Scientists Finally Conclude Nonhuman Animals Are Conscious Beings

From Psychology Today:

Every now and again I receive an email message I ignore after reading the subject line. I know I'm not alone in following this rule of thumb, but today I broke down and opened a message the subject line of which read "Scientists Declare: Nonhuman Animals Are Conscious". I honestly thought it was a joke, likely from one of my favorite newspapers, The Onion. However, it wasn't.

My colleague Michael Mountain publi

Providing Support at the London Olympics

Two hard -working devotees took on special roles during the recent London Olympics. Indeed London 2012 was revolutionary in many ways, even from a spiritual dimension!

1) The Multi-faith Centre

One of the unique features of the Olympic site was a multi-faith centre, strategically placed in the heart of the Athletes’ Village, offering easy and ready access to anyone who felt the need to seek spiritual guidance.

Sachi Kishore das served as one of the chaplains

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PAMHO & AGTSP

Dear devotees if anyone is interested in the FB preaching, please don't hesitate to contact me about the know-how, I have with more than 3 years doing this.

my FB page - www.facebook.com/reinkarnacia web page - www.reinkarnacia.sk

The FB page has more than 140 000 fans, web page app. 13 000 per month

It is possible to distribute via this channel, app. 30-50 Bhagavad Gitas by ONE status. I plan to open also brand new book eshop.

This preaching made

Decoration of the Dead Body

In India, the lower class men, during their life, will dress very wretchedly and not spend money. But when some of their relatives die, they will purchase some velvet and cover the body and very nicely decorate, and with band party they'll take, lead the dead body. They make lips of the dead body very smiling. The body is taken in procession. So it may be very much pleasing to the relatives that the dead body's decorated. So shastra says that what is the meaning of thi

Biggest Harinama's Ever in Amsterdam and Spain Santiago de Compostela

Last Monday 300 devotees took part in the Harinama in Amsterdam. It was the biggest Harinama ever held in Holland. The same group performed Harinama in Guernsey, Santiago de Compostela, Bilbao (Spain) and tommorrow in La Rochelle, France. Many books are being distributed.

The Harinama in Spain was covered live on National Television and Radio, and the following day it made the front page of the Gallicia Newspaper. Footage of th

Understanding this, the wise man will surrender immediately and not wait to take many, many births.  He understands that this information is given by the Supreme Lord out of HIs infinite mercy on the conditioned souls.  We are all conditioned souls, suffering the threefold miseries of this material world.  Now the Supreme Lord is giving us the opportunity to escape these miseries by the surrendering process.

At this point one may ask that if the Supreme Personality is the ultimate goal and one ha

That is the beginning of bhakti-yoga. If you do business and you earn money and spend it for Krsna consciousness, that is also bhakti. That is also bhakti. Just like vivid example is Arjuna. Arjuna is a fighter, and by fighting, he became a devotee; not by chanting Hare Krsna, but by fighting. Krsna advised him to fight. He was, rather, because he was a Vaisnava, he was not willing to fight, to kill. Vaisnava does not like to kill. But if there is necessity... Just like Arjuna had to kill. That

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One old man was sitting with his 25 year old son in the train. Train is about to leave the station. All passengers are settling down their seat. As train started, young man was filled with lot of joy and curiosity.
He was sitting on the window side. He put out one hand and feeling the passing air, he shouted, "Papa see all trees are going behind".
Old man smiled and admired son's feelings. Beside the young man one couple

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There was a man in Isfahan who used to beat his wife but unfortunately she succumbed to his beating though he had not intended to kill her. But when she was dead he became fearful of her relatives. In a state of anxiety he came out of his house and met an acquaintance to whom he posed his problem.
The friend told him to invite a young man to his house and behead him and put the severed head next to the wife's corpse. The

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A physician gave some rather whimsical advice to a patient, an aggressive, go-getter type of businessman. Excitedly the businessman told the doctor what an enormous amount of work he had to do and that he had to get it done right away or else things will fall apart.

“I take my brief case home every night and it’s packed with work,” he said with nervous inflection.

“Why do you take work home with you at night?” the doctor

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Andrew Carnegie came to America from Scotland as a young boy. He started out by doing odd jobs and ended up as one of the largest steel manufacturers in United States. 

At one time, he had 43 millionaires working for him. A million dollars is a lot of money today, but in the 1920s it was worth much more. 

Someone once asked Mr. Carnegie how he dealt with people. Andrew Carnegie replied, "Dealing with people is a lot like

So if you become Krsna conscious, then your life is secure, guaranteed. If you make complete the Krsna conscious life in this life, then tyaktva deham punar janma naiti mam eti [Bg. 4.9]. That is wanted. But don't be neglectful. Those who have taken to Krsna consciousness, they should be very serious. Why should you take another chance of getting birth in a very rich family or a brahmana family? That is also risky because it is not guarantee. Because generally, those who are rich, they don't car

Dancing in ecstasy ( by Kadamba Kanana Swami )

Dancing in ecstasy 21 Aug 2012

(HH Kadamba Kanana Swami, Fruska Gouranga Serbian Camp, July 2012) Final words at 12 hour Kirtan day

(Transcribed by Yamuna Devi Dasi)

Srivas Thakur would lock the doors of his house. The kirtan would take extra-ordinary priorities because Lord Caitanya danced in the greatest ecstasy. Only devotees could be present and no one else... only devotees could be absorbed... envious neighbours tried to stop the kirtan. Finally, C

An unsatisfied customer

Hare Krsna Prabhus,

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Below is a letter a lady sent to Krsna.com after an uncomfortable experience with a book distributor. She complains about what I have for many years been trying to get sankirtan devotees to avoid doing. A devotee handed her four books and gave her the impression they were free. But when she didn't give enough money, he took three of them back.

Please, Prabhus, when we hand people books p

Gujarat Woman milking millions in Dairy Den

Dear Devotees,

Please accept our Humble Obeisance’s.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada, All Glories to Guru & Gauranga.

An article from Gujarat printed in the TIMES OF INDIA dated 7th July 2012

This article shows how we can protect Mother cows and at the same time make millions. Mother Cow will never be a burden on any one who takes care of her. She would provide everything required & even more.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/vadodara/Gujarat-woman-mi

Krishna smiles so we shud too

H H Mahavishnu Goswami Maharaj says, that Lord Krishna smiles at everyone.

1) He would give the example of how different kinds of people come to temple to take darshan of Lord and irrespective of whether the person is a thief, rogue or criminal Krishna always smiles.

2) Whether people glorify Krishna or blame Him, He smiles. Apart from His matchless trancendental, beautiful features, His smile makes Him very attractive and easily approachable by all.

3) Now we can in no

Are You a Theist or an Atheist?

Ninety nine percent People are not atheists but at the same time they can not swear to be theists. An instructive story illustrates this condition of uncertainty of the people in general with respect  to their belief in God.

Once upon a time, a saintly person visited a village. The vil­lagers invited him to give a discourse. Just before beginning his discourse he asked them, "How many of you believe in God?" No one  raised his hand. The saint said, "If none of you

Discovering the Root of all existance: God.

In the modern times, whenever someone starts talking about God, people tend to put off the subject by saying, "What is the need to know anything about God- whether He exists or not who He is  etc? I am not interested; I have many other things to do in life." But actually knowledge of God is not a matter of interest or intellectual gratification, it is an absolute necessity for every sane  human being. To understand why spiritual knowledge is necessary,

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Many of us are reluctant to learn from the people closest to us—our authorities, colleagues, staff and friends. Rather than being open to learning, we close ourselves off out of embarrassment, fear, stubbornness, or pride. It's almost as if we say to ourselves, "I have already learned all that I can [or want to learn] from this person; there is nothing else I can [or need to] learn."

It's sad, because often the people cl