"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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Once the world was overburdened by the unnecessary defense force of different kings, who were actually demons, but were posing themselves as the royal order. At that time, the whole world became perturbed, and the predominating deity of this earth, known as Bhumi, went to see Lord Brahma to tell of her calamities due to the demoniac kings. Bhumi assumed the shape of a cow and presented herself before Lord Brahma with tears in her eyes. She was bereaved and was weeping just to invoke the lord's c
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A team of 7 devotee-graduates from the famous Indian Institute of Technology(IIT) will be joining the staff of Bhaktivedanta Gurukula and InternationalSchool (Vrindavan) this coming school year! This group of creative andtalented devotees is led by Dr.Lila Purusottoma dasa, presently a professorat IIT Kanpur, who will be joining full time in July as Director of theschool.Thus, for those of you keen for your child to be educated in an environmentdedicated to Krishna Consciousness and academic exc
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Short Drama script:STAR TREK MEETS KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESSA transcendental farcekirk...checov, more power , faster speedkirk...solu put up the defensive shieldscall from scotty....captan kirk our power supply is running low I can't keepthe shields upkirk...to Spock it looks badhit by bomb, everyone shaken upkirk... this is bad, we have been hit, half the crew is dead oh my GodKirk's head in hands in great griefspock...You are mourning for what is not worthy of grief. those who are wiseneither lame
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Lying - How it Begins in ChildrenOf all the various behavioral disorders that can affect a child, the worst are the delinquency acts. Acts like lying, stealing truancy and age matter offenses. They are the most difficult to accept or to deal with and require extremely sensitive handling.But before we term a particular child a liar, we must be sure that the child is actually lying and it is not just his overactive imagination at work. Very often the child could have thought that a particular thin
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Yoga is an ancient and unique system of unfoldment of the personality at all levels. However, especially in the West, people are only accustomed to doing yoga in order to derive some health benefits. Ninety-nine per cent of the people who practise yoga do it merely as a physical exercise. Steadiness of body can calm the mind, and for this reason many people are also interested in yoga, but another dimension to yoga needs to emerge; namely, the desire to meditate on something beyond body and mind
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Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul of all living entities, knows very well everyone's heart. He is especially inclined to the brahmana devotees. Lord Krsna is also called brahmanyadeva, which means that He is worshiped by the brahmanas. Therefore it is understood that a devotee who is fully surrendered unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead has already acquired the position of a brahmana. Without becoming a brahmana, one cannot approach the Supreme Brahman, Lord Krsna
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मानुष हौं तो वही रसखानि बसौं गोकुल गाँव के ग्वालन।जो पसु हौं तो कहा बसु मेरो चरौं नित नन्द की धेनु मंझारन।पाहन हौं तो वही गिरि को जो धरयौ कर छत्र पुरन्दर धारन।जो खग हौं बसेरो करौं मिल कालिन्दी-कूल-कदम्ब की डारन।।हिन्दी के कृष्ण भक्त तथा रीतिकालीन रीतिमुक्त कवियों में रसखान का अत्यंत महत्वपूर्ण स्थान है। रसखान को रस की खान कहा गया है। इनके काव्य में भक्ति, श्रृगांर रस दोनों प्रधानता से मिलते हैं। रसखान कृष्ण भक्त हैं और उनके सगुण और निगुर्ण निराकार रूप दोनों के प्रति श्रध्दावनत हैं। रसखान के सगुण
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WHO IS EKADASI ?In the Satya-yuga there once lived an amazing fearsome demon called Mura.Always very angry, he terrified all the demigods, defeating even Indra, the king of heaven; Vivasvan, the sun-god; the eight Vasus; Lord Brahma; Vayu, the wind-god; and Agni, the fire-god.With his terrible power he brought them all under his control.Then the demigods approached Lord Visnu, and prayed to Him for help.Hearing the prayers and request from Indra, Lord Visnu became very angry and said:"O powerful
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SEX FASCINATION-THE DISEASE OF THE MODERN AGEby HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami
Sex is the overwhelming obsession of modern society. Sexual promiscuity is so unrelentingly stressed that anyone who does not appear to the highly interested in it is generally considered to be a crank. Social pressure induces people to try to maintain juvenile lustiness long after the sensual high of youth has subsided. Thus millions of people remain emotionally immature all their lives. It is a sick world.Ignorant of their r
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