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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 3 Text 13
saunaka uvaca
ity abhivyahrtam raja
nisamya bharatarsabhah
kim anyat prstavan bhuyo
vaiyasakim rsim kavim


saunakah uvaca -- Saunaka said; iti -- thus; abhivyahrtam -- all that was spoken; raja -- the King; nisamya -- by hearing; bharata-rsabhah -- Maharaja Pariksit; kim -- what; anyat -- more; prstavan -- did he inquire from him; bhuyah -- again; vaiyasakim -- unto the son of Vyasadeva; rsim -- one who is well versed; kavim -- poetic.


TRANSLATION

Saunaka sai

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Liberated While Alive...?

"If you use your mind, your words and your activities in the service of God, or Hari, or Krishna in this lifetime, then by utilizing all your activities, all absorbed in the spiritual contact with the Supreme Lord, then you'll be even while you are alive, you'll be liberated.

Jivan Mukta….jivan means alive and mukta means liberated. Liberated while alive. So we want to teach people how to spiritualize their consciousness.

Actually Narada Muni, he was chanting Hare Krishna and when he died, it is s
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Dear devotees, please accept our obeisances!
All Glories are to our Jagad Guru Srila Prabhupada!


When something is wonderfuly perfect it's hard to find words to describe it, and so was the 24h Kirtan Festival in New Gokula Dhama-ISKCON Brasil in the last weekend( 03,04/April/2010).

Congratulations to Vaikunta Prabhu and staff by the grand initiative in organizing this wonderful Yajna, and congratulations to all Vaishnavas who are allways in search of nectar of chanting the Holy Name of Hari!


We wis

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Dear devotees, please accept our obeisances!All Glories are to our Jagad Guru Srila Prabhupada!When something is wonderfuly perfect it's hard to find words to describe it, and so was the 24h Kirtan Festival in New Gokula Dhama-ISKCON Brasil in the last weekend( 03,04/April/2010).Congratulations to Vaikunta Prabhu and staff by the grand initiative in organizing this wonderful Yajna, and congratulations to all Vaishnavas who are allways in search of nectar of chanting the Holy Name of Hari!We wish
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Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.1.16

vidura uvāca
atrer gṛhe sura-śreṣṭhāḥ
sthity-utpatty-anta-hetavaḥ
kiñcic cikīrṣavo jātā
etad ākhyāhi me guro

SYNONYMS:
viduraḥ uvāca — Śrī Vidura said; atreḥ gṛhe — in the house of Atri; sura-śreṣṭhāḥ — chief demigods; sthiti — maintenance; utpatti — creation; anta — destruction; hetavaḥ — causes; kiñcit — something; cikīrṣavaḥ — desiring to do; jātāḥ — appeared; etat — this; ākhyāhi — tell; me — to me; guro — my dear spiritual master.

TRANSLATION:
After hearing t
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On Representing Srila Prabhupada


Nowadays I'm getting many letters, mostly from people met on preaching travels or who have read my books. Many ask for advice, and I reply, advising as Srila Prabhupada advised us. The replies are often filled with tremendous gratefulness. People become so enlivened to get what seems to me straightforward advice like, "Try to chant Hare Krsna attentively and read Srila Prabhupada's books every day." So much affection is being showered on me through the mail. I har

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 3 Text 12
jnanam yad apratinivrtta-gunormi-cakram
atma-prasada uta yatra gunesv asangah
kaivalya-sammata-pathas tv atha bhakti-yogah
ko nirvrto hari-kathasu ratim na kuryat


jnanam -- knowledge; yat -- that which; a -- up to the limit of; pratinivrtta -- completely withdrawn; guna-urmi -- the waves of the material modes; cakram -- whirlpool; atma-prasadah -- self-satisfaction; uta -- moreover; yatra -- where there is; gunesu -- in the modes of nature; asangah -- no

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Helpful hand of God, Lord Krishna.

A man walking on a shanking bridge... . He prayed for help and saw God on the other side of
the bridge and asked God to come near, but God didn't come. Man got angry and with great
difficulty, he crossed to the other side & saw God holding the broken bridge !
Trust him....
Him ways are amazing.......!
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Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.1.25

kṛpāvalokena hasad-
vadanenopalambhitān
tad-rociṣā pratihate
nimīlya munir akṣiṇī

SYNONYMS:
kṛpā-avalokena — glancing with mercy; hasat — smiling; vadanena — with faces; upalambhitān — appearing very much satisfied; tat — their; rociṣā — by the glaring effulgence; pratihate — being dazzled; nimīlya — closing; muniḥ — the sage; akṣiṇī — his eyes.

TRANSLATION:
Atri Muni was greatly pleased to see that the three devas were gracious towards him. His eyes were dazzled by the
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Story of Lord Krishna

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

Naming Ceremony

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1. One day, the priest of the Yadu dynasty, namely Gargamuni, who was highly elevated in austerity and penance, was inspired by Vasudeva to go see Nanda Maharaja at his home.

2. Nanda duly received him and said, “You are versed in the Vedas. The science of astrology has been propounded by you. Please perform the naming ceremony of these two boys (Krsna and Balaram).”

3. Gargamuni said: My dear Nanda Maharaja, I am the
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Are You a Human Being...?

"People are being a human being, we should be concerned not to neglect this opportunity we have to fully develop our consciousness.

Why someone would take animal birth? Of course one thing would be thinking about the animal at the end of life. Other thing is to develop a consciousness which is more suited to the next birth being an animal birth, than a human being.

Like say somebody is drunk all the time, or something, that's just always in a stooper. They're not, they don't want to be very consci
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On Remembering Srila Prabhupada


I personally felt the presence of Prabhupada very strongly in the early days of our preaching mission in Bangladesh. There were but few devotees, and we were spread thin. I had to spend weeks and months without strong association. It was underground work. There were many difficulties. I had to call to Srila Prabhupada for help, and that was the only thing that helped me to keep going.

Once I was traveling alone in Bangladesh, undergoing many difficulties, compounded

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 3 Text 11
etavan eva yajatam
iha nihsreyasodayah
bhagavaty acalo bhavo
yad bhagavata-sangatah


etavan -- all these different kinds of worshipers; eva -- certainly; yajatam -- while worshiping; iha -- in this life; nihsreyasa -- the highest benediction; udayah -- development; bhagavati -- unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead; acalah -- unflinching; bhavah -- spontaneous attraction; yat -- which; bhagavata -- the pure devotee of the Lord; sangatah -- association.


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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 3 Text 10
akamah sarva-kamo va
moksa-kama udara-dhih
tivrena bhakti-yogena
yajeta purusam param


akamah -- one who has transcended all material desires; sarva-kamah -- one who has the sum total of material desires; va -- either; moksa-kamah -- one who desires liberation; udara-dhih -- with broader intelligence; tivrena -- with great force; bhakti-yogena -- by devotional service to the Lord; yajeta -- should worship; purusam -- the Lord; param -- the supreme whole.


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Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.1.3

prajāpatiḥ sa bhagavān
rucis tasyām ajījanat
mithunaḿ brahma-varcasvī
parameṇa samādhinā

SYNONYMS:
prajāpatiḥ — one who is entrusted with begetting children; saḥ — he; bhagavān — the most opulent; ruciḥ — the great sage Ruci; tasyām — in her; ajījanat — gave birth; mithunam — couple; brahma-varcasvī — spiritually very much powerful; parameṇa — with great strength; samādhinā — in trance.

TRANSLATION:
Ruci, who was very powerful in his brahminical qualifications and was appointed o
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Little Drops of Nectar: Ratha Yatra

This is the 1974 Ratha Yatra in Melbourne, Australia. Prabhupada walked and did little dance steps the whole route without riding in the Ratha Yatra cart. On the evening of this day when I was mas saging Srila Prabhupada’s legs he remarked to me, “You were dancing nicely today”. His own dancing inspired me to dance and here I am yielding his cane while he plays karatalas. He is wearing flashy silk clothes, a white cadar and varied col­ored hat and turtle neck. A Gaudiya-matha san nyasi once cor­

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Who controls our Indian media

Welcome to Media filter

If you are a little pragmatic person and you are a regular newspaper reader
and watch news in TV channels, it will not take long for you to realise that
something dispropotional when it comes to something concerned with Hindutva
related happenings. Be it recent pub attacks or attack on churches, you
cannot miss the a week long mayhem reported in the media. You can easily
make out that media are sitting hawks that prey out and demonize anything
concerning the right wing Hindutva
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Congregational Chanting.

In the age of Kali, intelligent persons perform congregational chanting to worship the incarnation of Godhead who constantly sings the names of KRSNA. Although His complexion is not blackish, He is KRISHNA Himself. He is accompanied by His associates, servants, weapons and confidential companions. SB.11.5.32

HARE KRISHNA MAY KRISHNA BLESS ALL OF US. SO THAT WE ALL CAN perform congregational chanting to worship the incarnation of Godhead who constantly sings the names of KRSNA. (SRI CHAITANYA MAHA
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Story of Lord Krishna

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

The Killing of the Demon Trnavarta

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1. One day, a year after Krsna's appearance, mother Yasoda was patting her son on her lap. But suddenly she felt the child to be heavier than a mountain peak, and she could no longer bear His weight.

2. Feeling the child to be as heavy as the entire universe, the astonished mother Yasoda put the child down on the ground.

3. While the child was sitting on the ground, a demon named Trnavarta, who was
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3 Questions

Hare Krishna to all Devotees

Please Accept my humble obeisances

All Glories to Srila Gurudev

All Glories to Srila Prabhupad

I got this story from my junk mail box and wanted to share with devotees to know their opinion.

Hari bol

Radha Raja.

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A King had asked three questions which a teen aged girl had answered to the satisfaction of the King and all others.

The que

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