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Question: How Can I Start Chanting Again? |
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I have recently stopped chanting my rounds because I no longer have an attraction for doing so. I am very unhappy about this, but I don't know how to solve it. How can I solve this problem? |
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Answer: Be Intelligent and Feed the Real Self |
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Chanting is the nourishment for the soul, and food is the nourishment for the body. Even though you know that are not your body, every day you make sure to feed it. It is not that some days you do not eat |
Srila Prabhupada has stated that we can only improve ourselves - and that is a
gradual process. Certainly life in this world is difficult for everyone and the main
difficulty is becoming Krsna conscious. That is a very personal thing. Your Krsna
consciousness is your own responsibility. You should not blame your difficulties on
your husband/wife. Sure, things could be better if he/she was a better devotee, but you
cannot change him/her. The only person you can really change is yourself, and you
don’t
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Respected Gurudeva, |
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Answer: Take the Prescribed Medicine to be Cured |
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The physician gives the patient the correct medicine in the proper dosage for recovering his health as |
Our daily chanting of the Hare Krishna mahamantra on japa beads is the most significant event of our day. It is our daily opportunity to have a personal, private meeting with God. Therefore the mood in which we chant is of the utmost importance. If our minds are wandering somewhere else during our japa, it will be difficult to remember Krishna throughout the day, and our day will be a struggle. But if we fix our minds nicely on on the mahamantra during our japa meditation, it will be easy to rem
sanakair bhagaval-lokan
nrlokam punar agatah
vimrjya netre viduram
prityahoddhava utsmayan
sanakaih -- gradually; bhagavat -- the Lord; lokat -- from the abode; nrlokam -- the planet of the human beings; punah agatah -- coming again; vimrjya -- wiping; netre -- eyes; viduram -- unto Vidura; pritya -- in affection; aha -- said; uddhavah -- Uddhava; utsmayan -- by all those remembrances.
The Hare Krishnas have until 10am on August 4 to give an undertaking that its members will stop chanting in Sydney streets. Unless the undertaking is given, we will seek a Supreme Court injunction to restrain them.
The devotees, of course, ignored the ultimatum.The whole continuing debacle had attracted the attention of the Council for Civil Liberties, an e
Touching Krishna's Kingdom
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(Compiled from notes on lectures of H. H. Mahavishnu Goswami)
I am trying to share herewith a few of the points from the nectarean lectures given by Maharaja in June 2009 when Maharaja was here in Abudhabi on his way back to India from London. Maharaja was discussing the various qualities we have to develop so that we can enter into the Kingdom of Krishna. I am trying to post herewith a few of the points acco
Fire covered by smoke in Hypocrisy of Virtue all around.
A desire to dwell in a place to lose all pity desires, to miseries of this world.
A work to lose every materialistic opulence to your parallel delusions.
While living years in darkness born by ignorance.
When things seeming a circle and me running in it.
I don’t want to be stabbed again by illusions and fallibility.
O Supreme Lord! Hide me as I surrender in realm of your syllables.
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Only the dvijas (the brähmaëas) and the devas (the demigods) can be delivered from material existence by the instructions of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Whatever is spoken by the Supreme Personality of Godhead is a mantra and is suitable for delivering the conditioned souls from mental speculation. The conditioned souls are engaged in a struggle for existence (manaù ñañöhänéndriyäëi prakåti-sthäni karñati [Bg. 15.7]). Deliverance from this struggle constitutes the highest benefit, but un
Create a temple in your home and teach your family, how to come together to chant. The family that prays together stays together. When we pray, the holy name is a prayer; it is the most powerful prayer of the heart. And individually, we should train our consciousness to be in connection to the holy name from chanting of Japa, individual meditation and through this process of purification, our home is Vaikuntha, our life is the life of the devotee of God. It is very simple. And there is absolutel
Q. Both in spiritual life and also in material life people speak of attitude. What should be the approach of a spiritual aspirants towards other spiritual aspirants and with materialists?
A. The answer to this can be found in a number of places, where qualifications of a madhyama adhikari are described. Amongst spiritual aspirants, there are those more advanced, those who are peers and those who are less advanced. In all cases, we should try to render service to thevaisnavas (devotees of the Lor
Suppose a man is thrown into the ocean. He may be an expert swimmer, but he cannot be happy in the ocean because he is out of his natural condition of life. The only way he will become happy is if someone picks him up from the ocean and places him on the land.
So if we are serious, if we actually want to be happy, we must take to the cultivation of spiritual understanding, an understanding of Krishna consciousness. Of course, in every country of the world there is some religious system, some syst
Question: How Krishna is Not a Hindu God? |
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Gurudeva: |
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Answer: He is Not Hindunatha. He is Jagannatha. |
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If Krishna was a Hindu god, He would be called Hindunatha (the lord of the |
An election was held and de
pulakodbhinna-sarvango
muncan milad-drsa sucah
purnartho laksitas tena
sneha-prasara-samplutah
pulaka-udbhinna -- bodily changes of transcendental ecstasy; sarva-angah -- every part of the body; muncan -- smearing; milat -- opening; drsa -- by the eyes; sucah -- tears of grief; purna-arthah -- complete achievement; laksitah -- thus observed; tena -- by Vidura; sneha-prasara -- extensive love; samplutah -- thoroughly assimilated.
What kind of disease does greed inflict on the soul and what exactly is greed anyway?
A former investment banking securities salesman whose business was obliterated in the mortgage market meltdown lamented that the greed of others destroys many economic lives. Greed is simply the desire to want more than you have, he explained. “It’s a natural state.” He is right of course. But for some, so is murder and rape. The evolution of our species necessitates we don’t give into every natural desire.
The c
Many men come here and by their talents, earn huge amounts of money, but it remains here, and he goes alone with his works only to accept another different kind of body, forgetting everything behind. But if he acquires some spiritual assets it goes with him, and even if it is not perfect in this life, it begins again from that point in next life.
-By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada
Srila Prabhupada said this chanting of – Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare/ Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare - It is not an artificial imposition of the mind. It is invoking our original consciousness, our consciousness is so pure. It is to love Krsna but now - that consciousness has become polluted, so polluted by material designations, material attachments and material conceptions. So who is a pure devotee?That person who is in his natural state to love Krsna. Like the
