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Srimad Bhagavatam Class (10.28.15)

2514940718?profile=originalLecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto - 10 Chapter - 28 Text - 15 by HG Badahari Prabhu

(Bada Haridas Prabhu Known for his inspiring and soulful chants, he has studied and performed Indian devotional music, including Indian classical music and raga since 1975. Bada Haridas artistically blends his many influences to create unique music in celebration of the divine. )

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To Padmavati Mata Ji

हरे कृष्ण

          हरे कृष्ण

                                    कृष्ण कृष्ण हरे हरे |

           हरे राम

                 हरे राम

                        राम राम हरे हरे ||

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kṛṣṇa! kṛṣṇa! kṛṣṇa! kṛṣṇa! kṛṣṇa! kṛṣṇa! rakṣa mām


kṛṣṇa! kṛṣṇa! kṛṣṇa! kṛṣṇa! kṛṣṇa! kṛṣṇa! pāhi mām

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rāma! rāghava! rāma! rāghava! rāma! rāghava! rakṣa mām


kṛṣṇa! keśava! kṛṣṇa! keśava! kṛṣṇa! keśava! pāhi mām

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The economic downturn being experienced by the Indian economy is bottoming out.


The political and economic leadership is reposing its trust in the potential of corporate India as well as the locked value in our state owned enterprises (maharatnas, navratnas and miniratnas). India is on its way to regain its glory of 7-8 percent GDP growth and nothing can stop the Indian economy from becoming the 3rd or 4th largest in GDP terms soon, said P Chidambaram, Union Finance Minister, while deliver

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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Letters of  His Divine Grace A. C. Bhativedanta Swami Prabhupada

 

Calcutta

13 November, 1967

  

My Dear Gargamuni,

Please accept my blessings! I am in due receipt of your letter dated Nov. 8, 1967. You have written to say that your wife and you have a problem on which you require my help. The whole world, beginning with the highest planet to the lowest in this material world is facing this problem. Combination of husband and

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Reading Sanskrit Improves Brain Functioning

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Reading Sanskrit Improves Brain Functioning
by Brynne Sissom

The physiological effects of reading Sanskrit are
similar to those experienced during the Transcendental
Meditation® technique, according to research recently
completed by Dr. Fred Travis, director of the
ERG/psychophysiology lab of Maharishi University of
Management in Fairfield, Iowa, USA.

Dr. Travis asked his test subjects to read passages
from the Bhagavad-Gita in Sanskrit and in modern
foreign languages (Spanish, French, or Ge

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A Taste of Salted Bread

In the former Soviet Union, Hare Krishna devotees risked being imprisoned and tortured for distributing Srila Prabhupada's books.

The following excerpts are from Sarvabhavana Dasa's book Salted Bread, which focuses on how he and his friend Sachisuta Dasa served Lord Krishna and spread His teachings in the Soviet Union. The book emphasizes Sachisuta's dedication and subsequent imprisonment. These excerpts, drawn from most of the chapters in Salted Bread, were selected by BTG Associate Editor Urmil
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WHEN THE TONGUE IS CONSIDERED A PROSTITUTE

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Devotees Chanting Hare Krishna in a Street Procession in Florence

Asatī means a woman who has become a prostitute. A prostitute has no reputation for good womanly qualities. Similarly, the tongue, which is given to the human being for chanting the Vedic hymns, will be considered a prostitute if it is engaged in the matter of chanting some mundane nonsense.” [SB 2.3.

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HAPPY MARRIED LIFE....10 GOLDEN RULES

"Wishing you a very happy married life", we often hear these wishes during wedding ceremonies....How do we create a really successful and happy married life? Especially when we are aspiring devotees of Krishna?

1.First of all, make sure that your partner/ would be partner is interested in serving Krishna. Whether he or she serves wonderfully...not an issue...the interest must be there.

2.Make sure he or she is not a materialistic person.It is perfectly fine to accumulate wealth, to have a promisin

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LOVE IS NOT LOVE…

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Perhaps one of the most poignant sufferings in society is the failure of human relationships. Recent government statistics reveal that some fifty percent of marriages are ending in divorce. Every day four thousand children call the charity Childline for help. All around us we can all see so many examples of strained and collapsed relationships, possibly even in our own lives. We so much want to enjoy our relationships, but so often they become instead the cause of our greatest pain.

What is the
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Krishna Often Surprises Us

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With the devotees from the San Diego temple I was distributing books at a table at Mesa College recently when a person who was apparently a rabbi came over and began looking at the pictures I had on display --
the famous picture of the man with a cow's head about to slaughter a cow with a man's head, along with a reincarnation picture and a meditation picture. As he studied the pictures I thought, "What's going to come
of this? Is he going to tell me how far I am from the truth and make a scene, o
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Offer a Lamp in Karthik month

Karthik Masa or Damodar month is beginning from Oct 22nd 2010. Please read the glories of this month and take time to offer lamp to Krishna in this auspicious month. We will be offering lamps to the lord every evening after 6.30 pm arti in the CHANDIGARH Hare Krishna Dham, Sector 36-B, everyday till 21 Nov 2010, which is the last day of the Damodar month. Please come and join us for one of most beautiful offering to Krishna, (but if u cannot make it to temple, please offer a lamp with prayers to
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108: The Significance of the Number

It is amazing how much Western science has taught us. Today, for example, kids in grammar school learn that the sun is 93 million miles from the earth and that the speed of light is 186,000 miles per second. Yoga may teach us about our Higher Self, but it can't supply this kind of information about physics or astronomy.

Or can it? 

Professor Subhash Kak of Louisiana State University referred to the statement by Sayana, a fourteenth century Indian scholar. In his commentary on a hymn in the Rig Ved

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Idolatry and Deity Worship

In this text from Ray of Visnu chapter 13, Srila Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati discusses the difference between Idolatry and worship of Sri Murti with an American Professor.Reading AssignmentIntroduction to the discussion: [Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura, herein clearly describes the situation that he, and later, Srila Sarasvati Thakura were forced to combat in their preaching. Bengalis, in particular, and Indians, in general, had largely been made into foreigners in their own land, due to the British
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Can Money buy true Happiness ?

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Can money buy true Happiness? When the basics are covered, extra money can buy extra food, clothes, houses and whatever else.  However, you can live in only one house at a time, wear one set of clothes at a time, and eat as much as your stomach can hold at a time. Therefore money is useful to buy goods and services and there is nothing wrong with money, per se. It is after all the core need and everybody's entitled to ea

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Vegetarianism

On the spiritual path those who are the most inclined to lead a peaceful existence that respects the value of all life often adopt the vegetarian lifestyle. For some people this is a very big step. This is in accordance with the yogic principle of ahimsa, which is to observe nonviolence and abstain from injuring any being in any way. However, many people ask what about the plants that are killed in the process of cooking vegetarian foods. Don’t they suffer? And don't we get reactions for that?

  

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23rd Dec was Gita – Jyanti, the day when Krishna spoke Bhagavad – Gita to Arjuna around 5000 years ago. The sublime message of the Gita was spoken by Krishna for 45 minutes at a place called Jyotisar in Haryana just before the beginning of the war.

The Gita is called Raja Vidya - the king of all knowledge. If all the Vedic literatures are cows then Bhagavad – Gita is the milk of the cow i.e. it is the essence of all the Vedic literatures. Krishna is the milkman, Arjuna is the calf who drinks the

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Do enlighten souls see Krishna?

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Question to His Grace Sankarshan Das Adhikari: While doing Hare Krishna chanting on japa beads, I feel immersed in the name of Lord Krishna and become oblivious to my surroundings. However I feel incomplete that I am only chanting the name of Krishna but not seeing Him. My question as a very low level soul is, "Do enlightened souls see Krishna?"  Can you please tell me your experience?
 


 

Answer: "They see very minute" Hearing with your ears is another form of seeing. And it is more important than

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The Taste of Krsna

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Srila Prabhupada

The Supreme Lord reveals Himself to us through His countless energies.

A lecture given in Mumbai, India, on February 23, 1974

raso 'ham apsu kaunteya
prabhasmi sasi-suryayoh
pranavah sarva-vedesu
sabdah khe paurusam nrsu

"O son of Kunti, Arjuna, I am the taste of water, the light of the sun and moon, the syllable om in the Vedic mantras. I am the sound in ether and ability

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New! Distance Learning From Simple Temple.

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"There is no doubt about it: to distribute books is one most important activity. The temple is not a place for eating & sleeping, but a base from which we send out our soldiers to fight with maya. Fight with maya means to drop thousands and millions of books into the lap of conditioned souls. Just like during war time the bombs are raining from the sky like anything." – August 03, 1973 to Ramesvara.

Quote by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada


Now, right for You, simple Temp
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Lord Jagannath's Maha-prasada

Hare Krsna

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Pastime from Chaitanya-mangala by Srila Lochan Dasa Thakura

Narada Muni once went to Vaikuntha and served Mother Lakshmi very sincerely. 
Srimati Laxmi Devi was very pleased and requested Narada Muni to ask for any boon. Narada Muni replied, "My dear Mother Lakshmi, you must promise that whatever I ask for, you will-grant." Lakshmi Devi vowed that she would gladly fulfill his desire. The great saint revealed his wish: Nar

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