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ISKM Vedic Lectures

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Welcome to ISKM Vedic Lectures — a treasury of recorded transcendental discourses by dedicated devotees from the International Sri Krishna Mandir (ISKM), a global congregation of Hare Krishna temples. Tune into the timeless Vedic wisdom delivered with pure devotion according to the teachings of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda.
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The Problems of Conditioned Life | ŚB 5.13.19 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

ŚB 5.13.19 O killer of enemies, Mahārāja Rahūgaṇa, if the conditioned soul somehow or other gets out of his dangerous position, he again returns to his home to enjoy sex life, for that is the way of attachment. Thus, under the spell of the Lord’s material energy, he continues to loiter in the forest of material existence. He does not discover his real interest even at the point of death. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): ⁠https...

Oct 08, 202449 min

The Purpose of Lord Kṛṣṇa's Appearance | BG 4.8 | HG Viśvambhara Prabhu

BG 4.8 To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I Myself appear, millennium after millennium. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): ⁠https://t.me/iskmnews

Oct 08, 20241 hr 5 min

Fake Gurus | ŚB 5.13.17 | HG Subala Prabhu

ŚB 5.13.17 Being cheated by them, the living entity in the forest of the material world tries to give up the association of these so-called yogīs, svāmīs, and incarnations and come to the association of real devotees, but due to misfortune he cannot follow the instructions of the spiritual master or advanced devotees; therefore he gives up their company and again returns to the association of monkeys who are simply interested in sense gratification and women. He derives satisfaction by associati...

Oct 08, 20241 hr 4 min

The Supremacy of Lord Kṛṣṇa | BG 7.7 | HG Mahāprabhu Prabhu

BG 7.7 O conqueror of wealth, there is no truth superior to Me. Everything rests upon Me, as pearls are strung on a thread. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): ⁠https://t.me/iskmnews

Oct 08, 20241 hr 2 min

Further Struggles in Family Life | ŚB 5.13.14 | HG Subala Prabhu

ŚB 5.13.14 My dear King, on the forest path of material life, first a person is bereft of his father and mother, and after their death he becomes attached to his newly born children. In this way he wanders on the path of material progress and is eventually embarrassed. Nonetheless, no one knows how to get out of this, even up to the moment of death. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): https://t.me/iskmnews...

Oct 05, 202456 min

Struggles in Marital Life | ŚB 5.13.13 | HG Subala Prabhu

ŚB 5.13.13 Due to monetary transactions, relationships become very strained and end in enmity. Sometimes the husband and wife walk on the path of material progress, and to maintain their relationship they work very hard. Sometimes due to scarcity of money or due to diseased conditions, they are embarrassed and almost die. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): https://t.me/iskmnews...

Oct 05, 20241 hr 11 min

Obnoxious Material Life | ŚB 5.13.12 | HG Viśvambhara Prabhu

ŚB 5.13.12 On the forest path of material existence, sometimes a person is without wealth and due to this does not have a proper home, bed or sitting place, nor proper family enjoyment. He therefore goes to beg money from others, but when his desires are not fulfilled by begging, he wants to borrow or steal the property of others. Thus he is insulted in society. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): https://t.me/iskmnews...

Oct 05, 20241 hr 12 min

Topmost Yogī | BG 6.47 | HG Viśvambhara Prabhu

BG 6.47 And of all yogīs, the one with great faith who always abides in Me, thinks of Me within himself and renders transcendental loving service to Me – he is the most intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all. That is My opinion. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): ⁠https://www.t.me/iskmnews

Oct 05, 20241 hr 1 min

The Nature of the Living Entity | ŚB 5.13.11 | HG Mahāprabhu Prabhu

ŚB 5.13.11 Sometimes the living entity is busy counteracting the natural disturbances of freezing cold, scorching heat, strong wind, excessive rainfall and so forth. When he is unable to do so, he becomes very unhappy. Sometimes he is cheated in business transactions one after another. In this way, by cheating, living entities create enmity among themselves. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): https://t.me/iskmnews...

Oct 05, 202440 min

Chaste vs. Unchaste Wife | ŚB 5.13.10 | HG Subala Prabhu

ŚB 5.13.10 Sometimes, in order to have a little insignificant sex enjoyment, one searches after debauched women. In this attempt, one is insulted and chastised by the women’s kinsmen. This is like going to take honey from a bee-hive and being attacked by the bees. Sometimes, after spending lots of money, one may acquire another woman for some extra sense enjoyment. Unfortunately, the object of sense enjoyment, the woman, is taken away or kidnapped by another debauchee . Please feel free to join ...

Oct 02, 20241 hr 12 min

Glories of Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam Through Bhagavad-gītā | BG 4.9 | HG Subala Prabhu

BG 4.9 One who knows the transcendental nature of My appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take his birth again in this material world, but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): https://t.me/iskmnews

Oct 02, 20241 hr 8 min

Realizing Lord Kṛṣṇa Is Everything | BG 10.20 | HG Tattvavit Prabhu

BG 10.20 I am the Self, O Guḍākeśa, seated in the hearts of all creatures. I am the beginning, the middle, and the end of all beings. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): https://t.me/iskmnews

Oct 02, 20241 hr 3 min

Lecture on ŚB 5.13.6 | HG Nimāi Nitāi Prabhu

ŚB 5.13.6 Sometimes the conditioned soul jumps into a shallow river, or being short of food grains, he goes to beg food from people who are not at all charitable. Sometimes he suffers from the burning heat of household life, which is like a forest fire, and sometimes he becomes sad to have his wealth, which is as dear as life, plundered by kings in the name of heavy income taxes. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): https://t.me/i...

Oct 02, 202442 min

How to Be Free from the Burning Material World? | ŚB 5.13.5 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

ŚB 5.13.5 Wandering in the forest of the material world, the conditioned soul sometimes hears an invisible cricket making harsh sounds, and his ears become very much aggrieved. Sometimes his heart is pained by the sounds of owls, which are just like the harsh words of his enemies. Sometimes he takes shelter of a tree that has no fruits or flowers. He approaches such a tree due to his strong appetite, and thus he suffers. He would like to acquire water, but he is simply illusioned by a mirage, an...

Oct 02, 202446 min

Surrendering to Kṛṣṇa | ŚB 5.13.3 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

ŚB 5.13.3 In this forest there are dense bowers composed of thickets of bushes, grass and creepers. In these bowers the conditioned soul is always disturbed by cruelly biting mosquitoes [envious people]. Sometimes he sees an imaginary palace in the forest, and sometimes he is bewildered by seeing a fleeting fiend or ghost, which appears like a meteor in the sky. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): ⁠https://t.me/iskmnews...

Oct 02, 20241 hr 11 min

Dangerous Enjoyment | ŚB 5.13.1 | HG Tattvavit Prabhu

ŚB 5.13.1 Jaḍa Bharata, who had fully realized Brahman, continued: My dear King Rahūgaṇa, the living entity wanders on the path of the material world, which is very difficult for him to traverse, and he accepts repeated birth and death. Being captivated by the material world under the influence of the three modes of material nature (sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa and tamo-guṇa), the living entity can see only the three fruits of activities under the spell of material nature. These fruits are auspicious,...

Oct 01, 20241 hr 25 min

Going Up and Down | BG 14.18 | HG Prahlāda Bhakta Prabhu

BG 14.18 Those situated in the mode of goodness gradually go upward to the higher planets; those in the mode of passion live on the earthly planets; and those in the mode of ignorance go down to the hellish worlds. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): https://t.me/iskmnews

Oct 01, 202452 min

Disobedience to Guru | ŚB 5.12.14 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

ŚB 5.12.14 In a previous birth I was known as Mahārāja Bharata. I attained perfection by becoming completely detached from material activities through direct experience, and through indirect experience I received understanding from the Vedas. I was fully engaged in the service of the Lord, but due to my misfortune, I became very affectionate to a small deer, so much so that I neglected my spiritual duties. Due to my deep affection for the deer, in my next life I had to accept the body of a deer....

Sep 30, 20241 hr 15 min

The Divine Cycle of Sustenance | BG 3.14 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

BG 3.14 All living bodies subsist on food grains, which are produced from rain. Rains are produced by performance of yajña [sacrifice], and yajña is born of prescribed duties. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): https://t.me/iskmnews

Sep 30, 202454 min

Flawed Scientific Theories | ŚB 5.12.9 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

ŚB 5.12.9 One may say that varieties arise from the planet earth itself. However, although the universe may temporarily appear to be the truth, it ultimately has no real existence. The earth was originally created by a combination of atomic particles, but these particles are impermanent. Actually the atom is not the cause of the universe, although some philosophers think so. It is not a fact that the varieties found in this material world simply result from atomic juxtaposition or combination. P...

Sep 30, 202445 min

Devotional Service Is the Highest | BG 18.55 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

BG 18.55 One can understand the Supreme Personality as He is only by devotional service. And when one is in full consciousness of the Supreme Lord by such devotion, he can enter into the kingdom of God. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): https://t.me/iskmnews

Sep 30, 202451 min

We Are Spirit Souls! | ŚB 5.12.5-6 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

ŚB 5.12.5-6 The self-realized brāhmaṇa Jaḍa Bharata said: Among the various material combinations and permutations, there are various forms and earthly transformations. For some reason, these move on the surface of the earth and are called palanquin carriers. Those material transformations which do not move are gross material objects like stones. In any case, the material body is made of earth and stone in the form of feet, ankles, calves, knees, thighs, torso, throat and head. Upon the shoulder...

Sep 29, 202450 min

Importance of Guru | BG 2.7 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

BG 2.7 Now I am confused about my duty and have lost all composure because of weakness. In this condition I am asking You to tell me clearly what is best for me. Now I am Your disciple, and a soul surrendered unto You. Please instruct me. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): https://t.me/iskmnews

Sep 29, 202456 min

Medicine for Relieving Oneself from Suffering | ŚB 5.12.2 | HG Viśvambhara Prabhu

ŚB 5.12.2 O best of the brāhmaṇas, my body is filled with dirty things, and my vision has been bitten by the serpent of pride. Due to my material conceptions, I am diseased. Your nectarean instructions are the proper medicine for one suffering from such a fever, and they are cooling waters for one scorched by the heat. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): https://t.me/iskmnews...

Sep 29, 202445 min

Pure Devotees Resolve Scriptural Contradictions | ŚB 5.12.1 | HG Sundar Gopāl Prabhu

ŚB 5.12.1 King Rahūgaṇa said: O most exalted personality, you are not different from the Supreme Personality of Godhead. By the influence of your true self, all kinds of contradiction in the śāstras have been removed. In the dress of a friend of a brāhmaṇa, you are hiding your transcendental blissful position. I offer my respectful obeisances unto you. Please feel free to join our Kṛṣṇa Consciousness Telegram group chat (for both prabhujīs and mātājīs): https://t.me/iskmnews...

Sep 29, 20241 hr 1 min
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