Srila Tamal Krishna Goswami’s Disappearance Festival, March 12, Dallas

March 14, 2013

TKG_GS_India“What is the theme of Srila Tamal Krishna Goswami? What is the theme of his life that we all glorify and that gives life to all these wonderful stories? After Srila Tamal Krishna Goswami left, Bhurijana Prabhu was thinking deeply about him — how to understand him and his place in history. And he came to the conclusion that he gave everything to guru, that that is what his glory is. When you understand that, you can understand everything else in perspective. I was just thinking how the hand can be very powerful and strong. The hand can be very dexterous and beautiful. And the hand can know it: ‘I am very powerful, strong, and beautiful.’ But the hand can be humble if the hand follows the dictation of the body, or the brain. I think that was the life of Srila Tamal Krishna Goswami. He had so many qualities and powers and great  intelligence — to control things to a degree that no ordinary person could control. That is a great challenge to spiritual life, because those powers can so easily be appropriated and used for the ego — which is why we came to the material world. Humility is when you have those great qualities but still you use them in service.”  — Dhanurdhara Swami.

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