this picture of Sri Krishna is not my original art work, but I consider it so beautiful & attractive, I have included it on this My Blog!!!Friday, September 17, 2010
Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead
this picture of Sri Krishna is not my original art work, but I consider it so beautiful & attractive, I have included it on this My Blog!!!
Buy these photos!!!!!
If anyone (this means you, numskull)wants to purchase any of these photos art work that I have created, please email: brcgatten@gmail.com
delight guaranteed!!! ask for Bruce!!
delight guaranteed!!! ask for Bruce!!
Please take advantage of this precious opportunity!!
Please, please, please go to the krishna.com link below!!! everything will be revealed, all will be explained, all misgivings will be mollified, all sins are forgivable, all mistakes can be rectified. If you seek God, chant hare krishna, chant hare krishna, chant hare krishna!! If you seek fame & fortune, chant hare krishna!! if you seek pleasure, then dear reader, go to the reservoir of all pleasure, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krishna.
By nature, the soul wants only pleasure and this bliss can be had only by acting in our constitutional position as servant. Do not serve General Motors, do not serve politicians, do not serve mammon, serve the Original Person, the adi-purusha, Sri Krishna, Who is not only your best friend, He is the only friend of all living entities who are wandering on the wheel of birth and death, the samsara-cakra, the terrible bone crushing machine of death in this martya-loka, here in the material, mortal world!!
By nature, the soul wants only pleasure and this bliss can be had only by acting in our constitutional position as servant. Do not serve General Motors, do not serve politicians, do not serve mammon, serve the Original Person, the adi-purusha, Sri Krishna, Who is not only your best friend, He is the only friend of all living entities who are wandering on the wheel of birth and death, the samsara-cakra, the terrible bone crushing machine of death in this martya-loka, here in the material, mortal world!!
William Carlos Williams
wcw is, in my humble yet enlightened opinion, the best american poet after Walt Whitman; definately the best 20th Century american...i included this in my blog so anyone of my finely constituted readers would grasp what i really love, what i hold close to my heart in art. wcw is better than haiku, for he says more in less words, so to speak!
williams reminds one of delicate chinese brush strokes of the ancients, depicting only a branch of a tree with plum blossoms, yet showing the essence of tree, how the part can indicate the whole, how one less flower in the universe will make the creator of this cosmos sad...read williams if you want to write poetry, read williams, read williams, read williams ("no ideas but in things")
williams reminds one of delicate chinese brush strokes of the ancients, depicting only a branch of a tree with plum blossoms, yet showing the essence of tree, how the part can indicate the whole, how one less flower in the universe will make the creator of this cosmos sad...read williams if you want to write poetry, read williams, read williams, read williams ("no ideas but in things")
Thursday, September 16, 2010
"Don't Despair" a kind word from a devotee of Krishna
No matter what situation we may face in this often turbulent material existence, we should not despair. The Supreme All-Merciful Lord is always there behind the scenes bestowing His causeless grace upon us. Sometimes things appear to be going great, sometimes not so great, and sometimes completely devastating. But these are appearances only. The real fact is that beyond the dream of this material existence Lord Krishna is bestowing upon us an unlimited flood of loving kindness at every minute. The problem is that because of our false pride we have become blind to see the Lord constantly and be overwhelmingly amazed at every minute by His inconceivable kindness.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Friday, September 10, 2010
"What is God?"
The question would be better phrased, 'Who is God?'
For the uninformed philosopher, the obvious answer would be, "I am God." But this fool-osopher would only be revealing his fool-ishness. For, anyone who claims to be God, anyone who posits that the jiva soul is equal to the parabrahman, is quite insane. We are all more or less insane, especially because we believe we are the body. But why are we not God? Is not God everything? Is not the energy and the energetic one and the same?
So, how is it we are just minute, tiny, tiny little microscopic jiva souls? For one thing, we are imperfect, not the least of which imperfections is that we are illusioned!!
So, how can one claim to be God while in illusion? Thus, he who claims to be God IS in illusion. God is in illusion? An unreasonable proposition, since Webster defines God as, "the Being perfect in power, wisdom and goodness." Since God is perfect, it is logically impossible for Him to be lacking in such flawlessness...
So, we have established that the "I," the individual ego, jiva soul, is not God. Then,what are we? Are we just a complex protoplasm of cells, made of matter and doomed to extinction at the end of one life? Or are we 'something' that continues on, is there what we usually refer to as, a soul?
One assumes that there is something which continues after death...is there reason for such a presupposition?
Let us turn to the ancient Vedas. The Bhagavad-gita states, "As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change." [Bg.2.13]
In his translation and commentary of Gita (known as 'Bhagavad-gita As It Is') A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, writes on this verse, "Any man who has perfect knowledge of the constitution of the individual soul, the Supersoul, and nature-both material and spiritual-is called a 'dhira', or a most sober man. Such a man is never deluded by the change in bodies."
And what is the constitution of the individual soul? The essential characteristic of the soul, the dharma of the soul, is to render service. We can see that even an old man, alone in the world with many years, many worries, will take a cat and feed and care for it. He is, actually, serving the cat. Everyone in both the material and spiritual universes is serving; one cannot exist without serving something or someone.
So, one may ask, if one is a servant, how to perfect oneself as servant? To be a perfect servant, one must serve the Perfect, Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is like watering a tree. One nourishes the entire tree, bark, twigs, leaves, by watering the roots of the tree. Likewise one serves and nourishes the entire cosmos, created and uncreated, by worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
So, we come back to our original question..."What is God?"
God is He to Whom we offer worship and service.
He, being satisfied and pacified, supplies us all our necessities and our greatest necessity is Love. God is Love, as Jesus said so eloquently...God gives Himself in the form of the Guru. The Guru is an embodiment of Love, is Love itself, and he never fails us in our time of greatest need and testing...
For the uninformed philosopher, the obvious answer would be, "I am God." But this fool-osopher would only be revealing his fool-ishness. For, anyone who claims to be God, anyone who posits that the jiva soul is equal to the parabrahman, is quite insane. We are all more or less insane, especially because we believe we are the body. But why are we not God? Is not God everything? Is not the energy and the energetic one and the same?
So, how is it we are just minute, tiny, tiny little microscopic jiva souls? For one thing, we are imperfect, not the least of which imperfections is that we are illusioned!!
So, how can one claim to be God while in illusion? Thus, he who claims to be God IS in illusion. God is in illusion? An unreasonable proposition, since Webster defines God as, "the Being perfect in power, wisdom and goodness." Since God is perfect, it is logically impossible for Him to be lacking in such flawlessness...
So, we have established that the "I," the individual ego, jiva soul, is not God. Then,what are we? Are we just a complex protoplasm of cells, made of matter and doomed to extinction at the end of one life? Or are we 'something' that continues on, is there what we usually refer to as, a soul?
One assumes that there is something which continues after death...is there reason for such a presupposition?
Let us turn to the ancient Vedas. The Bhagavad-gita states, "As the embodied soul continuously passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to old age, the soul similarly passes into another body at death. A sober person is not bewildered by such a change." [Bg.2.13]
In his translation and commentary of Gita (known as 'Bhagavad-gita As It Is') A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, writes on this verse, "Any man who has perfect knowledge of the constitution of the individual soul, the Supersoul, and nature-both material and spiritual-is called a 'dhira', or a most sober man. Such a man is never deluded by the change in bodies."
And what is the constitution of the individual soul? The essential characteristic of the soul, the dharma of the soul, is to render service. We can see that even an old man, alone in the world with many years, many worries, will take a cat and feed and care for it. He is, actually, serving the cat. Everyone in both the material and spiritual universes is serving; one cannot exist without serving something or someone.
So, one may ask, if one is a servant, how to perfect oneself as servant? To be a perfect servant, one must serve the Perfect, Sri Krishna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. It is like watering a tree. One nourishes the entire tree, bark, twigs, leaves, by watering the roots of the tree. Likewise one serves and nourishes the entire cosmos, created and uncreated, by worshiping the Supreme Personality of Godhead.
So, we come back to our original question..."What is God?"
God is He to Whom we offer worship and service.
He, being satisfied and pacified, supplies us all our necessities and our greatest necessity is Love. God is Love, as Jesus said so eloquently...God gives Himself in the form of the Guru. The Guru is an embodiment of Love, is Love itself, and he never fails us in our time of greatest need and testing...
Thursday, September 9, 2010
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