<Banana Boro> Suggestion verse for Bhaktivedanta Medical Association conference
As you wrote:
We will sit down in The Boro until next weekend and then we go to Houston, Nila-madhavaDhama, with SripadNitai-gaura-sundara Das for the Bhaktivedanta Medical Association conference. Saturday we do a Keynote Address, (Have to prepare it), Science, Psyche, and Spirituality: The Encounter of Professor Carl Gustav Jung with the Mysticism of Srila Rupa Goswami. Sunday we do the Srimad Bhagavatam class. Any suggestions for a verse? We were thinking of the verses about Hari DasaThakura’sJapa disease.
If I may suggest: https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/1/2/10
Translation
Life’s desires should never be directed toward sense gratification. One should desire only a healthy life, or self-preservation, since a human being is meant for inquiry about the Absolute Truth. Nothing else should be the goal of one’s works.
Purport
The completely bewildered material civilization is wrongly directed towards the fulfillment of desires in sense gratification. In such civilization, in all spheres of life, the ultimate end is sense gratification. In politics, social service, altruism, philanthropy and ultimately in religion or even in salvation, the very same tint of sense gratification is ever-increasingly predominant. In the political field the leaders of men fight with one another to fulfill their personal sense gratification. The voters adore the so-called leaders only when they promise sense gratification. As soon as the voters are dissatisfied in their own sense satisfaction, they dethrone the leaders. The leaders must always disappoint the voters by not satisfying their senses. The same is applicable in all other fields; no one is serious about the problems of life. Even those who are on the path of salvation desire to become one with the Absolute Truth and desire to commit spiritual suicide for sense gratification. But the Bhāgavatam says that one should not live for sense gratification. One should satisfy the senses only insomuch as required for self-preservation, and not for sense gratification. Because the body is made of senses, which also require a certain amount of satisfaction, there are regulative directions for satisfaction of such senses. But the senses are not meant for unrestricted enjoyment. For example, marriage or the combination of a man with a woman is necessary for progeny, but it is not meant for sense enjoyment. In the absence of voluntary restraint, there is propaganda for family planning, but foolish men do not know that family planning is automatically executed as soon as there is search after the Absolute Truth. Seekers of the Absolute Truth are never allured by unnecessary engagements in sense gratification because the serious students seeking the Absolute Truth are always overwhelmed with the work of researching the Truth. In every sphere of life, therefore, the ultimate end must be seeking after the Absolute Truth, and that sort of engagement will make one happy because he will be less engaged in varieties of sense gratification. And what that Absolute Truth is is explained as follows.
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Will it be streamed online ?
Your servant Namacarya Das
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HpS - ASA --- AGTSP!!!!!!! paoho We were looking at the Akincana web site. They say it was started in Croatia but now other devotees have taken it over.
This is wonderful verse! Good health automatically follows when we take our quota... Discussed with the organizers and final resolution is to take the verse from Canto One, The Pandavas Retire Timely, which describes Yuddhisthira folding the different layers of the material body back into the Atma. For doctors will be nice to hear about Sankhya, ISKCON Medicine as Assisted Suicide. All of our relations with this body is to destroy it at the root.
Thank you!!!
Any news about the ?Esther? Indradyumna Das is on line most days for Mangala arati etc.
We will find out about Streaming. The SB class will be at ISKCON Houston at Mayapura TV. Others I don't know.
