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Back to Godhead Magazine July/August 2020 Godhead is light. Nescience is darkness. Where there is Godhead there is no nescience. The Magazine of the Hare Krishna Movement • Jul/Aug 2020 • $4.50 The Science of Chanting Going Beyond Mere Syllables ALSO: Prepare to Go to Kṛṣṇa Devotional Surrender: An Embracing of Truth Royal Duty, Divine Duty An Eventful Tour: Lessons from Kṛṣṇa’s Entrance into Mathurā The Spiritual Highway www.krishna.com Assisting you in your quest for the Absolute Truth WELCOME The photos illustrating the cover story for this issue were taken at the 2020 Radhadesh Mellows Kirtan Festival in Belgium. to Over the last dozen or so years, kīrtana festivals have BACKFounded 1944 • Vol. 54, No. 4 • July / AugustGODHEAD 2020 become an important part of the culture of the Hare Kṛṣṇa movement. As evidence of the Śrī Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa spiritual power of the Lord’s names, devotees 6 are together the FEATURES DEPARTMENTS who attend these festivals, which usually last one Supreme from one to three days, spend many hours Absolute Truth. Founder’s Lecture Letters 4 each day joyfully singing the Hare Kṛṣṇa 6 Prepare to Go to Kṛṣṇa A Pause for Prayer 11 mahā-mantra. Śrīla Prabhupāda explains that only the foolish person Book Section: Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 35 “Chanting,” whether by singing or by doesn’t know that we are all on the threshold of death. King Pṛthu Praises the Brāhmaṇas uttering the holy name while counting on and Vaiṣṇavas 13 Devotional Surrender: An Embracing of Truth japa beads, is at the heart of the practice of If we examine the real meaning of “surrender” to Kṛṣṇa, we Śrīla Prabhupāda Speaks Out 39 bhakti-yoga, whose goal is to awaken our love 54 will find the concept to be dynamic and reciprocal. Soul-Killing Rascals for Kṛṣṇa. In this issue, Gaura Śaraṇa Dāsa’s 20 The Science of Chanting: Calendar 47 “Steer Your Life Guided by Wisdom” and 13 Going Beyond Mere Syllables Hare Kṛṣṇa Mahā-Mantra 53 Tirumala Devī Dāsī’s “The Spiritual Highway” both stress the importance of understanding If anyone eager for devotional service utters the holy name In Memoriam: Śrutidharma Dāsa 64 even partially or improperly, the holy name exhibits its “This Life Is for Serving Others” life’s goal and striving to attain it. The title of spiritual potency. the book excerpt in this issue says what we From the Editor 66 30 Absurdity, Abdication, and Abuse: When God Loses Control can expect as we pursue that goal: “Māyā Is Śrī Caitanya Going to Test You.” Mahāprabhu, the Lessons from the Mahābhārata Vedic Thoughts 67 In his opening lecture, Śrīla Prabhupāda combined incarnation Like Dhṛtarāṣṭra, all who are blinded by their attachments of Rādhā-Kṛṣṇa, invite misfortune upon themselves. tells us to “Prepare to Go to Kṛṣṇa,” and COVER Śrīla Haridāsa Ṭhākura, a close inaugurated the Ūrmilā Devī Dāsī, in “Devotional Surrender: 41 Royal Duty, Divine Duty associate of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, chants chanting of Hare Hare Kṛṣṇa on japa beads. The painting was An Embracing of Truth,” writes that Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa five hundred A newcomer to the UK finds inspiration in the Queen’s the backdrop behind the kīrtana leaders at mercifully responds to our earnest attempts to years ago. example. the 2020 Radhadesh Mellows Kirtan Festival take refuge in Him. 44 The Spiritual Highway in Belgium. Please see the article “The Hare Kṛṣṇa. – Nāgarāja Dāsa, Editor Science of Chanting,” beginning on page We aspiring devotees may experience traffic congestion of a 20. (Painting by Vrinda Gleeson, Rukmini different kind – traffic congestion within the heart. Poddar, and Sita Bell.) Book Excerpt: Living the Wisdom of Bhakti: 30 41 Life As a Spiritual Practice, Volume One “So these rascals OUR PURPOSES 48 Māyā Is Going to Test You may go on • To help all people discern reality from illusion, What seem like obstacles on our spiritual path are all part of talking so many spirit from matter, the eternal from the temporary. Kṛṣṇa’s merciful plan for our progress. things, but we • To expose the faults of materialism. don’t care about 54 An Eventful Tour: Lessons from • To offer guidance in the Vedic techniques of Kṛṣṇa’s Entrance into Mathurā any of them. We have to do our spiritual life. When the young village cowherd enters the big city, He flouts own business. • To preserve and spread the Vedic culture. the law and order of its evil king. His Divine Grace Let the dog bark; • To celebrate the chanting of the holy names of A. C. Bhaktivedanta the caravan will God as taught by Lord Śrī Caitanya Mahā prabhu. 61 Steer Your Life Guided by Wisdom Swami Prabhupāda, pass.” – p. 40 • To help every living being remember and 20 The benefit of having a human body over an animal body is Founder-Ācārya of the ability to direct our life toward a higher destination. serve Śrī Kṛṣṇa, the Personality of Godhead. the International Society for Krishna JULY / AUGUST 2020 • BACK TO GODHEADConsciousness. 3 BACK TO GOD HEAD Letters The Magazine of the Still Exciting us off the bodily platform of hanker- there can help you set up an altar in knowledge of how and what to offer down and say the offering prayers to Hare Krishna Movement ing and lamenting, anxiety, and all your home, and you can have a sacred Him. Also, I want to know about the them. They can be found here: http:// I would like to offer my heartfelt our material problems. The proof is place for chanting. time – when I don’t feel like eating or food.krishna.com/article/offering- FOUNDER (under the direction of His Divine Grace gratitude for the ever-enlivening shown in the lives of those who have I want to skip my meals, should I offer food-krishna. Repeat each prayer Śrī Śrīmad Bhakti­­­siddhānta Sarasvatī Prabhupāda) content of this precious publication, taken up this reformatory process of Him food even then? three times. If that is not possible, His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Back to Godhead. This magazine was Material Desires bhakti. The results are amazing. In ev- Parul Makwana then call the Lords to come and ac- Prabhupāda (1896–1977) the first piece of Prabhupāda’s mag- ery country there are congregations of How can we overcome material Via the Internet cept your offering to them. If you can, nificent publications that I picked up BHAKTIVEDANTA BOOK TRUST devotees joyfully engaged in Kṛṣṇa’s desires? wait a little bit for them to accept the as a child, and it hasn’t left my heart REPRESENTATIVE Govardhana Dāsa service. Siddesh Kumar Reply: If you are not doing deity wor- preparations, then clap your hands to since. That childlike excitement still EDITOR Nāgarāja Dāsa Via the Internet ship of a high standard, then you are let them know you are going to take GENERAL MANAGER Prema-mañjarī Devī Dāsī bursts out every time I see this bless- not obligated to offer and eat at cer- the plate away. Bow down and thank ASSOCIATE EDITORS Caitanya Caraṇa Dāsa, ing come through the post. All glories How and How Much to Chant Reply: The recommended process tain times. As long as you are not of- them. Then clean the area. It is the Drutakarmā Dāsa, Satyarāja Dāsa, to the wonderful devotees who are so Is there any particular way in which in this age for controlling the mind fering meat, fish, and egg preparations, sincerity that the Lord is accepting, so Viśākhā Devī Dāsī merciful to continue this project with DESIGN / LAYOUT Govinda Cordua we should chant the Hare Kṛṣṇa man- and its hankering and lamenting is then you are doing all right. Try not to put your heart into it. such quality and detail. PROOFREADERS Gadāgraja Dāsa, Keśihanta tra, or is there a rule that one needs to to chant the holy names of the Lord, offer grains cooked by nondevotees. Krupa Maisuria Dāsa, Kṛṣṇa-kṛpā Dāsa, Mahāmāyā Devī Dāsī, chant it a particular number of times? Hare Kṛṣṇa. The Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā- Present your food items on a Replies were written by Krishna.com Leicester, UK Vegavatī Devī Dāsī Aryan mantra puts us in direct contact with designated offering plate on a clean Live Help volunteers. Please write to ARCHIVES Ekanātha Dāsa Via the Internet the Lord and helps to purify our con- surface in front of pictures of Prabhu- us at: BTG, P. O. Box 430, Alachua, Ijya Dāsa CUSTOMER SERVICE sciousness from the dirty things we ACCOUNTS Rañjita Dāsa To Enjoy or Not to Enjoy pāda and your guru and Lord Cai- Florida 32616, USA. Email: editors@ Reply: Lord Caitanya, the most recent have been accumulating for lifetimes. tanya and Lord Kṛṣṇa if you can. Bow krishna.com. EDITORIAL OFFICES Send editorial Some people say we should enjoy incarnation of Kṛṣṇa, recommends By the power of transcendental sound, correspondence to BTG, P. O. Box 430, Alachua, FL this world, and Kṛṣṇa says this world the constant chanting of the glories we can awaken the lost consciousness 32616, USA. Email: [email protected]. is māyā. So should we enjoy this of the Lord, especially by chanting of our real relationship with God, a The International Society for Krishna Consciousness material world? the mahā-mantra. He says that there relationship of eternal love. SUBSCRIPTIONS Back to Godhead is published Satwik Sharma is no hard and fast rule for chanting. Kṛṣṇa’s name and He Himself are six times a year. To subscribe, go to http://btg.krishna. CENTERS Via the Internet He did, however, show the example the same. Our mind and senses need com/subscriber-services.
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