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Hare Krishna.
21st June, 2014, Gurgaon

Q: What is `Yukta Vairagya’ and what is false renunciation. Also explain `niyamāgraha’.

Ans :

yukta-vairāgya-sthiti saba śikhāila
śuṣka-vairāgya-jñāna saba niṣedhila (CC Madhya 23.105)

Translation
Śrī Caitanya Mahāprabhu then told Sanātana Gosvāmī about proper renunciation according to a particular situation, and the Lord forbade dry renunciation and speculative knowledge in all respects.

Srila Prabhupada writes in his purport :

This is the technique for underst

Lecture on Don't Be A Miser by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 29 Jan 2009 at Salem

(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 Repetition of Birth and Death by HG Jivananda Prabhu on 14 Oct 2012 At Tucson

(The mother, a connoisseur of all Protestant faiths, began to attend Presbyterian churches, and there the future swami, at the age of thirteen, delivered his first Sunday sermon. Noting her son’s boredom and lack of challenge at school, his mother pushed for his acquiring a full scholarship plus living expenses to private boarding schools in New Hampshire, where he attended Exeter Academy during the summer a

Lecture on Narsimhadev Appearance Day by Sankarsana Das Adhikari Prabhu on 13 May 2014 at Kaunas

(Sankarshan Das fully dedicated his life for serving the order of his spiritual master to become a guru and deliver the world. For the last 40 years he has uninterruptedly served his spiritual master’s movement, the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), in various capacities.)

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Lecture on Srivasa Thakura - The Summit of selfless service in offering everything for the Lord's Pleasure 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 Never miss track of ultimate Goal of Life by HG Radhe Shyam Prabhu on 13 Junr 2014 

(President of the Pune branch of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) that has over 600 centres worldwide Director of Vedic Oasis for Inspiration, Culture & Education (VOICE) Holds an M.Tech from IIT-Bombay)

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Lecture on Lord Vamana by HH Bhakti Caitanya Swami on 18 Aug 2010 at South Africa

(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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Lecture on How the living entity acts as his own guru by HH Sivarama Swami on 17 June 2014 at ISKCON New Vraja Dham

(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. In 1956, during the failed Hungarian revolution, he emigrated with his family to Canada. Sivarama Swami first came in contact with the books of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1970, becoming an initiated disciple of Prabhupada in 1973. )

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Lecture on The Advantage the Present Age of Kali by HH Bhakti Charu Swami on 15 June 2014 at Los Angeles

(Bhakti Charu Swami is from a Bengali family and spent most of his early childhood in urban Kolkata. He met with Srila Prabhupada at the end of 1976 after a long and intense search for a spiritual teacher. This initial meeting resulted in Bhakti Charu Swami being assigned to translate the books of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust into the Bengali language.)

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Lecture on Lying and Honesty by Hh Sivarama Swami on 19 June 2014 at Budapest

(Sivarama Swami was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. In 1956, during the failed Hungarian revolution, he emigrated with his family to Canada. Sivarama Swami first came in contact with the books of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1970, becoming an initiated disciple of Prabhupada in 1973. )

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Lecture on What is Spiritual Intelligence by HG Jivananda Prabhu on 16 June 2013 At Tucson

(The mother, a connoisseur of all Protestant faiths, began to attend Presbyterian churches, and there the future swami, at the age of thirteen, delivered his first Sunday sermon. Noting her son’s boredom and lack of challenge at school, his mother pushed for his acquiring a full scholarship plus living expenses to private boarding schools in New Hampshire, where he attended Exeter Academy during the summer

Lecture on The Meaning of Cleaning the Heart by HG Radhe Shyam Prabhu 

(President of the Pune branch of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) that has over 600 centres worldwide Director of Vedic Oasis for Inspiration, Culture & Education (VOICE) Holds an M.Tech from IIT-Bombay)

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Lecture on Real Yoga and Cheating Yoga by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami at Sacramento on 17 May 2014

(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 Krsna,

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

मेरी पहली आध्यात्मिक यात्रा:

मई,14 में मैने श्री जगन्नाथ धाम की अपनी छठी यात्रा संपन्न की | हालाँकि, इसे मैं अपनी पहली आध्यात्मिक यात्रा मानता हूँ | इस यात्रा में मैने पहली बार श्री चैतन्य महाप्रभु से सम्बंधित स्थान देख कर वहाँ की मिटटी से अपने आप को पवित्र किया | इस यात्रा में, मैं श्री चैतन्य गौडीय मठ में तीन दिन ठहरा | इस मठ में श्री जगन्नाथ,बलदेव सुभद्रा जी के साथ श्री राधा नयन मणि के व

TEXT 4

manyase yadi tac chakyam
maya drastum iti prabho
yogesvara tato me tvam
darsayatmanam avyayam

SYNONYMS

manyase--if You think; yadi--if; tat--that; sakyam--able to see; maya--by me; drastum--to see; iti--thus; prabho--O Lord; yoga-isvara--O Lord of all mystic power; tatah--then; me--unto me; tvam--You; darsaya--show; atmanam--Yourself; avyayam--eternal.

TRANSLATION

If You think that I am able to behold Your cosmic form, O my Lord, O master of all mystic power, then kindly show me that univers

Prabhupada: Just like Krsna... Krsna is expanding Himself in so many ways. Still, He's Krsna. He's not impersonal. The Mayavadi says, "Because Krsna has expanded in so many ways, therefore no more Krsna. Krsna is finished." Because this is Mayavada. "Because Krsna has expanded in so many ways, therefore there is no personal Krsna." This is Mayavada philosophy. But the Upanisads say, "No, even though He has expanded in so many thousands ways, still He's Krsna."

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krishna.

19th June, 2014. Gurgaon.

Q: Please explain in short what are the different qualities of Krishna ?

Ans : Mahāprabhu briefly describes various qualities of Lord Krishna to Sanātana Gosvāmī in Śrī Caitanya-caritāmṛta, Madhya-līlā, Chapter 23. These verses are also found in the Bhakti-rasāmṛta-sindhu (NoD)

CC Madhya 23.70 – Krishna, the supreme hero, has the most beautiful transcendental body. This body possesses all good features. It is radiant and very pleasing to the eyes. His body is

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There is a beautiful verse written in the avadhi language which reveals the greatness of unalloyed love to the Supreme Lord over years and years of attempt to understand Him through jnana marga.

H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj liked this verse very much because it gives the complete essence of pure bhakti as revealed in Srimad Bhagavatam and has written it in his notes.

sesha mahesha dinesha ganesha sureshahu jahi nirantar gaavain
jahi anaadi ananta akhanda acheda abheda suveda bataavain
narada