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- At sixteen rounds we can go back to Godhead
- Sometimes we have to take smaller steps
- Sydney and Govinda Valley
| At sixteen rounds we can go back to Godhead Posted: 15 May 2012 04:20 PM PDT (HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Radhadesh, Belgium, April 2012) Lecture: CC Madhya-lila 200-250
Devotees who are always sort of hesitating,'You know I just can't do it!' They don't advance very much. Even someone who is like having difficulties to chant. All right we are not intolerant so we can tolerate that it can be difficult to immediately go to sixteen rounds, but one must go there. One cannot remain just on eight rounds – sorry it's not good enough. Eight rounds mean another birth; eight means missing the boat; eight means sorry we are going to leave you behind. For a while doing eight rounds is okay, of course to warm up to get there, but sixteen rounds is the best number. Prabhupada brought it down, since it is the back to Godhead number. At the minimum of sixteen rounds we can go back to Godhead. So what can I say? I have boxes of tissues for everyone. I have sympathy. I don't hold hands but none the less I am certainly very understanding. I know what it's like to be confronted with weakness. I have experienced it within me that there is weakness, and I also feel that I have to fight it – it is not automatic!  Rating: 0.0/7 (0 votes cast) |
| Sometimes we have to take smaller steps Posted: 15 May 2012 03:44 PM PDT (HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Radhadesh, Belgium, April 2012) Lecture: CC Madhya-lila 200-250
In spiritual life we are all facing a challenge. We are aiming at a very high goal. We don't want to approach it with fanaticism – that we are just going to try and push and push ourselves into a most austere situation, because we understand that we have to maintain. So sometimes we have to take smaller steps, but we should not take a step back! One should not go backward in spiritual life. Whenever one has accepted a level of higher commitment, then one must maintain it! Rating: 0.0/7 (0 votes cast) |
| Posted: 15 May 2012 04:33 AM PDT
The very next night, he started-off his schedule with a program at the local Govinda’s restaurant, where they have a room called The Lotus-Room. This is where all kinds of spiritual programs take place. At the start of the program, Hari Bhakti Prabhu gave an impressive demonstration on Indian classical singing, then Maharaja led a smooth kirtana followed by a talk about mystic India. The next night, he gave a program in the same Govinda’s restaurant but in this lecture, he gave more emphasis on chanting. It was a rocking kirtana evening with all the guests dancing in spiritual joy. The following weekend was packed with programs. In the evenings, there were house programs, on Saturday morning Maharaja gave a class at a Yoga school and on Sunday, of course, the weekly Love Feast took place. But the highlight of the weekend was undoubtedly the harinama on Saturday afternoon, when a Maha-Harinama party sang and danced through the whole inner city of Sydney. The kirtana started off at Circular Key, went all the way down to Pit street, continued to Chinatown (where the pathway led us through a Buddhist celebration on Lord Buddha’s appearance day), all the way on to Darling Harbor and then slowly back to Circular Key were finally, after three hours, the Harinama came to an end. All of the programs were ecstatic but also taxing, so on Sunday night Maharaja left the Sydney temple to Govinda Valley, a near-by beautiful retreat center in nature. There he took time to rest for two days, just giving the morning and evening classes. Enjoy the pictures! Can’t view the slide show? Just visit flickr!  Rating: 7.0/7 (1 vote cast) |
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