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2017-08-06 Srimad Bhagavatam 11-03-36 - Kaliya Pastime (download mp3) by Radhanath Swami at ISKCON Chowpatty www.iskcondesiretree.com SB 11.3.36naitan mano visati vag uta caksur atma pranendriyani ca yathanalam arcisah svahsabdo ’pi bodhaka-nisedhatayatma-mulam arthoktam aha yad-rte na nisedha-siddhih Translation: Neither the mind nor the faculties of speech, sight, intelligence, the life air or any of the senses are capable of penetrating that Supreme Truth, any more than small sparks can affect the original fire from which they are generated. Not even the authoritative language of the Vedas can perfectly describe the Supreme Truth, since the Vedas themselves disclaim the possibility that the Truth can be expressed by words. But through indirect reference the Vedic sound does serve as evidence of the Supreme Truth, since without the existence of that Supreme Truth the various restrictions found in the Vedas would have no ultimate purpose. Purport: The small sparks generated by a blazing fire have no power to illuminate the original fire, nor can they burn it. The quantity of heat and light in the original fire is always superior to the quantity found in the insignificant sparks. Similarly, the minute living entity is generated from the internal potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as stated in Vedanta-sutra (janmady asya yatah) and Bhagavad-gita (aham sarvasya prabhavah, mamaivamso jiva-loke jiva-bhutah sanatanah). The minute living entities, being amsah, or sparks of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, can never equal the Supreme Godhead in the quantity of their potency. The quantity of knowledge and bliss in the Supreme Personality of Godhead is always superior. Therefore, when a foolish conditioned soul tries to illuminate the subject matter of the highest truth with his tiny brain, he merely illuminates his own foolishness. The Personality of Godhead has personally spoken Bhagavad-gita, which is the blazing fire of perfect knowledge that burns to ashes the insignificant speculations and theories of so-called philosophers and scientists regarding the ultimate truth. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is called Hrsikesa, or the Lord of everyone’s senses. Because the Personality of Godhead has supreme seeing power, hearing power, touching power, smelling power and tasting power, the living entities in a limited sense can also see, hear, touch, smell and taste, by the mercy of Hrsikesa. This idea is expressed in the Brhad-aranyaka Upanisad (4.4.18): pranasya pranam uta caksusas caksur uta srotrasya srotram annasyannam manaso ye mano viduh. “The Supreme Truth is understood to be the life air sustaining everyone’s life air, the vision of everyone’s eyes, the hearing power of the ear, and the sustenance of food itself.” The obvious conclusion is that the Supreme Truth can be known by His own causeless mercy, and not by our foolish attempts to bring the all-pervading truth within the insignificant boundaries of our intelligence. It is stated in the Taittiriya Upanisad (2.4.1), yato vaco nivartante aprapya manasa saha: “The descriptive power of speech fails in the realm of the Supreme Truth, and the speculative power of the mind cannot achieve Him.” But because such statements of Vedic srutis are in themselves descriptions of the Absolute Truth, one may consider such Vedic statements contradictory. Therefore, in this connection it is stated, sabdo ’pi bodhaka-nisedhatayatma-mulam arthoktam aha: although the Vedic sruti (sabda) forbids us to speculate upon the Absolute Truth, such restrictive injunctions indirectly constitute positive assertions of the existence of the supreme living entity. In fact, the Vedic restrictions are meant to save one from the false path of mental speculation and ultimately bring one to the point of devotional surrender. As Lord Krsna Himself states in Bhagavad-gita, vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah: by all Vedic literatures the Supreme Personality of Godhead is to be known. The asser

2017-08-15 Festivals - Janmastami Lecture Part-01 (download mp3) by Radhanath Swami at ISKCON Chowpatty www.iskcondesiretree.com

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2017-08-09 Srimad Bhagavatam 11.03.36(C) - Following The Path of Great Soul (download mp3) by Krishna Chaitanya Prabhu at ISKCON Chowpatty www.iskcondesiretree.com SB 11.3.36naitan mano visati vag uta caksur atma pranendriyani ca yathanalam arcisah svahsabdo ’pi bodhaka-nisedhatayatma-mulam arthoktam aha yad-rte na nisedha-siddhih Translation: Neither the mind nor the faculties of speech, sight, intelligence, the life air or any of the senses are capable of penetrating that Supreme Truth, any more than small sparks can affect the original fire from which they are generated. Not even the authoritative language of the Vedas can perfectly describe the Supreme Truth, since the Vedas themselves disclaim the possibility that the Truth can be expressed by words. But through indirect reference the Vedic sound does serve as evidence of the Supreme Truth, since without the existence of that Supreme Truth the various restrictions found in the Vedas would have no ultimate purpose. Purport: The small sparks generated by a blazing fire have no power to illuminate the original fire, nor can they burn it. The quantity of heat and light in the original fire is always superior to the quantity found in the insignificant sparks. Similarly, the minute living entity is generated from the internal potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as stated in Vedanta-sutra (janmady asya yatah) and Bhagavad-gita (aham sarvasya prabhavah, mamaivamso jiva-loke jiva-bhutah sanatanah). The minute living entities, being amsah, or sparks of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, can never equal the Supreme Godhead in the quantity of their potency. The quantity of knowledge and bliss in the Supreme Personality of Godhead is always superior. Therefore, when a foolish conditioned soul tries to illuminate the subject matter of the highest truth with his tiny brain, he merely illuminates his own foolishness. The Personality of Godhead has personally spoken Bhagavad-gita, which is the blazing fire of perfect knowledge that burns to ashes the insignificant speculations and theories of so-called philosophers and scientists regarding the ultimate truth. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is called Hrsikesa, or the Lord of everyone’s senses. Because the Personality of Godhead has supreme seeing power, hearing power, touching power, smelling power and tasting power, the living entities in a limited sense can also see, hear, touch, smell and taste, by the mercy of Hrsikesa. This idea is expressed in the Brhad-aranyaka Upanisad (4.4.18): pranasya pranam uta caksusas caksur uta srotrasya srotram annasyannam manaso ye mano viduh. “The Supreme Truth is understood to be the life air sustaining everyone’s life air, the vision of everyone’s eyes, the hearing power of the ear, and the sustenance of food itself.” The obvious conclusion is that the Supreme Truth can be known by His own causeless mercy, and not by our foolish attempts to bring the all-pervading truth within the insignificant boundaries of our intelligence. It is stated in the Taittiriya Upanisad (2.4.1), yato vaco nivartante aprapya manasa saha: “The descriptive power of speech fails in the realm of the Supreme Truth, and the speculative power of the mind cannot achieve Him.” But because such statements of Vedic srutis are in themselves descriptions of the Absolute Truth, one may consider such Vedic statements contradictory. Therefore, in this connection it is stated, sabdo ’pi bodhaka-nisedhatayatma-mulam arthoktam aha: although the Vedic sruti (sabda) forbids us to speculate upon the Absolute Truth, such restrictive injunctions indirectly constitute positive assertions of the existence of the supreme living entity. In fact, the Vedic restrictions are meant to save one from the false path of mental speculation and ultimately bring one to the point of devotional surrender. As Lord Krsna Himself states in Bhagavad-gita, vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah: by all Vedic literatures the Supreme Personality of God

2017-08-08 Srimad Bhagavatam 11.03.36(B) - Bringing Change within (download mp3 by Gauranga Priya Prabhu at ISKCON Chowpatty www.iskcondesiretree.com SB 11.3.36naitan mano visati vag uta caksur atma pranendriyani ca yathanalam arcisah svahsabdo ’pi bodhaka-nisedhatayatma-mulam arthoktam aha yad-rte na nisedha-siddhih Translation: Neither the mind nor the faculties of speech, sight, intelligence, the life air or any of the senses are capable of penetrating that Supreme Truth, any more than small sparks can affect the original fire from which they are generated. Not even the authoritative language of the Vedas can perfectly describe the Supreme Truth, since the Vedas themselves disclaim the possibility that the Truth can be expressed by words. But through indirect reference the Vedic sound does serve as evidence of the Supreme Truth, since without the existence of that Supreme Truth the various restrictions found in the Vedas would have no ultimate purpose. Purport: The small sparks generated by a blazing fire have no power to illuminate the original fire, nor can they burn it. The quantity of heat and light in the original fire is always superior to the quantity found in the insignificant sparks. Similarly, the minute living entity is generated from the internal potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, as stated in Vedanta-sutra (janmady asya yatah) and Bhagavad-gita (aham sarvasya prabhavah, mamaivamso jiva-loke jiva-bhutah sanatanah). The minute living entities, being amsah, or sparks of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, can never equal the Supreme Godhead in the quantity of their potency. The quantity of knowledge and bliss in the Supreme Personality of Godhead is always superior. Therefore, when a foolish conditioned soul tries to illuminate the subject matter of the highest truth with his tiny brain, he merely illuminates his own foolishness. The Personality of Godhead has personally spoken Bhagavad-gita, which is the blazing fire of perfect knowledge that burns to ashes the insignificant speculations and theories of so-called philosophers and scientists regarding the ultimate truth. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is called Hrsikesa, or the Lord of everyone’s senses. Because the Personality of Godhead has supreme seeing power, hearing power, touching power, smelling power and tasting power, the living entities in a limited sense can also see, hear, touch, smell and taste, by the mercy of Hrsikesa. This idea is expressed in the Brhad-aranyaka Upanisad (4.4.18): pranasya pranam uta caksusas caksur uta srotrasya srotram annasyannam manaso ye mano viduh. “The Supreme Truth is understood to be the life air sustaining everyone’s life air, the vision of everyone’s eyes, the hearing power of the ear, and the sustenance of food itself.” The obvious conclusion is that the Supreme Truth can be known by His own causeless mercy, and not by our foolish attempts to bring the all-pervading truth within the insignificant boundaries of our intelligence. It is stated in the Taittiriya Upanisad (2.4.1), yato vaco nivartante aprapya manasa saha: “The descriptive power of speech fails in the realm of the Supreme Truth, and the speculative power of the mind cannot achieve Him.” But because such statements of Vedic srutis are in themselves descriptions of the Absolute Truth, one may consider such Vedic statements contradictory. Therefore, in this connection it is stated, sabdo ’pi bodhaka-nisedhatayatma-mulam arthoktam aha: although the Vedic sruti (sabda) forbids us to speculate upon the Absolute Truth, such restrictive injunctions indirectly constitute positive assertions of the existence of the supreme living entity. In fact, the Vedic restrictions are meant to save one from the false path of mental speculation and ultimately bring one to the point of devotional surrender. As Lord Krsna Himself states in Bhagavad-gita, vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyah: by all Vedic literatures the Supreme Personality of Godhead is to be

2017-08-06 Sunday Feast - Bharat is Misunderstood by Different People (download mp3) by Vrishbhanu Prabhu at ISKCON Chowpatty www.iskcondesiretree.com

2017-08-07 Festivals - Balaram Jayanti - Morning Class (download mp3) by Radha Gopinath Prabhu at ISKCON Chowpatty www.iskcondesiretree.com

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2017-08-05 Srimad Bhagavatam 11.03.35 - The Supreme Personality Godhead-The Cause of Creation (download mp3) by Radhanath Swami at ISKCON Chowpatty www.iskcondesiretree.com SB 11.3.35sri-pippalayana uvacasthity-udbhava-pralaya-hetur ahetur asya yat svapna-jagara-susuptisu sad bahis cadehendriyasu-hrdayani caranti yena sañjivitani tad avehi param narendra Translation: Sri Pippalayana said: The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the cause of the creation, maintenance and destruction of this universe, yet He has no prior cause. He pervades the various states of wakefulness, dreaming and unconscious deep sleep and also exists beyond them. By entering the body of every living being as the Supersoul, He enlivens the body, senses, life airs and mental activities, and thus all the subtle and gross organs of the body begin their functions. My dear King, know that Personality of Godhead to be the Supreme. Purport: In the previous verse King Nimi inquired about various aspects of the Absolute Truth, namely Narayana, Brahman and Paramatma. Now the sage Sri Pippalayana explains these three features of the Absolute Truth in the same order in which the King mentioned them. Sthity-udbhava-pralaya-hetuh refers to the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who expands Himself as the triple purusa incarnations — Maha-Visnu, Garbhodakasayi Visnu and Ksirodakasayi Visnu. As described in the Bhagavatam (1.3.1): jagrhe paurusam rupam bhagavan mahad-adibhihsambhutam sodasa-kalam adau loka-sisrksaya “In the beginning of the creation, the Lord first expanded Himself in the universal form of the purusa incarnation and manifested all the ingredients for the material creation. And thus at first there was the creation of the sixteen principles of material action. This was for the purpose of creating the material universe.” Thus the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Narayana, is mentioned here as hetuh, or the supreme cause of the creation, maintenance and annihilation of the cosmic situation. Still, there is no cause of the Lord Himself; He is ahetuh. As expressed in the Brahma-samhita, anadir adir govindah sarva-karana-karanam. The Supreme Lord is the cause of all causes, and being the eternal Absolute Truth, He has no cause of Himself. The word ahetuh has also been explained by Srila Jiva Gosvami to indicate that the Supreme Lord has His original form as Krsna in His own transcendental abode, called Krsnaloka. Since Krsna is always engaged in His blissful pastimes in the company of His eternally liberated associates, He is aloof from the affairs of this world, which is created by His external potency, known as maya. Therefore it is stated, jagrhe paurusam rupam. The Lord expands Himself as Narayana and Visnu to facilitate the gross illusion and gradual rectification of the conditioned souls. The Lord’s aloofness from the material creation is also described in the Vedas: na tasya karyam karanam ca vidyate. The Absolute Truth has nothing to do, since everything is done self-sufficiently by His multipotencies. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura has pointed out that even though the Supreme Lord Krsna is ahetuh, or causeless and aloof from the cause of material creation, the Lord is also described in this verse as hetuh, or the ultimate cause of the creation, maintenance and annihilation of the material manifestation, because He expands Himself as Paramatma, or the Supersoul, who acts as the prime mover of the cosmic manifestation. The word ahetuh may also be understood in another way. In Bhagavad-gita (7.5) the Lord says: apareyam itas tv anyam prakrtim viddhi me paramjiva-bhutam maha-baho yayedam dharyate jagat The conditioned living entities (jiva-bhuta) desire to engage in sense gratification with their material senses (manah-sasthanindriyani prakrti-sthani karsati). Thus the creation of the material world becomes necessary. In fact, the material cosmic manifestation continues to exist because of the desires of the conditioned souls to exploit it (ya