Seminar on Accepting the Proper Authority by Virabahu Prabhu
(Virabahu Dasa was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1952 and was raised in Maracaibo, Venezuela from the age of three. In 1972 he and a group of friends became committed followers of Srila Prabhupada in Caracas, Venezuela’s capital city, just on the basis of reading Srila Prabhupada’s books.)
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TEXT 15
nadatte kasyacit papam
na caiva sukrtam vibhuh
ajnanenavrtam jnanam
tena muhyanti jantavah
SYNONYMS
na--never; adatte--accepts; kasyacit--anyone's; papam--sin; na--nor; ca--also; eva--certainly; su-krtam--pious activities; vibhuh--the Supreme Lord; ajnanena--by ignorance; avrtam--covered; jnanam--knowledge; tena--by that; muhyanti--are bewildered; jantavah--the living entities.
TRANSLATION
Nor does the Supreme Spirit assume anyone's sinful or pious activities. Embodied beings, however, are
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A boat in an ocean keeps bobbing due to the unending waves. To stay steady, it needs an anchor.
Similarly, the waves of unending dualities – heat and cold; pleasure and pain; honor and dishonor – keep our mind perpetually restless. To steady it, we need an anchor.
The best anchor is Krishna. To understand why, let's consider two related meanings of the word "anchor." As a noun, it refers to the heavy object to which the bo
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You are covered by ignorance, and the entire world population is covered by ignorance. Therefore you are suffering, and the entire world is suffering. So what is the solution? By hearing from the bona fide spiritual master you will become free from your ignorance and misery. And by following Lord Caitanya's order that you should become a guru by telling everyone you meet about the teachings of Lord Sri Krishna, you will
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The ultimate surprise is that you are deathless. You live forever. You are the soul situated within the body. You are not the body. As Lord Krishna says, "The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind." So instead of being more interested in making material arrangements for the comfort of the body, you should be more interested in awakening the do
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To be caught up, as we are at the present moment, in the cycle of birth and death, is to be trapped in the blazing forest fire of material existence. When a forest fire becomes massive what can a tiny fire brigade do to extinguish it? Nothing. But when the Lord sends a merciful downpour of rain extracted from the ocean that inextinguishable forest fire immediately becomes extinguished. Similarly, it is only by the mercy
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We would like to share with everyone an inspiring incident revealing the wonderful dedication of a five and a half year old devotee in Abu Dhabi.
A few days back we got a phone call from Malhar (Maharaj named the child Kishore Chandra Krishna das) five and half years old son of our God brother HG Stithaprajna Prabhuji and HG Vasundhara mataji. That day morning he has told his parents that he wants to offer the entire mon
Lecture on Misery in Life by Vishwarup Prabhu on 04 July 2012
(Introduced to the movement of ISKCON in 1983 during medical college days. Started chanting 16 rounds in 1984. Acquired MBBS degree in 1985. Received first initiation in 1986 and Brahmin initiation in 1987.)
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Seminar on Choosing Love Over Fear by Bhakti Tirtha Swami
(Bhakti Tirtha Swami was born John E. Favors in a pious, God fearing family. As a child evangelist he appeared regularly on television. As a young man he was a leader in Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's civil rights movement.)
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Lecture on Strong Foundation in Student Life by Bhakti Swarupa Damodara Swami
(Srila Prabhupada chose to show him special attention and favor. Seeing Maharaja’s dual qualifications as a Vaishnava scientist and a Manipuri Vaishnava, Srila Prabhupada personally trained him in “spiritual science” and gave great importance to his scientific work.)
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Hare Krsna, By the mercy of Lord Jagannath, Baladev and Subhadra and with special blessings of Srila Prabhupada and His Holiness Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaja, we feel great pleasure to announce the date of the historic Lord Jagannath Ratha Yatra (Festival of Chariot) in Ludhiana. This year Ludhiana Ratha Yatra will be held on 15th December 2013 (Sunday).
Kindly advertise this festival date on your temple's notice boards and inform your local temple, congregation members, devotee community,
AA cool, calm, composed and controlled mind is everyone’s desire but most of us fail to harness the true potential of our mind. Many of us constantly get agitated by the unwarranted dictum of our mind which makes our life chaotic. People mostly commit suicide not because of any physical reason but only because of mental miseries.
Understanding the necessity of the time Iskcon has been conducting various workshops and seminars all over the world educating people as how to channelize the mind’s t
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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
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Lecture on God and Google by Radhika Raman Prabhu at Somaiya Campus
(Radhika Ramana Das, also known as Dr. Ravi M. Gupta, is a notable Vaishnava scholar. Presently, he is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia and a member of the faculty at Bhaktivedanta College.)
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Lecture on Sri Lokanath Goswami by Caru Prabhu
(Caru Das was initiated by Srila Prabhupada in 1970. He has been President, variously, of the Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Berkeley (USA) temples.)
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TEXT 14
na kartrtvam na karmani
lokasya srjati prabhuh
na karma-phala-samyogam
svabhavas tu pravartate
SYNONYMS
na--never; kartrtvam--proprietorship; na--nor; karmani--activities; lokasya--of the people; srjati--creates; prabhuh--the master of the city of the body; na--nor; karma-phala--with the results of activities; samyogam--connection; svabhavah--the modes of material nature; tu--but; pravartate--act.
TRANSLATION
The embodied spirit, master of the city of his body, does not create activities, n
