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TEXT 29

buddher bhedam dhrtes caiva 
gunatas tri-vidham srnu 
procyamanam asesena 
prthaktvena dhananjaya

SYNONYMS

buddheh--of intelligence; bhedam--differences; dhrteh--of steadiness; ca--also; eva--certainly; gunatah--by the modes of material nature; tri-vidham--the three kinds of; srnu--just hear;procyamanam--as described by Me; asesena--in detail; prthaktvena--differently; dhananjaya--O winner of wealth.

TRANSLATION

Now, O winner of wealth, please listen as I tell you in detail of the three kinds of

Here are tens tips for improved chanting:

1. Serve those who serve the Lord, don't criticize them out of envy or false ego.

2. Worship Krishna as the "source of all spiritual and material worlds", "the ultimate beneficiary of all sacrifices and austerities, the Supreme Lord of all planets and demigods and the benefactor and well-wisher of all living entities." Show respect to demigods like Lord Siva or Ganesh and personalities like Hanuman as exalted devotees of Lord Krishna.

3. Show full respect t

This is the link of my blog on The Speaking Tree: 

The Perfect Marriage

TEXT 28

ayuktah prakrtah stabdhah 
satho naiskrtiko 'lasah 
visadi dirgha-sutri ca 
karta tamasa ucyate

SYNONYMS

ayuktah--without reference to scriptural injunctions; prakrtah--materialistic; stabdhah--obstinate; sathah--deceitful; naiskrtikah--expert in insulting others; alasah--lazy; visadi--morose; dirgha-sutri--procrastinating; ca--also; karta--worker; tamasah--in the mode of ignorance; ucyate--is said to be.

TRANSLATION

And that worker who is always engaged in work against the injunction of the scr

At some point in life, most men and women will be plagued by the query, “What is this world? Why does it appear like it does?”

Some believe that creation is accidental and some say that the answer to why the world is created can never be discerned. Both the believers are deluded.

Men and women in every age have, by their own efforts been able to find an answer to the question and crossed the samsara or this repetitive cycle of birth and death.

The truth about creation needs to be realized layer by

WHAT IS KARMA?

A bowman stands aiming at a distant target. He takes out an arrow from the quiver and releases it. While the arrow is floating through the air, the bowman takes another arrow from the bundle of arrows in the quiver and fits it in the bow. He is ready to shoot another arrow.

Hare Krishna.

11th May, 2015, Gurgaon

Last week Shyamsundar Prabhuji asked me `Does mind means our desires?’ I replied in negative and as we started talking about `Cit’, mind and consciousness, I realised that I could not explain this topic to prabhuji properly. I looked at my notes and found an excellent explanation by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhuji. As usual prabhuji clears the air with a laser sharp clarity. Because I had kept this knowledge to myself so I had forgotten it!

In summary we can under

Over the weekend of May 1st to the 3rd, ISKCON Chicago hosted a wonderful seminar on

“Reaching the Hearts and the Minds of the Western Public” (Effective Models of Western Outreach)

It was an enlivening seminar with many illustrious devotees conducting the seminar, such as HH Romapada Swami, Radhanath Swami, Badrinarayan Swami, Devamrta Swami, Vraj Vihari Prabhu, Gopal Bhatta Prabhu, Kalakantha Prabhu and many more.

The outline of the seminar with the topics presented are listed below and more i

My dear Maharaj ji's, Prabhu ji's and Mataji's
Please accept my most humble obeisances!
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

On 13th August 2015 ISKCON Kolkata is kick-starting the yearlong celebration of Jaladuta Yatra and Golden Jubilee celebration of ISKCON.

On that occasion we want to present a 21 to 25 minutes chanting of Mahamantra by devotees from 7 different continents of the world namely: Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia/Oceania, Europe, North America, and South America. While they will

Dear devotees,
Please accept our humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!

We are happy to announce that MESSAGE OF GODHEAD, by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, is now in ebook form and available at bbtmedia.com.

Srila Prabhupada wrote Message of Godhead in the 1950s, while still living at the Radha-Damodara temple in Vrindavan, India. It was one of his first book-length manuscripts, yet wasn't discovered until years after he had come to the West. It was first pub

Lecture on Could Krishna Consciousness make you Crazy by HG Mahatma Prabhu

(HG Mahatma Prabhu joined ISKCON in 1969 and was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1970. He travels widely facilitating workshops and retreats on such important practices as japa, forgiveness, humility, vows and sexual purity.)

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Lecture on Disappearance Day of Ramananda Raya by Lokanath Swami at Vrindavan on 09 MAy 2015

(Born in Aravade, a small village Maharashtra, Indian, he went to Mumbai for studying. In the year 1971, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was touring India with his foreign disciples and had organized a pandal program in Mumbai.)

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Lecture On Narsimha Lila by Prabodhananda Sarasvati Swami

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Lecture on Having Past Spiritual Impressions reinforced in a present life is extremely fortunate by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu 

(HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu is a celibate spiritual teacher (brahmachari) at ISKCON, Pune. He has done his Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from the Govt College of Engg, Pune. He is a member of ISKCON's topmost intellectual body, the Shastric Advisory Council, which offers scriptural advise to the GBC)

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On Tuesday, April 21st we made a one-day excursion to Saranagati Dhama, a devotee farm community in Ashcroft, British Columbia (Canada) and Lord Nityananda arranged for us to meet a special disciple of Srila Prabhupada along the way.

Adi Yajna owns and operates a Tour Bus company called Chaitanya Coachways out of Calgary, Canada. Due to his driving schedule he missed us in both Calgary and Vancouver, but Lord Nityananda had plans to fulfill the desire of Srila Prabhupada’s servant.

While stoppin

On the morning of Wednesday, April 21st, before departing from Saranagati, we stopped at their Govardhana Academy where Jananivas prabhu spoke about how he became a devotee and what he likes about being a devotee.

Upon returning to Vancouver we went for lunch prasadam to the home of Tulsi das and Chaitanya Priya dasi. Chaitanya Priya is the granddaughter of Saktimata dasi, a well-known disciple of Srila Prabhupada. Tulsi das pledged a Silver Gratitude Coin ($11,000) and then their son and daught

On Monday, April 20th the TOVP Team and the Lord’s Padukas visited the home of Kalarupini dasi who, along with Bhaktin Katelin, prepared and served us prasadam.

In the evening we were invited to the home of Virendra Sharma where many devotees came to hear Jananivas speak. The Padukas were worshiped along with kirtan and prasadam was served.

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TEXT 27

ragi karma-phala-prepsur 
lubdho himsatmako 'sucih 
harsa-sokanvitah karta 
rajasah parikirtitah

SYNONYMS

ragi--very much attached; karma-phala--to the fruit of the work;prepsuh--desiring; lubdhah--greedy; himsa-atmakah--and always envious; asucih--unclean; harsa-soka-anvitah--complicated, with joy and sorrow; karta--such a worker; rajasah--in the mode of passion;parikirtitah--is declared.

TRANSLATION

But that worker who is attached to the fruits of his labor and who passionately wants to enjoy