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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - 2.7

Posted by Rohit on October 7, 2015 at 10:15am
TEXT 7
karpanya-dosopahata-svabhavah
prcchami tvam dharma-sammudha-cetah
yac chreyah syan niscitam bruhi tan me
sisyas te 'ham sadhi mam tvam prapannam
SYNONYMS
kārpaṇya—miserly; doṣa—weakness; upahata—being inflicted by;svabhāvaḥ—characteristics; pṛcchāmi—I am asking; tvām—unto You; dharma—religion; saṁmūḍha—bewildered; cetāḥ—in heart; yat—what; śreyaḥ—all-good; syāt—may be; niścitam—confidently; brūhi—tell; tat—that; me—unto me; śiṣyaḥ—disciple; te—Your; aham—I am; śādhi—just instruct; mām—me;tvām—u
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Power of chanting Krishna's Name by Srila Prabhupada

Posted by Ravi Chandran on October 7, 2015 at 10:00am
Chanting the Lord's name purifies our polluted consciousness, the source of all our problems.

A lecture given in Montreal, Canada, on June 15, 1968
By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness

Ladies And Gentlemen, this Krishna consciousness movement is meant for reviving our original consciousness.

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At present, owing to our long association with matter, our consciousness has become contaminated, just as rain water be

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WHNW Report - Abu Dhabi

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on October 7, 2015 at 9:25am
Thank you for making us aware of the WHNW .  I am very glad to inform you that we had one more session of Japathon in Sri Sri Gaur Nitai Sundar (Sri Candrika DD and Harinam Cintamani Das) house at Shyamdesh on 03 Oct. 2015 for the pleasure of Guru and Gauranga. With the Krishna's mercy, this time the Japathon programme was for two hours with Harinaam kritan and Vaishnav Bhajan.Each devotee sang one Bhajan and chanted Mahamantra. It was a wonderful day to spend with the vaishnav devotees.
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Glories of Holy Name

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on October 6, 2015 at 12:36pm

2515030099?profile=originalLecture on Glories of Holy Name by HH Lokanath Swami on 09 Aug 2014 at ISKCON Noida

(Lokanath Swami born in Aravade, a small village Maharashtra, Indian, he went to Mumbai for studying. In the year 1971, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was touring India with his foreign disciples and had organized a pandal program in Mumbai.Intrigued, maharaj attended the whole Hare Krsna Festival and heard from Srila Prabhupada.)

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Sannyasa Initiation of Amal Bhakta Swami

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on October 6, 2015 at 12:00pm

2515030037?profile=originalLecture on Sannyasa Initiation of Amal Bhakta Swami by HH Radhanath Swami on 16 Sep 2015 at Los Angeles

(Radhanath Swami was born in Chicago in 1950. Radhanath Swami's childhood name was Richard Slavin; Radhanath Swami was given the name Radhanath Swami after he entered the renounced order. In his teenage years)

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Beyond the Surface

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on October 6, 2015 at 11:30am

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We are often misled by the externals or the outward appearance of people or things. Due to our limited and imperfect senses, we tend to quickly judge others and come to wrong conclusions abruptly. Before reacting to an apparently visible circumstance, we need to dive deeper to uncover the truth. 
 
Here is a beautiful narrative which would help us understand this fact. A cruise ship met with an accident at sea. Aboard the ship was a couple. After having made their way to the lifeboat, they real
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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - 2.6

Posted by Rohit on October 6, 2015 at 9:59am
TEXT 6
na caitad vidmah kataran no gariyo
yad va jayema yadi va no jayeyuh
yan eva hatva na jijivisamas
te 'vasthitah pramukhe dhartarastrah
SYNONYMS
na—nor; ca—also; etat—this; vidmaḥ—do know; katarat—which; naḥ—us;garīyaḥ—better; yat—what; vā—either; jayema—conquer us; yadi—if; vā—or;naḥ—us; jayeyuḥ—conquer; yān—those; eva—certainly; hatvā—by killing; na—never; jijīviṣāmaḥ—want to live; te—all of them; avasthitāḥ—are situated;pramukhe—in the front; dhārtarāṣṭrāḥ—the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra.
TRANSLATION
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Report of WHNW happened in Ahmedabad namahatt 'ISKCON BASE', and also from ISKCON Ahmedabad Temple, Gujarat, INDIA

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on October 5, 2015 at 3:58pm
Report of WHNW happened in Ahmedabad namahatt 'ISKCON BASE', and also from ISKCON Ahmedabad Temple, Gujarat, INDIA.
We started WHNW from 24th of Sept. 2015 and continued till 4th of October.
 - 24th of Sept, Thursday , Morning :
From temple devotees left for Harinaam nagar-sankirtan in the morning at 7am to 8.30 am
Evening - Temple prgrm - We had Holy name Seminar in the temple and after the seminar kirtan was lead for more than half an hour. Followed by prasadam.
- 25th of Sept, Friday, Mo
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Bhagavata Subodhini: A New Study Book on the Bhagavatam

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on October 5, 2015 at 2:03pm
By: BVP Team ISKCON News on Oct. 3, 2015
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Jajanivas Das introduced the new book.

It is believed that a classic is a book that doesn't need to be written again yet it inspires numerous other books to be composed. Srimad Bhagavatam is such a timeless classic that it has inspired numerous intellectuals to write commentaries since ages; commentary of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami being the most well known in late century.

On September 21st, Bhaktivedanta Vidyapitha announced the release of the book B

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GaurangaGifts.com launched

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on October 5, 2015 at 12:54pm

Mayapur Tourism has announced the launch of its online shopping portal Gaurangagifts.com. Some of the website features include:

  • More than 300 devotional products to choose from. The number of products is only expected to grow in future.

  • Easily locate products of interest as products are arranged in categories (books, digital media etc.) and sub-categories (children’s books, neck beads etc.)

  • Product comparison by size, price.

  • Mayapur exclusive products such as bead bags with images of Ma

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Medical Practitioners Meet and Retreat At Gita Nagari Yoga Farm

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on October 5, 2015 at 12:52pm
Medical Practitioners Meet and Retreat At Gita Nagari Yoga Farm More than 50 ISKCON medical practitioners—doctors, nurses, medical technicians, Ayurveda experts and other healthcare professionals—gathered at the Gita Nagari Yoga Farm in rural Pennsylvania on September 25-27 for a three-day event, the “North American ISKCON Medical Professionals Retreat.” The event was organized by four doctors, Lila Manjari dasi, a Psychiatrist from Columbus, Ohio; Premvilas das, a physician of Internal Medicine and his wife Lalita dasi, a physician in Family Practice and Palliative Care, both from Columbus; and Acyuta Gauranga das, a Vascular Surgeon from Detroit, Michigan. Read the entire article here: http://goo.gl/OWo8dN

Medical Practitioners Meet and Retreat At Gita Nagari Yoga Farm
More than 50 ISKCON medical practitioners—doctors, nurses, medical technicians, Ayurveda experts and other healthcare professionals—gathered at the Gita Nagari Yoga Farm in rural Pennsylvania on September 25-27 for a three-day event, the “North American ISKCON Medical Professionals Retreat.” The event was organized by four doctors, Lila Manjari dasi, a Psychiatrist from Columbus, Ohio; Premvilas das, a physician of Internal Medic

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A Christian meditation: Acknowledge your blessings

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on October 5, 2015 at 12:43pm
A Christian meditation: Acknowledge your blessings I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels. My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said, ‘This is the Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received.’ I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all over the world. Then we moved on down a long corridor until we reached the second section. The angel then said to me, 'This is the Packaging and Delivery Section. Here, the graces and blessings the people asked for are processed and delivered to the living persons who asked for them.’ I noticed again how busy it was there. There were many angels working hard at that station, since so many blessings had been requested and were being packaged for delivery. Finally at the farthest end of the long corridor we stopped at the Door of a very small station to my great surprise, only one angel was seated there, idly doing nothing. 'This is the Acknowledgment Section,’ my angel friend quietly admitted to me. He seemed embarrassed 'How is it that there is no work going on here?’ I asked. 'So sad,’ the angel sighed. 'After people receive the blessings that they asked for, very few send back acknowledgments.’ 'How does one acknowledge the blessings?’ I asked. 'Simple,’ the angel answered. Just say, 'O Lord! Let me be grateful to You for all Your blessings upon me.’ (Or chant “Hareee Krishna”!)

A Christian meditation: Acknowledge your blessings
I dreamt that I went to Heaven and an angel was showing me around. We walked side-by-side inside a large workroom filled with angels.
My angel guide stopped in front of the first section and said, ‘This is the Receiving Section. Here, all petitions to God said in prayer are received.’ I looked around in this area, and it was terribly busy with so many angels sorting out petitions written on voluminous paper sheets and scraps from people all o

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Preaching in the Legendary City Of Genghis Khan

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on October 5, 2015 at 12:41pm
Preaching in the Legendary City Of Genghis Khan (7 min video) Indradyumna Swami: Yesterday in our travels here in Mongolia we visited two cities; one of them Chinggis, the legendary birthplace of Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire. As we entered the city and asked for directions, one of the citizens reminded us of Genghis Khan’s famous statement, “One Mongolian is worth a hundred foreigners.” Despite the warning, we found the people of Chinggis to be as open to Krsna consciousness as anywhere else in the country. Soon after harinama we had a hall full of people listening attentively to the philosophy of Bhagavad Gita and dancing in ecstasy during kirtan. Such is the causeless mercy of Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu. Watch it here: https://goo.gl/bPxGzt

Preaching in the Legendary City Of Genghis Khan (7 min video)
Indradyumna Swami: Yesterday in our travels here in Mongolia we visited two cities; one of them Chinggis, the legendary birthplace of Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire. As we entered the city and asked for directions, one of the citizens reminded us of Genghis Khan’s famous statement, “One Mongolian is worth a hundred foreigners.” Despite the warning, we found the people of Chinggis to be as open to Krsna consciousness as

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Dr. Graham M. Schweig on Prabhupada’s Historic Achievements

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on October 5, 2015 at 11:40am
Dr. Graham M. Schweig on Prabhupada’s Historic Achievements As we hear from the ancient voice of the Upanishads cry out: tamaso mā jyotir gamaya! “From darkness, lead us to light!” (Bṛhadāranyaka 1.3.28). Swami Prabhupāda has brought more light into this world, a world in which we still find too much darkness. Let us celebrate on this day how Swami Prabhupāda raised greater awareness to the monumental teachings of the Bhagavad Gītā. Let us honor on this day how Swami Prabhupāda selflessly traveled the world to the hearts of so many. Let us recognize the accomplishments of one of India’s greatest exponents of Sanātana Dharma, the eternal teachings of what is good and right in the world that is in harmony with the divine. We owe a great debt to Swami Prabhupāda for raising the consciousness of countless millions to a much greater consciousness, ultimately to Krishna consciousness, and how he has moved the minds and hearts to a greater awareness of all the blessings we have in life and to a greater sensitivity to all living beings everywhere. And finally let me say how I offer my respects to such a man who represents so much the rising of India’s spirit in its exultation of all that is loving in the universe and of all the blessings showered down up us! Thank you, Swami Prabhupāda! Thank you very much. Namaste.“ Read the entire article here: http://goo.gl/uIvD6J

Dr. Graham M. Schweig on Prabhupada’s Historic Achievements
As we hear from the ancient voice of the Upanishads cry out: tamaso mā jyotir gamaya! “From darkness, lead us to light!” (Bṛhadāranyaka 1.3.28). Swami Prabhupāda has brought more light into this world, a world in which we still find too much darkness. Let us celebrate on this day how Swami Prabhupāda raised greater awareness to the monumental teachings of the Bhagavad Gītā. Let us honor on this day how Swami Prabhupāda selflessly tra

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