Timeless Stories of Gomata

Have you ever wondered why and how Laxmidevi resides in cow dung? Why cows are considered most significant of all animals? How come cows have varied horns? How were cows created? How cows got their position in Goloka?...

Yes, all these are narrated in our scriptures and each story makes a wonderful read! Would you like to read them all in one place? Then read this article further...

"To make the mind austere is to detach it from sense gratification. It should be so traine

Bhaktivedanta College Celebrates Its First Decade

Recently, the College celebrated its first full decade of operating. This year's graduates, mostly devotees of Vaishnava parents, had worked hard to finish everything on time and enjoy their graduation ceremony. Seven graduates came through Bhaktivedanta College by completing a three-year degree in Vaishnava Theology.

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As per the Vedas there are two ways of passing from this world, one in the light and one in darkness. When one passes in light , he does not come back but when one passes in darkness he returns.

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

Follow One - Nine Will Come

(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)

The following is an excerpt from the lecture given by our Guru Maharaja H.H. Mahavishnu Goswami on 29.7.2007 on Srimad Bhagavatam 1.9.26 at Sri Sri RadhaNeelMadhav Dham, Rajkot.

purusa-sva-bhaava-vihitaan
yathaa-varnam yathaasramam
vairaagya-raagopaadhibhyaam
aamnaatobhaya-laksanaan


"At Maharaja Yudhishtira' s inquiry, Bhismadeva first defined all

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Often, when we’re looking for an answer, we “turn up the volume” of our thinking. This might be called active problem solving. We think, think, think—and then we think some more. We get personally involved in the process. 

For the most part, when we are actively thinking, we’re thinking about that which we already know, that with which we are familiar. We try to solve a problem at the same level of understanding that in

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It has been estimated that the average human being has around 60,000 thoughts per day. That's a lot of thoughts. Some of these thoughts are going to be positive and productive. Unfortunately, however, many of them are also going to be negative—angry, fearful, pessimistic, worrisome. Indeed, the important question isn't whether or not you're going to have negative thoughts — you are—it's what you choose to do with the on

Get Freed from the Service to the Mind

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva. The recent mail from H.G Kalacakra Krishna das and H G Sudarshana devi dasi ,’Anger is Danger’ is a really an enlightening one. Anger is the reflection of unsettled mind and below is a nice story which teaches us about the nature of our disturbed and uncontrolled mind. Once Buddha was walking from one town t

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sva-dharma-niṣṭhaḥ śata-janmabhiḥ pumān

viriñcatām eti tataḥ paraḿ hi mām

avyākṛtaḿ bhāgavato 'tha vaiṣṇavaḿ

Solving the Riddle of

Birth and Death

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

The unique contribution of Srila Prabhupada to humanity is that he presented the conclusion of all scriptures to all classes of people without discrimination. People from various cultural backgrounds also could appreciate his teachings and adopt Krishna bhakti as way of life. The g

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10,000 enemy soldiers poised--The King ordered kirtan.

from a lecture by HH Jayapataka Swami, Los Angeles April 17, 2010

There's the deity at Bankura in Bishnupur established by Srinivas Acharya. He is different than Srivas Thakur. After Jiva Goswami he was the next to protect the sampradaya.

About 300 years after Lord Caitanya there was one atheistic so called pandit. He was called Bhaskara Pandit.

At that time the Moghul ruler was a bit weaker. He amassed an army and he was attacking different

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A person can be completely engaged in Krsna consciousness business if he is completely sinless. Of course, by becoming Krsna conscious, even there is little tinge of sin, it is evaded gradually. But one should be very alert. It is not that "Because I am Krsna conscious, and by becoming Krsna conscious or chanting Hare Krsna mantra, I am getting out of the jurisdiction of sinful activities..." This should never be thought of. We should be very much alert, because maya is very strong. As soon as s

EKADASI or Ekadashi - Eleventh day of the Hindu Lunar Month. In every fortnight, there comes an Ekadashi. Jyeshta Shukla Ekadashi, which is called Nirjala or Bhimsaini Ekadashi is more auspicious and fruitful for good health, longevity, social comfort and salvation. Nirjala = Nir + Jala means Fasting without Water. Lord Vishnu is worshipped on this day. A metal utensil or Earthen pot filled with water covered by a white cloth and fruits are donated to a vedic scholar. Nirjala Ekadasi Story: Once

!! Radhey radhey !!EK BHAKT MAYI

Ek baar jagnnath puri mandir me jagnnath ji ke darshano ke liye badi bheed thi,mandir me pair rakhne ki jagah bhi na thi,

Ki tabhi chaitanya mahaprabhu ne mandir me pravesh kiya, mandir me bahkto ki bhed dekh ke wo mandir ke garud stambh ke sath khade ho gaye, jab kapat khule tab etni bhed hone ki wajah se darshan thik se nahi ho pa rahe the ki tabhi ek virdh aurat joki mahaprabhu ke thik peeche khadi thi wo mahaprabhu ke kandhe pe pair rakhte huye unke upar chad g

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura has written of the principle of energy. The three modes of material nature is material energy called 'Maha-Maya and is responsible fore the material activities like creation and destruction. As long as the living entity is engrossed in sense gratification; till then he comes under this influence of illusory energy. He is able to escape from this abominable material energy only on reali

The Blue Mountain Children's wonderland at the Durban Festival of Chariots this Easter weekend

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Please check out this really wonderful project we are undertaking at the Durban (South Africa) Festival of Chariots this Easter weekend. Please shower your blessings upon us so that we might please Lord Jagannatha, Srila Prabhupada, and all the assembled children!

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A person was advised by a holy man to gift a vegetable a day and told that he would attain great merit by doing so.
The poor man strictly followed the advice. After death, he was reborn in a royal family and grew up to become a king. He was able to recall what he had done in his past birth. So, he continued to gift a vegetable a day.
Surprisingly, after death, he was reborn as a beggar. The man was unable to comprehend t

So there are different classes of men, crow society and swan society. The swan society is different from the crow society. How you can make equal? The people are making, try to make classless society. It is not possible to make classless society because every living entity is being controlled by a different quality. So the qualitative distinction must be there. You cannot make them classless. It is all imagination. The crow class, the swan class, the pigeon class, the dog class, even in the anim