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IN THIS ISSUE
October 2020, #1
4 THE PERSONHOOD
SOCIOSPIRITUAL
What went wrong
in self understanding
5 YOKE - WORD RELINKING
LEXICON
6 SLAP IS ACCORDING TO THE FACE
THE LAW OF KARMA
The great responsibility
8 MUSICAL NOTE’S ESOTERICS
ARTS
Power of the sound
11 THE SOUL MATTERS
MASSPRODUCTION OF SOULS
ANCIENT & AUTHENTIC
On the creation of a living entity
as given in Bhagavad-gita
12 ABOUT SAMADHI
UNIVERSAL YOGA
Yogi’s business
16 ART OF DYING
SAMADHI ROADWAY
Legacy of George Harrison
19 TV COMMERCIAL
SLANT
20 TON OF POTATO CHIPS
DREAM WORLD
21 MY LIFE
OLDEN BALLADS
22 HOUR I
INSIGHT LYRICS INSIGHT
Scorpions’ Humanity Hour I
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- Statue of Krishna and Arjuna in Bali
- Relief sculpture of Kurukshetra war
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Devanam Subrahmaniam – external writer, an
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Kasya Das – editor in chief
Madhusudan Das – experienced artist
Musicman – external music critic
Shubham Mittal Ponderi – external writer,
profound in ancient arts of India
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Ahearty welcome
to all thoughtful
men, who don’t
mind to experience
views of another
level. My idea of
SAMADHI is to give the
most important, the
most essential and the
most valuable there
is, and all that in
most fulfilling manner
engaged writers can
do. At the present,
people are craving for
a spiritual and
transcendental outlook
on everything and
anything. Due to
deprivation and
starvation in this
regard, let this
humble effort fill up
the gap.

SOCIOSPIRITUAL
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The question is: "What
does it mean to be a
person?" Now, why is it a
risk to seek an
answer to this
question? For one
thing, for someone
to ask why he or
she is a person is to
admit that one finds no
meaning in life. Dr.
Charles Tart, a
distinguished professor of
psychology at the Davis
Campus of the University
of California, reports that
in the 1950s,
psychotherapists began
to see a new type of
client: the "successful
malcontent." This type of
person is normally
successful by
contemporary
social
standards, has
a reasonable
job, income,
family life, and
enjoys
acceptance and
respect in the
community. All
these rewards
are supposed to bring
happiness in our society,
and the successful
malcontent knows that by
these standards, one
ought to have no
problems. But
nevertheless he or she
finds life to empty. The
successful malcontent
goes to a psychologist
and asks, "Isn't there
more to life than money,
career, consumer goods,
social life? Where is the
*meaning?*" Conventional
therapy, based on
conventional theories
about the nature of
humans and personality,
is of little value to these
by Suhotra Swami
people. The central
question of the deeper
meaning of life is largely
untouched in psychology.
To be a person means to
be a soul. Each soul
numbers as one of
unlimited spiritual
persons sheltered in
Vishnu or Krishna, who is
the Supreme Person
because He is the
reservoir of unlimited
varieties of eternal, allknowing
bliss. Because we
are tiny aspects of
Krishna, we naturally seek
a full variety of personal
experience.
Unfortunately,
for we who
have fallen
into the cycle
of birth and
death, the
attempt to
realize the
full potential
of personality
is blocked by our contact
with matter. Thus instead
of bliss, we experience

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Lexicon
pleasure and pain. Instead
of eternality, we
experience old age and
death. Instead of
knowledge, we experience
bafflement. Even if we win
Saṃskṛtam
All letters come from Narayana, still they can not fully describe Him
by Devanam Subrahmaniam
Sanskrit
English
lok
look
dvāra
door
yoga
to yoke
DevabhāsMā (language of gods), later known as
samMskrMtam, is the mother of all languages.
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enviable material success,
we remain discontented.
The Vaishnava philosophy
therefore directs us to
stop trying to serve our
own pleasure and serve
the pleasure of the
Supreme Lord. As we
learn to satisfy Him, the
Lord lovingly lifts us up to
our rightful
transcendental position.
(from Transcendental Personalism)
Photo: Cgoodwin
WORD RELINKING
- yoke -
Noun: tie, link; servitude, bondage
Verb: to join; to put to work
History and Etymology: middle English yok, from Old
English geoc; akin to Old High German joh yoke, Latin
jugum, Greek zygon, Sanskrit yoga, Latin jungere to join
(Merriam-Webster)
Although ‘yoke’ has connotations of subservience, toiling and
slavery, its original meaning is to unite, as in Sanksrit ‘yoga’ (root
yuj युज – to bind, to jin; to meditate), which means to be united
with the Lord, to be His servant, even to the sense as a slave,
serving Him to the last breath. 'Yoke' is frequently used in the
Bible. Matthew 11:28-30 “Come unto me, all ye that labour and
are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you,
and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall
find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is
light.” In essence, Jesus was preaching yoga.
In some ancient cultures, it was traditional to force a vanquished
enemy to pass beneath a symbolic yoke of spears or swords, or
to put a yoke on a defeated king’s neck, similar to that one put
on an ox. The yoke may be a metaphor for something oppressive
or burdensome, such as feudalism, imperialism, corvée, tribute,
or conscription, as in the expressions the "Norman Yoke" (in
England), the "Tatar Yoke" (in Russia), or the "Turkish Yoke" (in
the Balkans). The metaphor can also refer to the state of being
linked or chained together by contract or marriage, akin to a pair
of oxen. I guess everyone knows about this one.

THE LAW OF KARMA
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by Kasya Das
Under
the divine supervision,
a person gets what is due to him.
Man is the maker of his destiny.
This law of karma is exact, as any
kind of law is, and it ought to be
understood by human beings.
Dharma-sastra (governance
treatises) describes all this in great
detail. “Real religious principles
are enacted by the Supreme
Personality of Godhead.” (SB
6.3.19) Revealed texts of other
religions touch this point as well.
“A man reaps as he sows”, so the
Holy Bible gives us a lead in
several places. Here is one quote
from Koran as well. Allah says:
“Whatever of good befalls you, it is
from Allah; and whatever of ill
befalls you, it is from yourself.”
(Qur’an, 4:79)
Leaders of governments are
responsible to know, follow, and
make sure that the citizens are
taught proper laws, in order so
that the present chaotic situation
will be fixed into normal human
habitat. Because leaders don't
understand these rules, they do not
know, how to administer
punishment or give a proper reward,
what is right or wrong, good or bad.
They are bound to punish or
oppress someone over-excessively
or they are overly lenient pacifists
with others who are due to get
correctional punishment. In this
manner, in both cases, they do harm
and add to their karmic burden.
There is no valid excuse in saying
that “we” do not believe in this law
of karma, this is “your” faith, etc.
This “we” as supposedly per se the
most superior secular
administration, and “you” as in “you
people” who know nothing because
of being sentimental God
worshipers, is kind of offending and
a bit undemocratic, so to say. Fire
burns everyone, regardless one
believes it or not. That’s the law of
nature, and so are all the laws
related to humans. The Law of
karma is the law of nature. Social
laws are not invented by humans.
They are there since the inception of
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rather destroyed by the everinflating
balloon of enormity of
constrictious bureaucratic rules.
That is the unfortunate result of
rejecting the original laws and
replacing them with floodpatchwork
of rules.
The greatest responsibility lies with
the leaders. If they do not follow
natural governance laws, people do
not follow these laws either, and do
not follow their leader too, though
they obey them as long as they are
granted feeble objects of sense
gratification, or just intimidated if
they don’t obey. In one sense,
general populace is much less
punishable, but both will get their
faces slapped, some more, some
less, proportionately to their faces.
And it will happen sooner or later, in
this life or in the lives to follow. It
will happen when the time is ripe.
There is no one else to blame but
themselves. Although there could be
fewer faces slapped, if there would
be a will to listen to Krishna’s
words.
In this manner, the sense of equity
of Shri Hari is performed. God
bless leaders and the rest who
have right understanding.
/I greatly apologize if somebody
recognized his own self in the
photos in connection to what has
been written. In no way, the
intention was to offend anyone’s
person. Howsoever, if you still feel
offended, slap my face./
“YOU ARE FREE TO MAKE
ANY DECISION YOU WISH, BUT
YOU ARE NOT FREE FROM
THE CONSEQUENCES OF THAT
DECISION.”
Rg Veda
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“The musical notes are sa, ri, ga, ma, pa, dha, and ni. All these sound
vibrations are originally called sabda-brahma, or spiritual sound. The Vedas are
spiritual sound, and therefore there is no need of material interpretation for the sound
vibration of the Vedic literature. The Vedas should be vibrated as they are, although
they are symbolically represented with letters which are known to us materially. In the
ultimate issue there is nothing material because everything has its origin in the
spiritual world. The material manifestation is therefore called illusion in the proper
sense of the term. For those who are realized souls there is nothing but spirit.”
ACBSP
by Shubham Mittal Ponderi
The Significance of Sound
Next time you listen to music, play an instrument or sing a note, here it is where
it all came from:
·· The seven musical notes—sa, ri, ga, ma, pa, dha and ni—are used in music, speech,
by animals and nature, but originally they come from the Sama Veda. The Samaveda
(Sanskrit: सामवेदः, sāmavedahM, from sāman "song" and veda "knowledge"), is the Veda of
melodies and chants. It expertly propounds the highest theistic philosophy in the most
enchanting way; by song and music.
·· The Vedic spiritual sound vibration was used by Brahma to create the material world.
·· For a serious yogi these same seven sounds offer a means for withdrawing the soul
from the entanglement of matter.
·· Sound affects the consciousness of a living being, especially humans. It can degrade
or elevate the soul on spiritual scale, and it alters its emotional state on any level.
·· All the material elements originated from the sound.
·· The spiritual sound has a transcendental position above all.
·· The gross manifestation of transcendental sound is a vibration of air molecules,
written words, or speech, however, at its root is transcendental sound. All these
manifestations of the sound effect our emotions, intellect and consciousness, following
which effects the workings of family and society.
·· Therefore above all the recommendations in Vedic literature the instruction to
vibrate names of Narayana, Vishnu or Krishna are highly stressed. Similarly all songs
and music are meant for His pleasure.

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The word swara (Sanskrit: स्वर) is derived from the root svr which means "to sound." The
seven suddha swars (notes) represents in animal kingdom sounds like this:
Shadja (Sa); the rapturous sound of the peacock when rain clouds gather in the sky
Rishabha (Re); the bellowing of a cow when her calf is separated from her
Gandhara (Ga); the bleating of a goat in a flock
Madhyama (Ma); the cry of a heron
Panchama (Pa); the sound of the Indian Kokila (nightingale) in spring
Dhaivata (Dha); the neighing of a horse
Nishada (Ni); the trumpeting of an elephant
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An interesting thing that to note in the swaras is Sa, Ma and Pa are sounds made by
birds whereas Re, Ga, Dha and Ni are sounds made by animals. Often people seem to
get bewildered when they hear the word “raga”. Ragas are nothing but different
combinations of these swaras where any swara can be repeated or even omitted.
Sargam is the Indian equivalent to solfège. Sargam is generally practised against a
drone. The tone Sa is not associated with any particular pitcha as in Western movable-
Do solfège, Sa refers to a piece or scale rather than to any particular pitch.
Of the seven notes, "Sa" is the most firm note. Without sa, the entire saptak falls apart.
The name for Sa is "sadja." It comes from the Sanskrit "sad + aja." In Sanskrit, "Sad"
means "six", while "aja" means creator of. the other six notes. These notes cannot have
true definition unless Sa is defined, because the position of Sa will define where Re, Ga,
Ma, Pa, Dha, and Ni fall.

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Meanings and qualities as applied in ragas:
Sa is derived from Shadja which means 'giving birth to six'. It is father of six other swaras.
Moods: confident, peaceful, calm, energetic, satisfied.
Re is derived from Rishabha which means ‘strong as Vrishaba (Bull)’, being the nearest to the
swara (Sa). Moods: despair, devotion, melancholy, confident, strong, forceful, joyful.
Ga is derived from Gandhara which means ‘sweet fragrance’. Moods: will, independence,
calm, sensuous, loving, confident, melancholic
Ma derived from Madhyama which means ‘being in the middle’. Moods: intense, acute,
unstable, perturbed, penetrating, mysterious, sad, peaceful, content, aspiration.
Pa is derived from Panchama which means ‘the fifth note’. It is the tool to measure the swara
intervals. Moods: joyful, awake, clear, warm.
Dha is derived from Dhaivata which means ‘sixth note/divine’. Moods: joyful, brilliant,
beautiful, demanding, active, restless, playful, loving, sad, sorrowful.
Ni is derived from Nishada which means an ‘seventh note’ also ‘setting at rest’. The word is
derived from Sanskrit root “ni+shâd” to come to a rest. Moods: tender, selfish, bright, acute,
stubborn, intense, soft, passion, anxiety, ambitious
The swaras are also associated with planets and colours:
Sa (shadjam) - Mercury - green
Ri (rishabham) - Mars - red
Ga (gandharam) - Sun - golden colour
Ma (madhyamam) - Moon - white or yellowish tint
Pa (panchamam) - Saturn - blue or black
Sha (dhaivatam) - Jupiter - yellow
Ni (nishadham) - Venus - multi colour
Brahmanas chanting Samaveda hymns
Check: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ8CLL6ucy4

The Soul Matters
Bhagavad-gita is also known as
Gitopanishad. It is the essence of Vedic
knowledge and one of the most important
Upanishads in Vedic literature.
One may cleanse himself daily by taking a bath in
water, but if one takes a bath even once in the
sacred Ganges water of Bhagavad-gita, for him the
dirt of material life is altogether vanquished.
(Gita-mahatmya 3)
For the soul there is neither birth nor death at any
time. He has not come into being, does not come
into being, and will not come into being. He is
unborn, eternal, ever-existing and primeval. He is
not slain when the body is slain.
Bg 2.20
"I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad Gita. It
was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or
unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice
of an old intelligence which in another age and
climate had pondered and thus disposed of the
same questions which exercise us."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
ANCIENT & AUTHENTIC
MASSPRODUCTION OF SOULS
“Consciousness is eternal, and
consciousness is the symptom of the
soul. Soul is eternal. When the soul
takes shelter in the matter, then the
matter develops, not by combination
of matter you can produce soul. That
is not possible. If that would have
been possible, then many great
scientists and many scientific
laboratories, especially in your
Western countries, would be mass
producing souls. But nobody could
produce a single living being in the
laboratory. That is not possible. You
could produce great, complicated
machinery, but you cannot produce
the machine driver. The machine can
be produced, but machine driver
cannot be produced. And without
machine driver, all machines are
useless.”
ACBSP
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Errors of Science according to Madhusudan das
ALMOST
THERE !

ACBSP
The yogi's real business is to
focus his mind on Krishna.
That is the real yoga system.
There are many gymnastics
performed by yogis, but all this is
recommended for those who are
overly concerned with the body.
Rendering service to Krishna
twenty-four hours daily is called
bhakti-yoga, and that is real
samadhi. People are working hard
day and night to enjoy some
results. A person in bhakti-yoga
works hard day and night but
offers the results to Krishna. There
is a great difference between a
bhakti-yogi and an ordinary
karmi. Ordinary karmis cannot
understand that the bhaktas are
on the transcendental platform.
TLK, Devotional Service: The Final Perfection
S
o anyone who is chanting
Hare Krishna, he is in
samadhi. Any-one who is cooking for
Krishna, he is in samadhi. Anyones who
is typing for Krishna, he is in samadhi.
Anyone who is working in the field for
Krishna, he is in samadhi. Because his
consciousness is that "I am doing here
for satisfaction of Krishna."
SB 1.5.13 lecture, New Vrindavan, June 13, 1969
S
Photo of Arjuna Statue: Nitish Kumar
o the acaryas give this example
as a bad character woman who
has got attachment for other's husband,
she always thinks, at the same time,
shows her husband that she is very
much busy in the family affairs so that
her husband may not doubt her character.
So as she is always remembering
the time of meeting with her lover at-

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night, in spite of doing all this household
work very nicely, similarly one has
to remember the supreme husband, Sri
Krishna, always in spite of doing his
material duties very nicely. That is possible.
It requires a strong sense of love.
When you have got a strong sense of
love for the Supreme Lord, then it is
possible that we can go on discharging
our duty, at the same time remember
the Lord. So we have to develop that
possible for me." Then the Lord said,
yoginam api sarvesam mad-gatenantaratmana
[Bg. 6.47]. Mad-gatenantaratmana
sraddhavan bhajate yo mam
sa me yuktatamo matah. So one who
thinks of the Supreme Lord always, he's
the greatest yogi, he is the supermost
jnani, and he is also the greatest devotee
at the same time. The Lord advises
that tasmat sarvesu kalesu mam anusmara
yudhya ca [Bg. 8.7]. "As a ksatriya
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sense. Just like Arjuna was always
thinking of Lord. He, out of twenty-four
hours, not for a second he could forget
Krishna. Constant companion of
Krishna. At the same time, a warrior.
Lord Krishna did not advise Arjuna to
give up his fighting, go to the forest, go
to the Himalaya and meditate. When
yoga system was advised to Arjuna, Arjuna
declined, that "This system is not
you cannot give up your fighting business.
You have to fight.”
Lecture, New York, February 19, 1966
This is the beginning of bhaktiyoga.
If we conduct business and
earn money, we should spend it for
Krishna. This is a form of bhakti. Another
vivid example is Arjuna, who was
a fighter. By fighting, he became a
Photo: George Rudy

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devotee. He did not become a devotee
by chanting Hare Krishna but by fighting
in the Battle of Kuruksetra. Krishna
advised him to fight, but because Arjuna
was a Vaishnava, in the beginning
he was unwilling. A Vaishnava does not
like to kill anything, but if Krishna orders
him, he must fight. He does not
fight out of his own will, because a
Vaishnava's natural instinct is not to do
harm to anyone. However, when a
Vaishnava knows that Krishna wants a
particular thing done, he does not care
for his own considerations. In any case,
entitled to enjoy the property. That is
the version of Bhagavad-gita. When the
Lord says, I am the Supreme Enjoyer of
all results of sacrifices, austerities,
fruitive actions, etc. People try to be renouncer
of this material world, but we
do not see the material world in that
angle of vision. We see everything is the
product of Krishna’s energy and how
everything can be dovetailed for serving
the purpose of Krishna.
Letter to Gargamuni, 22nd November, 1968
W
hen Lord Caitanya was traveling
everyone has some particular type of
duty, an occupation. If we perform our
occupation in the worship of Krishna,
our life will be perfect.
TLK, Ch 11, The Symptoms of Sadhu
O
ur mission is to dovetail everything
in the service of Krishna
because everything belongs to Krishna.
Your father or any other businessman
may think it improperly that the business
belongs to him, and he is entitled
to enjoy the profit, but we think everything
belongs to Krishna, and Krishna is
in South India in a big temple, Ranganatha
temple, He went to see the Deity,
and He saw one brahmana was
reading Bhagavad-gita. And people
were joking him, "Oh, Mr. brahmana,
how you are reading Bhagavad-gita?"
Because they were the neighbors, they
knew that this brahmana was illiterate
and he was studying Bhagavad-gita. So
they were joking. But the brahmana did
not care them. He was taking the book
and in his own way he was reading.
Caitanya Mahaprabhu saw this incident,
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the brahmana, "My dear brahmana,
what you are reading?" So he could understand
"This persons is not joking
with me; He is serious." So he explained,
"My dear sir, I am reading Bhagavad-gita.
Unfortunately, I am illiterate.
I do not know even the alphabets."
"Why you are reading Bhagavad-gita?"
So he said that, "My spiritual master
knows that I am illiterate, but still, he
has asked me to read Bhagavad-gita.
What can I do? Therefore I have taken
this book. I am seeing simply. I do not
know how to read." "Oh, that's all right.
service of His devotee.' This gives me so
much pleasure that I cry." Caitanya Mahaprabhu
embraced him, "Your Bhagavad-gita
reading is perfect. You have
taken the essence." So this is the thing.
If you simply remember Krishna is
teaching Arjuna and Arjuna is hearing,
if you simply remember the picture,
that is sufficient. Even if you think that
you cannot read. Because after all we
have to become Krishna conscious. We
haven't got to become a learned man to
argue with another learned man. If it is
possible we can do that, but that does
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You cannot read. But I see that you are
crying. How you are crying if you are
not reading?" "Yes, I am crying. Of
course, there is cause." "What is that?"
"As soon as I take this Bhagavad-gita, I
remember Krishna. Krishna is sitting as
driver and Arjuna is hearing. I have
heard the story. I know something of
the instruction but cannot read. So as
soon as I take this book, this picture
comes before me and I simply think,
'Oh, how Krishna is nice that He has become
a charioteer of His devotee. He is
so great. Still, He has accepted a menial
not make any difference if I cannot argue
with others or if I cannot teach very
nicely Bhagavad-gita to others. Simply
if I remember this picture, that is perfection.
Because we have to become
Krishna conscious. We have to simply
think of Krishna. You think in any way.
That is your perfection. Smartavyah satatam
visnuh. This is the injunction.
You have to think of Visnu always. This
is samadhi; this is meditation; this is
yoga siddhi, perfection of yoga.
Talk on Bg 2.1-10, LA, November 25, 1968

George Harrison passed away on November 29,
2001, at the age of 58. The images of Lord Rama
and Lord Krishna were beside his bed as he died
amidst the chants and prayers of Hare Krishna’s.
Photo: Pixabay
"Everybody is looking for Krishna. Some
don`t realize that they are but they are.
Krishna is GOD, the Source of all that
exists, the Cause of all that is, was or ever
will be. As God is unlimited, He has many
names, Allah, Buddha, Jehovah, Rama: all
are Krishna, all are ONE."
"All you need is LOVE" - George Harrison
Photo: Malati Dasi
He was cremated at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
His close family scattered his ashes according
to Vedic tradition in a private ceremony in the
Ganges and Yamuna rivers near Varanasi, India.
George during the recording
of the Hare Krishna
Mantra on the Radha
Krishna Temple in London.
The mantra was released
in August 1969 in
London under the Beatles'
Apple record label. This
single, like the 1971
Radha Krsna Temple
album, was produced by
George Harrison.
Photo: Michelle Leverett
Cover of Radha Krishna Temple Record
In 1974 at Hare Krishna Land, in Juhu. Bombay
Source: Giriraj Swami
Srila Prabhupda: “So this is your duty now.
(Laughs) By the grace of Krsna you are one of
the great men. Although you are young man, but
Krsna has placed you in such a high position that
there are many young men who follows you. So
that is the instruction.”

George: “Prabhupada helped me to realize the
multifaceted way to approach Krishna. Like
the prasadam, for example. I think it is a
very important thing, prasädam, even if
it's only a trick. Like they say, the
way to a man's heart is through
his stomach. Well, even if it's a
way to a man's spirit soul,
it works. Because there
is nothing better
than having been
dancing and
singing or
just sitting
and talking
and then
suddenly
they give
you some
food. It's like it's
a blessing. And then
when you learn to
touch Him or taste
Him, it's important.
SAMADHI ROADway
“My Sweet Lord” (1970)
George Harrison’s My Sweet
Lord is Apple Records’ most
played track this century!
George Harrison’s number one
single My Sweet Lord has
topped a chart of the most
played songs this century that
were released on The Beatles’
Apple Records label. The single
has received more public airplay
since 2000 than Imagine by John
Lennon and the Liverpool band’s
Hey Jude, which was the first
single released on the label in
the UK 50 years ago. My Sweet
Lord went to number one upon
its original release in 1970 and
again in 2002 when it was reissued
following Harrison’s
death.
Source: www.prsformusic.com
“it is he (jai sri krishna)” (1974)
“awaiting on you all” (1970)
“here comes the sun” (1969)
“long, long, long” (1969)
“sat singing” (1980)
“hear me lord” (1970)
“this is love” (1982)
“art of dying” (1970)
“maya love” (1974)
“brainwashed” (2002)
“life itself” (1981)
“living in the material world” (1973)
Photo: Michael Ochs
In Britain, "My Sweet Lord"
entered the charts at number 7,
before hitting number 1 on 30
January and staying there for five
weeks. It was the biggest-selling
single of 1971 in the UK and
performed similarly well around
the world (Japan, Sweden,
Canada, Belgium, Australia,
Czachoslovakia), particularly in
France and Germany, where it
held the top spot for nine and ten
weeks, respectively. The single's
world-wide sales amounted to 5
million copies by 1978, making
it one of the best-selling singles
of all time. By 2010, according
to Inglis, "My Sweet Lord" had
sold over 10 million copies. The
song returned to the number 1
position again in the UK when
reissued in January 2002, two
months after Harrison's death
from cancer at the age of 58.
Source: www.wikipedia.org

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"If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something
without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods
where you can actually obtain God perception. In that way, you can see,
hear & play with God. Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really
there next to you." - George
George: “Prabhupada never really suggested that I shouldn't do what I was
doing. I heard that at different times he would say to the devotees that I was a
better devotee because of my songs and the other things I was doing. He never
actually said that to me, but I always heard that. And the good thing for me was
that I didn't have a feeling that I needed to join full time. I think it would have
spoiled it if he had always been on at me, saying, ‘Why don't you pack in doing
what you are doing and go and live in a temple somewhere?’ He never made
me feel any different, like I wasn't quite in the club. He was never like that.
“I'm a plainclothes devotee. It's like that. I saw my relationship—that I should
help when and where I could, because I know people in society. It's like any
half-decent person; you just try and help each other a little bit.
“He was always pleased with me, because anything I did was a help. I mean
not just to the Krsna temple as such, but just to anything spiritual that I did,
either through songs or whatever—it pleased him. He was just always very
friendly. He was always chanting, and at times he said that to me—just to keep
chanting all the time, or as much as possible. I think once you do that, you
realize the chanting is of benefit.
“There are some gurus who go around making out that they are “it," but
Prabhupada was saying, “I am the servant of the servant of the servant of
Krsna," which is really what it is, you know. He wasn't saying, “I am the
greatest," and “I am God," and all that. With him it was only in the context of
being a servant, and I liked that a lot. I think it's part of the spiritual thing. The
more they know, then the more they actually know that they are the servant.
And the less they know, the more they think they are actually God's gift to
mankind.
“So although he was obviously a very powerful individual, very spiritually
advanced, he always retained that humbleness. And I think that is one of the
most important things, because you learn—more than all the words he says—
you learn really from the example of how he lives and what he does.
From George Harrison Memorial Park in Bhaktivedanta Manor, UK
There is much more to be said about
what George did for his and other’s
spiritual benefit. He not only exhibited
the art of living but left a meaningful
legacy after he departed: Art Of Dying.
Great persons have great personalities.
by Kasya Das

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Cartoon by Madhusudan Das

Dream world

Olden ballads
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(bhajan song by Bhaktivinod Thakur)
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Ongoing I devoted my life to sin
Piety I didn’t give a pin
Anxiety to others and misery too
To all the creatures I gave to
For my own fun
I fear not to do any sin
Devoid of feelings and full of myself
Sad at the happiness of others
Preoccupied with lies
My happiness is the misery of others
Endless desires in my heart
Angry and devoted to pride
Intoxicated by conceit, bewildered by enjoyment
Envy and egotism my embellishments are
Ruined by lethargy, avoiding pious deeds
Though enthusiastic for forbidden feats
For prestige I act deceitfully
Destroyed by greed, always aim lustfully
Such a miscreant I am
Rejected by saints, ceaselessly offending not only them
Devoid of beneficial deeds, habituated to vice
Crushed by motley of what hurt and slice
And now in my old age without means to heal
Humbled and poor Bhaktivinod submits
Great grief to the Lord’s feet

Insight lyrics insight
“HOUR I”
So here we are
It's hour one
And it's a nightmare
There's nothing left
And yet it's good to be alive
There's no use crying
Cause the universe is not fair
The wicked and the innocent
Are fighting to survive
Photo: Marc Theis
Child stay down, stay down
You better run for cover underground
Child stay down, stay down
You better shut your mouth
Don't make a sound
Human nature is the reason
For our downfall
And we deserve it playing God
With our machines
Our religions are a prison
That's our fatal flaw
Bombs are flying
While we're sleeping with the enemy
Child stay down, stay down
You better run for cover underground
Child stay down, stay down
You better shut your mouth
Don't make a sound
Look at me, right at me
When I'm telling you to stay down
Come to me, run to me
I am begging you to stay down
Cling to me desperately
All you gotta do is stay down
Pay attention my child down
Check: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bwg7uyy9g2c
Look at me, right at me
When I'm telling you to stay down
Come to me, run to me
I am begging you to stay down
Cling to me desperately
All you gotta do is stay down
Pay attention my child
Child, stay down, stay down
You better run for cover underground
Child stay down, stay down
You better shut your mouth
Don't make a sound
Child, stay down, stay down
You better run for cover underground
Child stay down, stay down
Stay down

Insight lyrics insight
Scorpions, “Hour I”
Lyrics: Desmond Child
Vocal: Klaus Meine
Humanity: Hour I is a concept album based on a loose storyline by Desmond
Child and futurist Liam Carl, which predicts a world torn apart by a civil
war between humans and robots. It's a concept album where songs are connected
under the global theme of humanity.
The theme Humans v. Machines was taken up many times in films, books, stories. In
this song of Scorpions band, it clearly pinned the root of the peril. By his spiritual
insight, or the enlightenment from above, or by the combination of both, Desmond
revealed the truth about human-machine dichotomy. He writes, and Klaus Meine
sings, “we deserve it playing God.” Lines above this one says, “Human nature is the
reason for our downfall.” Unluckily it is so. We are supposed to be humane, care
about each other, care about nature and the environment, have humane relations.
However, that is not humane just enough. One thing is missing. We omit the
essential part of humanity. We skip God. That makes us fall. Without Him, humanity
is a miscalculation, just an error in the computation in the matrix of materia –
downfall guaranteed. Man’s mind is set to be filled with thoughts about God. But
without such thoughts the mind turns into vacuum filled place, a hallow breeding
ground for devilish gadgets and machines, just to imitate God in His creative work.
However, our creativity is a farce, deadly farce, “Bombs are flying while we’re
sleeping with the enemy.” Instead of mustering its machinery, humanity is enslaved
by it. For humanity, it is an hour to decide in – it’s HOUR I.
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Thanks, Desmond
by Musicman
Desmond Child
Klaus Meine

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