KKSblog.com - Is Madhavendra Puri on facebook?

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Is Madhavendra Puri on facebook? Posted: 08 Jul 2012 12:54 PM PDT (H H Kadamba Kanana Swami, 20th June 2012, Govinda's, Prague, Czech Republic) Lecture: Free talk Madhavendra Puri understood that somewhere the deity of Krishna had to be there hidden somewhere in the bushes – in the earth. And he called all the villagers and they started digging and found the deity and then Madhevendra Puri arranged for the deity to be installed and then he arranged for a huge festival. A festival where a hill of prasadam was made or bhoga actually, so that the deity could satisfy it's hunger. So that's a transcendental person, who has only transcendental desires. He doesn't need to do anything else. Nowhere to go, nothing to do and no one to call. No emails to send. He's not on facebook! He's not, you can look. Is Madhavendra Puri on facebook? No, he's not. No, he has no need, he simply chants Hare Krishna, but we have so many needs, so we have to balance. If you have needs in this world then we have to balance with spiritual needs!

Selflessly selfish! Posted: 08 Jul 2012 08:46 AM PDT (Kadamba Kanana Swami - Cape Town, South Africa - 28 June 2012 – Bhagavad Gita 3.10) When we are not enlivened in our spiritual life, the fault is ours. It's because of our selfishness! There are so many ways to preserve selfishness. That is an issue that we are living in denial of. One aspect of selfishness is that we have a very selfless conception of ourselves. That's typically a selfish thing. I am very philanthropic… I am very selfless… I am dedicating myself for the good of many others. But we also see that scriptures are often times mentioning that there is extended selfishness. There is direct selfishness and there is extended selfishness. Sometimes extended selfishness means that a man who is very charitable, who gives so much, is actually doing that to be glorified. So it is deep, this selfishness in us. Therefore one should never just think: Now I am pure! We do not have to do a lot of introspection and a lot of psychological self-analysis to try and figure out how much selfishness we really have. That's not required. We simply look for purification… can I do some service! If you see what Srila Prabhupada emphasized, it was simply: Can I do some devotional service… what service can I do? It is there is that service that things become meaningful. It's in service that the scripture comes to life. It's in service that we are finding great inspiration.

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