Hare Krishna.
Today in folk BTM hostel, we were fortunate to have association of his grace Kalakantha Prabhu and his grace Vainetaya Prabhu. His grace Kalakantha Prabhu took morning Bhagvatam class on 1.8.24 verse. By his mercy, we were able to hear words full of nectar and enlightenment out of which I would like to share here few that I noted down :
This verse belongs to the chapter called prayers offered by Kunti maharani.
i) So, Prabhu was explaining the context of this verse how Duryodhana caused so much tribulations to Pandavas but got defeated in the war that took place on the holy place of Kurukshetra. So, Duryodhana was lying down with his hip broken and Asvatthama in order to please Duryodhana went in Pandavas camp and beheaded Pandavas sons thinking them to be Pandavas and came to offer their head to Duryodhana. Duryodhana did not approve of this heinous act of Asvatthama and left his body in lamentation. Then, Arjuna caught hold of Asvatthama and presented him in front of the assemply of pandavas and Krishna. Since there was difference of opinion among pandavas so Arjuna asked Krishna to decide the punishment for Asvatthama. Krishna very intelligently advised to cut out precious mani and shikha from Asvatthama head as this will be as good as cutting the head and in this way his life will also be spared as requested by Draupadi.
ii) Asvatthama in order to take revenge released Brahmastra for killing last descendant Parikshit maharaj who was in Uttara's son so Uttara came to Krishna praying for her son's protection then Krishna entered into her womb and shielded Parikshit from Brahmastra attack.
Seeing Krishna again coming for their rescue, Kunti Devi in humility started offering prayers to Lord Krishna and started narrating how Krishna saved them from past tribulations.
iii) Prabhu narrated another incident how Arjuna was like a small wish up against the giants fishes like BHisma, Dronacharya, Karna in the battlefield of Kurukshetra but because Krishna was present on Pandavas side, so , the victory was assured.
iv) LESSON- Then, Prabhu explained how we should be gracious in our life for this Krishna conscious life. Even materialistic people are now started to understand the importance of showing gratitude as Prabhu shared the findings of one research work where it was colcluded that those who shows gratitude on daily basis are 25% more happy in their life, less depressed, fully active and enthusiastic.
So, we should keep recollecting our past lives memories and see how our life has been changes, how the habits, bad associations that we were having in our past life has now been completely transformed because we recieved the causeless mercy of Srila Prabhupada. So, this will help us to develop appreciation for guru and krishna. As the saying goes:
"GRATITUDE INSPIRES DEVOTIONAL SERVICE."
Then prabhu narrated the glorious life of his grace Madhu Pandit Prabhu how Prabhu being very sharp minded and intelligent from start cleared NTSE scholarship exams and IIT and was fond of physics and Einstein's theory of relativity then reading that evrythhing is relative to each other prabhu started pondering if everything is relative in this world then what is absolute and through physics he started his quest for absolute truth and after literally finishing all the physics books of his IIT library, he became frustrated and in his disappointed he thought of suicide and thus wrote suicide note but then on that particular day he thought of visiting library once again but different section and there he found a book with a bluish boy cover photo standing with a girl of golden, white complexion. The book was Krishna, the supreme personality of godhead. Then, he opened that book and read the last chapter, the prayers offered by Vedas personified and he came to conclusion that Krishna is the absolute truth. Then, he saw who is the author of this book and found Prabhupada and thus he went on reading all the books of our dear Srila Prabhupada and since Prabhupada saved his life on that day, so he decided that he will dedicate his life to Srila Prabhupada.
Today, MPP prabhu, president of Iskcon Bangalore and head of GBC is a source of inspiration for all of us.
Thank you Prabhu for this enlightening class, we feel fortunate to have your blissful association and would keep on seeking more and more such associations in future.
Hare Krishna.
Ys,
Shubham Jaiswal
Today in folk BTM hostel, we were fortunate to have association of his grace Kalakantha Prabhu and his grace Vainetaya Prabhu. His grace Kalakantha Prabhu took morning Bhagvatam class on 1.8.24 verse. By his mercy, we were able to hear words full of nectar and enlightenment out of which I would like to share here few that I noted down :
This verse belongs to the chapter called prayers offered by Kunti maharani.
i) So, Prabhu was explaining the context of this verse how Duryodhana caused so much tribulations to Pandavas but got defeated in the war that took place on the holy place of Kurukshetra. So, Duryodhana was lying down with his hip broken and Asvatthama in order to please Duryodhana went in Pandavas camp and beheaded Pandavas sons thinking them to be Pandavas and came to offer their head to Duryodhana. Duryodhana did not approve of this heinous act of Asvatthama and left his body in lamentation. Then, Arjuna caught hold of Asvatthama and presented him in front of the assemply of pandavas and Krishna. Since there was difference of opinion among pandavas so Arjuna asked Krishna to decide the punishment for Asvatthama. Krishna very intelligently advised to cut out precious mani and shikha from Asvatthama head as this will be as good as cutting the head and in this way his life will also be spared as requested by Draupadi.
ii) Asvatthama in order to take revenge released Brahmastra for killing last descendant Parikshit maharaj who was in Uttara's son so Uttara came to Krishna praying for her son's protection then Krishna entered into her womb and shielded Parikshit from Brahmastra attack.
Seeing Krishna again coming for their rescue, Kunti Devi in humility started offering prayers to Lord Krishna and started narrating how Krishna saved them from past tribulations.
iii) Prabhu narrated another incident how Arjuna was like a small wish up against the giants fishes like BHisma, Dronacharya, Karna in the battlefield of Kurukshetra but because Krishna was present on Pandavas side, so , the victory was assured.
iv) LESSON- Then, Prabhu explained how we should be gracious in our life for this Krishna conscious life. Even materialistic people are now started to understand the importance of showing gratitude as Prabhu shared the findings of one research work where it was colcluded that those who shows gratitude on daily basis are 25% more happy in their life, less depressed, fully active and enthusiastic.
So, we should keep recollecting our past lives memories and see how our life has been changes, how the habits, bad associations that we were having in our past life has now been completely transformed because we recieved the causeless mercy of Srila Prabhupada. So, this will help us to develop appreciation for guru and krishna. As the saying goes:
"GRATITUDE INSPIRES DEVOTIONAL SERVICE."
Then prabhu narrated the glorious life of his grace Madhu Pandit Prabhu how Prabhu being very sharp minded and intelligent from start cleared NTSE scholarship exams and IIT and was fond of physics and Einstein's theory of relativity then reading that evrythhing is relative to each other prabhu started pondering if everything is relative in this world then what is absolute and through physics he started his quest for absolute truth and after literally finishing all the physics books of his IIT library, he became frustrated and in his disappointed he thought of suicide and thus wrote suicide note but then on that particular day he thought of visiting library once again but different section and there he found a book with a bluish boy cover photo standing with a girl of golden, white complexion. The book was Krishna, the supreme personality of godhead. Then, he opened that book and read the last chapter, the prayers offered by Vedas personified and he came to conclusion that Krishna is the absolute truth. Then, he saw who is the author of this book and found Prabhupada and thus he went on reading all the books of our dear Srila Prabhupada and since Prabhupada saved his life on that day, so he decided that he will dedicate his life to Srila Prabhupada.
Today, MPP prabhu, president of Iskcon Bangalore and head of GBC is a source of inspiration for all of us.
Hare Krishna.
Shubham Jaiswal
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