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pulakodbhinna-sarvango
muncan milad-drsa sucah
purnartho laksitas tena
sneha-prasara-samplutah
pulaka-udbhinna -- bodily changes of transcendental ecstasy; sarva-angah -- every part of the body; muncan -- smearing; milat -- opening; drsa -- by the eyes; sucah -- tears of grief; purna-arthah -- complete achievement; laksitah -- thus observed; tena -- by Vidura; sneha-prasara -- extensive love; samplutah -- thoroughly assimilated.
What kind of disease does greed inflict on the soul and what exactly is greed anyway?
A former investment banking securities salesman whose business was obliterated in the mortgage market meltdown lamented that the greed of others destroys many economic lives. Greed is simply the desire to want more than you have, he explained. “It’s a natural state.” He is right of course. But for some, so is murder and rape. The evolution of our species necessitates we don’t give into every natural desire.
The c
Many men come here and by their talents, earn huge amounts of money, but it remains here, and he goes alone with his works only to accept another different kind of body, forgetting everything behind. But if he acquires some spiritual assets it goes with him, and even if it is not perfect in this life, it begins again from that point in next life.
-By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
Srila Prabhupada said this chanting of – Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare/ Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare - It is not an artificial imposition of the mind. It is invoking our original consciousness, our consciousness is so pure. It is to love Krsna but now - that consciousness has become polluted, so polluted by material designations, material attachments and material conceptions. So who is a pure devotee?That person who is in his natural state to love Krsna. Like the
Applying Tilak
One of the most striking aspects of a Vaishnava’s attire is his tilak – the clay markings on his forehead. Srila Prabhupada said that just as a soldier’s regiment can be known by the uniform he wears, similarly a devotee of the Lord must wear tilak on his forehead in all conditions.
Although it is best to wear tilak all the time, some workplaces may not allow it. If a devotee cannot wear tilak to work then he can chant the appropriate mantra and apply ‘water tilak’.
Tilak is worn fo
sa muhurtam abhut tusnim
krsnanghri-sudhaya bhrsam
tivrena bhakti-yogena
nimagnah sadhu nirvrtah
sah -- Uddhava; muhurtam -- for a moment; abhut -- became; tusnim -- dead silent; krsna-anghri -- the lotus feet of the Lord; sudhaya -- by the nectar; bhrsam -- well matured; tivrena -- by very strong; bhakti-yogena -- devotional service; nimagnah -- absorbed in; sadhu -- good; nirvrtah -- fully in love.
Regarding your question of dancing-show, whatever it may be, it may not deviate from the real Krishna consciousness program. We are hari-kirtana men, that's all. We can attract people by some gorgeous show, but inside there must be strict purity and seriousness, otherwise we sha
In three out of the four millenniums (namely Satya-yuga, Tretä-yuga and Dväpara-yuga) people had the honor to be able to understand transcendence through the path of disciplic succession. However, in the present age, people have no interest in the disciplic succession. Instead, they have invented many paths of logic and argument. This individual attempt to understand the supreme transcendence (called the ascending process) is not approved by the Vedas. The Absolute Truth must descend from the
What kind of disease does greed inflict on the soul and what exactly is greed anyway?
A former investment banking securities salesman whose business was obliterated in the mortgage market meltdown lamented that the greed of others destroys many economic lives. Greed is simply the desire to want more than you have, he explained. “It’s a natural state.” He is right of course. But for some, so is murder and rape. The evolution of our species necessitates we don’t give into every natural desire.
The c
The demigods are authorized supplying agents on behalf of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Visnu. Therefore, they must be satisfied by the performance of prescribed yajnas. In the Vedas, there are different kinds of yajnas prescribed for different kinds of demigods, but all are ultimately offered to the Supreme Personality of Godhead. For one who cannot understand what the Personality of Godhead is, sacrifice to the demigods is recommended. According to the different material qualities of the
Question: Is Lord Krishna Partial? |
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Dear Gurudeva |
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Answer: Krishna is Equal to All |
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Krishna is equal to all. He is |
If you want to really connect with your true identity as an eternal, all-blissful, all-knowing, all-loving spiritual being, you should rise early every morning before dawn and dive deeply into the sweet, ambrosial ocean of hearing and chanting the glories of the unlimitedly splendorous Supreme Personality of Godhead, Lord Sri Krishna. Then you will experience the supreme mellifluousness, the topmost ambrosial sweetness, of reviving your original loving relationship with that supreme superstar, t
Carefully think through what it is that you want, because you just might end up getting it, which is
Despite an uneasy relationship with the devotees, the reluctant Melbourne City Council had granted permits for the noon-time parade. To attract crowds to the starting point, two devotee couples were married at an authentic Vedic ceremony in the City Square that morning. City Council officials and police, deeming the ceremony unauthorised and the fire illegal, chased Mohanananda, the officiating priest, a considerable number of city blocks before finally losing him
sa katham sevaya tasya
kalena jarasam gatah
prsto vartam pratibruyad
bhartuh padav anusmaran
sah -- Uddhava; katham -- how; sevaya -- by such service; tasya -- his; kalena -- in course of time; jarasam -- invalidity; gatah -- undergone; prstah -- asked for; vartam -- message; pratibruyat -- just to reply; bhartuh -- of the Lord; padau -- His lotus feet; anusmaran -- remembering.
Introduction
In the Katha Upanisad (1.2.18) we find passage, which reads similar to BG 2.20:
na jayate mriyate va vipascin
nayam kutascin na babhuva kascit
ajo nityah sasvato 'yam purano
na hanyate hanyamane sarire
The meaning and purport of this verse is the same as in the Bhagavad-gita, but here in this verse there is one special word, vipascit, which means learned or with knowledge.
The knowledgeable Soul
The soul is full of knowledge, or full always with consciousness. Therefore, consciousness is
Imagine a tribal who drinks a stinking toxic liquid, goes crazy, shouts insensibly, topples into dirt, falls unconscious, returns to consciousness after several hours with severe headache and stomach upset and vomits helplessly in agony.
“How horrible,” we will exclaim, “What kind of people do such things? Why?” But isn’t that what an extra-terrestrial being will exclaim on seeing one of the most common – and most perverse – pleasures that we moderns delight in? Yes, we are talking about dri
Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda arrives at the Foundation Stone laying for the ISKCON Midday Meal program’s new kitchen.
In India, ISKCON Food Relief Foundation (IFRF) has partnered with the Government of the state of Jharkhand and local Fortune 500 company Tata Steel to build a new centralized state-of-the-art kitchen, which will deliver nutritious, sanctified meals to 65,000 underprivileged school children in Jharkhand’s East Singhbhum and Saraikela-Kharsawa districts.
The program is part o
