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Hare Krishna,
PAMHO,
AGTSP,AGTSGASG.

Today I heard something very interesting thing from my friend(He is my current team lead). My client is in Basel. In year 2009 three of my seniors went to a library to buy some novel.

They happened to meet a Caribbean woman aged 45 and had two sons. Following was the conversation between the woman and seniors. I have tried to make it as simple as possible. Please forgive me for any mistakes in

There are two kinds of philosophers. One class of philosopher, they say that we are one with God. Another class of philosopher says that we are different, God is different from living entity. But Lord Caitanya Mahaprabhu has adjusted that we are simultaneously one and different. Just like the father and the son. The father is one with the son, but at the same time, the son is different from the father. The son cannot claim cent percent equality with the father. That is not possible. But the son'

Our group of brahmacaris from Sri Harinam Mandir in Tallinn, Estonia departed on the 15th of May 2012 on two vans to a whole summer long European Harinam Sankirtan tour. And traveling with us are the wonderful Deities of Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra.
In April, in Estonia we had our very first 3 day long Kirtana Mela festival with around 150 devotees taking part.
Deities of Jagannatha, Baladeva and Subhadra came to Tallinn and were installed during this grand festival.
Now the Deities are trave

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Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Question

Why should we offer worship to Bhagavan  by austerities like *Nama-japam* ,  *Pooja* , etc ? . Isn't it sufficient just to remember Him always ?.

Answer

Srimad Ramayanam's *Aranyakandam*  section, contains *Lakshmanopadesam* ( Advice to Lakshmana) . Sri Rama, Sita-devi and Lakshmana were living in the forest . One day, Lakshmana requested Sri Rama to advise about the universal principle.

Sri Rama first describes t

By Vrndavanlila Devi Dasi (Dr Vrinda Baxi)

The tussle between “freewill” and “destiny” has been primordial. There is one famous Greek play titled “Oedipus Rex” by Sophocles. The main character Oedipus has the tragic destiny of marrying his own mother revealed to him by the soothsayer. Shaken by the revelation, he decides to escape his fate by leaving his royal parents and his kingdom, but ironically the more he tries to give a slip, nearer he gets to the prediction. Finally the fate takes the bet

Question: Vivekananda, Football, and Eggplant?

I wanted to know what is your view (the Vaishnava view) of Swami Vivekananda's quote that it is better to play football than to read the Bhagavad-gita.

Also, he had a similar view on the Tulasi plant wherein he recommends to grow an eggplant instead.

Thank you very much,
Your servant,

Deepanshu R.
 

Answer: Krishna, Bhagavad-gita, and Tulasi

My view, your view, his view--these are all useless speculations. Therefore we must find out what is the view

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“Reasonable” suggests the ability to see things fairly, without the self-serving justification that so often clouds our vision. 

It’s the ability to see your own contribution to a problem and the willingness to listen to and learn from other's point of view. Being reasonable includes the ability to put yourself in the shoes of others, being able to see the bigger picture, and to maintain perspective. 

People who are reaso

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For many people, there are essentially only two speeds—fast and faster. It seems that, most of the time, we are moving very quickly, doing three or four things at once. Often we are only paying partial attention or half listening to the people we are working with. Our minds are cluttered and overly busy.

Perhaps the reason so many of us spend so much time moving fast is that we fear falling behind or losing our edge. Our

 Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Matajis, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudev.

Dear Gobhakta,s We Are Group of Devotees Working on cow protection & varnashrma at near Rajkot Saurashtra,Gujarat We are preaching about how to serve gomata through her by- products.

So we need devotees who can write articles on glorification of Gomata.

How useful Mother cow for nature and human being We can offer reward for per article.

Please contact

Ghanshyam das Mo. +91 9726

Dhaka Ratha Yatra Festival of Lord Jagannath,2012

On the auspicious day of Guru (Vyasa) Purnima (July 3rd) the Bhaktivedanta Archives Releases Original Audio of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada for 1977 along with a VedaBase® 2012.1 update.

In our continued commitment to make all the recorded material of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada available, the Bhaktivedanta Archives is presenting the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase® 2012.1 update and original audio for 1977 (

Spiritualistic life means that one should be trained up as brahmacari. Then regulated life in grhastha, regulated life. Grhastha is not bad. Family life is not bad. Therefore it is called grhastha-asrama. Asrama means..., this very word is meant where the spiritual cultivation is practiced. That is called asrama. So it may be household life, it may be renounced order of life, it may be brahmacari, student's life, or retired life. The spiritual culture must be there. That is human civilization. I

My belief in Lord Krishna was instilled when, as a youngster, my friend told that prayers have a lot of power in them and we should always pray to the Lord with all the faith in him. I have striven to manage the things I can control efficiently and the rest I leave it on to Lord Krishna. I have learnt to submit. Being spiritual for me is about Chanting and praying intensely to the extent that after a point Lord Krishna seems no more to be outside, but a part of my inner self. This is a contant e

Question to Radhanath Swami: We read in Gita: Krishna says that when there is a decline in religion and an up-rise in irreligion, he descends. Look at the world today; so much of irreligion, so many problems. There is tsunami of irreligion and problems crashing against practically every living entity in the whole planet- there’s an inundation. Where is God?

Radhanath Swami: Krishna has descended in this age in his name. And all the power of all the incarnations is within the name, because Krishna

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In the next verse we find that Sri Krsna says:

ksipram bhavati dharmatma

sasvac-chantim nigacchati

kaunteya pratijanihi

na me bhaktah pranasyati

"He quickly becomes righteous and attains lasting peace.  O son of Kunti, declare it boldly that My devotee never perishes."

The Ultimate World View of a Loving Devotee

Mahanidhi Swami (lecture excerpt in Kartika at Radha-kunda)

We have titled this story from Caitanya-caritamrta - ‘The Dog Gets A Siddha Deha.’ It’s about how Sivananda Sena, Lord Gauranga’s eternal associate, personally cared for and loved a stray dog traveling with him on a yatra to Jagannatha Puri.

Today, unfortunately, most people don’t even care for the guy next door. They think “you live or die, let me live.” It’s a sad state of affairs but it’s a fa

So after death, what is the proposal? That they do not know. And practically we are experiencing that although I am changing body, I was a child, I was a boy, I was a young man, now I am old man, so there was past and future in every stage. Similarly, in this stage as I am remembering my past life... I can remember, you can remember... I was a child, I was a boy, I was a young man. I was doing like this. Everything I remember. Even if I forget, I had my past life and again I expect my future lif

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*UPASANA*  is systematic practice of a prescribed method of worship for pleasing and winning the attention of Bhagavan Sri Krishna .  

A Krishna-bhakta is guided by Vaishnava  scriptures and pure Devotees to get a prescribed form of worship (Upasana)  for his/her *Ishta Devata* Sri Krishna and follow it faithfully to the best of his/her abilities.

Once Bhagavan is pleased, He will  grant the wishes of devotees either by