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The Three Principles to Drive Away Despondency

Here is an interesting punch from Srila Prabhupada’s purport in Srimad-Bhagavatam1.9.12 as discovered by Maharaj in his latest visit to Minneapolis. Lying on the bed of arrows, when Bhismadeva is passing away in the presence of Lord Krsna, he told Yudishtira Maharaj,

aho kastam aho 'nyayyam
yad yuyam dharma-nandanah
jivitum narhatha klistam
vipra-dharmacyutasrayah
Oh, what terrible suffe

ISKCON UJJAIN

BOOK DISTRIBUTION

Around 1st week on October, HH Bhakti Charu Swami Guru Maharaj took a very important and special Istagosthi, where Gurudev emphasized the importance of ISKCON Ujjain doing well in Book Distribution Marathon. Gurudev emphatically expressed his desire that ISKCON Ujjain give the best possible performance. Many devotees worked hard to please Gurudev and Srila Prabhupada. The total Book distribution points for the temple is approx. 18,000! Haribol!!!

For the pleasure of

Yoga means to reconnect our consciousness with God, and the yoga of work is to connect our work with God. How do we connect our work with God? By doing it in proper spiritual consciousness.  It is not that we have to change our job or give everything away; it means we have to learn how to live in divine consciousness.

That consciousness develops when we think of God, worship Him and become His devotees, when we associate with saintly people, when we make our home a temple and worship God, when we

As students you can use all your gifts for the ultimate welfare of the human society and in the service of God. Always remain in the mood of a humble person. Always recognize that whatever knowledge or abilities you have, they are by the grace of God. We may work hard to develop them, but without God’s grace, we have nothing to develop. God gives everyone a potential, and it is our free will how we’re going to utilize that potential and for whom.

You should do your studies as best as you can with

The mind is considered to be like a mirror. The soul is seen through this mirror of the mind. But if the mind is full of debris and dust—of lust, greed, anger, pride, envy and illusion—what do we see? We just see debris and dust. We cannot seeour self unless the mirror is clean. Therefore the purpose of all spiritual paths is to clean the mirror of mind so that we can perceive who we actually are, our relationship with God, our relationship with all living beings, and our relationship with the w

There are two ways to meet a glorious death, and both are very rare.

1. One is to die after performing mystic yoga, especially bhakti-yoga, by which one can control the mind and living force and die absorbed in thought of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.

2. The second is to die on the battlefield, leading the army and never showing one’s back. These two kinds of death are recommended in the sastra as glorious.

Drops of Nectar

Normally, whenever I am fortunate enough to be in the association of Maharaj, I would try as far as possible to jot down nice instructions of his or interesting incidents revolving around him. They definitely serve as important landmarks to guide us in our faltering spiritual odyssey. No doubt the imprints of these instructions and incidents are of an everlasting nature but in this age we are “blessed” with short-live

This Mind

Why, must I, possess this mind,

It adheres to anything, of any kind.

No prudence it exhibits, no strength of will,

It fails to remain, unattached and still.

From my duties, it makes me shy,

From works auspicious it diverts my eye.

My ally or enemy; its true nature’s unknown

For fickle it was, and even more, it's grown.

Not all is bad, and sometimes, I admit,

Virtuousness, even steadfastness, arise in it,

But a mere second later, its focus starts to sway,

A single temptation and it is led astray

Please join us for this enlivening seminar to be delivered by H.G. Radhika Raman Das. Please let anyone in the North Eastern United States about this event. We will be most happy to host out of town visitors for this event. Please contact me for more information on Nilamani108@gmail.com. Hare Krishna

Muslims Promote Bhagavat Gita As It Is :

ISKCON Ujjain News

As you might be aware of a very popular ISKCON Ujjain project- "Gita Champions League" which greatly inspired and blessed by HH Bhakti Charu Swami Maharaj. The idea is not only to distribute Bhagavat Gita As It Is but also to inspire people to read it. Already over 1,700 students from the most elite institutions of the state of Madhya Pradesh are participating in this, and the registration count is increasing day by day. This event is bei

THIS STORY GOT RECENT MEDIA COVERAGE BY THE TOP 5 NEWSPAPERS IN INDIA-

Hindustan Times - #1 National Newspaper in India
Dainik Bhaskar - #1 Newspaper in Central India
Nayi Duniya - #2 Newspaper in Central India
Patrika - #3 Newspaper in Central India
Free Press - Very Prominent National Newspaper
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Breaking News:
ISKCON Ujjain- The 1st temple to have LIVE Broadcast in Ujjain City

ISKCON Ujjain is the 1st temple in Ujjain city to have f

With HH Bhakti Charu Swami Gurudev and Krishna's mercy I am extremely excited to share that within the last couple days ISKCON Ujjain have been covered by the Top 5 national newspapers in India! Haribol!!!

Media coverage was in the following newspapers:

Hindustan Times - #1 National Newspaper in India
Dainik Bhaskar - #1 Newspaper in Central India
Nayi Duniya - #2 Newspaper in Central India
Patrika - #3 Newspaper in Central India
Free Press - Very Prominent National Newspaper

You can read the

sri-bhagavan uvaca
kutas tva kasmalam idam
visame samupasthitam
anarya-justam asvargyam
akirti-karam arjuna

The Supreme Person [Bhagavan] said: My dear Arjuna, how have these
impurities come upon you? They are not at all befitting a man who knows
the progressive values of life. They lead not to higher planets, but to
infamy.

In this material world ,a conditioned soul ,admires lot of people who possesses Richness ,Strength ,Fame ,Beauty , Knowledge and renunciation (may be, not many examples for this).

Thi

So Caitanya Mahaprabhu teaches from this point, that you are dasa. Give up this idea that you are independent master, or one with God, or so many rascal ideas. That is not good. It begins with this point. As Caitanya Mahaprabhu teaches that jivera svarupa haya nitya-krsna-dasa [Cc. Madhya 20.108-109]. Caitanya Mahaprabhu teaches from the point when Bhagavad-gita ends. Bhagavad-gita says, sarva-dharman parityajya mam ekam saranam vraja [Bg. 18.66]. This is the relationship. We are trying to becom

The Fall and Redemption of Soul

I found the following nice poem in Maharaj’s diary. It was actually written by H. G. Dravida prabhu, a senior disciple of Srila Prabhupada, who played a major role in finishing the last three cantos of Srimad Bhagavatam.

Venue: Mayapur When: February 4th, 2004 Verse: Srimad Bhagvatam 1.3.27-28

Reading from Srimad Bhagvatam Canto 1, chapter 3, text no. 27 and 28.

rasayo manavo deva manu-putra mahaujasah kalah sarve harer eva saprajapatayah smritah

Translation and purport by Srila Prabhupad. Srila Prabhupad ki jai!

All the rishis, Manus, demigods and descendants of Manu, who are especially powerful, are plenary portions or portions of the plenary portions of the Lord. This also includes the Prajapatis.

Purport: Those

Hare Krishna,

Here is the process to add Vaisnava Calendar Events in Google Calendar & sync with Mobile calendar:

1) Read the process to subscribe to calendars in Google Calendar at: http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=37100

2) Add one of the below calendar URL
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His Holiness Lokanath Swami, His Holiness Radhanath Swami and His Holiness Gopal Krishna Goswami during the cornerstone laying ceremony at ISKCON Kharghar in the year 2012. Watch video on www.lokanathswamivideos.com.