Pinda UpanishadOm! O Devas! May we hear only the good with our ears; O the ones to be worshipped! May we see only the good with our eyes; may we have strong limbs and bodies, which will enable us to pray and worship the Devas. May we live unto such time the Devas feel we should live. May the Lord Indra, of great fame, shower some grace and good on us. May the Lord Surya (the Sun God), the knower of all, shower some grace and good on us. May the Lord Garuda, who has an unfettered clear path (to l
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Dear devotees,Please accept my humble obeisances.All glories to Srila Prabhupada.On Sunday 22 November 2009, the fortieth anniversary of installation of SriSri Radha-Londonisvara, BBC Radio 4 who have an estimated audience of overone million listeners in the United Kingdom and the British Isles aired thenews of "40 years of the Hare Krishna movement in the UK".The piece included interviews with Jai Nitai Prabhu (current TemplePresident), Shyamasundara Prabhu (Founder), Mother Yamuna (Founder),Gu
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‘To try to transform the world and its institutions, which are engaged in a struggle for power resulting in the misuse of power; to try to create a culture of responsibility where people are literally trying to facilitate others; and to reach out and care is the real point of our preaching. Real leaders are not those who want to lead because they feel they have to dominate, coerce and impose. Real leaders are those who are not even interested in leading, but at the same time they are not willing
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“Maya is also a devotee of Krishna whose duty is to keep the criminals in jail. She never releases anyone unless they become a pure devotee of Krishna. But when someone becomes pure, she gladly accepts defeat, because her whole purpose is to help people surrender to Krishna. This is her success.She expertly keeps the living entity in illusion until he understands that he is the eternal servant of Krishna, thus preventing the criminally minded living entities from creating havoc in the completely
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Sunday afternoon I visited HH Sridhara Swami Maharaja at his “Nrsimha Kutir.” On the ISKCON Juhu land, besides the big temple and guest house, there is an apartment complex that has stood here since before ISKCON bought the property. Gradually all the nondevotee residents of those apartments moved out; now the building is occupied by ISKCONians only. So HH Sridhara Maharaja stays in one apartment where he worships his three amazing Nrsimha shilas and one Sudarshana shila.I wish I could publish h
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May the Kaulika triumph! May Varuni triumph! May Truth triumph! May fire triumph! May all living things triumph!Hail to the Absolute! Hail to Earth! Hail to Fire! Hail to Air! Hail to Guru! You are like the Cosmos! You are that, self-evidently! I will speak of the Divine Law. I will speak the truth! That must protect me! The source of speech must protect me! Protect me! Protect my speech! Om Shanti Shanti Shanti.Now the investigation into Dharma. (It is) knowledge and mind. It is the unified cau
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Posted by pratibha on November 26, 2009 at 10:00am
Om ! May He protect us both together; may He nourish us both together;May we work conjointly with great energy,May our study be vigorous and effective;May we not mutually dispute (or may we not hate any).Om ! Let there be Peace in me !Let there be Peace in my environment !Let there be Peace in the forces that act on me !1. The mind is chiefly spoken of as of two kinds, pure and impure. The impure mind is that which is possessed of desire, and the pure is that which is devoid of desire.2. It is i
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Signature Campaign for the welfare of Indian Cows.A proposal to The Honourable President of India will be submitted in January, 2010. Our nation is a country of villages. Lives of villagers are mainly based on agriculture. Agriculture largely depends on the cow and bull. The bull is given a place of pride in our culture and national heritage. The holy ‘Gou Matha’ is a source of both food and economy. She is the centre of ayurveda, environment, Indian economics, culture and agriculture.Neglect of
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Hello frnds today i wish to tell u a story , and i learnt a lot from this, hope it help u also .A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door.SON: 'Daddy, may I ask you a question?'DAD: 'Yeah sure, what it is?' replied the man.SON: 'Daddy, how much do you make an hour?'DAD: 'That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?' the man said angrily.SON: 'I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?'DAD: 'If
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Posted by pratibha on November 25, 2009 at 10:27pm
Akshi UpanishadOm ! May He protect us both together; may He nourish us both together;May we work conjointly with great energy,May our study be vigorous and effective;May we not mutually dispute (or may we not hate any).Om ! Let there be Peace in me !Let there be Peace in my environment !Let there be Peace in the forces that act on me !PART-IThen the blessed Samkriti repaired to the solar world. Bowing down to the sun, he glorified the Sun by means of the science of the Wise:Om, Salutation to the
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Sometimes no matter what we do everything seems to come out wrong. It becomes therefore sometimes completely bewildering to know what should be done and what should not be done. However, when such emotional devastation hits there is no need to panic. Simply take complete shelter of Lord Sri Krishna's unlimitedly sweet transcendental names and before you know it everything will be okay. This the wonderful powerful of Lord Sri Krishna's wonderful holy names:Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Kris
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This is beautiful story -Story:An old Farmer lived on a farm in the mountains with his young grandson.Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table readinghis Bhagavath Geetha. His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried toimitate him in every way he could.One day the grandson asked, "Grandpa! I try to read the Bhagavath Geethajust like you but I don't understand it, and what I do understand Iforget as soon as I close the book. What good does reading the Bhagavath Geethado
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Posted by Chitra Datta on November 25, 2009 at 1:20pm
Don't Miss The Train!!"Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakura, a great acarya in the Brahma Madhva Gaudiya line, mentioned that those people who live close to the railway station miss the train more frequently than others. They tend to think, "The railway station is right here, just next to my house and I can go there anytime. "But when the train comes, they rush to get there, and before they reach, the train leaves.On the other hand, someone who is living far away thinks, "Oh, I have to go one
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Posted by KASHYAPI DASS on November 25, 2009 at 11:26am
Share by:His Holiness Srila Giriraj SwamiBy HDG A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaFrom the book 'The path of Yoga'prasanta-manasam hy enamyoginam sukham uttamamupaiti santa-rajasambrahma-bhutam akalmasam"The yogi whose mind is fixed on Me verily attains the highest happiness. By virtue of his identity with Brahman, he is liberated; his mind is peaceful, his passions are quieted, and he is freed from sin." (Bg. 6.27)yunjann evam sadatmanamyogi vigata-kalmasahsukhena brahma-samsparsamatyantam suk
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Posted by KASHYAPI DASS on November 25, 2009 at 11:01am
Alas, for those who spend their daysIn festive mirth and joy.The dazzling, deadly, liquid formsTheir hearts fore'er employ.The shining bottles charm their eyesAnd draw their heart's embrace;The slaves of wine can never riseFrom what we call disgrace.Was man intended to beA brute in work and heart?Should man, the Lord of all around,From common sense depart?Man's glory is in common senseDictating us the grace,That man is made to live and loveThe beauteous Heaven's embrace.The flesh is not our own,
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It is a 99.95% challenge that u will have a wrong answer to the question asked in this passage.Once there was loving couple traveling in a bus in a mountainous area.They decided to get down at some place. After the couple got down at some place the bus moved on. As the bus moved on, a huge rock fell on the bus from the mountain and crushed the bus to crumbs. Everybody on board was killed. The couple upon seeing that, said, "We wish we were on that bus"Why do u think they said that?TRY AND FIND ARead more…
Posted by KASHYAPI DASS on November 24, 2009 at 4:26pm
The exact time and place of Sri Baladeva Vidyabhushana’s birth are unknown. Perhaps one day historians will be able to establish these facts beyond any doubt. From the little information that we do have about his life, we can conjecture that he was born in the 17th century of the modern era. Though we do not know the name of the exact village where he took birth, it was likely in the Balesore (Baleshvara) district of Orissa, somewhere near Remuna. From the date given in his commentary on Rupa Go
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Posted by geeta kakkar on November 24, 2009 at 3:39pm
adharam madhuram vadanam madhuram nayanam madhuram hasitam madhuram |hrdayam madhuram gamanam madhuram madhuradhipaterakhilam madhuram || 1 ||Sweet are His lips and His mien is sweet.Sweet are His eyes as His smiles are sweet.Sweet is His heart as His bearing is sweet.The Lord of sweetness is entirely sweet.Lord Sri Krishna is entirely sweet.vacanam madhuram caritam madhuram vasanam madhuram valitam madhuram |calitam madhuram bhramitam madhuram madhuradhipaterakhilam madhuram || 2 ||Sweet are Hi
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Spiritual knowledge descends through the disciplic succession from Krishna. The representatives of the disciplic succession can not change anything, add anything or subtract anything. Otherwise the disciplic succession will be broken and their preaching will have no potency. Many times in the history this disciplic succession has been broken because the representatives of the disciplic succession did not correctly pass on the knowledge to their students.We can understand how perfect knowledge ca
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Posted by pratibha on November 24, 2009 at 10:30am
Aksha Malika Upanishad[The Upanishad of Rosary Beads]Om ! May my speech be based on (i.e. accord with) the mind;May my mind be based on speech.O Self-effulgent One, reveal Thyself to me.May you both (speech and mind) be the carriers of the Veda to me.May not all that I have heard depart from me.I shall join together (i.e. obliterate the difference of) dayAnd night through this study.I shall utter what is verbally true;I shall utter what is mentally true.May that (Brahman) protect me;May That pro
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