Damaghosa Dasa
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Vicitravirya, July 26, 1973, London: [...] This is Dr. Schumacher.
Prabhupada: Thank you very
A story is told about a mountain climber, who was also a devotee, liked to climb tall mountains for fun and to impress his friends. After years of preparation and training he felt he could handle any mountain terrain in the world, regardless of the degree of difficulty.
During a climbing trip, with five other devotees, he decided he would make the final climb to the summit, solo, so he could get there first and claim the glory, while the others slept. After the rest of the climbing party turned-i
| Hare Krishna Friends, Sadly, many of us keep convincing ourselves, “Someday I’ll be happy.” We tell ourselves ‘I’ll be happy when I will be a president, when I will be doing so and so service, get a particular mobile phone’ etc. We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, then another, then another, on and on and on we go with our wish list. Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there’s no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when? Your life wi |
A beggar lived near the king's palace. One day he saw a proclamation posted outside the palace gate. The king was giving a great dinner. Anyone dressed in royal garments was invited to the party.
The beggar went on his way. He looked at the rags he was wearing and sighed. Surely only kings and their families wore royal robes, he thought. Slowly an idea crept into his mind. The audacity of it made him tremble. Would he dare? He made his way back to the palace. He approached the guard a
Because a person who is spiritually advanced accepts any adverse condition of life as the mercy of the Lord, he is completely eligible to enter into the spiritual kingdom. Even though a person takes to the devotional service of the Supreme Lord, he may som
Deity Dreams
In the modern day many pastimes between devotees and the Lord in His Arca Avatar, or Deity forms are happening. There are many stories....
Dreams have long been a feature of exchanges between the Lord and His devotees.
In Remuna, Kshirachora Gopinath (photo above) told His pujari in a dream to take the pot of
sweet Kshira the Lord had hidden under his dress, and bring it to His beloved
devotee Mahdavendra Puri. Madhavendra Puri, who was outside under a Banyon
tree, had left the temple, fe
WARNING: Holding a cellphone against your ear may be hazardous to your health. So may stuffing it in a pocket against your body.
I’m paraphrasing here. But the legal departments of cellphone manufacturers slip a warning about holding the phone against your head or body into the fine print of the little slip that you toss aside when unpacking your phone. Apple, for example, doesn’t want iPhones to come closer than 5/8 of
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Question: How to Be a Good Devotee and a Good Wife?
Dear Master,
I would like to know about Krishna conscious family life. I am a woman from aChristian background. I cannot live alone in the society. I hope youunderstand. I am not interested in marriage because I simply want to serve theLord. However, my parents are pushing me to get married. Please, therefore,advise me how to be a good Krishna conscious devotee as well as a good wife tomy husband so that in all ways I can nicely serve my belove
