IT WAS ABOUT FIVE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING and dawn was just emerging. Not knowing where to go or what to do, Radhanath Swami stood with his friend on a railway platform, which bustled with the crowds who came off the train and the hundreds who wrestled to get on. Amid it all, a strange comfort arose in Radhanath Swami’s heart. It was similar to that feeling he had while praying in the temple of Kasi Viswanath, a feeling that something special was about to happen in his life. There appeared to be
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Stotram by Sri Adi Shankracharya
bhajagovindaM bhajagovindaM
govindaM bhajamuuDhamate .
saMpraapte sannihite kaale
nahi nahi rakshati DukRiJNkaraNe .. (1)
Worship Govinda, Worship Govinda, Worship Govinda. Oh fool! Rules of Grammar will not save you at the time of your death.
mUDha jahiihi dhanaagamatRishhNaaM
kuru sadbuddhiM manasi vitRishhNaam.
yallabhase nijakarmopaattaM
vittaM tena vinodaya chittam. .. (2)
Oh fool ! Give up your thirst to amass wealth, devote your mind to t
Radhanath Swami
“paras tasmät tu bhävo ‘nyo
‘vyakto ‘vyaktät sanätanah
yah sa sarvesu bhütesu
nasyatsu na vinasyati”
TRANSLATION
Yet there is another unmanifest nature, which is eternal and is transcendental to this manifested and unmanifested matter. It is supreme and never annihilated. When all in this world is annihilated, that part remains as it is.
PURPORT
Krishna’s superior, spiritual energy is transcendental and eternal. It is beyond all the changes of material nature, which is manifest and anni
Devotees should be very complete personalities, it is about developing all the aspects of a personality and we should be complete human beings. This is something that really attracts me to Prabhupada, namely that not only that he is the great, exalted, pure devotee and completely on the topmost transcendental platform but at the same time he is so human, so very human in his dealings. And that endears him to me very much, that combination. I’m thinking that if we also can reach that then that wi
sriyam anucaratim tad-arthinas ca
dvipada-patin vibudhams ca yat sva-purnah
na bhajati nija-bhrtya-varga-tantrah
katham amum udvisrjet puman krta-jnah
The KC Rap
(KC=Krishna Consciousness)
It’s late at night & you crawl back home, your eyes are red & your limbs are sore,
I’ll soon be happy, you promise yourself, I’ll need to slog, just a few years more.
The degrees, job, are soon yours, the Merc is parked outside your door.
But as you chill in your penthouse, Bro, you think, somehow, yeh dil mange more!
So on it goes, forever ma' friend, your search for happiness will ne’er end,
Then WHAT, you shout, is that magic thing, that’ll bring me joy and pe
Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you offer or give away, and whatever austerities you perform — do that, O son of Kuntī, as an offering to Me.
Thus, it is the duty of everyone to mold his life in such a way that he will not forget Kṛṣṇa in any circumstance. Everyone has to work for maintenance of his body and soul together, and Kṛṣṇarecommends herein that one should work for Him. Everyone has to eat something to live; therefore he should accept the remnants of foodstuffs offered to Kṛ
A bearded man sitting across from me at the round table asks, “What is the descending process?” I tell him, “It’s the way of receiving Vedic knowledge. At the beginning of the creation, the Supreme Lord revealed the Absolute Truth to the first created living being, Lord Brahma. Brahma passed it to his disciple and son Narada, and Narada enlightened Srila Vyasadeva, who compiled all the Vedic scriptures. Vyasadeva taught it to his son Sukadeva Gosvami. And Suta Gosvami received it
I perpetually worship Sri Nityananda, the root of the tree of krishna-bhakti, who wandering around in Bengal approached the door of every home. With upraised arms he exclaimed: " O Brothers! Please constantly chant the holy names of Hari. If you do so, I will take the responsibility to deliver you from the ocean of material existence."
VEGETARIANISM IN ISLAM
According to the Holy Qur'an, there are two ways of advancement - through increasing the propensity to enjoy and decreasing the propensity to enjoy. On the path of decreasing attachment, the killing of animals is not recommended. In the Holy Qur'an we can find following ayats: "Beautified for mankind is love of the joys (that come) from women and offspring, and stored-up heaps of gold and silver, and horses branded (with their mark), and cattle and lan
Anyone engaged in devotional service to the Supreme Personality of
Godhead is known as a devotee, but there is a distinction between pure
devotees and mixed devotees.
A mixed devotee engages in devotional service for the spiritual
benefit of being eternally engaged in the transcendental abode of the
Lord in full bliss and knowledge. In material existence, when a
devotee is not completely purified, he expects material benefit from
the Lord in the form of relief from material miseries, or he wants
materia
A devotee of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who seriously engages
in devotional service is equal to all living entities. There are
various species of living entities, but a devotee does not see the
outward covering; he sees the inner soul inhabiting the body. Because
each and every soul is part and parcel of the Supreme Personality of
Godhead, he does not see any difference. That is the vision of a
learned devotee.
A devotee should not speak needlessly. He is always busy in Kṛṣṇa
consciousness. When
Question: Are You or Krishna Running this World? |
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What is the significance of Number 108? As per vedic scriptures, Indian culture has a very special significance of number 108. What does this number represent, and why is it so important?
1) In one minute, we breathe in approximately 15 times, in 1 hour 900 times, and in 12 hours 10800 times, and in a day 10800 * 2 times. A day consists of 24 hours, and if we set aside half the day for our day to day routines,then one can spend 12 hours for recitation of God's holy names.
If one wants to obtain
arthe hy avidyamāne 'pi
saḿsṛtir na nivartate
dhyāyato viṣayān asya
svapne 'narthāgamo yathā
TRANSLATION
Actually a living entity is transcendental to material existence, but
because of his mentality of lording it over material nature, his
material existential condition does not cease, and just as in a dream,
he is affected by all sorts of disadvantages.
PURPORT
The example of a dream is very appropriate. Due to different mental
conditions, in dreams we are put into advantageous and disadvantageous
position
