In the evening, I was walking down the street in Old Delhi, Chandni Chowk area; and one very polite gentleman approached me on the street and asked me, “Where are you from? Why have you come to India? What is your educational qualification?”
What is this analogy of fog? Fog disrupts so many of the plans of humanity because it obscures us from seeing things as they are. In New Delhi, at the Indira Gandhi Airport, usually when there is fog, airplanes are delayed, sometimes for hours and hours and hours.
Lord Sri Krishna descended into this world as Lord Chaitanya about 500 years ago. One day the devotees were performing an abhishekam for him in Srivas Angam in Navadvip Dham. All the great mahants and famous devotees, they were singing hymns, offering flowers and putting the abhishekam upon the Lord; they were in an exalted position, doing an exalted service.
It is described that the mercy of God is like the sun. The sun does not discriminate, whether you are from this family or that family, this nationality or that nationality. The sun rays are beneficially giving out themselves…
Our guru Srila Prabhupada defined maya: maya is that which is not. We are attracted to the various temptations in the world thinking theywill make us happy—if I have this, if I am this, if I get this, I’ll be happy. But actually, it is like a spider’s web…
Krishna explains in Bhagavad-Gita that all beautiful things within this world are but tiny sparks of His beauty. The name ‘Krishna’ means ‘all attractive’, ‘supremely attractive.’ The reason the soul is attracted to things or people of this world is because…