In May 2011, Captain Pratima Dharm was appointed as the US Military’s first Hindu Chaplain. The move was groundbreaking for the 1,000 or so Hindus serving in the US military, as well as their families, who until then had lacked a military confidant who understood their religion and culture.
In a broader sense, it’s also significant for the one billion people around the world under the broad banner of ‘Hinduism,’ or as Chaplain Dharm prefers to put it, ‘Sanatan Dharma,’ including ISKCON devotees.
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Cultivating the Fabric of Devotion
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We were really fortunate to have the invaluable association of our beloved Guru Maharaj in Chennai from 12.02.2003 to 16.02.2003. Maharaj flooded the parched land of Madras with his nectarean Krsna katha. With His blessings, I shall share with you the nectarean instructions as far as my intelligence allows.
Maharaj was telling that wherever there is Krsna-katha or Krsna Kirtan, Krsna is personally p
Venue: Mayapur 2006
Hare Krishna!!! Everybody say Hare Krishna.Thank You. Thank you also for joining us once again. As we continue to narrate the pastimes of Guaranga, pastimes in connection with his visit to Vrindavan.
Yesterday! Was that yesterday?? Ok. Yes, it was yesterday. We did talk of how soon after taking sanayasa, first place he wanted to go to was Vrindavan.
“Where is Vrindavan??? Where is Vrindavan??? And as he inquired, he was misdirected. Even Supreme Lord could be misdirected, this w
Verse: Srimad Bhagavatam 10.16.39-40, 10.16.44-45.
These Nagpatnis are praying:-
“Namas tubhyam bhagavate purushaya mahatmane bhutavasaya bhutaya paraya paramatmane
Gyan-vigyan-nidhaye brahmane ananta-shaktaye agunayavikaraya namaste prakritaya cha
namah pramana-mulaya kavaye shastra-yonaye pravrittaya nivrittaya nigamaya namo namah
namah krishnnaya ramaya vasudeva-sutaya cha pradyumnayaniruddhaya satvatam pataye namah”
Like that they keep praying beautiful meaningful prayers, appropriate, befitting p
Krishna lifted Govardhan hill for seven days and seven nights, this is very very pleasing pastime to the residents of Vrindavan because this is one time, that they had opportunity to be with Krishna day and night, for seven days and seven nights. This is very rare. Normally, only for few hours, you get to be with Krishna and Krishna gets up and He is with his parents, Nanda, Yashoda and Rohini, only for few hours. He gets up, bathing, dressing and breakfast and He goes and then He is with the co
The 2012 Gaura Purnima Festival in Mayapur will be a little different than the previous ones. The first four days the focus will be on re-learning how to chant from the heart. The Kirtan Mela will be held with some of the world’s best kirtaniyas headed by Sacinandana Swami and Madhava Das. (More details on this particular aspect of the festival athttp://kirtanmela.org/)
Another new aspect is that on top of having free prasad for festival participants, there will also be free camping facilities (
Sutapa Das has compiled a small booklet entitled Bhagavad Gita A Short Summary in Acronyms. (Design & Graphics: Prasannatma Das Editing: Vrinda Kumari Devi Dasi, Publisher: The Bhaktivedanta Manor)
The book is free to download from here:http://sutapamonk.blogspot.com/2012/01/free-book-downlo.... Copies are also available at Bhaktivedanta Manor.
Eminent scholars, scientists and philosophers have recognised the profound wisdom that the Bhagavad-gita offers. Gandhi once commented, “When doubts haun
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Ratha Saptami or Magha Saptami is a Hindu festival that falls on the seventh day (Saptami) in the bright half (Shukla Paksha) of the Hindu month Maagha. It marks the seventh day following the Sun’s northerly movement (Uttarayana) of vernal equinox starting from Capricorn (Makara). It is symbolically represented in the form of the Sun God Surya turning his Ratha (Chariot) drawn by seven horses (representing seven colours) towards the northern hemisphere, in a north-easterly direction. It also mar
Practical Tips to Avoid Adhyatmic Miseries
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The following are some of the points from the pravachan of Maharaj regarding the remedy for our adhyatmic miseries:
Adhyatmic miseries are those miseries arising out of the body and mind particularly. Some diseases which come during the young age are clear and they are curable. But some of the limitations which come during the old age can never be cured. These diseases come to take us away. I
In Kali-yuga (the present age), materialism is rampant, knowing no bounds. The mind is flickering, restless, untamed, sick and perverse. A restless mind cannot meditate; an untamed mind is incapable of the performance of sacrifices and a sick, perverted mind is unfit for puja and worship. A diseased person cannot serve properly. Therefore, in the Kali-yuga, the only panacea for material misery is nama-sankirtana, the chanting of the Holy Names of Sri Hari. This is the medicine that Sri Bhagavan
So I, as spirit soul, I am individual, existing. I shall continue to exist as individual in this material world either as human being or as an animal or as demigod, or a tree, plants, fish, aquatics -- so many. Jalaja nava-laksani sthavara laksa-vimsati. So this is going on. This is material world. And if you go to the spiritual world, yad gatva na nivartante tad dhama paramam mama [Bg. 15.6]. The difference... What is the difference between the spiritual world and the material world? The differ
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Plan-Making For More Suffering
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Srila Prabhupada is showing us how the material intelligence is misused for more and more suffering in his lecture on 12/17/76 in Hyderabad on Bhagavad-gita 3.25:
saktah karmany avidvamso
yatha kurvanti bharata
kuryad vidvams tathasaktas
cikirsur loka-sangraham
yatha kurvanti bharata
kuryad vidvams tathasaktas
cikirsur loka-sangraham
There are two classes of men: vidvan - learned, and the fools - not learned, known as the fool. Human being, they are, of course, very intelligent
Punching Purports by Srila Prabhupada
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This tie of affection in terms of material relation is the relation of maya because the relations of the body or the mind are due to the influence of the external energy. Relations of the soul, established in relation with the Supreme Soul, are factual relations. When Kuntidevi wanted to cut off the family relation, she meant to cut off the relation of the skin. The skin relation is the cause of mate
The Vedas declare, that the colours embeded in the Sun rays cure all diseases.
These Seven rays, viz. 1. Red 2. Orange 3. Yellow 4. Green 5. Blue 6. Indigo 7. Violet, are the seven horses of Surya. We also see the same colours in the Rainbow.
The system of curing the diseases with the different colours of cosmic rays and its benefits are detailed.
This system of “Chromopathy” is the method of systematic application of the Seven colours present in Sun.
In this the health advantages and its pr
Temple Room Etiquette
Temple room etiquette is described in detail by Srila Prabhupada in his Nectar of Devotion.
Other Quotes from Srila Prabhupada
Another thing I request is that everything in the Temple should be kept nice and clean. Everyone should wash hands before touching anything of Krsna's. We should always remember that Krsna is the purest and similarly only the purest can associate with Him. Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
SP letter to Nandarani and Krsna Devi (October 4, 1967)
[In arcan
Etiquette in Management
ISKCON is a spiritual organization personally established by Srila Prabhupada. We must to take care that it doesn't become material. Anything (husband-wife relationship, Deity worship, even prasadam) can turn material by one's consciousness. In any Society, there must be some organization and management, otherwise there will be chaos. Even in the spiritual world, Krsna's friends are subdivided and supervised (Lord Balarama is group leader for his cowherd boy friends; Candr
Correcting Others
Devotee means he is able to tolerate all kinds of discomfort and whims of the material nature, and because he is too much absorbed in serving Krsna he takes no time to become angry or take offense with others or find out some fault. No. Devotee means very liberal and kind to everyone, always gentleman under all kinds of conditions of life.
SP letter to Hamsaduta (December 10, 1972)
01. There is a difference between criticism and correction. A devotee realizes that criticizing a Va
