<![CDATA[Vedavarsity Sound™]]> https://www.vedavarsity.com/ Vedavarsity Sound™ is the official podcast initiative of Vedavarsity™, created to extend its mission of preserving and presenting timeless Vedic wisdom. Drawing inspiration from the rich resources available on Vedavarsity.com, this project brings together teachings from revered Acharyas, insights from authentic Vedic texts, and thoughtful discussions on spiritual living.Through concise, meaningful, and spiritually uplifting episodes, Vedavarsity Sound™ seeks to make Vedic education accessible, inspiring, and rooted in the tradition that has guided seekers for generations.

]]> RSS.com 2026.401.141116 Sat, 25 Apr 2026 11:18:37 GMT en 9e12f615-6a11-5001-97a1-de831bc56e33 https://media.rss.com/onepurpose/20251211_071202_29ece52949dbb9f618d640b5a38f2d73.png Vedavarsity Sound™ https://www.vedavarsity.com/ yes Contribute to Support Vedavarsity 2025 Vedavarsity Vedavarsity false serial podcast Vrindavan, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, 281121, India Vrindavan, Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, 281121, India <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Why it is enforced upon me | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-11 | Vrindavan]]> As it is explained in the first śloka of the First Chapter of the Bhāgavatam, the Supreme Truth is self-sufficient, cognizant and free from the illusion of relativity. In the relative world the knower is different from the known, but in the Absolute Truth both the knower and the known are one and the same thing. In the relative world the knower is the living spirit or superior energy, whereas the known is inert matter or inferior energy. Therefore, there is a duality of inferior and superior energy, whereas in the absolute realm both the knower and the known are of the same superior energy. There are three kinds of energies of the supreme energetic. There is no difference between the energy and energetic, but there is a difference of quality of energies. The absolute realm and the living entities are of the same superior energy, but the material world is inferior energy. The living being in contact with the inferior energy is illusioned, thinking he belongs to the inferior energy. Therefore there is the sense of relativity in the material world. In the Absolute there is no such sense of difference between the knower and the known, and therefore everything there is absolute.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2045237 0da584f7-fa7c-4154-97f4-099807e6143c 2389 full 1 1 1 1 false Tue, 27 May 2025 08:07:32 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | The Last Word in Understanding | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-11 | Vrindavan]]> As it is explained in the first śloka of the First Chapter of the Bhāgavatam, the Supreme Truth is self-sufficient, cognizant and free from the illusion of relativity. In the relative world the knower is different from the known, but in the Absolute Truth both the knower and the known are one and the same thing. In the relative world the knower is the living spirit or superior energy, whereas the known is inert matter or inferior energy. Therefore, there is a duality of inferior and superior energy, whereas in the absolute realm both the knower and the known are of the same superior energy. There are three kinds of energies of the supreme energetic. There is no difference between the energy and energetic, but there is a difference of quality of energies. The absolute realm and the living entities are of the same superior energy, but the material world is inferior energy. The living being in contact with the inferior energy is illusioned, thinking he belongs to the inferior energy. Therefore there is the sense of relativity in the material world. In the Absolute there is no such sense of difference between the knower and the known, and therefore everything there is absolute.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2037195 5f8c2184-91f9-4ea5-a677-23a4c14fa850 2084 full 1 1 2 2 false Tue, 20 May 2025 11:59:54 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | This washerman is protecting me, giving this grass | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-11 | London]]> As it is explained in the first śloka of the First Chapter of the Bhāgavatam, the Supreme Truth is self-sufficient, cognizant and free from the illusion of relativity. In the relative world the knower is different from the known, but in the Absolute Truth both the knower and the known are one and the same thing. In the relative world the knower is the living spirit or superior energy, whereas the known is inert matter or inferior energy. Therefore, there is a duality of inferior and superior energy, whereas in the absolute realm both the knower and the known are of the same superior energy. There are three kinds of energies of the supreme energetic. There is no difference between the energy and energetic, but there is a difference of quality of energies. The absolute realm and the living entities are of the same superior energy, but the material world is inferior energy. The living being in contact with the inferior energy is illusioned, thinking he belongs to the inferior energy. Therefore there is the sense of relativity in the material world. In the Absolute there is no such sense of difference between the knower and the known, and therefore everything there is absolute.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2035250 d1c0c368-de36-42a4-8ed3-f2ef8ae7c09b 2706 full 1 1 3 3 false Mon, 19 May 2025 08:52:09 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | No Industrial Development | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-10 | Vrindavan]]> The Absolute Truth is both subject and object, and there is no qualitative difference there. Therefore, Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān are qualitatively one and the same. The same substance is realized as impersonal Brahman by the students of the Upaniṣads, as localized Paramātmā by the Hiraṇyagarbhas or the yogīs, and as Bhagavān by the devotees. In other words, Bhagavān, or the Personality of Godhead, is the last word of the Absolute Truth. Paramātmā is the partial representation of the Personality of Godhead, and impersonal Brahman is the glowing effulgence of the Personality of Godhead, as the sun rays are to the sun-god. Less intelligent students of either of the above schools sometimes argue in favor of their own respective realization, but those who are perfect seers of the Absolute Truth know well that the above three features of the one Absolute Truth are different perspective views seen from different angles of vision.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2033451 9bc32216-9abd-4a29-84d7-5fc443278574 2023 full 1 1 4 4 false Sat, 17 May 2025 09:50:03 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | must have it- Give me | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-10 | Hyderabad]]> gratification. As soon as the voters are dissatisfied in their own sense satisfaction, they dethrone the leaders. The leaders must always disappoint the voters by not satisfying their senses. The same is applicable in all other fields; no one is serious about the problems of life. Even those who are on the path of salvation desire to become one with the Absolute Truth and desire to commit spiritual suicide for sense gratification. But the Bhāgavatam says that one should not live for sense gratification. One should satisfy the senses only insomuch as required for self-preservation, and not for sense gratification. Because the body is made of senses, which also require a certain amount of satisfaction, there are regulative directions for satisfaction of such senses. But the senses are not meant for unrestricted enjoyment. For example, marriage or the combination of a man with a woman is necessary for progeny, but it is not meant for sense enjoyment. In the absence of voluntary restraint, there is propaganda for family planning, but foolish men do not know that family planning is automatically executed as soon as there is search after the Absolute Truth. Seekers of the Absolute Truth are never allured by unnecessary engagements in sense gratification because the serious students seeking the Absolute Truth are always overwhelmed with the work of researching the Truth. In every sphere of life, therefore, the ultimate end must be seeking after the Absolute Truth, and that sort of engagement will make one happy because he will be less engaged in varieties of sense gratification. And what that Absolute Truth is is explained as follows.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2032326 84f9bdeb-c904-4699-9431-780cc0145220 1837 full 1 1 5 5 false Fri, 16 May 2025 11:56:40 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Real Dharma_It’s Not Karma | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-10 | Delhi]]> The completely bewildered material civilization is wrongly directed towards the fulfillment of desires in sense gratification. In such civilization, in all spheres of life, the ultimate end is sense gratification. In politics, social service, altruism, philanthropy and ultimately in religion or even in salvation, the very same tint of sense gratification is ever-increasingly predominant. In the political field the leaders of men fight with one another to fulfill their personal sense gratification. The voters adore the so-called leaders only when they promise sense gratification. As soon as the voters are dissatisfied in their own sense satisfaction, they dethrone the leaders. The leaders must always disappoint the voters by not satisfying their senses. The same is applicable in all other fields; no one is serious about the problems of life. Even those who are on the path of salvation desire to become one with the Absolute Truth and desire to commit spiritual suicide for sense gratification. But the Bhāgavatam says that one should not live for sense gratification. One should satisfy the senses only insomuch as required for self-preservation, and not for sense gratification. Because the body is made of senses, which also require a certain amount of satisfaction, there are regulative directions for satisfaction of such senses. But the senses are not meant for unrestricted enjoyment. For example, marriage or the combination of a man with a woman is necessary for progeny, but it is not meant for sense enjoyment. In the absence of voluntary restraint, there is propaganda for family planning, but foolish men do not know that family planning is automatically executed as soon as there is search after the Absolute Truth. Seekers of the Absolute Truth are never allured by unnecessary engagements in sense gratification because the serious students seeking the Absolute Truth are always overwhelmed with the work of researching the Truth. In every sphere of life, therefore, the ultimate end must be seeking after the Absolute Truth, and that sort of engagement will make one happy because he will be less engaged in varieties of sense gratification. And what that Absolute Truth is is explained as follows.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2029973 56737d4d-6d75-47c8-af4a-ca280ae9798e 2749 full 1 1 6 6 false Thu, 15 May 2025 11:21:45 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Life should be engaged simply to understand the Absolute Truth | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-10 | Bombay]]> The completely bewildered material civilization is wrongly directed towards the fulfillment of desires in sense gratification. In such civilization, in all spheres of life, the ultimate end is sense gratification. In politics, social service, altruism, philanthropy and ultimately in religion or even in salvation, the very same tint of sense gratification is ever-increasingly predominant. In the political field the leaders of men fight with one another to fulfill their personal sense gratification. The voters adore the so-called leaders only when they promise sense gratification. As soon as the voters are dissatisfied in their own sense satisfaction, they dethrone the leaders. The leaders must always disappoint the voters by not satisfying their senses. The same is applicable in all other fields; no one is serious about the problems of life. Even those who are on the path of salvation desire to become one with the Absolute Truth and desire to commit spiritual suicide for sense gratification. But the Bhāgavatam says that one should not live for sense gratification. One should satisfy the senses only insomuch as required for self-preservation, and not for sense gratification. Because the body is made of senses, which also require a certain amount of satisfaction, there are regulative directions for satisfaction of such senses. But the senses are not meant for unrestricted enjoyment. For example, marriage or the combination of a man with a woman is necessary for progeny, but it is not meant for sense enjoyment. In the absence of voluntary restraint, there is propaganda for family planning, but foolish men do not know that family planning is automatically executed as soon as there is search after the Absolute Truth. Seekers of the Absolute Truth are never allured by unnecessary engagements in sense gratification because the serious students seeking the Absolute Truth are always overwhelmed with the work of researching the Truth. In every sphere of life, therefore, the ultimate end must be seeking after the Absolute Truth, and that sort of engagement will make one happy because he will be less engaged in varieties of sense gratification. And what that Absolute Truth is is explained as follows.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2026224 0900a3ad-ea6e-435c-9113-5b1917a199d4 2609 full 1 1 7 7 false Tue, 13 May 2025 11:06:56 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Can Sugar Not be Sweet | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-9 | Detroit]]> We have already discussed that pure devotional service to the Lord is automatically followed by perfect knowledge and detachment from material existence. But there are others who consider that all kinds of different occupational engagements, including those of religion, are meant for material gain. The general tendency of any ordinary man in any part of the world is to gain some material profit in exchange for religious or any other occupational service. Even in the Vedic literatures, for all sorts of religious performances an allurement of material gain is offered, and most people are attracted by such allurements or blessings of religiosity. Why are such so-called men of religion allured by material gain? Because material gain can enable one to fulfill desires, which in turn satisfy sense gratification. This cycle of occupational engagements includes so-called religiosity followed by material gain and material gain followed by fulfillment of desires. Sense gratification is the general way for all sorts of fully occupied men. But in the statement of Sūta Gosvāmī, as per the verdict of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, this is nullified by the present śloka.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2024490 f33c1c08-0ee6-41d7-a6b7-3e408bc24ddc 2722 full 1 1 8 8 false Mon, 12 May 2025 11:39:22 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Everyone Can Serve Krishna | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-9 | Vrindavan]]> We have already discussed that pure devotional service to the Lord is automatically followed by perfect knowledge and detachment from material existence. But there are others who consider that all kinds of different occupational engagements, including those of religion, are meant for material gain. The general tendency of any ordinary man in any part of the world is to gain some material profit in exchange for religious or any other occupational service. Even in the Vedic literatures, for all sorts of religious performances an allurement of material gain is offered, and most people are attracted by such allurements or blessings of religiosity. Why are such so-called men of religion allured by material gain? Because material gain can enable one to fulfill desires, which in turn satisfy sense gratification. This cycle of occupational engagements includes so-called religiosity followed by material gain and material gain followed by fulfillment of desires. Sense gratification is the general way for all sorts of fully occupied men. But in the statement of Sūta Gosvāmī, as per the verdict of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, this is nullified by the present śloka.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2021372 eb7a834e-9389-4f03-a9d5-824abe5820b0 2268 full 1 1 9 9 false Fri, 09 May 2025 11:25:15 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | The Art of Knowing What to Ask From God | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-9 | New Vrindavan ]]> We have already discussed that pure devotional service to the Lord is automatically followed by perfect knowledge and detachment from material existence. But there are others who consider that all kinds of different occupational engagements, including those of religion, are meant for material gain. The general tendency of any ordinary man in any part of the world is to gain some material profit in exchange for religious or any other occupational service. Even in the Vedic literatures, for all sorts of religious performances an allurement of material gain is offered, and most people are attracted by such allurements or blessings of religiosity. Why are such so-called men of religion allured by material gain? Because material gain can enable one to fulfill desires, which in turn satisfy sense gratification. This cycle of occupational engagements includes so-called religiosity followed by material gain and material gain followed by fulfillment of desires. Sense gratification is the general way for all sorts of fully occupied men. But in the statement of Sūta Gosvāmī, as per the verdict of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, this is nullified by the present śloka.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2019588 bbd561f4-e603-4a3d-98a9-ba8f42685ecf 3410 full 1 1 10 10 false Thu, 08 May 2025 10:26:44 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Illusion Realized | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-8 | Hyderabad]]> There are different occupational activities in terms of man’s different conceptions of life. To the gross materialist who cannot see anything beyond the gross material body, there is nothing beyond the senses. Therefore his occupational activities are limited to concentrated and extended selfishness. Concentrated selfishness centers around the personal body — this is generally seen amongst the lower animals. Extended selfishness is manifested in human society and centers around the family, society, community, nation and world with a view to gross bodily comfort. Above these gross materialists are the mental speculators who hover aloft in the mental spheres, and their occupational duties involve making poetry and philosophy or propagating some ism with the same aim of selfishness limited to the body and the mind. But above the body and mind is the dormant spirit soul whose absence from the body makes the whole range of bodily and mental selfishness completely null and void. But less intelligent people have no information of the needs of the spirit soul.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2018047 a6f5cc62-e153-4032-8f5a-ee4d2bc1127f 2658 full 1 1 11 11 false Wed, 07 May 2025 10:44:53 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | If Actually One Is Making Progress In Bhakti | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-8 | Vrindavan]]> There are different occupational activities in terms of man’s different conceptions of life. To the gross materialist who cannot see anything beyond the gross material body, there is nothing beyond the senses. Therefore his occupational activities are limited to concentrated and extended selfishness. Concentrated selfishness centers around the personal body — this is generally seen amongst the lower animals. Extended selfishness is manifested in human society and centers around the family, society, community, nation and world with a view to gross bodily comfort. Above these gross materialists are the mental speculators who hover aloft in the mental spheres, and their occupational duties involve making poetry and philosophy or propagating some ism with the same aim of selfishness limited to the body and the mind. But above the body and mind is the dormant spirit soul whose absence from the body makes the whole range of bodily and mental selfishness completely null and void. But less intelligent people have no information of the needs of the spirit soul.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2016741 88850193-35ad-4eae-91e9-4640b4adaf01 2433 full 1 1 12 12 false Tue, 06 May 2025 11:24:54 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Spiritualize Your Subtle Body | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-8 | New Vrindavan]]> There are different occupational activities in terms of man’s different conceptions of life. To the gross materialist who cannot see anything beyond the gross material body, there is nothing beyond the senses. Therefore his occupational activities are limited to concentrated and extended selfishness. Concentrated selfishness centers around the personal body — this is generally seen amongst the lower animals. Extended selfishness is manifested in human society and centers around the family, society, community, nation and world with a view to gross bodily comfort. Above these gross materialists are the mental speculators who hover aloft in the mental spheres, and their occupational duties involve making poetry and philosophy or propagating some ism with the same aim of selfishness limited to the body and the mind. But above the body and mind is the dormant spirit soul whose absence from the body makes the whole range of bodily and mental selfishness completely null and void. But less intelligent people have no information of the needs of the spirit soul.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2014848 baaf3ef3-4f2c-4f9d-8999-a32b395ee592 2739 full 1 1 13 13 false Mon, 05 May 2025 07:42:51 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Duty---or a Waste of Time | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-8 | Hyderabad]]> The need of the spirit soul is that he wants to get out of the limited sphere of material bondage and fulfill his desire for complete freedom. He wants to get out of the covered walls of the greater universe. He wants to see the free light and the spirit. That complete freedom is achieved when he meets the complete spirit, the Personality of Godhead. There is a dormant affection for God within everyone; spiritual existence is manifested through the gross body and mind in the form of perverted affection for gross and subtle matter. Therefore we have to engage ourselves in occupational engagements that will evoke our divine consciousness. This is possible only by hearing and chanting the divine activities of the Supreme Lord, and any occupational activity which does not help one to achieve attachment for hearing and chanting the transcendental message of Godhead is said herein to be simply a waste of time. This is because other occupational duties (whatever ism they may belong to) cannot give liberation to the soul. Even the activities of the salvationists are considered to be useless because of their failure to pick up the fountainhead of all liberties. The gross materialist can practically see that his material gain is limited only to time and space, either in this world or in the other. Even if he goes up to the Svargaloka, he will find no permanent abode for his hankering soul. The hankering soul must be satisfied by the perfect scientific process of perfect devotional service.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2012728 609bc1a0-855e-4fed-9b9e-08a6f8cb9bcb 2512 full 1 1 14 14 false Sat, 03 May 2025 06:13:45 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | There are twenty kinds of dharma śāstra | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-8 | Bombay]]> There are different occupational activities in terms of man’s different conceptions of life. To the gross materialist who cannot see anything beyond the gross material body, there is nothing beyond the senses. Therefore his occupational activities are limited to concentrated and extended selfishness. Concentrated selfishness centers around the personal body — this is generally seen amongst the lower animals. Extended selfishness is manifested in human society and centers around the family, society, community, nation and world with a view to gross bodily comfort. Above these gross materialists are the mental speculators who hover aloft in the mental spheres, and their occupational duties involve making poetry and philosophy or propagating some ism with the same aim of selfishness limited to the body and the mind. But above the body and mind is the dormant spirit soul whose absence from the body makes the whole range of bodily and mental selfishness completely null and void. But less intelligent people have no information of the needs of the spirit soul.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2010196 2f7fec45-9691-44a4-9cdf-0d6ab3b88167 3700 full 1 1 15 15 false Thu, 01 May 2025 06:25:47 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Dharma is the beginning | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-7 | Vrindavan]]> The principles of knowledge and detachment are two important factors on the path of transcendental realization. The whole spiritual process leads to perfect knowledge of everything material and spiritual, and the results of such perfect knowledge are that one becomes detached from material affection and becomes attached to spiritual activities. Becoming detached from material things does not mean becoming inert altogether, as men with a poor fund of knowledge think. Naiṣkarma means not undertaking activities that will produce good or bad effects. Negation does not mean negation of the positive. Negation of the nonessentials does not mean negation of the essential. Similarly, detachment from material forms does not mean nullifying the positive form. The bhakti cult is meant for realization of the positive form. When the positive form is realized, the negative forms are automatically eliminated. Therefore, with the development of the bhakti cult, with the application of positive service to the positive form, one naturally becomes detached from inferior things, and he becomes attached to superior things. Similarly, the bhakti cult, being the supermost occupation of the living being, leads him out of material sense enjoyment. That is the sign of a pure devotee. He is not a fool, nor is he engaged in the inferior energies, nor does he have material values. This is not possible by dry reasoning. It actually happens by the grace of the Almighty. In conclusion, one who is a pure devotee has all other good qualities, namely knowledge, detachment, etc., but one who has only knowledge or detachment is not necessarily well acquainted with the principles of the bhakti cult. Bhakti is the supermost occupation of the human being.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2008383 fd075b6d-dc76-4442-a604-8234a8eab6ef 2576 full 1 1 16 16 false Wed, 30 Apr 2025 10:02:36 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | This Nice Car Is Rotten | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-7 | New Vrindavan]]> The principles of knowledge and detachment are two important factors on the path of transcendental realization. The whole spiritual process leads to perfect knowledge of everything material and spiritual, and the results of such perfect knowledge are that one becomes detached from material affection and becomes attached to spiritual activities. Becoming detached from material things does not mean becoming inert altogether, as men with a poor fund of knowledge think. Naiṣkarma means not undertaking activities that will produce good or bad effects. Negation does not mean negation of the positive. Negation of the nonessentials does not mean negation of the essential. Similarly, detachment from material forms does not mean nullifying the positive form. The bhakti cult is meant for realization of the positive form. When the positive form is realized, the negative forms are automatically eliminated. Therefore, with the development of the bhakti cult, with the application of positive service to the positive form, one naturally becomes detached from inferior things, and he becomes attached to superior things. Similarly, the bhakti cult, being the supermost occupation of the living being, leads him out of material sense enjoyment. That is the sign of a pure devotee. He is not a fool, nor is he engaged in the inferior energies, nor does he have material values. This is not possible by dry reasoning. It actually happens by the grace of the Almighty. In conclusion, one who is a pure devotee has all other good qualities, namely knowledge, detachment, etc., but one who has only knowledge or detachment is not necessarily well acquainted with the principles of the bhakti cult. Bhakti is the supermost occupation of the human being.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2006794 dc2f8f36-425e-4556-9423-db590cc4aa42 3165 full 1 1 17 17 false Tue, 29 Apr 2025 12:25:04 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Understand Your Position | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-7 | Hyderabad]]> The principles of knowledge and detachment are two important factors on the path of transcendental realization. The whole spiritual process leads to perfect knowledge of everything material and spiritual, and the results of such perfect knowledge are that one becomes detached from material affection and becomes attached to spiritual activities. Becoming detached from material things does not mean becoming inert altogether, as men with a poor fund of knowledge think. Naiṣkarma means not undertaking activities that will produce good or bad effects. Negation does not mean negation of the positive. Negation of the nonessentials does not mean negation of the essential. Similarly, detachment from material forms does not mean nullifying the positive form. The bhakti cult is meant for realization of the positive form. When the positive form is realized, the negative forms are automatically eliminated. Therefore, with the development of the bhakti cult, with the application of positive service to the positive form, one naturally becomes detached from inferior things, and he becomes attached to superior things. Similarly, the bhakti cult, being the supermost occupation of the living being, leads him out of material sense enjoyment. That is the sign of a pure devotee. He is not a fool, nor is he engaged in the inferior energies, nor does he have material values. This is not possible by dry reasoning. It actually happens by the grace of the Almighty. In conclusion, one who is a pure devotee has all other good qualities, namely knowledge, detachment, etc., but one who has only knowledge or detachment is not necessarily well acquainted with the principles of the bhakti cult. Bhakti is the supermost occupation of the human being.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2004953 b1c2d31d-a22c-4188-9b71-a8a6b0f359b1 2659 full 1 1 18 18 false Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:55:40 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Understand God from God | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-7 | Delhi]]> Those who consider devotional service to the Supreme Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa to be something like material emotional affairs may argue that in the revealed scriptures, sacrifice, charity, austerity, knowledge, mystic powers and similar other processes of transcendental realization are recommended. According to them, bhakti, or the devotional service of the Lord, is meant for those who cannot perform the high-grade activities. Generally it is said that the bhakti cult is meant for the śūdras, vaiśyas and the less intelligent woman class. But that is not the actual fact. The bhakti cult is the topmost of all transcendental activities, and therefore it is simultaneously sublime and easy. It is sublime for the pure devotees who are serious about getting in contact with the Supreme Lord, and it is easy for the neophytes who are just on the threshold of the house of bhakti. To achieve the contact of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Śrī Kṛṣṇa, is a great science, and it is open for all living beings, including the śūdras, vaiśyas, women and even those lower than the lowborn śūdras, so what to speak of the high-class men like the qualified brāhmaṇas and the great self-realized kings. The other high-grade activities designated as sacrifice, charity, austerity, etc., are all corollary factors following the pure and scientific bhakti cult.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2002670 bcc8800c-4081-4b3f-9711-47364e808a06 2978 full 1 1 19 19 false Sat, 26 Apr 2025 10:08:00 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Oh, that’s nice- That’s nice | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-6 | Vrindavan]]> We have purposely denoted dharma as occupation because the root meaning of the word dharma is “that which sustains one’s existence.” A living being’s sustenance of existence is to coordinate his activities with his eternal relation with the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the central pivot of living beings, and He is the all-attractive living entity or eternal form amongst all other living beings or eternal forms. Each and every living being has his eternal form in the spiritual existence, and Kṛṣṇa is the eternal attraction for all of them. Kṛṣṇa is the complete whole, and everything else is His part and parcel. The relation is one of the servant and the served. It is transcendental and is completely distinct from our experience in material existence. This relation of servant and the served is the most congenial form of intimacy. One can realize it as devotional service progresses. Everyone should engage himself in that transcendental loving service of the Lord, even in the present conditional state of material existence. That will gradually give one the clue to actual life and please him to complete satisfaction.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2001476 a024dd7e-db9e-4ce5-8cdf-9e904db05167 2661 full 1 1 20 20 false Fri, 25 Apr 2025 09:43:37 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Body-isms Like ’Democracy’ Are All Nonsense | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-6 | Rome]]> We have purposely denoted dharma as occupation because the root meaning of the word dharma is “that which sustains one’s existence.” A living being’s sustenance of existence is to coordinate his activities with his eternal relation with the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the central pivot of living beings, and He is the all-attractive living entity or eternal form amongst all other living beings or eternal forms. Each and every living being has his eternal form in the spiritual existence, and Kṛṣṇa is the eternal attraction for all of them. Kṛṣṇa is the complete whole, and everything else is His part and parcel. The relation is one of the servant and the served. It is transcendental and is completely distinct from our experience in material existence. This relation of servant and the served is the most congenial form of intimacy. One can realize it as devotional service progresses. Everyone should engage himself in that transcendental loving service of the Lord, even in the present conditional state of material existence. That will gradually give one the clue to actual life and please him to complete satisfaction.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1999979 d1acd63b-5dd6-411f-a031-e618a423b423 2986 full 1 1 21 21 false Thu, 24 Apr 2025 08:54:03 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Everyone is seeking satisfaction | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-6 | New Vrindavan]]> In this statement, Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī answers the first question of the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya. The sages asked him to summarize the whole range of revealed scriptures and present the most essential part so that fallen people or the people in general might easily take it up. The Vedas prescribe two different types of occupation for the human being. One is called the pravṛtti-mārga, or the path of sense enjoyment, and the other is called the nivṛtti-mārga, or the path of renunciation. The path of enjoyment is inferior, and the path of sacrifice for the supreme cause is superior. The material existence of the living being is a diseased condition of actual life. Actual life is spiritual existence, or brahma-bhūta existence, where life is eternal, blissful and full of knowledge. Material existence is temporary, illusory and full of miseries. There is no happiness at all. There is just the futile attempt to get rid of the miseries, and temporary cessation of misery is falsely called happiness. Therefore, the path of progressive material enjoyment, which is temporary, miserable and illusory, is inferior. But devotional service to the Supreme Lord, which leads one to eternal, blissful and all-cognizant life, is called the superior quality of occupation. This is sometimes polluted when mixed with the inferior quality. For example, adoption of devotional service for material gain is certainly an obstruction to the progressive path of renunciation. Renunciation or abnegation for ultimate good is certainly a better occupation than enjoyment in the diseased condition of life. Such enjoyment only aggravates the symptoms of disease and increases its duration. Therefore devotional service to the Lord must be pure in quality, i.e., without the least desire for material enjoyment. One should, therefore, accept the superior quality of occupation in the form of the devotional service of the Lord without any tinge of unnecessary desire, fruitive action and philosophical speculation. This alone can lead one to perpetual solace in His service.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1998437 e1a2dbb6-2fe9-4bbd-be66-26b160f0eb81 3440 full 1 1 22 22 false Wed, 23 Apr 2025 05:52:57 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | That is the only remedy | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-6 | Montreal]]> We have purposely denoted dharma as occupation because the root meaning of the word dharma is “that which sustains one’s existence.” A living being’s sustenance of existence is to coordinate his activities with his eternal relation with the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the central pivot of living beings, and He is the all-attractive living entity or eternal form amongst all other living beings or eternal forms. Each and every living being has his eternal form in the spiritual existence, and Kṛṣṇa is the eternal attraction for all of them. Kṛṣṇa is the complete whole, and everything else is His part and parcel. The relation is one of the servant and the served. It is transcendental and is completely distinct from our experience in material existence. This relation of servant and the served is the most congenial form of intimacy. One can realize it as devotional service progresses. Everyone should engage himself in that transcendental loving service of the Lord, even in the present conditional state of material existence. That will gradually give one the clue to actual life and please him to complete satisfaction.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1996976 0db9d240-33e7-4ac7-9ebf-323f796c4424 5604 full 1 1 23 23 false Tue, 22 Apr 2025 11:27:30 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | MOM What is your prime business | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-6 | Mombasa]]> We have purposely denoted dharma as occupation because the root meaning of the word dharma is “that which sustains one’s existence.” A living being’s sustenance of existence is to coordinate his activities with his eternal relation with the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the central pivot of living beings, and He is the all-attractive living entity or eternal form amongst all other living beings or eternal forms. Each and every living being has his eternal form in the spiritual existence, and Kṛṣṇa is the eternal attraction for all of them. Kṛṣṇa is the complete whole, and everything else is His part and parcel. The relation is one of the servant and the served. It is transcendental and is completely distinct from our experience in material existence. This relation of servant and the served is the most congenial form of intimacy. One can realize it as devotional service progresses. Everyone should engage himself in that transcendental loving service of the Lord, even in the present conditional state of material existence. That will gradually give one the clue to actual life and please him to complete satisfaction.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1995383 03f06297-d623-4b68-bed8-589b30c375ab 3467 full 1 1 24 24 false Mon, 21 Apr 2025 12:28:39 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Our Superior Engagement | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-6 | Mauritius]]> We have purposely denoted dharma as occupation because the root meaning of the word dharma is “that which sustains one’s existence.” A living being’s sustenance of existence is to coordinate his activities with his eternal relation with the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the central pivot of living beings, and He is the all-attractive living entity or eternal form amongst all other living beings or eternal forms. Each and every living being has his eternal form in the spiritual existence, and Kṛṣṇa is the eternal attraction for all of them. Kṛṣṇa is the complete whole, and everything else is His part and parcel. The relation is one of the servant and the served. It is transcendental and is completely distinct from our experience in material existence. This relation of servant and the served is the most congenial form of intimacy. One can realize it as devotional service progresses. Everyone should engage himself in that transcendental loving service of the Lord, even in the present conditional state of material existence. That will gradually give one the clue to actual life and please him to complete satisfaction.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1992411 69701b0e-02a5-4043-b2ab-79877688a37a 3162 full 1 1 25 25 false Fri, 18 Apr 2025 11:26:30 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | God’s another name is Adhokṣaja | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-6 | London]]> We have purposely denoted dharma as occupation because the root meaning of the word dharma is “that which sustains one’s existence.” A living being’s sustenance of existence is to coordinate his activities with his eternal relation with the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the central pivot of living beings, and He is the all-attractive living entity or eternal form amongst all other living beings or eternal forms. Each and every living being has his eternal form in the spiritual existence, and Kṛṣṇa is the eternal attraction for all of them. Kṛṣṇa is the complete whole, and everything else is His part and parcel. The relation is one of the servant and the served. It is transcendental and is completely distinct from our experience in material existence. This relation of servant and the served is the most congenial form of intimacy. One can realize it as devotional service progresses. Everyone should engage himself in that transcendental loving service of the Lord, even in the present conditional state of material existence. That will gradually give one the clue to actual life and please him to complete satisfaction.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1991059 75b8f0bc-c6d4-4292-92d0-f309d1923250 2173 full 1 1 26 26 false Thu, 17 Apr 2025 10:52:36 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | You are actually not the dress | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-6 | London]]> In this statement, Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī answers the first question of the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya. The sages asked him to summarize the whole range of revealed scriptures and present the most essential part so that fallen people or the people in general might easily take it up. The Vedas prescribe two different types of occupation for the human being. One is called the pravṛtti-mārga, or the path of sense enjoyment, and the other is called the nivṛtti-mārga, or the path of renunciation. The path of enjoyment is inferior, and the path of sacrifice for the supreme cause is superior. The material existence of the living being is a diseased condition of actual life. Actual life is spiritual existence, or brahma-bhūta existence, where life is eternal, blissful and full of knowledge. Material existence is temporary, illusory and full of miseries. There is no happiness at all. There is just the futile attempt to get rid of the miseries, and temporary cessation of misery is falsely called happiness. Therefore, the path of progressive material enjoyment, which is temporary, miserable and illusory, is inferior. But devotional service to the Supreme Lord, which leads one to eternal, blissful and all-cognizant life, is called the superior quality of occupation. This is sometimes polluted when mixed with the inferior quality. For example, adoption of devotional service for material gain is certainly an obstruction to the progressive path of renunciation. Renunciation or abnegation for ultimate good is certainly a better occupation than enjoyment in the diseased condition of life. Such enjoyment only aggravates the symptoms of disease and increases its duration. Therefore devotional service to the Lord must be pure in quality, i.e., without the least desire for material enjoyment. One should, therefore, accept the superior quality of occupation in the form of the devotional service of the Lord without any tinge of unnecessary desire, fruitive action and philosophical speculation. This alone can lead one to perpetual solace in His service.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1989529 ada96879-136d-4222-a0af-84b11e5cf7cf 2650 full 1 1 27 27 false Wed, 16 Apr 2025 12:15:51 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | East and West Should Cooperate | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-6 | Hyderabad]]> We have purposely denoted dharma as occupation because the root meaning of the word dharma is “that which sustains one’s existence.” A living being’s sustenance of existence is to coordinate his activities with his eternal relation with the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the central pivot of living beings, and He is the all-attractive living entity or eternal form amongst all other living beings or eternal forms. Each and every living being has his eternal form in the spiritual existence, and Kṛṣṇa is the eternal attraction for all of them. Kṛṣṇa is the complete whole, and everything else is His part and parcel. The relation is one of the servant and the served. It is transcendental and is completely distinct from our experience in material existence. This relation of servant and the served is the most congenial form of intimacy. One can realize it as devotional service progresses. Everyone should engage himself in that transcendental loving service of the Lord, even in the present conditional state of material existence. That will gradually give one the clue to actual life and please him to complete satisfaction.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1987707 5a140103-cd88-424c-b695-104a7980e0d4 1994 full 1 1 28 28 false Tue, 15 Apr 2025 05:53:44 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Material world means everyone is working hard only for the happiness of the body | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-6 | Hyderabad]]> In this statement, Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī answers the first question of the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya. The sages asked him to summarize the whole range of revealed scriptures and present the most essential part so that fallen people or the people in general might easily take it up. The Vedas prescribe two different types of occupation for the human being. One is called the pravṛtti-mārga, or the path of sense enjoyment, and the other is called the nivṛtti-mārga, or the path of renunciation. The path of enjoyment is inferior, and the path of sacrifice for the supreme cause is superior. The material existence of the living being is a diseased condition of actual life. Actual life is spiritual existence, or brahma-bhūta existence, where life is eternal, blissful and full of knowledge. Material existence is temporary, illusory and full of miseries. There is no happiness at all. There is just the futile attempt to get rid of the miseries, and temporary cessation of misery is falsely called happiness. Therefore, the path of progressive material enjoyment, which is temporary, miserable and illusory, is inferior. But devotional service to the Supreme Lord, which leads one to eternal, blissful and all-cognizant life, is called the superior quality of occupation. This is sometimes polluted when mixed with the inferior quality. For example, adoption of devotional service for material gain is certainly an obstruction to the progressive path of renunciation. Renunciation or abnegation for ultimate good is certainly a better occupation than enjoyment in the diseased condition of life. Such enjoyment only aggravates the symptoms of disease and increases its duration. Therefore devotional service to the Lord must be pure in quality, i.e., without the least desire for material enjoyment. One should, therefore, accept the superior quality of occupation in the form of the devotional service of the Lord without any tinge of unnecessary desire, fruitive action and philosophical speculation. This alone can lead one to perpetual solace in His service.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1985879 bc49e5ad-230d-4498-8dbc-bab46f92ff4c 3426 full 1 1 29 29 false Mon, 14 Apr 2025 11:15:43 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Everyone is controller to his limited extent | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-6 | Hawaii]]> Therefore, with the development of the bhakti cult, with the application of positive service to the positive form, one naturally becomes detached from inferior things, and he becomes attached to superior things. Similarly, the bhakti cult, being the supermost occupation of the living being, leads him out of material sense enjoyment. That is the sign of a pure devotee. He is not a fool, nor is he engaged in the inferior energies, nor does he have material values. This is not possible by dry reasoning. It actually happens by the grace of the Almighty. In conclusion, one who is a pure devotee has all other good qualities, namely knowledge, detachment, etc., but one who has only knowledge or detachment is not necessarily well acquainted with the principles of the bhakti cult. Bhakti is the supermost occupation of the human being.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1983787 407d99de-a452-4057-8366-c364e3182fdb 3302 full 1 1 30 30 false Sat, 12 Apr 2025 09:25:07 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | What is nationalism | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-6 | Denver]]> One is called the pravṛtti-mārga, or the path of sense enjoyment, and the other is called the nivṛtti-mārga, or the path of renunciation. The path of enjoyment is inferior, and the path of sacrifice for the supreme cause is superior. The material existence of the living being is a diseased condition of actual life. Actual life is spiritual existence, or brahma-bhūta existence, where life is eternal, blissful and full of knowledge. Material existence is temporary, illusory and full of miseries. There is no happiness at all. There is just the futile attempt to get rid of the miseries, and temporary cessation of misery is falsely called happiness. Therefore, the path of progressive material enjoyment, which is temporary, miserable and illusory, is inferior. But devotional service to the Supreme Lord, which leads one to eternal, blissful and all-cognizant life, is called the superior quality of occupation. This is sometimes polluted when mixed with the inferior quality. For example, adoption of devotional service for material gain is certainly an obstruction to the progressive path of renunciation. Renunciation or abnegation for ultimate good is certainly a better occupation than enjoyment in the diseased condition of life. Such enjoyment only aggravates the symptoms of disease and increases its duration. Therefore devotional service to the Lord must be pure in quality, i.e., without the least desire for material enjoyment. One should, therefore, accept the superior quality of occupation in the form of the devotional service of the Lord without any tinge of unnecessary desire, fruitive action and philosophical speculation. This alone can lead one to perpetual solace in His service.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1982569 258c7161-759e-407a-80ce-dab75b5ca93c 2214 full 1 1 31 31 false Fri, 11 Apr 2025 10:36:45 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Toward Perfect Peace of Mind | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-6 | Delhi]]> In this statement, Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī answers the first question of the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya. The sages asked him to summarize the whole range of revealed scriptures and present the most essential part so that fallen people or the people in general might easily take it up. The Vedas prescribe two different types of occupation for the human being. One is called the pravṛtti-mārga, or the path of sense enjoyment, and the other is called the nivṛtti-mārga, or the path of renunciation. The path of enjoyment is inferior, and the path of sacrifice for the supreme cause is superior. The material existence of the living being is a diseased condition of actual life. Actual life is spiritual existence, or brahma-bhūta existence, where life is eternal, blissful and full of knowledge. Material existence is temporary, illusory and full of miseries. There is no happiness at all. There is just the futile attempt to get rid of the miseries, and temporary cessation of misery is falsely called happiness. Therefore, the path of progressive material enjoyment, which is temporary, miserable and illusory, is inferior.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1977984 9e9b5d8b-570e-4585-88c8-11f708842672 2805 full 1 1 32 32 false Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:44:43 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | The Ultimate Gain in Life | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-6 | Delhi]]> We have purposely denoted dharma as occupation because the root meaning of the word dharma is “that which sustains one’s existence.” A living being’s sustenance of existence is to coordinate his activities with his eternal relation with the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the central pivot of living beings, and He is the all-attractive living entity or eternal form amongst all other living beings or eternal forms. Each and every living being has his eternal form in the spiritual existence, and Kṛṣṇa is the eternal attraction for all of them. Kṛṣṇa is the complete whole, and everything else is His part and parcel. The relation is one of the servant and the served. It is transcendental and is completely distinct from our experience in material existence. This relation of servant and the served is the most congenial form of intimacy. One can realize it as devotional service progresses. Everyone should engage himself in that transcendental loving service of the Lord, even in the present conditional state of material existence. That will gradually give one the clue to actual life and please him to complete satisfaction.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1976493 94d5e90e-98c4-42ca-8d49-4c134fe850c0 2179 full 1 1 33 33 false Mon, 07 Apr 2025 12:44:07 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Krishna Takes Only the Bright Side of Your Devotional220 Service | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-6 | Calcutta]]> One is called the pravṛtti-mārga, or the path of sense enjoyment, and the other is called the nivṛtti-mārga, or the path of renunciation. The path of enjoyment is inferior, and the path of sacrifice for the supreme cause is superior. The material existence of the living being is a diseased condition of actual life. Actual life is spiritual existence, or brahma-bhūta existence, where life is eternal, blissful and full of knowledge. Material existence is temporary, illusory and full of miseries. There is no happiness at all. There is just the futile attempt to get rid of the miseries, and temporary cessation of misery is falsely called happiness. Therefore, the path of progressive material enjoyment, which is temporary, miserable and illusory, is inferior. But devotional service to the Supreme Lord, which leads one to eternal, blissful and all-cognizant life, is called the superior quality of occupation. This is sometimes polluted when mixed with the inferior quality. For example, adoption of devotional service for material gain is certainly an obstruction to the progressive path of renunciation. Renunciation or abnegation for ultimate good is certainly a better occupation than enjoyment in the diseased condition of life. Such enjoyment only aggravates the symptoms of disease and increases its duration. Therefore devotional service to the Lord must be pure in quality, i.e., without the least desire for material enjoyment. One should, therefore, accept the superior quality of occupation in the form of the devotional service of the Lord without any tinge of unnecessary desire, fruitive action and philosophical speculation. This alone can lead one to perpetual solace in His service.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1974098 61d02665-e744-4ddc-a2e7-ce9769653c17 2000 full 1 1 34 34 false Sat, 05 Apr 2025 10:00:32 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | The Spirit of Giving to Krishna is Now Forgotten | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-6 | Calcutta]]> We have purposely denoted dharma as occupation because the root meaning of the word dharma is “that which sustains one’s existence.” A living being’s sustenance of existence is to coordinate his activities with his eternal relation with the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the central pivot of living beings, and He is the all-attractive living entity or eternal form amongst all other living beings or eternal forms. Each and every living being has his eternal form in the spiritual existence, and Kṛṣṇa is the eternal attraction for all of them. Kṛṣṇa is the complete whole, and everything else is His part and parcel. The relation is one of the servant and the served. It is transcendental and is completely distinct from our experience in material existence. This relation of servant and the served is the most congenial form of intimacy. One can realize it as devotional service progresses. Everyone should engage himself in that transcendental loving service of the Lord, even in the present conditional state of material existence. That will gradually give one the clue to actual life and please him to complete satisfaction.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1972791 8e56cee3-e58c-4cc2-9d17-e617d88b3313 1148 full 1 1 35 35 false Fri, 04 Apr 2025 12:31:46 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | What is that religion | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-6 | Bombay]]> We have purposely denoted dharma as occupation because the root meaning of the word dharma is “that which sustains one’s existence.” A living being’s sustenance of existence is to coordinate his activities with his eternal relation with the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the central pivot of living beings, and He is the all-attractive living entity or eternal form amongst all other living beings or eternal forms. Each and every living being has his eternal form in the spiritual existence, and Kṛṣṇa is the eternal attraction for all of them. Kṛṣṇa is the complete whole, and everything else is His part and parcel. The relation is one of the servant and the served. It is transcendental and is completely distinct from our experience in material existence. This relation of servant and the served is the most congenial form of intimacy. One can realize it as devotional service progresses. Everyone should engage himself in that transcendental loving service of the Lord, even in the present conditional state of material existence. That will gradually give one the clue to actual life and please him to complete satisfaction.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1969739 c9c9afb8-934d-484e-9857-df05dbd27eff 2918 full 1 1 36 36 false Wed, 02 Apr 2025 12:01:59 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | The Religion Above All Cheating | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-6 | Aligarh]]> We have purposely denoted dharma as occupation because the root meaning of the word dharma is “that which sustains one’s existence.” A living being’s sustenance of existence is to coordinate his activities with his eternal relation with the Supreme Lord Kṛṣṇa. Kṛṣṇa is the central pivot of living beings, and He is the all-attractive living entity or eternal form amongst all other living beings or eternal forms. Each and every living being has his eternal form in the spiritual existence, and Kṛṣṇa is the eternal attraction for all of them. Kṛṣṇa is the complete whole, and everything else is His part and parcel. The relation is one of the servant and the served. It is transcendental and is completely distinct from our experience in material existence. This relation of servant and the served is the most congenial form of intimacy. One can realize it as devotional service progresses. Everyone should engage himself in that transcendental loving service of the Lord, even in the present conditional state of material existence. That will gradually give one the clue to actual life and please him to complete satisfaction.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1962002 5bf08445-3819-4d00-a912-f9e6776f70b3 3056 full 1 1 37 37 false Fri, 28 Mar 2025 12:16:36 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Today I am engineer- Tomorrow I shall be sweeper | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-6 | London]]> In this statement, Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī answers the first question of the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya. The sages asked him to summarize the whole range of revealed scriptures and present the most essential part so that fallen people or the people in general might easily take it up. The Vedas prescribe two different types of occupation for the human being. One is called the pravṛtti-mārga, or the path of sense enjoyment, and the other is called the nivṛtti-mārga, or the path of renunciation. The path of enjoyment is inferior, and the path of sacrifice for the supreme cause is superior. The material existence of the living being is a diseased condition of actual life. Actual life is spiritual existence, or brahma-bhūta existence, where life is eternal, blissful and full of knowledge. Material existence is temporary, illusory and full of miseries. There is no happiness at all. There is just the futile attempt to get rid of the miseries, and temporary cessation of misery is falsely called happiness. Therefore, the path of progressive material enjoyment, which is temporary, miserable and illusory, is inferior. But devotional service to the Supreme Lord, which leads one to eternal, blissful and all-cognizant life, is called the superior quality of occupation. This is sometimes polluted when mixed with the inferior quality. For example, adoption of devotional service for material gain is certainly an obstruction to the progressive path of renunciation. Renunciation or abnegation for ultimate good is certainly a better occupation than enjoyment in the diseased condition of life. Such enjoyment only aggravates the symptoms of disease and increases its duration. Therefore devotional service to the Lord must be pure in quality, i.e., without the least desire for material enjoyment. One should, therefore, accept the superior quality of occupation in the form of the devotional service of the Lord without any tinge of unnecessary desire, fruitive action and philosophical speculation. This alone can lead one to perpetual solace in His service.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1958945 79188b2a-23f7-4bb2-8a16-60be2c4bfe23 2931 full 1 1 38 38 false Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:32:37 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Demons means those who are against religious principles | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-5 | Vrindavan]]> The whole world is full of questions and answers. The birds, beasts and men are all busy in the matter of perpetual questions and answers. In the morning the birds in the nest become busy with questions and answers, and in the evening also the same birds come back and again become busy with questions and answers. The human being, unless he is fast asleep at night, is busy with questions and answers. The businessmen in the market are busy with questions and answers, and so also the lawyers in the court and the students in the schools and colleges. The legislators in the parliament are also busy with questions and answers, and the politicians and the press representatives are all busy with questions and answers. Although they go on making such questions and answers for their whole lives, they are not at all satisfied. Satisfaction of the soul can only be obtained by questions and answers on the subject of Kṛṣṇa.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1949554 e0a3e173-da36-4ce8-8363-ef7d202cae2a 2278 full 1 1 39 39 false Mon, 24 Mar 2025 07:39:46 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | He especially comes for the devotee | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-5 | Vishkapatnam]]> Kṛṣṇa is our most intimate master, friend, father or son and object of conjugal love. Forgetting Kṛṣṇa, we have created so many objects of questions and answers, but none of them are able to give us complete satisfaction. All things — but Kṛṣṇa — give temporary satisfaction only, so if we are to have complete satisfaction we must take to the questions and answers about Kṛṣṇa. We cannot live for a moment without being questioned or without giving answers. Because the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam deals with questions and answers that are related to Kṛṣṇa, we can derive the highest satisfaction only by reading and hearing this transcendental literature. One should learn the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and make an all-around solution to all problems pertaining to social, political or religious matters. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Kṛṣṇa are the sum total of all things.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1946362 5d9f7dbc-a0dc-4c5a-9005-c6d6584b5a4f 2022 full 1 1 40 40 false Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:30:25 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | The characteristic of water is liquidity | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-5 | Sydney]]> The whole world is full of questions and answers. The birds, beasts and men are all busy in the matter of perpetual questions and answers. In the morning the birds in the nest become busy with questions and answers, and in the evening also the same birds come back and again become busy with questions and answers. The human being, unless he is fast asleep at night, is busy with questions and answers. The businessmen in the market are busy with questions and answers, and so also the lawyers in the court and the students in the schools and colleges. The legislators in the parliament are also busy with questions and answers, and the politicians and the press representatives are all busy with questions and answers. Although they go on making such questions and answers for their whole lives, they are not at all satisfied. Satisfaction of the soul can only be obtained by questions and answers on the subject of Kṛṣṇa.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1944531 ec681b1d-0018-484c-a950-43f56998e09c 2840 full 1 1 41 41 false Mon, 17 Mar 2025 11:08:56 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | ’Riverside Reflections’_Dogs’ Philosophy Revealed | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-5 | Rome]]> Kṛṣṇa is our most intimate master, friend, father or son and object of conjugal love. Forgetting Kṛṣṇa, we have created so many objects of questions and answers, but none of them are able to give us complete satisfaction. All things — but Kṛṣṇa — give temporary satisfaction only, so if we are to have complete satisfaction we must take to the questions and answers about Kṛṣṇa. We cannot live for a moment without being questioned or without giving answers. Because the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam deals with questions and answers that are related to Kṛṣṇa, we can derive the highest satisfaction only by reading and hearing this transcendental literature. One should learn the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and make an all-around solution to all problems pertaining to social, political or religious matters. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Kṛṣṇa are the sum total of all things.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1941353 7c3ab645-0039-4c8a-b86d-ea036df99888 1369 full 1 1 42 42 false Sat, 15 Mar 2025 10:06:12 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | ’Riverside Reflections’_Dogs’ Philosophy Revealed | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-5 | Rome]]> Kṛṣṇa is our most intimate master, friend, father or son and object of conjugal love. Forgetting Kṛṣṇa, we have created so many objects of questions and answers, but none of them are able to give us complete satisfaction. All things — but Kṛṣṇa — give temporary satisfaction only, so if we are to have complete satisfaction we must take to the questions and answers about Kṛṣṇa. We cannot live for a moment without being questioned or without giving answers. Because the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam deals with questions and answers that are related to Kṛṣṇa, we can derive the highest satisfaction only by reading and hearing this transcendental literature. One should learn the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and make an all-around solution to all problems pertaining to social, political or religious matters. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Kṛṣṇa are the sum total of all things.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1941351 3c5a34be-1221-4f4f-b47c-74fa17d47f40 1369 full 1 1 43 43 false Sat, 15 Mar 2025 09:59:32 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | This Bhagavatam Culture is for Everyone | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-5 | New vrindavan]]> Since it has been stated hereinbefore that in the Bhāgavatam the Absolute Truth is to be known, the questions of the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya are proper and just, because they pertain to Kṛṣṇa, who is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth. In Bhagavad-gītā (15.15) the Personality of Godhead says that in all the Vedas there is nothing but the urge for searching after Him, Lord Kṛṣṇa. Thus the questions that pertain to Kṛṣṇa are the sum and substance of all the Vedic inquiries.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1938457 9a6c6034-c0a3-4000-b1e3-32ec90daed60 3197 full 1 1 44 44 false Thu, 13 Mar 2025 07:43:07 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Whether that process of religion is teaching you how to love God | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-5 | Montreal]]> Kṛṣṇa is our most intimate master, friend, father or son and object of conjugal love. Forgetting Kṛṣṇa, we have created so many objects of questions and answers, but none of them are able to give us complete satisfaction. All things — but Kṛṣṇa — give temporary satisfaction only, so if we are to have complete satisfaction we must take to the questions and answers about Kṛṣṇa. We cannot live for a moment without being questioned or without giving answers. Because the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam deals with questions and answers that are related to Kṛṣṇa, we can derive the highest satisfaction only by reading and hearing this transcendental literature. One should learn the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and make an all-around solution to all problems pertaining to social, political or religious matters. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Kṛṣṇa are the sum total of all things.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1937114 8b3fbf6c-8066-4d36-8f50-4e9f3cc9f37d 2726 full 1 1 45 45 false Wed, 12 Mar 2025 13:04:24 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | The whole world is full of questions and answers | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-5 | Glasgow]]> Kṛṣṇa is our most intimate master, friend, father or son and object of conjugal love. Forgetting Kṛṣṇa, we have created so many objects of questions and answers, but none of them are able to give us complete satisfaction. All things — but Kṛṣṇa — give temporary satisfaction only, so if we are to have complete satisfaction we must take to the questions and answers about Kṛṣṇa. We cannot live for a moment without being questioned or without giving answers. Because the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam deals with questions and answers that are related to Kṛṣṇa, we can derive the highest satisfaction only by reading and hearing this transcendental literature. One should learn the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and make an all-around solution to all problems pertaining to social, political or religious matters. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and Kṛṣṇa are the sum total of all things.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1933566 ed58850f-4e66-4f0b-b082-8ff3cc709fa3 3461 full 1 1 46 46 false Mon, 10 Mar 2025 06:57:32 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | The jurisdiction of Durgā | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-5 | Bombay]]> The whole world is full of questions and answers. The birds, beasts and men are all busy in the matter of perpetual questions and answers. In the morning the birds in the nest become busy with questions and answers, and in the evening also the same birds come back and again become busy with questions and answers. The human being, unless he is fast asleep at night, is busy with questions and answers. The businessmen in the market are busy with questions and answers, and so also the lawyers in the court and the students in the schools and colleges. The legislators in the parliament are also busy with questions and answers, and the politicians and the press representatives are all busy with questions and answers. Although they go on making such questions and answers for their whole lives, they are not at all satisfied. Satisfaction of the soul can only be obtained by questions and answers on the subject of Kṛṣṇa.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1931371 a1a2c28d-2f00-48d6-92bc-035681a2b848 801 full 1 1 47 47 false Sat, 08 Mar 2025 05:14:16 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Darkness Of Disobedience | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-4 | Rome]]> All the Vedic literatures and the Purāṇas are meant for conquering the darkest region of material existence. The living being is in the state of forgetfulness of his relation with God due to his being overly attracted to material sense gratification from time immemorial. His struggle for existence in the material world is perpetual, and it is not possible for him to get out of it by making plans. If he at all wants to conquer this perpetual struggle for existence, he must reestablish his eternal relation with God. And one who wants to adopt such remedial measures must take shelter of literatures such as the Vedas and the Purāṇas. Foolish people say that the Purāṇas have no connection with the Vedas. However, the Purāṇas are supplementary explanations of the Vedas intended for different types of men. All men are not equal. There are men who are conducted by the mode of goodness, others who are under the mode of passion and others who are under the mode of ignorance. The Purāṇas are so divided that any class of men can take advantage of them and gradually regain their lost position and get out of the hard struggle for existence. Śrīla Sūta Gosvāmī shows the way of chanting the Purāṇas. This may be followed by persons who aspire to be preachers of the Vedic literatures and the Purāṇas. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the spotless Purāṇa, and it is especially meant for them who desire to get out of the material entanglement permanently.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1923512 52be32b5-e58e-4cc1-baef-e402f8ec4929 2515 full 1 1 48 48 false Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:23:28 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | My dear boy, where you are going | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-3 | South Africa]]> Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the one unrivaled commentary on Vedānta-sūtra. Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya intentionally did not touch it because he knew that the natural commentary would be difficult for him to surpass. He wrote his Śārīraka-bhāṣya, and his so-called followers deprecated the Bhāgavatam as some “new” presentation. One should not be misled by such propaganda directed against the Bhāgavatam by the Māyāvāda school. From this introductory śloka, the beginning student should know that Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the only transcendental literature meant for those who are paramahaṁsas and completely freed from the material disease called malice. The Māyāvādīs are envious of the Personality of Godhead despite Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya’s admission that Nārāyaṇa, the Personality of Godhead, is above the material creation. The envious Māyāvādī cannot have access to the Bhāgavatam, but those who are really anxious to get out of this material existence may take shelter of this Bhāgavatam because it is uttered by the liberated Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī. It is the transcendental torchlight by which one can see perfectly the transcendental Absolute Truth realized as Brahman, Paramātmā and Bhagavān.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1906612 de173b63-55c4-45fb-9a97-9bba354e51b9 3180 full 1 1 49 49 false Thu, 20 Feb 2025 09:48:42 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Now I have become Nārāyaṇa | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-3 | London]]> There is no point in arguing that a materialistic man can be happy. No materialistic creature — be he the great Brahmā or an insignificant ant — can be happy. Everyone tries to make a permanent plan for happiness, but everyone is baffled by the laws of material nature. Therefore the materialistic world is called the darkest region of God’s creation. Yet the unhappy materialists can get out of it simply by desiring to get out. Unfortunately they are so foolish that they do not want to escape. Therefore they are compared to the camel who relishes thorny twigs because he likes the taste of the twigs mixed with blood. He does not realize that it is his own blood and that his tongue is being cut by the thorns. Similarly, to the materialist his own blood is as sweet as honey, and although he is always harassed by his own material creations, he does not wish to escape. Such materialists are called karmīs. Out of hundreds of thousands of karmīs, only a few may feel tired of material engagement and desire to get out of the labyrinth. Such intelligent persons are called jñānīs. The Vedānta-sūtra is directed to such jñānīs. But Śrīla Vyāsadeva, being the incarnation of the Supreme Lord, could foresee the misuse of the Vedānta-sūtra by unscrupulous men, and, therefore, he personally supplemented the Vedānta-sūtra with the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. It is clearly said that this Bhāgavatam is the original commentary on the Brahma-sūtras. Śrīla Vyāsadeva also instructed the Bhāgavatam to his own son, Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī, who was already at the liberated stage of transcendence. Śrīla Śukadeva realized it personally and then explained it. By the mercy of Śrīla Śukadeva, the Bhāgavata-vedānta-sūtra is available for all those sincere souls who want to get out of material existence.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1905108 84a1eb75-7443-4f26-9cb0-67e0ab624b3e 2528 full 1 1 50 50 false Wed, 19 Feb 2025 09:00:02 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | The Supreme Destination Is for EVERYONE | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-2 | Rome]]> Generally, a man is born as an ordinary being, and by the purificatory processes he is born for the second time. When he sees a new light and seeks direction for spiritual progress, he approaches a spiritual master for instruction in the Vedas. The spiritual master accepts only the sincere inquirer as his disciple and gives him the sacred thread. In this way a man becomes twice-born, or a dvija. After qualifying as a dvija one may study the Vedas, and after becoming well versed in the Vedas one becomes a vipra. A vipra, or a qualified brāhmaṇa, thus realizes the Absolute and makes further progress in spiritual life until he reaches the Vaiṣṇava stage. The Vaiṣṇava stage is the postgraduate status of a brāhmaṇa. A progressive brāhmaṇa must necessarily become a Vaiṣṇava, for a Vaiṣṇava is a self-realized, learned brāhmaṇa.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1899086 c4c1a423-0b6e-4674-ba85-1325dc2d1a89 2416 full 1 1 51 51 false Sat, 15 Feb 2025 12:13:31 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | By sound vibration, the wind is started | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-2 | New Vrindavan]]> Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī was a Vaiṣṇava from the beginning; therefore, there was no need for him to undergo all the processes of the varṇāśrama institution. Ultimately the aim of varṇāśrama-dharma is to turn a crude man into a pure devotee of the Lord, or a Vaiṣṇava. Anyone, therefore, who becomes a Vaiṣṇava accepted by the first-class Vaiṣṇava, or uttama-adhikārī Vaiṣṇava, is already considered a brāhmaṇa, regardless of his birth or past deeds. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted this principle and recognized Śrīla Haridāsa Ṭhākura as the ācārya of the holy name, although Ṭhākura Haridāsa appeared in a Mohammedan family. In conclusion, Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī was born a Vaiṣṇava, and, therefore, brahminism was included in him. He did not have to undergo any ceremonies. Any lowborn person — be he a Kirāta, Hūṇa, Āndhra, Pulinda, Pulkaśa, Ābhīra, Śumbha, Yavana, Khasa or even lower — can be delivered to the highest transcendental position by the mercy of Vaiṣṇavas. Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī was the spiritual master of Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī, who therefore offers his respectful obeisances unto Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī before he begins his answers to the questions of the sages at Naimiṣāraṇya.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1896032 0919b8b9-f631-4f3d-a039-f7e809201817 2981 full 1 1 52 52 false Thu, 13 Feb 2025 11:44:54 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | What is the activities of your spiritual master | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-2 | London]]> Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī was a Vaiṣṇava from the beginning; therefore, there was no need for him to undergo all the processes of the varṇāśrama institution. Ultimately the aim of varṇāśrama-dharma is to turn a crude man into a pure devotee of the Lord, or a Vaiṣṇava. Anyone, therefore, who becomes a Vaiṣṇava accepted by the first-class Vaiṣṇava, or uttama-adhikārī Vaiṣṇava, is already considered a brāhmaṇa, regardless of his birth or past deeds. Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu accepted this principle and recognized Śrīla Haridāsa Ṭhākura as the ācārya of the holy name, although Ṭhākura Haridāsa appeared in a Mohammedan family. In conclusion, Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī was born a Vaiṣṇava, and, therefore, brahminism was included in him. He did not have to undergo any ceremonies. Any lowborn person — be he a Kirāta, Hūṇa, Āndhra, Pulinda, Pulkaśa, Ābhīra, Śumbha, Yavana, Khasa or even lower — can be delivered to the highest transcendental position by the mercy of Vaiṣṇavas. Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī was the spiritual master of Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī, who therefore offers his respectful obeisances unto Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī before he begins his answers to the questions of the sages at Naimiṣāraṇya.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1880326 6e32dc6a-a835-499f-8385-5e1e10426a92 2839 full 1 1 53 53 false Tue, 04 Feb 2025 07:30:18 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures |I come, I appear, My only business is to reestablish the religious principles | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-2-1 | Jakarta]]> The sages of Naimiṣāraṇya asked Sūta Gosvāmī six questions, and so he is answering them one by one.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1872613 a526eadc-cd94-4b1d-92dd-1b2507e944d8 4127 full 1 1 54 54 false Thu, 30 Jan 2025 06:42:17 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures |Oh, my father is gone | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-1-23 | London]]> Essentially religion is the prescribed codes enunciated by the Personality of Godhead Himself. Whenever there is gross misuse or neglect of the principles of religion, the Supreme Lord appears Himself to restore religious principles. This is stated in Bhagavad-gītā. Here the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya are inquiring about these principles. The reply to this question is given later. The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the transcendental sound representation of the Personality of Godhead, and thus it is the full representation of transcendental knowledge and religious principles.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the First Canto, First Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “Questions by the Sages.”

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1869203 fe35ed23-647c-4874-a076-b19979065ac4 2190 full 1 1 55 55 false Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:47:34 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures |The Acharya Knows How to Adjust Things | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-1-23 | Aucland]]> Essentially religion is the prescribed codes enunciated by the Personality of Godhead Himself. Whenever there is gross misuse or neglect of the principles of religion, the Supreme Lord appears Himself to restore religious principles. This is stated in Bhagavad-gītā. Here the sages of Naimiṣāraṇya are inquiring about these principles. The reply to this question is given later. The Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the transcendental sound representation of the Personality of Godhead, and thus it is the full representation of transcendental knowledge and religious principles.

Thus end the Bhaktivedanta purports of the First Canto, First Chapter, of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, entitled “Questions by the Sages.”

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1866868 452de62e-6f5c-485e-b4fc-9e97991772fb 2738 full 1 1 56 56 false Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:09:58 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures |have got another opinion| Srimad Bhagavatam 1-1-19 |London]]> There is a great difference between mundane stories, fiction, or history and the transcendental pastimes of the Lord. The histories of the whole universe contain references to the pastimes of the incarnations of the Lord. The Rāmāyaṇa, the Mahābhārata, and the Purāṇas are histories of bygone ages recorded in connection with the pastimes of the incarnations of the Lord and therefore remain fresh even after repeated readings. For example, anyone may read Bhagavad-gītā or the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam repeatedly throughout his whole life and yet find in them new light of information. Mundane news is static whereas transcendental news is dynamic, inasmuch as the spirit is dynamic and matter is static. Those who have developed a taste for understanding the transcendental subject matter are never tired of hearing such narrations. One is quickly satiated by mundane activities, but no one is satiated by transcendental or devotional activities. Uttama-śloka indicates that literature which is not meant for nescience. Mundane literature is in the mode of darkness or ignorance, whereas transcendental literature is quite different. Transcendental literature is above the mode of darkness, and its light becomes more luminous with progressive reading and realization of the transcendental subject matter. The so-called liberated persons are never satisfied by the repetition of the words ahaṁ brahmāsmi. Such artificial realization of Brahman becomes hackneyed, and so to relish real pleasure they turn to the narrations of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Those who are not so fortunate turn to altruism and worldly philanthropy. This means the Māyāvāda philosophy is mundane, whereas the philosophy of Bhagavad-gītā and Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is transcendental.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1862951 86aa4974-0af6-4845-a93e-e2e4f7560156 2557 full 1 1 57 57 false Fri, 24 Jan 2025 10:05:00 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures |The question should be put not by challenging | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-1-10 |London]]> The people of this age are also very lazy, not only materially but in the matter of self-realization. The human life is especially meant for self-realization. That is to say, man should come to know what he is, what the world is, and what the supreme truth is. Human life is a means by which the living entity can end all the miseries of the hard struggle for life in material existence and by which he can return to Godhead, his eternal home. But, due to a bad system of education, men have no desire for self-realization. Even if they come to know about it, they unfortunately become victims of misguided teachers.

In this age, men are victims not only of different political creeds and parties, but also of many different types of sense gratificatory diversions, such as cinemas, sports, gambling, clubs, mundane libraries, bad association, smoking, drinking, cheating, pilfering, bickerings and so on. Their minds are always disturbed and full of anxieties due to so many different engagements. In this age, many unscrupulous men manufacture their own religious faiths which are not based on any revealed scriptures, and very often people who are addicted to sense gratification are attracted by such institutions. Consequently, in the name of religion so many sinful acts are being carried on that the people in general have neither peace of mind nor health of body. The student (brahmacārī) communities are no longer being maintained, and householders do not observe the rules and regulations of the gṛhastha-āśrama. Consequently, the so-called vānaprasthas and sannyāsīs who come out of such gṛhastha-āśramas are easily deviated from the rigid path. In the Kali-yuga the whole atmosphere is surcharged with faithlessness. Men are no longer interested in spiritual values. Material sense gratification is now the standard of civilization. For the maintenance of such material civilizations, man has formed complex nations and communities, and there is a constant strain of hot and cold wars between these different groups. It has become very difficult, therefore, to raise the spiritual standard due to the present distorted values of human society. The sages of Naimiṣāraṇya are anxious to disentangle all fallen souls, and here they are seeking the remedy from Śrīla Sūta Gosvāmī.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1853628 6f08e62e-6ac2-414a-99d5-38b55a32c0ea 2733 full 1 1 58 58 false Sat, 18 Jan 2025 06:22:21 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures |Why you have awarded us these nonsense eyelids | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-1-5 |London]]> Morning is the best time to hold spiritual services. The great sages offered the speaker of the Bhāgavatam an elevated seat of respect called the vyāsāsana, or the seat of Śrī Vyāsadeva. Śrī Vyāsadeva is the original spiritual preceptor for all men. And all other preceptors are considered to be his representatives. A representative is one who can exactly present the viewpoint of Śrī Vyāsadeva. Śrī Vyāsadeva impregnated the message of Bhāgavatam unto Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī, and Śrī Sūta Gosvāmī heard it from him (Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī). All bona fide representatives of Śrī Vyāsadeva in the chain of disciplic succession are to be understood to be gosvāmīs. These gosvāmīs restrain all their senses, and they stick to the path made by the previous ācāryas. The gosvāmīs do not deliver lectures on the Bhāgavatam capriciously. Rather, they execute their services most carefully, following their predecessors who delivered the spiritual message unbroken to them.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1852333 3f837552-9081-48b6-a572-ab9da142faa5 1817 full 1 1 59 59 false Fri, 17 Jan 2025 06:45:59 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures |Sanātana means eternal- It has no beginning, no end | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-1-4 |London]]> The Supreme Personality of Godhead is therefore described in the śruti-mantras, Vedic hymns, as “the fountainhead of all rasas.” When one associates with the Supreme Lord and exchanges one’s constitutional rasa with the Lord, then the living being is actually happy.

These śruti-mantras indicate that every living being has its constitutional position, which is endowed with a particular type of rasa to be exchanged with the Personality of Godhead. In the liberated condition only, this primary rasa is experienced in full. In the material existence, the rasa is experienced in the perverted form, which is temporary. And thus, the rasas of the material world are exhibited in the material form of raudra (anger) and so on.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1849620 cc269de9-10a0-40b0-96c1-7e7c0520525c 2720 full 1 1 60 60 false Thu, 16 Jan 2025 07:31:54 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures |There is No Religion Except Krishna Consciousness| Srimad Bhagavatam 1-1-3 | Caracas]]> The sum total of all these rasas is called affection or love. Primarily, such signs of love are manifested in adoration, service, friendship, parental affection, and conjugal love. And when these five are absent, love is present indirectly in anger, wonder, comedy, chivalry, fear, shock and so on. For example, when a man is in love with a woman, the rasa is called conjugal love. But when such love affairs are disturbed there may be wonder, anger, shock, or even horror. Sometimes love affairs between two persons culminate in ghastly murder scenes. Such rasas are displayed between man and man and between animal and animal. There is no possibility of an exchange or rasa between a man and an animal or between a man and any other species of living beings within the material world. The rasas are exchanged between members of the same species. But as far as the spirit souls are concerned, they are one qualitatively with the Supreme Lord. Therefore, the rasas were originally exchanged between the spiritual living being and the spiritual whole, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The spiritual exchange or rasa is fully exhibited in spiritual existence between living beings and the Supreme Lord.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1848232 29c8dcc6-6514-4665-acdf-35c933349eb7 3614 full 1 1 61 61 false Wed, 15 Jan 2025 11:34:17 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures |Veda says, ’Yes, you can eat meat, but by offering sacrifice | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-1-3 | London]]> Every living entity, beginning from Brahmā, the first-born living being within the material world, down to the insignificant ant, desires to relish some sort of taste derived from sense perceptions. These sensual pleasures are technically called rasas. Such rasas are of different varieties. In the revealed scriptures the following twelve varieties of rasas are enumerated: (1) raudra (anger), (2) adbhuta (wonder), (3) śṛṅgāra (conjugal love), (4) hāsya (comedy), (5) vīra (chivalry), (6) dayā (mercy), (7) dāsya (servitorship), (8) sakhya (fraternity), (9) bhayānaka (horror), (10) bībhatsa (shock), (11) śānta (neutrality), (12) vātsalya (parenthood).

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1846643 ce7dc54a-7c82-4965-828f-ca9d43388d1a 2010 full 1 1 62 62 false Tue, 14 Jan 2025 11:37:03 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures |You Are Always Dependent on Krishna’s Mercy | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-1-3 | Caracas]]> The Vedas are compared to the desire tree because they contain all things knowable by man. They deal with mundane necessities as well as spiritual realization. The Vedas contain regulative principles of knowledge covering social, political, religious, economic, military, medicinal, chemical, physical and metaphysical subject matter and all that may be necessary to keep the body and soul together. Above and beyond all this are specific directions for spiritual realization. Regulative knowledge involves a gradual raising of the living entity to the spiritual platform, and the highest spiritual realization is knowledge that the Personality of Godhead is the reservoir of all spiritual tastes, or rasas.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1844604 2d945706-b63d-47b0-8605-ddd39c489b5f 2899 full 1 1 63 63 false Mon, 13 Jan 2025 06:13:13 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Kṛṣṇa is the enjoyer of everything | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-1-2-3 | London]]> Over and above this, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is a personal commentation on the Vedānta-sūtra by Śrī Vyāsadeva. It was written in the maturity of his spiritual life through the mercy of Nārada. Śrī Vyāsadeva is the authorized incarnation of Nārāyaṇa, the Personality of Godhead. Therefore, there is no question as to his authority. He is the author of all other Vedic literatures, yet he recommends the study of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam above all others. In other Purāṇas there are different methods set forth by which one can worship the demigods. But in the Bhāgavatam only the Supreme Lord is mentioned. The Supreme Lord is the total body, and the demigods are the different parts of that body. Consequently, by worshiping the Supreme Lord, one does not need to worship the demigods. The Supreme Lord becomes fixed in the heart of the devotee immediately. Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu has recommended the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as the spotless Purāṇa and distinguishes it from all other Purāṇas.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1842382 a58e99f9-7307-4c8b-82ee-3ee36e641183 2381 full 1 1 64 64 false Sat, 11 Jan 2025 04:54:04 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Who can deny it Deny means he’s a rascal | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-1-2 | London]]> Less fortunate persons are not at all interested in hearing this Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. The process is simple, but the application is difficult. Unfortunate people find enough time to hear idle social and political conversations, but when invited to attend a meeting of devotees to hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam they suddenly become reluctant. Sometimes professional readers of the Bhāgavatam immediately plunge into the confidential topics of the pastimes of the Supreme Lord, which they seemingly interpret as sex literature. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is meant to be heard from the beginning. Those who are fit to assimilate this work are mentioned in this śloka: “One becomes qualified to hear Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam after many pious deeds.” The intelligent person, with thoughtful discretion, can be assured by the great sage Vyāsadeva that he can realize the Supreme Personality directly by hearing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Without undergoing the different stages of realization set forth in the Vedas, one can be lifted immediately to the position of paramahaṁsa simply by agreeing to receive this message.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1841099 bdf6fe39-34dc-43e6-9d86-51f23417e26d 2379 full 1 1 65 65 false Fri, 10 Jan 2025 05:24:28 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | What is the fault of the animals | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-1-2 | London]]> In the Vedas, the above-mentioned four activities are prescribed in the regulative way so that there will not be any undue competition for sense gratification. But Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is transcendental to all these sense gratificatory activities. It is purely transcendental literature which can be understood only by the pure devotees of the Lord who are transcendental to competitive sense gratification. In the material world there is keen competition between animal and animal, man and man, community and community, nation and nation. But the devotees of the Lord rise above such competitions. They do not compete with the materialist because they are on the path back to Godhead where life is eternal and blissful. Such transcendentalists are nonenvious and pure in heart. In the material world, everyone is envious of everyone else, and therefore there is competition. But the transcendental devotees of the Lord are not only free from material envy, but are well-wishers to everyone, and they strive to establish a competitionless society with God in the center. The contemporary socialist’s conception of a competitionless society is artificial because in the socialist state there is competition for the post of dictator. From the point of view of the Vedas or from the point of view of common human activities, sense gratification is the basis of material life. There are three paths mentioned in the Vedas. One involves fruitive activities to gain promotion to better planets. Another involves worshiping different demigods for promotion to the planets of the demigods, and another involves realizing the Absolute Truth and His impersonal feature and becoming one with Him.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1839724 fcc0be80-fd74-49e4-8820-b765fdea538e 3695 full 1 1 66 66 false Thu, 09 Jan 2025 08:25:52 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Why they have become conditioned | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-1-2 | London]]> This knowledge that the energy of the Lord is simultaneously one with and different from the Lord is an answer to the mental speculators’ attempt to establish the energy as the Absolute. When this knowledge is factually understood, one sees the conceptions of monism and dualism to be imperfect. Development of this transcendental consciousness grounded in the conception of simultaneously-one-and-different leads one immediately to the stage of freedom from the threefold miseries. The threefold miseries are (1) those miseries which arise from the mind and body, (2) those miseries inflicted by other living beings, and (3) those miseries arising from natural catastrophes over which one has no control. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam begins with the surrender of the devotee unto the Absolute Person. The devotee is fully aware that he is one with the Absolute and at the same time in the eternal position of servant to the Absolute. In the material conception, one falsely thinks himself the lord of all he surveys, and therefore he is always troubled by the threefold miseries of life. But as soon as one comes to know his real position as transcendental servant, he at once becomes free from all miseries. As long as the living entity is trying to master material nature, there is no possibility of his becoming servant of the Supreme. Service to the Lord is rendered in pure consciousness of one’s spiritual identity; by service one is immediately freed from material encumbrances.

Over and above this, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is a personal commentation on the Vedānta-sūtra by Śrī Vyāsadeva. It was written in the maturity of his spiritual life through the mercy of Nārada. Śrī Vyāsadeva is the authorized incarnation of Nārāyaṇa, the Personality of Godhead. Therefore, there is no question as to his authority. He is the author of all other Vedic literatures, yet he recommends the study of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam above all others. In other Purāṇas there are different methods set forth by which one can worship the demigods. But in the Bhāgavatam only the Supreme Lord is mentioned. The Supreme Lord is the total body, and the demigods are the different parts of that body. Consequently, by worshiping the Supreme Lord, one does not need to worship the demigods. The Supreme Lord becomes fixed in the heart of the devotee immediately. Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu has recommended the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as the spotless Purāṇa and distinguishes it from all other Purāṇas.

The proper method for receiving this transcendental message is to hear it submissively. A challenging attitude cannot help one realize this transcendental message. One particular word is used herein for proper guidance. This word is śuśrūṣu. One must be anxious to hear this transcendental message. The desire to sincerely hear is the first qualification.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1837344 a6118f77-d7c3-45a9-b7a4-f158056649f9 2832 full 1 1 67 67 false Wed, 08 Jan 2025 09:18:06 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | The next death rate is by overeating | Srimad Bhagavatam 1-1-2 | London]]> Religion includes four primary subjects, namely pious activities, economic development, satisfaction of the senses, and finally liberation from material bondage. Irreligious life is a barbarous condition. Indeed, human life begins when religion begins. Eating, sleeping, fearing, and mating are the four principles of animal life. These are common both to animals and to human beings. But religion is the extra function of the human being. Without religion, human life is no better than animal life. Therefore, in human societies there is some form of religion which aims at self-realization and which makes reference to man’s eternal relationship with God.

In the Vedas, the above-mentioned four activities are prescribed in the regulative way so that there will not be any undue competition for sense gratification. But Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is transcendental to all these sense gratificatory activities. It is purely transcendental literature which can be understood only by the pure devotees of the Lord who are transcendental to competitive sense gratification. In the material world there is keen competition between animal and animal, man and man, community and community, nation and nation. But the devotees of the Lord rise above such competitions. They do not compete with the materialist because they are on the path back to Godhead where life is eternal and blissful. Such transcendentalists are nonenvious and pure in heart. In the material world, everyone is envious of everyone else, and therefore there is competition. But the transcendental devotees of the Lord are not only free from material envy, but are well-wishers to everyone, and they strive to establish a competitionless society with God in the center. The contemporary socialist’s conception of a competitionless society is artificial because in the socialist state there is competition for the post of dictator. From the point of view of the Vedas or from the point of view of common human activities, sense gratification is the basis of material life. There are three paths mentioned in the Vedas. One involves fruitive activities to gain promotion to better planets. Another involves worshiping different demigods for promotion to the planets of the demigods, and another involves realizing the Absolute Truth and His impersonal feature and becoming one with Him.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1836020 661cd245-dde8-4f7b-9416-dd8985382837 2832 full 1 1 68 68 false Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:58:30 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Srimad Bhagavatam | How God Can Be Controlled By Maya? ]]> Obeisances unto the Personality of Godhead Vāsudeva directly indicate Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa, who is the divine son of Vasudeva and Devakī. This fact will be more explicitly explained in the text of this work. Śrī Vyāsadeva asserts herein that Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the original Personality of Godhead, and all others are His direct or indirect plenary portions or portions of the portion. Śrīla Jīva Gosvāmī has even more explicitly explained the subject matter in his Kṛṣṇa-sandarbha. And Brahmā, the original living being, has explained the subject of Śrī Kṛṣṇa substantially in his treatise named Brahma-saṁhitā. In an Upaniṣad in the Sāma-veda, it is also stated that Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the divine son of Devakī. Therefore, in this prayer, the first proposition holds that Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa is the primeval Lord, and if any transcendental nomenclature is to be understood as belonging to the Absolute Personality of Godhead, it must be the name indicated by the word Kṛṣṇa, which means the all-attractive. In Bhagavad-gītā, in many places, the Lord asserts Himself to be the original Personality of Godhead, and this is confirmed by Arjuna, and also by great sages like Nārada, Vyāsa, and many others. In the Padma Purāṇa, it is also stated that out of the innumerable names of the Lord, the name of Kṛṣṇa is the principal one. Vāsudeva indicates the plenary portion of the Personality of Godhead, and all the different forms of the Lord, being identical with Vāsudeva, are indicated in this text. The name Vāsudeva particularly indicates the divine son of Vasudeva and Devakī. Śrī Kṛṣṇa is always meditated upon by the paramahaṁsas, who are the perfected ones among those in the renounced order of life.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1836007 8f3bec1b-5945-41fa-8625-c4636adc562d 2467 full 1 1 69 69 false Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:45:55 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | Srimad Bhagavatam | 0361 | SB Lect BOM 1973-01-12 | At Pandal--Glories of Srimad-Bhagavatam]]> When His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada entered the port of New York City on September 17, 1965 few Americans took notice — but he was not merely another immigrant. He was on a mission to introduce the ancient teachings of Vedic India into mainstream America. Before Srila Prabhupada passed away on November 14, 1977 at the age of 81, his mission proved successful. He had founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) and saw it grow into a worldwide confederation of more than 100 temples, ashrams and cultural centers.

Srila Prabhupada was born Abhay Charan De on September 1, 1896 to a pious Hindu family in Calcutta. As a youth growing up in British-controlled India, Abhay became involved with Mahatma Gandhi’s civil disobedience movement to secure independence for his nation. It was, however, a 1922 meeting with a prominent scholar and religious leader, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, which proved most influential on Abhay’s future calling. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta was a leader in the Gaudiya Vaishnava denomination, a monotheistic tradition within the broad Hindu culture, and asked Abhay to bring the teachings of Lord Krishna to the English-speaking world. Abhay became a disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta in 1933, and resolved to carry out his mentor’s request. Abhay, later known by the honorific A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, spent the next 32 years preparing for his journey west.

In 1965, at the age of sixty-nine, Srila Prabhupada traveled to New York City aboard a cargo ship. The journey was treacherous, and the elderly spiritual teacher suffered two heart attacks aboard ship. Arriving in the United States with just seven dollars in Indian rupees and his translations of sacred Sanskrit texts, Srila Prabhupada began to share the timeless wisdom of Krishna consciousness. His message of peace and goodwill resonated with many young people, some of whom came forward to become serious students of the Krishna tradition. With the help of these students, Srila Prabhupada rented a small storefront on New York’s Lower East Side to use as a temple. On July 11, 1966, he officially registered his organization in the state of New York, formally founding the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

In the eleven years that followed, Srila Prabhupada circled the globe 14 times on lecture tours, bringing the teachings of Lord Krishna to thousands of people on six continents. Men and women from all backgrounds and walks of life came forward to accept his message, and with their help, Srila Prabhupada established ISKCON centers and projects throughout the world. Under his inspiration, Krishna devotees established temples, rural communities, educational institutions, and started what would become the world’s largest vegetarian food relief program. With the desire to nourish the roots of Krishna consciousness in its home, Srila Prabhupada returned to India several times, where he sparked a revival in the Vaishnava tradition. In India, he opened dozens of temples, including large centers in the holy towns of Vrindavan and Mayapur.

Srila Prabhupada’s most significant contributions, perhaps, are his books. He authored over 70 volumes on the Krishna tradition, which are highly respected by scholars for their authority, depth, fidelity to the tradition, and clarity. Several of his works are used as textbooks in numerous college courses. His writings have been translated into 76 languages. His most prominent works include: Bhagavad-gita As It Is, the 30-volume Srimad-Bhagavatam, and the 17-volume Sri Caitanya-caritamrita.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1785400 0b658ab5-bd4a-4ea9-b024-8ea372146b0f 3213 full 1 1 70 70 false Wed, 04 Dec 2024 09:59:14 GMT <![CDATA[Srila Prabhupada Lectures | 0618 | How God Can Be Controlled By Māyā | SB 1-1-1 | Mumbai | 21-03-1972 ]]> When His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada entered the port of New York City on September 17, 1965 few Americans took notice — but he was not merely another immigrant. He was on a mission to introduce the ancient teachings of Vedic India into mainstream America. Before Srila Prabhupada passed away on November 14, 1977 at the age of 81, his mission proved successful. He had founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) and saw it grow into a worldwide confederation of more than 100 temples, ashrams and cultural centers.

Srila Prabhupada was born Abhay Charan De on September 1, 1896 to a pious Hindu family in Calcutta. As a youth growing up in British-controlled India, Abhay became involved with Mahatma Gandhi’s civil disobedience movement to secure independence for his nation. It was, however, a 1922 meeting with a prominent scholar and religious leader, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati, which proved most influential on Abhay’s future calling. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta was a leader in the Gaudiya Vaishnava denomination, a monotheistic tradition within the broad Hindu culture, and asked Abhay to bring the teachings of Lord Krishna to the English-speaking world. Abhay became a disciple of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta in 1933, and resolved to carry out his mentor’s request. Abhay, later known by the honorific A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, spent the next 32 years preparing for his journey west.

In 1965, at the age of sixty-nine, Srila Prabhupada traveled to New York City aboard a cargo ship. The journey was treacherous, and the elderly spiritual teacher suffered two heart attacks aboard ship. Arriving in the United States with just seven dollars in Indian rupees and his translations of sacred Sanskrit texts, Srila Prabhupada began to share the timeless wisdom of Krishna consciousness. His message of peace and goodwill resonated with many young people, some of whom came forward to become serious students of the Krishna tradition. With the help of these students, Srila Prabhupada rented a small storefront on New York’s Lower East Side to use as a temple. On July 11, 1966, he officially registered his organization in the state of New York, formally founding the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.

In the eleven years that followed, Srila Prabhupada circled the globe 14 times on lecture tours, bringing the teachings of Lord Krishna to thousands of people on six continents. Men and women from all backgrounds and walks of life came forward to accept his message, and with their help, Srila Prabhupada established ISKCON centers and projects throughout the world. Under his inspiration, Krishna devotees established temples, rural communities, educational institutions, and started what would become the world’s largest vegetarian food relief program. With the desire to nourish the roots of Krishna consciousness in its home, Srila Prabhupada returned to India several times, where he sparked a revival in the Vaishnava tradition. In India, he opened dozens of temples, including large centers in the holy towns of Vrindavan and Mayapur.

Srila Prabhupada’s most significant contributions, perhaps, are his books. He authored over 70 volumes on the Krishna tradition, which are highly respected by scholars for their authority, depth, fidelity to the tradition, and clarity. Several of his works are used as textbooks in numerous college courses. His writings have been translated into 76 languages. His most prominent works include: Bhagavad-gita As It Is, the 30-volume Srimad-Bhagavatam, and the 17-volume Sri Caitanya-caritamrita.

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]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1777876 ce34c9c9-0e8e-46bb-b7ae-8f4f09fb930d 3697 full 2 2 1 1 false Sun, 01 Dec 2024 11:53:05 GMT <![CDATA[Complete Overview Of Srimad Bhagavatam | ISKCON Simhachalam | Germany | Europe | Part 1 | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Starting from the first canto , brajsundar das has captured the essence of jaiva dharma, explained the reasons why this invaluable literature was spoken and how in Kali yuga we , humans can take advantage of it. Brace yourself for a mind blowing walk through all the 12 cantos of Srimad Bhagavatam.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1520742 6717f448-f27a-4ba2-a42d-ee836cdb01bf 3725 full 3 3 1 1 false Tue, 11 Jun 2024 06:27:35 GMT <![CDATA[Complete Overview Of Srimad Bhagavatam | ISKCON Simhachalam | Germany | Europe | Part 2 | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Continuing with conversation between narada muni and Vyasadev, Revising the Srimad Bhagavatam and making it more detailed. How the most compassionate Draupadi forgave the killer of her 5 sons , Ashvathama? How the supreme personality of Godhead Sri Krishna took up the part of a mere carriage driver and showed Arjuna the Warfield so that he could fight a good battle with his kinsmen. Giving him the true instructions of Bhagavad-Gita, hearing the prayers of Queen kunti, Lord Krishna proceeds towards the great pitama bhisma dev.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1523775 8a00eeec-ac5a-47fb-a5b5-dedac60ffcec 3098 full 3 3 2 2 false Thu, 13 Jun 2024 08:15:22 GMT <![CDATA[Complete Overview Of Srimad Bhagavatam | ISKCON Simhachalam | Germany | Europe | Part 3 | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> The painful departure of the Supreme Lord made the Pandavas seek solace in the words of Vidhura.

Kali personified attacks the helpless bull and cow signaling the start of kaliyug. He finally allows him to reside in the five places. These are corner stone of the international society of Krishna conscious movement. ISCKON

Parikshit Maharaj enquires about the purpose of life for a dying man from Shukh dev goswami. He was cursed by the boy shringi who in a fit of anger when King Parikshit threw a dead snake at his meditative father.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1522172 02083311-6fd8-45ce-9147-2a6ffc8efb97 3771 full 3 3 3 3 false Wed, 12 Jun 2024 07:30:10 GMT <![CDATA[Complete Overview Of Srimad Bhagavatam | ISKCON Simhachalam | Germany | Europe | Part 4 | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> In session four Brajsundar Das captured when Maharaja Parikshit asked Sukadeva Goswami what humans should hear, chant, remember, and worship, as well as what they should avoid. Sukadeva advised hearing the glories of the Supreme Lord and His devotees, chanting His holy names, remembering His divine pastimes, and worshiping Him with love and devotion. He cautioned against engaging in sinful activities, which lead away from spiritual progress. This guidance emphasizes the importance of cultivating a devotional attitude through positive actions and thoughts while avoiding negativity that hinders spiritual growth.

]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1523836 5f05fd16-65a7-43dc-b4f7-ad955b0b61fe 2916 full 3 3 4 4 false Thu, 13 Jun 2024 10:29:01 GMT <![CDATA[Complete Overview Of Srimad Bhagavatam | ISKCON Simhachalam | Germany | Europe | Part 5 | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> In the Fifth Session Brajsundar Das started the third canto of Srimad Bhagavatam delves into the creation and cosmology of the universe. He describes the process of creation by Lord Brahma, the emergence of different planetary systems, and the birth of various demigods. The story of Kapila Muni, who teaches his mother Devahuti the path of spiritual knowledge (Sankhya philosophy). Includes profound discussions on the nature of the soul, the material elements, and the purpose of life. Overall, the third canto elucidates essential philosophical concepts and deepens understanding of the cosmic manifestation and the soul's journey within it.

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    • One Purpose with Brajsundar Das

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    Brajsundar Das is on a mission to spread the ancient wisdom of Bhagavata purana and Bhagavad Gita to a wider audience. His One Purpose podcast offers revealed knowledge from the Vedas, the oldest and most widely recognized source of transcendental science in the world. Listeners can tune in to the latest episodes on alternate days from anywhere they get their podcasts.

    The podcast offers practical learning from our rich history, drawing real-life lessons from the examples set by great personalities throughout time. Whether you're looking to deepen your spiritual understanding or simply seeking inspiration to live a more fulfilling life, One Purpose has something for everyone.

    With Brajsundar as your guide, you can explore the profound wisdom of the Vedas and discover how it can help you navigate the challenges of modern life with greater ease and grace. Tune in to One Purpose today and start your journey towards greater spiritual growth and understanding!

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1484241 0fe32d8a-229b-4fa6-ab83-d4eb88b0d0a1 1280 full 4 4 1 1 false Sun, 19 May 2024 03:30:24 GMT     <![CDATA[TEACHINGS OF PRAHLAD MAHARAJ | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Srimad Bhagavatam consists of twelve cantos in total. Each canto explores different aspects of spiritual wisdom, cosmic creation, divine incarnations, and the transcendental pastimes of Lord Krishna, providing a comprehensive guide to the path of devotion and self-realization.Canto 1 of Srimad Bhagavatam introduces the cosmic creation and the essence of spiritual wisdom through the dialogue between sage Narada and Sage Vyasa. Canto 2 delves into the genealogy of great personalities, emphasizing devotion as the ultimate goal. Canto 3 explores the cosmic manifestation and the journey of Lord Kapila, unraveling the principles of Sankhya philosophy. Canto 4 reveals the life story of Dhruva Maharaja, illustrating the transformative power of devotion. Canto 5 details the conversation between King Rahugana and Jada Bharata, underscoring detachment and self-realization. Canto 6 narrates the history of Ajamila, illustrating the redeeming potency of chanting God's name. Canto 7 elaborates on the Lord's incarnations and pastimes. Canto 8 describes the churning of the cosmic ocean and the emergence of nectar. Canto 9 depicts the dynasty of Lord Rama. Canto 10 unfolds the childhood pastimes of Lord Krishna. Canto 11 conveys Lord Krishna's teachings to Uddhava. Canto 12 concludes the epic with the departure of Lord Krishna and the onset of the age of Kali, emphasizing constant remembrance of the divine.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1387478 46d698f3-4ee9-477e-9981-1ca4302d61d4 3308 full 4 4 2 2 false Thu, 14 Mar 2024 03:30:24 GMT     <![CDATA[The story of Sākṣi-gopāla | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Once there were two brāhmaṇas, one elderly and the other young, who were inhabitants of a place known as Vidyānagara. After touring many places of pilgrimage, the two brāhmaṇas finally reached Vṛndāvana. The elderly brāhmaṇa was very satisfied with the service of the young brāhmaṇa, and he wanted to offer him his youngest daughter in marriage. The young brāhmaṇa received the promise of his elder before the Gopāla Deity of Vṛndāvana. Thus the Gopāla Deity acted as a witness. When the two brāhmaṇas returned to Vidyānagara, the younger brāhmaṇa raised the question of this marriage, but the elderly brāhmaṇa, due to obligations to his friends and wife, answered that he could not remember his promise. Because of this, the younger brāhmaṇa returned to Vṛndāvana and narrated the whole story to Gopālajī. Thus Gopālajī, being obliged by the young man’s devotional service, accompanied him to southern India. Gopālajī followed the younger brāhmaṇa, who could hear the tinkling sound of Gopālajī’s ankle bells. When all the respectable gentlemen of Vidyānagara were assembled, Gopālajī testified to the promise of the elderly brāhmaṇa. Thus the marriage was performed. Later, the king of that country constructed a fine temple for Gopāla.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1348537 8e2bdda1-0df5-4678-9a60-c04b3dad2516 2348 full 4 4 3 3 false Sat, 17 Feb 2024 03:30:24 GMT     <![CDATA[Why did mother Sita give up her life? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Rama was extremely distraught on hearing the news, but finally told Lakshmana thatas a king, he had to make his citizens pleased and the purity of the queen of Ayodhya has to be above any gossip and rumour. With a heavy heart, he instructed him to take Sita to a forest outside Ayodhya and leave her there.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1059372 eb387aac-9746-42c7-a876-827a87484569 1988 full 4 4 4 4 false Tue, 01 Aug 2023 11:10:10 GMT     <![CDATA[7 Days notice | Mayapur ISKCON | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> https://rzp.io/l/brajsundardasSupport our causePaypal: https://paypal.me/bdpayments?country.x=IN&locale.x=en_GB]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1049004 9750e200-5d08-476b-b356-17a1d50b6138 2084 full 4 4 5 5 false Mon, 24 Jul 2023 11:00:40 GMT <![CDATA[3 hour overview of entire Srimad Bhagavatam | Cambridge University Campus | United Kingdom | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> https://rzp.io/l/brajsundardasSupport our causePaypal: https://paypal.me/bdpayments?country.x=IN&locale.x=en_GB]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1033725 fc4fa246-39b5-4cab-882a-46a885fcf354 10833 full 4 4 6 6 false Wed, 12 Jul 2023 10:40:14 GMT <![CDATA[Importance of Associating with Sadhu | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> bestows a spiritual visionSaintly devotees of the Lord are just like the sun. By the light of their words, the living entities' eyes of knowledge are opened and the darkness of ignorance is destroyed. ,Therefore, the saintly devotees are one's real friends, and relatives.Our initiatives need your support: https://rzp.io/l/brajsundardasSupport our causePaypal: https://paypal.me/bdpayments?country.x=IN&locale.x=en_GB]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/969965 783aca73-b0e5-4bbf-9e82-86defd40b838 572 full 4 4 7 7 false Sat, 27 May 2023 10:52:06 GMT <![CDATA[Life of Maharaja Parikshit | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Parikshit Maharaj was the son of Abhimanyu and grandson of Arjuna in the Mahabharata. King Parikshit was in the womb of Uttara when the Kurukshetra war ended and he was the only remaining heir in the family of the Pandavas. The Brahmastra directed by Ashwathama to the womb had caused damage to the baby in the womb of Uttara but Sri Krishna revived the stillborn baby.When Yudhisthira and the other Pandavas decided to go for Vanaprastha after abdicating the throne, Parikshit became the king of Hastinapura.Kali Yuga began during the reign of Parikshit. There is an interesting story in the Puranas in which demon Kali is asked to reside Adharmic places by Parikshit. Our initiatives need your support: https://rzp.io/l/brajsundardasSupport our causePaypal: https://paypal.me/bdpayments?country.x=IN&locale.x=en_GB

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/968673 1246f3f1-2b5e-40e4-935c-31b18e432cc8 2458 full 4 4 8 8 false Fri, 26 May 2023 12:42:09 GMT     <![CDATA[Glories of Uddhava | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> https://rzp.io/l/brajsundardasSupport our causePaypal: https://paypal.me/bdpayments?country.x=IN&locale.x=en_GB]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/967351 bde9e56e-4b63-475a-803c-4dd0a78fbaec 1777 full 4 4 9 9 false Thu, 25 May 2023 11:28:53 GMT <![CDATA[Did Vyasadeva Compose two editions of Srimad Bhagavatam | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> https://rzp.io/l/brajsundardasSupport our causePaypal: https://paypal.me/bdpayments?country.x=IN&locale.x=en_GB]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/964216 45955aac-c503-419a-8f40-82dcaf7fb4de 124 full 4 4 10 10 false Tue, 23 May 2023 06:42:17 GMT <![CDATA[Glories of Srimad Bhagavatam | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Srimad-Bhagavatam was not compiled by Sri Vyasadeva. While, some of them suggest that this book is a modern creation written by someone named Vopadeva. In order to refute such meaningless arguments, Sri Sridhara Swami points out that there is reference to the Bhagavatam in many of the oldest Puranas. This first sloka of the Bhagavatam begins with the Gayatri mantra. There is reference to this in the Matsya Purana, which is the oldest Purana. In that Purana, it is said with reference to the Gayatri mantra in the Bhagavatam that there are many narrations of spiritual instructions beginning with the Gayatri mantra. There is the history of Vrtrasura. Anyone who makes a gift of this great work on a full moon day attains to the highest perfection of life by returning to Godhead. There is reference to the Bhagavatam in other Puranas also, where it is clearly stated that this work was finished in twelve cantos, which include eighteen thousand slokas. In the Padma Purana also there is reference to the Bhagavatam in a conversation between Gautama and Maharaja Ambarisa. The king was advised therein to read regularly Srimad-Bhagavatam if he desired liberation from material bondage. Under the circumstances, there is no doubt about the authority of the Bhagavatam. Within the past five hundred years, many erudite scholars and acaryas like Jiva Gosvami, Sanatana Gosvami, Visvanatha Cakravarti, Vallabhacarya, and many other distinguished scholars even after the time of Lord Caitanya made elaborate commentaries on the Bhagavatam. And the serious student would do well to attempt to go through them to better relish the transcendental messages.Our initiatives need your support: https://rzp.io/l/brajsundardasSupport our causePaypal: https://paypal.me/bdpayments?country.x=IN&locale.x=en_GB]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/957666 c0223280-88ee-4953-955c-5ce51e6e20cc 334 full 4 4 11 11 false Fri, 19 May 2023 08:26:11 GMT <![CDATA[Why did Lord Krishna enjoy the wounds created on the body by the sharpened arrows of Sri Bhishma Deva? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> https://rzp.io/l/brajsundardasSupport our causePaypal: https://paypal.me/bdpayments?country.x=IN&locale.x=en_GB]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/956338 d24f14b7-9227-49d6-8a4e-9145707f7e73 165 full 4 4 12 12 false Thu, 18 May 2023 10:35:50 GMT <![CDATA[Purpose of Performing Parikrama | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> https://rzp.io/l/brajsundardasSupport our causePaypal: https://paypal.me/bdpayments?country.x=IN&locale.x=en_GB]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/953154 417ef39b-e05d-411b-b9a7-60a9a9a37213 208 full 4 4 13 13 false Tue, 16 May 2023 09:24:30 GMT <![CDATA[Do Not Disturb The Mood Of Lord Chaitanya | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> a devotee. By becoming a devotee, the Lord performed bhakti-yoga and taught it to humanity. As Lord Chaitanya, Lord Krishna is especially merciful (maha-vadanya), even towards the most sinful people.Our initiatives need your support: https://rzp.io/l/brajsundardasSupport our causePaypal: https://paypal.me/bdpayments?country.x=IN&locale.x=en_GB]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/951547 61b09415-71fd-45b6-8618-3e191226b415 328 full 4 4 14 14 false Mon, 15 May 2023 08:56:12 GMT <![CDATA[Qualifications of a bonafide Spiritual Master | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> https://rzp.io/l/brajsundardasSupport our causePaypal: https://paypal.me/bdpayments?country.x=IN&locale.x=en_GB]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/949715 f0c4df28-2dbb-4c83-8416-7a01c1d23277 169 full 4 4 15 15 false Sat, 13 May 2023 08:18:37 GMT <![CDATA[The curse that gave Srimad Bhagavatam to the world | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> https://rzp.io/l/brajsundardasSupport our causePaypal: https://paypal.me/bdpayments?country.x=IN&locale.x=en_GB]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/947286 f4d0128b-4163-4cf5-9e5a-0bb7d2e0700d 417 full 4 4 16 16 false Thu, 11 May 2023 10:42:47 GMT <![CDATA[Can Ghosts get delivered by hearing Srimad Bhagavatam? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> https://rzp.io/l/brajsundardasSupport our causePaypal: https://paypal.me/bdpayments?country.x=IN&locale.x=en_GB]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/945659 9ff33a6e-9685-47fe-b28f-d7121e172192 1201 full 4 4 17 17 false Wed, 10 May 2023 11:01:31 GMT <![CDATA[How Gajendra the Elephant devotee remembered his past life? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> cold, clear, nectarean water. Feeling utterly satisfied and refreshed, he invited his wives and children to bathe and drink as he had done. And with great endeavor he drew water in through his trunk and sprayed it over them.Then, suddenly, a huge crocodile attacked the mighty elephant’s leg. Gajendra was uncommonly strong, but though he tried and tried, he could not get free. His wives felt aggrieved and began to cry. The other elephants wanted to rescue Gajendra by grasping him from behind, but because of the crocodile’s great strength they could not do anything. So the crocodile and the king of the elephants fought and pulled each other in and out of the water, for one thousand years.Our initiatives need your support: https://rzp.io/l/brajsundardasSupport our causePaypal: https://paypal.me/bdpayments?country.x=IN&locale.x=en_GB]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/943761 f034a298-708b-4c76-949e-aa5dffbb8db4 572 full 4 4 18 18 false Tue, 09 May 2023 06:48:17 GMT <![CDATA[The Only 3 Destination of our life | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> https://rzp.io/l/brajsundardasSupport our causePaypal: https://paypal.me/bdpayments?country.x=IN&locale.x=en_GB]]> https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/942105 ceaff3f0-22a0-4370-98de-291d71e5846b 1375 full 4 4 19 19 false Mon, 08 May 2023 11:17:09 GMT <![CDATA[Although a demon how did Maharaja Bali became a Pure devotee? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Maharaja Bali was the grandson of the great devotee Prahlada who instilled in Bali, a strong sense of dharma, values and most importantly, devotional service to the Supreme Lord. With such an upbringing, Bali Maharaja grew up to be very pious, contrary to the expected behaviour of others in his asura (demonic) clan. His reign as the king of the asuras was characterised by peace, tranquillity and prosperity. Even demigods like Indra became envious of Maharaja Bali.Our initiatives need your support: https://rzp.io/l/brajsundardasSupport our causePaypal: https://paypal.me/bdpayments?country.x=IN&locale.x=en_GB

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/940090 a56deb30-c580-43bd-9ed0-482ad36fbabb 2200 full 4 4 20 20 false Sat, 06 May 2023 12:42:48 GMT     <![CDATA[Churning of the Milk Ocean | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> After Lord Śiva drank all the poison, both the demigods and demons took courage and resumed their activities of churning. Because of this churning, first a surabhi cow was produced. Great saintly persons accepted this cow to derive clarified butter from its milk and offer this clarified butter in oblations for great sacrifices. Thereafter, a horse named Uccaiḥśravā was generated. This horse was taken by Bali Mahārāja. Then there appeared Airāvata and other elephants that could go anywhere in any direction, and she-elephants also appeared. The gem known as Kaustubha was also generated, and Lord Viṣṇu took that gem and placed it on His chest. Thereafter, a pārijāta flower and the Apsarās, the most beautiful women in the universe, were generated. Then the goddess of fortune, Lakṣmī, appeared.The demigods, great sages, Gandharvas and others offered her their respectful worship. The goddess of fortune could not find anyone to accept as her husband. At last she selected Lord Viṣṇu to be her master. Lord Viṣṇu gave her a place to stay everlastingly at His chest. Because of this combination of Lakṣmī and Nārāyaṇa, all who were present, including the demigods and people in general, were very pleased. The demons, however, being neglected by the goddess of fortune, were very depressed. Then Vāruṇī, the goddess of drinking, was generated, and by the order of Lord Viṣṇu the demons accepted her.Then the demons and demigods, with renewed energy, began to churn again. This time a partial incarnation of Lord Viṣṇu called Dhanvantari appeared. He was very beautiful, and he carried a jug containing nectar. The demons immediately snatched the jug from Dhanvantari’s hand and began to run away, and the demigods, being very morose, took shelter of Viṣṇu. After the demons snatched the jug from Dhanvantari, they began to fight among themselves. Lord Viṣṇu solaced the demigods, who therefore did not fight, but remained silent. While the fighting was going on among the demons, the Lord Himself appeared as the incarnation Mohinī, the most beautiful woman in the universe.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/933551 cac62d6b-96ad-4b39-b29a-71eaea2f2cda 2747 full 4 4 22 22 false Tue, 02 May 2023 11:31:41 GMT     <![CDATA[Glories of Srila Prabhupada | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Śrīla Prabhupāda is the pre-eminent ācārya of the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava sampradāya of our time. His voyage on the Jaladuta thirty years ago marked the beginning of a spiritual revival, and the twelve years after his arrival in America saw the Hare Krishna movement spread to major cities worldwide. For millennia, the Vedic tradition had been hidden behind the boundaries of India and within Sanskrit and the vernacular languages. To a world immersed in a materialistic ethos, Śrīla Prabhupāda revealed the wisdom of this timeless philosophy.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/932116 2fe6c6df-0506-42a0-b43f-18ef103cfff5 433 full 4 4 23 23 false Mon, 01 May 2023 10:08:15 GMT     <![CDATA[Are there in total 8 regulative principles for devotees? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> There are four pillars upon which human society rests. These pillars are: mercy, truthfulness, austerity and cleanliness. Everyone appreciates these qualities. By following the four regulative principles, we support these pillars and free ourselves from miseries and from causing pain to others. Along with chanting Hare Krishna, following these principles form the basis of Krishna conscious practice

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/928940 2255d0b3-a9d5-4705-88b8-818b601ff134 778 full 4 4 24 24 false Fri, 28 Apr 2023 09:13:43 GMT     <![CDATA[The Story Of An Ancient Deity of Sri Ramchandra | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> The seventh incarnation of Lord Vishnu was Lord Rama who was born to King Dasharatha and Queen Kaushalya in Ayodhya in Treta Yuga. Shree Ram belongs to the ‘Ikshvaku dynasty’ founded by King ‘Ikshvaku’ the son of Lord Surya, which is why Ramchandra is called ‘Suryavanshi’. Shri Ramachandra; the central figure of the Hindu epic Ramayana is a major deity in Hinduism; especially important to Vaishnavism. Born in a royal family, Lord Rama’s life was challenged by unexpected circumstances such as exile for 14 years and several moral dilemmas and ethical questions.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/918707 ac0084e6-3dfa-4826-91d4-c8bdf95ead58 208 full 4 4 25 25 false Sat, 22 Apr 2023 08:15:54 GMT     <![CDATA[Why Did Mother Sita Prevent Hanuman From Killing Ravana? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Having shrunk to the size of a mouse, Hanuman ran through Lanka, looking for Sita. He found her held captive in an ashok grove near Ravana's palace. She was guarded by hideous demonesses and harassed by Ravana, who wanted her to forget Rama, and marry him instead. She was sitting under a tree crying. Meanwhile Hanuman climbed the tree, dropped Rama's ring into her lap, and told her Rama will come and save her.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/917498 661c4f45-bc00-4627-8330-303cd61b64eb 529 full 4 4 26 26 false Fri, 21 Apr 2023 10:13:16 GMT     <![CDATA[Is Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam the 19th Purana? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Although Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is counted among the Purāṇas, it is called the spotless Purāṇa. Because it does not discuss anything material, it is liked by transcendental Vaiṣṇava devotees. The subject matter found in Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is meant for paramahaṁsas.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/882933 7990200d-c09f-44a9-8779-d7214f7f7ce3 301 full 4 4 45 45 false Mon, 27 Mar 2023 10:59:57 GMT     <![CDATA[Glories of Sri Radha-Kunda | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> “It is stated that a devotee will at once develop pure love of Krishna in the wake of the gopis if he ONCE TAKES A BATH in Radha-Kunda. If one bathes even once, he can develop his transcendental love for Krishna, exactly as the gopis did.”

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/880690 b948ed6c-e4a1-47f2-89e7-ca4116615581 604 full 4 4 46 46 false Sat, 25 Mar 2023 11:33:48 GMT     <![CDATA[How does the association with Sadhus help our devotional life? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> The company that we keep plays a significant role in our lives. Our desires, habits, and goals are often dependent on the association that we are in (saṅgāt sanjāyate kāmaḥ, BG 2.62). Associating with cultured people helps us develop good habits, and associating with corrupt people makes us corrupt generally. The holy scriptures therefore repeatedly recommend that we avoid bad association and keep good association. Here is Lord Kṛṣṇa’s direct description on the glory of saintly association, in the Uddhava-gīta, the philosophical song that He sang to enlighten His dear devotee Uddhava.Destruction of material attachmentDevotee association – (i) reduces one’s inspiration to enjoy sense gratification, (ii) increase one’s inspiration to serve and get attached to Lord Kṛṣṇa. “An intelligent person should reject all bad association and take to the association of saintly devotees, whose words cut off the excessive attachment of one’s mind.” (SB 11.26.26)

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/879611 998cafc1-5058-43d8-901d-d3de877d2adb 2204 full 4 4 47 47 false Fri, 24 Mar 2023 13:10:19 GMT     <![CDATA[The secret of Krishna consciousness | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> The basic principle of Krishna consciousness is unacceptable to most people, still many are attached to the idea of presenting themselves as pious persons and great devotees even though they reject the basic principle. They can not understand Krishna consciousness because they do not surrender to a pure devotee of Krishna.

    Actually it is not possible to understand Krishna consciousness by practicing austerities, by following regulative principles, by chanting a certain number of rounds; even by reading books one can not understand Krishna consciousness. The secrets of Krishna consciousness are hidden within the hearts of Krishna’s pure devotees and there is absolutely no way we can ever understand and realize this ‘confidential knowledge’ unless we find a pure devotee of Krishna and surrender to him completely and make his instructions our life and soul. Then, if we are successful in getting the blessings and mercy of Krishna’s pure devotee it will be possible for us to understand Krishna consciousness. Otherwise Krishna consciousness will remain for us forever something theoretical and we will never experience the transcendental bliss, the happiness, the ecstasy and the real spiritual realizations that a real devotee experiences when practicing Krishna consciousness under the directions of his bona fide, pure devotee spiritual master.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/841220 d1306095-ec61-4711-aab3-3114a25bb1db 860 full 4 4 48 48 false Sat, 25 Feb 2023 09:55:43 GMT     <![CDATA[Can people born in the western world become pure devotees? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> “The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the cause of all causes, the original person from whom everything has emanated. He is the root cause of this cosmic manifestation, and the entire cosmos rests in Him, yet He is transcendental, for He does everything in relation to the material world through His external energy. He is eternally situated in the spiritual world — in Vaikuṇṭha or Goloka Vṛndāvana — where He engages in His eternal pastimes. The material world is a product of His external energy, or material nature, which works under His direction. It is thus that creation, maintenance and annihilation take place. The Lord exists at all times. This is extremely difficult for a nondevotee to understand. Although the transcendental Supreme Personality of Godhead is perceivable by everyone, only the pure devotees perceive His presence and activities. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is completely free from material birth, death, old age and disease. Indeed, if anyone in this material world takes shelter of Him, he also becomes situated in that transcendental position. For the satisfaction of the devotee (paritrāṇāya sādhūnām), the Lord appears and exhibits His activities. His appearance, disappearance and other pastimes are not at all material. One who knows this secret can enter the kingdom of God. In the Lord, all opposing elements are adjusted. The Lord is situated in everyone’s heart. He is the controller of everything, He is the witness of all activities, and He is the original source of all living entities. Indeed, all living entities are parts of Him, for He is the origin of Mahā-Viṣṇu, who is the source of the living entities within this material world.

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    In speaking to his friends, who were all sons of demons, Prahlada Maharaja stressed that every living entity, especially in human society, must be interested in spiritual realization from the very beginning of life.

    When human beings are children, they should be taught that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the worshipable Deity for everyone.

    One should not be very much interested in material enjoyment; instead, one should be satisfied with whatever material profits are easily obtainable, and because the duration of one’s life is very short, one should utilize every moment for spiritual advancement.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/814250 4c31fd37-a42f-4b7b-8f13-2540f71f0ead 2293 full 4 4 52 52 false Tue, 07 Feb 2023 10:17:09 GMT     <![CDATA[Are you hopeless in Krishna Consciousness? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Practicing Krishna consciousness helps you become helpless, yet we don’t feel hopeless. A devotee may face repeated disappointments, but he’s never discouraged. That’s because he loves Krishna .

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/812594 1f2206f3-d992-4438-8fb6-2ea288bd1309 2145 full 4 4 53 53 false Mon, 06 Feb 2023 10:15:59 GMT     <![CDATA[Why not to commit offences unto Vaishnavas? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> There are three types of devotees. The kanishta – they are sometimes quarreling. The madhyamas – they are friendly to each other and merciful to kanishtas and other people. And the uttamas – the completely pure souls with love of God. This essay is for the benefit of all who like to attain the uttama platform.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/810424 b433bdcd-09d1-49db-b01c-9352bbf5e99e 2144 full 4 4 54 54 false Sat, 04 Feb 2023 11:39:29 GMT     <![CDATA[What were the prayers that forced Supreme Lord Krishna to change his course of action? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Krishna is responding to everyone, devotee or non-devotee. He is revealing Himself or not revealing Himself according to the desire of the individual person. In another place in the Gita Krishna says: “I am within everyone’s heart and I am giving remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness.” So one may ask why would Krishna give anyone the ability to forget Him? He states here clearly that He gives remembrance and knowledge — but He also gives forgetfulness.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/809217 7626e125-d7d7-423d-bcf3-b0b92eeecfc6 1595 full 4 4 55 55 false Fri, 03 Feb 2023 11:09:42 GMT     <![CDATA[How to be attracted towards Krishna? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Our greatest problem is that we have turned away from Krishna. This one action has turned into our existential dilemma. We are lost servants. But strangely we think, at least unconsciously, that it is Krishna who has abandoned us. Only when we become eager to meet Krishna again, and serve Him with body, mind and heart – as eager as a drowning man is eager to breathe again – can we attain our spiritual success. Real love, however, will only flow when we move out of the center and put Krishna there.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/807353 c222090a-6622-4974-a8ae-e507f88d816b 2294 full 4 4 56 56 false Thu, 02 Feb 2023 12:19:24 GMT     <![CDATA[Unheard Mysteries of Kaliya Daman Lila | Brajsundar Das]]> When he understood that the water of the Yamunā was being polluted by the black serpent Kāliya, Lord Kṛṣṇa took action against him and made him leave the Yamunā and go elsewhere, and thus the water became purified.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/805806 5ce63121-29b3-4c78-adb2-9b96e733d72c 2674 full 4 4 57 57 false Wed, 01 Feb 2023 11:13:19 GMT     <![CDATA[How to liberate oneself from the cycle of birth and death? | Brajsundar Das]]> Liberation fro the cycle of birth and death does not mean that you will not be born here again. It means that now there is neither coming nor going- nowhere, not any plane. then you remain rooted where you are. The day this happens, the springs of Joy burst forth on all sides. We cannot experience Joy being in an imaginary place, we can only find Joy being where we really are. We can only be happy being what we are, we can never be happy being what we are not. So moving through the cycle of birth and death means we are wondering through illusory places – we are lost somewhere we have never been. We are wondering through some place where we are never ever supposed to be, While the place where we actually are we have lost site off. So freedom from birth and death means coming back to where we are, coming back home.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/802367 5118c7a5-5178-4ec0-a737-d0aa63dc36cd 2770 full 4 4 58 58 false Mon, 30 Jan 2023 12:21:42 GMT     <![CDATA[How should devotees offer shraddha to their forefathers? | H.G Brajsundar Das ]]> The four orders of human society, combined with family welfare activities as they are set forth by the institution of the sanatana-dharma or varnasrama-dharma, are designed to enable the human being to attain his ultimate salvation. Therefore, the breaking of the sanatana-dharma tradition by irresponsible leaders of society brings about chaos in that society, and consequently people forget the aim of life—Visnu. Such leaders are called blind, and persons who follow such leaders are sure to be led into chaos.

    presently it is time actually called Pitru paksha in the month of Bhadrapada masa ..Is perfect timing to do this Shaardha Karma. If one cannot do yearly shaardha karma for all the ancestors it could be done once for all in this auspicious month. Esp. Mahalaya amavasaya. pitru loka's one day equals one month on earth. that's why they do tarpan every amavasya. If possible. Daily doing pooja for Lord offering Krishna bhog and then offering to guru Maharaj and then taking the same to ancestors and then partaking it is a nitya karma. It is nice but Shaardha karma should not be stopped.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/798281 b8b25170-689d-4143-8b60-44c768383c97 2368 full 4 4 59 59 false Fri, 27 Jan 2023 12:07:15 GMT     <![CDATA[The struggle of raising children in Krishna Consciousness | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> I regularly hear parents complaining that their children don’t listen to them or they do not have basic etiquette while talking to parents or siblings, everything is about their own self.

    The problem is that we, as parents, are ourselves so busy in so-called `enjoying my life’ that we are also guilty in neglecting our duty of raising our kids properly. In many cases the material life has become so busy, with both parents working hard, children are bound to get neglected. Of course, today the whole atmosphere is polluted with exposure from TV, mobile and now the final nail has been stuck by internet. Most of the digital games to promote hatred and violence in our young children. But all this should mean more care and protection and not less.

    In my little experience I have found that where both the parents are devotees, children usually come up nicely as both role models are similar. Issues crop up where only one of them, mother or father, is practicing Krishna consciousness. At times children become confused but generally stay grounded and pick up some or many good habits depending upon many factors. Since kids spend most time with Matajis, it becomes more challenging if mothers are not devotees. Any devotee must spend a lot of time with his kids. Sometimes the devotees get so busy in their own sadhana that they forget about sharing love and preach to their own kids, may be because of resistance from the other half. For example: a father must listen and play with kids and in some plays introduce Krishna consciousness. We have to make an effort to change their thinking, their thought process and make them ready to face both material world and progress in spiritual world. But the big problem is where both parents have no idea about spirituality, it is a big gamble for them in today’s environment.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/765119 52fb4a33-a446-40c6-a704-d64e4bf4d42f 505 full 4 4 61 61 false Tue, 03 Jan 2023 09:23:04 GMT     <![CDATA[Is there a story about how King Indradyumna became Gajendra in the next life? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Vishnu informed Gajendra that he, in one of his previous births, had been the celebrated King Indradyumna, a devotee of Vishnu, but due to his disrespect to the great sage Agastya, he had been cursed to be reborn as an elephant.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/763922 8c33ec4d-88ba-43e7-b2ea-12f73128fa37 2071 full 4 4 62 62 false Mon, 02 Jan 2023 10:38:34 GMT     <![CDATA[A Glimpse into Uddhava's life | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Uddhava was a cousin brother of Lord Krishna and also a student of lord Brihaspati. His guru, Lord Brihaspati said to him that, “the supreme lord Vishnu will incarnate on the earth in your family as your cousin brother".

    So after knowing it, Uddhava started worshipping him and he was a great devotee of Lord Krishna. He had all knowledge about GOD. He was a gyaani. He knew Bhramgyaan. He thought everything is illusion in this world. Even Love is illusion. He became very much arrogant about his knowledge he had.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/761624 c008d938-8a30-4156-901a-962925ea3a99 1920 full 4 4 63 63 false Fri, 30 Dec 2022 14:35:06 GMT     <![CDATA[Is it possible to see the Supreme Lord face-to-face? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Dhruva Maharaja was born as a son of a great king. The king had two wives, and he begot children by each of them. One day, while Dhruva’s stepbrother was playing on the lap of the king, Dhruva also wanted to play on his father’s lap. We can picture the king, whose name was Uttanapada, seated on the throne in a leisurely moment, in an affectionate mood, with one of the boys on his lap. His boy Dhruva, who was five years old, climbed up on his father’s knee, but his father did not receive him with any particular attention or affection. Moreover, Dhruva’s stepmother came forward and chastised Dhruva. “My dear boy,” she said, speaking loudly so that everyone could hear, “you cannot sit on the lap of your father. Although you are his son, you are disqualified because you have not taken birth in my womb.” Dhruva’s stepmother was the favorite wife of the king, and since the king was more or less henpecked by her, he allowed her to speak out although she was inflicting pain on his little son. ”If you want to sit on your father’s lap,” she went on, humiliating the boy and exploiting her own position as the king’s favorite, “you must first worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead by penances and austerities, and then in your next life you can take birth from my womb. Then it may be possible.” Dhruva burst into tears and ran home, taking shelter of his mother, to whom he blurted out the whole story.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/759644 dec9e23a-2a05-40c8-aeb0-8330337257fc 1343 full 4 4 64 64 false Thu, 29 Dec 2022 09:33:45 GMT     <![CDATA[Three Secrets of Life | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Generally when we find someone more qualified than ourselves, we become envious of him; when we find someone less qualified, we deride him; and when we find someone equal we become very proud of our activities. These are the causes of all material tribulations. The great sage Narada therefore advised that a devotee should act perfectly. Instead of being envious of a more qualified man, one should be jolly to receive him. Instead of being oppressive to a less qualified man, one should be compassionate toward him just to raise him to the proper standard. And when one meets an equal, instead of being proud of one's own activities before him, one should treat him as a friend. One should also have compassion for the people in general, who are suffering due to forgetfulness of Krishna. These important functions will make one happy within this material world.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/747257 e5d4edfe-d7d0-40fe-befa-008270a29a9e 1980 full 4 4 65 65 false Sat, 17 Dec 2022 09:16:33 GMT     <![CDATA[Relevance of Devotion: Story of Bhakti Devi and her sons | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> The Shrimad Bhagwat Puran, opens with a story of a mother called, Bhakti and her two sons Gyaan and Vairagya.When Narad Muni came down on Earth thinking it was the first and foremost place in the cosmos. But, after visiting such pilgrim places like Pushkar, Prayag, Kashi, Godavari (Nashik), Haridwar, Kurkshetra, Shrirang, Setubandh and several other pilgrim places he still did not feel peace and contentment anywhere. He realised it was the bane of Kaliyug, the rein of that period in Time, when Truth, Auserity, Purity ( both inward & outward). compassion, giving, etc are nothing and even those who claim to be pious, religious are engaged in the worst of crimes so what to talk of ordinary beings.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/745030 feca8365-cccd-4066-a49e-c8de476c598e 2588 full 4 4 66 66 false Thu, 15 Dec 2022 12:12:38 GMT     <![CDATA[What is Srimad Bhagavatam? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is one of the eighteen Purāṇas, but Srila Vyasdeva wrote it after compiling the essence of the Vedas in the Vedānta-sūtra and also composing the Mahābhārata and Purāṇas. But, one might ask, if the eighteen Purāṇas had already been compiled, does this make Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam the nineteenth Purāṇa?

    Srila Jiva Goswami explains in Tattva Sandharbha that this is not the case. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam appeared first to Srila Vyasa in a concise and subtle form, as one of the eighteen Purāṇas. Srila Vyasa composed the Vedāntasūtra on the basis of this first edition of the Bhāgavatam. Later, when He sat in trance in pursuance of Nārada Muni’s order, the expanded form of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam was revealed to Him as the natural commentary on the Vedānta-sūtra. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and the Vedāntasūtra share the same subject, the Absolute Truth, and they describe the same principles of sambandha (the relationship between the soul and God), abhidheya (the process of attaining the supreme goal), and prayojana (the supreme goal, perfect devotion to the Lord). Many ācāryas and scholars wrote later commentaries on the Vedānta-sūtra, but only those that agree with ŚrīmadBhāgavatam—such as those given by Ramanujacarya, Madhvacarya, and Baladeva Vidyabhusana—are bona fide. Suta Goswami alludes to Veda-vyasa’s composing two editions of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam: sa saṁhitāṁ bhāgavatīṁ kṛtvān ukram ya cātma-jam śukam adhyāpayām āsa nivṛtti-nirataṁ muniḥ “The great sage Vyasadeva, after compiling ŚrīmadBhāgavatam and revising it, taught it to His own son, Sri Sukadeva Goswami, who was already absorbed in self-realization” —Srimad Bhāgavatam1.7.8.

    Commenting on this verse, Srila Visvanatha Cakravatī Thakura writes, atastadaivapūrva-nirmitasyaivaśrībhāgavatasy ānukramaṇam: “The word anukramya in this verse means that Veda-vyasa compiled a new edition of the already existing Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam.”

    THE ONENESS OF LORD KRISHNA AND BHAGAVATAM

    pādau yadīyau prathama-dvitīyau

    tṛtīya-turyau kathitau yad-ūrū

    nābhis tathā paṣcama eva ṣaṣṭho

    bhujāntaraṁ dor-yugalaṁ tathānyau

    kaṇṭhas tu rājan navamo yadīyo

    mukhāravindaṁ daśamaṁ praphullam

    ekādaśo yaś ca lalāṭa-paṭṭaṁ

    śiro ’pi yad dvādaśa eva bhāti

    “The Bhāgavatam’s First and Second Cantos are Lord Krishna’s feet, and the Third and Fourth Cantos are His thighs. The Fifth Canto is His navel, the Sixth Canto is His chest, and the Seventh and Eighth Cantos are His arms. The Ninth Canto is His throat, the Tenth His blooming lotus face, the Eleventh His forehead, and the Twelfth His head.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/734418 5a2bc7cb-52a3-4fe2-b34f-cf5ef0daee7d 460 full 4 4 67 67 false Wed, 07 Dec 2022 09:11:44 GMT     <![CDATA[Day 1 | Overview of Srimad Bhagavatam | ISKCON Conventry | United Kingdom | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> .The Supreme Personality of Godhead is the most beautiful person amongst all others, and Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī describes every part of His transcendental beauty, one after another, in order to teach the impersonalist that the Personality of Godhead is not an imagination by the devotee for facility of worship, but is the Supreme Person in fact and figure. The impersonal feature of the Absolute Truth is but His radiation, as the sun rays are but radiations from the sun.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1036352 49fd6492-5fd5-4833-afa3-9b07b4efb2ad 5230 full 5 5 1 1 false Fri, 14 Jul 2023 11:00:30 GMT     <![CDATA[Day 2 | Overview of Srimad Bhagavatam | ISKOCN Conventry | United Kingdom | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> It is stated in Bhagavad-gītā that no one is barred from rendering service to the Lord. Whether one is a woman or a laborer or a merchant, if he engages himself in the devotional service of the Lord he is promoted to the highest perfectional state and goes back home, back to Godhead. The devotional service most suitable for different types of devotees is determined and fixed by the mercy of the spiritual master.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1039667 758b470e-6753-4b8d-bf0a-175f90edb55a 5776 full 5 5 2 2 false Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:01:17 GMT     <![CDATA[Day 3 | Overview of Srimad Bhagavatam | ISKCON Coventry | United Kingdom | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Thinking oneself one with the Supreme is called ahaṅgrahopāsanā. Through ahaṅgrahopāsanā one does not become God, but he thinks of himself as qualitatively one with the Supreme. Understanding that as a spirit soul he is equal in quality to the supreme soul the way the water of a river is of the same nature as the water of the sea, one should meditate upon the Supreme Lord, as described in this verse, and seek His protection. The living entities are always subordinate to the Supreme. Consequently their duty is to always seek the mercy of the Lord in order to be protected by Him in all circumstances.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1041206 094c94ad-c6fe-4ce6-b49d-9eae279db6d7 4464 full 5 5 3 3 false Tue, 18 Jul 2023 11:00:31 GMT     <![CDATA[Day 4 | Overview of Srimad Bhagavatam | ISKCON Coventry | United Kingdom | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> When people know that the Supreme Lord, Kṛṣṇa, is the supreme enjoyer, the supreme proprietor and the most intimate well-wishing friend of all living entities, peace and prosperity will ensue all over the world. Unfortunately, the conditioned souls, being placed into illusion by the external energy of the Lord, want to fight with one another, and therefore peace is disturbed. The first prerequisite for peace is that all the wealth presented by Śrī, the goddess of fortune, be offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Everyone should give up his false proprietorship over worldly possessions and offer everything to Kṛṣṇa.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1043167 8fecca9f-32ad-4d6a-93b9-2cca0ca197ac 5614 full 5 5 4 4 false Wed, 19 Jul 2023 10:40:09 GMT     <![CDATA[Day 5 | Overview of Srimad Bhagavatam | ISKCON Coventry | United Kingdom | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> The Lord’s activities of saving the devotees and killing the demons (paritrāṇāya sādhūnāṁ vināśāya ca duṣkṛtām) take place side by side. Kṛṣṇa actually appears for the deliverance of the sādhus, or bhaktas, but by killing the demons He shows them mercy also, for anyone killed by Kṛṣṇa is liberated. Whether the Lord kills or gives protection, He is kind to both the demons and the devotees.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1044399 a533509b-0f12-4048-a5b2-4df44819d0a8 5936 full 5 5 5 5 false Thu, 20 Jul 2023 10:30:10 GMT     <![CDATA[Day 6 | Overview of Srimad Bhagavatam | ISKCON Coventry | United Kingdom | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> The Supreme Personality of Godhead’s awareness is never disrupted by anything. Only out of ignorance could one imagine Him to be an ordinary human being subject to material conditions. Mortal beings are covered by their entanglement in fruitive activities and their consequent happiness and distress, but the Supreme Lord cannot be covered by what are in fact His own expansions. Analogously, the immense sun is the source of the relatively insignificant phenomena of clouds, snow and eclipses, and so it cannot be covered by them, though the ordinary observer may think that it is.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/1045631 cb3a76f7-80d0-45cd-be73-cc79596699ff 4799 full 5 5 6 6 false Fri, 21 Jul 2023 10:30:11 GMT     <![CDATA[Day 7 | Overview of Srimad Bhagavatam | ISKCON Coventry | United Kingdom | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> The words mad-dharmātma-mano-ratiḥ mean that all of one’s love and affection should be devoted to pleasing the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is not indicated here that one should try to relish selfish satisfaction in devotional service, but rather that one should be attracted to the Lord’s own satisfaction, which one achieves by faithfully executing the order of a bona fide spiritual master coming in disciplic succession from Lord Kṛṣṇa Himself. Attachment to one’s own satisfaction, even within devotional service, is materialistic, whereas attachment to the satisfaction of the Lord is pure spiritual emotion.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/997409 443dccd6-5322-4db2-8a8f-16b7b506dc44 2504 full 9 9 2 2 false Wed, 14 Jun 2023 14:02:04 GMT     <![CDATA[Are pure devotees themselves holy place? | ISKCON-Scotland | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira told Vidura that pure devotees like him are personified holy places because the Supreme Personality of Godhead is always with them in their hearts. By their association, sinful persons are freed from sinful reactions, and therefore wherever a pure devotee goes is a sacred place of pilgrimage.Our initiatives need your support: https://rzp.io/l/brajsundardasSupport our causePaypal: https://paypal.me/bdpayments?country.x=IN&locale.x=en_GB

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/995797 c240667a-ce62-4c47-b99e-078fa6a825be 1260 full 9 9 3 3 false Tue, 13 Jun 2023 10:00:18 GMT     <![CDATA[Ideal Householder Life | ISKCON-Scotland | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Maharaja Yudhisthira inquired from Narada Muni: O my lord, O great sage, kindly explain how we who are staying at home without knowledge of the goal of life may also easily attain liberation, according to the instructions of the Vedas.Narada Muni replied: My dear King, those who stay at home as householders must act to earn their livelihood, and instead of trying to enjoy the results of their work themselves, they should offer these results to Krsna, Vasudeva. How to satisfy Vasudeva in this life can be perfectly understood through the association of great devotees of the Lord.A grhastha must associate again and again with saintly persons, and with great respect he must hear the nectar of the activities of the Supreme Lord and His incarnations as these activities are described in Srimad-Bhagavatam and other Puranas. Thus one should gradually become detached from affection for his wife and children, exactly like a man awakening from a dream.While working to earn his livelihood as much as necessary to maintain body and soul together, one who is actually learned should live in human society unattached to family affairs, although externally appearing very much attached.An intelligent man in human society should make his own program of activities very simple. If there are suggestions from his friends, children, parents, brothers or anyone else, he should externally agree, saying, “Yes, that is all right,” but internally he should be determined not to create a cumbersome life in which the purpose of life will not be fulfilled.Our initiatives need your support: https://rzp.io/l/brajsundardasSupport our causePaypal: https://paypal.me/bdpayments?country.x=IN&locale.x=en_GB

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/990908 e8d95321-25c7-4b3f-9396-e40f05c35d1a 2339 full 9 9 4 4 false Mon, 12 Jun 2023 11:33:13 GMT     <![CDATA[Questions by the sages | Chapter 1 | Canto 1 | Overview of Srimad Bhagavatam | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> The Supreme Person, or parameśvara, is the supreme conscious personality, and because He does not derive any power from any other source, He is supremely independent. In the Vedic literatures Brahmā is described as the supreme god or the head of all other gods like Indra, Candra and Varuṇa, but the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam confirms that even Brahmā is not independent as far as his power and knowledge are concerned. He received knowledge in the form of the Vedas from the Supreme Person who resides within the heart of every living being. That Supreme Personality knows everything directly and indirectly. Individual infinitesimal persons, who are parts and parcels of the Supreme Personality, may know directly and indirectly everything about their bodies or external features, but the Supreme Personality knows everything about both His external and internal features.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/843611 9720c9f9-96ca-4fc7-a3e9-340ec9813bf9 492 full 10 10 1 1 false Mon, 27 Feb 2023 10:33:53 GMT     <![CDATA[Divinity and Divine Service | Chapter 2 | Canto 1 | Overview of Srimad Bhagavatam | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> In this prayer, Śrīla Sūta Gosvāmī practically summarizes the complete introduction of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the natural supplementary commentary on the Vedānta-sūtras. The Vedānta-sūtras, or the Brahma-sūtras, were compiled by Vyāsadeva with a view to presenting just the cream of Vedic knowledge. Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam is the natural commentary on this cream. Śrīla Śukadeva Gosvāmī was a thoroughly realized master on the Vedānta-sūtra, and consequently he also personally realized the commentary, Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. And just to show his boundless mercy upon bewildered materialistic men who want to cross completely over nescience, he recited for the first time this confidential knowledge.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/845208 7c9b3bf5-3da7-4202-b571-2f4a742f9308 606 full 10 10 2 2 false Tue, 28 Feb 2023 08:44:01 GMT     <![CDATA[Kṛṣṇa Is the Source of All Incarnations | Chapter 3 | Canto 1 | Overview of Srimad Bhagavatam | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> The original source of all energies is the living force, and He is logically accepted as the Supreme Person. He is therefore conscious of everything past, present and future, and also of each and every corner of His manifestations, both material and spiritual. An imperfect living being does not even know what is happening within his own personal body. He eats his food but does not know how this food is transformed into energy or how it sustains his body. When a living being is perfect, he is aware of everything that happens, and since the Supreme Person is all-perfect, it is quite natural that He knows everything in all detail. Consequently the perfect personality is addressed in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam as Vāsudeva, or one who lives everywhere in full consciousness and in full possession of His complete energy. All of this is clearly explained in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam, and the reader has ample opportunity to study this critically.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/847123 78b585ae-552f-4446-b949-b10b96ee0971 737 full 10 10 3 3 false Wed, 01 Mar 2023 10:38:55 GMT     <![CDATA[The Appearance of Śrī Nārada | Chapter 4 | Canto 1 | Overview of Srimad Bhagavatam | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Vidhi means Brahmā, the first created living being. He is the original student as well as professor of the Vedas. He learned it from Śrī Kṛṣṇa and taught Nārada first. So Nārada is the second ācārya in the line of spiritual disciplic succession. He is the representative of Brahmā, and therefore he is respected exactly like Brahmā, the father of all vidhis

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/848595 912b7cb1-ac47-46d5-a9b2-0039cce31e26 465 full 10 10 4 4 false Thu, 02 Mar 2023 08:23:38 GMT     <![CDATA[Nārada’s Instructions on Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam for Vyāsadeva | Chapter 5 | Canto 1 | Overview of Srimad Bhagavatam | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Śrī Vyāsadeva was advised by Nārada to describe the science of God directly by relating His transcendental activities. Vyāsadeva is himself a personality expert in this science, and he is unattached to material enjoyment. Therefore he is the right person to describe it, and Śukadeva Gosvāmī, the son of Vyāsadeva, is the right person to receive it.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/850101 3b0b95e7-4054-4295-81d9-ead4d1a930f5 769 full 10 10 5 5 false Fri, 03 Mar 2023 08:41:50 GMT     <![CDATA[Conversation Between Nārada and Vyāsadeva | Chapter 6 | Canto 1 | Overview of Srimad Bhagavatam | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> In his previous life, when Nāradajī was impregnated with spiritual knowledge by the grace of the great sages, there was a tangible change in his life, although he was only a boy of five years. That is an important symptom visible after initiation by the bona fide spirituai master. Actual association of devotees brings about a quick change in life for spiritual realization. How it so acted upon the previous life of Śrī Nārada Muni is described by and by in this chapter.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/855342 d407a1d7-f510-46e0-b569-4ef243a9cb9e 569 full 10 10 6 6 false Tue, 07 Mar 2023 09:24:17 GMT     <![CDATA[The Son of Droṇa Punished | Chapter 7 | Canto 1 | Overview of Srimad Bhagavatam | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Aśvatthāmā’s mother, Kṛpī, was born in the family of Gautama. The significant point in this śloka is that Aśvatthāmā was caught and bound up with ropes like an animal. According to Śrīdhara Svāmī, Arjuna was obliged to catch this son of a brāhmaṇa like an animal as a part of his duty (dharma). This suggestion by Śrīdhara Svāmī is also confirmed in the later statement of Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Aśvatthāmā was a bona fide son of Droṇācārya and Kṛpī, but because he had degraded himself to a lower status of life, it was proper to treat him as an animal and not as a brāhmaṇa.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/858611 da490f62-2121-4502-8920-8dfa9894a3f1 810 full 10 10 7 7 false Thu, 09 Mar 2023 10:51:47 GMT     <![CDATA[Prayers by Queen Kuntī and Parīkṣit Saved | Chapter 8 | Canto 1 | Overview of Srimad Bhagavatam | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Kuntīdevī is quite aware that the existence of the Pāṇḍavas is due to Śrī Kṛṣṇa only. The Pāṇḍavas are undoubtedly well established in name and fame and are guided by the great King Yudhiṣṭhira, who is morality personified, and the Yadus are undoubtedly great allies, but without the guidance of Lord Kṛṣṇa all of them are nonentities, as much as the senses of the body are useless without the guidance of consciousness. No one should be proud of his prestige, power and fame without being guided by the favor of the Supreme Lord.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/863929 20e91ef3-2107-491b-a209-4fc5f561a340 844 full 10 10 8 8 false Mon, 13 Mar 2023 07:45:26 GMT     <![CDATA[The Passing Away of Bhīṣmadeva in the Presence of Lord Kṛṣṇa | Chapter 9 | Canto 1 | Overview of Srimad Bhagavatam | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Lord Kṛṣṇa was also a younger cousin of Mahārāja Yudhiṣṭhira as well as the intimate friend of Arjuna. But all the family members of the Pāṇḍavas knew Lord Kṛṣṇa as the Supreme Personality of Godhead. The Lord, although conscious of His supreme position, always behaved in a humanly custom, and so He also bowed down before the dying Bhīṣmadeva as if He were one of the younger brothers of King Yudhiṣṭhira.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/865598 f93dcebb-74b1-4a24-92eb-b44d9b47fa46 851 full 10 10 9 9 false Tue, 14 Mar 2023 09:41:23 GMT     <![CDATA[The Power of Holy Name: Story of Ajamila | Session-1 | How Ajamila was about to give up his body? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> A person who performs sinful activities performs them with his body, mind and words. Therefore three order carriers from Yamarāja came to take Ajāmila to Yamarāja’s abode. Fortunately, even though he was referring to his son, Ajāmila chanted the four syllables of the hari-nāma Nārāyaṇa, and therefore the order carriers of Nārāyaṇa, the Viṣṇudūtas, also immediately arrived there. Because Ajāmila was extremely afraid of the ropes of Yamarāja, he chanted the Lord’s name with tearful eyes. Actually, however, he never meant to chant the holy name of Nārāyaṇa; he meant to call his son.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/816590 1b09d53b-0325-4ecc-ab10-0a05d76a9e87 4176 full 11 11 1 1 false Wed, 08 Feb 2023 12:04:26 GMT     <![CDATA[The Power of Holy Name: Story of Ajamila | Session- 2 | Conversation between Vishnudutas and Yamdutas | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Ajāmila was a resident of Kānyakubja (the modern Kanauj). He was trained by his parents to become a perfect brāhmaṇa by studying the Vedas and following the regulative principles, but because of his past, this youthful brāhmaṇa was somehow attracted by a prostitute, and because of her association he became most fallen and abandoned all regulative principles. Ajāmila begot in the womb of the prostitute ten sons, the last of whom was called Nārāyaṇa. At the time of Ajāmila’s death, when the order carriers of Yamarāja came to take him, he loudly called the name Nārāyaṇa in fear because he was attached to his youngest son. Thus he remembered the original Nārāyaṇa, Lord Viṣṇu. Although he did not chant the holy name of Nārāyaṇa completely offenselessly, it acted nevertheless. As soon as he chanted the holy name of Nārāyaṇa, the order carriers of Lord Viṣṇu immediately appeared on the scene. A discussion ensued between the order carriers of Lord Viṣṇu and those of Yamarāja, and by hearing that discussion Ajāmila was liberated.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/818244 4fcbf2f6-1dae-4f70-a097-3b62f8a0d05c 4101 full 11 11 2 2 false Thu, 09 Feb 2023 11:45:43 GMT     <![CDATA[ The Power of Holy Name: Story of Ajamila | Session-3 | 𝗩𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗻𝘂𝗱𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘀 freed Ajamila from the bondage of 𝗬𝗮𝗺𝗱𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘀 | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Although Ajāmila was not punishable, the Yamadūtas were insisting on taking him away to Yamarāja for punishment. This was adharma, contrary to religious principles. The Viṣṇudūtas feared that if such irreligious acts were allowed, the management of human society would be spoiled. In modern times, the Kṛṣṇa consciousness movement is trying to introduce the right principles of management for human society, but unfortunately the governments of Kali-yuga do not properly support the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement because they do not appreciate its valuable service. The Hare Kṛṣṇa movement is the right movement for ameliorating the fallen condition of human society, and therefore governments and public leaders in every part of the world should support this movement to completely rectify humanity’s sinful condition.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/821454 88309ea5-302d-47f7-a314-54c22d70b740 2888 full 11 11 3 3 false Sat, 11 Feb 2023 11:10:37 GMT     <![CDATA[The Power of Holy Name: Story of Ajamila | Session- 4 | Yamaraja Instructs his Messengers | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Yamarāja was describing the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the supreme controller, but the order carriers of Yamarāja were very eager to know about the Viṣṇudūtas, who had defeated them in their encounter with Ajāmila. Yamarāja therefore stated that the Viṣṇudūtas resemble the Supreme Personality of Godhead in their bodily features, transcendental qualities and nature. In other words, the Viṣṇudūtas, or Vaiṣṇavas, are almost as qualified as the Supreme Lord. Yamarāja informed the Yamadūtas that the Viṣṇudūtas are no less powerful than Lord Viṣṇu. Since Viṣṇu is above Yamarāja, the Viṣṇudūtas are above the Yamadūtas. Persons protected by the Viṣṇudūtas, therefore, cannot be touched by the Yamadūtas.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/821785 375199b1-0d48-4352-8ec5-a61f2636c046 2441 full 11 11 4 4 false Sun, 12 Feb 2023 05:11:26 GMT     <![CDATA[ The Power of Holy Name: Story of Ajamila | Session-5 | Yamarāja described the glories of the Lord and His devotees | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> We should note that although Ajāmila chanted the name of Nārāyaṇa imperfectly, he was delivered from all sinful reactions. The chanting of the holy name is so auspicious that it can free everyone from the reactions of sinful activities. One should not conclude that one may continue to sin with the intention of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa to neutralize the reactions. Rather, one should be very careful to be free from all sins and never think of counteracting sinful activities by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, for this is another offense. If by chance a devotee accidentally performs some sinful activity, the Lord will excuse him, but one should not intentionally perform sinful acts.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/823567 dc3a7a78-a552-48d5-845f-c01433159d90 2442 full 11 11 5 5 false Mon, 13 Feb 2023 11:45:12 GMT     <![CDATA[Can one attain salvation by staying at Grihastha-ashram? | Part 1 | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> The occupational duties of the householder according to the time, the country and the performer. When Yudhiṣṭhira Mahārāja became very much inquisitive about the occupational duties for the householder, Nārada Muni advised him that a gṛhastha’s first duty is to be fully dependent on Vāsudeva, Kṛṣṇa, and to try to satisfy Him in all respects by executing one’s prescribed devotional service. This devotional service will depend on the instructions of authorities and the association of devotees who are actually engaged in devotional service. The beginning of devotional service is śravaṇam, or hearing. One must hear from the mouths of realized souls. In this way the gṛhastha’s attraction to his wife and children will gradually be reduced.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/833463 0b4632c3-8e52-4396-b3bd-da1c4b593153 3261 full 12 12 1 1 false Mon, 20 Feb 2023 11:17:10 GMT     <![CDATA[Can one attain salvation by staying at Grihastha-ashram? | Ideal Householder Life | Part 2 | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Every householder should be very careful because even though a householder may try to conquer the senses, he becomes a victim to the association of relatives and falls down. Thus a gṛhastha must become a vānaprastha or sannyāsī, live in a secluded place, and be satisfied with food gotten by begging from door to door. He must chant the oṁkāra mantra or Hare Kṛṣṇa mantra, and in this way he will perceive transcendental bliss within himself. After taking sannyāsa, however, if one returns to gṛhastha life, he is called a vāntāśī, which means “one who eats his own vomit.” Such a person is shameless. A householder should not give up the ritualistic ceremonies, and a sannyāsī should not live in society. If a sannyāsī is agitated by the senses, he is a cheater influenced by the modes of passion and ignorance. When one assumes a role in goodness by starting philanthropic and altruistic activities, such activities become impediments on the path of devotional service.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/834732 b97287a3-d93e-47d3-982d-e7fea9b01772 3655 full 12 12 2 2 false Tue, 21 Feb 2023 04:17:23 GMT     <![CDATA[Deliverance of Putana | Session 1 | Minister's advice to Kamsa | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> After consulting with his demoniac ministers, Kaṁsa instructed a witch named Pūtanā, who knew the black art of killing small children by ghastly sinful methods, to kill all kinds of children in the cities, villages and pasturing grounds. Such witches can play their black art only where there is no chanting or hearing of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa. It is said that wherever the chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa is done, even negligently, all bad elements – witches, ghosts and dangerous calamities – immediately disappear. And this is certainly true of the place where the chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa is done seriously – especially in Vṛndāvana when the Supreme Lord was personally present. Therefore, the doubts of Nanda Mahārāja were certainly based on affection for Kṛṣṇa. Actually there was no danger from the activities of Pūtanā, despite her powers. Such witches are called khecarī, which means they can fly in the sky. This black art of witchcraft is still practiced by some women in the remote northwestern side of India. They can transfer themselves from one place to another on the branch of an uprooted tree. Pūtanā knew this witchcraft, and therefore she is described in the Bhāgavatam as khecarī.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/775202 ee534e25-46af-489a-b567-406f9689c076 2537 full 13 13 1 1 false Wed, 11 Jan 2023 08:22:23 GMT     <![CDATA[Deliverance of Putana | Session 2 | Birth Ceremony of Lord Sri Krishna | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> After consulting with his demoniac ministers, Kaṁsa instructed a witch named Pūtanā, who knew the black art of killing small children by ghastly sinful methods, to kill all kinds of children in the cities, villages and pasturing grounds. Such witches can play their black art only where there is no chanting or hearing of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa. It is said that wherever the chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa is done, even negligently, all bad elements – witches, ghosts and dangerous calamities – immediately disappear. And this is certainly true of the place where the chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa is done seriously – especially in Vṛndāvana when the Supreme Lord was personally present. Therefore, the doubts of Nanda Mahārāja were certainly based on affection for Kṛṣṇa. Actually there was no danger from the activities of Pūtanā, despite her powers. Such witches are called khecarī, which means they can fly in the sky. This black art of witchcraft is still practiced by some women in the remote northwestern side of India. They can transfer themselves from one place to another on the branch of an uprooted tree. Pūtanā knew this witchcraft, and therefore she is described in the Bhāgavatam as khecarī.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/776794 64ab740c-9dfb-4e11-865d-c5c1ff2c1eb1 2761 full 13 13 2 2 false Thu, 12 Jan 2023 12:46:14 GMT     <![CDATA[Deliverance of Putana | Session 3 | Meeting of Nanda Maharaj and Vasudev | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> After consulting with his demoniac ministers, Kaṁsa instructed a witch named Pūtanā, who knew the black art of killing small children by ghastly sinful methods, to kill all kinds of children in the cities, villages and pasturing grounds. Such witches can play their black art only where there is no chanting or hearing of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa. It is said that wherever the chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa is done, even negligently, all bad elements – witches, ghosts and dangerous calamities – immediately disappear. And this is certainly true of the place where the chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa is done seriously – especially in Vṛndāvana when the Supreme Lord was personally present. Therefore, the doubts of Nanda Mahārāja were certainly based on affection for Kṛṣṇa. Actually there was no danger from the activities of Pūtanā, despite her powers. Such witches are called khecarī, which means they can fly in the sky. This black art of witchcraft is still practiced by some women in the remote northwestern side of India. They can transfer themselves from one place to another on the branch of an uprooted tree. Pūtanā knew this witchcraft, and therefore she is described in the Bhāgavatam as khecarī.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/779186 8712ab62-cb09-4349-8b71-e80e590b4334 2397 full 13 13 3 3 false Sat, 14 Jan 2023 13:36:35 GMT     <![CDATA[Deliverance of Putana | Session 4 | Who is Putna? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> After consulting with his demoniac ministers, Kaṁsa instructed a witch named Pūtanā, who knew the black art of killing small children by ghastly sinful methods, to kill all kinds of children in the cities, villages and pasturing grounds. Such witches can play their black art only where there is no chanting or hearing of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa. It is said that wherever the chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa is done, even negligently, all bad elements – witches, ghosts and dangerous calamities – immediately disappear. And this is certainly true of the place where the chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa is done seriously – especially in Vṛndāvana when the Supreme Lord was personally present. Therefore, the doubts of Nanda Mahārāja were certainly based on affection for Kṛṣṇa. Actually there was no danger from the activities of Pūtanā, despite her powers. Such witches are called khecarī, which means they can fly in the sky. This black art of witchcraft is still practiced by some women in the remote northwestern side of India. They can transfer themselves from one place to another on the branch of an uprooted tree. Pūtanā knew this witchcraft, and therefore she is described in the Bhāgavatam as khecarī.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/785122 54ed2ac1-b652-42f7-995e-67c2beef7855 2575 full 13 13 4 4 false Wed, 18 Jan 2023 11:40:46 GMT     <![CDATA[Deliverance of Putana | Session 5 | Putana killed by Lord Krishna | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> After consulting with his demoniac ministers, Kaṁsa instructed a witch named Pūtanā, who knew the black art of killing small children by ghastly sinful methods, to kill all kinds of children in the cities, villages and pasturing grounds. Such witches can play their black art only where there is no chanting or hearing of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa. It is said that wherever the chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa is done, even negligently, all bad elements – witches, ghosts and dangerous calamities – immediately disappear. And this is certainly true of the place where the chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa is done seriously – especially in Vṛndāvana when the Supreme Lord was personally present. Therefore, the doubts of Nanda Mahārāja were certainly based on affection for Kṛṣṇa. Actually there was no danger from the activities of Pūtanā, despite her powers. Such witches are called khecarī, which means they can fly in the sky. This black art of witchcraft is still practiced by some women in the remote northwestern side of India. They can transfer themselves from one place to another on the branch of an uprooted tree. Pūtanā knew this witchcraft, and therefore she is described in the Bhāgavatam as khecarī.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/787060 96a8411c-b848-4269-a46b-188f045e0885 2066 full 13 13 5 5 false Thu, 19 Jan 2023 12:43:10 GMT     <![CDATA[Deliverance of Putana | Session 6 | How gopis protecting Krishna | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> After consulting with his demoniac ministers, Kaṁsa instructed a witch named Pūtanā, who knew the black art of killing small children by ghastly sinful methods, to kill all kinds of children in the cities, villages and pasturing grounds. Such witches can play their black art only where there is no chanting or hearing of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa. It is said that wherever the chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa is done, even negligently, all bad elements – witches, ghosts and dangerous calamities – immediately disappear. And this is certainly true of the place where the chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa is done seriously – especially in Vṛndāvana when the Supreme Lord was personally present. Therefore, the doubts of Nanda Mahārāja were certainly based on affection for Kṛṣṇa. Actually there was no danger from the activities of Pūtanā, despite her powers. Such witches are called khecarī, which means they can fly in the sky. This black art of witchcraft is still practiced by some women in the remote northwestern side of India. They can transfer themselves from one place to another on the branch of an uprooted tree. Pūtanā knew this witchcraft, and therefore she is described in the Bhāgavatam as khecarī.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/791829 1a8216dc-7866-4dc9-bdcf-da0a8ddaf9fe 2294 full 13 13 6 6 false Mon, 23 Jan 2023 13:05:57 GMT     <![CDATA[Deliverance of Putana | Session 7 | Putana's liberation | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> After consulting with his demoniac ministers, Kaṁsa instructed a witch named Pūtanā, who knew the black art of killing small children by ghastly sinful methods, to kill all kinds of children in the cities, villages and pasturing grounds. Such witches can play their black art only where there is no chanting or hearing of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa. It is said that wherever the chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa is done, even negligently, all bad elements – witches, ghosts and dangerous calamities – immediately disappear. And this is certainly true of the place where the chanting of the holy name of Kṛṣṇa is done seriously – especially in Vṛndāvana when the Supreme Lord was personally present. Therefore, the doubts of Nanda Mahārāja were certainly based on affection for Kṛṣṇa. Actually there was no danger from the activities of Pūtanā, despite her powers. Such witches are called khecarī, which means they can fly in the sky. This black art of witchcraft is still practiced by some women in the remote northwestern side of India. They can transfer themselves from one place to another on the branch of an uprooted tree. Pūtanā knew this witchcraft, and therefore she is described in the Bhāgavatam as khecarī.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/796203 3f8d047a-c9fc-4b1c-8fa5-dfd908e8b038 2742 full 13 13 7 7 false Thu, 26 Jan 2023 11:56:51 GMT     <![CDATA[Lord Krishna chastises Kaliya | Session 1 | Black serpent enwrapped Krishna in the coils | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Śukadeva Gosvāmī narrated the story as follows. Within the river Yamunā there was a great lake, and in that lake the black serpent Kāliya used to live. Because of his poison, the whole area was so contaminated that it emanated a poisonous vapor twenty-four hours a day. If a bird happened to even pass over the spot, it would immediately die and fall down into the water. Due to the poisonous effect of the Yamunā’s vapors, the trees and grass near the bank of the Yamunā had all dried up. Lord Kṛṣṇa saw the effect of the great serpent’s poison: the whole river that ran before Vṛndāvana was now deadly.

    Kṛṣṇa, who advented Himself just to kill all undesirable elements in the world, immediately climbed up into a big kadamba tree on the bank of the Yamunā. The kadamba is a tree bearing round yellow flowers that is generally seen only in the Vṛndāvana area. After climbing to the top of the tree, He tightened His belt cloth and, slapping His arms just like a wrestler, jumped into the midst of the poisonous lake.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/754501 5eb55bd4-9263-4b36-bd95-2e0108ceab95 2739 full 14 14 1 1 false Fri, 23 Dec 2022 12:45:04 GMT     <![CDATA[Lord Krishna chastises Kaliya | Session 2 | Why did Krishna ask Kaliya to leave Vrindavan? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Seeing how very weary Kāliya had become, his wives, the Nāgapatnīs, bowed down at Lord Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet. Then they offered Him various prayers in hopes of gaining their husband’s freedom: “It is quite fitting that You have brought our cruel husband to this condition. Indeed, by Your anger he has gained great benefit. What piety Kāliya must have amassed in his previous lives! Today he has borne upon his head the dust of the lotus feet of the Personality of Godhead, the attainment of which is difficult for even the mother of the universe, the goddess Lakṣmī. Please kindly forgive the offense Kāliya has committed out of ignorance, and allow him to live.”

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/757517 05c7f153-5a31-4383-a3e2-c5559adc648d 2443 full 14 14 2 2 false Tue, 27 Dec 2022 12:05:56 GMT     <![CDATA[Life of Sudama | Session 1 | Sudama's departure for Dwarka | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> As Sudāmā approached the palace of Lord Kṛṣṇa’s principal wife, Rukmiṇī-devī, the Lord saw him from a distance. Kṛṣṇa immediately rose from His seat on Rukmiṇī’s bed and embraced His friend with great joy. Then He sat Sudāmā down on the bed, washed his feet with His own hands and sprinkled the wash water on His head. After this He presented him with various gifts and worshiped him with incense, lamps and so on. Meanwhile, Rukmiṇī fanned the shabbily dressed brāhmaṇa with a yaktail whisk. All of this astonished the residents of the palace.

    Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa then took the hand of His friend, and the two of them reminisced about the things they had done together long ago, while living in the school of their spiritual master. Sudāmā pointed out that Kṛṣṇa engages in the pastime of acquiring an education only to set an example for human society.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/750603 6f8b1c03-56c5-4555-b50f-c724aee5a001 2325 full 15 15 1 1 false Tue, 20 Dec 2022 11:25:14 GMT     <![CDATA[Life of Sudama | Session 2 | When sudama met Krishna | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> In the course of His loving talks with His friend Sudāmā, Lord Kṛṣṇa said, “My dear brāhmaṇa, have you brought any gift for Me from home? I regard as very significant even the smallest offering from My loving devotee.” But the poor brāhmaṇa was ashamed to present Kṛṣṇa with his meager gift of flat rice. However, since Lord Kṛṣṇa is the Supersoul dwelling in all hearts, He knew why Sudāmā had come to visit Him. So He grabbed the bundle of flat rice Sudāmā was hiding and ate a handful of it with great pleasure.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/752061 0bd943da-cf6d-4c9a-b601-1332ac001f76 2625 full 15 15 2 2 false Wed, 21 Dec 2022 13:04:44 GMT     <![CDATA[Life of Sudama | Session 3 | Lords causeless mercy on Sudama | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Sudāmā spent that night comfortably in Lord Kṛṣṇa’s palace, and the next morning he set off for home. As he passed along the highway, he thought of how fortunate he was to have been so honored by Śrī Kṛṣṇa. Absorbed in this meditation, Sudāmā arrived at the place where his home used to be — and he was struck with great wonder. Instead of his broken-down hovel, he saw a series of opulent palaces. While he stood astonished, a group of beautiful men and women came forward to greet him with singing and music. The brāhmaṇa’s wife, wonderfully adorned with celestial jewelry, came out of the palace and welcomed him with great love and reverence. Sudāmā entered his home together with her, thinking that this extraordinary transformation must have been due to the Supreme Lord’s mercy on him.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/753166 4c17c693-e803-4d33-81b4-e3797e7b655d 2237 full 15 15 3 3 false Thu, 22 Dec 2022 10:22:44 GMT     <![CDATA[The Life of King Yayati | Session 1 | How the daughter of a king became the maidservant of Shukracharya's daughter Devayani. | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> When Nahuṣa, who had six sons, was cursed to become a python, his eldest son, Yati, took sannyāsa, and therefore the next son, Yayāti, was enthroned as king. By providence, Yayāti married the daughter of Śukrācārya. Śukrācārya was a brāhmaṇa and Yayāti a kṣatriya, but Yayāti married her nonetheless. Śukrācārya’s daughter, named Devayānī, had a girlfriend named Śarmiṣṭhā, who was the daughter of Vṛṣaparvā. King Yayāti married Śarmiṣṭhā also. The history of this marriage is as follows. Once Śarmiṣṭhā was sporting in the water with thousands of her girlfriends, and Devayānī was also there. When the young girls saw Lord Śiva, seated on his bull with Umā, they immediately dressed themselves, but Śarmiṣṭhā mistakenly put on Devayānī’s clothes. Devayānī, being very angry, rebuked Śarmiṣṭhā, who also became very angry and responded by rebuking Devayānī and throwing her into a well.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/740749 c95be311-562a-4f30-bc69-421a64ef7766 2755 full 16 16 1 1 false Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:18:31 GMT     <![CDATA[The Life of King Yayati | Session 2 | Why was Yadu's rejection accepted as religious and his brother's rejection as irreligious? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> Śukrācārya became angry and cursed Mahārāja Yayāti to become old, but when Yayāti begged Śukrācārya to be merciful to him, Śukrācārya gave him the benediction that he could transfer his old age and invalidity to some young man. Yayāti exchanged his old age for the youth of his youngest son, Pūru.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/742117 2ee333b5-1b40-4433-9d95-96b0cea20659 2578 full 16 16 2 2 false Tue, 13 Dec 2022 12:38:02 GMT     <![CDATA[The Life of King Yayati | Session 3 | How to get out of clutches of Maya to become liberated? | H.G Brajsundar Das]]> King Yayāti, however, renounced worldly life and divided his property among his sons. He personally adopted the life of a mendicant, or sannyāsī, giving up all attraction to material enjoyment, and engaged himself fully in devotional service to the Lord. Thus he attained perfection. Later, when his beloved wife, Devayānī, was freed from her mistaken way of life, she also engaged herself in the devotional service of the Lord.

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    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/743360 d9c97309-5001-4a0b-91d6-e6ca106e4103 2084 full 16 16 3 3 false Wed, 14 Dec 2022 10:34:56 GMT     <![CDATA[Srila Gour Govind Swami Maharaj | CC Adi Lila - Gopi Bhava | Bhubaneswar]]>

    yuga-dharma pravartāimu nāma-saṅkīrtana

    cāri bhāva-bhakti diyā nācāmu bhuvana

    Translation

    “I shall personally inaugurate the religion of the age — nāma-saṅkīrtana, the congregational chanting of the holy name. I shall make the world dance in ecstasy, realizing the four mellows of loving devotional service.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2411608 7bbb7fdd-b17e-49b3-a88d-faf057c885aa 2461 full 17 17 1 1 false Thu, 25 Dec 2025 06:12:33 GMT     <![CDATA[Srila Gour Govind Swami Maharaj | CC Adi Lila - Caitanya Abode Of Rasa | Bhubaneswar]]>

    Text 225

    śrī-kṛṣṇa-caitanya gosāñi rasera sadana

    aśeṣa-viśeṣe kaila rasa āsvādana

    Translation

    Lord Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya is the abode of rasa. He Himself tasted the sweetness of rasa in endless ways.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2419850 67a882a7-84a9-4796-af72-d5ca0b2cc2f1 2933 full 17 17 2 2 false Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:05:27 GMT     <![CDATA[Srila Gour Govind Swami Maharaj | CC Adi Lila | Bhubaneswar]]> Text 229

    ṣaṣṭha-ślokera ei kahila ābhāsa

    mūla ślokera artha śuna kariye prakāśa

    Translation

    I have given a hint of the sixth verse. Now please hear as I reveal the meaning of that original verse.

    Text 230

    śrī-rādhāyāḥ praṇaya-mahimā kīdṛśo vānayaivā-

    svādyo yenādbhuta-madhurimā kīdṛśo vā madīyaḥ

    saukhyaṁ cāsyā mad-anubhavataḥ kīdṛśaṁ veti lobhāt

    tad-bhāvāḍhyaḥ samajani śacī-garbha-sindhau harīnduḥ

    Translation

    “Desiring to understand the glory of Rādhārāṇī’s love, the wonderful qualities in Him that She alone relishes through Her love, and the happiness She feels when She realizes the sweetness of His love, the Supreme Lord Hari, richly endowed with Her emotions, appeared from the womb of Śrīmatī Śacī-devī, as the moon appeared from the ocean.”

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2430292 c411ab91-59f5-4b81-8cc7-124b7764f5c8 3215 full 17 17 3 3 false Mon, 05 Jan 2026 07:37:07 GMT     <![CDATA[Srila Gour Govind Swami Maharaj | CC Adi Lila | Radha Prema]]> The way of presentation of the Vedic sounds is so bewildering that it directs the intelligence of the people to meaningless things like the heavenly kingdoms. The conditioned souls hover in dreams of such heavenly illusory pleasures, but actually they do not relish any tangible happiness in such places.

    ]]>     https://rss.com/podcasts/onepurpose/2693034 bd837f64-e673-4c39-8212-2af7e6e6227e 2342 full 17 17 4 4 false Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:39:00 GMT