Moving to Farms – The Great Varṇāśrama Misconception
Dvārakā was not a village, neither was Indraprastha, neither was Mathurā, neither was Hastināpura. So Varṇāśrama also includes cities. The main point is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Dvārakā was not a village, neither was Indraprastha, neither was Mathurā, neither was Hastināpura. So Varṇāśrama also includes cities. The main point is Kṛṣṇa consciousness.
Reading from Nectar of Instruction Study Guide: The devotee’s duty is to practice forgiveness and show mercy. HH BVPS Maharaja: Because forgiveness, it’s one of the, you could say, the shastras will talk that it’s one of the prominent qualities of the brahmana, if not the most important, is forgiveness. Because it’s harder when you […]
Reading from Nectar of Instruction Study Guide (based on the essays of Bhaktivinoda Thakura): “But, when the home becomes unfavorable for his service, he then becomes eligible to leave home.” HH BVPS Maharaja: So it’s an eligibility, to leave home. Not just you don’t like it in the home. Your wife drives you nuts, your […]
http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/sc/year2/noi102/2011-11-25-NOI-35-37.mp3 This course is part of Sastra-Caksus, Year 2 and consists of 25 lectures, available on: http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/classes/noi-thematic/ Given in Bhaktivedanta Academy, Sridham Mayapur November-December 2011 The following are lecture notes briefly delineating its contents One must accept proximity with both bad and good people throughout one’s life, but giving food and charity should not be […]
Lecture audio, this passage starting about 19:20 http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/sc/year2/noi102/2011-11-25-NOI-37.mp3 HH BVPS Maharaja: Men there is sanyasa, women there is reclusion. Because it’s just a matter of, you just kind-of fade into the background. Because the point is is, the woman is prominent when all the facility is there, the emotions, the senses, all these things are engaged, […]
Bhūmīdevī doesn’t appreciate that women’s breasts touch the ground. If it’s a matter of ‘No, we have the right to do it,’ what about her? She is also a woman.
http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/sc/year2/noi102/2011-11-24-NOI-32-35.mp3 This course is part of Sastra-Caksus, Year 2 and consists of 25 lectures, available on: http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/classes/noi-thematic/ Given in Bhaktivedanta Academy, Sridham Mayapur November-December 2011 The following are lecture notes briefly delineating its contents Only very powerful, very cultured and very rich people might get involved with several women, but still if they are intelligent […]
http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/sc/year2/noi102/2011-11-24-NOI-32-33-masculine-feminine-principle.mp3 This course is part of Sastra-Caksus, Year 2 and consists of 25 lectures, available on: http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/classes/noi-thematic/ Given in Bhaktivedanta Academy, Sridham Mayapur November-December 2011 The following are lecture notes briefly delineating its contents One should not be excessively attached to association with women, even with one’s own wife. Improper association is given up. If […]
SRI ISOPANISHAD THEMATIC STUDY (ACCORDING TO SRILA BHAKTIVINODA THAKURA’S TATTVA-SUTRA), SASTRA CAKSUS YEAR 2, LECTURE #2, 15th Sep 2011 http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/sc/year2/iso102/2011-09-16-Isopanisad-6-9.mp3 Anything outside the Lord is padartha, but He is beyond everything. Upanishads are still given in story form, but the philosophical element is prominent. Puranas give much more detail, so story is more prominent. Upanishads […]
SRI ISOPANISHAD THEMATIC STUDY (ACCORDING TO SRILA BHAKTIVINODA THAKURA’S TATTVA-SUTRA), SASTRA CAKSUS YEAR 2, LECTURE #1, 15th Sep 2011 http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/sc/year2/iso102/2011-09-15-Isopanisad-1-5.mp3 This study is based on Tattva-sutra of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura. In this study, Sri Isopanishad’s topics are divided into sambandha, abhideya and prayojana, and that is expanded into 5 topics of Upanishads and into Dasha-mula-tattva.