The essential need within every living being is to seek pleasure. What do people do for pleasure? Now, different types of living entities have different standards of pleasure and they work in different ways to achieve them. For a little ant, the pleasure is a grain of sugar.
For a moth, its pleasure is light. And we’ve seen what they’ll do to attain that grain of sugar, how hard they will work to achieve that light, even taking the risk of their lives. For some people, their pleasure is to sati
Many people (especially my peers and friends from school) seem to understand why I don't eat meat. But they're always rendered perplexed when I tell them I also don't eat onion and garlic. While people are now getting used to the term, "vegetarianism", going "onion and garlic less" is still weird and unusual to many. Why don't we eat onion and garlic? There are many reasons why:
1) They cannot be offered to Lord Krishna.
2) They increase ignorance and passion.
3) Distracts us from being focused/
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
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The kaviraja asked Srila Prabhupada how he was feeling this morning. Srila Prabhupada said, "I want to die. Someone said I have been poisoned." I asked who said that; and Prabhupada answered, "I do not know, but it is said."
The kaviraja came with Balarama Misra, a priest who wanted to offer one thousand tulasi leaves to Lord Narayana for Prabhupada's recovery. Prabhupada asked that he do this at our temple, but he
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Prabhupada: This million, million dollars is utopian. Don't strain for collecting. Then spiritual progress will be hampered.
Jayapataka Maharaja: It seems that the temple [in Mayapur] could be completed in seven years, in time for the five hundredth anniversary of Caitanya Mahaprabhu's appearance.
Prabhupada: That's nice. Do it!
Jayapataka Maharaja: The architect says the inside portion can be finished and begun to be u
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
At 4:00 a.m., the kaviraja arrived, along with Jayapataka Swami. As the kaviraja began to examine Srila Prabhupada, the mangala-arati bells began to ring, making us feel that his coming was auspicious. The kaviraja had stayed up all night on the plane.
Prabhupada asked for a report of Mayapur from Jayapataka who said, "We want to finish the big temple within your lifetime so nothing will be left incomplete."
Prabhupada:
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
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The author conducted a 3-group study on the effects of chanting the hare krsna maha mantra on stress, depression, and the three modes of nature–sattva, rajas, and tamas–described in the Vedas as the basis for human psychology. Sixty-two subjects, self-selected through newspaper advertisements in a Southeastern university town, completed the study. Average age was 24.63 years, with 31 males and 31 females participating. Stress was measured with the Index of Clinical Stress, depression wasmeasured
Prabhupada: So this is our duty. Just like in this particular case, about our Krsna consciousness movement, that so many people are giving me the credit. Actually, I have no credit. It is already desired or it is already planned that "This time in Western countries, this sankirtana movement..." So it is our duty. Similarly, our only duty is to carry out the order of the Supreme. Other things is already done by Him. So if we abide by the orders of the Supreme, then we get the credit.
By H.D.G. Sr
Lecture on Duties of Men by HH Bhakti Raghava Swami on 25 Feb 2014
(His Holiness Bhakti Raghava Swami has been serving with great dedication for many decades. During the early days of Mayapur development, he lost one leg due to an attack with bomb in Mayapur. However, inspite of this handicap, he travels extensively. He has many varnashrama preojects.)
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Lecture on Intense Suffering is the nature of this world by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 10 May 2014 at Kuwait
(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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Lecture on Three Understandings of the timeless classic 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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Lecture on How to make our work into worship 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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Lecture on Why authorities are needed and distrusted by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 09 May 2014 at Kuwait
(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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Hare Krishna
22nd May, 2014, Gurgaon.
vrindayai tulasi-devyai
priyayai keshavasya cha
krishna-bhakti-prade devi
satyavatyai namo namaha
TRANSLATION
I offer my repeated obeisances unto Vrnda, Srimati Tulasi Devi, who is very dear to Lord Kesava. O goddess, you bestow devotional service to Lord Krsna and possess the highest truth.
This is in continuation to my last blog where I mentioned how a broken branch of Tulasi got planted again by her sheer mercy. I wanted to share more on how merciful is Tulas
Lecture on Weapons of War by HH Bhakti Caitanya Swami on 15 April 2014 at ISKCON Durban
(Originally from New Zealand, Bhakti Caitanya Swami joined the Hare Krishna movement in London, early in 1973. Almost a year before, as a philosophy student at Auckland University, he had first seen his future spiritual master walking across the campus with his followers. Srila Prabhupada initiated Bhakti Caitanya Swami later in 1973, giving him the name Raghubir Dasa. )
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TEXT 30
prahladas casmi daityanam
kalah kalayatam aham
mrganam ca mrgendro 'ham
vainateyas ca paksinam
SYNONYMS
prahladah--Prahlada; ca--also; asmi--I am; daityanam--of the demons; kalah--time; kalayatam--of subduers; aham--I am; mrganam--of animals; ca--and; mrga-indrah--the lion; aham--I am; vainateyah--Garuda; ca--also; paksinam--of birds.
TRANSLATION
Among the Daitya demons I am the devoted Prahlada; among subduers I am time; among the beasts I am the lion, and among birds I am Garuda, the feat
Prabhupada: Yes. He wishes sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66], man-mana bhava mad-bhaktah. This is our duty, not that "I have got that duty, that duty, that duty." That duty, that duty will not save you. They will be destroyed. Dehapatya-kalatradi. This is explained in Bhagavata.
By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
Disappearance Day of Sri Ramananda Raya by His Holiness Bhakti Madhurya Govinda Swami on 12 May 2014 at Punjabi Bagh
(His Holiness Bhakti Madhurya Govinda Swami was initiated by His Divine Grace Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in October 1968, about two months before HH Jayapataka Swami, awarding him the name “Makhanlal das”.)
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