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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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Date: 15-Dec-11 15:17 (17:17 +0200)
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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

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

yesterday evening was my dream evening....

I was with H.G. ganganarayan pr. , President Iskcon ujjain. two schedule of sweet kirtan and a lovely lecture.

He is working very hard for us. but i am so unfortunate that i am not shaping my life as per his saying. No regular chanting... I want but my careless and lasy nature... pls guide me.

So this material civilization is just like decorating the dead body. This body is dead. That is a fact. So long the soul is there, it is working, it is moving. Just like your coat. It is dead. But so long it is on your body, it appears the coat is moving. The coat is moving. But if somebody is very much astonished, "Oh, how nice the coat is moving!" (laughter) He does not know the coat cannot move. The coat is dead. But because the man is there who is putting on the coat, therefore the coat is m

24 Forms of Vishnu & his Consorts

1. keshava Having beautiful hair, kirti Fame, good report, fame,renown
2. narayana Ground of Being kanti Beauty, loveliness
3. madhava He propounds the true knowledge about himself tushti satisfaction
4. govinda Lord of the Earth pushti prosperity, nourishment
5. Vishnu All pervading dhrti fortitude, endurance, persistence
6. madhusudana Slayer of the “honey” demon shanti peace
7. trivikrama He who pervades the 3 vedas kriya activity, endeavor
8. vamana Saviour of Indra, he who produces joy in

Posted on December 14, 2011
Filed under BVKS Sanga

Anything that Srila Prabhupada (Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura) wanted to
get done always got done. Whatever desire he expressed always was fulfilled,
sometimes very miraculously. Let me tell you about just two incidents.
The new temple at Sri Yogapith in Mayapur was going to be opened in a few
days by the King of Tripura. Since there was no electricity in Mayapur at
that time, we had ordered a generator to be shipped to Mayapur from
Calcutta. W