New York City, 1966

Joan: Little did I know what kind of wedding it would be. All I knew was that they had received the names Mukunda and Janaki from a swami. When I saw the Swami he was sitting beside the window in his front room, bathed in sunlight, distributing prasada to the devotees who were sitting around him. Mukunda introduced me, and Swamiji offered me some prasada. Because I was a devotee of macrobiotics, thisprasada was very unpalatable to me, yet this radiant and beautiful person was

The Heart of a Vaishnava 

The Heart of a Vaishnava 

The Heart of a Vaishnava 

So this is the divine, the best, so there was best music, best dance because the best dancers Radha and Krishna and gopis they were involved, there was whole team.

“brahma-ratra upavrtte, vasudevanumoditah, anicchanto yayur gopyah, sva – grham bhagavatt-priyah” (S.B 10.33.38) brahma-ratra, brahma-ratra upavrtte as long as the night of Brahma, this dance lasted, that long and then Lord brought that to closer. Even then gopis anicchanto gopis where not willing to go away. But vasudevanumoditah, Lor

Gradual Elevation to Perfection

Dear Prabhujis and Mathajis,

Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble pranams! All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Gurudev!

In devotional service we talk about ecstasy/transcenden tal taste and so many things, but how can we experience it ? Srila Prabhupada gives a nice explanation of science of devotional service and how to achieve the transcendental stage, in one of his transcendental purports in Srimad Bha

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Can’t we enjoy in this life and engage ourselves in Krishna’s service in our next life? Prahlāda Mahārāja answers, “We are now in material entanglement. Now I have this body, but I will quit this body after a few years and then have to accept another body. Once you take up one body and enjoy as your body’s senses dictate, you prepare another body by such sense enjoyment, and you get another body as you want it.” There i

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Introduction

buddhi-yukto jahatiha

ubhe sukrta-duskrte

tasmad yogaya yujyasva

yogah karmasu kausalam

Bg 2.50

A man engaged in devotional service rids himself of both good and bad reactions even in this life. Therefore strive for yoga, which is the art of all work.

Action in Krishna consciousness

Since time immemorial each living entity has accumulated the various reactions of his good and bad work. As such, he is continuously ignorant of his real constitutional position. One's ignorance can be removed b

Srila Prabhupada states in the Sri Caitanya-caritamrita, Adi-lila, 5.89:

"The tendency to lord it over material nature, or maya cannot be a feature of the Supreme Personality of Godhead."

But we have also learned from the verses:  "janmadyasya yatah" and "aham sarvasya prabhavah" that any tendency possessed by the living entities must have originated from the Supreme Lord, otherwise it cannot exist in us. How to reconcile this?

Suresh Anand
 

Answer: The Lord Does Not Lord it Over this World

The c

So for that eternal position, you have to make krsna-devatah, Krsna as the worshipable Deity. Krsna is eternal, and if you fix up your service to Krsna, then Krsna will accept you as servant. Naturally, you become eternal.

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

Serving with Determination

Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Mathajis,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva.

Today I came across below interesting article, which was describing the background of how the Brooklyn Bridge was built.

In 1883, a creative engineer named John Roebling was inspired by an idea to build a spectacular bridge connecting New York with the Long Island. However bridge buil

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Those who chant the holy names of the Lord should follow the following eight rules:

(a) They should keep firm faith in the words of guru and Çästra.

(b) They should associate with devotees who are engaged in chanting the holy names.

(c) They should perform bhajana by hearing and chanting the kåñëa-kathä spoken by saintly persons.

(d) Following the above rules will result in anartha-nivåtti. In the kingdom of sädhana, a pract

So there is a version by Krsna that one who is anxious to take Krsna consciousness, but he is entrapped by this binding -- nice wife, nice children, nice home, nice bank balance -- so Krsna, in order to give them, give such devotee, facility, He takes away. Just like he did with the Pandavas. The Pandavas were devotees, but at the same time, they were king. There was attachment. So therefore Krsna took away their everything -- their kingdom, their wife, their position, their honor -- test him, a

CROW & PIGEON: Be Satisfied

"Once there was a crow that lived near a farm-house. The owner of the farm had kept some pigeons and he fed them with grains regularly. The crow looked at the pigeons and envied them everyday. Deciding to share the feed, the crow painted his body like that of pigeons and joined the pigeons as one of them. Thus, he was able to enjoy the feed daily. The pigeons never suspected anything foul. But one day, after the feed, the crow couldn't control himself and started cryin

Glories of Bathing in the Ganga

Hare Krishna

Dear devotee,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

Topic : Hope Is there any hope of Krishna’s loving protection for a falling down devotee ?

My dear Uddhava, if My devotee has not fully conquered his senses, he may be harassed by material desires, but because of his unflinching devotion for Me (Lord Krishna), he will not be defeated by sense gratification. …But even though one’s senses are not fully conquered, one who has unflinching devotion for Lord Krishna does not run the risk of being separated from Him. The words Pragalbhaya bhaktya indi

Posted on April 20, 2012 Filed under BVKS Sanga

…the hundreds and thousands of stars and the great planets such as the sun, the moon, Venus, Mercury, Mars and Jupiter are not clustered together because of the law of gravity or any similar idea of the modern scientists. These planets and stars are all servants of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Govinda or Krsna, and according to His order they sit in their chariots and travel in their respective orbits. The orbits in which they move are compa

Lord Krsna said to King Yudhisthira, “My devotee is not deterred by any
adverse conditions of life; he always remains firm and steady. Therefore I
give Myself to him, and I favor him so that he can achieve the highest
success of life.” The mercy bestowed upon the tried devotee by the Supreme
Personality is described as brahma, which indicates that the greatness of
that mercy can be compared only to the all-pervasive greatness. Brahma means
unlimitedly