10-11 April 2007 - Taking Shelter of Krishna

Tuesday 10/4/07

Notes from class by Nruhari prabhu: Taking shelter of Krishna results in us becoming full of three attributes:

(i) abhaya – free from fear (bhaya)

(ii) ashoka – free from lamentation (shoka)

(iii) amritya – free from death (mritya)

I did some reading - SB 3.29.5 purport: “If one engages only in caring for bodily necessities, not caring for eternal necessities, one is put in the darkest region of ignorance and becomes gradually fatigues. He invents many processes to adjust this fatigued condition, but he fails and remains confused. The only solution is bhakti.”

Wednesday 11/4/07

Prabhupada tape this morning: “If I identify with my car, then people will say I am foolish – this car is just your vehicle, why are you identifying with it? You are different from the car. Similarly, identifying with the body is foolishness – the body is just a vehicle for the soul - you are not the body, you are the soul underneath.”