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5 Forms of Balarama

2514858491?profile=originalAccording to expert opinion, Balarama, as the chief of the original quadruple forms, is also the original Sankarsana. Balarama, the first expansion of Krsna, expands Himself in five forms:

(1) Maha-sankarsana,

(2) Karanodakasayi,

(3) Garbhodakasayi,

(4) Ksirodakasayi, and

(5) Sesa.

These five plenary portions are responsible for both the spiritual and material cosmic manifestations. In these five forms Lord Balarama assists Lord Krsna in His activities. The first four of these forms are responsible fo

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The gopis know that Krsna is Varaha

Posted on February 3, 2012   Filed under BVKS Sanga


 

(For Varaha Dvadasi)

 

The gopis then looked upon the ground they were traversing and began to address the earth: “Dear earthly planet, we do not know how many penances and austerities you have undergone to be now living with the footprints of Lord Krsna upon you. You are very jolly; the hairs on your body are these jubilant trees and plants. Lord Krsna must have been very much pleased with you; otherwise how could He have embraced you in the for

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Posted on February 2, 2012

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(For Ramanujacarya’s disappearance anniversary)

Dr. Patel: Sir, I read your commentary on Bhagavad-gita and Ramanujacarya’s. They are absolutely parallel.

Prabhupada: Yes.

Dr. Patel: I think you have taken out of it… (laughter)

Prabhupada: How can I…

Dr. Patel: I am just joking.

Prabhupada: No, no. Our process is to take from the acaryas. We are not manufacturing. We are not so fools and rascals that we have to manufacture. We have to take the remnants o

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GURU and YOUTH to INSPIRE the nation!

2514858088?profile=originalMumbai, Maharahtra, February 2, 2012 /India PRwire/ -- His Holiness Radhanath Swami Maharaj - ISKCON Spiritual leader addressed 45000 youths in Mumbai in the event "Inspiro - 2012" held recently. With 15 ceos signed up for breakfast sessions, 9 NGOS participation. His Holiness Radhanath Swami Maharaj is one of the world's most prominent exponents of Bhakti Yoga and also the author of the best-selling book, "The Journey Home: Autobiography of an American Swami", which traces H.H Radhanath Swami's

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2514858169?profile=originalThe Founder - Acharya of Sri Gauranga Math (Kesiary), Sri Chaitanya Ashram (Kharagpur, Puri, Calcutta) and Sri Gaur Saraswat Santa Gaudiya Math (Chhekati and Baradiya)
 

Eternally sheltered at the lotus feet of The Founder - Acharya of World wide Sri Gaudiya Math and Jagadguru Om Vishnupad Paramhans Parivrajakacharya 108 Sri Srimad Bhakti Siddhanta Sarasvati Goswami Thakur Prabhupada .
 

The appearance of His Divine Grace Srimad Bhakti Kumud Santa Goswami Maharaja took place in the auspicious place

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2514858140?profile=originalMost Revered Sri Srimad Bhakti Kumud Sant Goswami Maharaj leaves his dear disciples, associates and followers in separation grief today. This is a great loss not only to the Gaudiya Vaishnavas but to the entire world. One of the brightest stars in the Gaudiya sky, Srila Bhakti Kumud Sant Goswami Maharaj took his last breath at 1.05 AM IST on January 7th, 2012 in a private nursing home.

Earlier Srila Maharaj was admitted to the hospital as he had problem in respiration due to severe cold few days

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Krishna talked to me one day.............

No one makes my bed
I stand up on my head
I sleep wherever I please
I walk with the dead

I am not of this world
This world is from me
I am not enslaved by it
I have let it go free

I can be anywhere I want
In the planet of your choice
I can do whatever I want
I can even be your voice

Do you hear me calling you
I am in your heart forever
I love you and always will
Love you now and forever

Fear was something I knew
Before I met myself
Now fear knows me and runs
I shine all by myself

Darkness disappeared forever
whereve

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Thought Of The Day

Before giving up the present body , If one is able to tolerate urges of material senses and check the force of desire and anger , he is a yogi and is happy in this world.

By Srila Prabhupada

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Nectar Bits from Maharaj’s Class in London


HERE ENDS YOUR

SpiritualQuest

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Even though Guru Maharaj was not feeling well, He still gave a class on Bhagavatam yesterday (8th July 2002) evening - it was extremely wonderful.
Guru Maharaj said that:


1st Canto: Adhikar Lila - qualifies one to understand rest of the 11 Cantos
2nd Canto: Gyan Lila - provides us thorough knowledge.


Srila Prabhupada gives a very strong punch in the purport for SB 1.2.12:
Devotional service,

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Why Worship Form of Formless God?

Question: Hare Krishna, Guru Maharaja,

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

I would like to know how to answer the question posed by a Muslim:

Why do you worship the form of God in the temple when God is formless?

Joy  

 

Answer: God isn't Formless. His Form is Unlimited.

If a Muslim asks such a question, he is not learned in his own scripture, the Qur'an clearly states as follows::

Wa lillaahil - Mashriqu wal-Magrib: Fa- 'aynamaa tu-walluu fa-samma Wajhu

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ISKCON NALLASOPARA NAMAHATTA  PREACHING CENTRE

Dubey Estate, Nallasopara - East, Thane 401 203.Call : 9226705294-9920329656

 

Hare Krishna …

 

We are glad to announce our  10th Annual Programme Festival of  ISKCON’s Nallasopara Namahatta Preaching Centre on 10th & 11th  March 2012 at Nagarpallika Khulla Rangmanch, Majithia Park, off Achole Road, Nalasopara-east, Thane.We are conducting our  preaching programme for the past 10 years in Nallasopara-Thane.

 

This is for the Vth time , that we are organizi

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Venue: Los Angeles

So, we welcome you one more time on my behalf also, on the occasion of the concluding session of Srimad Bhagvat Katha Mohotsava  here at Los Angeles temple at the lotus feet of the Lordships Shri Shri Rukmini Dwarkadish and in presence of His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupad ki jai!

So, we will continue from where we had left off yesterday.  So Gopis did try their best to stop the Lord from going to Mathura. However, Lord had his duty to perform “vinasayaca

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2514857579?profile=originalRenowned masters from various Yoga schools including ISKCON’s Yadunandana Swami and Radhanath Swami met for an international Yoga conference this past December 4th and 5th at the headquarters of Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Art of Living Foundation in Bangalore, India to agree on a date for a special World Yoga Day.

World Yoga Day, which representatives hope to have approved by the United Nations and UNESCO, will see the different schools of Yoga, regardless of their specialization, promote Yoga arou

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Loving Instructions from Maharaj


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I would like to take this opportunity to share some of the beautiful pointers Maharaj gave in my recent conversation with him. He gave powerful instructions which would inspire us in our struggle to gain a stable footing in our spiritual lives. Maharaj was telling that devotees’ nature centers around 3 simple ‘C’s!! Cool, Calm and Composed. He was explaining very nicely that come what may the material

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Misleading Missionaries

Misleading Missionaries

by Jayadvaita Swami

from Back to Godhead, November-December 1993

 

Recently I attended a conference held to honor an Indian missionary who’d come to America a century ago bearing India’s message of Vedanta. Though in America his name is now all but forgotten (if ever it was known), back home in India his fame lives on, his impact on the West still an item of national pride.

The conference, a gala event put on for a million and a half dollars by a worldwide body of Hindus, feat

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Where Do the Fallen Souls Fall From?

On learning that the material world is not our real home,
we naturally wonder, “How did we get here?”

by Jayadvaita Swami

from Back to Godhead, May-June 1993

 

When we hear that we live in this material world because we are “fallen souls,” it’s natural for us to ask, “Where have we fallen from?”

Srila Prabhupada says that as living souls we are all originally Krishna conscious. But what does that mean? Were we all originally with Krishna in the spiritual world? And if so, how could we ever have fallen

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what is paap and puniya

hare krishna

Please Accept My Humble Obeisances.

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada, Sri Gurudev & Gaurangachandra.

 

What is paap and puniya and ist exit please can anybody explain me.

 

thanks

 

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Well-Rounded Point of View

Posted on January 29, 2012  

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Amogha: Usually in modern education they have the idea called “well-rounded point of view.” They want to take some from here, from there, from that one and that one, that one, and then think about them all, and come up with a conclusion. So he is thinking it doesn’t fit with their pattern of reasoning, how we take from one source and get the proper conclusion. They think they have to get from many sources and compare.

Prabhupada: How… I can reply

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