Here is a wonderful story of a wonderful devotee name Suchi, she's one of my friend. I came to know her through facebook, she told how she was transformed to a devotee being an atheist. Its a very amazing story, worth reading.
She said,
"I was born with a skin disease, and it was really bad. I couldnt eat a lot of things, and I looked horrible. haha, anyways i had a different childhood then others,
So wherever Krsna's pure devotees are there and when the pure devotees chant, Krsna is there. This is the secret. Tatra tisthami narada yatra gayanti mad-bhaktah. So we, if we keep ourself pure devotee, without any other desire, material desire, then you should know that Krsna is present there. And as soon as Krsna is present there, then, on account of His presence, all opulences are there. Krsna is Madhava. Madhava means the husband of the goddess of fortune, Radha-Madhava. So try to keep Krsna
Hari Smriti 2/3
(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)
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Dear Prabhujis and Mathajis,
Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada and Gurudeva
This is in continuation of the previous mail, posting a few of the points from the wonderful class taken by H.G. Svayam Sphurathy Krishna prabhu, on the constant remembrance of Lord Hari. Herein the reasons for us not bei
Hari Smriti 3/3
(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)
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Dear Prabhujis and Mathajis,
Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances! All Glories to Srila Prabhupada and Gurudev!
This is in conclusion of the previous mails, posting a few of the points from the wonderful class by H.G. Svayam Sphurathy Krishna prabhu, on the constant remembrance of Lord Hari. When Hiranyakashipu asked his son Prahlada, from whom he
Hare krsna
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada
By sincerely practicing the joyful process of Bhakti-yoga ( devotional service) , we align ourselves with the supreme God , Bhagavan Sri Krishna. The more we take steps toward trusting Krishna to be our maintainer and guardian, the more we will see how everything that happens in our life is designed to transform our consciousness from material to spiritual. Krishna expertly arranges events in Devotees' lives to help
Dear Devotee friends
This Gaur purnima , Spiritualnectar email group wishes you an auspicious and
fully vibrant krishna conscious gaurabda year.
pls accept a small beautiful gift of Krishna.
Compiled beautifully Satsvarup Maharaj presents Srila Prabhupada's beautiful
description of each of Krishna's wonderful qualities.
haribol
Hari Smriti 1/3
(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)
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Dear Prabhujis and Mathajis
Hare Krishna! Please accept my humble obeisances! All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Gurudev!
For all of us who are aspiring to be devotees of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the constant challenge is how to constantly remember the Lord in the midst of all the chaos, calamities, commitments and comforts of the material world. I
Sri Giti-guccha - Vaishnava Songs
Hare Krishna ,
Please accept my humble obeisances, all glories to shrila Prabhupada.
We all know and have experienced that regular reading of Shrila Prabhupada's books are certainly one of the best ways to learn and grow in our sadhana . I have tried to keep a diary to note down the books i am reading with entries of my realizations on that reading, and It has helped me a lot to plan my reading, and refer to it later also. Let us share here what are we reading, our realizations on that reading and
Sri Sri Guru Gaurangau Jayatah
Please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Recently, I read a book "Salted Bread", which speaks about difficulties and struggles of Krishna's devotees in the early days of our movement in the former Soviet Union. "Salted Bread" is a great source of inspiration for all book distributors who are daily meeting different challenges. It is especially effective for preaching to our rascal, ever complaining mind, because we can understand tha
A conversation with His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
The following conversation between His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada and several of his disciples took place in June 1974 in Paris.
Devotees: A man came to the temple a couple of days ago and argued that we really can’t say for sure that there’s life after death, so why worry about it? Better to build a more prosperous society. At least this we can understand, and it would be a meaningful accomplishment.
Sr
Fearlessness in
Material Existence
Part - 2
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Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Mathajis,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Gurudev.
We are continuing on the topic of becoming fearless in material existence based on verse 4.29.51 from Srimad Bhagavatam.
sa vai priyatamas caatmaa / yato na bhayam anv api
iti veda sa vai vidvaan / yo vidvaan sa gurur harih
"One who is engaged in devotional service has not the lea
A conversation with His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Srila Prabhupada [hearing the bells and music from a passing ice cream truck]: What is that?
Disciple: An ice cream truck, Srila Prabhupada.
Srila Prabhupada: Oh, ice cream. [Laughter.] You are taking ice cream? Huh?
Disciple: No, Srila Prabhupada. Sometimes they make it with eggs or slaughterhouse by-products or who knows what. But anyway, the trucks go up and down the street.
Srila Prabhupada: Canvassing?
Disciple: Yes.
Srila Pr
A conversation with His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Disciple: Srila Prabhupada, once you said, “The tractor—this is the cause of all the trouble. It took all the young men’s farm work. It forced them to go into the city and become entangled in sensuality.” You said people had to leave the country and the simple life of goodness and God consciousness. And so they went to the city and got caught up in the anxious life, the mode of passion.
Srila Prabhupada: Yes. In the city, peo
Lord Chaitanya is the Supreme Person, Krishna, appearing as His own worshiper. He is the combined form of Krishna and Krishna's most dear devotee, Srimati Radharani . He came to experience the love She feels for Him, and to show by example how to fully surrender to Krishna.
He exhibited symptoms of love of God to the highest degree, and emphasized chanting the holy names of Krishna as the best means to attain love of God.
References:
"It would certainly be a very laborious task to pick the fruits and distribute them alone, and still I suspect that some would receive them and others would not."
"Therefore I order every man within this universe to accept this Krsna consciousness movement and distribute it everywhere to everyone."
"I am the only gardener. If I do not distribute these fruits, what shall I do with them? How many fruits can I alone eat?"
"By the transendental desire of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, wate
"It would certainly be a very laborious task to pick the fruits and distribute them alone, and still I suspect that some would receive them and others would not."
"Therefore I order every man within this universe to accept this Krsna consciousness movement and distribute it everywhere to everyone."
"I am the only gardener. If I do not distribute these fruits, what shall I do with them? How many fruits can I alone eat?"
"By the transendental desire of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, wate
For 36 years, Abdul Rashid, a 58-year-old Muslim, has been making clothes adorned by the deities at the ISKCON temple; he is now designing pink outfits embellished with silver zari for the idols for Rang Panchami
In India, religion dominates people's lives to a great extent that at times, it dictates people's professions too. However, there are a few times when devotion is not constrained by religion. Abdul Rashid is such an example. The 58-year-old designer is the man behind the beautiful clo
Gaur Purnima 2012 celebrations at ISKCON Baroda
By Basu Ghosh Das
The 526 annual observance of the appearance day of Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu was celebrated by thousands of pious members of the public at ISKCON Baroda on Thursday, March 8, 2012.
In the morning, Murlimohan Das, temple president of ISKCON Vijayawada, lectured on the life of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.
Jaya Gaurasundar Prabhu, formerely temple president of ISKCON Baltimore and ISKCON Phoenix, both in the USA, also participated in t
