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Hare Krishna.

14 Nov, 2014. Gurgaon.

jaya jaya śrī-caitanya svayaṁ bhagavān
jaya jaya gauracandra bhakta-gaṇa-prāṇa

(All glories to Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead! All glories to Lord Gauracandra, the life and soul of His devotees, CC Antya 14.2)

Some weeks back, in an emotional state of mind, I, foolishly, sent the below SMS to Guru Maharaj.

`Guru Maharaj, I wanted to share that that I am having extra marital affair and that too with not one but many. I have fallen in lo

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mama yonir mahad brahma
tasmin garbham dadhamy aham
sambhavah sarva-bhutanam
tato bhavati bharata

SYNONYMS

mama--My; yonih--source of birth; mahat--the total material existence; brahma--supreme; tasmin--in that; garbham--pregnancy; dadhami--create; aham--I; sambhavah--possibility; sarva-bhutanam--of all living entities; tatah--thereafter; bhavati--becomes; bharata--O son of Bharata.

TRANSLATION

The total material substance, called Brahman, is the source of birth, and it is that Brahman that

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idam jnanam upasritya
mama sadharmyam agatah
sarge 'pi nopajayante
pralaye na vyathanti ca

SYNONYMS

idam--this; jnanam--knowledge; upasritya--taking shelter of; mama--My; sadharmyam--nature; agatah--attained; sarge api--even in the creation; na--never; upajayante--comes in; pralaye--in the annihilation; na--nor; vyathanti--disturbed; ca--also.

TRANSLATION

By becoming fixed in this knowledge, one can attain to the transcendental nature, which is like My own nature. Thus established, one is no

Now we are, everyone, searching after some standard of life where we will have no anxiety. That is the aim of everyone. Why we are struggling? We are trying to approach a certain point. Just like two parties playing on football, they are, each one of them, trying to approach the goal. That is victory. So everyone is trying to gain something, according to different position, according to different idea. Not everyone is searching after the same thing. Somebody searching after material pleasure, so

Lecture on The Qualities of a Worthy and Unworthy Disciple by HH NItai Chaitanya Goswami on 18 Feb 2013 at Dubna

(HH Nitai Chaitanya Goswami Maharaj, is one of the first sannyasis of Russia and one of senior most devotees from the times of USSR. It was in 1970 that while listening to the underground western radio station.)

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Lecture on To Seek Love in food is to relapse into Emotional babyhood 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.)

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Lecture on What it means to meditate on Krishnas Lotus Feet by HH Sivarama Swami on 08 Nov 2014 at India

(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. He became an initiated disciple of His Divine Grace in 1973 and accepted the renounced order of life in 1979.)

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Lecture on Opulence Govardhana Hill by HG Nirantara Prabhu on 01 Nov 2014

(Nicholas D'Angelo was born on May 20, 1950 and was raised a strict Roman Catholic. He went to Catholic school for 13 years, but did not even finish one semester of college at St. Johns University in New York City. Instead, the dormant lusty desires in his heart manifested and he became a "hippy" in 1968.)

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The Sahyadri Varnasrama College (SVC) is now accepting applications for its one-month course to be given from January 1 to 31, 2015 on the campus of Sahyadri Sri Krishna Balarama Ksetra (SSKBK) located near the small town of Hebri in the district of Udupi, South Karnataka, India.

The Coordinator for the program this year is Sriman Raya Ramananda das, one of the resident devotees at SSKBK who has authored a number of books related to the varnasrama mission, one of them titled as “Overhaul and R

Hare Krishna,

Acharya literally means one’s whose conduct is worth following. We all know how at the ripe age of 69 our beloved founder Acharya, single handedly founded and established one of the largest religious movements of contemporary history. And it is known globally for much more than just Sankirtan.

Srila Prabhupada Lilamrita clearly reveals how Srila Prabhupada, touched every aspect of his disciples’ life, from the right kind of food, to right kind of clothing, from right kind of educa

Dear Maharajas, Prabhus, and Matajis,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

The Annual General Meeting of the ISKCON GBC Society will begin on February 6, 2015. Following the ISKCON GBC Society's Rules of Order, the GBC Secretariat requests proposals, duly sponsored by a GBC member, to be submitted by December 31, 2014. This will allow adequate time for the GBC Secretariat and Deputies to prepare the proposals for presentation at the meeting.

Please follow the

So simply your eagerness is the perfection for serving Krsna. Increase that eagerness. And eagerness means if you love Krsna, that eagerness will increase with your increase of love: "How I shall serve Krsna?" Because you are voluntary servant, nobody is forcing. That means unless you love Krsna, how that eagerness will increase? So there are so many things to love Krsna. Beginning is this sravanam kirtanam. This sravanam, hearing, and chanting. Hearing, you are hearing Hare Krsna, you are heari

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sri-bhagavan uvaca
param bhuyah pravaksyami
jnananam jnanam uttamam
yaj jnatva munayah sarve
param siddhim ito gatah

SYNONYMS

sri-bhagavan uvaca--the Supreme Personality of Godhead said; param--transcendental; bhuyah--again; pravaksyami--I shall speak; jnananam--of all knowledge; jnanam--knowledge; uttamam--the supreme; yat--which; jnatva--knowing; munayah--the sages; sarve--all; param--transcendental; siddhim--perfection; itah--from this world; gatah--attained.

TRANSLATION

The Blessed Lord

Lecture on How does envy appear in the Pure Living Entitiy by HH Sivarama Swami on 03 Nov 2014 at India

(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. He became an initiated disciple of His Divine Grace in 1973 and accepted the renounced order of life in 1979.)

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Lecture on Krishna and the Spiritual World is Within Us by HG Urmila Mataji on 21 Sep 2014 at Munich

(Urmila Devi Dasi (Dr. Edith Best) joined ISKCON in 1973 in Chicago. She received first initiation in 1973 and second initiation in 1975 from His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. In 1996, Urmila and her husband, Pratyatosa, entered the renounced order of vanaprastha.)

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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 03 Chapter 01 Text 20 India's Pride and Shame by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami on 07 Oct 2014 at Telangana

(HH 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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Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 02 Chapter 05 Text 31-32 Favourable Devotional Service by HH Indradyumna Swami on 29 Aug 1988 at Durban

(Indradyumna Swami is a disciple of A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), a Sannyasi traveling preacher, and a guru or spiritual teacher in the Chaitanya Vaishnava tradition.)

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ksetra-ksetrajnayor evam
antaram jnana-caksusa
bhuta-prakrti-moksam ca
ye vidur yanti te param

SYNONYMS

ksetra--body; ksetra-jnayoh--of the proprietor of the body; evam--that; antaram--difference; jnana-caksusa--by vision of knowledge; bhuta--living entity; prakrti--material nature; moksam--liberation; ca--also; ye--one who; viduh--knows; yanti--approaches; te--they; param--Supreme.

TRANSLATION

One who knowingly sees this difference between the body and the owner of the body and can underst