SB 7.13.24 - Prahlad maharaj meets the fatty brahmana who has given up all material desires.

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Class by Gurudev on SP's journey to America.

Everyone had their tongues going, everybody has some tastes. You will have no problem or no dukha, as soon as you surrender to Krsna and consider yourself as a servant of Krsna. Punah punah janmah - everyone wants to try a new combination and chases after a new thing, there is dis-satisfaction and it is a mirage. Souls are like logs floating on the ocean endlessly. But when one log/soul reaches the bank then he is saved. Devotee association, looks for these floating devotees who helps them come out. He has instructions and hyms to safe these souls.

For how many times have I been a servant of these bad masters and have served them. But now, I'm not going to follow them and will approach Krsna for some service and surrender to him. This is the fearless condition of life in service. The life of dedication and taking the shelter of Krsna is the best.

"One must fulfill one's desires by surrendering unto the Supreme Lord, for He knows how to fulfill them." example of Kardambha muni how he left his desire of having a wife to the Lord and he fulfilled his desire.

Another example - Gajendra - he was the king of all elephants and he was enjoying with his family and a crocodile suddenly grabbed him, just like in this material world. When we think everything is going on well, something happens and maya takes over. Gajendra at that time, he suddenly remembered prayers from his previous life and the Lord came down to help him.

Another example of Dhruva maharaj - only ambition was to get a kingdom - he went to the forest and when he saw Krsna - he said I was looking for broken pieces of glass but I've got a jewel in my hands. But still Krsna fulfilled his desires. So Krsna will take care of you, just surrender to Krsna and everything will happen.

Even though somebody comes to devotional service there still might be some material inclination, but Krsna knows and he will take care to remove them. But all we need is enough faith and keep doing our regulative principles and do our service to Krsna and Guru.

Example - A beggar gets a bag of money he has 2 choices takes it or doesn't take it. Similarly Krsna says here I am just surrender to me and I will take care of you, but what's our choice - nah, not now, later! So that's our choice - take it seriously and have the determination to chant and read and serve and do deity worship - the 5 important most potent dev services as described in NOD.

Glories of Srimati Radharani

About Srimati Radharani

Radharani is non-differnt from Krsna but she is the female counterpart of Lord. She exists to give pleasure to Krshna, She is Radharani. I give my humble obeisances to Srimati Radharani who is very dear to Krsna and she gives pleasure to Krsna.

The root of love in this world, but what we see in this world is lust and not love. The source of this love is actually Srimati Radharani. All this love is coming from Srimati RadhaRani. When Krsna goes anywhere, he never goes alone, he always goes with Srimati Radharani. She appears as the daughter of Vindyachal mountain. He had two daughters - candravali and Srimati Radharani. Putana was instructed to get all the daughter of Vindyachal.

She was flying above the tracks of barsana and hence they fell and Radharani was found by Vrishabhanu maharaj and Candravli was found by Candravli maharaj. So, one story goes where how Vrishabhanu maharaj found Srimati radharani on a lotus flower and she isn't opening her eyes or ears. Naradji comes to take blessing of Srimati Radharani. Vrishabhanu allows him to meet her in private and naradji does parikrama of the mother of all love. During the appearance day celebrations, Krsna comes to the cradle of Radharani and as soon as he touched the baby form, she opened her sense.

sAYING her apperance has happened in this world only to see Krsna and nothing else. Her complete existence is to give pleasure to Krsna. There are so many stories of their activities in Vrindavan. The mood of Krsna in Vrindavan is parakriya bhav. Why didn't he marry Radharani. Radharani was married to Abhimanyu who was a form of Krsna. But to taste of love of Parakriya bhav (Conjugal love) he does this pastime.

Shukadev gosvami did'nt talk about Radharani, because if he had spoken about her in SB, he would have gone into ecstacy and would not have been able to finish the SB in 7 days also there were many sages who were not pure devotees but he does say that the purest of gopis is Srimati Radharani. Her idea is to server everybody in Krsna's service.

Jhulana leela she swings for sometime and then she gets down and says Krsna I want you to know swing with other gopis. This is the mood of Radharani, to put all the devotees in front of Krsna. She being with Krsna gives Krsna the greatest pleasure and hence she is always with Krsna. But in her heart, she wants to pick every devotee in front of Krsna. We don't offer anything to Krsna directly, it is through Radharani.

This chanting is the wild cry for the mother Srimati Radharani. Only by her will somebody get the mercy of father Hari. We get the mercy of Sri Krsna only through Radharani. This is the way we approach. Krsna is very satisfied by Radharani and hence when we are recommended by Srimati Radharani he has to consider.

O brother I emphatically say - if you want to get the mercy of Krsna, please Radharani and when she is pleased Krsna will be pleased. Hence, our bhakti is for pleasing Radharani. How? When we please the devotees just like Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. When we give up all designations and then serve the servant of the servant of the servant then we are pleasing all he devotees. When we serve our Gurudev, Srimati Radharani will be pleased and hence we can please Krsna.

Vaidi bhakti is by rules and regulations we don't have taste but we are doing it. Raghanuga bhakti also a division of Vaidi bhakti but is somebody who is in spontaneous love, but it is done under a Raghatmika bhakt (a pure devotee). So Raghanuga bhakt is a subset of Raghatmika bhakt.

Krishna Katha

The purpose of Krishna coming to this material world is to come and help us get out of this material ocean of neissance. His apperance is actually is meant to take us out. We are all suffering. How Krsna is coming to end this for us - Shravana, smarana, - HEARING, REMEMBERING AND WORSHIPING.

So Krsna, the great acharyas are saying, came to rejuvinate our dev service. Through this dev service of hearing, remembering and worshiping Krsna, one can become free from this material world. The conditioned mind is the store house of material suffering. It makes us feel that this is special, which is ordinary. That is the cause of our material suffering. But the appearance of Krsna is to rejuvinate our devotional service. The mood of the brajvasis is to be in constant service to Krsna. The various talk of gopis are about Krsna, what did he do yesterday, how beautiful he is, what dress did Yashoda put on Krsna - talks are just about Krsna. They are doing Kirtan of Krsna and always remembering Krsna. Those you are with Krsna are serving him, those not, by remembering they are thinking about Krsna.

Braja means, everything about Krsna. They have given everything as an offering to Krsna and the Brajavasis have purchased him and he allows to be purchased by their dev service.

The highest level of bhakti, Krsna gave the example of the brajavasis. How we must become KC in this material world. That is the brajavasis. How to become Krsna concious. In Vrindavan, which is the sweetest of all the holy places, he made braja.

There every deamon would come to attack. why is it significant, because bhakti doesn;t mean we will be free from all problem. Bhakti means how in the face of challenges, we will take shelter of Krsna. How will we take and display our faith in Krsna. This material world is a challenge everyday, deamons will come everyday. These are the deamons. They will put obstacles everyday. They will come as anarthas, as material desires, as anything and everything. It will be challenges to us everyday. In the face of these challenges, what did the brajavasis do - they will just take the shelter of Krsna. And Krsna in his mysterious way will kill the deamon without even changing his form. That is the braja leela, he never wanted his brajavasis get confused.

This is the sun and substance of our spiritual life. Will we look to Krsna when we are in trouble. Will we be able to chant the holy name during this troubling times. The 10th offense.

The pastimes of Krsna - Kaliya damana - imp lessons - Kaliya was envious of Krsna and his devotees so much so that he didn't want anybody to enter the lake he was living. This is the nature of envy, we don't let anybody come into our boundary because we get insecure. Kaliya became insecure because he was so envious. But the wife of Kaliya were devotees had faith that one day Krsna will have his mercy and make their husband a devotee. He took this desire very seriously and he jumped into the river and danced on Kaliya. Wives were saying that what punya karma has the kaliya performed that Krsna's lotus feet touched him. He is so fortunate the nag patnis are praying like that. But actually it was because of them that Krsna put his foot on them. They are praying that my dear lord, as you are dancing on him, he has become humble. And hence we are puting our request to Guru. That is the sincerity, WHEN Guru sees something very small, he prays for us so we can have KC mercy.

Same way SP, gave us our qualification by praying for us to become KC. Due to those positive attributes, Guru takes these qualities and prays to Krsna, My dear lord my disciple is sincere please take his case. Same way, wives of Kaliya are praying to Krsna. And when he comes in contact with Krsna, his poison is thrown out and he becomes a devotee of Krsna. Without the mercy of Guru and Vaishnavas, we can't make progress in spiritual life.

Only by chanting the holy name, the poison will come out and then we will have the +ve attributes of Krsna, the more we hear, discuss, read and talk about Krsna will we have attraction for Krsna and will decrease our attraction to material things. That is the purpose of arrival of Krsna to rejuvinate our hearing, remembering and worshiping of Krsna. In order to enhance the dev service, Krsna has sent his very pure devotee SP. It's only by the mercy of SP, that we have any hope to go back home. He has given us a big task in North America - it was his heart desire that we do preaching and the only way to do it by cleaning our anarthas and go out preaching and be serious about our duty to Guru and SP.

SP, has given us everything - holy name, dev association, deity worship, reading books, preaching to everybody - hence we should take this opportunity very seriously and serve our Guru and SP.