IYF INDORE MAYAPUR YATRA 2013 PART-1

IYF INDORE MAYAPUR YATRA 2013 HG VAISHNSV PRABHU

IYF INDORE MAYAPUR YATRA 2013 HG VAISHNSV PRABHU

My Father Is The Best by HH Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj

"Prabhupada used to say, “These Mayavadis they are so dry. They say don’t  eat, but we say eat as much as possible, mahaprasada.” Akantha puriya karo  prasada sevana. Now tell me, who is more fortunate: those who are not eating  or those who are eating? [laughter] So all their efforts, all their activities are so painful, so miserable, source of sufferings. They are  missing out on that. They are missing out on the loving exchange. They  cannot possibly have a loving exchange. How can you love something that  doesn’t have any consciousness, that doesn’t have any shape, that doesn’t have any form? So not only He has shape, He is the source of consciousness.He is a personality. He is a person and then we get to know the qualities of  that person. Oh, He is so beautiful! He is so strong. He is so powerful. He is so wise. He is so famous and He is so rich. Isn’t it wonderful to have a  relationship with a person like that? In simple words we can say, “Won’t it be wonderful to have a father?” Don’t we want to have a father who is the  richest, who is the most richest, who is the most powerful? Won’t you be  proud to have a father like that? And yes, we have a father. We have a father. The only thing is that we forgot about Him. We forgot our  relationship with Him. When we were young didn’t we think, “Oh, my father is the best.” [laughs] And in our reality our father IS the best. He is the best father! He is the richest, He is the wisest, He is the most powerful,  He is the most caring. And when we have the shelter of such a father, then why should we worry about anything?"

His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami, excerpt from lecture on SB 3.9.21, 9th
February 2009, Ujjain, India

H.H.Bhakti Charu Swami gave Bhagavad-gita class @ ISKCON Brisbane on 22nd December, 2012

Excerpts from the class.

• As it is: the way Krsna spoke and the way Arjuna understood it.
• Basic Qualification: bhaktosi me sakha cheti, rahasyam hyetad uttamam
• Secret of understanding bhagavad gita: devotion to Krsna.
• Criteria of revelation: devotion to God.
• When the father is wanting the son to come back, he makes the path/door easy to open.
• A devotee prayer: Please allow me to love you, please allow me to serve you, please allow me to go back to you.
• Sun God's son is Vaivasvata Manu, this knowledge thus came to Earth planet. Lord Ramchandra's dynasty is known as Ikshwaku dynasty. King Ikshwaku is the son of Vaivasvata Manu.
• Vedic expression are Devata and Bhagavan. Westerners thought Hinduism was polytheistic, whereas God is only one, Krsna, Krsnastu Bhagavan Swayam
• Therefore Hinduism is monotheistic with Krsna as Supreme Personality of Godhead.

H.H.Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj gave Initiation lecture @ ISKCON Sydney on 29th December, 2012

Excerpts from the lecture.

• Hare Krsna Mahamantra doesn't depend on diksha.
• dékñä-puraçcaryä-vidhi apekñä nä kare, jihvä-sparçe ä-caëòäla sabäre uddhäre
  
• dékñä-käle bhakta kare ätma-samarpaëa, sei-käle kåñëa täre kare ätma-sama
• Diksha is a process of official surrender to the representative of Krsna.
• Two needs of diksha. 1. to receive the mantra, 2. an official surrender to Krsna, accepted in the line of Srila Jiva Goswami
• Holy name is Krsna, but what makes the holy name not Krsna are offences.
• What does it mean to chant without offences? To meditate or focus the mind on the sound vibration. How to meditate on that? By listening carefully. Be very careful and attentive about hearing. When there are offences it is offensive chanting, then clearing stage and then comes pure chanting. Holy name is Krsna when it is pire chanting.
• Offensive chanting is chanting the offences, not the holy name but just the syllables.: Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakura
• Read Srila Prabhupada's books very carefully and regularly.
• Iskcon is Srila Prabhupada's ashram. He did not handover the ashram to anyone. He wanted the GBC to manage Iskcon. Don't ever think that Srila Prabhupada is not here. Srila Prabhupada is here through his books, his devotees, his temples and Iskcon itself.

The names of the initiated disciples are HG Prabhas Krsna das, Hg Radha Vandana devi dasi and HG Manasi Radhika devi dasi.

PS: In the context of Srila Prabhupada's succession Guru Maharaj also made a point once that Srila Prabhupada said all his followers will have his legacy. Guru Maharaj pointed out that he used the word followers not disciples. So whoever follows Srila Prabhupada will have his legacy and not just his disciples.

H.H. Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj gave lecture on Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakura's Disappearance day celebration @ HG Rajasekhara Prabhus new home on 1st January, 2013

Excerpts from the class.

• Caitanya Mahaprabhu was very popular. some unscrupulous people said breaking the four regulative principles was Caitanya Mahaprabhus teaching. so the educated Bengali community had nothing to do with His teachings. As a result His teachings and His Dhama both appeared due to these Apasampradayas.
• Dasavatara Stotra is the Mangalacarana to Gita Govinda of Srila Jayadeva Goswami.
• Bauls have their annual festival at Bindutal (birthplace of Jayadeva Goswami).
• Buddhism means voidism or nothingness.
• Sankarcharya's version: sarvam khalvidam bhrama. Nirvana means merging in brahmajyoti called Kevaladwaitvada or absolute non dualism.
• He established impersonalism to defeat voidism of Buddhists.
• Ramanujacharya established special non dualism or Vishista Adwaitvada. Visnuswami established Dwaitdwaitavada.
• Then Caitanya Mahaprabhu made a perfect harmony by establishing Acintya Bhedabheda Tattva.
• Symptoms of Acintya: what exists exactly beyond the material domain is Acintya.
• Living entities are under the internal potency of Krsna.
• In order to give exclusive credit to Srila Prabhupada Caitanya Mahaprabhu made his teachings disappear alongwith His Dhama.
• Srila Prabhupada to Jayadayal Dalmiya: Send your grand children to Vrindavana Gurkula and make them a brahmana. Modern education is just to get a job, sudra.
• A Vaisnava can be recognized by his attachment to Krsna.
• Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati Thakura was very English in his ways and deliberately wrote so difficult English so that even the Britishers would have to sit with a dictionary to understand his writings. He did all this so that they would no longer look down upon Indians.
• He instructed Srila Prabhupada when he was just a young married man with a wife and children and was a manager of India's first pharmaceutical company Dr. Bose's laboratory. 
• He preached vigorously and established 64 Gaudiya Mathas across the important cities of India over a short span of 12 years.
• He founded The August Assembly and remained its only celibate member till his last breath.