Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

एकादशी पर व्रत किस प्रकार किया जाए

हिन्दी अनुवाद : अंकिता मावंडिया

प्रुफ रीडींग : भक्तिन बेनू

एकादशी व्रत दोनों हरे कृष्ण भक्तों एवं हिन्दुओं द्वारा चन्द्रमा के बढ़ते हुए शुक्ल पक्ष के ग्यारवे दिन किया जाता है। इस व्रत के पालन के लिए कौन सी चीजें खाई जा सकती हैं, सम्बन्धी कई नियम है जो कि व्रत की सख़्ती के अनुसार बदल सकते हैं। वैष्णव पंचांग के परामर्श के अनुसार ही व्रत करना चाहिये ताकि सही दिन व्र

Often, some get the impression that Krishna is more inclined and partial towards girls than towards boys. Some come up with their imperfect conclusions that 'Krishna is for women'. Some are even baffled that how can a male fall in love with Krishna who is also a male. All these are material considerations. Love for Lord is totally on the spiritual platform, lying beyond the distinction between male and female. How Lord can be loved even while having a male body and how beautifully He reciprocate

Distributing Srila Prabhupada’s books as they are ki jay!!

Here is some sankirtan nectar: I was on my way back to the temple after distributing Srila Prabhupada's books at passing through the parking lot of the Greenacres shopping centre in Port Elizabeth. I approached a man standing next to one of those imported Japanese 4×4"s with a fancy looking trailer hooked-up to it. I introduced myself to him and presented Srila Prabhupada's books to him. He refused saying, that he did not read and that he

Bhagavad Gita quiz contest in Pakistan

At the time of religious intolerance in Pakistan, shlokas from Bhagavad Gita reverberated at a school in Karachi during a quiz competition to test the knowledge of Hindu boys and girls about their religion, leaving the minority community having something to cheer about.

For months now the Hindu community in Pakistan's southern Sindh province has been complaining of bias and injustice over the issues of kidnappings and forced conversions but for a change they

Determined Effort

Srila Prabhupada placed writing and publishing books as his highest priority knowing his followers would thus derive the greatest benefits. The Mayapur Institute (MI) now offers a 1½-year package beginning November 25, 2012, within which devotees can effectively tap these benefits and greatly increase their qualifications to advance by completing both the Bhakti-sastri and Bhaktivaibhava courses in the sanga of senior Vaisnavas.

When our Bhakti-sastri students begin studying The

The conditioned state of life means influence of material nature. When we are very much influenced by the material nature... We have already discussed: guna. Karanam guna-sango 'sya [Bg. 13.22]. Material nature means the three gunas, three material qualities: ignorance, passion and goodness. Goodness is better than the other two qualities, ignorance and passion. But mostly, especially in this age, they are conducted or influenced by the modes of ignorance and passion. People do not know what is

Looking for a Good Business?

Once, Srila Prabhupada was sitting on his terrace at Juhu in discussion with some guests maybe a doctor, a lawyer, an accountant, and an engineer. Suddenly Man Mohan, one of Srila Prabhupada's first initiated disciples in Bombay, arrived. Srila Prabhupada greeted him, "Oh, Man Mohan das, you have come! You are a businessman. Now our group is complete!" Man Mohan replied, "Srila Prabhupada, who is the businessman? Am I the businessman, or are you the businessman?" "Me

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

kirtane 'py atra taj jneyam mahatmyamsravane 'sya yat

sidhyati sravanam nunam kirtanatsvayam eva hi

sastrabhyasasya cabhave purvesamloka-visrutam

satam adhunikanam ca katham bandhusukirtayet

Theglories of hearing apply to the glories of chanting as well. After all, bychanting, one automatically hears. One can hear from others or hear one's ownchanting. Only a person who is well-versed in thesastra should be allowed to speak

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Rupa Goswami came on the order of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu to rejuvenate and re-excavate the land of Vrindavan. The Six Goswamis were engaged in the service of Lord Chaitanya for preaching work.

Whatever we are preaching now, it is based on the principles laid down by the Six Goswamis. Narottama Das Thakur has sung,

rupa-raghunatha-pade ha-ibe akuti

kabe hama bujhaba se yuga

LORD KRISHNA’S MERCY   (Episode from Mahabharata)

The Mahabharata war was about to begin.

The armies were taking up positions. The

elephants started marching.  Deafening

noise of conch shells warned of imminent

danger. The dust raised was so thick as to

eclipse the sun. A lapwing had built her

nest in a hillock close to the Kurukshetra

battlefield.  She was staying there with her

nestlings and was concerned for their safety.

She cried wildly and caught the attention

of Lord Krishna. Out of compassion for

th

Relative Truth Is Not Absolute Truth

(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)

I would like to share the wonderful points, which His Holiness Mahavishnu Gosvami Maharaja told us in his class on Srimad Bhagavatam 1.1.1, in London, July 8, 2008.

om namo bhagavate vaasudevaaya
janmaady asya yato 'nvayaad itaratas caarthesv abhijnah svaraat
tene brahma hrdaa ya aadi-kavaye muhyant

Some people with a poor fund of knowledge reject the Vedas, considering them to be an outdated text left by some primi­tive men of the stone age. However, the knowledge of even the scholarly historians about world history is limited to only a few thousand years: naturally therefore, their opinions about the an­cient Vedas are of no value. The fact is that the Vedas constitute a  complete wisdom handed over by God Himself at the dawn of ,hn rrpntion of the universe The Vedas are perfect: they are

Suppose you are sleeping in your apartment and a thief breaks in, with the intention of murdering you and stealing all your wealth. In such a moment of danger, which of the five senses is most  likely to help you? You certainly cannot smell the thief, nor taste him with your tongue, nor feel him with your skin,nor see him with your eyes. But if the thief makes a noise, you might hear it,  wake up and be able to save yourself. This is a simple experience that we can easily relate to. but it has m

We can cite innumerable instances from the Vedas, which illustrate concepts similar to concepts from modern sci­ence. Modern scientists are wonder-struck on seeing these strik­ing  similarities  and they cannot even imagine how such great truths were written down at a time when there were no sophisti­cated instruments. A few examples showing similarities in the  knowledge obtained from science and the Vedas are:

 •   The Mahabharata describes how once when Gandhari was pregnant, in a fit of ange

Therefore we are engaged in the service of maya in so many phases and different names. Somebody's serving country, somebody's serving society, somebody's serving family, office, this, that, so many. This is maya's service. Now, when we come to our senses, that "I am..., so long I was engaged in maya's service. Now I have to engage myself in Krsna's service," that is self-realization. That is described here that jnana-vairagya-yuktena. [SB 3.25.18] Jnana-vairagya. This is knowledge, that "I am se