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 I Am a new devotee of ISKON So wanted to know is thr any one from Gulbarga  to whom i can associate with them it wil great helpfull for me to proceed in krishna consiences. PLS IF ANY ONE AVAILABLE GIVE ME UR NUMBER OR I WIL B AVAILABLE AT THIS NUMBER +919632293343. 

 ' HARE KRISHNA'

Human life is not meant for improving the standard of eating, sleeping, mating and defending. No. We should live very simply and spend our time and energy for spiritual advancement. That is the special quality of the human form of life. We have the ability to question the purpose of our existence and also to discover the answers.

By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

2 weeks ago there was an All India competition in which one had to answer the questionier containing 14 questions.After reading the questions I was happy as I had read the answers of all the questions in books of Srila Prabhupad. I was little bit confident of getting the first prize of Rs. 5000. I also decided that if I would win, I will give this money to ISKCON, Pune. So, I started writing answers to those questions. Later I searched about the organization which was conducting this competetion

There are five levels of consciousness:

1. avrta-cetana, covered consciousness – Trees, plants, creepers, mountains…
2. sankucita-cetana, contracted, shrunken consciousness – Aquatics, birds, beasts…
3. mukulita-cetana, budding consciousness – Only Human beings
4. vikacita-cetana, blossoming consciousness – Only Human beings
5. purna-vikacita-cetana, completely blossomed consciousness – Only Human beings

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When Brahmājī was performing a great sacrifice on behalf of Varuṇa, Maharṣi Bhṛgu was born from the sacrificial fire. He was a great sage, and his very dear wife was Puloma. He couldtravel in space like Durvasa, Narada and others, and he used to visit all the planets of the universe. Before the Battle of Kurukṣetra, he tried to stop the battle. Sometimes he instructed Bhāradvāja Muni about astronomical evolution, and he is the author of the great Bhṛgu-saṁhita, the great astrological calculati

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Our material bondage is due to an illusion. What is that
illusion? That "I am this body." Dehatma-buddhi. "I am this
body, and anything which is required for this body or which I possess for the
comfort of this body, that is mine." Both of them are illusion, because I
am not this body; I am soul, aham brahmasmi. But the illusion is everyone is
thinking, "I am this body." "I am Indian," "I am
American," "I am white," "I am black," "I am
brahmana," "I am sudra," "I am this," "I am that."
So this is illusi

By Vyoma (February 1st, 2007)

Hare Krishna!

Dandvat Pranams to all…

This is a story about how Srila Pabhupad instructed his disciple about cocoa contained in chocolates and inspired that disciple to get higher taste.

Prabhupad took under his care a small orphan boy. Among other services, this boy was given one service of buying vegetables from the market for Srila Prabhupad’s kitchen.

One day (specifically in the summer of year 1973) the boy bought some chocolates (cadbury and 5 star) using the left

1. tamisra, rebellious rejection of the Lord’s service;
2. andha-tamisra, considering death to be the ultimate conclusion;
3. tamas, ignorance of one’s position as a jiva;
4. moha, the illusory bodily conception of life;
5. maha-moha, attachment for material enjoyment 

cloud the pure spiritual consciousness of the jiva. The sole cause of why the jiva becomes either liberated or conditioned lies in the proper or improper use of his minute independence.”

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Lord Krishna says in Bhagavad-gita 4.7

yada yada hi dharmasya glanir bhavati bharata
abhyutthanam adharmasya tadatmanam srjamy aham

“Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion - at that time I descend Myself.”

The religious principle for all living beings is to always remember Krishna and never forget Krishna. It is explained in the Chaitanya Charitamrta 22.113

smartavyah satatam visnur 
visma