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The Hot Topic: Poetry Contest Winners

Prior to the Gaura Purnima festival, the Bhakti Writers Community hosted the Golden Moon Poetry contest, with a gift card to Amazon.com as the prize. Twelve writers submitted their poems, and each writer glorified a unique facet of Lord Chaitanya’s personality.
    The winner is Samapriya Prabhu, who wrote the poem “Hot Topic.”  One judge described her poem as, “Original, fresh, fun!  Makes the reader smile.” Second place goes to “In the Land of Lord Nityanan

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Once upon a time a farmer owned an old mule. The mule fell into the farmer's well. The farmer heard the mule 'braying' after it fell into the well.
After carefully assessing the situation, the farmer sympathized with the mule, but decided that neither
the mule nor the well was worth the trouble of saving.
Instead, he called his neighbors together and told them what had happened...and enlisted them to help
haul dirt to bury

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A little girl walked to and from school daily. Though the weather that morning was questionable and clouds were forming, she made her daily trek to the elementary school.
As the afternoon progressed, the winds whipped up, along with thunder and lightning.
The mother of the little girl felt concerned that her daughter would be frightened as she walked home from school and she herself feared that the electrical storm might

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People generally go to guru, "Sir, I have got some pain. Give me some ashirvad so that my pain may be cured." "But why you have come here for curing your pain? You can go to some doctor, or you can take some tablet. Is it the purpose of coming to guru?" But generally they come to guru and ask for blessing for some material benefit. It is not the guru's task to supply gold and medicine. Not that "I have got some pain her

Consciousness

at The Time of Death

"Krsna is naturally attractive for all living beings because He is the chief eternal amongst all eternals."

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

So Krishna is now back with them and there are so many different ways of meeting and dealing, embracing as many as many Gopis are there, Krishna is meeting each one of them. There are several descriptions of how what each Gopi does? How she deals with Krishna. It is mentioned about one Gopi she had very unique way of meeting her Lord. What she did was she drank Krishna with her eyes, drank the form of the Lord through her eyes and she took him to her heart, made him sit down there and as soon as

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A person who is self-absorbed takes him or herself extremely seriously. They value their own time – but no one else’s.  They are usually quite selfish with their time, love, and money, in addition to lacking compassion for those less fortunate. 

Self-absorbed people are arrogant and often treat others as instruments or objects to get something they want. They usually see only one point of view – their own. They are righ

Drinking juice is no better than drinking soda

"People think juice is healthy, but it's not," says Dr. Robert H. Lustig, professor of pediatric endocrinology at UCSF and director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH) Clinic. "Drinking juice — even if it says "100% natural" — is no better than drinking soda."

Lustig is on a mission to dispel common misunderstandings about juice. He says the perceptions that juice i

Greenpeace raises GM alert on top Indian foods

Posted by Greenpeace on 08 Sep 2009 under News and Blog

New Delhi, 8 September 2009: Food products of Nestlé, Cadbury, Kellogg, Britannia, and Safal are among a ‘red list’ in a guide on GM-free food released by Greenpeace here today. The ‘Safe Food Guide‘, is a first of its kind in India, and ranks 16 well-known food brands.

The guide comes at a time when the Union Government is in the ver

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Everyone is eating. We are also eating. But we don’t eat directly. Whatever we prepare and whatever we collect, we first of all offer to Krishna. Because we think —and it is a fact—that everything belongs to Krishna. Krishna has given. You cannot manufacture rice, dhal or wheat in your factory, neither fruit, nor milk. It is given by Krishna. Eko bahūnām vidadhāti kāmān. He is giving and one has to acknowledge that, “Y

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In the beginning of the discharge of devotional service there are some regulative principles, if a  devotee observes  principles, surely he will quickly make good advancement in Kṛṣṇa consciousness...

The first are the primary ten regulative principles. Then come the secondary ten regulative principles, and added to these are forty-four other activities. So all together there are sixty-four items for discharging the reg

"Hare Krishna, Darshan of ISCKCON Mira Road on 18 April. click on  link  http://iskconmiraroad.com/deity-darshan-18-april-2012/"

"The intelligent, who have understood the Supreme Lord in association with pure devotees and have become freed from bad, materialistic association, can never avoid hearing the glories of the Lord, even though they have heard them only once.

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

   JIVASYA TATTVA JIJNASA -as sri krsna told everyone should be involved in enquiring absolute truth of his human life

Srimad Bhagavatam 8.8.12

abhisecanika bhumir
aharat sakalausadhih
gavah panca pavitrani
vasanto madhu-madhavau
SYNONYMS : abhisecanikah -- paraphernalia required for installing the Deity; bhumih -- the land; aharat -- collected; sakala -- all kinds of; ausadhih -- drugs and herbs; gavah -- the cows; panca -- five different varieties of products from the cow, namely milk, yogurt, clarified butter, cow dung and cow urine; pavitrani -- uncontaminated; vasantah -- personified springtime; madhu-madh

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There are very few people who do not pray to get a good life.  Everyone wishes to have a pleasant life . When the life becomes smooth, one can fulfill his responsibilities on time without bowing down to  others. 

A Bhakta is a broad minded . He knows that his good life is the gift of Bhagavan Sri Krishna . He gladly spends part of his wealth for Bhagavan and his needy Bhaktas .

On the contrary , an Atheist is selfish. He

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At times, it can seem like life is our enemy, as if things never quite pan out the way we would like them to, as if there’s a secret conspiracy against us. However, it’s critical to remember that, in reality, life isn’t our enemy. There is no conspiracy. Life is just life. It is what it is. The factor that can make life seem like our enemy, however, is our thinking.
    
As obvious as this insight may seem, the implicatio

Within this material world, all the living entities, they are all conditioned, very limited number. The unlimited number are there in the spiritual world. But still Krsna has made arrangement. Krsna is giving us chance, this human form of life, that "I give you all facilities, all the supplies, necessities of your life. The river will serve you, the hills will serve, the mountains will serve you, the ocean will serve you, the forest will serve you, the vegetables will serve, the animals will ser