Chanting is Very Nice (VID!)

HH KKS at Krishna Kirtana Prabhu's house on the evening of his initiation.

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Go Beyond Ritualistic Religion (last part - part4) VID!

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Sankirtan Festival at Simhachalam 2008! (Vid!)

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Go Beyond Ritualistic Religion (part3) Vid!

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Saturday Night Bhajan (Vid!)

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Gaura Punima Stockholm 2009 (VID!)

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Go Beyond Ritualistic Religion (part2) VID!

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THE KIND NAME (VID!) HH KKS sings!!!!!!

KIRTANA AT BHAKTIVEDANTA MANOR!!!
15th MARCH 2009

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Go Beyond Ritualistic Religion (part1) VID!

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Nice Meditation On HH KKS (Vid!)

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Krsna Has Kindly Come As The Holy Name

HH KKS 15/03/09: The Holy Name of Lord Krishna is descending directly from the spiritual world. It is Krishna in His unlimited kindness that He appears amidst of us….but due to the influence of false ego we are not able to fully relate to the Name….. Thus we relate to the name on a mental platform and the result is is that our mind wanders in the midst of transcendental sound…we become restless and we can not concentrate….But actually we must surrender. Surrender to the sound of Kirtana and simply appreciate the name of Krishna as being Krishna..non different from Krishna…that means the Unlimted Supreme Lord…..full of unlimited opulences…the All Merciful Supreme Lord who is kindly come to us.

(VID!) HH KKS Sings Jaya Radha Madhava In Manor

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Relate to His Personal Form

HH KKS: We can't have a meaningful relationship with an ant, because to the ant, we look scary and big. If we try and embrace the ant, we will kill it. In the same way, we cannot develop a meaningful relationship with the universal form of the Lord because we will get bewildered and scared. So we relate with Krishna in His intimate form of a cowherd boy - but He still performs some superhuman feats by breaking the laws of material nature - like when He held Govardhana Hill.

Even Engage The Mayavadis!!

HH KKS: One Mayavadi was there in a particular public program and there were different speakers and Prabhupada was one of them. And then this Mayavadi, he came and he wanted to give Prabhupada some brochures and he gave an entire box with brochures, fill with Mayavada philosophy. Prabhupada told the devotees, "Yes, yes, please keep this. Accept it." So they kept it then after some time, some weeks later, Prabhupada said, "Do we still have that box with those brochures?" they said, "Yes we do." Prabhupada said, "Okay, please bring the box." It was a Sunday programme and then Prabhupada told the devotees, "Okay, please give everyone one of the brochures. Then Prabhupada asked all the guests to open up the brochures and place them on the floor in front of them and next he told all the devotees to serve prasadam and use those brochures as plates. Just see how expertly Srila Prabhupada was even engaging mayavadis and their brochures in Krsna service.

HH KKS singing at Leicester University, UK (VID!)

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Yadunandana Sanyassa Initiation from HH KKS and HH JAS

Yadunandana's first Kirtana after receiveing Sanyassa Initiation from:
HH KKS and HH Jas


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Initiations at Bhaktivedanta Manor

Initiations on 16th March by HH KKS
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Sutapa Prabhu received his second initiation. Sutapa Prabhu (above)is a very devoted sankirtana devotee of Iskon Watford. He is an inspiration to devotees in the temple, congregation and devotees all around UK! He distributes hundreds of Prabhupada books every week!! His well wishers were all happy to see him receive brahmana initiation.

Krishna Kirtana Prabhu (above)received Hari Nama initiation. HH KKS said that because Prabhu is so fond of Kirtana and even has mrdanga shaped chanting beads he should be named "Krishna Kirtana Das." Devotees were delighted to see him receive initiation. Krishna Kirtana Prabhu is a dedicated devotee who's enthusiasm is contagious! He works also as a dentist and reads the Blog between treating his patients!!!



(Godbrother of HH KKS)Annirudda Prabhu is very happy after performing a successfull ceremony!

Krishna The Person (last part- part5)

Question: I just have a question because of the nature of the purport about how Krishna's body is never material. When He takes birth it's not normal
birth and He appears in the world. So I had a devotee come up to me
yesterday and he said they went up to Ekacakra and they visited Nityananda's
appearance place and they said in that village they have a kund where
Nityananda,s umbilical cord was put or placed so it was considered sacred
place or kund. So he said to me, "How Nityananda had an umbilical cord?" So
I just want to know your comment on that.

HH KKS: Well first of all I don't know if it's true or not.
If it's anyway confirmed by an acarya or in the scripture about this kund is
really containing the umbilical cord …….but how could Lord Nityananda not have
an umbilical cord? Are you saying that you want to limit Lord Nityananda? So
of course he has everything he can have all these things. But in his case it
is part of the illusory energy just as in his mausalya lila Krishna is
leaving a material body behind and then ascends with Daruka in His chariot
to the spiritual sky.

In this way Lord Nityananda appears in this world but can leave some sort of
remblance of a birth for those who want to believe that he took a birth. But
we understand the transcendental purport by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada.
So for us it's easy. And it's easy because once you have a mercy of
transcendental person then all these questions becomes very easy. Of course
Nityananda is transcendental its beyond doubt.

So if he left an umbilical cord its just an arrangement, its part of his
playful nature and to bewilder a few atheist on the way as well. So multi
purpose, the Lord is daksha. So for the devotees its fun ………………for the atheist its
confirmation that He is material like that! Multi purpose! That's all. I
think we need not worry about such apparent contradictions. Personally I
feel no confusions when I think of such things.
Ok your turn. Over there right.

Question: Maharaja my question is that when did you realize that the
impersonal philosophy was inferior to the personal and what were the
circumstances at the time of realization?

HH KKS: Ok. I had joined the Krishna Balarama temple in
Vrindavana and but I wasn't really sure what I have joined. I escaped after
a few days and I was in the city of Beneras and a sadhu came with a long
beard and he chanted Hare Krishna. He came out of nowhere. Usually these
sadhus they come and they say what is your country what is your name. This
one didn't say anything. He sat down next to me with an ektara and just sang
Hare Krishna.

So I was very shocked because I thought that Krishna was after me. Sort of
distinct feeling that He was a person interfering with things. And then I
stayed there and the next morning there was a harinam party chanting Hare
Krishna in the streets. So I got very worried and I thought where do I go
now to escape from Krishna?! So I decided let me go to the Tibetan Buddhists.
There probably I had best chance! I was there and I sat there high in the
Himalayas and there are these prayer mills which are cylindrical forms
sitting on axis's and they spin them around. One circle is a prayer. Huge
one all kinds. And they have batteries. In the center of town they were a
whole bunch and they all run around in circles and they keep on pushing
these mills this way.

So I was sitting there and this lama was walking around and I was a little
interested in him and I was trying to talk to him and he didn't speak a
word, nothing. I greeted him and he walked passed. No reaction. So I thought
may be he is deaf. So the next time I spoke more aloud. Still he didn't
recognized. And he walked past. So that I thought was very awkward. And then
I still had the Bhagavad-gita. So I read the Bhagavad-gita and then I read
the difference between the impersonalist and devotees. And then I realized
this man is an impersonalist. He is thinking that I am illusion to him. That
I am just not even existing! Then I just completely, completely rejected
that impersonalism right there. And then I went back down the mountain back
to the temple!

(Audience exclaims Haribol!)

Of course I escaped again later on but that's another story. But Krishna
brought me back again and again. That's His kindness. So there is no doubt
that Krishna is a person and that Krishna makes personal arrangements in our
lives all the time to help us to protect us from maya, to pull us out of
maya, to pull us out of the material world to keep us in this movement.
Krishna is with us every step of the way. There is no doubt about it.
Ok one last question and I will stop because it's getting late…..

Question: Hare Krishna Maharaja My question is about the impersonalism
versus the personal form again, and my question is, isn't having this
impersonal idea of God one stage before we reach the platform of personal?

HH KKS: Well is it a stage before we reach to personal?
Everything starts in an eternal relationship with Krishna. That is where it
began. We were in eternal relationship with Krishna but then somehow or
other due to our smallness and due to Krishna's unlimited energies we became
bewildered and we fell from that original position. And the result is that
we became covered with the material energy and now we are on the way back.

Do we have to go from the stage of impersonalism? Not necessarily so. It
depends. If we get the mercy of a Vaisnava then it’s not required. Then we
can become the devotees straight away. So it is not required. It depends on
the mercy of the Vaisnavas. Thus let us look for the mercy of the Vaisnava
so that if there is some remnant of an impersonalist within us then we can
get rid of it now once and for all and we may get cured of this disease and
the symptoms may not recover. Hare Krishna!

Thank you very much!
Srila Prabhupada ki, Jai!

Indra Afflicted By Sinful Reaction

SUMMARY OF BHAGAVATAM CLASS
(SB 6.13.11) given on 3rd March 2009 by:
HH KKS at Bhaktivedanta Manor

Text: tayendrah smasahat tapam…

Class:
• Indra had to live an incredibly pious and sinless life to attain his position => he is so exalted (unlike us who are very sinful)
• Sinful acts are stored in the heart (tadatmanam)
• Goodness – demigods always looking for authorized way to act
• Passion – earth planet – always consider prescribed duties a drag

• Four varnas:
1. sudra – inclined to sinful activity => not allowed to read scriptures
2. vaisyas – inclined to pious activity, but when there is a choice between profit and dharma they will go for the profit (what to do? Money is the honey!)
3. ksatriya
- inclined to pious activity but sometimes passion gets the better of him and he disregards dharma in these situations.
- His determination is based on willpower
4. brahmana – determination based on knowledge

• yasye laksanam prokta – no living being is to be judged by their body

• the marble in Rajasthan can be used for:
1. building a temple for the Lord’s satisfaction, or
2. building a palace for a King’s sense-gratification

• In previous times luxuries for reserved for the royalty, but now everyone has luxuries




• We have become proud of this opulence, so when we hear Krishna say “man-mana bhava mad-bhakto… – bow down before Me!” we feel too proud to do so. For me it was a big thing to bow down before the Deities for the first time, I was so proud!
• There should be no compromise on the rules and regulations of devotional service
• Regardless of the situation you are in, whether brahmacari or grhastha e.g. we can have sense-gratification (for example taking prasadam for the tongue) but within the rules of devotional service – but if sense-gratification takes one in the direction of disobeying the rules and regulative principles, then this should be stopped immediately e.g. we cannot regulate illicit sex – it has to be stopped.
• We can only be compassionate when we are experiencing spiritual happiness – I know when we go out on sankirtana and I’m really struggling in my spiritual life, what can I preach? People can immediately see my miserable face, and when they reject me, I get even more dejected.
• Prabhupada wanted us to be premamrtambho-nidhi – merged in the nectarean ocean of love for Krishna.

Krishna The Person (part4)

HH KKS: We must become the personal servant of our spiritual master. Not serve the way we want to serve. "I want to do this and this can you please bless it?"
"Bless, bless all right," but that is cheap. It is cheap there will be
blessings but greater blessing will be attained when we are becoming
attentive, attentive to the need, the need of our master. Whatever he
requires! So that is a very difficult position to take for one who is proud
because pride means a personal agenda, pride means we want things for
ourselves. Such a servant who is a personal attendant can have no claim for
himself, no claim. Simply a few leftovers on the side may be just for the
minimal maintenance but nothing beyond.

It was on that footing that Srila Prabhupada started this movement. This
movement started by his inspiration as a very powerful, as a very
transcendental preaching movement with not much consideration for personal
needs. They were kept quite minimal and preaching was really the main
meditation. Thus Prabhupada didn't make much distinction between those in
more renounced orders of life like brahmacarya and so on and grhastha …it is
almost the same.

Now it doesn't look so much almost the same anymore. Now it looks more
different because we came down…. May be. I mean I shouldn't speak so strong.
May be we came down because in Prabhupada's presence we were uplifted to do
things that were beyond one's limitations, beyond one's personal
limitations. Somehow or other devotees in his presence did things they could
not have done alone. Inspired to live on the level of sacrifice, which
didn't come gradual.

Vedic culture is the gradual culture. It is the culture of dharma. Dharma
means prescribed religious duties. It has everything to do with training and
one is trained again and again. "This is your prescribed duty." It is
drilled within people. "This is your prescribed duty, act according to your
prescribed duty. Don't follow your impulse." Prescribed duty, prescribed
duty, prescribed duty. And then gradually increase the surrender.

But this movement is completely different. This movement is the movement,
which immediately asks for surrender. It is not gradual ….it is a huge change.
For me, it is said in Bhagavad-gita that night turns into day, and that was
exactly my experience because I use to go to bed at 4 am and then I had to
get up at 4am!!! So it was a huge change from one day to the next and you can
fill in the rest of the blank as to the other differences that were there
between my life before and my current life or the life in devotional
service.

So bottom line is that such a change we cannot make on the strength of
dharma because we don't have a history of dharma, we don't have a training
of dharma. Therefore it is very difficult for us to be dharmic. We are weak
when it comes to dharma. We need that the strength ……..must come from
inspiration. The strength must come from taste. Therefore especially in the
sankirtan movement our strength is not so much dharma, our strength is
higher taste.

We must look for it everywhere; we can't wait for it to come. We must find
it. Those who are eager to serve they have the secret. Service attitude!
That is the key. That is actually what makes the difference between
struggling in spiritual life and sort of beginning to taste an inspiration.
Service attitude! That's where somehow or other we go through the barrier.
So we pray to Krishna.

Krishna is most wonderful we must learn to appreciate how amazing Krishna
is. Krishna is Bhagavan. One meaning of Bhagavan, I read the other day, He
is, bhajaniya guna-visista. Bha is bhajaniya ga, guna and va, vishishtha.
He whose qualities are irresitable, one has to worship Him; one has to serve
Him ……that is Krishna!

So sometimes we get so busy in our lives that we just even in living in the
temple we get so busy that we have no more time for Krishna. So let us make
sometime for Krishna and let us make some time specially for directly
glorifying Krishna, directly hearing about Krishna and remembering Krishna.
These three things, sravanam, smaranam, kirtanam - these three things, if
they remain strong within our life then we can find the motivation and
remembrance to try and develop our service attitude. This is the key to
success in spiritual life and developing our relationship with Krishna. Then
we can leave the material energy. Then we can become free from material
desire. Then we can remember Krishna at the end of our life and then we can
go back to Godhead this lifetime and that's all we want.

It doesn't matter which ashram we are in but at every position everyone has
the same mission - to go back to Godhead. It really doesn't matter what our
position is. Somehow or other let us take advantage of this movement this
lifetime and go back to Godhead.

Thank you very much!
Srila Prabhupada Ki, Jai!
(Applause.)

Thank you for your patience. It's easier to speak then to listen. I can
speak for hours but listening for hours is tough. So thanks for your
patience. Any questions, any comments? ......(More in part5)

Krishna The Person (part3)

HH KKS: ....Before I was a devotee somehow or other I got a Krishna book …... Bhagavad-gita I liked a lot but Krishna book I couldn't relate to it. Because I thought there is no plot in the book! Usually I was used to the kind of books …..who is going to win and you are kind of tolerate and then you have to look at the last page to relief the tension
that has built up, I was reading such kind of books.

And then in the Krishna book, Krishna would come some demon would appear and
one two three, finish. Already dead! Too quick! No plot in this book! It
didn't intrigue me. And then as I found out more about it I found out that
Krishna was performing the same pastimes again and again. I thought how this
is possible. The same pastimes again and again! Doesn't it get boring?! My
mind was thinking ………and I was looking for something new.

So when I first came to the temple the devotees they let me in and they told
me sit down ………and they gave me a Back to Godhead to read. I said I already
read that, they said 'Doesn't matter. A devotee reads the same story again
and again!'

Well that was the first order so I just decided I was going to surrender now
so whatever they will say I will do. So they showed me to read the magazine
and I started to read the story. And I read the story and they kept me
waiting for quite sometime. So I kept on reading the same story again and
again. And in fact after one hour the devotee that gave me the instruction
came and I was sort of, "I am here." And he said, "That's all right stay
there."
And I sat there till the evening. I came there in the morning and I
sat there till the evening reading the same story over and over and over and
I got a lot of realizations!!

I have never read a story so much in depth on that day and I realized
actually that my whole approach to reading the Krishna book had been looking
for something new …..looking for something exciting but now I was finding a
whole different type of reading. I was going in depth. I was looking the
same pastime over and over but finding more and more intricate detail and
understanding how actually there was much more to it than I ever thought!
That was just by me reading on my own what to speak of hearing from advanced
and realized Vaisnavas.

So in this way gradually we are beginning to appreciate Krishna little by
little. In the beginning we cannot even see Krishna ……before Krishna
consciousness I checked out different things and one week I would be with
Tibetan Buddhist and another week I would be with some yogis somewhere and
then I would go somewhere with the program with the Sufis and it all was
spiritual and it all seemed different aspects of the same.

It didn't cross my mind for a moment that I was here encountering different
philosophies that had totally opposite views and huge gaps between them and
they were universes apart. Now I understand that they were universes apart.
Now I can see that Sufis and the Buddhists are far apart but then I couldn't
see. I couldn't see. I thought it was sort of all the same.

But gradually, in the beginning we cannot understand the Supreme Personality
of Godhead. It doesn't make sense. How can God be a person? It doesn't
compute. Thus impersonalism seems natural. But only gradually,

hiranmayena patrena satyasyapihitam mukham
tat tvam pusann apavrnu (Iso 15)


Then gradually we began to appreciate that there is a Supreme Person behind
everything and gradually we began to understand that this impersonalism
could never be complete. How is it possible that it ever be complete? The
impersonal understanding! Yes there may be relief of suffering. Yes if there
is no more variety if there is only brahman and if this jagat is mithya and
brahma satya if this universe is false then we don't have to worry about it,
what a relief.

Then we are free from all these entanglements from all these problems. Very
good! In this way impersonalism offers us very great benefit. Freedom from
all the entanglement! We can laugh at anything that happens in this world.
It's just insignificant if one is realized Brahman. Then it's all
meaningless. So that's quite something. But that's it.

There is no eternal activity. There is no eternal taste. There is just
relief from material suffering; that's all. That is very poor. If we compare
that to the ever-increasing ocean of rasa that is displayed in the pastimes
of Krishna which is being churned more and more and more eternally.
Eternally increasing! The happiness the ananda the bliss is never ending. So
that is very amazing.

But we were blinded, may be attracted by impersonalism. It was intriguing
for me when I became involved in Krishna consciousness and I learnt Srila
Prabhupada pranam mantras that it is

namaste sarasvati deve gaura vani pracarine nirvesesa sunyavadi pascatya
desatarine,

The western countries being delivered from impersonalism. That is
interesting. Because I had spent plenty of time in India and I had
encountered plenty of people who had shown me their altar and had every
possible deity on there.




And Indian altar resembles an Indian train. It's very full. It's too full.
Just like the train is too full the altar is also too full. Everyone is
there even if they don't fit put them their why because you never know there
may be some blessings, put. Yes put it and you never know who is God just in
case!!!

So it seemed that impersonalism was so widely spread here but then over the
years I began to see that no, it is not. Although there may be an
inclination towards impersonalism in India still there is also the tendency
to worship the superiors and personalities. To worship the demigods at least
if not the Supreme Lord. There is the concept of being dependent upon a
personality, to actually bow down in front of another person. That is
ingrained within the Indian tradition so much so that actually this tendency
is a personal tendency an element of personalism to worship lotus feet, to
worship the superior and so on.

In the west that concept is not there. It has just gone, disappeared. May be
once Christianity had that but as modern science came up Christianity said
all the personal aspect of Christian is just mythological. And impersonalism
became deeply rooted there. And then those who were anyway not so interested
or didn't had much faith in religion impersonalism became so deeply rooted
that we couldn't imagine that things depend on persons…………..not persons.
Nothing, everything just automatic!

By laws in a machine the universe and different powers and forces and
vectors work automatically through magnetic field and various other forces
and so on. Man in the machine. A mechanistic worldview! That's where we come
from. That's the west and as I was sitting on the western trains after
having being in India for a long time in a European winter then I saw it was
dark at 4 o'clock and riding on the train people wouldn't even look at each
other what to speak of talk to each other.

In India people are always making lots of noise, always talking but sitting
on a train ….thousands of people not speaking a word and looking at each other
in the reflections on windows. Is that impersonalism? It sure looked like
impersonalism.

So gradually I began to see how deeply we were ourselves affected by
impersonalism and gradually it began to dawn upon me a little bit that when
Srila Prabhupada and the acaryas are smashing the mayavadis ……..who are those
mayavadis.

Gradually I began to realize we are the mayavadis. Or the mayavadi in us.
Its now a days very fashionable to speak about your inner child and things
like that! May be we could speak about our inner mayavadi. The little
mayavadi that is still within our heart in spite of everything! The fact
that we had not truly become servants, the fact that we have not become
attentive!

Servant means attentive. In the 'Nectar of Devotion' the quality of dasyam
is described and there it is described that there is a general mood of
servitorship, dasyam and then it describes there is another particular
aspect the mood of the personal attendants.
The personal attendant is a better servant because the personal attendant the general mood is, "How I
can serve Krishna, what can I offer to Him?"

patram puspam phalam toyam (Bg 9.26)

Anything within the range of acceptable that we offer but personal attendant
means that what is the need of Krishna now and it changes from time to time.
You don't offer Him the same in the morning as at noon nor in the evening.
There is another thing and at night something is offered so He will make it
through the night and early morning quickly some sweet, He must be low at
energy now. Something we must give Him. So its very personal attendant! It's
actually our mood. Thus we must become a personal servant, not only of
Krishna but also of the Vaisnavas or particularly of a senior Vaisnava.....(More in part4)

Krishna The Person (part2)

HH KKS: Not only is Supreme Lord all-powerful, but also the Supreme Lord is all
merciful. Thus He also accepted the offering of milk and actually gave it
more importance. Although He first punished Putana a little bit. In the
commentary of Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur that pastime of Putana is very
nicely described. There is described how Krishna when He started to, He
sucked the poison and then He sucked the milk and then He also sucked the
life air and that was very painful to Putana. And at the same time Krishna
with His little hands was also holding the breast of Putana and squeezing
very hard.

So it was so painful she was trying to pull the child off the breast but she
couldn't. And He was holding on, the pain was excruciating. So she tried to
run away but Krishna kept hanging on and as she was running she couldn't
maintain the false illusory form of the beautiful lady and returned to her
original raksasa form which was twenty kilometers long and it's said she ran
out of the house not breaking Nanda Maharaja's house and she ran. Krishna
kept hanging and squeezed very hard and then just on the edge of Vrindavana
she left her body and the body just fell over and crashed to the ground on
Kamsa's favorite fruit orchard crashing all the trees!!

So it's like this. It's very nice the way Putana was killed and then Krishna
accepted her as nurse in the spiritual world because she offered the milk.
So he gave her eternal position as one of his mothers because Krishna has so
many mothers. And that is Supreme Lord. Kind way beyond what we the living
entity deserves. Extending Himself not only

ye yatha mam prapadyante tams tathaiva bhajamy aham (Bg 4.11)

Or that He is rewarding us according to our surrender. Not only that He goes
far beyond and that makes Him the amazing Supreme Lord that captures our
hearts. That inconceivable generosity, that kindness that we find in the
Supreme Lord in all His incarnations! In all the incarnations the Lord is
displaying this kindness of being kind beyond what the living being
deserves. So how can we not melt in front of such a Lord? How we can't melt
in front of that Supreme Lord who is just so kind and who is mixing His
human like activities with supernatural activities in such an intricate way
that just as when you start to think He is an ordinary personality then He
lifts a hill or just when you think that He is finished and Kaliya is
strangling Krishna and it looks like it's over…. everyone is convinced that
this is the end. Mother Yasoda has to be held back and then just then He
frees Himself and dances on the hoods of that snake!!!

So in this way He interchanges His human activities with His transcendental
activities as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. And that never fails to
surprise a devotee. Thus never is there a moment that Krishna becomes
predictable. Everyone else become very predictable after a while.
You know somebody you know their nature, you know their strength, you know their
weaknesses, you know what you can expect and yes they do it again and again
and sort of within character. Not surprising, yes I knew he had this type of
mood ….we develop in relation to anyone and everyone.

But Krishna, Krishna again and again eternally actually astounds His
devotees. Astounds His devotees completely and that is why the pastimes of
Krishna are never boring. That is amazing.....(More in part3)

Krishna The Person (part1)

Srimad Bhagavatam 3.24.16
vedaham adyam purusam avatirnam sva-mayaya
bhutanam sevadhim deham bibhranam kapilam mune

TRANSLATION: O Kardama, I know that the original Supreme Personality of
Godhead has now appeared as an incarnation by His internal energy. He is the
bestower of all desired by the living entities, and He has now assumed the
body of Kapila Muni.

PURPORT: In this verse we find the words purusam avatirnam sva-mayaya. The
Supreme Personality of Godhead is everlastingly, eternally the form of
purusa, the predominator or enjoyer, and when He appears He never accepts
anything of this material energy. The spiritual world is a manifestation of
His personal, internal potency, whereas the material world is a
manifestation of His material, or differentiated, energy. The word
sva-mayaya, "by His own internal potency," indicates that whenever the
Supreme Personality of Godhead descends, He comes in His own energy. He may
assume the body of a human being, but that body is not material. In
Bhagavad-gita, therefore, it is clearly stated that only fools and rascals,
mudhas, consider the body of Krsna to be the body of a common human being.
The word sevadhim means that He is the original bestower of all the
necessities of life upon the living entities. In the Vedas also it is stated
that He is the chief living entity and that He bestows all the desired
necessities of other living entities. Because He is the bestower of the
necessities of all others, He is called God. The Supreme is also a living
entity; He is not impersonal. As we are individual, the Supreme Personality
of Godhead is also individual -- but He is the supreme individual. That is
the difference between God and the ordinary living entities.

HH KKS: Kapiladev or all the various avataras of Supreme
Personality of Godhead appear in their original, in their original internal
energy.

avajananti mam mudha manusim tanum asritam (Bg 9.11)

Those who think that Krishna has taken a human form, they are under the
influence of the illusory energy and are mudhas, they are less intelligent,
asses. Krishna is always the Supreme Lord and when Krishna appears in human
form it is His unlimited mercy. Krishna somehow or other appears in his
original human form and in that form Krishna is most close to us.

Srila Prabhupada was giving a description of second world war and how during
that time his wife had cooked for him his favorite prep namely kachoris and
he was taking them and the siren went off for the bomb alarms for the second
world war and everyone was supposed to go to shelter now. "How can I just
leave theses kachoris." !!

I guess it wasn't entirely just the desire to enjoy the kachoris but it was
maha prasadam so how could it be disrespected or dishonored also. That
element must be there. And Srila Prabhupada or Abhaya did not go to the bomb
shelter but stayed and continued to take his kachoris and he saw the bombs.
He saw how the bombs were falling from the sky and blowing up various
buildings and so on. So he saw how the bombs were blowing up various
buildings and it made a deep impression upon him because over the years it
would come back some examples in relation to the bombs and Prabhupada was
saying these bombs that were exploding were so destructive ………that was also
Krishna.

That was also Krishna but that was like Krishna's universal form. He
compared it to Krishna's universal form, which is described in the 11th
chapter of the Bhagavad-gita where Arjuna saw all the heros of the
battlefield disappearing into the unlimited mouth of the enormous universal
form. ….Prabhupada talking about this bombing in Calcutta said, "Yes
this is also the universal form. It is also a feature of Krishna but it is
not a lovable feature of Krishna. It is not the lovable form of Krishna. And
that is the situation.

When we are dealing with the enormous, unlimited, great universal form how
can we relate to it. It is too big. Just like an example could be how we
could have a relationship with an ant? Imagine we would have a pet, a pet
ant! It would be difficult. Which one is it….?! not sure, if we try to pick him
up we may break his leg. Our little favorite ant, too small to have a real
relationship!

So when the Supreme Lord is unlimitedly great in the all-pervading universal
form how can we relate to that form of the Lord? Very difficult! We are
simply overcome by fear by sense of awe by reverence and we feel remote. But
when Krishna in his unlimited wisdom, in His unlimited kindness and in His
unlimited insight the Supreme Lord has a human form, a form which is very
close to our form and which makes Him unlimitedly accessible, so much
accessible and when the Lord descends to this world then His pastimes are of
such a nature that they are very human and thus the Lord in His activities
brings out all the human sentiments.

When little Krishna starts to carry the shoes of his father to his head,
Nanda Maharaja’s heart melts completely. So small, that he is carrying those
shoes on his head. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is cute. Cute is a word
which is somewhat belittling, it is a word which, sort of cute its befitting
for a helpless person. A small helpless child!

But although Krishna was very small, although He even took a form of a baby
He was not helpless. Although Putana mistakenly thought so and approached
Him with poison on the breast and ready to poison the child, because that
was her favorite activity, and somehow or other when Putana glanced up on
the child just before she was about to give Him the breast just then she
thought this child is so powerful He could destroy the entire universe.
Correct, she was right for a little moment the veil of illusion which
covered her consciousness was lifted but then due to her false ego she
herself put that veil of illusion back down and said, "No, no rubbish, He is
just a child I will kill Him now." Instead of accepting this she tried and
then she experienced…. she experienced how Krishna had no problems taking
care of that poison and how He drank the poison not affected by it, because
He was the Supreme Lord……(More in part2)