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prabhupada on grhastha life

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Following is the letter by prabhupada to one of his disciple.

Letter to: Madhukara, Bombay, 4 January, 1973, 73-01-04, St. Louis

 

My dear Madhukara,

 

I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter dated December 22, 1972, and I have noted the contents with care. For these questions arising between married husband and wife, you are requesting me to leave your wife and take the vanaprastha order of life, for these questions you

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The Power of Chastity

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

Once, sage Vyasa went to Brahmaloka to get his doubts cleared on certain spiritual matters from Lord Brahma. While dwelling on a wide range of religious topics such as importance of austerities and various incarnations Lord Vishnu took to protect righteousness, Lord Brahma narrated a tale of a Brahmin woman who possessed divine powers on account of her chastity.
Lord Brahma said--'During ancient times there lived a Brahm
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The King’s Lesson On Charity

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada


A person was advised by a holy man to gift a vegetable a day and told that he would attain great merit by doing so.
The poor man strictly followed the advice. After death, he was reborn in a royal family and grew up to become a king. He was able to recall what he had done in his past birth. So, he continued to gift a vegetable a day.
Surprisingly, after death, he was reborn as a beggar. The man was unable to comprehend t

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Hearing from our youth

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One of our aims is to promote the activities of the youth in ISKCON. Thus, we are happy to share an interview we had with Caitanya Cintamani devi dasi, co-ordinator of Mayapur- Youth Entertainment Seva.

ISKCON CDM: How do you feel being a youth in ISKCON?

Caitanya Cintamani devi dasi: I feel very privileged to have been born into ISKCON and raised in a Krishna conscious atmosphere. I thank Srila Prabhupada often for the chance to have joined this movement from an “inside source” and for the fact t

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O Giriraj !

O ! Giriraj Govardhan,

O ! Giriraj, the best of the devotee,

O ! Giriraj, the incarnation of Krishna,

O ! Beautiful Giriraj,

Even with these material eyes I can admire your beauty

You are full of beautiful flowers, waterfalls, caves, deers, trees and what not.

O ! Giriraj, I offer my humble obesiances to You.

O ! Giriraj, please accept these incense sticks,

please accept this ghee lamp,

in this lamp's light I can see your more wonderful aspects.

O ! Giriraj, Please accept these flowers,

O ! Giriraj, Please

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Bhaj Govindam - Adi Shankaracharya

Adi Shankara
Adi Shankara
Bhaja Govindam
Bhaja Govindaṁ



A Hymn to Govinda - Krishna
by Sripad Shankaracharya


Govinda
Govinda

भजगोविन्दं भजगोविन्दं
गोविन्दं भजमूढमते .
संप्राप्ते सन्निहिते काले
नहि नहि रक्षति डुकृञ्करणे .. १..
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bhajagovindaṁ bhajagovindaṁ  
govindaṁ bhajamūḍhamate |
samprāpte sannihite kāle
nahi nahi rakśati ḍukṛñkaraṇe || 1
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Worship Govinda, Worship Govinda, Worship Govinda. Oh fool! Rules of Grammar will not save you at the time of your death.


मूढ जहीहि धनागमतृष्णां
कुरु सद्बुद्धिं मनसि वितृष
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Mother's womb were Two Babies

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In a mother's womb were two babies. One asked the other:

"Do you believe in life after delivery?" The other replies, "why, of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will be later.

"Nonsense," says the other. "There is no life after delivery. What would that life be?"

"I don't know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths."

The other says "This is absurd! Walking is impossi

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Prabhupada on Mercy Killing

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Prabhupada: You should be careful. Why should you commit mistake? But if unconsciously, by mistake it is done, that is another thing.
Brahmananda: He wants to know does the ant receive benefit?
Prabhupada: No. Then he will be lenient to kill them to give them benefit. [laughter] He'll be so...
Brahmananda: Like they say "mercy killing," that "This is good for you. I will kill you and it is good for you."
Prabhupada: Yes. You
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Painting of the young Abhay Charan with his father


Devotees in Kolkata, India headed by GBC Radhanath Swami, have purchased Srila Prabhupada’s birthplace and plan to develop it as a beautiful memorial to the ISKCON founder Acharya. Fifteen years ago, devotees acquired a house and land in the Tollygunge suburb of Kolkata that had belonged to Prabhupada’s maternal grandfather. But the exact site where Prabhupada was born on September 1st, 1896 remained elusive until now.


“One hundred yards away from his maternal grandfather’s house is a small

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The Supreme Lord Himself established the Varnashram system so as to maintain a balance in the human society and enable us to cultivate higher consciousness, irrespective of which social and/or spiritual order we find ourselves. Amongst the four ashrams most of us would readily agree that the Grihastha Ashram (house holder) has a lot of responsibilities attached and thus taking up this ashram must be a well-planned, organized and spiritually guided action. The Grihastha Ashram is meant to support

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Lord Sri Rama

How to conquer this all-devouring sinful enemy - Lust? There is a method ... and it is a sure 100% method; and the Supreme Lord showed us this method in a wonderful way. He sent to this world, lust personified Ravana. Ravana was the most striking emblem of lust in the history of all creation.

Sita Devi is the wife of Rama. Sita is none other than an expansion of Lakshmi Devi, the goddess of fortune.

All the fortune of the world is the energy of Sita. What is fortune? Fortune does not simply mea

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Urgency of Krishna Consciousness

2514904054?profile=originalUrgency of Krishna Consciousness by HG Sesa Prabhu at ISKCON Gainesville on 01 July 2011

(Sesa Dasa was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1974 while he was traveling as a member of the initial Bhaktivedanta Book Trust library party. Sesa Dasa has a portfolio of two ministries: Minister of Educational Development and Minister of Justice, under which ISKCON Resolve works.)

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2514904055?profile=originalBhakti Shashtri Course by His Grace Bhurijana Prabhu

(H.G.Bhurijana Prabhu first meet Srila Prabhupada at 26 Second Ave, and was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1968. After preaching in Japan for about a year, in 1970 he opened ISKCON's first Hong Kong center.)

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2514904711?profile=originalSeminar on How to make Advancement in Krsna Consciousness by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

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Lecture on Address to Brahmacharies

2514903604?profile=originalHindi  Lecture on Address to Brahmacharies by His Holiness Prabodhananda Sarasvati Swami at ISKCON Vrindavan on 11th April 2013

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Grand Inauguration of ISKCON Pune NVCC

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On the Auspicious day of Nityananda Trayodasi - Sri Sri Gaur Nitai, Sri Sri Radha Vrindavan Chander, Sri Sri Jaganath Baladev, Subhadra Devi & Sri Balaji installation and grand inauguration of new Vedic cultural center (ISKCON Pune NVCC) took place in presence of His Highness President of India Sri Pranab Mukherjee. More than 40000 devotees participated from all over the world & 2

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2 crore thirsty humans!

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Around 12000 villages of Maharashtra and about 4000 villages of Gujarat are reeling under severe drought which has affected the lives of more than 2 crore people. Is it a natural disaster or manmade disaster?

Our intense greed for self aggrandizement has resulted in massive exploitation of nature. Trees are rampantly cut to pave the way for industrialization, chemical fertilizers are being excessively used to increase the crop yield, industrial wastes are being dumped in the rivers, ground water

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2514901820?profile=originalBook Title: Gopal the Invincible (Classics from India for Children)
Book Description: Krishna, known as Gopal the cowherd boy, proves himself a worthy match for the nefarious creatures who come to disturb the life of his peaceful forest village.
Publisher: Bala Books
Author: Yogesvara Dasa, Jyotirmayi Devi, Sunita Devi

 

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Narrated by: Dr. Ranga Devi
Produced by: Madhav Prabhu (BVKS)
Studio: ISKCON desire tree - Gopal's studio

 
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About the Author - Yogesvara Dasa

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Gaura Purnima 2013

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Planting the Seeds in Australian Prisons

The following article has been written by Radha Dasi, from Australia. She is very sincere and Krsna is thus giving her the intelligence and guidance about how to develop the prison ministry in Australia. Please support her any way you can!

Radha dasi

      By the mercy of His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada and my Guru Maharaja, I received the inspiration to serve the ISKCON Prison Ministry.

            On Vyasa-puja day, while chanting my japa, the inspiration came to me to serve in the prison minis

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