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Give Your Love to Krishna

Hare Krishna

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Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. 

In this material world we are looking for that perfect love relationship. We are looking for that person that we can fully give ourselves to, who will be able to perfectly and fully reciprocate our love. So many times we try to totally give ourselves to someone that we feel is such a person. But then we end up feeling disappointed and frustrated after we realize that they are not what really what we th

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Construction of Prabhupada ghat at ISKCON Allahabad

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Sri Sri Guru Gaurangau Jayatah

Dear Devotees,

Please accept our dandavats. Srila Prabhupada ki jaya.

We are very pleased to inform all the devotees that Prabhupada ghat is under construction here at ISKCON temple at Prayag on the banks of the Yamuna. The ghat is expected to be completed before Maha-Kumbha mela that is scheduled for January next year. The ghat is being constructed at an estimated cost of Rs.2.38 crores. The ghat will be 180 feet in

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Construction of Prabhupada ghat at ISKCON Allahabad

Sri Sri Guru Gaurangau Jayatah

Dear Devotees,

Please accept our dandavats. Srila Prabhupada ki jaya.

We are very pleased to inform all the devotees that Prabhupada ghat is under construction here at ISKCON temple at Prayag on the banks of the Yamuna. The ghat is expected to be completed before Maha-Kumbha mela that is scheduled for January next year. The ghat is being constructed at an estimated cost of Rs.2.38 crores. The ghat will be 180 feet in

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 London’s Ratha Yatra Echoes Olympic Spirit

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When: Sunday 17th June 2012

Where: Hyde Park Corner to Trafalgar Square

Time: Procession starts 12 noon from Hyde Park, South Carriage Drive

Arrives Trafalgar Square 2.30pm

Festival ends 5.30pm

*Highlight*

London’s 'Ratha-yatra’ Festival of Chariots returns to the streets of the British capital on Sunday 17th June 2012. The spirit of the Olympics–known for uniting nations will be echoed at this ancient festival.
Festival-goers representing every continent of t

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Some information Rajani devi (mother of Srila Prabhupada)

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Here is an excerpt from the Prabhupada Lilamrta about Srila Prabhupada's mother, Srimati Rajani Devi.

Abhay’s mother, Rajani, was thirty years old when he was born. Like her husband, she came from a long-established Gaudiya Vaisnava family. She was darker-skinned than her husband, and whereas his disposition was cool, hers tended to be fiery. Abhay saw his mother and father living together peacefully; no deep marital conflict or complicated

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----- Offering with our Hearts -----

 

Offering with our Hearts

 

HERE ENDS YOUR

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

Today I was listening to a recorded lecture of our spiritual master H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj, in which Maharaja gave some startling revelations quoting two examples from Srimad Bhagavatam, as to how dangerous, possessing wealth is for our devotional service.



He started by saying,"First of all we have to accept the supreme authority of Krishna. Se

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A love for Krishna that crosses Religious Lines

 

For 36 years, Abdul Rashid, a 58- yearold Muslim, has been making clothes adorned by the deities at the ISKCON temple; he is now designing pink outfits embellished with silver zari for the idols for Rang Panchami

IN India, religion dominates people’s lives to a great extent that at times, it dictates people’s professions too. However, there are a few times when devotion is not constrained by religion.

Abdul Rashid is such an example.

The 58- year- old

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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

Question: Why are Spiritualists Against Material Ambitions?
 
Short Answer: Spiritualists are not against material ambitions; they are against our granting materialism a monopoly on our ambitions.
 
Detailed Answer:
All of us are naturally ambitious to do something wonderful. Baut not all of us realize that we have not freely or objectively chosen our definition of what is wonderful; our definition is shaped, even determined
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Gaura-Lila and Gaura-Dhama

Hare Krsna

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There is no difference between Gaura and Krishna in tattva. Krishna is Gaura, and Gaura is Krishna. However,

Gaura is Krishna combined with mahabhava-svarupini Srimati Radharani. In vraja-lila there are two forms —

rasaraja Krishna and madanakhya-mahabhavamayi Srimati Radharani. But ingaura-lila, there is one form. Radha combined with Krishna — that is Gaura. Otherwise there is no difference between Gaura and Krishna. Thi

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Thought Of The Day

So when you love Krsna, automatically you love other thing. But at the present moment, we do not love Krsna, only the other things. But love is there. Just like to keep the tree quite fitness, you have to pour water in the root. But if you simply you give up the watering to the root, if you simply water the leaves, twigs, and the branches, then what you will get? Naturally there will be declination of the tree, automatically. If you do not give food to the stomach and if you supply food to the e
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Make allowances for incompetence!

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

Regardless of who you are or what you do, you are going to run into (and have to deal with) at least some amount of incompetence in your work life. Why not learn to take it in stride, and not let it bother you so much?

This acceptance of the way things really are will probably allow you to say (or think) something like, “Of course it’s going to be like this from time to time.” Rather than focusing on the most dramatic an

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-----Don't Forsake the Vibrations -----

 

Don't Forsake the Vibrations

 

HERE ENDS YOUR

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

On the most auspicious occasion of the advent of Srimad Bhagavad gita which is celebrated as Gita Jayanthi, we will all be reciting the whole Bhagavad gita. To understand the value of the recitation of the transcendental sound vibration of Bhagavad gita, which emanated from the lotus lips of the Supreme Personality Of Godhead, at the end of recitin
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everything=everywhere=everyone=krsna

            

as god said in gita to arjuna;


Sarvasya chaham, hrudhi sannivishto,
Matha smrithir jnana mapohanam cha,
Vedaischa sarvaii, rahameva Vedhyo,
Vedanthakruth veda vidheva chaham.

                                                             

                                                            

I live in everybody’s heart,
And from me one gets,
Memory, wisdom and forgetfulness,
And for all the Vedas, I am the one that is to be known,
For I created them and I am the one who knows th

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Thought Of The Day

So similarly, if we become attracted to Krsna... We are attracted to... Actually we love Krsna. That is the fact. But we have forgotten it. We are under illusion. Just you analyze yourself. Why we love this body? It is very easy to understand. Because the soul is there. Does anybody love a dead body? Is there any instance, a dead body is loved and embraced and taken into the room and kept it? Nobody cares. Throw it. Or burn it. So the body is not a lovable object. But because the soul is there w
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Facing problems in life

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 


You can be annoyed by problems in life; think about how unfair and awful they are, complaining about them with others. You can remind yourself, over and over again, how difficult life is and how this problem is yet another justification for why you “have a right” to be upset! You can tighten up. Unfortunately, this is the way many people approach their problems.

When you think of your problems as speed bumps on a road, h

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Express your gratitude toward others

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

 

The people we remember to thank, in person, with a thoughtful note or gesture, or a phone call, are infinitely more likely to help us again than those we take for granted or neglect to thank. It’s so obvious, yet so few people really understand how this works.

People love to be acknowledged, admired, and thanked. People love to be thanked, not out of any selfish need but simply because it feels good to be acknowledged.

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Do not panic unnecessarily

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

 

People panic about practically everything—missed deadlines, orders not received, comments by others, fear of mistakes, negative trends. You name it and someone has panicked about it. Yet I’ve never seen even a single instance where the panic actually helped to solve the problem. Instead, panic is neutral at best and greatly interferes at worst. Panic tends to bring out the worst in everyone. It makes others (and you) fe

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God is at work in our lives

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The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island. He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him, and every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming.

 

Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect himself from the elements, and to store his few possessions. But then one day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little h

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KRISHNA BALARAMA

King Kamsa not only occupied the kingdoms of the Yadu, Bhoja, and Andhaka dynasties and the kingdom of Surasena, but he also made alliances with all the other demoniac kings, as follows: the demon Pralamba, demon Baka, demon Canura, demon Trnavarta, demon Aghasura, demon Mustika, demon Arista, demon Dvivida, demon Putana, demon Kesi and demon Dhenuka. At that time, Jarasandha was the king of Magadha province (known at present as Bihar state). Thus by his diplomatic policy, Kamsa consolidated the

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The Legend of Radha-Krishna

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Young Krishna is known to be very playful and mischievous. The story goes that as a child, Krishna was extremely jealous of Radha's fair complexion since he himself was very dark.

One day, Krishna complained to his mother Yashoda about the injustice of nature which made Radha so fair and he so dark. To pacify the crying young Krishna, the doting mother asked him to go and colour Radha's face in whichever colour he wanted.
In a mischievous mood, naughty Krishna heeded the advice of

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