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Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma

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Chaitanya Charan

This document summarizes the unique achievement of Bhaktivedanta Swami in establishing the Hare Krishna movement worldwide at an old age without money, contacts, or institutional support. It notes that by picking up people wherever he went and giving them responsibility, his program would seem unlikely to succeed. However, it compares his efforts to Jesus Christ in recruiting disciples. While Jesus worked within his own community, Bhaktivedanta Swami worked across different societies and backgrounds at an advanced age. His success in organizing a worldwide movement in these circumstances is seen as unprecedented.

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Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Single-handed attack on an entire civilization Eg Arjuna at Virata
Flow from Bengali to Sanskrit as in CC From from personal expression to scriptural revelation
Dynamic dance between Dependence on Krishna & Diligence for Krishna
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
No followers, No money, No institutional support, No sound health.
Opportunity to serve is mercy When the mind counts problems, let the intelligence count blessings
We cant be grateful for all situations, but we can be grateful in all situations
1. Look at what is right 2. Look at the right that can set the wrong right 3. Look for the future when right will come out of the wrong
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
No uncertainty about perennial intention But uncertainty about practical action inevitable in this messy world
1. Krishna is in control 2. Krishna has some purpose
Not just certainty but openness to possibility Devotee: Perplexed, but not discouraged
Shastra-chakshu Seeing not material prosperity, but spiritual poverty
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Not language, not culture, not pronunciation But lower modes
Sees deeper symptoms and sees cure
Can be started in any mode But sustaining requires goodness
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Miracles are not against nature, they are above nature Mercy can happen in natural ways too
We dont just believe in miracles We depend on miracles
Focus not on what you can or cant do focus on what Krishna can do Eg Arjuna to Krishna
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Rasika Eg seeing Bharatnatyam (SB 8.3.6)
Krishnas mercy is reciprocal, but not necessarily proportional Eg Bible story
Focus not on what you can or cant do focus on what Krishna can do Eg Arjuna to Krishna
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Mood: I am not the doer or deliverer you are.
By his will, we have our will Krishna is responsive, we are responsible
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
We may trigger the inner bulb, but we dont power it
Understanding means the intelligence gets it Realization means the mind gets it
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Same as Vyasadevas vision (1.7.4-7) Bhagavatam cleanses the heart
Hear to realize the one who is always near Hear to perceive that sensual pleasure is never there
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Ignorance Past Passion Future Goodness Present Pure Goodness Krishna
Live in the present, but dont live for the present live for Krishna (1.7.7)
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
As long as our reference point is the world, we cant understand pure devotees humility When compared to Krishnas purity and love, our ability and effort seems nothing
When we feel we cant do it, but Krishna can, we stop coming in Krishnas way of doing it through us
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Despite our half-hearted, distracted practices, Krishna has got us so far. He will take us all the way too
If proud, look ahead to see how far we have to go If discouraged, look back to see how far we have come
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
What we are is Krishnas gift to us What we become is our gift to Krishna
Let talent take us to the source of the talent Work as worship, not work is worship
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
While speaking, no agenda except to benefit others and to please Krishna
Why preach? Simply sharing the medicine that has helped us Bg 6.32
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Jesus: Let thy will be done & Arjuna: I will do your will
Our bonds are not a prisoners shackles, but a puppeteers strings Dance for Krishna, not Maya
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Political: More open immigration policy Religious: Second Vatican Council Cultural: Counterculture
Its an astonishing story. If someone told you a story like this, you wouldnt believe it. Heres this person, hes seventy years old, hes going to a country where hes never been before, he doesnt know anybody there, he has no money, has no contacts. He has none of the things, you would say, that make for success.
Hes going to recruit people not on any systematic basis, but just picking up whomever he comes across and hes going to give them responsibility for organizing a worldwide movement. Youd say, What kind of program is that?
There are precedents perhaps. Jesus of Nazareth went around saying, Come follow me. Drop your nets, or leave your tax collecting, and come with me and be my disciple. But in his case, he wasnt an old man in a strange society dealing with people whose backgrounds were totally different from his own. He was dealing with his own community. Bhaktivedanta Swamis achievement, then, must be seen as unique. Prof. Thomas Hopkins
Not mission impossible But mission unstoppable Gita 11.33 & 18.78
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma
Understanding surrender meditation on prabhupada's prayer markine bhagavata dharma

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  • 2. Single-handed attack on an entire civilization Eg Arjuna at Virata
  • 3. Flow from Bengali to Sanskrit as in CC From from personal expression to scriptural revelation
  • 4. Dynamic dance between Dependence on Krishna & Diligence for Krishna
  • 7. No followers, No money, No institutional support, No sound health.
  • 8. Opportunity to serve is mercy When the mind counts problems, let the intelligence count blessings
  • 9. We cant be grateful for all situations, but we can be grateful in all situations
  • 10. 1. Look at what is right 2. Look at the right that can set the wrong right 3. Look for the future when right will come out of the wrong
  • 13. No uncertainty about perennial intention But uncertainty about practical action inevitable in this messy world
  • 14. 1. Krishna is in control 2. Krishna has some purpose
  • 15. Not just certainty but openness to possibility Devotee: Perplexed, but not discouraged
  • 19. Not language, not culture, not pronunciation But lower modes
  • 21. Can be started in any mode But sustaining requires goodness
  • 24. Miracles are not against nature, they are above nature Mercy can happen in natural ways too
  • 25. We dont just believe in miracles We depend on miracles
  • 26. Focus not on what you can or cant do focus on what Krishna can do Eg Arjuna to Krishna
  • 30. Krishnas mercy is reciprocal, but not necessarily proportional Eg Bible story
  • 31. Focus not on what you can or cant do focus on what Krishna can do Eg Arjuna to Krishna
  • 34. Mood: I am not the doer or deliverer you are.
  • 35. By his will, we have our will Krishna is responsive, we are responsible
  • 38. We may trigger the inner bulb, but we dont power it
  • 39. Understanding means the intelligence gets it Realization means the mind gets it
  • 42. Same as Vyasadevas vision (1.7.4-7) Bhagavatam cleanses the heart
  • 43. Hear to realize the one who is always near Hear to perceive that sensual pleasure is never there
  • 47. Ignorance Past Passion Future Goodness Present Pure Goodness Krishna
  • 48. Live in the present, but dont live for the present live for Krishna (1.7.7)
  • 51. As long as our reference point is the world, we cant understand pure devotees humility When compared to Krishnas purity and love, our ability and effort seems nothing
  • 52. When we feel we cant do it, but Krishna can, we stop coming in Krishnas way of doing it through us
  • 55. Despite our half-hearted, distracted practices, Krishna has got us so far. He will take us all the way too
  • 56. If proud, look ahead to see how far we have to go If discouraged, look back to see how far we have come
  • 59. What we are is Krishnas gift to us What we become is our gift to Krishna
  • 60. Let talent take us to the source of the talent Work as worship, not work is worship
  • 63. While speaking, no agenda except to benefit others and to please Krishna
  • 64. Why preach? Simply sharing the medicine that has helped us Bg 6.32
  • 67. Jesus: Let thy will be done & Arjuna: I will do your will
  • 68. Our bonds are not a prisoners shackles, but a puppeteers strings Dance for Krishna, not Maya
  • 71. Political: More open immigration policy Religious: Second Vatican Council Cultural: Counterculture
  • 72. Its an astonishing story. If someone told you a story like this, you wouldnt believe it. Heres this person, hes seventy years old, hes going to a country where hes never been before, he doesnt know anybody there, he has no money, has no contacts. He has none of the things, you would say, that make for success.
  • 73. Hes going to recruit people not on any systematic basis, but just picking up whomever he comes across and hes going to give them responsibility for organizing a worldwide movement. Youd say, What kind of program is that?
  • 74. There are precedents perhaps. Jesus of Nazareth went around saying, Come follow me. Drop your nets, or leave your tax collecting, and come with me and be my disciple. But in his case, he wasnt an old man in a strange society dealing with people whose backgrounds were totally different from his own. He was dealing with his own community. Bhaktivedanta Swamis achievement, then, must be seen as unique. Prof. Thomas Hopkins
  • 75. Not mission impossible But mission unstoppable Gita 11.33 & 18.78

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