Utsaha in the Better Half

Posted by Archana Tilala on October 4, 2012 at 8:29am

Utsaha in the Better Half

Not to be left behind, the mataji's spearheaded by MadhuPriya Mataji were some of the most active book-distributors during the last marathon. On many occasions, scenting an opportunity, they grabbed the initiative from their better halves and not surprisingly have awe-inspiring stories to narrate.

Madhu Priya Mataji had a simple and effective formula. She would always carry Bhagavad-Gita with her each time she stepped out of her house. Coming down and going up the elevato

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Gayatri as Radharani-Swami B.G. Narasingha

Posted by Gourab Saha on October 3, 2012 at 5:30pm

Question: I have read in an article that brahma-gayatri worships Srimati Radharani. Where does this conception have its origin?

Answer: The origin of gayatri is Krsna Himself and therefore the conception of gayatri worshiping Srimati Radharani finds its primeval origin in Krsna. The meaning of brahma-gayatri is self-effulgent; "Above the three planes of mundane experience, bhur, bhuvah, svah, is the soul, savitur, who shows us everything just like the sun. Above the soul is the super-subjective p

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Thought Of The Day

Posted by Shalabh Gupta on October 3, 2012 at 11:43am

So this false ego, "I am this material body. I belong to this material world, I belong to this community, sect, or nation," so many, they are all based on ahankara. Ahankara-vimudhatma kartaham iti manyate [Bg. 3.27]. Actually, every one of us who are in this material world, they are, we are all under the full control of this illusory energy and working differently according to the influence of the different modes of material nature. I am not real karta. Prakrteh kriyamanani gunaih karmani [Bg.

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Bhagavan is seated in our heart as Super-soul !

Posted by vinay kalson on October 3, 2012 at 11:32am

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

All religions mentions about *God*. But only in Bhagavad Gita, the God speaks to us in detail about Himself, His Philosophy and finally He displays to us His *Universal Form* ( Viswaroopa*.

God is never an object of isolation but the very core of our being. He is seated in our heart as *Paramathma* (Super-soul) . The difference between self ( Jivathma or Individual Soul) and *Super-soul* is just like the wave and the

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Kala Chakra

Posted by vinay kalson on October 3, 2012 at 11:30am

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Kaala Mahima is great. Kaalam is unavoidable, unbreachable and un-surpassable. Only the Supreme Personality Krsna has control of it. Adi Sesha, the bearer of the worlds, is the Kaala swarupam and if you notice Lakshmana and Balarama who have expanded as Sankarshana were always with the Supreme Lord accompanying Him in the form of Raama and Krishna respectively. Under the influence of Kaalam, even great mightly warrior

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The Post is Paramahamsa-Srila Prabhupada

Posted by Gourab Saha on October 3, 2012 at 10:11am

(New Vrindavana)

So every Vaisnava, every devotee of Krsna, pure devotee of Krsna, is a paramahamsa. We are teaching people to become immediately paramahamsa, the highest stage of sannyasa. The method is simply chanting Hare Krsna. You see? The post is paramahamsa. Vaisnava means paramahamsa. He's above brahmana, above sannyasa. But we must be real Vaisnava. Vaisnava means anukulyena krsnanusilanam. Anyabhilasita-sunyam. There is no other desire, material desire. Desire means material desire, thi

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Gayatri Mantra Detailed Word by Word Meaning

Posted by Gourab Saha on October 3, 2012 at 10:00am

The Gayatri Mantra consists of twenty-four syllables - three lines of eight syllables each. The first line (Aum Bhur Bhuvah Swah) is considered an invocation, and is not technically a part of the original Gayatri Mantra as it appears in the Upanishads. Gayatri is also referred to as a Vedic poetic meter of 24 syllables or any hymn composed in this meter. Hence, there exists a whole family of Gayatri Mantras, which serve as meditative aids to pray for t

Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 1.27

Posted by Rohit on October 3, 2012 at 9:47am

TEXT 27

tān samīkṣya sa kaunteyaḥ

sarvān bandhūn avasthitān

kṛpayā parayāviṣṭo

viṣīdann idam abravīt

SYNONYMS

tān—all of them; samīkṣya—after seeing; saḥ—he; kaunteyaḥ—the son of Kuntī; sarvān—all kinds of; bandhūn—relatives; avasthitān—situated; kṛpayā—by compassion; parayā—of a high grade; āviṣṭaḥ—overwhelmed by; viṣīdan—while lamenting; idam—thus; abravīt—spoke.

TRANSLATION

When the son of Kuntī, Arjuna, saw all these different grades of friends and relatives, he became overwhelmed with compassi

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Better light a candle than curse the darkness

Posted by Purushottam Nitai Das on October 3, 2012 at 9:35am

Once, a king wanted to test the attitude of his citizens during a crisis. One night he placed a big stone in the middle of the road and he hid himself. As the day began people began their chores. The moment they saw the big stone which was causing disturbance they started cursing the stone and the person who had placed the stone in the middle of the road. Entire day passed and no one took the trouble to remove it. Finally one sane man took the initiative and removed the stone. Most of us are l

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Sankirtan Story from Italy

Posted by Archana Tilala on October 3, 2012 at 8:41am

Sankirtan Story from Italy

From Raghunath dasa:

In June, in Forlì, Italy, as I was entering a big office building, I was suddenly stopped by a security guard who inquire boldly:
"Who are you? Where are you going?"

She was a young lady, and she seemed quite severe and determined to not let me enter. When I presented myself and explained in a few words about our mission she changed positively and asked:
"Don't you need a security guard for your community? I'm tired of working for these people."

I replie

Tributes for World Holy Name Week (WHNW) 2012 in Brasil

Posted by Gopi Janavallabha DD on October 2, 2012 at 10:01pm

Hare Krsna dear devotees \o/

Jaya Srila Prabhupada!

*Please, forgive my bad english, my english is very very horrible.

The tributes for World Holy Name Week (WHNW) 2012 was organized by Bhakti Dhira Damodar Swami within devotees from ISKCON Franco da Rocha and São Paulo city and many devotees who traveled from many places in Brasil in sankirtan's group here in Brazil

B. D. Swami has led some devotees of many yatras of São Paulo city that was reunited to chant the hole names by maha hari namas, nama

Please take care of Deities

Posted by GOVINDA DASA on October 2, 2012 at 6:33pm

Hare Krishna devotees

We worship our Deities on calander through out the year

and leave them alone under a pipal tree

Just because new year has come......

We worship our Deities through out our life

and leave them alone under a pipal tree

Just because it need some repairs...........

It reminds me that my parents didn't abandon me

Just because I got my leg fractured.

They took extra care to revive me

Talked more with me to forget the pain.

I scrolled through my old snaps

Every year my personality diminished

B

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An Ancient Science for Modern America

Posted by vinay kalson on October 2, 2012 at 3:36pm

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Vedanta means the ultimate goal of knowledge. Formerly there was only one Vedic literature, known as the Atharva-veda. In the Atharva-veda Krsna's name is mentioned, and He is described as the son of Devaki. Srila Jiva Gosvami has quoted fromAtharva-veda in his commentary on Brahma-samhita. Atharva-veda is the original Veda.

Srila Prabhupada

Kali-yuga is considered to be very contaminated, for three fourths of the population is impious i

POEM ( MANN)

Posted by Vraja Jana Ranjana Das on October 2, 2012 at 3:02pm

MANN RE TU NA BHATAK ..

EK DIN FAS JAYEGA....

EK DISHA KO HO LE..

SHAYAD PAAR HO JAYEGA ......

CHANCHALTA TERA SWABHAAV HAI...

KYUKI TU DISHA HEEN HAI...

KRISHNA KI AUR BAD ..

STHIRTA KO TU PAYEGA.....

DISHA HEEN HAI TU KAB SE...

YE TUJH KO AABHAS HO JAYEGA....

GOVIND KE CHARANO KI DISHA PAKAD...

TU ANAND VIBHOR HO JAYEGA....

MANN RE TU NA BHATAK...

FIR SE FANS JAYEGA..........

KITNE JANAMO SE NA JAANE...

ANAND KHOJ RAHA HAI TU....

GOVIND KA GYAN PA LE...

FIR TU USKO NA BHUL PAYEGA....

MANN RE TU NA BHATAK...

FIR

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Thought Of The Day

Posted by Shalabh Gupta on October 2, 2012 at 9:11am

Material life means everyone is trying to become victorious in the struggle of existence without God consciousness. That is our material disease. Krsna-bahirmukha hana bhoga vancha kare. We may revolt. That independence we have got, little independence, and we can misuse it, that "Why shall I serve Krsna? Let me serve myself." "Let me serve myself" means "Let me serve my different propensities, kama, krodha, lobha, moha, matsarya," like that. My independence means "I will not serve God; I will s

Interfaith Meeting in Mendoza, Argentina

Posted by Baladeva das on October 1, 2012 at 4:00pm

http://news.iskcon.com/node/4300/2012-04-05/interfaith_meeting_in_mendoza_argentina

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Freedom Through Bhakti Yoga

Posted by vinay kalson on October 1, 2012 at 2:13pm

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Johannesburg October 15, 1975

Why wait to accept the key for leaving this place of repeated birth and death?

yaya sammohito jiva
atmanam tri-gunatmakam
paro 'pi manute 'nartham
tat-krtam cabhipadyate

"Due to this external energy, the living entity, although transcendental to the three modes of material nature, thinks of himself as a material product and thus undergoes th

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The stories of Kshatriya Kings - The Power of Brahmanas

Posted by vinay kalson on October 1, 2012 at 2:09pm

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

The Kings Vena and Prithu

Some generations further down from Dhruva, there was a king called Vena. Vena was not a good king at all. He announced that there would be no sacrifices on earth. There was absoultely no reason for praying to Vishnu, wasn’t king Vena superior to even Vishnu? The sages tried to persuade the King to change his ways, but Vena was not in a mood to listen.

The sages therefore decided that Vena should

Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 1.26

Posted by Rohit on October 1, 2012 at 10:04am

TEXT 26

tatrāpaśyat sthitān pārthaḥ

pitṝn atha pitāmahān

ācāryān mātulān bhrātṝn

putrān pautrān sakhīṁs tathā

śvaśurān suhṛdaś caiva

senayor ubhayor api

SYNONYMS

tatra—there; apaśyat—he could see; sthitān—standing; pārthaḥ—Arjuna; pitṝn—fathers; atha—also; pitāmahān—grandfathers; ācāryān—teachers; mātulān—maternal uncles; bhrātṝn—brothers; putrān—sons ; pautrān—grandsons; sakhīn—friends; tathā—too, śvaśurān—fathers-in-law; suhṛdaḥ—wellwishers; ca—also; eva—certainly; senayoḥ—of the armies; ubhayoḥ—of

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Lecture by Vijay Prabhu, Mayapur festival 2005

Posted by Archana Tilala on October 1, 2012 at 8:27am

Lecture by Vijay Prabhu, Mayapur festival 2005

So, I would like to welcome everyone to our 1st book distribution seminar. Tomorrow the seminar will not be here, because we will have the book distribution award ceremony in the main tent. There will be three sannyasis speaking their realizations about book distribution, and there will be awards given out to book distributors.

One thing I wanted to discuss is the importance of book distribution. I am curr

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