Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

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

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Krishna Vasanta Rasa Lila in English

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Hindi Lecture on Appearance Day of Vamsivadana Thakur

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English Lecture on Krishna Vasanta Rasa Lila

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Hindi Lecture on Krishna Vasanta Rasa Lila

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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

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

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

We are being crushed by the wheel of time with sixteen spokes. We are being crushed. At the same time, we are thinking that we are very happy. This is called maya. This is maya's grace, that in any condition of life, the suffering is very, very acute, but the living entity who is suffering, he thinks, "I am enjoying." This is called maya. So those who have taken to Krsna consciousness preaching work, they should always know that things are not going to happen so easily. Maya is very, very strong

I was distributing in Auckland with a few Bhagavad Gita's, after an hour or so I ran out, we still had some SB 1.1.s, but I was lamenting a little because I'm pretty attached to Bhagavad Gita's. Bhakta Luke and myself went up to a door, a man answered, I told him we're monks, going around distributing these wonderful books about self realization and how to be satisfied and peaceful in life. He said he wasn't interested in taking a book but would like to give us a book. I said, alright, thinking

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada