HDG AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

ANCIENT WISDOM FOR MODERN LIVING

Queen Kunti, a tragic and heroic figure, emerges from an explosive era in the history of ancient India. She was a central figure in a complex political drama that led to a bloody fratricidal war for the Indian throne. Yet through all her sufferings she found an inner wisdom and strength that carried her people through the time of crisis.

Queen Kunti’s teachings are the simple and illuminating outpourings of the soul of a great and saintly woman, revealing the deepest philosophical and theological penetrations of the intellect.

Here the world’s most distinguished modern teacher of Vedic culture and philosophy, His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, presents the ‘Teachings of Queen Kunti’ with startling clarity and power.

Theories about the origin of life come and go like fashion trends. India’s Vedic tradition, however, has always remained consistent on this point; “life” is the natural condition of everything; there has always been and always will be life, manifesting in infinite varieties.

Life Comes From Life is a collection of conversations between Srila Prabhupada and his disciple Thoudam D. Singh, Ph.D., an organic chemist, in Los Angeles during the mid-1970’s.

Srila Prabhupada encouraged his students to use logic, reason, and scientific methods to discredit atheistic, materialistic propaganda, such as the notion that life comes from nothing. Why should we believe something can come from nothing, when all around us, every day, we see life coming from other life?

Journey of Self-Discovery is a collection of transcribed conversations and lectures by Srila Prabhupada on a variety of subjects, including the means for achieving global unity, the myth of scarcity, spiritual economics, superior evolutionary models, and predictions of the future state of the world.

Many of these pieces previously appeared in Back to Godhead magazine, and helpfully address the doubts that inevitably arise for those new to the Vedic view of reality.

While Srila Prabhupada published definitive, scholarly translations and commentaries on some of the world’s most important ancient texts—Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam, and Chaitanya Charitamrita—his printed talks found here in Journey of Self-Discovery capture the humorous, refreshing flavor of his lively debating style.

As the ambassador to the West of the age-old Krishna bhakti cult—which teaches practical devotional service to God in His most approachable and attractive form—Srila Prabhupada speaks with an authority that is hard to resist. His arguments for intelligent design, and the existence of a supremely intelligent person possessing such intelligence, have inspired many skeptics, agnostics, and atheists to reassess their worldview.

हरे कृष्ण महामंत्र का कीर्तन हमें असीम लाभ प्रदान करता है। यह कीर्तन मन को शान्त करता है, विचारों को स्पष्ट करता है, असीम सुख एवं मंगल प्रदान करता है, चेतना को शुद्ध बनाता है और अन्ततः हमें कृष्णभक्ति का सर्वोच्च फल भगवद्प्रेम प्रदान करता है।

मन द्वारा नियंत्रित होने के स्थान पर हमें मन को नियंत्रित करना चाहिए। मंत्र एक संस्कृत शब्द है। इसका अर्थ है “मन को तारने (उद्धार करने वाला “। हरे कृष्ण महामंत्र का कीर्तन हमें निरर्थक प्रयासों में रत सांसारिक जीवन से ऊपर उठने तथा दिव्य चेतना को अनुभव करने का विशेष अवसर प्रदान करता है। हरे कृष्ण मंत्र पर ध्यान केन्द्रित करते ही हम स्फूर्ति, विश्वास तथा आनन्द से भर उठते हैं। चिन्ताएँ, तनाव तथा अनावश्यक विषाद दूर हो जाते हैं। शान्त मन ही सुखी एवं उत्साहपूर्ण जीवन का आधार है।

हरे कृष्ण मंत्र हमारे अन्तःकरण की खोज में सहायता करता है और हमारे हृदय में विराजमान ज्ञान एवं शक्ति के परम स्रोत की अनुभूति कराता है। इस महामंत्र का कीर्तन इन्द्रियों, मन तथा बुद्धि से परे तथा कर्मबन्धनों एवं तीन गुणों से मुक्त हमारे सच्चे आध्यात्मिक अस्तित्त्व के अनुभव का मार्ग प्रशस्त करता है।