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Question Answer Session from a Lecture by H.H. Giriraj Swami Maharaj at San Diego, CA on 21 Aug 2004 on Sri Radhastami

Devotee : Swamiji, you said that Srimati Radharani is supervising the devotional service. Is it because She knows what the standard of the service is that She is able to supervise the service?

Giriraj Swami : Yes, that is true. She Herself exemplifies the highest standard of pure devotional service to Krsna. But we cannot expect Her to personally supervise our service. For that

Lecture on Disppearance Day of Haridas Thakura by HG Revati Raman Prabhu on 29 Sept 2012 at ISKCON Tirupati

(His Grace Revathi Raman Prabhu born in the year 1956 on July 21 in a Sri Vaishnava family. From the childhood he is a dynamic, straight and enthusiastic person.)

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Lecture on Visvaroop and Prabhupada's Sanyas Pastime by HH Radhanath Swami on 27 Sept 1996 at Mumbai

(Vishvarupa was the elder brother of Lord Caitanya. He is considered a partial expansion of Lord Nityananda. At an early age he left home to take sannyasa.)

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Lecture on Srila Prabhupada accepting Sanyasa by HG Radha Vallabh Prabhu on 23 Sept 2010 at ISKCON Chowpatty

(One night, Abhay had an unusual dream. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta appeared before him, beckoning. He was asking Abhay to leave home and take sannyasa.)

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Hello all

please accept my pranam all hari bhakts.

all glory to shri krishna.

i would like to share a small story which can change the life . 

once there was this king was enlighten and continuously worried about his kingdom and people.

so one good day he invites all scholars from his kingdom to discuss .

he asked them give him one statement which can help in bad times and awake him in good times 

all scholars went into deep discussion but could not find the answer , 

so after taking leave from king and

Lecture on Disppearance Day of Haridas Thakura by HH Gopal Krishna Goswami on 11 Sept 2011 at Novgorod

(Haridasa Thakura is considered the namacarya, the spiritual master in chanting the holy name of Krishna.)

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Bhaktivinoda Thakura

Listen Audio Lecture on 11 glories of Bhaktivinoda Thakur based on the acronym BHAKTIVINODA : Click Here

TEXT 26

yato yato niscalati
manas cancalam asthiram
tatas tato niyamyaitad
atmany eva vasam nayet

SYNONYMS

yatah--whatever; yatah--wherever; niscalati--verily agitated; manah--the mind; cancalam--flickering; asthiram--unsteady; tatah--from there; tatah--and thereafter; niyamya--regulating; etat--this; atmani--in the self; eva--certainly; vasam--control; nayet--must bring in.

TRANSLATION

From whatever and wherever the mind wanders due to its flickering and unsteady nature, one must certainly withdra

Morning walk notes, Venice Beach, L.A.

I asked Srila Prabhupada whether a sannyasi should worship a Deity while traveling. He said a sannyasi is not required to worship the Deity. He said, Lord Caitanya never carried a Deity. I asked about the danda. Is it a Deity? No, he said. I asked if you could offer food to the danda (as with a Deity)? He laughed and said, No. He said that the danda means body, mind, and words dedicated to Krsna's service. He said hari-nama is the thing for a sannyasi. Th

A free application for Android phones

Hare Krishna.

In this fast paced world, the need for information to be readily available at one’s fingertips is paramount. ISKCON Convention Centre, Bangalore felt that an application that will help you stay connected with the temple on your mobile phone will help. This thought led to the development of an application for Android phones which will enable you to see content and posts on the temple website immediately.

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Some of the spec

The difficulties of life may come as seasonal change but we should not be disturbed by all those difficulties. Our process is to chant and that process will gradually clear everything in due course.

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

Let's flood the world with the holy name...

This year World Holy Name Week is from September 17 - September 26.

Here are some of the ideas, from WHNW committee, on what we can do during
WHNW.


1. Nagar Sankirtan - Harinaam processions with WHNW and mahamantra banners.

2. 24 hours and/or 12 hours Sankirtan yajna - Non-stop kirtan for 24/12
hours.

3. Japathon - Pledges from devotees and congregation to chant extra rounds
during this period.

4. Morning Bhagvatam class on Holy names as the theme - M

The next day was Vyasa-puja, Prabhupada's seventy-fourth birthday, and he went to the Tokyo ISKCON temple. The temple was only two rooms-one for living, one for worshiping-with Japanese grass mats on the floor. Prabhupada sat to the right of the altar, looking at Lord Jagannatha, while his disciples sat on the floor before him, singing Gurv-aṣṭaka prayers glorifying the spiritual master. None of them, however, knew exactly how to conduct the Vyasa-puja ceremony, and after a while they ended the

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Srila Prabhupada Says - [Regarding how unless you submit/surrender to the Acarya then you cannot understand his instructions]

Bhurijana: Prabhupada, I think my illusion is not yet dispelled.

Prabhupada: Then unfortunate.

Bhurijana: Yes.

Prabhupada: Continue. (laughter) Who can check?

Bhurijana: I want to understand in this sense though, exactly how far your instructions are because I know I want to do it, what you say, but I

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Srila Prabhupada Says - [Regarding how in ISKCON we must accept his authority and not think we have a better idea understanding or interpretation]

"Disciple means who voluntarily accepts the spiritual master to be..., regulate. Disciple means one who is regulated by higher authority. He is disciple. The higher authority is called the spiritual master, and the person who voluntarily submits to him for being regulated, he i

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Srila Prabhupada Says – [Regarding how we can understand the activities of Lord Caitanya because they were written/recorded by his nitya siddha disciples. We are most fortunate that we can understand Srila Prabhupada because his voice and written word are directly available to us through his various tape recordings, books and other literature]

“Svarupa Damodara Gosvami and Raghunatha dasa Gosvami witnessed Caitanya Mahap

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

namo bhaktivinodaya sac-cid-ananda-namine
gaura-sakti-svarupaya rupanuga-varaya te

"I bow down to Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura, who is the embodiment of the energy of Sri Gaurasundara [Chaitanya Mahaprabhu] and a great sadhu in the line of the followers of Sri Rupa Gosvami Prabhupada."

Srila Saccidananda Bhaktivinoda Thakura was born with the name  Sri Kedarnath Dutta on September 2, 1838. He appeared in the vil

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Srimad Narayaneeyam describes the past times of Vamana-avatara, as follows:

·         The Asura King Bali was killed in the battle by Indra, but his body was revived by Shukraachaarya. By performing the Vishwajit Sacrifice he grew in prowess and being a descendent of Prahlaad, he was not afraid of anyone. So Devas had to flee in fear of the victorious Bali who conquered the three worlds where the Devas had hid themselves

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada