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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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 on
beads amplifies the power of the mantra and t
Tridandisvami Sri Srimad Bhaktivedanta Narayana Gosvami Maharaja
FOR SRILA PRABHUPADA'S SANNYASA DAY
One Family
Srila Prabhupada taking sannyasa from Srila Bhakti Prajnana Kesava Gosvami Maharaja in 1959
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
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
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
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
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
Like in the material world one has to learn A to Z as a
first step to start struggle for survival , Similarly if we learn only Spiritual A
to D ,we’ll be able to come out of this painful
life and go back to Godhead.
A – Association : Always do association with
Sadhu Jans
B – Books : Read Prabhupada’s books to pure the soul inside
C – Chant : Always chant Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare,Hare Rama Hare
Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare & be Happy
D – Diet : Al
actually the biggest issue with this material world is that people think that when we die, the soul will face the consequences, what will the body face as its already dead. so commit sins and get away, but these fool hardy do not know that lord sri krishna has already said that its my maya that you for get your past than definitely it will be his maya which will show us what sins we have committed when time comes. so its still time sri krishna is showing us the path every time, so without any do
Acceptance of sannyasa by Srila Prabhupada
