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Love and Devotion

namo maha-vadanyaya krishna-prema-pradaya te
krishnaya krishna-chaitanya-namne gaura-tvise namah


Translation: O most munificent incarnation! You are Krishna Himself appearing as Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu. You have assumed the golden colour of Srimati Radharani, and You are widely distributing pure love of Krishna. We offer our respectful obeisances unto You.

Nitai Gaur Hari Bol!!!!

All glories to srila prabhupada...

 

 

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# 7 November 1947--Born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA on the tenth day of Kartik.# Before joining ISKCON was a counter-cultural song-writer searching for spiritual enlightenment and a message that could deliver the world from chaos.# Fall 1968--Was first introduced to the Mahamantra by a nondevotee friend.# December 1968--Decided to leave the modern civilization behind, go to India, and become a life-long renunciate. But at the last minute felt he was supposed to go to San Francisco instead.# Janu
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Holy Name

Lecture on
Bhagavad-gita 7.8
23/02/74 Mumbai
By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Srila Prabhupada
 
With these present senses we cannot understand what is the holy, transcendental name of Krsna. Therefore sometimes we are misunderstood, that "Why these people are chanting Hare Krsna?" So... Because ordinary man or ordinary senses cannot understand the value, the nature of the name, therefore sastra says.. we can realize God by chanting name... Naama, the holy name of the Lord, is completely
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Question: How to Surrender and Get Initiated?


I am a regular reader of the Bhagavad-gita As It Is. While reading the Dhyana Yoga chapter, we read the Lord describing about ways to attain Him via yoga. But personally, I found the purport where Arjuna says that he finds  himself unworthy for meditation very similar to my condition. In reply the Lord says that even transcendental to all these methods to achieve Him was to completely surrender unto Him. I want to ask you how do we surrender to Lord K

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Question: Is Jnana Yoga Worshipping Krishna?


Dear Spiritual Master,

If I spend one hour reading books about Krishna, does it means that I spent one hour meditating on Krishna? Does it means that I am worshiping Krishna through jnana yoga?

P.M.
 


Answer: Yes, But Bhakti Must Be Added.


Yes you are worshipping and meditating on Krishna simply by studying  Krishna conscious literature. This philosophical approach is called jnana yoga, the yoga of knowledge. However, if you simply study the books but do no

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Humility defined

As Srila Prabhupada was getting into his car, an Indian gentleman congratulated him on his lecture. Prabhupada put his hands together in respectful pranamas, and slightly lowered his head. "Thank you," he said humbly.

On the return journey to the temple, Prabhupada chanted half-audibly in the back seat of the car, looking out the window in a way as quiet and unassuming as a child. His demeanour gave no indication that just a few minutes before he had been cheered and applauded by
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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 18
puresu punyopavanadri-kunjesv
apanka-toyesu sarit-sarahsu
ananta-lingaih samalankrtesu
cacara tirthayatanesv ananyah


puresu -- holy places like Ayodhya, Dvaraka and Mathura; punya -- piety; upa-vana -- the parks; adri -- hill; kunjesu -- in the orchards; apanka -- without sin; toyesu -- in the water; sarit -- river; sarahsu -- lakes; ananta-lingaih -- the forms of the Unlimited; samalankrtesu -- being so decorated; cacara -- executed; tirtha -- places of
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Thought Of The Day

All these books are the ultimate source of knowledge. They are not mundane speculations, they are authorized versions of liberated souls, presented by my humble self. So the strength is not in us, the strength is in the Supreme Lord. (Letter to Devananda 1968 September 28, 1968).

-By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

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Anjana Sridhara

Anjana SridharaBy PoonthanamTranslated by P.R.RamachanderThis prayer is one of the very popular prayers addressed to Guruvayurappan written by Poonthanam, the author of Jnanapana. Its utter simplicity and great devotion, makes it very dear to all devotees.Anjana Sridhara Charu moorthe Krishna,Anjali koopi vanangidunnen,Ananda alangara vasudeva Krishna,Athangam yellam agathidenam., 1Hey, pretty Krishna, who is black and who carries Lakshmi,Salutations to you with folded hands,Hey happy Krishna, w
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Radha and Krishna, together

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The Gopala Champu by Jiva Goswami has a very nice verse, which appears at the beginning of his descriptions of the madhura rasa section. There, Snigdhakantha and Madhukantha start their recitations in the assembly of Radha and the gopis along with a select group of Krishna’s friends, the priya-narma-sakhas. This is actually part of the mangalacharana, but as is often the case with Jiva Goswami, there is a big siddhanta involved.

 

इमौ गौरीश्यामौ मनसि विपरीतौ बहिरपि
स्फुरत्तत्तद्वस्त्राविति बुधजनैर

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Sri Krishna's Horoscope

Krishna's Ascendant is *Taurus* and his *Moon* is also here and at
exalted potency. Taurus is the feminine sign of Venus. Thus Krishna had
exalted beauty and femininity is all aspects of his body and mind. In
fact he is known as " Bhagavan " - which means that he is the Surpeme
Attractive Person. The impact of beutiful and sensuous Venus on
Krishna's body and mind is extremely amplified by powerful *Ketu*.

Krishna's Ascendant Lord Venus is with *Saturn* in the 6th House of
Enemies - and Krishna always
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ETERNAL DIVINE LOVERS RADHA KRISHNA

ETERNAL DIVINE LOVERS
Devotion Bhakti
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ETERNAL DIVINE LOVERS_"RADHA-KRISHNA"

 All the forms of God and Goddesses known as almighty powers are naturally self-submitted to Radha Krishna. Almighty forms of God have Their Blissful form of Divine regality which a Saint experiences in Vaikunth. It is somewhat like a king to his subject’s relationship and preferences. The loving form of Radha Krishna is the ocean of unlimited Divine Bliss. It reveals such a ‘love’ that is beyond imagination. It is so marv
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It is not very easy to control the mind. Unless you are guided properly from the platform of spiritual understanding or spiritual realization the mind is always going to revolting. When the mind is always revolting and one follows the dictates of the mind that is called falling into the ocean of Maya. As human being, as intelligent human beings, our business is how to get out of this Maya.

 

(Bhakti Swaroop Damodar Swami, 1980, San Francisco, California, USA)

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AGTSP

 

One day at the welfare office, my supervisor told me I would have to work until one o'clock instead of taking my usual lunch hour at noon. This meant I would miss taking lunch with Prabhupada and his followers. I could not cope with that idea; yet I had no choice. I called Prabhupada from pay phone in the hall outside my office. This was the first time I had ever telephoned him. I felt I was being presumptuous, considering him my equal and therefore easily accessible.

Prabhupada answered. I aske

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If one commits offenses against the holy name, he will not achieve
attachment for chanting:

[Lord Caitanya to Svarupa Damodara and Ramananda Raya]: "...My dear
Lord, although You bestow such mercy upon the fallen conditioned souls
by liberally teaching Your holy names, I am so unfortunate that I
commit offenses while chanting the holy name, and therefore I do not
achieve attachment for chanting."

Sri Caitanya-caritamrta Antya-lila 20.16
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Present Before Us Personally

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The Lord is so kind to us that He can be present before us personally in the form of transcendental sound, but unfortunately we have no taste for hearing and glorifying the Lord's name and activities. We have already discussed developing a taste for hearing and chanting the holy sound. It is done through the medium of service to the pure devotee of the Lord.

SB 1.2.17 purport
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Accepting reversals gratefully

tat te 'nukampāḿ su-samīkṣamāṇo

bhuñjāna evātma-kṛtaḿ vipākam

hṛd-vāg-vapurbhir vidadhan namas te

jīveta yo mukti-pade sa dāya-bhāk

TRANSLATION

My dear Lord, one who earnestly waits for You to bestow Your causeless
mercy upon him, all the while patiently suffering the reactions of his
past misdeeds and offering You respectful obeisances with his heart,
words and body, is surely eligible for liberation, for it has become
his rightful claim.

PURPORT

Śrīla Śrīdhara Svāmī explains in his commentary that just a
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How Can We Serve You?

Question: How Can We Serve You?


How can we serve you?

I.L.
 


Answer: Assist Us in Delivering the World


Our spiritual master, Srila Prabhupada, ordered us, "Become guru and deliver the entire world." On our own it is not possible that we can successfully execute this order. But if many of you will kindly dedicate your lives for assisting us in making the world Krishna conscious, there is some hope that we can successfully carry out Srila Prabhupada's order. Therefore we are humbly begging you to adopt

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Question: Chant Gayatri Instead of Hare Krishna?


Since Sri Krishna says that of mantras He is Gayatri shouldn't we chant the Gayatri mantra instead of the Hare Krishna maha-mantra? Can you please quote slokas where it is said that Hare Krishna maha-mantra is superior. My parents want me to chant Gayatri mantra, however, I tell them that since I chant Hare Krishna maha-mantra, it already includes all other mantras. But, they don't seem to be very happy with my argument.

Thank you.

A.N.
 


Answer: Hare

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Preaching at Melbourne Town Hall

The hall was now packed to capacity; close to 2,000 people had responded favourably to the devotees' advertising. It was quite a mixed audience: young men in denims, kaftans, tie-dyed shirts and beads, girls in Indian cheesecloth skirts and crushed velvet jackets, academics, students, housewives, men with shoulder-length hair and polo-necked sweaters, and older Theosophical Society types.

The vast hall was quiet with expectation as Srila Prabhupada put on his dark-
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