Zaterdag 5 mei is Nrsimha Caturdasi, de verschijningsdag van Sri Nrsimha Deva.
Nrsimha Deva is een gedaante van Sri Krishna in de vorm van Half Mens en Half Leeuw.
Ter ere Hiervan organiseren we een mooi programma in cultureel centrum Radhe Shyam.
Programma:
Datum: zaterdag 5 mei ’12
Tijd: 18.30-21.30 uur
Locatie: Dalerveenstraat 9 Den Haag
Lezing: Rati Manjari Devi Dasi
Programma-indeling:
18.30-19.00 uur Gurupuja en Tulsipuja
19.00-20.00 uur lezing
20.00-20.30 uur Abhisheka
20.30-20.45 uur Pushpanjali
20.45-21.15 uur Aarti
21.15 uur Prasadam
In material life if one tries to reach a goal and he is not successful, he is nowhere. Just like if someone runs for political office and is defeated, he has no position in the government.
Therefore someone may wonder that if he endeavors to become successful in spiritual life and he does not make it, “Is everything lost?”. The answer is that there is no loss.
Even if one is not 100% successful in Krsna consciousness, whatever percentage of Krsna consciousness he has gained in this lifetime will go with him as his eternal asset. If he reaches the point of one percent Krsna consciousness in this life, in his next lifetime he will keep this one percent and can then progress onwards to two percent, three percent, etc.
While a millionaire begins his next life as a pauper, for the devotee any progress he makes is his eternal asset.
Srila Prabhupada has confirmed that each cell contains a distinct individual soul.
A disciple asked him, “I think that in the past you’ve said each cell contains a distinct and individual soul.”
Srila Prabhupada replied, “Yes, I said that.”
So it is a fact that when you engage in devotional service you are greatly benefitting the trillions of souls that are residing within your body.
To become qualified for going back to home, back to Godhead we must always remain in a humble, teachable state of mind. If we are not teachable, it means that we think we know everything. It means the transcendental teachings of Krsna will simply bounce off of us without reaching our hearts. So instead of swimming in the delusion that we are the great knowers of everything, we should always remain open-minded and willing to learn from someone who can give us a higher understanding of what is the Absolute Truth and how we can perfectly dovetail ourselves with that Absolute Truth. In this way our pathway back to Godhead will be smooth, easy, and unobstructed.
Questions and answers by HG Sankarshandas Adhikari
Why did Krsna create so many religions like Islam, Christianity, Buddhism, etc. when He knew that it will create problem among His children? Why not only one God and one religion for the entire world?
Answer: Man’s Foolishness
There in only God and one religion for all, pure love of God. This is what Krsna or God has so kindly given us. But foolish men have concocted so many different religions for the sake of exploiting others. So instead of fighting and killing each other in the name of so many so-called religions, let us all unite as one loving spiritual family by coming to the platform of pure love of God where there is no exploitation of any living being, including the unborn babies, the cows, and the other animals.
There is only one religion in the world. That religion is to love God, and it is the world religion. Every religious man will agree that the goal of religion is to love God. So why then do we have so many different religions in the world with people hating each other and killing each other in the name of religion? This is due to a sectarian misunderstanding of what is actual religion.
Just as there is only sun in the sky although it has hundreds of different names according to the different languages of the world, in a similar way even though there are many different names of God according to the different languages of the world, there is only one Supreme Being, who is the source of all existence.
Enough is enough. It’s time to end all of this divisiveness. The time has come to lay aside all petty sectarianism and celebrate the universal nature of religion. Real religion brings everyone together because we are all children of the same father. It is only pseudo, cheating religion which divides us. Practicing real religion is not difficult. One simply to has to every day chant the holy names of God and live a saintly life free from illicit sex, meat eating, intoxication, and gambling. In this way he will revive his dormant love of God and become spiritually perfect.
Questions and answers by HG Sankarshandas Adhikari
I have a question which a friend asked me. If a pregnant mother comes to know that the baby in her womb has some abnormality, will it be still sinful to abort the baby? Isn’t it better to abort the child than seeing the child suffer in this material world?
Answer: Does an Abnormal Person Want to Die?
If you were suffering from an abnormality, would you like us to kill you? For example, let’s say that you were blind or lame. Would you like us to kill you? Ask any blind man if he would like to be put to death to be relieved of the misery of being a blind man. Will he volunteer, “Yes. Please kill me.”?
Abortion does not free the child from suffering. To abort the child is to increase his suffering. If you want to free the child from suffering, let him take birth and raise him in Krishna consciousness. In this way he will become free from all suffering for all of eternity.
Please advise me which rasa (relationship) with Krsna I should seek. This is based on following excerpt written in Srila Prabhupada’s purport to Bhagavad-gita, Chapter 4, Text 11:
“In the transcendental world also, Krsna reciprocates with His pure devotees in the transcendental attitude, just as the devotee wants Him. One devotee may want Krsna as supreme master, another as his personal friend, another as his son, and still another as his lover. Krsna rewards all the devotees equally, according to their different intensities of love for Him.”
Should I choose the rasa which is the most rewarding? In other words is there an order (more…)
Questions and answers by HG Sankarshandas Adhikari
I know that there are sevenfold coverings covering the material universe. My question is that does each and every material universe have these sevenfold coverings, or are these coverings only after the last material universe? Although my prime interest is to go beyond these coverings and enter the inexplicably amazing spiritual sky, but just for knowledge I would like to know this.
Answer: Each Universe Has the Seven Coverings
Each universe has its own coverings. Srila Prabhupada describes this in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 6.16.37:
“The first covering is earth, the second is water, the third is fire, the fourth is air, the fifth is sky, the sixth is the total material energy, and the seventh is the false ego. Beginning with the covering of earth, each covering is ten times greater than the previous one. Thus we can only imagine how great each universe is, and there are many millions of universes.”