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"One who passes the Catumasya season without observing religious vows,austerities and chanting of japa, such a fool although living should be consideredto be a dead man." (Bhavisya Purana)"
In the month of Sravana (July , August) one should refrain from eating spinach.In th e month of Bhadra (August, September) of yogurt ,in Asvina (September, October) milk .In Karttika (October, November) meat and urad dahl." (Skanda Purana)
Visnu Rahasya (Lord Brahma to Narada Muni): "If one accepts all theseVai
हे गुरुदेव जय हो तिहारी
हम पर रहे कृपा तिहारी
भटक रहे थे हमे रास्ता दिखाया
प्रभ मिलने का रास्ता दिखाया
चरणों में आपके है दुनिया हमारी
हे गुरुदेव जय हो तिहारी
पतितपावन हे दीन बंधू
करुना निधान हो युगपुरुष आप
सबसे अलग है महिमा तिहारी
हे गुरुदेव जय हो तिहारी
चरणों में हमको जगह देदो गुरुवार
हमे अपनी किरपा का पातर बना लो
झोली फैलाये बेठे है हम तो
डारो हमपे भी इक नज़र करुनामई
हे गुरुदेव जय हो तिहारी
श्रधा के फूल भक्ति का भोग
जलाये ह्रद
Merciful Appearance of Lord Nrsimhadev in Our Life
Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Please accept our humble pranams! All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudev !!
Recently we had gone through a real nightmare which I would like to share with all of you as it is still fresh in my memory. On 29th May 2011, my wife (HG Shilpa devi dasi) who was at the 7 month of her pregnancy was hospitalized. At 2 am she had severe bleeding and I had to drive her to the hospital, which was 60 miles away in a nei
HDG. AC BhaktiVedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada
Sa vai manah krsna-padaravindayor vacamsi vaikuntha-gunanuvarnane [SB 9.4.18].
You engage your senses. So this is practice. First of all think of the Deity. First of all think of the lotus feet, then the knees, then the eyes, then the belly, then the chest. In this way, as you become practiced, then go further, advance. In this way, when you become fully practiced, then automatically, in whatever condition you are, you will be able to meditate upon Krs
 We had a very successful opening of the Japa Room yesterday....at one stage 26 devotees were in attendance and many good questions and comments were made in the chat room. One very good question was about the time when we should chant - someone asked is it OK to make up our rounds the next day if we had a busy day?....and another about chanting half our Japa quota before going to work and chanting the rest when returning home. It got me thinking about the importance of rising as early as possible
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Alexander, the great Greek king, after conquering many kingdoms, was returning home. On the way, he fell ill and it took him to his death bed. So, the mighty conqueror lay prostrate and pale, helplessly waiting to breathe his last.
He called his generals and said, "I will depart from this world soon, I have three wishes, please carry them out without fail." With tears flowing down their cheeks, the generals agreed to abide by their king's last wishes. "My first desire is that," said Alexand
Srila Prabhupada explains that, sleep is only to recover from the fatigue due to working hard. The devotees are meant to work very hard. Devotees must never be lazy. All the great acharyas condemn laziness. When we are lazy, we are just opening the doors for Maya to rush into our mind and take complete control. Therefore we must be very active, we must be very busy in hearing the glories of the Lord, in chanting the glories of the Lord and in rendering service by executing the instructions of t
Question: How Can Krishna Not Know His Potency? |
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Gurudeva, I request you to enlighten me on this phrase: "The wonderful potency of the Supreme Lord Krishna is bewildering even to the jugglers. That potential power is unknown even to the self-sufficient Lord, so it is certainly unknown to others." |
yamav utasvit tanayau prthayah
parthair vrtau paksmabhir aksiniva
remata uddaya mrdhe sva-riktham
parat suparnav iva vajri-vaktrat
yamau -- twins (Nakula and Sahadeva); utasvit -- whether; tanayau -- sons; prthayah -- of Prtha; parthaih -- by the sons of Prtha; vrtau -- protected; paksmabhih -- by the eyelids; aksini -- of the eyes; iva -- like; remate -- playing carelessly; uddaya -- snatching; mrdhe -- in the fight; sva-riktham -- own property; parat --
When Radhanath Swami and his friends asked the border guard the way to Istanbul, the guard pointed to a lonely country road. It stretched out into the darkness of the hilly, fertile country of Eastern Thrace. As they walked, Radhanath Swami saw for the first time the minaret of a stone mosque. The mosque’s dome and spires fascinated him and he was thrilled to see a place of God. There was no traffic on the road and Istanbul was still 150 miles away. What now? As they stood wondering how they wou
One last evening in Kandahar, while in a dim crowded tea stall, Radhanath Swami squatted on the floor with the locals. Suddenly everyone’s attention focused on a blind boy who stumbled in carrying a rustic wooden instrument with a single string nailed across it. He was perhaps sixteen years old, and like the others, wore soiled rags that loosely covered his emaciated body.
Radhanath Swami’s heart quaked—nothing covered his blinded, disfigured eyes. Despite his extreme poverty, he smiled radiantly
22nd annual Siliguri Ratha Yatra - 2011
Dear Devotees,
Please accept our humble obesiences. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
On Sunday, July 3, 2011,ISKCON Siliguri observed the twenty second annual Rathayatra Festival.
The Rathayatra began at 2:30 PM, the traditional time, at the ISKCON Temple premises. The Honorable Minister of West Bengal, Sri Goutam Dev, NB Dev.Dept. inaugurated the Rathayatra by performing arati to Their Lordships, Jagannath, Baladev and Subhadradevi, and then sweeping th
Mahaprabhu's mood at Ratha-yatra
At the beginning of the Ratha-yatra Festival, Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu offers a prayer to Jagannatha-deva, not to His form as Lord Jagannatha or Vasudeva-Krsna, but to His form as Vrajendra-nandana Sri Krsna:
jayati jana-nivaso devaki-janma-vado
yadu-vara-parisat svair dorbhir asyann adharmam
sthira-cara-vrjina-ghnah su-smita-sri-mukhena
vraja-pura-vanitanam vardhayan kama-devam
Srimad-Bhagavatam (10.90.48)
["Sri Krsna is He who is known as jana-nivasa, the ultimate reso
GUNDICA MANDIRA MARJANA
[Dear Readers,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga.
July 1, 2011 is the commemoration of Gundica Mandira Marjana, the cleaning of the Gundica Temple. Please accept this lecture excerpted from Srila Narayana’s Maharaja’s book, The Origin of Ratha-yatra.
Your aspiring servants,
The hari-katha team]
We should know that the Supreme Personality of Godhead is one without a second. He is the same God for the Christians, Muslims, Hindus, and a
Ghee Lamps in a Bag and the Lord in My Hands
Volume 11, Chapter 14
Feb 27, 2011
HH Indradyumna Swami Maharaj
In India I am always on the lookout for interesting puja items, so the other day in Jaipur, I visited the antique shop of Mr. Sharma, an old friend. As I walked in he greeted me and we sat down to talk.
“Do you have anything interesting for me?” I asked.
“Yes,” he said. “I’ve kept aside a few small items you can use for puja.”
“Great!” I said.
As Mr. Sharma looked through the desk drawers for t
unsophisticated devotees.
Buddhuram was an unsophisticated farmer in a small village in Gujarat. He
doesn't know anything. He could not read or write. One day Buddhuram went
home after tendering the calves and his wife was just complaining and
shouting at him. Buddhuram's wife always regretted marrying him. She said,
"After all his name is Buddhuram and on top of that he has no buddhi. He is
a highly silly man and only knows how to
1. Why do people insist on looking outside themselves for a reason for their life?
Note:
The real hunger is internal, and man is trying to satisfy it by externals. There is no satisfaction outside the satisfaction of the soul in its blissful relationship with the Super Soul Sri Krishna.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Satisfaction
Note:
The real hunger is internal, and man is trying to satisfy it by externals. There is no satisfaction outside the satisfaction of the soul in its blissful relationship with the Super Soul Sri Krishna.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Satisfaction
We deal mainly with externals, and have little capacity for spiritual subtleties
It is a challenge to us all to see beyond externals, abuses, and fall downs in order to see eternal Kr
It is a challenge to us all to see beyond externals, abuses, and fall downs in order to see eternal Kr
