This podcast quickly became my new addiction! I'm so close to being caught up on the lessons...much gratitude for all the work everyone is putting in. Haribol!!
I loved it when Kaustubha was talking about how he once experienced being able to "see" the Soul in others around him. The same thing happened to me in college. I had met some monks (or just devotees, idk) who were visiting my town in SC. This was in the early 1990's. My best friend had already turned me on to Shelter, so I was aware of ISKON and the Bhakti movement. So this monk invited me to a gathering they were having in the evening. I attended and there was chanting and kirtan. Afterwards, this guy blessed me with gifts of a japamala and a copy of the Bhagavad-gita! So, I was reading the Gita for a while afterwards. I remember one day stepping out of my place and I imagined I could actually see the Souls of all the people around me. It was a great feeling! I hope to get back to that feeling one day. I can be judgemental sometimes too. I really need to rise above all that. Cheers and thank you for the great work!
I am new as well through the JRE... but i would make a comment. Without Raghunath Prabhu, YOT and Shelter in the early 90‘s i would still be a trunken Metalhead... Now because of this great teachings in the lyrics my heart found its way home. Now we serve as pujari at the only Exclusive Narasimhadeva temple in Iskcon, even outside of India, in Germany, Simhachalam. Thank You very much for giving me this matchless gift rapped in HC Punkrock songs! Some thoughts about the airplaine example; how about that; some have the same karma and fly in s plane together to their destination snd there is the free will of doing what you want on that journey... but some are belonging to the passenger side and some are on the service side... like the Stewards and Stewardesses... Make sense? Hare Krishna!
Astrology is as deterministic as flying an airplane to Point A to Point B, in other words if you ever hear a Christian missionary make the argument that astrology is deterministic then tell them that prophecy is the same sort of. Your body is the vehicle and time is the road. It is what you do between Point A and Point B that matter. Free will lies between Point A and Point B. I used to think that there could not be free will if prophecy was true.
Kind of some aching questions, why so adamant about being "anti drug" when right there, in the Vedic texts and scriptures, your gods and teachers were using these "other worldly substances" to reach higher States of consciousness? It is even depicted within the art, sculptures, and even temple carvings. So why so dismissive and dogmatic about it? Especially when it is in the text and there are physical representations of it? Are you just ignoring it because of the societal implications of it? Is it a protection of your group ego and purity beliefs? How others would see you because society today says "drugs are bad"? Back then, there might have been different perceptions on these things. Not looked at as drugs but as gifts from the Divine?
@@emilylowrance7930 but that doesn't exclude the fact that these things are still depicted and present within the texts and temple carvings. It is being ignored, vilified, and shunned when the gods and teachers themselves used those "substances" as tools, so why is that?
@@emilylowrance7930 just more of the same, brushing it under the rug, ignoring what's there, and trying to take the conversation somewhere else. Is it some kind of belief defense mechanism because society, today, looks down on it? Just posing the questions, why is it ignored? Why is it now looked down upon, when clearly, in the texts, they revered these things? And are we missing something crucial by leaving these substances out of the conversation?
Got here through JRE as well. I enjoy listening to what your throwing out there.
JRE brings me here. I'm going to check you out. I enjoyed your interview with Joe.
This podcast quickly became my new addiction! I'm so close to being caught up on the lessons...much gratitude for all the work everyone is putting in. Haribol!!
I loved it when Kaustubha was talking about how he once experienced being able to "see" the Soul in others around him. The same thing happened to me in college. I had met some monks (or just devotees, idk) who were visiting my town in SC. This was in the early 1990's. My best friend had already turned me on to Shelter, so I was aware of ISKON and the Bhakti movement. So this monk invited me to a gathering they were having in the evening. I attended and there was chanting and kirtan. Afterwards, this guy blessed me with gifts of a japamala and a copy of the Bhagavad-gita! So, I was reading the Gita for a while afterwards. I remember one day stepping out of my place and I imagined I could actually see the Souls of all the people around me. It was a great feeling! I hope to get back to that feeling one day. I can be judgemental sometimes too. I really need to rise above all that. Cheers and thank you for the great work!
1:50 And it's that commitment to the practice that changes everything. It's the commitment that actually changes the consciousness.
That last story you told at the jre was amazingly awesome Prabhu!!!
Haribol.... loving the daily lessons... deep gratitude to you both 🙏 Karina Bhakti yoga 300 YTT 2017
JRE brought me here. Just visiting.
I am new as well through the JRE... but i would make a comment. Without Raghunath Prabhu, YOT and Shelter in the early 90‘s i would still be a trunken Metalhead... Now because of this great teachings in the lyrics my heart found its way home. Now we serve as pujari at the only Exclusive Narasimhadeva temple in Iskcon, even outside of India, in Germany, Simhachalam. Thank You very much for giving me this matchless gift rapped in HC Punkrock songs! Some thoughts about the airplaine example; how about that; some have the same karma and fly in s plane together to their destination snd there is the free will of doing what you want on that journey... but some are belonging to the passenger side and some are on the service side... like the Stewards and Stewardesses... Make sense? Hare Krishna!
Thank you beautiful people! One day I will find my way to where I can learn more from you guys
Congrats on your success!!
Astrology is as deterministic as flying an airplane to Point A to Point B, in other words if you ever hear a Christian missionary make the argument that astrology is deterministic then tell them that prophecy is the same sort of. Your body is the vehicle and time is the road. It is what you do between Point A and Point B that matter. Free will lies between Point A and Point B. I used to think that there could not be free will if prophecy was true.
Kind of some aching questions, why so adamant about being "anti drug" when right there, in the Vedic texts and scriptures, your gods and teachers were using these "other worldly substances" to reach higher States of consciousness? It is even depicted within the art, sculptures, and even temple carvings.
So why so dismissive and dogmatic about it? Especially when it is in the text and there are physical representations of it?
Are you just ignoring it because of the societal implications of it? Is it a protection of your group ego and purity beliefs? How others would see you because society today says "drugs are bad"?
Back then, there might have been different perceptions on these things. Not looked at as drugs but as gifts from the Divine?
Even Ram Dass figured out that external substances have their limits
@@emilylowrance7930 but that doesn't exclude the fact that these things are still depicted and present within the texts and temple carvings.
It is being ignored, vilified, and shunned when the gods and teachers themselves used those "substances" as tools, so why is that?
@@W0lfStride one size doesn't fit all. I don't think enlightenment hinges upon psychedelics. Do you want permission?
@@emilylowrance7930 what?
lol that still doesn't answer any of the questions I proposed.
@@emilylowrance7930 just more of the same, brushing it under the rug, ignoring what's there, and trying to take the conversation somewhere else.
Is it some kind of belief defense mechanism because society, today, looks down on it?
Just posing the questions, why is it ignored? Why is it now looked down upon, when clearly, in the texts, they revered these things? And are we missing something crucial by leaving these substances out of the conversation?