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How our Bhakti should be ?

How our Bhakti should be ?

Bhakti should be animitta – without motive.  Actually, Krishna can fulfill all our wishes without difficulty because He is Almighty and full of all opulences.  If we want material happiness from Krishna, it is certainly not difficult for Him to grant it.  He can also give Mukti – liberation – but it is foolishness to ask anything from Krishna except Bhakti.  Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura used to say that asking God for mukti or anything else other than Bhakti

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Bhagvad Gita course

Hare Krishna.


A special Bhagavad Gita course (7 Days) in Surat (Gujarat).


Date : 22/09/2011 to 29/09/2011


Time : 9 pm to 11 pm


Location :

Sardar patel smruti bhavan, mini bajar, varachha road, surat, 395006, Gujarat, India.


Lacture : H G Lalgovid Das (Iskcon Mumbai)


Contact : 9714680800 (chetan prabhu).

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Namaste Meaning

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Namaste or namaskar is the Indian way of greeting each other. Namaste and its common variants namaskar,  namaskaara or namaskaram, is one of the five forms of formal traditional greeting mentioned in the Vedas.
Offering Pranam soothes and rejuvenates the body and mind. The feeling and intensity of repect and humility lingers and grows when practiced as daily ritual.


A Hindu expresses reverence to God by joining the palms and bowing the head. This ritual is called Pranam. It is also a gesture of g

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Definition of sannyasa

Posted on September 12, 2011Filed under BVKS SangaSrila Prabhupada said, “Sannyasa means that all energy and work is forKrsna, nothing is for me.”Miracle on Second Avenue, Mukunda Goswami. Torchlight Publishing 2011, p.71.12 Sep 2011 is the anniversary of the acceptance of sannyasa by SrilaPrabhupada
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More skyscrapers headed for destruction

More skyscrapers headed for destructionPosted on September 11, 2011Filed under BVKS SangaOn a morning walk in Piedmont Park in Atlanta, Srila Prabhupada waved hiscane to indicate the skyscrapers in the skyline, and said: “Don’t besurprised that one day all of this will be gone.”Told by Gokularanjana Prabhu from Atlanta.
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Vyasapuja 2011 offering to Srila Prabhupada

Vyasapuja 2011 offering to Srila PrabhupadaThe following is H.H. Bhakti Charu Maharaja’s Vyasapuja offering to Srila Prabhupada. Full Vyasapuja book 2011 can be downloaded at Krishna.comBhakti Charu SwamiDear Srila Prabhupada,Please accept my most humble obeisances at your lotus feet on this most auspicious day of your divine appearance.I do not know how everyone felt at the time of your appearance on this planet. Naturally it must have brought immense joy to everyone’s heart. At that time all t
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FAST FROM MILK

Hare Krishna, Please clear my doubt that We have to fast from MILK for one month (THIRD MONTH OF CHATURMASYA)

And Also from milk and products.

Please Clear my doubts as soon as possible.

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Spiritual Growt

Question to Radhanath Swami: I am growing in everything I have taken up in life, but my spiritual practice seems to be stagnant. How can I advance?

Radhanath Swami Answers: To advance spiritually you have to discipline yourself. Like a doctor in order to get his degree goes through, years and years of discipline. So if you want to be successful in any field of activity, you must be disciplined and the same applies to spirituality.

Today people discipline themselves in every other avenue of life bu

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All Glories Unto Srila Prabhupada

Why is She so much in love with Me ? - from Caitanya Caritamrita - Adi Lila

The above quote is by Lord Krishna Himself...that is part of the following, from Srila Prabhupada's Caitanya Caritamrita, Adi Lila: 

Radha and Krsna are one, and when Krsna desires to enjoy pleasure, He manifests Himself as Radharani. The spiritual exchange of love between Radha and Krsna is  the actual display of the internal pleasure potency of Krsna. Although we speak of "when" Krsna desires, just when He did desire we

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One should aspire to chant the Hare Krsna mantra constantly:
In our Krsna consciousness movement we are teaching our followers to
chant the Hare Krsna mantra continuously on beads. Even those who are
not accustomed to this practice are advised to chant at least sixteen
rounds on their beads so that they may be trained. Otherwise, Sri
Caitanya Mahaprabhu recommended:
trnad api sunicena
taror iva sahisnuna
amanina manadena
kirtaniyah sada harih
 [Cc. Adi 17.31]
"One should chant the holy name of the Lord in

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A devotee always has a taste for chanting Hare Krsna:

There is a verse in which Srila Rupa Gosvami says, avyartha-kalatvam:
[Cc. Madhya 23.18-19] a devotee should be very much careful to see
whether his time is being spent unnecessarily. He should ask himself,
"Am I now engaged in maya's service or Krsna's service?" This is a
symptom of an advanced devotee. Nama-gane sada rucih: such a devotee
is never tired of chanting, singing, or dancing. The word sada means
"always," and ruci means "taste." A devot

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Study The Books Of Srila Prabhupada

In one sense, everything there is, animate, inanimate, is a manifestation of Krishna - "mattah parataram naanyat kinchid asti dhananjaya" BG7.7, and yet there is a difference between Krishna and His emanations of various qualities "aham sarvasya prabhavo, mattah sarvam pravartate" BG 10.8.

This sounds like an apparent contradiction, however this is where the inconceivable mercy of Lord Krishna Chaitanya comes to save us. He showed us how the Lord is inconceivable, and how He is simultaneously one

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yāvanto viṣayāḥ preṣṭhās
tri-lokyām ajitendriyam
na śaknuvanti te sarve
pratipūrayituḿ nṛpa
 
TRANSLATION:
The Personality of Godhead said: O my dear King, even the entirety of whatever there may be within the three worlds to satisfy one's senses cannot satisfy a person whose senses are uncontrolled.

PURPORT
The material world is an illusory energy to deviate the living entities from the path of self-realization. Anyone who is in this materia

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Compassion By Radhanath Swami

I am very grateful to be with all of you this evening. Our Gaurasundar Prabhu spoke according to his very generous hearted perceptions. Actually I have not come out of compassion. But I have come out of deep gratitude to Himansu prabhu and Gita Devi mataji because they invited. Their invitation is all attractive to my heart. Thank You.

I am so glad to be with all of you this evening. Gaurasundara Pr

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Proper way of Chanting

There is nothing sweeter than chanting the holy names of God in a mood of loving devotion because such chanting brings one into direct contact with the Supreme Person Himself. Such chanting is best done in the early morning hours before sunrise when the material world is not offering many distractions to lure the mind away from Krishna's holy names.

From the great acharyas we have learned the system of chanting on japa beads. This system of chanting onexternal image japa.gifbeads amplifies the power of the mantra and t

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Tridandisvami Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja

FOR SRILA PRABHUPADA'S SANNYASA DAY
One Family

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Srila Prabhupada taking sannyasa from Srila Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja in 1959

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Srila Gurudeva persorming puja at Srila Prabhupada's samadhi mandira at Krsna Balarama Mandir in Vrndavana

[This year, 2011, Srila Prabhupada's sannyasa anniversary is Sept 12 (in India). In honor of this day, we pray that you will be happy to read this lecture of May 30, 2000 in Los Angeles, in whic

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Polygamy

Polygamy

Lately, Srila Prabhupada had been corresponding with his senior disciples on a controversial topic -- polygamy. Karandhara had broached the subject with Srila Prabhupada, one month previously. Prabhupada had answered Karandhara's inquiry by first describing its historical roots.

According to our Vedic process, polygamy is allowed. For example, Krishna married sixteen thousand wives, Arjuna married three or four wives, Krishna's father, Vasudeva, married sixteen or eighteen wives, like tha
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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 3 Text 1
3. The Lord's Pastimes Out of Vrndavana


uddhava uvaca
tatah sa agatya puram sva-pitros
cikirsaya sam baladeva-samyutah
nipatya tungad ripu-yutha-natham
hatam vyakarsad vyasum ojasorvyam


uddhavah uvaca -- Sri Uddhava said; tatah -- thereafter; sah -- the Lord; agatya -- coming; puram -- to the city of Mathura; sva-pitroh -- own parents; cikirsaya -- wishing well; sam -- well-being; baladeva-samyutah -- with Lord Baladeva; nipatya -- dragging down; tungat -- f
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Thought Of the Day

The devotee, when he is in a difficult position, or when
during Sankirtana some difficult position arises, he just does not blame
somebody else, rather he blames himself . Freedom by surrender

 

By H.H. Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj

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Offering to HH Bhakti Charu Swami Guru Maharaj on his 66th Vyas Puja {17 september}
Oh our Lord, wish you this merry day,
You appeared and all inauspicious flew away
We offer you our million obeisances
Begging you for our countless offences
 
This very day your lovable dear father,
started to deliver people all over
May be, Krishna therefore sent you today
To maintain the glory of this day
 
Let us offer you our hearts today
Please vanish all garbage away
To serve you always, this we want,
But for it require
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