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LeadingMeaningful

Lives

AN

INTERESTING

FINDING …

To Live, Love, Learn, Leave a legacy

THE FIRE WITHIN

Social

Spiritual Mental

Physical

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Prahalad Maharaj in Srimad Bhagvatam instructs

kaumära äcaret präjïodharmän bhägavatän iha

durlabhaà mänuñaà janmatad apy adhruvam arthadam

One who is sufficiently intelligent should use the human

form of body from the very beginning of his life to practice

the activities of devotional service.

Fundamental Question

Who am I ?

Lord Krishna explains

The BODY and SOUL are distinct just as

The bird and the cage are dis tinct

The driver and the car are

distinct

Today, All of us focus on…

• The externals of satisfying the needs of the

body only…

• Gas in the car, but driver starving!

• Cage polished; bird dead!

4 things which we all are busy with

Eating

Animals also eat butnot is such a gorgeous way

Sleeping

Animals also sleep but may not in a cozy bed in an aircontioned room

Mating

Animals may also may do so, but not in a gorgeous fashion as man

Defending

Animals do in a crude way. We do using the missiles and

nuclear arsenals.

Scriptures point out

that...

... if we spend all our time in

• eating,• sleeping,• mating and• defending...

...then we are no better than

animals.

dharmeëa héna paçubhir samänam

- M a h a b h a r a t a

Without real religious principles, we are no better

than animals.

dvi-päda-paçu

Animals with two legs.

Western countries have reached summit of

material advancement

Luxurious Houses

Skyscraper Buildings

Jet Planes

Latestmethods of

communication

In spite of all this advancement, men are

dissatisfied full of anxiety stresseddepressed

& above all unhappy

W e w a n t t o

r e m a in y o u n g

f o r e v e r …

B u t …v e r y s o o n w e

s t a r t g r o w in g o ld a n d o u r

b o d ie s b e c o m e

w e a k & f r a i l

& we are no longer

beautiful

We want to re m ain

he althy, But…

But, much against our

wish we encounter

various diseases

Some chronic

Ronald ReganU. S. President, 1980 -1988

Nov. 5 1994, Regan announces…

“I have recently been told that I am afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease...I now begin the journey that will take me into the sunset of my life.”

Althoughwe are

advanced in medical

science…

…& have latest

technology at our disposal

Still our plans of good health & happiness are thwarted with

newer & newer diseases

“I am the greatest”

Mohammed AliWorld Heavyweight Boxing Champion

Today, he is suffering from PARKINSON

disease…

…he can’t even lift a cup of coffee

Pa in

d ise a s e

s t ar v a t io

n

A n d

F ina l ly

,

d e a t h

WHY ?

In human life we are endowedwith intelligence to inquire

Who am I ? Who is God ? What happens after death ? Why am I suffering ? What is the real aim of my life ?

...one who can perceive birth, death, old age &

disease as REAL PROBLEMS is in

knowledge.

Also, if we analyze our lives, we are

constantly tormented with…

adhyätmika kleças

miseries due to our body and

mind

adhibhautik kleças

miseries due to other living

entities

adhidaivika kleças

miseries due to natural calamities

duùkhälayam açäçvatam

Krishna also points out that in essence, this material world is

A place which is MISERABLE

& TEMPORARY

What is the solution ?

We are in a place which is MISERABLE & TEMPORARY

mäm upetya punar janmaduùkhälayam açäçvatamnäpnuvanti mahätmänaùsaàsiddhià paramäà gatäù

Bhagavad-gétä 8.15

“After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogis in devotion,

never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the

highest perfection.”

p a r a s t a s mä t t u b h ä v o ’n y o

’v y a k t o ’v y a k t ä t s a n ä t a n a ù

y a ù s a s a r v e ñ u b h ü t e ñ u

n a ç y a t s u n a v in a ç y a t iB h a g a v a d -g é t ä 8 . 2 0

“Yet there is another unmanifest nature, which is eternal and is

transcendental to this manifested and unmanifested world. It is

supreme and is never annihilated. When all in this world is annihilated,

that part remains as it is.”

Spiritual World• Blissful

• Eternal

• Freefrom allshortcomings of the material world

Our eternal home, wherewe all originally belong to.

Towards the end of Bhagavad-gétä,

Krishna reveals his M O S T

C O N F ID E N T IAL instruction

“Because you are My very dear friend,

I am speaking to you My supreme

instruction, the most confidential

knowledge of all. Hear this from Me,

for it is for your benefit.”

ma n -ma n ä

“always thinkof Me”

b h a v a ma d -

b h a k t o

“become My devotee”

ma d -y ä j é

“worship Me”

mä à n a ma s k u

r u

“offer your obeisances unto

Me”

mä m e v a iñ y a s i

s a t y a à t e

p r a t ij ä ne p r iy o ’s i

me

“Thus you will come to Me without fail.

I promise you this because you are My very dear

friend.”

janma karma ca me divyamevaà yo vetti tattvataù

tyaktvä dehaà punar janmanaiti mäm eti so ’rjuna

Bhagavad-gétä 4.9

“One who knows the transcendental nature of My

appearance and activities does not, upon leaving the body, take

his birth again in this material world…”

“…but attains My eternal abode, O Arjuna.”

which is eternal, full

of knowledge,& completely

blissful

labdhvä su-durlabham idaà bahu-sambhavänte

Srimad Bhagavatam 11.9.29

“We have attained human form, which is very rare, after

many many lifetimes.”

Polishing Cage, but forgetting the hungry

parrot

Pampering the body,

but forgetting the soul

mänuñyam artha-dam anityam apéha dhéraù

Srimad Bhagavatam 11.9.29

“Although human life is temporary, it affords one

opportunity to attain highest perfection.”

So what should we do ?

Vedic Scriptures favorable breeze

Spiritual Master expert captain to steer

the boat

Human Body boat

EFFECTIVE TIME EFFECTIVE TIME MANAGEMENTMANAGEMENT

lies inlies inBALANCING

KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS AND YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES

TO HOME AND FRIENDS

Learn the perfect

knowledge contained in

Bhagavad gita

It helps you increase• Confidence

• Concentration • Time

• Will Power •Personality

•Above all……. •Freedom from this world of suffering and

return to the abode of eternal bliss