How to conquer this all-devouring sinful enemy - Lust? There is a method ... and it is a sure 100% method; and the Supreme Lord showed us this method in a wonderful way. He sent to this world, lust personified Ravana. Ravana was the most striking emblem of lust in the history of all creation.
Sita Devi is the wife of Rama. Sita is none other than an expansion of Lakshmi Devi, the goddess of fortune.
All the fortune of the world is the energy of Sita. What is fortune? Fortune does not simply mea
So people have fallen so much. But we should not be like that. Those who have taken to Krsna consciousness... Of course, a Krsna conscious person is never afraid of any species of life -- provided there is Krsna consciousness continuing. That's all. That is wanted. We are not afraid of becoming a dog, provided I can remember Krsna. This is our position. Just like Bhaktivinoda Thakura says, kita janmaobi, iccha yadi tora. Bhaktivinoda Thakura said, "I don't mind if I am born as a kita, or an inse
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How to conquer this all-devouring sinful enemy - Lust? There is a method ... and it a sure 100% method; and the Supreme Lord showed us this method in a wonderful way. He sent to this world, lust personified Ravana. Ravana was the most striking emblem of lust in the history of all creation.
Sita Devi is the wife of Ram. Sita is none other than an expansion of Lakshmi Devi, the g
Hare Krishna -
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Krishna and to all of his pure devotees and aspiring devotees.
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Nityänanda däsa: How should a Vaisnava behave towards the followers of other religions?
Bäbäji: The instruction of Srimad-Bhägavatam (1.2.26) is:
näräyana-kaläh säntäh bhajanti hy anasüyavah
"Those who are free from the propensity to slander others and who are fully peaceful worship Sri Näräyana and His plenary portions."
There is no dharma othe
Among the sacred cities of the world, Vrindavana is probably the least well known. Yet this small town in northern India ranks with Rome, Jerusalem, and Mecca as a center of worship. It was in Vrindavana that the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Krishna, displayed His transcendental pastimes during His appearance on this planet some five thousand years ago. Over the course of centuries, the places of Krishna’s pastimes were lost to human memory, until they were rediscovered in the sixteent
Attendance of Srila Prabhupada,s Disciples :
HH BB Madhava Swami, HG Deena Bandhu Prabhu, HG Yasomatinandan Prabhu, HG Bhima Prabhu, HG Sarbhabhuma Prabhu.
The Narada Purana (uttara kanda 52.12) describes the conversation between Lord Narayana and Lakshmi devi about Purushottama kshetra (Jagannath Puri),
pratimam tatra tam drstva svayam devena nirmitam
anayasena vai yanti bhavanam me tato narau
“A person who sees the Deities there built by the Lord Himself will easily find the path to reac
Seminar on Bhakti Sadachar by HG Chaitanya Charan Prabhu
(Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 05)
(His Grace Caitanya Charan Prabhu is a editor of Back to Godhead, which is the official international magazine of the Hare Krishna movement. Presently he conducts seminars at various reputed educational institutes all over India including IITs and NITs as well as leading MNCs like Tech Mahindra.)
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Japa Kirtan Retreat 2012 by His Holiness Sachinanadana Swami
(His Holiness Sachinanadana Swami was born in 1954 in Hamburg, Germany, At a young age, he began searching for answers anywhere they could be found from the esoteric teachings of the old world spiritual traditions to the modern theories of psychology and parapsychology. )
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Sri Rama Katha with Hindi Translation by His Holiness Bhakti Madhurya Govinda Swami
(His Holiness Bhakti Madhurya Govinda Swami was initiated by His Divine Grace Srila A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada in October 1968, about two months before HH Jayapataka Swami, awarding him the name “Makhanlal das”.)
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TEXT 32
ye tv etad abhyasuyanto
nanutisthanti me matam
sarva-jnana-vimudhams tan
viddhi nastan acetasah
SYNONYMS
ye--those; tu--however; etat--this; abhyasuyantah--out of envy; na--do not; anutisthanti--regularly perform; me--My; matam--injunction; sarva-jnana--all sorts of knowledge; vimudhan--perfectly befooled; tan--they are; viddhi--know it well; nastan--all ruined; acetasah--without Krsna consciousness.
TRANSLATION
But those who, out of envy, disregard these teachings and do not practice them
This past February during ISKCON's annual walking pilgrimage in Navadvipa, West Bengal, a BTG photographer snapped a special encounter. Mahavishnu Swami, the ISKCON devotee in the pictures, tells the story.
ALMOST A THOUSAND devotees were walking together that morning junior and senior, men and women, young and old.
We came to the place known as "Naimisaranya," where it is said that the Srimad-Bhagavatam was first spoken. In previous years we had never visited there and so I was excited. I knew
This material world is very, very fierceful to the devotees. They are very, very much afraid of. This is the difference. Materialistic persons, they are thinking, "This world is very pleasing. We are enjoying. Eat, drink, be merry and enjoy." But the devotees, they think, "It is very, very fierceful. How soon we shall get out of it?" My Guru Maharaja used to say that "This material world is not fit for living for any gentleman." He used to say. "No gentleman can live here." So these things are n
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Notes transcribed from a lecture given September 23, 1966
The Paramatman, or the Supersoul, is distinguished from jivatman, the individual soul that enjoys the fruits of the body. Jivatman is under the spell of the material qualities, and he enjoys of suffers material activities and consequences, but Paramatman has nothing to do with the material qualities. Some peopl
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
"There is no other way out of this great ocean of Nescience except the unalloyed mercy of the Absolute Godhead. Living entity although superior in nature in comparison to the nature of matter, he is by association dependant and weaker than the material nature. The Absolute Godhead is the creator of all entities, He is the maintainer and deliverer of all entitie
Hare Krsna
Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Yoga means the connecting link between the soul and the Supersoul, or the Supreme and the minute living creatures. Lord Sri Krishna is that Supreme, the Personality of Godhead. Being, therefore, the ultimate object of yoga, Krishna's name is yogeshvara, the master of yoga.
When the yoga performance is described, it is said that Krishna's name is yogeshvara. No one can be a better yogi than the master of yoga, and Krishn
Seminar on Helping those Who are Experiencing Depression by His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami
(His Holiness Bhakti Tirtha Swami directly oversees projects in the United States as a senior member of ISKCON's Governing Body Commision particularly Washington D.C., Potomac, Maryland, Detroit, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, West Africa, South Africa, Croatia and Bosnia. )
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Seminar on Knowledge of the Absolute by His Holiness Bhakti Bringa Govinda Swami
(Bhakti Bhringa Govinda Swami joined the Krishna consciousness movement in Buffalo, NY in 1971 and received initiation from Srila Prabhupada later that year.)
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Seminar on Importance of devotee association by His Holiness 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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TEXT 31
ye me matam idam nityam
anutisthanti manavah
sraddhavanto 'nasuyanto
mucyante te 'pi karmabhih
SYNONYMS
ye--those; me--My; matam--injunctions; idam--this; nityam--eternal function; anutisthanti--execute regularly; manavah--humankind; sraddha-vantah--with faith and devotion; anasuyantah--without envy; mucyante--become free; te--all of them; api--even; karmabhih--from the bondage of the law of fruitive action.
TRANSLATION
One who executes his duties according to My injunctions and who follows
As a follow up to our previous article, we would like to put up the continuation of our interview with Manorama Prabhu. In this segment we tried to focus our attention to the secular life our youth; their education, career, etc all with the aim of grooming decent juveniles that represent our movement in their respective areas and to the world at large. Over the years we have had issues in our movement with the youth feeling ‘displaced’ in the secular world especially those who don’t want to beco
