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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 3 Text 24

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on April 22, 2010 at 10:33am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 3 Text 24
tad asma-saram hrdayam batedam
yad grhyamanair hari-nama-dheyaih
na vikriyetatha yada vikaro
netre jalam gatra-ruhesu harsah

tat -- that; asma-saram -- is steel-framed; hrdayam -- heart; bata idam -- certainly that; yat -- which; grhyamanaih -- in spite of chanting; hari-nama -- the holy name of the Lord; dheyaih -- by concentration of the mind; na -- does not; vikriyeta -- change; atha -- thus; yada -- when; vikarah -- reaction; netre -- in the eyes; jal

Asta-kaliya-nitya-lila Radha Krishnas eternal eightfold daily pastimes

Posted by Rocanadeva Dasa on April 22, 2010 at 3:42am

Asta-kaliya-nitya-lila Radha Krishnas eternal eightfold daily pastimes
www.harekrsna.de
The version of asta-kaliya-nitya-lila which is most bona fide for Gaudiya Vaisnavas was revealed by Srila Krsnadas Kaviraja Goswami. Itis essential, basic knowledge for any Rupanuga devotees

http://www.harekrsna.de/Asta-kaliya-nitya-lila.htm

H.G. Sankarsan Nitai speaks on S.B. 4.2.21 - from Mayapur

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on April 21, 2010 at 5:44pm

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.2.21

ya etan martyam uddiśya
bhagavaty apratidruhi
druhyaty ajñaḥ pṛthag-dṛṣṭis
tattvato vimukho bhavet

SYNONYMS:
yaḥ — who (Dakṣa); etat martyam — this body; uddiśya — with reference to; bhagavati — to Śiva; apratidruhi — who is not envious; druhyati — bears envy; ajñaḥ — less intelligent persons; pṛthak-dṛṣṭiḥ — the vision of duality; tattvataḥ — from transcendental knowledge; vimukhaḥ — bereft; bhavet — may become.

TRANSLATION:
Anyone who has accepted Dakṣa as the

GURU VANDANA

Posted by geeta kakkar on April 21, 2010 at 3:02pm

GURU VANDANA

Akhand mandla karam, vyaptam yena characharam
tat padam darshitam yena, tasmai shri gurave namah
I bow to that Shri Guru who pervades the whole universe constituting of beings moving and unmoving and by whom is shown the state of Tat (Supreme Brahman)

Dhyana mulam gurur murtih, puja mulam gurur padam
mantra mulam gurur vakyam, moksha mulam gurur kripa
The Guru's Form is the root of meditation
The Guru's Feet are the root of worship
The Guru's Word is the root of mantra
The Guru's Grace is th

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - On Srila Prabhupada's Spiritual Revolution

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on April 21, 2010 at 12:11pm

On Srila Prabhupada's Spiritual Revolution

It is not very difficult to be Prabhupada conscious and have his association. There is no need to make any special arrangement or to strain our brains about it. We just have to throw ourselves into the fire of preaching. That does not mean just giving a casual lecture here and there, but immersing ourselves day and night in thoughts of how to push on Prabhupada's mission, within our given capacity.

We have to absorb ourselves in preaching activities. When

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - On Srila Prabhupada's Spiritual Revolution

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on April 21, 2010 at 12:10pm

On Srila Prabhupada's Spiritual Revolution

This is the most exciting period in history. We are most fortunate to have the chance to take part in Lord Caitanya's and Srila Prabhupada's spiritual revolution. Caitanya Mahaprabhu wanted chanting in every town and village of the world. True, we still have a long way to go. But if we simply stick faithfully and intelligently to Srila Prabhupada's instructions, we will see the course of world history undergoing tremendous changes that few people can now

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - On Srila Prabhupada's Spiritual Revolution

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on April 21, 2010 at 12:10pm

On Srila Prabhupada's Spiritual Revolution

The unifying principle in our movement of strong minded persons is submission to and faith in the orders of Srila Prabhupada. Cooperation means becoming humble and subduing our egos. It's difficult, but purifying. We must cooperate because that is one of Srila Prabhupada's most important instructions. Both individually and collectively, we will be lost without it. It is a sign of Srila Prabhupada's success that we have developed strong minds, and a furth

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - On Srila Prabhupada's Spiritual Revolution

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on April 21, 2010 at 12:09pm

On Srila Prabhupada's Spiritual Revolution

Srila Prabhupada gave a way of life that rejected the values of the West. No hard work for sense gratification. No divorce. No democracy. No false equality. No anything without Krsna. He wanted society organized into varnas and asramas, with peaceful, renounced brahmanas to direct powerful, pious kings. He wanted woman to be chaste, shy and dependent. No women's liberation, just happy women. He wanted cow protection. He wanted all this in the modern worl

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 3 Text 23

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on April 21, 2010 at 12:08pm

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 3 Text 23
jivan chavo bhagavatanghri-renum
na jatu martyo 'bhilabheta yas tu
sri-visnu-padya manujas tulasyah
svasan chavo yas tu na veda gandham

jivan -- while living; savah -- a dead body; bhagavata-anghri-renum -- the dust of the feet of a pure devotee; na -- never; jatu -- at any time; martyah -- mortal; abhilabheta -- particularly received; yah -- a person; tu -- but; sri -- with opulence; visnu-padyah -- of the lotus feet of Visnu; manu-jah -- a descendant of

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 3 Text 22

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on April 21, 2010 at 12:07pm

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 3 Text 22
barhayite te nayane naranam
lingani visnor na niriksato ye
padau nrnam tau druma-janma-bhajau
ksetrani nanuvrajato harer yau

barhayite -- like plumes of a peacock; te -- those; nayane -- eyes; naranam -- of men; lingani -- forms; visnoh -- of the Personality of Godhead; na -- does not; niriksatah -- look upon; ye -- all such; padau -- legs; nrnam -- of men; tau -- those; druma-janma -- being born of the tree; bhajau -- like that; ksetrani -- holy places;

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 3 Text 21

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on April 21, 2010 at 12:06pm

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 3 Text 21
bharah param patta-kirita-justam
apy uttamangam na namen mukundam
savau karau no kurute saparyam
harer lasat-kancana-kankanau va

bharah -- a great burden; param -- heavy; patta -- silk; kirita -- turban; justam -- dressed with; api -- even; uttama -- upper; angam -- parts of the body; na -- never; namet -- bow down; mukundam -- Lord Krsna, the deliverer; savau -- dead bodies; karau -- hands; no -- do not; kurute -- do; saparyam -- worshiping; hareh -- of

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 3 Text 20

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on April 21, 2010 at 12:05pm

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 3 Text 20
bile batorukrama-vikraman ye
na srnvatah karna-pute narasya
jihvasati dardurikeva suta
na copagayaty urugaya-gathah

bile -- snake holes; bata -- like; urukrama -- the Lord, who acts marvelously; vikraman -- prowess; ye -- all these; na -- never; srnvatah -- heard; karna-pute -- the earholes; narasya -- of the man; jihva -- tongue; asati -- useless; dardurika -- of the frogs; iva -- exactly like that; suta -- O Suta Gosvami; na -- never; ca -- also; upagay

Every Wave Is Favorable

Posted by Krithika on April 21, 2010 at 10:25am

Every Wave Is Favorable

Its a beautiful letter by Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati, really worthwhile reading again and again when we feel upset, sad or lost due to our losses in material life. Hare Krishna!

[Originally published in The Harmonist]

September 1927, 441 Chaitanya Era
My affection-incarnate,

I have this morning come to Sri Gaudiya Matha from Puri. Immediately on arrival at the station I heard that by the will of God your son has gone away from us. You knew him as your son; he is a servant

H.G. Devagaurahari speaks on S.B. 4.2.20 - from Mayapur

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on April 20, 2010 at 4:26pm

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.2.20

vijñāya śāpaḿ giriśānugāgraṇīr
nandīśvaro roṣa-kaṣāya-dūṣitaḥ
dakṣāya śāpaḿ visasarja dāruṇaḿ
ye cānvamodaḿs tad-avācyatāḿ dvijāḥ

SYNONYMS:
vijñāya — understanding; śāpam — the curse; giriśa — of Śiva; anuga-agraṇīḥ — one of the principal associates; nandīśvaraḥ — Nandīśvara; roṣa — anger; kaṣāya — red; dūṣitaḥ — blinded; dakṣāya — to Dakṣa; śāpam — a curse; visasarja — gave; dāruṇam — harsh; ye — who; ca — and; anvamodan — tolerated; tat-avācyatām — the

ISKCON: Not a Personality Cult!

Posted by Shabda Hari Das on April 20, 2010 at 11:30am

"Srila Prabhupada never promoted himself, he could have called it the Bhaktivedanta Movement instead of the Krishna Conscious movement. Just like you have, you know this.. Gurudev movement and this…all the missions, usually they name after the Guru. Charismatic Guru movement. Then after…this baba, that mama, that ma…whatever.

But Prabhupada, he named it the International Society for Krishna Consciousness, Hare Krishna Movement, Krishna Consciousness movement. He didn't make it a Personality Cult!

Eco Friendly temples - a proposal

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on April 20, 2010 at 8:17am

His Holiness Bhakti Rasamrita Swami (previously H. G.Devamrita Das) spoke this past month at the ICC meetings (a Conference of ISKCON leaders in India) about the need for ISKCON temples and projects, in India,to consider implementing environment friendly standards.

Maharaj feels that Nature, as much as everything else, belongs to Krishna. As devotees, we should try in every way to counter or at least not add to the present environmental degradation.

Maharaj has surmised his ideas for ISKCON temple

Krishna is the fourth dimension and self-manifest

Posted by Rocanadeva Dasa on April 19, 2010 at 8:00pm

Fourth dimension
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_dimension

turiya (or chaturtha) is the experience of pure consciousness.
"18dea55bc0c21ae6bc111fe49f885ec3", event)''>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turiya

Canto 1: Creation
http://vedabase.net/sb/1/3/en

H.G. Murari Gupta Prabhu speaks on S.B. 4.2.19 - from Mayapur

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on April 19, 2010 at 5:28pm

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.2.19

niṣidhyamānaḥ sa sadasya-mukhyair
dakṣogiritrāya visṛjya śāpam
tasmād viniṣkramya vivṛddha-manyur
jagāmakauravya nijaḿ niketanam

SYNONYMS:

niṣidhyamānaḥ — being requested not to; saḥ — he (Dakṣa); sadasya-mukhyaiḥ — by the members of the sacrifice; dakṣaḥ — Dakṣa; giritrāya — to Śiva; visṛjya — giving; śāpam — a curse; tasmāt — from that place; viniṣkramya — going out; vivṛddha-manyuḥ — beingexceedingly angry; jagāma — went; kauravya — O Vidura; nijam — to h

Interaction with Srila Prabhupad

Posted by Chitra Datta on April 19, 2010 at 1:03pm

Jayapataka: Why did Krishna have all the demigod worship put in the Vedas?Prabhupada : Hm?Jayapataka: They put... Vyasadeva put all the demigod worship in the Vedas.Prabhupada: For the karmis. Ksipra bhavati... What is that? Kam kanta...Jayapataka : Karmanam siddhi.Prabhupada: Karmanam siddhi yajanti iha devata. Who is interested to take bhakti immediately? Nobody is interested.Jayapataka: They can get their material facilities from Krishna also.Prabhupada: Yes. That is recommended. First of all

PAID IN FULL

Posted by priyanka on April 19, 2010 at 12:05pm

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GURU VANDANA

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Every Wave Is Favorable

H.G. Devagaurahari speaks on S.B. 4.2.20 - from Mayapur

ISKCON: Not a Personality Cult!

Eco Friendly temples - a proposal

Krishna is the fourth dimension and self-manifest

Fourth dimension
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_dimension

turiya (or chaturtha) is the experience of pure consciousness.
"18dea55bc0c21ae6bc111fe49f885ec3", event)''>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turiya

Canto 1: Creation
http://vedabase.net/sb/1/3/en

H.G. Murari Gupta Prabhu speaks on S.B. 4.2.19 - from Mayapur

Interaction with Srila Prabhupad

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Fourth dimension
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_dimension

turiya (or chaturtha) is the experience of pure consciousness.
"18dea55bc0c21ae6bc111fe49f885ec3", event)''>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turiya

Canto 1: Creation
http://vedabase.net/sb/1/3/en