Sri Vraja-vilasa-stava

Prayers Glorifying the Lord’s Pastimes in Vraja

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The highwaymen lust, greed and anger have captured me and bound me with the ropes of the desire for fame. I pray that the heroic devotees of Lord Krishna, the enemy of the Agha demon, may defeat my captors and cut the ropes that bind me.

2

I am scorched by the blazing forest fire of old age, deeply bitten by the poisonous snake of blindness, pierced by the sharp arrows of forced dependence on others,

Our sankirtana - tainted with "BLOOD OF SLAUGHTER!"

I remember, in my first few days in ISKCON, I had asked someone about how mrdangas were made and where were they made.  Clearly, I was not satisfied  with the answer and always thought, one fine day, I will get into the  details. Surely enough, I now know, our performance of sankirtan all over  the world is tainted with the blood of slaughter!

DIGESTING THE FACT:

Navadwip to Mayapur via boat crossing Ganga is a beautiful short trip.  My  recen

South African harinamas in April

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Into the Townships (April 15)

Tomorrow we will be taking a group of devotees to do harinama and prasadam  distribution in nearby Zululand.

Shanty Town Kirtan (April 18)

Yesterday we distributed prasadam and had harinama through one of South  Africa's worst ghettos. Rife with crime and steeped in poverty, the  atmosphere in the dilapidated shanty town was miserable. But as we wove our  way through the tiny streets an

This article was featured on Deccan Chronicle, a major newspaper in Southern India on May 24

Recently, I discovered that saying a simple prayer, reading a few shlokas from The Bhagavad Gita As It Is by Srila Prabhupada, lighting diyas at the altar with some agarbattis and chanting my favourite Hare Krishna maha mantra or attending Sunday mass at the Church have had a deeply calming and soothing effect on me.

At first, I did this purely

I'm sitting here in the Riga, Latvia airport on 1 November 2006 waiting for a flight to Amsterdam, as I deeply consider what should be the topic for this week's lesson. What immediately comes to mind is the topic that surfaced during the Srimad Bhagavatam lecture I gave this morning at our Riga temple. What was that topic? Restoring the Krishna conscious world order. 

Many people would find this topic preposterous because it assumes that previously there was a Krishna conscious world order on thi

The bondage is gunamayi maya, being wrapped up by the qualitative modes of nature. That is bondage. But if one is engaged in devotional service, he is not under this bondage because he knows things as they are.(Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.15.40)

-By. H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

"Incarnation for the Modern Age"


Sri Chaitanya is the Kali-yuga avatara, and He descended for the purpose of establishing the yuga dharma, which in this age is the chanting of Lord Krishna's names. He appeared in the guise of a devotee to perfectly show how the process of devotion should be followed and applied. It is something like a teacher drawing on the black board "A B C". We should not think the teacher is himself learning the alphabets, but he is doing it to show us how to write properly.
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Seeing the cows and elderly cowherds rush to greet their calves and sons, Balarama was concerned that the very essence of Vrindavana seemed to be lost. How could maya enter into the Lord’s domain?

What is maya? Separate interest. “I love my son more than another boy.” This is material life—separate interest. And in spiritual life, in Vrindavana, Krishna is the center. The mothers there love Krishna more than their own sons, and their sons love Krishna more than they do their mothers. In this sens