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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krishna to all Dear Devotees.

Its my humble request that when ever we are writing Lords name it should be written  as Hare Krishna and not just hare krishna ( after all we are addressing Lord along with her energy), also due to some reason we have form the habit of writing abbreviations like HK, please try and understand we are talking about Supreme Personality of Godhead, we MUST RESPECT the letters while writing Lords name.

Please do not take it otherwise and understand the point mentioned.

Lecture on Spell Of Maya by Subhag Swami at Kolkata

(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 Temple of the Heart by Sachinanadana Swami

(Sacinandana Swami shared many of his insights in his books: "Nectarean Ocean of the Holy Name", "The Gayatri Book" and "The Way of the Great Departure".)

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Lecture on Progress and the Modern Mentality by Bhurijana Prabhu on 10 Aug 2008

(Since then he has taught both academic and ashrama courses in Gita Nagari and Vrindavana and has conducted several teacher training courses in Vrindavana.)

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Oh My God – Point-by-point response to the movie TV talk show 

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Oh My God – Point-by-point response to the movie TV talk show (Hindi)

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Seminar on "Oh My God" by Chaitanya Charan Prabhu on 21-23 June 2013 at Bhaktivedanta Hospital, Mumbai 

Day - 01 (21 June 2013)

Day - 02 (22 June 2013)

Day - 03 (23 June 2013)

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Lecture on Developing Culture of Respecting Others by Radhanath Swami on 22 May 2004 at New Vrindavan
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 06 Chapter 07 Text 33)

(Radhanath Swami became a member of the GBC in 1996, and is responsible for the following zones: Villa Vrindavana, Firenze area, Centro Studio Bhaktivedanta, Bologna area, and Venice area Italy; and in India; Chowpatty, Mumbai, and Maharastra.)

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TEXT 38

na hi jnanena sadrsam
pavitram iha vidyate
tat svayam yoga-samsiddhah
kalenatmani vindati

SYNONYMS

na--never; hi--certainly; jnanena--with knowledge; sadrsam--in comparison; pavitram--sanctified; iha--in this world; vidyate--exists; tat--that; svayam--himself; yoga--in devotion; samsiddhah--matured; kalena--in course of time; atmani--in himself; vindati--enjoys.

TRANSLATION

In this world, there is nothing so sublime and pure as transcendental knowledge. Such knowledge is the mature fruit of

So after understanding our relationship with Krsna... Every understanding has its ultimate goal. So the understanding is that we are eternally related with Krsna. Forgetting this relationship, we are now engaged in relationship with this material body, which I am not. Therefore I have to revive my activities which is directly in relationship with Krsna. And that is called to act in Krsna consciousness. And development of that Krsna consciousness will be ended in love of, full love of Krsna. When

In the Bhagavad-gita , the Lord says that bhaktya mam abhijanati. Bhaktya mam abhijanati, tattvatah, yavan yas casmi tattvatah [Bg. 18.55].

In another place the Lord says that "To understand Me, actually what I am, is very difficult." Manusyanam sahasresu kascid yatati siddhaye: [Bg. 7.3]

"Out of many millions of human beings, somebody tries to make a perfection of his life." Otherwise they are all working like cats and dogs, that's all, simply ahara-nidra-bhaya-maithunam ca. They have no other

• Maataji has given an example of God & a Magician.  Magician brings out so many beautiful things from his hat, turns ribbons into rabbits, rabbits into papers, etc.  what we see the ribbons as rabbits and rabbits as papers are not real, but since we are only seeing the rabbits, ribbons, papers, all those are visible to us.  But if we see the logic / tricks the magician is doing, then we will come to know that it is not rabbit, it is ribbon, it is not ribbon, it is paper and the like.  Similarly w

• Faith in God should be very immense, unflinching, just like a baby monkey holds its mother very tightly and even though mother monkey jumps from branches to branches of a tree, it will ensure that its baby will not fall.  Alike, if one has faith in God like a baby monkey, God will always take care of its baby, that it will never fall. And the Love of God for his devotees is like that of a Cat.  As a cat very safely catches its kitten but with the same teeth, kills the rats (demonic people).

• An a

• Maataji has very nicely explained the difference between a Gyani “Intellect” and a Bhakta “Devotee”.  If anything goes wrong, unfavorable to our expectations, a Gyani “Intellect” thinks that it is his fate, time is bad, he has done something bad either in this birth or in previous birth, therefore, he is suffering / passing through bad phase.  But a real Bhakta, a true Devotee enjoys even the pain, suffering and bad times and things, thinking that it is the mercy of Krishna that whatever bad he

• A customer goes to a shopkeeper and asks what is the price of this washing machine.  The shopkeeper replies that he doesn’t want to sell his product to this customer. The customer repeats, requests, begs, comes in different forms like in a traditional muslim lady in gurka, but all the time the shopkeeper replies that he doesn’t want to sell his product to this customer.  Frustrated with the shopkeeper, the customer finally asks, okay, you need not sell this washing machine to me but kindly tell

• Devotee was compared to a Flower and Devotees association was compared to a Garland and Thread was Compared to God.  A flower as an individual has some value and the flowers when made as a garland, has more value.  Therefore, being in the association of devotees (Garland), a flower(a devotee) gets more value.  But for a flower to get the position of Garland, Thread is required because without thread, garland cannot be made, which means, without the mercy of the Lord, one cannot get Devotees’ Ass

• Maataji has given a very beautiful simile referring to the need of the hour / emergency. When a snake comes, everyone runs here and there immediately, but no one will say, let this Bhagavad Gita class gets completed, then we will think about the snake. But when coming to Devotion, we will not give such (snake) importance to our life / devotional life. We give less importance or ignore that We have to practice 16 rounds of chanting, we have to do Ekadasi fasting, we have to attend Aaratis, we h

• A vendor was selling water packets in the train and a passenger asks how much. The vendor says one rupee.  The passenger asks whether will you give it for fifty paise….the vendor walks away without replying to the passenger.  The passenger approaches to the vendor and asks why you have walked away without replying to me.  The vendor says that you are not a potential customer and you are not thirsty.  The passenger asks how you know that you are not thirsty?  The vendor says if you are really thi

• Maatajai has given a beautiful comparison of a Drunkard & Devotion.  Some drunkards listen when we say them drinking is bad and they will stop.  Some drunkards observe other drunkards drinking and met with accidents, spoiling their health and observing them, they stop drinking.  Some drunkards keep on drinking, meet accidents, spoils their health and still continue drinking. They ignore.  Similarly DEVOTION, some (Siddhas) assimilates the devotional knowledge by listening, some by observing, som