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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

A woman baked chapatti (roti) for members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra chapatti on the window sill, for whosoever would take it away. Every day, a hunchback came and took away the chapatti. Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following words as he went his way: “The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” This went on, day after day. Every day, the hunchback came, picked up the chapatti and uttered the words: “The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” The woman felt irritated. “Not a word of gratitude,” she said to herself… “Everyday this hunchback utters this jingle! What does he mean?” One day, exasperated, she decided to do away with him. “I shall get rid of this hunchback,” she said. And what did she do? She added poison to the chapatti she prepared for him! As she was about to keep it on the window sill, her hands trembled. “What is this I am doing?” she said. Immediately, she threw the chapatti into the fire, prepared another one and kept it on the window sill. As usual, the hunchback came, picked up the chapatti and muttered the words: “The evil you do, remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” The hunchback proceeded on his way, blissfully unaware of the war raging in the mind of the woman. Every day, as the woman placed the chapatti on the window sill, she offered a prayer for her son who had gone to a distant place to seek his fortune. For many months, she had no news of him.. She prayed for his safe return. That evening, there was a knock on the door. As she opened it, she was surprised to find her son standing in the doorway. He had grown thin and lean. His garments were tattered and torn. He was hungry, starved and weak. As he saw his mother, he said, “Mom, it’s a miracle I’m here. While I was but a mile away, I was so famished that I collapsed. I would have died, but just then an old hunchback passed by. I begged of him for a morsel of food, and he was kind enough to give me a whole chapatti. As he gave it to me, he said, “This is what I eat everyday: today, I shall give it to you, for your need is greater than mine!” ” As the mother heard those words, her face turned pale. She leaned against the door for support. She remembered the poisoned chapatti that she had made that morning. Had she not burnt it in the fire, it would have been eaten by her own son, and he would have lost his life! It was then that she realized the significance of the words: “The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” Do good and Don’t ever stop doing good, even if it is not appreciated at that time. If you like this, share it with others and I bet so many lives would be touched.
A woman baked chapatti (roti) for members of her family and an extra one for a hungry passerby. She kept the extra chapatti on the window sill, for whosoever would take it away. Every day, a hunchback came and took away the chapatti. Instead of expressing gratitude, he muttered the following words as he went his way: “The evil you do remains with you: The good you do, comes back to you!” This went on, day after day. Eve
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The Need of the Spirit Soul

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada


The self is beyond the gross body and subtle mind. He is the potent active principle of the body and mind. Without knowing the need of the dormant soul, one cannot be happy simply with emolument of the body and mind. The body and the mind are but superfluous outer coverings of the spirit soul. The spirit soul's needs must be fulfilled. Simply by cleansing the cage of the bird, one does not satisfy the bird. One must actu

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Spiritual Medicine

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

If one does not chant and hear Krsna-katha then one’s spiritual life will be finished. Spiritual medicine is consumed through the ears, not through the eyes.

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The Power of Love

2514918521?profile=originalLecture on The Power of Love by Krishnabhishek Prabhu 28 Dec 2008

(Krishnabhishek Prabhu was born and brought up in a Vaishnava family in Bengal and took to devotional practices seriously when he was ten.)

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Kaliyuga ka Dharma kya hai

2514918459?profile=originalLecture on Kaliyuga ka Dharma kya hai by Nava Yogendra Swami

(Nava Yogendra Swami Naishtik Brahmachari left home at a very young age of 9 years to become Sadhu and lived in jungles. Returned home and again left at the age of 17 years and lived at Shri Vrindavana dham.)

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Srila Sanatana Goswami

2514918460?profile=originalSeminar on Srila Sanatana Goswami by Bhakti Rasamrita Swami

(His Holiness Bhakti Rasamrita Swami completed his B.E. from M.S University Baroda, MBA from Bombay University & worked for some time in a multinational Bank.)

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Wash My Feet Its an Etiquette!

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Washing Special Guest's Feet: Refreshing and Rejuvenating.
[October 6, 1972, ISKCON Berkeley, USA]

Srila Prabhupada stayed in Berkeley for a few days at the cottage of some well- wishers. His disciples showed him around the house.

"Is there any prasadam?" Srila Prabhupada asked after being seated. There was nothing available.

"So, bring some fruit," he instructed. "Bring something for washing my feet. Bring a towel and some water. This is common etiquette. You should wash a person's feet wh
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Janmastami

I just spoke to Jaya Krishna das, the temple president of New Vrindaban. I'm going to go visit and stay in the ashram for the week of Janmastami. I'm really excited because it's been many years since I spent some time staying at a temple. I can't wait to go and serve Krishna and His devotees!

Lord Gauranga-Krishna is so merciful to me! I am so unworthy of His Grace but He's so wonderful to me that it inspires me to chant His glories even more. Jaya Sri Krishna-Caitanya!

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Pls note the exact address is Toa Payoh Sports hall stadium 297 Lorong 6 Toa Payoh, 319389

Hare Krsna ! Pls join us for Sri Rathoyatra festival Mahamaotsava in Singapore Toa Payoh Stadium on 28th july 2013 hosted by Sri Bangla Samaaj devotees starts from 5pm onwards ends with wonderful kirtans & prasadam come & pull the chariots of the Lord Sri JAgannatha Baladeva Subhadra mai ki jAya

 Sri Caitanya Caritamrta Madhya 13.78

 jayati jayati devo devaki-nandano 'sau

 jayati jayati krsno vrsni-vam´sa-prad

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 5.8-9

TEXT 8-9

naiva kincit karomiti
yukto manyeta tattva-vit
pasyan srnvan sprsan jighrann
asnan gacchan svapan svasan

pralapan visrjan grhnann
unmisan nimisann api
indriyanindriyarthesu
vartanta iti dharayan

 

SYNONYMS

na--never; eva--certainly; kincit--anything; karomi--I do; iti--thus; yuktah--engaged in the divine consciousness; manyeta--thinks; tattva-vit--one who knows the truth; pasyan--seeing; srnvan--hearing; sprsan--touching; jighran--smelling; asnan--eating; gacchan--going; svapan--dreaming; sv

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Thought Of The Day

Now, kalau, kalau, "in this age," especially meant. Now, how to worship Him? Does He require any grandeur, any throne or any decoration? No. Nothing. Anywhere and everywhere you can worship Him. How? Sankirtanaih, this chanting. Keep the picture of Lord Caitanya with His associates, this, as picture we are painting, we have got, and any part of the world, you sit down and go on chanting, Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama... So no expense, no nothing. This is the recommend

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HH Bhakti Caru Swami


Respected Devotees,


Hare Krishna Dandavat Pranam.


Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Sri Gauranga and Srila Prabhupada !


During a discussion with one of the senior devotees, I remembered Maharaj's wonderful lecture that he gave in Los Angeles that I listened some 3-4 years back. Its one of those impromptu lecture that Maharaj gave in his ever mellifluous voice that I can never forget.


The lecture started with a western aspiring devotee asking a question: Maharaj, why d

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Incense stick

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I was doing my evening kirtan/puja the other day and I saw the burning incense stick, pl see the attached picture in this blog.

And in a flash I saw myself in it.

The incense stand is ISKCON, rising up and shining bright in a dull world.

The incense stick is my Guru Maharaj, holding me, without him I am nothing.

The incense on the stick is myself. brown in color, neither good nor bad, a nobody, was living an animal's life.

Ash signifies that under the protection of Guru and with the associat

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Aliens does exist or just a fake

2514917562?profile=originalLecture on Aliens does exist or just a fake by Caitanya Charan Prabhu

(Chaitanya Charan Das is a celibate spiritual teacher (brahmachari) at ISKCON, Pune. He has done his Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from the Govt College of Engg, Pune.)

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2514918138?profile=originalLecture on Responsibility Of An Indian Spread Message Of Godhead by Pankajanghri Prabhu on 05 Dec 2010 at ISKCON Chowpatty

(Pankajanghri Prabhu has served in Sri Dham Mayapur since 1971. He and his twin brother, Jananivasa Prabhu, have become world famous as the exemplary “pujari brothers”. For nearly forty years, they have been serving the Deities in Mayapur with steady dedication as instructed by Srila Prabhupada.)

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Mayavada Khandana

2514917601?profile=originalLecture on Mayavada Khandana by Radhakrishna Prabhu

(His Grace Radhakrishna Das Brahmachari Prabhu of Sridham Vrindavan is a duly initiated disciple of His Holiness Sri Srimad Gopala krishna Goswami Maharaj.

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Andhra Pradesh government and ISKCON Secunderabad are back in news again, after a lull of five long years. This time it is skyrail and the government wants to plough it right through the ISKCON temple. And the determined temple devotees are giving them a tough fight.

In last few days, the issue has incensed public sentiments and media is providing daily coverage. Hindu organizations, prominent citizens and political factions have offered their support for the temple cause. So far 985 devotees

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Spell Of Maya

2514917563?profile=originalLecture on Spell Of Maya by Subhag Swami at Kolkata

(His Holiness Subhag Swami (Milan Kumar Talukdar) was born on 21st December, 1940 in the aristocratic Talukdar family of Kolkata, West Bengal, India.)

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SALTED BREAD - A TRUE STORY

 “Salted Bread - A True Story” is all about two great Russian Souls – Sakris Ohanjanyan (Sako) and Gagik Buniatyan (Gago) who risked and sacrificed their lives to spread the Krishna Consciousness Movement in the former Soviet Union.  They are tortured in a Russian prison camp for two years and in Psychic Hospitals, giving shock treatments and unbearable drugs, making them physically and mentally week, and as a result Sarkis died just one month before his release…..

 

It is a 327 pages biography, a

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Thought Of The Day

So the more we will pass this Kali-yuga, the symptoms will be more acute, intolerable. So we should care. We should take care of this so that we may not come back again to this Kali-yuga. (laughter) You see? This life should be utilized. Now we are conscious, Krsna conscious. It should be so utilized that no more coming back to United States of America and no more coming back of this condemned earthly planet. That should be the aim. Yad gatva na nivartante tad dhama paramam mama [Bg. 15.6]. We h

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