How Kali Attacks the Saṅkīrtana Movement
Kali-rāja knows: you break down restriction, you break down relationships. You break down relationships, people can’t work together. People can’t work together, you cannot have saṅkīrtana.
Kali-rāja knows: you break down restriction, you break down relationships. You break down relationships, people can’t work together. People can’t work together, you cannot have saṅkīrtana.
Knowledge said, ‘Don’t give me to someone who is not qualified, who is not interested.’ So skills you might give, but the hidden meanings behind that, that is more important.
http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/sc/year2/ms102/2012-03-27-Brihad-Manu-Siksa-2.172-207.mp3 Full lecture transcription [link not active yet] One who is not up to a particular standard and properly initiation, should not pronounce the Vedic mantras. We should be wearing whatever is the prescribed dress of our sampradaya. DUTIES OF BRAHMACHARYA Maximum rules on purity is described in the section dealing with grihasthas. Everyone is dealing […]
ttp://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/sc/year2/ms102/2012-03-26-Brihad-Manu-Siksa-2.140-171.mp3 Full Lecture Transcription [Link not active yet] ACARYA Acarya is one who is teaching the practical application and philosophical significance. Subteacher who teaches a particular portion or aspect of the Veda is called upadhyaya (Jyotisha, music etc). Modern teachers are all upadhyayis because acarya means one who knows the connection to the Lord. Guru […]
NECTAR OF DEVOTION THEMATIC STUDY, SASTRA CAKSUS YEAR 2, LECTURE #1, 15th Sep 2011 http://seminary.bhaktivedantaacademy.com/content/uploads/sc/year2/nod102/2011-09-15-NOD.mp3 Chronological and thematic study. Vedic education and theology is always practiced. Academic and practical always go together. Formerly in the West the church had to authorize teachers, even for secular subjects. The rank of a teacher was formerly determined by […]
Managing it’s not the big thing. Having the vision of Krishna consciousness, knowing how to apply it in your life and teach others to apply it in theirs, that’s the higher element, that’s the element that you’ll always have a job. Being a temple president, after a time it gets old. All managers retire in […]
A little knowledge is dangerous. So you have to have enough knowledge, then you stop being dangerous.
Why should we have study of the sastras? Why should we have organized classes in which people then study this knowledge and get degrees? To get degrees, to increase our prestige, make outside people think that we are educated. But that is not the purpose. The purpose is to develop devotion.