Surrender means in any condition you'll remain surrendered. That is surrender. Not that I put my own condition, and if you satisfy me, then I shall... That is business. That is not surrender. Surrender means in any condition, fully surrendered to Krsna. Without hankering. What is hankering? Why shall I be hankering? I know, Krsna will give me all protection. So then why shall I hanker? Without hankering. Simple. No duplicity. Simple. The worldly men, they are duplicatous (?), speaking something,
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The Srimad Bhagavatam speaks of a great king named Yadu. Once when he was travelling through a forest he saw an Avdhut, a person who apparently was a social outcaste. He was laying in the forest like a python. From a material and from a social consideration, he was a failure. But Yadu, being a religious man, could see the person was bright faced and happy, more happy than anyone he had ever met. So he asked, “How is it that despite the poverty, you are so happy? Who is your guru? Where did you l
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Brahma-vaivarta Purana
Canto four, chapter seventeen, texts 217-220
tasya namantaram vrnda tad idam ca tapo-vanam
tena vrndavanam nama pravadanti manisinah
Another name of Tulasi is Vrinda. For this reason, the wise say that Vrindavan is named after Tulasi because she performed austerities there.
athava te pravaksyami param hetv-antaram srnu
yena vrndavanam nama punya-ksetrasya bharate
Please listen and I will tell you stil
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Do not accept paper currency. It must be gold or some metal worth. Just like one dollar, it must be worth one dollar metal. Then the economic problems are solved. But the government wants to cheat, so how can these problems be solved? Because if I pay you one dollar, I must pay you value for one dollar. But the cheating process is going on, "I pay you one dollar, a pi
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His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
I am so pleased to hear from you that the book distribution has increased five times than before! Similarly, I have heard from Chicago and other places also that they are increasing five times than before. That is very encouraging to me. You are, I can understand, very enthusiastic to endeavor for big things on Krishna's behalf, and all of the new students there at our
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Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami
Krishna has many forms:
avatara hy asankhyeya hareh sattva-nidher dvijah
athavidasinah kulyah sarasah syuh sahasrasah
The incarnations of the Lord are innumerable, like rivulets flowing from inexhaustible sources of water. [Bhag. 1.3.26]
In Brahma-samhita 5.46 it is said,
diparcir eva hi dasantaram abhyupetya
dipayate vivrta-hetu-samana-dharma
yas tadrg eva hi ca visnutaya vibhati
govindam adi-puru
Hare Krsna
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Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami
Garuda Meets Hanuman
In Dwarka, Krishna once sent for Garuda and told him, "Go and call Hanuman." So Garuda went to Hanuman and told him, "Lord Krishna is calling you to Dwarka." Hanuman was busy chanting rama-nama, "Rama, Rama, Rama, Rama." He didn't pay any attention to Garuda. Garuda repeated himself two or three times, "I have come from Dwarka. Lord Krishna has sent me. He is calling you.
Hare Krsna
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Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami
The Supreme Form
During his travels in South India, Mahaprabhu had some discussion with the tattva-vadisin Udupi. Although he didn't agree with the tattva-vadis,
Mahaprabhu accepted the Madhva sampradaya, which is known as the tattva-vadi sampradaya.
Why did he accept it?
sabe, eka guna dekhi tomara sampradaye
satya-vigraha kari' isvare karaha niscaye
— [Cc. madhya 9.277]
Mahaprabhu told them, "Yo
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Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami
The Conclusions of Mahaprabhu
aradhyo bhagavan vrajesa-tanayas tad-dhama vrndavanam
ramya kacid-upasana vrajavadhu-vargena ya kalpita
srimad-bhagavatam pramanam-amalam prema pumartho mahan
sri caitanya mahaprabhur-matam-idam tatradaro nah parah
It is the conclusive opinion of Lord Chaitanya that the most worshipable form of the Lord is that of Sri Krishna, the son of Nanda Maharaja. Vrindavan-dh
Should we suppress or express our emotions of sorrow when our fellow-devotees pass away in sudden tragedies?
By H.g.Gauranga Prabhu Chowpatty June 12, 2012
*Question*: When our fellow-devotees pass away in sudden tragedies, should we express or suppress our emotions of sorrow? Won’t expressing such emotions indicate that we have not understood that they are not their bodies and have actually not died? At the same time, won’t suppressing our emotions make us hard-hearted?
*Short Answer*: The path of
Help needed for Krishna Kishora das ACBSP
Hare Krishna!
We are appealing to all the assembled Vaishnavas to give financial help to one of Srila Prabhupada's few Argentinean disciples, Krishna Kishora Das. He has Cancer.
Krishna Kishora Das joint the Hare Krishna movement 1973 in Argentina. He received his first initiation from His divine grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada 1974 in Buenos Aires. The next year 1975, Krishna Kishora Das received his braminical initiation in Mexico personally by
BALANCE SHEET OF LIFE
The happiness of life is made of little things - a smile, a hug, a moment of shared
laughter - it's not the wealth you amass but what you give to others & the
lives you touch that you take with you for eternity!
Our Birth is our Opening Balance!
Our Death is our Closing Balance!
Our Prejudiced Views are our Liabilities
Our Creative Ideas are our Assets
Heart is our Current Asset
Soul is our Fixed Asset
Brain is our Fixed Deposit
Thinking is our Current Account
Achievements are
Prabhupada: This is significant. Those who are Krsna conscious, they have no material desires. Finished. Brahmany upasamasrayam. Upasama, upasama means completely finished, don't want. They can worship the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Otherwise, without being akama ... Akama means no material desires. Anyabhilasita-sunyam [BRS 1.1.11], completely. If we have got least desire for material enjoyment, Krsna will give us chance again to accept a body which will satisfy the senses. Deha-yogena deh
Taiwan Miracle Story
Yashoda Mata’s 85-year-old foster father passed away two months ago. During his stay in the hospital, Yashoda Mata prepared a tape recorder and played the Hare Krishna mahamantra all day long in his ward. Her foster father was actually in semi-coma, but miraculously when he heard the mahamantra, gradually he awoke and with closed eyes he appeared to enjoying the music and the sound vibration. He started to follow the tempo by tapping his hand on the edge of his bed. His finge
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वैष्णव जन तो तेने कहिये जे पीड पराई जाणे रे,
पर दु:खे उपकार करे तोये मन अभिमान न आणे रे,
सकल लोकमां सहुने वंदे निंदा न करे केनी रे,
वाच काछ मन निश्चल राखे धन धन जननी तेनी रे,
समदृष्टि ने तृष्णा त्यागी, परस्त्री जेने मात रे,
जिह्वा थकी असत्य न बोले, परधन नव झाले हाथ रे,
मोह माया व्यापे नहि जेने, दृढ़ वैराग्य जेना मनमां रे,
रामनाम सुताली लागी, सकल तीरथ तेना तनमां रे,
वणलॊभी ने कपटरहित जे, काम क्रोध निवार्या रे,
भणे नरसैयॊ तेनु दरस
Hare Krsna
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
We must study these relationships, mellows, from a neutral point of view. If you examine neutrally, the position of being the lover of Krishna is better than the position of a person who is in relationship with Krishna as a servant. Anyone — whether a servant, a father, or a lover of Krishna — they all consider their own relationship to be the best. But from a neutral
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Why does a Krishna-bhakta dutifully performs, *Nama-Japam* ( Recitation of Krishna's names) every day?
In this materialistic age Kali-yugam , *Nama-Japam* is the prescribed ritual for Bhagavan-realization . It is necessary to bath daily to remove the accumulated dirt from our body . Similarly, *Nama-Japam* cleanses the accumulated dirt in our heart .
Sri Krishna's names are non-different from Him . The very utterance
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I was sitting with a renowned Vedic Jyothishi . One NRI gentleman arrived there to meet the Jyothishi . He started narrating the severe problems he is encountering now – it included the recent loss of job, domestic problems, continuous bad luck , etc, etc.
After ritually verifying his horoscope , the Jyothishi asked "Do you have any habit of *Nama-Japam* ? " .
The NRI gentleman was stunned and shook his head vigrously .
In the beginning the body is the size of a pea. Then it grows to become a baby, then a child, a young boy, a youth, a grown man and an old man, and finally, when it becomes useless, the living entity changes into another body. The body is therefore always changing, and death is simply the ultimate change of the present body.
dehimo 'smin yatha dehe
kaumaram yauvanam jara
tatha dehantara-praptir
dhiras tatra na muhyati
"As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to
That is the conclusion. Here Srimad-Bhagavatam is recommending different demigods for different purposes because there are all classes of men. So to take immediate effect, they worship demigods. Ksipram, very soon. Generally, people do not go to worship Krsna and Visnu, because you cannot ask from Krsna anything which is not good for you. Suppose you pray to Krsna on the seaside, "Krsna, give me a good fish. I want to catch." Krsna will never fulfill your desire. That is Krsna's mercy. Because K
