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Most people are stuck right where they are. The reason they’re stuck, however, isn’t usually due to circumstances, incompetence, or lack of opportunity, but a simple unwillingness to change, to try new things.
We can make smaller, inner changes on a day-to-day, moment to moment basis – changes in our attitude, reactions, and expectations. I’m talking about being willing to take new risks, and face old fears.
Over and over again I hear people saying things like “I’ve always
Anyone who eats vegetables in India should read these articles.
They highlight the urgent need to follow Srila Prabhupada's advice and grow
our own food.
Times of India
Indian veggies, fruits remain highly toxic
Durgesh Nandan Jha, TNN, Oct 30, 2010, 11.52pm IST
NEW DELHI: Rampant use of banned pesticides in fruits and vegetables
continues to put at risk the life of the common man. Farmers apply
pesticides such as chlordane, endrin and heptachor that can cause serious
neurological problems, kidney damage
Mangalacarana verse of Bhagavat_arca_marici_mala by Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura.
O my Lord, Sri Krsna, son of Vasudeva, O all-pervading Personality of Godhead, I offer my respectful obeisances unto You. I meditate upon Lord Sri Krsna because He is the Absolute Truth and the primeval cause of all causes of the creation, sustenance and destruction of the manifested universes. He is directly and indirectly conscious of all manifestations, and He is independent because there is no other cause beyond H
Question: Why We Were Not Taught About Moksha? |
If the ultimate goal is to get moksha, liberation from the cycle birth, why did our parents and teachers not tell us this? Why were we asked only to work hard for earning our living, to be good doctors, engineers, or government employees, etc? I do not understand how I am to focus my life. Should I be hankering only for job promotions and earning more money, even though this brings more anxiety? In today's world the person with money and power is the |
Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 8 Text 15
bhu-patala-kakub-vyoma-
graha-naksatra-bhubhrtam
sarit-samudra-dvipanam
sambhavas caitad-okasam
bhu-patala -- underneath the land; kakup -- the four sides of the heavens; vyoma -- the sky; graha -- the planets; naksatra -- the stars; bhubhrtam -- of the hills; sarit -- the river; samudra -- the sea; dvipanam -- of the islands; sambhavah -- appearance; ca -- also; etat -- their; okasam -- of the inhabitants.
TRANSLATION
O best of the brahmanas, please also d
Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 8 Text 14
yasmin karma-samavayo
yatha yenopagrhyate
gunanam guninam caiva
parinamam abhipsatam
yasmin -- in which; karma -- actions; samavayah -- accumulation; yatha -- as far as; yena -- by which; upagrhyate -- takes over; gunanam -- of the different modes of material nature; guninam -- of the living beings; ca -- also; eva -- certainly; parinamam -- resultant; abhipsatam -- of the desires.
TRANSLATION
Then again, kindly describe how the proportionate accumulation o
Preaching is done alone
Gour Govinda Maharaja sent a long letter from Bhubaneswar, lamenting the lack of association and help for pushing on the preaching. "I often feel myself dejected and desperate in doing Hari Kirtan, because Kirtan is never done alone. It requires the company of devotees. I know not how unfortunate I am that sufficient number of suitable devotees are not coming here to help me with Kirtan." He has two foreign devotees with him, but others seem to just come and go. "They cann
Without philosophy, there is no management
"In Bengal it is said if a brahmana is black, he is dangerous. That means he's not pure brahmana; brahmana cannot be black. Just like a European, if he becomes black, that means he has mixture. European and American, if he's black, that means mixture. So brahmana family, it must be very fair, sukla. Brahmana, ksatriya family must be very beautiful, if he's pure." He quoted the Bengali saying again. "It is a slang language, kala brahmana. Brahmana should
Volume 11, Chapter 11
November 21, 2010
By Indradyumna Swami
"The Sacred Necklace"
One morning in Vrindavana, I was sitting in my house chanting my rounds when my disciple Narottam Das Thakur Das came to see me. He offered his respectful obeisances and then spoke. "Guru Maharaja," he said, "it's been a long time since I have visited Govardhana Hill. If you don't have any service for me today, I would like your blessings to go on Govardhana parikrama." "You're free to go," I said. "Just be back in t
Sri Radhe-Krsna's playful pastimes (vihara) - Sahasi-kunda
Here, the sakhis encouraged and arranged for Radhaji to meet with Krsna. The sakhis would hang a beautiful swing from the nearby banyan tree, and swing Radha and Krsna while singing songs in malhara and other ragas. Sometimes Krsna came here to meet with Radhika and enjoy pastimes with Her.
Another name of Sahasi-kunda is Sarasi-kunda. Krsna and Balarama were inseperable. They would eat together, play together and even sleep together. Once
Russian authorities have finally allocated land for the construction of a Krishna temple in a northern suburb of Moscow, after many years of petitioning from the ISKCON and Hindu communities.
On October 20th, Moscow's acting mayor Vladimir Resin signed the government order allocating the 5 acre plot—on the Novoskhodnenskoye Highway in Vereskino village—to ISKCON Moscow for building the temple.
According to the agreement, ISKCON is to finalise the project and obtain permission for construction with
Complete unconditional surrender to the Lotus Feet of Supreme Lord Sree Krishna can only bestow on us eternal peace. The moment we shall submit to Sree Krishna unconditionally, our all ills and sufferings will go. 'Sharanagati ' is the best medicine for cure of all afflictions and the solution of all problems. False egos create false interests and by that clashing of interests we see the forest fire in this world. Supreme Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu has said, if individual spirit souls can have th
Dear Devotees, Please accept my humble obeisances All Glories to Srila Prabhupada
Its Radha Londonisvara’s 41st Birthday!! Hope you all remember what a bash we had last year for the 40th anniversary with Shyamsundar and Gurudas Prabhus and Mothers Malati and Jamuna and so many devotees from the yesteryears.
And this year we will be having a 2 days festivities on 11th Dec, 2010 (Saturday) and 12th Dec, 2010 (Sunday) for the 41st Anniversary of the Appearance of Sri Sri Radha Londonisvara with sever
Is Atonement Necessary?
The dharma-śāstras like the Manu-saḿhitā prescribe that a man who has committed murder should be hanged and his own life sacrificed in atonement. Previously this system was followed all over the world, but since people are becoming atheists, they are stopping capital punishment. This is not wise. Herein it is said that a physician who knows how to diagnose a disease prescribes medicine accordingly. If the disease is very serious, the medicine must be strong. The weight of
teṣām ahaḿ samuddhartā
mṛtyu-saḿsāra-sāgarāt
bhavāmi na cirāt pārtha
mayy āveśita-cetasām
"For those who are engaged in devotional service & whose minds are
constantly fixed on Me without deviation, I am the swift deliverer
from the ocean of birth and death" [BG 12.7]
Rupa Goswami says that if one takes to that line of activities, Krsna
consciousness, then all things, all regulation, will follow just like
a servant follows a master. If the master starts, the servant follows.
The Lord says, ksipram dharma:
A nun in Warsaw, Poland, filed a case against ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness). The case came up in court.
The nun remarked that ISKCON was spreading its activities and gaining followers in Poland. She wanted ISKCON banned because its followers were glorifying a character called Krishna “who had loose morals,” having married 16,000 women called Gopikas.
The ISKCON defendant to the Judge: “Please ask the nun to repeat the oath she took when she was ordained as a nun.”
The Jud
Vedic Philosophy & its conclusion
In all Vedic literature, beginning from the four Vedas, Vedanta-sutra and the Upanisads and Puranas, the glories of the Supreme Lord are celebrated. By performance of Vedic rituals, discussion of the Vedic philosophy and worship of the Lord in devotional service, He is attained. Therefore the purpose of the Vedas is to understand Krsna. The Vedas give us direction by which to understand Krsna and the process of realizing Him. The ultimate goal is the Supreme Pers
We should never think of our so-called advancement as being conditioned by or dependent upon some set of material circumstances such as marriage, vanaprastha, or this or that. Mature understanding of Krsna consciousness means that whatever condition of life I am in at present, that is Krsna's special mercy upon me, therefore let me take advantage in the best way possible to spread this Krsna consciousness movement and conduct my spiritual master's mission. If I consider my own personal progress
