The essential principle of progressive, civilised human life is to restrain negative emotions within oneself and to limit their discharge towards others; and to cultivate positive emotions such as tolerance, compassion and non-violence. Lust, greed and anger are the three gates leading to Hell, reads the ancient Bhagavad-gita.
Perpetuating negative emotions leads to a permanent negative state within a person, and negativity throughout a society when it is made up predominantly of such persons.
By Chaitanya Charana Dasa
A search for intellectual satisfaction takes a young man from academics to devotion.
I was born with a congenital heart deformity that doctors said would probably not allow me to see my fifth birthday. My parents gave me the name Chandrahas, “one whose laugh is like the moon,” but sadly they found few reasons to smile in my childhood. When I was around one, learning to walk in our middle-class house, I suddenly collapsed to the floor, never to walk naturally again. My
Lecture on Vraja Kathamritam by Dina Bandhu Prabhu
(Dina Bandhu Prabhu is settled in braja. Although from a foreign country, he looks exaclty like one of the local brijawasis. He speaks the local braja language & nicely interacts with the locals.)
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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto - 01, Chapter - 17, Text - 14 by Bhakti Vinoda Swami on 17 Jan 2016
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Want to become full of energy, excited about life, and serve the world in the best way you possibly can? Want to lose the weight of confusion and gain the muscle of wisdom? Want to be able to make the right choice every time and not have any regrets? This is what spiritual knowledge brings to us.
We generally think that knowledge is gained by study. The below list shows us that spiritual knowledge is also (and mostly) gained through thoughtful action and activity. We can say this is applied kno
…In this present day, man is very eager to have one scripture, one God, one religion, and one occupation. So let there be one common scripture for the whole world—Bhagavad-gītā. And let there be one God only for the whole world—Śrī Kṛṣṇa. And one mantra only—Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. And let there be one work only—the service of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. (from Introduction to the Bhagavad-gita As It Is)
In this
niyatamkuru karma tvamkarma jyayohyakarmanah / sarira-yatrapicate
naprasiddhyedakarmanah [Bg 3.8]
[Perform your prescribed duty, for action is better than inaction. A man cannot even maintain his physical body without work.]
Anyone who is in the material world is certainly possessed of the impure propensity for lording over the material nature and for sense gratification. Such polluted propensities have to be cleared.
The next stop for the Sri Govind Gau Gram Prachar Yatra was Kadaverugu villa
What makes us act selfishly?
Answer by Radhanath Swami.
Question: The caring attitude is pleasing to everyone, but generally the default attitude in this world is one always thinks selfishly. So is it an inbuilt script of the mind that makes one think selfishly?
Radhanath Swami: The false ego misconceives: “I am this body, I am this mind, I am the controller, I am the proprietor, and I am the selfish enjoyer.” This is foundational to all material complications. It impels us to put ourselves abo
I pray to one day love Krsna! The words ‘love Krsna’ cannot be used so cheaply. It takes great effort in devotional service, it takes effort to sacrifice and to go step-by-step from the initial stages of having some faith to learning to associate with devotees. Over how many years have I made so many mistakes in associating with the devotees? How then could I properly chant Hare Krsna and properly engage in devotional service? What to speak of anartha nivriti, of the heart becoming purified… Wh
By Mahatma das
From the beginning of Prabhupada’s preaching in New York he spoke about the development of an international society, but his new followers couldn’t imagine Krsna consciousness going beyond the walls of the little storefront on 26 Second Avenue.
Fortunately Prabhupada didn’t share their vision. He had such a deep faith in Lord Caitanya’s prediction and the instructions of his Guru Maharaja that he said the Krsna consciousness would someday go down in history for changing the world
Sri Krishna Kathamrita Bindu is always free from politics and institutional bashing or promotion. Just simply nectarean Krishna Katha!
A great read and a wonderful collection of stories around the press and also great research on all the photos. Classic. You have done a great job compiling the stories about the printing history of Prabhupada’s books which brings things into great historical perspective
his shows the treatment of cows in India and the solutions to saving cows and reducing pollution for the benefit of all
For those of us who follow a plant based diet, which is a natural part of the Bhakti Yoga practice, there is a cloud hovering over the bright and candlelit Thanksgiving table. It’s the result of 45 million turkeys being slaughtered for this celebration of gratitude and a stark reminder of our complicity in it all. Just as we are burning up the earth with our overuse of fossil fuels, we are gathering enormous amounts of individual and collective karma by the slaughterhouse industry alone. The
When the living being turns away from Krsna then suffering begins. Happiness only exists in the relationship with Krsna so when we turn away from Krsna, we begin to suffer. Then Krsna has also added a little suffering, he added some sand-in-the-sweet-rice. Why is this so? Because Krsna loves living beings dearly and Krsna is more eager for living beings to go back to the spiritual world than the living beings are themselves. Therefore Krsna cannot wait, so sometimes he puts a little sand-in-the
For those who have never been to Vrindavan, the monkeys in this small town roam wild and free. They are fearless and will try at any moment to get something to eat by stealing bags or other items right from peoples hands. They will enter houses and help themselves. They are most famous here for taking glasses right off peoples faces, jumping up to the nearest rooftop to chew until they receive some fruit in exchange.
The mind is often compared to a monkey, jumping here and there looking for s
re is no division between the name and the named”(abhinatvaṁ nāma-nāmīnaḥ). This is certainly the Gauḍīya conclusion, but it does not mean that the name is just a sound with no meaning. It means that the the sound of the word is intrinsic to and inseparable from its meaning.
If the true Gauḍīya attitude is that name of Krishna has no meaning or is “beyond meaning,” why would the founding ācārya of the Gauḍīya school, Śrī Jīva Goswāmī, explain the meaning of the name in Tattva-sandarbha?
Looking at some of the headlines for last couple of days, I wonder if India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s sincere desire, or a difficult-to-materialize dream, will ever come true. After Digital India, Make in India, Clean India, Skill India, and a number of other projects, the PM has now launched the Startup India project. Understandably, his intention is to elevate India’s image on the global map, and although everyone agrees that he is a man with vision, and I also believe he has a vision,
