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Worshipping Tulasi to Perfection



 

 

 While traveling in British Columbia last week, visiting Saranagati and attending the Ratha Yatra, we heard a most inspiring story at the Vancouver Temple.

Dr. Sukumaran is an Auyervedic doctor, originally from the town of Kotakala in Kerala state, where his family owns and operates one of the biggest auyervedic hospitals and herbal remedy centers in all of India. It was there that he met and married a Canadian devotee, Rudrani devi dasi. Due to her preaching, he became a devotee and Gaudiya Va

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The Lotus Feet and Hands 
of Lords Nityananda Gauranga 

Each of the most Auspicious Marks on the Lotus Feet and Hands of Their Supreme Lordships Shri Shri Nityananda Gauranga have unlimited transcendental meanings associated with them and these should be the object of our meditation when we chant the Nityananda and Gauranga Mantrarajas and the Hare Krishna Mahamantra. Thus this webpage will be a very important tool for increasing the intensity and depth of our concentration during Mantra Meditatio

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Truth and Beauty

Hare Krishna,
  
 
  A nice article
By A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Back to Godhead Magazine #15,1967

It has often been argued whether truth and beauty are terms compatible with one another. One would agree willingly, some say, to express the truth, but since truth is not always beautiful—indeed it is frequently rather startling and unpleasant—how is one to express truth and beauty at the same time?

In reply to this we may inform all concerned that Truth and Beauty are indeed compatible terms.
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Tamala Krsna: Can Krsna give us the ability to someday remember every
word that you are saying to us now? Because I myself, I forget so
much. I want to hear just how you are talking and I can't.

Prabhupada: What is that? I don't follow.

Tamala Krsna: I want to be able to hear you saying exactly what you're
saying now. I want to always be able to hear it, but I forget. My
memory is very poor.

Prabhupada: Why? No. If we try... Memory may be poor. Everything
depends on cultivation. If you cultivate somethi
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Simply Wonderfuls

Bill was regularly helping Upendra in the kitchen and would delight in hearing him speak of the early days of Krsna consciousness in America. As Upendra busied himself stirring pots of vegetables and preparing a variety of savoury items, Bill would roll "Simply Wonderfuls" -- confections made from sugar, butter and powdered milk -- for the Sunday feast. Bill liked this association with Upendra, and especially loved prasadam. By now he had added 10kg to his once lanky frame, and
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Simply Wonderfuls

Bill was regularly helping Upendra in the kitchen and would delight in hearing him speak of the early days of Krsna consciousness in America. As Upendra busied himself stirring pots of vegetables and preparing a variety of savoury items, Bill would roll "Simply Wonderfuls" -- confections made from sugar, butter and powdered milk -- for the Sunday feast. Bill liked this association with Upendra, and especially loved prasadam. By now he had added 10kg to his once lanky frame, and
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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 10 Text 11
tasv avatsit sva-srstasu
sahasram parivatsaran
tena narayano nama
yad apah purusodbhavah


tasu -- in that; avatsit -- resided; sva -- own; srstasu -- in the matter of creation; sahasram -- one thousand; parivatsaran -- years of His measurement; tena -- for that reason; narayanah -- the Personality of Godhead named Narayana; nama -- name; yat -- because; apah -- water; purusa-udbhavah -- emanated from the Supreme Person.


TRANSLATION
That Supreme Person is no
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Love of Krsna to anyone.

 
srimad.jpgSo love of Krsna is not an easy thing obtainable, but Caitanya Mahaprabhu distributed this love of Krsna to anyone, to everyone, even to Jagai and Madhai. So Narottama dasa Thakura therefore has sung in his song, papi tapi jata chilo, hari-name uddharilo, tara saksi jagai madhai. Caitanya Mahaprabhu is so magnanimous that He delivered all kinds of sinful men. Jata chilo. And simply allowing them to chant Hare Krsna mantra, delivered. Tara saksi jagai madhai.

Now, at that time, there was two Jaga

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Quick trip to the Lord

One should become an unalloyed devotee of the Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, and serve Him with rapt attention.
The servants of God come to propagate God consciousness, and intelligent people should cooperate with them in every respect. By serving the servant of God, one can please God more than by directly serving the Lord. The Lord is more pleased when He sees that His servants are properly respected because such servants risk everything for the service of the Lord and so are very dear to t
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Quick trip to the Lord

One should become an unalloyed devotee of the Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, and serve Him with rapt attention.
The servants of God come to propagate God consciousness, and intelligent people should cooperate with them in every respect. By serving the servant of God, one can please God more than by directly serving the Lord. The Lord is more pleased when He sees that His servants are properly respected because such servants risk everything for the service of the Lord and so are very dear to t
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Quick trip to the Lord

One should become an unalloyed devotee of the Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, and serve Him with rapt attention.
The servants of God come to propagate God consciousness, and intelligent people should cooperate with them in every respect. By serving the servant of God, one can please God more than by directly serving the Lord. The Lord is more pleased when He sees that His servants are properly respected because such servants risk everything for the service of the Lord and so are very dear to t
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Srila Prabhupad Uvaca!!

  

Montreal temple, established now for a year and a half, occupied a former bowling alley on the third floor of a building near McGill University. Although the gutters on either side of the eight bowling lanes had been filled in with wood, thus creating a smooth, level floor, the eight hardwood lanes were still prominent. An altar and vyasasana stood against one wall, and a temporary wall partitioned off the men's quarters. There was also a kitchen and separate quarters for the women. With diffi

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How to deal with Prathishtha and Living in vraja

Transcribed Lecture of HH Mahanidhi Maharaj:

So we have gathered here, this is basically called ista-gosti. Gost means sound, ista means the worshippable lord of our heart. I didn’t plan any lecture. If you have any questions on any topic related to sambandha or abhideya or prayojana of Krsna consciousness you can ask.
(The question is) When we were in Russia we used to fast and now we have come to Vrndavan, so someone said we don’t have to fast.
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Total Awakening

There is no reason for you to remain captured in maya, or the dreamlike illusory energy of material existence sometimes imagining that you are a king and sometimes imagining that you are a pauper, because the supreme source of all existence, the most stupendously astonishing person that you could ever hope to meet is ready to liberate you right now. All you have to do to bring about the total awakening of your original, all-knowing, all-blissful identify is call out to Krishna for deliverance in
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Total Awakening

There is no reason for you to remain captured in maya, or the dreamlike illusory energy of material existence sometimes imagining that you are a king and sometimes imagining that you are a pauper, because the supreme source of all existence, the most stupendously astonishing person that you could ever hope to meet is ready to liberate you right now. All you have to do to bring about the total awakening of your original, all-knowing, all-blissful identify is call out to Krishna for deliverance in
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Form or Formlessness in Goloka?

Question: Form or Formlessness in Goloka?


I have question that came up during a discussion with a colleague. We were discussing the fact that the body is temporary, but the soul is eternal. My colleague asked me if the soul is formless, and I said, "Yes, it is, because the body it is associated with is temporary." He asked if formlessness is a quality of the soul, and by extension, if the Supreme Soul should also not possess the same property of formlessness? I explained that in our system we wor

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Form or Formlessness in Goloka?

Question: Form or Formlessness in Goloka?


I have question that came up during a discussion with a colleague. We were discussing the fact that the body is temporary, but the soul is eternal. My colleague asked me if the soul is formless, and I said, "Yes, it is, because the body it is associated with is temporary." He asked if formlessness is a quality of the soul, and by extension, if the Supreme Soul should also not possess the same property of formlessness? I explained that in our system we wor

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important of taking initiation

 

Hare Krishna !!!

Jai Gurudev !!! Jai Prabhupada !!!

Taking initiations from bonafied spiritual master is very important for the devotees to reach Krishna because, Krishna himself accepted the spiritual master even though he is supreme personality of godhead still he accepted the sandipani muni as his spiritual master to show the world that accepting the spiritual master is very important. Lord rama accepted Vasistamuni as his guru, Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Brahma, narada, vyasadev, pralahada, durva m

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Introduction

Hare Krishna,

 First up, here is a fact based on authentic statistics & reports – “The number of children attending primary school in the Indian education system makes it the second largest education system in the world next only to China.”

 

Dr J. Larry Brown, Tufts University, had once said “By subjecting children to hunger, we rob them of their God-given potential. We then deliver them to the schools with one arm tied behind their backs and expect teachers to perform an often-impossi

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