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HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE ,

HARE RAM HARE RAM RAM RAM HARE HARE !!

One day Radha had a very possessive thought of Krishna. "My Krishna", she said to herself, as though one could possess Krishna as one could possess a calf, a jewel. Krishna, the Absolute Itself, immediately knew her thought. And when the absolute knows, the knowing itself, as it were, is the action of the act; things do not happen according to his wish, but his wish itself is his own creation of his wish,

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The unseen merciful hand of Lord Krsna helps a determined young student become one of Srila Prabhupada’s first Indian disciples. I was born in Aravade, a small village in the Indian state of Maharashtra that differs little from more than seven hundred thousand others in India. After I graduated from high school, my family sent me to Bombay to study chemistry in college. But my college career was not to be. In the year 1971, in late March, something happened to prevent me from following the progr

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Seven Stages of Purification

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By H.H. Radhanath Swami

ceto-darpana-marjanam bhava-maha-davagni-nirvapanam
sreyah-kairava-candrika-vitaranam vidya-vadhu-jivanam
anandambudhi-vardhanam prati-padam purnamrtasvadanam
sarvatma-snapanam param vijayate sri-krsna-sankirtanam

 

 

 

 

“Let there be all victory for the chanting of the Holy Name of Lord Hari, Lord Krishna, which can cleanse the mirror  of the heart and stop the miseries of the blazing fire of material existence. That chanting is the waxing moon  which spreads the white lotus of

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Seven Stages of Purification

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By H.H. Radhanath Swami

ceto-darpana-marjanam bhava-maha-davagni-nirvapanam
sreyah-kairava-candrika-vitaranam vidya-vadhu-jivanam
anandambudhi-vardhanam prati-padam purnamrtasvadanam
sarvatma-snapanam param vijayate sri-krsna-sankirtanam

“Let there be all victory for the chanting of the Holy Name of Lord Hari, Lord Krishna, which can cleanse the mirror  of the heart and stop the miseries of the blazing fire of material existence. That chanting is the waxing moon  which spreads the white lotus of good
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Upanishads in space

Upanishads in space

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Upanishads to fire Sunita Williams’ spiritual odyssey in space

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while she carried bhagavd gita in her last trip and now upanishad, let us keep one.....and carry one on our earthly trips and explore them.

spiritual odyssey

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Srila Rupa Gosvami’s advice in Bhakti-rasamrita-sindhu: “If possible, one should physically reside in Vrindavana.” Since any devotional service performed in Vrindavana yields a thousand times the result, one year of such service would yield the result of the same service done elsewhere for a thousand years. Thus if the average lifespan were taken to be eighty years, then one year of para-upakara-based pure devotional service done in the dhama would be equivalent to more than twelve lifetimes of
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Salted Bread

Salted Bread

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Sri Sri Guru Gaurangau Jayatah

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Recently, I read a book "Salted Bread", which speaks about difficulties and struggles of Krishna's devotees in the early days of our movement in the former Soviet Union. "Salted Bread" is a great source of inspiration for all book distributors who are daily meeting different challenges. It is especially effective for preaching to our rascal, ever complaining mind, because we can underst
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Radha's Mercy

Radha's Mercy

In short, the theology of Sri Radha is deep. The scriptures describe that one must go through many lives of pious acts, religious rituals, and yogic perfection before attaining the mercy of Sri Radha. And when one does, Krishna is not far off. In fact, it is through Sri Radha's mercy that Krishna becomes attainable.

Radha is Krishna's mercy incarnation, and through Her one can attain the culmination of the spiritual pursuit. Srila Prabhupada sums this up as follows:

"Radharani, You ar

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Shri Shri Radha Krishna Pastime ! Hari bol

HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HARE !

HARE RAM HARE RAM RAM RAM HARE HARE !!

One day Srimati Radharani was crying so much that she started to feel that she could not do anything about how she can’t resist her love for Krishna and Krishna’s allurement and she so cried: what shall I do? I know I am unchaste and a woman should not be unchaste but I, I should actually give up my body. I should die. It’s more useless being alive. in this life. By the arrangement of providence I got marr

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Footsteps of the Acharyas

Hare Krsna

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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The aula-sampradayabala-sampradaya, and others invented their own ways of understanding Lord Chaitanya's philosophy, without following in the footsteps of the acaryas. Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu himself indicates herein that all such attempts would simply spoil the spirit of his cult. (Caitanya-caritamrta madhya 1.271 purport.)

Devotional service means that one does no

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Thought Of The Day

So we are in such darkness, and the whole world is in such darkness. Yasyatma-buddhih kunape tri... They are taking this body as themselves. There are so many things... So Krsna consciousness movement will give them enlightenment and give them liberation, and we therefore request everyone to take advantage. Now, Krsna consciousness means... The simple thing is that you chant Hare Krsna. But if you think yourself as very learned, thoughtful man, and you want to understand through science and phil

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The Attitude of a Disciple

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Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada
 
Question: What is the mentality of a sincere disciple?
 
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta: Sincere disciples should be completely devoted to their guru. They should know their spiritual master to be as good as God and the only object of their love and devotion. "The spiritual master is my eternal master and I am his eternal servant." This is how a disciple thinks. Service to the spir
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Three Reasons for Criticism

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Srila Thakur Bhaktivinode
 
What are the faults of a vaisnava which when discussed constitutes vaisnava-aparadha?
To discuss the faults that may arise by chance in a vaisnava is an offense. The main thing is that the discussion or even consideration of these faults in a vaisnava is an offense to the holy name, etc.
Casting false blame on a vaiñëava and finding fault with a vaisnava for any of the following three reasons ar
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Krishna Arjun-The inseparable duo

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Often, some get the impression that Krishna is more inclined and partial towards girls than towards boys. Some come up with their imperfect conclusions that 'Krishna is for women'. Some are even baffled that how can a male fall in love with Krishna who is also a male. All these are material considerations. Love for Lord is totally on the spiritual platform, lying beyond the distinction between male and female. How Lord can be loved even while having a male body and how beautifully He reciprocate

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Distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books as they are ki jay!!

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Here is some sankirtan nectar: I was on my way back to the temple after distributing Srila Prabhupada's books at passing through the parking lot of the Greenacres shopping centre in Port Elizabeth. I approached a man standing next to one of those imported Japanese 4×4"s with a fancy looking trailer hooked-up to it. I introduced myself to him and presented Srila Prabhupada's books to him. He refused saying, that he did not read and that he

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Bhagavad Gita quiz contest in Pakistan

Bhagavad Gita quiz contest in Pakistan

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At the time of religious intolerance in Pakistan, shlokas from Bhagavad Gita reverberated at a school in Karachi during a quiz competition to test the knowledge of Hindu boys and girls about their religion, leaving the minority community having something to cheer about.

For months now the Hindu community in Pakistan's southern Sindh province has been complaining of bias and injustice over the issues of kidnappings and forced conversions but for a change they

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Determined Effort

Determined Effort

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Srila Prabhupada placed writing and publishing books as his highest priority knowing his followers would thus derive the greatest benefits. The Mayapur Institute (MI) now offers a 1½-year package beginning November 25, 2012, within which devotees can effectively tap these benefits and greatly increase their qualifications to advance by completing both the Bhakti-sastri and Bhaktivaibhava courses in the sanga of senior Vaisnavas.

When our Bhakti-sastri students begin studying The

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Thought Of tHE Day

The conditioned state of life means influence of material nature. When we are very much influenced by the material nature... We have already discussed: guna. Karanam guna-sango 'sya [Bg. 13.22]. Material nature means the three gunas, three material qualities: ignorance, passion and goodness. Goodness is better than the other two qualities, ignorance and passion. But mostly, especially in this age, they are conducted or influenced by the modes of ignorance and passion. People do not know what is

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