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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Chanting Japa

At the conclusion of Tulasi-arati, during the 1-1/2 to 2-hour period before Guru-puja begins, the devotees take time for chanting japa. By definition, 'japa' means personal chanting on beads and hearing the Holy Name. Since time immemorial, the devotees have preferred to chant japa in the early morning hours. Those who are able arise well before Mangala-arati and begin chanting their prescribed rounds, often finishing their rounds after Tulasi-arati.

Srila Prabhupada's program for ch

"The Science of Congregational Chanting
of the Name of the Lord"

The sincere devotee who wants to attain a perfection (Siddhi) for himself by the process of chanting the Name of the Lord must refrain from the ten kinds of offences which are quoted below from the "Padmapuranam."

The first and foremost offence is the act of defaming the great saints who have glorified the chanting of the Name of the Lord by example in their own life and precepts. According to ordinary moral principles no one must be

Benefits of Mantra Meditation

When one is out and about in daily life, things tempt to knock one off balance emotionally, which can lead to one getting angry and stressed and developing negative sentiments towards other people.  Such sentiments and emotions are not healthy for one’s body, mind, or spirit. They cloud the mind, pushing one into unproductive mental circles of negative thinking. They cause tension in the body, which leads to disease. They degrade the quality of one’s consciousness, w

Japa Begins at Night

Japa begins at night***

Below is the summary of Sudama Pr’s session:

Japa begins at night – The Intro

Ø Spiritual advancement depends on hearing & chanting

o 99% of our spiritual advancement depends on hearing & chanting & 1% depends on service. But for this 1% seva to be perfect in its execution we have to give our best in the 99% composition pertaining to hearing & chanting.

Ø Srila Bhakti Vinod Thakura: 3 most important things for a Vaisnava: Naam-ruchi, Jiva daya, Vaisnava se

The name of God is powerful like the River Ganges

Japa Quotes from HH Radhanath Swami:

When we wake up in the morning, the first thing we have to do is immediately start chanting His holy names... very essential.

“My dear Lord, O Krishna, all-attractive supreme object of everyone’s love;

O Rama, the reservoir of all pleasure and happiness;

O Srimati Radharani, the divine pleasure potency and the bestower of devotion-

PLEASE ENGAGE ME IN YOUR SERVICE; PLEASE ENGAGE ME IN THE SERVICE OF YOUR SERVANTS”

We

On Chanting

By Srila Prabhupada Chanting the transcendental vibration

Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare/
Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare

is the sublime method for reviving our transcendental consciousness, or Krishna consciousness.
As living spiritual souls, we are all originally Krishna conscious entities, but due to our association with matter from time immemorial, our consciousness is now polluted by the material atmosphere, called maya, or illusion. And what is thi

Quality in Chanting (3)

Sravanadi suddha citte karaye... It will be awakened. Not by force. Just like love between two persons, it cannot be forced. "You must love him. You must love her." Oh, that is no love. That is not love. When automatically you love one another, that is quality. Dora vede(?) prema.

And therefore formerly, at least in the Indian society, at an early age they were married. There is no quality in that quality. But gradually, remaining together, the quality of love increases. Th

Quality in Chanting (2)

When you come to the quality, you will feel yourself, "Why sixteen? Why notsixteen thousand?" That is quality, automatically. Just like HaridasaThakura was doing. He was not forced to do. Even Caitanya Mahaprabhu, Herequested, "Now you are old enough. You can reduce." So he refused, "No. Upto the end of my life I shall go on." That is quality.Have you got such tendency that you will go on chanting and nothing to do?That is quality. Now you are forced to do. Where is the qu

Quality in Chanting (1)

Devotee (8): When chanting our sixteen rounds, we are not sure if these rounds are sincere...

Prabhupada: You should be sure.

Devotee (8): How can we be sure?

Prabhupada: There is beads.

Brahmananda: No, he's saying that when we chant our rounds, how can we be sure that when we chant the round that the round is a perfect, attentive round, sincere?

Prabhupada: Therefore it is sastra, "You must." There is no question of understanding.

Brahmananda: The quality of the chanting he's

This material world is full of distress, and both the ipus and impious are subject to it.  The cold of winter treats everyone alike.  It does not care for the pious or impious, the rich or the poor.  The difference between the pious and the impious, however, is that the pious man thinks of God when he is in his miserable condition.  Often when a man is distressed, he will go to church and pray, "Oh my Lord, I am in difficulty.  Please help me."  Although he is praying for some material necessity

Chanting Hare Krishna

Chanting Hare Krishna

The transcendental vibration established by the chanting of Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare, Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare is the sublime method of reviving our Krsna consciousness. As living spiritual souls we are all originally Krsna conscious entities, but due to our association with matter from time immemorial, our consciousness is now polluted by the material atmosphere. The material atmosphere, in which we are now living

ISKCON Jandelsbrunn Simhachalam - Haribol!

Call for help from all Yatra's! - Helpers and help needed this summer for the projects at ISKCON Jandelsbrunn Simhachalam

Two very big and important events at Jandelsbrunn Simhachalam/Narasimhadevas Farm and the whole German Yatra are awaiting us in September/October this year:
The first one is the 30th installation jubilee of Sri Sri Prahlad-Narasimha, which is going to be celebrated from 21th till 25th of September, including Radhastami-Festival. pThe

So because we are diminishing in everything, therefore our God consciousness is diminishing also. Therefore there are news word that "Personal God conception is diminishing." That is natural. Mudha. That is stated in the Bhagavad-gita, that one who does not accept the personal God, he is described in the Bhagavad-gita: mudha.

So God comes, God explains Himself. He leaves behind Him His instruction, Bhagavad-gita. Still... He says, "You try to see Me like this, see Me like that," raso 'ham apsu ka

Just Do It

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

The following is a transcription of the speech give by our beloved Guru Maharaja in Singapore in the ‘Bhaktavatsala youth class’ program, on the following verse from Srimad Bhagavatam 3.29.11-12:
mad-guna-sruti-maatrena
mayi sarva-guhaasaye
mano-gatir avicchinnaa
yathaa gangaambhaso 'mbudhau
laksanam bhakti-yogasya
nirgunas

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Once upon a time there was a painter who had just completed his course under disciple hood of a great painter. This young artist decided to assess his skills. He decided to give his best strokes on the canvass. He took 3 days and painted beautiful scenery. 
He wanted people's opinion about his caliber and painting skills.

He put his creation at a busy street-crossing. And just down below a board which read-"Gentlemen, I h

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It’s being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.

In some ways, the way we fail to listen is symbolic of the way we live. We often treat communication as if it were a race. It’s almost like our goal is to have no

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Compassion is a sympathetic feeling. It involves the willingness to put yourself in someone else’s shoes, to take the focus off yourself and to imagine what it’s like to be in someone else’s predicament, and simultaneously, to feel love for that person. 

Compassion is the recognition that other people’s problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own---often far worse. In recognizing this fact and

Srila Prabhupada Quote

"Now we have got so many students and so many temples but I am fearful that if we expand too much in this way that we shall become weakened and gradually the whole thing will become lost. Just like milk. We may thin it more and more with water for cheating the customer, but in the end it will cease to be any longer milk. Better to boil the milk now very vigorously and make it thick and sweet, that is the best process. So let us concentrate on training our devotees very th