Sangat sanjayate kamah (Gita 2.62). 

If one associates with a thief, he develops the habits of a thief and becomes a thief himself. Similarly, if one associates with a sadhu, one becomes a sadhu oneself and is able to distinguish between good and bad. After this, one will try to learn about sad-vastu, the Supreme Lord, and in order to achieve the service of the Supreme Lord, one will surrender unto the pure devotee of the Lord.

There are two types of faith:

Laukika-sraddha: customary or worldly fai

TEXT 29

bhoktaram yajna-tapasam
sarva-loka-mahesvaram
suhrdam sarva-bhutanam
jnatva mam santim rcchati

SYNONYMS

bhoktaram--beneficiary; yajna--sacrifices; tapasam--of penances and austerities; sarva-loka--all planets and the demigods thereof; maha-isvaram--the Supreme Lord; su-hrdam--benefactor; sarva--all; bhutanam--of the living entities; jnatva--thus knowing; mam--Me (Lord Krsna); santim--relief from material pangs; rcchati--achieves.

TRANSLATION

The sages, knowing Me as the ultimate purpose of

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One has to go back to home, back to Godhead. That is the perfection of life. This human life should be utilized for going back to home, back to... But they have no idea. They do not know what is God, where is back to home, back to Godhead -- nothing, no education, although the knowledge is there in the Bhagavad-gita and other sastras. Everything is there, but we have become so fools that we take Bhagavad-gita and comment in a different way so that people may not understand. He does not understan

All glories to Shrila Prabhupada, prabhujis and matjis iskcon Kolkata has a  branch for youth, which is a part of bhaktibrikshya called bhakti brikshya youth. Bhakti brikshya youth conducts a preaching class which is taken by H.H Ashrya Gauranga Prabhu every SATURDAY at temle premises FROM 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, all  youth are humbley requested to join the class and ebrace yourself with the necter of Krishna consciousness, anyone who is interested can contact this number- +918013648674, hare Krishn

Hare KrishNa and Hari Bol to all

Mt pranams to all Vaishnava Gurus and spiritual master. i offer my humble obeisances. 

all glories to Krishna, by whom the whole creation came into existence. 

for the most of you all out there, i know you may pondering about the title. Krishna the science teacher. yes you have heard that before. but Algebra teacher? not so common. although all knowledge stems from Him, eyebrows are raised when i relate algebra and Krishna. why? i think it is very important for us t

Hare Krishna, Jay Shri Prabhupada..

I love Srila Prabhupada. I love his teachings and that's the main reason I'm so attracted to ISKCON. Since childhood my parents took me to the temple in Mumbai, every sunday. As a child I did not know who Shri Prabhupada was. For me ISKCON used to be a great looking temple, close to the beach. I then came to the UK and got this great opportunity to visit the London temple day before Janamastami. My experience was superb! I felt so great and welcomed, I got comp

vyuhas tritiyah pradyumnah priya-narma-sakho’bhavat
cakre lila-sahayam yo radha-madhavayor vraje
shri-caitanyadvaita-tanuh sa eva raghunandanah

The third member of the catur-vyuha, Pradyumna, took part in Radha Madhava’s lila in Vraja as Krishna’s intimate friend or priya-narma-sakha. He has now appeared as Raghunandan, whose body is not different from that of Chaitanya.
(Gaura-ganoddesha-dipika 70)

Raghunandan’s Father: Mukunda Das
Raghunandan was born into a family of physicians in the Shaka year 14

TEXT 27-28

sparsan krtva bahir bahyams
caksus caivantare bhruvoh
pranapanau samau krtva
nasabhyantara-carinau

yatendriya-mano-buddhir
munir moksa-parayanah
vigateccha-bhaya-krodho
yah sada mukta eva sah

SYNONYMS

sparsan--external sense objects, such as sound, etc.; krtva--keeping; bahih--external; bahyan--unnecessary; caksuh--eyes; ca--also; eva--certainly; antare--within; bhruvoh--of the eyebrows; prana-apanau--up-and down-moving air; samau--in suspension; krtva--doing so; nasa-abhyantara--within

Krsna consciousness is the consciousness of the spirit soul. That is reality. Therefore as the soul is eternally, his advancement in that consciousness, that also becomes an eternal asset. That will never be lost. Even if (he) falls down in this life, he could not execute cent percent the duties in Krsna consciousness, even he falls down, so whatever he has done in this life, that becomes a permanent asset. So that, from next life, he'll be given chance. In... In ordinary karmi's life, there is

Today all over India we are celebrating our 72^th Independence Day either by being with the family members or by going to movies, restaurants with friends and dear ones.  Also a large number of people feel Patriotic in this particular day and celebrate by honoring the freedom fighters who have sacrificed their lives to earn the freedom. So in this way Independence Day altogether is a day of Joy, Celebration, feeling Patriotic for most of the Indians.  

But very few questions, is this what Independ

 "Sadhusang sadhusang sarba sastra kaya

  Labe matra sadhusange sarba sidhi haya"

                                                                    Perhaps I got this chance unknowingly due to some sukriti of this or past birth & definitely a sadhusang happened to me & as a result of which I came across Prabhupad's  "ATMAVIGYAN" and read it at a stretch till end. By this time I had got some replies to many queries those arose in me often and I had never found appropriate replies thereto. This is

Neither attachment nor detachment. That is the primary stage. One has no very much attachment in the material affairs, but at the same time, he has no strong detach..., attachment for devotional service. This marginal state is called, what is that? Vaidhi-bhakti. Means he is offering devotional service under the instruction of the spiritual master as a professional. He has not developed the spontaneous love of God, Krsna, but he is obliged to serve under the instruction of the spiritual master.

In older times in a place known as Antarvedi, there lived a very intelligent Gardener whose name was Ravi. He has established a Tulsi Garden which he name as 'Vrindavan'. Along with that, in the same garden he had also sown plants of various other beautiful flowers of mallika, malti, jaati, bakul etc. He protected that Garden from four sides by very long and wide walls and made it very difficult for anyone to cross over it. In the inner part of the garden he has made his dwelling house in such a

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