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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

There are two kinds of people on the surface of the earth today. Average people and Exceptional people.

Average people merely exist
Exceptional people actually live

Average people are products of their environment
Exceptional people are products of their choices

Average people are drowned by adversity
Exceptional people are elevated by difficulties

Average people give excuses for failure
Exceptional people accept responsibility

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Srila Prabhupada Says - [Regarding how if one takes part in this Ratha Yatra festival they will be liberated - provided they maintain their Krsma consciousness otherwise they will get a body befitting their desire]

Devotee: Prabhupada, can you explain a little more about Ratha-yatra? Anyone who takes part in Ratha-yatra, are they liberated?

Prabhupada: Certainly.

Devotee: Does that mean they will not take birth again

Hare Krishna Dear Prabhu

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Sri Sri Nitai Mayapur Chandra

I am extremely happy to announce that ISKCON Cape Town, Rondebosch temple is 25 years old this year !!!

To celebrate this momentous occasion, we will be holding a special 25th anniversary Reunion and Kirtan Mela festival.

Our guests will include HH Bhakti Caitanya swami, HH Kadamba Kanana swami and many senior devotees and former full time Cape Town devotees who will

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

The devotee rejects everything unfavorable with determination because he knows that this thing is detrimental to his spiritual progress, and if he does not get rid of it now, it will kill him spiritually.

Just creating people who can earn, who can invent, is not going to help the world in itself unless people become holistic, become united with their own inner spiritual nature and act with dynamic compassion.

- Radhanath Swami

Source : http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/opinion/edit-page/World-Population-Day/articleshow/21008094.cms

Lecture on Jivan Shaili by Subhag Swami

(Srila Prabhupada gave His Holiness specific services of translating Gaudiya Vaishnava scriptures & Prabhupada’s books. Also Srila Prabhupada ordered him to preach Krishna Consciousness all over the world.)

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Lecture on The main thing is Desire by Rohini Suta Prabhu on 08 Sep 1990

(Rohini Suta Prabhu joined ISKCON in 1974 and is initiated by Srila Prabhupada. From the very beginning he was engaged in book distribution, mostly in Switzerland and Germany.)

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Lecture on Finding Balance by Yadunanadana Swami on 21 Feb 2012 at ISKCON Radhadesh

(Yadunandana Swami principal of Bhaktivedanta College, teacher, and spiritual counselor is a sannyasi (monk, religious mendicant) in the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON).)

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Hon’ble Dr A. P. J .Abdul Kalam Former President of India on arrival to the hospital first started his visit auspiciously by offering his respects to Srila Prabhupada ,Founder Acharya, International Society for Krishna Consciousness. Later he took a tour of the hospital and interacted with the key management of the hospital and also with the hospital staff and others. Mr.Hrishikesh Mafatlal, (H.G.Krsnachandra Prabhu) Chairman and Dr.Ajay Sankhe,(H.G.Madhavanand Prabhu) Director of the hospital

Now, the feature, the body, is the same, but in different house with different devotees, the exchange of feelings is different. That is called vaibhava-prakasa. So it is a very complicated idea, which of them is vaibhava, which of them is prabhava, which of them is vilasa, which of them is tad-ekatma, avesa...  There are different divisions of Krsna's expansions. But we can note down if we like from original Krsna how many, I mean to say, expansions, innumerable expansions Krsna has got. But som

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sri-bhagavan uvaca
sannyasah karma-yogas ca
nihsreyasa-karav ubhau
tayos tu karma-sannyasat
karma-yogo visisyate

SYNONYMS

sri-bhagavan uvaca--the Personality of Godhead said; sannyasah--renunciation of work; karma-yogah--work in devotion; ca--also; nihsreyasa-karau--all leading to the path of liberation; ubhau--both; tayoh--of the two; tu--but; karma-sannyasat--in comparison to the renunciation of fruitive work; karma-yogah--work in devotion; visisyate--is better.

TRANSLATION

The Blessed Lor

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

*Spirituality* is not very easy. One can easily give a big lecture on Spirituality, but applying it in own life is different.

For example, `'Love your neighbor like yourself" is the basic slogan of Christianity. But, are even the Bishops practicing this in real life?

It is here that, Vedic Dharma becomes very relevant. The Srimad Bhagavad Gita ( essence of the Vedas) set only practical guidelines.  It urges it's followers

Read more about Hera Pancami on www.harekrishnacalendar.com

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arjuna uvaca
sannyasam karmanam krsna
punar yogam ca samsasi
yac chreya etayor ekam
tan me bruhi suniscitam

SYNONYMS

arjunah uvaca--Arjuna said; sannyasam--renunciation; karmanam--of all activities; krsna--O Krsna; punah--again; yogam--devotional service; ca--also; samsasi--You are praising; yat--which; sreyah--is beneficial; etayoh--of these two; ekam--one; tat--that; me--unto me; bruhi--please tell; suniscitam--definitely.

TRANSLATION

Arjuna said: O Krsna, first of all You ask me to renoun

So there are different kinds of devotees also. Some devotee worships the Narayana feature, some devotee worships Krsna feature, Nrsimhadeva... So there are innumerable devotees and innumerable forms also of Krsna. But not these ordinary demigods. When Krsna says, ye yatha mam prapadyante tams tathaiva bhajamy aham: [Bg. 4.11] "Any devotee who wants to worship Me in My different feature, I offer him in that feature..." Just like Hanuman. He was a devotee of Rama. So there is one verse by Hanuman,

As it is natural for some fishes to live deep in water and for some, on the top of it, it is natural for some kind of devotes of God serve to the Lord in Countryside Monastery environment and for other kind of Devotees – in midst of massive city. It is not the optional, it is essentially necessary, for those Devotees, who not yet come to the level of Holy Sage (mahabhagavata, paramahamsa, avaduta) and by their nature more fragile and more sensitive to external environment. If we just swap over t