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

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

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

You have asked how you can thank me. Whether you thank me or not, if you
understand the importance of this Krishna Consciousness Movement, that is my
success. The whole world is thinking in the bodily conception of life and
thus remaining like animals. The animals cannot be happy but people want to
keep themselves like animals. For peace they are barking in the United
Nations. Croaking toads who think they are making a big conference, and then
one day

Devotees don't do "Cinta"

They do "Cintan"

Hare Krsna

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Candana yatra

Candana yatra starts on the third lunar day of the waxing moon of Vaisakha
month, and continues for twenty days. Lord Jagannatha gave direct
instructions to King Indradyumna to perform this festival at this time.
Smearing the body of the Lord with ointments is an act of devotion, and the
best of ointments is sandalwood paste. Since the month of Vaisakha is very
hot in India, the cooling effect of the sandalwood i

Hare krsna

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

SRI SANKARACARYA

In order to establish his doctrine of non-violence, Lord Buddha flatly refused to believe in the Vedas, and thus, later on, Sri Sankaracarya stopped this system of religion in India and forced it to go outside India.

Sri Sankaracarya wanted to establish the predominance of one's spiritual identity; therefore he wanted to convert the atheists through an imaginary interpretation of the Vedic literatures. These are the secrets of the acaryas. Sometimes they conceal the real purpo

By Krishna-kumara Dasa I’m out traveling again, and yesterday our party visited the University of Santa Barbara in California. After a full day of sankirtan, it was time to go back to the van. So, praying to do something to please my spiritual master and Krsna, I decided to try to distribute one more book. As I passed by a young couple, I didn’t even seriously approach them because they appeared to be stereotypical athlete-cheerleader people. At this point I was just hunting for an obvious sweet

By Krishna-kumara Dasa

I’m out traveling again, and yesterday our party visited the University of Santa Barbara in California. After a full day of sankirtan, it was time to go back to the van. So, praying to do something to please my spiritual master and Krsna, I decided to try to distribute one more book. As I passed by a young couple, I didn’t even seriously approach them because they appeared to be stereotypical athlete-cheerleader people. At this point I was just hunting for an obvious sweeti

Hare Krishana to all Prabhuji and Mataji's

   PAMHO. all glorious to sri guru and gauranga.

all glories to srila prabhupada,

i am happy to inform about the padyatra  visiting four dham in himalayas Badrinath ,Kedarnath,Gangotri & Yamonotri.Date of starting from Haridwar 7th May until 2 July 2012 

With nitai gaursundar the utsava deities of ISKCON padyatra india,around 40 devotees are walking for two months .

Its not  just a pilgrimage  but a preaching progm.Through out the day there will be harinam

Report from Malawi, Africa
 

(The author is Murari Dasa, who has been preaching practically alone for the last two years in one of the world's poorest countries.)

Bhakta Ram has become very keen for any opportunity to distribute books, and so he joins me on weekend book distribution excursions.

On the first weekend of March Bhakta Ram and I rode by car about four hours to the shore of Lake Malawi, to a town called Mangochi, the main holiday-resort town in this country. Bhakta Ram took one of his com

A satisfied student

This letter was sent to Shastra krt das, a book distributor in Los Angeles.

Dear Shastra,

Thank you so much for your dedication in distributing books to many college campuses!

I am not sure if you remember me because you encounter many students when handing out books, but we met at Citrus College and you gave me a copy of the Bhagvad Gita (last October or November, 2011). This book is one of the most precious in my life. It gives me motivation during difficult times and keeps me