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We are all sadhus, actually, originally, because we are part and parcel of Krsna, but in contact with maya, we have become asadhu. Sadhu means who are pure devotees. Bhajate mam ananya-bhak. That is sadhu. Otherwise there is no sadhu. The so-called sadhu, they are not sadhu. Sadhu means bhajate mam ananya-bhak. Sadhur eva sa mantavyah, bhajate mam ananya-bhak [Bg. 9.30]. So by chanting this Hare Krsna mantra, even the lowest of the mankind, naradhama, he can become a sadhu.

By H.D.G.Srila Prabhu

Hare Krishna -
 
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Krishna and to all of his pure devotees and aspiring devotees.
 
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“The jiva who is bewildered by mäyä is first compelled to adopt the path of karma; then he must adopt karma-yoga, followed by jnana-yoga, and finally bhakti-yoga. However, if he is not shown that all these are but different steps on the one staircase, the conditioned jiva cannot ascend to the temple of bhakti.

“What does it mean to adopt the path of karma? Kar

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Conversations with HDG A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

One gentleman collected a dried up outer cover of a big squash thrown on the street, a bamboo stick and a wire. He combined all the three things and prepared a string instrument. He joined the bamboo with the dry cover of squash and fitted the string and it began to ting, ting, ting. It is called ektara. There is an instrument in India, which is called ektara. Th

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Conversations with HDG A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

One gentleman collected a dried up outer cover of a big squash thrown on the street, a bamboo stick and a wire. He combined all the three things and prepared a string instrument. He joined the bamboo with the dry cover of squash and fitted the string and it began to ting, ting, ting. It is called ektara. There is an instrument in India, which is called ektara. Th

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Krishna (r) with Balarama

It is a completely mistaken idea that one can worship Krishna in any form or in any way and still attain the ultimate result of receiving the favor of the Lord. This is a decision made by gross materialists. Generally such men say that you can manufacture your own way of worshiping the Supreme Lord and that any type of worship is sufficient

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

Be grateful .......................Nectarean Mellows

The great Vaishnavas, whether there is danger or not, they are always in this mood of not demanding from Krishna but just pleading to Krishna - how can I serve you, how can I please you, I’m all yours; and in dealing with other devotees in that mood too. That is a great Vaishnava. Neophyte devotees, they require very serious tragedies to wake them up, but we should cultivate ‘taking Krishna’s ble

Seminar on How to make Advancement in Krsna Consciousness by HH Bhakti Vikas Swami

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Master is one, Krsna. There cannot be two masters. The master can expand Himself as masters. That is another thing. The master is one. Advaitam acyutam anadim ananta-rupam [Bs. 5.33]. Ananta-rupam. The master can expand Himself in many, many thousands and millions of forms, but they are advaita. They are not different. So there are different types of expansion of Krsna. They are called vibhinnamsa, svamsa. Krsna expands Himself svamsa. That is Visnu-tattva. That is advaitam acyutam anadim ananta

A few days after our Holy Name Retreat at Ekachakra Dham we embarked on our three-weeks' course "Exploring The Roots Of Spiritual Culture" for ladies.

Quite a few matajis who had been participating in the retreat decided to attend the course. They had received some nourishment and inspiration and were open and eager for more......

We had turned my place at the Mayapur Goshala into a class room - I had bought six chairs to be placed along the sides of the room, we had purchased sitting mats for

Every society that thinks about sustainability will agree to the fact that continuity has a lot more to cover than just Eco-culture, recycling, administration etc.

It is in this light that we have dedicated a wing of our administration to actually ‘energize’ a vital factor to the sustenance of our movement ‘The youth’.

More so, to keep the youth abreast of developments geared at them we have decided to bring to light some salient issues we discoursed with Manorama Prabhu in an interview.

We have

On the 4^th of February, in 1976, Srila Prabhupada sent a letter to Sravanananda and Bhava Bhuti prabhu expressing his desire to have a temple in Madras. He said, “In Madras we have to construct a very gorgeous temple…... Now immediately find out some land and begin the construction. Never mind what the cost will be. We are not concerned with the amount of money, but we want a very attractive temple.”

Years later, devotees built the “gorgeous” temple Srila Prabhupada wanted and as a result thousan

TEXT 29

prakrter guna-sammudhah
sajjante guna-karmasu
tan akrtsna-vido mandan
krtsna-vin na vicalayet

SYNONYMS

prakrteh--impelled by the material modes; guna-sammudhah--befooled by material identification; sajjante--become engaged; guna-karmasu--in material activities; tan--all those; akrtsna-vidah--persons with a poor fund of knowledge; mandan--lazy to understand self-realization; krtsna-vit--one who is in factual knowledge; na--may not; vicalayet--try to agitate.

TRANSLATION

Bewildered by the mod

Navina Nirada Dasa

IN TODAY'S MATERIALISTIC world, to interest people in Krsna consciousness is difficult. Devotees who perform the spiritual service of offering others books about Krsna often meet with rejection and indifference. When a guest once asked Srila Prabhupada how his disciples dealt with such negativity, he replied that they were not fickle; they could persevere because they understood the ultimate value of their work.

Fortunately, devotees often see the results of their work, such a

Hindi  Lecture on Address to Brahmacharies by His Holiness Prabodhananda Sarasvati Swami at ISKCON Vrindavan on 11th April 2013

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“Realizing that we are not suspended in the uncertainty of uncaring chance, but are enveloped in the certainty of unfailing love is life’s greatest discovery”: Chaitanya Charan Das reminds us in his newly published book The Gita for Daily Enrichment. The book has been released recently.

365 short and crispy articles adorn the book. An article a day for 365 days for a reader to meditate upon. Several meditational books flood the market but this is the first book which offers thought for daily medi

Famed cricketer Gautam Gambhir who is presently the captain of Kolkata Knight Riders (KKR) visited Iskcon Kolkata temple today (12th April 2013) with his teammates. They enjoyed vegetarian food at the famous Govindas restaurant. Gautam Gambhir also met with Iskcon monks, took darshan of the deities of Radha – Govinda and also received “Krishna” book (book about Lord Krishna). He experienced spiritual bliss and inner peace.

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TEXT 28

tattva-vit tu maha-baho
guna-karma-vibhagayoh
guna gunesu vartanta
iti matva na sajjate

SYNONYMS

tattva-vit--the knower of the Absolute Truth; tu--but; maha-baho--O mighty-armed one; guna-karma--works under material influence; vibhagayoh--differences; gunah--senses; gunesu--in sense gratification; vartante--being engaged; iti--thus; matva--thinking; na--never; sajjate--becomes attached.

TRANSLATION

One who is in knowledge of the Absolute Truth, O mighty-armed, does not engage himself in the

In pre-glasnost days a veteran book distributor 
finds a way to get Bhagavad-gita As It Is to the Russians.

After going through immigration at the Agosto de Sandino Aeropuerto at Managua. I stood in line to purchase $60 worth of cordovas (the local currency), which is required for anyone entering the city. Having been told, inaccurately, that everything is inexpensive in Nicaragua, I had brought only $200 in cash with me.

More important, I had two hundred copies of the Russian translation ofB