by H.G. Radharaman Prabhu, sent in by H.G. Dina Krishna Prabhu
Thursday 11th November 2010 saw history in the making with its first corporate sponsored event in the financial industry to host a Gaudiya Vaisnava sannyasi. In the heart of UK’s financial district of Canary Wharf, over 200 bankers and traders assembled 512 feet high in Barclays skyscraper for an evening event to celebrate the message of Diwali with His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami.
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A spectacular dance-drama series, based on the Ramayana, was presented by the Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai, at the ISKCON recently. |
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 The series brought to life some of the greatest episodes of the Ramayana. The three-day series, held from November 26 to 28, was a part of Sri Krishna Shringar, an annual festival of dance-drama, organised by ISKCON. Choreographed by the legendary artiste Rukmini Devi Arundale, the magnificent ballet started |
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attvam rajas tama iti gunah prakrti-sambhavah |
nibadhnanti maha-baho dehe dehinam avyayam ||BG.14.5||
TRANSLATION
Material nature consists of the three modes--goodness, passion and ignorance. When the living entity comes in contact with nature, he becomes conditioned by these modes.
PURPORT
The living entity, because he is transcendental, has nothing to do with this material nature. Still, because he has become conditioned by the material world, he is acting under the spell of the three modes of mat
