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Hare Krsna, In this lesson, my meditation topics are verse 22 to 25. A short essence of these verses and my realizations are below. In these verses, Lord Brahma ends his prayers with specific requests to the Lord. SB 3.9.22: Empower me: You, endowed with six opulences, are the friend and maintainer of all (samasta-jagatamContinue reading “SB 3.9.17-25: Meditation on Brahmā’s Prayers, Part 3”

 Hare Krsna, In this lesson, I chose to meditate upon verse 15 as it described the glories of the Holy Name. SB 3.9.15: Let me take shelter of the lotus feet of Him whose incarnations, qualities and activities are mysterious imitations of worldly affairs. One who invokes His transcendental names, even unconsciously, at the timeContinue reading “SB 3.9.10-16: Meditation on Brahmā’s Prayers, Part 2”

Hare Krsna, I have been meditating on the first three verses of Lord Brahma’s prayers: SB 3.9.1: Lord Brahmā said: O my Lord, today, after many, many years of penance, I have come to know about You. Oh, how unfortunate the embodied living entities are that they are unable to know Your personality! My Lord,Continue reading “SB 3.9.1-9: Meditation on Brahmā’s Prayers, Part 1”

Hare Krsna, The Supreme Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna cannot be understood by one’s material endeavor. Srila Prabhupada loves to quote that there are some froggish philosophers who want to know the Supreme Soul by means of philosophy and mental speculation. These philosophers, like the frog in the well who tried to estimate the measurementContinue reading “SB 3.8.13-33: Brahmā’s Birth, Search for His Origin and Ultimate Realization”

Hare Krsna, The importance of receiving knowledge through the parampara (disciplic succession) system is cited repeatedly in our Gaudiya Vaisanava sampradaya. Srimad Bhagavatam is a collection of conversations spoken by pure-hearted devotees like Sukadeva Goswami and Pariksit Maharaja, Suta Goswami and Saunakadi Rsis, Maitreya and Vidura, etc. Along with the contents of these conversations, it’sContinue reading “SB 3.8.1-12: Meditations on Maitreya’s Branch of the Paramparā”

Hare Krsna, I was going through the set of questions asked my both Vidura (to Rsi Maitreya) and Pariksit Maharaja (to Sukadeva Goswami). What is common in these sets of questions is that both the inquirers did not ask about the confidential pastimes of the Lord. They first enquired about the Lord’s material and spiritualContinue reading “SB 2.7.15-42: Connecting the Dots (Vidura & Parīkṣit’s Questions)”

Hare Krsna, Upon taking a “small step” onto the surface of the moon in 1969, Neil Armstrong uttered what would become one of history’s most famous one-liners. “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.“ Similarly, a jiva makes one “small (mis)step” i.e., it misuses its free-will and chooses to lord itContinue reading “SB 3.7.8-14: The Illusioned Living Entity & The Remedy to Remove Illusion”

Hare Krsna, Vidura asked the following questions to Maitreya in a pleasing manner. His first three questions are about the “Isvara.” Vidura asked (I am paraphrasing): How is the Lord who is spiritual, and transcendental be connected with material gunas? How can the Lord who is unchangeable perform actions that indicate change? Children play beingContinue reading “SB 3.7.1-7: Meditations on the First Questions by Vidura”

Hare Krsna, While meditating on this topic, a correlation with a specific verse from Srimad Bhagavatam stood out. SB 1.2.11: vadanti tat tattva-vidas tattvaṁ yaj jñānam advayam brahmeti paramātmeti bhagavān iti śabdyate “Learned transcendentalists who know the Absolute Truth call this nondual substance Brahman, Paramātmā or Bhagavān.” This means that there are three levels ofContinue reading “BG 11.51-55: Final Thoughts Concerning the Universal Form of the Lord”

Hare Krsna, The following features of the Lord’s Universal Form caught my attention and inspired me greatly. From SB Canto 2, Chapter 1, the different limbs of astanga-yoga caught my attention. “At the last stage of one’s life, one should be bold enough not to be afraid of death. But one must cut off allContinue reading “BG 11.45-50: Meditations on Different Descriptions of the Universal Form”