Radhanath Swami: Today is, on our Vaishnava calendar, Bhismashtami, so it was decided we should speak something about Bhismadeva today. In today’s verse, Bhisma is speaking to Maharaj Yudhisthira and in this purport, Srila Prabhupada is telling how the Lord…
Respectable superiors like Bhishma the grandfather and Dronācārya the teacher are always worshipable. Even if they attack, they should not be counterattacked. It is general etiquette that superiors are not to be offered even a verbal fight. Even if they are sometimes harsh in behavior, they should not be harshly treated. Then, how is it possible for Arjuna to counterattack them? Would Krishna ever attack His own grandfather, Ugrasena, or His teacher, Sāndīpani Muni? These were some of the arguments offered by Arjuna to Krishna.
Radhanath Swami explain Kali-yuga: The age of quarrel In the age of Kali, the slightest provocation, the slightest misunderstanding can create hatred violence and war, is the age of quarrel and hypocrisy and the sin gem of quarrel and hypocrisy…
Lord Sri Krsna is giving us the vision, of how He is captured within the hearts of His devotees. To the degree we really deeply understand the intense need that we have for Krsna in every phase of our life, to that degree Krsna manifests Himself in our lives. Krsna is everywhere. He is all pervasive. Nothing exists without the divine presence of Krsna.
There are spiritual masters who have brought us, His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada, Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakur, Gaur Kishor Das Babaji Maharaj, Bhaktivinod Thakur and all of the previous acaryas. They have all, with such humble devotion, made the sacrifice of their very lives, to bring to us, the supreme gift of the mercy of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. And what is that mercy?
In the teachings of Sri Narada Muni to Vasudev in eleventh canto, he cites the incident of when Maharaj Nimi who was the king of Mithila, he is inquiring from nine Yogendras “how to understand the various incarnations of the Lord?” as we know the nine Yogendras were the son’s of Rishabhdev. Lord Rishabhdev had one hundred sons. He instructed them all, in the fifth canto of Bhagavatam, teachings of Rishabhdev.
(SB 9.4.46) evaà bruväëa utkåtya jaöäà roña-pradépitaù tayä sa nirmame tasmai kåtyäà kälänalopamäm Translation : As Durväsä Muni said this, his face became red with anger. Uprooting a bunch of hair from his head, he created a demon resembling…
(SB 9.4.41) ity apaù präçya räjarñiç cintayan manasäcyutam pratyacañöa kuru-çreñöha dvijägamanam eva saù Translation : O best of the Kuru dynasty, after he drank some water, King Ambaréña, meditating upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead within his heart, waited for…
