I'm sitting here in the Riga, Latvia airport on 1 November 2006 waiting for a flight to Amsterdam, as I deeply consider what should be the topic for this week's lesson. What immediately comes to mind is the topic that surfaced during the Srimad Bhagavatam lecture I gave this morning at our Riga temple. What was that topic? Restoring the Krishna conscious world order.
Many people would find this topic preposterous because it assumes that previously there was a Krishna conscious world order on thi
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na hy alparthodayas tasya
vidurasyamalatmanah
tasmin variyasi prasnah
sadhu-vadopabrmhitah
na -- never; hi -- certainly; alpa-artha -- small (unimportant) purpose; udayah -- raised; tasya -- his; vidurasya -- of Vidura; amala-atmanah -- of the saintly man; tasmin -- in that; variyasi -- highly purposeful; prasnah -- question; sadhu-vada -- things approved by saints and sages; upabrmhitah -- full with.
"Check out page five," he said with a grin. Jagattarini thumbed through and saw to her mixed pleasure and horror, the three-quarter-page article headed: NED KELLY STAR JOINS HARE KRISHNA.
The article mainly described how she had renounced her promisi
The bondage is gunamayi maya, being wrapped up by the qualitative modes of nature. That is bondage. But if one is engaged in devotional service, he is not under this bondage because he knows things as they are.(Srimad-Bhagavatam 1.15.40)
-By. H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
"Incarnation for the Modern Age"
Sri Chaitanya is the Kali-yuga avatara, and He descended for the purpose of establishing the yuga dharma, which in this age is the chanting of Lord Krishna's names. He appeared in the guise of a devotee to perfectly show how the process of devotion should be followed and applied. It is something like a teacher drawing on the black board "A B C". We should not think the teacher is himself learning the alphabets, but he is doing it to show us how to write properly.
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Seeing the cows and elderly cowherds rush to greet their calves and sons, Balarama was concerned that the very essence of Vrindavana seemed to be lost. How could maya enter into the Lord’s domain?
What is maya? Separate interest. “I love my son more than another boy.” This is material life—separate interest. And in spiritual life, in Vrindavana, Krishna is the center. The mothers there love Krishna more than their own sons, and their sons love Krishna more than they do their mothers. In this sens
Caru had been successful in arranging for Srila Prabhupada to appear on a number of Sydney television shows. The first one was scheduled for 7.30am -- the popular live-to-air breakfast-time chat show Sydney Today, hosted by Andrew Harwood.
Prabhupada travelled to the Channel Seven studios in a car with some of his senior disciples, while about 10 brahmacaris followed in the Volkswagen van. While everyone sat in the reception room wait
After the Bhagavad-gita class, Nanda Kumara led a particularly sweet and ecstatic kirtana. Srila Prabhupada was playing karatals with his eyes closed and a look of intense concentration on his face. Suddenly Nanda Kumara's hand went right through the large head of the dru
Srila Prabhupada spoke throughout the night. As the sun rose and some devotees arrived from the temple for Prabhupada's walk, Srila Prabhupada was still talking with Syamasundara. Some devotees recalled the verse from the Bhagavad-gita: "Always chanting My glories, endeavouring with great determination, bowing down before Me, these great souls perpetually worship me with devotion."
Srila Prabhupada decided not to go on a morning walk. Mohananan
rajovaca
kutra ksattur bhagavata
maitreyenasa sangamah
kada va saha-samvada
etad varnaya nah prabho
raja uvaca -- the King said; kutra -- wherein; ksattuh -- with Vidura; bhagavata -- and with His Grace; maitreyena -- with Maitreya; asa -- there was; sangamah -- meeting; kada -- when; va -- also; saha -- with; samvadah -- discussion; etat -- this; varnaya -- describe; nah -- unto me; prabho -- O my lord.
yad va ayam mantra-krd vo
bhagavan akhilesvarah
pauravendra-grham hitva
pravivesatmasat krtam
yat -- the house; vai -- what else is there to say; ayam -- Sri Krsna; mantra-krt -- minister; vah -- of you people; bhagavan -- the Personality of Godhead; akhila-isvarah -- the Lord of everything; pauravendra -- Duryodhana; grham -- house; hitva -- giving up; pravivesa -- entered; atmasat -- identify with oneself; krtam -- so accepted.
Canto 3: The Status Quo
1. Questions by Vidura
sri-suka uvaca
evam etat pura prsto
maitreyo bhagavan kila
ksattra vanam pravistena
tyaktva sva-grham rddhimat
sri-sukah uvaca -- Sri Sukadeva Gosvami said; evam -- thus; etat -- this; pura -- formerly; prstah -- being asked; maitreyah -- the great sage Maitreya; bhagavan -- His Grace; kila -- certainly; ksattra -- by Vidura; vanam -- forest; pravistena -- entering; tyaktva -- renouncing; sva-grham -- own house;
suta uvaca
rajna pariksita prsto
yad avocan maha-munih
tad vo 'bhidhasye srnuta
rajnah prasnanusaratah
sutah uvaca -- Sri Suta Gosvami replied; rajna -- by the King; pariksita -- by Pariksit; prstah -- as asked; yat -- what; avocat -- spoke; maha-munih -- the great sage; tat -- that very thing; vah -- unto you; abhidhasye -- I shall explain; srnuta -- please hear; rajnah -- by the King; prasna -- question; anusaratah -- in accordance with.
ksattuh kausaraves tasya
samvado 'dhyatma-samsritah
yad va sa bhagavams tasmai
prstas tattvam uvaca ha
bruhi nas tad idam saumya
vidurasya vicestitam
bandhu-tyaga-nimittam ca
yathaivagatavan punah
ksattuh -- of Vidura; kausaraveh -- as that of Maitreya; tasya -- their; samvadah -- news; adhyatma -- in the matter of transcendental knowledge; samsritah -- full of; yat -- which; va -- anything else; sah -- he; bhagavan -- His Grace; tasmai -- unto him; prsta
Chanting, Dancing & Feasting. London’s Ancient Festival of Chariots
FOR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION
When: Sunday 12th June 2011
Where: Hyde Park Corner to Trafalgar Square
Time: Procession starts 12 noon from Hyde Park, South Carriage Drive
Arrives Trafalgar Square 2.30pm
Festival ends 5.30pm
Highlight
London’s 'Ratha-yatra’ Festival of Chariots returns to the streets of the capital on Sunday 12th June 2011. London will be illuminated by the wonderful colo
The Bhagavad-Gita was spoken on the battlefield and so one of its teachings is to know when self-defense is necessary. It was the will of Lord Krishna that all the soldiers on both sides, except for the Pandavas, would not go back home. It made no difference whether Arjuna took part in the war or not. Arjuna was merely an instrument that Lord Krishna used to destroy the soldiers on both sides. Even before the war started, Lord Krishna showed Arjuna, the soldiers being destroyed.
There have always
Due to the impending major flooding of the Mississippi River in and around New Orleans, the organizers been forced to cancel the Rathayatra Festival, scheduled for May 21 and 22.
The scope of this flood event is practically unprecedented, and the ISKCON devotees in New Orleans ask all to extend their prayers and best wishes to all those whose well-being and property may again be at risk in the thrice hard-hit region.
The tentative new festival date will be sometime in November, around the 19th.
