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Devotional service to Lord Krishna under the guidance of the great Acaryas has no karma. In fact, according to Brahma-samhita, it burns our previous karma. -H.D.Goswami

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Parents have the power to lock up their children in a dark room so that they don’t get into trouble. But such treatment is incompatible with love. The argument below is based on the false assumption that one who has the power to do so should always prevent the suffering of others. The obvious exception is that one who has the power to prevent another’s suffering should not do so when to prevent it would cause even greater suffering. Clearly enslaving the soul, or destroying the soul’s free will is a greater evil. Parents can prevent their children from misbehaving by placing them in a permanent coma. But that is not love. -H.D.Goswami

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LIVE today from the Holmby Park in Los Angeles, CA 90024. Come by if you are around!
SBh 1.3.25
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Shastra, Prabhupada, and Vedic history support the notion that qualified souls in female bodies can be gurus. If ISKCON does not allow this, we have basically no chance to be successful in our Western mission. -H.D.Goswami

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TODAY H.D.Goswami LIVE on Facebook - Depression and Suicide, at 1pm PDT/4pm EST (in 10 minutes)

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To me, the Ajamila story illustrates Bg 2.40, nehabhikrama-naso’sti… "There is no loss or diminution, and even very little of this dharma saves one from the great danger.” In his youth, Ajamila EARNED a good level of Krishna consciousness, and by the mercy of the Lord and His dutas, Ajamila remembered and continued on his path.
Consider this: if we claim that one can ignore the literal meaning of Shastra, i.e. the normal dictionary meaning of Sanskrit words, then we are truly opening Pandora’s box. What will you say to the impersonalists when they claim that the ‘real meaning’ of the Gita is impersonal? All you can say is, “Prabhupada is a pure devotee.” They will reply, “our guru is a pure soul who knows the real esoteric meaning of the Gita.”
At that point, we have reduced a spiritual science to a faith-based tradition. We have effectively destroyed what Prabhupada constantly insisted was the distinguishing feature of our tradition — it is based on Shastra not merely on faith or assertion. In fact, Prabhupada gave the Sanskrit for each verse precisely so that our teaching would be authoritative.
Again, how can a devotee contradict the Gita. Krishna repeatedly states that He and we must be equal to all souls, that He does not favor anyone. Not a blade of grass moves without Krishna’s will and if an Acarya “happens to” bless one soul, how can another equally deserving, or equally undeserving soul go to hell? Twice in the Gita, Krishna states that He is the father of all beings, and Arjuna states it once. How can a decent parent severely punish one child and greatly reward another when their behavior is the same. The father would be a terrible, unqualified parent. As one philosopher put it, “How can I worship a God who is morally inferior to a good human being.” We can neither explain nor understand how a fair, loving parent, who emphasizes his fairness, gives the highest reward to one child, and terrible punishment to another, when the two children are equally deserving.
Prabhupada insisted that we combine religion with philosophy. I am trying to follow that instruction. -H.D.Goswami

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I accept that contact with Hari-nama, prasadam etc can have a powerful effect. But the Bhagavatam explains in the Ajamila story that this effect is in proportion to the previous merit, i.e. nehabhikrama-naso ‘sti. In the Gita 6.44, Krishna explains that when one is spontaneously drawn to Krishna consciousness, it is the result of a ‘previous understanding’ from a past life, and it is caused ‘by that alone,’ Sanskrit: tenaiva. Krishna also says in Bg 17.28 that any religious activity has little effect ‘in this life or the next’ if the performer does not really believe in what he or she is doing. -H.D.Goswami

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Every bogus guru claims to be an independent authority without Shastra. Prabhupada never made such a foolish claim. In fact, he repeatedly insisted that his authority came from repeating shastra. -H.D.Goswami

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Personally, I take seriously the verse that Lord Caitanya strongly emphasized: harer nama harer etc. I do not believe that we can magically skip the real process of surrender. Just by bathing here or there, without real surrender, one cannot return to Krishna. And in this age, we especially surrender to pure chanting of the Lord’s name. That’s what Prabhupada emphasized. -H.D.Goswami

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The problem is not Krishna nor the material world. The problem is that we try to exploit the material world. A bank robber cannot blame the bank. -H.D.Goswami

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Beware of time change ⏰ for the weekly Sunday’s SBh lectures 📹 LIVE: Srimad-Bhagavatam Canto 1, Chapter 3, Verse 21
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As one of the most senior and respected spiritual leaders of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), Hridayananda das Goswami (Howard J. Resnick, Ph.D.) is an early pioneer and renowned teacher of bhakti yoga in the Western world. At the forefront of contemporary religious dialogue, he is celebrated for his unique ability to adapt the wisdom of ancient Indian philosophy into teachings that are comprehensible for Western audiences.

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