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Why Do We Have To Chant?

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 6, 2011 at 8:40am

A good question and one that sometimes remains lodged in our subconcious mind - lingering with us like a dark cloud when we wake up in the early morning.

We chant because our soul needs the purification of Krsna's association - we are trapped here in this body, thinking we are this person or that person....an American, Indian, Australian etc. By associating with Krsna through serious Japa - concentrated and precise - then we can feel His spiritual energy and we see a clear path ahead of us on our

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Is Global Islamization Anti-Krishna?

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 6, 2011 at 8:39am

Question: Is Global Islamization Anti-Krishna?

Dear Gurudeva, All glories to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and Sri Krishna Caitanya! Can you please clarify this for me: What is the difference between worldwide Islamization and Krishna consciousness globalization? I.O.

Answer: Not If It Is Genuine Islam.

Since the real meaning of Islam is submission to the will of God and obedience to His law, global Islamization and Krishna conscious globalization are exactly the same thing. B

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Duties Of The Body And Soul.

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 6, 2011 at 8:38am

73/09/01 London, Bhagavad-gita 2.31.

sva-dharmam api caveksya
na vikampitum arhasi
dharmyaddhi yuddhac chreyo 'nyat
ksatriyasya na vidyate
[Bg. 2.31]

"Considering your specific duty as a ksatriya, you should know that there is no better engagement for you than fighting on religious principles; and so there is no need for hesitation."

Prabhupada: Sva-dharmam. Sva means "own." And dharmam means "occupation." Dharma means occupation and... (to Pradyumna:) You finished?

Pradyumna:

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Preaching at Tarrawarra abbey -1

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 6, 2011 at 8:37am

Preaching at Tarrawarra abbey -1

Srila Prabhupada had been invited to speak that evening at a Cistercian Monastery in the small town of Yarra Glen. In the religious house, known as Tarrawarra Abbey, lived an enclosed Roman Catholic order of monks that originated from Europe in the eleventh century. A monk who resided at the abbey, Father Daniel, had been associating with Upananda for some time and had been reading Srila Prabhupada's Bhagavad-gita As It Is. It was Father Daniel who had suggested t

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 12

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 6, 2011 at 8:37am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 12
parthams tu devo bhagavan mukundo
grhitavan saksiti-deva-devah
aste sva-puryam yadu-deva-devo
vinirjitasesa-nrdeva-devah

parthan -- the sons of Prtha (Kunti); tu -- but; devah -- the Lord; bhagavan -- the Personality of Godhead; mukundah -- Sri Krsna, who awards liberation; grhitavan -- has taken up; sa -- with; ksiti-deva-devah -- the brahmanas and the demigods; aste -- is present; sva-puryam -- along with His family; yadu-deva-devah -- worshiped by the

"Never mind how hard you fall, always remember to pick yourself up and get back on your feet."

Posted by Aathira on June 5, 2011 at 10:06am

Inspiring One!!!!! Hope u will like it....

"Never mind how hard you fall, always remember to pick yourself up and get back on your feet."

Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Matajis,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada .

Failures are stepping stones to success. But in reality it becomes very difficult for us to face repeated failures. We may face one or two failures, but when there are setbacks in every walk of life, then we tend to become morose and our morale goes down

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Krishna's Pet Animals, Cows and Birds

Posted by Gourab Saha on June 5, 2011 at 8:30am

Krishna's Pet Animals, Cows and Birds

Krishna and Balarama Milking the Cows

"Mother Yasoda would then address Nanda Maharaja, "See my dear son, whose eyes are white, who has a turban on His head, a wrapper on His body and leg bells which tinkle very sweetly on His feet. He is coming near, along with His surabhi calves, and just see how He is wandering upon the sacred land of Vrindavana!" Nectar of Devotion, Chapter 43

"The cows in Krishna's abode are also liberated souls. They are called surabhi co

Do For The Pleasure Of Krishna...

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on June 4, 2011 at 1:49pm

The reading of Bhagavad-gita and chanting Hare Krishna doesn’t mean you have to abandon professional life, it doesn’t mean you have to abandon professional ambitions. No, you can go ahead and go for your education as high as you want. You can go ahead and be as ambitious in your professional career. But do it for the pleasure of Krishna. If we work for the pleasure of the lord, even if we be in the material world, we will be free from the ill-effects of the illusory energy.

(Gopal Krishna Goswa

Exercise the strength of our combined force

Posted by shanti yadav on June 4, 2011 at 10:00am

Exercise the strength of our combined force

Dear Seventh-Goswami team member,

We are very happy that you are a part of this blissful team of book distributors. Membership is growing by the minute as people from all over the world are joining!

This is an historical event meant to do the highest good for all the people of the world. The Gopis, in their famous prayers called, “Songs of Separation,” say the following:

“The nectar of Your words and the descriptions of Your activities are the life a

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Anything & Everything Except Krsna!

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 4, 2011 at 8:37am

Being a senior member of a self interest group (called Gita Reading Group)
at our office, many a times, I had the opportunity for inviting & sending
out reminders to the relatively newer members, thanking them for their
participation and also inquiring about the reasons for their not being able
to make it for the meeting.

Everyone of us that failed to make it in time or not at all for this
meeting always had some reason or argument favoring their cause but, the
stark truth is: "We Want Anything & Every

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Severe pain of birth

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 4, 2011 at 8:36am

Kali Gandaki river Course

Ultimately, all the miseries are summarized in four things: the misery of birth... We do not... We have forgotten how much miserable condition we passed during our stay in the womb of mother, in a suffocated condition. You just imagine. Some of you might have seen the picture how the child remains within the womb of the mother. It is air-tight packed. And there are many germs who are biting the delicate skin of the child. And when the child is little grown up, at seven m

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Killing is no solution for population

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 4, 2011 at 8:35am

Surya Kund view

Killing is no solution for population but further miseries

Harikesa: Well we can solve the problem of birth by just killing all the children.
Prabhupada: (laughing) That is not solving, the birth is already there, therefore you are killing. (everyone laughing)
Aksayananda Swami: Birth is still there.
Prabhupada: No. Because there is birth therefore you are killing. So birth problem is not solved.
Harikesa: No, no, no. We're killing before birth.
Prabhupada: What is this before birth. Th

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Nice Thought (Kadamba Kanada Swami, 2001)

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 4, 2011 at 8:34am

Prabhupada said:“Lord Krishna is acyuta – he is infallible. Acyuta – being infallible he will never fall down!”

But the living entity is potentially a spark – Krishna is fire and the living being is like spark. So a spark due to its insignificance, when it is in contact with the fire will also burn like fire! But, when it is not in contact with the fire then it will no longer burn like fire and will become extinguished. So, potentially the living being can extinguish its natural Krishna Conscious

Beware of Kali!

Posted by Ravi Chandran on June 3, 2011 at 3:21pm

“As the Krishna consciousness movement progresses, Kali will constantly send agents to disturb the preaching, to deviate the preachers, or steal the responsible devotees and engage them in some other activity outside of the bona fide Krishna Consciousness movement.All kinds of destructive influences – too many to name – will try to disrupt the preaching. Especially those in the role of watchman must be vigilant and stop such dangerous contamination from entering and harming the market. (market p

Mercy......

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on June 3, 2011 at 12:18pm

Prabhupada said “ When you give Krishna, you get Krishna.” Give Krishna means- giving people transcendental knowledge and then you get Krishna’s mercy. That mercy is in the form of determination. You become more determined that “I am going to push on spiritual life come what may.”

(Gopal Krsna Goswami, S.B. 3.6.29-30, 6/8/1993, Montreal)

Prabhupada on Gossiping

Posted by Ravi Chandran on June 3, 2011 at 10:11am

Your suggestion that the devotees visiting Vrindaban engage in preaching and chanting and not in gossiping is very good. We have sacrificed our life for Krsna's service, where is the scope for sleeping and gossiping? You can see in my example, not a single moment is wasted.Letter to Gurudas, February 5, 1977

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Why the Lord created us?

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 3, 2011 at 9:32am

labdhvā su-durlabham idaḿ bahu-sambhavānte

mānuṣyam artha-dam anityam apīha dhīraḥ

tūrṇaḿ yateta na pated anu-mṛtyu yāvan

niḥśreyasāya viṣayaḥ khalu sarvataḥ syāt

TRANSLATION

After many, many births and deaths one achieves the rare human form of
life, which, although temporary, affords one the opportunity to attain
the highest perfection. Thus a sober human being should quickly
endeavor for the ultimate perfection of life as long as his body,
which is always subject to death, has not fallen down and died

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Twin children

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 3, 2011 at 9:30am

Adyatmika Kalesha even in the womb of a mother

Twins Kripacharya and Kripi

Krpacarya is the son of the great Rsi Sardban and was born in the family of Gautama. The birth is said to be accidental. By chance, the great Rsi Sardban met Janapadi, a famous society girl of heaven, and the Rsi Sardban discharged semina in two parts. By one part immediately a male child and by the other part a female child were born as twins. The male child was later on known as Krpa, and the female child was known as Krp

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Red Shifts and the Expanding Universe

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 3, 2011 at 9:29am

Red Shifts and the Expanding Universe

In this chapter we enter into the domain of extra-galactic cosmology and discuss the big bang theory and the evidence for an expanding universe. We illustrate how scientists construct theoretical models that are mistaken for reality by millions of people who encounter them in authoritative textbooks and in popular presentations. We show, however, that even within the narrowly defined domain of astrophysics, new observations may arise that fundamentally challe

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Don't Give Up, but Get Up!

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 3, 2011 at 9:27am

Inspiring One!!!!! Hope u will like it....

"Never mind how hard you fall, always remember to pick yourself up and
get back on your feet."

Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Matajis,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and
Srila Gurudeva.

Failures are stepping stones to success. But in reality it becomes very
difficult for us to face repeated failures. We may face one or two
failures, but when there are setbacks in every walk of life, then we
tend to become morose and our morale g

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Why Do We Have To Chant?

Is Global Islamization Anti-Krishna?

Duties Of The Body And Soul.

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Preaching at Tarrawarra abbey -1

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 12

"Never mind how hard you fall, always remember to pick yourself up and get back on your feet."

Krishna's Pet Animals, Cows and Birds

Krishna's Pet Animals, Cows and Birds

Krishna and Balarama Milking the Cows

Do For The Pleasure Of Krishna...

Exercise the strength of our combined force

Anything & Everything Except Krsna!

Severe pain of birth

Killing is no solution for population

Nice Thought (Kadamba Kanada Swami, 2001)

Beware of Kali!

Mercy......

Prabhupada on Gossiping

Why the Lord created us?

Twin children

Red Shifts and the Expanding Universe

Don't Give Up, but Get Up!

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