Charu Pr Various - 6 Phases of Faith

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DreamDream

DesireDesire

DelayDelay

DifficultyDifficulty

Dead EndDead End DeliveranceDeliverance


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Complete Conviction Unflinching trust in

something sublime

1/10,000 tip of hair

Planets float like body

Brahma svayam bhu

Krishna can make anything possible

if you surrender, all duties finished


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Sour faced devotees,

like vinegar

Wants to do great

things in your life

According to your

faith it will be done

Yo

u get to

choo

se ho

w much I bless yo

ur life.You believe & Ill bless. Everything is possiblefor the person who has faith

Muscle building

God uses a predictable process to build faith


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Those who are not faithful inthis devotional service cannotattain Me. They return to birth &death in this material world.

Gita 9/3


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Why is this happening to me?

Without knowing six phases,

depressed, resentful, fearful, worried,

cant cooperate with God

Oh Im in stage four etc..


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How do you know its God and not

the bad lasagna you ate last night

According to the modes of natureacquired by the embodied soul,

ones faith can be of three kinds -

in goodness, passion, or

ignorance. As one exists under thevarious modes of nature, one

evolves a particular kind of faith.

Gita 17/2,3


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The humble sages, by virtue

of true knowledge, see withequal vision a learned &

gentle brahmin, a cow, an

elephant, a dog & a dogeater. Gita 5/18


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adau sraddha tatah sadhu-

sango 'tha bhajana-kriya

tato 'nartha-nivrttih syat

tato nistha rucis tatah

(Cc Madhya 23.14

"In the beginning there must be faith. Then onebecomes interested in associating with puredevotees. Thereafterone is initiated by thespiritual master and executes the regulativeprinciples under his orders. Thus one is freedfrom all unwanted habits and becomes firmly fixedin devotional service. Thereafter, one developstaste and attachment. This is the way of sadhana-bhakti, the execution of devotional service

according to the regulative principles.


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Regulative Principles


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God able to do more than we can

dreamo

f, so

big cant do

ito

n yo

urown

Krishnas will will never contradicthis word, not leaving family &Hollywood


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Hold fast to dreams

Fo

r if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams goLife is a barren field

Frozen with snow.

Langston

Hughes


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Bhaktivinode Thakur


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Soon, by the single handed efforts of Srila

Bhaktivino

de Thakur, a beautiful templewas erected on the spot and Srila

Bhaktivinode's vision began to expand. He

predicted in his Sri Chaitanya Sikshamrita

a day when people of foreign lands wouldjoin with their Indian brothers at the holy

land of Sri Mayapur chanting "Jaya

Sachinandana, Jaya Sachinandana" and

dancing in the ecstasy of Sri KrishnaSankirtan. And he wrote of a great

personality who would soon appear to

fulfill this prediction.


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Some people prefer bondage rather than

risk. They'll put up with a bad situation

that is not God's will rather than take a

risk and trust God on some situation; the

risk to be open, the risk be to free, the

risk to confront a problem.


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Do something about your dream

For every 10 dreamers, only one decisionmaker

Faith active & not passive

Decision is a faith building activity, useyour muscles


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Prabhupada is the dream fulfillerofBhaktivinode Thakura under the directionand guidance of his dearmostBhaktisiddhanta Saraswati ThakuraPrabhupada.The conception came inThakura Bhaktivinode and BhaktisiddhantaSaraswati Thakura gave shape to that in theform of Gaudiya Matha. From that he sentout his missionaries and one of them, A. C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, tookthat dream and fulfilled it all over the world.We are proud being associated with him."He did what only others could dream of.


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Time Money

Energy

Reputation


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Sacrifices take

different fo

rmsaccording to theparticular faith of theperformer. When onesfaith reaches the stage

of transcendentalknowledge, theperformer should beconsidered more

advanced, for withoutattainment ofknowledge there is nospiritual benefit.

Purpo

rt Gita 4/33


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Let goof security..examples

To walk on water get out of the boat

Trapeze cant hold on both bars, secondthere in thin air, 100 feet up, no net

If you dont let go and grab, swing backand stop


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"Fix an ultimate goal for your life. Decide

where yo

u will have to

go

and what yo

uwill have to do, so that your soul will be

happy. Don't go towards material

enterprises. One day this mundane body

will beco

meo

ld and, po

iso

ned by manydiseases, it will then be finished. Yet, at

that time, if you have given your body to

Krsna forHis service, your life will be a

success. Offer this very wretched body toKrsna.

Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswatis last words


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Americans hate to wait, fasteverything

Especially in a hurry when God isnt Mills of God grind slowly

Krishna wants to work on you before

wo

rkingo

n the project Degree at ULTW (University of

Learning to Wait)


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Providence has its appointed hour

fo

r everything. We canno

t co

mmandresults, we can only strive


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Learn to

Wait

Prabhupada waited

Valmiki waited

Even Hiranya Kashipu waited

Waiting teaches us to trust in Him & Histiming

Delays do not destroy the purpose

No and Not Yet different


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Not only waiting, but problems whileyou wait

Circumstances & Critics


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Following the desire of his spiritual master,Prabhupada began publishing his Back to Godhead

magazine in 1944. It was difficult in the beginning.Hewrote them himself, had them printed, and even rodeinto town on the bus to distribute these one pagesheets. But he never stopped. Srila Prabhupada hadalso written a commentary on the Bhagavad-gita that

was 1100 pages long, but somehow it was stolen. Hehad also started his League of Devotees, a smallorganization of Krishna conscious people. This was aforerunnerof what was to be The International Societyfor Krishna Consciousness, which he founded after hecame to America. Prabhupada's wife, however, wasnot interested in all this spiritual stuff. She used toprotest about the meetings and his preachingactivities. This was getting in the way of his mission.


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Difficulties become so bad

Hopeless, Good company Problems become impossibilities

Did I miss Krishnas will, is this something Ithought up?


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Devotees take

pleasure in hearing &

glorifying the Lord in

devotional service.

They are convinced

that by doing so, all

theirobjectives will

be fulfilled.

Purport Gita 7/30


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Then, in a dream, Srila Bhaktisiddhanta

appeared to him and called him to take

sannyasa, the renounced orderof life.Prabhupada later related, "I was horrified. Take

sannyasa? Leave my family? Give up my

business? I did not want to do this. But Srila

Bhaktisiddhanta forced me to do it. That is hismercy." Thus, in 1959, Srila Prabhupada

accepted the orderof sannyasa at the Gaudiya

Matha Keshava Temple in Mathura to give up

materialistic life and further execute the orderofhis spiritual master by preaching and writing in

the English language.


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Prabhupada was staying in the bowery with a

boy named David. The area, known as skid

row, was inhabited by drunks and vagrants. Itwas the most corrupt place in the world. It was

no place for a gentleman. Undaunted,

Prabhupada chanted and translated. One day

David went mad on LSD and attackedPrabhupada with a knife.


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Krishna loves to turn dead ends intodeliverance

Devotee gets the glory

Kunti prayer, Vipadah Santu


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D

reamWhat is the dream Krishna has given me? Ifyou don't have a dream, start praying,Krishna give me Your dream." If you can't

write down the dream God has given you, youneed to be praying. If you don't have a dreamyou're not living, you're just existing. Krishnadidn't plan that.

You're here on this earth for a purpose.W

henyou discover that purpose, that's your dreamKrishna wants you to go for.


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Decisio

nSome of you have got a dream fromKrishna but you've not made a

decision to go for it.

You're still sitting on the fence.God's word for you at Phase 2 is

"Go for it!" Some of you need tomake the decision to surrender toKrishna.


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DelayWhat has caused my dream to be delayed? If

your prayer hasn't been answered, it's OK.

You're in Krishna's waiting room. Do notdetour. When things don't happen on our time

table, we tend to run ahead of Krishna and

create detours to make it happen. You may

end up making the wrong decision. Wait, wait,

wait for Krishna to work His hand.


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DifficultiesWhat difficulties have I faced waiting for

the dream to be fulfilled? You are being

tested, but it's not going to be the lasttime. You'll go through many, many

tests in life. Krishna says, "I know

exactly what you're going through. I seeit. I'm watching. Don't think I've

forgotten you; I haven't."


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Dead EndHave I come to the dead end yet? Some

of you are there ready to give up.

You're right where Krishna wants you.

You're getting prepared for deliverance.

God's word for you is "Hang on! Keep

on believing! Don't give up!"


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DeliveranceDo I expect and trust Krishna to deliver me?

He will. "According to your faith it will be

done unto you." Krishna is faithful. What He

tells us to do, He will do. But it doesn't happen

overnight. You go through Dream, Decision,

Delay, Difficulty, Dead End. And then comesDeliverance.


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