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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Preaching in Indonesia

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 23, 2011 at 9:53am

Preaching in Indonesia

Rasarani was assisting her husband, Amogha, in establishing Krsna consciousness in Indonesia, and she had returned to Sydney for a break.

The topic of Prabhupada's possibly visiting Jakarta had come up in a conversation that morning, and Prabhupada wanted to make a firm decision. In the afternoon, Srila Prabhupada called Rasarani into his room.

"So," he asked Rasarani, who sat nervously in front of his low, polished wooden desk, "how is the preaching in Indonesia?"

"Well, we j

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 3 Text 9

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 23, 2011 at 9:53am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 3 Text 9tasv apatyany ajanayadatma-tulyani sarvatahekaikasyam dasa dasaprakrter vibubhusayatasu -- unto them; apatyani -- offspring; ajanayat -- begot; atma-tulyani -- all like Himself; sarvatah -- in all respects; eka-ekasyam -- in each and every one of them; dasa -- ten; dasa -- ten; prakrteh -- for expanding Himself; vibubhusaya -- so desiring.TRANSLATIONJust to expand Himself according to His transcendental features, the Lord begot in each and every one of

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Why Are People by Nature Godless?

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 23, 2011 at 9:52am

Question: Why Are People by Nature Godless?

Dear Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisances at your lotus feet. In the Bhagavad-gita Krishna is saying that if He does not teach the universe to live in a godly way, godlessness will prevail. Why does godlessness prevail, not godliness? In other words, why are people by nature godless? Your humble servant Deo

Answer: Godly Nature is Covered by Godlessness

Everyone is by nature godly. It is only due to bad association that the godly become godless. This

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Why Mind Goes Back to Bodily Concepts?

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 23, 2011 at 9:51am

Question: Why Mind Goes Back to Bodily Concepts?

Why does the mind keep going back to bodily concepts even after realization of the truth? Raghavendra

Answer: You Are NotGetting a Higher Taste.

If your mind keeps going back to bodily concepts, this means that you are not getting a higher taste. In other words, your realization of the truth is not mature. To get that higher taste, to become mature in your realization you first of all must have faith in the self-realization process, the process of Kr

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How can I know if God exists? Radhanath Swami explains

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 23, 2011 at 9:51am

In this interview series we asked Radhanath Swami universal foundational questions about life and spirituality. Here is a transcript of the answer to this question:

"How can I know if God exists?"

This question has been asked since time immemorial.

I remember in my own life I had heard so many things, from religious people, from atheistic people..

Some claimed that God exists, but specifically and exclusively according to their religion he exists.

And others deny that "God doesn't exist at all." some

Welcome to Sri Kshetra Parikrama from 12-16 Nov.

Posted by shanti yadav on September 23, 2011 at 9:30am

Dear devotees,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

We are happy to invite devotees from around the world to perform the most auspicious Sri Kshetra Parikrama. This year the parikrama day falls on 15th November. On this day, devotees will circumambulate the entire Sri Kshetra dhama, a distance of around 19 Km. This parikrama has been performed since the time Vidyapati visited Sri Kshetra. ISKCON has been organizing this parikrama for the last six years, on the spec

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Tapasya - Purifying existence

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 22, 2011 at 8:59am

The Lord married and lived like a householder. This is certainly like a mundane affair, but when we learn that He married 16,108 wives and lived with them separately in each and every palace, certainly it is not mundane. Therefore, the Lord, living as a householder amongst His competent wives, is never mundane, and His behavior with them is never to be understood as mundane sex relation. The women who became the wives of the Lord are certainly not ordinary women, because to get the Lord as one's

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IS DETACHMENT A WAY TO BYPASS KARMA FOR A DEMON?

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 22, 2011 at 8:57am

Q. If the same "detachment" perspective on moral values can be used both by the demon Kamsa (in justifying his killing of the sons of Devaki) and a divine avatar, it is hard to accept that such an approach could represent a true basis for morality. Is detachment a way to by-pass dharma/karma for a demon?No, a demon does not by-pass karma by detachment. A person of demoniac nature has the tendency to misuse even the best philosophy. Kamsa's behavior is a typical example to illustrate that knowled

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Sydney temple

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 22, 2011 at 8:51am

Sydney templeTwo long rows of devotees -- 70 in all -- chanted ecstatically at Sydney airport as Prabhupada walked across the tarmac. Only when Prabhupada finally sat down to speak with the Press in the lounge did the roaring kirtana come to an end. Prabhupada appeared as majestic as a king of old. From his body emanated a golden effulgence, and he seemed powerful, yet humble.The Sydney devotees had certainly done better this year in arranging for an airport reception befitting Prabhupada's exal

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 3 Text 8

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 22, 2011 at 8:50am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 3 Text 8asam muhurta ekasminnanagaresu yositamsa-vidham jagrhe paninanurupah sva-mayayaasam -- all those; muhurte -- at one time; ekasmin -- simultaneously; nana-agaresu -- in different compartments; yositam -- of the women; sa-vidham -- with perfect rituals; jagrhe -- accepted; panin -- hands; anurupah -- exactly to match; sva-mayaya -- by His internal potency.TRANSLATIONAll those princesses were lodged in different apartments, and the Lord simultaneously ass

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Proper discharge of tapasya

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 22, 2011 at 8:49am

"O King Rahugana, the perfectional stage of devotional service, or the paramahamsa stage of life, cannot be attained unless one is blessed by the dust of the feet of great devotees. It is never attained by tapasya [austerity], the Vedic worshiping process, acceptance of the renounced order of life, the discharge of the duties of household life, the chanting of the Vedic hymns, or the performance of penances in the hot sun, within cold water or before the blazing fire.">>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 2.3

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Tapasya Means

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 22, 2011 at 8:48am

This tapa, or penance, was begun from the very beginning of the creation, and it was first adopted by the supreme spiritual master, Lord Brahma. By tapasya only can one get the profit of human life, and not by a polished civilization of animal life. The animal does not know anything except sense gratification in the jurisdiction of eat, drink, be merry and enjoy. But the human being is made to undergo tapasya for going back to Godhead, back home.>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 2.9.6This human form is es

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Is Chanting Four Rounds Purely Enough?

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 22, 2011 at 8:47am

Question: Is Chanting Four Rounds Purely Enough?What is the importance of following Srila Prabhupada's order to chant at least 16 rounds daily of the Hare Krishna mahamantra on japa mala beads? If a person is so busy that he can only chant four rounds daily but does it with purity, is this right or not?ShailendraAnswer: Pure Chanting Naturally IncreasesIf the doctor prescribes that you need a certain amount of medicine in order to recover your health and you decide independently that you know be

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Thought Of The Day

Posted by Shalabh Gupta on September 22, 2011 at 8:47am

Without being self-controlled, without being disciplined and without being fully obedient, no one can become successful in following the instructions of the spiritual master, and without doing so, no one is able to go back to Godhead.By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 3 Text

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 22, 2011 at 8:46am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 3 Text 7tatrahrtas ta nara-deva-kanyahkujena drstva harim arta-bandhumutthaya sadyo jagrhuh praharsa-vridanuraga-prahitavalokaihtatra -- inside the house of Narakasura; ahrtah -- kidnapped; tah -- all those; nara-deva-kanyah -- daughters of many kings; kujena -- by the demon; drstva -- by seeing; harim -- the Lord; arta-bandhum -- the friend of the distressed; utthaya -- at once got up; sadyah -- then and there; jagrhuh -- accepted; praharsa -- joyfully; vrida

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Flight travel

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 22, 2011 at 8:45am

Flight travelIt had been arranged that Srila Prabhupada would take his lunch at Melbourne airport before flying to Sydney. But the prasadam was late coming from the temple, and arrived just before departure time. So the whole prasadam, including Prabhupada's silver tray, bowls and cups, were taken aboard the aircraft.Prabhupada's party were flying first class, and Srila Prabhupada, Srutakirti and Madhudvisa were soon seated. Prabhupada, as regulated as ever, decided to take lunch immediately. Sr

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This material world is a pretty bitter place. Even if is it sometimes experienced as being sweet it very quickly gets bitter again. There is no lasting sweetness here. But if we take a deep look at t

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 22, 2011 at 8:44am

This material world is a pretty bitter place. Even if is it sometimes experienced as being sweet it very quickly gets bitter again. There is no lasting sweetness here.

But if we take a deep look at the situation, we will see that whatever sweetness we taste here is not genuine sweetness. It is simply a reduction of the bitterness. Sometimes when the bitterness is not so bad we take this reduced bitterness to be sweetness when factually speaking it is not. It is bitterness only.

Even though we

HARE KRISHNA..........................

Posted by Naveen Seth on September 21, 2011 at 11:58pm

♥♥♥HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA♥♥♥
♥♥♥KRISHNA KRISHNA ♥♥♥
♥♥♥HARE HARE.....♥♥♥
♥♥♥HARE RAMA HARE RAMA♥♥♥
♥♥♥RAMA RAMA HARE HARE.....♥♥♥

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Thought Of The Day

Posted by Shalabh Gupta on September 21, 2011 at 8:34am

In fulfilling the desires of the lord, one may carry some burden also- in the sense that one may find it very difficult, but because one is doing it for the pleasure of the lord, that burden becomes burden of love. Freedom by surrenderBy H.H. Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj

srila prabhupad's arrival in USA

Posted by nitin parihar on September 20, 2011 at 6:58pm

Srila Prabhupada’s arrival in the USAThese excerpts have been taken from Satswarup dasa Goswami’sPrabhupada-lilamrita ch 11-12.Srila Prabhupada’s Departure for preaching in the west.With the manuscript for Volume Three complete and with the money to printit, Bhaktivedanta Swami once again entered the printing world, purchasingpaper, correcting proofs, and keeping the printer on schedule so that thebook would be finished by January 1965. Thus, by his persistence, he who hadalmost no money of his

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Preaching in Indonesia

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 3 Text 9

Why Are People by Nature Godless?

Why Mind Goes Back to Bodily Concepts?

How can I know if God exists? Radhanath Swami explains

Welcome to Sri Kshetra Parikrama from 12-16 Nov.

Tapasya - Purifying existence

IS DETACHMENT A WAY TO BYPASS KARMA FOR A DEMON?

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Sydney temple

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 3 Text 8

Proper discharge of tapasya

Tapasya Means

Is Chanting Four Rounds Purely Enough?

Thought Of The Day

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 3 Text

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Flight travel

This material world is a pretty bitter place. Even if is it sometimes experienced as being sweet it very quickly gets bitter again. There is no lasting sweetness here. But if we take a deep look at t

HARE KRISHNA..........................

Thought Of The Day

srila prabhupad's arrival in USA

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