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Memorial for "Mr. Rathayatra" - by Devamrita Swami

Memorial for "Mr. Rathayatra" - by Devamrita Swami

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A memorial for the great ISKCON devotee Jayananda Prabhu, "Mr. Rathayatra," who departed in 1976 at the age of 38, has been a discussion topic at the GBC meetings in Mayapur. As Haridas Thakur wanted to leave this world before Mahaprabhu, so Jayananda, a master of selfless service and sacrifice, wanted to leave this world before Srila Prabhupada.

Kesava Bharati Maharaja tells how during the intense weeks preceding a San Francisco Rathayatra, he

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is - Bg. 1.20

TEXT 20
 
atha vyavasthitān dṛṣṭvā
dhārtarāṣṭrān kapi-dhvajaḥ
pravṛtte śastra-sampāte
dhanur udyamya pāṇḍavaḥ
hṛṣīkeśaṁ tadā vākyam
idam āha mahī-pate
 
SYNONYMS
 
atha—thereupon; vyavasthitān—situated; dṛṣṭvā—looking on; dhārtarāṣṭrān—the sons of Dhṛtarāṣṭra; kapi-dhvajaḥ—one whose flag is marked with Hanumān; pravṛtte—while about to be engaged; śastra-sampāte—the arrows released; dhanuḥ—bow; udyamya—after taking up; pāṇḍavaḥ—the son of Pāṇḍu (Arjuna); hṛṣīkeśam—unto Lord Kṛṣṇa; tadā—at that time; vākyam—
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Radhastami celebration at ISKCON, Kolkata

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Invisible all the year but visible once a year: The divine feet of Srimati Radharani

 

Radhastami, the appearance day of Srimati Radharani, was celebrated with great fanfare at Iskcon, Kolkata on 23rd Sep, 2012. Devotees in large numbers started assembling in the temple since morning on this auspicious occasion. The program began with Mangala Arati at 4:30 a.m. Radhastami is the only day in the entire year when the devotees get an opportunity to take darshan of the beautiful lotus feet of Srimati

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Thought Of The Day

So the spiritual life is very delicate. We have to conduct the spiritual life very cautiously. Little deviation may create great havoc. Great havoc means again material life. And material life means suffering, bhayam dvitiyabhinivesatah, always in fearfulness. So long we are in this material life, there must be fearfulness. Bhayam dvitiyabhinivesatah syat. That is described here. Kalam eke yato bhayam. So long you are wrapped up within these twenty-four elements, under the influence of time fact

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ISKCON Disciples Course


 

Disciple courseFacilitators:
Anuttama dasa
Jhanava-lila dasi
Yadunandana Swami

Topics covered in the course:

  • Guru-tattva and the Guru-parampara System
  • Srila Prabhupada ISKCON Founder Acarya and Preeminent Guru
  • Types of Gurus
  • Relationship between ISKCON Guru and ISKCON Authorities
  • Gurus outside of ISKCON
  • Guru-padasraya
  • Selecting a Guru
  • Following Initiation Vows
  • Guru-puja and Vyasa-puja
  • Worship of ISKCON Gurus
  • Guru-vapu and vani seva
  • Guru-tyaga
  • Developing Cooperative Relationships in a multi Guru enviormen
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Follow the Liberated Souls

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

 

While philosophers argue about "the truth," Lord Krsna and
His devotees show the path to full knowledge and salvation.

 

A lecture given in New York, March 7, 1966

na tv evaham jatu nasam
na tvam neme janadhipah
na caiva na bhavisyamah
sarve vayam atah param

 

"Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease

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A Relationship Everyone Can Relish

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

Above Hypocrisy and Anxiety

veda-sastra kahe 'sambandha,' 'abhidheya,' 'prayojana'
'krsna' prapya sambandha, 'bhakti' praptyera sadhana

"The Vedic literatures give information about what the living entity's eternal relationship with Lord Krsna is, how the living entity can revive this relationship and act accordingly, and how he will live when he has returned home, back to Godhead which is the ultimate goal of life." (Cait

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Krishna conscious wallpaper website

hare-krishna-wallpapers.jpgHare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

As a service to the vaishnava community, on this auspicious day of Radhasthami, we are releasing a new website from ISKCON desire tree - www.harekrishnawallpapers.com

Please visit this website. We have almost 2,000 variety of wallpapers in different sizes, totaling about 40,000 wallpapers for your spiritual pleasure. Put them on your screens for increasing your Krishna consciousness.

You can send us images of deit

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Radhe Jaya Jaya Madhava Dayite

Kunkumakta Kancanabja (Radhikastakam)

Radharadhita Radhesa Radhika

Radhikastakam by Rupa Goswami

Radhikastakam by Raghunatha Dasa Goswami

Radhika Astottarasata Nama Stotram

Radhika Carana Padma

Viharati Saha Radhikaya Rangi

Radhika Krsna Radhika Tava Virahe Kesava

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2514882287?profile=original the age of Kali

Venue: Guayana, Guayana katha, 2006, June 29. Parikshit Maharaja Ki Jai!! Hastinapur ki Jai!

So as now king Parikshit was ruling of kingdom, one day as he was on a tour, going around checking out, how is everything working? Then he noticed, hey! What’s going on here, at a distance he saw, someone Oh! He looks like a king, look he has a dress and crown, he has sword also, but what is he doing with the sword? There is a cow near him, he is trying to hurt the cow, he is the trying to

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UMANG Festival, ISKCON MIRAROAD

Umang Is the Festival for Youth [Boys] celebrated all over India across various cities, This time this National Level Event is getting organized at ISKCON Mira Road, Bhaktivedant Hall, Opposite Royal College, Miraroad (E), Mumbai under the guidance of H.G.Vanmali Prabhu.
Umang is the Festival of Joy which consist of
--> Short Lecture,
--> Drama,
--> Mantra Rock [DJ Party],
--> Cake Cutting,
--> Dinner.

For Registration Contact :
Revatipati Das
9004401158

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Thought Of The Day

So all this material scientific knowledge, they are simply interested with this body. But spiritual knowledge begins when you actually take seriously what Bhagavad-gita says or Srimad-Bhagavatam says or what the Vedas says. Vedas says everything, both the material and the spiritual. But for human being we are not only, we should not only be interested with the material science, but we should be interested... That is our main interest. Athato brahma jijnasa. Material science is going on. But you

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Only Ask – How can I serve you?

Krishna takes care of all our necessities. He provides food to an insignificant ant and also to a huge elephant. But most often when we approach him we ask for several material things. We think that Krishna is not aware of our necessities. We consider Krishna to be our order supplier and demand several things from him - like good marks, high paying job, palatial bungalow, fancy car, beautiful spouse and so on.

Instead of asking something material we should pray to Krishna to give us intelligence

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Gaining Freedom from The Cycle of Birth And Death

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

ajo 'pi sann avyayatma
bhutanam isvaro 'pi san
prakrtim svam adhisthaya
sambhavamy atma-mayaya

"Although I am unborn and My transcendental body never deteriorates, and although I am the Lord of all- sentient beings, I still appear in every millennium in My original, transcendental form." [Bhagavad-gita 4.6]

The Cycle of Birth And Death

Krsna is unborn, and we are also unborn, but the difference is that unlike the Lord we have been entangled in a materia

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YOU SHOULD DECIDE WHAT YOU WANT TO DO FOR KRISHNA

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This story still amazes me. It happened in England in 1969, when we were just opening the London temple (in Bloomsbury, near the British Museum). Śrīla Prabhupāda had come, and he was talking with the more experienced devotees and confirming their projects. “Yes,” he would say—”do it very nicely,” and “Very good—make it first class.” For instance, Mukunda was to continue his efforts in public relations and another devote

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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

CC - ADI 13.111
 
              advaita-acarya-bharya, jagat-pujita a-rya-,
                      nama tanra `sita thakurani'
                acaryera ajna pana, gela upahara lana,
                        dekhite baiaka-siromani
 
                              TRANSLATION
 
     One day shortly after Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu was born, Advaita
Acarya's wife Sitadevi, who is worshipable by the whole world, taking
permission of her h
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Prthu Maharaja Household life

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You all must be wondering that instead of discussing about brahmacharya why we have taken of the discussion of marriage and Grihasta. The reason being it is the Grihastas who sustain the other three orders that is Brhmacharya , Vanaprasta and sanyasa. Today in the world we hardly get to see a QUALIFIED Bramacharya, Vanaprasta or a Sannyasi. Mostly we com across cheaters and the cheated. How one can make spiritual progre
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The Real Peace Formula

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The great mistake of modern civilization is to encroach upon others' property as though it were one's own and thereby create an unnecessary disturbance of the laws of nature. These laws are very strong. No living entity can violate them. Only one who is Krishna conscious can easily overcome the stringent laws of nature and thus become happy and peaceful in the world.

As a state is protected by the department of law and or

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Is Religion different from Spirituality?

Is Religion different from Spirituality?

Answer by Radhanath Swami: If we try to understand the actual meaning of religion, we will find that there is no difference. But if we view the way religion is often followed in the world today, there is a big difference. The word religion comes from the Greek word religio, which means ‘to bind back’ or ‘to reconnect’—to reconnect our hearts, our consciousness, with God. The word Yoga means exactly the same—to reunite the atma with the Paramatma, to reconn

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