Our quality of life is concerned with the soul, and hence the word "consciousness" is very important because consciousness belongs to the soul. Consciousness is the symptom of the soul's presence. Because the soul is in the body, the body feels pleasure and pain. When the soul leaves the body, the body can be hacked to pieces, and yet it will not protest. This is because the consciousness is gone. We feel pleasure and pain because consciousness is present, and God enlightens us that it is this
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Seeing an unprecedented number of unscrupulous people going all out to exploit women’s privacy, a few months back we posted a cautionary article in order to assist ladies safeguard their privacy. There are increasing number of reports exposing how, even so-called reputed companies and institutions have failed to protect women’s privacy.
Hidden wireless cameras have become an obnoxious fun-tool for nefarious people, and an earning tool for the porn industry. They install such cameras in women’s c
Have you ever found yourself listening to the evening news, thinking that the godly are disappearing and the faithful have vanished from the earth? I know I have. For me, the worst of all is when people I trust go bad. I don’t expect much from those who traffic in violence and crime. I don’t even look to celebrities and athletes to be exemplars of morality. But when trusted leaders are found to have done terrible things, especially when those leaders are pastors or priests, I sometimes feel desp
O Krsna! Thakura Bhaktivinoda has warned us that inattention is the main door into the house of aparadhas. O Krsna! Please let me taste some pleasure in Your names, so I can focus my full attention on chanting. May Your holy names become deeply impressed in my mind.
From Art Of Chanting Hare Krsna
by Mahanidhi Swami
Source: http://www.japagroup.com/2015/10/let-me-taste-some-pleasure.html
(During the Halloween night harinama party, even the "devils" and "demons" are dancing.)
ISKCON deevotees in London have been going out to do public harinamas (chanting) every day for decades. The biggest party has traditionally been the Saturday night harinamas. The procession starts in front of the Soho Govinda's Restaurant, then goes around in the theater and party district in the West End and the famous Chinatown.
On Halloween, Saturday, October 31st, devotees gave the public something to
By Kesava Krsna Dasa
Because we think we are “not the body”, it can lead us to do so many wrong things in the name of Bhakti. It can induce false detachment and renunciation. That is, pushing oneself to be detached without spiritual taste to replace it it becomes an off-the-body form of mind and body deprivation that does not last, because it is exerted by passion, not natural spiritual progress.
An artificial renouncer might think, “I am denying myself of all trappings of sense gratification
Giriraj Swami: Today is Sri Rama-ekadasi. On this date, Srila Prabhupada completed his translation of Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, at Hare Krishna Land, Juhu, Bombay, in 1974. He finished his work with his “Concluding Words,” a beautiful and profound glorification of his “beloved eternal spiritual master, guide, and friend,” Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura. He was in an ecstatic mood and said that we should celebrate with a feast.
Source: http://m.dandavats.com/?p=15859
Perth devotees were invited to participate with a South Indian society to celebrate Diwali, the festival of lamps. This was held all day in a beautiful park off the esplanade in Fremantle.
The devotees had their own area and set up tents with deities, kirtan, books, face painting and a van for prasadam. It was a wonderful day and the atmosphere was surcharged with Krsna Consciousness.
Kadamba Kanana Swami, 03 October 2013, Melbourne, Australia, Srimad Bhagavatam 2.3.8)
One should never think that we possess anything in this world, not even our children. Our children are independent from us. They are living beings with their own destiny who are placed under our care for sometime, that is all. It is not that they are part of us, “Something of me lives in my child.” That is illusion.
Genetically, it can be proven, fine! But genes have nothing to do with our identity, absolutely
We live in an overcommunicated world. The prevailing culture insists we reply to all text messages within 10 minutes, be mindful of the mountain of emails building up in our inbox, and religiously return random ‘missed calls’ on our phones. Don’t forget to regularly post something witty on Facebook, follow your best friends on twitter and utilise all the free airtime minutes on your contract! It is, after all, good to talk. But what is the net result of this web of exchange? Does it foster a gr
kirata-hunandhra-pulinda-pulkasa
abhīra-sumbha yavanaḥ khasadayaḥ
ye 'nye ca papa yad-apasrayasrayaḥ
sudhyanti tasmai prabhavisnave namaḥ
SYNONYMS
kirata - a province of old Bharata; huna - part of Germany and Russia; andhra - a province of southern India;pulinda - the Greeks; pulkasaḥ - another province; abhīra - part of old Sind; sumbhaḥ - another province;yavanaḥ - the Turks; khasa-adayaḥ - the Mongolian province; ye - even those; anye - others; ca - also; papaḥ - addicted to sinful acts; ya
Everyone wants to become God, imitator. Imitation. Therefore they say, "Why Kṛṣṇa shall be alone God? I am God."
You are God. That's all right. But you are not the Supreme God. Why you forget that? You may be a God at home of your wife, but when you go to your office, you are not god; your master is god. He directs you to do something; you have to do it.
So we may claim that "Every one of us, we are God," but nobody can claim that "We are supreme; I am Supreme God." That is not possible. That
Everyone always desires to possess something. It is said here that desire and greed are the products of false identification of oneself with the body. When one becomes free from this contamination, his mind and consciousness also become freed and attain their original state. Mind, consciousness and the living entity exist. Whenever we speak of the living entity, this includes the mind and consciousness. The difference between conditional life and liberated life occurs when we purify the mind an
Continued from: "One who has taken birth, he must die."
"... Prabhupada: srotavyadisu yaḥ paraḥ. Now we have got to hear so many things. Now what we are doing in this world, in big Delhi city? In the morning we get a bunch of paper to hear about so many advertisements, so many political struggle, and so many things, all useless waste of time. But in our country it is how many pages newspaper nowadays? But in the Western countries, oh, such huge, a big bag. You see? So many, you see? So there
We have suffered from the beginning of our birth. As a baby, the human being is tightly placed in the abdomen of the mother in an airtight bag for nine months. He cannot even move, there are insects biting him, and he cannot protest. After the child comes out, the suffering continues. The mother undoubtedly takes much care, but still the child cries because he is suffering. There are bugs biting or there are pains in his stomach; the child is crying, and the mother does not know how to pacify h
Bill Sauer: I think you put it better than I did. We do not destroy matter, we transmute it to energy, that's exactly correct. And it is the..., and in fire you are again transmuting material chemical energy into light. And when our light source goes out...
Dr. Sharma: And it surprising, I'm a scientist, I publish papers, now it is all coming together. It is after a long search which we are doing, the body systems, how to be coordinated. Endocrine systems and the nervous systems (indistinct)
We have been away from our computer for a few days so we did not get a chance to do a post on the Incorporation of ISKCON. However when we returned from our trip we did notice this nice ariticle posted on the Sampradaya Sun which we thought we would share with you in case you missed it. We have also included the CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR KRISHNA CONSCIOUSNESS, INC. for your reading pleasure.
Incorporation of ISKCON New York
by the (SUN STAFF)
August 7th is the o
The other day a devotee friend was asking me if Srila Prabhupada had ever discussed with his disciples the topic of Dinosaurs. “That is a good question, I am not really sure”, I replied. So I went to Prabhupada Books and did a search. Sure enough there was some discussion about the theory of evolution and the dinosaur. We share with you one such conversation.
The Journey of Self
By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Chapter 7
Evolution in Fact and Fantasy
Los Angeles, June 197
Why is a man given a better chance to live than swine or other animals? Why is a highly posted government officer given better facilities for a comfortable life than an ordinary clerk? The answer is very simple: the important officer has to discharge duties of a more responsible nature than those of an ordinary clerk. Similarly, the human being has to discharge higher duties than the animals, who are always busy with filling their hungry stomachs. But by the laws of nature, the modern animalist
The appearance of Srimati Radharani is coming up on the 26th of this month. With this in mind, we will be posting some nice Radharani Nectar in the next few days.
Srimati Radharani has twenty-five transcendental qualities. Her transcendental qualities are as follows:
1. She is sweetness personified
2. She is a fresh young girl
3. Her eyes are always moving
4. She is always brightly smiling
5. She possesses all auspicious marks on her body
6. She can agitate Krishna by the flavor of Her person
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