ISKCON Utah Celebrates Holi In A Big Way
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Every year the Hare Krishna Temple in Spanish Fork, Utah, USA puts on the biggest Holi celebration in the Western Hemisphere. In 2011 the Spanish Fork Police department estimated that over 40,000 people attended in the first day alone of the two-day festival, starting on the 27th of March. Organizers carefully rationed their stash of approximately 120,000 bags of colored powder.
Attendees come from a
Modern Day Mentality – Ignorance and Foolishness
some say you live in goloka...some say in vrindavana..
but i see you in my heart ...with your divine consort...
your effulgence like sapphire rays..your bright yellow clothes...your peacock feathered crown..your lotus like eyes..your bimba fruit lips..by seeing your beauty i imagine,that how could one get attracted to someone other than you...
your lotus feet are my only shelter...your sight is my only hope..prays your humble servant kamal,may i always remain merged in your thoughts.....
RAMANUJACARYA (1017-1137) was the principal acharya in the Sri sampradaya, one of
the four main lines of Vaisnava teachers and disciples. His Vedanta-sutra commentary -
Sri-bhasya establishes the doctrine known as Vasistadvaita, “qualified nondualism.”
A staunch proponent of the philosophy of pesonalism, he taught that although the
Supreme Lord and the individual souls are qualitatively one, there is still a difference
between them, for the Lord is infinite and the living entities are infinitesimal.
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Association of devotees is to strive to hear from and to give pleasure to those who have the great treasure of love of God. Narottam Das Thakur in his prayers to the departed Vaisnavas, he prays in this way - he is beating his head against the rock in separation, longing for the association of those devotees who have, who had that great treasure of Prema Bhakti within their hearts, within their lives and who are distributing the contents of that treasure to the world. He is longing for such asso
Question: Do I Have to Leave My Family? |
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I would now like to bring your attention to a question which creates confusion in my mind. If a person has some love for Krishna and always remembers Him, while apologizing for every sin and expressing gratitude for all that Krishna has given him, but alongside he is also trying to fulfill his responsibilities towards his parents and spouse--is it really necessary and justified that he leave everything except for Krishna? After all it was Krishna who arran |
