Bhakti Yoga Maui

Quote by S.B. Keshava Swami

“If someone tells a lie loud enough and long enough, others begin to accept it as truth. When enough people are convinced by that ‘truth’ it becomes a culture. If that culture is somehow transmitted to the next generation, it becomes a tradition. Such traditions, and the worldviews and behaviours they espouse, become etched into society, followed by millions, usually without question. Our weapons of mass instruction — educational systems, media powerhouses and community structures — reinforce these traditions, causing untruth to perpetuate over decades and centuries. Blind leading the blind, all completely oblivious to the illusion.”

What is more public welfare than Krishna Consciousness? To awaken everyone's original consciousness is the best public welfare in the whole world.

Now people are seeing how genuine our movement is, they are coming forward to offer us so many places. We simply have to maintain our strict
principles, keeping ourselves pure, Otherwise, there are so many bogus
institutions doing business in the name of God and simply cheating the
people. We have to be careful not to degenerate like these others. Our
strength depends upon regular chanting the required 16 rounds and rigidly adhering to the regulative principles.

From Srila Prabhupada's letter to Yasomatinandana -- Bombay 9 January, 1976

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Happy Balarama Purnima!
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Praying today:
Oh Lord Balarama! Oh Source of All Gurus!
Oh Source of All Strength!
Oh Source of All Pleasure!

How deeply we need You!

Please guide us in each moment🙏
Please give us the strength 💪 to carry out Your instructions
Please bless us with pleasure 💖 in bhakti!

On our own we are powerless.
With You, our deepest potential can be realized.

Thank you to Ananda Shakti Devi Dasi in Oregon USA for the lovely prayer!

If a person is a brahmana, then his natural qualification will be like this. What is that? Satyam: he is truthful. In any circumstances he is truthful. Even to an enemy he will tell the secret: ‘This is the fact’. That is truthfulness. Not that I am very truthful, but when my interest is jeopardized, I tell a lie. That is not truthfulness. Truthfulness means that in any circumstances, one will speak the plain truth. That is truthfulness.”

Srimad-Bhagavatam Class, 7.9.10, September 7, 1968

Dancing is very good. The more you dance, the more you become light; means the burden of material contamination becomes reduced. Dancing is so nice.
Even if you don't feel ecstasy, if you dance by force, that will also help
us. Krsnot-kirtana-gana-nartanau-parau premamrtambho-nidhi. By dancing, dancing, we shall develop our dormant Krsna consciousness, love for Krsna. This is a nice process. Krsnot-kirtana-gana-nartana-parau
premamrtambho-nidhi. Then you will merge into the ocean of love for Krsna. So this is the highest stage of ecstasy for Krsna consciousness, always chanting Krsna's name, dancing in ecstasy, and to be merged in the ocean of love for Krsna. These are the perfection.

Srila Prabhupada's lecture on The Nectar of Devotion. January 8,
1973, Bombay, India

Harmony with Krishna’s Will

We often hear, “Man proposes, God disposes.” But the Bhagavad Gita offers a powerful shift: "God proposes, man accepts." True peace comes not from controlling everything, but by harmonizing our will with the divine.

Even wealth, power, or knowledge can’t shield us from reversals—because the real control lies with Krishna. He’s our loving Father, our eternal well-wisher, guiding us through karma and beyond.

When Arjuna stood on the battlefield, overwhelmed, Krishna’s message helped him see: life’s purpose isn’t in material success but in spiritual alignment. Acting with devotion transforms adversity into opportunity. 🌱

Key Gita Insights:

We are eternal souls—not the body or mind.

God lovingly orchestrates even our setbacks for our growth.

Suffering can be a doorway to spiritual awakening.

Real victory lies in devotional surrender.

In Kali Yuga, mantra meditation—especially chanting Hare Krishna—awakens our higher nature and reconnects us with divine harmony.

Let’s not just read the Gita, but live it. ✨
karishye vacanam tava — “I will do Your will.”

🌸 The Power of Kīrtana – Binding Krishna with Love 🌸
(From Broken Names by Śacīnandana Swami)

Sanatana Goswami wrote: “Hearing about Kṛṣṇa from scripture and the lips of devotees is like binding Him with thin silk thread. However, independent as He is, Kṛṣṇa soon severs these threads and moves away. We lose Him.

Meditating is a little bit more effective because it involves the king of the senses, the mind. So meditating is like binding the Lord with ropes, like those used to bind a cow. However, Kṛṣṇa cuts these ropes also, and goes somewhere else.

The bhakti of kīrtana, however, binds Kṛṣṇa as if with iron chains.

The effect of kīrtana is that the mind can also be bound. Kīrtana creates exquisite devotional feelings and then nothing has the power to pull the mind away. Kṛṣṇa stays and does His work of transformation. You thus become blissful.”

🎶 When we chant with love, Krishna not only listens—He stays.