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Despite an uneasy relationship with the devotees, the reluctant Melbourne City Council had granted permits for the noon-time parade. To attract crowds to the starting point, two devotee couples were married at an authentic Vedic ceremony in the City Square that morning. City Council officials and police, deeming the ceremony unauthorised and the fire illegal, chased Mohanananda, the officiating priest, a considerable number of city blocks before finally losing him
sa katham sevaya tasya
kalena jarasam gatah
prsto vartam pratibruyad
bhartuh padav anusmaran
sah -- Uddhava; katham -- how; sevaya -- by such service; tasya -- his; kalena -- in course of time; jarasam -- invalidity; gatah -- undergone; prstah -- asked for; vartam -- message; pratibruyat -- just to reply; bhartuh -- of the Lord; padau -- His lotus feet; anusmaran -- remembering.
Introduction
In the Katha Upanisad (1.2.18) we find passage, which reads similar to BG 2.20:
na jayate mriyate va vipascin
nayam kutascin na babhuva kascit
ajo nityah sasvato 'yam purano
na hanyate hanyamane sarire
The meaning and purport of this verse is the same as in the Bhagavad-gita, but here in this verse there is one special word, vipascit, which means learned or with knowledge.
The knowledgeable Soul
The soul is full of knowledge, or full always with consciousness. Therefore, consciousness is
Imagine a tribal who drinks a stinking toxic liquid, goes crazy, shouts insensibly, topples into dirt, falls unconscious, returns to consciousness after several hours with severe headache and stomach upset and vomits helplessly in agony.
“How horrible,” we will exclaim, “What kind of people do such things? Why?” But isn’t that what an extra-terrestrial being will exclaim on seeing one of the most common – and most perverse – pleasures that we moderns delight in? Yes, we are talking about dri
Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda arrives at the Foundation Stone laying for the ISKCON Midday Meal program’s new kitchen.
In India, ISKCON Food Relief Foundation (IFRF) has partnered with the Government of the state of Jharkhand and local Fortune 500 company Tata Steel to build a new centralized state-of-the-art kitchen, which will deliver nutritious, sanctified meals to 65,000 underprivileged school children in Jharkhand’s East Singhbhum and Saraikela-Kharsawa districts.
The program is part o
Question: Who Causes More Damage to Humanity? |
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Esteemed Guru, |
Since time beyond memory, the celebrated Deity of Krsna known as Jagannatha (Lord of the U
yah panca-hayano matra
pratar-asaya yacitah
tan naicchad racayan yasya
saparyam bala-lilaya
yah -- one who; panca -- five; hayanah -- years old; matra -- by his mother; pratah-asaya -- for breakfast; yacitah -- called for; tat -- that; na -- not; aicchat -- liked; racayan -- playing; yasya -- whose; saparyam -- service; bala-lilaya -- childhood.
Time is precious to everyone. It’s a bad habit to keep other people waiting. Almost everyone feels that one of their most valued commodities is their time. This being the case, one of the ultimate slaps and most sure way to annoy someone is to keep them waiting. While most people are somewhat forgiving, keeping them waiting is a sign of disrespect. The subtle message is, “My time is more important than yours.”
Deep down, we all know that no one likes to be kept waiting. Therefore, it’s highly str
Deep down, we all know that no one likes to be kept waiting. Therefore, it’s highly str
Many times people say things like, “I don’t have time to exercise,” what they really should be saying is, “I don’t have time not to exercise.”
If you lose your health and sense of well-being, you won’t make it to work at all. In the long run, it takes far less time to take care of yourself than it does to lose your ability to function well.
One should eat well, exercise, get plenty of rest, have regular physical checkups, and partake in other healthy habits. In addition to the obvious problems as
If one is serious about liberation from the material bondage one has to understand the distinctions between the action, inaction and unauthorised actions as well.......hare krishna
may we all be blessed by a kc day ahead
Qualifications of a devotee
Since a devotee is kind to everyone, he does not act in such a way as to put others into anxiety. At the same time, if others try to put a devotee into anxiety, he is not disturbed. It is by the grace of the Lord that he is so practiced that he is not disturbed by any outward disturbance. Actually because a devotee is always engrossed in Krsna consciousness and engaged in devotional service, such material circumstances cannot move him.
He may construct a temple for the
bhagavat-prasädaù. If we want to understand Caitanya Mahäprabhu, if we
want to understand Krsna, then we must take shelter of Balaräma.
- This Vedic injunction, means “Without the mercy of Balaräma you
cannot understand, you cannot realize your spiritual identification.
So that Balaräma comes as Nityänanda Prabhu. Balaräma hailä nitäi.
Therefore we must take shelter of Balaräma.If we take shelter of
Nityänanda Prabhu, then we get peac
One should search out a bona fide spiritual master who can lead him gradually to the stage of spiritual realization, and one must submit himself to such a spiritual master, render him service and ask relevant questions.
Reporter: How can a person tell he has a genuine guru?
Srila Prabhupada: Can any of my students answer this question?
Disciple: Once I remember John Lennon asked you, "How will I know who is the genuine guru?" And you answered,"Just find out the one who is most addicted to Krsna. He
Simplicity……………….Nectarean Mellows
Once at New Dwarka Srila Prabhupada was in his nice quarters. There was even a little chandelier. It was not really opulent. It was just basically nice. And Prabhupada said to one of his followers “Do you remember my quarters at Radha Damodara”? And in those days it wasn’t like it is now, Radha Damodara, it has been really renovated. It was just really simple - back in the early seventies, very very simple, like a little cave practically. He said “Do you rememb
devotees are never discouraged
In the face of great obstacles we have two choices: we can either give up hope and lose our Krishna consciousness, or we can see the wonderful, wonderful, opportunities that Krishna must be giving us in this condition and thus make progress in our Krishna consciousness.
Every obstacle that Krishna put Srila Prabhupada in only glorified him all the more for the whole world to appreciate. When you think about how he was penniless, how he suffered two heart attacks, he
A mother, wishing to encourage her son's progress at playing the piano, bought tickets to a performance by the great Polish pianist Ignace Paderewski. When the ev
Every day Mother Ganges taught many lessons to Richard (now Radhanath Swami). One day Richard observed that although being in the swift current of the river, one is greatly affected but sitting on the bank, we can observe the flow with detachment. Similarly if we detach ourselves from the mind and the world, we too can observe life soberly and thus gain wisdom. One day he meditated on the millions of years of history that had been enacted on the banks of Ganges. From the age of Aryans to the med
