Sunday Feast Lecture on Bhagavad Gita Chapter 02 Text 46 by HG Tamohara Prabhu on 28 Sep 2014 at ISKCON Alachua
(Tamohara Dasa will take up the role of the new executive director after the GBC annual general meetings in Mayapur February 2012. With his appointment the GBC will have made a significant step forward in completing its executive strategies for strengthening ISKCON’s leadership.)
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Lecture on Appreciating Different Definitions of Success in Devotional Service by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu on Oct 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 (Governing Body Commissioner). He is the associate-editor of I
TEXT 14
sarvatah pani-padam tat
sarvato 'ksi-siro-mukham
sarvatah srutimal loke
sarvam avrtya tisthati
SYNONYMS
sarvatah--everywhere; pani--hands; padam--legs; tat--that; sarvatah--everywhere; aksi--eyes; sirah--head; mukham--face; sarvatah--everywhere; sruti-mat--hearing; loke--in the world; sarvam--everything; avrtya--covering; tisthati--exists.
TRANSLATION
Everywhere are His hands and legs, His eyes and faces, and He hears everything. In this way the Supersoul exists.
PURPORT
As the sun exists di
Everything is complete — God’s creation, God’s beauty and God’s bodily features. All these are so complete that all one’s desires can become fully satisfied when one sees the beauty of the Lord. Srimad Bhagavatam 4.24.45-46, Srila Prabhupada
By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
Lecture on Discipline is the Dividing Line by HG Charu Prabhu
(His Grace Charucandra Prabhu is a disciple of H.H Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj. He is a Biomedical Scientist by profession and is based out of Washington, DC, USA. By the order of his Guru Maharaja, he has been conducting such courses (both online and in class) based on Srila Prabhupada's books on Vedic scriptures for more than 12 years now.)
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Shocking Experience’ – How I was electrocuted right in front of Srila Prabhupada
(Vrindavan India June 1977)
I got electrocuted right in front of Srila Prabhupada. I had been gathering his recording paraphernalia to take it downstairs and I noticed an extension cord that was rolled up and hanging on a hook on the wall. Some of the
visiting devotees wanted to help so they rolled it up and hung it there still plugged in. Thinking it must be unplugged snd ready to go, I grabbed it as I walked by.
Thirty-eight years ago, on 30 August 1976, for the first time I met Shrila Prabhupada in a personal darshanai it was a turning point of my life, a wonderful inner journey! I was in an ashram in Rishikesh, at the foot of the Himalayas, studying the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. In Italy I had been a successful designer, the manager of six companies. Upon returning from the trip I was supposed to get married, but at the time, in that place, I was seriously thinking of leaving everything and settle i
Dandvat Pranaam to all Vaishnavas,
We were on a 6 days blisfull trip to Sridham Vrindavan and brought a Laddu Gopal. So I would request the Senior Devotees to help me in my following queries:
1. Auspicious Date & Time for Praan Pratishtha in this month or coming month
2. Procedure / Process of Praan Pratishtha in Detail
3. Daily routine Seva to follow (Wakeup Time, Bhoga, Clothes, Aarti, Sleeping Time, etc)
4. Any other Do's & Don'ts to be taken care of.
Can send links if the same is already answered
TEXT 13
jneyam yat tat pravaksyami
yaj jnatvamrtam asnute
anadi mat-param brahma
na sat tan nasad ucyate
SYNONYMS
jneyam--knowable; yat--that; tat--which; pravaksyami--I shall now explain; yat--which; jnatva--knowing; amrtam--nectar; asnute--taste; anadi--beginningless; mat-param--subordinate to Me; brahma--spirit; na--neither; sat--cause; tat--that; na--nor; asat--effect; ucyate--is called.
TRANSLATION
I shall now explain the knowable, knowing which you will taste the eternal. This is beginningles
Lecture on Kartik Mahatmya 2013by Vishwarup Prabhu
(Introduced to the movement of ISKCON in 1983 during medical college days. Started chanting 16 rounds in 1984. Acquired MBBS degree in 1985. Received first initiation in 1986 and Brahmin initiation in 1987.)
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Lecture on Bhagavad Gita Chapter 03 Text 01 Sunday Feast - Lust to Love God by HG Dravida Prabhu on 14 Sep 2014 at ISKCON Alachua
(HG Dravid prabhu is a vaishnava scholar, musician and poet. He has edited Back to Godhead magazine and other books published by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust for over 25 years. From 1983 to 1989 he was part of the team that produced the last six 1,000-page volumes of the magnum opus of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada: a commentated English transl
Lecture on Bhagavad Gita Chapter 01 Text 06 Their Great Warriors counter balance our greater strength by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu
(His Grace Caitanya Charan Prabhu is a monk and spiritual teacher in the time honored tradition of bhakti yoga. He is a editor of Back to Godhead, which is the official international magazine of the Hare Krishna movement.)
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By Basu Ghosh Das
On the auspicious day of Sri Rama Vijaya Dashami, aka "Dassera", October 3, 2104, ISKCON inaugurated a grand new temple for Sri Sri Radha Madhava, on the outskirts of Kanpur city, the largest city in India's largest and most populous state, Uttar Pradesh.
Governor of Uttar Pradesh, Sri Ram Naik, and the Governor of Arunachal Pradesh, Sri Padmanabh Acharya, presided over the inaugural ceremony.
A number of ISKCON leaders of ISKCON, including ISKCON Global Governing Body Chair
Romeo loved Juliet & she loved him so much, in this way they were perfect match...
This was a film going on on TV that day when my dad insisted me to come and join them in watching.
Both my elder sisters, father were eagerly watching the movie. But I rejected my father's proposal because I had my duties scheduled strictly.
I could not waste my time.
It was when I was 8 or 9. My dad was telling to other my sisters that this film is about a very nice girl like my youngest daughter but still I di
TEXT 8-12
amanitvam adambhitvam
ahimsa ksantir arjavam
acaryopasanam saucam
sthairyam atma-vinigrahah
indriyarthesu vairagyam
anahankara eva ca
janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi-
duhkha-dosanudarsanam
asaktir anabhisvangah
putra-dara-grhadisu
nityam ca sama-cittatvam
istanistopapattisu
mayi cananya-yogena
bhaktir avyabhicarini
vivikta-desa-sevitvam
aratir jana-samsadi
adhyatma-jnana-nityatvam
tattva-jnanartha-darsanam
etaj jnanam iti proktam
ajnanam yad ato 'nyatha
SYNONYMS
amanitvam--humility; adambhitvam--pri
Lecture on Lord Balarama Appearance Day at Russian Festivals by HH Nitai Chaitanya Goswami on 10 Aug 2014 at Kursk
(His Holiness Nitai Chaitanya Goswami Maharaj, is one of the first sannyasis of Russia and one of senior most devotees from the times of USSR. He served as ISKCON temple president in Ukraine and later and to this day as a Regional Secretary of Central Russia region. Dedicated to preaching in the Central Russia that he supervises, he opened first purpose-build temple of the area in 2
Lecture on Bhagavad Gita Chapter 01 Text 03 The Politician seeks martial dedication by Emotional Manipulation by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu
(His Grace Caitanya Charan Prabhu is a monk and spiritual teacher in the time honored tradition of bhakti yoga. He is a editor of Back to Godhead, which is the official international magazine of the Hare Krishna movement.)
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