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The Sweet Nectar of Krishna's Names
If we want to taste the sweetest, more inconceivably sublime nectar, all we have to do is take complete shelter of Lord Krishna's most wonderful and merciful holy names. Of course since God is unlimited He has unlimited thousands, millions, and billions of names. But out of His unlimited names the Vedic scriptures in the Kali Santarana Upanisad specifically recommend that we chant one particular mantra because it is the most powerful and effective mantra for achieving spiritual perfection in the present highly degraded age of Kali. That mantra is as follows:
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare
Since the more we give our undivided attention to these sweet names, the more intensely we connect with them, it is advised that we should rise early and chant our daily quota during the most peaceful, undisturbed time of the day before the sunrise. If we will regularly chant the Hare Krishna mantra in this way on a daily basis, we will rapidly advance on the pathway of pure bhakti and gradually qualify ourselves to regain our original identities as inhabitants of that wondrous eternal spiritual sky.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
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Question: Why Surrender to Krishna?
Question: Why Surrender to Krishna?
All my respects to you. I humbly with folded hands put forward my doubts.
Is the Bhagavad-gita the base of all the Vedas?
Since Lord Brahma, Lord Vishnu, and Lord Shiva are the three forms which have emerged from the brahma-tattva in the three modes of rajas (passion), sattva (goodness), and tamas (ignorance) respectively, why does Lord Krishna suggest that we should surrender to Him instead of the brahma-tattva?
Shouldn't our purpose of studying Bhagavad-… Continue
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Question: Which Religion to Practice?
In a world where so many religions are being practiced, which religion would you recommend one to practice while awakening one's consciousness? Is there a difference between religions?
Hare Krishna
Answer: The Essence of Religion
Practicing a particular religion automatically puts us into a sectarian non-spiritual mentality, and is therefore counter-productive in regards to achieving the supreme perfection of developing pure love for God. Therefore Lord… Continue
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I will try to follow your advice and develop myself spiritually. Should I start directly with 16 rounds or gradually increase it? And I will also try to be in touch with you thru this forum.
Hare Krishna.
Answer: Immediately If Possible
The best thing is to immediately begin chanting at least 16 rounds every day. After all, life is short. We can die at any time. So the ideal thing is to take fully to Krishna consciousness as quickly as possible to give ourselves the best shot at going back to home, back to Godhead in this very lifetime.
Of course if chanting at least 16 rounds every day is not possible in the beginning, rather than not chant at all one may adopt a lesser number and then gradually increase. But kindly note in this connection that even though Krishna consciousness is a gradual process we should not make it any more gradual than it has to be.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
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I am troubled today. I have a college classmate who insists that in my pursuance of Krishna Consciousness I am losing my identity. I beg to differ. I feel I am finding my identity. I used to think I was a crippled, middle-aged woman but through your grace and studying Bhagavad-Gita I have found that I am instead an eternal spirit soul encased in a physical body. And this physical body isn't even really alive. As soon as I leave it, it will rot and corrupt.
My classmate says that I am being misled, but I believe it is the first time in my life I have truly been led to truth. How do I reply to her? I have tried to explain but obviously didn't do a very good job because she won't budge from her position.
Thank You so much for Your time and attention... Hari Bol!
Your student,
Answer: What is Her Conception of the Self?
Just because she did not budge from position does not necessarily mean that you did not do a good job of explaining to her. Some people are so intellectually constipated that even if your explanation is perfect in all ways, they will not budge even one millionth of an inch from their position.
You have not been misled. You are awakening your actual sense of identity, which has been sleeping within you for your entire life, but was covered over by false materialistic propaganda.
Ask her what is her conception of the self. If she explains her identity in relationship to her body, point out to her that even though the chemicals and molecules that constitute her body are changing at every second, she has a sense of identity going all the way back to her babyhood. This sense of identity which stands beyond so many changes of the body is the real spiritual self that you have discovered. If she takes the body as the self, it is she who has been misled.
If she says that you are misled because you have not accepted Jesus, you can explain that you follow Jesus better than the modern day Christians because you strictly follow all religious principles. The Bible says, "Thou shalt not kill", but all other the world the Christians are running gigantic slaughterhouses cruelly murdering thousands and millions of innocent animals. So who is being misled? Those who don't even follow their own scriptures or those who do follow their scriptures? Those who connect with their actual self or those who do not do so?
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
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Is it true that Krishna Consciousness in the beginning is poison? If yes, is there any way by which a person can pass through the phase of poison easily?
Warm regards,
Hare Krishna
Answer: Krishna Consciousness is Nectar All the Way
Krishna consciousness is nectar in the beginning and even more nectar as you progress. It is only happiness in the mode of goodness that is poison in the beginning and nectar in the end. In other words, if you practice bhakti purely 24 hours day, free of any material motives, you are already situated on the transcendental platform, which is bliss in the beginning and even more bliss as you advance on the bhakti path.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
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I am confused why garlic and onion are not allowed. I was in the Fiji Islands a few weeks ago, and I visited the Hare Krishna temple, where I learned that onions and garlic should not be in our diet. But no one in the temple was able to give the reasons behind it.
Please enlighten my thoughts on it.
Learning bhakti,
Hare Krishna
Answer: Not Offerable to Krishna
Many of our readers are habituated to eating and onions and garlic and do not understand why devotees of Lord Krishna strictly avoid eating them.
Our reason for not taking onions and garlic is very simple. It is not at all complicated. According to the instructions very clearly given in the Bhagavad-gita, devotees of Lord Krishna are meant to eat only the remnants of food offered with love and devotion to Lord Sri Krishna.
yajña-śiṣṭāśinaḥ santo
mucyante sarva-kilbiṣaiḥ
bhuñjate te tv aghaḿ pāpā
ye pacanty ātma-kāraṇāt
"The devotees of the Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food which is offered first for sacrifice. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin."
--Bhagavad-gita 3.13
And since great acharyas such as His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada have confirmed that Lord Krishna does not accept offerings containing onions and garlic, the obvious conclusion is that devotees cannot take garlic and onions because Krishna says that partaking of foods that are not acceptable is eating only sin.
The above reason is sufficient to convince the devotees to strictly avoid onions and garlic. The non-acceptability of onions and garlic is also confirmed as follows in the Manusmriti 5.5:
laśunaṁ caiva palāṇḍu abhaḳṣyāṇi
SYNONYMS
laśunam--garlic; ca--also; eva--certainly; palāṇḍu--onion; abhaḳṣyāṇi--are not eatable.
TRANSLATION
Garlic and onions are unworthy of eating.
Also in the Bhagavad-gita Lord Krishna advises against pungent foods such as onions and garlic:
kaṭv-amla-lavaṇāty-uṣṇa-
tīkṣṇa-rūkṣa-vidāhinaḥ
āhārā rājasasyeṣṭā
duḥkha-śokāmaya-pradāḥ
"Foods that are too bitter, too sour, salty, hot, pungent, dry and burning are dear to those in the mode of passion. Such foods cause distress, misery and disease."
Further confirmation that onions and garlic are not offerable to Krishna is how bad they smell. A simple stroll through the produce section of a grocery store also can help us understand why we should not offer them to Krishna. As soon as one gets near the onions and garlic one can easily detect a strong foul aroma.
It the person who is cooking is accustomed to giving food an extra zing by adding onions and garlic, they can use hing (asafoetida) instead.
The final conclusion is that when we satisfy Krishna by offering Him foods according to His satisfaction and take as our only eatables those offered foods, we will be fully satisfied in our eating and will advance very nicely towards spiritual perfection by such sacrificial eating.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
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Gurudeva, one of my colleagues asked me to check with you as to what is the position of Goddess Lalitha Parameshwari, who is also known as Goddess Thripurasundari or Adi Para Shakhti. She is also worshipped in Sri Chakra form. According to Sri Lalitha Sahasranamam, she is the origin of all and things and beings - material non material including all gods came from her.
According to your instructions, Lord Sri Krishna is the Supreme. How is Lord Krishna related to Goddess Lalitha Parameshwari? Pray, kindly dispel our ignorance.
Aspiring to be your servant,
Hare Krishna
Answer: Subordinate to Krishna
Although there are portions of the Vedas that cater to those with material desires as a temporary measure until they are ready to move on to spiritual perfection, the ultimate conclusion of all Vedic wisdom is give up all material desires by fully surrendering oneself to Lord Sri Krishna or Lord Vishnu. This culmination of spiritual understanding is clearly described in the Bhagavad-gita as follows:
arjuna uvaca
param brahma param dhama
pavitram paramam bhavan
purusam sasvatam divyam
adi-devam ajam vibhum
ahus tvam rsayah sarve
devarsir naradas tatha
asito devalo vyasah
svayam caiva bravisi me
"Arjuna said: You are the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the ultimate abode, the purest, the Absolute Truth. You are the eternal, transcendental, original person, the unborn, the greatest. All the great sages such as Narada, Asita, Devala and Vyasa confirm this truth about You, and now You Yourself are declaring it to me."--Bhagavad-gita 10.12-13
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
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Connection with Krishna is called sambhanda through proper diksa process. Without direct guidance of liberated spiritual master one is not able to obtain this sambhanda. Nor is one able to obtain nama-abhasa stage. Sri Guru padasraya is the first requirement for advancing towards sambhanda-jnana with Krishna. There is no other way.
These are the conclusions of proper siddhanta of Jaiva-dharma. Gour-premanande!
I humbly present this question before you.
The material senses are manifestations of Maya, the Lord's illusory energy, to keep us entangled in the cycle of birth and death. Why would Lord Krishna allow us to be exposed to Maya?
Hare Krishna
Answer: So We Can Voluntarily Return to Him
When we so foolishly desired to be in illusion, instead of keeping us against our will in the spiritual world, like an affectionate father Krishna facilitated our desire by letting us try out the illusion of being the center of existence. He did this so that we could personally realize how foolish it is to give up His service and could then voluntarily return to His eternal kingdom to serve Him there forever with pure love.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
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Kindly help me to know the word by word meaning of the entire Mahamantra, what we exactly say to Lord when we chant His holy names.
Your servant in the service of Lord Krishna,
Hare Krishna
Answer: Engage Me in Service
Hare means the energy of the Lord which will eradicate all our difficulties , and Krishna and Rama are both names for the Lord. So when chant the Hare Krishna mantra...
Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare
...we are begging the Lord and His energy to please engage us their pure devotional service.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
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I am unable to get the bliss and mercy of Krishna while chanting and also while doing other services, which I used to get during my first year in Krishna Consciousness. It is my personal experience, and also I have heard from other devotees who are around 3-5 years in Krishna Consciousness. Everyone is saying that they want to get back to their first year of Krishna Consciousness. Is this experienced by all neophyte devotees? What is the reason? And how to overcome it?
Your servant in need of your blessings
Hare Krishna
Answer: Cultivate Pure Devotional Service
No, this not experienced by all neophyte devotees. If someone is properly engaged in Krishna consciousness, he will make steady progress and thus experience ever-increasing bliss. Each year will be more ecstatic than the year which preceded it. If devotees are not experiencing ever-increasing mercy and bliss, they are doing something wrong. I am surprised to hear your report that this is so widespread. I can understand from this that the devotees are not being properly trained how to practice Krishna consciousness.
The reason that neophytes devotees experience a gradual diminishing of their bliss and enthusiasm for devotional service is that they are performing devotional service in the mode of passion. Krishna describes in the Bhagavad-gita that happiness in the mode of passion is nectar in the beginning and poison in the end.
The solution for the passionate neophyte is that besides enthusiastically engaging his passion in Krishna's service, he must also actively cultivate pure devotional service. Simply to be recognized by other devotees as being a nice devotee is not enough. One must conscientiously strive to execute uninterrupted devotional service 24 hours day without any tinge of material desire in his heart. In this way, if one is always striving for pure devotional service, he will never tire of practicing bhakti. To the contrary, he will derive ever-increasing pleasure from it year after year for his entire life in this body and even beyond that.
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna …
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In a world where so many religions are being practiced, which religion would you recommend one to practice while awakening one's consciousness? Is there a difference between religions?
Hare Krishna
Answer: The Essence of Religion
Practicing a particular religion automatically puts us into a sectarian non-spiritual mentality, and is therefore counter-productive in regards to achieving the supreme perfection of developing pure love for God. Therefore Lord Krishna instructs us in the Bhagavad-gita to abandon all sectarian conceptions of religion and take to the very essence of Religion itself before it became polluted by being divided into this religion and that religion. That original pure form of undivided religion is revealed by Lord Krishna to be fully surrendering ourselves in love unto the Supreme Person, the source of all existence. According to all the great spiritual masters, who in previous ages guided the entire human society, that Supreme Person is Krishna.
Hari Hari Bol.
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