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Offering of water to Tulasi Maharani!!!!

Hare Krishna!!!

Dandwat Pranam, PAMHO, AGTSP.

Can we offer water toTulasi Mahrani on Ekadashi days.

As we know that eating grains is prohibited and drinking water should be avoided for all the devotees on this day and Tulasi maharani is the greatest dev

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Can a pregnant woman fast on Ekadasi?

Hare Krsna 

PAMHO

Can any one please clarify my doubt and information...regarding whether a pregnant women can fast on Ekadasi??

 

 

 

 

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Damodar Astakam Lyrics in Gujarati

Hare Krishna!

Jai Jai Sri Radha Damodar!

Please, can anyone give me the lyrics for Damodar Astakam in gujarati language??

I have looked everywhere, googled all different websites on the net, but have not been able to get the lyrics in gujarati... please

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Colour Of Krishna ?

Hare Krishna ,

I learnt that Lord Rama is Green In Colour , Lord Siva is Silver in colour ,

Lord Krishna is Blue in colour .

But in temples i see Krishna in Black Colour , Somewhere White , Some where Blue Also .

what is his real colour ?

It is verse may

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Why Divorce rate in ISKCON is high?

I have been going through many articles, most of them from official websites. I found that the divorce rate within ISKCON devotees is higher than karmi circle, some say even more than 50% of the devotee couples end up in divorce.This becomes all the

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Sankaracharya accepting Krishna as Supreme.

Hare Krishna all Devotees,

Dandavat Pranam,

Shankaracharya later in his life rejected his own impersonalistic teachings and taught devotion to Krishna because his impersonal teachings were simply a temporary tactic to defeat Buddhism and re-establish V

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Yadav in History - http://yadavinhistory.blogspot.com/

Yadav in History - http://yadavinhistory.blogspot.com/

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How do ISKCON devotees cope up with lack of sleep

Hare Krishna PAMHO

Typically a person sleeps 6-8 hours. I used to sleep 7 hours usually.

Now, I sleep at 11 PM and wake up around 4 AM. First thing I do when I wake up is have a bath and then start chanting.

After having bath I dont usually get sleepy.

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Ekadashi Fast

Hare Krishna to everybody

           Trying to follow KC for a past decade but now only situation is slowly changing for me and obstacles are gradually getting removed. So able to follow KC atleast to some extent now. 

           I have been suffering

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Vedabase Android version

Hari Bol,

 

I am looking for Vedabase for Android phones. One Prabhuji from US said that it's available on the vedabase website but I couldn't find it.

Can a devotee pl guide me in searching for/sourcing the same?

 

regards,

 

Neeraj 

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108 names of radharani

Hare krishna to all devotees:

What are the 108 names of radharani?

I've found two sites having the 108 names of radha rani. Please confirm them, if they are correct or not.

please visit this site:http://www.vrindavan.de/108-radha.htm

and another one is:

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BOTH SHIVA AND VISHNU ARE SAME ?

“There are two mahaa-phala daayaka Vrukshas. One by the name Vaasudeva and the other by the name Vaamadeva. They differ only in their sumas (flowers) (‘su’ is replaced by ‘ma’ in their names), but both give the same phalas (fruits, which is moksham)”

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Diksha/Initiation

Hare Krishna,

I would like to know about diksha/initiation. My wife and I  are fairly new (approx 10 months) to ISKCON. However, we have been devotional/spiritual for many years. We are vegetarians since birth and follow the other regulations prescrib

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process of worship in Mangalarti , Narasimha Arti, Tulasi Arti, Darsanarti and Guru Puja

I have started to perform Mangalarti, Narasimha Arti, Tulasi Arti, Darsanarti and Guru Puja. We have a small center with few devotees. We have Gaura Nita deities.
I am performing this sewa since few days only. I was searching the process of performing

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Why Krishna the supreme God and not Shiva ?

Hare Krishna

If Shiva was no beging or no end, He creates brahma, and brahma creates visnhu, and vishnu have 10 incarnations, like Lord Rama, like Sri Krishna. Why we call Sri Krishna the supreme God ?

Someone make me that question and i didnt know how

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Swami Vishwananda is Gaudiya Vaishnavism?

Hare Krishna,

i am uncertain and i have doubts about this master of Bhakti Yoga, and i would like to hear your opinions. I fear that he might be a bogus Guru.

I bought the Bhagavad Gita commentary written by him, and it is a massive tome (you can see p

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how to recognize the dities of gaura nitai?

hare krishna,

i got dities of gaur nitai 4rm mayapur but I am unable to understand who is gaura & who is nitai ?

both are looking as same, so how we can regognize the dities?

plz answer........

ur servant

Ram sajivan

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japa without beads

CAn japa of hare krishna mantra can be done without beads.

can it be done while walking,riding,driving,eating.

if one breaks in between while doing japa if someone disturbs or ask anything  then what should be done.

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How to remember Krishna while studying our school subjects?

Hare Krishna.

Please accept my humble obeisances.

I am a new member to ISKCON Desire Tree and am a 11th std. student. As you see 11th and 12th std. are the most crucial stages which decides ur future. So now I am totally burdened with both school studi

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Can we keep Ekadashi fasting when someone dies in your home?

Respected Administrators of IDT,

                     Thank you, for allowing me to join IDT. I want to know something. I started doing Ekadashi fast on every Ekadashi from October 2020, but on 8th October 2021, my mother died. Since then for a month

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