Cultivating good vaishnava relationshipsAnswers by HH Romapada Swami MaharajaQuestion:I live in a devotee community and often feel that I don’t know how to associate with others. I love them and try to serve them but all too often I just don’t feel emotionally safe in their association. I don’t feel free to be open in case they hurt me and thus I am wasting my life constantly holding back (defending like a kicked dog). I am desperate for some clarification on this point.I am a very sensitive per
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Posted by Chitra Datta on January 24, 2010 at 6:30pm
True Accomplishment!"There are many transcendental activities a person can do. They can do their profession, whether it is an artist, musician, businessman, housewife, mother, or whether it's producing children.They can do any activity except slaughtering animals or certain forbidden activities or specifically that taking intoxication of a chemical type etc. which cannot be dovetailed in Krishna's service.But the normal kind of activities that we need to do to live in the material world that don
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On Saturday, January 16, 2010, ISKCON Coimbatore organized its 18th annualSri Jagannath Rathayatra festival, which passes through the streets of theold part of Coimbatore city.Coimbatore, located some five hundred kilometers West of Chennai (formerlyknown as “Madras”) is the second largest city in the Tamil Nadu state inSouth India. At present the population of Coimbatore, also known as“Kovai”, is about two million (twenty lakhs).Lord Jagannath's Rath at Coimbatore with extended canopy stands fo
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Be part of Lord Jagannath’s Annual Rath yatra on 29 Jan 2010: Lord Jagannath along with Lord Balarama and Subhadradevi shall bless the citizens of Mumbai on 29 January 2010 as part of Their annual Rath yatra procession. For details please visit Mumbai rathyatra websiteRead more…
Jayapataka: Everything you plan is perfect.Prabhupada: No. I imagine. Krishna makes it perfect. I think, "It would have been nice if it would have been like this," but Krishna... Yei prasade pure sarva asa. Long, long ago, when I was publishing Back to Godhead, one sheet, I was thinking that "What is this sheet? If it would have been like Illustrated Weekly, then it would have been nice." Now they are coming like that.Jayapataka: Now 'Illustrated Weekly' is nothing compared to Back to Godhead.PrRead more…
Bhaktivinod Thakura gives and example of a person trying to stand with his feet in two different boats. Obviously when the boats separate, the person falls in the water. This is the situation we are faced with.We are trying to accommodate material desires and our spiritual desires too. There is a saying in the west, ‘to have your cake and eat it too’. Someone wants material comforts, sense gratification, and at the same time wants to experience the ecstasy of pure Krishna Consciousness – this is
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Dandavats Vaishanavas,PAMHO. AGTSP.(Pls mind the "tense" (past/present) in the blog as it was written during the same time.The wheather in the capital as you all must be reading or hearingabout is freezing. It has created quite a brouhaha in the city. We hada downpour on the 3rd of Jan with almost zero visibility in themorning hours. Amidst all this maelstrom, chaos and confusion thecapital had the great fortune of receiving a very special guest on 4thof Jan 2010.... Srila Radhanath Swami. Mahar
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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Sri Caitanya Caritamrita Madhya 19.149krishna-bhakta -- nishkama, ataeva 'santa'bhukti-mukti-siddhi-kami -- sakali 'asanta'SYNONYMSkrishna-bhakta -- a devotee of Lord Krishna; nishkama -- actually desireless; ataeva -- therefore; santa -- peaceful; bhukti -- of material enjoyment; mukti -- of liberation from material activities; siddhi -- of perfection in yogic performance; kami -- those who are desirous; sakali -- all of them; asanta -- not peaceful.TRANSLATION"Because aRead more…
Hare krsna , i am krishna kant just nine years old , but i knowed very much about soul and karma yoga means work for krsna , as i study then i can study for krishna , these knowledge taught to me by brother dear bhaiya aditya mishra who is also member of this site , the way of kirtan , nartan, vandan , prasadam is very easy that even a child can perform the bhakti devotion to krishna , by watching 'little krishna ' on nick tv, we can know about the pastimes of god, i think iskcon also should pub
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"There are many transcendental activities a person can do. They can do their profession, whether it is an artist, musician, businessman, housewife, mother, or whether it's producing children.They can do any activity except slaughtering animals or certain forbidden activities or specifically that taking intoxication of a chemical type etc. which cannot be dovetailed in Krishna's service.But the normal kind of activities that we need to do to live in the material world that don't harm our bodies o
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Dear DevoteesPlease accept my respectful obeisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!All Glories to Guru and Gauranga!The recent HAITI EARTHQUAKE has claimed more than 1,00,000 victims, and counting...Thought that this would be a good opportunity to make a difference... through music!As a tribute to the departed souls of the Haiti quake, I'm giving away 5 songs from my recent album ILLUMINIZE for FREE.- Jagannath Astaka- Pure Souls (Guru Vandana)- Longing Vraja- Ocean of Mercy (Gaura Nitai)- A L
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“Nowadays we try to organize once a week namahata meeting, or house program or get people to come to the Sunday feast but they're too busy. They cant even break away one night to come together for a meeting and have some kirtan in somebody's house. This is our progress in the modern society. We progress so much that people are so stressed out that they cant even get together and chant 'Hare Krishna' once in a week.But somehow or the other we must make the time, because we sing together, study thRead more…
Priyavrata das: Dear Prabhus,I need to know if there are devotees in or nearby Haiti that are able to do prasadam distribution for survivors of the recent earthquake. Food for Life Global would like to financially support these efforts and our many donors are now asking us to do that. If you know of any prasadam distribution going on currently in Haiti, please contact our office. Or if you are reading this and know of competent people that can conduct prasadam distribution in Haiti, please conta
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Tulsi PujaThe Tulsi plant is found in every Hindu home. It is a species resembling the basil that grows in Europe.The following episode was written by Huyler as he witnessed Tulsi worship in an Orissan home. It conveys the intimate relationship the Hindu has with Tulsi, and it teaches, through exquisite example, how we may worship Her."'O Tulsi, you who are beloved of Vishnu, You who fulfill the wishes of the devout, I will bathe You. You are the Mother of the World. Give me the blessings of Vis
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Beloved Vaisnavas, please accept our sincere reverences!All glories to our Patita Pavana Srila Prabhupada!Seeking to expand more and more ways of disseminating news from our beloved ISKCON BRASIL(www.iskconbr.multiply.com), we ISKCONBR´s team would like to invite all those who honor ISKCON to also contactus through our various means of communication.To access the Facebook link:http://www.facebook.com/home.php? # / profile.php? id = 100000395815018 & ref = tsThe facebook is now the largest social
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After leaving home, Sri Gauranga-sundara crossed to the other side of the Ganga and came to Kantaka-nagara (Katwa). The five close associates to whom He had previously intimated His plans gradually arrived and met Him; Sri Avadhuta Nityananda Prabhu, Srila Gadadhara, Sri Mukunda, Sri Chandrasekhara Acarya and Sri Brahmananda. Then the Supreme Lord, walking with the gait of a maddened lion, went with them to the place of Sri Kesava Bharati.The great and pious Sri Kesava Bharati, observing the won
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Posted by JITEN DABHI on January 14, 2010 at 3:53pm
Hare Krishna,Please Accept My Humble Obeisances at Your Lotus Feet.All Glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga.All Glories to His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada.I am Jiten Dabhi from Surat. I am married. Both me and my wife are aspiring from H.H.Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj. Recently my wife's grandfather has died. Now according to her family traditional rituals, they don't go to temple for one month after someone is dead and there are many rituals they have to follow as per the t
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“Every one of us has experienced how someone in a completely miserable condition - like a person in traction in a hospital - says "I am fine!" when asked "How are you?", just because he has slightly less pain since the day before. This is the standard of material happiness.In His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's books and lectures, a similar example is often given. From this example one easily realizes that in material life it is not real happiness that is experienced; rather onRead more…
MATHURA:American landscape experts, who are drawing up a conservation plan for Mount Govardhan -- significant in Hindu mythology -- feel the hill deserves to be recognised as a world heritage site."Goverdhan hill is unique in the world, visited by more than ten million people annually. However, its ecosystem is in a shambles, the water bodies have been destroyed and the green cover almost disappeared," Amita Sinha of the Department of Landscape Architecture, University of Illinois at Urbana ChamRead more…
Life is not a misery. One should live for hundred years by performing action without attachment. Life is not a bondage when it is looked with the proper light. Such a man of proper knowledge looks on all beings as his own Self and his Self as all beings. To him everything is his own Self, and he is not affected by grief, delusion or sorrow of any kind.The Supreme Reality is indescribable. It is beyond the reach of the mind and the senses. It is beyond even the intellect. It is the light of all e
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