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Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!
Date: March 9th, 2011
Topic: Dhruva Maharaja Goes Back to Godhead
Verse: 4:12:33
Speaker: HH Prabodhanand Sarasvati Swami
iti vyavasitam tasya
vyavasaya surottamau
darsayam asatur devim
puro yanena gacchatim
TRANSLATION: The great associates of Vaikunthaloka, Nanda and Sunanda, could understand the mind of Dhruva Maharaja, and thus they showed him that his mother, Suniti, was going forward in another plane.
PURPORT: This incident proves that the siksa- or diksa-gur
Hare Krsna Prabhus,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
On the second day of the 2011 book distribution seminars in Mayapur,
Sadbhuja Prabhu, the president of the Leipzig (Germany) temple, spoke. He said that a scholar in Germany did a survey of religious movements around the world and found that every decade hundreds of movements begin and stop. One of the main prerequisites for a movement to last, he found, is that it has to inspire its members to do voluntary serv
Hare Krsna dear Prabhuji:
Please accept our humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Thanks a lot for your kind concern.
By Krsna's mercy all well.It was a nasty quake. Lasted few minutes.Though Tokyo is not as bad as Sendai/Miyagi.Miyagi/Sendai near the epicenter devastated.Tokyo shocks were about 6.
I just came to ground floor and was about to ride bicycle. I started waving like drunkard. Could not understand what is happening. Ran away from the building in the open area. Wife and younge
Dear Vaishnavas,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Guru-parampara ki jaya!
Meet four students of Bhaktivedanta College coming from all parts of the world. Hear them share their experiences of the college so far--some are sad of finishing their third year, others enjoying the prasad, kirtan, and devotee association--but all the same are happy with their studying and stay in the Radhadesh community.
Link:http://bhaktivedantacollege.com/index.php?p=news&id=337
Fourth Annual Global Daiva Varnasrama Convention held
ISKCON Daiva Varnasrama Ministry - India Mayapur
Date: 9th March 2011
Fourth Annual Global Daiva Varnasrama Convention was recently held here at Sridham Mayapur from 4th March to 7th March.
The event was inaugurated by His Holiness Lokanath Swami, His Holiness Bhakti Raghava Swami, His Holiness Bhakti Dhira Damodara Swami, His GraceSamba Das and His Grace Bharat Chandra Das by lighting the lamp.
His Holiness Lokanath Swami in his keynote address
Navadwip Mandal Parikrama- Day 3 10th March 2011
Today is the 3rd day of the Navadvip Mandala Parikrama. Our first group to be visited today was the International party in Naimisharanya. When we were about to go out from the Lotus Building through the exit of Caitanya exhibition Hall,we heard the beautiful greeting kirtan for Their Lordship Sri Panca Tattva'Sri Krsna Caitanya Prabhu doya kore moreeee....' was going on in the temple hall. Guru Maharaja told us to wheel him down towards the temple
That is not possible.
Because you have to attach to something. You cannot become unattached. That is not possible. So, in order to become attached to Krsna or to enter into the devotional service of the Lord, one has to become detached from this material affection. That is wanted. Ordinarily, they go to Krsna for maintaining the attachment with this material world. Just like, "O God, give us our daily bread." That means I have got attachment of this material world, and to live in this material The test of becoming a devotee
A Krsna conscious man cannot be bad. Therefore, if people are given chance to associate with this society, automatically he'll become good. Otherwise there is no need of opening so many centers all over the world. But the idea is that to give the chance of good association. Therefore, those who are members of this society, they should be ideal. Simply by their association people will become good, very good responsibility. And if they become bad themselves, there is
We are some weeks here in the holy land of Mayapur and tried to do extra effort for chanting japa. Along with chanting studied different scriptures dealing with chanting. We have also taken as a daily practice to chant some of the bhajans from Bhaktivinoda Thakura's Gitavali - Bhajan No. 3 starts as follows:
1) If your mind is always absorbed in chanting the glories of Lord Krsna with great care, then by that process of Sri-krsna-kirtana you will attain transcendental qualification.
2) You should
Whole world will leave home?
Student: If everybody gives up the material world and becomes devotees then how will this world be continuing? Maharaja: Thank you very much for asking this classic question.
It is very easy because the whole world will serve Krishna, because becoming a devotee of Krishna doesn’t mean that we spend the whole day praying and just ring bells in the temple and all are becoming pujaris like that - No, it doesn’t mean like that, that we light some incense and lamp. It doe
have to come to the stage of quality yourself. How can you understand
the meaning of quality without experiencing it yourself? Your duty is
to follow the instructions of your spiritual master and sastra.
Quality or no quality—it is not your position to understand this. When
the quality comes there is no force. You will have a taste for
chanting. You will desire at that time, "Why sixteen rounds? Why not
sixteen thousand rounds?" That is
The original home.
The original home of the living entity and the Supreme Personality of Godhead is the spiritual world. In the spiritual world both the Lord and the living entities live together very peacefully. Since the living entity remains engaged in the service of the Lord, they both share a blissful life in the spiritual world. However, when the living entity wants to enjoy himself, he falls down into the material world.
Even while he is in that position, the Lord remains with him as the
If we decide to become serious about becoming Krishna conscious, we will have to find the way to get free from the clutches of maya, the illusory energy. It is not at all an easy thing to do because we have been held tightly in maya's grip for countless lifetimes.
The secret of how to free ourselves from maya's influence is to engage in the service of the great devotees. This is absolutely essential because without worshiping the lotus feet of a great devotee, we cannot be freed from maya's influ
How We Fell from the Spiritual World? |
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I find it hard to understand the fact that we are originally part and parcel of Krishna but we have fallen from the spiritual world. My question is: Who would get distracted or attracted towards material world when Krishna is all-attractive, all powerful and the source of all happiness? One can only think of leaving Krishna when there is something better and more powerful than Him. Also, even if there is a slightest chance of returning to this material world, |
 Our yoga also controls the senses; we control the mind by two senses. So one sense is vibrating, speaking with the tongue, and the other sense is hearing. If these two senses are fixed, then you can control your mind. We speak Hare Krsna mantra and we hear. Japa Reform Notebook |
sri-suka uvaca
atra sargo visargas ca
sthanam posanam utayah
manvantaresanukatha
nirodho muktir asrayah
sri-sukah uvaca -- Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said; atra -- in this Srimad-Bhagavatam; sargah -- statement of the creation of the universe; visargah -- statement of subcreation; ca -- also; sthanam -- the planetary systems; posanam -- protection; utayah -- the creative impetus; manvantara -- changes of Manus; isa-anukathah -- the science of God; nirodhah -- go
Chanting should be enough in the forefront that we don’t chant our rounds while driving. It should be enough in the forefront that it gets prime time in the morning. If that’s what he meant by forefront, then yes, chanting should be in the forefront.
Japa Walks, Japa Talks
by Satsvarupa dasa Goswami
Education and knowledge should never be used to simply fulfill our greed. When people use the knowledge they acquire to satisfy their greed, the society ends up being in a big mess. Is this what we want?
Our consciousness by nature is eternal, full of knowledge and full of joy. In a real joyful state based on truth, there can be no greed. Real joy and love wants only to be shared with everyone else. The nature of love is to give; the nature of greed is to take
