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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

Too much obsession with oneself and with the material world makes people mad. It is not an allegorical statement but it’s a hard core fact. People actually become mad.

Once with few devotees I visited a psychiatric rehabilitation centre. Devotees used to conduct spiritual programs there helping patients to come out from their pathetic condition. The program comprised of spiritual discourse, kirtan and prasad (sanctified

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Attentive Chanting

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

Attentive Chanting

If we chant attentively then chanting will gradually destroy our anarthas as Rupa Gosvami has explained. As a result of bhajana-kriyaanartha-nivrtti takes place.Bhajana-kriya is the process of chanting and hearing along with the execution of the process of sadhana-bhakti. Why we are not surrendering to Krsna? Due to the presence of unlimited anarthas, which are the results of — desires from past live
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Enduring Bad Times

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

There is a famous saying that Health is wealth. Many a times we don't realise the value of good-health, until it comes to a point when we are not even able to do basic things, because of lack of it. When body doesn't co-operate with us, we even start losing interest and enthusiasm to do services which we used to do with great eagerness. Few days ago I was going through an inspiring correspondence between His Divine Grace

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Cooking should be Vedic

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

In the recent offering titled "Secret of Good Health", we heard from our beloved spiritual master H H Mahavishnu Maharaj about the benefits of natural medicine and Vedic cooking. Maharaj's words are very informative and it is really and eye-opener. In this offering I would like to share some more words of Maharaj on Vedic cooking.
 
Srimad Bhagavatam says that our medicine must be our food and our food must be the medicin
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Srila Prabhupada was not just a teacher, but also a teacher of teacher's for the modern age. He translated more then 70 Vedic books into english and honored by many leading scholars. He taught and led by example, embodying the knowledge that he conveyed. He is recognized as 'Prabhupada'- one at whose feet the others masters sit.

Srila Prabhupada was an authorized spiritual teacher is an unbroken succession that can be traced back to God himself - and His appearance was predicted. Sages in the lin

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2514982913?profile=originalLecture on In Transcendental Relationship there is no Termination by Bhakti Rasamrita Swami on 31 2014 at ISKCON Chowpatty

(He served as temple president in Mumbai, Belgaum and Vrindavan- which is the spiritual hub of world wide ISKCON temples. He has been preaching in many prestigious educational institutions all over India.)

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Srila Prabhupada Stories

2514982809?profile=originalLecture on Footprints in the Sand by HG Malati Mataji on 13 Mar 2014 at Bhaktivedanta Manor

In 1990, she established an all female ISKCON temple which later was awarded a large road side bronze plaque by the State of Ohio Historical Society recognizing the center as the first Vaishnava/Hindu temple in the state, mentioning in detail its unique status in training women in Krishna consciousness.

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How we should observe Ekadasi

2514982906?profile=originalLecture on How we should observe Ekadasi by HH Bhakti Charu Swami on 10 Feb 2014 at ISKCON Ujjain

(Bhakti Charu Swami is from a Bengali family and spent most of his early childhood in urban Kolkata. He met with Srila Prabhupada at the end of 1976 after a long and intense search for a spiritual teacher. This initial meeting resulted in Bhakti Charu Swami being assigned to translate the books of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust into the Bengali language.)

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Appearance of Sri Lord Krishna

2514982791?profile=originalLecture on Appearance of Sri Lord Krishna by Laxmimoni Mataji on 17 Aug 2014 at ISKCON Alachua

(HG Laxmimoni Dasi was initiated by Srila Prabhuada in 1969 while attending the State University of New York at Buffalo. She received a B.A. in psychology after getting an "A" for her senior sociology project: "Life in a Krishna Temple.")

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Srila Prabhupada Appearance Day

2514982854?profile=originalLecture on Srila Prabhupada Appearance Day by Giriraj Swami on 18 Aug 2014 at Los Angeles

(Giriraj Swami has also taught at the Vrindavan Institute for Higher Education and continues to lecture and to give presentations at japa retreats and workshops around the world.)

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2514974507?profile=originalLecture on Appearance of Vakresvara Pandita and Tamal Krishna Goswami by Bir Krishna Goswami on 08 June 2012

(Bir Krishna Goswami became a member of the Krishna conscious community in Gainesville, Florida in 1971. Shortly thereafter, he was initiated as Srila Prabhupada’s disciple.)

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Serve Vaishnavas Properly

2514982878?profile=originalLecture on Serve Vaishnavas Properly by Bir Krishna Goswami on 15 dec 2013

(Bir Krishna Goswami became a member of the Krishna conscious community in Gainesville, Florida in 1971. Shortly thereafter, he was initiated as Srila Prabhupada’s disciple.)

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2514982871?profile=originalLecture on Jaha Bhagavan ke Bhakt Upasthith hai waha bhgavan hai on 05 Aug 2014

(Introduced to the movement of ISKCON in 1983 during medical college days. Started chanting 16 rounds in 1984. Acquired MBBS degree in 1985. Received first initiation in 1986 and Brahmin initiation in 1987.)

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Gentlemen

2514982782?profile=originalLecture on Gentlemen by Niranjana Swami on 31 Aug 2014 at Hartford

(The management and spiritual leadership experience Niranjana Swami gained during his tenure as president of ISKCON Boston from 1979 to 1983, and his service as regional secretary of New England in 1984, readied him for his GBC appointment in 1987.)

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How to be Happy at Work

2514982922?profile=originalLecture on How to be Happy at Work on 12 June 2014 at Mauritius

(Sankarshan Das fully dedicated his life for serving the order of his spiritual master to become a guru and deliver the world. For the last 40 years he has uninterruptedly served his spiritual master’s movement, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), in various capacities.)

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Whats Hell All About

2514982748?profile=originalLecture on Whats Hell All About by Bir Krishna Goswami on 01 Jan 2013

(Bir Krishna Goswami became a member of the Krishna conscious community in Gainesville, Florida in 1971. Shortly thereafter, he was initiated as Srila Prabhupada’s disciple.)

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By Iksvaku das (Outreach Coordinator)

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On the auspicious day of Radhastami, His Holiness Jayapataka Swami, co-minister of the Congregational Development in ISKCON, congratulated the Namahatta devotees from Sridhama Mayapur for having reached out to a record number of 15 million people in their last 35 years of preaching Krishna Consciousness. This is the result of continuous preaching initiatives aimed at encouraging congregations in their spiritual advancement. From innumerable home programs to l

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2514982151?profile=originalLecture on Krishna Consciousness is the Perfection of Religion by Nirantara Prabhu on 31 Aug 2014 at Los Angeles

(Nicholas D'Angelo was born on May 20, 1950 and was raised a strict Roman Catholic. He went to Catholic school for 13 years, but did not even finish one semester of college at St. Johns University in New York City. Instead, the dormant lusty desires in his heart manifested and he became a "hippy" in 1968. Pursuing the path of "sex, drugs and rock n roll", he tried to become famous and

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The Meaning of Representation

2514982100?profile=originalLecture on The Meaning of Representation by Ravindra Svarupa Prabhu on 31 Aug 2014 Giya Nagari

(Ravindra Svarupa Dasa received a BA in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966 and a Ph.D. in Religion from Temple University in 1980.)

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No Sectarianism in Mahaprabhu

2514982829?profile=originalLecture on No Sectarianism in Mahaprabhu by Madhavananda Prabhu on 31 July 2012

(Madhavananda Das, joined ISKCON in Los Angeles in 1982. He moved to Bhubaneswar Orissa in 1993 where he has been living since. He was instructed by Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaj to edit his lectures into publications. For over ten years he has been serving as the director of ISKCON Gopal Jiu Publications, the editor of Sri Krishna Kathamrita Magazine, and the email magazine Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu.)

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