Sound Bhakti

Satisfaction of the soul can only be obtained by questions and answers on the subject of Kṛṣṇa. (SB 1.2.5) Watch the entire talk : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfNfs1Qx6Mw&ab_channel=FanTheSpark https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For more videos please visit www.fanthespark.com

To understand the personal activities of the Lord, one has to seek the association of devotees, and by such association, when one contemplates and tries to understand the transcendental activities of the Lord, the path to liberation is open, and he is freed. One who has firm faith in the Supreme Personality of Godhead becomes fixed, and his attraction for association with the Lord and the devotees increases. Association with devotees means association with the Lord. The devotee who makes this association develops the consciousness for rendering service to the Lord, and then, being situated in the transcendental position of devotional service, he gradually becomes perfect. (SB 3.25.25) https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/3/25/25/ HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa illuminates the significance of association, explaining how seeking the right association can lead to remarkable spiritual advancement. YouTube : https://youtu.be/MhbeGlV1w28 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For more videos please v

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One can derive from the study of the Bhāgavatam all benefits that are possible to be derived from the personal presence of the Lord. It carries with it all the transcendental blessings of Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa that we can expect from His personal contact. (SB 1.3.40p) https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/3/40/ HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa urges us to seek refuge in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, an encyclopedia of Vedic wisdom filled with practical spiritual guidance. By doing so, we can understand the mood of the residents of the spiritual world, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī and imbibe their teachings. YouTube : https://youtu.be/0UegCDPfO3g https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For more videos please visit www.fanthespark.com

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Anyone who faithfully hears or describes the Lord’s playful affairs with the young gopīs of Vṛndāvana will attain the Lord’s pure devotional service. Thus he will quickly become sober and conquer lust, the disease of the heart. (SB 10.33.39) YouTube : https://youtu.be/qqvOrBPDahA https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For more videos please visit www.fanthespark.com

“The loving affairs of Śrī Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are transcendental manifestations of the Lord’s internal pleasure-giving potency. Although Rādhā and Kṛṣṇa are one in Their identity, They separated Themselves eternally. Now these two transcendental identities have again united, in the form of Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya. I bow down to Him, who has manifested Himself with the sentiment and complexion of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī although He is Kṛṣṇa Himself.” (CC Ādi 4.55) https://vedabase.io/en/library/cc/adi/4/55/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For more videos please visit www.fanthespark.com

Contrary to the laws of the material world, there is no difference between seeing the Lord, offering prayers and hearing the transcendental vibration. Pure devotees, therefore, are fully satisfied by glorifying the Lord. Such glorification is called kīrtana. Performing kīrtana and hearing the vibration of the sound Hare Kṛṣṇa is actually seeing the Supreme Personality of Godhead directly. One must realize this position, and then one will be able to understand the absolute nature of the Lord's activities. (SB 7.4.25-26) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For more videos please visit www.fanthespark.com

Oh, there was actually a third verse because he remembered it afterwards. He said there were three verses, and the third verse, he said, was favored by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta. I’m talking about Mukund Dutta. He said, “sve sve 'dhikāre yā niṣṭhā sa guṇaḥ parikīrtitaḥ (SB 11.20.26),” that it’s a very good quality. Guna means mode; it also means a good quality, that you act according to your level of advancement, your adhikar. Don’t try to imitate others. One of my God Brothers, one of our God Brothers, was here for the Govardhan Festival we hold every year during Kartik. Actually, it’s just a reading but kind of a festival for us, and he was there. He was talking to some devotees, and he told them that this time in my life, I’m not trying to compete with anybody. I’m just trying to do my level best with what I can do in Krishna Consciousness. This younger devotee so much appreciated hearing that, and this is the spirit: “sve sve 'dhikāre yā niṣṭhā sa guṇaḥ parikīrtitaḥ,” that you have a position in life right no

According to an authoritative book on music called Saṅgīta-sāra, tāvanta eva rāgāḥ sūryāvatyo jīva-jātayaḥ, teṣu ṣoḍaśa-sāhasrī purā gopī-kṛtā varā: “There are as many musical rāgas as there are species of life. Among these rāgas are sixteen thousand principal ones, which were manifested by the gopīs.” Thus the gopīs created sixteen thousand different rāgas, or musical modes, and these have subsequently been disseminated throughout the world. The words yad-gītenedam āvṛtam also indicate that even today devotees throughout the world sing the praises of Kṛṣṇa, following the example of the gopīs. (SB:10.33.8) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For more videos please visit www.fanthespark.com

In one of the talks today, there were some esteemed musicians. One of them was a world-famous Carnatic musician. What we heard from his accolades, when he was introduced today was that he was an expert at an early age. If anybody wants to guess how early that was, it was 2 years old, and he just went upwards from there. In any case, he was talking about the way in which one may become proficient in music. There’s a similar culture in learning music in classical Indian music, Carnatic music in particular, which has to do with getting tutelage from a guru, a musical Guru, and following a particular sampradaya. Because there’s always variety in everything, one of the statements that he made stuck with me. He said, did this famous teacher, “Learn from one source for a long time”. He said, “Learn from one source for a long time,” where he said you may have a confusion in your mind. It becomes like a traffic jam of many different styles in music. So, this is something Krishna recommends… (excerpt from the talk )

Of all these devotees, the gopīs are recognized as superior because they do not know anything other than satisfying Kṛṣṇa. Nor do the gopīs expect any return from Kṛṣṇa. Indeed, sometimes Kṛṣṇa puts them into extreme suffering by separating Himself from them. Nonetheless, they cannot forget Kṛṣṇa. When Kṛṣṇa left Vṛndāvana for Mathurā, the gopīs became most dejected and spent the rest of their lives simply crying in separation from Kṛṣṇa. This means that in one sense they were never actually separated from Kṛṣṇa. There is no difference between thinking of Kṛṣṇa and associating with Him. Rather, vipralambha-sevā, thinking of Kṛṣṇa in separation, as Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu did, is far better than serving Kṛṣṇa directly. Thus of all the devotees who have developed unalloyed devotional love for Kṛṣṇa, the gopīs are most exalted, and out of all these exalted gopīs, Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī is the highest. No one can excel the devotional service of Śrīmatī Rādhārāṇī. Indeed, even Kṛṣṇa cannot understand the attitude of Śr

Unlike an ordinary living entity, my Lord, You do not discriminate between friends and enemies, the favorable and the unfavorable, because for You there is no conception of higher and lower. Nonetheless, You offer Your benedictions according to the level of one’s service, exactly as a desire tree delivers fruits according to one’s desires and makes no distinction between the lower and the higher. (SB 7.9.27) https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/7/9/27/ HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa highlights Kṛṣṇa’s impartial nature and explains how Kṛṣṇa’s response is based on the manner we approach Him. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For more videos please visit www.fanthespark.com

Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa Bol Bol | HG Vaiśeṣika Dāsa | ISV | 26 Aug 2024 by Vaisesika Dasa

If one says: "Let me dive deep into the waves of the nectarean ocean of the transcendental loving movement introduced by Lord Caitanya", he immediately becomes one of the confidential devotees of Radha and Krsna. It does not matter whether one is a householder living at home or a vanaprastha or sannyasi living in the forest, if he chants "O Gauranga, and becomes a devotee of Lord Caitanya, then Narottama dasa begs to have his association. (From the song Gaurangera Duti Pada by Śrīla Narottama Dasa Thakura) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For more videos please visit www.fanthespark.com

The functions of the mind are thinking, feeling and willing. When the mind is materialistic, or absorbed in material contact, it acts for material advancement of knowledge, destructively ending in discovery of nuclear weapons. But when the mind acts under spiritual urge, it acts wonderfully for going back home, back to Godhead, for life in complete bliss and eternity. Therefore the mind has to be manipulated by good and unalloyed intelligence. Perfect intelligence is to render service unto the Lord. (SB 2.2.16) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For more videos please visit www.fanthespark.com

Regarding your last question about the ecstatic symptoms of chanting Hare Krishna, you should know that the Hare Krishna Mantra has an equal effect upon all devotees. Just like the sunshine has an equal effect on everyone, but when it is covered, the sunshine has a different effect. Similarly, the influence of the Hare Krishna Mantra becomes manifest when one is no longer covered by the ten offenses to chanting. The more we become free from the ten offenses, the more the effect of chanting becomes manifested through us. Everyone can become a great devotee, being freed from the offenses 100%, simply by one's determination and effort. (SPL 16th June 1969)

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And, above all, the superexcellent Śrī Rādhā-kuṇḍa stands supreme, for it is overflooded with the ambrosial nectarean prema of the Lord of Gokula, Śrī Kṛṣṇa. ( Nectar of Instruction,Verse 9) https://vedabase.io/en/library/noi/9/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For more videos please visit www.fanthespark.com