It is really joyful journey from Non-Devotee to 16 rounder Devotee. Though it not an achievement, but the journey was very wonderful and each step it was adding a lot of joy.

Earlier life was really under big stress and tensions. It was a lot of struggle with madness and anger in the mind. Everyday was hectic and stressful giving a list of curces to number of people. Every night was sleepless night, worrying situation and it was asking revenge . . revenge . . revenge.

After joining ISKCON, we unde

While ISKCON’s culture and spiritual traditions hail from ancient India, many of our members live in Christian countries, come from Christian backgrounds, and send their children to Christian schools.

As a result of unavoidable interaction with the larger culture, many ISKCON devotees assimilate and participate in at least a small part of its practices—one of the greatest of which is, of course, Christmas Day.

This Christmas, devotees at the ISKCON temple in Washin

There are eight kinds of forms recommended for the devotees to see. The forms may be made out of

1. sand,
2. clay,
3. wood or
4. stone,
5. they may be contemplated within the mind or
6. made of jewels,
7. metal or
8. painted colors,

but all the forms are of the same value. It is not that one who meditates on the form within the mind sees differently from one who worships the form in the temple. The Supreme Personality of Godhead is absolute, and there is therefore no difference between the two.

Prabhupada: ...our guest. Because somebody is guest, paying guest, therefore

we shall admit anyone in any kind of dress?
Aksayananda: No.
Gopala Krsna: We don't admit people who look like hippies or something.
Aksayananda: That girl, I told her she had to wear a sari. And she did for
some time, but then again she stopped.
Prabhupada: That I am speaking, that sa yadi kriyate raja.
Aksayananda: Due to habit.
Prabhupada: Sakrn nasnuta pahanam (?) That is the difficulty. It will be
very bad example. People

The Perfection of the Liberated Soul

by Niscala Dasi

Posted July 31, 2011

Gaurav Mittal’s article, “Avoid Misunderstanding of Bhakti”, has sparked a lot of discussion in the devotee community. Some feel that he may be committing the “mad elephant offense” by suggesting that some statements of Srila Prabhupada were simply wrong. The implication of Srila Prabhupada being wrong, is that he is not a liberated soul, free from the four defects- the propensity to cheat, to become illusioned, to have imper

hare krsna hare krsna krsna krsna hare hare
hare rama hare rama rama rama hare hare

 (1)
sarva-ceta-harah krsnas tasya cittam haraty asau
vaidagdhi-sara-vistarair ato radha hara mata

Krishna steals everyone’s mind, but Radharani steals even His when She makes use of Her divine talents. Therefore She is known as Hara.

(2)

karsati sviya-lavanya-murali-kala-nihsvanaih
zri-radham mohana-gunalagkrtah Krsna iryate

Because He forcibly pulls Radha from Her home with the sound of His flute filled with His love

Devakinandana Dasa Thakur was the one of the three disciples of Purushottama dasa Thakura. Devakinandana dasa was a great Vaisnava poet. He composed many devotional songs and specifically a book glorifying all the Vaisnavas name Vaisnav Vandane.

Bhajan of Devakinandana Dasa Thakura

bhattacaryah sarvabhaumah purasid gishpatir divi

Sarvabhauma Bhattacharya was formerly Brihaspati, the guru of the gods.
(Gaura-ganoddesha-dipika 119)
 
Sarvabhauma’s Scholarship
 
When Krishnadas Kaviraj Goswami lists the branches of Sri Chaitanya, after listing those devotees like Paramananda Puri and Svarupa Damodar who came to join the Lord in Jagannath Puri, he enumerates those Bengali devotees who were already living in Puri when the Lord arrived there and who then met him for the very first ti

HK

PAMHO

Question to Radhanath Swami:How to attain love for God as soon as possible?

Radhanath Swami : That is a very nice question.

To the degree we make that ideal a priority in life, to that degree we realize it quickly. If we make it a first priority in life then we will make very rapid advancement. If we make it a second or third priority in life then we will make very gradual advancement.

Now, making a priority does not necessarily mean giving up everything else. It means giving up separate mot

Hare Krishna 

PAMHO

His Divine Grace Srila Prabhupada once told this story of Brahmin and The Cobbler:

"Narada Muni often went to see Lord Narayana (Krishna) and one day the Brahmin requested him to inquire from Lord Narayana when he, the Brahmin, would go back to godhead. A cobbler made the same request to Narada. So he went to Lord Narayana and asked Him when the two devotees would go back home. Lord Narayana said the Cobbler would promptly go back home, but the Brahmin had more lives to do. Nara

Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakura
said that when a devotee wakes up in the morning he should beat his mind with a
shoe a hundred times. Since the mind tends to be very puffed up, it must be
beaten to keep it in the proper humble state. In the evening the mind should
be beaten with a broomstick another hundred times. The mind is like a wild
animal captured from the jungle, it is never fully dependable. If it gets the
chance it will run off into the jungle again. Similarly, if the mind is not
kept on a t

Quality Chanting of the Name

Devotee (8): When chanting our sixteen rounds, we are not sure if
these rounds are sincere...

Prabhupada: You should be sure.

Devotee (8): How can we be sure?

Prabhupada: There is beads.

Brahmananda: No, he's saying that when we chant our rounds, how can we
be sure that when we chant the round that the round is a perfect,
attentive round, sincere?


Prabhupada: Therefore it is sastra, "You must." There is no question
of understanding.


Brahmananda: The quality of the chanting he's