This video is about an academic conference at Harvard University, celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.
Thank you. It means a lot hearing it from you. It was a great event, with a lot of love and wisdom involved. We were glad to be able to be there with our camera, capture these moment and share it with you all.
WHAT IS SPECIAL ABOUT BEING A HINDU? By Francois Gautier. Diversity in Divinity and Unity in Spirituality. 1) Believe in God ! - Aastik - Accepted 2) Don't believe in God ! - You're accepted as Nastik 3) You want to worship idols - please go ahead. You are a murti pujak. 4) You dont want to worship idols - no problem. You can focus on Nirguna Brahman. 5) You want to criticise something in our religion. Come forward. We are logical. Nyaya, Tarka etc. are core Hindu schools. 6) You want to accept beliefs as it is. Most welcome. Please go ahead with it. 7) You want to start your journey by reading Bhagvad Gita - Sure ! 8) You want to start your journey by reading Upanishads - Go ahead. 9) You want to start your journey by reading Purana - Be my guest. 10) You just don't like reading Puranas or other books. No problem my dear. Go by Bhakti tradition . ( bhakti- devotion) 11) You don't like idea of Bhakti ! No problem. Do your Karma. Be a karmayogi. 12) You want to enjoy life. Very good. No problem at all. This is Charvaka Philosophy. 13) You want to abstain from all the enjoyment of life & find God - jai ho ! Be a Sadhu, an ascetic ! 14) You don't like the concept of God. You believe in Nature only - Welcome. (Trees are our friends and Prakriti or nature is worthy of worship). 15) You believe in one God or Supreme Energy. Superb! Follow Advaita philosophy 16) You want a Guru. Go ahead. Receive gyaan. 17) You don't want a Guru.. Help yourself ! Meditate, Study ! 18) You believe in Female energy ! Shakti is worshipped. 19) You believe that every human being is equal. Yeah! You're awesome, come on let's celebrate Hinduism! "Vasudhaiva kutumbakam" (the world is a family) 20) You don't have time to celebrate the festival. Don't worry. One more festival is coming! There are multiple festivals every single day of the year. 21) You are a working person. Don't have time for religion. Its okay. You will still be a Hindu. 22) You like to go to temples. Devotion is loved. 23) You don't like to go to temples - no problem. You are still a Hindu! 24) You know that Hinduism ☺ is a way of life, with considerable freedom. 25) You believe that everything has God in it. So you worship your mother, father, guru, tree, River, Prani-matra, Earth, Universe! 26) And If you don't believe that everything has GOD in it - No problems. Respect your viewpoint. 27) "Sarve jana sukhino bhavantu " (May you all live happily) You represent this! You're free to choose, my dear Hindu! This is exactly the essence of Hinduism, all inclusive .. That is why it has withstood the test of time inspite of repeated onslaught both from within and outside, and assimilated every good aspects from everything . That is why it is eternal !!! There is a saying in Rigveda , the first book ever known to mankind which depicts the Hinduism philosophy in a Nutshell -" Ano bhadrah Krathavo Yanthu Vishwathah"- Let the knowledge come to us from every direction "
Hare Krishna, myvery humble submission is..Krishna Consciousness - it is not Indian tradition or culture, it is but universal and belongs to the whole world. Well..it has to start somewhere, where there is more spirituality and purity, that's why the Lord had sent his representative in the form of Srila Prabhupada from India, who belongs to the whole world. The pure form of dressing yourself is not Indian but spiritual. As you become more materialistic, the tradition and culture changes, which has happened in India. We are blessed and truly fortunate to live and witness the Times of the truly direct and pure disciples of His Divine Grace Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada
Extremely critical, important and powerful for both Self-improvement, P.R. and for 'Bridge-Preaching'; as for so long as, we do not succumb to 'Maya's Snare of Self-aggrandizement, or 'Mayaya-Prakrtya-Jnana'= Maya Stealing our intelligence away by illusion'. In short, don't become 'Puffed-Up , or the whole effort and Thing will be for naught, useless and cause a disturbance.
You may acquire audio recordings from Bhaktivedanta Archives. Srila Prabhupada Himself chanting this Mantra~ Govinda Jaya Jaya Gopala Jays Jaya Radha Ramana Hari Govinda Jaya Jaya In 1974 Visnujan Maharaj informed me that Prabhupada told him that this Mantra and PanchTattva Mantra and Hare Krishna Mantra, are the 3 most important Mantras of ISKCON. 🌸👣🌸
I find it strange they hype this gets considering that ISKCON in the West, particularly the USA is irrelevant and dying. Especially when compared to how much it is booming in India. Quite depressing actually. In it quest to become "main stream" ISKCON West didn't notice that only dead fish go with the main stream.
very soon it will be celebrated with a nice split between Indian devotees and Western devotees ..... too many differences starting from women gurus, differences in approach to worship, cultural differences .....
Than Krishna lilla start, did you remember devotees in soviet union being suppress and tortured and whole vaishnava come together to set them free that is krishna lilaa! Yeah Envy in your mind cant see it! Hari bol
Actually prabhuji said it krishna but he said it fastly and the auto caption captured it has Christian movement which is a mistake because they did not write the captions it was RU-vid's algorithm which made a mistake!! Hare krishna
