Non-attachment of material activities can be effected by spiritual activities only and not by material inertia. Material inertia is the negative side of material actions but spiritual activity is not only the negation of material action but also it is the possession of real life. And we must be anxious to search out this eternal life of spiritual existence or the life in Brahman. The life in Brahman is described here as the eternal country where from nobody has got to come back again if anyone i

TEXT 2

vyamisreneva vakyena
buddhim mohayasiva me
tad ekam vada niscitya
yena sreyo 'ham apnuyam

SYNONYMS

vyamisrena--by equivocal; iva--as; vakyena--words; buddhim--intelligence; mohayasi--bewildering; iva--as; me--my; tat--therefore; ekam--only one; vada--please tell; niscitya--ascertaining; yena--by which; sreyah--real benefit; aham--I; apnuyam--may have it.

TRANSLATION

My intelligence is bewildered by Your equivocal instructions. Therefore, please tell me decisively what is most beneficial for

This will be the tenth year we have been offering daily email transcripts of the Srimad-Bhagavatam lectures during the Mayapur Festival and GBC meetings.

As our regular transcribers are otherwise engaged, we request help from anyone willing and able to help transcribe the classes. What better way to serve the worldwide community of devotees than by facilitating the hearing of Srimad-Bhagavatam from the lips of senior devotees from Sri Mayapur Dham?

If you would like to render this important

A devotee, when he is in troubled condition, he thinks, "My Lord is so kind that He is purifying me. I am suffering from my past misdeeds. So Krsna is so kind that He is purifying me, giving me little suffering. That's all right. Therefore I must be obliged to Him." And he offers more respectful obeisances to the Lord: "My Lord, You are purifying me." If one lives like this, mukti-pade sa daya-bhak, his liberation is guaranteed.

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

• Meteor shower injures hundreds in Russia.
• Blizzard hits US, normal life disturbed
• Tsunami kills thousands
• Earthquake ravages the city
• An unknown fever kills people

These are not so uncommon news for us.  Nature can stun us any time.  Weather forecast cannot guarantee if tomorrow it will rain or the day will be sunny.

These phenomenons indicate following:

1. We are not the controllers of nature.
2. There is no guarantee to our security.
3. And the scriptures declaration that this world is duhkhalayam asasvatam, a

Hare Krishna HARE kRISHNA

Krishna Krishna Hare Hare 

Hare Rama Hare Rama

Rama Rama Hare hARE

ALL GLORIES TOP SRILA PRABHUPADA AND ALL ACHARYAS. 

my humble pranams to Sri Krishna and all prabhujis and matajis.

vegetarianism is a common word used by most people to indicate the act of restraining from meat eating. while there are many types and thoughts on vegetarianism, let us just focus on the most important aspect of it, its implementation and the reasoning behind it. Hare Krishna 

Vegetarianism, known

TEXT 1

arjuna uvaca
jyayasi cet karmanas te
mata buddhir janardana
tat kim karmani ghore mam
niyojayasi kesava

SYNONYMS

arjunah--Arjuna; uvaca--said; jyayasi--speaking very highly; cet--although; karmanah--than fruitive action; te--Your; mata--opinion; buddhih--intelligence; janardana--O Krsna; tat--therefore; kim--why; karmani--in action; ghore--ghastly; mam--me; niyojayasi--engaging me; kesava--O Krsna.

TRANSLATION

Arjuna said: O Janardana, O Kesava, why do You urge me to engage in this ghastly war

     Well, the work you do in regard to meditation and loving devotion brings effects. Even doing it for days brings effects. The question is consistancy and belief in yourself, others and the object of your devotion. It is easy to dismiss realizations as mere flickerings of the brain, as some weird result of concentration, whatever justification there may be. But what about the daily effects, the ones outside japa or kirtan? What about the growing feelings that you get day after day, that Lord

President of India, Shri Pranab Mukherjee praised Srila Prabhupada’s vision to propagate spiritual knowledge to society to achieve real unity and peace, at the inauguration of ISKCON’s New Vedic Cultural Centre in Pune on 24th February. Praising ISKCON’s remarkable network that included educational institutions and centres for scientific enquiry, he said, “Centres such as these are invaluable assets for developing India’s social infrastructure – just as the education that they impart helps br

Rathyatra and Bhumi Puja at ISKCON Lucknow

   
 
 
  
   

Dear Maharaj’s and Prabhu’s,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

On 15th May, ISKCON Lucknow celebrated a colorful Rathayatra. The city of Lucknow is the capital of the Uttar Pradesh, the largest state in the country. This city is also known as ‘Laxmanpuri’. H. G. Devkinandan Prabhu, (ZS of UP and Rajasthan), H. G. Surapati Prabhu and H. G. Radha Ranjan Prabhu (Co-TP’s of ISKCON Lucknow) and the local com

ISKCON Pune New Vedic Cultural Centre (NVCC) Inauguration

Sri Sri Radha Vrindavan Chandra

Sri Jagannath Baladeva Subhadra 

Sri Sri Gaura Nitai

Jai Sri Sri Radha Vrindavan Chandra, Sri Sri Gaur Nitai, Sri Sri Jagganath Baladev Shubdra Devi & Sri Balaji installation & grand inauguration of new Vedic cultural center (ISKCON NVCC) on the auspicious occasion of Nityananda Tryodshi (23february 2013) More than 40000 devotees participated from all over the world & ISKCON Sannyasis, GBCs, Srila Prabhu

President Pranab Mukherjee inaugrated the Vedic Cultural Centre of ISKCON on 24th February, 2013 which is considered to be the largest temple in the city spreads across two lakh square feet.

Mukherjee said ,"Swami Prabhupada galvanized the whole world in short spam of time and established over 600 temples across the world. Everyday it provides food to 10 million children daily in India". 

ISKCON has grown in a short span of time as a movement of high velocity, he said, adding "the movement pro

I posted a reply yesterday to a question posted by one devotee, in the manner of "have you seen God", or "experienced Him". I said yes. And the fact is, though I have along the years experienced several "mystical achievements", nothing compares to the feeling of bhakti, and inside bhakti, Krishna bhakti. The growing confidence it gives, the belief that He's there no matter what, and things will turn out right. And next to Krishna, there's Radha. Merciful, sweet, ready to give a hand do the devot

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Devotee: The Bhagavad-gītā says that if one performs devotional service, then its result is never lost. Then how was it possible for Ajāmila to lose all his devotional service to Vishnu by associating with a prostitute?

Prabhupāda: He was not in devotional service.

Devotee: He was not serving Vishnu?

Prabhupāda: He was trained in Vishnu worship. Vishnu worship is not a

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

By His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Kunti says, “My Lord, Your Lordship can easily be approached, but only by those who are materially exhausted. One who is on the path of material progress, trying to improve himself with respectable parentage, great opulence, high education and bodily beauty, cannot approach You with sincere feeling.”

These material opulences are the disqualifications – Janma, to take

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

ByHis Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Devotee: What sort of living entity is Māyādevī?

Prabhupāda: She is Vaishnavī, a great devotee of Krishna. But she has accepted a thankless task – to punish. The policeman is a sincere government servant, but he has accepted a task – therefore nobody likes him. (laughs) If some policeman comes here, immediately you shall feel disturbed. But he is the sincere servant o

esa brahmi sthitih partha
nainam prapya vimuhyati
sthitvasyam anta-kale 'pi
brahma-nirvanam rcchati

SYNONYMS

esa--this; brahmi--spiritual; sthitih--situation; partha--O son of Prtha; na--never; enam--this; prapya--achieving; vimuhyati--bewilders; sthitva--being so situated; asyam--being so; anta-kale--at the end of life; api--also; brahma-nirvanam--spiritual (kingdom of God); rcchati--attains.

TRANSLATION

That is the way of the spiritual and godly life, after attaining which a man is not