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Next Step in Evolution

2514915471?profile=originalSeminar on Next Step in Evolution by Sankarsana Das Adhikari Prabhu

(Since that time he has been regularly traveling and lecturing extensively all over the world for reviving the dormant Krishna consciousness in the hearts of all living beings.)

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Artificial Intelligence

2514915392?profile=originalSeminar on Artificial Intelligence  by Sadaputa Prabhu

(During this time he found inspiration in the philosophy of Bhagavad-gita, and became an initiated disciple of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, founder-acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), popularly known as the Hare Krishna movement.)

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2514915456?profile=originalLecture on Radhastami by Sankarshan Nitai Prabhu on 11 Sep 2010 at ISKCON Mayapur

(HG Sankarshan Nitai prabhu joined ISKCON Mayapur in 1996. He is the disciple of HH Jayapataka Swami.)

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Devotees- The Best Psychiatrist

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BEST PSYCHIATRIST
[October, 1972, Los Angeles]


One day in Srila Prabhupada's room in Los Angeles, a psychiatrist criticized the devotees because he felt they forced the public to accept their services. 


Srila Prabhupada quickly pointed out that this made the devotees better than him (Psychiatrist). Srila Prabhupada said that thedevotees give their services to all for free by going to them, but the psychiatrist makes the people come to him and then charges them. The psychiatrist fell silent.

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Forms Do Not Arise from Formlessness

Answers by Citing the Vedic Version:


Question: How to Defeat the Argument that God is Formless?


Please accept my humble obeisances

How to defeat the argument when some one says that God is formless and quotes the Vedic mantra:

na tasya pratima asti
(Yajur Veda 32-3)

Your humble student.

Supreet
 


Answer: Forms Do Not Arise from Formlessness


We have no experience of forms arising from formlessness. Rather everywhere around us we see that forms arise from forms. Just like you have form and your fa

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Dear Devotees,
We are very happy to announce the launching of 'The Journey Home' in Odiya language titled 'Ghara Bahhuda'.


Book Launch


The Program at Bhubaneswar :


1. The program begins with a half hour talk by top dignitaries of Odisha on the book and Maharaj. The dignitaries include Sh. Surjya Narayan Patro,Hon'ble Minister,Revenue and Disaster Management,Odisha and Sh. Arun kumar Sahoo,Hon'ble Minister,Energy & I & PR,Odisha.


2. This will be followed by Book Release and an hour presentation by HH Ra

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Jagannath Ratha Yatra Festival


Dear Devotees,
Hare Krishna, Dandavats Pranam,
PAMHO, AGTSP
Jai Jagannath!


This year by the mercy of Sri Guru & Gauranga we are going to celebrate Lord Sri Jagannath ratha yatra festival on Wednesday 10th July, 2013 at Lalita Kala Toranam, Public Garden, Nampally, Hyderabad.


Invitation for Jagannath Ratha Yatra


rathe ca vamanam drstva punar janma na vidyate


"one who sees lord jagannatha on his ratha will not take birth again in this material world"


The main purpose of this festival is to invite people for pulling ratha & off

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 4.39

TEXT 39

sraddhaval labhate jnanam
tat-parah samyatendriyah
jnanam labdhva param santim
acirenadhigacchati

 

SYNONYMS

sraddha-van--a faithful man; labhate--achieves; jnanam--knowledge; tat-parah--very much attached to it; samyata--controlled; indriyah--senses; jnanam--knowledge; labdhva--having achieved; param--transcendental; santim--peace; acirena--very soon; adhigacchati--attains.

 

TRANSLATION

A faithful man who is absorbed in transcendental knowledge and who subdues his senses quickly attains the s

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2514915073?profile=originalLecture on How to Cultivate Humility and Gratitude by Kesava Bharati Das Goswami on 04 Dec 2011 at ISKCON London

(Kesava Bharati Das Goswami met his spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in 1972.)

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2514914842?profile=originalLecture on Difference between Dead Body and Living Body by Lokanath Swami on 09 Sep 2012 at Mauritius

(Born in Aravade, a small village Maharashtra, Indian, he went to Mumbai for studying. In the year 1971, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada was touring India with his foreign disciples and had organized a pandal program in Mumbai.)

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Jagannath Katha

2514915481?profile=originalLecture on Jagannath Katha by Radha Govinda Swami

(H.H. Radha Govinda Swami, a direct disciple of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness), lives in Vrindavan, India.)

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Thought Of The Day

If you want Krsna, if you want God, then you don't try to follow all these processes. You just try to follow devotional service to the Lord, bhakti, Krsna consciousness. That will please Krsna. Then by His pleasing, He will reveal to you. He will reveal to you. God being pleased with your sincere service and love, He will let you know. Just like Arjuna is being instructed by the Supreme Lord, and He says, "My dear Arjuna, I am speaking to you the most confidential part of knowledge." So if we be

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yatra yogesvarah krsno yatra partho dhanur-dharah tatra srir vijayo bhutir dhruva nitir matir mama…..(Bhagavad Gita Chapter 18, Text 78)

Wherever there is Krsna, the master of all mystics, and wherever there is Arjuna, the supreme archer, there will also certainly be opulence, victory, extraordinary power, and morality. That is my opinion.

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The Highest Pleasure In A Rascal Culture

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

This exchange between His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and some of his disciples took place on October 18, 1975, during a morning walk in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Disciple: Srila Prabhupada, people sometimes criticize by saying, "Your Vedic culture was most solidly established in India. And India is now considered relatively poor and unfortunate. So why should we respect the Vedic culture?"
Srila Pra
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e] Be Willing To Learn Throughout The Life

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

One truck driver was doing his usual load delivery at a mental hospital, by parking his vehicle beside an open drain. He discovered a flat tyre when he was about to return from the mental hospital. He jacked up the truck and removed the flat tyre to fix the spare tyre. When he was about to fix the spare tyre, he accidentally dropped all the 4 bolts in the open drain.

As he cannot fish the bolts in the open drain, he start

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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 
If you actually want to perform proper devotional service,then you must accept the harsh language (of your higher authorities) as the medicine by which Maya can be given up.Then one can obtain the necessary spiritual advancement andaccept the chanting of the Holy name. 

 
 
-          Srila Gaurakishore Dasa Baba Jee Maharaj
(Spiritual master of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvathi Thakur)
In the biography of Srila Gaurakishore
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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

The recent natural calamities in the sacred lands of Kedarnath and Badrinath , have surprised many PeopleWhy such calamities in the sacred Vedic land?.

The answer is very simpleThe sacred lands of Kedarnath and Badrinath must be treated with utmost respectWhen faithless People and their evil rulers try to destroy the sanctity of the sacred land, the nature reacts.

Puri Shankaracharya has commented about this disaster

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Srila Prabhupada Vani

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Another American disciple joined Prabhupada -- Ramanuja, from Haight-Ashbury. He had been initiated just before Swamiji had left San Francisco, and he sported a full black beard. Prabhupada didn't like the beard. Cautiously and indirectly he mentioned it: but Ramanuja's beard stayed. Ramanuja carried a book about Tibetan Buddhism, and he didn't seem fixed in Krsna consciousness philosophy. But here he was, one of the loo
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Srila Prabhupada Vani

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

How are we becoming contaminated? : There are three modes of material nature: sattva-guṇa, rajo-guṇa, tamo-guṇa; goodness, passion and ignorance. And we are, according to the association... Just like here we can see, somebody cannot live without smoking. It is practical. But none of our devotees smoke. So it is possible. Because a devotee is associating with the devotees, therefore he is acquiring the quality by as
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