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The Life of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on June 28, 2010 at 12:11pm

Absolute is sentient Thou hast proved. Impersonal calamity Thou hast moved. This gives us a life Anew and fresh. Worship thy feet Your Divine Grace.

Oh! my Master
The evangelic angel.
Give us thy light,
Light up thy candle.
Struggle for existence
A Human race,
The only hope
His Divine Grace.

Absolute is sentient
Thou hast proved.
Impersonal calamity
Thou hast moved.
This gives us a life
Anew and fresh.
Worship thy feet
Your Divine Grace.

Had you not come
Who had told,
The message of Krishna
Forceful and bold,
That’s

Simha Guru

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on June 28, 2010 at 12:08pm

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura was born in the holy pilgrimage place of Jagannatha Puri to Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, a great Vaisnava acarya in the line of succession coming from Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. Although employed as a government magistrate, Srila Bhaktivinoda worked tirelessly to establish the teachings of Lord Chaitanya in India. He envisioned a worldwide spiritual movement and prayed for a son to help him achieve his dream.

On February 6, 1874, in the sacred pilgrimage to

The Story of a Tile... (short story, realization)

Posted by Eternal Muser on June 27, 2010 at 11:58pm

I watched as my mason’s nephew affixed the tiles on the north-wall of my living room. I observed how he slapped a wad of thick cement-sand bonding mixture onto the back of the tile and carefully positioned it on the wall, making sure it occupied its designated place perfectly. I smiled in appreciation and returned to my work.

The next morning, I was awakened by the sound of loud voices. I rushed out into the living room. The mason’s nephew was standing with his head lowered, with a crestfallen ex

Story of Lord Krishna

Posted by geeta kakkar on June 27, 2010 at 4:21pm

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

Boys and Cows Saved From the Effect of Poison

1. Once, surrounded by boyfriends, Krsna went without Balarama to the Yamuna River after wandering through the forest of Vrindavan.

2. At that time the cows and cowherd boys were feeling acute distress from the glaring summer sun. Afflicted by thirst, they drank the water of the Yamuna River. But it had been contaminated with poison.

3. As soon as they touched the poisoned water, all the

Sri Syamananda Prabhu

Posted by Lakshman Poddar on June 27, 2010 at 2:46pm

"Simply by accepting that the associates of Shri Caitanya Mahaprabhu are eternally perfect one may attain the service of Krishna in Vrindavana."—Narottam Das Thakura.

Shri Shyamananda, Shrinvasa and Shri Narottama Dasa Thakura are all eternal associates of Shri Gaurasundara. For the purpose of preaching the holy message of Sri Caitanya all over the earth they appeared within this world.

Shri Shyamananda Prabhu was born in Utkala, in a place called Dharenda Bhadura Pura. His father's name was Shri

Krishna Prem

Posted by Krishna Mazumdar. on June 26, 2010 at 9:30pm

Lord Krishna is the ocean of divine love. Whenever Krishna appeared on this earth He had this ocean of love with Him, but every time He had different roles and different actions so the ocean of love was not open for all. When Lord Krishna appeared as Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu with all His associates He opened the ocean of love for all and also enjoyed Himself. Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu taught the lesson of Krishna Consciousness to the world as a devotee of Lord Krishna. The wonderful ocean of lo

A special bath of Jagannath takes place on the Purnima of Jyestha month (Devasnan Purnima), to commemorate the appearance day of Lord Jagannath. According to Skanda Purana when Raja Indradyumna instal

Posted by Jagonnath on June 26, 2010 at 7:26pm

A special bath of Jagannath takes place on the Purnima of Jyestha month (Devasnan Purnima), to commemorate the appearance day of Lord Jagannath.

According to Skanda Purana when Raja Indradyumna installed the wooden deities he arranged this bathing ceremony. This day considered to be the birth-day of Lord jagannath. Held in the full-moon day of the month of Jyestha this festival is also simultaneously held in all other important Puri, it attracts thousands of visitors and pilgrims from all over th

SRI VILAPA KUSUMANJALI

Posted by geeta kakkar on June 26, 2010 at 3:28pm

SRI VILAPA KUSUMANJALI
(Prayers to Sri Radha)

1. O girl whose eyes are restless as khanjana birds, seeing You with an embrace, with kissing Your head, and with many loving glances, loved by the queen of Vraja as if You were her own daughter, will I celebrate a great festival of transcendental bliss in my heart?

2. O friend, within my sight will Queen Radha with You decorate Her beloved with flower ornaments in a forest cottage by the shore of Her lake?

3. O beautiful one, hearing from the parrot Vi

A Square Circle

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on June 26, 2010 at 10:46am

A Square Circle?

Question: If God can do anything, can he make a square circle?

Questions like these arise from not understanding the definition of God as the Supreme Being. Let’s consider the two kinds of impossibilities: practical and logical.

1.Practical impossibility: When the sacred scriptures describe that, say, Lord Krishna lifted the huge Govardhana hill in Vrindavana during his descent to this world five thousand years ago, skeptics may

dismiss this as impossible, because they deem possessi

Power of Lord's Names

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on June 26, 2010 at 8:00am

Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Mathajis,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva.

Few days ago, one of the mathajis in our neighbourhood was admitted in hospital as she was suffering from dengue fever. Her blood platelet counts had come down and doctors informed that she is in very critical condition. We were informed that in a normal person the count of platelets should be around 1.5 lakhs whereas for her it was just 6 thousand and she had become unconsc

Lord Jagannath snan Yatra

Posted by Lakshman Poddar on June 25, 2010 at 5:13pm

The Snan yatra bathing ceremony of Lord Jagannath has become one of the most popular festivals on the Iskcon calendar over the years since His Divine Grace Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad introduced it to the world outside of India. Traditionally this festival has been going on since the time of the carving of the 'Dharu-brahman' Deities of Lord Jagannath, Lord Balaram, and Lady Subhadra in Sri Purushottam Kshetra (Jagannath Puri) thousands of years ago, commemorating Their sacred appea

lord GAURANGA

Posted by shailendra badriprasad sharma on June 25, 2010 at 1:06pm

Birth and ParentagePundit Jagannath Misra, alias Purandar Misra, a pious Brahmin of the Vaidik sub-caste, had migrated from Sylhet and settled at Nadia or Nabadwip, a city of learned men in the Nabadwip district of West Bengal, situated on the river Ganges, seventy-five miles north of Calcutta. Jagannath Misra's wife was Sachi Devi, daughter of the scholar Nilamber Chakravarti. She also was a pious lady. A son was born to Jagannath Misra and Sachi on the night of the full moon, on 4th February,

Devotional Paraphernalia from Vrindavan

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on June 25, 2010 at 10:51am

Dear Devotees,

Please accept my humble obeisance’s. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

I would like to introduce HG Jagonnatha das who completed MBA in Human resource in the year of 2005 and was working as a HR manager in various multinational company. He joined ISKCON Vrindavan as a full time Brahmacari & completed new bhakta program nicely. He is very humble and gentle in behavior.

Recently he started his own paraphernalia supplying business for the interest of ISKCON and his devotional life.

He is

What is Required To Please Krishna

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on June 25, 2010 at 8:00am

In a class Srila Prabhupada explained what is required of us if we want to please Krishna and get His blessings. "We have to surrender. That will please Krishna. And without pleasing Him, You cannot see Krishna. You may have your eyes big, big eyes, but you cannot see Krishna. You have to please Him. That pleasing activity is bhakti.

"Without that bhakti, it means sitting down silently... 'No, no, I am chanting. I do not want to go out. I am busy.' This means excuse. What you will chant? You will

June 24th - HG Jananivas Prabhu speaks on S.B. 4.5.2 - from Mayapur

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on June 24, 2010 at 7:01pm

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.5.2

kruddhaḥ sudaṣṭauṣṭha-puṭaḥ sa dhūr-jaṭir
jaṭāḿ taḍid-vahni-saṭogra-rociṣam
utkṛtya rudraḥ sahasotthito hasan
gambhīra-nādo visasarja tāḿ bhuvi

SYNONYMS:
kruddhaḥ — very angry; su-daṣṭa-oṣṭha-puṭaḥ — pressing his lips with his teeth; saḥ — he (Lord Śiva); dhūḥ-jaṭiḥ — having a cluster of hair on his head; jaṭām — one hair; taḍit — of electricity; vahni — of fire; saṭā — a flame; ugra — terrible; rociṣam — blazing; utkṛtya — snatching; rudraḥ — L

Money millionaires and Mercy millionaires.

Posted by k.s.subramanian on June 24, 2010 at 3:15pm

hare Krishna! So the news is out. Hold your breath. The world has on date, 1 crore millionaires( in USD), which is 0.016% of the world's population. Within USA approx 0.09% are millionaires and this means 99.01% are not! India has 0.0001% that is one in 10,000.. India also has officially 37% of its people living a Below Poverty Line life. The good news according to the press is that the number is growing rapidly - at what cost to the rest of the world is anybody's guess. Last year was a bad year

Raghunatha dasa Gosvami

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on June 24, 2010 at 2:50pm

There are men, especially rich men, who regularly worship the Deity, give charity to brahmanas and are pious in every respect, but they cannot be pure Vaisnavas. Despite their outward show of Vaisnavism and charity, their inner desire is to enjoy a higher standard of material life. Raghunatha dasa’s father, Govardhana, and uncle, Hiranya dasa, were both very charitable to brahmanas. Indeed, the brahmanas from the Gaudiya district were practically dependent on them. Thus they were accepted as ver

Cida Dahi Mahotsav pastime from Caitanya Caritamrta

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on June 24, 2010 at 2:41pm

The Chida-dadhi Mahotsav, also known as the Chipped Rice Festival of Panihati, is a yearly celebration of the pastimes of Srila Raghunatha dasa Goswami and Lord Nityananda Prabhu. This astonishing pastime took place on the banks of the Ganges at Panihati, which is just north of Calcutta. Lord Caitanya and his associates enjoyed many transcendental pastimes here. Chida-dadhi Mahotsav remembers how the Lord mercifully reciprocated with His devotees by arranging, through Nityananda Prabhu and Raghu

PRABHUPADA SPEAKS ABOUT - The Spirit of Bhagavad Gita

Posted by Janaka Dasa (Dr Jagadeesh TG) on June 24, 2010 at 2:10pm

SPIRIT OF BHAGAVAD GITA

The spirit of Bhagavad-gita is mentioned in Bhagavad-gita itself. It is just like this: If we want to take a particular medicine, then we have to follow the directions written on the label. We cannot take the medicine according to our own whim or the direction of a friend. It must be taken according to the directions on the label or the directions given by a physician. Similarly, Bhagavad-gita should be taken or accepted as it is directed by the speaker Himself.

The speaker

Sri Krsna's playful pastime (vihara)

Posted by geeta kakkar on June 24, 2010 at 12:00pm

Sri Krsna's playful pastime (vihara) - Kamyavana

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Once Maharsi Durvasa with his sixty thousand sages reached the residence of the Pandavas in Kamyavana in the afternoon. Upon seeing him, the Pandavas became very happy. Maharaja yudhisthira worshipped him and requested him to accept his hospitality. Maharsi said," We are now going to bath in Vimala-kund and will come back very soon. You should arrange for our meals. We will eat here." Saying this, Durvasa left to bath together with his whole entour

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The Life of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Goswami Prabhupada

Simha Guru

The Story of a Tile... (short story, realization)

Story of Lord Krishna

Sri Syamananda Prabhu

Krishna Prem

A special bath of Jagannath takes place on the Purnima of Jyestha month (Devasnan Purnima), to commemorate the appearance day of Lord Jagannath. According to Skanda Purana when Raja Indradyumna instal

SRI VILAPA KUSUMANJALI

A Square Circle

Power of Lord's Names

Lord Jagannath snan Yatra

lord GAURANGA

Devotional Paraphernalia from Vrindavan

What is Required To Please Krishna

June 24th - HG Jananivas Prabhu speaks on S.B. 4.5.2 - from Mayapur

Money millionaires and Mercy millionaires.

Raghunatha dasa Gosvami

Cida Dahi Mahotsav pastime from Caitanya Caritamrta

PRABHUPADA SPEAKS ABOUT - The Spirit of Bhagavad Gita

Sri Krsna's playful pastime (vihara)

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