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People do not know that they can become immortal. Immortal we are, but we have been embodied in this material body. Therefore we have to accept mortality, birth and death. This is the beginning of spiritual life. Spiritual life means how to become immortal. They come to ask me, "Sir, do you know some spiritual magic?" All for material benefit. For them spiritualist means something magic so that you can get some material

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Hare Krishna

Dear Devotee,

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Hare Krishna

Dear Devotee,

क्या हमारा जीवन साथी


पूर्व निश्चित होता है?


(Answers by HH Romapada Swami)


Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Once a sage was walking from one town to another town with a few of his followers. While they were traveling, they happened to pass a lake. They stopped there and sage told one of his disciples, "I am thirsty. Do get me some water from that lake there."
    
The disciple walked up to the lake. When he reached it, he noticed that right at that moment, a bullock cart started crossing through the lake. As a result, the water

Hare krsna

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila PrabhupadaI

There was a small kingdom in which strangely enough all people where quite happy and very healthy. In
course of time both the ruler and ruled grew proud of this rare good fortune and claimed it to be a reward
of their personal righteousness. Since all of them were healthy, there was no physician in the kingdom.
One day, a physician came to its capital city and was happy to find that there was no other physician to
comp

Dharmashala - 3/3


Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

There was a hunter who came into the possession of a special bird dog. The dog was the only one of its kind, because it can walk on water.

One day he invited a friend to go hunting with him so that he could show off his prized possession. After some time, they shot a few ducks, which fell into the river. The  man ordered his dog to run and fetch the birds. The dog ran on water to fetch the birds.

The man was expecting a co

We have got so many duties. So long we are not fully surrendered to Krsna... It is not that this Krsna consciousness movement is to give shelter to some irresponsible man who does not carry the responsibilities of family life or brahmacari life. But that is now forgotten. Everything is topsy-turvied. So Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu says that krsna-bhakti, Krsna consciousness movement, may be offered even to the candala. Candala means the lowest of the human society, the dog-eaters. Candala. This is t

Introduction

visaya vinivartante

niraharasya dehinah

rasa-varjam raso 'py asya

param drstva nivartate

Bg 2.59

The embodied soul may be restricted from sense enjoyment, though the taste for sense objects remains. But, ceasing such engagements by experiencing a higher taste, he is fixed in consciousness.

Ceasing sense enjoyment

Unless one is transcendentally situated, it is not possible to cease from sense enjoyment. The process of restriction from sense enjoyment by rules and regulations is something lik

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Tota Gopinath Deity

The middle Deity is Tota Gopinatha, with black Radharani (on the left of Gopinatha) and a black Lalita (to the right of the Lord).

When Radharani is in intense separation of Krsna she takes the complexion of Krsna and when Krsna is in intense separation of  Radharani the He takes the complexion of Radharani.

When Krsna takes not only the complexion but also the mood then He is acknowledged as Caitanya Ma

Dharmashala - 2/3


Hare Krsna

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Srila Jiva Gosvami explains the various types of bhakti. We shall briefly touch on the main three. The first is aropsiddha bhakti, perfection attained by offering the fruit of one’s karma in devotional service. When works are offered to the Lord, devotion is attributed to them, even though the activity itself is not devotional. This is called attributed devotion.

Aropsiddha is further divided into two types offering of wo

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Krishna says that He provides for His devotees by giving them what they lack and preserving what they have. People are very fond of saying that God helps those who help themselves, but they do not understand that helping yourself means putting yourself under Krishna's protection. If one thinks, "Oh, I can help myself. I can protect myself," one is thinking foolishly. As long as my finger is attached to my body, it is use

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Vrindavan Memories

Dear Devotees,

Please accept my humble obeisances at your feet. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

The Krishna-Balarama temple 40th anniversary is coming up in 2015. In preparation for the event, we are compiling a history of the temple in three parts:

1. Srila Prabhupada's struggle to establish the Krishna Balarama temple.
2. The grand opening and Prabhupada's instructions for the temple.
3. Development of the temple after Srila Prabhupada's disappearance.

The book will be primarily