PART 2
- The acarya founder of our Gaudiya mission is Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Prabhupada.
- Preaching without practicing bhajana and sadhana is useless, fruitless. Therefore we must practice and then preach.
- To defeat the Mayavadi philosophy, one must understand it.
- Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu established the acintya-bheda-abheda-tattva philosophy.
- The jivas (souls) are eternal, minute, portions of the Lord, and will never be transformed into Brahma.
- Meaning of BODY (body) in English: b (birth: born), o (old: grows old), d (diseases: diseases), y (Yamaharaja: the lord of death will pick it up and take it to Yama Loka).
- Material things are subject to change, while the soul is eternal and immutable.
- Acintya means: that which cannot be understood through material arguments.
- The three inconceivable things with mystical powers present in the material world: stones, mantras and herbs.
- Everyone wants money, so chant the Holy Names and the money will come!
- The Holy Names grant dharma (religiosity), artha (economic development), kama (enjoyment) and moksa (liberation).
- Try to understand this: the Holy Names are very powerful!
- Have faith that the Lord is our eternal well-wisher and He knows everything that is happening to each one of us.
- Story of Gurudeva with three brahmacaris when they went to preach in Nepal.
- The story of the king who lost his finger, which Srila Gaura Govinda Maharaja tells to demonstrate how the Lord is our eternal well-wisher.
- We should always chant Hare Krsna and think about how to reach the abode of the Lord.
- If you go to Dhama, don’t stay for too long, because the nature of the conditioned soul is to point out other people’s faults, and these bad habits will come.
- In a large festival, a list must be made where each person must become responsible for a specific service, that’s the only way it works.