Grihastha Ashram: The mood, life and direction.
The Supreme Lord Himself established the Varnashram system so as to maintain a balance in the human society and enable us to cultivate higher consciousness, irrespective of which social and/or spiritual order we find ourselves. Amongst the four ashrams most of us would readily agree that the Grihastha Ashram (house holder) has a lot of responsibilities attached and thus taking up this ashram must be a well-planned, organized and spiritually guid
TEXT 36
arjuna uvaca
atha kena prayukto 'yam
papam carati purusah
anicchann api varsneya
balad iva niyojitah
SYNONYMS
arjunah uvaca--Arjuna said; atha--hereafter; kena--by what; prayuktah--impelled; ayam--one; papam--sins; carati--acts; purusah--a man; anicchan--without desiring; api--although; varsneya--O descendant of Vrsni; balat--by force; iva--as if; niyojitah--engaged.
TRANSLATION
Arjuna said: O descendant of Vrsni, by what is one impelled to sinful acts, even unwillingly, as if engaged by fo
Don't Be Complacent !!!
It is very important that we tune our intelligence to the good fortune that we have received & never take it for granted , That is why it is important to associate with people who truly understand the value of the gift we have received and hearing from them .
When we read srila prabhupada books , when we come to the classes of devotees ,when we listen to tapes , we should actually have this intent ,not just to hear as entertainment but to understand , I desperately need to
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Boston – May 5, 1968
The Krsna consciousness movement
teaches a science missing from the classrooms
of even the world's best universities.
om ajnana-timirandhasya
jnananjana-salakaya
caksur unmilitam yena
tasmai sri-gurave namah
"I offer my respectful obeisances unto my spiritual master, who with the torchlight of knowledge has opened
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Los Angeles August 23, 1972
To understand God one must first come to the enlivened state of
liberation, free from the influence of the material modes of nature.
evam prasanna-manaso
bhagavad-bhakti-yogatah
bhagavat-tattva-vijnanam
mukta-sangasya jayate
"Thus established in the mode of unalloyed goodness, the man whose mind has been enlivened by contact with devotional ser
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Johannesburg October 15, 1975
Why wait to accept the key for leaving this place of repeated birth and death?
yaya sammohito jiva
atmanam tri-gunatmakam
paro 'pi manute 'nartham
tat-krtam cabhipadyate
"Due to this external energy, the living entity, although transcendental to the three modes of material nature, thinks of himself as a material product and thus undergoes the
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Mumbai, India October 22, 1973
Although we occupy the body, we should acknowledge that it belongs to someone else.
upadrastanumanta ca
bharta bhokta mahesvarah
paramatmeti capy ukto
dehe 'smin purusah parah
"Yet in this body there is another, a transcendental enjoyer, who is the Lord, the supreme proprietor, who exists as the overseer and permitter, and who is known as
The Supreme Lord Himself established the Varnashram system so as to maintain a balance in the human society and enable us to cultivate higher consciousness, irrespective of which social and/or spiritual order we find ourselves. Amongst the four ashrams most of us would readily agree that the Grihastha Ashram (house holder) has a lot of responsibilities attached and thus taking up this ashram must be a well-planned, organized and spiritually guided action. The Grihastha Ashram is meant to support
TEXT 35
sreyan sva-dharmo vigunah
para-dharmat svanusthitat
sva-dharme nidhanam sreyah
para-dharmo bhayavahah
SYNONYMS
sreyan--far better; sva-dharmah--one's prescribed duties; vigunah--even faulty; para-dharmat--from duties mentioned for others; svanusthitat--than perfectly done; sva-dharme--in one's prescribed duties; nidhanam--destruction; sreyah--better; para-dharmah--duties prescribed for others; bhaya-avahah--dangerous.
TRANSLATION
It is far better to discharge one's prescribed duties, even t
Appearance Day of Vamsivadana Thakur in Hindi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ez7ypo4cBKc
Krishna Vasanta Rasa Lila in English
Hindi Lecture on Appearance Day of Vamsivadana Thakur
English Lecture on Krishna Vasanta Rasa Lila
Hindi Lecture on Krishna Vasanta Rasa Lila
http://www.iskcondesiretree.net/video/hindi-lecture-on-krishna-vasanta-rasa-lila-by-hg-vishwarup-das
Seminar on Raising children in Krishna Consciousness by HH Suhotra Swami
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 05)
(His Holiness Suhotra Swami Maharaja traveled throughout the world from 1988 till 1991, visiting many Asian and Australasian countries. At this time he became a member of ISKCON's Governing Body Commission for next 11 years. )
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Seminar on What the British did to India by HH Sivarama Swami
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 05)
(His Holiness Sivarama Swami Maharaja was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1949. In 1956, during the failed Hungarian revolution, he emigrated with his family to Canada. Sivarama Swami first came in contact with the books of A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1970, becoming an initiated disciple of Prabhupada in 1973. Six years later he was awarded the order of sannyasa.)
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Kirtan Retreat Lectures with Russian Translation by HH Trivikrama Swami
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 05)
(His Holiness His Holiness Trivikrama Swami, was born in 1941, he was initiated by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in 1969 and given sannyas initiation in 1971.)
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Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Today I shall speak to you about the glorification of the holy name of God. This was discussed between Maharaja Pariksit and Sukadeva Gosvami in connection with a brahmana who was very fallen and addicted to all kinds of sinful activities but was saved simply by chanting the holy name. This is found in the Sixth Canto of Srimad-Bhagavatam.
The universal planetar
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
If one protects the tender creeper of devotional service nicely, then gradually it will produce the fruit of unalloyed love for God. Unalloyed love for God means love that is not tinged by desire for material benefit, for mere philosophical understanding, nor for fruitive results. Unalloyed love is to know, "God is great, I am His part and parcel, and therefore
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
“Don’t go there” is an expression that essentially means you know that if you continue on a certain path or thinking in a certain way, arguing, and inquiring, discussing – behaving, or whatever – it’s going to lead to a predictable, negative result, guaranteed. So, very simply, don’t do it! Stop. Don’t continue.
For example, you might be asking someone at work a series of personal questions and notice that he is increasin
On 21st April 2013 The ISKCON temple at Delhi celebrated a gorgeous boat festival. The festival started at 6pm till 8.30pm.
Attendence of Sannyasis :
HH Gopal Krishna Goswami, HH Radha raman Swami, HH Bhakti Basudev Swami, HH Bhakti Rasamrit Swami.
Significance of boat festival :
The boat festival marks the symbolic event occurred between Radha and Krishna before 5000 years at Rajghat in River Yamuna. The Gopis often carried the milk products from Vrindavana and sold at Mathura to earn thei
ISKCON Durban’s Festival of Chariots (Rathayatra) held at North Beach on the vacation of Easter weekend. It was silver jubilee year of ISKCON Durban RathYatra. The festival’s motto was “Culturally many - spiritually one”.
An amazing experience, seeing this festival is the biggest of its kind outside India, attracting over 2,00,000 during a four-days period from 29th March to 1st April.
The event was colorful procession of Rathayatra, where more than two hundred thousand plates of food for li
TEXT 34
indriyasyendriyasyarthe
raga-dvesau vyavasthitau
tayor na vasam agacchet
tau hy asya paripanthinau
SYNONYMS
indriyasya--of the senses; indriyasya arthe--in the sense objects; raga--attachment; dvesau--also detachment; vyavasthitau--put under regulations; tayoh--of them; na--never; vasam--control; agacchet--one should come; tau--those; hi--certainly; asya--his; paripanthinau--stumbling blocks.
TRANSLATION
Attraction and repulsion for sense objects are felt by embodied beings, but one should
