1997 Lectures

  • Why Demons Can Enter Vraja – 24 Feb 1997 Bali

    ByBhakta Bandhav

    We see that so many demons are coming in Vraja, in the pastimes of Krsna. We see that there are so many devotees doing lakhs and lakhs of years of austerities and sadhana bhajan but still they are not going there. How are these demons entering into Vrindavan, and touching Krsna, like Putana and Aghasura who took Krsna in his mouth and stomach, or Bakasura, Canura and Mustika who wrestled with Krsna, touching His body; and all the other demons, how did they enter into Vrindavan? How to reconcile all these things? To make the service and increase the love and affection of the Vrajavasis, to renew their love again and again, Yogamaya brings the demons. They cannot come on their own wish…

  • The Supreme Magician Yogamaya – France 25 June 1997

    ByBhakta Bandhav

    His wife climbed up on that rope and began to dance with so many vessels on her head, holding a bamboo stick in her hands and dancing, coming and going, like this and that. The king and his wife became so happy. Very good magic. When she came down, the queen herself took her very valuable necklace and gave it to that lady. The two young boys were standing there and said, “Mother give me that.” Both were quarreling and forcibly trying to take it. The mother took it off and was in the middle keeping it and they were quarreling to take it, but both the sons were equally powerful and strong, so they were pulling each other. In the meantime, one boy took his sword from his case, and the other did also, and at the same time, one took the head of his brother, and the other took the other’s. Both fell down; their heads were both cut off. The mother came weeping, “Oh my two sons, I have lost!” She took at once the sword and immediately cut off her neck. Then the father came and said, “Oh my two children and wife have been killed! How can I live?” Then he took one sword and cut off his head…

  • The Way of Eternal Happiness – 1997 Jan 28 Malaysia

    ByBhakta Bandhav

    Understand? Don’t disturb anyone. Let that remain. You should try to listen. Two rats came and began to cut the branches from which he was hanging. In a minute or two the branches would be cut, and he would fall down. Inside is death. Outside of the well is death. In the meantime, he saw that a branch was coming towards his mouth. On that branch, so many bees were there collecting honey in a beehive. From that, a drop of honey, slowly dropped—one, two…. They were golden drops, very sweet drops were coming…one, two…. He saw this and could not check himself. He took his tongue and tasted one drop and exclaimed, “How sweet! How sweet!” But the rats were coming. In a moment he will go and die. Outside is death. Inside is death. If you shake the branch where the bees are making their rooms, they will come and attack. At once lakhs and lakhs of bees will come out and, in a minute or two you will die. So, in four ways, on every side of you… and all ten directions, death is waiting for you. But this taste is coming, “How sweet!” And then he is forgetting everything. What is this?

  • Teaching Vaisnava Etiquette – Australia 1997 Feb 11

    ByBhakta Bandhav

    You are not the cook, but Srimati Radhika is the cook. So it is like a temple. You should try to make it so pure always. Also try to honor all the devotees who have taken name from anyone. They are chanting harinama and therefore should be honored. If they are svajatiya, means likeminded, they should be honored more and even more if someone has taken diksa in the real sense. Not like that Gurudeva has given one thread and told only one time the mantras and now we have forgotten everything, but we are thinking that we are initiated. That is not in the real sense…

  • Unnata-ujjvala-rasa – 11 Feb 1997 Australia

    ByBhakta Bandhav

    I want to make a vivid explanation so that you should know what is the difference between the two. Up to now I have explained that the mood of dāsya, the mood of sakhya, even the mood of vātsalya is not unnata-ujjvala-rasa. Even the svakīya-bhāva of Rukmiṇī and Satyabhāmā or of Sītā-devī to Rāmacandra is not unnata-ujjvala-rasa. I am trying to explain these things, so that you may have some idea of unnata-ujjvala-rasa. You cannot take that rasa, so I will give so many explanations. But those whose hearts are pure, who served the vaiṣṇavas and have come into the association of high class vaiṣṇavas, they may take it. Even Caitanya Mahāprabhu, Kṛṣṇa himself, could not give to all. So I cannot give, but I believe, that those who have come to hear surely have some past impressions of Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s philosophy. And that is why they have come and joined from different parts of the world, from England, America and so forth. From Sydney and here and there. And they are roaming with me here and there, so they must have some impression of Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s family. [laughter]