"True devotion is never feeling entitled."
"Embrace gratitude as our
core attitude."
Kenya is where I first developed a relationship with Krishna Consciousness...
This supreme science was thus received through the chain of disciplic succession...
Life comes from Life.
My goal is to help you solve every problem with Kṛṣṇa Consciousness.
People have a hard time guessing my accent. I've lived in the US since college and at this point speak pretty much with an American accent, but definitely with a twist! As I'm Indian-bodied, people often ask if I was born in India. When I tell them I was born and raised in Africa, in Kenya and lived there until I moved to the States in 1993, people are often surprised and definitely wouldn't guess my accent is actually Kenyan!
Kenya is where I first developed a relationship with Krishna Consciousness. During a family trip to Mumbai when I was 14, an uncle took me to the Juhu ISKCON temple, as my grandmother and I were staying in a hotel across the street, having been put up there by the airline due to a delay in our return flight to Nairobi.
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H.H. Satsvarupa das Goswami is a writer, artist and spiritual master in the Gaudiya Vaisnava sampradaya. He is one of the first disciples of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada who founded the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), also known in the Western countries as the Hare Krishna movement.
His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896-1977), the founder - acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), was the foremost proponent and teacher of Krishna consciousness—devotional service to the Supreme Person, Krishna—of the late twentieth century.
Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura (1874–1936), the spiritual master of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, was a lifelong celibate and a powerful teacher of Bhakti. He was extremely intelligent and excelled in math, astronomy, Sanskrit, and other languages. The University of Calcutta offered him a chair, but he declined so that he could dedicate his life to continuing the spiritual work of his father, Bhaktivinoda Thakura.
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So what happens when you get divorced? or retire or laid-off? Grow older? Children grow up, move out and do not need you? Life challenges us, because of our “false identification” with our body and these roles we play. Why false?
Our body and roles we play have changed throughout our life. Both these can be taken away without any notice (e.g., car accident, layoff from job etc.) and therefore are temporary. Basing our identity and happiness on something temporary is like building a house on unstable ground with no foundation.
So what’s permanent? Its Lord Krishna - the supreme personality of god head. His infinitesimal portion resides in us as “atma” - and that NEVER dies. Just like we discard clothes (or cars) at the end of their useful lives (or when we get bored, and they no longer serve our needs)...
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