Bhakti Vikasa Swami's Blog, page 345

Priest: “illicit sex is a great pleasure”

We are training, sometimes people laugh, “What is this nonsense?” They
criticize.
These leaders of the society do not encourage. Yesterday I was talking with
one priest. So about illicit sex life he said that “What is the wrong there?
It is a great pleasure.” We are training, we are advocating that illicit sex
is sinful. Our first condition is that one must give up these four things:
illicit sex, meat-eating, intoxication, and gambling. This is my first
condition before accepting. So they agree and they follow.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Room Conversation with Director of Research of the
Dept. of Social Welfare — May 21, 1975, Melbourne

Prayers to Make Money for Preaching

Question:
I have had a desire to become a wealthy businessman for some time and then heard a Prabhupada lecture where he said making money for Krishna is welcome so I started to think that making money for the movement could be my service. I read Prabhupada's books, attend weekly sangas most weeks and have distributed Prabhupada's books on an ad hoc basis but am now taking this service up regularly every Saturday (door to door). I chant 16 rounds daily and am starting program's once a month at my house to preach Mahaprabhu's mission. If I pray for Krishna to empower me to make money for the movement (if he pleases) through my business (as my service along with my other service's), is it OK? Can you clarify please?

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This is the ideal life

We should be satisfied locally by our food, by our cloth, by our milk.
That’s all. Let the whole world go to hell. We don’t care. If you want to
save yourself also, you do this. Here is an example. If you want artificial
life, city life, and hellish life, you do. But we shall live like this. This
is the ideal life.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Room Conversation — January 21, 1977, Bhuvanesvara

Definition and Experiences of Bhava-bhakti

Questions:
If a karmi sees a picture of Radha Krsna and feels an emotion of joy, admiration, and appreciation of the picture, can this be called bhava-bhakti?
If a kanistha devotee who has faith in the supreme position of Krsna feels an emotion of joy love and appreciation when seeing the deities, can this be called bhava-bhakti?
Basically how can we define bhava-bhakti and can you experience it even when you have a mundane material consciousness?
More importantly how can a devotee transform his bhava-bhakti to suddha-bhakti?

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Avyaya

[B]Where:[/B] Salem, Tamil Nadu, India[BR]
[B]When:[/B] 15 Jan 12[BR]
[B]Scripture:[/B] Visnu-sahasranama Verse-2[BR]
[B]Language:[/B] English[BR]
[CUT]

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They will be very soon jobless

They will be very soon jobless. Don’t worry. (laughs) They will come [to
join our farms]. They will be obliged to come. Now they have got job, but as
the days are advancing in Kali-yuga, they’ll be jobless.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Conversation on Train to Allahabad — January 11, 1977,
India

Attachment and Taste with Mixed Devotional Service

Question:
Is it possible to attain stages of asakti (attachment) and ruci (taste) even though we are performing mixed devotional service?

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Paramatma

[B]Where:[/B] Salem, Tamil Nadu, India[BR]
[B]When:[/B] 14 Jan 12[BR]
[B]Scripture:[/B] Visnu-sahasranama Verse-2[BR]
[B]Language:[/B] English[BR]
[CUT]

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Srila Prabhupada predicts economic collapse

So this artificial way of banking, that will be also collapsed.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Room Conversation — January 21, 1977, Bhuvanesvara

Acintya-sakti, Bheda-sakti, and Jiva-sakti

Question:
Can you please explain about the acintya-sakti, bheda-sakti and jiva-sakti and how it forms the acintya-bhedabheda philosophy as propounded by Lord Sri Krsna Caitanya?

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