hare krishna

Oh to be reunited as a cow licking at the feet of GOVINDA.

 

The Peace Formula





The earth is the property of God, but we, the living entities, especially the so-called civilized human beings, are claiming God's property as our own, under both an individual and collective false conception. If you want peace, you have to remove this false conception from your mind and from the world. This false claim of proprietorship by the human race on earth is partly or wholly the cause of all disturbances of peace on earth.



Foolish and so-called civilized men are claiming proprietary rights on the property of God because they have now become godless. You cannot be happy and peaceful in a godless society. In the Bhagavad-gita Lord Krsna says that He is the factual enjoyer of all activities of the living entities, that He is the Supreme Lord of all universes, and that He is the well-wishing friend of all beings. When the people of the world know this as the formula for peace, it is then and there that peace will prevail.



Therefore, if you want peace at all, you will have to change your consciousness into Krsna consciousness, both individually and collectively, by the simple process of chanting the holy name of God. This is a standard and recognized process for achieving peace in the world. We therefore recommend that everyone become Krsna conscious by chanting Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.



This is practical, simple, and sublime. Four hundred and eighty years ago this formula was introduced in India by Lord Sri Caitanya, and now it is available in your country. Take to this simple process of chanting as above mentioned, realize your factual position by reading the Bhagavad-gita As It Is, and reestablish your lost relationship with Krsna, God. Peace and prosperity will be the immediate worldwide result.


Srila Prabhupada

Science of Self-Realization

 

"God laughs the hardest when humans draw a line on the ground and claim the land as their own" Ramakrishna

 

Nations don't exist, states either.

 

Wow....all of this liturature and all of the pictures were very lovely. Thank you all of you for sharing them...

I agree about peace on earth. We talk about it but we can never have it until we realize that none of this is ours...its Krishna's.....This is just part of my long rant (which some of you have heard already....)....

Chant and be happy. If nothing else makes sense...which happens sometimes...just chant....it has made me happier than I have ever known...

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

 

Hare Krishna!

Everything belongs to Krishna!

Thank you, dear ChiefCowpie and BlackBillBlake.
Thank you, dear Krishnadasa for the fascinating photographs.

I do not remember where I read the following story. Hope, it serves the purpose.

There was a great King. His wife, the Queen, was a great yogi. After years of sadhana outside the palace she achieved knowledge and self-realization. She reached the stage of Nirguna when no qualites could touch her. So, she came back to the palace and started living there as before.

Now there started a new problem. Rani's name travelled far and wide and people from all sections of life started coming to see and listen to her rich discourses on spiritual subject. Rani became so famous that hardly a few visitors were there for the King and most of the visitors were for the Rani. Raja was quite upset, annoyed and restless with the thought that nobody pays due attention and respect to him.

After a lot of analysis he decided to renounce everything and become a sadhu to be like his wife. So, he gave away all the property to the Queen and left the palace with only the clothes he was wearing. He went inside a deep dense forest in total desolation and started sadhana. Months and years passed but nothing happened. He thought something was definitely wrong and found it to be his clothes that he did not renounce. So he threw all his clothes except the underwear. It was still of no use. Then he threw the underwear and became completely bare. He thought now I have renounced everything, this time I should be able achieve realization. Years passed by still nothing happened. The King became frustrated and angry. He thought, 'I have renounced everything with no results, now only my body is left - I shall leave that as well.' He managed to light up a fire in the jungle and was about to enter the same to renounce His body.

The Queen, by her spiritual powers, was aware of everything. Suddenly she appeared and stopped the King. The King started crying saying that he renounced everything still he could not receive Lord's compassion and grace. Rani said, "Maharaja, I am sorry, but you have not renounced anything so far. You could renounce something that was your own, but nothing ever belonged to you - the property, the clothes and even the beloved body never belonged to you. Everything is His. If you owned anything that was your sense of the 'I' and 'my' - your ego(Ahamkar) and you still own them. Maharaja, please renounce them-your ahamkar.

Maharaja, still crying, understood and started all over again. He soon had self-realization.


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

With love,

Kumar.

 

Thanks for that Kumar - and thanks to everyone else for enriching us with all this Krishna Katha!


Its absolutely right what the story says - to serve God means to overcome or let go of the ego. Can't serve both at once!

 

thanks, gdkumar for a great story

u can't get rid of your ego though. that is the difference between the teachings of Majavadis and Viashnavas, I believe. Ego is your identity, your original essence. We should get rid of false ego -that measn false identification with the body -that is the cause of our illusioned feeling of proprietorship. Ego means that you have freedom of choice. If we had no freedom of choive, it wouldn'be possible to love Krishna.
haribol and thank you

 

In a way Sleeping Jiva, you are right.It's just a question of terminology. There is false ego - and that's what I meant by ego in my post. Behind this is the real self, real ego if you like, and that is a fragment of Krishna's energy. It is the same in quality as the Lord Himself, but it is only a small spark, while Krishna is like a great fire.
When I say we can't serve the ego and Krishna, I mean that the false ego is the puppet of the three Gunas, the modes of material nature. It serves only what it sees as its own immediate gratification, and is the very thing that keeps us from realizing who we really are - spiritual beings in relation to God.
When we try sincerely to serve Krishna, naturally false ego falls away and we come to realize more and more our spiritual self.
So Prabhu - that's what we should do - just try to serve Him!

Hare Krishna!

 

oh yeah,

sometimes I use it in the same way. By meaning ego I want to say false ego. Mainly becuz I got this association with the word egotism, what is what's happening when you think you are your body. I find this original ego awareness amazing and logical. We're all different, we serve Krishna in 6 billion different ways. That's what makes it fun. nice pic

 

Hare Krishna!

Dear BlackBillBlake and SleepingJiva,

Thank you for your kind posts and post analysis. And for those wonderful photographs thanks again.


Battle field of Kurukshetra and Abhimanyu.

The Mahabharata is all about the struggle between the right and wrong, establishment of Naya(Justice) by fighting against Anyay(Injustice). It is all about two related families, the Pandavas(Right group) and the Kauravas(Wrong group). When injustice was made to the Pandavas, they tried their best to come to a peaceful and amicable solution but the Kauravas were not ready for any adjustment. They held on to their wrong doings and invited the Pandavas for an all-out war to get what they lawfully wanted. Then the Pandavas had to reluctantly go for the war for establishment of justice(Dharma). For the Pandavas, in each and every step it was so difficult to think even that they have to fight against their relations, friends, brothers, etc. Then the Greatest Teacher, Lord Krishna came for the counselling as regards how to go about every small doubts and questions in mind and why they should do it. In the same process we got the nectar called the Gita.

The battle field of Kurukshetra is nothing but our battle field of this Sansar, the battle of Kurukshetra is our life-struggle. Always two groups are fighting for right and wrong. For the right group there is the Gita for rescue and Lord Krishna Himself tells us how and why to proceed in each and every step. Each one of the right thinking group is Arjuna and Lord Krishna is there, through the Gita, for each one of them.

The great warrior, Abhimanyu, son of Arjuna and Subhadra, could probably win the war alone by his own merits, but alas! He died after a great fight in the war. There were seven enemy kings waiting for him in a circular trap(Chakra-byuha). He knew how to enter but did not know how to win in that situation(Encircled by all seven enemy kings and jointly fighting against him.) and how to come out.

The right -minded people are all like Abhimanyu, they are not scared to fight this life struggle, they try to win but fail because they do not know how to fight against seven strong enemies who jointly fight against each one of them. Yes, we are all Abhimanyus fighting against seven very strong enemies at all times and losing out the war because we do not know how to win over these enemies. These enemy kings, in our life struggle, are our Mind-the leader, Ego, Desire, Greed, Anger, Fascination and Malice. Only Lord Krishna can show us the way and rescue us when we become Arjuna first.

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

With love,

Kumar.

 

Hare Krishna!

Dadaji often said: "Live your life in such a way that people catch the contagion. The contagion of Truth,Harmony, and Love. None of us are so big that we can change the world. But a few seekers, a few fellow-travellers, a few pilgrims of the stars, who need to know a little of the way you have traversed, will be helped. That is enough. Your work is fulfilled."


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

With love,

Kumar.

 

hey, thanks gdkumar

don't feel as unwanted out here. I'm very much pleased that you've returned here to enjoy your love for Krishna. I've also noticed that you added up a mahamantra under each of your posts! (as well as others did) well, done. Now you see that we all want to propagate this mantra -that makes us very close in this group. haribol

 

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Gaur Nitai ki jaya!!!

 

Here is Sri Gauranga

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very nice! looks like we all like pictures

 

yea pictures!!!


Sad Bhuja

 

http://www.in2-mec.com/DivineCouple.html

 

Hare Krishna!

Dear ChiefCowpie,

Thank you for all those fascinatingly beautiful photographs. Particularly the pictures of Gaur-Nitai and of the three-in-one(Rama-Krishna-Chaitanya) are entrancing. Photographs have such effects, only if we could see them just for once what would happen !

Thank you again.

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

With love,

Kumar.