इस छ्ठे श्लोक को श्री शंकराचार्य ने तब कहा जब उस व्यक्ति ने उनसे पूछा, "अच्छा स्वजनों के बारे में आप शायद ठीक कह रहे हों। पर मेरी पत्नी मुझपर जो प्रेम प्रदर्शित करती है, वह कभी झूठा नहीं हो सकता} शरीरों के पृथक होने पर भी हम-दोनों एक हीं प्राणी के समान हैं। वह मेरे शरीर के छोटे-से-छोटे अंग को भी अपना हीं समझती है। ऐसी मेरी पत्नी जब मेरे पास बैठी है, तब क्या मेरे इस जीवन में कोई सार नहीं है?" श्री शंकर ने तब उत्तर दिया:

मूल:
यावत् पवनो निवसति देहे, तावत् पृच्छति कुशलं गेहे।
गतवति वायो देहापाये, भार्

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

No gambling

In Krishna consciousness, you're trying to purify your mind--to make it clear and steady for spiritual realization. But gambling makes the mind cloudy. It agitates the mind. You start thinking: What are my chances? How much could I walk off with? What could I do with my winnings? Even if you just play for the sake of playing, gambling pulls the mind away from thinking about the real purpose of life.

 

No intoxi

Lecture on What Happens After Death by Jayapataka Swami

(Jayapataka Swami continues to contribute to Mayapur’s development as the International Headquarters of ISKCON by serving as a co-director. His service in Mayapur includes: Mayapur Development Committee member, Exhibits and Theme park Department Head of TOVP, and promotion of Sri Mayapur worldwide.)

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Lecture on How to Cultivate Humility and Gratitude by Kesava Bharati Das Goswami on 04 Dec 2011 at ISKCON London

(Kesava Bharati Das Goswami met his spiritual master, His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, the Founder of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) in 1972.)

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Lecture on Culture by Bhakti Marg Swami on 17 Apr 2011 at ISKCON Mauritius

(Bhakti Marga Swami served ISKCON as Bhakta Leader, Sankirtan Leader, Director of devotional plays, and from 1985-1995 he was the temple president in Toronto, where he took his vows of sannyasa in 1984.)

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Lecture on How to Become Intelligent by Bhakti Caitanya Swami

(Bhakti Caitanya Swami initially served in the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust and also distributed Srila Prabhupada’s books from 1973 until 1980.)

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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Srila Guru Maharaj: This stage of feeling relaxed while doing japa is first stage of advancement. Because it means you are feeling very peaceful! Ha….. Snore…. Ha! Ha! Of course we would like to rise above that stage! To the stage when we feel very enthusiastic. I don’t know if you are getting enough sleep in the night. It is important to sleep 6 or 7 hours usually but some people don’t. But Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Tha

TEXT 16

kim karma kim akarmeti
kavayo 'py atra mohitah
tat te karma pravaksyami
yaj jnatva moksyase 'subhat

SYNONYMS

kim--what is; karma--action; kim--what is; akarma--inaction; iti--thus; kavayah--the intelligent; api--also; atra--in this matter; mohitah--bewildered; tat--that; te--unto you; karma--work; pravaksyami--I shall explain; yat--which; jnatva--knowing; moksyase--be liberated; asubhat--from ill fortune.

TRANSLATION

Even the intelligent are bewildered in determining what is action and what

So that is our real business. This requires little intelligence, that "We are eternal. Why we are put into this process of taking birth and death?" Krsna also says, "This is the real misery of life -- janma-mrtyu-jara-vyadhi-duhkha-dosanudarsanam [Bg. 13.9]." They are trying, the so-called scientists, trying to increase... If the scientists sees that a man was to die immediately -- now he has lived one hour more -- he thinks that his science is successful. That is their foolishness. If you live

कहा जाता है कि "भज गोविन्दं स्त्रोत्र" के रचना की प्रेरणा, एक व्यक्ति के कई सारे प्रश्नों को सुनने के बाद, श्री शंकराचार्य को मिली। इस पाँचवें श्लोक की प्रेरणा उस व्यक्ति के कुछ इस प्रकार से प्रश्न करने पर कि, "आपके अनुसार संसार में दुःख-ही-दुःख है, किन्तु सभी वस्तुओं को कष्टदायक बताकर - इस शरीर को व्याधि-मन्दिर बताकर - आप मेरे जीवन के सुख को क्यों नष्ट करते है? मेरे स्वजनों को हीं लीजिए। वे मुझ पर कितना सारा प्रेम जताते हैं। इससे मुझे कितना आनन्द मिलता है। क्या यह सब मुझे सुखी करने के लिए काफ़ी

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

H.H. Jayapataka Swami has launched a new campaign called “Happy to be a Bhakti Yogi”. The design was chosen by him and he is humbly asking all of us to promote it. Please help make this a successful campaign. Join us and accept the challenge!

We have t-shirts in two colors: black and white.

White t-shirts are in three sizes: small, medium and large

Black t-shirts are in two sizes: medium and large

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TEXT 15

evam jnatva krtam karma
purvair api mumuksubhih
kuru karmaiva tasmat tvam
purvaih purvataram krtam

SYNONYMS

evam--thus; jnatva--knowing well; krtam--performed; karma--work; purvaih--by past authorities; api--although; mumuksubhih--who attained liberation; kuru--just perform; karma--prescribed duty; eva--certainly; tasmat--therefore; tvam--you; purvaih--by the predecessors; purva-taram--ancient predecessors; krtam--as performed.

TRANSLATION

All the liberated souls in ancient times acted with

The same thing happened to Brahma. Because he had to create this whole universe -- so many planets, so many demigods, so many human societies, so many, so many... There is no limit. He is the creator of everything. He's called, therefore, "great-grandfather," prapitamaha [Bg. 11.39]. No, pitamaha. Prapitamaha is Krsna, great-grandfather, because He instructed Brahma. So the same thing: He can instruct you also. What is that instruction? Yena mam upayanti te. The instruction means how you can go

मूल:
नलिनीदलगतसलिलं तरलं, तद्वज्जीवितमतिशयचपलम्।
विद्धि व्याध्यभिमानग्रस्तं, लोकं शोकहतं च समस्तम्॥
भज गोविन्दं भज गोविन्दं भज गोविन्दं मूढ़मते।

हिन्दी:
जीवन यह अत्यन्त चपल है, नलिनी-दल-जल-तुल्य तरल है।
दुःख-व्याधि-अभिमान-संकुलित, शोक-निहत यह लोक सकल है॥
भज गोविन्दं भज गोविन्दं गोविन्दं भज मूढ़मते।

पहले पांडित्य-मोह, फ़िर वित्त-मोह, उसके बाद स्त्री-मोह - इन तीनों का खण्डन करके इस चौथे श्लोक में श्री शंकराचार्य बताते हैं कि मनुष्य का सांसारिक जीवन किस प्रकार होता है।

वह कहते हैं कि मनुष्य का जीवन उसी प्रकार

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I was distributing on one of the longest shopping streets known to me in Europe, in Stockholm. This time of the year many tourists are expected. I'd hoped to meet some Germans as I drove through Stockholm with a little stock of German books, but it seems that they all vanished from Stockholm.

Nevertheless, after just a few minutes, I met a girl who was obviously enchanted by Indian culture. She was carrying a hare-nama chaddar and had Sanskrit prints on her hands. She wasn't at all the hippie t