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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

The reactions of our sinful activities we are suffering. As soon as we get a material body -- it doesn't matter whether a rich man's body or a poor man's, poor man's body -- the material body is itself subjected to threefold miseries of this material condition. Therefore Arjuna was advised by Krsna: agama apayino anityah tams titiksasva bharata. You cannot avoid the miserable condition of this body. That is not possible. So we have to tolerate. There is no other excuse. But do not create another

I just got "The Bhakti Yoga Handbook" by Stephen Knapp for my Kindle. I've only read the introduction so far, and judging from that, I think this is going to be the perfect book to optimize my sadhana.

I'm going to use this blog to share the things I learn as I study this book and actually stick myself to a schedule. Haribol!

If If you want to get this book and study it with me, here's the link:

 http://www.amazon.com/The-Bhakti-yoga-Handbook-Essentials-Devotional/dp/149030228X

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

There was a family with one kid. One day the mother was out and dad was in charge of the kid who just turned three.

Someone had given the kid a little 'tea set' as a birthday gift and it was one of his favorite toys. Dad was in the living room engrossed in the evening news when kid brought dad a little cup of 'tea', which was just water. 

After several cups of tea and lots of praise for such yummy tea from father, kid's mo

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

The champion’s edge is not in a gifted birth; a high Intelligent Quotient (IQ) or in talent. The champion’s edge is all in the ATTITUDE (how you do what you do); not aptitude.

How you do what you do determines the quality of the results you get in your life.

It is what you do after you’ve done what you are expected to do, that will make you a CHAMPION.

It is what you learn after you’ve learnt what you are expected to learn

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

A man asked his father-in-law, "Many people praised you for a successful marriage. Could you please share with me your secret?"

The father-in-law answered with a smile, "Never criticize your wife for her shortcomings.”

Always bear in mind that because of her shortcomings and weaknesses, she could not find a better husband than you."

We all look forward to being loved and respected. 

Generally, when a person makes a mistake,

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

False prestige or ahankaar is one of the stumbling blocks in the path of
self realization. Due to false ego we don’t accept good advice; due to
false ego we don’t accept the instructions of the spiritual master and the
scriptures.

Awakening the Soul

Lord Kṛṣṇa said, “The pure devotees are always within the core
of My heart, and I am always in the core of their hearts. My dear
devotees know nothing else but Me, and I do not know anything
apart from them.

sādhavo hṛdayaṁ mahyaṁ
sādhūnāṁ hṛdayaṁ tv aham
mad-anyat te na jānanti
nāhaṁ tebhyo manāg api
Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam 9.4.68

JAI SRILA A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRAHUPADA, VAISHNAVAS, ACHARYAS AND SUPREMELORD WITH HIS ENERGIES!

HARI BOL

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JAI NITYANANDA GAURANGA

Sometimes people hide their godlessness by saying that God cannot be described. Scriptures refute it and also Acharyas because Glories of Supreme Lord are unlimited. We can understand only very few glories of Supreme Lord.

Baladeva Vidyabhushana >> Vedanta Shyamantaka >> Jiva nirupanah >>

Excerpt

18 Some persons may believe that the scripture passage beginn

I was talking with a close devotee friend, Sumeet Gupta Prabhuji, yesterday evening. While talking to him I realised how so many senior devotees have left their mark on me. I am sharing some of them to show my deep appreciation for them. And there are hundreds of others senior devotees in ISKCON from whom we get inspiration every day.

The first one to leave his imprint, continues to do it, HG Rukmini Krishna Das Prabhuji, he is the temple president of Sri Sri Radha Radhika Raman and Krishna Balr

HH Bhakti Charu Swami is going to take to take a seminar on Udhav Gita in December at Ujjain and I thought let me read the book first as I was keen to attend it.

I went through all my e books and got Udhav Sandesh and started reading it. Foolishly I thought they were same books. It was after a while when I realised my mistake but I continued it as it is a short book and it held my attention. Udhava Sandesh entails Krishna asking Udhava to go to Vrindavan and inform all the Vrajawasis that Krishn

TEXT 23

saknotihaiva yah sodhum
prak sarira-vimoksanat
kama-krodhodbhavam vegam
sa yuktah sa sukhi narah

SYNONYMS

saknoti--able to do; iha eva--in the present body; yah--one who; sodhum--to tolerate; prak--before; sarira--body; vimoksanat--give up; kama--desire; krodha--anger; udbhavam--generated from; vegam--urge; sah--he; yuktah--in trance; sah--he; sukhi--happy; narah--human being.

TRANSLATION

Before giving up this present body, if one is able to tolerate the urges of the material senses and che

We are wandering, life after life, in different species of life, different forms of life, in different planetary system. And that is going on. This is not progress. Where is progress? You are conditioned within this universe. Where is your progress? Suppose you... Just like if I jump with a limited space, where is my progress? Real progress is Krsna consciousness. Tyaktva deham punar janma naiti [Bg. 4.9]. If we actually want to make progress, then we must take to Krsna consciousness so that aft

Hare Krsna

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No Fiction or Rumors or Gossips in Krishna-Bhakti. Bhagavan leads His Bhaktas by His own personal example. One main intention of Bhagavan's *avataram* ( incarnation) is to demonstrate Vedic-leaving to His Bhaktas .

In Rama-avatar, Bhagavan shows us how to lead a virtuous life in accordance with the Vedic-shastras . In Krishna-avatar , Bhagavan demonstrates how to remain connected to Bhagavan by Bhakti-yoga. In fact, any p

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Every person or soul in all of existence is most dear to Krishna because that soul is an eternal emanation from Krishna manifested specifically for the purpose of having a sweet, loving relationship with Krishna both for Krishna's satisfaction and for that soul's satisfaction. In other words by nature everyone is a lover of God. There's no such thing of anyone being a demon by nature. Those who are demoniac are temporari

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

"He is happy in all conditions; sometimes he may get very palatable foodstuffs, sometimes not, but he is satisfied. Nor does he care for any residential facility. He may sometimes live underneath a tree, and he may sometimes live in a very palatial building; he is attracted to neither. He is called fixed because he is fixed in his determination and knowledge. We may find some repetition in the descriptions of the qualifi