Bhakti Rasa Is a Mellow
"Bhakti means devotional service. Every service has some attractive feature which drives the servitor progressively on and on. Everyone of us within this world is perpetually engaged in some sort of service, and the impetus for such service is the pleasure we derive from it" (NOD). "Every living entity, beginning from Brahma, the first living entity within the material world, down to the insignificant ant, desires to relish some taste derived from sense perception. Thes
Excerpted from a discussion on Brahma-vimohana-lila by Swami B.V. Tripurari
“Prabhupada turned to me a third time and said, 'Did you see it?' This time I replied, 'Yes I saw it.' And I thought, 'I'm seeing you, and this is Vrindavana. Wherever you are, that is Vrindavana. Wherever you look, that is Vrindavana. You have the kind of vision that can harmonize all things.”
Seeing the cows and elderly cowherds rush to greet their calves and sons, Balarama was concerned that the very essence of Vrindava
Brahma said, "My dear Lord, You are the only worshipful Supreme Lord, Personality of Godhead; therefore I am offering my humble obeisances and prayers just to please You. Your bodily features are of the color of clouds filled with water. You are glittering with a silver electric aura emanating from Your yellow garments.
"Let me offer my respectful repeated obeisances unto the son of Maharaja Nanda who is standing before me with conchshell, earrings and peacock feather on His head. His face is bea
Summary: atmendriya-priti-vanchatare bali `kama' krsnendriya-priti-iccha dhare `prema' nama
"The desire to gratify one's own senses is kama [lust], but the desire to please the senses of Lord Krishna is prema [love]." (Caitanya Caritamrta Adi 4.165)
Here priti is the common factor to the two definitions: lust and love. In the verse Prabhupada translates priti as "to please", yet throughout his books priti is related to the principle of love, and technically equated
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servant of servant
Prayers Glorifying the Lord’s Pastimes in Vraja
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The highwaymen lust, greed and anger have captured me and bound me with the ropes of the desire for fame. I pray that the heroic devotees of Lord Krishna, the enemy of the Agha demon, may defeat my captors and cut the ropes that bind me.
2
I am scorched by the blazing forest fire of old age, deeply bitten by the poisonous snake of blindness, pierced by the sharp arrows of forced dependence on others,
Our sankirtana - tainted with "BLOOD OF SLAUGHTER!"
I remember, in my first few days in ISKCON, I had asked someone about how mrdangas were made and where were they made. Clearly, I was not satisfied with the answer and always thought, one fine day, I will get into the details. Surely enough, I now know, our performance of sankirtan all over the world is tainted with the blood of slaughter!
DIGESTING THE FACT:
Navadwip to Mayapur via boat crossing Ganga is a beautiful short trip. My recen
South African harinamas in April
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Into the Townships (April 15)
Tomorrow we will be taking a group of devotees to do harinama and prasadam distribution in nearby Zululand.
Shanty Town Kirtan (April 18)
Yesterday we distributed prasadam and had harinama through one of South Africa's worst ghettos. Rife with crime and steeped in poverty, the atmosphere in the dilapidated shanty town was miserable. But as we wove our way through the tiny streets an
This article was featured on Deccan Chronicle, a major newspaper in Southern India on May 24
Recently, I discovered that saying a simple prayer, reading a few shlokas from The Bhagavad Gita As It Is by Srila Prabhupada, lighting diyas at the altar with some agarbattis and chanting my favourite Hare Krishna maha mantra or attending Sunday mass at the Church have had a deeply calming and soothing effect on me.
At first, I did this purely
I'm sitting here in the Riga, Latvia airport on 1 November 2006 waiting for a flight to Amsterdam, as I deeply consider what should be the topic for this week's lesson. What immediately comes to mind is the topic that surfaced during the Srimad Bhagavatam lecture I gave this morning at our Riga temple. What was that topic? Restoring the Krishna conscious world order.
Many people would find this topic preposterous because it assumes that previously there was a Krishna conscious world order on thi
The bondage is gunamayi maya, being wrapped up by the qualitative modes of nature. That is bondage. But if one is engaged in devotional service, he is not under this bondage because he knows things as they are.(Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.15.40)
-By. H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
"Incarnation for the Modern Age"
Sri Chaitanya is the Kali-yuga avatara, and He descended for the purpose of establishing the yuga dharma, which in this age is the chanting of Lord Krishna's names. He appeared in the guise of a devotee to perfectly show how the process of devotion should be followed and applied. It is something like a teacher drawing on the black board "A B C". We should not think the teacher is himself learning the alphabets, but he is doing it to show us how to write properly.
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Seeing the cows and elderly cowherds rush to greet their calves and sons, Balarama was concerned that the very essence of Vrindavana seemed to be lost. How could maya enter into the Lord’s domain?
What is maya? Separate interest. “I love my son more than another boy.” This is material life—separate interest. And in spiritual life, in Vrindavana, Krishna is the center. The mothers there love Krishna more than their own sons, and their sons love Krishna more than they do their mothers. In this sens
