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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Why does a Krishna-bhakta dutifully performs,  *Nama-Japam*  ( Recitation of Krishna's names) every day?

In this materialistic  age Kali-yugam , *Nama-Japam* is the prescribed ritual for Bhagavan-realization .  It is necessary to bath daily to remove the accumulated dirt from our body . Similarly, *Nama-Japam* cleanses the accumulated dirt in our heart .

Sri Krishna's names are non-different from Him . The very utterance

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

I was sitting with a renowned Vedic Jyothishi .  One NRI gentleman arrived there to meet the Jyothishi . He started narrating the severe problems he is encountering now – it included the recent loss of job, domestic problems, continuous bad luck , etc, etc.

After ritually verifying his horoscope , the Jyothishi asked "Do you have any habit of *Nama-Japam* ? " .

The NRI gentleman was stunned and shook his head vigrously . 

In the beginning the body is the size of a pea.  Then it grows to become a baby, then a child, a young boy, a youth, a grown man and an old man, and finally, when it becomes useless, the living entity changes into another body.  The body is therefore always changing, and death is simply the ultimate change of the present body.

dehimo 'smin yatha dehe

kaumaram yauvanam jara

tatha dehantara-praptir

dhiras tatra na muhyati

"As the embodied soul continually passes, in this body, from boyhood to youth to

That is the conclusion. Here Srimad-Bhagavatam is recommending different demigods for different purposes because there are all classes of men. So to take immediate effect, they worship demigods. Ksipram, very soon. Generally, people do not go to worship Krsna and Visnu, because you cannot ask from Krsna anything which is not good for you. Suppose you pray to Krsna on the seaside, "Krsna, give me a good fish. I want to catch." Krsna will never fulfill your desire. That is Krsna's mercy. Because K

Mahanidhi Maharaj's Purushottama Month Article & Katha Schedule

PURUSOTTAMA MONTH VRATA (ADHIKA MASA)

2012 18TH AUG - 17TH SEPT
(NEW VERSION BY MAHANIDHI SWAMI)
 

INTRODUCTION TO PURUSOTTAMA MONTH:
Purusottama month, or adhika masa (extra month) is also called mala masa, which means dirty or useless month. In India the sadhus, sadhakas and pious people of all sampradayas (Vaisnvava and Advaitan) undertake serious penances and austerities (vratas) during Purusottama Month. Now let us examine the nam

Yesterday, I went to ISKCON Temple, Rohini with my family for a glimpse of Lord Jagannath.  We reach temple around 1830 hrs and weather was fine.  Lord Jagannath looking mesmerising.  Later on first Tulsi Maharani Aarti starts and after that Lord Jaganath Aarti and Narsingh Bhagwan Aarti.  All those moments were so beautiful till the time I was in the temple.

All devotees must go to ISKCON Rohini Temple.  Charan-vandana of Lord Jagannath is really beautiful.

So in the material world there cannot be prema. Prema means love. The prema is only possible in the spiritual world. Here, what is going on as love, that is not love, that is lust. A boy loves a girl, a girl loves a boy. That is not love, that is lust. As soon as there is some disturbance in lusty affair, they divorce. So therefore that is not love. So we should note it, that so-called love is bogus in this material world. Love cannot be possible. This very word love, prema, is specially reserve

Song by HH JPS to HDG Srila Prabhupada

A song by Srila Jayapataka Swami as an offering to Srila Prabhupada ( with English and Spanish translations)

(1)
(yadi) prabhupada na haita tabe ki haita
(e) jivana bahita kise?
nitai-gaurera apara karuna ke dita sakala dese

If Srila Prabhupada had not come, what would have happened? How could we have passed our lives? Who else would have distributed the unlimited mercy of Lord Nityananda and Lord Gauranga all over the world?

Si Srila Prabhupada no hubi

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Criticism is an extremely valuable element to success.  It is important to value the opinions of others and change your actions based on good feedback.  It is this feedback that helps us to achieve success. The first rule of accepting criticism is to understand the motivation behind the criticism. Understanding this motivation helps you decide how valid the criticism is, and whether to accept it or not.  Here are some o

HH Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaja’s monthly update:

June 2012

USA

1^st to 3^rd June : Seminar on Krishna’s Vrindavan Pastimes at New Jersey, USA

2^nd June : Snana Yatra Class at Brooklyn, New York

4^th June : Snana Yatra class by internet from USA for Ujjain devotees. [Guru Maharaja is now giving classes on every Tuesday on internet for Ujjain devotees from all places he visit]

India:

8^th June : Guru Maharaja came back from USA to Bombay. Then Guru Maharaja also visited Pune. He gave Bhagavatam class there.

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Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

A rich landlord had a flattering servant, a "yes man" who  was always most deferential to his master only because he desired reward.  
  
The master asked the servant one day, "What is your opinion of potatos?"  
  
The servant was hesitant in his reply.  "Oh, my dear sir, I suppose I've never thought about potatos much, really.  But it  would be most edifying for me to hear your opinion of potatos."  
  
The landlord said, "

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Jiva Goswami has composed six sandarbhas, theses — bhagavata-sandarbha, krsna-sandarbha, tattva-sandarbha, priti-sandarbha, etc. I don't think they are published in English. These sandarbhas are so philosophically discussed that throughout the whole world there is not a single philosopher who can defy Jiva Goswami's six sandarbhas. (Lecture in London, 6 August 1971.)

S

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

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 decorate

In todays date Media in collaboration with money making firms promoting such things that is very bewildering to people in large , and practically driving the lifes of thousands of innocent people. It has created such an atmosphere in modern era that whatever media prints or publish people in general accepts it as true without giving any rational thought to it, without having drill down further the subject matter in details and identify with the publication due to false egoism.

Recently news came

Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur and Srila Prabhupada in Champahatti

(From the memories of Nayananda Brahmachari - Pujari of Gaura Gadadhara Deities in Champahatti, Sri Navadvipa Dhama, disciple of Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur)

The last year of his life Gurudev (Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati Thakur) organized Navadwipa mandala parikrama. In our Temple united thousands and thousands of pilgrims. Pilgrims with their tents filled everywhere around this place. The last evening Mahar

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Mahaprabhu has taught in Siksastaka (Cc. adi 17.31):

trnad api sunicena taror api sahinuuna

amanina manadena kirtaniyah sada harih

This is the most important teaching in Siksastaka.

uttama hana apanake mane trnadhama — This is the nature of a real vaisnava. He is the topmostparamahamsa, but he thinks, "I am the lowest of the low, much humbler than a blade of grass in the street. All those who are walking on the street may s

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Sri Srimad Gour Govinda Swami Maharaja

Bhaktivinode Thakur has sung in Kalyanakalpataru (3.2.8):

`ami ta' vaisnava', e buddhi ha-ile,

amani na ha'ba ami

pratisthasa asi', hrdaya dusibe,

ha-iba niraya-gami

If I say, "I am vaisnava," then I cannot become amani and manada; I'll be unable to offer respect to others. Rather, I will demand respect, "Hey, don't you know I am vaisnava? You should pay respect to me, you rascal! Don't