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Swami BAP | 091 | Ritvik guru
Thakura Bhaktivinoda is acknowledged by all his sincere followers as possessing the powers of the pure devotee of Godhead. His words have to be received from the lips of a pure devotee. If his words are listened from the lips of a non-devotee they will certainly deceive. If his works are studied in the light of one's own worldly experience their meaning will refuse to disclose itself to such readers. His works belong to the class of the eternal revealed literature of the world and must be a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 090 | Guru bhakti, Krishna bhaktiThere is no possibility of doing Krishna bhakti without Guru bhakti. You cannot engage in Krishna bhakti without honoring the Guru, without honoring the Vaishnavas. In Sri Bhakti Rasamrita sindhu by Srila Rupa Goswami Prabhupada there is a discussion about the angas of bhakti. Anga means limb, like my arms or my legs and angi means the body. So the angi has angas. Rupa Goswami gives the angas of Krishna bhakti, 64 limbs of bhakti to Krishna. In listing those angas of Krishna bhakti what is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 089 | The World Vaishnava AssociationThere is a story in the Mahabharata about the Kauravas who sent the Pandavas into the forest to be in exile. And these Kauravas they thought: "Let us make the Pandavas envious by having a big party right next to were they are exiled, we are going to have a big feast and we are going to sing and dance and these guys (the Pandavas) cannot come out because they are in exile, let's really torture them in this way." So they (the Kauravas) were in the middle of their partying when suddenly the Ga ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 088 | EgoismThere is a law in physics which says that every action has a corresponding reaction. People learn about it in school but they do not learn how to apply this law in real life. They think that this is a law for the mechanical department, or maybe it is a law for the chemical department, but they do not think that this is a law for the life department. You are functioning under this law. Every one of your actions will bring about a corresponding reaction, no exception to the rule. Everybody te ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 087 | The Power of DeterminationDo we belong to the relative or to the absolute? If we would belong to the relative and it is natural to die then why we do not want this? It is natural that we need food so nobody is upset by the fact that he needs to take food. It is natural that we have to go to the bathroom, it is not such a pleasant thing but still we all submit to the process. But when it comes to death we are really upset about it and we do so many things in this world to try to avoid it. Death is a relative thing an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 086 | Loving AutocracySrila B.B. Bodhayan Maharaja recently said that: "A community of Vaishnavas which is somewhat maintained but where nobody accepts anybody specifically, it is just a factory of laziness and chaos." These are a bit strong words but you see that in Vedic culture there is quite an autocratic system present which obviously only functions under the principles of love, trust and justice. We hear from the Ramayana that any complain any citizen had, specifically a brahmin, he could go right away to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 085 | Worshipping KrishnaOne of my godbrothers went to the beach in Jagannath Puri, he was a hippie. As he walked he saw something shining on the beach. He went down and looked and there was a little Krishna deity. So he picked Him up and immediately he was attracted to the Deity and without having any other introduction or knowledge about it he carried the Deity to his home and started to offer food to Him. Very shortly after that he went to Hyderabad and met the devotees on the street and they invited him to meet ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 084 | How important are we?How important are we? That is actually only answerable in connection with the cause of our existence. The cause supposedly is an indicator to the purpose, and when the purpose is fulfilled and the cause is thus satisfied we can thus define what was the value. How important are we, if we could not talk about this subject we would not know if we are important at all. If we want to be important without knowing the reason why we exist or why we are important then that would bring about a state ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 083 | Secrets of BhaktiKrishna is vanquished by exclusive devotion. This sentence alone should drive us mad, should let us fall on the ground and cry and cry and cry, if our hearts would be soft enough. God the Creator, vanquished by pure devotion. As a matter of fact He is addicted to pure devotion, He wants it. As a matter of fact He has given you your loving capacity so that you can reach to real devotion. Exclusive devotion is the goal of our life. Exclusive devotion means exclusive love to Krishna in every m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 082 | Money Ruins the WorldMoney is a certain energy and it has the tendency of growing, it becomes more and more and more. There is a famous saying which says that the rich become richer and the poor poorer. Why the rich become richer? Because they use their riches to create circumstances in which the poor people cannot rise. This is called eliminating competition.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 081 | Summary of Oida TherapyHumanity is in great need for some new revival of spiritual, mystical, non-sectarian consciousness which puts love first and doctrine second. Because if love is first then doctrine will be helpful to realize more love, but if doctrine is first it usually becomes dogma and dogma is often being executed without love which results in loss of faith.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 080 | Oida therapy 5Sit in a comfortable position, either in a yoga posture or in a chair which is not too soft. Try to keep your column in a position as straight as you can do comfortably. Now mentally thank all those who have helped you along your way, both physically as well as spiritually. To remove from your consciousness all the guilt ask mentally to be forgiven from all those whom you have caused pain and sadness either knowingly or unknowingly. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 079 | Sri SiksastakamOnly dearest confidants are entitled to enter into the night-pastimes of Radha-Krishna. Sakhis always try for the union of Radha-Krishna. Actually Radha-Krishna are very much eager for mutual union at night. When Radha-Krishna's union is manifest, Vrinda devi with dearest Sakhis worship Radha-Krishna in various ways. After that Radha-Krishna with those Sakhis move in the forest, sing songs and perform the rasa-lila with dancing. Our revered guru-varga used to caution us by saying that only ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 078 | Internal symptom of devotionThe internal symptom of devotion is a stage of perfection. On that stage one worships Krishna in the mood of separation (vipralamabha). The Siksastakam describes this mood as follows:"My dear Lord Govinda, because of separation from you, I consider even a moment a great millennium, tears flow from my eyes like torrents of rains and I see the entire world as void. In my agitation a day never ends, for every moment seems like a millennium. Pouring incessant tears, my eyes are like clouds in t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 077 | Srila PrabhupadaSrila Prabhupada is the saviour of our soul. Of course he would give all the credit to Lord Chaitanya and Lord Nityananda, but I knew that through him so he is my saviour. Srila Prabhupada was not only a saviour in the world of individual meditation processes and speaking about transcendence, he was also that utmost revolutionary of giving a spiritual guidelines andclarity to the whole world on how they should behave, how they can solve their problems, socially, politically, economically, e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 076 | Emotional raptureO Supreme Lord Sri Krishna! When by uttering your Holy Name, my eyes will be adorned with sacred glamour of the rolling down of tears, while uttering, my voice will be choked, the whole body will be saturated with thrilling sensation?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 075 | Attachment to a sadhuEven though attachment is the root cause of material downfall and pain, if that attachment is transfered to a sadhu and Krishna then that very attachment will automatically open the door to liberation. Have you ever seen an automatic door? You can see them in the Airports in Europe. You approach the door and by electronic sensor the door opens, knowing that somebody is coming. In a similar way your hearts feelings are scanned by a spiritual sensor and the obstruction from leaving this mater ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 074 | Devotion & willpowerDevotion and willpower have very much in common. If you have devotion you get the willpower to do something. Usually when people are personally ambitious they have the highest performance. The willpower to do service, the willpower not to fight with others, the willpower to fulfill my duty, the willpower to expand Krishna-consciousness, this willpower is what Krishna wants to see and then He will give you His blessings and the chance to do more things for Him. The willpower here is devotion ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 073 | Oida therapy 4The colors in this world are mixed by 3 prime colors: blue, red and yellow. They create all the other colors which exist. White and black are also included there in a mysterious fashion. The colors are really an array, just like the rainbow, of showing the variety which exists in the development of characters.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 072 | Oida therapy 3The identity therapy is taking you to become more aware of your limitations in this world and it will show you how to go further. It will help you to understand that there is no underlying chaos in this creation, everything is orderly organized. Therefore our life also has to be orderly organized in order to get to some beautiful conclusion. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 071 | Oida therapy 2The peace of mind therapy means you are born, educated and raised and thus you incur debts which you have to repay in order to be happy and progress. What are those debts? You have debts with nature and her agents like mother earth, the elements (water, fire,...). Then you have debts with your parents and the forefathers who brought you into existence, they were all instrumental to that. And then you are getting education, that means you have debts with the rishis and teachers of the past a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 070 | Krishna's associateBecoming part of the family of the Lord is so fantastic that for most of the people this remains an abstract idea, they just cannot imagine that. Once an atheist gave a speech in Calcutta and my Gurudeva went, he wanted to hear what argument he is giving. The atheist argued that if God exists do not bother about Him, because He is too busy. He is managing universes which are so far away that their light has not even reached the earth yet. He is managing all that, then do you think that He h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 069 | Oida therapyThis life is complicated and we all wish to have a solid foundation and clarity about what we want in life. But we are facing so many lies and also we are coming in contact with revealed truth. In Oida therapy we start to discriminate what is truth for us and what is lie. This therapy will help us to increase discrimination so that we may not be carried away by advertisement and by other confusions which often propagate lies and make us ignore the truth about our own well being, about our o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 068 | Berlin Deity installation 2The worship of the Supreme Lord is a secret gift we have received from our spiritual master. When we start to worship the Lord from within our heart, many mystical things start to take place in our life, that is a fact. You should all take a note of that, because all of you desire many mystical transformations in your life. You do not want life to go on in a routine of eating, sleeping, mating and defending. You want to come into the world of miracles. So the miracle has manifested once aga ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 067 | How this world manifestsSome people study the Vedas just to take another conclusion from them. They do not accept that Vishnu Narayan is the Enjoyer of everything. Sometimes they do not even accept that God exists. Sometimes they think that we are all God, that we are all on the same level, that we all have the same rights. Why should one be the Enjoyer and the others be the enjoyed? And in this way they create foolish theories where the created becomes the Creator. But nobody can become his own father or his own ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 066 | The Word of GodThe Bhagavad Gita As It Is, is the document which certifies the sweet will of the Supreme Personality of Godhead as He tells us Himself. The words of God are something extraordinary, there is nothing comparable. The word of God is hope, the word of God is guidance and light, the word of God is clarity to eliminate our doubts, the word of God is what keeps us here, brought us here and makes all things possible. The Gita and Bhagavatam are the installations of infinite mercy coming towards us ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 065 | Who is worshipable?Who is God? Who is worshipable, what is His position? How does He make His appearance. When we talk about Gods in plural form we are having a philosophical question to resolve at once: Can God be many? It is touching upon advaita-vada, the Mayavada philosophy, and if God is many, then what is the meaning of God? We can also take into consideration what is called Godly because God and Godly, the Lord and His part and parcels, His portions, His fragments. Then the next question arrives is wha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 064 | Berlin Deity installationWe want to share with everyone the joy of having a Lord. The sum and substance of Vaishnava philosophy is to have a Lord. Without a Lord we are like street dogs. Street dogs are running around in this world looking for a master, sometimes fighting to survive and sometimes you see a street dog approaching you, there is a little bit of fear in the dog, there is the capacity of turning towards aggression incase you will become aggressive. But the street dog is having some hope. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 063 | Vedic marriageOne of the main reason marriages do not work is because the husband wants to be the center, and the wife also wants to be the center. And when the children come they say we are the center. And thats a big problem because none of us is the center, none of us is Supreme. How can we say that we are the center? Not at all. Is the husband Supreme because he is bringing a little money? Even money he is getting by the grace of God. Even food is coming by the grace of God. Even the air we breathe i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 061 | Radharani's mercyShyamananda Goswami was an orphan boy and because of his birth people had given him the name Dukhi. Dukhi means the sad one. So he was going all around until he decided by the grace of his Gurudeva to become a Vaishnava. He took initiation from Hriday Chaitanya who was a disciple of Gauri das Pandit in the bhava of sakhya (Serving God in the mood of friendship). These beautiful devotees were very intimately related to Lord Chaitanyas pastimes. So our Dukhi he became initiated and his guru w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 060 | The responsibility of a leaderAny king who does not teach his citizens about their respective duties in terms of varna and asrama but who simply exacts tolls and taxes from them is liable to suffer for the impious activities which have been performed by the citizens. In addition to such degradation, the king also loses his own fortune. A king, governor or president should not take the opportunity to occupy his post without also discharging his duty. He must teach the people within the state how to observe the divisions ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 059 | Pleasing Sri ChaitanyaWe need to think about what we can do for Lord Chaitanya. It is very fulfilling to think in this way because we want to do something which really benefits the people, which really gives some tangible result for the people. So when we make a website and we hear that many people visit that website, we feel very happy. If somebody decides to become a devotee by reading our website, we will feel so much joy. This is why we do all these things, to make somebody really devotee, that they will rea ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 058 | Surrender with loveWe worship Krishna because He maintains everyone, but not just because He maintains, also because He loves everyone. He is love personified. Just for the fact of maintaining others He already deserves anything and everything. As much as you are a conscious unit there is an original Conscious unit which is the Creator of all other conscious units and the Maintainer of them, so that is the Person we worship, you may call the Conscious unit anything you want, call Him Allah, call Him Jehovah, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 057 | God, a vague idea?If you consult the dictionary you will find that there is no clear idea about God. The dictionary is an important book because it explains the use of the words we are using. So if those people who put the dictionary together think that God is just a vague idea, thats a pretty nasty concept. The vague idea of God. How are you going to worship a vague idea? How are you going to develop love for a vague idea? This is all terribly confused, away from reality. Anyhow, by the grace of Srila Prabh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 056 | Mother Earths prayerMother Earth has all the seeds which are given by the Supreme Lord, so the seeds are very important. Nowadays we have a big problem. Demons are trying to control the seeds of this world, the laymen does not have an idea what's going on. Big American multinational companies are getting all the seeds from everywhere, hiding them and producing genetically modified seeds, which are supposed to be better than God's seeds. These modified seeds are producing fruits or vegetables but they do not pr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 055 | Meditation on God's formAn invitation to meditate on the Supreme Lords beautiful form could not be made more distinctive as it is being made here in the beautiful verses of the Srimad Bhagavatam. To actually consider this invitation is such a wonderful thing because in this meditation you are allowed to contemplate the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He is so sweet that He will take away all the misery, if you are just humble enough to say:"Yes, I want to meditate upon Him."Otherwise on what are you going to medit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 054 | Deity worshipSo much grace is there. You can see the Personality of Godhead in His divine deity form. To worship the Supreme Lord in His deity form, that was practiced by all the great souls. You may ask: "Why did they install so many deities, they could have worshiped all-together one or two?" Why? Because they are the isthadevs of their respective disciplic succession. When the guru installs a deity he wants his disciples to go on taking care of them. When you start a spiritual family you also want to ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 053 | Vaishnava conflictsWe have to remain on a level of heart-to-heart communication, and if somebody goes wrong it is their own problem. But if you see that somebody is doing wrong to others then do not hesitate to intervene, in a humble and goodness-like way, and say: "You cannot do harm to others, this is not permissible in the gurus family." Some people are very heavy with the others but then they are not heavy with themselves and finally they will have to suffer the reactions. Specifically one has to be caref ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 052 | Bhaktivinoda VaniWhat religion in this world will become the goal of all religions? In their mature stage all world religions will end up as the one religion: Nama-sankirtana (congregational chanting of the Holy Names of God). We feel this to be a certain fact. To glorify the Lord, to chant and dance. We chant in South America sometimes with the translation of the maha-mantra - Oh my Lord, please let me be an instrument of Your love. Some people get surprised how we can chant a translation instead of the ma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 051 | The power of nowNow is eternal. Now is you in your relationship with God. There will always be only now. The power of now is the power of mercy, is the power of love, it is the power of saranagati (surrender), it is the power of your own soul being part and parcel of the Supreme Lord, and His freedom being invested, imbedded within your heart and bringing it to the point of the highest execution of that freedom, which is the absolute renunciation of that freedom at His lotus feet. So the power of now is of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 050 | Absorbing the mindWhen the living entities mind becomes absorbed in the sense-gratification of the material world it brings about his conditional life and sufferings within the material situation. However, when the mind becomes unattached to material enjoyment it becomes the cause of liberation. When the flame in a lamp burns the wick improperly the lamp is blackened but when the lamp is filled with ghee and is burning properly there is bright illumination. Similarly, when the mind is absorbed in material se ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 049 | A walking templeYou are a living and a walking temple because in your heart resides the Supreme Personality of Godhead in His form as Antaryami, or the Soul inside of our soul. The Supersoul is the origin of everything that exists. He has expanded Himself into that particular feature because He wants to be with you. He is actually giving you very individual and personal attention because He cares for you and because He loves you. The Supreme Personality of Godhead of course is in every living entity which ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 048 | Bhajan & SistacarSistacar is the way of conduct which is being transmitted over the generations from one Vaishnava to another. It is not to be found even in the Hari Bhakti Vilas. For example when the Vyasa puja takes place we worship our Gurudev and some of his Godbrothers come and join the festival. We should situate them on the same level as our Gurudev, and before he will accept the offerings from everybody else on his Vyasa puja, he will offer flowers to his Godbrothers. Now where is that written? In w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 047 | Places of KaliKali is the Personality in-charged of this current age which started 5000 years ago. King Parikshit came into contact with the Personality of Kali who was just torturing a cow and King Parikshit wanted to kill him, as was the kings duty. But Kali said: "I am sorry, but this is my age now, I am allowed to do these things, I can exert my influence wherever there is animal killing, wherever there is intoxication, wherever there is gambling and wherever there is prostitution." King Parikshit ha ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 046 | Saved from abortionThe child within this women's womb (Prahlad Maharaj) is faultless and sinless. He is a great devotee, a powerful servant of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, therefore you will not be able to kill him. The Lord sent a protector for this child, which was just going to be aborted. There have been many instances in which demons or non-devotees have attempted to kill a devotee, but they never have been able to destroy a great devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Lord promises in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 045 | Meeting the SupremeThe Supreme wants to meet with you. Are you ready to meet with Him? If the Supreme is calling you, will you go? But you may think: "If I go to meet the Supreme, maybe He will not let me come back to where I am now." Meeting the Supreme is not so easy, but He wants to meet you. As a matter of fact he already met you. He meets you all the time. But you are not meeting Him all the time. He is also meeting you here today. He is also meeting you every-time when you chant Hare Krishna. He is also ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 044 | Amrita VaniIs praying to the Lord for a healthy life detrimental to the devotional service? Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur said: "Whatever way Lord Krishna is pleased to keep us, we should accept without reservation. To desire sound health in order to worship the Lord is favorable for devotional service, to desire sound health in order to engage in sense gratification is not accepted. Devotees do not wish to follow the path of the non-devotees who demand that the Lord serve them. Rather they p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 043 | Vaishnava disappearanceWhen a pure devotee leaves this world in the company of his devotees, that is very auspicious. He established Lord Krishna's centers of love, His temples, in so many different places. This divine soul, pure devotee of Krishna, now when he returns to the spiritual world, you have the whole world crying and the whole spiritual world rejoicing for him to come there. It is a very strong mixture of feelings. The maha-samadhi, or when a pure devotee leaves this world, this is definitely a moment ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Swami BAP | 042 | Building communitiesCommunity building, building places where people come together and serve Krishna with a common ground, a common interest, and they actually get something going, that is one of the services I have. I can understand that these communities, if the devotees do not have that mood, they fail. The devotees who do not feel dependent on others, who do not feel joyful about seeing other devotees, who do not feel ready to sacrifice some of their personal interest to accommodate others, that will disin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | |
