EXCERPTS FROM DISCOURSES OF HIS GRACE MADHUPANDITA DASA

Dedicated to my spiritual master His Divine Grace Abhaya Charan Bhaktivedanta Swami 'Srila Prabhupada'

Gems of spiritual wisdom-1 : Excerpts from discourses of His Grace Madhupandit Dasa


Hare Krishna,

Here are some the gems of spiritual wisdom that I fished out from nectarean waters of the discourses of His Grace Madhapandita Dasa, President of Srila Prabhupada’s ISKCON & Chairman Akshaya Patra.

• Satisfaction in satisfaction of Krishna is the way of life for a devotee

• We must put conscious efforts to perform pure devotional service

• Purifying our consciousness by keeping Krishna in centre is Krishna Consciousness

• A devotee finds satisfaction in doing what satisfies Guru & Krishna

• Pleasure & Pain is not outside but inside us.

• Retrain your mind to act in Krishna Consciousness. To be able to do that iis true pleasure.

• Each time we give up Maya we earn mileage to go back to God-head

• The real war is war against Maya

• The enemy is right within us & not outside of us

• Body is not the enemy but the bodily concept is.

• Maya is selling hope. Hope is the weapon of Maya.

• Every sacrifice you make for Krishna you earn mileage to go back to God-head

• Simply understanding philosophy is not always enough. We have to fine tune our personal qualities in line with the philosophy.

• Lord is within the heart but unfortunately we do not associate with Him. This is Maya’s success.

• When we perform devotional service to the Lord we can defeat Maya.

• We need to understand that Krishna is the main player & I am only His servant

• Secret to succeeding in devotional service is to simply be with people who are rendering pure devotional service.

The teachings in the discourses of HG Madhupandita Dasa should put to rest the demons of doubts that his detractors have against him.

Log on to  www.madhupanditdasa.info/ discourse  for the video recordings of lectures delivered by the President of Srila Prabhupada’s ISKCON Bangalore. You can access more videos from You-tube.

Dr Jagadeesh TG

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5 WAYS TO ESTABLISH A DIRECT RELATION WITH GOD

Dedicated to my spiritual master His Divine Grace Abhaya Charan Bhaktivedanta Swami 'Srila Prabhupada'

SVARUPA SIDDHI 

5 WAYS TO ESTABLISH A DIRECT RELATION WITH THE SUPREME LORD

As soon as one becomes a devotee of the Lord, he also has a direct relationship with the Lord. That is a very elaborate subject matter, but briefly it can be stated that a devotee is in a relationship with the Supreme Personality of Godhead in one of five different ways:

1. One may be a devotee in a passive state;

2. One may be a devotee in an active state;

3. One may be a devotee as a friend;

4. One may be a devotee as a parent;

5. One may be a devotee as a conjugal lover.

Arjuna was in a relationship with the Lord as friend. Of course there is a gulf of difference between this friendship and the friendship found in the material world. This is transcendental friendship, which cannot be had by everyone. Of course everyone has a particular relationship with the Lord, and that relationship is evoked by the perfection of devotional service.

But in the present status of our life, not only have we forgotten the Supreme Lord, but we have forgotten our eternal relationship with the Lord. Every living being, out of the many, many billions and trillions of living beings, has a particular relationship with the Lord eternally. That is called svarüpa. By the process of devotional service, one can revive that svarüpa, and that stage is called svarüpa-siddhi—perfection of one's constitutional position.

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