Hello! My name is Muralidhara Dasa and welcome to my RU-vid channel. On this channel i discuss philosophical questions about our existence and the world we live in, in perspective to the Gaudiya-Vaishnava tradition. You will find here devotional music (Harinam), sharing of personal expiriences (Vlogs) and insights on important vedic texts such as the Bhagavad-Gita, Srimad Bhagavatam and Chaitanya Caritamrita.
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The official count of shaligram, Girriraj, and dwaraka silas were 2233...not 2700. We counted them while cleaning after the accident. These guys should get their facts straight.
Hare Krishna. I am from USA and I was very blessed to meet some of these devotees in Krishna Balaram Mandir in Vrindavan. I did some kirtan with them in the temple hall. The one who was talking in the beginning , Baladeva, I remember doing kirtan with him but I wasn’t aware who he is and that he was helping take care of Aindra Pr deities. I feel so blessed by seeing this video. I hope Radha Rani calls me back to Vraja soon.
Hare Krishna Prabhu. Nice to hear you enjoyed the video - yes those who participate in the 24 hour Kirtan are true amazing Devotees. I have been in Vrindavana now for a month joining them on a regular basis. Please come again to Vraja and participate, i am sure Srimati Radharani will bless you to attain such good fortune again. All the best.
do you mean shiksa? You can take from my videos anything you find useful. If you want personal contact i have left my email adress in the channel description
@@ceaser7422 You can watch my videos and draw from it. I draw from the Srimad Bhagavatam and the various literatures from the Vaishnava saints. I have no qualification to be Guru but they have. So if you accept me as spiritual master, you must accept them first. True Guru is Shri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu so why dont you study the Chaitanya Caritamrita if you want a spiritual master?
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QM15NzfuRRI.htmlfeature=shared In this lecture HG. Aindra Prabhu mentioned 1200 saligram Silas in your video 2700 are mentioned how so many were added ❤❤
The term MahaRaja, before it was overused by McDonald's to sell it's burgers, quite literally meant 'Complete control over one's senses/indriyas' which inturn helped the Raja to rule over his subjects without any bias or personal gain. To have that kind of control the Rajas were trained in Gurukulas and as a backup, lest the Raja fails in any respect, was supported in decision making by able ministers and courtiers. Neither the rigorous Gurukul system exists , replaced very dismally by British inspired education system nor the people in power respect their critics, wanting only yes men. The system of democracy , although having it's pluses, isn't fail proof. WHat happens when all the parties contesting in elections are corrupt? Who do people choose? There is inherent hypocrisy where leaders of a "Democracy" will not condemn a Dictarorship out of fear but will happily bully a weaker country to polish it;s ego. We can only wait for 4 lakh years to end to come ut of this mess , till then happy hibernating🙃
Sanskrit is such a deep language. Srila Prabhupada has of course translated Raja mainly to mean King. Krishna also says this by this verse: evam parampara-praptam imam rajarsayo viduh sa kaleneha mahata yogo nastah parantapa This supreme science was thus received through the chain of disciplic succession, and the saintly kings understood it in that way. But in course of time the succession was broken, and therefore the science as it is appears to be lost. Krishna says here that this knowledge is for the Kings. So knowing God means you know the true leader of all living entities. Yes the kings always discussed with their ministers and also adviced by qualified Brahmanas. The Brahmanas are the actual rulers but they dont handle worldy politics. Still they serve as advisor to the king. Even Plato one of the main philosophers of democracy critizised it for being flawed since the average person has no idea what is good for him.
Nice Video. Misses some actual historic facts. War were different long time ago, but I am not sure it was so how you described. For example pre-Columbian fight in that way and therefore they lost against the spanish, because war for them like the atzecs was in a way a show based on some rules and rituals. So for the spaniards was very easily to kill the commanders and so make pre-columbian armies leaderless. My point is more that like the atzecs fought in a way like before in India, under atzecs domination was also a lot of violence, slavery and sacrifice for example. So in a way I can believe that before a lot of violence may be not described, like slavery and sacrifice. But I am with you that war should be done differently. Especially with all this rockets, nukes and riffle. There is no honor in that, only destructions and make war not personal, because with fits or an axt, you had to see the enemy in front of you. Now you can click a button miles away. A good book about human civilisation is "Guns,Germs and Steel" by Jared Diamond. Another point is that sometimes elites like the gods before abuse their power (willingly or with knowing it), so for people with no power, they tend to use more violent and tricky acts to go out from their "poverty".
Thank you for your comment and interest in my video. I must say History is such a thing because only know so much as we have been told by other sources of media that we can not certify with our own experience...because we have not been there. So History is always a bit manipulated by those who recorded it and of course our own interpretation. I am quite sure the americans are conquerers just like the russians. Especially the russians have a warrior nature like that of other nations that conquered the world in the past. Yes in sword, axe, club and even with bow combat there is a need for skill, there is the possibillity for the oponent to defend himself and display his own skill. In this way it is about who is the better warrior, not who exploids unfair advantages to kill the enemy. This is fighting that has been displayed in vedic history recorded in the Puranas such as the Srimad-Bhagavatam. You can argue about right and wrong in fighting but atleast at that time there was enjoyment in fighting and the knowledge about the ATMA (soul) that will carry in another body after our present body is finished made ground for incredible bravery and honor in fighting for the resources of this world. This was the warrior spirit, known to us as Kshatriyas. Yes we hear a lot about gods misusing their power while being victim to the same flaws mortal beings have such as lust, anger and greed. Therefore they are not eternal, just endowed with a long live span, much superior to ours. Many cultures throughout the history had records of them given by the priest-class. We call them Brahmanas. Zeus in Greek Mythology sounds awefully familiar with Lord Indra in vedic narration. He also is known to sometimes take different forms to enjoy another mans wife. Immortality is not bestowed on living beings with such flaws. Therefore we sit in the Lords lower creation that is temporary and full of flaws. One of them is that in our endevour to be enjoyers of this world, we shy not away to end anothers life for our personal gain. God will always keep such living entities in doubt of him.
The unchanging law of nature is the fact that life eats life or it dies. In that sense life is war. Kill or be killed, eat or be eaten is a kind of hell realm isn't it, compared to living without killing. Is that even possible I wonder? In any case I am astonished by this mystery called life with intelligent awareness. Thanks for a wonderful video.
what you say is true. This current reality we co-exist in is undeniably brutal in nature. The Bhagavatam also confirms this by saying: Jivo-Jivasya-Jivanam which means one living being is food for another. It explains the whole foodchain until it comes to human beings. It then differentiates between civilized and uncivilized human beings. A human being is gifted by God with intelligence that enables one to end material existence. If we do not use this chance to serve God, we will serve again as food as do so many living entities. It is not possible to live without killing. We also have to kill plants to eat them and while walking on the street you kill many small insects. This is unavoidable. However with our God-given inteligence we should contemplate what is the ideal way of life and how to achieve spiritual perfection within the short life-span we have. Only a human being can ask: Why? So why do we have to kill to live? Why do we have to disagree to the extend we fight war? Why can we not make things alright and live in paradise on earth? It is possible, it just requires good education within the society and if enough people choose to live better then animals, we can do wonderful things here. Welcome to my channel and i hope you will be staying around.
@@journeyofself-discovery-kc1853 Sure, I will stay around. Thankyou for discussing this most important subject. I will be deepening understanding until this life can be of benefit to others. Thankyou for guiding me. ✌🏻
There's rapist amongst straight people too. Living as a homosexual vaishnava is perfectly fine as long as you follow the principles ... There's no more to talk about it , it's just common sense .
@@Anangamohan108 sure you are free to have your life as you want to aswell as everyone else. Why do i care for your personal life? But if Krishna loves you the way you are, why have you accepted a material body, subject to birth, death, old age and disease. If you think everything is alright with that then go ahead. There is a reason we have developed a material temporary body, not a spiritual body. That reason is material attachment, such as homosexuality. Even a stronger material attachment then ordinary sex, because that atleast is sanctioned within marriage life and the procreation of children as a vedic samskara which is giving us a space for legitamate sense enjoyment and execution of religious duties within society. Srila Prabhupada criticized the hippies for wasting their life with drugs and sex. Guru is not one who allows us to enjoy as we like, he helps us out of the forest of material enjoyment. Wether you want to take his guidance and surrender to him or not is always up to YOU as individual. But on my channel we discuss on basis of scriptures, not based on our own convictions in what is spiritual and what is matter. We follow a line of disciplic succession that enlighten us on the dilemma we are by having accepted a material body and how we are BEREFT of pure love of God. If you dont like that, we have nothing to discuss.
Hare Krishna Prabhu, i have written an article about that on my facebook page. My FB page is also my personal account so you would have to look for me: Matthias Muralidhara Sonnen. I will delete this comment once you found it so please let me know when you got it.
i deleted the article...to make it short i think it is completly unjustified and from the official letter issued i conclude that the current management involved is not aware of Srila Prabhupadas statements in regards to Vivekananda and Ramakrishna.
Weirdly enough RU-vid did not send any notification for your reply to my comment, hence missed the article😢. Yes exactly, Srila Prabhupada himself said something along the same lines. The thing is ppl are too lazy to look up the facts from history. ISKCON was wrong to ban him and whatever clarification was needed could have been given by him publicly as Amogh Lilaji does usually.
@@AD-cd9ob To be honest i think it is because pious Hindus who admire the teachings of Vivekananda and other teachers (who are non-Vaishnavas) are upset with these statements but they like to support the Hare Krishna movement as another "pious Hindu culture project" and therefore financially support these ISKCON projects quite a lot. I have seen before how when Lakshmi is involved, some like to compromise the truths of Krishna Conciouss philosophy in order to make a nice and easy living from the temple worship. A typical pitfall for aspiring Devotees to get cought up in the affairs of mundane finances... Someone in charge of a ISKCON temple should not cater to doners who will forbid us to speak about the absolute truth. Srila Prabhupada also had few doners who wanted to force him to accept their Mayavadi-Guru as equal with Srila Prabhupada but Prabhupada refused to accept the big house that was offered as a donation by the man because Srila Prabhupada never compromised the truth for material wealth. And even his disciples were loosing their mind because it was like a 1 million dollar donation that could have be used to preach Krishna conciousness - but in a watered down way so Prabhupada refused... What other motive could the leadership have to ban someone instantly instead of talking to him first? This is at best childish, at worst demoniac...
@@journeyofself-discovery-kc1853 There are so many sampradayas and philosophies in India ,who have coexisted with each other and whose views are very different from our Vaishnav Sampraday. After the emergence of social media these differences were unnaturally hyped but trust me in reality no one cares.Swami Vivekananda is from Shakta sampradaya so naturally his thought process would be different from ours. Vaishnavs , even during the time of Mahaprabhu, were persecuted/k*lled by the mughal invaders. Imagine what would be the case had they just been selfish and converted. But they stuck to Krishna and didn't give up. This goes on to show that even though Lakshmi is necessary ,we should not bend to the whims of people/donors who are here to take advantage of the innocent devotees and their practice. As you correctly said although it is necessary to take care of the finances we should not get caught up with just the money aspect of it but look at the bhav of the donor as well
The fact that we are not the Body is THE ultimate truth. If people just understood this concept there wouldn't be so much discord between the LGBTQ+ communities and the rest of the population. I've seen the devotees who are not cis be more calm and patient with these conversations than the non devotees which again proves why having Krishna at the centre of your life helps so much
