Protect A Cow

OXEN AND THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING

IRELAND AND INDIA

Bhagavad- gita 15.5 Purport
...One comes here for some time, and then goes away, living here only briefly; but still he has the foolish notion that he is lord of the world. He thus makes all things complicated, and he is always in trouble. The whole world moves under this impression. People are considering that the land, this earth, belongs to the human society; and they have divided the land, by their mental concoction, under the false impression that they are the proprietors. One has to get out of this false notion that human society is the proprietor of this world. When one is freed from such a false notion, he becomes free from all false associations. False association means our family, social, and national affections. This faulty association binds us to this material world. After this stage, one has to develop spiritual knowledge. One has to cultivate knowledge of what is actually his own, and what is actually not his own. And when one has understanding of things as they are, he becomes free from all conceptions of happiness and distress...

IRELAND AND INDIA

 OLD BRIDGE NEAR KILLARNEY.

Srimad -Bhagavatam 2.9.30
Purport
...Sri Hanumänji crossed the Indian Ocean by jumping over the sea, and Lord Sri Rämacandra engaged Himself in marching over the bridge, but this does not mean that Hanumänji was more powerful than the Lord. Sometimes the Lord gives extraordinary powers to His devotee, but the devotee knows always that the power belongs to the Personality of Godhead and that the devotee is only an instrument. The pure devotee is never puffed up like the nondevotee class of men who falsely think that they are God. It is astonishing to see how a person who is being kicked by the laws of the Lord's illusory energy at every step can falsely think of becoming one with the Lord. Such thinking is the last snare of the illusory energy offered to the conditioned soul. The first illusion is that he wants to become Lord of the material world by accumulating wealth and power, but when he is frustrated in that attempt he wants to be one with the Lord...

IRELAND AND INDIA

 CHARMING IRISH LASS.

 

Srimad-Bhagavatam 4.26.16 Purport
...But if one gets a chaste wife, accepted through a religious marriage ritual, she can be of great help when one is threatened by the many dangerous situations of life. Actually such a wife can become the source of all good intelligence. With such a good wife, the family’s engagement in the devotional service of the Lord actually makes a home a grihastha-äsrama, or household dedicated to spiritual cultivation.

IRELAND AND INDIA

 NATURAL PILLARS MAKE THE GIANT'S CAUSEWAY.

 

Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.3.22 Purport
...Because Lord Rämacandra was the Personality of Godhead, He exhibited superhuman activities which no human being, including the materially advanced Rävana, could perform. Lord Rämacandra prepared a royal road on the Indian Ocean with stones that floated on the water. The modern scientists have done research in the area of weightlessness, but it is not possible to bring in weightlessness anywhere and everywhere. But because weightlessness is the creation of the Lord by which He can make the gigantic planets fly and float in the air, He made the stones even within this earth to be weightless and prepared a stone bridge on the sea without any supporting pillar. That is the display of the power of God.

IRELAND AND INDIA

 

ST. LAWRENCE GATE, 12TH CENTURY RELIC.

The Perfection of Yoga Chapter 4
...But the mind can be easily trained if it is simply fixed on Krsna. Just as a fort is safe when it is defended by a great general, if Krsna is placed in the fort of the mind, there will be no possibility of the enemy’s entering...

IRELAND AND INDIA

THE CATHEDRAL ON THE ROCK OF CASHEL IN TIPPERARY

The Science of Self-realization Chapter 7
Srila Prabhupäda: As long as we remain illusioned by the bodily conception of life, thinking we are these bodies, one man thinking “I am Irish,” another thinking “I am Italian,” “... American,” “... Indian,” and so on—as long as this goes on, the fighting will go on. You cannot stop fighting between dogs and cats. Why do they fight? The dog simply thinks, “I am a big dog.” And the cat thinks, “I am a big cat.” In the same way, if we think, “I am an Irishman” or “I am an Englishman,” then we are no better than the cats and dogs. As long as people remain in a bodily conception of life, there will be fighting.

IRELAND AND INDIA

STORM-PROOF CURRAGHS

 

Bhagavad-gita 4.36 Translation
Even if you are considered to be the most sinful of all sinners, when you are situated in the boat of transcendental knowledge, you will be able to cross over the ocean of miseries.

INDIA AND IRELAND

ARAN ISLANDERS TURNING SEAWEED INTO KELP.

Bhagavad-gita 2.49 Purport
...Except for work in Krsna consciousness, all activities are abominable because they continually bind the worker to the cycle of birth and death. One should therefore never desire to be the cause of work. Everything should be done in Krsna consciousness for the satisfaction of Krsna. Misers do not know how to utilize the assets of riches which they acquire by good fortune or by hard labor. One should spend all energies working in Krsna consciousness, and that will make one's life successful...

INDIA AND IRELAND

THE STEEP CLIFFS OF INISHMORE

Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.14.42 Purport
Satyavati belonged to a family of fishermen, but Paräsara, a great brähmana, begot in her Vyäsadeva. So there are so many examples of contacts with woman, but in all cases the contacts were not abominable nor were the results of such contacts bad. Contact between man and woman is natural, but that also must be carried out under regulative principles so that social consecration may not be disturbed or unwanted worthless population be increased for the unrest of the world...

INDIA AND IRELAND

DUNLUCE CASTLE

Life Comes From Life Chapter 14
...Srila Prabhupäda. That pleasure is childish. Suppose a child builds a sand castle on the beach with great effort. He may take pleasure in it, but that is childish pleasure. That is not a grown man’s pleasure. Materialistic men have created a standard of false happiness. They have created a gorgeous arrangement for a comfortable civilization, but it is all false because they cannot create a situation in which they will be able to enjoy it. At any moment, anyone can be kicked out by death, and all his enjoyment will be finished...

MOM AND DAD AT GITA-NAGARI

Devotee: This is my father.
Father: Your Grace...
Prabhupada: Oh. Thank you very much. (chuckles)
Devotee: And my mother.
Mother: Hare Krsna.
Prabhupada: Oh. So you are all fortunate. You have got such a nice son.
Father: Thank you.
Prabhupada: Yes. And he is giving you the best service by becoming Krsna conscious. Don't think that he is out of home, he is lost, no. He is giving you the best service.
Father: Well, we're very pleased with him and we always have been. Thank you for helping him find happiness. It's something which he was able to find through your order. (indistinct)
Prabhupada: Thank you. They are very good boys.
Father: What's amazing to me is where you get the strength to keep the pace that you have. Can you tell me how you do that? (laughter) I am some years your junior, and I have difficult pace, keeping up.
Prabhupada: The process is genuine, the process which I recommend and they follow. Then it is sure.750713r2.phi              Conversations

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