Dear Prabhus,
It was a nice, sunny, and beautiful spring day. People were busy in their own fun plans. Some people were with their groups getting ready to enter in a restaurant for lunch and others were waiting outside for their friends to arrive. Some were enjoying the sunny lounge of bars and restaurants. The whole area was filled with the smell of roasted meat and garlic etc. After struggling for about an hour in the downtown area of Boise, Idaho, USA with not much success, we decided to vi
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Kolkata Dham Darshan, Visit the the holy places related to Srila Prabhupada
Dear Devotees,
We, at ISKCON Kolkata, take immense pleasure and feel divinely blessed to inform all the devotees that we have started Ahhay Charan Tours and Travels services in this sacred birth city of Srila Prabhupada. Our aim is to serve all the visiting vaisnavas in taking a spiritually refreshing tour of the numerous spots in Kolkata that are forever sanctified by the divine touch of His Divine Grace. This presents
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Why should we chant Hare Krishna
in spite of so many impediments ?
There may be so many impediments for a person who is chanting Hare Krishna. Nonetheless, tolerating all these impediments, one should continue to chant so that at the end of one’s life one can have the full benefit of Krishna Consciousness.
- Bhagavad Gita, 8.5. purport
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
How is the Krishna Consciousness Movement
the greatest benediction in human society ?
At every step there is danger. Therefore, because The Krishna Consciousness Movement provides the opportunity for the human being to get out of this material world, simply by chanting the Hare Krishna Mantra, this movement is the greatest benediction in the human society.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, 9.7.7 purport
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
How does everything become faultless ?
There may be discrepancies in pronouncing the mantras and observing the regulative principles, and, moreover, there may be discrepancies in regard to time, place, person and paraphernalia. But when Your Lordship’s (Krishna’s) holy name is chanted, everything becomes faultless.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, 8.23.16
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
How does
the chanting of the holy name of Krishna help us ?
Worship the Lord, whose name is like the sun, for (because) just as slight appearance of the sun dissipates the darkness of night, so a slight appearance of the holy name of Krishna can drive away all the darkness of ignorance that arises in the heart due to greatly sinful activities performed in previous lives.
- Sri Caitanya Caritamritha, Antya
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
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108 quotes extracted from various lectures/classes of Maharaj
A devotee means a devotee of substance.
Struggle is the name of the game as long as we are in the material world.
Science heals in retail & kills in wholesale.
We should not be eager to change our situation but our consciousness.
Faith comes by hearing Krsna Katha in the association of sincere devotees regularly.
Real intelligence do
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Why should we focus
on quality and quality-training of devotees ?
"Now we have got so many students and so many temples but I am fearful that if we expand too much in this way that we shall become weakened and gradually the whole thing will become lost. Just like milk. We may thin it more and more with water for cheating the customer, but in the end it will cease to be any longer milk. Better to boil the milk now ver
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
How does the Lord protect the fallen-down devotees
and how we should see them ?
One who has forsaken his material occupations to engage in the devotional service of the Lord may sometimes fall down while in an immature stage, yet there is no danger of his being unsuccessful. On the other hand, a non-devotee, though fully engaged in occupational duties, does not gain anything.
As far as the duties of mankind are concer
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
For what purpose
we should chant the holy names of the
Supreme Lord ?
The holy name has to be chanted to please the Supreme Lord, and not for any sense gratification or professional purpose. If this pure mentality is there, then even though a person is born of a low family, he is so glorious that not only has he purified himself, but he is quite competent to deliver others.
- Srimad Bhagavatam, 3.33.7 purport
Lecture on Bhagavad Gita Chapter 02 Text 09 The decision of inaction reflects desperation to Learn by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu in Dec 2014
(HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu is a celibate spiritual teacher (brahmachari) at ISKCON, Pune. He has done his Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from the Govt College of Engg, Pune. He is a member of ISKCON's topmost intellectual body, the Shastric Advisory Council, which offers scriptural advise to the GBC)
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Lecture on By following the order of the Spiritual Master by HH Sivarama Swami on 17 Dec 2014 at New Vraja Dham
(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. His family immigrated to Canada where some years later in 1970 he first came in contact with Srila Prabhupada's teachings, via his transcendental books.)
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Lecture on Bhagavat Sakshatkar ka Arth kya hai by HG Shikshashtakam Prabhu
(HG Shikshastakam Prabhu has served Indian Air Force for 7 years. During his tenure he was selected as a fighter pilot and also represented Indian Air Force in National Tennis Championship. He is serving ISKCON since 1998 as a fulltime preacher. Being expert at scientific explanation of the Vedic Culture and by his profound knowledge)
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Lecture on The Glories of Rama Ekadashi by HG Jagadhananda Caitanya Prabhu at ISKCON Perambalur
(HG Jagadhananda Caitanya Prabhu was born on 12th January 1979 in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, He is Automobile Engineer was working with MRF Tyers until 2002. He is introduced to Krishna Consciousness in 2002 He is very much attracted to Krishna Consciousness so he decided to Join Coimbatore ISKCON )
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TEXT 6
na tad bhasayate suryo
na sasanko na pavakah
yad gatva na nivartante
tad dhama paramam mama
SYNONYMS
na--not; tat--that; bhasayate--illuminates; suryah--the sun; na--nor; sasankah--the moon; na--nor; pavakah--fire, electricity; yat--where; gatva--going; na--never; nivartante--comes back; tat dhama--that abode; paramam--supreme; mama--My.
TRANSLATION
That abode of Mine is not illumined by the sun or moon, nor by electricity. One who reaches it never returns to this material world.
PURPORT
The spi
So if you depend on Krsna, because He's the supreme father, fully, then all your needs... He's already supplying you all the needs of your life. Eko yo bahunam vidadhati kaman. That is the distinction between God and ordinary being. There are... God is also a living being like you and me. He's also a person, as you are person, I am person. But the difference is that one person is providing all the necessities of unlimited persons. And we unlimited persons, we are dependent on God. This is our ph
Once there lived a king who was very fond of conquering other countries. So he went on fighting one war after another, and was just busy building a big empire. Once when he was on his way back home after a war he saw a old sage dressed in rags, sitting by the street side and meditating. Seeing him in rags the king thought, "This old man is very poor and does not have even proper clothes to protect him from cold. Let me gift him my shawl". Thinking in this manner, the king approached the sage an
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Lecture on Bhagavad Gita Chapter 14 Text 26 Going Beyond the Modes by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami on 25 Nov 2014 at Tamil Nadu
(His Holiness Bhakti Vikasa Swami appeared in this world in 1957 in England. He joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in London in 1975 and was initiated in that year with the name Ilapati dasa by ISKCON’s founder-acarya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.)
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(HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu is a celibate spiritual teacher (brahmachari) at ISKCON, Pune. He has done his Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from the Govt College of Engg, Pune. He is a member of ISKCON's topmost intellectual body, the Shastric Advisory Council, which offers scriptural advise to the GBC)
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