The Age of Deterioration (Kal-yuga)

Whatever result was obtained in Sat-yuga by meditating on Vishnu, in Treta-yuga by performing sacrifices, and in Dvāpara-yuga by serving the Lord's lotus feet can be obtained in Kali-yuga simply by chanting the Hare Krsna mahā-mantra

The Hare Krishna Maha Mantra - the only solution in this age of Kalyug

It looks really scarry from the contents of the chapter "Age of Deterioration" - The symptoms of Kalyug

from "Srimad Bhagavatam", The only way to get rid of all the problems of this age of Kalyug is to chant the maha mantra "Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare, Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare"

Srimad Bhagavatam clearly defines the situation of 4 different yugas:

SATYUGA :

• Truthfulness
• Mercy
• Austerity
• Charity/ Cleanliness

TRETA YUG:

Each of above qualities reduced by 25% and this 25% substituted by lying,violence,dissatisfaction,quarrel

• Truthfulness 75% and Lying 25%
• Mercy 75% and violence 25%
• Austerity 75% and dissatisfaction 25%
• Charity 75% and quarrel 25%

DVAPAR YUG:

Further each of the above reduced to half :

• Truthfulness 50% and untruthfulness 50%
• Mercy 50% and violence 50%
• Austerity 50% and dissatisfaction 50%
• Charity/ cleanliness 50% and enmity/quarrel 50%

KALYUG:

Each of above further reduced to 25% in this age of Kalyug:

• Truthfulness 25% and lying/illbehaved 75%
• Mercy 25% and violence/merciless 75%
• Austerity 25% and dissatisfaction/ greedy 75%
• Charity/cleanliness 25% and quarrel 75%

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Sri Krishna Bhajan

My hair stands up at end when I hear this Krishna Bhajan, Even if its 24hours long I can still listen all day long...

Kashi Vishwa Vidyalaya

This is some interesting piece of information that I recieved from some one and I felt like posting it on my blog.

There was a sage, he had ful knowledge of all the 4 vedas,various scriptures, religious texts etc. But without passing on all this knowledge to any person he passed away but he didnot attain liberation. His soul kept wandering around in search of a disciple to whom he could pass on all his knowledge.

Years passed away,a man of around 15-20 yrs old looking for some one to teach him about the 4 vedas etc reached Kashi, when he came across this soul and expressed his desire to learn, the soul told him that he has to remain in this house with the soul for 18 years without going out of the house, the man agreed and stayed for 18 years, at the end of 18 years having attained ful knowledge, the soul said that his time has come to depart, the soul left for heavenly planets and informed his disciple that he should continue to stay at Kashi, he will be able to take any form.

There is a huge Black board at the entrance of Kashi Vishwa Vidyalaya and it is said that any one who wants to know about anything under the sun, if writes his question on the black board seeking for answers, when returns next day, you will find the answer to your question written on the black board.

No body knows who writes but it is said that this is the same Man who has attained ful knowledge and comes in disguise in any form, may be a brahmin or any other human being and writes on the black board, what ever reply is written on the board that is bound to happen without fail.

Bhagavad Gita

There can not be anything superior than word of god, (the Bhagavad-Gita)

The Bhagavad-Gita is the Gospel of Hinduism,so scientific and one of the great religious classics. Its simple, vivid message is a daily inspiration in the lives of millions throughout the world and has been so for countless generations. Its real Knowledge.

Perhaps the greatest piece of truly inspired spiritual literature ever written. Considered by many to be the epitome of the vast collection of writings that is Vedanta. Its the story of Lord Krishna's holy teachings and advice to a warrior whose heart is in great distress and suffering on the eve of battle. And aren't we all also on the eve of the battle of daily life? Lord Krishna explains the various ways a person can seek and find and know God and live blissfully.

The Bhagavad-gita is in seven hundred Sanskrit verses and consists of eighteen chapters.
The colophon of each chapter towards its end gives a brief idea of the content of the chapter. This classification would make one feel that the Bhagavad-gita deals with eighteen subjects. But actually each chapter has something to say about certain other things also apart from the main intention of the chapter as indicated in the colophon. So True,Further, on a reading of the entire Gita, even several times, it is likely that one may miss the true import of the teaching in as much as it is not easy to stratify in a serial or consecutive order the developmental process of thought in the Gita.. It helps you cross the mind limits and reach new levels, its spoken by God himself. there's nothing beyond Lord Krishna, nothing before him and nothing in between, Krishna is everything, everywhere, ever existing, endless, with no beginning, no middle, no end to it, its beyond the human senses and can be felt and understood only by devotion.

The International Society of Krishna Consciousness (Iskon) is one such organisation which is all about the Hare Krishna movement

Analytical Study of the field of activity

• "One who can see that all activities are performed by the body, which is created of material nature, and sees that the self does nothing, actually sees" - Lord Krishna
• "Those with the vision of eternity can see that the imperishable soul is transcendental, eternal, and beyond the modes of nature. Despite contact with the material body the soul neither does anything nor is entangled" - Lord Krishna
• "As the sun illuminates all this universe, so does the living entity, one within the body illuminate the entire body by consciousness" - Lord Krishna

These above contents make me realise and feel as if we all human beings are not living in a real world, this is not the real world, this world seems to be only a shadow of the real thing, otherwise why lord krishna would have said that the self does nothing and all activities are performed by the body, a creation of material nature, it means we are different from our bodies, our true identity is not the body and its something else, and that something else obviously doesnt belong to this world. And that something else is bound to be eternal (thats why don't we all human beings have that feeling deep within ourselves that we are going to live permenantly, I mean with the passage of time we never get that feeling that our existence is temperory, even though our body keeps changing from childhood to youth to old age, so true, if we really give a thought that the living entity (soul) within the body illuminates our entire body by consciousness as told by Lord Krishna, believe me, this book Bhagavad Gita is actually scientific, its the supreme science. In chapter "Nature, the enjoyer and Consciousness" in the Bhagavad Gita, all information is scientifically given about our body and its actions and reactions. Lord Krishna says "Intelligence, knowledge, freedom from doubt and delusion, forgiveness, truthfulness, control of the senses and mind, happiness and distress, birth, death, fear, fearlessness, non-violence, equanimity, satisfaction, austerity, charity, fame and infamy - all these various qualities of living beings are created by me alone"

This means that these all above things are creations of the supreme lord, our material science has still not been able to prove from where these different emotions have come into being, its further clearly mentioned in the Bhagavad Gita "The five great elements - Earth, Water, Fire, air and ether, the false ego, intelligence, the unmanifested, the ten senses - eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin, voice, legs, hands, anus and genitals, and the mind, the five sense objects - smell, taste, form, touch and sound, and desire, hatred, happiness, distress, the aggregate, the life symptoms, and convictions - all these are considered in summary to be the field of activities (Body) and its interactions" , now further there is something called "knowledge" which is bestowed to this field of activity (our body). Lord Krishna says "Humility, pridelessness, nonviolence, tolerance, simplicity, approaching a bonafide spiritual master, cleanliness, steadiness, self control, renunciatioin of the objects of sense gratification, absensce of false ego, the perception of the evil of birth, death, old age and disease, detachment, freedom from entanglement with children, wife, home and the rest, even mindedness amid pleasant and unpleasant events, constant and unalloyed devotion to me, aspiring to live in solitary place, detachment from the general mass of people, accepting the importance of self realisation and philosophical search for the absolute truth - all these I declare to be knowledge, and besides this whatever there may be is ignorance", now all these things are said to be the real knowledge and lastly within our body is the supersoul, the beginningless and endless, all pervading, which is without senses, unattached, one who transcends the 3 modes of material nature, the supreme personality, the supersoul which is knowledge, the object of knowledge and the goal of knowledge, situated in everyones heart

So all above gives a brief analytical description of the human body and its contents which also includes the emotion side. Now this human body and the soul within comes in contact with the 3 modes of material nature - modes of goodness, passion and ignorance and gets contaminated, all causes, actions, effects are due to nature and not the soul or the field of activity, where as the living entity is the cause of all suffering and enjoyments due to getting in contact with the 3 modes, thus living entity in material nature follows different ways of life enjoying the three modes of nature and thus he meets with good and evil among various species.

Lord Krishna says " Whatever we see in existence both moving and nonmoving is only a combination of field of activities and the knower of the field"

Hence Lord says that "one who can see that all activities are performed by the body, which is created of material nature and sees that the self does nothing, actually sees"

WOW................

Really Interesting.....

• With Intelligence one should seek out the constitutional position of the soul and then engage mind always in 'Krishna Consciousness', this solves the whole problem


• Don't let the passage of 'day time and night time' effect your neutral/blissful position, how it sounds if we consider day time and night time together as ONE Single day and act accordingly


• Attain spiritual happiness and not material happiness as material happiness is temperory and spiritual happiness is far superior


• If, If we are truly concerned and love our loved ones, so why should we suffer when our loved ones leave there old / used bodies?, on the contrary they are getting new bodies ful of energy


• You can succeed only if you know more than others


• So, how could be Gods Nature?, what must be his nature like?, well may be this helps - "when one properly sees that in all activities, no other performer is at work other then the 3 modes of nature - goodness, passion, ignorance and when one knows that God is transcendental and beyond these 3 modes of nature then one attains Gods nature and knows the nature of God"

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Above contents seem to be so effective if applied in day to day life giving us fantastic results....

24 Avataar's of Lord Vishnu

1) ADI PURUSH AVATAR (Incarnation as the Pre-eminent man) : Lord Vishnu took his first incarnation as the pre-eminent man, with a desire to commence creation. This first incarnation of Lord Vishnu was full of all the sixteen Kalas (Supernatural powers).Lord Brahma manifested from the navel of Lord Vishnu in his (Lord Vishnu) state of Yoganidra (deep meditation). The creation as well as the expansion of the creation commenced from the organs of Lord Brahma. The first incarnation of Lord Vishnu is all-powerful, which can be seen only by the yogins and sages who have attained divine knowledge. This incarnation is also the indestructible seed from which all the other incarnations manifest themselves. During the time of final annihilation of the world, every creation merges into him.

2) THE ETERNAL YOUTHS : Sanatkumar was the 'Manasputra' (born by a wish) of Lord Brahma. Throughout his life, he maintained celibacy; and engaged himself in the performance of tremendous penance. He was the one from whom the Brahmins got the inspiration regarding the values and importance of penance and Celibacy.

3) VARAHA AVATAR (The incarnation as a Boar) : Lord Vishnu took his third incarnation as a boar. In this incarnation Lord Vishnu rescued the earth which had submerged in the ocean, and brought it out from the ocean. The whole creation started only after that. A demon by the name of Hiranyaksha had abducted the earth and carried it to the 'Rasatala' (the second lowest of the world). The earth is considered to be as a 'Woman' and since it is a crime to abduct a woman therefore Lord Vishnu in his incarnation of a boar killed the demon Hiranyaksha and liberated the earth from his clutches.


4) NARADA AVATAR (The incarnation as Sage Narada) : Lord Vishnu took his fourth incarnation as Narada. Narada by becoming a 'Devarishi' among all the sages, achieved liberation from all of his Karma's (action). Narada was the one who gave discourses to the Vaishnavas (followers of Lord Vishnu) on 'Pancharatra Tantra'.Lord Vishnu in his incarnation as Narada, showed that, the devotion is the best mean of getting liberated from all the bondages of 'Karma's'. He also said that a devotee of Lord Vishnu is the supreme among the devotees in the same way as Devarishi Narada among the Sages.


5) NARA-NARAYANA AVATAR (Incarnation as Nara-Narayana) : Lord Vishnu took his fifth incarnation as sage Nara-Narayan by taking a birth from the womb of a woman named 'Kala'. He performed a tremendous penance by going to Badri and Kedar. He showed the importance Penance (Labour), and also that nothing can be achieved in this world without it.


6) KAPILA AVATAR(Incarnation as Sage Kapila) : Lord Vishnu's Sixth incarnation was as sage Kapila. The objective of this incarnation was to compile all the divine knowledge that had been destroyed. He was the profounder of Sankhya Shastra (rationalism) which helped the Brahmins, who had forgotten their duties to rectify their mistakes. He also gave discourse to his own mother.

7) DATTATRAYA AVATAR (Incarnation as Dattatraya) : Lord Vishnu's Seventh incarnation was as Dattatraya. He was born to Ansuya and his father was Sage Atri. He was the one who had given Spiritual Knowledge to King Alarka and Prahlada. He had twenty four teachers. He believed that in the world, a man can learn from each and every thing, so he accepted twenty-four objects like water, bird, air, an unmarried girl, and even a prostitute etc.

8) YAGYA AVATAR (Incarnation as Yagya): Lord Vishnu in his eighth incarnation as Yagya was born to Prajapati and Akuti. He had rescued a 'Devagana' (celestial and supernatural being) named Yama and also the Manvantar named as 'Swayambhuva'. The main thrust of his teaching was based on the values of helpfulness and protecting each other during the time of crisis.

9) RISHABH AVATAR (Incarnation as Rishabh Dev) : Lord Vishnu in his ninth incarnation as Rishabh Dev was born to king Nabhi and Marudevi. His mother Marudevi was the daughter of Indra. He attained that state of Paramhansa (an ascetic of highest order who has controlled his anger) which is an uphill task. He was given the title of 'Jin' which means a ' a knower'. His followers are known as Jains.

10) PRITHU AVATAR (Incarnation as Prithu) : Lord Vishnu in his tenth incarnation as 'Prithu' came into existence after the body of King 'Vena'. Lord Vishnu took this incarnation as per the wishes of the sages. The earth had concealed all the vegetation's within her and as a result the whole land had become barren. To protect the humanity, Lord Vishnu took incarnation as Prithu by milking the cow (earth). This is considered that as a very supreme incarnation, because the earth has remained full of vegetation's after that.

11) MATSYA AVATAR (Incarnation as a Fish) : All the oceans had unified into a single ocean in the 'Manvantara' of 'Chakshusha'. Lord Vishnu in his 11th incarnation as a Matsya (Fish) rescued the earth from 'Maya' the demon. He gave discourses to Satyavrat along with the seven sages, while they were sitting on the boat. He also showed them his illusionary powers. This was his eleventh incarnation.


12) KACHCHAP AVATAR (Incarnation as a Tortoise) : Lord Vishnu in his twelfth incarnation as a tortoise, held the mountain 'Mandarachala' on his back, during the time when the deities and the demons where churning the ocean. He stopped the mountain from going to the netherworld. This was Lord Vishnu's twelfth incarnation.


13) DHANVANTARI (Incarnation as Dhanvantari) : Lord Vishnu took his thirteenth incarnation as Dhanvantari. He manifested from the ocean holding a vessel filled with ambrosia. He was the profounder of medicinal science.


14) MOHINI AVATAR (Incarnation as a most Enchanting woman) : Lord Vishnu in his fourteenth incarnation as a most enchanting woman enchanted the demons by his beautiful appearance of a woman, and took away the pot filled up with ambrosia from them and gave it to the deities. The deities were thus protected from the demons.

15) NARSIMHA AVATAR (Incarnation in the form of half-man and half-lion) : Lord Vishnu took his fifteenth incarnation as Nrisimha, having upper portion of his body in the form of lion and the lower portion resembling of a man. In this incarnation he protected Prahlada from his father Hiranyakashipu the demon. He killed Hiranyakashipu by tearing his body apart by his nails. Lord Vishnu had to attain this form because Lord Brahma had blessed Hiranyakashipu, that a Human being could not kill him.

16) HAYAGREEVA AVATAR (Incarnation as Hayagreeva) : Once Lord Brahma becoming tired of his creative activities, wanted to rest. The night of the Brahma was approaching. Because of his tiredness Lord Brahma yawned. All the four Vedas came out from his opened mouth. A demon who used to live near him in disguise, abducted the Vedas. Lord Vishnu took his sixteenth incarnation as Hayagreeva to protect the Vedas. In this incarnation his face resembled that of a horse and the rest of his body resembled that of Sri Narayan with all of his four hands. He killed the demon and protected the Vedas.


17) VAMAN AVATAR (Incarnation as a Dwarf) : Lord Vishnu took his seventeenth incarnation as a Dwarf, when Bali the king of the demons had captured the entire three worlds. Indra and all the other deities were wandering all around after losing the heaven.To help the deities regain control over the heaven. Lord Vishnu disguised as a dwarf went to Bali when he was busy performing a 'Yagya' and demanded earth measured by his three steps. When 'Bali' agreed, he transformed his form from a small dwarf to a giant. Consequently he covered all the three world with his two steps. Ultimately he regained heaven for the deities.

18) PARSHURAM AVATAR (Incarnation as Parshurama) : When the Kshatriya kings became ruthless and started exploiting their subjects. Lord Vishnu took his eighteenth incarnation as Parshurama' and annihilated the Kshatriyas kings for seventeen times and consequently donated the earth to the Brahmins.

19) VYAS AVATAR (Incarnation as Sage Vyasa) : Lord Vishnu took his nineteenth incarnation as Sage Vyasa by taking birth from the womb of 'Satyavati'. His father was sage Parashar. He made the division of Veda, and made extension of its branches. He also wrote eighteen Mahapuranas and the Mahabharata.

20) RAM AVATAR (Incarnation as Lord Rama) : Lord Rama is considered to be the twentieth incarnation of Lord Vishnu. In this incarnation he constructed a bridge over the ocean with the help of the Vanars (monkeys) and after crossing over to Lankas killed many demons like Ravana, Kumbhakarna. He accomplished many astonishing feats and saved the deities. He taught the value of morality.

21) BALARAM AVATAR (Incarnation as Balrama) : Balrama is considered to be the twenty-first incarnation of Lord Vishnu. In this incarnation he killed Pralambasura the demon and he killed many more demons.

22) KRISHNA AVATAR (Incarnation as Krishna) : Lord Krishna born in Mathura was the twenty-second incarnation of Lord Vishnu. He fought against the exploitation right from his childhood and killed many demons like Kalayavan, Kansa, Jarasandh etc. He gave a divine knowledge to Arjun during the battle of Kurukshetra.

23) BUDDHA AVATAR (Incarnation as Buddha) : The twenty-third incarnation of Lord Vishnu was as Lord Buddha. In the Kaliyuga the demons were completely subjugated by the deities. Shukracharya the teacher of the demons instigated the demons to perform Yagya so that they could regain power and authority. Fearing this the deities prayed to Lord Vishnu for help. Lord Vishnu took incarnation as Buddha and dissuaded the demons from performing Yagya as it involves violence the demons stopped performing Yagyas.

24) KALKI AVATAR (Incarnation as Kalki) : At the end of Kaliyuga, when the sins would be 80, all pervading that the kings would themselves becomes thieves then Lord Vishnu would take his twenty-fourth incarnation as Kalki by taking birth in the village of 'Shambhal'. He would take birth in a Brahmin family of Vishnuyash. By killing and destroying the sinners, he would re-establish the superiority of Virtuosity and religiousness.

Something more interesting that I read.."Vegetables are also living, so why do we eat them?"

Something more interesting that I read as under and I felt like sharing with you all..

In this material world certain acts are being performed naturally and many living beings are killed about which we can not even think of. We have so many organisms in our intestines and they get killed up naturally. Even by breathing we are killing so many microbes. So many microbes are killed while cooking. And eating vegetables is also killing.

In this world there is the law that one living being is food for another living being.jivo jivasya jivanam"One living being is food for another." We simply have to take what is allotted to us by the Lord as our quota and offer it to Him first before eating. This will free us from the sin of killing. [greenyajna-siñöasinaù santomucyante sarva-kilbiñaiùbhunjate te tv agham papaye pacanty atma-karaëat The devotees of the Lord are released from all kinds of sins because they eat food, which is offered first for sacrifice. Others, who prepare food for personal sense enjoyment, verily eat only sin. The Lord has allotted human beings to take fruits, milk products, vegetables, and grains provided we offer them first to Him before eating. We cannot actually take meat, fish, and eggs because these have not been allotted to us as our quota..........