Gender
Female
Birthday: November 3
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Gender
Female
Birthday:
November 3
Name / Initiated name
padmavati dasi
Daily number of rounds of Hare Krishna mahamantra.
16
When, where and how did you come into contact with the Hare Krishna Movement?
1985, Bhaktivedanta manor, Hertfordshire
Name the nearest or most frequently Visited ISKCON temple/ centre and name few of the devotees whom you know.
Bhaktivedanta manor, Hertfordshire.
Please describe yourself so that other like minded devotees can find you.
Simple and cheerful home maker from India. I have three children. Two of them are married. I have two grandchildren. I like cooking. I do not like frivolous talk. I rather like deep and meaningful conversation. I do not postpone what I have to do. I take one day at a time and live it as if it is my last day. My Daily Sadhana are chanting, prayers and recitation of holy verses:- 1. CHANTING 16 ROUNDS HARE KRISHNA MANTRA. 2. THREE PRAYERS TO SHRIMATI RADHARANI. 3. ELEVEN OM PRAYERS FROM SHRIMAD BHAGAVATAM. 4. TWELVE NAMES OF LORD CHAITANYA. 5. TWELVE NAMES OF NITYANANDA PRABHU. 6. EIGHT PRAYERS TO GURUDEVA-THE GURVASTAKAM PRAYERS. 7. FIVE PRAYERS TO LORD JAGANNATHA. 8. TWO PRAYERS FROM SHRI VRINDAVANA MAHIMAMRTA. 9. TWO PRAYERS FROM MUKUNDA MALA STOTRA. 10. THREE PRAYERS FROM SHRI CHAITANYA CHARITAMRTA. 11. SIX PRAYERS FROM SHRI BRAHMA SAMHITA. 12. 30 VERSES FROM SHRI RADHA SAHASRA NAMA STOTRA. 13. THE EIGHT YUGALASHTAKAM PRAYERS. 14. 1OO PLUS VERSES FROM BHAGAVAD GITA. 15. 60 VERSES FROM SHRIMAD BHAGAVATAM. 16. 10 PRAYERS OF QUEEN KUNTI. 17. 5 PRAYERS FROM BHAGAVAD-GITA. 18. Krishna Katha- Morning Prayers. 19. Krishna Katha- Evening Prayers. My favourite book at this time of life is Sri Radha Sahasra Nama Stotra. As for cooking, I have accumulated 5 very good cook books over the years. 1. Vegetarian Cooking by Kurma Dasa. 2. The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking by Yamuna devi. 3. Great Vegetarian Dishes by kurma Dasa. 4. The Hare Krishna Book of Vegetarian Cooking by Adiraja Dasa. 5. Vegetarian World Food by Kurma Dasa. MESSAGE: If you wish, you can print out the prayers that I have added on Iskcon Desire Tree Network.Then cut them out nicely with their translations and attach them to a note book. You can also add pictures to them. So then you have all of them in one book, your prayer book, and read them in the Brahma muhurta hour, or any time during the day if you cannot read them early morning.
What are your expectations from this community?
I respect all devotess and their spiritual masters.
Describe any specific service you would love to offer to Lord Krishna & His devotees?
Obeisances and Prayers.
Comments
in this material world,
happiness and distress
will come and go.
So we should not
be disturbed by them.
Our real business is
trying for self-realization.
That must go on;
it must never stop.
Self realization is
the goal of human life.
Suffering and
so-called happiness
will go on
as long as we
have a material body,
but we must come
to the knowledge that
" I am not this body;
I am a spirit soul.
I have received
this body because
of my past activities."
That is knowledge.
we do not take birth,
nor do we die.
We are not finished with the
destruction of the material body.
The destruction of
the body is going on already.
The childhood body changes
to the youthful body,
and that body changes
to the present body,
and the present body
will change to another body.
When the soul transmigrates,
the gross body is destroyed.
The gross body is made of matter,
and will be destroyed eventually.
The spirit soul,
in contacting various
modes of material nature,
and being influenced by them,
develops another gross body.
In other words,
we have acquired our present body
because of our past activities.
to understand Krsna,
we can go to Him
at the time of death.
Everything about Krsna
is divine, transcendental.
Krsna`s activities,
Krsna`s appearance,
Krsna`s worship
Krsna`s temple,
Krsna`s glories -
everything is transcendental.
Then we become liberated
from the process of birth and death.
We have to be serious
about understanding Krsna
and remain in Krsna consciousness.
Then these problems -
birth, death,
old age and disease -
will be solved automatically,
verily easily.
nama-yajno mahayajnah
kalau kalmasa-nasanam
krishna-chaitanya-prityarthe
nama-yajna-samarpanam
"The sacrifice of the name is the highest yajna, which destroys the contamination of Kali-yuga. In order to please Lord Shri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, I offer this sacrifice of the holy name."
avighnam kuru male tvam
harinama-japesu ca
shri radha-krishnayor dasyam
dehi male tu prarthaye
"O Mala, please destroy inauspiciousness in my chanting of the holy name of Lord Gaura-Hari and grant me the position of service to Nityananda-Gauranga and Radha-Krishna. This is all I pray, O Mala."
nama cintamani-rupam
namaiva parama gatih
namnah parataram nasti
tasman nama upasmahe
"The Holy Name is a beautiful transcendental touchstone--it is the supreme goal. There is nothing higher than the Holy Name. I therefore worship the Holy Name."