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Kaula Upanishad

Posted by pratibha on November 26, 2009 at 3:15pm

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

Amrita Bindu Upanishad

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

Signature Campaign for the welfare of Indian Cows.

Posted by suja on November 26, 2009 at 7:51am

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

AN EYE OPENER

Posted by Dr. Yitin Mendiratta on November 26, 2009 at 12:13am

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

Akshi Upanishad

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

Hare Krishna

Posted by sanjay krishna on November 25, 2009 at 8:05pm

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

Why do we read Bhagvat Geetha, even if we can't understand its meaning completely ???

Posted by Braj Kishore Das on November 25, 2009 at 1:45pm

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

Don't Miss The Train!!

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

THE DEVOTEE SEES KRISHNA IN EVERYTHING

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

O VAISNAVA SOUL

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,

B +ve

Posted by Dr. Yitin Mendiratta on November 24, 2009 at 11:54pm

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 A

Parishads: Srila Baladeva Vidyabhushana

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

THE SONG OF SWEETNESS

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

IMPORTANCE OF DISCIPLIC SUCCESSION-VERY VERY IMP

Posted by Krishna Rupa Devi dasi on November 24, 2009 at 1:43pm

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

Aksha Malika Upanishad [The Upanishad of Rosary Beads]

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

Bhagavad-gita 7.1

Posted by KASHYAPI DASS on November 24, 2009 at 10:15am

Share: H.H.Satsvarupa Dasa GoswamiYesterday I heard Prabhupada give a lecture on Bhagavad-gita 7.1 on January 25, 195, in Hong Kong. Arjuna is hearing from Krishna. How fortunate Arjuna is that he’s directly hearing from Bhagavan. There are two types of living beings—Bhagavan and living beings like us. He is also a living being. If we say, “Bhagavan is niraka,” it means we have no knowledge of Krishna, or He has a different body from the one we have. We have a spiritual form. If we think that we

Indian Sweets - SILVER FOILS ARE NOT VEGETARIAN

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on November 24, 2009 at 12:30am

SILVER FOILS ARE NOT VEGETARIAN

The silver foils are not very expensive. They are sold by weight. Ordinarily, you can buy a packet of 160 foils for a price between Rs.100 to 200. That is, approximately one rupee per foil. Not only the sweets, now a days it is also applied on fruits. Some Ayurvedic medicines also are wrapped in silver foils.They are made by hammering thin sheets of silver in middle of booklets made of a bull's intestines. In other words, after slaughtering a bull, quickly his inte

2012 - END OF THE WORLD?

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on November 23, 2009 at 8:47pm

SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS from around the world are predicting that five years from now, all life on Earth could well come to an end. Some are saying it'll be humans that would set it off. Others believe that a natural phenomenon will be the cause. And the religious folks are saying it'll be God himself who would press the stop button. The following are some likely arguments as to why the world would end by the year 2012.Reason one: Mayan calendarThe first to predict 2012 as the end of the world were t

Reference to Odana Sasthi

Posted by KASHYAPI DASS on November 23, 2009 at 5:00pm

Srila Prabhupada briefly described the ritual of Odana Sasthi in his purport to Caitanya-caritamrta, Madhya lila 16-78:

"At the beginning of winter, there is a ceremony known as the Odana-sasthi. This ceremony indicates that from that day forward, a winter covering should be given to Lord Jagannatha. That covering is directly purchased from a weaver. According to the arcana-marga, a cloth should first be washed to remove all the starch, and then it can be used to cover the Lord."

Odana Sasthi is a

Aitareya Upanishad

Posted by pratibha on November 23, 2009 at 10:30am

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 protect the speaker (i.e. the teacher), may That protect

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Kaula Upanishad

Amrita Bindu Upanishad

Signature Campaign for the welfare of Indian Cows.

AN EYE OPENER

Akshi Upanishad

Hare Krishna

Why do we read Bhagvat Geetha, even if we can't understand its meaning completely ???

Don't Miss The Train!!

THE DEVOTEE SEES KRISHNA IN EVERYTHING

O VAISNAVA SOUL

B +ve

Parishads: Srila Baladeva Vidyabhushana

THE SONG OF SWEETNESS

IMPORTANCE OF DISCIPLIC SUCCESSION-VERY VERY IMP

Aksha Malika Upanishad [The Upanishad of Rosary Beads]

Bhagavad-gita 7.1

Indian Sweets - SILVER FOILS ARE NOT VEGETARIAN

2012 - END OF THE WORLD?

Reference to Odana Sasthi

Aitareya Upanishad

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