The Personality of Godhead, or the Paramesvara Parabrahman, according to the srutis, has nothing to do. He has no equal. Nor does anyone excel Him. He has unlimited potencies, and His every action is carried out systematically in His natural and perfect ways. Thus the Supreme Personality of Godhead is full in Himself, and He has nothing to accept from anyone else, including the great demigods like Brahma. Others ask for the favor of the goddess of fortune, and despite such prayers she declines t
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Navayauvana prabhu raised the point that people sometimes have the idea that first they must reach a materially comfortable position before they can practice Krsna consciousness. "On the mate
I reminded Srila Prabhupada of what he had said in London about his toothpaste. "You said your teeth were so rotten they want to fall out, but the toothpaste won't allo
narayane bhagavati
tad idam visvam ahitam
grhita-mayoru-gunah
sargadav agunah svatah
narayane -- unto Narayana; bhagavati -- the Personality of Godhead; tat idam -- all these material manifestations; visvam -- all the universes; ahitam -- situated; grhita -- having accepted; maya -- material energies; uru-gunah -- greatly powerful; sarga-adau -- in creation, maintenance and destruction; agunah -- without affinity for the material modes; svatah -- self-suf
tatas ca manavah kale
ijire rsayo 'pare
pitaro vibudha daitya
manusyah kratubhir vibhum
tatah -- thereafter; ca -- also; manavah -- the Manus, the fathers of mankind; kale -- in due course of time; ijire -- worshiped; rsayah -- great sages; apare -- others; pitarah -- the forefathers; vibudhah -- the learned scholars; daityah -- great devotees of the demigods; manusyah -- mankind; kratubhih vibhum -- by performance of sacrifices to please the Supreme Lord
Once, Srimati Radhika and Krsna came to this place together with the sakhis. Upon seeing them, the peacocks became overjoyed with ecstasy and began to dance. Clouds gathered in the sky, and a light shower of rain fell. Nature had decorated herself fully, as if she was a beautiful and charming young woman. Radha and Krsna could not check Their feelings. Taking the form of a peacock and peahen, They danced in an astonishing way along with th
Meditate on the holy name. It is our greatest weapon against maya. You read about these stories in the scriptures such as howHari Das Thakur was saved. He was absorbed in chanting and the prostitute alsofailed. Someone may say , “But I am not Hari das”. I am in 21stCentury, it is not going to help me. We may not be a Haridas but the potency ofthe holy name is as powerful today as it was five hundred years ago.
H H Gopal Krishna Goswami
, H H Radha Raman Swami:
Dear Devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
ISKCON’s 24th Vraja Mandala Parikrama will be held this year from Oct 23 till Nov 21. The Parikrama schedule is pasted at the end of this article. The Parikrama will start on Saturday 23rd October after mangal-arati at 5:00 am. The participants are requested to reach Vrindavan latest by the evening of Oct 22.
Please note that the participant will have to arrange own accommodation in Vrindavan
We are sorry to announce the departure of Svayambhu Maharaja, a senior disciple of Srila Gour Govinda Swami and our dear godbrother and friend.
When speaking of the glory of the Vaishnavas, Srila Gour Govinda Maharaja would often quote the following Bengali verse from the poet Vaishnava Das:
vaisnavera guna gana, korile jivera trana
suniache sadhu-guru mukhe
"I have heard from the lips of sadhu-guru, if you glorify a devotee, you will be delivered very easily. Krishna will be very pleased
"It is not required to live as a monk in the temple. Everyone receives benefit according to the faith and devotion he gives, whether big or small. Whatever devotion one has, he invests and gets profit. Thus one's capital accrues. Then he reinvests the enhanced capital. In this way one will very soon be Spiritually Rich.
To reside within a temple, one should be on the level of bhajana-kriya or anartha-nivrtti. But those living at home can be on any level, higher or lower. And
tatas te bhratara ime
prajanam patayo nava
ayajan vyaktam avyaktam
purusam su-samahitah
tatah -- thereafter; te -- your; bhratarah -- brothers; ime -- these; prajanam -- of the living creatures; patayah -- masters; nava -- nine; ayajan -- performed; vyaktam -- manifested; avyaktam -- nonmanifested; purusam -- personalities; su-samahitah -- with proper rituals.
Prabhupada pulled a face. "TV, yes."
"How can you enjoy without TV?" Harikesa asked.
"Yes," Srila Prabhupada said sardonically. "How can you waste your time?"
Navayauvana said people say they need TV because they work so hard all day that they need to forget.
"Why should you work? If you have to forget, why should you take such nonsense things that you have to forget again? Why not chant Hare Krsna?" Srila Prabhupada said. He had alread
The Spiritual Master equates SINCERE EXECUTION of ones Spiritual Masters
Instructions....
The Spiritual Master equates COMPLETE FAITH in Krishna...
The Spiritual Master equates ABSOLUTE LOVE for Krishna...
Just as in our material family, which one has personally chosen by karmic
design, one overcomes differences due to blood ties, so too in our spiritual
relations, as it goes so very much, much more deeper...
For KRISHNA has chosen my spiritual relation
"In America, some companies offer rebate coupons. This means that after a person has purchased the particular product, he is mailed a cheque of, say, twenty percent of what he had paid, or sent some other offer. But whatever price one pays in the market of the holy name, he receives a rebate of many, many times that amount.
Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura is describing the Supreme Bargain. In the material world we give our love and faith to people, but they can hardly reciprocate a
Guranga and Murarigupta, Part 4
BY: SUN STAFF
Jan 07, CANADA (SUN) — A five-part series from 'Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu', edited by Srimad Bhakti Vaibhav Puri Goswami Maharaj, Founder Acharya of the Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mission, Ganjam,Orissa.
Sri Chaitanya then described the grades of Bhakti. According to Him from Sadhana Bhakti (the culture of pure devotion through regulations) sprouts up Rati (permanent seed of love). When Rati isdeepened it becomes Love for Prema. Intensified prema takes the fo
Guru, sadhu, sastra. These can always be compared, and they should never contradict. The sadhus are the servants of the Lord. And the scriptures are the words of the Lord. They do not contradict because Krsna is the center of all of them.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => The Guru: Via Media to God
Abstaining from auspicious work is called akarma. Both vikarma and akarma are bad.
Those who are addicted to akarma and vikarma are outcastes, ostracized from the four varnas and asramas of the varnasrama system.
Jaiv
