Radhanath Swami: Today we are celebrating Pushpa Abhishek- our annual flower festival. So the brahmacharis have selected this particular verse to give us a deeper sense of the profound form of meditation that you are all immersed in at this…
The impersonal time factor is the background of the material manifestation as the instrument of the Supreme Lord. It is the ingredient of assistance offered to material nature. No one knows where time began and where it ends, and it is time only which can keep a record of the creation, maintenance and destruction of the material manifestation. This time factor is the material cause of creation and is therefore a self expansion of the Personality of Godhead. Time is considered the impersonal feature of the Lord.
The Personality of Godhead is omnipresent by His diverse potencies everywhere, just as the power of electricity is distributed everywhere within space. Similarly, the Lord’s omnipresence is perceived and manifested by His unalloyed devotees like Vidura, just as electricity is manifested in an electric bulb. A pure devotee like Vidura always feels the presence of the Lord everywhere.
“evam sada karma-kalapam atmanah Pare ‘dhiyajne bhagavaty adhoksaje Sarvatma-bhavam vidadhan mahim imam Tan-nistha-vipabhihitah sasasa ha” (SB 9.4.21) Translation In performing his prescribed duties as king, Maharaja Ambarisa always offered the results of his royal activities to the Supreme Personality…
Lord Nityananda Prabhu Today is auspicious appearance of Lord Nityananda Prabhu. There is a beautiful song by Srila Narottam Das Thakur where he sings – brajendra-nandana jei, śacī-suta hoilo sei, balarāma hoilo nitāi He is offering his obeisances to Lord…
Creation of this universe starts with Brahma The hard way but that is our choice. So when it is describe in the Bhagavat purana how the Lord creates this material world. Krishna personally has nothing to do with material existence,…
jïänaà te ‘haà sa-vijïänam idaà vakñyämy açeñataù yaj jïätvä neha bhüyo ‘nyaj jïätavyam avaçiñyate (BG 7.2) Translation I shall now declare unto you in full this knowledge both phenomenal and nominal, by knowing which there should remain nothing further to…
SB 8.6.13 taà tväà vayaà nätha samujjihänaà saroja-näbhäticirepsitärtham dåñövä gatä nirvåtam adya sarve gajä davärtä iva gäìgam ambhaù SYNONYMS tam—O Lord; tväm—Your Lordship; vayam—all of us; nätha—O master; samujjihänam—now appearing before us with all glories; saroja-näbha—O Lord, whose navel resembles…
