His Holiness
Niranjana Swami
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Niranjana Swami
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Quotes Of The Day
Niranjana Swami
Lectures from a Disciple, Vol. 2, Overcoming Adversity, p. 166
There are two kinds of suffering: forced suffering and voluntary suffering. Forced suffering is the kind of suffering that results from karmic activity; it always leads to more suffering because we tend to try to counteract our suffering by performing more karmic activity. We do not go to Krishna for shelter. Voluntary suffering is when we recognize that we are undergoing suffering for the Lord's pleasure. Devotees don't try to counteract voluntary suffering by karmic activity but go to their true shelter, Sri Krishna.
Srila Prabhupada
Lecture on Bhagavad-gita 1.43, London, July 30, 1969
Brahma means the manager of one brahmanda, universe. And there are millions of Brahmas, millions, trillions. They are numberless. Ananta-koti. Yasya prabha prabhavato jagad-anda-kotih [Bs 5.40]. [I worship Govinda, the primeval Lord, whose effulgence is the source of the nondifferentiated Brahman mentioned in the Upanisads, being differentiated from the infinity of glories of the mundane universe appears as the indivisible, infinite, limitless, truth]. Koti means unlimited. Jagad-anda means universe. Brahmanda or jagad-anda. Anda. Anda means it is egg-shaped, round, egg-shaped. Therefore it is called anda, brahmanda. Bhu-gola. Gola means round. I have heard that before the science, the people were under the impression that this world is flat. But in the Vedic sastra, millions of years ago it is mentioned: bhu-gola. Gola means round.
