Bhaktivedanta College - Summer 2012

1) NEW DEGREE APPROVED - FEW MORE SEATS STILL AVAILABLE
A panel from the University of Chester, England, validated the new Educational degree course by Bhaktivedanta College. It means that Bhaktivedanta College now has the green light to launch its three-year course. The program’s first year will run from September 17th, 2012 until June 2nd, 2013, while the entire three-year run will end sometime in June 2015. Eleven students have already registered for the deg

Sri Hanumanji’s temple at Akbar’s Fort

Fort was been attacked by 10,000 Vannars who were from the time of Valmiki Ramyan (9,00,000 years back) True Incident with historical & place proofs.

Akbar invited Sri Tulsidasji at Delhi, he respected Tulsidasji & made him sit on a chair higher than his, with soft voice Akbar said We heard you made a dead alive at Kashi & on the way towards Delhi you transformed one Princess to a Prince. Proves you are a great Magician & so please show some of your magic tri

Excellent Answer by HDG Sripad Namanandi Kirtanchandra Aindra dasa Babaji Maharaj

Devotee: Aindra prabhu Haribol, how are you?

Aindra Prabhu: How am I? Well, I guess at least if we look at it philosophically, I'm Satcitananda. Not only that but my body is not the soul. But this body has been in Vrindavan for 25 years, and every 7 years every cell in the body changes. So that means my body is made out of Vrindavan prasad 3 times over. so is Vrindavan prasad material of spiritual?

Devotee: Spiritual!

Bhagvat Gita Mahatmya (Glories) by Adi Shankaracharya

TEXT 1

gita-shastram idam punyam, yah pathet prayatah puman
vishnoh padam avapnoti, bhaya-shokadi-varjitah.

TRANSLATION

One who, with a regulated mind, recites with devotion this Bhagavad-gita scripture which is the bestower of all virtue, will attain to a holy abode such as Vaikuntha, the residence of Lord Vishnu, which is always free from the mundane qualities based on fear and lamentation.

TEXT 2

gitadhyayana-shilasya, pranayama-parasya ca
naiva s

So if you can simply engage your tongue chanting Hare Krsna and tasting krsna-prasadam, you become perfect. Simple thing. There is no difficulty. Whenever there is time, chant Hare Krsna. And when you feel hungry, take krsna-prasadam and live here peacefully. Don't talk rubbish. Then life is successful. Is there any difficulty We are, we are trying to give you krsna-prasadam. We are giving you chance to chant Hare Krsna. That is our duty. So you take advantage of it, and make your life successfu

Avoid Grabbing Tendency

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

Theistic Conduct

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

The following is the extract of the initiation lecture given by our Gurudeva in Rajkot 29/1/09 in which Maharaja speaks about the importance of Theistic conduct in our lives.

Even now we don’t understand the purpose of transcendental vibrations. Time and again it is proved and well tested that it works. Only it works and nothing else works. As a human being

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Once a young boy found a job in a barn. Everyday he had to remove all the cow dung, clean the whole place, feed, milk and bathe the cows, let them graze for sometime and tie them back in the shed. His employer was a very strict person. He would not tolerate even a minor slip-up and would punish anyone who failed at
his duty.
A new Ganesh temple was being built in the town. It was decided that the Ganesh idol should be tak

By Vrndavanlila Devi Dasi - Dr. Vrinda Baxi

This celestial cow is the mother of the entire universe [matrah sarva bhutanam / gavah sarv sukh prada], she can sustain the complete creation, she is dharma herself, in the form of milk she provides “liquid religiosity”, just by her service one attains dharma, artha, kama and moksha. She is so sacred that all the demigods, munis etc. have taken permanent place in her body, and whose even excreta is considered as gold. The panchagavyas (milk, curd, ghee

Today so many people are striving for peace in the world, but they do not know how to implement that peace formula.  The United Nations has been striving for peace for so many years, but still war is going on.

yac capi sarva-bhutanam

bijam tad aham arjuna

na tad asti vina yat syan

maya bhutam caracaram

"Furthermore, O Arjuna, I am the generating seed of all existences.  There is no being-moving or unmoving-that can exist without Me." (Bg. 10.39)

Venue: Los Angeles  So, Krishna is in front, they looked at Krishna. One more time, they gained confidence. They remembered how Bakasura, this asura was killed right in front of them, He will handle this is His homework and with that thing, they all entered. “Kara-tadanair” they started clapping and singing and calves, calves and cows also entered with their tails upraised there. So many of them running right inside the mouth of Aghasura. There are thousands of them, you know thousands of them.

Personally, the Supreme Personality of Godhead is teaching us. And He is ordering in the Bhagavad-gita, patram puspam phalam toyam yo me bhaktya prayacchati. He is mentioning especially vegetables, grains, fruits. But not that everyone can offer Krsna all these things. No. He says yo me bhaktya prayacchati. He does not accept anything from the hands of a non-devotee. Therefore the non-initiated student cannot offer Him. He doesn't accept. He says especially yo me bhaktya prayacchati. He must be

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur Prabhupada

If we adopt the path of renunciation, we can get freedom from the propensity for enjoying material life. But if we try to swallow the bait of renunciation like a fish, then our death is inevitable. When we face difficulty on the path of sense gratification, we take to discussions of literature like the Upanishads and other philosophical works to attain liberation. By stud

I was recently blessed with the opportunity to sit down and have a conversation with Dr. Cornel West -- a brilliant thinker and someone I have come to regard as a heartfelt friend and spiritual brother. Among the many profound things Dr. West spoke that evening at Princeton, one thing he said struck me deeply. "I am who I am," he said, "because someone loved me." As I reflected on his words, images of various mentors and teachers flashed in my mind. I thought of all the kind, loving souls who ha

INTRODUCTION

indriyanam hi caratam

yan mano 'nuvidhiyate

tad asya harati prajnam

vayur navam ivambhasi

tasmad yasya maha-baho

nigrhitani sarvasah

indriyanindriyarthebhyas

tasya prajna pratisthita

Bg 2.68

As a strong wind sweeps away a boat on the water, even one of the roaming senses on which the mind focuses can carry away a man's intelligence. Therefore, O mighty-armed, one whose senses are restrained from their objects is certainly of steady intelligence.

CORRECT TECHNIQUE FOR CONTROLLING THE MIND

Unless

Prahladpuri Temple, Multan

According to the opinion of some historians, Prahlada Maharaja was born in Treta-yuga in the city of Multan, in the state of Punjab. He was born of Hiranyakashipu, a king of the dynasty of Kashyapa. Prahlada Maharaja was a great devotee of Lord Vishnu, but his father was very much against Vishnu. Because the father and son thus differed in their consciousness, the demon father inflicted all kinds of bodily pain upon Prahlada. When this torture became intolerable, the Su

For instance, my hand can take pleasure when it is attached to my body and serves it.  It does not take pleasure in serving another's body.  Because we are part of Krsna, our pleasure is in serving Him.  "I cannot be happy serving you," everyone is thinking. "I can only be happy serving myself." But no one knows who the self is.  That self is Krsna.

mamaivamso jiva-loke

jiva-bhutah sanatanah

manah sasthanindriyani

prakrti-sthani karsati

"The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal,

My sincerest gratitude to all of you for so kindly taking your very precious time to be with us, today. I was given the subject to speak “In search of a Lost Love”. The most incredible discovery of my life was the simple truth that all our desires with the complex longing, gratification, and frustration have a single origin. Forgetfulness of love that is dormant within our hearts. Finding that love is our greatest need because it brings true fulfillment and that love can empower us to be instrum

July 13 & Scottish Churches College

On July 13 in 1830, Scottish Church College was founded (its name was different until 1908). It is the oldest continuously running Christian liberal arts and sciences college in India, well known for its beautiful campus, renowned faculty, robust intellectual milieu and its English Palladian architecture.

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Inspired by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, Reverend Alexander Duff set up this English-medium institution. Undertaking his evang

In the following conversation, Srila Sridhar Maharaj compares theistic beliefs with some Christian students from America.

Christian: Can you explain the Vaisnava viewpoint of Christianity?

Sridhar Maharaj: Christianity is incomplete Vaisnavism — not full-fledged, but the basis of devotional theism. We find the principle of “Die to live” there to a certain extent, at least physically. The Christians say that the ideal shown by Jesus is self-sacrifice. In our consideration, however, that is not full