“The smallest service is more valuable than the biggest position in this material world.”
[ His Holiness Indradyumna Swami, Vrinda Kunda, 2015 ]
Spoken by Indradyumna Swami in a lecture from Vrinda Kunda during Kartik Parikrama, 2015. To see the original post, please click here.
“It’s all due to Srila Prabhupada’s mercy that we get to come to Vrindavan Dham, take boat rides down the Yamuna river, touch the sacred water of the Yamuna, come to secluded holy places like Durvasa Muni’s ashram, meet the Sadhus who are living here, chant ‘Hare Krishna’ in the association of so many wonderful devotees in a holy place. This is all because Srila Prabhupada left this holy place and went to mleccha-desh to spread the glories of Vrindavan.”
[ His Holiness Indradyumna Swami, Durvasa Muni’s ashram, 2015 ]
Spoken by Indradyumna Swami in a lecture from Durvasa Muni’s ashram during Kartik Parikrama, 2015. To see the original post, please click here.
“This is Vrindavan as it was over five thousand years ago. And this is how we would like the whole world to be actually, back to an agrarian culture, taking care of the cows and cultivating the land—a simple life with Krishna at the center.”
[ His Holiness Indradyumna Swami, Gokul, 2015 ]
Spoken by Indradyumna Swami in a lecture from Gokul during Kartik Parikrama, 2015. To see the original post, please click here.
“In this Kamyavan Krishna performed enchanting pastimes. Here you will be able to take darsana of many Kundas and other holy places. I cannot even describe in writing all the sacred tirthas found at Kamyavan.”
[ Bhakti-ratnakara, Fifth Wave ]
Quoted by Indradyumna Swami in a Facebook post from December 24, 2017. To see the original post, please click here.
“When we come to each of these individual places, we absorb ourselves in all of those specific characteristics of that holy place. Krishna is called Manohara, one of His unlimited names. Manohara means ‘Who attracts the mind’. We control our mind by fixing it on hearing in Vrindavan of the beautiful pastimes of the Lord. This is the best way to control the mind. One day our minds and our hearts will be spontaneously attracted to all these wonderful pastimes of Krishna.”
[ – His Holiness Indradyumna Swami, Talavan, 2015 ]
Spoken by Indradyumna Swami in a lecture from Talavan during Kartik Parikrama, 2015. To see the original post, please click here.
“Because Lord Shiva is a great devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, he loves all the devotees of the Supreme Lord. Lord Shiva told the Pracetas that because they were devotees of the Lord, he loved them very much. Lord Shiva was not kind and merciful only to the Pracetas; anyone who is a devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead is very dear to Lord Shiva. Not only are the devotees dear to Lord Shiva, but he respects them as much as he respects the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”
[ Srimad Bhagavatam 4.24.30, purport ]
Quoted by Indradyumna Swami in a Facebook post from December 19, 2017. To see the original post, please click here.
“I offer my obeisances to you who dispel darkness with your three eyes – the moon the sun and fire, and thus cause auspiciousness for all living entities in the universe and whose potency easily defeats thousands of moons and suns.”
[ Verse 3, Sivastakam]
Quoted by Indradyumna Swami in a Facebook post from December 18, 2017. To see the original post, please click here.
“Just as the Ganga is the greatest of all rivers, Lord Acyuta the supreme among deities and Lord Sambhu [Siva] the greatest of Vaisnavas, so Srimad-Bhagavatam is the greatest of all Puranas.”
[ SB 12.13.16 ]
Quoted by Indradyumna Swami in a Facebook post from December 18, 2017. To see the original post, please click here.
“There’s always a happy ending in Krishna Consciousness. This is a transcendental movement. If we’re sincere and we’re practicing nicely, eventually everything becomes auspicious.”
[ His Holiness Indradyumna Swami, Jaipur, 2015 ]
Spoken by Indradyumna Swami in a lecture from Jaipur during Kartik Parikrama, 2015. To see the original post, please click here.
“My life and soul is the most opulent land of Vrindavan, which is overwhelmed by the pastimes of Sri Sri Radha and Krsna, which is decorated with many groves and fountains, which is beautified by khadira and sandalwood forests on the banks of the Kalindi River, which is decorated with many beautiful caves at Govardhan Hill, where eternal good fortune is constantly showering, and where Sri Sri Radha and Krsna constantly perform the most wonderful pastimes.”
[ Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati, Sri Vrindavana Mahimamrta, Sataka three, Text 60 ]
Written by Indradyumna Swami in a facebook post from December 9, 2017. To see the original post, please click here.