Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Madana, or Cupid means sex attraction and Krishna is called Madana-mohana. One can neglect even sex attraction if one is attracted to Krishna. Madana is attracting in this material world – everyone is attracted by sex life. The whole material world exists on sex life. This is the fact. Yan maithunādi-grhamedhi-suhkham hi tuccham. Here, the so-called happiness – is maithuna, or sex. Here happiness begins from sexual inte

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Narada Muni

Sometimes a saintly person is misunderstood bygrhasthas(householders), especially when he instructs their young sons to accept Krishna consciousness. Generally a grhastha thinks that unless one enters grhastha life he cannot properly enter the renounced order. If a young man immediately adopts the path of the renounced order in accordance with the instructions of Nārada or a member of his disciplic succession

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Many people claim, "God is great," but this is a hackneyed phrase. One must know how He is great, and that can be known from authorized scripture. In the Bhagavad-gita God describes Himself. He says, "My appearance of taking birth just like an ordinary human being is actually transcendental." God is so kind that He comes before us as an ordinary human being, but His body is not exactly like a human body. 
It is stated in

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

So just try to understand how much people were advanced in the previous ages. The Bhagavad-gītā talks took place between Krishna and Arjuna in the battlefield just on the verge of the battle’s beginning. So how much time could they spare? Utmost, half an hour – not more than that. So within half an hour, this Bhagavad-gītā was taught to Arjuna, and he could understand it, and then he agreed to fight (nasto mohah smrtir

TEXT 22

ananyas cintayanto mam
ye janah paryupasate
tesam nityabhiyuktanam
yoga-ksemam vahamy aham

SYNONYMS

ananyah--no other; cintayantah--concentrating; mam--unto Me; ye--who; janah--persons; paryupasate--properly worship; tesam--their; nitya--always; abhiyuktanam--fixed in devotion; yoga-ksemam--requirements; vahami--carry; aham--I.

TRANSLATION

But those who worship Me with devotion, meditating on My transcendental form--to them I carry what they lack and preserve what they have.

PURPORT

One who

HG Krsnanandini devi dasi:

Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya
Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya
Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya

So we are reading from the Srimad Bhagavatam, Canto 5 chapter 13 text 19.Rahugana converses with Jada Bharatha

atah kathancit sa vimukta apadah
punas ca sartham pravisaty arindama
adhvany amusminn ajaya nivesito
bhraman jano 'dyapi na veda kascana

TRANSLATION : O killer of enemies, Maharaja Rahugana, if the conditioned soul somehow or other gets out of his dangerous position, he

Sankirtan Leaders Conference Held In India - First Of Its Kind In 40 Years Of Iskcon’s History

- By Sri Rama Dasa

BBT India organized a seminar for two days on Jan 31st 2014 and Feb 1st 2014 on the topic of ‘Merits of Organized Book Distribution’ at ISKCON Tirupathi. This was a pioneering attempt to get book distributors in India more organized. It was conducted under the expert guidance of HG Vaisesika Dasa Adhikari.

Around 80 devotees participated in the seminar. The event was inaugurated

Today, March 9 2014, is the celebration of HH Bhaktitirtha Swami's Vyasa Pujua.

The video of the below class, which he gave here in Mayapur on February 20, 2004, was shown as the SB class today. This is the famous class wherein he prayed for "whatever is necessary to become a better devotee to happen soon", etc, which became a reality when he was diagnosed with cancer soon afterwards.

atah param yad avyaktam
avyudha-guna-brmhitam
adrstasruta-vastutvat
sa jivo yat punar-bhavah

TRANSLATION: B

Hare Krishna! On 16 March 2014, Sunday is the most auspicious day, “GAURA PURNIMA”, theAppearance Day of Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu. (Fasting till moonrise)

LORD SRI CAITANYA MAHAPRABHU

krsna-varnam tvishakrishnam
sangopangastra-parshadam
yajnaih sankirtana-prayair
yajanti hi sumedhasah

“In the age of Kali, intelligent persons perform congregational chanting to worship the incarnation of Godhead who constantly sings the name of Krishna. Although His complexion is not blackish, He is Krish

 The most advanced devotees in the Gaudiya Vaishnava teachings are the gopis, or simple village girls, of Vrindavan. Also, Jahnavi Devi, the wife of Nityananda Prabhu, took the role of an acharya, or teacher, after her husband left this world.

In the Srimad-Bhagavatam we see many great women devotees, such as Queen Kunti, Draupadi, Mother Yashoda, Devahuti, the wives of the yajnicbrahmanas, the naga-patnis or wives of Kaliya, and many more. Even Pingala, who was a prostitute, was able to attain s