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Consciousness means endowed with free will

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“Consciousness means endowed with free will, for without free will no consciousness can be conceived.

An atomic pinpoint of consciousness has very meager free will, and by misuse of their free will some jivas have taken their chance in the material world. They refused to submit to the supreme authority; they wanted to dominate. So, with this germinal idea of domination, the jiva enters into the world of exploitation.

 

In the Bhagavad-gita (7.27) it is stated:

iccha-dvesa samutthena
dvandva-mohena bharata
sarva-bhutani sammoham
sarge yanti parantapa

“Two principles in a crude form awaken in the jiva: hatred and desire. Then, gradually the soul comes down to mingle with the mundane world.”

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Uddhava-Gita 10.42

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Udhava Gita Uddhava-Gita

TEXT 10.42|| SB 11.16.42

vacam yaccha mano yaccha pranan yacchedriyani caatmanam atmana yaccha na bhuyah kalpase ‘dhvane

Therefore, control your speech, subdue the mind, conquer the life air, and regulate the senses, and bring your rational faculties under control by means of purified intelligence. By doing so, you will never again fall down to the path of material existence.

 

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Srimad Bhagavatam 1.8.36

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Srimad Bhagavatam 1.8.36

This sloka Sri Kunti Devi saying to Krishna.

śrinvanti gāyanti grinvanty abhīksnaśaḥ
smaranti nandanti tavehitaṁ janāḥ
ta eva paśyanty acirena tāvakaṁ
bhava-pravāhoparamaṁ padāmbujam

Translation:

O Krishna, those who continuously hear, chant and repeat Your transcendental activities, or take pleasure in others’ doing so, certainly see Your lotus feet, which alone can stop the repetition of birth and death.

2020-08-03 Sri Balaram Purnima and Srila Gurumaharaja Vyasapuja

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Sri Baladeva Purnima and Sri Guru Puja of Srila Bhakti Prapanna Tirtha Goswami Maharaj!
 
Harikatha of Srila Bhakti Prapanna Tirtha Goswami Maharaj, Sripad Bhakti Kamal Tyagi Maharaj, Swami B.A. Paramadvaiti Maharaj and other devotees.

 

2020-08-03 India, SREE CAITANYA SRIDHAR SEVA ASHRAM, Nabadwip.

 

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Mā Muñcha-Pañcha-Daśakam

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Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami MaharajMā Muñcha-Pañcha-Daśakam

Composed by
Śrīla Bhakti Rakṣak Śrīdhar Dev-Goswāmī Mahārāj

Originally Published in Śrī Gauḍīya-darśan
Volume 12, Issue 6, Thursday 12th January, 1967

mā muñcha muñcha māṁ kṛṣṇa! dāsaṁ dīna-dayārṇava!
patitaṁ ghora-saṁsāre hy avaśaṁ prakṛter vaśat [1]

mā–do not; muñcha–abandon; muñcha–deliver; māṁ–me; kṛṣṇa!–oh Kṛṣṇa!; dāsaṁ–servant; dīna–destitute; dayā–(of) mercy; arṇava–ocean; patitaṁ–fallen; ghora–terrible; saṁsāre–in the material world, within conditioned life, within mundane family life; hi–certainly; avaśaṁ–helplessly, unwillingly; prakṛteḥ–by material nature; vaśat–under control.

Don’t abandon me. Deliver this servant. Oh Kṛṣṇa! Oh ocean of mercy for the destitute! Helplessly subjugated by material nature, I am fallen within this terrible world.

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Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinod Thakur

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Srila Bhaktivionda ThakurAbout Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinod Thakur

From the Bengal writing of His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Sundar Govinda Dev Goswami Maharaj

Prior to Srila Thakur’s preaching, the pure Vaisnava-dharma preached by Sriman Mahaprabhu had become so degraded, corrupted, and disordered by selfish persons that people considered Vaisnava-dharma to be extremely despicable, to be the dharma of detestably low-natured persons. People considered it to be the dharma of the auls, bauls, kartabhajas, sahajiyas, sakhi-bhekis, neda-nedis, and so on, and mocked it.

Yet by the appearance and endeavour of Srila Bhakti Vinod, Vaisnava-dharma became free from degradation, again self-manifested its pure nature as the dharma of the soul situated atop the heads of all other dharmas, and attained beauty like that of the newly risen shining sun in the sky of the world’s dharmas. All the virtuous souls understood that Vaisnava-dharma is the one and only pure (nirmal), effulgent (ujjvala), non-envious (nirmatsara), devotional and pleasing (‘bhakti-vinodan kari’) dharma of the self within which there is no duplicity or contamination. They understood that if all other dharmas are perfectly performed individually and collectively, then they will attain the beautiful position of stairs towards Vaisnava-dharma.

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Kirsna consciousness is the cause of Krishna consciousness!

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Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami MaharajDivine Words of His Divine Grace Srila Bhakti Raksak Sridhar Dev-Goswami

Krsna consciousness is the cause of Krishna consciousness!

And we have to get help from the sadhus who have got Krishna consciousness within them. Just as, from one candle another candle may be lit. A candle cannot produce light from within, but it is to be lit from another candle – it is something like that.

We are to awaken our buried Krishna consciousness, which is covered by ‘anyabhilasa-karmma-jnana’1; so, that light, that association, will come to help the sleeping Krishna consciousness within us, and our consciousness will arise from it’s sleep and show itself, as it is.

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2020-09-01 Disappearance Day of Srila Haridas Thakur

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Harikhatha of Srila Bhakti Prapanna Tirtha Goswami Maharaj and Swami B.A. Paramadvaiti Maharaj

 

Disappearance Day of Srila Haridasa Thakur and Srila Bhakti Vigyan Bharati Goswami Maharaj

 

2020-09-01 India, SREE CAITANYA SRIDHAR SEVA ASHRAM, Nabadwip.

 

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Srila Jiva Goswami Prabhu Pranam

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Pranam mantra of Srila Jiva Goswami Prabhu

yah sankhya-pankena kutarka-pamsuna
vivarta-gartena cha lupta-didhitim
suddham vyadhad vak-sudhaya mahesvaram
krsnam sa jivah prabhur astu me gatih

“With his nectarean teachings, Srila Jiva Goswami Prabhu revealed the Supreme Lord, Krishna, whose effulgence had been hidden by the quicksand of calculation, the dust storm of fallacious logic, and the ditch of illusionism. May he be my shelter.”

—Sri Baladev Vidyabhusan

Suspicion and hesitation are the worst enemies

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Divine Words of His Divine Grace Srila B.R. Sridhar Dev Goswami

Suspicion and the hesitation are the worst enemies. We may be near to the truth, but because of our previous karma, our suspicious nature deceive us..
According to the result of our karma we shall be placed in a particular environment, and we must start our spiritual life from wherever we are placed; we must begin our work of conquering all those samskaras that comprise the mental encasement we are living in.

(Samskars is defined as: the faculty of memory, mental impression on the mind of acts done in a former state of existence.)