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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

*Spirituality* is not very easy. One can easily give a big lecture on Spirituality, but applying it in own life is different.

For example, `'Love your neighbor like yourself" is the basic slogan of Christianity. But, are even the Bishops practicing this in real life?

It is here that, Vedic Dharma becomes very relevant. The Srimad Bhagavad Gita ( essence of the Vedas) set only practical guidelines.  It urges it's followers

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TEXT 1

arjuna uvaca
sannyasam karmanam krsna
punar yogam ca samsasi
yac chreya etayor ekam
tan me bruhi suniscitam

SYNONYMS

arjunah uvaca--Arjuna said; sannyasam--renunciation; karmanam--of all activities; krsna--O Krsna; punah--again; yogam--devotional service; ca--also; samsasi--You are praising; yat--which; sreyah--is beneficial; etayoh--of these two; ekam--one; tat--that; me--unto me; bruhi--please tell; suniscitam--definitely.

TRANSLATION

Arjuna said: O Krsna, first of all You ask me to renoun

So there are different kinds of devotees also. Some devotee worships the Narayana feature, some devotee worships Krsna feature, Nrsimhadeva... So there are innumerable devotees and innumerable forms also of Krsna. But not these ordinary demigods. When Krsna says, ye yatha mam prapadyante tams tathaiva bhajamy aham: [Bg. 4.11] "Any devotee who wants to worship Me in My different feature, I offer him in that feature..." Just like Hanuman. He was a devotee of Rama. So there is one verse by Hanuman,

As it is natural for some fishes to live deep in water and for some, on the top of it, it is natural for some kind of devotes of God serve to the Lord in Countryside Monastery environment and for other kind of Devotees – in midst of massive city. It is not the optional, it is essentially necessary, for those Devotees, who not yet come to the level of Holy Sage (mahabhagavata, paramahamsa, avaduta) and by their nature more fragile and more sensitive to external environment. If we just swap over t

Dear all Devotees,

WE all know it very well that Mahamantra is very very powerful. but I have experienced it. It was a very powerful experience.

I had a dream in which a very beautifull girl come close to me and then turns her head, I remember in my dream I was chanting  Mahamantra loudly. Suddenly the same girl turn towards me and offer me something to eat. I I took it from her hand, but was surprise to look at her face, it was all blotted with blood , she was eating raw flesh and same thing she

Dear all Devotees,

Hare Krishna

WE all know it very well that Mahamantra is very very powerful. but I have experienced it. It was a very powerful experience.

I had a dream in which a very beautifull girl come close to me and then turns her head, I remember in my dream I was chanting  Mahamantra loudly. Suddenly the same girl turn towards me and offer me something to eat. I I took it from her hand, but was surprise to look at her face, it was all blotted with blood , she was eating raw flesh and sam

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Bad karma obliges us to take birth again to be punished. And good karma obliges us to take birth again to be rewarded. For example, let's say that a wealthy man opens a charity hospital to give free medical care to the needy. For every poor person who receives free medical care this philanthropist accumulates good karma. His reward will be that he will take birth again and again until all the people who received free med

Lecture on Jagannath Lila by Shastraswaroop Prabhu at ISKCON Mira Road

(Lord Jagannath, the symbol of universal love and brotherhood is worshipped in the ‘Shree Jagannath Temple’ along with Balabhadra, Subhadra, Sudarshan, Madhaba, Sridevi and Bhudevi on the RATNAVEDI (the bejewelled platform).)

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Lecture on Conquering Worry and Anxiety by Urmila Mataji on 26 June 2010 at Croatia

(Her Grace Urmila Devi Dasi was born in 1955 in New York City. She joined ISKCON in 1973 in Chicago. She received first initiation in 1973 and second initiation in 1975 from His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.)

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Lecture on Purification of Gundicha Temple by Radhanath Swami at Jagannath Puri

(Radhanath Swami became a member of the GBC in 1996, and is responsible for the following zones: Villa Vrindavana, Firenze area, Centro Studio Bhaktivedanta, Bologna area, and Venice area Italy; and in India; Chowpatty, Mumbai, and Maharastra.)

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Seminar on Sri Jagannath Lila by Bhakti Purusottama Swami

(Bhakti Purusottama Swami travels to many other parts of the globe encouraging others in their spiritual life.This encouragement is not limited to speaking on and exemplifying Krishna consciousness)

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Now the Lord says, Krsna says, when Arjuna asked Him, "Krsna, will You describe something about Your different potencies, by which You are working in this material world?" Then Krsna describes so many things. Out of that one verse is that atha va bahunaitena kim jnatena tavarjuna:  "My dear Arjuna, I have described in nutshell many of My potencies in displaying this manifested world, but you can understand one thing, that by one part, by manifestation of one of My part, I am..., I have entered a

TEXT 42

tasmad ajnana-sambhutam
hrt-stham jnanasinatmanah
chittvainam samsayam yogam
atisthottistha bharata

SYNONYMS

tasmat--therefore; ajnana-sambhutam--outcome of ignorance; hrt-stham--situated in the heart; jnana--knowledge; asina--by the weapon of; atmanah--of the self; chittva--cutting off; enam--this; samsayam--doubt; yogam--in yoga; atistha--be situated; uttistha--stand up to fight; bharata--O descendant of Bharata.

TRANSLATION

Therefore the doubts which have arisen in your heart out of igno

अहं सर्वेषु भूतेषु भूतात्मावस्थितः सदा।
तमवज्ञाय मां मर्त्यः कुरुतेऽर्चाविडम्बनम्॥२१॥
यो मां सर्वेषु भूतेषु सन्तमात्मानमीश्वरम्।
हित्वार्चां भजते मौढ़्याद्भास्मन्येव जुहोति सः॥२२॥
द्विषतः परकाये मां मानिनो भिन्नदर्शिनः।
भूतेषु बद्भवैरस्य न् मनः शान्तिमृच्छति॥२३॥
अहमुच्चावचैर्द्रव्यौः क्रिययोत्पन्नयानघे।
नैव तुष्येऽर्चितोऽर्चायां भूतग्रामावमानिनः॥२४॥
अर्चादावर्चयेत्तावदीश्वरं मां स्वकर्मकृत।
यावन्न वेद स्वहृदि सर्वभूतेष्ववस्थितम्॥२५॥
आत्मनश्च परस्यापि यः करोत्यन्तरोदरम्।
तस्य भिन्नदृशो मृत्युर्विदधे भयमुल्बण

WHEREVER IS TULASI, ITS VRINDAVAN
[October 7, 1972, ISKCON Los Angeles, USA]