THE SPIRITUAL WORLD

The Spiritual World, by Javier Figuerola or Haripada dasa
Now I am in Vrindavana, India, the pure devotees of God or Krishna say that the Vrndavana of this material world and the Vrndavana of the spiritual world are made of the same spiritual substance, as the great spiritual master Srila Narottama dasa thakura says that one can see Vrndavana when one is purified of the anxieties and the material desires. There is a Sacred Scripture called Brahma-Samhita and there the spiritual world is described in a very beautiful way: "I adore that transcendental abode known as Goloka Vrndavana, where as loving consorts, the Goddesses of Fortune in their immaculate spiritual essence practice the loving service to the Supreme Lord Krishna, as His only lover, where every tree is a gem of spiritual purposes, there all the water is nectar, every word is a song and every step a dance, the flute is the Lord's favorite assistant Sri Krishna and the effulgence of this place is full of spiritual bliss. There the supreme spiritual entities are all pleasing and enchanting and the innumerable surabhi cows provide oceans of transcendental milk. I adore that abode where transcendental time is always present - without past or future - and therefore, it is not subject to the nature of the extinction even for the lapse of half a moment. To that Kingdom are known as Goloka Vrindavana very few realized souls of this world ".
Our heart is like a television, and there are only two channels, material and spiritual, when we connect with the spiritual channel through chanting Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Hare Hare / Hare Rama, Hare Krishna. Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare (the H is read as J de jota), God or Krishna reveals the spiritual world and His eternal pastimes, and when we connect with the material channel we only see a lot of suffering and everything is temporary.
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HARE KRISHNA...

Hare Krishna .... I have asked that question to many devotees of The Bhagavad Gita, 4, 42 which says that the guru is in disciplic succession from eternal time, I share my personal investigation ...
"In answer to your second question, you must know that Arjuna and Kunti Devi are not in Krishna Loka They are eternally associated with Krishna only in the material world Krishna is always in the spirit world and at the same time He is always in the world Krishna also has eternal partners like Arjuna and Kunti Devi, there is a difference between the body and the soul of Arjuna and Kunti Devi.But while Arjuna is with Krishna in innumerable material universes, but there is only one spiritual soul that is This spiritual soul expands in many different organs and so it can be understood that there are also incarnations of the devotees as well as incarnations of Krishna.This is the spiritual power of the soul, which is unlimited.This concept can not be understood when one is still in the conditioned state. "
 Letter to Saradiya 12 December 1968 Vol. 2 Pag.1261
 This letter of Srila Prabhupada clarifies many things, in Gita 4.42 it is said that a spiritual master is in disciplic succession from eternal time, in that letter of Srila Prabhupada is the answer, I asked that question to a lot of devotees and nobody knew the answer. All the gurus of our guru-parampara are in their spiritual bodies in the spiritual world and are simultaneously simultaneously in the material world preaching the Krishna consciousness, this is inconceivable, but it is true, once a devotee told me that Srila Prabhupada in a dream told him that he was traveling on all the planets preaching Krishna consciousness, and when on a planet devotees are very united, Krishna consciousness expands rapidly, but on this planet Earth, not only devotees are not together, but when there is a pure devotee and has bhakti, instead of rejoicing they envy him, so it takes longer to spread the Krishna consciousness.
In the book entitled Amrita - vani of Srila Prabhupada Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura says: "Only the great personality that has been sent by the Lord from the spiritual world to the material world to save conditioned souls like us, which frees people afflicted by the three types of anguish and sends you back to God, who is dear to the Supreme Lord and who you represent, and who is the herald of the transcendental subject, is able to act as our spiritual master, the first step in the Obtaining perfection is the refuge in a spiritual master, through the grace of the Lord, the person receives a spiritual master according to his personal requirements.But if we have the luck and sincerely seek a genuine spiritual master, and if we pray humbly to the Lord, you obtain the grace of such a guru, then by the grace of God that we come to a guru in good faith in this life, then to take refuge in Him naked This life will be a success, this is affirmed in the CC Madhya (19-151, 22-47) in the Adi (1-44, 1-45, 1-47, 1-58).
 The subject of guru tattva is very profound, all the personalities that make up our guru- parampara are nitya siddhas or liberated souls who were never conditioned souls like us, that is the difference between a guru authorized by God or Krishna, and the many gurus who they are deceiving themselves and othe

Hare Krishna....

Hare Krishna .... in The Bhagavad Gita, 4, 42 at the end of the meaning Srila Prabhupada says that a genuine spiritual master is in disciplic succession from eternal time, and does not depart at all from the instructions of the Supreme Lord, such as they were given millions of years ago to the sun god, from whom the instructions of the Bhagavad-gītā have descended into the earthly kingdom.
Do you know what this means?
Haripada dasa

THE REAL ANTISYSTEM

The real antisystem, by Javier Figuerola or Haripada dasa
Everyone thinks that I am this body and that the goal of life is to satisfy my senses to the fullest, the real anti-system for this is that I am not the body but an eternal spiritual soul, and that the mission of human life is Know God or Krishna and go back to God.
No one believes in God, that is why it is said that the only God who does not have atheists is money, the real anti-system for this is to fulfill the vow of initiate and sing every day at least 27,648 Holy Names of God. This with practice takes an hour and a half to two.
Everybody has sex like dogs, pigs, camels and asses, the real anti-system for this is celibacy, the result of practicing celibacy is that one has a lot of body shine, health, a lot of memory and longevity.
To forget the suffering or to quench sorrows everyone drinks alcohol and drugs, and we are quite intoxicated by being in contact with matter, the real anti-system for this is to take only mineral water.
Everyone covets money and that's why everyone practices gambling, the real anti-system for this is getting used to depend on God, after all everyone has what they deserve.
Almost everyone eats meat, fish and eggs, the real anti-system for this is to have a vegetarian diet, personally I have been using this diet since 1983 and I do not know what it is to be sick, and to spiritualize the food I offer it to God or Krishna in my temple.
After evacuating almost everyone cleans the anus with toilet paper, the real anti-system for this is to clean the anus with water, it is cleaner than the mouth, in India everyone does that.
On politics, I am fully convinced that the basis of material policy is that the members of our political party are our friends and members of the other political parties are our enemies, what is the cause of this philosophy? Ignorance and envy, how is it possible for citizens to derive some benefit from people full of ignorance and envy? If political leaders or state executives are only interested in themselves, they will never be able to look after the welfare of citizens. In Srimad Bhagavatam, 2, 3, 19 defines these politicians as donkeys, the atheistic and materialistic politician becomes entangled in many illusory occupations to elevate the position of others, as leader of political emancipation and economic development. There is nothing wrong with trying to achieve political emancipation or economic development, but one should not forget the true purpose of life, all those philanthropic activities must be coupled for return to God. It is also said in The Srimad Bhagavatam that one who is not a pure devotee of God can not have good qualities. Srila Prabhupada always said that those who fear these infernal politicians take refuge in the process of Krishna consciousness. Another point that we have to understand is that to know and love God the person must be pure and sinless, sinful people only understand that suffering is happiness.
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THE ISKCON AS IT IS

The Iskcon as it is, by Haripada dasa
The Iskcon as it is consists of people who with much enthusiasm and determination have decided to put their words, actions and thoughts to please Srila Prabhupada. They have full faith and are very convinced that if they please Srila Prabhupada, then Krishna will be pleased with them, and their return home, their return to God is more than guaranteed.
THE SLOGANS OF ISKCON AS IS AS WE ARE: WE WANT TO NECTAR, THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE, IT WILL ALWAYS BE BETTER TO PRAY THAT TO CRITICIZE, THE ONLY WAY TO ELIMINATE THE MALDAD IN PERSONAL AND COLLECTIVE LEVEL, IS THROUGH GOODNESS, THAT DOES NOT LIVE TO SERVE, IT DOES NOT SERVE TO LIVE AND PEACE AND WELL. MALDAD WILL WIN AS THE GOOD PEOPLE DO NOT DO ANYTHING TO PREVENT IT.
To Iskcon as it is he does not like to criticize anyone, in relation to this, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Maharaja Prabhupada, said: "That others do what they want, it does not concern me, I already have much work purifying my damned mind". The Bhakti plant feeds on NECAR, not on rare stories, gossip, etc. We have very definite spiritual ideals, try to follow all the instructions given in the books by Srila Prabhupada, and we help others to do the same, in doing this we live with Srila Prabhupada and acquire his qualities. Our LOVE and SERVICE is for Srila Prabhupada, and we have full faith that Srila Prabhupada is the person who will take us back home, back to Krishna.
The Iskcon as it is is nourished spiritually with these 6 transcendental activities:
1.- Offer gifts as charity, 2.- Accept charitable gifts, 3.- Reveal the mind confidentially, 4.- Ask confidentially, 5.- Accept prasada and 6.- Offer prasada.
The 10 philosophical points that the Iskcon accepts as it is are:
1.- We are not interested in the opinions of an ordinary person, ordinary people have four types of defects, the first defect is that it tends to make mistakes, another defect is to be in illusion, the third defect is the propensity to deceive and finally Our senses are imperfect. Any opinion other than revealed truth is devoid of any value, revealed truth means, truth, or writing that comes from a reliable source, the chain of disciplic succession formed by genuine spiritual masters is the reliable source; Since these people are self-realized and pure souls, and are free from the four defects mentioned above.
2. God or Krishna, the beautiful reality, is the source of everything.
3. God or Krishna, the Supreme Being, is the master of all powers and energies.
4. God or Krishna, is the ocean and the personification of all spiritual mellows; There are five kinds of transcendental mellows, one is the passive melosity, the other is the mellow of service, the third mellow is that of friendship, the fourth is the parental and maternal mellows and the last mellow is the conjugal.
5. The spiritual soul, that is, we are not a direct part of God or Krishna, but separate parts of the Supreme Lord. Spiritual souls are the innumerable living entities, all infinitesimal spiritual sparks. Spiritual souls are of two kinds: a) Eternally conditioned and b) Eternally liberated, they populate both the material and spiritual planets.
6. The sixth teaching notes how the conditioned spiritual soul falls in love with the dazzling illusory power of ignorance. She has forgotten God or Krishna and remains eternally bound in this phenomenal world, enjoying material existence.
7. The eternally liberated souls are eternal associates of God or Krishna, they reside in the spiritual world and enjoy spiritual loving relationships with God or Krishna, the source of all pleasure.
8. Everything material or spiritual comes from God or Krishna. Spiritual souls and matter, both are transformations of the energy of God or Krishna. Everything is part of God or Krishna and has something in common with Him and something different from Him. This is inconceivable.
9. The only way to attain pure devotion to God or Krishna is devotional service. The nine members of devotional service are: 1) Listen to the name and glories of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. 2) Sing your glories. 3) Remember the Lord. 4) Serve at the Lord's feet. 5) Worship the deity of the Lord. 6) Offer obeisances to the Lord. 7) Act as a servant of the Lord. 8) Make friends with the Lord and 9) Deliver completely to the Lord. The chanting of the Holy Name is the most important devotional activity. The sacred writings have many volumes that describe the glories of the Holy Name.
10. The tenth teaching gives us the understanding that the supreme goal of life is DIVINE LOVE, pure love for GOD or KRISHNA. Sometimes people complain that there is a lot of crisis and I tell them that the only crisis there is is LOVE FOR GOD, and people say, "You are absolutely right."
The authoritative source of these ten philosophical points have been extracted from the Hari Nama Chintamani of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura.
Everyone is welcome to the Iskcon as it is, only the insane and the lazy have no place (a madman is a person who does not believe in God and a lazy person is a person who does not like to cook). Here there is no place for opportunists or to climb posts, here we are all friends and humble servants of one another, we are all friends and spiritual brothers and sisters, and the one who has the most capacity to serve we accept as a natural leader. Here they all sing their 16 rounds without offenses of the Maha Mantra Hare Krishna, they all follow the 4 regulative principles very strictly, they all sing the three gayatris daily, they all follow the Ekadasis, the Chaturmasya, Kartika Vrata, the appearances and disappearances of the Supreme Lord and Their devotees, all avoid the bad association and are always happy and eager to associate with the serious and sincere devotees of Srila Prabhupada, always carry the tilaka marks on their body, always have Srila Prabhupada in the center of their lives and help The people to put Srila Prabhupada at the center of their lives and every day read in the morning and at night the books of Srila Prabhupada, they only eat Krishna prasada, food offered to Srila Prabhupada, Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu and Sri Krishna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead. Here everyone obeys the instructions given by Srila Prabhupada in his books on how we should use our earned wealth VERY ARDUALLY, Srila Prabhupada sets the example of Srila Rupa Goswami, when he withdrew from service to the Muslim government and surrendered to the lotus feet of Sri Gauranga Mahaprabhu divided his wealth into three parts.1-50 percent gave it to the Brahmanas and Vaisnavas, 25 percent to their relatives and the other 25 percent to personal emergencies, by practicing this creates a transcendental atmosphere and Selfishness is destroyed. Here nobody speculates, we understand and accept that a person is speculating, when he does things in a capricious way without leaning on GURU, SADHU and SASTRA. In the Iskcon as it is only the original books of Srila Prabhupada are used, we are totally against all the changes that have made to the original books of Srila Prabhupada.
In the Iskcon as it is we have full faith that Srila Prabhupada is the way, the truth and the life, and if someone goes back home to God or Krishna, it is by the mercy of Srila Prabhupada.
May the Jagat-guru, the Savior of the Fallen, Saktyavesa Avatara, MOR SENA PATI, THE COMMANDER IN BOSS OF THE SPIRITUAL FORCES OF SRI GAURANGA MAHAPRABHU, HIS DIVINE GRACE ABHAY CHARANARAVINDA BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRABHUPADA bless and protect you all.
OM TAT SAT 

Vedic Explanation of Solar/ Lunar Eclipses

23. AUGUST 2017 BY PRABHUPADA NEWS16 COMMENTS

“It appears from these verses that aside from the sun and moon,
there is an invisible planet called Rāhu. The movements of Rāhu
cause both solar and lunar eclipses“

Solar Eclipses are NOT Caused by the Moon

On solar/ lunar eclipses what people usuly do, including the so called scientists, is look up in the sky and see what is happening there, but they have no idea how the things are actually working. What they do is they make a speculative theory and test the theory with what they observe and if the theory predicts what they observe they accept that theory and gradually they forget it is just a theory and start stating it as a fact.

That solar eclipses are caused by the moon (or shadow) coming in front of the sun is nothing but a speculative theory only. So called scientists do not know this for a fact. They just presume this is what is happening. And in this case their speculative theory does seem to be be a good possible explanation of what is happening.

But they have no actual information. All they can see is something like a dark planet coming in front of the sun, they presume it is the moon or the shadow. But it can not be the moon if it is dark since the moon has light and illumination. If it is the moon it will be like in a spotlight of reflection from the earth, so it will be illuminated and all the features of the moon will be clearly visible at the time of the eclipse.

So you can test it yourself on the 21st. Observe the eclipse, if during totality all the features of the moon are clearly visible then this is compatible with the theory that the moon is coming in front of the sun, however if the sun just goes dark then it can not be the moon coming in front of the sun. So observe yourself, if the moon is dark during the eclipse then you have proved that all the scientists in the world are totally wrong about the cause of solar eclipses. This is the scientific process, test the theory and if it fails reject the theory and find a new theory.

In USA (from my location in the Pacific Northwest of USA) millions of foolish people will  gaze thru their “special glasses” at the solar eclipse. In some towns people are driving in from thouands of miles away just to view this “event”. They want to have a party while the sun is eclipsed by Rahu the demon who had his head cut off by Lord Vishnu.

Even with ordinary common sense, if the suns rays, which gives life to the entire solar system is being blocked, one should think-how can this be good?? But because these foolish people are being guided by equally or more ignorant people (the so called scientists) their misfortune only increases. And worse still here in the USA  President Trump has his ascendent (rising degree) fall on the solar eclipse date. Here below is what one professional  devotee astrologer has to say:

“…Yes, the August 20-21 date coincides with the total solar eclipse that falls exactly on the ascendant (rising degree) of Trump’s chart. Already his entire administration is unraveling, yet the impact of the eclipse will be severe on him and he may have some kind of health crisis, or at least a complete and thorough meltdown of his presidency.  This isn’t something that happens very often, and in fact this is the only time it will ever happen in Trump’s life. By the end of the year, he may not be president anymore. It is said that the chart of the President, is a proxy for all the people of the country. So whatever happens to him, will have far-reaching negative outcomes on people in general. I see this happening anytime from Monday the 21st, and up to the following 6 months. ..”

PURPORT–According to the Jyotir-veda,(vedic astrology) the Rāhu planet comes in front of the full moon, and thus a lunar eclipse takes place. It is customary in India that all the followers of the Vedic scriptures bathe in the Ganges or the sea as soon as there is a lunar or solar eclipse. All strict followers of Vedic religion stand up in the water throughout the whole period of the eclipse and chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra. At the time of the birth of Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu such a lunar eclipse took place, and naturally all the people standing in the water were chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. (CC/adi/13/92)

According to Vedic Astronomy, the most ancient and accurate system of astronomy on the planet, solar eclipses are not caused by the Moon coming in front of the Sun as astronomers believe. Rather the Moon is described as being further away than the Sun and what happens at the time of a solar eclipse is the Moon goes behind the Sun and a dark planet called Rahu comes between the Sun and the Earth. Considering this, Rāhu, the black planet, covered the full moon, and immediately vibrations of “Kṛṣṇa! Kṛṣṇa! Hari!” inundated the three worlds.

RAHU – KETU

BLESSINGS

Blessings, by Javier Figuerola or Haripada dasa
In relation to the blessings, Srila Prabhupada always told a very interesting story, once a Spiritual Master walked with his disciples, and in the course of the walk gave different blessings to several people, first they met with a King, and the Master Spiritual told him that I bless you to live, but do not die .... later on they met a butcher, and the Spiritual Master told him that I bless you not to live and not to die .... Then they met with a Pure devotee of God or Krishna and the Spiritual Master told you that you are the same as living and dying, hearing these blessings the disciples did not understand them and told the Spiritual Master to please explain the blessings and the Spiritual Master said That the King lives but does not die means that now that he is King, the opulence that God has given him instead of using it to serve God and His devotees, is using it for his gratification of his For that reason, live, but do not die because when you die you will have to spend a lot of time in hell, then the butcher you do not live or die, it means that this person his life is a hell, always cutting meat, his Hands full of blood, and when I die more hell, and the pure devotee of God or Krishna I said that you are the same as living and that you die, because living you are living with God or Krishna always, and when you die you will continue to live with God or Krishna And His devotees in the spirit world. A great Spiritual Master always said that he wrongly says that the devotees of God or Krishna die, they die to live, and living are always expanding the glories of God or Krishna and His devotees.
Nowadays there is no interest in knowing God and loving Him, people have very few reserves of pious activities from their past lives, from the time they get up until they go to bed they only do sinful activities, so their brain is full of cow droppings, Do not understand the simplest truths of life, there is only gratification of the senses, a demonic principle, the symptom that one has an interest in spiritual life is that he asks spiritual questions, for example what and who am I, why I do not want Suffer and suffer, what and who is God, how can I purify my existence, what awaits me after death, etc., when a person asks himself these questions he is said to be conscious of God, the problem is pride, one thinks I know everything, nobody is above me, I am the maximum, because of his pride that person will never learn from anyone, only the humble person learns from everyone.
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