Spiritual life means normal life, and material life means diseased life. Therefore we are always suffering in materialistic way of life. Diseased condition means suffering. So when we have got suffering, how we can say, "It is normal life. It is healthy life"? The common sense. Can any materialistic way, those who are living in a materialistic, can say that "I am very happy"? No. That cannot be. That cannot be. This is diseased condition. One who is intelligent, he can understand that "This is d
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Uproar over call to ban Bhagavad Gita
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International Society for Krishna Consciousness, ISKCON, followers protest outside the Russian consulate in Kolkata, India, on Monday.
New Delhi - Angry Indian lawmakers forced parliament to close on Monday and protesters gathered outside a Russian consulate over a Siberian trial calling for one of Hinduism's most holy books to be put on a list of banned literature that includes Hitler's Mein Kampf.
The case
The move to ban Bhagwad Gita by a Siberian court led to a storm in the Lok Saba on Monday, with several members denouncing it and demanding that the government take it up strongly with Russia.
"We will not tolerate any move to insult Lord Krishna," chanted Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad, who was supported by several members, angry over reports that a court in Tomsk was due to pronounce its verdict in a case calling for a ban on the Bhagwad Gita.
The reason for the reported move is tha
How Richard Dawkins et al are so intelligent
Posted on December 17, 2011
Filed under BVKS Sanga
…the atheist class, demon class, they want to forget Krsna. So Krsna gives
him such intelligence that he can speak of atheism so many volumes. But he
is getting that intelligence from Krsna. Krsna gives everyone the chance
that “Whatever you want to do, you can do. I will give you intelligence. So
if you want to become atheist, then I will give you intelligence how to
become first-class atheist, like Hir
Posted on December 18, 2011
Filed under BVKS Sanga
To become perfect is not very difficult job. But because we don’t want to
become perfect, because we want to be cheated, we do not become perfect.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Bhagavad-gita 1.13-14 — London, July 14, 1973
rubbish, nonsense writing, and real literature
Posted on December 19, 2011
Filed under BVKS Sanga
Vyasadeva was not an ordinary fiction writer. Anyone can write any nonsense.
No. Formerly, no book will be accepted unless it is written by liberated
soul. That was the system. No other man will dare to write any book, neither
his book will be accepted in society. Only Vedic literature and literature
produced out of Vedic knowledge. That is book. Otherwise, what are these
books? These fictions and nove
On Tuesday December 14th, members and supporters of the Hungarian Society for Krishna Consciousness protested outside Hungary's Parliament against a new law that could strip them of their status as a recognized church, and which puts the very existence of their world-famous self-sustainable Krishna-valley farm into question.
The crowd of several hundred included politicians, people of different faiths and world views, ISKCON devotees, some of them dressed up as cows and two actual cows from the
As part of ISKCON Pakistan`s yearly Gita Jayanti festivities, on December 11, devotees set out for a picnic to Mohenjo-daro, an archeological site situated in what is now the province of Sindh, Pakistan. Said to be built around 2600 BC, it was one of the largest cities of the ancient Indus Valley Civilization, and one of the world's earliest major urban settlements, existing at the same time as the civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Crete. This mysterious culture emerged nearly 4,5
Total of 8+10+5+19 (18 Mystic Powers has mention in Bhagavatam+24(5 +19) are considered inferior and minor they are automatically present in the ten and all the 10 secondary siddhis are present in the Asta Siddhis) siddhis + 9 types of wealth.
Siddhi(spiritual power), and Riddhi (prosperity) Nava Niddhi (9 types of Wealth)
Asta Siddhi and Nava Niddhi are the by Products of Bhakti or Suddha Nama
Hanuma possessed all of the below. (Asta Siddhi Nava Nidhi ke data)
The Ashta Siddhi (eight siddhis) in
1. PARKAYA PRAVESH Parkaya Pravesh means one’s soul entering into the body (sensorium) of some other person or animal or bird. Through this knowledge even a dead body can be brought to life.
2. HAADI VIDYA This vidya or knowledge has been mentioned in several ancient texts. On acquiring this vidya, a person feels neither hunger nor thirst, and can remain without eating food or drinking water for several days at a stretch.
3. KAADI VIDYA Just as one does not feel hunger or thirst in Haadi vidy
Dear devotees of Srila Prabhupada's ISKCON,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.
On Monday, December 19th, in Tomsk, Russia, a historic court case is taking place. Some of our movement's detractors are making a major court case, attempting to establish that Srila Prabhupada's Bhagavad Gita As It Is is is "extremist literature" and on these grounds have it banned throughout the country. The implications for ISKCON in Russia and even in the former USSR are far reachi
So there are three kinds of processes to receive knowledge: pratyaksa, aitihya and sabda. Pratyaksa means by direct perception, experimental knowledge. And aitihya, or anumana. Anumana, hypothesis, "It may be like this," "Perhaps like this." Just like modern scientists say, "Perhaps it is like this." That is called anumana, hypothesis. And another process is sabda-pramana. Sruti-pramana. Sabda means sound vibration, and sruti means aural reception. So out of three processes, the sabda-pramana, o
Devotees in Tomsk, Siberia, are currently in court fighting an attempt by the Russian government’s Federal Security Service (FSB) to prove that Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavad-gita As It Is is an extremist literature that should be banned.
It all began in May 2010, when an officer of the Tomsk FSB division approached Sergey S. Avanesov, the dean of the philosophy department at Tomsk University, and asked him for his “expert assessment” of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is.
Interestingly, Avanesov also teache
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Dear Maharajas and Prabhus,
please accept my humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
I want to add something to Maharaja
Prabhupada: Many yogis, they make such gold for meeting their expenditures. Yes. Still in India they know how to make gold from copper. Yes. The process is they will drink mercury at night, and in the morning they will urine on the copper coins. And then, after some hours, the copper coins taken and put into the fire, it becomes gold. And it is scientific that some molecules of mercury, if mixed with copper, it is gold. Gold is combination of mercury and copper. But the people cannot mix it. The
At the crack of dawn on 11th December, my husband and I drove down from Delhi to Ludhiana, the industrial capital of Punjab to participate in the world renowned Ratha Yatra of Lord Jagannath. On entering the city innumerable big and small colorful billboards informing the Lord Jagannath Ratha Yatra were visible. Whatever direction one moved his eyes; it was hard to miss them. As we moved on the whole city was decorated with flyers, banners and placards with beautiful pictures of Their Lordship
- That's it!!! I will get that Book!!!
With this burning out enthusiasm and determination I woke up and decided:
- How pitiful my condition is? Just to give some pleasure to this tiny stomach and tongue I have to eat killed animals.
- ENOUGH!!! I am ready to sacrifice with everything joyful I have in order to get that Secret Book which will answer to all my questions.
- I am ready to eat fruits and boiled beans but I need that Book!!!
- I spit t
Just Sit And Chant People Will Come
(Srila Prabhupada pasttime)
SrIla Praphupada was urging his disciples to go & preach in japan , but nobody was willing , Prabhupada told whoever goes to preach in japan I will personally take him Back to Godhead ,H.H.Sudama Maharaj agreed to go to japan , but after trying hard for many months seeing no results he returned back & met prabhupada to ask for further course of action , Srila Prabhupa told , "Just take a place for rent & put ur chair in the room & kee
Physicist hunt for Higgs Boson
To prove that universe was created with smashing of proton
They say smashing and bang happened for no reason
And matter turned into mass and spirit without reason
Life cannot spring out of matter
Even a child knows this better
Can inanimate particles collide and make life?
How silly to spends billions behind this obstinate rife
Just accept with humility that the creator has a purpose for creating one and all
How can the universe run systematically without control?
He is the
- Narayana (the universal shelter),
- Govinda (saver of the Earth and protector of cows),
- Madhava (Lord of knowledge),
- Madhusudana (the destroyer of the demon Madhu),
- Trivikrama (the one who conquered the three planetary systems),
- Vamana (the dwarf incarnation),
- Shridhara (the possessor of fortune),
- Hrishikesha (Lord of the senses),
- Padmanabha (whose navel produced the universal lotus),
- Damodara (who is self-restrained),
- Sankarshana (who reabsorbs),
- Vasudeva (one who dwells within),
- Pradyumna (who has the most
