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Allen Ginsberg: So Kalki comes at the end of the Kali-yuga?
Prabhupada: Yes.
Allen Ginsberg: And is Kalki connected with the Kali-yuga cycle?
Prabhupada: Yes. Kalki, yes.
Allen Ginsberg: So He would come at the end of Kali-yuga to end the yuga.
Prabhupada: Yes. Then Satya-yuga will begin.
Allen Ginsberg: Then what begins?
Prabhupada: Satya-yuga.
Allen Ginsberg: Which is?
Prabhupada: Satya-yuga, the pious. Satya-yuga. People will be pious, truthful, long-living.
Allen Ginsberg: Are those people that remain or whatever new creation comes out of the destruction?
Prabhupada: Some of them will remain, some of them. It will not completely extinguish. Some of them will remain, pious. Paritranaya sadhunam vinasaya ca duskrtam [Bg. 4.8]. All miscreants will be killed, and out of them, there must be some pious… They remain.
Allen Ginsberg: Do you think of this in terms of a historical event that will occur in the lifetime of your disciples?
Prabhupada: No. This will happen at least 400,000's of years after, at least. So by that time…
Allen Ginsberg: They will go down, down, down for 400,000 years?
Prabhupada: Yes. So at that time my disciples will be with Krsna. (laughter)
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jaya sri-krishna-chaitanya
prabhu nityananda
sri-adwaita gadadhara
shrivasadi-gaura-bhakta-vrinda
I offer my respectful obeisances unto Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Lord Nityananda, Sri Advaita,
Gadadhara Pandit, Srivas Thakur, and all the devotees of Lord Caitanya.
nama om vishnu-padaya
krishna-preshthaya bhu-tale
srimate bhaktivedanta
swamin iti namine
namaste saraswati deve
gaura-vani-pracharine
nirvishesha-shunyavadi
pashchatya-desha-tarine
Why you should beat women
Room Conversation—April 12, 1969, New York ‒
Prabhupada: So sasan ke adhikari means they should be punished. (laughs) Punished means, just like dhol, when the, I mean to say, sound is not very hard, dag-dag, if you beat it on the border, then it comes to be nice tune. Similarly, pasu, animals, if you request “My dear dog, please do not go there.” Hut! (laughter) “No, my dear dog. Hut!” This is the way. Similarly, woman. If you become lenient, then she will be troublesome. So in India still, in villages, whenever there is some quarrel between husband wife, the husband beats and she is tamed.
"One wonders if Hinduism, that used to be one of the most tolerant religions in the world, could be going down the way of Islam; i.e. if today we could be witnessing the birth of the Hindu equivalent of the Wahabi sect that eventually spawned the violent Islamic fundamentalism of our days."
- Piero Scaruffi
Unlimited Power
(21 September Lecture by Sri Sankarsana Das)“Many devotees, especially Europeans and Americans, come to India and want to discover the secrets of yoga, tantric powers, magical siddhis. And they go to all these supposed gurus, who give them very light austerities and ask for a money. Lots of money, you know? So these Americans, these Westerners, they give the money, and they get some little secrets of yoga, and they go back to the West and open a studio and teaching their little secret, and they charge more money. And what does this get? Karma. Karma for the guru who charged money, karma for the Westerner who paid the money, karma for the students who pay money to go to the new studio to learn the little secrets. Ah. And it’s really all for nothing, it’s for little siddhis that aren’t worth even as much as a book or a cell phone today.
Listen, I will tell you a real secret. If you want power, real power, power like Vrtrasura, Naruda Muni, Arjuna, Mayasura, Bali Maharaj, or Lord Ravana, you only need one secret, one practice. It is a mantra, a mantra that can give you literally anything you want, anything you need. Ah. Listen carefully, here is the mantra:
HARE KRSNA HARE KRSNA // KRSNA KRSNA HARE HARE
HARE RAMA HARE RAMA // RAMA RAMA HARE HARE.
You fix your intention or your goal in your mind, and then you chant this mantra, at least 1728 times per day.
If you are impatient, you want to make real progress very quickly, you chant it 6912 times per day. But that is a severe austerity, that takes real dedication, I don’t think anyone has it today.
When I was young, I wanted to be an aghori, to do terrible rites, and sleep in the smashan, and have an asuri or raksasi for a — you know — for a wife, and to get a lot of money and power. In other words, I wanted to be a Westerner, because they do terrible things, and their women are all raskasis, and they have a lot of money and power, ah?
But my acarya Sri Lalita das Thakur, he told me: “Prabhu, you chant this mantra, and you will not be sorry. You will get the asuri, you will get the money, but you don’t need those things. Krsna is what you need, and Krsna will give you all the wonderful, terrible things you need. But when you get them, you won’t want them, you will just want Krsna”. And I trusted my acarya, and he was not wrong at all.
So today I am telling you: you want to have supernatural dreams and visions? Chant HARE KRSNA. You want to be with an asuri or asura? Chant HARE KRSNA. You want to travel to different planets and see spirits and get powers? Chant HARE KRSNA. You want to end global warming, or make the Yuga end faster? Chant HARE KRSNA. You can get anything, anything by chanting HARE KRSNA.
But when you do chant HARE KRSNA, you will find eventually that all those things don’t matter – only Sri Krsna matters, only serving Him and being His friend and servant. Then those other things are just pastimes, they are amusements for you and Krsna to enjoy – but the real joy is Krsna himself.
Remember, all things, ANYTHING, through Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare // Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare.
Through Krsna, we become truly liberated.
Only through Krsna, can we become truly liberated.
Jai Krsna!
Source:
https://purushamedha.wordpress.com/2013/09/25/unlimited-power/
Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 4, Chapter 25 Text 41
"As soon as a woman attains the age of puberty, she immediately becomes very much agitated by sexual desire. It is therefore the duty of the father to get his daughter married before she attains puberty. Otherwise she will be very much mortified by not having a husband."
Then, a blazing mass of red clouds was seen to suddenly appear overhead, and from those clouds came showers of weapons such as chakras and thunderbolts. Karna tried to smash all of these weapons with his arrows, but was this time unsuccessful, and so a great massacre of the Kaurava army ensued. Then, as the oppressed Kaurava warriors gazed up into the sky, they saw innumerable fierce Rakshasas. With blazing mouths and sharp teeth, those Rakshasas were hurling showers of darts and other weapons down upon them, and thus they were being pierced and crushed on all sides. At last, all of the surviving Kaurava soldiers fled from the scene of the battle, and so Karna was left alone in the midst of the shower of weapons.
Karna did not waver, however, and he continued to send a steady stream of arrows into the sky while fresh horses were yoked onto his chariot by a new driver. Ghatotkacha then hurled a staghni weapon with wheels that killed these horses, and after getting down from his disabled chariot, Karna attempted to dispel the Rakshasa’s illusions by means of his celestial weapons. His attempts turned out to be futile, so Karna began to fearfully think about what he should do next. Upon seeing how their leader had become highly vulnerable while being severely assaulted by showers of weapons, the Kaurava warriors began to shout, “O Karna, now is the time for you to invoke the infallible dart of Indra! The sons of Dhritarashtra and our entire army are about to be consumed by this terrible Rakshasa! Therefore, please kill Ghatotkacha immediately so that the survivors can contend with the Pandava army tomorrow.”
When Karna heard these anxious pleas and saw how Ghatotkacha’s devastating attack was annihilating the Kaurava army, he made up his mind to employ Indra’s infallible dart which he had worshiped for many years in the hopes of killing Arjuna. When Ghatotkacha saw Indra’s dart in Karna’s hand, he immediately assumed a gigantic form and began to fearfully run away from the battlefield at full speed. However, when Karna hurled that wonderful dart, it immediately dispelled all of Ghatotkacha’s illusions, pierced him right through the chest and it then soared all the way up to heaven. Being fatally wounded, Ghatotkacha let out a terrible roar and then fell down dead upon the ground. And yet, even at the point of death, the heroic son of Bhima wanted to do something to benefit the Pandavas. Thus, while falling, Ghatotkacha kept expanding his body and then purposely landed upon the most dense portion of the Kaurava army. In this way, Ghatotkacha crushed to death one full akshauhini while breathing his last.
In spite of this, all of the Kaurava warriors shouted with joy, for they had become highly relieved just to see how the terrible Rakshasa had at last been slain. Meanwhile, Karna had ascended Duryodhana’s chariot, and at this time, all of the Kaurava warriors came and worshiped him with great respect and gratitude.
On the other side, the Pandava warriors became very aggrieved, and their eyes filled with tears. The only exception was Lord Krishna, and although it seemed highly out of place after the slaying of Bhima’s son, He laughed loudly with great joy. Indeed, after warmly embracing Arjuna, Lord Krishna began to dance in ecstasy. Then, after once again embracing His dear friend, Krishna stood up on the chariot and repeatedly uttered exclamations of jubilation. This incongruous sight only served to aggravate the grief of the Pandava warriors, and Arjuna, who was extremely morose, then said, “O Krishna, such an exhibition of happiness on this sad occasion does not seem at all befitting to me. Still, there must be some very grave and inscrutable reason for Your jubilation, and so I request that You kindly disclose it.”
Lord Krishna replied, “My dear Arjuna, listen to Me, for I shall immediately dispel your grief. The reason that I am happy now is because Karna has wasted his infallible dart. Don’t you see? Now, you are free to fight with him without anxiety. Karna was the single greatest stumbling block on our path to victory. Indeed, if he were still in possession of his original celestial armor and earrings, then no one would have been able to vanquish him: neither all of the demigods, nor yourself with your Gandiva bow. Even now that Karna is bereft of his natural armor and earrings and his prowess is only mild in comparison with that which he originally possessed, he is still only capable of being killed by you and no one else. My dear Arjuna, I want you to know that it is only for your sake that I had formerly killed many demons who had posed themselves as kshatriyas. And, even I had to accomplish such feats with the help of various contrivances.”
Arjuna inquired, “My dear Lord, what do You mean by saying that You had to kill all of those demoniac kings with the help of contrivances?” - Mahabharata, Drona-Parva