751115mw.bom Conversations
Prabhupada: Yes. (break) …fast, these birds. Airplane cannot do
that.
Lokanatha: How do they decide the direction and they turn all
together?
Prabhupada: Huh?
Lokanatha: How they turn all together and how do they communicate each
other that "Yes, let’s move out away"?
Prabhupada: Yes, they have got intelligence. You are thinking that
they have no intelligence. They have got complete intelligence.
Lokanatha: They have, but how do they all together decide to either
turn right or left or…
Prabhupada: That is intelligence. You do not know that. If you are
given airplane, so many, you’ll, immediately at least half a dozen
will be finished. (laughter) That means you are less intelligent than
the birds, at least in the matter of flying.

Various Grades of Bhakti Nāradīya Purāṇa 1.15.38-51

viṣṇau samarpitaṁ sarvaṁ sāttvikaṁ saphalaṁ bhavet
hari-bhakti parā nṝṇāṁ sarva-pāpa-praṇāśinī

[Lord Vishnu, incarnated as Dharma, religiosity
personified, said to the
sagacious king Bhagirath:]
Everything dedicated to Lord Vishnu attains success
and goodness. It is transcendental devotion to Lord
Hari that is the destroyer of all sins of human beings.

sā bhaktir daśadhā jñeyā pāpāraṇya-davopamā
tāmasai rājasaiś caiva sāttvikaiś ca nṛpottama

O best among kings! That devotional service which
is like a great fire for a forest of sins is understood
to be divided into ten types according to [the broad
categories of] tāmasī-bhakti, devotion in the mode of
ignorance, rājasī-bhakti, devotion in the mode of passion,
and sāttvikī-bhakti, devotion in the mode of goodness.

[Translator’s Note: These ten categories are as follows:

Hare Krsna to all

Pranams
All glories to Srila Prabhupada

This short paragraph I just read yesterday morning for SB class. Spoken in
Aug of 1968, WAY back in the beginning of Prabhupada’s preaching here in the
west. So one can see how important it is that we understand and implement this
wish of his Divine Grace.

Hari bol
Damaghosa das

680822SB.MON Lectures
So fortunately, one of our students, he has taken a very large
tract of land in West Virginia to develop a society like that, that
simple life, eat simple things, grains, vegetables, fruits, milk, and
save your time for advancing in Krsna consciousness. Don’t be
implicated in the ugra-karma. Modern civilization is implicated in
ugra-karma–vast machinery, everything complicated. The government
complicated, the society complicated, economics rule complicated,
foreign exchange complicated. Everything has become complicated. So
Narottama dasa Thakura has sung very nice song. Satsanga chair kainu
asatye vilas, ei karane lagila more karma bandha-phansa. Because we
have given up Krsna consciousness, therefore we have been entangled in
the different varieties of material activities. Now we have to
simplify it. The Krsna consciousness movement is to simplify, to save
the valuable life, to save the time of valuable life. This human form
of life is very valuable. Bahunam janmanam ante. After many, many
births we have got this important life. So we have to save our time to
utilize it for Krsna consciousness. That should… So far we have got
this material body, we want to maintain it. The body and souls live
together. That is all right. For that, Krsna has given every chance.
Anywhere you sit down, you have got land and cow. You produce
something and cow’s milk. That is sufficient for maintenance. So let
us try to make an attempt to organize a New Vrindaban scheme, and I
shall request all my students to develop this idea and show a good
example to this Western part of the world where people are always
engaged in ugra-karma, asuric-karma. Things are becoming very
implicated, complicated.
Thank you very much. Any question?

this morning on my japa walk about….

spinach peas and tomaotes happily growing here

200 potato plants coming along nicely…

lots of pole and bush beans for grain use….

hoop house with peppers tomatos and cantaloupe

so much spinach and peas we cant eat it all…

Ah, judge by the result !! Hare Krsna !

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Guru cannot be self-made. No. There is no such

single instance throughout the whole Vedic literature. And nowadays,

so many rascals, they are becoming guru without any authority. That is

not guru. You must be authorized. Evam parampara-praptam imam ra… As

soon as the parampara is lost, sa kalena yoga nasto parantapa,

immediately finished. The spiritual potency finished. You can dress

like a guru, you can talk big, big words, but it will never be

effective

This photo of the Lotus Feet of Govindaji from Jaipur is rather new, but this Deity is around 5000 years old !
He was installed by Vajranab the grandson of Lord Krsna. One day Rupa Goswami
saw a cow in Vrndavana supplying milk to the ground somewhere and thought
to excavate that site. He found this Deity of Govinda. He is magnificient !!