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See the Lord in Everyone

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 21, 2011 at 9:25am

In Srimad Bhagavatam Canto 1, Chapter 11, verse 7 the residents of Dvaraka glorify the Lord in a wonderful manner when the Lord returns to Dvaraka from Hastinapura. The residents of Dvaraka are immensely separated from Krishna and they run towards Him as soon as Krishna enters Dvaraka blowing the fat-boweled conchshell, the sound of which removes the fear of all living entities.

bhavaaya nas tvam bhava vishva bhaavanaa
tvam eva maataatha suhrt patih pitaa
tvam sad gurur nah paramam ca daivatam
y

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Seek and you shall find

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 21, 2011 at 9:23am

Finding faults with the devotees

Seek and you shall find. If you are looking for faults, you will find faults in everyone and anywhere, if you are looking for the good, you will find the good everywhere and anywhere. It is a question of what you want. Krishna will reveal Himself according to how you approach Him. Shishupal only saw faults in Krishna, whereas Arjuna, Yudhishtar, they only saw the glory of Krishna. According to how they approached Krishna they were saved. Krishna is in the heart

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Who Created Krishna?

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 21, 2011 at 9:23am

Question: Who Created Krishna?

Dear Gurudeva, Please accept my humble obeisances, All glories to Srila Prabhupada. I am Dipesh, 10 years old. I wake up every day at 4am and chant the mahamantra mantra 16 rounds before going to school at 7am. I read the Bhagavad-gita. I go to the ISKCON temple every Sunday. I take prasadam and follow the rules ISKCON for making spiritual advancement. I heard that Krishna is the creator of the creator. For example, if someone creates something, then Krishna is the one

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Initiation ceremony

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 21, 2011 at 9:20am

Initiation ceremony

Next, Prabhupada called Simon to the dais, and gave him the name Syamananda dasa. "So, Syamananda. Syama means Krsna. Syamasundaram. So one who takes pleasure in serving Krsna, his name is Syamananda. Ananda means pleasure. We take pleasure in serving so many nonsense things. Sometimes we take pleasure in serving a dog, but the same service attitude, when transferred to Krsna, makes our life successful. Everyone is giving service: Somebody is giving service to a country, to hi

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 23

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 21, 2011 at 9:20am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 23
anyani ceha dvija-deva-devaih
krtani nanayatanani visnoh
pratyanga-mukhyankita-mandirani
yad-darsanat krsnam anusmaranti

anyani -- others; ca -- also; iha -- here; dvija-deva -- by the great sages; devaih -- and the demigods; krtani -- established by; nana -- various; ayatanani -- various forms; visnoh -- of the Supreme Personality of Godhead; prati -- each and every; anga -- part; mukhya -- the chief; ankita -- marked; mandirani -- temple s; yat -- which

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Thirtieth annual Jagannath Rathayatra Mahotsav by ISKCON Baroda

Posted by shanti yadav on June 21, 2011 at 9:18am

Jagannath Rathayatra Mahotsav by ISKCON Baroda

On Sunday, July 3, 2011,

ISKCON Baroda will be observing the thirtieth annual Jagannath Rathayatra festival here.

The Rathayatra procession will begin at 2:30 PM at the Baroda railway station, as per local tradition. The Mayor of Baroda, Honorable Doctor Jyotiben Pandya will inaugurate the Rathayatra by sweeping the road in front of the Rath of Their Lordships, just as the Gajapati Maharaj of Puri does annually at Jagannath Puri.

The Collector

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Thought Of The Day

Posted by Shalabh Gupta on June 20, 2011 at 7:07pm

The spiritual master should not be expected to just say what the disciple wants to hear. The spiritual master is not like a professional politician who will only
come and tell the disciple what the disciple wants to hear. A spiritual
master’s instruction may be very shocking, but the disciple should accept the
instruction with faith.

-By H.H. Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj

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How to Get the Normal People to Chant?

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 20, 2011 at 8:50am

Question: How to Get the Normal People to Chant?

Dear Srila Gurudeva, How can we get the normal people to chant Hare Krishna? L.I.

Answer: They Already Are

The normal people are already chanting Hare Krishna. It's the abnormal people who somehow or other need to be induced to chant Hare Krishna. If you become completely pure in your chanting, you will able to convince the entire world to chant Hare Krishna. Sankarshan Das Adhikari

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Courtesy Is Kindness in Action!

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 20, 2011 at 8:50am

Somebody once remarked, "Kindness and courtesy can make an average person
superior. Indifference and lack of concern can make a superior person
average."

As a society, we have become almost obsessed with asserting our rights – to
think, say, and do what we want. We have a right to be unkind, thoughtless,
and disrespectful but, it is NOT Right! And, that's not surprising, given
the ever-increasing population of this country and the need to fight even
for the basic needs.

The other day, one of our colleag

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Express your gratitude toward others

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 20, 2011 at 8:49am

The people we remember to thank, in person, with a thoughtful note or gesture, or a phone call, are infinitely more likely to help us again than those we take for granted or neglect to thank. It’s so obvious, yet so few people really understand how this works.

People love to be acknowledged, admired, and thanked. People love to be thanked, not out of any selfish need but simply because it feels good to be acknowledged. And when we are sincerely acknowledged, the acknowledgment acts as reinforceme

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A Vaisnava can appear anywhere

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 20, 2011 at 8:49am

So, what is the symptom of a devotee? How do you recognize a devotee?
Do we recognize a devotee by his birth? By his material condition? By
his material situation?

No, the sign of a devotee is through his surrender to the Supreme
Personality of Godhead. It doesn’t matter from whatever category,
whatever background one comes. Like candalo’pi dvija-shrestho hari-
bhakti-parayanah. One maybe a candala but hari bhakti parayanah, when
he becomes a devotee of Hari, Krishna, then he is dvija shrestha, he
is su

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Initiation ceremony

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 20, 2011 at 8:48am

Initiation ceremony

Sunday, 9 April 1972

Since the temple could not afford a separate car, Prabhupada travelled to Centennial Park for his morning walk in the front passenger seat of the Volkswagen van. Those devotees fortunate enough to have been selected to accompany Srila Prabhupada, squeezed in the back. Sitting on the floor, they felt privileged and ecstatic to be so close to their spiritual master.

Amogha: When Srila Prabhupada got aboard the blue Kombi van to go for his morning walk, I sat i

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 22

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 20, 2011 at 8:48am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 22
tasyam tritasyosanaso manos ca
prthor athagner asitasya vayoh
tirtham sudasasya gavam guhasya
yac chraddhadevasya sa asiseve

tasyam -- on the bank of the River Sarasvati; tritasya -- the pilgrimage site named Trita; usanasah -- the pilgrimage site named Usana; manoh ca -- as also of the pilgrimage site named Manu; prthoh -- that of Prthu; atha -- thereafter; agneh -- that of Agni; asitasya -- that of Asita; vayoh -- that of Vayu; tirtham -- places of pilg

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jay Srila Prabhupaad

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 20, 2011 at 8:48am

Two weeks after the first initiation I heard that Prabhupada was holding another initiation. I decided that this time I would not miss out. Prabhupada was going to hold the second initiation on September 23, 1966, on the appearance day of Radharani, Krsna's eternal consort. A week before that date, I went to Prabhupada's apartment and asked him if I could be initiated. "You know you'll have to be a strict vegetarian," Srila Prabhupada said.

"Oh," I replied, "I already am." Then Srila Prabhupada

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Thought Of The Day

Posted by Shalabh Gupta on June 19, 2011 at 6:19pm

Material comfort for a vaisnava is just like a coffin.(Srimad Bhagavatam 4.18.7), Freedom by surrender-By H.H. Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj

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Krishna Karnamrita Verse 60 Purport

Posted by Gourab Saha on June 19, 2011 at 1:35pm

Verse 60

agre samagrayati kâm-api keli-laxmi-

manyasu dikshmu-api vilochanam-eva sâkshi,

hâ hanta hasta-patha-duram-aho kimetad,

âshâ-kishoram-aya-amba jagat-trayam me.60.

Translation

Sri Krishna is performing such amazing love-sports in front of me! I can see such beautiful scenes all around me! My eyes are the very witnesses. Alas! Alas! I am trying to catch Him, but He is moving away. Oooh mummy! What is this! The whole universe has taken the form of the divine Kishor! 60.

S

rila Kavirâj Goswâ

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Krishna Karnamrita Verse 60.1 Purport

Posted by Gourab Saha on June 19, 2011 at 1:32pm

agre samagrayati kâm-api keli-laxmi-

manyasu dikshmu-api vilochanam-eva sâkshi,

hâ hanta hasta-patha-duram-aho kimetad,

âshâ-kishoram-aya-amba jagat-trayam me.60.

Translation

Sri Krishna is performing such amazing love-sports in front of me! I can see such beautiful scenes all around me! My eyes are the very witnesses. Alas! Alas! I am trying to catch Him, but He is moving away. Oooh mummy! What is this! The whole universe has taken the form of the divine Kishor! 60.

S

rila Kavirâj Goswâmipâd sa

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Krishna Karnamrita Verse 58 Purport

Posted by Gourab Saha on June 19, 2011 at 1:24pm

The song of the flute

Verse 58

pâdau vâda vânirjita-ambuja-vânau padma-laya-lambitau,

pâni venu-vinodana-pranayinau paryâpta-shilpa-shriyau,

bahu dohada-bhajanam mriga-drishâm mâdhurya-dhârâ-kirau,

vaktram vâgvishayabhi-langhitam-aho bâlang kim-etân-mahah.58.

Translation

Aho! His feet vanquish the pride of a lotus-forest and so Padmâlaya-kamalâ has taken His shelter. His lotus-hands holding the flute are experts in casting a spell. As also in all other arts, His arms shower sweetness and thus ful

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Talk by Rajaji

Posted by pranathi rao on June 19, 2011 at 1:48am

As an introduction to the song "bhajagovindam" by Sri Adi Sankaracarya, C. Rajagopalachari (informally called Rajaji or C.R., an lawyer, politician, writer and statesman) spoke the following words.

Adhi Shankaracharya wrote a number of vedantic works for imparting knowledge of the self and the universal spirit. He also composed a number of hymns to foster Bhakthi in the hearts of men. One of these hymns is the famous Bhaja govindam.

The way of devotion, is not different from the way of knowledge

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Krishna Karnamrita Verse 101 Purport

Posted by Gourab Saha on June 18, 2011 at 10:03pm

Today my sweet words have garlanded You!

Verse 101

galad-breedâ lolâ madana-vinatâ gopa-vanitâ

mada-speetam veetang kimapi madhurâ châpaladhurâ,

samujjantâ gumphâ madhurimakirâm mâdrisha-girân

twayi sthâne yâte dadhati chapalan janmasafalam.101.

Translation

Your love made the Gopa-vadhus lose their shame; it agitated their hearts and made them humble. When they got You with Your surging youth they considered their lives worthy. In the same manner, today my sweet poetic words have obtained Your shelte

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