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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

At the Friday-night harinam in Auckland, I was lurking around the peripheries of the devotees and talking to passersby. I saw a respectable-looking Maori woman sitting on the steps of Aotea Square watching the harinam. I felt a bit intimidated to talk to her, as she held herself with gravity and had a look on her face which I grossly mistook to be fear or at the least distaste. I approached her anyway, and in response to my attempts at small talk, she reached into her handbag and pulled out “J

TEXT 19

yasya sarve samarambhah
kama-sankalpa-varjitah
jnanagni-dagdha-karmanam
tam ahuh panditam budhah

SYNONYMS

yasya--one whose; sarve--all sorts of; samarambhah--in all attempts; kama--desire for sense gratification; sankalpa--determination; varjitah--are devoid of; jnana--of perfect knowledge; agni--fire; dagdha--being burnt by; karmanam--the performer; tam--him; ahuh--declare; panditam--learned; budhah--of those who know.

TRANSLATION

One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every act i

We should not approach the Supreme Being some material benefit. Material benefit is already there. Everything is arranged by the Supreme Lord for everyone's necessities of life. There is no question about that. Just like if a person is in the prison house, that prisoner has no problem for his material necessities. The government has arranged already for his eating, sleeping and, if he is sick, medical help. That is not problem. The problem is that he has become criminal by transgressing the laws

Lecture on God and Google Human Relationships in the internet age by Radhika Raman Prabhu on Nov 2010 at Towaco

(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 Understanding and dealing with Conflicts by Braja Bihari Prabhu on 20 April 2010 at Dallas

(Braja Bihari Prabhu is a disciple of HG Bhurijana Prabhu(ACBSP). He is a Conflict Resolution practitioner with he International Society for Krishna Consciousness.)

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Lecture on Art of Self Confidence by Nirantara Prabhu on 17 April 2013 at Brindavana Morrisville

(In 2005 he was awarded the prestigious "Global Excellence Award" for congregational preaching services from ISKCON.)

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Lecture on Art of Happiness by Gauranga Prabhu on 07 July 2009 at ISKCON Bangalore

(Gauranga Prabhu, disciple of H.H.Radhanath Swami Maharaja Graduated from IIT Bombay in 1993, his interest in Krishna Consciousness dawned during his college days.)

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On Monday, the 20th of May 2013, I went to mangal-aratik, as usual. I did not immediately realize that in doing so I had locked myself out of my sankirtan van, as I forgot the keys in the ignition lock. Neither did I realize that this was, in fact, Krishna’s special plan to bless an employee of the Royal Automobile Club of Queensland with two books.

Krishna says in Bhagavad-gita: “mattah smrtir jnanam apohanam ca, ..from Me comes remembrance, knowledge and forgetfulness.”

I usually carry a seco

Scriptures compare human body to a boat which should be used to cross over the ocean of material existence. Facilities given to the human bodies are like favourable breezes and scriptures and saintly people are like expert boatmen. All these help the boat to ply smoothly in the ocean of material existence.  If we are not utilizing these facilities then we are categorized as atma – ha, killer of the soul. And the killer of the soul has to live in abject misery always. So, let us not waste these p

“G u r u    m u k h a     p a d m a    v a k y a"

Knowledge of man v/s knowledge of God.......................Nectarean Mellows

When Krishna speaks - it is the absolute truth - beyond all imperfections, beyond all limitations that is revealing Himself to us and the proper way to hear Gita, with folded hands, is to approach the words of Krishna as non-different than the lotus feet of the God directly; Bhagavan means that Krishna possess all six opulences in full - Krishna posses all knowledge, all

            SB 7.9.19 Prahladha Maharaja.

        manye dhanābhijana-rūpa-tapaḥ-śrutaujas-

        tejaḥ-prabhāva-bala-pauruṣa-buddhi-yogāḥ

         nārādhanāya hi bhavanti parasya puṁso

         bhaktyā tutoṣa bhagavān gaja-yūtha-pāya

 Prahlāda Mahārāja continued: One may possess wealth, an aristocratic family, beauty, austerity, education, sensory expertise, luster, influence, physical strength, diligence, intelligence and mystic yogic power, but I think that even by all

A devotee should always act in terms of guru, sadhu, and sastra.

 With regard to a posting to my account on facebook, I found a toxic post with regard to other Vaisnavas(whom I have no relation with)  and felt impelled to at least comment in principle, to not saying anything would implicate me also. What was even more saddening was that the post had so many 'likes'. From experience many devotees innocently get caught up in actions and do not fully understand the repercussions.

Criticism is fin

मूल:
बालस्तावत् क्रीडासक्तः, तरुणस्तावत् तरुणीरक्तः।
वृद्धस्तावच्चिन्तामग्नः, पारे ब्रह्मणि कोऽपि न लग्नः॥
भज गोविन्दं भज गोविन्दं, भज गोविन्दं मूढ़मते।

हिन्दी:
खेल-कूद में बीता बचपन, रमणी-राग-रंग-रत यौवन।
शेष समय चिन्ता में डूबा, किससे हो कब ब्रह्माराधन॥
भज गोविन्दं भज गोविन्दं, गोविन्दं भज मूढ़मते।

बचपन खेल में बीत जाता है। युवास्था में मन विकारों में लीन रहता है। युवतियों के सिवाय और किसी विषय में चित्त नहीं लगता। बुढ़ापे में अपनी स्त्री और बच्चों की ही फ़िक्र लगी रहती है। सारी जिन्दगी इसी प्रकार बीती चल

Lecture on Science or Nescience by Drutakarma Prabhu

(Michael A. Cremo, also known as Drutakarma dasa was born in July 15, 1948 in the United States. In 1966 he entered the School of International Affairs at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.)

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Lecture on Simple Solution to Complex Life by Kratu Prabhu on 24 Jan 2008 at Dubai

(In 2002, he became an initiating spiritual master in ISKCON and is ever since vigorously traveling and preaching all over the world.)

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Lecture on Ordinary and Extraordinary Person by Mahatma Prabhu on 10 April 2013 at Mauritius

(He is the founder of Touchstone Training, a company that teaches the practices of devotional service through interactive seminars and worships.)

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Seminar on Transcendental Engineering by Sankarsana Das Adhikari Prabhu

(His Divine Grace Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari appeared in this world in St. Louis, Missouri, USA on 7 November 1947, the tenth day (Dasami) of the most holy month of Kartik according to the Vaisnava calendar.)

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TEXT 18

karmany akarma yah pasyed
akarmani ca karma yah
sa buddhiman manusyesu
sa yuktah krtsna-karma-krt

SYNONYMS

karmani--in action; akarma--inaction; yah--one who; pasyet--observes; akarmani--in inaction; ca--also; karma--fruitive action; yah--one who; sah--he; buddhi-man--is intelligent; manusyesu--in human society; sah--he; yuktah--in the transcendental position; krtsna-karma-krt--although engaged in all activities.

TRANSLATION

One who sees inaction in action, and action in inaction, is intell