Alachua.
Courtesy: Cintamani Dasi.
Essence: “..All this knowledge doesn’t make Hiranyakasipu wise, leaving apart being called as a devotee. Sometimes little knowledge is more dangerous than no knowledge.”
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”
Essence of Bhagavad Gita
Where: March 16’th 2007, Atlanta.
Courtesy: Cintamani Dasi.
Essence: “If you strike that balance between accepting what is necessary for keeping body and soul together and use greater balance of your time for self-realization, there is a good chance that when you leave this body, you have no attachments for this world and all your attachments have gone to God, then punar janma na vidhyate.”
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 understand Absolute truth
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatham – 1.3.37.
Where: March 14’th 2007, Atlanta.
Essence: “…how can we understand that which is transcendental with these imperfect material senses.”
Courtesy: Cintamani Dasi.
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.
Gaura Poornima Album
When: Gaura Poornima, 2007
Where: ISKCON Laguna Beach, California.
Perfect Government
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatham – 4.21.10
Where: Mar 7′th 2007, LA.
Courtesy: Kandarpa-keli dasi.
Essence: “These shastras are so important, how can a king or any other leader govern without being conversant with the Laws of God. Laws of God are absolute laws and they are always working. King has to be conversant with both civil law and Absolute Law.”