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Three kinds of happinesses, bhoga, tyaga, and bhakti, seva. Bhoga tyaga seva. The karmis, they are after bhoga, sense enjoyment. And the jnanis, they are after another side of negation of sense enjoyment. When one is fed up with sense enjoyment... Just like in your country, the young boys, they are practically fed up with the way of sense enjoyment as their fathers and grandfathers had done. So in the name of tyaga, renunciation, they have taken another kind of sense enjoyment -- intoxication, u

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When Guru Maharaj stayed with us last month he left a packet behind, it was already opened and when I took it out,  it had neem twigs. I reminded him of the packet after 2 days and he said he deliberately left them as  they were too hard for his gums. With a strange bit of coincidence I had received a mail mentioning Srila Prabhupada asking one of the devotees to get his some twigs from a tree during one of his pastimes in USA and spoke about using twigs from eucalyptus, mango and e

Lecture on Crossing the Ocean of Nescience by HH Giriraj Swami on 30 Aug 2013 at Silicon Valley

(In 1972 Giriraj was appointed by Prabhupada to be president of ISKCON Bombay and trustee of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust. Since then, he has made many significant contributions to Srila Prabhupada’s mission, most notably overseeing all aspects of the development of Hare Krishna Land in Juhu, Bombay.)

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Seminar on The Preface to the Nectar of Instruction by HH Bhakti Vikasa Swami

(From 1977 to 1979 His Holiness was based in India, mostly traveling in West Bengal preaching Krishna consciousness and distributing Srila Prabhupada's books.

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Once a sadhu was sitting on the bank of a river. He had just finished taking his meals and he wanted to have a tiny nap. Just as he was about to doze off, he saw a washerman walking down the bank, in his direction leading two donkeys loaded with dirty clothes. The sadhu thought, "Oh, I hope he doesn't come here. I am in no mood for small talk.. and he must smell awful. All those dirty clothes, those dirty donkeys." But t

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TEXT 15

yunjann evam sadatmanam
yogi niyata-manasah
santim nirvana-paramam
mat-samstham adhigacchati

SYNONYMS

yunjan--practicing like this; evam--as mentioned above; sada--constantly; atmanam--body, mind and soul; yogi--the mystic transcendentalist; niyata-manasah--regulated mind; santim--peace; nirvana-paramam--cessation of material existence; mat-samstham--in the spiritual sky (the kingdom of God); adhigacchati--does attain.

TRANSLATION

Thus practicing control of the body, mind and activities, th

So this world, however faithfully you give service, it will be never recognized -- because it is hallucination, illusion. You are serving your senses. You are not serving any person. You are serving your senses. So when one comes to this position, he understands that "I am actually servant, but I am posing myself falsely as master." That is real sense. Then whose servant I am? I am Krsna's servant. Therefore Krsna comes and demands: sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66]. We

In the name of secularism, it has been very difficult to approach colleges and have direct KC programs. Also college students today are not all interested in spirituality due to wrong association and a loss of culture in modern indian families. On top of that the media adds to the atheism by producing films like OMG (Oh My God), which spread lot of misconceptions of God in a heroic way. So one of our preaching activities is to counter / clarify the misconceptions in ways which are interesting a

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With spiritual association our lives improve and we change the lives of others. We can associate with the more advanced, equally advanced or less advanced but spiritual association is a must. We live in an environment where everyone is trying to make us forget God.  But Krsna consciousness teaches you a science, the science of bhakti-yoga where you engage in devotional service to the Lord. To get this spiritual associat

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All of you have been practicing Krsna consciousness for long time therefore you should develop determination to make spiritual advancement.  Just like if we have fever for long time and fever does not go down, we get worried. Similarly, we should not just hang in spiritually but our goal should be to make spiritual advancement. Spiritual advancement means getting attached to holy name, to the philosophy, to serve and to

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When you want a disease to be cured, you don’t catch any man on the street and ask him to operate on you. You have to make sure he is a properly qualified doctor. Similarly, you should reveal your mind to those who are more advanced – Guru or Sadhu. But reveal your mind with an intention to follow their instructions else it is similar to going to a doctor and avoid taking the prescribed medicine. Revealing the mind has a

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A study of three hundred highly successful people, people like Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Helen Keller, Winston Churchill, Albert Schweitzer, Mahatma Gandhi, and Albert Einstein, reveals that one-fourth had handicaps, such as blindness, deafness, or crippled limbs. Three-fourths had either been born in poverty, came from broken homes, or at least came from exceedingly tense or disturbed situations.

Why did the achievers o

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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

Once an aborigine met with a serious road accident and he had taken to a nearby city hospital. All the members of the aborigine community also came along with the patient as they were first time coming in a city hospital. The doctor took the patient to the operation theater as immediate operations need to perform. As the condition was serious the operation was taking lot of time and it increasing the worries of the patient’s family members. So the son of the patient couldn’t wait till the comple

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Here are some nectar notes and verses on the Holy Name...if read...your chanting will never be the same

Here is the essence of the entire Śrīmad Bhāgavatam, devotional service to the Lord Sri Kṛṣṇa. One should chant the Holy Name, and by what ever means listen to the katha of God and the Holy Name will come into the heart.

SB12.13.23

nāma-saṅkīrtanaṁ yasya sarva-pāpa praṇāśanam
praṇāmo duḥkha-śamanas taṁ namāmi hariṁ param

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Also in 12.12.46-50, especially verse 46 confirms th

TEXT 13-14

samam kaya-siro-grivam
dharayann acalam sthirah
sampreksya nasikagram svam
disas canavalokayan

prasantatma vigata-bhir
brahmacari-vrate sthitah
manah samyamya mac-citto
yukta asita mat-parah

SYNONYMS

samam--straight; kaya-sirah--body and head; grivam--neck; dharayan--holding; acalam--unmoved; sthirah--still; sampreksya--looking; nasika--nose; agram--tip; svam--own; disah--all sides; ca--also; anavalokayan--not seeing; prasanta--unagitated; atma--mind; vigata-bhih--devoid of fear; brahmac

Srimati Radharani is the Supreme Goddess. She is most always seen with Lord Krishna. It is described that She is the Chief Associate and devotee of Lord Krishna, and topmost of all Goddesses. Her name means the She is the most excellent worshiper of Lord Krishna.

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