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My Material Desires

When we have material desires my advice is: Get a big box, put all the
material desires inside. Just put them all inside, close the box and
in big capital letters write on that box: "My material desires!"

Tie it up nicely, put it on the shelf and then get busy in service to
Krishna. One day when you don't have so much to do, you think: "Today
is the day that I'm going to play with my material desires!"

And you take the old box of the shelf, you look inside the box, and
what do you see?

"Half of them gon
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By force you cannot.

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Just like a person is diseased. He is advised by the doctor that "You shall not take such and such things." So he is starving or he is fasting. Suppose in the typhoid fever the doctor has advised him not to take any solid food. So under the instruction of the doctor, he is not taking any solid food. But suppose his brother is eating some bread. Oh, he likes that "If I could eat." That means within himself he has got the tendency for eating. But out of fear that "If I eat, there will be very bad

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Visit to the temple -2

Next they showed Srila Prabhupada a small printing press that was installed in one of the small rooms out the back, and Srila Prabhupada appeared impressed. Passing the book shed, someone handed Srila Prabhupada the latest copy of Back to Godhead magazine.

They recrossed the rather sparse backyard and entered the small shop-front that had been a grocery store, at the fore of the semi-detached building next door to the temple. Mohanananda described to Srila Prabhupada how he
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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 10 Text 37-40
praja-patin manun devan
rsin pitr-ganan prthak
siddha-carana-gandharvan
vidyadhrasura-guhyakan
kinnarapsaraso nagan
sarpan kimpurusan naran
matr raksah-pisacams ca
preta-bhuta-vinayakan
kusmandonmada-vetalan
yatudhanan grahan api
khagan mrgan pasun vrksan
girin nrpa sarisrpan
dvi-vidhas catur-vidha ye 'nye
jala-sthala-nabhaukasah
kusalakusala misrah
karmanam gatayas tv imah


praja-patin -- Brahma and his sons like Daksa and others; manun -- the periodical heads li
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Thought Of The Day

Practical devotion is the secret to understanding the Sastras. My Guru Maharaja used to say that for one who is not engaged in devotional service, reading all the books is simply like licking the outside of the honey jar. One who thinks the books are the thing is content in this way. But we should learn the secret to open the jar and taste the honey. In this way, if we can simply understand one book, or one sloka, the perfection is there. 

-By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

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Save Yamuna Campaign

2514827373?profile=originalI think many of the devotees will agree with me that they were ignorant of Yamuna's absence in Vrindavan. Whenever we visit Sri Vrindavan Dham we make sure to go for Vrindavan Parikrama. And as we pass through the stretch overlooking Yamuna we just walk on thinking about the bad condition she is in. But never thought of the solution for the problem.

One fine day I got a SMS that a rally is being organised by Bhaktivedanta Hospital Youth Forum at Girgaum Chowpatty and I thought of checking it out

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A SMALL POEM.......

CHANTING YOUR NAME IS THE ONLY REMEDY.........

THINKING OF YOU IS THE ONLY WAY............

TO MEET YOU MY LORD...THE SCRIPTURES SAY........

 

SERVING YOUR LOTUS FEET SHOULD BE ONLY THE AIM.....

THINKING OF YOUR PASTIMES...WITH INTENSE LOVE.

SEEING YOU EVERYWHERE BELOW AND ABOVE.......

 

THOUSANDS OF CUPID SERVE YOUR LOTUS FEET....

YOU ARE INDEED BEAUTY PERSONIFIED.....

SAYS YOUR SERVANT KAMAL NAYAN ...ATTAINED YOU WHOEVER IN YOUR LOVE CRIED.........

 

 

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Question: How to Attain Complete Surrender?


In order to taste pure love for Krishna we should surrender to Krishna completely. So can you tell me what is complete surrender and how to practice it in a simplified manner? 

Thank you,

Your servant,

K.S.


Answer: Take Shelter of the Bona Fide Guru


It's very simple. Complete surrender means to strictly abide by the instructions given by the Lord. This cannot be done by mental speculation. You have to be trained by someone who is fully conversant with the or

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How to get love of God

How to get love of God, Radhanath Swami Answers with an example from Mahabharata
 
Bhishma Dev
 
Swami Ji, we hear about so many learned and dignified personalities from scriptures but I find it difficult to understand that why such learned men go against Lord. For e.g. Bhisma in Mahabharata was a man with high character and knowledge; still he chose to fight against Krishna… please shed some light on this?
Radhanath Swami: Bhisma was always upright, loyal and true in the service of the lord. Although as an ins
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Visit to the temple -1

On Prabhupada's arrival, Sydney Customs officials confiscated a new clay drum brought by Nanda Kumara for the temple. Since the heads were made of rawhide, they said, the drum would have to be quarantined and could be picked up a few days later. After completing arrival formalities, Prabhupada and his party had exited into the arrival lounge, but found no-one to greet them. Unfazed, Prabhupada suggested they take a taxi to the temple.

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Harry: I had been quickly detailed t
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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 10 Text 36
sa vacya-vacakataya
bhagavan brahma-rupa-dhrk
nama-rupa-kriya dhatte
sakarmakarmakah parah


sah -- He; vacya -- by His forms and activities; vacakataya -- by His transcendental qualities and entourage; bhagavan -- the Personality of Godhead; brahma -- absolute; rupa-dhrk -- by accepting visible forms; nama -- name; rupa -- form; kriya -- pastimes; dhatte -- accepts; sa-karma -- engaged in work; akarmakah -- without being affected; parah -- transcendence.


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At the time of death.


 Maharaja Kulasekhara king, a great devotee, is praying to Krsna, "Krsna, this is the opportune time. Now I am healthy. I am quite in good health so let me die immediately, thinking of You, because my whole purpose is to think of You, of Your pastimes, at the time of death. So generally, at the time of death, kapha-vata-pittaih, the whole system becomes disarranged. There are coughing, there are headache, there is some pain, this is general system. Sometimes they are so intolerable that the man

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Thought Of The Day

 A devotee always accepts his distress as minimized by Gods Mercy; although he would have to suffer many more times the suffering. Any one who accepts this philosophy of Gods Mercy in suffering conditions, and still makes progress in Krishna Consciousness, it is said that he is sure to go back to Home, Back to Godhead. 

-By H.D.G. Srila Prabhupada

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1Bhagavad-gétä 8.28-9.1—New York, November 21, 1966Prabhupäda: The Lord says that the purpose of all Vedic instruction is to achieve the highest goal of life, back to Godhead. Any scripture of any country, not only of this Bhagavad-gétä, but any scripture, they are aiming simply how to get us back to Godhead. That is the purpose. Take for any ex... Take for example any of the great religious reformers or äcäryas of any country. In your country, Lord Jesus Christ or Lord Buddha. Of course, Lord B
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Quotes of the week

Pure devotees of the Lord speak nothing other than the Lord. Srila Prabhupada's every letter and word is related to the Supreme Lord - Lord Sri Krishna. There are innumerable transcendental texts provided by His Divine Grace, which delivers one from this painful material world and then takes back to the eternal, ever blissful, no-miseries world - Goloka Vrindavana or Krishnaloka. Let us gain the transcendental knowledge through Srila Prabhupada's quotes. Thanks to the collectors and preserver's

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Sri Sri Krishna Balaram

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Sri Sri Krishna Balaram
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Sri Sri Krishna Balaram Temple,
Vrindvan, India



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Sri Sri Radha Syamasundar Lalita Visakha


from Santi Vardana Prabhu, ISKCON Malaysia

When I was studying in Vrndavana VIHE in 2001, everyday I used to pray to Lord on how to make spiritual progress quickly. I wanted lots of mercy because I knew I am very fallen and in need of great mercy. I prayed every day for many days to each Deity--Nitai Gauranga, Krsna Balaram, and Radha Shyamasu

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when a picture acts as a Deity



 



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His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada



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spoken by His Holiness Prabhavishnu Swami



When I first had the idea of going to Malaysia, I wanted ask Srila Prabhupada. I went to Vrindavan in October '77. Srila Prabhupada was very ill. His secretary said it wasn't appropriate to ask him about coming here.


I had been preaching in Nepal and I was going to give a report and then ask about coming here also. But his secretary said he was too ill. Then I went back to Nepal, because at one point

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Panna kala Narasimha


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Panna kala Narasimha 

Mangal Giri

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spoken at Panna kala Narasimha Kshetra, Mangal Giri, by His Holiness Radhanath Swami

 

This Deity was established by Yudhistir Maharaj. It was during the twelve years that he was banished to the forest. He lost his kingdom, he lost all of his power, wealth and influence, he had to live in the forest, but because of that wonderful experience that he had, meeting these difficult challenges that he built so many beautiful temples. This is one of them. It was explain

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The History of ISKCON Mayapur Deities

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Sri Sri Radha Madhava


The History of ISKCON Mayapur Deities
from mayapur.com

Every day we take darshan of our beloved Deities, Sri Sri Radha Madhava. They kindly bestow Their mercy upon us and enable us to serve Them. How did these beautiful Radha Madhava Deities come to Sri Mayapur Dham?

Once when Srila Prabhupada was in Sri Vrindavan Dham, Mr. Palmir, a life-patron member of ISKCON, donated three sets of Radha Krishna Deities. Srila Prabhupada sent one set of Deities went to Berkeley, one to Bost

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