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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 8.5

Posted by Rohit on December 23, 2013 at 3:27pm

TEXT 5

anta-kale ca mam eva
smaran muktva kalevaram
yah prayati sa mad-bhavam
yati nasty atra samsayah

SYNONYMS

anta-kale--at the end of life; ca--also; mam--unto Me; eva--certainly; smaran--remembering; muktva--quitting; kalevaram--the body; yah--he who; prayati--goes; sah--he; mat-bhavam--My nature; yati--achieves; na--not; asti--there is; atra--here; samsayah--doubt.

TRANSLATION

And whoever, at the time of death, quits his body, remembering Me alone, at once attains My nature. Of this there is n

Disappearance Day of Sri Devananda Pandita

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Saphala Ekadashi

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on December 23, 2013 at 2:55pm

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Saphala Ekadashi Mahatmya Listen Audio in Hindi and English

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on December 23, 2013 at 2:53pm

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Bhaktivedanta Manor Newsletter December 2013

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on December 23, 2013 at 11:59am

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Thought Of The Day

Posted by Shalabh Gupta on December 23, 2013 at 8:23am

There are many different kinds of living entities -- human beings, demigods, animals, etc. -- and each and every one of them is under the influence of material nature, and all of them have forgotten the transcendent Personality of Godhead. Those who are in the modes of passion and ignorance, and even those who are in the mode of goodness, cannot go beyond the impersonal Brahman conception of the Absolute Truth. They are bewildered before the Supreme Lord in His personal feature, which possesses

Reading too many books.

Posted by Giriraj dasa on December 22, 2013 at 1:36pm

Hare Krishna23rd December 2012This blogs are from my last year's diary.While speaking to HG Rukmini Krishna Prabhuji today I discussed with him my current status where I am trying to study only Bhagavad Gita and have stopped reading all other books. The same instructions came from Guru Maharaj telling me that it is a step in the right direction. Guru Maharaj also wrote that NOD instructs us not to read too many books. Better to read one book at a time.Prabhuji nobbed in affirmation and told me t

22th Dec Marathon Nectar - books are the basis

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on December 22, 2013 at 1:30pm

"Practically, books are the basis of our movement. Without our books, our preaching will have no effect..."
(Srila Prabhupada Letter to Mandali Bhadra, January 20th, 1972)

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Akruranatha Prabhu – Leave Everyone with Good Impression

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Leadership for the Future

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on December 21, 2013 at 8:24pm

Dina Sharana Devi Dasi has been a member of ISKCON’s Governing Body Commission (GBC) since 2010. She joined ISKCON in 1974, and was initiated by Srila Prabhupada the same year at the Schloss Rettershof Castle temple, the headquarters of ISKCON Germany at the time. Her focus is on training and engaging qualified persons to assist in communications, succession as well as education and training. She is also committed to increasing BBT book distribution.

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President of Mauritius visits Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi Temple, ISKCON Delhi

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on December 21, 2013 at 7:30pm

The President of Mauritius H.E Mr. Kailash Purryag along with his wife Mrs. Aneetah Purryag, Dr. Arye Kumar Jagessur (Mauritian ambassador to India) and the officials from the embassy visited ISKCON Delhi yesterday evening. A brief report recounting their visit is presented below.

The President who was on a personal visit to India was greeted at the temple entrance by Raghava Pandit Prabhu (who had arranged and coordinated this visit) and other senior devotees of the temple. All the while a t

21th Dec Marathon Nectar - It is nectar to my ears

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on December 21, 2013 at 6:30pm

"It is nectar to my ears to hear the list of schools which are taking our standing (book) order."
(Srila Prabhupada Letter to Amogha dasa, 6th June 1976)

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What is the qualification to preach Gita?.......................Nectarean Mellows

Posted by vinay kalson on December 20, 2013 at 9:39pm

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

The Bhagavad-Gita is teaching real religion. Real religion means the word of God, no one else’s word and one who humbly & submissively hears the word of God and repeats that word. What is the qualification to preach the Gita? Not to be a great scholar, not to be necessarily be a bhahman by birth, not to be a gyani who can speculate and invent all sorts of beautiful and wonderful analogies to attract people’s minds, not

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Life From Your Own View

Posted by vinay kalson on December 20, 2013 at 9:38pm

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Life, as we have heard, is how we make it.

If we took time reflecting on this statement we might discover it is actually true.

People often say life is not fair, actually that’s true. Life doesn't choose who will be rich or poor, who will be successful or not. Who does then? Actually it's we.

It’s been discovered that some people spend most of their time speaking about negative things that happened to them or those they h

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Everything (Even Dictatorship) Can Be Utilized for Krishna

Posted by vinay kalson on December 20, 2013 at 9:36pm

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Now the Communists, they want dictatorship. That is welcome, provided that particular dictator is trained like Maharaja Yudhisthira. Not that simply by votes of some rascal population one becomes dictatorship, another rascal comes. Another big rascal comes. Just like in the Communist country the Stalin was their dictator. And in the historical record it is said that he is the greatest criminal in the history of the worl

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Few Minutes of Silence

Posted by vinay kalson on December 20, 2013 at 9:34pm

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

There once was a farmer who discovered that he had lost his watch in the barn. It was no ordinary watch because it had sentimental value for him. After searching high and low in the hay for a long time, he gave up and enlisted the help of a group of children playing outside the barn. He promised them that the person who found it would be rewarded. Hearing this, the children hurried inside the barn, went through and arou

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What is the purport of accepting only as much material enjoyment as necessary ?

Posted by vinay kalson on December 20, 2013 at 9:33pm

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

The purport of the instruction to accept only as much material enjoyment as necessary is that one should not accept material enjoyment for sense gratification. Rather, one should acceptonly as much material enjoyment as will help one establish his relationship with Lord Krishna.

Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur

Chaitanya-Sikshamritha,

as cited in page 310 of ‘Bhaktivinoda Vani Vaibhava’

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What are the irrelevant and principal fruits of devotional service ?

Posted by vinay kalson on December 20, 2013 at 9:32pm

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

As soon as a living entity becomes free from materialcontamination by the strength of devotional service, he attainsliberation. But liberation is an irrelevant fruit of devotionalservice, not the principal fruit. Pure love of Krishna is theprincipal fruit of Sadhana-bhakti, and it can be achieved byliberated souls.

- Srila Bhaktivinod Thakur

(Sajjana Tosani 10/11)

as cited in page 410 of ‘Bhaktivinoda Vani

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Develop a suitable Bhakti-yoga and practise it continuoulsy .

Posted by vinay kalson on December 20, 2013 at 9:30pm

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Organizing a customized Bhakti-yoga, is very important . Each Person’s taste and talent is different . Instead of imitating others, it is useful to develop and apply a unique Bhakti-system suiting the individual taste.

This does not mean that, one can deviate from the basics. To Bhagavan Sri Krishna, the Vedas are very important . Bhagavan has explained it in detail in Bhagavad Gita. After accepting Sri Krishna as Ishta

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Purifyng Activities

Posted by vinay kalson on December 20, 2013 at 9:28pm

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupa

SB 4.22.52 - Since a pure devotee knows how to utilize everything for the Lord’s service, he is never affected by material activities. Instead, by his transcendental plans he purifies such activities.

SB 4.31.18 - The Supreme Personality of Godhead is never affected by the material qualities, although they all emanate from His spiritual energy. Those who are really conversant with this knowledge can utilize everything f

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Relevant enquiry

Posted by vinay kalson on December 20, 2013 at 9:27pm

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupa

As long as a man is in the full vigor of life, he forgets the naked truth of death, which he has to meet. Thus a foolish man makes no relevant inquiry about the real problems of life. Everyone thinks that he will never die, although he sees evidence of death before his eyes at every second. Here is the distinction between animalism and humanity. An animal like a goat has no sense of its impending death. Although its broth

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 8.5

Disappearance Day of Sri Devananda Pandita

Saphala Ekadashi

Saphala Ekadashi Mahatmya Listen Audio in Hindi and English

Bhaktivedanta Manor Newsletter December 2013

Thought Of The Day

Reading too many books.

22th Dec Marathon Nectar - books are the basis

Leadership for the Future

President of Mauritius visits Sri Sri Radha Parthasarathi Temple, ISKCON Delhi

21th Dec Marathon Nectar - It is nectar to my ears

What is the qualification to preach Gita?.......................Nectarean Mellows

Life From Your Own View

Everything (Even Dictatorship) Can Be Utilized for Krishna

Few Minutes of Silence

What is the purport of accepting only as much material enjoyment as necessary ?

What are the irrelevant and principal fruits of devotional service ?

Develop a suitable Bhakti-yoga and practise it continuoulsy .

Purifyng Activities

Relevant enquiry

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