“In spite of achieving the power to control in all directions and in spite of enjoying all types of dear sense gratification as much as possible, Hiranyakashipu was dissatisfied because instead of controlling his senses he remained their servant.” (Shrimad Bhagavatam, 7.4.19)

“Hiranyakashipu could not kill his son by throwing him beneath the feet of big elephants, throwing him among huge, fearful snakes, employing destructive spells, hurling him from the top of a hill, conjuring up illusory tricks, administering poison, starving him, exposing him to severe cold, winds, fire and water, or throwing heavy stones to crush him. When Hiranyakashipu found that he could not in any way harm Prahlada, who was completely sinless, he was in great anxiety about what to do next.”

“The Blessed Lord said: While speaking learned words, you are mourning for what is not worthy of grief. Those who are wise lament neither for the living nor the dead.” (Bhagavad-gita, 2.11)

“Always chanting My glories, endeavoring with great determination, bowing down before Me, these great souls perpetually worship Me with devotion.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 9.14)

“Maharaja Parikshit knew that the curse of the brahmana’s son upon him was unjustified, as everyone else knew, but he did not want to counteract it because he knew also that the age of Kali had begun and that the first symptom of the age, namely degradation of the highly talented brahmana community, had also begun. He did not want to interfere with the current of the time, but he prepared himself to meet death very cheerfully and very properly. Being fortunate, he got at least seven days to prepare

Lyrics: https://www.radhakrishnaprem.com/p/mere-pranan-pyare-aja-mere-nainan-september-2026Live recorded kirtan during the evening satsang from Shree Raseshwari Radha Rani Temple of JKP Radha Madhav Dham, Austin, TX.Song Credits:Song - मेरे प्राणन प्यारे आजा, मेरे नैनन तारे आजा | Mere Pranan Pyare Aaja, Mere Nainan Taare AajaSinger - Vrinda DidiComposer - Jagadguru Shree Kripalu Ji MaharajLyrics Composer - Jagadguru Shree Kripalu Ji Maharaj This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 65Eleven days ago, we began with a man standing knee-deep in a river at dawn, pouring water through his fingers and saying three names. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode sixty-five, day eleven, the season finale. In episode sixty-four we tried to remember the ones we had forgotten. Now, before the season closes, I want to walk back over the whole road with you, because I think, taken together, these stories make a map. A map of

“’O naughty child, now try going from here, if you can.’ Having spoken thus, she returned to her household duties.” (Vishnu Purana, 5.6.15)

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 63There is a moment near the end of the tarpan, in many families, when the names run out. The father has been named, and his father, and his father's father. The mother's line has been named. And then the person pouring the water keeps going, and offers to people they do not know at all. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode sixty-three, day eleven. On day seven, in episode forty, we heard the folk story of Karna in heaven, served

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 62The man who won the war sits by the river and does not want to be king. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode sixty-two, day eleven. In episode sixty-one, Kunti stood in the Ganga after the war and told her sons that Karna, the man they had killed, was their eldest brother. Today we stay with Yudhishthira, and with the offering he made, because I think it is the most painful tarpan in the whole of the Mahabharata.Missed the previous

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 61She kept it for more than fifty years. Through a marriage, through five sons, through exile and war. She kept it through the morning she saw him ride out against her other children. And she let it go only when it could no longer save anyone. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode sixty-one, day eleven. Our last day. Sarva Pitru Amavasya, the new moon of all the ancestors. On day seven, in episodes thirty-seven to forty-two, we

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 59Somewhere beyond the moon, the old texts say, there is a world where it is always the hour when lamps are lit. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode fifty-nine, day ten. In episode thirty we met Yama, the first mortal to walk the road of death, and the judge of the dead. Today a gentler question, one we have been circling all season without ever asking directly. Where are the ancestors? Not their bodies. Them. What does the

“The Supreme Lord said: My dear Arjuna, because you are never envious of Me, I shall impart to you this most secret wisdom, knowing which you shall be relieved of the miseries of material existence.” (Bhagavad-gita, 9.1)

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 58It is four in the morning in Kolkata. The street is dark. In house after house, someone gets up, without an alarm, and switches on a radio. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode fifty-eight, day ten. It is a short one. In episode fifty-seven we heard what the Chandi is, and why it belongs to Mahalaya. Now, the strange and lovely story of how a radio programme became part of a sacred morning.Missed the previous story? Listen to

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 57There is a line of Sanskrit that millions of people know by heart without ever having opened the book it comes from. They know it the way you know a lullaby. They heard it in the dark, before dawn, every autumn of their childhood. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode fifty-seven, day ten. In episode fifty-six the Goddess drank, and laughed, and the buffalo demon fell. Today, a quieter question. When people speak of the Chandi Path

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 56Before the last blow, the Goddess stops. She lifts a cup. She drinks. And she tells the demon, almost gently, to go on roaring for a little while longer. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode fifty-six, day ten. In the last episode the gods, defeated and driven from heaven, poured their anger out as light, and the light became a woman, armed with every god's weapon and riding a lion. Today she meets the buffalo demon. This is the

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 55A king who has lost everything rides alone into a forest. He has no army now. No palace. No one waits for him. And still, as he rides, he cannot stop thinking about the elephants in his old stables, and whether the new masters are feeding them. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode fifty-five, day ten. For nine days we have been with the ancestors. Tonight the season begins to turn. Tomorrow is Mahalaya, the new moon that closes the

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 54Before a family sits down to eat on a day of shraddha, in many homes, five small portions of food leave the kitchen first. None of them is for the people at the table. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode fifty-four, day nine, the last of the day. It is a short one. In episode six we met these five portions for the first time, and in episode forty-one we saw them again among the gifts of Pitru Paksha. This time I would like to slow

Dharma Katha · Season 1: Pitru Paksha · Episode 53If you walk through an Indian town on the last day of Pitru Paksha, you may see a woman pouring water at the foot of a peepal tree, and no one around her thinks it is strange. This is Dharma Katha, Season One, Pitru Paksha. Episode fifty-three, day nine. It is a short one. We have heard about crows and kings and sages. Now three quieter presences that the tradition keeps close to the ancestors: a tree, a plant and an animal.Missed the previous story

“He who is without attachment, who does not rejoice when he obtains good, nor lament when he obtains evil, is firmly fixed in perfect knowledge.” (Lord Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, 2.57)