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It Is Joyfully Preformed

Posted by Amrta devi dasi on January 2, 2010 at 8:30pm

Today while hearing Gopal Hari give class, I felt as though Krishna was talking directly to me. Two points that Prabhu gave went straight to my heart.. I have been meditating on them since then. So I don't forget and in an attempt to share with those who where not present during today's class, I will try to share what I learned.
He started by singing and playing harmonium. Anyone who has experienced hearing and following as Gopal Hari sings Jaya Radha Madhava knows that there are not words enoug

Ganapati Upanishad

Posted by pratibha on January 2, 2010 at 7:30pm

Om ! O Devas, may we hear with our ears what is auspicious;May we see with our eyes what is auspicious, O ye worthy of worship !May we enjoy the term of life allotted by the Devas,Praising them with our body and limbs steady !May the glorious Indra bless us !May the all-knowing Sun bless us !May Garuda, the thunderbolt for evil, bless us !May Brihaspati grant us well-being !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 !Auspi

WHAT IS RELIGION?

Posted by pratibha on January 2, 2010 at 9:30am

New Year is fast approaching and we will be in another year within a couple of hours. Years have come and years have gone; we have celebrated the ushering in of the New Year many a time. But we are no better than what we were many years back. Why so? Religion, which is supposed to help us in this respect, does not seem to be of much avail, because we have not understood what religion is. So let us now ponder over this very important subject, "What is religion?"In a broad way, religion may be reg

Happy New Year

Posted by Chitra Datta on January 2, 2010 at 9:13am

Dear Devotees,Wishing you all a Very Happy and Krishna Conscious New Year.Your servant,Cintamani Sakhi Devi Dasi

Chetan Bhagat, India’s best selling author would like to happily join ISKCON and dedicate his life to Krishna

Posted by R.Deepak Bedre on January 2, 2010 at 9:07am

Chetan Bhagat, India’s best selling author would like to happily join ISKCON and dedicate his life to Krishna.Excerpts:i. The odds - They have an army of people to promote their side of the story, crores of media budgets and are sparing no efforts to bring me down. The only thing I have is my fans, and the truth. But then, the truth is Krishna, and the Pandavas had only that while there was an army on the other side. Remember who won that battle?”“Like I said, I don’t need anything. Even if I ha

A Warning at the Stroke of the New Year

Posted by R.Deepak Bedre on January 1, 2010 at 10:06pm

Hare Krishna. Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada,In our material life anything can happen at any moment. But little did I realize that it could happen at the stroke of the New Year.We were celebrating the New Year by watching a free display of fireworks on the terrace of our flats. We also had our own fireworks. Our fireworks were flying in all kinds of directions. We would call them in cricket terms googlies.One small spark of the fireworks fell directly into th

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF EKADASI

Posted by pratibha on January 1, 2010 at 9:37pm

Ekadasi is a Sanskrit word, which means 'the eleventh'. It refers to the eleventh day of a fortnight belonging to a lunar month. There are two fortnights in a lunar month—the bright and the dark. So, Ekadasi occurs twice in a month, in the bright fortnight and the dark fortnight. The special feature of Ekadasi, as most people know it, is a fast, abstinence from diet. This is how it is usually understood. 'We do not eat on Ekadasi', is what people understand. In this country (India) it has become

Ekadashi 2010 – List of Ekadasi Vrata dates in 2010

Posted by pratibha on January 1, 2010 at 9:19pm

Ekadashi or Ekadasi is the most auspicious vrat dedicated to Lord Vishnu. Ekadasi vrata is observed on 11th day in every fortnight during the Hindu month. The year 2010 consists of Adhik maas or Adhika Masam hence 2010 consists of 26 Ekadashi. April 2010 and May 2010 months consist 3 Ekadasi dates each because of Adhik maas in Hindu Panchang 2010.Adhik Masa Vaishaka masa Ekadashi dates in 2010 are – April 24, 2010 and May 9, 2010. Some Ekadashi vratas are observed on different days by Smartha an

Self Realized Persons

Posted by geeta kakkar on January 1, 2010 at 7:26pm

“Possessed of knowledge of the purport of the scriptures (Jnana) and realisation of the oneness of the Self and Brahman and of the truth that Brahman is himself (Vijnana) immersed in the delight of Self-realisation and finding thyself to be the Self of all embodied beings, thou will not experience obstructions or obstacles.“He who has risen above good and bad does not refrain from doing what is prohibited from a sense of fear of evil consequences nor does he do the prescribed duty in the hope th

Material World: Nothing But A Shadow!

Posted by Shabda Hari Das on January 1, 2010 at 12:00pm

"The material world is but a shadow. If we hold our hand against the light it casts a shadow image. The shadow image is like an outline of the hand. It doesn't show the qualities of the hand, such as the hair, the skin, or the fingerprints. It is only a vague form.Similarly, in the material world, what we see as admiration, servitorship, friendship, parental affection, or conjugal affection, these are all like incomplete shadows of their real form.Just as the hand has so many variegated qualitie

Ekakshara Upanishad

Posted by pratibha on January 1, 2010 at 7:30am

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. Thou art the one Imperishable in the Imperishable, conjoint with Uma. As known by means of Susumna, here (on the empirical plane), the one firm (Principle art Thou). Thou art

Please lose your footwear!

Posted by R.Deepak Bedre on December 31, 2009 at 7:44pm

Please accept my humble obeisances.All glories to Srila Prabhupada.It is Ratha Yatra time in Chennai on January 13th and I invite all devotees to come to Chennai for the Yatra.Next Sunday is the Snana-Yatra and I remember the experience I had in January 2009 and I wish to share it with all devotees for their pleasure.That Sunday, my wife and I made a rare visit to the temple together.There was a lot of rush. We had to park our car some distance away from the temple. As we walked to the temple, m

Dhyana-Bindu Upanishad

Posted by pratibha on December 31, 2009 at 7:30pm

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. Even if sin should accumulate to a mountain extending over many Yojanas (distance), it is destroyed by Dhyana-Yoga. At no time has been found a destroyer of sins like this.2.

The Proud Frog!

Posted by Shabda Hari Das on December 31, 2009 at 10:10am

"Sometimes someone has a little knowledge, and they become very proud. Sometimes someone has a little wealth, they become very proud, they think nothing can disturb them.There is a story once, that there was a frog living in the pond. One day the frog, he jumped out on the side of the pond and there he found one coin. He found a 50 paisa piece...'aat anna'. Now this was quite some time ago, so that time 'aat anna' was more than it is today. Maybe that 'aat anna' was worth 50 rupees today. Now ru

Passing of Rasajna devi dasi

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on December 31, 2009 at 5:33am

Dearest Devotee's and Well wishers:Srimate Rasajna devi dasi quietly departed for the Lotus Feet of Srila Prabhupada Monday afternoon in Austin, Texas. Yesterday, Sumati devi dasi, her care taker, feeling the end was immanent, called a god-brothers who lived locally for kirtan. Rasa had indicated her pleasure with the kirtan of the local devotees. They arrived this morning & together with Sumati, they kirtan began around 10:45 central time and continued until around 2 pm when they broke for pras

Devi Upanishad

Posted by pratibha on December 30, 2009 at 7:30pm

Om ! Gods ! With ears let us hear what is good;Adorable ones ! With eyes let us see what is good.With steady limbs, with bodies, praising,Let us enjoy the life allotted by the gods.May Indra, of wide renown, grant us well-being;May Pusan, and all-gods, grant us well-being.May Tarksya, of unhampered movement, grant us well-being.May Brihaspati grant us well-being.Om ! Peace ! Peace ! Peace !1. All the gods waited upon the Goddess (and asked): ‘Great Goddess, who art Thou ?’2. She replied: I am es

Upadesamrta:---

Posted by KASHYAPI DASS on December 30, 2009 at 2:18pm

syāt kṛṣṇanāmacaritādisitāpyavidyā-pittopataptarasanasya na rocikā nukintvādarādanudinaḿ khalu saiva juṣṭāsvādvī kramādbhavati tadgadamūlahantrīThe holy name, character, pastimes and activities of Kṛṣṇa are all transcendentally sweet like sugar candy. Although the tongue of one afflicted by the jaundice of avidyā [ignorance] cannot taste anything sweet, it is wonderful that simply by carefully chanting these sweet names every day, a natural relish awakens within his tongue, and his dise

ABC's of Spirituality!

Posted by Shabda Hari Das on December 30, 2009 at 10:23am

So sometimes when people hear these principles of Bhakti..this bowing down, offering a flower, offering a fruit, offering water with tulasi, doing some simple services, they think, 'what is this? this is over-simplified! we have to do some high mental speculation or....these are just the ABCs'.There is also a story about that...One time there was one widow. She had a son, about 11-12 years old. So she wanted to give the best education for her son, but she herself was not very highly educated. Sh

Dream Vs Reality!

Posted by Chitra Datta on December 30, 2009 at 9:55am

Dream Vs Reality!"We accept particular bodies in our dreams to be ourselves. We may dream that we are king, or dream that we are pauper, or a woman. In the dream we are thinking "This is me." When we wake up, we find that it was a dream and that the temporary dream body is disappeared.So in a similar way, by the influence of material nature, we get a particular body in this life, and we identify with this body that it's ourselves. When we actually wake up to our real eternal identity, we find th

Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 500 th year of Sannyasa Anniversary posters

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on December 29, 2009 at 9:30pm

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It Is Joyfully Preformed

Ganapati Upanishad

WHAT IS RELIGION?

Happy New Year

Chetan Bhagat, India’s best selling author would like to happily join ISKCON and dedicate his life to Krishna

A Warning at the Stroke of the New Year

THE SIGNIFICANCE OF EKADASI

Ekadashi 2010 – List of Ekadasi Vrata dates in 2010

Self Realized Persons

Material World: Nothing But A Shadow!

Ekakshara Upanishad

Please lose your footwear!

Dhyana-Bindu Upanishad

The Proud Frog!

Passing of Rasajna devi dasi

Devi Upanishad

Upadesamrta:---

ABC's of Spirituality!

Dream Vs Reality!

Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu 500 th year of Sannyasa Anniversary posters

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