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VICARU DAS
BHAKTIVEDANTA MANOR
ISKCON UK

Krishna who accepts the results of all sacrifices was laughing and joking enjoying lunch with his friends in Vrndavana and thus the scene was being observed by the demigods from heaven.
At that time the calves that were pasturing nearby entered into the deep forest allured by new green grasses and gradually went out of sight; when the boys saw that the calves were not nearby they became afraid for their safety and they immediately cried out, “Krsna!”. Krsna did not want his friends to give up their pleasing lunch engagement and go searching for the calves he therefore said, “my dear friends, you need not interrupt your lunch go on enjoying. I am going personally to find the calves.” Krsna still carrying the lump of yogurt and rice in his left hand and started to search for calves looking in the bushes, caves, mountain holes and forests but nowhere could he find them.
When the Aghasura demon was killed by Krsna at that time the demigods were looking on the incident with great surprise also at that time Brahmaji also came to see the episode of killing Aghasura; he was very much surprised that how a little boy Krsna could act so wonderfully. Although he was informed that Krsna is the supreme person Bramaji wanted to see more of the Lords glorious pastimes and thus he stole all the calves first and when Krsna return to the spot of lunch taking place all the cowherd boy friends were gone. Krsna (the Supreme Personality Of Godhead) immediately understand that its the activity of Brahma who had stole them. Than Krsna thought Brahma has taken all the boys and the calves how can I alone return to Vrndavana, the mothers will be aggrieved. Therefore in order to satisfy the mothers of his friends as well as to convince Brahma of his position, Krsna immediately expanded himself as the cowherd boys and calves in same numbers as they were before. He expanded in different features, facial and bodily constructions, clothing, behaviour,and personal activities, and he also expanded to the same amount of calves, he became those lost cows also in different sizes, colours and activities.
So surrounded by such expansions of himself Krsna entered the village of Vrndavana were the residents had no knowledge of what had happened, so now all the calves and cowherd boys were Krsna himself and so at this time every single mothers and fathers of cowherd boys were experiencing same bliss and happiness with their children as they experience with Krsna alone; and same thing happened to all the mother cows too.
After one year passed which is but one moment in the time of Brahmas returning to see the fun that let me go and see how Krsna is doing without his calves and cowherds friends. There Brahma saw that all the calves and cowherd friends of Krsna were playing with Krishna in the same way as before although he was confident that he had taken them and made them lie down asleep under the spell of his mystic power. Brahma began to think I took them away and I know they are still sleeping how is it that a similar batch of boys and calves are playing with Krsna; Are they not influenced by my mystic power, have they being playing for one year with Krsna. He could not ascertain it so he himself came under the spell of his own mystic power.
In order to convince Brahma that all those calves and boys are not the original ones the calves and boys who were playing with Krishna transformed into Visnu forms as the original ones were sleeping under the spell of Brahmas mystic power, and the present ones seen by Brahma were all immediate expansions of Krsna or Visnu.
After one year later when Brahma comes to see the situation of Krishna and when he saw another batch of calves and cowherd boys who were expansion of Krsna himself at this time Krsna performed another pastimes according to the acarya’s “that Krsna asked Nanda Baba and mother Yasoda that this is the best time for all the little gopas who were Krsna to merry with little gopis and they did” so on the one side Krishna bewilders Brahma by expanding into so many calves and cowherd boys and on the other side he Answers to all the humans who criticise Krishna that “How can Krsna the god can enjoy with unmarried gopis” No? he already merry them when he expanded into so many gopas in Brahmas stealing programme. As mentioned the gopis who were married who were engage in cooking for their husband as soon as they hear the sound of the flute of Krishna they immediately leave them behind and ran to be with Krishna even the children and their husbands and older family members they do not care [bhakti pareshan bhava virakthi anyatraca]; If a person develops bhava bhakti he unvisions the material cares and when in this situation they all ran for Krsna after hearing the flute due to high esteemed love each gopis began to think that Krsna is only with me, at that point Krsna to break down their pride he disappeared from them,.[KRSNA IS MOST RE-NOUNCED] although he remains in the midst of all opulence but in a moment he can be disappeared and remain renounced.
Krsna is most beautiful [Venum kuantam aravindam-dalayatak-sam--barhavatasam asitambuda-sundarangam--kandarpa-koti -kaminiya-visesa -sobham-govindam adi- purusham tam-ham bhajami] His sobha was so eminent [FAMOUS] that every living being got attracted and millions of cupid just admire Krsna’s beauty. The situation became so serious that all the gopis began complaining to brahma that why did you made our blinking eye, because even one fraction of time we cannot bare our sight to Krsna the blinking of our eyes hinders seeing Krsna. Srila Prabhupada explains that Srila Rupa Goswami says that if anyone is attached to their family, wealth, business or land, than please do not go to the bank of river Yamuna to have a darshan of SHYAMSUNDAR/ But if you do so than you’ll forget all your temporary unreal wealth. Somehow coming to Krishna Consciousness if complain appears in the mind that I will not be very serious for Krsna because if I do so than what will happen to my material wealth, family,friends and so on.
[AREE BABA] Ananyas cintayanto mam ,ye janah paryupasate-tesam niyabhiyuktanam, yoga-ksemam vahamy aham. Those who always worship me with exclusive devotion, meditating on my transcendental form- to them I carry what they lack, and I preserve what they have. Krsna, means, everything or anything you need or you have it which is conducive to devotional practice, I will supply you, what else do you need? A vedic mantra [YAT VISVATI SRUTIN UTTEDAM ALAM PUNATI] that through the veda shastras the fame of Sri Krishna purifies the whole universe and his pastimes are those who makes the impossible into possible.
Once, mother Devaki when her six young infant were killed by Kamsa, who were those children? In previous life in different yugas whenever Krsna appears; in one day of Brahma Krsna comes ones and these children ones they came they were the sons of [Marichi] and when second time they came as the sons of [Kalenemi] But, when they the sons of Marichi in previous lives ,When [Raja] the king Svambhumanu was ruling the kingdom. At that time this Prajapati marichi gave birth to six children so these six children were the demigods and their mother was [Purna devi] the mother of these demigods. But in one birth they were [Demons]. When Brahma was creating this universe and gave birth to every living being he is considered the father of everyone, But being a father of everyone Once when he didn’t hear the whole Bhagavat Katha of the lord at that time Brahma became bewildered by maya and he saw his own daughter in a wrong way, so at that time these six demigods criticized and laughed at Brahma and they commented that look at this Brahma the creator and the biggest demigod caught up in this kind of bad thoughts towards her own daughter. So in the Gita it explains that [Api-cet su -duracaro,bhajate mam ananya-bhak-sadhur eva sa mantavyah-samyag vyavasito hi sah] Even one commits the most abominable action if he is engaged in devotional service he is to be considered saintly, so due to their offence to Brahma who is the top most demigods. Even the demigods sometimes do mistakes and if they repent and improve their mistakes and if someone’s still criticize them that’s a [Sadhu Ninda] and its a great offence, so due to offending Brahmaji they were being [Cursed] That in next life they will take birth through the womb of mother Devaki and will be killed by Kamsa one by one………..

“Hare Krishna”
Dear readers there will be more and more descriptions of Krsna’s opulence and pastimes coming soon
Thank You
yours in service of ISKCON
VICARU DAS

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VICARU DAS
BHAKTIVEDANTA MANOR
ISKCON UK

The supreme person Sri Krishna is the most wealthiest, famous, beautiful, powerful, knowledgeable and renounced everything is practically coming from him; the entire creation is made possible by his will.
And after being the creator of everything he still is very renounced and detached; if someone in this world is the most wealthiest he becomes very proud of his wealth, or if someone is very knowledgeable he becomes very proud of his limited knowledge.
But Krishna is the master of all the opulence and even he is not bothered rather he finds enjoyment in playing with his playmates “running behind the cows of Vrndavana, rolling in the dust of Vrndavana and decorating his butter like soft [divya] body with leaves and flowers of Vrndavana, and always asking Nanda Maharaj and Mother Yasoda that please tell me who created that [forest] that [hill] that [river] this [land] that high [sky] please, baba tell me please tell me” he bewilders every one including the demigods! and running around and asking questions from his parents surprise.

Every Vrajvasi wanted to be with Krsna they loved Krishna with heart and soul and amongst these Vrajvasis there were so many gopis who were most surrendered to Sri Krishna. And now Krishna is giving his answer to those people who underestimated Krishna’s adhbhuda lila that how come Krsna can enjoy with anyone specially his pastimes with vraj gopis so the Acarya’s gave the good answer in the Bhagavat Purana.
That one day brahma ji was bewildered he thought that let me test that this small child Krsna is really a god, so one day Krsna and other cowherd boys went to the forest to tend the cows and play around in the grazing field; actually this day Balarama stayed behind he didn’t go with the boys but the cows [gvalbal] and Krsna went, when they arrived to the spot at that time Chatur Mukhi Brahma appeared on the scene!

So brahma had a plan he decided to steal Krishna’s cowherd friends and cows! but before that readers let me explain what actually Krishna said his friends, The Lord brought his friends to the bank of the Yamuna and addressed them as follows “My dear friends, just see how this spot is very nice for taking lunch and playing on the soft, Yamuna bank. You can see how the lotus flowers in the water are beautifully blown and how they distribute their fragrance all around. The chirping of the birds along with cooing of the peacocks, surrounded by the whispering of the leaves in the trees, combine and present sound vibrations that echo one another. And this just enriches the beautiful scenery created by the trees here let us have our lunch in this spot because it is already late and we are feeling hungry; let the calves remain near us and let them drink water from the Yamuna. While we engage in our lunch-taking the calves may engage in eating the soft grasses that are in this spot.”

On hearing this proposal from Krsna all the boys became very glad and said, “Certainly, let us all sit down here to take our lunch” They then let loose the calves to eat the soft grass sitting down on the ground and keeping Kristina in centre they began to open their lunch boxes brought from home. Lord Sri Krishna was seated in the centre of the circle and all the boys kept their faces toward Krishna they ate and constantly enjoyed seeing the lord face to face. Krsna appeared to be the whorl of a lotus flower and the boys surrounding him appeared to be its different petals. The boys collected flowers, leaves of the flowers and the bark of the trees and placed their lunch boxes on them as well as in their boxes, thus they began to eat there lunch,each boy began to manifest different kinds of relations with Krsna and they enjoyed each other’s company with joking words.
While Krsna was thus enjoying lunch with his friends, his flute was pushed within the belt of his cloth on his right side and his bugle and cane were pushed in on the left hand side of his cloth, he was holding a lump of food prepared with yogurt, butter, rice and pieces of fruit salad which could be seen through his petal like finger joints…

Krishna’s cowherd pastimes will be coming more with Brahmaji stealing the calves and friends.

thank you for reading
Hare Krsna
Yours Vicaru Dasa

safeguarding and emotional strain

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Over the past few weeks I have been in a number of safeguarding meetings which personally I find an emotional strain especially realizing that the outcome of the meeting can and will have an impact not only on individuals but also there families.

For those outside of health care and social services her in the UK the term safeguarding would mean very little; it is were a multi-disciplinary team of social-worker, benefit agency, legal experts and health care professionals.

Reflecting on the meetings it is always of interest that within ISKCON or the wider devotee community there is a belief that in cases of abuse and neglect that the perpetrator should be swiftly dealt with, the law would act swiftly, and any delay is neglectful or that there is a wide old boys club protecting the individual involved.

However things are not always that clear cut, there can be a suspicion but little evidence, or some evidence but not enough for a criminal conviction which leads to frustration and so it can take months if not years before enough evidence to act upon is gained; for without sufficient evidence the case will be dismissed and it can be years before another case can be brought.

But with little understanding of the legal process and the difficulty in gaining evidence in abuse cases that can be used for a legally conviction sadly mistakes can be made and any evidence gained made unusable in court; so good intentions and what would have been good evidence is destroyed.

Another thing that is explored in the safeguarding meetings is our legal standpoint when looking at evidence and also plans of action so that the risks of comeback or legal challenges against any actions taken are minimized; or if outcomes are challenged by those within the family or abuser there is safe legal grounds and justification for our actions.

Although at times I have suggested before banning individuals from ISKCON temples legal advice is sought, especially when legal cases against individuals has been dropped due to lack of sufficient evidence this has been ignored; even though a legal challenge can be mounted for deformation of character and an unsubstantiated ban.

In some ways I understand the difficulty, as in the safeguarding meetings, do nothing or appear to do nothing then criticizing; move quickly on flimsy evidence or suspicion then criticizing; a lose lose situation. But you have to be seen as doing something and the wider community has in many ways to come first in any decision making. And some times all that can be done is a more robust surveillance and monitoring of the individuals concerned.

Which brings me to something I have written about before in dealing with these sorts of situations; were there is little or no evidence to secure a criminal conviction; or a suspicion that an individual may be a risk to an individual or wider community within ISKCON when it comes to temple/centre sites: Supervised and agreed visits, you may come and visit/do service at these times and remain under the care of ? During the visit with the following restrictions (be it contact with family members/children act).

OK I can already hear the cry, why should we and also we don’t have the devotees; ban the nasty person, throw them in jail give them everything they deserve.

But I am also aware that we are meant to have compassion, that we have a responsibility for pastoral care, and that we are a spiritual group of individuals with many faults of our own and I’m sure I’ve probably done enough to warrant a life time ban (although at this point I must confess to being banned still from an ISKCON centre fro more than five years); which brings me to a point.

Although some had there suspicions about me (and no doubt some still do) I was given a chance at the temple I’ve been attending ever since and over the years I’ve learnt so much and made some progress along the spiritual path; it was this chance that opened up service opportunities and gave me a sense of belonging and determination to become a better individual. The temple I attend could have just said your banned from there so go from here and as was pointed out some months ago when I suggested legal advice be taken before instigating a ban “we have the right to refuse entrance to anyone”

So I have difficult meeting to attend and have some difficult conversations to have which may mean family members giving permission or evidence so that criminal proceedings can be pursued; I will be deeply unpopular with some and a hero to very few and in a position were I cannot talk to even my own Guru Maharaja of the difficulty experienced. But in order to protect those most venerable in our society it’s a course that has to be undertaken, some will find fault in how long things are taking whilst the abuser gets away with it, some will find fault that immediate action is not taken, some will find fault that there is no criminal conviction even after all of it. Some will point directly at me and ridicule, some will threaten harm or revenge. But I have to work within the restraints of a legal framework which means suspicions or hear say si not enough so we start on along journey.

So for those who find fault within ISKCON and it’s management on it’s apparent dragging of heals on protection issues, just ponder one thought; thank Krishna it’s not you who have to deal with these abuse cases for they are never clear cut and the legal constraints may make it appear to others you are doing very little.

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VICARU DAS
BHAKTIVEDANTA MANOR
UK

Lord Brahma is coming at this point to meet the Lord in Dwarka and after the gatekeeper bring back the message from Krishna as Krsna had enquired that please ask brahmaji which brahma is he? Brahma explained to the gatekeeper that tell Krsna that I am the chatur mukh brahma, the father of the four kumaras, ‘chatur sanah,.sanat, sanandan sanatkumar’

When Krsna got the message and letting brahma in this Brahma the creator of shrishti, goes inside and he asked krishna: “one thing I cannot understand that for time being for whatever reason I came here and leave that aside; now there is a doubt in my mind that as soon as I arrived at the gate you asked that which brahma am I?” Krishna answered “Oh, yes brahmaji there are many many more Brahma’s not only you?” Brahma bewilder said “I thought only I am one brahma that’s it is there any more than me?”. Than Krishna begin to call all the brahmas from different universes and one by one millions of brahma’s arrived there.

In one universe there is one Brahma so billions of universes billions of Brahmas the different is that there are Brahmas from other universes they have huge forms with so many heads, some have ten heads, some have hundred heads, some with thousand heads, [All this brahmas landed before Krishna and our four headed brahma]. And in comparison to all this huge Brahmas with so many heads our little Brahma looks like the size of a mosquito. Brahma was thinking that I am only one creator; instead so many Brahmas came down from their destination to bow down to Krishna and they ask Krishna “my Lord is there some reason you invited all of us here today?”; not only that but Krsna invited many more demigods as well there.

Brahma said to Krishna “My Lord I am lost I have no idea I’ll never can measure your potencies and your opulence its beyond my understanding it is inconceivable and I am bewildered, totally bewildered please forgive me”. Than Krishna explained to Brahma “do not worry all these Brahma’s which you see there universe is much much bigger than yours this universe which is your in charge is only four billion miles diameter, and there universes is much much more bigger diameter than yours they are gigantic” Krsna said to Brahma “and all of them they are working under my direction so just to show you my opulence I invited them here”.

Krsna continued not only this, this is nothing there are unlimited spiritual universes beyond this which is three times more than material creation where my different forms are residing in those spiritual universes. Imagine Krishna the son of Mother Yashoda he is the proprietor of unlimited material and spiritual creation. And now the [gjana] the knowledge of Krishna the most knowledgeable this is another great opulence; the Lord came in many incarnation many times, and all the time he left behind different teachings amongst us and they performed some lilas but Sri Krishna when he came he gave us the most prominent knowledge of Bhagavat Gita and Bhagavat Puran and explained about himself and his pure devotees in these books and how to achieve the ultimate destination.

And this knowledge of Gita the saints and scholars they try to understand till there death and Krishna himself explains in the Gita that what is the essence of all knowledge and [bahunam janma nam ante gyanvan mam prapadyate vasudeva savam iti sa mahatma su durlabha after many many births some rare mahatma understands that only vasudevam is the saar the conclusion of all knowledge.than [sarvasya caham hrdi sannvistho mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam ca vedais ca sarvair aham eva vedyo =vedanta-krd veda-vid eva caham] I am seated in everyone’s heart and from me come remembrance, knowledge, and forgetfulness. By all the vedas, I am to be known indeed, I am the compiler of vedanta, and I am the knower of the vedas.

And in the beginning of Srimad Bhagavatam Krishna said [tena brahma hridae adi kavwe ]that I imparted this knowledge to brahma through my [murli] the sound of murli entered in brahmas ears and gayitri mantra came out from his mouth. Not only that but kama gayitri, gopal gayitri, all these different knowledge of the lord was contained in the mantras he is the source of all the knowledge. and the knowledge of Bhagavat Gita was given million years ago by supreme Krsna.

 Now the next opulence is [Tyag] renunciation how Krishna showed the quality of renunciation we”ll read in next page coming soon

Again with Many Thanks
yours humbly
Vicaru Das UK.

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VICARU DAS
BHAKTIVEDANTA MANOR
UK.

Krishna by his mystic power, he transferred the residents of Mathura to Dwarka just in one night and if you study the description of that Dwarka city how it was built was beyond any human abilities. There were big gardens and parks full of various flowers of different colours and also orchards overloaded with variety of fruits; beautiful birds were chirping, and peacocks crowed delightfully. There were ponds full of blue and red lotus flowers and some of these ponds were filled with varieties of lilies. The lakes were full of nice swans and cranes,and the voices of these birds resounded everywhere.

In the city there were as many as 900,000 great palaces built of first- class marble with gates and doors made of silver; the pillars of the houses and palaces were bedecked with jewels such as touchstone, sapphire and emerald whilst the floors gave off a beautiful lustre. The highways, lanes, streets, crossings and marketplaces were all beautifully decorated; and the whole city was full of residential homes, assembly houses and temples, all of different architectural beauty.

All of this made Dwarka a glowing city, the big avenues, crossings, lanes and streets, and also the thresholds of every residential house were very clean and at both sides of every path there were bushes, and at regular intervals there were large trees that shaded the avenues so that the sunshine would not bother the passers-by. There were more than 16,000 residential quarters,Great Kings and Princes of the world used to visit these palaces just to worship Dwarkadheesh Krishna. The palaces were very tall and the top part of the palace were decorated with diamonds, crystals ,and gold and in the compound there were huge golden pots.

The palace of Queen Satyabhama; the floor of her palace was decorated with jewels, that in hot season kept you feeling very cool like air condition. King Indra gave Krishna the sudharma sabha hall for meetings and he gave parijata tree and the demigod Varun gave blue horse which runs the speed of mind and the demigod Kuvera gave all wealth. In this way all the demigods they gave different gifts to Sri Krishna for his city.

Krishna was married with sixteen thousand one hundred eight wives, and he lived in those sixteen thousand one hundred eight different palaces with each different queens. And when Krishna has to attend the meeting that same 16,0108 Krishna becomes one Krsna to enter in the meeting hall. Many many great sages and kings from different planets visits Krishna in Dwarka.

One time while Krishna was living in Dwarka, Lord Brahma came to meet lord Krsna in the city so Drahma arrived to the gate and he told the gatekeeper that could you please go and inform Krishna that Lord Brahma comes to visit you. The gate-man went to inform Krishna and Krishna ask that gate-man that could you ask Brahma which Brahma are you? The gate-man comes back to Brahma and informed Lord Brahma that Krishna is asking that which Brahma are you? After hearing from the gatekeeper Brahma became bewildered which brahma am I? I thought only I am the only Brahma are there more Brahmas than me?

More Pastimes to follow
Many Thanks for Reading
Yours Humbly
Vicaru Dasa

The Arrows of Time

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Recently I’ve been captivated and pondering the phrase “the arrows of time” first used by a British astronomer Arthur Stanley Eddingerton in 1927.

There is as in all aspects of science many levels with in this arrows of time and the more I research in to the more I realize one truth, the Srimad Bhagavatam explains it all not only more fully but also in a much more universally understood manor.

Most interesting is the thermodynamic arrow of time because it also relates to the fact that everything degrades from order to disorder; it is under the arrows of time almost improbable for there to e a reversal from disorder to order, life has to move in a single direction; hence even this earth planet to which we invest so much is moving slowly to a point of decay. It will warm up and eventually be consumed in fire; remind us of anything? Isn’t this the same fate the Srimad Bhagavatam gives us in the 12 canto?

There is however one interesting and quiet poignant realization I’ve had, science’s omission of God or a creative force means that what is presented is dry and although it comes over with great gusto as we have seen in the large Hadron Colider when looking at particle physics that things are never quiet what they seem and new discoveries are being made that brings questions in a particular field of science.

But still the arrows of time means that we move in a single direction, and that we move from order to disorder and eventually all things come to an end. So why bother if our fait is sealed? Why struggle if I’m going to degrade and die? I deed if this is all there is then well it sucks.

Again science with out God gives us a depressing insight in to a bleak future, resolves that I am here for a short while and eventually any contribution I make will cease; whilst with God even in death there is beginning birth; Yes the arrows of time hold true time travels in a single direction, the Gita explains this nicely we cannot claim a moment back nor when we are moved into another form of life can we claim our previous life back. It remains ever different ever changing moving in one direction whilst we remain in under the modes of material nature.

But then we have spiritual arrows of time, something science will never grasp or understand; who’s concept defies human logic – time moves on but in the spiritual world never disorder for Krishna and the devotees this is not bewildering and is the ultimate scientific Knowledge.

So as in this material world we are under the spell of the arrows of time, the question thus we should be asking ourselves is this, what are we doing?

And how do we make sure we progress from the material nature and it’s arrows of time to that of spiritual nature and it’s faultless arrows of time.

For each moment we waste we can never ever claim it back.

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It is interesting that most of my recent conversations have been surrounding relationships, break up, finding the right person or maintaining during turbulent times.

Indeed as the soul is eternal we need to connect and feel this thing called love a deep connection with another living entity; indeed we see ourselves in relation to our loved ones and pit great emphasis on them; so when there is great difficulty or break up so much hurt that cuts deeper than any thing giving sways of uncontrolled emotions.

We place so much trust, exert so much energy into the pursuit of entering into a relationship and the rejection if there is one is hard to bear; and if it is reciprocated then still problems as there is always difficulty in the material world. And if we over come all of this there is still hurt as death sneaks up and takes that special one away; grieving over such loss is the greatest of emotions felt in this material world.

Some times we give up in the pursuit of a relationship, but this is impossible as we are forced by the laws of material nature; we have to connect for loneliness is the greatest fear everyone has. So we connect with a pet we shower them with the love and affection we once showed others, or move from one hurtful relationship to another.

Fear of being alone
Fear of being unloved
Fear of not being able to give love

Material nature simply means the pursuit of eating, fearing, mating and defending; indeed if our pursuit of a relationship or if the relationship we are in is under threat then great fear and anxiety and we defend our position with as much strength as we can muster.

It has had me pondering, as we all have felt at some stage the pain of break up were we feel all consumed in a black hole were death seems the only way out of our misery; or were our love and affection or desire to be with a particular individual is not reciprocated, what’s wrong with me? Or we pursue it to the point were we become a nuisance and embarrassment.

Resenting or looking at those who appear to have it all, Why o Why cannot that be me O deserve to be loved like that; but in the material world what appears to be the most perfect of relationship will end as time waits for and does not stop so eventually death forces us apart.

It has had me thinking more and more about the spirit soul and our relationship with Krishna, what pain we have been inflicting on the spirit soul and how we ignore it in pursuit of what is fleeting happiness and an eternal love.

This is true reality our eternal connection with Krishna, if we wish to experience real love then it is simply by our putting the same effort as we put trying to pursue a temporary love and happiness into something that is eternal, ever fresh, ever new.

If we feel so much pain when we make even the most fleeting of connections then how much pain is the spirit soul in being separated from Krishna; isn’t and shouldn’t this be our pursuit?

But this is easier said than done as we simply connect with and identify with this material body and pursue it’s happiness above all things; seeing it as the hear and now, the most important thing; and so time and time again we line ourself up for misery.

Unless we see things in the terms of our relationship with Krishna, that our temporary material relationships help us develop our eternal relationship with Krishna; then strength.

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VICARU DAS [TKG]
BHAKTIVEDANTA MANOR
UK

Srila Parasar Muni explains the meaning of Bhagavan, which is the opulence in six ways:
THE MOST POWERFUL,
THE MOST FAMOUS,
THE MOST WEALTHY,
THE MOST KNOWLEDGEBLE,
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL,
THE MOST RENOUNCE
When all these opulence combine together and when it is found in any person in full that simply means that person is the supreme god.

And sometimes people think that any person can be god; if you find in this world that some one may be very wealthy but he may be not so renounced or may be he is very renounced but may not be so knowledgeable or beautiful or powerful there is always something lacking, so not possessing these six qualities in full than how can he be a god? and the other side Krishna is so beautiful that he charms the whole universe by his beauty and and 33 million demigods work under his direction.

So now lets see the description of how Krishna demonstrate each of those six qualities:

No.1 the power;

How when he descended on this bhaova vrndavana more than five thousand years ago he killed a 12 miles long she demon called PUTANA when he was only a baby. And than King Kamsa when he invited Krishna and Balarama to Mathura he prepared a giant elephant to kill Krishna but Krishna without any effort killed the elephant; than there were two ferocious wrestlers name Chanura and Mustika, Krishna and Balarama young boys at that time they killed these two wrestlers.

Now if you go these days to Vrndavana you can visit this huge Gorvardhana mountain, which was when he came to Vrndavana first in Satyuga he was eight yojanas long [64 miles] five yojanas wide [40 miles] and 16 miles high (but now its disappearing due to certain curse and in ten thousand years it will be totally disappeared); Sri Krishna lifted this hill from its root on his little butter soft like weakest finger for seven days and seven nights without any hard labour. It is said that if some one is very powerful he may be very sickly but sickness never existed in Krishna.

People generally due to lack of knowledge about God are more prone to worship any human being in this world if he has some mystic power, (which is in one sense received from the lord anyway) if he happen to produce some amount of gold, jewels or ashes or some material opulence people begin to worship him as god.

So in Srimad Bhagavatam tenth canto chapter fifty the whole description about how in Mathura, Vasudeva and Devaki and other Yadu Vamsi were leaving so Krishna liberated King Kamsa and than how Kamsa’s father in law named Jarasandha he tried seventeen times to attack the residents of Mathura in order to destroy Yaduvamsa and kill Krishna. 17 times he brought millions of aksohini soldiers to attack the Mathura Vasis but each time Sri Krishna killed all of them accept Jarasandha, was survived and Jarasandha tried 18th time to kill Krishna; this is the madness of a demon they always think that somehow last time I missed it let me try another time to attack this time I can kill Krishna so he kept attempting to kill but was bewildered. So than when Jarasandha tried 18th times by this time another demon arrived there with 30 million soldiers in Mathura this great demon named Kalyavana arrived. So its double attack Krishna thought that today this Kalyavana arrived and tomorrow Jarasandha is attacking so he began to think what to do, how to destroy these two attacks. Srila Prabhupada said that Krishna a;ready knew what to do but to perform his pastimes he began like a ordinary person to think and plan how to counteract with them; Krishna thought its not easy to kill 30 million soldiers and on top that Jarasandha is arriving tomorrow to attack Mathura I have to do something about it, he thought if I attack Kalyavana than Jarasandha will kill Mathura Vasis. So Krishna and Balarama thought for a while and decided to create a 96 to 100 miles of gola inside the sea.. to create a Dwarka city in the middle of the sea.., Srila Prabhupada said that Krishna only decided for a moment and he created a Dwarka city just in overnight through the help of his architecture [visvakarma ji] to protect Mathura Vasis so that they can live peacefully and no soldiers can reach there and attack them. So now krishna created the city so far away from Mathura in the middle of the sea in Dwarka so now how to transfer all the residents of Mathura to Dwarka just in overnight; Krishna the supreme mystic by his yoga maya potency he transferred all the residents of Mathura just in overnight when in the night all the residents of Mathura went to sleep Krishna without any effort he transferred all the residents to Dwarka just in one night. And when all these people wake up in the morning they all found themselves sleeping in their bed in a golden palace situated in the middle of the sea surprise surprise only Krishna can do this kind of things who else can do? No one else full stop.

Srila Prabhupada said []thats krsna] he can do things that no other nonscience god can do claiming to be god so let them do this.

Hare Krishna
Thank you for reading
Sri Krishna Balarama ki jay

Your Servant
Vicaru Dasa

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It has been some time since I’ve been to Brighton so it was nice to be invited to the New Year Celebrations 12 hour Kirtana.

Here is a small video

A lot has changed since my last visit, the temple room has been complete and the small congregation has grown and the addition of beautiful deities:

The prasadma is still something to behold, so sweet and it is so nice to see so many willing volunteers wanting to serve those who came to take part:

The nearly 500 mile round journey from here in Wales, finishing work travelling down to returning to Wales back onto shift although tiring was well worth it just to have such lovely devotee association.

Hope it gives you a small flavour of what you missed and how beautiful devotee association is

The Six Opulence

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VICARU DAS [TKG]
BHAKTIVEDANTA MANOR
UK

Aisvaryasya, samagrasya, viryasya, yasasah sriyah ,jnana-vairagyayos-caiva sannam bhaga itingana! [wealth, strength,fame, beauty, knowledge, and renunciation is in full in syamsundar-krsna, - Before treta yuga lord krsna is saying that i gave this confidential knowledge to surya deva vivasvan [knowledge of B- gita].
Than vivasvan gave this knowledge to his son manu maharaj, than manu maharaj gave this knowledge to surya vamsi raja iksvaku. And iksvaku raja also one day when manu maharaj [sneezed]. From his sneezed iksvaku appeared, so sri krishna is explaining to his dear devotee arjuna that first to vivasvan, vivasvan to manu, than manu, to iksvaku so in this way parampara was been coming down from one king to another king [evam parampara praptam imam rajarsyo-viduh-sakaleneha mahata yoga nastah parantapa.
When this confidential knowledge through raja rishi was coming down through paramparagat acaryas. It was passing down but due to time arrangment some king could not give this knowledge to other kings, so it appears that this knowledge was lost for time being, the true knowledge about the lord, lord himself gave in this world many times and by the time this knowledge was here everything was alright one guru to his disciple his disciple to his disciple but due to lost of knowledge [sa evayam maya te'dya yogah proktah puratanah bhakto si me sakha ceti rahasyam hy etad uttamam].
That’s why again this confidential knowledge I am giving you for this reason he arjuna because you are my devotee and my friend that’s why you”ll able to understand this most confidential knowledge than when krishna said this to arjuna than in arjunas mind one doubt appears, arjuna thought that if anyone who hears this although arjuna has no doubt but still he ask krishna for others sake than arjuna ask krishna that at this moment you are before me and you are 125 years old you are 125 years of age before me in this world, how could you say that 120,million years ago you gave this knowledge to surya-deva vivasvan arjuna ask this first question.
Himself he believed it but arjuna ask on behalf of others who may have doubts arjuna uvaca-aparam bhavato janma- param janma vivasvatah -katham etad vijaniyam tvam adau proktavan iti, that surya deva vivasvan was born so many ages before you krishna how could i believe that you gave this knowledge of gita to king vivasvan than the lord replied [sri bhagvan uvaca bahuni me vyatitani- janmani -tavaca arjuna- tani aham veda sarvani na tvam vettha parantapa], so many births you took and I also took, but I remember all of my birth days but you dont remember anyone of them, than again krishna is explaining explicitly to arjuna how really he comes in this world of duality.
Now krishna who is govinda is explaining to arjuna, [Ajo 'pi sann avyayatma- bhutanam isvaro 'pi san prakrtim svam adhisthaya- sambhavamy atma mayaya] krishna said I am unborn the meaning of [avyaya] is which never destroys, so which does not destroy that kind of body I have and I am unborn – than he said bhutanam isvaro pi san those people who are born in this jagat I am their isvara than he said prakrtim svam adhisthaya – my this spiritual body is sambhavamy atma mayaya I appear through my atma mayaya potency we come in this world due to our karma and sri krishna appears by his yoga maya potency and sri krsnas body is spiritual his body is not like ours, while present on battle field his age to this worldly calculation was 125years but still he was nava-yovanam [advaitam acyutam anadim ananta rupam adyan puran purusam nav yauvanam ca] brahma tells that being the oldest person he still is a youth, when the idea comes that krsna took birth its not a ordinary birth from some mothers womb, that’s called avirbhava or prakat or appearance he is there somewhere he just appears due to the call of his pure devotee, and we come in this world we take birth from our mothers womb and we assume a new body, material body, but krishna appears with his spiritual body and sometimes people argue due to their doubts that when the lord comes he assumes different forms like lord rama, sometimes lord nrsimha, sometimes krsna, sometimes Balarama, sometimes vamana incarnation they think that when lord incarnates he assumes those forms and than those forms never exists but vedas does not accept this fact whatever forms he assumes all are spiritual and eternal forms and eternally exists in the spiritual world whichever forms he need to utilize to perform his lila he comes in those forms those forms are already there in the spiritual kingdom.
But still inside krsnas form all other forms do exists all the incarnation is coming from krsnas original form, that’s why his form is eternal and spiritual and krsna demonstrated all these activities through performing his various pastimes in this mortal world ,we got many scriptures one of them is visnu purana; in visnu purana parasara muni is explaining the six opulance of god he said [BHAGA AND VAN- FOR Eg; BAL AND VAN ]
So a person who posses six opulence in full is considered a only supreme personality of godhead, and that’s found only in when he perform his lila and opulence whatever opulence we conceive is only one speck its only possible to his pure devotees because it is inconceivable with our this body and senses,to perceive.
SO from here i will begin to write the description of his each opulence and how he demonstrated on this universe which is a next 30 pages ,

thank you
remain always humble servant in your service
[hare krsna]
Vicaru Das