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WHO IS EKADASI ?
In the Satya-yuga there once lived an amazing fearsome demon called Mura.
Always very angry, he terrified all the demigods, defeating even Indra, the king of heaven; Vivasvan, the sun-god; the eight Vasus; Lord Brahma; Vayu, the wind-god; and Agni, the fire-god.
With his terrible power he brought them all under his control.
Then the demigods approached Lord Visnu, and prayed to Him for help.
Hearing the prayers and request from Indra, Lord Visnu became very angry and said:
"O
Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Supersoul of all living entities, knows very well everyone's heart. He is especially inclined to the brahmana devotees. Lord Krsna is also called brahmanyadeva, which means that He is worshiped by the brahmanas. Therefore it is understood that a devotee who is fully surrendered unto the Supreme Personality of Godhead has already acquired the position of a brahmana. Without becoming a brahmana, one cannot approach the Supreme Brahman, Lord Krsna
ISKCON Nashik welcomes you all to the third Bramhotsav festival of Sri Sri Radha Madangopal ji on 23rd March 2014
Highlights of the program -
- Pushpa Abhishk of the Lord with about 1000kgs of flower petals
- Special Guest for the evening HH Chandramauli Swami
- Kirtan
- Mahaprasad for all
Hare Krishna,
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Please find attached an announcement of our recent foundation stone laying celebration for the upcoming Mayapur Institute campus, attended by His Holiness Jayapataka Swami Maharaja.
Your Servant,
-Jagannatha Dasa BrahmacariMI%20Foundation%20Laying%20Press%20Release.pdf
Holi is a day in India when people throw brightly colored water and powder over just about everyone they can! It is often known as the festival of colors. In today's day, this festival has become mundane and people have forgotten the actual spiritual roots of this festival -
Lord Krishna and the cowherd maidens played by spraying colored water at one other! This is actually an act of devotion and love that devotees express to glorify the Supreme personality of Godhead - Sri Krishna.
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TEXT 28
subhasubha-phalair evam
moksyase karma-bandhanaih
sannyasa-yoga-yuktatma
vimukto mam upaisyasi
SYNONYMS
subha--good; asubha--evil; phalaih--results; evam--thus; moksyase--free; karma--action; bandhanaih--bondage; sannyasa--of renunciation; yoga--the yoga; yukta-atma--having the mind firmly set on; vimuktah--liberated; mam--to Me; upaisyasi--you will attain.
TRANSLATION
In this way you will be freed from all reactions to good and evil deeds, and by this principle of renunciation you will be
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Hare krsna
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17. Grateful
18. Determined
19. Expert Judge of Time and Circumstance
“Any person who is conscious of his friend’s beneficent activities and never forgets his service is called grateful.” (NOD, Chap. 21, p. 166) Lord Krsnaa was grateful to Draupadî because while He was away from her, she cried with folded hands, “He Govinda!” Krsnastates, “This call for Me has put Me in her debt, and that indebtedness is gradually increa
Hare Krsna
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Now allow me to tell a true story that happened some 10 years ago inSouth-Africa. The father and the daughter who experienced this event toldthis story to my friend, a sannyasi and devotee of Lord Nrisimhadev.This stories was also found in the newspapers, and several witnesses of thistruck-accident after this incident became devotees of Lord Nrisimhadev.This happened to a simple Vaishnav family that lives there. They ha
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Because of lack of transcendental knowledge, one is thinking, “Oh because of Krishna Consciousness, I will give up some happiness, like going to the movies at night.” Some kind of attachment is there.
There is a story about Sanatana Goswami’s servant. He asked Sanatana Goswami, “There is a party going on in the forest…there is a big festival. Could I go and participate?”
Sanatana Goswami said, “Festival?…in the middle of
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Once a king had to complete a project and hence selected 4 persons from his own place to complete
the project. They in turn fulfilled the King wishes and completed the project to his satisfaction.
King on a gesture of Love and appreciation wanted to reward these persons and enquired what they would like to ask for.
The first person wished to have nice roads in his village and immediately the King informed his minister to
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If you throw a stone into the middle of a pool of water, a circle will expand to the limit of the bank. Similarly, radio waves expand in a circle, and when you capture the waves with your radio you can hear the message. In the same way, our loving feeling can also expand.
At the beginning of our life, we simply want to eat. Whatever a small child grabs, he wants to eat. He has only personal interest. Then, when the child
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In the beginning, there was only one Purana. The sage Vedavyasa divided this original Purana into eighteen mahapuranas. The mahapuranas have four lakh shlokas all together and their names are as follows.
(i) The Brahma Purana: This was originally recited by Brahma to the sage Marichi and has thirteen thousand shlokas. This text should be donated on a full moon night (purnima) in the month of Vaishakha. Such adonation brin
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Sri Raghunandan Goswami
The following verse gives Gaura's name in the eight cases of Sanskrit Grammar:
gaurah sac-caritamrtamrta-nidhir
gauram sadaiva stuve
gaurena prathitam rahasya-bhajanam
gauraya sarvam dade
gaurad asti krpalur atra na paro
gaurasya bhrtyo 'bhavam
gaure gauravam acarami bhagavan
gaura prabho raksa mam
(1) Gaurah — Gaura's ecstatic transcendental pastimes are like an ocean of nectar. (Gaura as the subject)
(2
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There is no difference between Gaura and Krishna in tattva. Krishna is Gaura, and Gaura is Krishna. However,
Gaura is Krishna combined with mahabhava-svarupini Srimati Radharani. In vraja-lila there are two forms —
rasaraja Krishna and madanakhya-mahabhavamayi Srimati Radharani. But ingaura-lila, there is one form. Radha combined with Krishna — that is Gaura. Otherwise there is no difference between Gaura and Krishna. Thi
Hare Krsna
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His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Intelligent men should inquire, "Where can we enter into family life and eternally enjoy?" That place is Krishna's family. You should enter into Krishna's Vrindavan family, where Krishna has his father, mother, and his friends, his lovers, his beloved, his cows, his garden, and his Yamuna. Then yad gatva na nivartante — you will not have to return back to this tempor
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In the present age, a Bhakta can easily attain *Mukti* ( salvation) by just doing Nama-Japam. What Maharishis achieved by *Tapas* ( penance) in previous ages, can easily be attained now by very simple *Nama-Japam*. All what we require is complete faith in Bhagavan Sri Krishna and a commitment to chant His Names constantly .
The power of *Nama-Japam* is infinite. Like fire, it burns all your sins. The Bhakta who performs
Hare Krsna
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In a paper entitled Guru Nanak in Oriya Sources, author Raghubir Singh Tak describes an Oriyan palm leaf manuscript preserved in the Jagannath Temple Museum, which documents the point in history when Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu and Guru Nanak were visiting the holy dhama at Puri Jagannath at the same time, along with other associates. Raghubir Singh Tak, formerly a Professor in the Department of Guru Nanak Studies, GNDU, d
