Its seven days since the departure of one of the most beloved disciples of Srila Prabhupada, Her Grace Srimati Yamuna devi dasi on December 20 2011 in Melbourne Florida, Saphala Ekadasi. I have been musing on what to write, thinking that I could never say enough to properly glorify and appreciate such a great soul. There aren’t enough superlatives to adequately convey the respect and deep loving regard that Yamuna devi commanded by her purity, humility, deep devotion, personalism and precise ab
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A devotee should be fixed in the conclusion that, the spiritual master cannot be subject to criticism and should never be considered equal to a common man.
By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
Protecting Ourselves from The Effects of Maya
(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)
The following is an excerpt from the lecture given by our Guru Maharaja H.H. Mahavishnu Goswami on 14.12.2006 on Srimad Bhagavatam 11.7.4 at Sri Sri Radha-NeelMadhav Dham, Rajkot.
yarhy evaayam mayaa tyakto
loko 'yam nasta-mangalah
bhavisyaty aciraat saadho
kalinaapi niraakrtah
O saintly Uddhava, in the near future I will abandon this earth. Then, being overwhelmed by the age
today i got very meaningful slogan
"To give you everything almighty god is ready,
but you have spoon & u demanding the sea "
Meaning of Initiation
(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)
Maharaja continued, "First of all Srimad Bhagavatam 1.17.38 should be clear in our mind.
suta uvaaca
abhyarthitas tadaa tasmai
sthaanaani kalaye dadau
dyutam paanam striyah sunaa
yatraadharmas catur-vidhah
Suta Gosvami said: "Maharaja Parikshit, thus being petitioned by the personality of Kali, gave him permission to reside in places where gambling, drinking, prostitution and animal s
"According to one's taste and strength, hearing, chanting and remembrance may be followed by pada-sevanam. One obtains the perfection of remembering when one constantly thinks of the lotus feet of the Lord. Being intensely attached to thinking of the Lord's lotus feet is called päda-sevanam. When one is particularly adherent to the process of pada-sevanam, this process gradually includes other processes, such as seeing the form of the Lord, touching the form of the Lord, circumambulating the fo
Gaura-gopala mantra-mantra composed of the four syllables ra-dha-krs-na.
Gaura Mantra the four syllable mantra is ”gau-ra-an-ga”
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura explains the Gaura-gopala mantra in his Amrta-pravaha-bhasya. Worshipers of Sri Gaurasundara accept the four syllables gau-ra-an-ga as the Gaura mantra, but pure worshipers of Radha and Krsna accept the four syllables ra-dha krs-na as the Gaura-gopala mantra. However, Vaisnavas consider Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu nondifferent from Radha-Krsna
Peace, Opulence and Bliss
(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)
Many of us have heard the wonderful explanations and realizations given by our beloved Guru Maharaja on the song ‘Jaya Raadha Maadhava’. I was fortunate to hear one of them and I have tried my best to transcribe the same for all our pleasure. I can never convey the mood of Maharaja through my writing which is full of inebrities and I very much apologise for the same.
The kirtans
Perfect society is Krsna consciousness. If you accept Krsna as the center... Just like in a family if you accept the head of the family, your father, as the guiding principle, the family's happy. And if you disrupt with the opinion of the father, somebody goes away, somebody's not happy, the family is disturbed. Similarly, if you agree with the instruction of Krsna and God, the whole human society will be peace and prosperity. If you don't agree, disagree, don't agree, disagree, then it is disru
His Grace Jananivas Prabhu, the pujari of Sri Mayapur | the Spiritual Capital of the World Sri Sri Radha Madhava Temple, shares His intimate relation with the Deities.
His very deep understanding of the Deity worship and his touching devotion is truly inspiring.
The standard of deity worship is devotion. The standard is when people come to see the Deities they faint!
The Deities are the source of life for the devotees. Can you imagine coming to the temple for mangala-arati and there’s no deities?
To a vaisnava, material comfort is something he detests. And his constant anxiety is how to become Krsna Conscious, how to remember the lord always, how to utilize everything for the lord, and how to help the lord fulfil his mission.(Srimad Bhagavatam 4.18.7),
By H.H. Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj
The following prayers are recited by the senior most devotee everyday in morning after samsara prayers. The chorus responds after every sentence.
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Jaya Om Vishnu-pada paramahamsa parivrajakacharya ashtottara-shata Shri Srimad His Divine Grace Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Maharaja Prabhupada ki …….
Chorus: Jai
“All glories to the acarya Om Vishnupada 108 Tridandi Goswami A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, who travels across the earth preaching the glories of Hari and who is situated on the hig
28 December 2011
Mumbai, India
On 28 December 2011, the court in the Siberian city of Tomsk dismissed the state prosecutor's stand that the "Bhagavad Gita As It Is" be branded as an "extremist" literature. The case had been going on in the Tomsk city court since June 2011. The Government of India and the Russian Embassy in India took up the matter with the Russian Government.
It shall be recalled that the court case in Tomsk sparked international outrage as the Prosecutor's Office filed the case in
A Russian court has dismissed a call to ban an edition of the Hindu holy book Bhagvad Gita, in a case that triggered protests in India.
Prosecutors in the Siberian city of Tomsk wanted the edition to be ruled “extremist”. That would put it in the same category as Hitler’s Mein Kampf.
The Russian foreign ministry said it was the commentary on the text, not the text itself, that was under scrutiny.
The edition - Bhagvad Gita As It Is - is used by the Hare Krishna movement.
A lawyer representing th
Dear Maharaja's and Prabhu's
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
The court in the Siberian city of Tomsk today dismissed the state prosecutor's stand that the "Bhagavad Gita as-it-is" be branded as an "extremist" literature. The case had been going on in the Tomsk city court since June 2011. The Government of India and the Indian embassy of Moscow as well took up the matter with the Russian Government.
ISKCON expresses its gratitude towards the Government of I
Sri Radha, Manjari Bhava, and Bhavollasa Rati
Gaudiya Vaishnavas are fond of chanting “Jaya Radhe!” Love of Radha, Sri Krishna’s principle consort, is central to this theistic school of Vedanta. Such love is described as the brightest jewel of sacred aesthetic rapture,unnatojjvala rasa. This love is accessible to devotees following in the footsteps of Sri Rupa Goswami both in terms of his teaching onbhakti rasa in general and in terms of his own personal ideal of sacred ae
Vishnu sahasranama is the essence of the Mahabharata. Mahabharata also confirms the Lord’s appearance in the Kali-yuga as Sri Caitanya as follows:
suvarna-varno hemango
varangas candanangadi
sannyasa-krc chamah santo
nistha-santi-parayanah
The Lord (in the incarnation of Gaurasundara) has a golden complexion. Indeed, His entire body, which is very nicely constituted, is like molten gold. Sandalwood pulp is smeared all over His body. He will take the fourth order of spiritual life (sannyasa) and
Here's a video that keep me mesmerized always.
Isn't it beautiful?
Here's the meaning of the Sanskrit lyrics:
prasanna vadanaaM saubhaagyadaaM bhaagyadaaM
who is of smiling face, bestower of all fortunes
hastaabhyaaM abhayapradaaM maNigaNair
whose hands are ready to rescue anyone from fear
naanaavidhair-bhuushhitaaM
who is adorned by various ornaments with precious stones
In Tomsk, there's angst;
About a Scripture in fame,
That man goeth against;
Truth, is verily a shame.
"Consign to Siberia",
Oft' heard as nowhere;
But with a new criteria;
'tis here now somewhere !
'Cos to ban they chose,
The Gita - a love tale;
Then Of souls there arose;
In India, a gale !
To surrender soul and mail,
For pure Love is amiss,
The Gita doth detail;
'Cos religions' no bliss !
How be it extreme ?
For a father's such care;
Now, He is the Supreme,
& In Love 'tis all fair.
Extremist notion,
prosecutors foi
Govindadas Kaviraj (c 1535-1613) Vaisnava poet, contemporary of Chaitanyadev, born in the village of Teliabudhuri in Murshidabad district, West Bengal, son of Chiranjib, a follower of Chaitanyadev.
Govindadas came from a literary family: his maternal grandfather, Damodor Sen, was the writer of Sangeet Damodar, and his brother, Ramchandra Sen, used to write poems in Bangla and Sanskrit. Both Ramchandra and Govindadas were initiated intovaisnavism by Sreenivas Acharya. After his initiation, Govinda
