Gurumaharaj this morning (Appearance day of Srila Sridhar Maharaj)

Srila Gurumaharaj from Vrindavan this morning: Hassling with the monkeys, singing, and finally giving a lecture on Srila Sridhar Maharaj (His sannyasa-guru) on His appearance day. 1 hour and 8 minutes (that's 1:08).

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Beyond immortality, beyond liberation, beyond oneness (Srila Sridhar Maharaj)

Excerpt from Life-nectar of the Surrendered Souls

A barren conception of mere "deathlessness" cannot afford us any knowledge of a positive thing, but only freedom from the negative side. If immortality means "no influence of mortality," what, then, is its positive conception? What will be the nature, movement, and progress of that which is immortal? Without this understanding, immortality is only an abstract idea. Because it does not appear to exhibit the symptoms of death, stone would be "more immortal" than human beings, and conscious entities would be "mortal," forever denied immortality. 

What, then, is the positive conception of immortality? How are the immortal "immortal"? What is the positive reality in immortality? How can one become immortal? One must search out his intrinsic location in the universal order. It will not do to attempt to solve only the negative side of life which is full of suffering – birth, death, infirmity, and disease. We should know that there exists a conception of life worth living for. This positive side has been almost totally neglected in most general religious views.

For instance, the Buddhist theory is that after liberation, nothing remains. Buddhists crave absolute extinction of material existence. And the Shankarite monist theory of liberation is to lose one's individuality by "becoming one" with the non-differentiated aspect of the Absolute. They postulate that when the triad of seer, seen, and seeing, or knower, knowable, and knowledge culminate at one point, the triad is destroyed and nothing remains.

Vaishnava on two legs. Preview

Gurumaharaj and disciple

15 minutes Hi-Quality Krishna Consciousness (Chakrini Devi Dasi)

Nimaihuset favourite Chakrini Devi Dasi in sweet kirtan, from Festival of The Holy Name 2010 at New Raman Reti in Alachua, Florida. (Watch the clip carefully, there are beautiful things going on here...)

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Hare Krishna Top 10 (7)

7.

Lee Perry:

“Baby Krishna” (2004)

Reggae genius Lee “Scratch” Perry, one of the main developers of reggae music and accredited with having invented the dub, sings to Baby Krishna. World- and time-conscious lyrics.

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God plays (Swami B. V. Tripurari)

Entering the Flow of Lila

By Swami B. V. Tripurari

Lila, or divine play, pastime, is a philosophical/theological necessity arising out of metaphysical worldviews such as Sri Caitanya’s acintya-bhedabheda [inconceivable simultaneous oneness and difference — both horizontal and vertical: soul-soul, God-souls], as well as other Vaishnava interpretations of revelation/Vedanta. Lila also plays a prominent though secondary role in Advaita Vedanta, where the divine play of Godhead is said to be a manifestation of ultimate reality in this world that does not endure in liberation.

The Bhagavata [Srimad Bhagavatam] itself is decidedly theistic and embraces a post-liberated life of participation in lila with God as its end (prema prayojana). Thus it was firmly embraced by Sri Caitanya. Although Krishna lila as depicted in the text represents an impression of the nature and basic structure of his transcendental lila, it at the same time represents an approximation of the lila, for Krishna lila lies beyond the scope of thought and language.

"A post-liberated life of participation in lila with God", in one of the five relationships, rasas. Arjuna on the left: friend.

Ecstasy and cool

Krishna, The Spiritual Sun, on the battlefield of Kurukshetra,
"in the midst of Himself".
Ecstasy (the red in the eyes) and cool.

Plato's cave. And after liberation?

The 2400 years old works of Greek philosopher Plato can be called the basis of all western philosophy up to modern day. Some go so far as to say that the entire western philosophy history is but a footnote to Plato. If this is so, then all western philosophy must start off in his famous allegory of the cave, describing humanity's situation. (And if it doesn't?)

Plato lets Socrates describe a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall, backs to the cave-opening and the sun. The people watch shadows projected on the wall, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. The shadows are as close as the prisoners get to viewing reality.

Simply by chanting Krishna's name (Srila Bhaktisiddhanta)

Excerpt from Amrta Vani –

Nectar of Instructions for Immortality

 

By Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura

Question 8. When will we understand that Lord Krsna is nondifferent from His holy names?

Auspicious Nectar (Nimaihuset News Bulletin) More 8000 Drums

And the newspapers were there. This is a front page picture from Göteborgs-Posten. 

And yes, in the background to the right, white parkas, looking like Liam Gallagher incognito (I've seen him incognito, he looks like that), is Yours Truly. 

Doing? 

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare 
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Auspicious Nectar (Nimaihuset News Bulletin): 8000 Drums

8000 drums for the healing of Gaia/Bhumi/Sophia/Mother Earth!

The birthday wish of our Gurumaharaj was to arrange the swedish part of the World Conscious Pact-manifestation 8000 drums for the healing of Mother Earth. A lot of countries, a lot of people.

Krishna gives you Guru, Guru gives you Krishna. Just follow the instructions.
"Kan ja väl", said Arci devi dasi ("Sure I can"). And did.
And Malmö followed, and Stockholm, and the Samis, the New Agers, the hippies, Occupy, Greenpeace, Ojnareskogen, and we don't know.

The police asked Arci:
"What is the purpose of the parade?"
"To claim Mother Earth's rights!"
"Okay."
And gave permission.

The swedish national radio asked Arci questions for five minutes.
"We are claiming Mother Earths rights, to heal her, us, and our future, förstår ni väl? (can't you see?)"

And on the 12th october, the birthday/appearance day of Gurumaharaj, we left all we had on hand and went drumming for Gaia.

(Video by Vasudeva das)

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Vyasa Puja - Appearance day of Gurudeva

Vyasa Puja

Saturday 13th October

Nimaihuset

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This week's saturday feast in Nimaihuset we celebrate the appearance day 

of our Gurudeva, Srila Bhakti Aloka Paramadvaiti Maharaj

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There will be music meditation, lecture, appraisals, puja (altar ceremony), 

and afterwards prasadam (sanctified vegetarian food)

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Here is Krishna (Srila Prabhupada)

Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
in Melbourne, Australia, 1974

Interviewer: Your Divine Grace, is the purpose of human life to realize God? 

Srila Prabhupada: Yes – that is the only purpose.

Interviewer: Srila Prabhupada, have you realized God?

Srila Prabhupada: What do you think? What is your opinion?

Interviewer: I can't say.

Srila Prabhupada: Then if I say yes, what will you have understood? If you are not expert, then even if I say, “Yes, I am God-realized,” how will you take it? If you do not know what God-realization is, then how can you ask this question, and how will you be satisfied by the answer? Therefore, you should not ask this question. It has no value – unless, of course, you are prepared to accept whatever answer I give. Are you prepared?