hare krishna

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[sarcasm]Hey Chief, it's really cool how you went into that thread and edited Jerry's post for him. I'm sure he meant to say Hare Krishna when he said cockmonster. I'm so glad the mods around here know how to use their power responsibly.[/sarcasm]

 

hahahahaha

 

Hey, the only thing that bugs me more than people with big hats using their power responsibly, is people with big hats using their power irresponsibly.

 

HARE KRISHNA!

Jaya Gauranga Mahaprabhu! Jaya Nityananda Mahaprabhu!

Glory to Ma Amritanandamayee, Ma Indira, Ma Sharadamani, Ma Yoshoda, Ma Anandamayee, Adya Ma, Ma Mira Bai....... and glory to our mothers who gave us these lives to take the opportunity of chanting His name.

THE FLUTE SINGS:

The following beautiful vision is as told by Ma Indira after coming out from a deep Bhav-samadhi :

" The morning air was fragrant with the scent of flowers. The golden light of the sun caressed the emerald leaves and opening blossoms. The blue-scarfed Yamuna was flowing on in an uncontainable ecstasy. All Nature was at the festival of spring, expecting the Advent of the Evergreen, the Best-beloved of Brindaban. Even the dust and gravel quivered in joy and the grass-blades swayed in delight. 'He is coming, He is coming', they all whispered in thrilled expectation. Only under a Kadamba tree, a flute, ignored by all, lay inert and unresponsive. So they all said in derision: 'Look! How shameful! We are all in an ecstasy - but he seems utterly dead!......' and so on, they tittered in chorus.

All on a sudden, the Lord, the Evergreen, came dancing in and took up the flute and played, entrancing all. And then the dead Flute came to life with God-light at its core. It sang :

'You were all in raptures, eager to hail Him, our heart's Prince and Swain. But know that even when He was not there you all lived your own lives apart from Him. But not I. I have no life to live sundered from Him, whose breath is my own life, whose melody is my only music and whose love is my only love. I exist only for Him, through Him and in Him. Without Him I am a cipher - that is why I lay dead and inert. No ridicule or contempt could stir me. His breath - and only His breath which could bring my dead self back to life.'

And they were hushed in shame. "

That is known as dissolving in His love, that is self-giving and total surrender.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.

With love,

Kumar.

 

Hare Krishna!

Dacoit Ratnakar was told by the Sadhu, who opened up his eyes to see the reality, to chant Lord Rama's name. Dacoit said, "Prabhu, I am such a sinner that I can not take His name, I can not pronounce." The Sadhu told Ratnakar, "It does not matter. You remember Lord Rama, give your mind at His lotus feet and utter 'Mara'. We may be ignorant but He is not. When you remember Him, even if you incorrectly take His name, He knows that you are calling Him only. Slowly His love and light will fill you up, all sins and ignorance will go away. You shall be able to take His name properly. So start chanting 'Mara'."

Ratnakar did as he was advised. Very soon 'Mara' became 'Rama'.
Mara-mara-mara-mara-maramaramaramaramarama-rama-rama-rama-Rama.

Later on He became the great sage, Valmiki. WE got the Ramayana from Him.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.

With love,

 

gdkumar: oh, thanks, I had a good laugh. Mara-maramaramara. That was so smart trick to tell him everybody chant sincerely with thought on Krishna, God, it's so easy:

 

Since the human form of body is very "special", we in them should be very anxcious to use them properly. Any animal can eat, sleep, mate and defend, but we can do that and awaken our sleeping love of God.


But we must do that, how to wake up? Chant Hare Krishna @ the top of your lungs!

 

lol...there are def much worse things that he could have made him say...lol.

 

gdkumar and krishnadasa I loved both of your posts...thank you for sharing. Just chant. We were at practice and we were talking about our hobbies outside of band yesterday and my friend Heather said to me, "You should have said being a hippie." and I laughed and replied, "Yes, and chanting 'Hare Krishna' " and she got the small joke I was making. My friend Anthony, who was also talking with us said to me, "Why in the world do you chant 'Hare Krishna'." And I said to him, "I can't explain, but the simplest answer is because I want to." and we left it at that...but this whole talk of chanting made me think of that...oo...speaking of marching band practice...I must be off...see you all later! Haribol!

 

HE GIVES PLEASURE TO THE COWS...

 

Why in the world do you chant 'Hare Krishna'?

lol. they cannot understand pleasure.

 

lol...I'm not quite sure he understands what it is...::shrug::. It was neither the time or place to explain it...but I swear when I said it he gave me the funniest look... hehe...so did the girls from the colour guard during stretchs because instead of counting numbers, I keep count with the maha mantra (which is exactly 16 counts...not like it makes much of a difference)...and after awhile some of them started to look at me and I'm sure they were thinking, "What is she doing??"...lol...not like I care...but its funny...they all think I'm a loony any way...hehehe

 

Sri Krishna and the Gopis



By Sri Aurobindo.



It is not the heart of the devotee but the mind of the observer that questions how it is that the Gopis were called and responded at once and others -the Brahmin women, for instance -were not called and did not respond at once. Once the mind puts the question, there are two possible answers: the mere will of Krishna without any reason, what the mind would call his absolute divine choice or his arbitrary divine caprice or else the readiness of the heart that is called and that amounts to adhikaribheda. .A third reply would be circumstances, as for instance, "the parking off the spiritual ground into close preserves" as X puts it. But then how can circumstances prevent the Grace from acting? In spite of parking off it works: Christians, Mahomedans do answer to the Grace of Krishna. Tigers, ghouls must love if they see him, hear his flute? Yes, but why do some hear it and see him, others not?



We are thrown back on two alternatives: Krishna's Grace calls whom it wills to call without any determining reason for the choice or the rejection, it is all his mercy or his withholding or at least delaying of his mercy, or else he calls the hearts that are ready to vibrate and leap up at his call -and even there he waits till the moment has come. To say that it does not depend on outward merit or appearance of fitness is no doubt true: the something that was ready to wake in spite, it may be, of many hard layers in which it was enclosed, may be something visible to Krishna and not to us.'



It was there perhaps long before the flute began to play, but Krishna was busy melting the hard layers So that the heart in its leap might not be pressed back by them when the awakening notes came. The Gopis heard and rushed out into the forest, the others did not, or did they think it was only some rustic music or some rude cowherd-lover fluting to his sweetheart, not a call that learned and cultured or virtuous ears could recognise as the call of the Divine? There is something to be said after all for the adhikiiri-bheda. But, of course, it must be understood in the large sense: some may have the adhikiira for recognising Krishna's flute, some for the call of Christ, some for the dance of Shiva -to each his own way and his nature's answer to the Divine Call. Adhikiira cannot be stated in rigid mental terms: it is something spiritual and subtle, something mystic and secret between the called and the Caller .



Do you remember the story of Sri Krishna and the 'Gopis,

how Narada found him differently occupied in each house to which he went, present to each Gopi in a different body, yet always the same Sri Krishna? Apart from the devotional meaning of the story , which you know, it is a good image of his World-Lila. He is sarva, everyone, each Purusha with his apparently different Prakriti and action is he, and yet at the same time he is the Purushottama who is with Radha, the Para Prakriti, and can withdraw all these into himself when he wills and put them out again when he wills. From one point of view they are one with him, from another one yet different, from yet another always different because they always exist, latent in him or expressed at his pleasure. There is no profit in disputing about these standpoints. - Wait until you see God and know yourself and him and then debate and discussion will be unnecessary .



If we regard Vaikuntha or Goloka each as the world of a Divinity , Vishnu or Krishna, we would be naturally led to seek its place or its origin in the overmind plane. The overmind is the plane of the highest worlds of the Gods. But Vaikuntha and Goloka are human conceptions of states of being that are beyond humanity .Goloka is evidently a world of Love, Beauty and Ananda full of spiritual radiances (the cow is the symbol of spiritual Light) of which the souls there are keepers or possessors, Gopas and Gopis. It is not necessary to assign any single plane to this manifestation -in fact, there can be a reflection. or possession of it or of its conditions on any plane of consciousness -the mental, vital or even the subtle physical plane.





The story of Brindavan does not enter into the main story of the Mahabharata and has a Puranic origin and it could be maintained that it was intended all along to have a symbolic character. At one time I accepted that explanation, but I had to abandon it afterwards; there is nothing in the Puranas that betrays any such intention. It seems to me that it is related as something that actually occurred or occurs somewhere. The Gopis are to them realities and not symbols. It was for them at the least an occult truth, and occult and symbolic are not the same thing; the symbol may be only a significant mental construction or only a fanciful invention, but the occult is a reality which is actual somewhere, behind the material scene as it were and can have its truth for the terrestrial life and its influence upon it may even embody itself there. The Lila of the Gopis seems to be conceived as something which is always going on in a divine Gokul and which projected itself in an earthly Brindavan and can always be realised and its meaning made actual in the soul. It is to be presumed that the writers of the Puranas took it as having been actually projected on earth in the life of the incarnate Krishna and it has been so accepted by the religious mind of India.





Some say Krishna never lived, he is a myth. They mean on earth; for if Brindavan existed nowhere, the Bhagavatt could not have been written.



The Gopis are not ordinary people in the proper sense of the word: they are embodiments of a spiritual passion, extraordinary by their extremeness of love, personal devotion, unreserved self-giving. Whoever has that, however humble his or her position in other respects (learning, power of presentation, scholarship, external sanctity, etc.) can easily follow after Krishna and reach him: that seems to me the sense of the symbol of the Gopis. There are many other significances, of course ; that is only one among the many.

 

Hare Krishna!

BlackBillBlake dear,

Thank you for the wonderful piece of the truth. Such articles can take us really closer to Him in no time. Thakur Ramakrishna used to often say that years of darkness of a room can be removed in a moment with just one strike of a match-stick.
So very true!

The following is from "Search for Truth" by Yogi Sri Krishnaprem. Hope, this acts as a wake-up call for most of us.

"Life is like a flooded river carrying with it in its mad rush all manner of struggling beings, men, women, children and animals as well as all manner of trees and wreckage,carrying them all down towards the sea of death. Things seem permanent because they are floating along with us, but all alike are rushing towards the end and not one of them can help us. Father, mother, friends, relations, not one of them can save us, for all are in the same flood. Only by reaching the bank can safety be obtained. And the bank of this river is God, call Him by whatever name you will. Neither is the bank far away. Hidden in our own heart, seated in the very midst of our being, is the deathless, unchanging one, shining with brightness as of a million suns. None can describe Him, nor ever will, but He is there and He may, as the Gita says, be known and seen and entered into by those who strive to do so.

This is no fancy of poets, no myths or legend of long ago, no dream of white-haired old men. It is the living truth, truer than all sciences and all history. It is knowledge of this truth that has given birth to all religions and it is forgetfulness of it that has led to their corruption and death. It may be seen and experienced by us, too, not in some heaven after death but here and now in this very life. Therefore, as the Upanishad says: 'Arise, awake and seek out the Great Ones who will teach you the way to the goal.' "

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.


With love,

Kumar.

 

Dear Kumar,


That is indeed a great wake-up call! Thanks for posting it.

Glad you found the piece by Sri Aurobindo useful.

Hari Om!

BBB.

 

The only thing good I ever got from Sri Aurabindu and it is better than good its great!

Sai Flora "fluxo" insense very nice

 

Hare Krishna!

Bhakta and Premi.

Sage Narada was a great Bhakta and was very proud. He always used to think that he was the greatest Bhakta of God and the pride was becoming more and more. So, Lord Bishnu decided to teach him a lesson.

One day as Narada entered to see Bishnu he found Him in pain and in restless mood. Being extremely concerned and worried he asked, "O Lord! May I know what is wrong? Is there anything that I can do for you?" Bhagwan Bishnu said, "O dear Narada, I am having a splitting headache, it is good that you have come. Definitely you can help me."
Narada said, "O Prabhu, please tell me what I should do." Bhagwan Bishnu said,"Dear Narada, just please get me some feet-dust of any of my devotees and apply it on my forehead, I will become fine."

Now that was shocking for Narada, he was hesitant and scared. He thought, 'I am surely a devotee but how can I give my padadhuli(Feet-dust) and apply on my Lord's forehead! I can not do it, impossible!' So, Narada promised to get it and left.

Narada went to Lord Brahma and Lord Shiva in turn, told them the reason and begged for their feet-dust. Both of them were annoyed and reluctant to give it thinking that it is a matter of madness that their feet-dust should even touch Bhagwan Bishnu. Narada anxiously kept on moving from one God to another but alas! There was nobody to give him what he was looking for.

When he was about to give up not knowing what to do suddenly he remembered the Gopis of Brindaban. He knew that they were also great devotees. Immediately he started for the Gopis. After meeting them he apprised them of the reason why he was there. As they came to know the Gopis started crying and said, "O Prabhu Narada, only this much will relieve our Beloved from the pain! Please remove your namabali(A scarf with God's name printed on it) and collect in it our feet-dust as much as you want." Narada, flabbergasted, collected their feet-dust and ran for Bhagwan Bishnu. He told Him that the dust was with him. Being requested, Narada applied the dust on His forehead and Bhagwan heaved a sigh of relief, the headache was gone. He said, "O Narada, you kept me waiting for so long. You always think that you are my greatest devotee yet you could not give me your feet-dust and left me with the pain for so long!"

Narada was ashamed and he realized that the Gopis were not only devotees but premi as well. He also realized that premi-bhaktas are closer to the Lord.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare.

With love,

Kumar.

 

For the pleasure of the devotees........... enjoy the transcedental pastimes>

 

Thanks everybody for their contribution, Bill for the article, gdkumar for the wake up call and Krishna Dasa for amazing pictures. This thread is like a tree and we are gardeners

Krishna dasa: I was reading yur profile and I was very much pleased that you raise a Krishna conscious kid. What is it like? Also, u mentioned protection of cows (do I remeber correclty?). I was wondering, is that true when you don't milk a cow she becomes anxious? I was discussing this topic with vegans and they told me that it's not true.