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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:

• Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.7.13-14, purport—Lord Krishna Chaitanya is K

"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

Hare Krishna,

Please accept my humble obeisances.

A green village project named "Fourth Wave" is envisaged near Mysore city, Karnataka, South India encompassing some of the elements of varnashrama concept including land & cows to live a simple life.

Any Brahmana initiated or Harinama initiated devotee linked to Srila Prabhupad through a disciplic succession is eligible to participate. Criteria is that the devotee family should be willing to re-locate to the village at a certain point in time, spend

So Krsna comes to introduce the system by which one can get relief from this continuous, troublesome life. Therefore Krsna says: yada yada hi dharmasya glanir, glanir bhavati [Bg. 4.7]. Just like you suffer when you create some disturbance in the law. Then you suffer. We haye got experience. If we violate the state laws, then you have to suffer. Similarly, religious, religion means God's laws. They do not know. "Religion means faith." Faith, you may have faith something. I may have faith somethi

Fearlessness in

Material Existence

Part -1

Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Mathajis,

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

Last week HG Kalacakra prabhuji was in Abudhabi for 3 days and he made us remember our Guru Maharaj by quoting so many of Maharaj's realisations and transcendental nectar which made us strongly feel the presence of our dear Guru Maharaj. Prabhuji referred to a wonderful purport an

Hare krsna 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Question

Why should we offer worship to Bhagavan  by austerities like *Nama-japam* , *Pooja* , etc ? . Isn't it sufficient just to remember Him always ?.

Answer

Srimad Ramayanam's *Aranyakandam*  section, contains *Lakshmanopadesam* ( Advice to Lakshmana) . Sri Rama, Sita-devi and Lakshmana were living in the forest . One day, Lakshmana requested Sri Rama to advise about the universal principle.

Sri Rama first describes th

hari bol !!

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Answers from

A Maha Bhagavata

How to Avoid Differentiating between Services ?

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

Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Matajis,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudev.

In a recent conversation HG Devakinandan prabhuji was telling us how we should not be caught up with the externals and always be happy in sitting down to read Sri

The aim is to satisfy Visnu. We should always remember this fact, that we are eternally servant, part and parcel of Krsna, or Visnu. As I have given many times the example, there are so many parts of the body, but what are they meant for? To satisfy the belly. You are walking, you are catching, you are thinking, you are doing so many things -- what is the aim? The aim is satisfy the stomach. You cook, you earn hard money, and then you purchase goods and cook nicely and put it into the stomach.  

Hare krsna 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Krishna is always within us, and consequently He knows everything about our purposes, and He gives us the opportunity to work as we decide. If we decide to enjoy this material world, Krishna gives us the intelligence to become a very shrewd businessman or a popular politician or a cunning man so that we can earn money and enjoy ourselves. According to the standards of material life, many people are becoming great. They

Hare krsna 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

It is very easy for anyone to claim, "I am a Krishna-bhakta" .  But to become a real  *Krishna-Bhakta* and remain so thereafter,  requires total commitment andLOYALTY  to Sri Krishna . Nobody can cheat Bhagavan . Krishna is seated in our heart as *Eye-witness* (Mana-sakshi) or Conscience or Super-soul ( Paramathma). He is just a witness and does not involve with the  day-to-day activities .

But, in the case of a Krishna

Hare krsna 

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

People think, "I can enjoy this material world very nicely. Everyone is having such a good time. There is no reason I can't enjoy myself as much as they." This idea is illusion because there is no real enjoyment in the material world. We may be very good-looking, famous, well educated, wealthy and powerful, and we may have a very beautiful wife and children and hold the highest position in the country—but at any moment

From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!
Date: March 8th, 2012, Sri Gaura Purnima
Verse: Caitanya-caritamrta Adi 1.4
Speaker: HH Sivarama Swami

anarpita-carim cirat karunayavatirnah kalau samarpayitum unnatojjvala-rasam sva-bhakti-sriyam harih purata-sundara-dyuti-kadamba-sandipitah sada hrdaya-kandare sphuratu vah saci-nandanah

TRANSLATION: May the Supreme Lord who is known as the son of Srimati Saci-devi be transcendentally situated in the innermost chambers of your heart. Resplendent with the

Paramananda madhavam sri caitanya isvaram. The situation in Navadvip and the whole of India that time was that people were religious but they were not spiritual. They were religious just to show on the outside but actually they did not know the purpose of religion. People spent a lot to marry off their daughter, to put on a big show to show that they were very religious. One such wealthy had no more daughters to marry off then he married a female cat or a female dog or some demigod. So this was