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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

 

 
 
Why should we focus
on quality and quality-training of devotees ?
 
 
"Now we have got so many students and so many temples but I am fearful that if we expand too much in this way that we shall become weakened and gradually the whole thing will become lost. Just like milk. We may thin it more and more with water for cheating the customer, but in the end it will cease to be any longer milk. Better to boil the milk now ver
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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

 

How does the Lord protect the fallen-down devotees
and how we should see them ?
 
 
One who has forsaken his material occupations to engage in the devotional service of the Lord may sometimes fall down while in an immature stage, yet there is no danger of his being unsuccessful. On the other hand, a non-devotee, though fully engaged in occupational duties, does not gain anything.
 
 
As far as the duties of mankind are concer
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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

For what purpose
 
we should chant the holy names of the 
 
Supreme Lord ?
 
 
The holy name has to be chanted to please the Supreme Lord, and not for any sense gratification or professional purpose.  If this pure mentality is there, then even though a person is born of a low family, he is so glorious that not only has he purified himself, but he is quite competent to deliver others.
 
-         Srimad Bhagavatam, 3.33.7 purport
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2514994529?profile=originalLecture on Bhagavad Gita Chapter 02 Text 09 The decision of inaction reflects desperation to Learn by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu in Dec 2014

(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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2514994524?profile=originalLecture on By following the order of the Spiritual Master by HH Sivarama Swami on 17 Dec 2014 at New Vraja Dham

(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. His family immigrated to Canada where some years later in 1970 he first came in contact with Srila Prabhupada's teachings, via his transcendental books.)

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Bhagavat Sakshatkar ka Arth kya hai

2514994185?profile=originalLecture on Bhagavat Sakshatkar ka Arth kya hai by HG Shikshashtakam Prabhu

(HG Shikshastakam Prabhu has served Indian Air Force for 7 years. During his tenure he was selected as a fighter pilot and also represented Indian Air Force in National Tennis Championship. He is serving ISKCON since 1998 as a fulltime preacher. Being expert at scientific explanation of the Vedic Culture and by his profound knowledge)

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The Glories of Rama Ekadashi

2514994591?profile=originalLecture on The Glories of Rama Ekadashi by HG Jagadhananda Caitanya Prabhu at ISKCON Perambalur

(HG Jagadhananda Caitanya Prabhu was born on 12th January 1979 in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, He is Automobile Engineer was working with MRF Tyers until 2002. He is introduced to Krishna Consciousness in 2002 He is very much attracted to Krishna Consciousness so he decided to Join Coimbatore ISKCON )

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - 15.6

TEXT 6

na tad bhasayate suryo
na sasanko na pavakah
yad gatva na nivartante
tad dhama paramam mama

SYNONYMS

na--not; tat--that; bhasayate--illuminates; suryah--the sun; na--nor; sasankah--the moon; na--nor; pavakah--fire, electricity; yat--where; gatva--going; na--never; nivartante--comes back; tat dhama--that abode; paramam--supreme; mama--My.

TRANSLATION

That abode of Mine is not illumined by the sun or moon, nor by electricity. One who reaches it never returns to this material world.

PURPORT

The spi

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Thought Of The Day

So if you depend on Krsna, because He's the supreme father, fully, then all your needs... He's already supplying you all the needs of your life. Eko yo bahunam vidadhati kaman. That is the distinction between God and ordinary being. There are... God is also a living being like you and me. He's also a person, as you are person, I am person. But the difference is that one person is providing all the necessities of unlimited persons. And we unlimited persons, we are dependent on God. This is our ph

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Who is Poor?

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Once there lived a king who was very fond of conquering other countries. So he went on fighting one war after another, and was just busy building a big empire. Once when he was on his way back home after a war he saw a old sage dressed in rags, sitting by the street side and meditating. Seeing him in rags the king thought, "This old man is very poor and does not have even proper clothes to protect him from cold. Let me gift him my shawl". Thinking in this manner, the king approached the sage an

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2014-15 VIHE Sanskrit Course

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*ONE YEAR INTENSIVE SANSKRIT COURSE*

*FIRST SEMESTER*

*December 29, 2014 to May 7, 2015*

The course covers the most important sutras of the Sri Harinamamrita Vyakarana,

SrilaJiva Gosvami's complete Sanskrit grammar, a work that contains around 3200 sutras or grammatical rules. Out of these, we shall cover the 800 most essential ones. By the end of the course students will be able to directly read and understand the Sanskrit verses and commentaries on Shrimad Bhagavad Gita and Shrimad Bhagav

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Going Beyond the Modes

2514993861?profile=originalLecture on Bhagavad Gita Chapter 14 Text 26 Going Beyond the Modes by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami on 25 Nov 2014 at Tamil Nadu

(His Holiness Bhakti Vikasa Swami appeared in this world in 1957 in England. He joined the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in London in 1975 and was initiated in that year with the name Ilapati dasa by ISKCON’s founder-acarya, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.)

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2514993800?profile=originalLecture on Bhagavad Gita Chapter 02 Text 65 Purification makes external intelligence internal by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu in Dec 2014

(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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2514994173?profile=originalLecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 04 Chapter 15 Text 05 by HH Nava Yogendra Swami on 20 Dec 2014 at ISKCON Vrindavan

(A naishtik Brahmachari left home at a very young age of 9 yrs to become Sadhu and lived in jungles. Returned home and again left at the age of 17 years and lived at Shri Vrindavana dham. Became the disciple of His Grace A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in the year 1974.)

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2514994233?profile=originalLecture on Although we are not qualified to Serve Krishna by HH Sivarama Swami on 19 Dec 2014 at Budapest

(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. His family immigrated to Canada where some years later in 1970 he first came in contact with Srila Prabhupada's teachings, via his transcendental books.)

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Hare Krishna.

18th December, 2014, Gurgaon.

Quotes-by-Srila-Prabhupada-on-Happiness

Two weeks back HG Bimla Prasad Prabhuji visited ISKCON Gurgaon center and gave a very different lecture on the famous verse of Bhagavad Gita.

mām upetya punar janma
duḥkhālayam aśāśvatam
nāpnuvanti mahātmānaḥ
saṁsiddhiṁ paramāṁ gatāḥ (BG 8.15)

Transaltion
After attaining Me, the great souls, who are yogīs in devotion, never return to this temporary world, which is full of miseries, because they have attained the highest perfection.

Prabhuji first asked how

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - 15.5

TEXT 5

nirmana-moha jita-sanga-dosa
adhyatma-nitya vinivrtta-kamah
dvandvair vimuktah sukha-duhkha-samjnair
gacchanty amudhah padam avyayam tat

SYNONYMS

nih--without; mana--respect; mohah--illusion; jita--having conquered; sanga--association; dosah--faulty; adhyatma--spiritual; nityah--eternity; vinivrtta--associated; kamah--lust; dvandvaih--with duality; vimuktah--liberated; sukha-duhkha--happiness and distress; samjnaih--named; gacchanti--attains; amudhah--unbewildered; padam--situation; avyayam-

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Thought Of The Day

So if we want to elevate the social condition, we shall teach people to become purified. Without being purified, simply so-called performance of religious system will not help. Srama eva hi kevalam [SB 1.2.8]. Svanusthitasya dharmasya samsiddhir hari-tosanam [SB 1.2.13]. We should teach people how to satisfy the Supreme Personality of Godhead.This is the philosophy. So we are teaching this philosophy all over the world. They are being accepted. But I am doing it single-handed. But if some of you

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - 15.3-4

TEXT 3-4

na rupam asyeha tathopalabhyate
nanto na cadir na ca sampratistha
asvattham enam su-virudha-mulam
asanga-sastrena drdhena chittva

tatah padam tat parimargitavyam
yasmin gata na nivartanti bhuyah
tam eva cadyam purusam prapadye
yatah pravrttih prasrta purani

 

SYNONYMS

na--not; rupam--form; asya--of this tree; iha--in this; tatha--also; upalabhyate--can be perceived; na--never; antah--end; na--never; ca--also; adih--beginning; na--never; ca--also; sampratistha--the foundation; asvattham--bany

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Thought Of The Day

So go on with your organisation for distribution of my books through press and other modern media and Krishna will certainly be pleased upon you. we can use everything Television, radio, movies or whatever there may be to tell about Krishna and outside of devotional service all these modern paraphenalia are just so much rubbish.

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

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