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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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