Mental Concoction

HH JAS: Even if one becomes a big prince with so many wives and concubines and everything, still he won't be satisfied, after so much... trpyanti neha krpana, and my valuable human life I am wasting like a miser... bahu-duhkha-bhajahh kanndutivan manasijamm means the whole thing is just a mental concoction. The whole idea that this is going to make me happy, that this is enjoyment, the whole idea of love, the whole idea that my husband is handsome and that my wife is beautiful: The whole idea that he loves me or she loves me, the whole paradise is a mental concoction!
. EXCERPTS FROM: HOPES AND HORRORS OF HOUSEHOLDER LIFE – SWAMI JAYADVAITA 1992 - PART 4)

Grhamedi

HH JAS: So... yan maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaḿ... gṛhamedhi-sukhaḿ means the happiness of materialistic Householder Life, maithunādi, maithunādi means beginning from sex pleasure, (sanskrit),and maithunādi, from sex pleasure, direct sex pleasure, all the other so called pleasures of materialistic family life expand: home and children and so many things or even Prabhupada said skyscraper buildings and big cities there all manifestations of sex life: materialistic householders are increasingly absorbing themselves in the mode of passion and impelled by that passionate mode of which sex life is the central point they are building things and constructing things and expanding their empires all for the same central point. So, maithunādi-gṛhamedhi-sukhaḿ hi tucchaḿ... tucchaḿ means insignificant.
All this big deal is being made about what Srila Prabhupada calls the sensational happiness of sex life and Prahlada Maharaja says it’s nothing, even clinically speaking a few minutes of sex pleasure or sexual intercourse(a loud airplane fly’s overhead)... This is also a manifestation of sex life
(Question from audience)7th Canto Chapter 9 Text 45. So tucchaḿ,it’s insignificant, it’s there in every species of life, mosquitoes also have sex life and it’s a big thing for them...but what is it? How important or significant do we think a mosquitoes sex life is? But for the mosquito it's crucial, it's the ultimate high point of his existence. So maithunādi gṛhamedhi-sukhaḿ hi tucchaḿ kaṇḍūyanena karayor iva duḥkha-duḥkham ... kaṇḍūyanena karayor...the example given is that its like its scratching an itch, someone has a itching sensation and he scratches it and the result of scratching is that it itches more and the result of itching more is that he scratches more and itches and scratches, itches and scratches, that’s sex life... kaṇḍūyanena karayor iva duḥkha-duḥkham...that’s the comparison, simply scratching an itch and the itch doesn’t go away it gets worse.
Iva duḥkha-duḥkham, the consequence of that sex life is unhappiness. Unhappiness, first of all because it’s tucchaḿ, it’s insignificant so everyone is disappointed...there’s a Latin proverb which in English means “All animals are sad after sex.” All animals are sad after sex, so much endeavor: Male elephants are fighting over the female elephants and this whole huge thing is going on and then they get it and afterwards such a disappointment... tucchaḿ, insignificant and bahu-duḥkha-bhājaḥ, so much trouble, so many difficulties come, either because it's illicit sex and then there's pregnancy or abortion or there has to be contraception or there's attachment and then there's hatred also in the relationship.(Excerpts from seminar: HOPES AND HORRORS OF HOUSEHOLDER LIFE – SWAMI JAYADVAITA 1992 - PART 4)

Gaura Purnima - Radhadesh - 10 mar 2009

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New lectures that Jayadvaita Maharaja and Kadamba Kanana Maharaja gave yesterday in Radhadesh!!!

• Gaura Purnima Part 1 (Jayadvaita Maharaja) - Sri Caitanya-caritamrita Adi-lila 3.20
• Gaura Purnima- Part 2 (Prahladananda Maharaja)
• Gaura Purnima- Part 3 (Kadamba Kanana Maharaja)
• Sannyasa initiation of Yadunandana Swami

Gaura Purnima - Radhadesh - 10 mar 2009

On the 10th of March the Gaura Purnima Festival will be held in Radhadesh. HH Jayadvaita, Kadamba Kanana and Prahladhananda Swami's are attending this festival. The sanyass initiation of HG Yadunandan prabhu will be performed by HH Jayadvaita Swami. This is a wonderful opportunity to meet the senior vaisnava's and attend the Gaura-purnima festival.
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Seven Lessons from HH JAS (part1)

HH JAS:
1“How one becomes expert: By reading Srila prabhupada’s books, by assimilating these books, if you read them and assimilate them, discuss them with devotees, apply them: then you will be full of topics to talk about and you will be wanting to talk about them and you will see the need to talk to devotees and non devotees for your benefit and their benefit”

2“When we have a principle that we are determined to follow because it is our duty we shouldn’t compromise, we shouldn’t budge from the order of the spiritual master”

3“Everyone is compromising with everyone to be popular, to be liked or accepted, you will be respected more if you stick to your guns if you are actually sticking on Krishna’s side”

4“As much as possible one should avoid an argumentative attitude, it is unattractive, it is obnoxious”

5“As we come to the mode of goodness, then we become very soft and very pleasing , that is the symptom of a person whose speech is in the mode of goodness, his speech is pleasing to others. If you look in the discussion of the modes of material nature, you will find one of the characteristics of a person in the modes of passion and ignorance is that they are expert in insulting others, they have made this art…. in modern materialistic society what is called the artful putdown, you find a real sharp way to criticise the other person …and the audience appreciates how you got them.. how you insulted them in a very swarve or sohphisticated way, or a very clever way, And if he can insult you back then tooshay: everyone is pleased with that. But this is animal society, this is animal society, as soon as we meet I insult you and you insult me”

6“Don’t budge even a fraction of an inch from the determination of devotional service”

7“Develop loving relationships with devotees”

Quotes from HH JAS at a Seminar in 2000

Another Letter by Prabhupada to JAS

28 May, 1972
Los Angeles

My Dear Jayadvaita,
Please accept my blessings.

I have received your letter dated May 26th, 1972, along with the blue-print copies of Bhagavad-gita As It Is from MacMillan Company. It is very nice. So I shall be
looking forward to seeing the entire manuscript and book sometime around first July, 1972.

Meanwhile, hoping this will find you in good health.

Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami

Prabhupada letter to JAS

18 February, 1972
Calcutta

My Dear Jayadvaita,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of February 5, 1972, and have noted the contents.

Yes, because no one else can do them, I shall do the sanskrit synonyms. You simply send me now the manuscripts as required by you, and I shall send back either dictaphone tapes or tape-recorder cassettes. There is presently shortage of tape-recorder cassettes here in India, so if you can send a few that would be a help.

One thing is you must send them in small packets of a few tapes each, clearly marked "unsolicited gift, value less than $5, no commercial value,'' like that. You may send to Calcutta ISKCON before 29th this month, otherwise send to Bombay....

Hoping this will meet you in good health.
Your ever well-wisher,
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swamiem>Prabhupada

Cloning!

Questions and Answers about Human Cloning
by HH JAS

Can they clone a human being?
They can. They will. They may already have.

Does a clone have a soul?
Yes. A clone has consciousness, and consciousness means soul.

How does the soul enter the cloned body?
No problem. It already happens in nature, with identical twins. One cell splits into two bodies, and by Krishna's arrangement a soul enters both.

Is there any history of cloning in the Vedic scriptures?
Yes, in Srimad-Bhagavatam. When the goddess Diti was pregnant, Lord Indra by mystic power entered her womb to kill the expected child. He cut the child to pieces -- but each piece, to his surprise, became a child. These children became known as the forty-nine Maruts. (An early lesson to cloners: Once you start slicing, you may not always end up with what you set out for.)

Will cloning be good for humanity?
Sometimes good, sometimes bad, always a waste of time. Cloning is but another attempt to coax nature into giving us a better life on earth, a life more like what we want.
But nature, by design, acts in such a way that we always get precisely what we deserve: a mixture of happiness and distress brought about, measure for measure, by our own karma. No matter what you do, you can't squeeze a better life out of it.
Real advancement of civilization lies not in tinkering with nature, vainly trying to make a better world, but in moving forward in self-realization and getting out of the material world altogether. If we're not doing that, we're simply wasting our time.

But as long as we're here, can't cloning bring about some good?
Some good, perhaps. But here's a secret of nature: Whenever we try to exploit her, get more, make things better, she always retaliates. Result: More comfort at the start, more trouble later down the line. It's "the rubber-band effect": It always snaps back on you.
As stated in Srimad-Bhagavatam (7.9.17), duhkhausadham tad api duhkham atad-dhiyaham: As long as we're in material consciousness, whatever we do to remedy our troubles just makes our troubles worse.
With the comfort of the car comes the poison of exhaust; with the efficiency of nuclear power plants,
disasters like in Chernobyl.


In the long run, will cloning make for a better world?
No. As usual, worse.

What kind of karma must you have to become a clone?
Bad. Good or bad, karma's all bad, because karma means repeated birth and death.

Apart from that, precisely what kind of karma must you have?
The ins and outs of karma are subtle, too subtle to consistently predict. The cell biologists at the Roslin Institute who cloned Dolly the sheep might come back in their next lives as sheep, perhaps cloned ones, bleating a truly excellent "baa baa" and wearing superior coats of wool.

What will cloning mean for bioethics?
It'll mean a mess. The pattern is becoming familiar: Science charges ahead, and human life becomes more vexatious, more dangerous, and further off from spiritual realization.

What does the Hare Krishna movement advise?
Live simply, chant Hare Krishna, get out of this material world, and go back home, back to Godhead.

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