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Thursday, October 6th marked the Hindu festival of Dashera which celebrates the victory of the noble Rama over the evil Ravana as told in India’s great epic, the Ramayan. Dashera leads up to Diwali which celebrates Rama’s victorious return to his home in Ayodhya.
To observe these events the Vedic Society at the Global Headquarters of HSBC invited Radhanath Swami to speak to a group of over 1000 bankers including senior executives from the UK Home Office and other investment banks, at it’s landm
I am beside myself with grief and am speechless while trying to digest the reality that His Grace Gopiparanadhana Prabhu has been taken away by Krishna. Krishna’s plan is always perfect but when it manifests in the passing away of such an intimate, loving Godbrother as Gopiparanadhana Prabhu it is painful. But our solace is in our deep confidence that he has attained the ultimate perfection of life, entrance into Radha Giridhari’s eternal lila.
Gopiparanadhana Prabhu was an all-attractive perso
HARE KRISHNA !
How To Resist Temptations?
One of the disciples approached his Guru with a heavy heart. When enquired of his troubled face he said, “Guruji, I am fed up with temptations. At each moment and every place I am tempted. I fear that I will have to leave this life of solitude and prayer due to the irresistible temptations that suppress the joy of my life.”
The Guru consoled him saying, “Don’t worry my child. There is a solution for your problem. Let’s talk about this after two weeks. T
vande vinaya-bhāvāḍhyaṁ
sākṣād bhāgavatāmṛtam
śāstra-marma-vidāṁ varyaṁ
gopī-prāṇa-dhanaṁ prabhum
virahānale no dagdhān
bhaviṣya-bhaya-pīḍitān
pīyūṣa-bindubhir vāṇyāḥ
poṣayānātha-jīvitān
vande—I bow down; vinaya-bhāva—with humility; āḍhyam—to one who is endowed with; sākṣāt—to him who is personified; bhāgavata-amṛtam—nectar of the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam and of the Bṛhad-bhāgavatāmṛta; śāstra—of the sacred scriptures; marma—mysteries; vidām—of those who know; varyam—to the most eminent; gopī—of the g
Listen about Srila Vasudeva Ghosh
Recently on the occasion of release function for Telugu (South Indian language) version of Srimad Bhagavatam, I wrote a special article in Bhagavad Darshan (Telugu BTG) describing the events leading to the completion of Srila Prabhupada’s Bhagavatam. How faithfully the humble disciples of Srila Prabhupada took up the unfinished task of their Spiritual master on their shoulders and thereby became the special recipients of Sri Guru’s mercy was narrated in that article. Srimad Bhagavatam is the h
Hare Krishna.
I attended the recent samadhi ceremony and memorial service for Gopiparanadhana Prabhu at Govardhan. It was an emotional ceremony, full of memories of a most dedicated servant of Srila Prabhupada. I also had the fortune to visit the apartment next to the Govardhan Palace where he left this world. Unmentioned in any reports I read of his passing, Gopi Prabhu was actually living somewhat separately from his family as a vanaprastha and was thus alone when he left.
Years ago I had the
Meena’s tearful parents and I watched helplessly through the glass pane separating us from the room where the doctors were desperately fighting to save little Meena’s life. It was an accident…it is always an accident…My neighbours’ child Meena was trying to light a ‘fountain’ firecracker and in the dark, she had not noticed the string of live ‘atom-bomb’ firecrackers that someone else had lit nearby. The little girl had been caught in the multiple explosions that had taken place around her. We
Happy Diwali
A Talk by Giriraj Swami, October 25, 2003, Houston
A Talk by Giriraj Swami, October 25, 2003, Houston
We wish you all a happy Diwali. Diwali, or Dipavali, marks the end of the
year, and by the year's end we want to pay our debts, rectify our
relationships--and then try to do better the next year.
The Vedic literatures inform us that in the present age, Kali-yuga, the
recommended process for self-realization, or God realization, is the
chanting of the holy names of the Lord. Of course, we know that Lord Krsna
appeared about five thousand
