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Yes I hold back. There is every reason to surrender to You, every reason to hold on to You. Yet I hold back. This is my precarious condition, dear Lord. While I keep trying to coax my mind to understand what is good for me and what’s in it for me in surrendering to You, I come across this beautiful song by Purandara Dasa, Your unalloyed devotee. This is the song that helps me realize that indeed I have nothing really worth offering to You but still if I offer whatever I have, it is actually in

अध्याय छह – सौभरि मुनि का पतन (9.6)

1 श्रील शुकदेव गोस्वामी ने कहा: हे महराज परीक्षित, अम्बरीष के तीन पुत्र हुए-विरूप, केतुमान तथा शम्भु। विरूप के पृषदश्व नामक पुत्र हुआ और पृषदश्व के रथीतर नामक पुत्र हुआ।

2 रथीतर निःसन्तान था अतएव उसने अंगिरा ऋषि से उसके लिए पुत्र उत्पन्न करने की प्रार्थना की। इस प्रार्थना के फलस्वरूप अंगिरा ने रथीतर की पत्नी के गर्भ से पुत्र उत्पन्न कराये। ये सारे पुत्र ब्राह्मण तेज से सम्पन्न थे।

3 रथीतर की पत्नी से जन्म लेने के कारण ये सारे पुत्र रथीतर के वंशज कहलाये, किन्तु

Debate
• is oppositional: two sides oppose each other and attempt to prove each other wrong
• has winning as the goal
• lets one side listen to the other side to find flaws and to counter its arguments: “listening to refute”
• defends assumptions as the truth
• causes critique of the other position
• defends one’s own positions as the best solution and excludes other solutions
• creates a dosed-minded attitude, a determination to be right
• prompts a search for glaring differences
• involves a

Road to Vrindavan is a new film that examines the importance of education for girls in India and the insight needed for tradition to be applied in ways that uplift rather than oppress its future. 

- Online Premiere Information - 

Dates: Available to stream March 30th, 8 PM - April 5th, 6 PM EDT

Website: https://watch.showandtell.film/watch/roadtovrindavan

Cost: Free. A donation is strongly encouraged to support girl's educations at the Sandipani Muni School in Vrindavan, India.

Reviews: Describ

My area of movement is restricted. Walking around outside is taboo for the time being. My one meal a day is placed outside the door of my quarters. I pack my laundry into a garbage bag and leave it outside that same door. Mail is slipped under my door. If I need to communicate at all with a resident monk, I will call them on the phone. In the case of Cameron, we talked through the glass door and innovated some measure of sign language.

This is the way it will be for a few days and I have psycho

अध्याय पाँच – दुर्वासा मुनि को जीवन-दान (9.5)

1 श्रील शुकदेव गोस्वामी ने कहा: जब भगवान विष्णु ने दुर्वासा मुनि को इस प्रकार सलाह दी तो सुदर्शन चक्र से अत्यधिक उत्पीड़ित मुनि तुरन्त ही महाराज अम्बरीष के पास पहुँचे। अत्यन्त दुखित होने के कारण वे राजा के समक्ष लोट गये और उनके चरणकमलों को पकड़ लिया।

2 जब दुर्वासा मुनि ने महाराज अम्बरीष के पाँव छुए तो वे अत्यन्त लज्जित हो उठे और जब उन्होंने यह देखा कि दुर्वासा उनकी स्तुति करने का प्रयास कर रहे हैं तो वे दयावश और भी अधिक सन्तप्त हो उठे। अतः उन्होंने तुरन

By Madhava Smullen

A new assisted living residence for devotees who cannot live independently is set to open within six months' time in Vrindavan, India, the holy place of Lord Krishna’s pastimes.

The fourteen-room facility will prioritize the first generation of ISKCON devotees who are now beginning to retire; as well as the next generation and then the extended families of devotees. “Our idea is to give devotees who have given their life to the movement a comfortable living arrangement in the

Our virtual Thursday afternoon Gita sessions have been very stimulating for me and if I gauge properly, others on the call are also having a great time. After a sweet time in the park, pulling in the sun’s Vitamin D and working on the next poem, I sat myself comfortably to share this week’s verses from The Gita, 9:12, 13 and 14. We took special note of the subject: mahatma (mentioned in the 13th verse), and what the qualities of a “great soul” are. The first point I discussed was that a mahatma

अध्याय चार – दुर्वासा मुनि द्वारा अम्बरीष महाराज का अपमान (9.4)

1 श्रील शुकदेव गोस्वामी ने कहा: नभग का पुत्र नाभाग बहुत काल तक अपने गुरु के पास रहा। अतएव उसके भाइयों ने सोचा कि अब वह गृहस्थ नहीं बनना चाहता और वापस नहीं आएगा। फलस्वरूप उन्होंने अपने पिता की सम्पत्ति में उसका हिस्सा न रखकर उसे आपस में बाँट लिया। जब नाभाग अपने गुरु के स्थान से वापस आया तो उन्होंने उसके हिस्से के रूप में उसे अपने पिता को दे दिया।

2 नाभाग ने पूछा, “मेरे भाइयों, आप लोगों ने पिता की सम्पत्ति में से मेरे हिस्से में मुझे क

“If I had not been there with Srila Prabhupada for days and weeks and months, my life would be nothing but dry, tattered scraps.”

Adapted by Nandimukhi Devi Dasi from Remembering Srila Prabhupada (© 1998 Daniel Clark)

HIS DIVINE GRACE A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, my spiritual master, enacted his life’s activities from his birth in 1896 to his passing in 1977. I knew him for the last eleven years of his exemplary pastimes. But to say I knew him is going too far. I watched him. I listened

When you frequent a place, people of that area get to know you. This is the case for me, at the park, as well as David, who resides with us. He spends more time than me, enough to see the things I miss. He spotted a fox, rare to see during the day. And he always comes back after his walk to say whom he met and just what’s going on. He’s making nice friends.

Now I use this green space to rehab or recoup my worn-out legs. So, I’m getting to be more present. It was two hours that I sat on a bench

अध्याय तीन – सुकन्या तथा च्यवन मुनि का विवाह (9.3)

1 श्रील शुकदेव गोस्वामी ने आगे कहा: हे राजन, मनु का दूसरा पुत्र राजा शर्याति वैदिक ज्ञान में पारंगत था। उसने अंगीर वंशियों द्वारा सम्पन्न होने वाले यज्ञ के दूसरे दिन के उत्सवों के विषय में आदेश दिए।

2 शर्याति की सुकन्या नामक एक सुन्दर कमलनेत्री कन्या थी जिसके साथ वे जंगल में च्यवन मुनि के आश्रम को देखने गये।

3 जब वह सुकन्या जंगल में अपनी सहेलियों से घिरी हुई, वृक्षों से विविध प्रकार के फल एकत्र कर रही थी तो उसने बाँबी के छेद में दो जुगनू जैसी चमक

By Damodarleela Dasa [Maharashtra Padayatra leader]

1. We will distribute 12 sets of Srila Prabhupada Lilamrita.
2. We will perform sankirtana in 125 villages.
3. We will distribute 25 Srimad Bhagavatam Sets.
4. We will distribute 125 laminated big photos of Srila Prabhupada to new
devotees.
5. We Will perform more than 125 house programs
6. We will perform 125 school programs and tell children who Srila Prabhupada was.
7. We will distribute 25,000 drona prasad.
8. We will distribute 125 Tulsi

By Ekalavya Das

My sannyasa ceremony was completed on Gaura Purnima 28 March during the morning hours, beginning at 6:30 am. I received the name Sri Krishna Caitanya Swami. It was a beautiful ceremony on the banks of the Candrabhaga River on our Prabhupada Ghat. H.H. Lokanath Swami sat on a Vyasasana decorated with roses and other flowers. Tulsi Maharani was there on a beautiful teakwood table. Padayatra Maharashtra was there bearing beautiful murthis of Sri Sri Nitai Gaurasundar and Srila Prab

I walked again, to the park, for the purpose to light a little spark. I’m not the only one. There are many who come to lay out a blanket and then lay themselves out on it. Tennis balls are flying from within the court fence. There are lineups. The playground is vibrant with kids and their guardians; parent or nanny. Young men hop, bounce and leap balls through the hoops. The dogs are frisky while owners look on with care.

Benches get occupied fast. As soon as one occupant leaves another slides

Nick Vujicic was born without arms and legs. “Why me?” he always asked until he discovered that God had chosen him for a purpose. Because of his disability, he was able to reach out to people and give them courage. Nick’s zest for life and faith in God’s will drove him to learn to swim, surf, travel the world, and do things that even able-bodied people fail to do. He touched people with his conviction that God loves us unconditionally and that whatever He does is for our highest good. He exempl

अध्याय दो – मनु के पुत्रों की वंशावलियाँ (9.2)

1 श्रील शुकदेव गोस्वामी ने कहा: इसके पश्चात जब वैवस्वत मनु (श्राद्धदेव) के पुत्र सुद्युम्न वानप्रस्थ आश्रम ग्रहण करने के लिए जंगल में चले गये तो मनु ने और अधिक सन्तान प्राप्त करने की इच्छा से यमुना नदी के तट पर सौ वर्षों तक कठिन तपस्या की।

2 तब पुत्र कामना से श्राद्धदेव नामक मनु ने देवों के देव भगवान हरि की पूजा की। इस तरह उसे अपने ही सदृश दस पुत्र प्राप्त हुए। इनमें से इक्ष्वाकु सबसे बड़ा था।

3 इन पुत्रों में से पृषध्र अपने गुरु की आज्ञा का पालन करते

By Jayadvaita Swami

I was neutral, ambivalent and uncommitted about getting a vaccination for COVID-19. On one hand, the available vaccines have been well tested and shown highly effective. On the other hand, they have not had the benefit of long-term testing, the kind that goes on for years. We do not know how long their effectiveness will last, how effective they may be against variants, and what side effects might show up in the long term.

Apart from that, it seemed that if I came down with