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2514938108?profile=originalLecture on Material Happiness Is Sweet Rice Mixed With Sand by Shikshashtakam Prabhu on 07
Aug 2005

(His Grace Shikshashtakam Prabhu joined full time as a bramachari ISKCON in 1998)

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The Journey to Improve Japa

2514938033?profile=originalLecture on The Journey to Improve Japa by HH Indradyumna Swami on 28 March 2007 at New York

(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. Each year Indradyumna Swami circles the globe teaching the message of the Bhagavad Gita and introducing people to kirtan chanting of the Hare Krishna maha mantra

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Srimad Bhagavatam Class (04.31.24)

2514938046?profile=originalLecture on Srimad Bhagavatam Class by HH Bhakti Caitanya Swami on 27 Nov 2013 at ISKCON Vrindavan
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 04, Chapter 31, Text 24)

(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

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The Jewel of Auspiciousness

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupa

 

 

Hearing and reciting a special story on
Ganesa Caturthi awards great benediction

(Based on Skanda Purana)

Jewellery

There was a city called Candra Jyoti. It was reigned by a king Dharmakanta, who was very much involved in religious activities. He was very kind to all the subjects and animals. Dharmakanta had a splendid queen called Svarnakanta. She was intently devoted and loyal to her husband and was very sober and polite.

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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupa

 

Decorate the Deity as nicely as possible with nice flowers and dress. You will forget all other false beauty. Letter to Kirtanananda, October 22, 1968.
 
Always remember that our first business is preaching and distributing literatures, never mind we have to live under a tree. Letter to Narottamananda, October 23, 1972.
 
Renunciation is required, but when one makes further progress after renunciation towards spiritual life a
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Hare Krsna

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On the mirror if there is dust, you cannot see your face very nicely. If you wipe the mirror very nicely… So this Hare Krishna chanting is the process of wiping out the dust accumulated on the mirror of my mind. Montreal, October 25, 1968.
 
“I am the seed-giving father of all living entities.” It doesn’t matter in different forms. He does not say that “I am the father only of the white, not of the black.” Nairobi, October 2
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Hare Krsna

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Sri Sankaracarya says: na hi na hi raksati dukrn karane. “Simply by juggling grammatical suffixes and prefixes one cannot save himself from the clutches of death.” The grammatical word jugglers cannot bewilder a devotee who engages in chanting the Hare Krishna naha-mantra. (Sri Caitanya-caritamrta, Adi-lila, 7.73 Purport)
Lord Caitanya’s spiritual master instructed Him that one must read Srimad-Bhagavatam regularly and wit
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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupa

Letters of  His Divine Grace A. C. Bhativedanta Swami Prabhupada

New Vrndavana
30 June, 1976
To,
His Holiness Satsvarupa Goswami
ISKCON
1014 Emerson St.
Evanston, Illinois  60201

 

 

My dear Satsvarupa Goswami,

Please accept my blessings.  I am in due receipt of your letter dated June 28, 1976, and I have noted the contents with care.

Ratha Yatra Kirtan

We are concerned with service.  What is the meaning of the post, that is, president, secretary, etc.,

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 7.23

TEXT 23

antavat tu phalam tesam
tad bhavaty alpa-medhasam
devan deva-yajo yanti
mad-bhakta yanti mam api

 

SYNONYMS

anta-vat tu--limited and temporary; phalam--fruits; tesam--their; tat--that; bhavati--becomes; alpa-medhasam--of those of small intelligence; devan--demigods' planets; deva-yajah--worshipers of demigods; yanti--achieve; mat--My; bhaktah--devotees; yanti--attain; mam--to Me; api--surely.

 

TRANSLATION

Men of small intelligence worship the demigods, and their fruits are limited and temporar

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One Krishna book sold means we go forward one step in our Krishna Consciousness. We should always remember this.(S.P.L. to Visnujana Maharaja 4th April 1971)

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Book Distribution is Heart of ISKCON 

 

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In my heart I want that KRSNA book in small or large form, should be distributed in every home who are English-speaking people. (S.P.L. to Karandhara May 17th 1971)

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Distribute Books, Distribute Books Marathon Message by Kavichandra Swami

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Size of the soul

The size of the soul is one ten - thousandth part of the tip of the hair. It means that if we take the tip of the hair and cut it into one ten - thousand parts then that extremely tiny part is the actual size of the soul.

Svetasvatara Upanisad (5.9) confirms the size of the soul:

balagra – sata – bhagasya
satadha kalpitasya ca
bhago jivah sa vijneyah
sa canantyaya kalpate

“When the upper point of a hair is divided into one hundred parts and again each of such parts is further divided into one hundr

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Thought Of The Day

Prabhupada: So that is the defect, that the modern civilization, they are not taking care of the spirit soul; they are simply taking care of the machine, body. Therefore the problems are there. You asked, "How to solve the problems?" The problems are there on account of this, that they are not taking care of the driver; they are simply taking care of the machine body. So if you take care of the driver, then he will remain sane, he will drive nicely, the body will not be disastrous, he will live

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Panch-Koshas, Path of Self Realization and Krishna Bhakti.

 

                                                                            By Veerendra Ekbote

 

              As the title suggests the material bodies of all living entities in this material world are comprised of 5 shells or Panch-koshas. Amongst the 84,00,000 species existing in this material creation the human form of life is very rare because we achieve it after many cycles of birth and death and is the highest form of life in the e

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Panch-Koshas, Path of Self Realization and Krishna Bhakti.

 

                                                                            By Veerendra Ekbote

 

              As the title suggests the material bodies of all living entities in this material world are comprised of 5 shells or Panch-koshas. Amongst the 84,00,000 species existing in this material creation the human form of life is very rare because we achieve it after many cycles of birth and death and is the highest form of life in the e

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" Transcendental vibrations of Krishna flute's are represented by Hare Krishna Maha Mantra " http://vedabase.net/cc/madhya/21/144/en

For more please read : HG Vaishesika Das (ACBSP), from Silicon Valley narrated the oppulence and sweetness of Lord Sri Krishna, as explained by Chaitanya MahaPrabhu to Sanatan Goswami, and described in CC Madhya Lila Ch 21. http://vedabase.net/cc/madhya/21/en

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hotel room

a man with his grievances to a 5 star hotels manager"you said an attached toilet,there is not even a single window in that room......i have put my two bags now there is not enough space to sleep....... what about air conditioning....you have put up just a small fan on top.....you have fitted a wrong digital clock on wall which does not show minutes and even hour digit sometime showing 25 hrs ...... any one ringing my door bell and entering the room without my permission....even one waiter entere

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Pastimes with Srila Prabhupada

2514938178?profile=originalLecture on Pastimes with Srila Prabhupada by HG Srutakirti Prabhu on 03 March 2007 at ISKCON Melbourne

(His Grace Srutakirti Prabhu would travel with Srila Prabhupada to various countries. He noted the details of his travels and thus he is one of the greatest speakers on Srila Prabhupada's pastimes.)

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The Essence of Spiritual Life

2514938258?profile=originalLecture on The Essence of Spiritual Life by HG Sesa Prabhu on 22 Nov 2013

(Sesa Dasa joined ISKCON in 1973 inspired by the political activism of the In God We Trust Party for Purified Leaders, organized by members of ISKCON.He was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1974 while he was traveling as a member of the initial Bhaktivedanta Book Trust library party.)

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