At that time Krsna was naked, only three and a half years of age. He stood up on the ohkhal, the grinding mortar, and He was taking butter, giving it to monkeys and crows. Why? The monkeys had served Him as Rama during His Lord Rama pastimes but at that time He could not repay them. Now he wanted to repay the monkeys, so He was giving free distribution of butter…
What is the banyan tree? Our past karma. Our bad and good activities. It has come like a tree that we will have to taste both bad and good activities. You are bound to taste these. No one can check this. Only harinama can check this. The two branches represent good karma and bad karma, bad activities and good activities. Who are the rats? Day and night. Night is the dark rat and day is the white one. In night we make merry and drink so much with the family and enjoy with our wife and husbands and mostly sleep. And in the day, we are working for nothing. This is living like dogs…
The Hare Krsna movement is not a new movement as people sometimes mistakenly think. The Hare Krsna movement is present in every millennium of Lord Brahma’s life, and the holy name is chanted in all the higher planetary systems, including Brahmaloka and Candraloka, not to speak of Gandharvaloka and Apsaroloka.
“The Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is started for this purpose, so that hundreds of ISKCON centers may give people a chance to hear and chant, to accept the spiritual master and to disassociate themselves from persons who are materially interested, for in this way one can make solid advancement in going back home, back to Godhead…”
Nowadays I am seeing that gurus sit on a golden throne and think, “I am Krsna myself.” They collect all the honor for themselves, and they think that there must be any good Vyasa-puja book for themselves, otherwise Vyasa-puja is not there. They want that all glorify them, whether they are good or bad, whether they are bona fide guru or not. This is not Vyasa-puja…
We cannot use the mind, speculation, logic, or argument to understand this. We cannot be doubtful. It will not help you in your Krsna Consciousness because Krsna is beyond all of these things. So we will have to accept a guru or any Vaisnava. This the first foundation. If you want to go to Krsna and serve and all potency should come out and you want real happiness, then you’ll have to see any qualified person…
Caitanya Mahaprabhu tells that the soul is who I am. You should try to realize this soul. Don’t try to give pleasure to this body. You cannot save it anyhow. The doctors cannot save you, neither can the engineers. Scientists do so much labor to make this body happy. They are trying to invent ways that a new heart can be given, a monkey’s heart can be given to a dog and a dog’s brain can be given to you, but they cannot know what is the atma…
It was not his own mission, but the mission of Caitanya Mahaprabhu, or Rupa Goswami, Sanatana Goswami and all acaryas. I know that he has not done anything new, but in the same line, he has done. At first Rupa Goswami started and Jiva Goswami started. Krsna Consciousness is the name of Visva Vaisnava Raja Sabha. The meaning is the same as ISKCON, International Society of Krsna Consciousness. I think that he was one of the prominent leaders in our disciplic succession…
,,,In the advanced or higher stage, people will see there is only the group of bhakti and bhaktas. At that time, there is no discord and quarreling. But in the lower stages, it may be seen like that, but it is not so in reality. When they will develop their Krsna consciousness, they will see this, and they will think that, “We are all in the same family, everyone in the world. Whether they are devotees or not devotees. We are all part and parcel of God. Then we will realize the conception of worldwide brotherhood. Even the plants and creepers, animals and all living entities are all sons or parts and parcel of the Godhead. They should all be honored. You should not kill animals to eat them. If we kill them, we should also know that they will kill us in the future (as the law of karma). If we kill and eat animals, our nature will be like that, very violent, like wild animals…