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Are we architects of Your Own Destiny.

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Is every thing is predestined?

Are we architects of Your Own Destiny.

 

Pain is destined if you choose to remain in material world. Unlimited bliss is destined if you choose to go back to the spiritual world. Your going back or staying here is not
predestined. It is your choice. In the ultimate regard, you are the architect of your own destiny.

We all are Krishna's part and parcels (bg 15.7). Our duty as well as aim of human

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What is the
 
glory of chanting the holy name of Krishna ?
 
The chanting of the holy name is so auspicious that it can freeeveryone from the reactions of sinful activities.  If, by chance, a devotee accidentally performs some sinful activity, the Lord willexcuse him, but one should not intentionally perform sinfulacts.
 
_        Srimad Bhagavatam, 6.3.31 Purport.
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Hare Krsna

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One who accepts the chanting of Hare Krishna to be some kind of pious activity is completely misled.  Of course, it ispious ; but the real fact is that Krishna and His name,  beingtranscendental, are far above all mundane pious activity.
 
-          Sri Caitanya Carithamritha, Adi Leela, 3.79 Purport
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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 6.35

TEXT 35

sri-bhagavan uvaca
asamsayam maha-baho
mano durnigraham calam
abhyasena tu kaunteya
vairagyena ca grhyate

 

SYNONYMS

sri-bhagavan uvaca--the Personality of Godhead said; asamsayam--undoubtedly; maha-baho--O mighty-armed one; manah--mind; durnigraham--difficult to curb; calam--flickering; abhyasena--by practice; tu--but; kaunteya--O son of Kunti; vairagyena--by detachment; ca--also; grhyate--can be so controlled.

 

TRANSLATION

The Blessed Lord said: O mighty-armed son of Kunti, it is undoubtedly

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Hearing is most Important

2514927532?profile=originalLecture on Hearing is most Important by HH Kadamba Kanana Swami at ISKOCN Melbourne on 29 Sept 2013

(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami coordinated the construction of Srila Prabhupada’s samadhi in Mayapur. He took sannyasa in 1997 and is now an initiating guru.)

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The Importance of Devotees

2514927444?profile=originalLecture on The Importance of Devotees by HH Giriraj Swami at ISKOCN Houston on 22 Sept 2013
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 10 Chapter 36 Text 16)

(In 1972 Giriraj Swami was appointed by Prabhupada to be president of ISKCON Bombay and trustee of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust.)

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NO ONE COULD STOP HIM!

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It was an amazing Rath Yatra festival at London. My perspective was limited, since I stayed by Srila Prabhupada's side, but it was filled with adventure. Srila Prabhupada was very enthusiastic. His Vyasasana was available on the Ratha cart, but he decided to walk with the devotees. Srila Prabhupada walked in front of the cart clapping his hands to the beat of the kirtan. He raised his hands in the air encouraging everyone to dance. He looked like the supreme puppeteer. 


As he raised his hands

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2514927486?profile=originalLecture on Lalita and Visakha Devi Installation Ceremony by Bhanu Swami on 11 Sept 2013 at ISKCON Nashik

(Bhanu Swami has been a GBC member since 2003. His zonal assignments cover South India, and he is co-GBC for Japan. His history in management is as a regional secretary for South India since 1986.)

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New Video

Dear devotees,

PAMHO. AGTSP.


We, ISKCON Congregational Development Ministry, are happy to share with you the premiere of the new video made by us about the Kartika Month and the importance of the Damodara Program. We hope you enjoy it and please share it with your friends and family.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knTzt3_ZVY4

On behalf of the ISKCON Congregational Development Ministry,

Ys Manjulali Manjari Sevini dd.

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By Mayesa das edited by Gauragopala dasa

 

Part One Finding the Moon in Surya Siddhanta

 

The formula for finding the planets in the Surya Siddhanta cannot be employed for the moon. This is so because all the planets are found taking help of the number 324,000 and 57,753,336 which are for the moon. If we try to derive the moon from this formula the numbers cancel each other out.

 

Therefore the Surya Siddhanta gives us two separate numbers for the moon. Still our numbers will be canceled out applying

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From Srila Prabhupad Lilamrita -- -Jaladuta diary

September 10, 1965

The Jaladuta is a regular cargo carrier of the Scindia Steam Navigation
Company, but there is a passenger cabin aboard. During the voyage from
Calcutta to New York in August and September of 1965, the cabin was occupied
by "Sri Abhoy Charanaravinda Bhaktivedanta Swami," whose age was listed as
sixty-nine and who was taken on board bearing "a complimentary tic

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WHO is very dear to Bhagavan Sri Krishna?

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Having modern education or related literary skill does not mean, proper awareness of Vedic dharma.

For instance, Professor U.R.Ananthamoorthy’s ( So called, Jnanapith award winner) stated today, “ Both Narendra Modi and Sangh Parivar,  do not have proper awareness of Vedic dharma like Mahathma Gandhi. In Vedic times cow sacrifice and eating cow meat was common. Only later this stopped because of the need to use the cows f

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Hare Krsna

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Sri Krishna is extremely fond of all His BhaktasHe forgives their mistakes and remains with themBhagavan abandons the Bhakta only when his/her Bhakti is no moreEven then, the merits of the previous Krishna-association continues to help the Bhakta.

So, just think how much fortunate the Krishna-Bhaktas are ? They are indeed the Acharyas of this ageGradually Krishna develops them with His divine power.

Bhagavan Sri K

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Srila Prabhupada Vani

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So just try to understand how much people were advanced in the previous ages. The Bhagavad-gita talks took place between Krishna and Arjuna in the battlefield just on the verge of the battle’s beginning. So how much time could they spare? Utmost, half an hour – not more than that. So within half an hour, this Bhagavad-gita was taught to Arjuna, and he could understand it, and then he agreed to fight (nasto mohah smrtir

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Sri Visvarupa Mahotsava

2514927113?profile=originalLecture on Sri Visvarupa Mahotsava by Kesava Bharati Das Goswami on 19 Sept 2013 at Houston

(Kesava Bharati Das Goswami is an English editor and presently edits the books of the senior Sanskritist of ISKCON, Gopiparanadhana Dasa, and the books of one of the leading authors of the movement, His Holiness Sivarama Swami.)

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Not Just Sentimentalists

2514926901?profile=originalLecture on Not Just Sentimentalists by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami on 03 August 2013

(From 1977 to 1979 His Holiness Bhakti Vikasa Swami was based in India, mostly traveling in West Bengal preaching Krishna consciousness and distributing Srila Prabhupada's books.)

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2514926849?profile=originalLecture on Lalita Sasti - Appearance Day of Lalita Sakhi by Kadamba Kanana Swami on 11 Sept 2013 at Durban, South Africa

(Kadamba Kanana Swami joined ISKCON in 1978 in Amsterdam. Until 1984 he managed projects in Vrindavana. From 1985 through 1990 he coordinated the construction of Srila Prabhupada’s samadhi in Mayapur.)

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Radhastami Lecture by Dina Bandhu Prabhu

2514927013?profile=originalRadhastami Lecture by Dina Bandhu Prabhu

(Dina Bandhu Prabhu is settled in braja. Although from a foreign country, he looks exaclty like one of the local brijawasis. He speaks the local braja language & nicely interacts with the locals.)

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Many seekers of knowledge, especially in the scientific community, believe there is no God. The fact is Krishna or God permits them to think this way because the living entities have free will and can desire to exist separately from Krishna if they choose.

 

Long ago we all chose to leave Krishna and foolishly came to this material universe and in doing so we have rejected not only our original home with Krishna in Vaikuntha the Spiritual World, but have also rejected the fact that everything in H

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