We are happy to announce the Sadhana Retreat, the first of its kind.
It will be held on Easter Weekend, April 22 to April 24, at the Luther Springs Retreat Center in Hawthorne, Florida, one hour from Alachua and
forty-five minutes from Gainesville. The retreat is being facilitated by Mahatma, Laxmimoni, Sesa and Badahari
Prabhus and coordinated through Bhakti Life.
Here's a little about it:
The Sadhana Retreat is a transcendental vacation in which you live with devotees and focus on improving your
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Read more about Beginning of Damanaka Ropana Dvadasi on www.harekrishnacalendar.com
If you simply eat, sleep, mate, and enjoy material life. Then you are no different from the animals. The animals also eat, sleep, mate, and enjoy material life. In fact, if you simply want to engage in these activities, then you are better off in the animal kingdom. The animals engage in all these activities without the bother of jobs, bills, marital problems and other humanly conditions of life.
Those humans who spent their life simply eating, sleeping,
HG Ramsharan Prabhu 20 Mar 2011
On 20th March Sunday, I received a call from Achyut Govind Prabhu’s father that he is vomiting incessantly and did not sleep for the whole day. I arranged for his coming to the hospital again and getting the water in his abdomen tapped out, after discussing thoroughly with Dr.Vineeta. Next day when I visited him he felt better, we had a short kirtan and a small discussion about the final journey and the mercy of the lord. Achyut Govind Prabhu requested, “Can we si
Kamada Ekadasi from the Varaha Purana.
Sri Suta Goswami said, "Oh sages, let me offer my humble and respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Lord Hari, Bhagavan Sri Krishna, the son of Devaki and Vasudeva, by whose mercy I can describe the fast day that removes all kinds of sins. It was to the devoted Yudhisthira that Lord Krishna glorified the twenty-four primary Ekadasiis, which destroy sin, and now I shall recount one of those narrations to you. Great-learned sages have selected these twenty-fo
Sri Suta Goswami said, "Oh sages, let me offer my humble and respectful obeisances unto the Supreme Lord Hari, Bhagavan Sri Krishna, the son of Devaki and Vasudeva, by whose mercy I can describe the fast day that removes all kinds of sins. It was to the devoted Yudhisthira that Lord Krishna glorified the twenty-four primary Ekadasiis, which destroy sin, and now I shall recount one of those narrations to you. Great-learned sages have selected these twenty-fo
This is a powerful article, especially the last para- a must read for the
sleeping Hindus
Italian by birth and Catholic by baptism'
John Maclithon
I was surprised when the Congress party gave me a Padma Shri — I am the only foreign journalist to ever get it. For, in my 40 years of political reporting in India, I have always been a vocal critic of the Nehru dynasty. Someone recently even called me "a vitriolic British journalist, who in his old age chose to live back in the land he never approved".
It
sleeping Hindus
Italian by birth and Catholic by baptism'
John Maclithon
I was surprised when the Congress party gave me a Padma Shri — I am the only foreign journalist to ever get it. For, in my 40 years of political reporting in India, I have always been a vocal critic of the Nehru dynasty. Someone recently even called me "a vitriolic British journalist, who in his old age chose to live back in the land he never approved".
It
Gokul R, a 23-year-old follower of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON), has imbibed their philosophy very seriously along with his academic pursuits. Gokul topped the All India Rank (AIR) list of the Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2011, by scoring 91.33 out of 100.
Forty-seven students from Pune made it to the toppers’ list of GATE 2011, for which more than five lakh students across the country appeared.
Administered by the Indian Institute of Technology (II
Vedic Health Advice
“Foods dear to those in the mode of goodness increase the duration of life, purify one’s existence and give strength, health, happiness and satisfaction. Such foods are juicy, fatty, wholesome, and pleasing to the heart.” (Bg. 17.8)
“Foods that are too bitter, too sour, salty, hot, pungent, dry and burning are dear to those in the mode of passion. Such foods cause distress, misery and disease.” (Bg. 17.9)
“Food prepared more than three hours before being eaten, food that is tas
Vishu is new year festival celebrated in the state of kerala , india. It is similar to the New Year festivals observed elsewhere in India like baisakhi (punjab), Bihu (assam), Naba Barsha (Bengal), Bisu (tulu nadu), vishua sankranti in orissa, tn and ugadi (AP) . Vishu generally falls on April 14 of the Gregorian calendar. This occasion signifies the Sun's transit to the zodiac - Mesha Raasi (first zodiac sign) as per Indian astrological calculations and astronomically represents the vernal equ
Vedas prescribe two types of occupation
1) Pravritti Marga - path of sense enjoyment
2)NivrttiMarga - path of renunciation -
Bhagavatam 1.2.6
material existence is a diseased condition of life, spiritual life is eternal, blissful & full of knowledge.
Bhagavatam 1.2..6
cleansing the cage of the Bird; one does not satisfy the bird.
One can develop taste for hearing and chanting the Holy Name by serving the Pure Devotee of the Lord.
Srimad Bhagavatam 1.2.18
Hare Krishna
Devotional Service is Not a Job, it is a Privilege. Bhakti cannot be attained, it is a Gift. Bhakti means the science of being defeated.
H.H. RNSM
