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By Devaki devi dasi

All of us chant the maha-mantra, but how much are we struggling to come to the platform of purely chanting the holy name. This struggle is so important for we all contend with constant stimulation from our mobile phones and the Internet that often distract us from relishing the holy name, our most valuable jewel.

At times we may have to admit that we don't take our chanting as the most important activity in our life.

Bhaktivinoda Thakur describes in Harinam Cintamani how ina

Maya has given us this car for satisfying our desires. Sometimes it is called field. Ksetra. We want to work on this, just like agriculturist work on his field and produce some results. Similarly, we are working on this field, we are moving by this car, but I am not this field, I am not this car. If one has understood this philosophy that "I am not this body..." But "I am not this body," that does not mean I shall neglect it. I must maintain it because ... The same example: if I want to move nic

Settlement of

All Our Material Accounts

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

We in Abudhabi were really fortunate to have the personal association of our beloved Guru Maharaja for three days last week. Maharaja encouraged all the devotees in the performance of devotional service and he gave very serious instructions to be remembered and practiced in our lives. We shall try our best to transcribe the lectures for t

Hare Krsna, dear devotees!

Below is a beautiful and moving letter from inmate Bhakta Mark. I hope you will be as touched as I was when I read it. This is the type of letter that inspires me to keep doing this service. There are real people out there, who are in such a dreadful situation, people who suffer, locked in with the worst of characters and under very severe, oftentimes brutal conditions, and they long for something more, something that will help them transcend the miseries they are forc

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

One of the most severely limiting beliefs that many of us have is that the person we were yesterday is the person we have to be today. This belief keeps us tied to our past mistakes, habits, and limitations. 

We somehow buy into the notion that if we weren’t successful yesterday, we certainly can’t be successful today or tomorrow.

If you can see how ridiculous and self-defeating this belief is, you can make an instant shi

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

A well-known speaker started off his public speech in a strange manner – by holding up a Rupee 1000 Note! Holding up the Note high in the air in one of his hands, he addressed the curious audience, "Who would like this Rupee 1000 Note?"
    
With great cheers almost all of them raised their hands with the shout, "I want it", "I want it”!! He said, "Oh! That’s nice. Well, I am going to give this Note to one of you... But,

Venue: Los Angeles. So everything ready to go, everything is getting loaded into, into what?  Big trucks?  carts, bullock carts. Every family had at-least one cart or more.  So many cows, so many bulls and that’s the mode of transportation. Krishna had never gone His travels were more kind of limited to this brahad van,  He was more in Gokul, into the town, just  around on the bank of Jamuna just near. It’s the first time He is going for a very long travel, very  very long,  its like going to an

Sanatan Arya Vedic theosophy, Cosmic and Indic history.

1)     Goloka Vrindavandham – topmost planet in spiritual world (Vaikuntha – no anxiety or distresses of repeated birth, death and rebirth for a living entity) in which the Supreme personality of Godhead, Lord Krishna exists eternally in the subdivision Dhams (places) of Vraja, Vrindavan, Mathura and Dwarka according to the various pastimes Lord Krishna is performing eternally in transcendental bliss with his eternal devotees having spirit

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

In a certain place the fishermen were catching fish. A kite swooped down and snatched a fish. At the sight of the fish, about twenty crows chased the kite and made a great noise with their cawing.

Whichever way the kite flew with the fish, the crows followed it. The kite flew to the south and the crows followed it there. The kite flew to the north and still the crows followed after it. The kite went east and west, but wi

Whatever We Own, Owns Us

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

The following is notes from His Holiness Mahavishnu Gosvami Maharaja’s class on Srimad Bhagavatam 7.5.30, given in London, July 10, 2008. Srila Gurudeva is here speaking the direct truth for the benefit of all, about the crime it is to claim any kind of material ownership.

sri-prahraada uvaaca
matir na krsne paratah svato vaa
mitho 'bhipadyeta grha-

I was inspired by a song by Vasu Ghosh where he is saying 'yadi gaur na hoito.' That means if there was no Gauranga, what would there be today? So I was thinking, what if there was no Prabhupada? What would there be? Think of all the things that Prabhupada gave us. Of course, he gave so many things that I could not mention them all. I apologize to those devotees who are involved in services in areas I didn’t mention, but then I would have a song that would go all night long! To mention all the t

ISKCON Toronto’s Ratha-Yatra and Festival of India

1.Photo’s link for Parade & center island programs ? https://picasaweb.google.com/106652055478422838217/ISKCONTorontoRathayatra2012

2. Photo,s link for 12-hour kirtan ??. https://picasaweb.google.com/106652055478422838217/12HourKirtanISKCONToronto

3. Photo’s for launch Party at Yonge-Dundas Square (Toronto) ?.. https://picasaweb.google.com/106652055478422838217/FestivalOfIndiaLaunchPartyAtYongeDund asSquareToronto

For 40 years, this annual parade ha

एक बार राधा जी सखी से बोली - सखी ! तुम श्री कृष्ण की प्रसन्नता के लिए किसी देवता की ऐसी पूजा बताओ जो परम सौभाग्यवर्द्धक हो.

तब समस्त सखियों में श्रेष्ठ चन्द्रनना ने अपने हदय में एक क्षण तक कुछ विचार किया. फिर बोली चंद्रनना ने कहा- राधे ! परम सौभाग्यदायक और श्रीकृष्ण की भी प्राप्ति के लिए वरदायक व्रत है - "तुलसी की सेवा" तुम्हे तुलसी सेवन का ही नियम लेना चाहिये. क्योकि तुलसी का यदि स्पर्श अथवा ध्यान, नाम, संकीर्तन, आरोपण, सेचन, किया जाये. तो महान पुण्यप्रद होता है. हे राधे ! जो प्रतिदिन तुलसी की

In the Seventh Chapter of Bhagavad-gita Sri Krsna gives additional ways in which He can be perceived in every step of life :

punyo gandhah prthivyam ca
tejas casmi vibhavasau
jivanam sarva-bhutesu
tapas casmi tapasvisu

"I am the original fragrance of the earth, and I am the heat in fire.  I am the life of all that lives, and I am the penances of all ascetics." (Bg. 7.9)

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Excerpts from the teachings of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Material compassion, lamentation and tears are all signs of ignorance of the real self. Compassion for the eternal soul is self-realization. The word "Madhusudana" is significant in this verse. Lord Krishna killed the demon Madhu, and now Arjuna wanted Krishna to kill the demon of misunderstanding that had overtaken him in the discharge

A Worthy Son

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

When our spiritual master, H.H.Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaja was in Abu Dhabi in December 2007 he made all of us recite the following points:

1. I will obey my parents.
2. I will never trouble them in anyway.
3. I will always serve them to the best of my ability.
4. I am really grateful to them for all they are doing for me.
5. I will never be arrogant with them.
6.

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Once two villagers were sitting under a tree and watching the sunset. They were very close friends. After sitting quietly for some time, one asked the other, "What are you thinking?"

"I am planning to buy five acres of land, a garden." The other friend immediately said, "Don't buy the garden!"

The first one was surprised. He asked "why"? The second one replied, "I am planning to buy a buffalo. Then, my buffalo will enter