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Prthu Maharaja Household life

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You all must be wondering that instead of discussing about brahmacharya why we have taken of the discussion of marriage and Grihasta. The reason being it is the Grihastas who sustain the other three orders that is Brhmacharya , Vanaprasta and sanyasa. Today in the world we hardly get to see a QUALIFIED Bramacharya, Vanaprasta or a Sannyasi. Mostly we com across cheaters and the cheated. How one can make spiritual progre
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The Real Peace Formula

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The great mistake of modern civilization is to encroach upon others' property as though it were one's own and thereby create an unnecessary disturbance of the laws of nature. These laws are very strong. No living entity can violate them. Only one who is Krishna conscious can easily overcome the stringent laws of nature and thus become happy and peaceful in the world.

As a state is protected by the department of law and or

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Is Religion different from Spirituality?

Is Religion different from Spirituality?

Answer by Radhanath Swami: If we try to understand the actual meaning of religion, we will find that there is no difference. But if we view the way religion is often followed in the world today, there is a big difference. The word religion comes from the Greek word religio, which means ‘to bind back’ or ‘to reconnect’—to reconnect our hearts, our consciousness, with God. The word Yoga means exactly the same—to reunite the atma with the Paramatma, to reconn

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 1.19

TEXT 19
sa ghoṣo dhārtarāṣṭrāṇāṁ
hṛdayāni vyadārayat
nabhaś ca pṛthivīṁ caiva
tumulo 'bhyanunādayan
SYNONYMS
saḥ—that; ghoṣaḥ—vibration; dhārtarāṣṭrāṇām—of the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra; hṛdayāni—hearts; vyadārayat—shattered; nabhaḥ—the sky; ca—also; pṛthivīm—the surface of the earth; ca—also; eva—certainly; tumulaḥ—uproarious; abhyanunādayan—by resounding.
TRANSLATION
The blowing of these different conchshells became uproarious, and thus, vibrating both in the sky and on the earth, it shattered the hearts of
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Material pleasure means sex pleasure.

Pradyumna: What is that type of pleasure that is material pleasure, that a person feels engaged in material pursuit. He feel some kind of pleasure. It's not very much pleasure, but it's some pleasure. What is that pleasure made of? Because if he is enjoying sense gratification...

Prabhupāda: That is pleasure. That is material pleasure. Material pleasure means sex pleasure. That's all. The end of material pleasure, the topmost material pleasure, is sex pleasure. So all these materialists, they are

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2514882312?profile=originalMaharaja sings: Aum Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya. Sri Sri Radha Rasbhihari ki jay. Srila Prabhupada ki jay. Grantharaj Srimad Bhagavatam ki jay. Verse 5: pracetasa uchuh svagatam te surarshe ‘dya dishtya no darshanam gatah tava cankramanam brahmann abhayaya yatha raveh Translation: All the Pracetas began to address the great sage Narada: O great sage, O brahmana, we hope you met with no disturbances while coming here. It is due to our great fortune that we are now able to see you. By the traveling

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FAQs about Srimad Bhagavad Gita

What is the Bhagavad-Gita?

The Bhagavad-Gita is the eternal message of spiritual wisdom from ancient India. The word Gita means song and the word Bhagavad means God, often the Bhagavad-Gita is called the Song of God.

Why is the Bhagavad-Gita called a song if it is spoken?

Because its rhyming meter is so beautifully harmonic and melodious when spoken perfectly.

What is the name of this rhyming meter?

It is called Anustup and contains 32 syllables in each verse.

Who originally spoke the Bhagavad-Gita?

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"It Is Also Vedic Literature"-Srila Prabhupada

Pradyumna: "...by the conditioned soul. Thus God is all-good, and God is all-merciful. Antah pravistah sasta jananam. The living entity forgets as soon as he quits his present body, but he begins his work again, initiated by the Supreme Lord. Although he forgets, the Lord gives him the intelligence to renew his work where he ended his last life. So not only does the living entity enjoy or suffer in this world according to the dictation from the Supreme Lord situated locally in the heart, but he

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Thought Of The Day

Krsna said that "The living entities, they are My part and parcel. They are as good as I am." But because the part and parcel of gold is also gold... It is nothing else. It may be small gold, but it is gold. Similarly, we may be very small fragmental part of the Supreme Person, Brahman, but we are Brahman. This is Brahman. Aham brahmasmi. This is Brahman realization. It is not very difficult. If you simply understand that "I am part and parcel of Krsna," that is Brahma-jnana. Brahma-bhutah prasa

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God, the master scientist

The Story of Isaac Newton

 

There is a wonderful incident in the life of Sir Isaac Newton that goes to show how he was a strong believer of God. Newton had a small-scale model of the solar system, which, on completion, was installed on a large table in his home. The artisan had done a fine job, simulating not only the various sizes of planets and their relative proximity, but also constructing the model in such a manner that everything rotated and orbited when a crank was turned.

 

One day, one of N

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Joy of Surrender

When a person surrenders to his enemy then he loses all his glory. The surrender is too painful for him. But when one surrenders to the will of the Lord then the surrender is not painful but it’s joyful. It brings joy to both – the Lord and the one who surrenders to him.

Every one of us has to surrender to Lord at some point of time. The decision is ours. We have to decide when we want to surrender. If we do not surrender to Krishna willingly then at the time of death we will be forced to surrend

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Greetings from Annamrita!

 

We are excited to inform you that we are participating in the India Giving Challenge 2012! The India Giving Challenge is an event under the Joy of Giving Week - a platform for all Indians across the country and abroad to celebrate the joy of giving. It is an online fund raising marathon where winners get an amount equivalent to the funds collected during the challenge. We need your support to win this race!

 

Today, we are feeding a nutritious and delicious lunch to 1.2 m

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg 1.16-18

TEXTS 16-18
 
anantavijayaṁ rājā
kuntī-putro yudhiṣṭhiraḥ
nakulaḥ sahadevaś ca
sughoṣa-maṇipuṣpakau
 
kāśyaś ca parameṣv-āsaḥ
śikhaṇḍī ca mahā-rathaḥ
dhṛṣṭadyumno virāṭaś ca
sātyakiś cāparājitaḥ
 
drupado draupadeyāś ca
sarvaśaḥ pṛthivī-pate
saubhadraś ca mahā-bāhuḥ
śaṅkhān dadhmuḥ pṛthak pṛthak
 
SYNONYMS
 
ananta-vijayam—the conch named Ananta-vijaya; rājā—the king; kuntī-putraḥ—the son of Kuntī; yudhiṣṭhiraḥ—Yudhiṣṭhira; nakulaḥ—Nakula; sahadevaḥ—Sahadeva; ca—and; sughoṣa-maṇipuṣpakau—the conches named Sughoṣa
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An Old Love Revived

An Old Love Revived
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by Mahatama dd

While staying in Stratford, Connecticut, employed as a care-giver, I try to go out every weekend to do some book distribution. Sometimes I went to New York City with some Gitas. One cold morning I arrived at the Metro North Station in Stratfordand and spotted a nice young Indian gentleman. My first thought was "He could be a good prospect to receive a Gita." But then I noticed he was smoking a cigarette, so I decided to wait for a while, not wanting to approach h

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Announcement from Bhaktivedanta College BBT Vrindavan

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Dear devotees, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

We are happy to announce that the Sixth Bhagavata Sastri course at Srimad-Bhagavatam Vidyapitham is now open for admission.

Srimad-Bhagavata Vidyapitham, the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust's Sanskrit school is now located in Sri Vrindavan after the departure of H.G Gopiparanadhana Prabhu. The school is still going strong under the guidance of senior devotees and is in

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Thought Of The Day

So we have come to this material world. Krsna is always anxious to get us back to home, back to Godhead. Therefore He comes. Yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati [Bg. 4.7]. What is that dharma? That dharma is not this dharma, Hindu dharma, Mussulman dharma. No. That dharma is sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66]. That's... So in this way, our position, although we are both in this material world, one is the controller; one is the controlled. And the one who is controlled

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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 


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dyūtaḿ chalayatām asmi
tejas tejasvinām aham
jayo 'smi vyavasāyo 'smi
sattvaḿ sattvavatām aham

TRANSLATION
I am also the gambling of cheats, and of the splendid I am the splendor. I am victory, I am adventure, and I am the strength of the strong.

PURPORT
There are many kinds of cheaters all over the universe. Of all cheating processes, gambling stands supreme and therefore represents Kṛṣṇa. As the Supreme, Kṛṣṇa can be more de
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curriculum_ISO.jpg?width=150Sri Isopanisad one of the 108 principal Vedic scriptures known as the Upanisads. Sri Isopanisad is a conceptual text, rather than a description of the Lord's pastimes. Reading and studying this book is meant to advance one's view of life; to teach one how to re-spiritualize every endeavor of one's actions.

Teacher: Raghupati Dasa

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Mathematician Richard L. Thompson discovered evidence for extremely early astronomical observations in India. Six traditional Indian astronomical texts (the Surya-siddhanta, the Paitamahasiddhanta of the Visnudharmottara Purana, the Brahmagupta-siddhanta, the Lalla Tantra, the Damodariya B. Tulya, and the Graha-laghava) provide polar longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates for 35 stars. But these coordinates differ from modern coordinates for these stars by a significant amount. Dr. Thompson wr

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