Understanding Ourselves

Posted by vinay kalson on December 26, 2014 at 3:51pm

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Understanding Ourselves
by Visakha Devi Dasi

Who Am I?
A Simple Test for Thoughtful People.

Am I my head or my face ? No, it is my face. Am I my chest ? No, it is my chest. Am I my arm or my hand ? Am I my leg ? No, it is my leg. All the parts of my body indeed, my entire body is mine. But who am I, the owner of the body ?

IF WE PERFORM THE EXPERIMENT as above, we can immediately come to the very first understanding in spir

Bhagavad-gita As It Is - 15.7

Posted by Rohit on December 26, 2014 at 12:44pm

TEXT 7

mamaivamso jiva-loke
jiva-bhutah sanatanah
manah-sasthanindriyani
prakrti-sthani karsati

SYNONYMS

mama--My; eva--certainly; amsah--fragmental particles; jiva-loke--world of conditional life; jiva-bhutah--the conditioned living entity;sanatanah--eternal; manah--mind; sasthani--six; indriyani--senses;prakrti--material nature; sthani--situated; karsati--struggling hard.

TRANSLATION

The living entities in this conditioned world are My eternal, fragmental parts. Due to conditioned life, they are st

Who is the Supreme Shelter of Everyone

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on December 26, 2014 at 12:43pm

Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 01 Chapter 08 Text 36 Who is the Supreme Shelter of Everyone by HG Akinchana Krishna Prabhu

(HG Akinchana Krishna Prabhu was born in Tenkasi, Tamil Nadu, in 26th July 1970. He joined the movement at 1992 and was initiated by H.H Bhakti Vikasa Swami and since that he is serving the movement.)

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The Hard Knot of Material Affection

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on December 26, 2014 at 12:30pm

Lecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 05 Chapter 05 Text 09 The Hard Knot of Material Affection by HH Indradyumna Swami on 05 July 1990 at New Mayapur

(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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Serving GOD

Posted by Sri Bhagwan Das on December 25, 2014 at 9:42pm

Hare Krishna, Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada & Srila Gopal Krishna Maharaj.

A mother sometimes withdraws or withholds toys from her child to ensure he doesn’t neglect his studies and miss out on a bright career. Similarly God sometimes withdraws or withholds our cherished toys – wealth, love, positions, possessions – to ensure we don’t neglect our spiritual growth and miss out on a bright spiritual career in the hereafter. God wants us to be happy in this wor

Glories of Brahma Humility

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on December 25, 2014 at 5:29pm

Lecture on Glories of Brahma Humility by HG Vishwarup Prabhu on 16 Aug 2014 at Wada

(He is a spiritual counsellor at Bhaktivedanta Hospital, Gopal's Garden High School & at ISKCON Chowpatty temple. He is a regular spiritual speaker on TV. He loves preaching & takes devotees on yatra regularly. Besides being a counsellor.)

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Five types of Protection

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on December 25, 2014 at 5:14pm

Lecture on Five types of Protection 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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Material Body

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on December 25, 2014 at 5:09pm

Lecture on Material Body by HG Sankarsana Prabhu on 30 Aug 2014 at Timisoara

(In obedience to Srila Prabhupada, Sankarshan Das Adhikari has fully taken up the banner of pure devotional service to the Supreme Godhead, and made it his life's mission to spread the Krishna consciousness science as far and wide as possible throughout the world.)

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Basic Philosophy of ISKCON

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on December 25, 2014 at 4:30pm

Lecture on Basic Philosophy of ISKCON by HH Lokanath Swami on 10 July 2014 at ISKCON Pandharpur

(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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Campaign Released : Sri Navadvipa Mandala Parikrama 2015

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on December 25, 2014 at 4:00pm

Dear Maharaj and prabhus, please accept our humble obeisances at your lotus feet! All glories to Srila Prabhupada! All glories to Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu, the ocean of mercy! Hare Krsna!

We are releasing our annual campaign with the aim to bring more and more devotees worldwide to Sri Navadvipa Dhama. May they come here, in the audharya dhama of Gauranga Mahaprabhu for a deeper experience of His inconceivable mercy.

This year Sridham prabhu from the TOVP took his time to create a very nice

Lord Nityananda Delivered Mrgrari of southern Idaho USA

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on December 25, 2014 at 3:54pm

Dear Prabhus,

It was a nice, sunny, and beautiful spring day. People were busy in their own fun plans. Some people were with their groups getting ready to enter in a restaurant for lunch and others were waiting outside for their friends to arrive. Some were enjoying the sunny lounge of bars and restaurants. The whole area was filled with the smell of roasted meat and garlic etc. After struggling for about an hour in the downtown area of Boise, Idaho, USA with not much success, we decided to vi

Regarding Kolkata Dham Darshan

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on December 25, 2014 at 3:30pm

Kolkata Dham Darshan, Visit the the holy places related to Srila Prabhupada

Dear Devotees,
We, at ISKCON Kolkata, take immense pleasure and feel divinely blessed to inform all the devotees that we have started Ahhay Charan Tours and Travels services in this sacred birth city of Srila Prabhupada. Our aim is to serve all the visiting vaisnavas in taking a spiritually refreshing tour of the numerous spots in Kolkata that are forever sanctified by the divine touch of His Divine Grace. This presents

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Why should we chant Hare Krishna in spite of so many impediments ?

Posted by vinay kalson on December 24, 2014 at 5:32pm

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Why should we chant Hare Krishna

in spite of so many impediments ?

There may be so many impediments for a person who is chanting Hare Krishna. Nonetheless, tolerating all these impediments, one should continue to chant so that at the end of one’s life one can have the full benefit of Krishna Consciousness.

- Bhagavad Gita, 8.5. purport

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How is the Krishna Consciousness Movement the greatest benediction in human society ?

Posted by vinay kalson on December 24, 2014 at 5:32pm

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

How is the Krishna Consciousness Movement

the greatest benediction in human society ?

At every step there is danger. Therefore, because The Krishna Consciousness Movement provides the opportunity for the human being to get out of this material world, simply by chanting the Hare Krishna Mantra, this movement is the greatest benediction in the human society.

- Srimad Bhagavatam, 9.7.7 purport

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How does everything become faultless ?

Posted by vinay kalson on December 24, 2014 at 5:31pm

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

How does everything become faultless ?

There may be discrepancies in pronouncing the mantras and observing the regulative principles, and, moreover, there may be discrepancies in regard to time, place, person and paraphernalia. But when Your Lordship’s (Krishna’s) holy name is chanted, everything becomes faultless.

- Srimad Bhagavatam, 8.23.16

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How does the chanting of the holy name of Krishna help us ?

Posted by vinay kalson on December 24, 2014 at 5:30pm

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

How does

the chanting of the holy name of Krishna help us ?

Worship the Lord, whose name is like the sun, for (because) just as slight appearance of the sun dissipates the darkness of night, so a slight appearance of the holy name of Krishna can drive away all the darkness of ignorance that arises in the heart due to greatly sinful activities performed in previous lives.

- Sri Caitanya Caritamritha, Antya

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108 quotes extracted from various lecturesHH Radhanath Swami Maharaj’s /classes of Maharaj

Posted by vinay kalson on December 24, 2014 at 5:30pm

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

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108 quotes extracted from various lectures/classes of Maharaj

A devotee means a devotee of substance.

Struggle is the name of the game as long as we are in the material world.

Science heals in retail & kills in wholesale.

We should not be eager to change our situation but our consciousness.

Faith comes by hearing Krsna Katha in the association of sincere devotees regularly.

Real intelligence do

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Why should we focus on quality and quality-training of devotees ?

Posted by vinay kalson on December 24, 2014 at 5:28pm

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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How does the Lord protect the fallen-down devotees and how we should see them ?

Posted by vinay kalson on December 24, 2014 at 5:24pm

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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For what purpose we should chant the holy names of the Supreme Lord ?

Posted by vinay kalson on December 24, 2014 at 5:23pm

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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