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Another Avenue for Book Distribution – Inside our House
By Rupa Raghunatha das
In Sydney, I mainly do book distribution on the street. We are also very fortunate to have a strong team of six Devamrita Swamis bramacaris opening the storehouse of love of God on the streets of hundreds of suburbs in Sydney.
Since I took to the Grhasta asram, I have found another avenue for book distribution – inside our house. We set up a shop in the foyer with mainly books but other paraphenalia also. So we do home p
So because we have selected this para-tantrya, to be conditioned by the material nature, in any condition we are dependent, either dependent on spiritual nature or on material nature. So if we prefer to be under the control of material nature, then it is duhkhalayam asasvatam [Bg. 8.15]. And if we are under spiritual nature, then... Asango 'yam purusah. Raso vai sah, labdhanandi. Then we get blissful life, eternal blissful life. That is our selection. Either you be under spiritual nature or you
When we hear that we have to think about God 24hrs a day then we become disheartened. Most of the time, we desist from taking the very first step in devotional life because we feel that it is impossible for us to remember God at each and every moment.
Journey begins always with a first step. A huge banyan tree is just a small seed in the beginning. The seed is first sown in the ground. The gardener nurtures it daily by watering it. Slowly the seed sprouts into a sapling then it becomes a plant an
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Bhavāmbudhi means this great ocean of nescience, in which we are now fallen and very much struggling for existence. Exactly just like if you are thrown in the ocean, although you may be a very good swimmer, but still the condition is very dangerous… You will have to strug
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There is scarcity of devotees of God at the present moment. People have rejected God. Somebody is saying, “God is dead.” Somebody is accepting a rascal as God. Somebody is declaring himself as God. That is not correct.
One should try to understand God scientifically and become a devotee – a lover of God. If you do that, then your life will be successful. That is Krishna consciousness movement. It is not that “My God” or “
Kirtaniya sada hari – that is the message of Srila Prabhupada. Harinama sankirtana, akhanda-kirtana. Did lots of kirtana today.
Krsna Born In The Womb of ISKCON
His Holiness Mahanidhi Swami (lecture given on ISKCON’s 30th anniversary New Delhi 2006)
On this most auspicious day 30 years ago in New York city on lower east side Srila Prabhupada incorporated the International Society for Krsna Consciousness, popularly known as ISKCON. Somehow or other by the causeless mercy of the Lord we have all contacted this movement. By c
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Srila Prabhupada. [holding a rose in his hand]. Can any scientist create a flower like this in the laboratory?
Dr. Singh. That is not possible.
Srila Prabhupada. No, it is not. Just see how wonderfully Krishna’s energy is working! No scientist can create a flower like this in his laboratory. They cannot create even a few grains of sand, yet they claim to possess the most advanced intellects in the universe. This is foolish
Bhagavad Gita As It Is Ban Case Dismissed In Russian Court
On 28 December 2011, the court in the Siberian city of Tomsk dismissed the state prosecutor's stand that the "Bhagavad Gita As It Is" be branded as an "extremist" literature. The case had been going on in the Tomsk city court since June 2011. The judge, after reviewing the petition from the state prosecutors and the responses against it, dismissed the plea. The Government of India and the Russian Embassy in India took up the matter with t
Living entities, they have knowledge. That is the difference between matter and living entities. Living entities, they have got knowledge. The dull matter still requires to be developed. They are also covered knowledge. There is knowledge, but it is covered. Just like the tree: it is also a living entity, but the knowledge is more covered than the moving living entities. There are two kinds of living entities: moving and not moving, sthavara-jangama. Sthavara means standing, cannot move. And jan
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Giving You a Choice
by Su-gita Vani devi dasi
During a July 7, 1975 television interview, a woman reporter challenged Srila Prabhupada by saying, "And if women were subordinate to men, it would solve all of our problems?"
Srila Prabhupada responded confidently based upon his deeply realized Vedic understanding, "Yes. Man wants that woman should be subordinate, faithful to him. Then he is
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Many people claim, "God is great," but this is a hackneyed phrase. One must know how He is great, and that can be known from authorized scripture. In the Bhagavad-gita God describes Himself. He says, "My appearance of taking birth just like an ordinary human being is actually transcendental." God is so kind that He comes before us as an ordinary human being, but His body is not exactly like a human body.
It is stated in
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Hindus are also responsible for the weakening of *Vedic Sanatana Dharma* ( Hinduism). In this regard, I wish to note the following, based on the teachings of Paramacharya Chandrasekharendra Saraswathi Swamy, the greatest Vedic authority of recent times:
1. Hinduism survived even the onslaughts of invaders like Mughals and British because Hindus faithfully adhered to Vedic dharma , despite all difficulties .
2. The re
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- brahmacarya,
- gahastha,
- vanaprastha and
- sannyasa,
- Bramanas
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In this material world, if a man is very rich, he attracts – everybody speaks about him. Although one may be a nonsense number one but if he has got money, everyone will speak about him. At least in this age it is going on. Nobody considers anything but if, somehow or the other, one becomes very rich, he becomes a popular figure. So God must be the richest. Here, within this material world I may claim, “I am richer than h