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Quality in Chanting (2)

When you come to the quality, you will feel yourself, "Why sixteen? Why notsixteen thousand?" That is quality, automatically. Just like HaridasaThakura was doing. He was not forced to do. Even Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Herequested, "Now you are old enough. You can reduce." So he refused, "No. Upto the end of my life I shall go on." That is quality.Have you got such tendency that you will go on chanting and nothing to do?That is quality. Now you are forced to do. Where is the qu

Quality in Chanting (1)

Devotee (8): When chanting our sixteen rounds, we are not sure if these rounds are sincere...

Prabhupada: You should be sure.

Devotee (8): How can we be sure?

Prabhupada: There is beads.

Brahmananda: No, he's saying that when we chant our rounds, how can we be sure that when we chant the round that the round is a perfect, attentive round, sincere?

Prabhupada: Therefore it is sastra, "You must." There is no question of understanding.

Brahmananda: The quality of the chanting he's

This material world is full of distress, and both the ipus and impious are subject to it.  The cold of winter treats everyone alike.  It does not care for the pious or impious, the rich or the poor.  The difference between the pious and the impious, however, is that the pious man thinks of God when he is in his miserable condition.  Often when a man is distressed, he will go to church and pray, "Oh my Lord, I am in difficulty.  Please help me."  Although he is praying for some material necessity

Chanting Hare Krishna

Chanting Hare Krishna

The transcendental vibration established by the chanting of Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare is the sublime method of reviving our Krsna consciousness. As living spiritual souls we are all originally Krsna conscious entities, but due to our association with matter from time immemorial, our consciousness is now polluted by the material atmosphere. The material atmosphere, in which we are now living

ISKCON Jandelsbrunn Simhachalam - Haribol!

Call for help from all Yatra's! - Helpers and help needed this summer for the projects at ISKCON Jandelsbrunn Simhachalam

Two very big and important events at Jandelsbrunn Simhachalam/Narasimhadevas Farm and the whole German Yatra are awaiting us in September/October this year:
The first one is the 30th installation jubilee of Sri Sri Prahlad-Narasimha, which is going to be celebrated from 21th till 25th of September, including Radhastami-Festival. pThe

So because we are diminishing in everything, therefore our God consciousness is diminishing also. Therefore there are news word that "Personal God conception is diminishing." That is natural. Mudha. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, that one who does not accept the personal God, he is described in the Bhagavad-gita: mudha.

So God comes, God explains Himself. He leaves behind Him His instruction, Bhagavad-gita. Still... He says, "You try to see Me like this, see Me like that," raso 'ham apsu ka

Just Do It

(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)

The following is a transcription of the speech give by our beloved Guru Maharaja in Singapore in the ‘Bhaktavatsala youth class’ program, on the following verse from Srimad Bhagavatam 3.29.11-12:
mad-guna-sruti-maatrena
mayi sarva-guhaasaye
mano-gatir avicchinnaa
yathaa gangaambhaso 'mbudhau
laksanam bhakti-yogasya
nirgunas

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Once upon a time there was a painter who had just completed his course under disciple hood of a great painter. This young artist decided to assess his skills. He decided to give his best strokes on the canvass. He took 3 days and painted beautiful scenery. 
He wanted people's opinion about his caliber and painting skills.

He put his creation at a busy street-crossing. And just down below a board which read-"Gentlemen, I h

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It’s being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.

In some ways, the way we fail to listen is symbolic of the way we live. We often treat communication as if it were a race. It’s almost like our goal is to have no

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it’s like to be in someone else’s predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. 

Compassion is the recognition that other people’s problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own---often far worse. In recognizing this fact and

Srila Prabhupada Quote

"Now we have got so many students and so many temples but I am fearful that if we expand too much in this way that we shall become weakened and gradually the whole thing will become lost. Just like milk. We may thin it more and more with water for cheating the customer, but in the end it will cease to be any longer milk. Better to boil the milk now very vigorously and make it thick and sweet, that is the best process. So let us concentrate on training our devotees very th

Just as there are four types of miscreants who never surrender to Krsna, there are four types of fortunate men who worship Him, and they are categorized in the next verse :

catur-vidha bhajante mam

janah sukrtino 'rjuna

arto jijnasur artharthi

jnani ca bharatarsabha

"O best among the Bharatas [Arjuna], four kinds of pious men render devotional service unto Me-the distressed, the desirer of wealth, the inquisitive, and he who is searching for knowledge of the Absolute." (Bg. 7.16)

New Cookbook: Srimati's Vegetarian Delights

New Cookbook: Srimati's Vegetarian Delights

It our pleasure to introduce the release of this wonderful vegetarian recipe book: Srimati Vegetarian Delights. Vegetarianism is becoming more popular as many people are adopting a more holistic approach to life. Part of today's trend is also the acceptance of other cultures and traditions and as a result, a natural blending of cultures is occurring. We can see this in the kitchen as oriental spices are being u

Srila Prabhupada’s Appearance Predicted in the Scriptures

By Demian Martins
Srila Prabhupada’s appearance and accomplishments are a turning point not only in Gaudiya Vaisnavism, but in the very history of human civilization, so it is not surprising that they were predicted many centuries ago. In several ancient religious traditions, the sacred scriptures usually include passages or whole sections dealing with predictions. Some of these passages are marked by a veiled language and are often interp

2012 Open Vyasa-puja book now online

The 2012 edition of “Srila Prabhupada Tributes” the “open Vyasa-puja book” is now available for downloading as a PDF file here: www.sptributes.com.

Scriptural Injunctions

(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)

Our beloved Guru Maharaja is always insisting for us to seriously study the scriptures, understand them and put them into practice. We have not taken up the study of the scriptures with seriousness because we do not realize the consequences of ignoring the scriptural injunctions. Recently I was listening to a very

Dear Family,

Please accept my humble and respectful obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!! All glories to Sri Sri Guru Gauranga!!

Most of us, specially who lives outside India, are not quite fortunate to have much of Guru Maharaj's association. We may not have Guru Maharaj's personal association (vapu) but we can always associate through his words (vaani).

And I'm happy to share with you all that to facilitate this we have more then 15 exclusive websites up and running!! Thousands of d

Venue: Mayapur, Srimad Bhagavatam 4.24.59 at

                                        na yasya cittam bahir-artha-vibhramam

tamo-guhayam ca vishuddham avishat

yad-bhakti-yoga anugrihitam anjasa

munir vichaste nanu tatra te gatim

TRANSLATION

The devotee whose heart has been completely cleansed by the process of devotional service and who is favored by Bhaktidevi does not become bewildered by the external energy, which is just like a dark well. Being completely cleansed of all material contamination in t

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

A lady bought some bathing soaps from a shop. When she opened one of the packets, she found that it was empty. There was no soap in there; it was just an empty wrapper! She lodged a complaint against the manufacturer and got her claim. That being settled, there was a task before the management of the soap factory. How had this happened? How could they ensure that the incident did not occur again? They had suffered enoug

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

A group of frogs were traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. When the other frogs saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. The two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump up out of the pit with all their might. The other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs took heed to what the other frogs wer