November 28, 2009 was celebrated as Gita Jayantiday. This was the very day more than 5000 years back that Lord Krishna spoke the wisdom of the Bhagavad Gita to his dearest friend and disciple Arjuna. It was spoken at a time when Arjuna was completely baffled by the circumstances in his life and was all but ready to give up his kshatriya duties. After hearing the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna was ready to go on with his duties in the right perspective, without bothering about happiness or sadness, loss o
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In his Sri Prarthana-paddhati [Stavamala], Srila Rupa goswami prays:
"O Queen of Vrndavana, O Radharani, Your complexion is like molten gold, Your doe-like eyes are captivatingly restless, a million full and brilliant moons wane before Your lustrous countenance, and a blue sari, having stolen the hue of a fresh rain-laden cloud, has enwrapped Your exquisite form. O Radha, You are the crest-jewel of all the dallying damsels of Vrndavana, fragra
Class: Special class on the Occasion of HH Bhakti Tirtha Swami's
Appearance Anniversary
Speaker: HH Bhakti Charu Swami
suddha-bhakata-carana-renu,
bhajana-anukula
bhakata-seva, parama-siddhi,
prema-latikara mula
Will you be able to sing with me? [Audience agree.] I am sorry I thought I
will use the harmonium myself.
suddha-bhakata-carana-renu bhajana-anukula - the dust from the lotus feet of
a pure devotee is conducive to spiritual advancement. If we want to make
spiritual advancem
bhajana-anukula
bhakata-seva, parama-siddhi,
prema-latikara mula
Will you be able to sing with me? [Audience agree.] I am sorry I thought I
will use the harmonium myself.
suddha-bhakata-carana-renu bhajana-anukula - the dust from the lotus feet of
a pure devotee is conducive to spiritual advancement. If we want to make
spiritual advancem
The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance. - Norman Vincent Peale Faith isn't the ability to believe long and far into the misty future. It's simply taking God at His Word and taking the next step. - Joni Erickson Tada God is the light that shows me the way, for there is nothing that God cannot do. Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible. - Sir William Osler Put your confidence in God and not in man. God |
David Steindl-Rast: Gratefulness is the key to a happy life that we hold in our hands, because if we are not grateful, then no matter how much we have we will not be happy -- because we will always want to have something else or something more. Denis Waitley: Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace and gratitude. Doris Day: Gratitude is riches. Complaint is poverty. Eric Hoffer: The hardest arith |
What is the Actual Destination of Life?
Why a human being should not die like cats or dogs without knowing the aim of life is
illustrated in the following story.
Once upon a time, there was a very wealthy king. He had a big kingdom, many queens, a lot of
wealth and hundreds and thousands of followers and soldiers. He was living a very happy life
and he became so attached to his property, position, prestige and status that he completely
forgot God, and his duty towards God.
One day a sadhu came to his c
Song Name: Na Yoga Siddhir Na Mamastu
Official Name: Sri Sri Vrndavanastakam
Author: Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura
Book Name: Stavamrta Lahari
(1)
na yoga-siddhir na mamāstu mokṣo
vaikuṇṭha-loke pi na pārṣadatvam
premāpi na syād iti cet tarāṁ tu
mamāstu vṛndāvana eva vāsaḥ
(2)
tārāaṁ janur yatra vidhir yayāce
sad-bhakta-cūḍāmaṇir uddhavo’ pi
vīkṣyvaiva mādhurya-dhūrāṁ tad asmin
mamāstu vṛndāvana eva vāsaḥ
(3)
kiṁ te kṛtaṁ hanta tapaḥ kṣitīti
gopyo pi bhūme stuvate ras kīrtim
yenaiva kṛṣṇāńghri-p
Kirtana [chanting Hare Krishna] in Every Town and Village
If you vibrate these transcendental sounds everywhere continually, it will pierce their ears and enter their hearts, and then their natural attraction for Krsna will be revived.
My Dear Bansidhari,
Please accept my blessings. I beg to thank you for your nice report from Santa Barbara dated October 22nd, 1970. I am always so glad to know that you are keeping to the standard practices as I have instructed you to do and all the devotees are fe
(Sung during Guru-puja, worship of the spiritual master, by Shrila Narottama dasa Thakura)
(1)
shri-guru-charana-padma, kevala-bhakati-sadma
bando mui savadhana mate
jahara prasade bhai, e bhava toriya jai,
krishna-prapti hoy jaha ha'te
(2)
guru-mukha-padma-vakya, chittete koriya aikya
ar na koriho mane asha
shri-guru-charane rati, ei se uttama-gati
je prasade pure sarva asha
(3)
chakhu-dan dilo jei, janme janme prabhu sei
divya-jnan hride prokashito
prema-bhakti jaha hoite, avidya v
Song Name: Vande Krsna Nanda Kumara
govinda hari gopāla hari
govinda hari gopāla hari
jaya jaya deva hari
jaya jaya deva hari
vande kṛṣṇa nanda-kumāra
nanda-kumāra madana-gopāla
madana-gopāla mohana-rūpa
mohana-rūpa nanda-kumāra
jaya jaya deva hari
jaya jaya deva hari
jaya prabhu dīna-dayāla hari
govinda hari gopāla hari
govinda hari gopāla hari
jaya jaya deva hari
jaya jaya deva hari
jaya rāma hari jaya kṛṣṇa hari
jaya jaya-śacī-nandana gaura-hari
govinda hari gopāla hari
govinda hari gopāla hari
jaya jaya deva ha
To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness. - Benjamin Franklin
Humility makes great men twice honorable - Benjamin Franklin quotes
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them. - Charles de Montesquieu
Date: February 8,2010 Verse: Srimad-Bhagavatam 3.32.25 Speaker: HH Bhakti
Caitanya Swami – Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir, Sri Dham Mayapur
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sa tadaivatmanatmanam nihsangam sama-darsanam heyopadeya-rahitam arudham padam
iksate
TRANSLATION: Because of his transcendental intelligence, the pure devotee is equipoised in
his vision and sees himself to be uncontaminated by matter. He does not see anything as
superior or inferior, and he feels himself elevated to the transcenden
SHRI RADHA KRIPA KATAKSHA – The PRAYER FOR THE MERCIFUL SIDELONG GLANCE OF SHRI RADHA
(by Lord Shiva from the Urdhvamnaya-tantra)
1. munindra vrnda vandite tri loka soka harini
prasanna vaktra pankaje nikunja bhu vilasini
vrajendra bhanu nandini vrajendra sunu sangate
kada karisyasiha mam krpa kataksa bhajanam
Adored by the host of great sages, She drives away the grief of the three spheres. Her face like a lotus blooms with joy. Delighting in love's games in secret groves, She is
February 14th, 2010
Reporting by Sraddhadevi Dasi
On February 14th, all members of ISKCON's Governing Commission
attending the Annual General Meeting in Mayapur, India assembled in the
center of a construction zone. It was the construction zone of the
long-awaited Temple of Vedic Planetarium (TOVP), a massive and impressive
temple dedicated to displaying the Vedic view of the spiritual and material
worlds.
The TOVP will become the new home to Sri Sri Radha Madhava, Sri
Pancha Tattva
attending the Annual General Meeting in Mayapur, India assembled in the
center of a construction zone. It was the construction zone of the
long-awaited Temple of Vedic Planetarium (TOVP), a massive and impressive
temple dedicated to displaying the Vedic view of the spiritual and material
worlds.
The TOVP will become the new home to Sri Sri Radha Madhava, Sri
Pancha Tattva
One night a man was asleep in his cabin when suddenly his room was filled with bright light and the Lord appeared. The Lord told him He had work for him to do, and showed him a large rock in front of his cabin. The Lord explained that the man was to push against the rock with all his might. This, the man did, day after day.
For many years he toiled from sun up to sun down with his shoulders set squarely against the cold, massive surface of the unmoving rock, pushing with all his might. Each night
"Sri Gauranga, Sri Nityananda, Sri Advaita, Sri Gadadhara and
Srivasa are all on the same platform, but in spiritually
distinguishing between them one should understand that Sri Caitanya
Mahaprabhu is the form of a devotee, Nityananda Prabhu appears in the
form of a devotee's spiritual master, Advaita Prabhu is the form of a
bhakta (devotee) incarnation, Gadadhara Prabhu is the energy of a
bhakta, and Srivasa is a pure devotee. Thus there are spiritual
distinctions between them."
Caitanya-
From HH Sacinandana Swami newsletter Amrta-vani
How to Turn Inner Pain into Great Gain:
Change Your Perspective
We have all observed, either through our own experiences or through conversations with others, that the pain arising from disappointment in interpersonal relationships distracts the mind like no other feeling.
Even the feeling of being in love does not occupy our thoughts as much as the feeling of being slighted by another person! Again and again one helplessly thinks, "Why did she say tha
If I speak about the love for Krsna that Srila Prabhupada had, and how it extends also to human beings, then I'm thinking especially of the early devotees. In the beginning, Srila Prabhupada was just alone in New York. He was just sometimes wandering alone in the streets, no followers but he carried on. And then he started his Matchless Gifts Store and the first devotees were there.
And if today we meet one of those first devotees for example Brahmananda Prabhu, if we meet him today, then we can
