Vol 14, No.

7 July 2013

CONTENTS
Perfect Vision 4
Srila Prabhupada Speaks Out 12
Koviladi Appakudathan Perumal Temple 16
Dullards and Slugs 20
The Teachings of Lord Chaitanya 25
The Chariot of the Body 28

Cover pages-4 Text pages-28

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 Perfect Vision
Guided by a direct vision of the Absolute Truth, the author of the Vedic literature
presented his ultimate contribution to human knowledge.
A lecture in Vrindavana, India, on April 18, 1975
by His Divine Grace
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder-Acharya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
anarthopasamam saksad
bhakti-yogam adhoksaje
lokasyajanato vidvams
cakre satvata-samhitam
"The material miseries of the living entity, which are superfluous to him, can be directly mitigated by the linking
process of devotional service. But the mass of people do not know this, and therefore the learned Vyasadeva
compiled this Vedic literature, which is in relation to the Supreme Truth." (Srimad-Bhagavatam1.7.6)
Knowledge means ultimately to understand the original source of everything. The scientists and philosophers are
searching for the original cause. For example, the modern scientists are searching for the original cause of life.
That is a good inquiry. But because they are surrounded by anarthas, superfluous things, they cannot know it. As
long as one is illusioned by maya [the deluding energy], he cannot have perfect knowledge.
Vyasadeva is addressed here as vidvan, full of knowledge. Vyasadeva was unhappy even after compiling Vedanta-
sutra. So under the instruction of his guru, Narada Muni, he wanted to compile the last contribution to human
society, a commentary on Vedanta-sutra. That is Srimad-Bhagavatam. Vedanta means "the ultimate knowledge."
Veda means "knowledge," and anta means "the last contribution."
So under the instruction of Narada Muni, Vyasadeva first of all made his life perfect. Because if you write books
without being perfect they will not be effective. One has to become perfect before writing books. Nowadays,
especially in the Western countries, people write any rascal ideas under the name of philosophy or science. They
write, "Perhaps..." or "It may be..." That is not the system in Vedic civilization.
In Vedic civilization, only those who are advanced in Vedic knowledge can write. Vedic knowledge is called sruti.
And if you write following the principles of sruti. then it is smrti. Srila Rupa Gosvami gives this advice:
sruti-smrti-puranadi-
pancaratra-vidhim vina
aikantiki harer bhaktir
utpatayaiva kalpate
"If you pose yourself as a great devotee of Krishna without reference to the sruti, the smrti, the Puranas, and the
Pancaratrika-vidhi, that is simply a disturbance."
When Narada instructed Vyasadeva, "Write something that will help people understand the Supreme," then
Vyasadeva engaged himself in bhakti-yoga, devotional service. You cannot understand the Supreme Truth without
engaging yourself in devotional service. Krishna says in Bhagavad-gita, bhaktya mam abhijanati. Only through
devotion, submission, and surrender can you understand Krishna, not by your so-called scholarship or research
work. No. Bhaktya mam abhijanati. Krishna never said. "By cultivating speculative knowledge one can understand
Me." No.
Therefore Vyasadeva engaged himself in bhakti-yoga to understand the Supreme Truth. That is stated: bhakti-
yogena manasi samyak pranihite 'male/ apasyat purusam purnam mayam ca tad-apasrayam. He visioned two
things: purusam purnam and maya.
Purusam purnam means the complete or perfect Supreme Personality of Godhead. We are trying to become
purusha, or Bhagavan, but we are not perfect. Bhagavan means purna, complete. So we cannot accept anyone
as Bhagavan unless he is purna. The complete Supreme Person is Krishna.
By meditation in bhakti-yoga one can understand the Supreme Truth. Real meditation means to try to find out the
Supreme Person who is within everyone. That is called yoga, and that yoga is perfect when you see Krishna. Yoga
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means to try to find Krishna within yourself. Krishna is there, but you have to be qualified to see Him. That is
required. That is called bhakti-yoga.
In the Brahma-samhita it is said, premanjana-cchurita-bhakti-vilocanena santah sadaiva hrdayesu vilokayanti.
Seeing Krishna is not possible simply by gymnastics. One has to develop transcendental love for Krishna. When
your eyes are anointed with love of God, then you can see Him within yourself twenty-four hours a day.
That is not difficult to understand. If you love someone, you always think of him; you always feel his presence.
So the same is true of love for Krishna. Therefore Krishna is teaching how to develop this love for Him. He says,
man-mana bhava mad-bhakto mad-yaji mam namaskuru: "Simply think of Me, become My devotee, worship Me,
and offer obeisances to Me."
We are spending so much money for installing the Deities of Krishna-Balarama here. What is the purpose? The
purpose is that you will be able to see Them present in this temple and therefore you can think of Them. That is
very natural. If you see the Deity always, then you get His picture impressed within your mind; you will always think
of Him. And the Deity is not different from Krishna. For a devotee, the Deity is Krishna Himself, identical.
We are spending so much money not for worshiping a statue. That would not be very intelligent. The Deity is
directly Krishna. Therefore the temple is a sanctified place. If you follow the process of seeing the Deity regularly,
your mind will be cleansed. When the mind is cleansed of all dirty things, then you can think of Krishna.
So Vyasadeva first of all made his life perfect by practicing bhakti-yoga, and then he wrote this Srimad-Bhagavatam.
Therefore you will find that in Srimad-Bhagavatam each word is transcendental. Each word is full of meaning and
transcendental knowledge, because the writer of this transcendental book is Vyasadeva, and he is perfect. He is
known as Veda-vyasa, "perfect in Vedic knowledge."
Vyasadeva saw the complete Supreme Personality of Godhead. And he also saw maya. Mayam catad-apasrayam.
Maya was behind Him. The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krishna, has maya's [energies] of different kinds
because He has to execute so many affairs in both the material world and the spiritual world. Just imagine! The
universes are so big, and there are innumerable universes. In each universe there are innumerable planets. In
each planet there are innumerable towns and cities. In each town there are innumerable living entities. And Krishna
has to manage all of them. That is Krishna. Therefore He is called Parameshvara, "the supreme controller." And
Krishna says in the Bhagavad-gita, sarvasya caham hrdi sannivisthah: "I am living in everyone's heart."
Krishna has to act in such a way that whatever we are doing is under His direction. For example, Krishna says
mattah smrtih: "From Me comes remembrance." In the morning you get up and immediately you understand that
you were sleeping and that now you have to do so many things. So where has this memory come from? Krishna
says, mattah: "From Me." Just imagine how busy Krishna is!
So the maya that is controlling the material world was seen by Vyasadeva. Srimati Radharani is also maya. She
is yoga-maya. And Durga is maya. She is an expansion of Radharani. But Durga's business is different from
Radharani's business. Durga's business is to keep the living entities covered so that they don't awaken to Krishna
consciousness. That is her duty.
Vyasadeva saw the Supreme Person, and he saw maya behind the Supreme Person. Which maya? Yaya sammohito
jiva—that maya which is keeping the living entities in illusion. What is that illusion? Under the influence of maya,
we are identifying with the different gunas, or qualities of this material world: goodness [sattva-guna], passion [rajo-
guna], and ignorance [tamo-guna]. Sattva-guna is the brahminical qualification. Someone is thinking. "I am a
brahmana." Someone under the control of rajo-guna is thinking, "I am kshatriya." This misidentification is all over
the world. You may not think, "I am a brahmana," but you may think, "I am an American." Or I may think I am an
Indian. There is some sort of identification. Therefore the whole world is full of anarthas, unnecessary things. I
am not a brahmana; I am not Indian; you are not American; you are not a kshatriya. These are all false identifications.
This misidentification is the work of maya. All living entities are under certain impressions: "I am this"; "I am that."
And based on "I am this"; "I am that," they cannot make any solutions to the problems of life. The leaders have
created the United Nations, but there are no solutions. Why? Because everyone is under the grip of maya, the
material energy, and they are simply creating problems. This is their business.
I am spirit soul, and I do not belong to these material qualities. Still I am thinking that I am a product of the material
nature. One cannot go beyond these three gunas: sattva-guna, rajo-guna, tamo-guna, or mixed. There are 8,400,000
species of living entities under the impression that "I am a dog"; "I am a plant"; "I am a fish"; "I am a mosquito";
"I am a man"; "I am a demigod"; "I am a tiger"; "I am an Indian"; "I am an American." In this way there are 8,400,000
different types of identification. Therefore we find so many forms of life. This is all the work of maya to keep us
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under a certain impression. And we work under a certain impression and create another situation. Then we get
another body.
If in this life I create a situation like a dog's, then in my next life I will get the body of a dog. that's all. Or if I create
a situation like the demigods', then I can go to the heavenly planets. But if I create a situation as an eternal servant
of Krishna, they I go to Krishna. This is wanted. This is the purpose of the Krishna consciousness movement. Don't
create a situation that "I am this." "I am that." Simply create this situation: "I completely understand that I have
no other business than to advance in Krishna consciousness and that my only duty is to serve Krishna." This is
wanted.
How one can attain this position is described in today's verse: anarthopasamam saksad bhakti-yogam adhoksaje.
This is the remedy: all unnecessary things can be removed by devotional service to the Supreme Lord.
But as long as I think. "I am this," "I am that," then I am still in illusion. Thinking "I am a big gosvami or "I am a
big brahmana" is also an anartha. The actual gosvami is one who has control over his senses. We have to control
our senses and properly identify ourselves. We should think, "I do not belong to anything of this material infection,
but I am an eternal servant of Krishna." That is called self-realization or mukti.
In the Srimad-Bhagavatam, the definition of mukti has been given: muktir hitvanyatha rupam sva-rupena vyavasthitih.
Anyatha rupam means that I identify myself as this and that: "I am American"; "I am Indian"; "I am a brahmana";
"I am a gosvami." No. These are all anartha, unwanted. We are living under the wrong impression. Therefore it
is said, hitvanyatha rupam—"giving up the wrong impression." And sva-rupena vyavasthitih means "situated in
one's original position." That is called mukti. Mukti does not mean anything else. This is the definition of mukti.
You keep yourself in your original position.
So our original position is that
we are part and parcel of the
body of Krishna. The brahmana
is the mouth of Krishna, and
the kshatriyas are the arms of
Krishna. The vaishyas are the
abdomen of Krishna, and the
sudras are the legs of Krishna.
Therefore nobody should be
hated. Krishna is advaya,
absolute. Ordinarily we may
make some distinction between
the head and the leg. The leg
is less important; the head is
more important. But any part of
Krishna is as important as any
other part. So if you come to
realize that you are part and
parcel of Krishna, then whether
you act as Krishna's leg or as
Krishna's head, there is no
difference.
Here in the material world we
have misunderstood that
because I am the head
[brahmana], therefore I shall
hate the legs [sudras]. But why
should we think like that? We
first of all offer tulasi and flowers
to the legs of Krishna, not to
the head. Bhakti-yoga begins
from the lotus feet of Krishna.
So how can you say that
Krishna's legs are inferior to His
head? Such a
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misunderstanding is called an anartha.
If we enter into the process of bhakti-yoga, these anarthas will go away. Therefore it is recommended here in the
Srimad-Bhagavatam, anarthopasamam saksad bhakti-yogam adhoksaje: if you engage yourself in transcendental
loving service of Adhokshaja, the Supreme Person who is beyond your sense perception, your anarthas will be
finished.
When your anarthas are finished and you see every living entity as part and parcel of Krishna, that is called real
Brahman realization. Every one of us is part and parcel of Krishna. So we should engage not only ourselves in
Krishna's service, but we should try to engage others also, because they are also part and parcel of Krishna. Why
should we exclude them? That is Vaishnavism. That is Krishna consciousness. And that is Chaitanya Mahaprabhu's
mission.
That mission is to be started from India. Indians especially have the opportunity to learn these Vedic shastras
(scriptures), become self-realized, and introduce this Krishna consciousness throughout the world. That is Chaitanya
Mahaprabhu's mission.
So every Vaishnava's duty is to make his life perfect by understanding his real position and then to preach. All
people throughout the whole world are ajanatah. Ajanatah means that they do not know anything. They are proud,
and they think that having some material advancement of life is perfection. No, that is not perfection. Perfection
is muktir... sva-rupena vyavasthitih—to be situated in one's own original position.
That can be done anywhere. Bhakti-yoga can be practiced in any part of the world, as we have experienced
practically. What is bhakti-yoga? The first business is sravanam: you can hear. Hear about whom? Vishnu. Not
nonsense talks. You must hear about Krishna. You can hear anywhere. There is no specific mention that it can
be heard in such and such place. You can hear anywhere. But in a holy place like Vrindavana, the hearing has a
special effect.
So here we are establishing this temple. and you foreigners have taken some interest. I am very much pleased.
So constantly come to the temple and hear about Krishna. Make your anarthas vanquish.
Nowadays everything that is being done is anartha, without meaning. But if we say this, people will criticize us—
"Why are you using motorcars? Why are you using airplanes?" But our tactic is that we can use any so-called
anartha in the service of Krishna. People have created some anartha, but we can engage even this anartha in
the service of Krishna and make it meaningful. That is our business.
So it requires time to clear the anarthas. We are encumbered with so many unnecessary things. By bhakti-yoga
our so-called necessities of life will decrease. Anarthopasamam. Although we are riding in motorcars, we don't
think they are essential. But those who are captured by the present civilization, they think motorcars are essential.
That is the difference.
Our process is that because we have to go to the United States to preach, why should we not take the airplane?
Why should we waste our time? So we don't deprecate material advancement. But we simply warn that you don't
forget Krishna simply for the matter of material advancement. This is Krishna consciousness. We don't discourage
you, but when you have invented something material, utilize it for Krishna. Don't be attached to the motorcar. But
utilize it for going fast for preaching work, that's all. This is required.
This is Rupa Gosvami's advice. Don't die for want of a motorcar. But if you get the opportunity to go faster than
walking, you should utilize it. This is required. Everything should be engaged in Krishna's service. That is called
yukta-vairagya.
It is different from phalgu-vairagya, which means to think that because something is material, therefore it is false
and must be rejected. No. It has some relationship with Krishna. That is to be seen.
What is this motorcar? Is it material? Where have they gotten this metal, iron, wood—everything? They have gotten
it from Krishna. Therefore it has a relationship with Krishna. And when it is manufactured, use it for Krishna. That
is yukta-vairagya. So we do not hate any products of material advancement. We can utilize everything for Krishna's
service. Our only preaching is "Don't forget Krishna." That is our business. And if you have got a special talent,
utilize it for Krishna.
So if you take to bhakti-yogam adhoksaje, the anarthas, the things that are not wanted, or the problems of the
world, will be mitigated. People do not know this. Therefore we have to teach them. That is the purpose of the
Krishna consciousness movement
Thank you very much.
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 SRILA PRABHUPADA SPEAKS OUT
Godly Qualities, Ungodly Qualities
This conversation between His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and some of his disciples
took place in New Vrindavan, West Virginia, on June 26, 1976.
Disciple [reading from Bhagavad-gita As It Is, 16.1]: covetousness; gentleness; modesty; steady
"The Supreme Personality of Godhead said: determination; vigour; forgiveness; fortitude; cleanliness;
'Fearlessness; purification of one's existence: cultivation and freedom from envy and from the passion for
of spiritual knowledge; charity; self-control; performance honour—these transcendental qualities, O son of
of sacrifice; study of the Vedas; austerity; simplicity; Bharata, belong to godly men endowed with divine
nonviolence; truthfulness; freedom from anger; nature.' "
renunciation; tranquility; aversion to faultfinding;
Purport, by Srila Prabhupada: "In the beginning of the
compassion for all living entities; freedom from
Fifteenth Chapter, the banyan tree of this material world
was explained. The extra roots coming out of it were
compared to the activities of the living entities, some
auspicious, some inauspicious. In the Ninth Chapter,
also, the devas. or godly, and the asuras. the ungodly,
or demons, were explained. Now, according to the
Vedic rites, activities in the mode of goodness
are considered auspicious for progress on the
path of liberation. ..."
Srila Prabhupada: The defect of modern
civilization is that people have no idea about
liberation. Nor have they any idea about the
transmigration of the soul. At its very root,
this civilization is defective.
People are thinking just like animals. The
dog is thinking. "I am this dog body. I am
born a dog and I'll die—everything finished."
He cannot realize that "I can also take on a
human body." He cannot realize that.
So in this modern civilization, people cannot
even realize that there is a next life and
we can go to other planets,
such as the moon. Sarva-
ga: the living entity has
the tendency to
travel widely, to
many situations.
Artificially people

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are trying, but they do not know the proper method. As on. This modern civilization is rascaldom. Everyone is
Krishna says in Bhagavad-gita. yanti deva-vrata devan seeing daily that he's under the control of material nature
pitrn yanti pitr-vratah/ bhutani yanti bhutejya yanti mad- and still he thinks that "I can do whatever I like." That
yajino 'pi mam: "Those who worship the demigods will is rascaldom.
take birth among the demigods; those who worship the
ancestors go to the ancestors; those who worship ghosts Disciple: The so-called Christian conception of salvation
and spirits will take birth among such beings; and those is based not so much on attraction for the transcendental
who worship Me will live with Me." reality as on fear of hell.
People do not know this. Although they have got the Srila Prabhupada: This may be the official Christian
tendency to go to higher planets, they do not know how conception, but the mass of people are not even afraid
to go. They do not know positively w hat are the positions of hell. They do not even know what hell is. Because
of the various material planets or Vaikunthaloka, the they are living in hell already.
spiritual planets. They do not know about liberation or You remember the humorous story. When a miner in
the next life. transmigration—nothing of the sort. Simply Sheffield, England, heard some preacher's description
like dogs. of hell, he remained undisturbed.
Now, consider this point—whether I'm speaking rightly "So hell is damp and dark? Oh, well, it is damp and dark
or wrongly. I know I am speaking the right thing, but if here in our mine. What is the difference between hell
you disagree, then you can discuss it amongst and our mine?"
yourselves.
When the miner was informed that in hell there is no
Disciple: Srila Prabhupada, many people think that newspaper, only then did he become disturbed.
"liberation" has nothing to do with spiritual realization.
It just means you can do anything you like—free from "Horrible! How can anyone live without a newspaper?"
any consequences. So people's hellish condition is here now. Earlier, some
Srila Prabhupada: That is rascaldom. That is rascaldom. of you were describing about the hellish conditions in
For instance, in a prison, if a prisoner thinks that he can factories. So people are working in factories—what do
do whatever he likes, that is rascaldom. That is going they care about hell?

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"Even if I go to hell. I will get a good salary, that's all. Training for Transcendence
Money is required. Then I can drink nicely."
Srila Prabhupada: If you scrutinizingly examine all
But the transcendental reality is here also. Krishna's these various godly qualities that constitute advancement
standard is here. But this transcendental qualification, of life, modern man has no idea. That is being explained
abhayam sattva-samsuddhih, fearlessness and
in the Sixteenth Chapter of Bhagavad-gita. There is no
purification of one's existence—"What is that?" It does
not appeal to people. It does not strike them at all. And such education in godly qualities, nor are people
yet in the Lord's estimation, these qualities are the high interested. Now higher art classes in the colleges,
qualities. Is it not? universities—no students will join. They are simply
learning technological processes.
"Fearlessness and purification of one's existence." the
Lord requires of us. But who is fearless? Everyone is [To disciple:} Go on reading.
fearful. Fearlessness is a godly quality, but today who Disciple: 'Those who are situated in the transcendental
understands it? Ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithunam ca: rather, nature make progress on the path of liberation. For
all that people understand is eating, sleeping, mating, those who are acting in the modes of passion and
and defending, or fearing. This is animal life. To eat, to
ignorance on the other hand, there is no possibility of
sleep, to have sex, and to become fearful—this is animal
life. And so Krishna says one has to become fearless. liberation."
But who cares about it? People are thinking that to Srila Prabhupada: People say, "What do we care about
become fearless means to keep a gun. Of course, that liberation? It is all troublesome. You have to sacrifice
is also one way. [Laughter.] so many things. We don't want liberation. It is
And as for purification of one's existence, here also nonsensical. You keep your liberation. We don't want
people do not know anything. When someone falls sick it."
he wants to go to a doctor and become purified. But his This is the problem. As you said earlier, to these people
whole life is impure—that he doesn't know. You see, "liberation" means "Whatever I like I will do." But actually,
because people's very existence is impure, they are
one cannot do that. Still, one is thinking that he's liberated:
subjected to birth, death, old age, and disease. That
they do not know. "Can you do that—whatever you like?"

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"No, not actually." That was why, upon arriving in your country, I wrote a
poem with an apparent air of disappointment. The idea
But still he's thinking he's liberated. Therefore—rascal.
was, "What will these people be able to understand
Dog's life.
about this sublime spiritual philosophy?"
The dog is jumping, barking that "I'm free now." But he
Hm. [To disciple:} Go on reading.
forgets that soon the master will call and chain him. The
master will do it. But still the dog is thinking that "I'm Disciple: "In this Sixteenth Chapter the Lord explains
liberated." both the transcendental nature and its attendant qualities
and the demoniac nature and its qualities. He also
This is the problem. What is modern man's "liberation"?
explains the advantages and disadvantages of these
He does not know what liberation is.
qualities.
Disciple [continuing the reading of the Bhagavad-gita]:
"The word abhijatasya in reference to one born of
"Either they will have to remain in this material world as
transcendental qualities or godly tendencies is very
human beings, or they will descend among the species
significant. To beget a child in a godly atmosphere is
of the animals or even lower life forms." known in the Vedic scriptures as Garbhadhana-
Srila Prabhupada: "Ah," people will say, "—all bogus. samskara. If the parents want a child in the godly
This life is all. After this life, everything is finished. I am qualities, they should follow the ten principles
free." This is the problem. This is their position. recommended for the social life of the human being. In
Bhagavad-gita we have studied also before that sex life
Disciple: When we speak at schools and colleges, Srila
for begetting a good child is Krishna Himself. Sex life
Prabhupada, we find that people cannot defeat what
is not condemned, provided the process is used in
you are saying, They have to admit, "Yes, our society
Krishna consciousness. Those who are in Krishna
does have many shortcomings. We don't seem to know
consciousness at least should not beget children like
how to organize things properly, so that all our citizens
cats and dogs but should beget them so that they may
can become happy." become Krishna conscious after birth. That should be
And people also have to admit, "Yes there probably is the advantage of children born of a father and mother
life after death, and transmigration of the soul. And our absorbed in Krishna consciousness.
society has this great shortcoming—that it teaches us "The social institution known as varnasrama-dharma—
nothing spiritual, nothing about preparing for the life the institution dividing society into four divisions of social
after death." life and four occupational divisions or castes—is not
Even when they reach the college level, people have meant to divide society according to birth. Such divisions
quite a bit of difficulty really understanding the basic are in terms of educational qualifications. They are to
idea that "I am not this material body—I'm a spiritual keep the society in a state of peace and prosperity. The
being." qualities mentioned herein are explained as
transcendental qualities meant for making a person
Srila Prabhupada: They'll understand. I'm just pointing progress in spiritual understanding so that he can get
out the difficulties of your preaching. You'll have to face liberated from the material world."
all these difficulties. In the materialistic society, people
have become like cats and dogs. Therefore, the business Srila Prabhupada: So where is that institution for training
of preaching is somewhat a hard job. You have to deal people to acquire these transcendental qualities? There
with cats and dogs. But still there is hope, because they is no such institution. We are attempting to train people
have got this human form of life. in transcendental qualities. This is the only institution.
Other than our International Society, where is the
There is hope. It is not hopeless. Don't be discouraged. institution for training people in transcendental qualities?
But this is the job. You have to meet with cats and dogs. I don't think throughout the whole world there is any
That is my point. When you go to preach, you must institution for training the students in transcendental
know that "I've come to preach among the cats and qualities. Who cares about transcendental qualities?
dogs, and I have to deal with them carefully. Otherwise,
they will bark." (To be continued.)

Fasting Festivals
Jul 19 Ekadashi Jul 18 Jagannatha Puri Bahuda Ratha Yatra
Jul 20 break fast Jul 22 First Month of Chaturmasya begins
Aug 2 Ekadashi Fasting from shak (green leafy vegetables)
Aug 3 break fast for one month
Aug 11 Garuda Panchami (in Bangalore)
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 The Lord Who is Fond of Sweet Rice Dumplings
Koviladi Appakudathan Perumal Temple
by Sampatkumara Ramanuja Dasan (Ashwin S)

according to the dharma because we cannot directly or immediately approach the appam (a popular South Indian snack prepared with rice
shastras. Once while he Supreme Lord Hari on our own. The king set an example flour and jaggery, deep fried in ghee) in a pot. The appam
undertook a penance in of this and was carrying out the feeding programme with was prepared very quickly and was brought in a pot to
the Purasi forest, in deep much jubilation. the brahmana, along with hot milk. After eating the appam,
meditation on Lord Hari, the old brahmana revealed to the king that He was actually
Durvasa Muni who is Early one morning an elderly brahmana came to the king Lord Vishnu. The king was in ecstasy. The Lord wanted
famous for his anger and told him that he was very hungry. After offering the to rest there and kept the pot of appam near Him while
came before the king. food that was cooked, to the Lord, the king fed the old He lay down. Upon the request of the king, the Lord
Since the king was brahmana with the prasadam. The old man ate all the decided to stay there and bless the devotees. Since the
engrossed in his food that was available, which was sufficient to feed a Lord requested for the prasadam of appam in a pot
meditation, he was not thousand people, and told the king that he was still hungry. (kudam in Tamil) He is known as Appakudathan. To this
aware that the great sage The king begged pardon from the brahmana and offered day, appam is made and offered in a pot to the Lord
was standing before him. to cook again. Since this would take time, the king enquired during the shayanotsava, before He retires. This is the
Durvasa was offended whether the old man would like to have some snack only divya desam where the sweet dumplings are offered
and cursed the king, that prasadam in the meantime. The old brahmana asked for daily to the Lord.
he would lose all his
strength and power. The
king, rudely shaken from
his meditation by the
anger and cursing of the
sage, trembled with fear
and begged pardon.
Durvasa told King
Ubharisaravasu to go to
Palasavana near the
Cauvery River and feed
one lakh brahmanas.
Feeding of brahmanas is
considered as a great
pious activity and is an
important Vedic
injunction. The pious king
was delighted and
thanked the sage.
The king immediately left
Lord Appakudathan for Palasavana with a
battalion of palace cooks
There are five important temples of Ranganatha which and guards. Since that place was not very populated, the
are popularly known as Pancharanga kshetras - king distributed food to each and every brahmana he
Srirangapattanam, Koviladi, Srirangam, Kumbakonam came across there. Every day the king would feed a few
and Indalur. Koviladi is known as Madhya Rangakshetra. thousand brahmanas. And he led a calm and contented
The Koviladi or Thiruppernagar temple is situated on the life by offering worship to Hari, preparing delicious foodstuff
banks of River Kollidam (a branch of the Cauvery River), offerings for Him and then offering the prasadam to the
brahmanas. Thus, the king was not at all upset with the
atop a hill called Indragiri.
curse of Durvasa, and, rather, took it as a blessing and
Pastimes of the Lord of Koviladi obeyed the orders of the sage.
There was once a very pious king called Ubharisaravasu. On the path of spiritual life, it is very important to receive
He was a great devotee of Lord Vishnu and lived strictly guidance from sages, the spiritual master or guide, Lord Appakudathan with His consorts
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 Lord Appakudathan
on Gaja vahana

There are some other interesting pastimes of the Lord served the Lord with much devotion, just like King
here. Lord Appakudathan once destroyed the pride of Ubharisaravasu. The medieval Chola kings in particular
Indra here and Indra worshipped the Lord with much have carried out various additions to the temple. The
awe and reverence. As a testimony to the worship by temple has inscriptions on stone from the 18th year of
Indra, the small hillock where the temple is situated is the regime of Raja Adithya Chola. As mentioned earlier,
known as Indragiri. References about this temple can the temple is situated on a small hillock and has to be
be found in the Brahmanda Purana. approached through a flight of steps. The main
rajagopuram is three tiered and the temple has one
The Temple and the Lord
prakara or enclosure. There is a beautiful pond here
As one enters the serene and calm agrahara (brahmana named Indra Pushkarani. On the altar, the beautiful Lord
settlement) of Koviladi, one experiences a mysterious of Koviladi, Appakudathan, lies in bhujanga shayana
peace and tranquillity enveloping every visitor. The on Adisesha. His lotus feet are adorned with golden
temple is on the banks of the River Cauvery. This is anklets and toe rings. His right hand blesses King
reminiscent of the Viraja River, with the Lord as Ubharisaravasu. Bhumidevi, the consort of the Lord, is
Vaikunthanatha. The temple is believed to have received seen seated at His feet. A pot of appam is seen near
significant royal patronage, as kings, from time to time, the Lord. The Deity is made of sodhai (termite sand)

The charriot festival

during Brahmotsava

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 Festivals
Pangunni Uthram Brahmotsava is one of the
important festivals at Koviladi. During these
days, as in all Vishnu temples, the Lord is
carried on various vahanas. The Vaikuntha
Ekadashi festival is celebrated for ten days
in this temple. Navaratri festival is of special
importance in connection with the consort
of Lord Appakudathan.
Four among the twelve Alwars have sung in
praise of Lord Appakudathan: Periyalwar,
Thirumangai Alwar, Thirumazhisai Alwar and
Nammalwar. As many as 33 verses have
been sung in praise of Lord Appakudathan.
Nammalwar has sung: “The Lord who dwells
in Thiruppernagar declaring “I shall never
leave you,” occupied my mind and heart
today. I caught hold of and retained Him,
who has more in His abdomen after
swallowing the seven seas and mountains.”
Yet another interesting verse is by Periyalwar
or Vishnu Chitta, who considers himself as
the mother of Krishna and praises the Lord
in the vatsalaya rasa: “My son pervades and
stays in all the places like Kumbakonam,
Kottiyur, and Thiruppernagar. He holds a
conch in his strong hand. Bring a stick for
him to play with, and let the stick be a
polished one!”
Photo courtesy:
Santhanakrishnan, Srirangam

Garuda vahana on the

5th day of Brahmotsava

and hence no abhisekam is performed

to the main deity. Twice year, special
medicinal oil is applied on the beautiful
form of the Lord. There is deity of
Durvasa also in the altar. The utsava
vigraha is called Appakudathan and
Azhagiya Manavalan and gives
audience with His consorts Sri Devi
and Bhudevi. Sage Nammalwar (one
of the twelve Vaishnava saints of
South India) is said to have attained
moksha here, as his last composition
was in praise of Lord Appakudathan.
Sesha alankara
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 Dullards and Slugs
The Materialistic Demeanor Revisited
—by Goursundara Dasa Adhikari
Our eighth year of "primary education" passed in an sufferings. They hear gravely how a soldier has been
American Dependent School in Okinawa. During that run over by a tank, how his mother suffers, and how
eventful year we heard that we would have to decide nothing can console her. But when it is brought to their
for ourselves what had caused our existence, that the attention that daily they have been feeding on the
average man used less than one fourth the potential of carcasses of slaughtered innocent animals, they become
his brain, and that God was never to be discussed in angry. So their brand of compassion is very limited in
school. scope. Personal gratification comes first. In fact, the
motive for humanistic efforts is the enhancement of
Our studies of physical science had culminated in the
sensual pleasures in a particular sphere or select group
visualization of the fleshy structure of the human brain. of living entities.
Electrical impulses flashing on the circuitry inside a
man's head are supposed to be responsible for all Collectively they blame God when their pleasure turns
thinking, feeling, and willing. Life, memory, and the living to pain. They want to live in this hostile world hoarding
zone are strange. The head is filled up with thoughts. all the treasures which can captivate their senses, and
The mind projects itself outside the body. We wondered, somehow escaping all distress. They intend to massacre
"What would we be thinking if we were using all the an unlimited number of animals in order to taste the
power of the brain?" bloody bodies.
We had encountered sectarian religionists whose The humanists are ever ready to calumniate, assault,
shallowness had turned us toward the camps of the and assassinate the humble servants of God, but they
atheists. We passed amidst the "humanists" and received maintain many sectarian views meant to righteously
many promises which were never to be fulfilled. Burning dress up their selfish desires.
in despair we went past childhood's end. The prospects "Waikiki at three o'clock in the morning is real. Bhagavad-
for enjoyment which had been pointed out to us by our gita is not."
teachers proved inadequate. After exhausting many the
schools of philosophy, we realized we had been deceived "The Gita is old and cannot cope with the new."
all along, from the earliest beginning. We felt doomed, But what is new? Is life or death new? Is pleasure-pain
not for not knowing answers, but for not even being or hot-cold new? Is the Sun or the Moon new? Is the
able to frame proper questions. earth new? Is eating, sleeping, mating, and fighting
We had secretly designated ourselves as atheists. But new?
as our intelligence matured, we saw through the The Darwinian theory of evolution has reassured
hypocrisy of our so-called religious friends. We saw everyone: Man is the Pinnacle of evolution. And when
them as atheists to a man. It was then that we began he becomes bored with himself, he can escape into
to seriously study: What is religion? How are all things intoxication.
related? Who is God?
Our materialistic friends have the conviction that religion
We had glimpsed the desolation in store for the is one of man's inventions. Somehow they have taken
materialists. We knew the agony of the "Underground man as all in all. They see religion in terms of apotheosis,
Man" and the pretenses of the "Absurd Man." We had anthropomorphism, zoomorphism, theanthropism,
followed the avant-garde of pop culture in "new" therianthropism, etc.
explorations. All of these things sickened us.
The pseudo-Christians, pseudo-Buddhists, etc. do not
We had long felt as if we were being watched. We were protest the slanders of the modern "enlightened" thinkers,
fortunate. Everything was fully explained by our spiritual being eager to feed on the scraps from their dissecting
master and we began to realize the unique situation of tables, cherishing as they do aspirations for the utmost
Absolute Knowledge. We had to surrender ourselves enjoyment of the senses.
in his service.
The devotee of God admonishes them: this world is not
Humanism is the atheist's disease. The people of the your real home, neither is it lovable-if you are not a fool,
world are atheists. It is for this reason that they have do not try to remain here, decrying God for making your
been transferred here. People hypocritically express life miserable. Do not waste time artificially discriminating
pity at the plight of "Fellow Man." They feel noble when material goodness and badness. "What is exalted among
they stoop to sympathize with another person's men is an abomination in the sight of God."-New
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Testament, Luke 16/15. This fool's paradise is not cherished by liberated souls.
Beyond the material creation is another existence known
This life is bound to be predominated by pain. The world
as anti-material nature. "There is another, eternal Nature,
is a vacuum without the sight of God. The people are
which is transcendental to the manifested and non-
all after phantasmagoria, clashing with one another in
manifested matter. It is supreme and is never annihilated.
their struggles to possess shadowy things which will
When all this world is annihilated, that part remains as
soon cease to exist.
it is."-Bhagavad-gita, 8.20. God's playgrounds are there

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in the spiritual kingdom. "Does God enjoy punishing miscreants?" No. Miscreants
are malicious, and for everyone's good their wrong
People are puffed up with material knowledge. They
impressions have to be regulated. "How can God allow
wish to show off their experience of the world. They
the gruesome things of this world to exist?" All worldly
always waste time discussing transitory things. But they
problems are posed by transcient phenomena distinct
do not find the Bhagavad-gita interesting. "There is no
from the real self of the living entity. The soul can never
need for Eastern religion." People do not understand
be maimed or killed. But the false possessions (including
spiritual science, but they remain complacent. Krishna
bodies) to which he has become attached are bound to
and His devotees canvass and teach. But people crave disintegrate. The material world is satisfying the whims
mammon. "Krishna's presence mocks the world of man."- of its residents and blocking the real manifestation of
Bhagavat Purana, 10/70/40. happiness, i.e., the Vaikuntha, the spiritual abode where
"Does man have free will?" we have been asked. Does there is no misery. Krishna always offers us happiness
a crazy man have free will? No. Everyone has his will, without depriving us of our individual will. Our
but under material bondage it is never free. "The place infinitessimal will characterizes our existence as
of action, the doer, the senses, the endeavour, and individuals. And we are never to cease to be individuals.
ultimately the Supersoul: these are the five factors of Krishna has assured us of that fact.
action."-Bhagavad-gita, 18.14 "For the soul there is never birth or death. Nor, having
A man is the servant of his senses led by the mind. All once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn,
these are conditional. "The bewildered individual soul, eternal, ever-existing, undying, and primeval. He is not
under the influence of the three modes of Nature, thinks slain when the body is slain."-Bhagavad-gita, 2.20.
himself to be the doer of activities, which are in actuality We must have the right self-determination apart from
carried out by Nature." Bhagavad-gita, 3.27. Is a man the impressions of the changeable body and fickle mind
free to serve his senses? No. He is obstructed by Nature in order to realize the proper conception of God and the
at every turn. soul. We have to engage ourselves as the subservients
Man has the potential to exercise his free will in spiritual of God and regain our real nature lost in material
existence. But he has thrown it away and come to be excesses. We have to serve the regulative sound
the dog of Maya. Man still has the option of surrendering vibrations manifesting themselves in the limited disclosure
to God and manifesting his freedom in harmony with of this nether world for our benefit. We cannot obtain
the absolutely free Personality of Godhead. spiritual enlightenment, which is identical with loving
devotion to Krishna, if we choose to actively or passively
"If one has no free will, can he be blamed for his resist serving the Supreme.
misdeeds?" Yes. All misbehaviour is the result of aversion
to God's Will and is bound to be chastised. The demoniac We have heard that God is great. God must mean the
people, those in revolt against God, have chosen to do absolutely All-powerful. His greatness is His absolute
evil. Their lives follow the standard aberrations of the goodness. If God is God, He must be great. Nothing
conditioned soul. can happen without God's sanction. Everything that
occurs is His Will because every occurence must not
All the wrongs which a man commits are his sole be contrary to His Will. So everything that occurs must
responsibility, and he need not further degrade himself be good. But the material world being the resort of
by the cowardly business of trying to shift the blame. creatures opposed to the Will of God, it is natural that
Man has the opportunity to have liberation. The other there appear in it a conditional goodness. In fact, the
living entities in the material world who are wearing whole material creation is an extraneous manifestation
different dress, viz. bodies of aquatics, plants, animals, to the real Nature of God. It is an adjustment for
etc., will have to wait until they attain human forms. The counteracting the mischief of the living entities who have
eternal soul is only temporarily covered by material gone abroad in false identifications of themselves. The
bodies. The majority of the inconceivably great number strictures of birth, disease, old age, and death are
of individual souls are fixed in the transcendental realm. operative only on the outer covering layers, the bodies
The miscreants are serving time in matter. of conditioned souls, which have nothing to do with their
By taking the initiative to oppose God, the conditioned eternal identities. So we must know the position of the
soul has plunged himself into the world of ignorance, soul in the first place. If we realize our existence apart
hiding his vision from the sight of God. By the continuing from the temporal affairs and our impending changes
sequence of actions and reactions technically known of body, we can adopt the humble attitude of true
as karma, he is being buffeted by Nature's laws. He can inquisitiveness which will help us in entering the regions
be released in the end by sincere devotion to God of true theism.
through His Grace. "Give up all other duties and Historians and philosophers have long puzzled over the
surrender unto Me [Krishna]. Do not fear, I shall protect meaning of life to no avail. But we have nothing to profit
you from all sinful reactions."-Bhagavad-gita, 18.66. from their imaginary explanations which cannot give us
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any relief from the miseries of the world. The self-realized Nescience on the part of wayward souls subservient to
soul can understand how conditional life is non- the non-cognitive or non-soul is accommodated within
cooperation with Krishna. the material creation. The indolent soul does not
We individual souls are emanations qualitatively like transmogrify nor fall from his constitutional eternal fixture,
Krishna, but quantitatively unequal to Him. God is the but by his apathetic egoism, i.e. by allowing his
Infinite Absolute. God must be One. We have the qualities conception of himself ascendance over Godhead, he
of our Fountainhead, who is the background or support blinds himself to the nature of his own identity-with its
of all existence. Aquinas says that God should be known inherent tendency to fall down. He assumes the mentality
as "He Who Is." This is so because His existence is the of aspiring to lord it over, and he is at that point
pre-requisite for all subsequent existence. He is the overwhelmed by Maya.
prime progenitor of all manifestations, which do exist. Maya is God's good adjustment which impounds the
Our perceptions, both of ourselves and of things outside erring souls, confining them in bodies like strait-jackets
ourselves, are possible because we all exist in Him. "I to obstruct their suicidal commission. Maya is material
worship Govinda, the Primeval Lord, who is the Absolute Nature. Maya means forgetfulness of God. Maya means
Substantive Principle being the Ultimate Entity in the the measuring tendency (by elevating oneself to the
Form of the Support of all existence."-Brahma Samhita, Judge's seat). Maya means what has no reality in itself.
5.41. And Maya means mercy. These may be understood as
God is the Infinite Absolute, and we are infinitessimal esoteric truths.
absolutes, His eternal servitors. Our tiny will cannot be By God's inconceivable power we have been gifted with
good when it opposes God. The intervening emanation the erroneous determinations we have warranted. But
which nullifies any possibilities of our ushering evil into at the same time we are being urged to reconsider our
God's sphere of absolute goodness and which acts as misjudgements. We have voluntarily come into the
a corrective agent to rectify us through limited indulgence material aggregate elements to seek our fortunes. But
is the material creation. the material manifestation actually enforces impotence
Krishna is actually clearer to us than our own selves. upon us. We are left to our own conclusions. Can we,
He is all-attractive, and He is the Inner Soul of all souls. lacking as we do absolute knowledge and power, be
Without Krishna, no real happiness can be found. independently happy? We are personalities meant to

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augment the perfection of God's sovereign Will. is the Supreme Godhead. He has an eternal, blissful
Krishna's relationship to the world is mysterious. Is He spiritual body. He is the origin of all. He has no other
Transcendent or Immanent? If He is Transcendent, has origin, and He is the prime cause of all causes."—
He no concern for the world? If He is Immanent, then Brahma Samhita, 5.1.
has He spread Himself everywhere and ceased to Krishna is the sole object worthy of being worshiped by
maintain His distinctive Identity? These questions were all souls. If we were to fabricate any fanciful idea of
long debated. worship we would become idolators. The Vedic
Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has taught us the truth of injunctions are the instructions of Krishna, and they
Krishna's inconceivable oneness with and distinction state that chanting the holy names of Krishna is the
from His multifarious energies (achintya bhedabheda sacrifice which we should all be performing in the present
tattva). "In My transcendental Form I [Krishna] pervade age. We should abandon all crippled conceptions known
all creation. All things are resting in Me, but I am not in as monism, dualism, pluralism, deism, pantheism, etc.
them."-Bhagavad-gita, 9.4. Krishna is distinct from the and qualify ourselves as pure theists. Our only asset
cosmos and the living entitles (jivas) and at the same upon which we can rely is our devotion to God. At the
time He is always identical with them, which can be moment of death, all our sophistry and false prestige,
understood only by His Grace. all our material opulence and attachment will betray us.
We should not waste our lives in the pursuit of perishable
"He is an undifferentiated Entity, as there is no distinction things. We should instead travel the path which will take
between potency and the Possessor thereof. In His us back to home, back to Godhead.
work of creation of millions of worlds, His potency
remains inseparable. All the universes exist in Him, and Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has solved for all time the
He is present in His fullness in every one of the atoms problem of re-establishing our relationship with Krishna.
that is scattered through the universe, at one and the He has assured us that Krishna is best approached by
same time. Such is the Primeval Lord whom I adore."— us through the constant chanting of His Holy Names.
Brahma Samhita, 5.35. Although His inconceivable Our whole attention is best engaged in the transcendence
energy is all-extending, still He maintains His all-attractive by the repetition of the Hare Krishna Mantra: Hare
medium size, manifesting His Supreme Personality in Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/
His eternal form. "Krishna, who is known as Govinda, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.

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 The Teachings of Lord Chaitanya
By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Part V
All of these twelve different forms of Lord Krishna are eternally in the spiritual sky, some of them are manifested
known as the predominating deities of the twelve months. in the material world also. In the spiritual sky all the
According to the Vaishnava almanac, the months are planets dominated by the feature of Narayana are
called by different names of Krishna. This calendar eternal, and the highest topmost planet in the spiritual
begins from the month of Margashirsha, which is sky is called Krishnaloka. That Krishnaloka is divided
equivalent to late October-November. The month of into three different portions: 1. Gokula, 2. Mathura and
November is known by the Vaishnavas as Keshava, 3. Dwaraka. In the Mathura portion, the form of Keshava
December is called Narayana, January is called is always situated. This is also represented on this
Madhava, February is called Govinda, March is called earthly planet. In India there is a place called Mathura
Vishnu, April is called Vasudeva, May is called Trivikrama, where Keshavamurthi is worshipped; similarly there is
June is called Vamana, July is called Sridhara, August a Purushottama form in Jagannatha Puri and in Orissa;
is called Hrishikesha, September is called Padmanabha and in Prayaga or Allahabad there is Madhava Bindu
and October is called Damodara. This Damodara is Madhav, and, similarly, there is the form of Madhusudan
different from the Damodara in Vraja. The name in Mandhara hill. In Anandanranya there is the form of
Damodara was given when Krishna was bound by ropes a Vishnu, and in Mayapur, the birthplace of Lord
by His mother—but the Damodara form in the month of Chaitanya, there is the form of Hari. So there are also
October is a different manifestation. many other forms situated elsewhere on this earthly
planet.
Similarly, the Vaishnava community marks different parts
of the body, and each mark is known by one of these Not only in this universe, but in all the other universes,
twelve different names of the Supreme Lord. The mark such forms are distributed all over. On this earthly planet
on the forehead is called Keshava, and for the belly, also it is indicated that all the portions of the whole earth
the breast, and the arms there are different names; the are divided into seven islands or continents; it is
names that are used for the months are also used for understood that on each and every island there are
this purpose. similar forms, but at the present moment they are found
The four formal forms, the Vasudeva, Sankarshana, only in India. They are indicated to be in other parts of
Pradyumna and Aniruddha, are also expanded in the the world, but at the present there is no information
vilasa murthi. They are eight in number, and their names where they are situated. But from Vedic literature we
are Purushottama, Achyuta, Narasimha, Janardana, can understand there are forms in other parts of the
Hari, Krishna, Adhokshaja and Upendra. Out of these world. These different forms of Krishna are distributed
eight names, Adhokshaja and Purushottama are the all over the world and the universes to give pleasure to
vilasa or forms of Vasudeva. Similarly, Upendra and the devotees. Not that the devotees are only born in
Achyuta are the vilasa forms of Sankarshana; Narasimha India, but in all other parts of the world there are devotees
and Janardana are the vilasa forms of Pradyumna; and who have simply forgotten their identity. Such forms-
Hari and Krishna are the two vilasa forms of Aniruddha. incarnate have come not only to give pleasure to the
This Krishna is different from the original Krishna. All devotees, but to reestablish the devotional service and
these twenty-four forms are known as the vilasa other activities vitally concerning the Supreme Personality
manifestations of Prabhava (four-handed) form, and of Godhead. Some of them are incarnations as
they are differently named according to the different mentioned in the scriptures, such as the Vishnu
position of the symbolic representations, that is, the incarnation, Trivikrama incarnation, Narasimha
mace, the disc, the lotus flower and the conchshell. Out incarnation and Vamana incarnation.
of these twenty-four forms, there is also a division of In the Siddartha Samhita there is a description of the
vilasa and vaibhava. Names mentioned herein, such twenty four forms of Vishnu named differently according
as Pradyumna, Trivikrama, Vamana, Hari, Krishna— to the different positions of the symbolic representations
are also different in features. Then in regards to the in the four hands. In ascribing the different nomenclatures
Prabhava vilasa of Krishna, which is Vasudeva, to the different descriptions of Vishnumurthi, the counting
Sankarshana, Pradyumna and Aniruddha, there are in should begin 1. with the lower right hand and then rising
total twenty further variations. All of them preside over to the 2. upper right hand, then 3. to the upper left hand
Vaikuntha planets in the spiritual sky and are situated and then 4. down to the lower left hand. In these four
in eight different directions; although each of them is hands are held the four representations: club, wheel
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conch shell and lotus flower; all in varying positions. represented by lotus flower, club, wheel and conch shell.
Thus in this fashion Vasudeva is represented by 1. club, Vamana is represented by conch shell, wheel, club and
2. conchshell, 3. wheel and 4. lotus flower. Similarly, lotus flower. Sridhara is represented by lotus flower,
Sankarshana is represented by club, conch shell, lotus wheel, club and conch shell. Hrishikesha is represented
flower and wheel. Pradyumna is represented by wheel, by club, wheel, lotus flower and conch shell.
conch shell, club and lotus flower. Aniruddha is Padmanabha is represented by conch shell, lotus flower,
represented by wheel, club, conch shell and lotus flower. wheel and club. Damodara is represented by lotus
In the spiritual sky also, the representation of Narayana flower, wheel, club and conch shell. Purushottama is
is calculated as follows, at twenty in number: Hrishikesha represented by wheel, lotus flower, conch shell and
is represented by conch shell, wheel, flower and club. club. Sri Achyuta is represented by club, lotus flower,
Narayana is represented by conch shell, lotus flower, wheel and conch shell. Sri Narasimha is represented
club and wheel. Sri Madhava is represented by club, by wheel, lotus flower, club and conch shell. Janardana
wheel, conch shell and lotus flower. Sri Govinda is is represented by lotus flower, wheel, conch shell and
represented by wheel, club, lotus flower and conch shell. club. Sri Hari is represented by conch shell, wheel, lotus
Vishnumurthi is represented by club, lotus flower, conch flower and club. Sri Krishna is represented by conch
shell and wheel. Madhusudan is represented by wheel, shell, club, lotus flower and wheel. Adhokshaja is
conch shell, lotus flower and club. Trivikrama is represented by lotus flower, club, conch shell and wheel.
Upendra is represented
by conch shell, club,
wheel and lotus flower.
According the
Hayashirsha
Pancharatra, there are
sixteen forms and they
are also different in
name according to the
different positions of the
wheel and club. The
conclusion is that the
Supreme Original
Personality of Godhead
is Krishna—He is called
Lila Purushottama and
He is principally in
Vrindavana as the son
of Nanda. It is also
learned from the
Hayashirsha
Pancharatra that nine
forms are protecting two
Puris known as the
Mathura Puri and the
Dwaraka Puri, and they
are in the four forms like
V a s u d e v a ,
Sankarshana,
Pradyumna, and
Aniruddha; and besides
these four forms there
are Narayana forms,
Narasimha forms,
Hayagriva forms,
Varaha forms and
Brahma. The above
descriptions are
different manifestations
of the prakasha and
vilasa forms of Lord Krishna. Lord's different expansions through the material nature;
Now Lord Chaitanya is informing Sanatana Goswami without superintendence of the Supreme Lord there is
that there are different forms of the svamsha also; no possibility of any creation. The form by which the
svamsha forms are divided into the Sankarshana division energy of the material nature is created is called
and incarnation division. From the Sankarshana division Sankarshana. It is understood that under the
come the three Purusha avataras, namely the superintendent energy of the Supreme Lord this cosmic
Karanodakshayi Vishnu, Garbhodakshayi Vishnu and manifestation is created. The example is given of the
Kshirodakshayi Vishnu; and the other division, also iron which becomes red hot in contact with fire—when
called avatara, includes the Lord's incarnation as Fish, it is red hot it becomes also like fire. In the Srimad
as Tortoise etc. There are six kinds of different Bhagavatam, Tenth Canto, Forty Sixth Chapter, it is
incarnations: 1. the Purusha avatara, 2. the Leela said that Rama and Krishna are the origin of all living
avatara, 3. the Guna avatara, 4. the Manu avatara, 5. entities. These two Personalities enter into everything.
the Yuga avatara, and 6. the Shaktavesha avatara. Out It may even now appear that They are differently situated.
of six kinds of vilasa manifestations of Krishna there A list of the incarnations occurs in the Srimad
are 2 divisions based on His age. They are called balya Bhagavatam, First Canto. They are as follows: 1.
and pauganda. The original form of Krishna as the son Chaturdasham, 2. Narada, 3. Varaha, 4. .Matsya, 5.
of Nanda enjoys Himself in the two forms of His Yajna, 6. Nara-Narayana, 7. Kardami, 8. Dattatreya, 9.
childhood, namely balya and pauganda. Hayashirsha, 13. Hamsa, 11. Prishnigarbha, 12.
The conclusion is that there is no end of the expansions Rishabha, 13. Prithu, 14. Narasimha, 15. Kurma, 16.
and incarnations of Krishna. Here Lord Chaitanya Dhanavantari, 17. Mohini, 18. Vamana, 19. Bhargava
describes some of them to Sanatana just to give him Purushottama, 20. Ramachandra, 21. Vyasa, 22.
an idea how the Lord is expanding and how He is Prlambhari Balarama, 23. Krishna, 24. Buddha, 25.
enjoying. This is confirmed in the Srimad Bhagavatam, Kalki. Out of these twenty five lila avataras almost all
in the First Canto, Third Chapter. It is said there that of them appear in one day of Brahma, which is called
there is no limit to the emanations of incarnations of the a kalpa, and therefore they are sometimes called kalpa
Supreme Lord, just as there is no limit to the number of avataras. Out of these, the incarnation of Mohini is not
waves in the oceans. As far as the incarnations are permanent, but Kapila, Dattatreya, Rishabha, Nara-
concerned, the first incarnations of Krishna are as the Narayana and Vyasa are five eternal forms, and they
three Purusha avataras, namely the Maha Vishnu avatar, are more celebrated. The incarnation of Tortoise, Fish,
Garbhodakshayee avatara and Khirodakshayee avatara. Nara-Narayana, Varaha, Hayagriva, Ramachandra,
This is confirmed in the Shastrashirsha Stotra. Krishna's Prlambhari Balarama are considered as incarnations of
energies are also divisable into three: His energy of vaibhava. Similarly, there are three incarnation of the
thinking, His energy of feeling, and His energy of acting. qualitative modes of Nature. They are called Brahma,
In His energy of thinking He is the Supreme Lord; in Vishnu and Shiva. Of the Manvantara avataras there
His energy of feeling He is Lord Vasudeva; and in His are fourteen in number: 1. Yagna, 2. Vibhu, 3. Satyasena,
energy of acting He is Sankarshana Balarama. Without 4. Hari, 5. Vaikuntha, 6. Ajita, 7. Vamana, 8.
thinking, feeling and acting there is no possibility for the Sarvabhauma, 9. Rishabha, 10. Vishwaksena, 11.
creation. Although there is no question of the creation Dharma, 12. Sudhama, 13. Yogeshwara, 14.
of the spiritual world, there is nonetheless creation of Brhadbhanu. Out of these fourteen incarnations of
this material world; both the spiritual world and the Manvantara, Yagna and Vamana are also lila avataras.
material world are manifestations of the active energy The balance are Manvantara avataras. These fourteen
of the forms of Sankarshana and Balarama of Krishna. Manvantara avataras are also known as Bhaiva avataras.
In the spiritual world, the Vaikuntha planets and the
Krishnaloka planet are situated in His energy of thinking. The four yugas are also described in the Bhagavatam:
Although there is no creation of the eternal spiritual in the Satya Yuga the incarnation of God is white; in the
world, still it is to be understood that the Vaikuntha Treta Yuga the incarnation of God is red; in the Dwapara
planets are depending on the thinking energy of the the incarnation of God is blackish; and the incarnation
Supreme Lord. This thinking energy is described in the in the Kali Yuga is also blackish but sometimes, in a
Brahma Samhita, Fifth Chapter, second verse; where special Kali Yuga, the colour is yellowish or golden. As
it is stated that the supreme abode known as Goloka far as the Shaktavesha avataras are concerned, they
is manifested just like a lotus flower with hundreds of are Kapila and Rishabhadeva, the Sesha avatar, Ananta,
petals. Everything is manifested by the Ananta, Balarama, Brahma (sometimes the Lord Himself becomes Brahma),
or Sankarshana form. The material cosmic manifestation Chaturshana (as the incarnation of Knowledge), Narada
and the different universes are manifested through (as the incarnation of devotional service), King Prithu
Maya, or material energy. The material nature of the (as the incarnation of administrative power), and
material energy is not the cause of all this cosmic Parashurama (as the incarnation of subduing evil
manifestation. Rather, it is caused by the Supreme principles).
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 The Chariot of the Body
How to make it take you where you really want to go

This grim scene is just an illustration, but it points up something that happens to all of us all too often. It shows
how we set out for satisfaction and yet arrive at just the opposite.
Our material body is a lot like a chariot. It has five horses (the senses of hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell).
Each of us is a spiritual soul riding within-we're the passenger. And to keep the horses on course, we have the
reins (our mind) and the driver (our intelligence).
As we've all experienced, our sensory horses are always ready to bolt off after this or that, and their pulling creates
anxiety in our mind. The problem is that we have no permanent goal to keep our mind on. Our body, our family,
our community, our nation-all these things are changing and so not fully satisfying objects for our attention and
affection.
Sometimes, out of frustration, we try to quiet our mind by stopping our senses and engaging in silent meditation.
This may bring us some relief, but it doesn't last, because sooner or later our senses have to act. So the solution
is to find a goal that's permanent and fully satisfying to our senses, mind, and intelligence. And that's why Lord
Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, recommends, "Dedicate your activities to Me, absorb your senses,
mind, and intelligence in Me-and you will attain Me" (Krishna's very name means "the highest satisfaction").
In this age the easiest and most effective way to absorb our senses, mind, and intelligence in Krishna is to chant
Hare Krishna Hare Krishna
Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama
Rama Rama Hare Hare
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 Jagannatha Puri Ratha Yatra

Dear devotees of Lord Jagannatha,

Welcome to Purusottam Dham on the auspicious occasion of Ratha Yatra Festival (July 10 to July 19).
We cordially invite you and your family to participate in the Ratha Yatra Festival of Their Lordships
Sri Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra Mayi, along with grand sankirtana and prasadam distribution
by the devotees of Hare Krishna Movement/Akshaya Patra Foundation from their premises right beside
the mid-way halt of the Ratha Yatra (Grand Road-Balagandi).
Programme Details Timings
July 10 - Ratha Yatra
Prasadam distribution for 50,000 pilgrims 9 am to 12 pm
Grand sankirtana 11 am to 8 pm
Bhog offering - tulasi garlands, dry fruits, fruits, etc.
to Lord Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra Mayi 4 pm to 7 pm
on the ratha, when it halts in front of our premises
July 18 - Bahuda Yatra
Prasadam distribution for 50,000 pilgrims 9 am to 12 pm
Grand sankirtana 11 am to 8 pm
Bhog Offering - tulasi garlands, dry fruits, fruits, etc.
to Lord Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra Mayi 4 pm to 7 pm
on the ratha, when it halts in front of our premises
July 19 - Suna Besha
Prasadam distribution for 25,000 pilgrims 5 pm to 12 pm
Grand sankirtana 5 pm to 8 pm

Venue: Akshaya Patra Foundation, Grand Road, Balagandi, Puri, Odisha

Contact Numbers: 08895176501, 08763564165, 08895497100
Donations are accepted in the form of Cheque/ DD/ Net Banking in favour of
“Hare Krishna Movement Puri”
Axis Bank, Puri, Odisha
Account Number – 464010100051794
IFSC Code – UTIB 0000464
 Over 150 devotees participate
in Srila Prabhupada Ashraya ceremony
In the Chaitanya Charitamrta (CC Madhya 22.115), the process of devotional service is explained as follows:
guru-padasraya, diksa, gurura sevana
sad-dharma-siksa-prccha, sadhu-marganugamana
“On the path of regulative devotional service, one must observe the following items: (1) One must
accept a bona fide spiritual master. (2) One must accept initiation from him. (3) One must serve him.
(4) One must receive instructions from the spiritual master and make inquiries in order to learn
devotional service. (5) One must follow in the footsteps of the previous äcäryas and follow the
directions given by the spiritual master.
In order to give more and more devotees an opportunity to begin their spiritual life by taking shelter of our
beloved spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada, ISKCON-Bangalore temple conducts a formal programme called
Srila Prabhupada Ashraya. The programme encourages devotees to take up authorized devotional practices
to varying degrees of standards, commitments and intensity in their lives as they learn to bring about a balance
in their spiritual life on one hand and their professional, social and personal life on the other hand.
On Sunday, June 2nd, 2013, over 150
devotees assembled in the main temple hall
of the Sri Radha Krishna Temple to express
their commitments before Srila Prabhupada,
present in his Deity form. The ISKCON-
Bangalore temple offers various levels of
Srila Prabhupada Ashraya in order to
encourage the devotees to gradually increase
their devotional practices up to the standards
Srila Prabhupada wanted all his initiated
disciples to follow. The devotees desiring to
participate in the Srila Prabhupada Ashraya
had already taken simple written tests,
coaching by older devotees and personal
meeting with senior devotees of the temple
to ensure they have the correct understanding
of the philosophy of Krishna consciousness and how to apply them practically in their lives. The tests, coaching
and interviews had taken over eight weeks and all those who had successfully fulfilled the standards in
understanding and practices assembled on June 2nd for the formal ceremony. The ceremony began with a
class by Sri Madhu Pandit Dasa, the Temple president of ISKCON Bangalore, where he encouraged all
devotees to take up Krishna consciousness
to make their lives successful. Sri Vasudev
Keshav Dasa, Vice President of the temple
called out different groups of devotees and
administered the various levels of
commitments of the aspiring devotees. Then
the devotees came before Srila Prabhupada
and offered flowers and also received special
certificates of Srila Prabhupada Ashraya from
Sri Madhu Pandit Dasa. The ceremony
concluded with Guru Puja of Srila
Prabhupada. The devotees returned home
blissfully with a new sense of seriousness
to practice Krishna consciousness in their
lives.
30 Krishna Voice, July 2013
 Panihati Chida Dahi Mahotsava

Bangalore: The utsava Deities of

Sri Sri Nitai Gauranga enjoyed a
ride in the kalyani on Their
decorated barge (above) and
received an arati (right).

At Mysore (left) & Hubli (below) the Deities

of Sri Sri Nitai Gauranga received
abhisheka on the occasion of the festival.

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