- About what gives us perfect happiness.
- Not even Ravana with all his immense opulence was happy.
- Whoever practices devotion to the Lord attains eternal happiness, because this is the spontaneous nature of the soul.
- In relation to the Supreme Lord, the jiva is considered to be the spark of a great fire.
- Sloka:
jīvera ‘svarūpa’ haya — kṛṣṇera ‘nitya-dāsa’
kṛṣṇera ‘taṭasthā-śakti’ ‘bhedābheda-prakāśa’
sūryāṁśa-kiraṇa, yaiche agni-jvālā-caya
svābhāvika kṛṣṇera tina-prakāra ‘śakti’ haya - Everything in this world is transient and will end.
- It is important to have a questioning mood: “who am I?”
- You are born successively in countries and planets, you just forgot about it.
- Story of the king who asked his minister, “where is God, who has seen God and what is He doing?”
- Swami Prabhupada claims that he sees God and talks to Him.
- To be able to see the Lord it is necessary to have a transcendental vision, a look of divine love, not a look of lust.
- One who practices the process of sadhana-bhakti will attain to see the Lord at the stage of bhava/prema.
-God moves things and people around, in one life if he is a king, in another beggar, and so on. - Story of the man who, when leaving, met a lady who said he would not eat that day.
- Man proposes and God disposes.
- The Lord is the Supreme Controller.
- Pure Vaisnavas travel all over the world to distribute Vaikuntha’s message.
- You are not residents of this world, you are all refugees, successively changing bodies, planets and universes.
- Mahaprabhu brought the medicine: Harinama.
- Music: Jiva Jago Jiva Jago.
- We receive the results of our actions (karma) good and bad.
- He who surrenders to the Lord receives special protection.
- Only demonic-minded materialists do not want the Lord’s help, because, arrogant, they think they are very powerful.
-Nrsimhadeva was not Hiranyakasipu’s enemy, but Hiranyakasipu considered Nrsimhadeva his enemy. - You make friends with those you have affinity with (same level). Likewise, God has no enemies, for no one is a match for Him. The Lord has vatsalya-bhava (fatherly feeling) for all living entities.
France, Lectures in English
