TEXT 5

na hi kascit ksanam api
jatu tisthaty akarma-krt
karyate hy avasah karma
sarvah prakrti-jair gunaih

SYNONYMS

na--nor; hi--certainly; kascit--anyone; ksanam--even a moment; api--also; jatu--even; tisthati--stands; akarma-krt--without doing something; karyate--forced to work; hi--certainly; avasah--helplessly; karma--work; sarvah--everything; prakrti-jaih--out of the modes of material nature; gunaih--by the qualities.

TRANSLATION

All men are forced to act helplessly according to the impulses b

Krsna consciousness movement is therefore giving them knowledge. The first knowledge is that we are trying to convince everyone, following the footprints of Lord Krsna, as He wanted to convince in the very beginning, that dehino 'smin yatha dehe kaumaram yauvanam jara [Bg. 2.13]. This is the first knowledge. One should know that he is not this body. He is spirit soul, different from this body. He is living within this body. This is called knowledge. And at the same time, he should be supplied th

- By Kadamba Kanana Swami, 30 June 2012, Cape Town, South Africa

I saw a mathematician, Stephan Unwin, who wrote a book. He was a professional consultant for insurance companies and a big name in that world. His business was risk calculation. In his whole life, he did nothing else but mathematical chance calculations. So he wrote a book where he did a chance calculation about the existence of God or not, and he came to a 69% for the existence. It’s a high percentage so there is something.

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- By Kadamba Kanana Swami, 13 September 2012, Pretoria, South Africa, Caitanya Caritamrta 12.120

There are so many yoga philosophies around that also came from India and part of that philosophy is impersonalism - to think that the living being can become God. This is widely spread. I was in New York and I met God. He was sitting on a park bench. He was old, one tooth was missing, but he revealed it to me. He told me, "I am God."

So I said, "Oh! This is wonderful. After all these years I never t

Krishna’s Intelligence

This occurred in town of Dapoli in Maharashtra. Our group,consisting of sixteen devotees were engaged in Harinaam sankirtan and book distribution in an evening, .

I went to one person who was a car mechanic. He was at that time wearing his work attire and was repairing a car. I asked him to look at the Bhagavad Gita and the guy showed his dirty hands and said he can’t touch Bhagavad Gita.

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Please accept our humble obeisances. All Glories to Srila Prabhupada. On eve of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura's Appearance day, we have released a new website - www.harekrishnajapa.com. Please visit and discover lot of nectar about japa - the foremost important component of bhakti yoga.

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ISKCON desire tree

Dear Prabhu Jees and Maatha Jees,

Hare Krishna ! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Sri Guru and Gauranga. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to all the Vaishnavas.

My profound gratitude to you all for your precious prayers for the departing Vaishnavi – HG Narayani Priya Devi Dasi Maathaa jee – mother of Pallavi.

Today, our dear Radha and Krishna have blessed HG Narayani Priya Devi Dasi Maathaa Jee with a glorious departure from this world. She has left the body tod

Krishna says in Bhagavad-gita, "I am adventure." If we go out and preach -you read in Caitanya-caritamrta Haridas Thakura, Lord Nityananda, Advaita Acarya - all the adventures they would have. We will be a few minutes over time. We used to go out in Detroit. We had a map of the city of Detroit and the idea was to knock on every door in the city of Detroit. They have been working on it for six to seven years. We had a map and we were working our way through. Has anyone been to Detroit? The joke

Rupa Sanatana Prabhu at Bhaktivedanta Hospice in Vrindavan

by HH Giriraj Swami
Yesterdayat 7:45 p.m. Rupa Sanatana dasa, a disciple of Romapada Swami and a former temple president of ISKCON St. Louis, left his body at Bhaktivedanta Hospice in Vrindavan, surrounded by devotees chanting Lord Krishna’s holy names. The kirtana, which was being led by Panchagauda Prabhu, had been going on for several hours.

Two weeks ago, Rupa Sanatana came to the hospice with advanced, terminal cancer. Romapada Sw

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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

There are certain cause-and-effect relationships in life. If you jump off a fifty-story building, for example, you’re not going to live. If you put your hand on a burning stove, it’s going to hurt. If you put a giant cork at the bottom of a lake, it’s going to rise to the surface. These are laws of nature.

Most of us, treat every day events – traffic, hard work, conflict, mistakes, being criticized, and so forth – with a

Therefore our Krsna consciousness movement is just to teach people how to become Krsna conscious, surrender unto Him. Then they will be happy. This is the way of Krsna consciousness movement. We want to create some ideal men. People will see them, and at least they will understand that "Here are the ideal men." They will be ashamed. So those who are in Krsna consciousness movement, they should be sreyan-yad yad acarati sreyan -- the best men in the society. Otherwise useless.

By H.D.G. Srila Pra

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On the Auspicious day of Nityananda Trayodasi - Sri Sri Gaur Nitai, Sri Sri Radha Vrindavan Chander, Sri Sri Jaganath Baladev, Subhadra Devi & Sri Balaji installation and grand inauguration of new Vedic cultural center (ISKCON Pune NVCC) took place in presence of His Highness President of India Sri Pranab Mukherjee. More than 40000 devotees participated from all over the world & 2

ISKCON devotees established a large camp at the Maha Kumbha Mela in Prayag (Allahabad) from January 14th to February 15th, bringing kirtan, prasadam and Srila Prabhupada’s books to the largest religious gathering in the world.

ISKCON devotees first attended the Ardha Kumbha Mela which occurs every six years as opposed to every twelve like the Maha Kumbha Mela in 1971, along with Srila Prabhupada. At the gathering, which like this year’s was also in Allahabad, they set up one brightly colored pa

Dated: 3rd Sept, 2008 S.B 7.15.25

This morning we read from Srimad Bhagvatam canto 7, chapter 15 , text no. 25 translation and purport by Srila Prabhupada, Srila Prabhupada ki ……………jai   

“rajas tamas ca sattvena rajas tamas ca sattvena  sattvam copasamena ca

etat sarvam gurau bhaktya puruso hy anjasa jayet”

TRANSLATION:  One must conquer the modes of passion and ignorance by developing the mode of goodness, and then one must become detached from the mode of goodness by promoting oneself to the plat

TEXT 4

na karmanam anarambhan
naiskarmyam puruso 'snute
na ca sannyasanad eva
siddhim samadhigacchati

SYNONYMS

na--without; karmanam--of the prescribed duties; anarambhat--nonperformance; naiskarmyam--freedom from reaction; purusah--man; asnute--achieve; na--nor; ca--also; sannyasanat--by renunciation; eva--simply; siddhim--success; samadhigacchati--attain.

TRANSLATION

Not by merely abstaining from work can one achieve freedom from reaction, nor by renunciation alone can one attain perfection.

PURP

Because it takes us away from the real world! We may disagree with this harsh reality but the fact on which every one of us will agree is that none of us are fully satisfied with our present life. Movies take us to the fantasy world, where we instantly identify ourselves with the hero. Movies help us to achieve all those things which we were never able to accomplish in our real life. There we sing, we dance, we romance, we fight and we perform several extraordinary deeds. There we are glorified,

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada