Dear Devotees and Friends,
For those of you who like (to improve) chanting Hare Krishna on Japa, in the association of devotees,we offer you a great opportunity.
This year from 26/02 - 07/03 we have organized a Mantra Yoga Intensive, a 10-day retreat with 8 days of chanting 4 times 2 hours a day. We have rented a property in the east of Holland with comfortable accomodation. 10 sleeping rooms give place for 20 participants. Few seats are still available.
Delicious prasadam will be supplied. A
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avyaktad vyaktayah sarvah
prabhavanty ahar-agame
ratry-agame praliyante
tatraivavyakta-samjnake
SYNONYMS
avyaktat--from the unmanifest; vyaktayah--living entities; sarvah--all; prabhavanti--come into being; ahah-agame--at the beginning of the day; ratri-agame--at the fall of night; praliyante--are annihilated; tatra--there; eva--certainly; avyakta--the unmanifest; samjnake--called.
TRANSLATION
When Brahma's day is manifest, this multitude of living entities comes into being, and at the arri
What exactly is the mark of Srivatsa on Lord Visnu's or Krsna's chest? There are a number of passages in our books that seem to offer different explanations, and many devotees do wonder what this mark actually is.
The Gaudiya Vaisnava Abhidhana, an exhaustive Bengali Vaisnava encyclopedia, which was published in Navadvipa in the year 1956, lists five different meanings under the entry 'Sri-vatsa':
1. A lock of hair on the right side of Sri Visnu's chest. 2. The mark of Laksmi on the chest of Visnu
1. Atharvana Upanisad
Anyone who marks his body with the tilak which resembles the lotus feet of Lord hari becomes dear to the Paramatma. He becomes fortunate and attains liberation.
2. Maha Upanisad
One gets released of all the bondage of samsara when one marks his body with the tilak markings and knows Narayana who is known by karma, jnana and bhakti yogas. Ultimately, he attains Lord Visnu.
3. Agni Purana
A brahmana should not wear the three lined tilak across (tiryak pundra) even for as a joke or
From Sri Garga Samhita, Canto Six, Chapter Fifteen
Translation by Kusakratha Das
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Simply by hearing about Gopi-bhumi, which is so named because the gopis resided there, one become free from the bondage of karma.
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In Gopi-bhumi gopi-candana was manifested from the gopis' cosmetics. A person who marks his limbs with gopi-candana tilaka attains the result of bathing in the Ganga.
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A person who daily wears gopi-candana tilaka attains the pious result of daily bathing in all sacred riv
O Jaimini, anybody who smells the Tulasi leaf which has emanated from Lord Sri Visnu, whatever sins he has in his body are all destroyed. (Padma Purana, Kriya Yogasara 11.135)
If a sinful person leaving his body has a Tulasi leaf in his mouth, he goes to the abode of Lord Sri Visnu. I say this is truth. (Padma Purana, Brahma Khanda 22.7)
Anybody who has a Tulasi wood necklace around his neck, even if he is unclean or performs many bad activities, he is taken with full respect to the abode of Lord
Bhakti Charu Swami says on Love
Lord's presence everywhere can not invoke our love for him but when he is there in deity form then we can invoke our love and serve him.
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Creation of this universe starts with Brahma
The hard way but that is our choice. So when it is describe in the Bhagavat purana how the Lord creates this material world. Krishna personally has nothing to do with material existence, Krishna is Rasabihari, He is simply enjoying loving relations with the Brijwasi’s. Narayan of Vaikuntha He also has nothing to do with this material existence, He is simply enjoying with the goddess of fortune and the entire servant of the Lord. It is described that Kr
ri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, who is an incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead Krishna, introduced a revolutionary spiritual movement based on India’s ancient Vedic literature. He swept aside the stifling restrictions of the degenerated caste system and allowed people everywhere to transcend social barriers and achieve the highest platform of spiritual enlightenment through the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra.
India’s Vedic scriptures had long predicted His birth in 1486 in Mayapur,
History of Vrinda Kunda
Some five thousand years ago, after Krishna and His associates wound
up Their earthly pastimes, the Lord's great-grandson, Vajranabha
Maharaja, installed Deities of Krishna all over Vraja. Deities were
installed also at Vrinda Kunda. Later, unfortunately, They were
disfigured by Muslim invaders and for some time They disappeared from
human sight. Today, although They are no longer worshiped, They are
still giving darshan in a small kutir by the side of the main temple,
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THE APPEARANCE OF TULASI DEVI Narada Muni asked Lord Narayana, "O Bhagavan! How did the pure, chaste Tulasi Devi become Your wife? Where was she born? Who was she in her previous birth? What family did she come from? And what austerities did she perform to get You as her husband--You, who are above the material energy, not subject to change, the Cosmic Self, the Supreme God, the Lord of all, omniscient, the cause of all, omnipresent, container and preserver of all. And how did Tulasi Devi, Your
Sri Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead , is the proprietor of all material and spiritual universes, wherein His countless expansions reside. In His original two-handed form He is known as Syamasundara and resides in the whorl of the lotus-shaped spiritual planet Goloka Vrndavana, where every word is a song and every step is a dance. This extraordinary place is made entirely of touchstone, and everything there -- the land, the water, the trees, the grains of sand even -- is fully conscious
Some five thousand years ago, after Krishna and His associates wound up Their earthly pastimes, the Lord's great-grandson, Vajranabha Maharaja, installed Deities of Krishna all over Vraja. Deities were installed also at Vrinda Kunda. Later, unfortunately, They were disfigured by Muslim invaders and for some time They disappeared from human sight. Today, although They are no longer worshiped, They are still giving darshan in a small kutir by the side of the main temple, under an old chokara tree.
Vrinda Kunda
Vrinda Kunda is where Srimati Vrinda Devi is said to contemplate how she will arrange the daily pastimes of Radharani and Krishna. Next to Vrinda Kunda is Gupta Kunda, which is where Radharani is said to secretly meet Krishna. There is a beautiful deity of Vrinda Devi in the temple here. She has a yellow parrot on her left hand. This parrot is said to fly around Vrindavana and on returning tells Vrinda Devi what is happening there. The parrot is named Daksa and is said to have one l
Vrinda-vana
"The word 'vana' means forest. Vrindavana is the name given to the forest where Srimati Vrinda-devi (Tulasi-devi), grows profusely." (CC Madhya 17.l93p.) Another name of Tulasi is Vrinda-devi (one who awards residence in Vrindavana). Srila Narottama dasa Thakura says: krpa kori koro tare vrindavana vasi, "Dear Tulasi, please bestow your mercy upon me, so that I may forever reside in Vrindavana."
The Vrindavana forest is named after Vrinda-devi, who performed penances here for 60,000 ye
MEERABAI - THE MYSTICAL POETESS
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Thus sang Mirabai, yet another mystical poetess, whose tremendous love and devotion to Krishna surpassed all human boundaries and limitations. Mira, who is regarded by many as an incarnation of Radha (Krishna's divine partner) herself, was born in the year 1499 in the small hamlet of Kurkhi, situated near Merta, a tiny state in Marwar, Rajasthan. Meera's father, Ra
The above verse, featuring in the Jitamtestotra, means:
The wise, attaining to Thee alone the surest refuge, cross the terrible ocean of birth and death, the cause of endless pain and misery.
The fine fabric of Indian philosophy and culture has been brilliantly embellished with the stories of some of the greatest ever saints and sages Mother Earth ever created! The teachings of these Punya Atmas (g
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sahasra-yuga-paryantam
ahar yad brahmano viduh
ratrim yuga-sahasrantam
te 'ho-ratra-vido janah
SYNONYMS
sahasra--thousand; yuga--millenniums; paryantam--including; ahah--day; yat--that; brahmanah--of Brahma; viduh--they know; ratrim--night; yuga--millenniums; sahasra-antam--similarly, at the end of one thousand; te--that; ahah-ratra--day and night; vidah--understand; janah--people.
TRANSLATION
By human calculation, a thousand ages taken together is the duration of Brahma's one day. And s
Prabhupada: It is a purificatory process. Pollution means impure. So if you purify, then there is no more pollution. Just like infection. You have got some disease, infection. If you give some vaccine to purify the body, the infection is gone. It is like that.
By H.D.G Srila Prabhupada
