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Tugboats of Maya

Posted on August 27, 2011Filed under BVKS SangaWhile walking along the waterfront, we saw an oceanliner being pulled alongby a tugboat. When the big ships enter the harbor, they have to turn offtheir engines and get parked. Observing this, Srila Prabhupada said, ‘Justsee: this ship is very, very big, but it is pulled by a little boat.Similarly, when we turn off our Krsna consciousness, we get pulled away bymaya.’Sivananda DasaFrom: Srila Prabhupada and his Disciples in Germany
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Thought Of The Day

A real Vaishnava never wants to hear anyone’s criticism and never wants to criticize anyone. 1st Jan 2007, New Delhi C.C Adi lila 7(83)

by H.H. Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj

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Scrap the Slaughter House Policy

Campaign against slaughter houses in U.P.
Posted on May 4, 2011 by Sampadak

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“Scrap the Slaughter House Policy”

Dear All,

With the U. P. Government is giving licenses to new abattoirs in the state, there’s simply no way that we can ignore the cries of the Lakhs of innocent animals who fall victim to this barbaric cruelty and mass butchering. All the proposed ultra modern slaughter houses will have capacity to butcher 10,000-20,000 animals per day and the meat will be exported o

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 Exactly 365 days ago there were nearly 10 Devotees in whole Mysore who used regularly chant the Holy Names and attend the Sunday Programs. Even among them only 5 were real residents, others were comers.

            Disciples of His Holiness Jayapataka Swami Maharaja His Grace Ananda Dham Prabhu (from Mumbai) and his good wife Vijayakamala Mataji (from Madurai) settled in a rented room in Mysore, just to organize here preaching programs. With the financial help of other Devotees they rented a ha

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If God really exists, then show me God!

Hare Krsna!

If you ever speak to an atheist, they will often say, “If God really exists, then show me God.” How do we reply to that?

The answer is that we cannot see God with our material senses. He is spiritual, and our senses our material. Just like you cannot measure someone’s body temperature with a tape measure (a tape measure is for measuring length), so similarly you cannot “see” God with your material eyes. You need spiritual eyes.

And even if we could bring God here, how would an athiest r

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JAI SHRI KRISHANA ...

Sri krishna govind hare murari
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JAI Sri krishna.........................................

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The 3 gunas are sometimes compared to 3 ropes, twisted together to
make one very strong rope, a rope that binds the conditioned living
being to material existence. Bhagavad-gita Chapter14 describes the
effect of the 3 modes, but it also describes how the modes can STOP
acting: when one undeviatingly engages in devotional service unto
Krishna, avyabhicari-bhakti.


BG 14.26: One who engages in full devotional service, unfailing in all
circumstances, at once transcends the modes of material nature and
thus

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We have the solution to all of the world's problems. Therefore we have the most awesome responsibility to educate the entire world population in the science of Krishna consciousness. Somehow or other we must awaken them to knowing who they actually are as pure spirit-souls and being who they actually are as Krishna's eternal servants. We have only two duties: to become fully awakened ourselves in Krishna consciousness and to awaken all others to to most sublime, happy state of pure Krishna consc

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Question: Is Lord Buddha Krishna's Incarnation?


Dear Gurudeva,

Is Lord Buddha an incarnation of Lord Krishna? I read that  Lord Buddha is an incarnation of Lord Krishna.  But this is difficult to believe because Buddhists do not believe in deity worship. They think the universe has come out from nothing.

Pradnya
 


Answer: Yes


Yes, according to the Srimad Bhagavatam, Lord Buddha is an incarnation of Krishna. Even though he is God Himself he taught atheism and denied the authority of the Vedas because a

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The proud, successful materialist laughs to see how much better off he is than those who are suffering in destitute impoverished conditions. But he does not realize that his successful position is only temporary. He is briefly enjoying the result of his previous pious activities while engaging in all sinful nonsense. He does not realize that as soon as his pious karma is exhausted he will be dragged down by the stringent laws of nature into a pitiable condition. In this connection there a Bengal

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His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami  Prabhupada writes in his purport to Srimad Bhagavatam 1.6.38 as follows:

"No one can be truly happy within the material world. Srila Narada Muni, in order to enlighten the miserable inhabitants, wanders everywhere. His mission is to get them back home, back to Godhead. That is the mission of all genuine devotees of the Lord following the footsteps of that great sage."

Srila Narada Muni is one of the predecessor acharyas in our line of disciplic succession

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No. Krishna is the God of the Gods.

Question: Are the All the Gods Supreme?


Dear Srila Gurudeva,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

I read in a recent reply that Lord Buddha is an incarnation of Lord Krishna. I feel that the variety of gods, demigods and deities are forms of the Supreme Personality Of Godhead, meant to cater to the 400,000 different species of humans as described in the Vedas. And I feel that Lord Krishna Himself is the form that is meant for the people who are mentally and spiritually most advanced, those who can d

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Hare Krishna

All glories to Srila Prabhupada
Sravanam kirtanam vishnoh, smaranam paadsevanam
archanam vandanam sakhyam dasyam atmanivedanam
sravanam--by hearing the glories of Krishna from authorities (bonafied spiritual master or his representatives)
Kirtanam-by congregational melodious chanting of Hare Krishna Mahamantra
Smaranam- by remembering the pastimes of krishna that you heard from authorities
paadsevanam- by offering service to the lord's lotus feet ( serving vaishnavas, offering flowers, tul
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Of the many wonderful pastimes of Srila Prabhupada I heard a wonderful
story that I'd never heard the second part of until now.
First part was with Prabhupada travelling to South America with his two
servants, the temple where they'd been gave them a packed lunch for the plane,
so in the air Srutakirti Prabhupada's servant opened Prabhupad's lunch pack and
served him his prasadam of puffed rice and peanuts. Prabhupada had his fill and
handed over the remnants to Srutakirti who'd just began eating when

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Interactions

Prabhupada was scheduled to speak at the centre that night. The devotees had set up Prabhupada's vyasasana at the end of the expansive hall. The combined colour scheme was quite striking -- the maha-mantra was painted all around the burnt-orange walls in metre-high dark brown lettering. Illumination came from bright red and yellow paper lanterns hanging from the tall ceiling. Mounted on the back wall was an enormous black and white photographic profile of Srila Prabhupada. Wearing hi
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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 2 Text 28
kaumarim darsayams cestam
preksaniyam vrajaukasam
rudann iva hasan mugdha-
bala-simhavalokanah


kaumarim -- just suitable to childhood; darsayan -- while showing; cestam -- activities; preksaniyam -- worthy to be seen; vraja-okasam -- by the inhabitants of the land of Vrndavana; rudan -- crying; iva -- just like; hasan -- laughing; mugdha -- struck with wonder; bala-simha -- lion cub; avalokanah -- looking like that.


TRANSLATION
When the Lord displayed His a
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Thought Of The Day

Even if devotees excuse those who insult them, Krishna takes a different position and He is strict on this matter. Krishna will not excuse or tolerate any insult of His devotees. If we want to please Krishna, we must never insult His devotees. BG 1.26-27, London 1973

by H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

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The Disease of Envy

Bhagavad Gita says that the bewildered spirit soul thinks himself to
be the doer of activites but in actuallity all the activities are
carried out by nature. This nature is working under Krishna’s
direction. Anything material spiritual anything is being performed by
Krishna alone. If we want to enjoy anything if we want to claim
proprietorship over anything or if want to take credit for anything
that means the most serious destructive enemy has overcome us. In this
material world everyone is envious of

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His Holiness Radhanath Swami addressed 830 HSBC Bankers in Canary Wharf UK
on 7th April 2011.

It seemed as if time had paused on Thursday 7th April to witness
an historical event where two extreme ends of the world met for a fusion of
the material to the spiritual. His Holiness Radhanath Swami was invited as
key note speaker on behalf of the Euro CEO of HSBC to address a large
gathering of high profile influential bankers along with the Group Manager
of the Board on the topic of universal equality.

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