Taj Mahal - A symbol of love or lust?

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on December 1, 2010 at 5:00pm

We All Know TAJ MAHAL As Symbol Of Love

But The Other Lesser Known Facts are:

1. Mumtaz Was Shahjahan's 4th Wife Out Of His 7 Wives.

2. Shahjahan Killed Mumtaz's Husband To Marry Her

3. Mumtaz Died due to her 14th Delivery

4. He Then Married Mumtaz's Siste

5. He has illicit sexual relationship with his own daughter

6.Shajahan killed all people who built Tajmahal........!

Question Arises: Is Taj Mahal a symbol of love or someone's uncontrolled lust?

In Caitanya-caritamrita, Adi-lila (4.165), we find this

Montgomery County filmmakers explore Asian religions in PBS documentary

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on December 1, 2010 at 4:30pm

Potomac, Silver Spring ceremonies filmed as part of view of Eastern religions in America

by Cody Calamaio | Staff Writer

A decade of spiritual research has led three filmmakers to their third film in a documentary series that discusses the similarities and differences of seven religions in the United States.

Auteur Productions filmmakers Gerald Krell of Potomac, his son, Adam Krell of Washington, D.C., and Meyer Odze of Bethesda will premier their latest documentary "The Asian & Abrahamic Religi

Seeing God

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on December 1, 2010 at 11:02am

Q: You guys on this website have all these sayings of God and believes about God's existence. But how is one supposed to believe in something it has not seen? Why do u believe in God, have u seen him?

A: But do we have to see things in order to believe in them? Did anyone see atoms or subatomic particles, etc.? Our senses are very limited and unreliable. To claim that something does not exist simply because I have not seen it is a childish logic. I have not seen you - therefore you don't exist? I

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One Community One Culture

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on December 1, 2010 at 8:28am

One Community One Culture

If possible see Sri Mujibur Rehman, president of Bangladesh, and show him evidence that Parsis, Jews, Christians, Muslims, all parties are participating in this Krishna Consciousness Movement -- so why they Bangladesh Muslims should not join? We want to unite everyone culturally. Without this, every society is imperfect, but with it, society is perfect. All intelligent leaders of society should try to understand in depth this fact.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Tamala K

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Forgiving others is the best attitude to take

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on December 1, 2010 at 8:28am

Hare Krishna Friends,

Forgiving others is the best attitude to take

A kindergarten teacher decided to let her class play a game. The teacher told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a few potatoes. Each potato will be given a name of a person that the child hates, so the number of potatoes that a child will put in his/her plastic bag will depend on the number of people he/she hates.

So when the day came, every child brought some potatoes with the name of the people he/sh

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Brain Fag due to disturbing news

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on December 1, 2010 at 8:27am

Brain Fag due to disturbing news

Reports of this [disturbing] nature, coupled with the management problems here, are really too much for Srila Prabhupada. He rubbed his head and complained, "Now I am getting brain fag."

I was puzzled. I had never heard the term and I asked him what it was.

Prabhupada repeated, "Brain fag." Then he told us how one time in Delhi in the 1950's he was walking all over, from one office to another, trying to distribute his Back to Godhead newspaper. The entire production

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 8 Text 6

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on December 1, 2010 at 8:26am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 8 Text 6
dhautatma purusah krsna-
pada-mulam na muncati
mukta-sarva-pariklesah
panthah sva-saranam yatha

dhauta-atma -- whose heart has been cleansed; purusah -- the living being; krsna -- the Supreme Personality of Godhead; pada-mulam -- the shelter of the lotus feet; na -- never; muncati -- gives up; mukta -- liberated; sarva -- all; pariklesah -- of all miseries of life; panthah -- the traveler; sva-saranam -- in his own abode; yatha -- as it were.

TRANSLATION
A p

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Transcendental philosophy

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on December 1, 2010 at 8:26am

The earth-goddess, in her prayers, directly touches upon the subtleties of transcendental philosophy, clarifying that although the Supreme Lord is unique and distinct from His creation, His creation has no independent existence and always rests within Him. Thus the Lord and His creation are simultaneously one and different, as explained by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu five hundred years ago.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 10.59.30

Story of Lord Krishna

Posted by geeta kakkar on November 30, 2010 at 6:08pm

Story of Lord Krishna - SRIMAD BHAGAVATA by Krsna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

The Killing of the Demons Kesi and Vyoma

1. The demon Kesi, sent by Kamsa, appeared in Vraja as a great horse. Running with the speed of the mind, he tore up the earth with his hooves. The hairs of his mane scattered the clouds and the demigods’ airplanes throughout the sky, and he terrified everyone present with his loud neighing. When the supreme Personality of Godhead saw how the demon was frightening His village of Gokula by ne

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Mauna Vrata Ki Jaya!

Posted by Pusta Gopika Devi Dasi on November 30, 2010 at 11:57am

We were invited to the Kumbha Abhisekam ceremony in a Vishnu Temple in Tamil Nadu, South India. After smarta brahmanas had recited various suktas and performed some yajnas, we were invited on the stage to perform kirtan and speak from the Bhagavad-gita. I spoke about fifteen minutes and introduced the "Bhagavad-gita As It Is" and Back to Godhead magazine in Tamil.

We were well into a second kirtan when all of a sudden people became a little excited and began looking behind us. We turned around an

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Getting the eyes to see God

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on November 30, 2010 at 8:36am

Student: Scientists say that their common ground of objectivity is
what they can perceive with their senses.

Srila Prabhupada: Yes, they can perceive things with their senses, but
very imperfectly. They perceive the sand with their senses, but can
they see who has made the sand? Here is the sand, and here is the sea;
they can be seen by direct perception. But how can one directly
perceive the origin of the sand and the sea?

Student: The scientists say that if the sand and the sea were made by
God, we wo

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Attaining peace from material miseries

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on November 30, 2010 at 8:35am

Krsna says, "I am equal to everyone. I'm not envious of anyone, or I
am friendly to everyone." He's friendly, actually He's very friendly.
But people accuse Him: "Why God has created this distress? Why I am
suffering?"

But we are suffering for our own fault. God created you to become
happy. He's happy and you are part and parcel of Krsna so you should
also be happy. But we don't accept the way of happiness. That is the
fault.

Krsna says that you shall be happy in this way:
bhoktaram yajna-tapasam
sarva-lo

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in Vrindavan even Vraja-vasis' useless talk is relished

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on November 30, 2010 at 8:34am

Sri Vraja-vilasa-stava 105
Srila Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami

anyatra ksana-matram acyuta-pure premamrtambho-nidhi
snato’py acutya-sajjanair api samam naham vasami kvacit |
kintv atra vraja-vasinam api samam yenapi kenapy alam
samlapair mama nirbharah prati muhur vaso’stu nityam mama ||105||

Even if I have the opportunity to bathe in the nectarean ocean of pure
love of
Krsna, and even if I have the pure devotees of the infallible Supreme
Personality of Godhead as my associates, I will not consent to live,
even

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Only Chanting,Chanting & Chanting

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on November 30, 2010 at 8:34am

The mind says "Can't, can't, can't" - it's the nature of the mind to accept and reject and sometimes we find our mind will reject the idea of chanting the Holy names.

Each day the mind may come up with many excuses and reasons not to chant or to put it off "Don't worry about this chanting, you can do it later...there are more important things right now" - heard your mind preaching like this?

What we can do is to ignore this internal dialogue and remember the importance of making Japa the number on

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Instruction to two sannyasis

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on November 30, 2010 at 8:33am

Instruction to two sannyasis

The pleasant idyll Srila Prabhupada enjoyed on his first night in the garden has been short-lived. Now, the temple management, and disputes between the leaders, are once again taxing his brain. He is always frustrated with the management here. Reports of gross over-spending are the cause of his present anxiety. Vrndavana is one of our most important centers and a great deal of money has been spent on the temple, and on a guest house that has not yet proved successful.

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 8 Text 5

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on November 30, 2010 at 8:32am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 8 Text 5
pravistah karna-randhrena
svanam bhava-saroruham
dhunoti samalam krsnah
salilasya yatha sarat

pravistah -- thus being entered; karna-randhrena -- through the holes of the ears; svanam -- according to one's liberated position; bhava -- constitutional relationship; sarah-ruham -- the lotus flower; dhunoti -- cleanses; samalam -- material qualities like lust, anger, avarice and hankering; krsnah -- Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; salilasya --

Bhakti in its Beauty hits Bankers - H H Bhakti Charu Swami

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on November 30, 2010 at 7:55am

Bhakti in its Beauty hits Bankers

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.

Over the past year ba

When devotion was at its best - ISKCON PUNE

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on November 30, 2010 at 7:53am

EFFORTLESS PERFORMANCE
When devotion was at its best
DHNS
A spectacular dance-drama series, based on the Ramayana, was presented by the Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai, at the ISKCON recently.

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

GURU

Posted by geeta kakkar on November 29, 2010 at 6:30pm

GURU

The word ‘Guru’ has been derived from two roots, ‘Gu’ and ‘Ru’. ‘Gu’ means darkness and ‘Ru’ means light. The one who dispels all darkness and takes you towards light is a ‘Guru’. The one who dispels the darkness of sensuous pleasures and pains (which are temporary and fleeting) and takes you to the light of eternal bliss (which is permanent and everlasting), is a ‘Guru’. The one who teaches you the art of taming the five wild horses – ‘Kaam’ (Passion), ‘Krodha’ (Anger), ‘Lobh’ (Greed), ‘Moh

Gopis from Guyana - The Times of India

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on November 29, 2010 at 4:52pm

The Jagannath Yatra is symbolic of unity in diversity, writes Mona Mehta

Much like a gopi from the Ragamala miniatures, Satyabhama, a 32-year-old Krishna devotee from Guyana, wore a green ghagra or long skirt and embroidered duppatta, teamed with a rust-coloured blouse. Swaying to the music of mridangam and cymbals, she chanted 'Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare', as she pulled the ropes of the Lord Jagannath's chariot in the yatra organised by the International Society for

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Taj Mahal - A symbol of love or lust?

Montgomery County filmmakers explore Asian religions in PBS documentary

Potomac, Silver Spring ceremonies filmed as part of view of Eastern religions in America

Seeing God

One Community One Culture

Forgiving others is the best attitude to take

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Brain Fag due to disturbing news

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 8 Text 6

Transcendental philosophy

Story of Lord Krishna

Mauna Vrata Ki Jaya!

Getting the eyes to see God

Attaining peace from material miseries

in Vrindavan even Vraja-vasis' useless talk is relished

Only Chanting,Chanting & Chanting

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Instruction to two sannyasis

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 8 Text 5

Bhakti in its Beauty hits Bankers - H H Bhakti Charu Swami

Bhakti in its Beauty hits Bankers

When devotion was at its best - ISKCON PUNE

GURU

Gopis from Guyana - The Times of India

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