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    Rise Above The Boundary of Your Own Mind | HG Vaisesika Dasa | ISV | 02 May 2026

    Considering the desire of the soul to experience something that is pleasurable—because we’re naturally pleasure-seekers—sac-cid-ānanda is our constitution. However, we’re limited by the boundary of our own mind. People take intoxication to try to cross that boundary, but then they find themselves degraded. Although they may have a "peak experience" or they may loosen inhibitions—which is one of the ways that people enjoy intoxication, they feel less inhibited—in any case, one’s trying to cross a boundary. Śrīla Prabhupāda mentions in the Caitanya-caritāmṛta that by chanting the Hare Kṛṣṇa mahā-mantra, one may come to experience the sound of the mantra as being extraordinary. In other words, it’s not routine; it’s something that one’s never heard before.This is the endeavor of most people: to try to enjoy something, they go to an amusement park to try to have an extraordinary experience—something that is outside of the ordinary. In fact: Ordinary: Comes from ordo, which means "according to order," or closely related with the idea of doing a routine—something you're used to doing according to an order.Extraordinary: Ex means "outside," and tra means "the state of something." So, extra means the state of being outside the ordinary.When you say "extraordinary," it means you’ve crossed the boundary of the order or the routine. The word mantra, of course, has those two parts: Man: The mind, which is the boundary-place we live in (a small place in our mind) and tra: can mean either a "tool" or trāyate, which means "to deliver." The mantra delivers us from the boundary of our mind. People say, "Well, that’s fantastical! How could Kṛṣṇa expand Himself into 16,108 forms, accommodate His queens, and have palaces? That’s not possible." This is because we are limited by the boundary of our own minds, and our perceptual horizon is not expanded enough to understand that. The mantra helps us to rise above the mind. When we have a peak experience in chanting, we would resemble what Prabhupāda mentions in his purport: you hear the sound and it is extraordinary. It’s beyond what you have heard anywhere else. This is the point at which we may be attracted to the mantra. However, it requires practice, effort, and keeping the mind fixed on the mantra in order to experience such a thing. We may notice that the mind becomes bored because it considers the mantra to be "ordinary." It’s helpful to cultivate knowledge that the mantra is not ordinary—it is Kṛṣṇa. It is our attention that becomes ordinary, and we take the mantra to be ordinary because we’ve not been able to focus on it. Because of rajas (passion), the mind is still seeking another peak experience: "It must be somewhere else." ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://vaisesikadasayatra.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://thefourquestionsbook.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark #makejapagreatagain #mantrameditation #chantharekrishnaandbehapy #spiritualawakening #soul #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa

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    Krishna Favours Those Who Continue | SB 1.2.19 | HG Vaisesika Dasa | 03 May 2026

    It’s helpful to be relentless in your practice of devotional service, and it’s quite natural to be unsteady in the beginning. Part of being relentless means you have to be willing to continue, even if you feel that you’re not making that much progress. That requires evaṁ buddheḥ paraṁ buddhvā. You have to be situated in your intelligence at that point, because you may not have as much taste as you might need—and you get a lot of credit for staying a long time. In fact, my godbrother Puṣkar Prabhu was just telling me the other day: Śrīla Prabhupāda once commented when devotees were asking these types of questions (and they were brand new), he said, "Wait 50–60 years in your practice." He commented and said, "See who’s still around in 50–60 years." Many people shoot up, and they may have various motives, and then they’re huge—and then all of a sudden they’re not there. But who’s there in 50–60 years? One thing is to make a determination to continue no matter what. That’s very important, because a "big shot" is just a "little shot" who kept on shooting. That’s the case in almost all areas of discipline: somebody who just stuck with it. It’s like, "That guy? How’d he get in here?" It’s like, "he kept doing it. You guys quit." So, we have to keep going. sva-pāda-mūlaṁ bhajataḥ priyasya tyaktānya-bhāvasya hariḥ pareśaḥ vikarma yac cotpatitaṁ kathañcid dhunoti sarvaṁ hṛdi sanniviṣṭaḥ (SB 11.5.42) Kṛṣṇa favors those who continue. This verse says that if you just keep going—even though you keep doing stupid stuff and you think, "Why am I doing that?"—it’s because you’re still "stupid," but you’re smart enough to keep going. That is a sign of sincerity. The sign of sincerity is that you keep going. Have you ever seen a little animal or a kid who’s totally inept at something, or maybe they’re even deformed or injured or whatever but they just keep trying? Everyone runs to them and says, "Help them! Help that one over there, they can't walk." You see people all the time; they adopt a little beagle that has no back legs, and then they’ll get a skateboard and hook it up because they want to help them out. So Kṛṣṇa is like that. If we keep going, even though we’re the worst of the worst, if you just keep going, then there’s magic that happens from chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. We have to remember that Kṛṣṇa is all-powerful. nāma cintāmaṇiḥ kṛṣṇaś caitanya-rasa-vigrahaḥ pūrṇaḥ śuddho nitya-mukto 'bhinnatvān nāma-nāminoḥ There’s no difference between Kṛṣṇa and His name. And He’s transformative; He’s cintāmaṇi. If you remember this, it’s like: "I don't like the way my life is." All right, how about let's change it? What do you think? Yeah, good idea. How are you going to change it? Try YouTube? No—try chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa. If you just keep trying it, because Kṛṣṇa and His name are non-different, you go to the reservoir and you just drink, and you don’t have to do anything else. That’s why: vāsudeve bhagavati bhakti-yogaḥ prayojitaḥ janayaty āśu vairāgyaṁ jñānaṁ ca yad ahaitukam It happens quickly when you chant—do something direct. Chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, it is transformative. So, keep going to that reservoir that changes everything. Who changes everything? It’s Kṛṣṇa. He’s the cintāmaṇi stone. Don’t give up on it. ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://vaisesikadasayatra.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/?

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    Chanting: An Opportunity to Express Your Desires to Krishna | HG Vaisesika Dasa | 25 Apr 2026

    Chaitanya Mahāprabhu gave a condensed list of the great benefits of chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, and one of them—śreyaḥ-kairava—is poetical. It is the "blooming of the lotus. What kind of lotus? Śreyaḥ?" It is, as we translate it, the White Lotus of Good Fortune. This word "fortune"—the tune part—comes from the word ten like in the word tendon which means to connect. It connects the bones and the muscles in the body; it holds together. It also means to stretch towards something. And the "for" part refers to wealth, good luck, and everything everyone is looking for in the world. I dare say why everyone is working hard: to come to a situation in which they have everything. Oftentimes, on book distribution, when I meet people and they ask why they should take the book, I say, "It’ll bring you good fortune." And then I ask them, "Do you know where good fortune comes from?" Before they can answer—and usually they don’t, because they hadn’t thought about it—I say: "Well, it doesn’t come from working harder, because some people work two or three jobs and they still don’t have anything." I say "It comes from Kṛṣṇa, from the spiritual realm. These books connect you to that realm of good fortune." What Chaitanya Mahāprabhu is saying regarding the chanting of the Holy Name, śreyaḥ-kairava-candrikā-vitaraṇam, is that if you want to have good fortune in your life, then chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, because it is Kṛṣṇa directly. Prabhupāda used to say, and has written, that wherever Kṛṣṇa is, the Goddess of Fortune is there automatically. He told us: "If you want the Goddess of Fortune, you should always worship Kṛṣṇa." You cannot do it independently or try to have the Goddess of Fortune without Kṛṣṇa. Rāvaṇa tried that; it didn’t work out very well. The way the mind works to find "good fortune"—thinking there must be something somewhere that will make me happy, where I’ll have abundance and so forth—those are all futile attempts and vain searches. We are instead brought right to the very source of everything; in this case, good fortune itself. And that is being with Kṛṣṇa. One other thought I heard this morning while I was getting ready: Prabhupāda was talking about how Kṛṣṇa reciprocates with everyone. He said, "If you want something other than Kṛṣṇa, He’ll accommodate you. But if you only want Kṛṣṇa, then He’ll also reciprocate in that way." While chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa, we have the opportunity of expressing our desire. Even if it is a small desire—it doesn’t matter small or big, it's the same. The desire is: "Kṛṣṇa, I only want You." In that mood of chanting, if the mind wanders and thinks maybe there is something better somewhere else, because the chanting seems repetitious or boring, one can remember that the Holy Name is the source of everything. Everything the mind wants to "shop for" elsewhere comes from the Holy Name anyway, so I might as well stay here and be fully absorbed. ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://vaisesikadasayatra.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://thefourquestionsbook.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark

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    The Historic Re-inaugration of Bhakti SF | HG Gurudasa Dasa and HG Vaisesika Dasa | 30 Apr 2026

    First, I offer my respectful obeisances to Śrīla Prabhupāda, and note that this is an historic event. Hopefully, there will be plenty of photographic evidence, because Gurudāsa Prabhu was here to open the first San Francisco temple, and now here he is again. Many devotees—Mālatī, Śyāmasundara, Mukunda, Jānakī Devī—they all asked again and again: "When would the San Francisco temple re-open?" Thank you, first to Navīna-nirada Prabhu, the intrepid, who came here and struggled through four or five years trying to get established here. Then our great hero, Ananta Caitanya Prabhu, came with great determination, imagination, and devotion, and has brought us all together. So, we’re greatly indebted to you for your endeavors and to all the members of Bhakti SF who are holding space here for the pleasure of Śrīla Prabhupāda and Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. Today, we re-inaugurate this temple with deep thanks to Kent Prabhu who, during the pandemic, was interested in: "Where’s the kīrtana? Who cares about a little virus?" He indicated—and it was the same mood that Ananta Caitanya was in—"Virus? What virus?" Therefore, he kept the center open, and he kept chanting. Kent came here and had a vision that we should be established well here in San Francisco; Kent painstakingly looked for a place and then made this happen. So, thank you very much to Kent. Today is Narasiṃha Caturdaśī. We mark it that Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu had worshiped Lord Narasiṃhadeva in His pastimes. But very importantly, in Navadvīpa Dhāma, Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura—who wanted to discover the original birthplace of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu—had noted that each morning he saw a cloud of dust coming from Narasiṃhapallī to where the birthplace of Lord Caitanya has been established. And he noted that it was the Lord Narasiṃhadeva coming every day to maṅgala-ārati to worship at the place of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. So today, we hope Lord Narasiṃhadeva is pleased with this reopening of the San Francisco temple, for Bhakti SF, holding space here for spreading Lord Caitanya Mahāprabhu’s message all over San Francisco. ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://vaisesikadasayatra.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://thefourquestionsbook.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark ------------------------------------------------------------ #spiritualawakening #soul #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose

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    Five Prayers To Lord Narasimha by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, Jaya Radhe Jaya Krishna | 30 Apr 2026

    We have a special treat, which is a bhajan written by Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, five prayers to Nṛsiṁhadeva in Navadvīpa. In a very revealing way. Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura mentions that by his worship of Nṛsiṁhadeva, ostensibly in Nṛsiṁha Palli, and by rolling in the courtyard in ecstasy there at NṛsiṁhaPalli, the place where Nṛsiṁhadeva himself gives 24-hour darśana (the temple is never closed, because even if you go there and the door is closed, there's still a grid; you can look in and see Nṛsiṁhadeva), and of course, Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura had a close relationship with Nṛsiṁhadeva in that Lord Narahari Deva had helped to reveal the actual birthplace of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. That is, that from the vantage point in Godrumadvīpa (which some of you may have visited), there's a balcony on the house of Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura, or where he and Śrīla Bhaktsiddanta Saraswati Ṭhākura resided together and did many of their writings. Śrīla Bhaktivinoda Ṭhākura would look out and, curiously, in the morning time, just before maṅgala-āratī, he would see a cloud of dust coming from Nṛsiṁha Palli all the way to the place where the Yoga Pīṭha, or the appearance place of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, is. And that was one of the ways that he triangulated to come to understand that Nṛsiṁhadeva himself was coming for the maṅgala-āratīk of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu in that place. We find that Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva, although sometimes people may say or opine that, "Well, he's a Vaikuṇṭha deity. What are you worshiping him for? Our destination is Goloka Vṛndāvana and vraja-prema." But you'll see in this next bhajan, after the Daśāvatāra Stotra, that Nṛsiṁhadeva was actually prevalent, ubiquitous almost, in the pastimes of Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu. He appears in various places, not the least of which is one of the first pastimes when the saṅkīrtana movement starts and Nṛsiṁhadeva personally comes and chastises the Kazi. The Kazi had tried to stop the saṅkīrtana, and Lord Nṛsiṁhadeva woke him up at night and put his nails into his chest and said, "Don't do that." And of course, there's Nṛsiṁhānanda Brahmacārī and other appearances of Lord Narahari Deva. ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/ https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/ https://thefourquestionsbook.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark ------------------------------------------------------------ #narasimhachaturdasi #narasimha #narasimhasongs #spiritualmusic #soulfulmusic #vaisesikaprabhukirtans #kirtan #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose

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    Prayers to Lord Narasimhadev | HG Vaisesika Dasa | Narasimha Temple, Govardhan KIR & POTH 2025-26-2026

    Here at Govardhan Hill, many people come to ask your Girirāj for anything. In fact, in this Śrī Īśopaniṣad (Mantra 8), it is said: sa paryagāc chukram akāyam avraṇam asnāviraḿ śuddham apāpa-viddham kavir manīṣī paribhūḥ svayambhūr yāthātathyato ’rthān vyadadhāch śāśvatībhyaḥ samābhyaḥ Kṛṣṇa is the one who has been fulfilling everyone’s desires since time immemorial. So, whatever we have now is a result of our previous requests and our various desires. Now is the lifetime when we can be completely on track and only ask Kṛṣṇa for pure devotional service: na dhanaṁ na janaṁ na sundarīṁ kavitāṁ vā jagad-īśa kāmaye mama janmani janmanīśvare bhavatād bhaktir ahaitukī tvayi When Lord Narasiṁhadeva was tearing out the heart of Hiraṇyakaśipu, he commented, "How is it that you’ve allowed so many unwanted things to accumulate in your heart?" He was asking His devotee, so we can ask ourselves the same thing: How have these things come into our hearts? One way or the other is the answer. The solution is to ask Lord Narasiṁhadeva now: "Please tear them out and let me get on with my real life of pure devotional service." Lord Narasiṁhadeva kī jaya! Śrī Prahlāda Mahārāja kī jaya! To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://vaisesikadasayatra.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://thefourquestionsbook.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark ------------------------------------------------------------ #japajolt #makejapagreatagain #mantrameditation #spiritualawakening #soul #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose

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    Turn Your Transponder On: Chant! | Japa Jolt | HG Vaisesika Dasa | 29 Apr 2026

    When you are chanting, be aware that you pronounce the mantra and then let your mind follow each syllable carefully. Keep it in your heart that you are addressing a person, and let there be an underlying intention of service and connection. That’s very technical. Once, when a Malaysian Airlines flight went off course, nobody could find the airplane because the transponder in the airplane was not working. So it was just lost; still not found to this day. I was in a little bit of despair after hearing about it, thinking what those people might have felt like to be off course and untraceable. At the time, I was chanting japa, and I realized that my chanting was a transponder. It’s the ‘black box’ letting Kṛṣṇa know not just where I am, but what my intention is. Practically, people misinterpret our intentions all the time; or people don’t have the wherewithal to know what our real intentions are, or we may hide our intentions. Kṛṣṇa is the one person who knows all of our intentions, and this is a good time to align them in japa. It’s one of the ways to be fully focused: to use your intention to call out to Kṛṣṇa and just say, "I’m lost. I don’t know where I am in this material world. I don’t know where I’m going. I don’t know how to hold everything together, although I do my very best to do that." You can let it all come down at Kṛṣṇa’s lotus feet through chanting the Holy Name, and just be very aware that Kṛṣṇa is the only one that can help us. So, concentrate that you're chanting; put yourself in a vulnerable position and call out to Kṛṣṇa. ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://vaisesikadasayatra.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://thefourquestionsbook.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 ------------------------------------------------------------ Join us live on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FanTheSpark/ Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sound-bhakti/id1132423868 For the latest videos, subscribe https://www.youtube.com/@FanTheSpark For the latest in SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/fan-the-spark ------------------------------------------------------------ #japajolt #makejapagreatagain #mantrameditation #spiritualawakening #soul #spiritualexperience #spiritualpurposeoflife #spiritualgrowthlessons #secretsofspirituality #vaisesikaprabhu #vaisesikadasa #vaisesikaprabhulectures #spirituality #bhaktiyoga #krishna #spiritualpurposeoflife #krishnaspirituality #spiritualusachannel #whybhaktiisimportant #whyspiritualityisimportant #vaisesika #spiritualconnection #thepowerofspiritualstudy #selfrealization #spirituallectures #spiritualstudy #spiritualquestions #spiritualquestionsanswered #trendingspiritualtopics #fanthespark #spiritualpowerofmeditation #spiritualteachersonyoutube #spiritualhabits #spiritualclarity #bhagavadgita #srimadbhagavatam #spiritualbeings #kttvg #keepthetranscendentalvibrationgoing #spiritualpurpose

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    Adjust Your Future By Adjusting Your Association | HG Vaisesika Dasa | ISV | 26 Apr 2026

    Medicine is something that everyone's vitally interested in. I have anecdotal proof every time I get something. For instance, when I was just in the UK, I was supposed to speak at an event called Rise. It was on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. I didn't speak on Saturday or Sunday; only a little bit on Monday. The last sound that came from my mouth was on Friday night, and the next morning, I couldn't say a word. My voice was locked up. For over two days due to the very kind-hearted nature of devotees, I had a little shelf in my hotel room with no less than twelve different kinds of medicine that were run up. Everybody said, "You take this; it'll knock it out in an hour." Of course, I'm never ever sure—if I take all of them—if it was a combination, or one of the other combinations or permutations, or if it was none at all and I just would have got better myself anyway. But the idea of medicine—auṣadhi or rasāyana—is very appealing. The root word of medicine, med, is Latin; it means "to take appropriate measures." Everyone feels that if I can just adjust a little bit, if I just have the right kind of "goop," then maybe I'll feel better about myself. Some people take analgesics to the extreme because they feel it's really hard to feel good in this world, so they take chemical substances to feel better all the time. But then that doesn't work out because there's a limit to how much you can take; and then you don't get the same effect, and after a while, you just become addicted to it. So, this is a conundrum. In the 1980s, there was a famous musician from San Francisco—so I could talk about him—his name was Huey Lewis. Huey wrote some famous songs. We met Huey once while we were waiting in line for an airplane. Unfortunately, he got a disease where he couldn't hear properly, so he can't sing anymore. But in his day, he wrote many hit songs, and one of them was entitled, "I Need a New Drug." In the song, the lyrics bemoan the fact that there are all these different kinds of cures and drugs—mostly drugs that have severe side effects. The kinds of advertisements we see for pharmaceuticals these days, even though there are billions of dollars put into the research, always have a disclaimer and a warning at the end. In fact, if it's a 60-second advertisement, 10 seconds talks about how good you're going to look after you take this, and the next 50 seconds is about how you might have bleeding ulcers from it and it could cause death. This is a problem. 'Duḥkhauṣadham tad api duḥkham atad-dhiyāham.' Prahlāda Mahārāja says the medicine you get here in the material world is often worse than the disease itself. But in taking the rasāyana-kathā—the topics about Kṛṣṇa—into the ear, it very gently enters the heart. satāṁ prasaṅgām mama vīrya-saṁvido bhavanti hṛt-karṇa-rasāyanāḥ kathāḥ Hṛt means the heart and karṇa means the ear. So you take the medicine here (the ear) and it ends up here (the heart). Taj-joṣaṇād āśv apavarga-vartmani—this means that very quickly, you're going to be on a different path in life. ------------------------------------------------------------ To connect with His Grace Vaiśeṣika Dāsa, please visit https://www.fanthespark.com/next-steps/ask-vaisesika-dasa/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://vaisesikadasayatra.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Add to your wisdom literature collection: https://iskconsv.com/book-store/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://www.bbtacademic.com/books/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 https://thefourquestionsbook.com/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video&utm_campaign=launch2025 ------------------------------------------------------------

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