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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - As he did not accept me, I did not accept him

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 9:02am

As he did not accept me, I did not accept him

Saturday, 15 April 1972

Srila Prabhupada received a letter from Jadurani dasi, his artist disciple in America, along with an enclosed sketch for the proposed cover of the upcoming unpublished volume of the Fourth Canto, Volume One of the Srimad-Bhagavatam. The sketch showed Lord Visnu sitting on the back of his eagle carrier, Garuda. In his eight arms he held, in a clockwise direction, a conch, an arrow, a bow, a disc, a lotus, sword, shield and club.

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Preaching at Auckland Town Hall

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 9:02am

Preaching at Auckland Town Hall

The Auckland Town Hall was an ornate, Victorian-style building standing beside the Square in the centre of the city. The smaller of its two halls, the concert chamber, had been booked as the venue for an evening lecture by Srila Prabhupada.

Aksayananda's stepfather, Hector (Robbie) Robertson, had volunteered to drive Prabhupada to the hall. Early in the evening, the same quaint old car that had picked up Srila Prabhupada at the airport that morning coughed and splut

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Stay in New Zealand

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 9:01am

Stay in New Zealand

155 Landscape Road, Mount Eden

A small, burgundy-coloured prefabricated house now served as New Zealand's first Hare Krsna Temple. Mount Eden was situated at the end of a lava flow from an old volcano. Auckland was cradled in a nest of 60 such volcanoes, and Landscape Road displayed an abundance of the characteristic large volcanic boulders of the area.

In front of the little bungalow was a small, wooden veranda, and a tiny garden. The backyard was slightly bigger, with a revolv

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 36

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 9:01am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 36
api sva-dorbhyam vijayacyutabhyam
dharmena dharmah paripati setum
duryodhano 'tapyata yat-sabhayam
samrajya-laksmya vijayanuvrttya

api -- as also; sva-dorbhyam -- own arms; vijaya -- Arjuna; acyuta-bhyam -- along with Sri Krsna; dharmena -- on religious principles; dharmah -- King Yudhisthira; paripati -- maintains; setum -- the respect of religion; duryodhanah -- Duryodhana; atapyata -- envied; yat -- whose; sabhayam -- royal assembly; samrajya -- imperi

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 35

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 9:00am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 35
apisvid anye ca nijatma-daivam
ananya-vrttya samanuvrata ye
hrdika-satyatmaja-carudesna-
gadadayah svasti caranti saumya

api -- as also; svit -- whether; anye -- others; ca -- and; nija-atma -- of one's own self; daivam -- Sri Krsna; ananya -- absolutely; vrttya -- faith; samanuvratah -- followers; ye -- all those who; hrdika -- Hrdika; satya-atmaja -- the son of Satyabhama; carudesna -- Carudesna; gada -- Gada; adayah -- and others; svasti -- all well; c

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 34

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 9:00am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 34
apisvid aste bhagavan sukham vo
yah satvatam kama-dugho 'niruddhah
yam amananti sma hi sabda-yonim
mano-mayam sattva-turiya-tattvam

api -- as also; svit -- whether; aste -- does He; bhagavan -- the Personality of Godhead; sukham -- all happiness; vah -- of you; yah -- one who; satvatam -- of the devotees; kama-dughah -- source of all desires; aniruddhah -- the plenary expansion Aniruddha; yam -- whom; amananti -- they accept; sma -- from yore; hi -- certa

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 33

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 8:59am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 33
kaccic chivam devaka-bhoja-putrya
visnu-prajaya iva deva-matuh
ya vai sva-garbhena dadhara devam
trayi yatha yajna-vitanam artham

kaccit -- whether; sivam -- everything well; devaka-bhoja-putryah -- of the daughter of King Devaka-bhoja; visnu-prajayah -- of she who gave birth to the Personality of Godhead; iva -- like that of; deva-matuh -- of the mother of the demigods (Aditi); ya -- one who; vai -- indeed; sva-garbhena -- by her own womb; dadhara -- con

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 32

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 8:58am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 32
kaccid budhah svasty anamiva aste
svaphalka-putro bhagavat-prapannah
yah krsna-padankita-marga-pamsusv
acestata prema-vibhinna-dhairyah

kaccit -- whether; budhah -- very learned; svasti -- well; anamivah -- faultless; aste -- does exist; svaphalka-putrah -- the son of Svaphalka, Akrura; bhagavat -- regarding the Personality of Godhead; prapannah -- surrendered; yah -- one who; krsna -- the Lord; pada-ankita -- marked with footprints; marga -- path; pamsus

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 31

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 8:58am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 31
ksemam sa kaccid yuyudhana aste
yah phalgunal labdha-dhanu-rahasyah
lebhe 'njasadhoksaja-sevayaiva
gatim tadiyam yatibhir durapam

ksemam -- all good; sah -- he; kaccit -- whether; yuyudhanah -- Satyaki; aste -- is there; yah -- one who; phalgunat -- from Arjuna; labdha -- has achieved; dhanuh-rahasyah -- one who understands the intricacies of military art; lebhe -- also achieved; anjasa -- easily; adhoksaja -- of the Transcendence; sevaya -- by service; e

Whether man or woman

Posted by Sriman John Martini Krishna Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 1:53am

Chanting Hare Krishna

Posted by Sriman John Martini Krishna Dasa on July 8, 2011 at 1:52am

insignificant happiness

Posted by sanjay agrawal on July 7, 2011 at 7:51pm

we get entrapped in the material world simply for some insignificant happiness as compared to its distress and suffering and in the same manner a rat gets encaged for a small amount of chapati inside it.....

All Of Us Have To Work Together....

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on July 7, 2011 at 1:50pm

If we want to expand this Krishna Consciousness movement, then all of us have to work together. This must be clearly understood. So I would like to request the disciples who are being initiated today to be very respectful and cooperate with the temple authorities, and by cooperating with the temple authorities and listening to them, on actually pleases the spiritual master also.

(His Holiness Gopal Krsna Goswami , Freedom by Surrender)

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Iskcon temple in two years - First state-of the-art structure in Bihar, Jharkhand being built at Rs 51 crore.

Posted by Hitendra Patel on July 7, 2011 at 11:00am

Foundation stone of the Iskcon temple in Patna.

Patna, June 27: The International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) temple, coming up at Budh Marg in Patna, will open to public in 2013. Earlier, the temple construction was supposed to get over by 2012 end but because of drainage problems, the deadline had to be extended, said Nagmani Kumar, the spokesperson of Iskcon temple management in Patna.“The contract for construction of the temple has been given to Simplex Construction Company

B M W

Posted by sanjay agrawal on July 6, 2011 at 10:14pm

THE AIM OF LIFE IS,NOT TO GET A BMW(CAR),BUT TO GIVE BMW(BODY,MIND AND WORDS) FOR THE SERVICE OF THE SUPREME PERSONALITY OF GODHEAD AND HIS DEVOTEES...

PLEASE ACCEPT MY HUMBLE OBEISANCES

Seek Krishna in calm moments

Posted by priyanka bohra on July 6, 2011 at 5:33pm

Pranam Matajis and Prabhujis

Here is a little story tht i would like to share with you all-

It's a story of a sea captain who in his retirement skippered a boat taking day-trippers to Shetland Islands. On one trip, the boat was full of young people. They laughed at the old captain when they saw him say a prayer before sailing out, because the day was fine and the sea was calm.

However they weren't long at sea when a storm suddenly blew up and the boat began to pitch violently. The terrified pass

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Love of God a lecture by Radhanath Swami given at Palghar

Posted by Hitendra Patel on July 6, 2011 at 2:12pm

I would like to thank all of you for kindly taking your precious time to come to this most auspicious place of Sri Rama Mandir to join us to hear and chant the glories of Supreme personality of Godhead. In fact, each moment really is so precious that Vishnu Purana explains that there is nothing so precious in all over creation as each moment that we have in this valuable and rare human form of life. And there is no greater misfortune than to waste a single moment in forgetfulness of Lo

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Thought Of The Day

Posted by Shalabh Gupta on July 6, 2011 at 8:48am

Man’s sufferings and worries spring only from his persistent thought that he is the doer.

significance of mahamantra.............

Posted by Abhilasha Tripathi on July 5, 2011 at 10:51pm

COMMENTARY OF BHAKTIVINODA THAKURAfrom Sri Caitanya Siksamritam(Translated by Madhavananda Das)he hare - maccintaM hRtvA bhava bandhanAn mocaya |O Hare! Steal my mind and free me from bondage.he kRSNa – mac cittam AkarSa |O Krishna! Let my mind become attracted to You.he hare – svamadhuryaNa mac cintam hara |O Hare! Steal my mind with your sweetness.he kRSNa - svabhaktadvArA bhajana jnAna-dAnana mac cittaM zodhaya |O Krishna! Purify my mind and give me knowledge of bhajana bestowed through theme

Radhanath Swami

Posted by Sriman John Martini Krishna Dasa on July 5, 2011 at 10:15pm

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - As he did not accept me, I did not accept him

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 36

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 35

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 34

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 33

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 32

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 31

Whether man or woman

Chanting Hare Krishna

insignificant happiness

All Of Us Have To Work Together....

Iskcon temple in two years - First state-of the-art structure in Bihar, Jharkhand being built at Rs 51 crore.

B M W

Seek Krishna in calm moments

Love of God a lecture by Radhanath Swami given at Palghar

Thought Of The Day

significance of mahamantra.............

Radhanath Swami

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