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Krsna and the Gopis Meet for the Rasa Dance
Sri Badarayani said: Sri Krsna is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, full in all opulences, yet upon seeing those autumn nights scented with blossoming jasmine flowers, He turned His mind toward loving affairs. To fulfill His purposes He employed His internal potency.
The moon then rose, anointing the face of the eastern horizon with the reddish hue of his comforting rays, and thus dispelling the pain of all who watched him rise. The moon was like a bel
An old Farmer lived on a farm in the mountains with his young grandson. Each morning Grandpa was up early sitting at the kitchen table reading his Bhagavad Gita. His grandson wanted to be just like him and tried to imitate him in every way he could.
One day the grandson asked, 'Grandpa! I try to read the Bhagavad Gita just like you but I don't understand it, and what I do understand I forget as soon as I close the book. What good does reading the Bhagavad Gita do?' The Grandfather quietly turned
tasya prapannakhila-lokapanam
avasthitanam anusasane sve
arthaya jatasya yadusv ajasya
vartam sakhe kirtaya tirtha-kirteh
tasya -- His; prapanna -- surrendered; akhila-loka-panam -- all rulers of the entire universe; avasthitanam -- situated in; anusasane -- under the control of; sve -- own self; arthaya -- for the interest of; jatasya -- of the born; yadusu -- in the family of the Yadus; ajasya -- of the unborn; vartam -- topics; sakhe -- O my friend; ki
Krishna's friends were kept asleep for one year by Brahma, but when they woke up and Krishna returned before them, they considered that only a moment had passed.
Prabhupada further explained by citing yet another example -- that of Jaya and Vijaya, the two gatekeepers at a gateway to Vaikuntha, who once refused entrance to the four great sages, the Kumaras, and were subsequently cursed by them to fall to the material world:
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1. Preparations are made according to the instructions in the "Sri Srimurti Puja" booklet, published by ISKCON Los Angeles
2. The couple should wear newly bought clothes.
3. Sankirtana
4. The bride sits to the right of the groom. Garlands are offered to the priest and couple after they have been touched to the Deities' feet. Incense is lit and placed around the spot where the sacrificial fire is to be lit.
5. The priest says th
IT is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor, children nor learning. If it be That will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love you without the hope of reward--'love'' unselfishly for love's sake.
By: Swami Vivekananda
Respected Devotees,
Please accept our most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Guru and Gauranga.
As a part of the “Heal the World” Project, Bhaktivedanta Hospital Youth Foundation is planning to organize a Newspaper Collection Drive, in order to discourage the use of Plastic bags and promote the use of newspaper bags which is both ecofriendly and also economical. Plastic bags are a great threat to the environment in various ways, also known to be th
Respected Devotees,
Please accept our most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. All glories to Guru and Gauranga.
As a part of the “Heal the World” Project, Bhaktivedanta Hospital Youth Foundation is planning to organize a Newspaper Collection Drive, in order to discourage the use of Plastic bags and promote the use of newspaper bags which is both ecofriendly and also economical. Plastic bags are a great threat to the environment in various ways, also known to be th
The southern-most city on the African continent and famous for landmarks such as the confluence point of the Indian and Atlantic oceans, Table Mountain and Robben Island, Cape Town is also home to Sri Sri Nitai Mayapurchandra, the presiding Deities of a cosmopolitan temple/preaching centre. Maharaja arrived here late on Friday afternoon and immediately attended a house program.
The evening began with an energetic, hour-long bhajana session. The theme of FAITH dominated the class that followed and
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Hare Krishna PAMHO AGTSP
Greetings to you all,
Dear MAHARAJAS,PRABHUS AND MATAJIS with big joy and happiness we are forwarding you our message which we already uploaded to our website,webportal and facebook , but since some of you help us all the time and cooperating in our projects, we decided that we want to share our situation in this more personal way with those of you...we are looking forward that you will be able to help us - eit
Perfect Friendship:
“In an ideal spiritual society, one no doubt does have millions of friends, but deep, spiritual friendship requires spiritual maturity.
For a lasting friendship, friends must have a common goal, a common object of love.
If our friendship is founded on pleasing Krishna without material considerations, there is hope of achieving an absolute and perfect friendship.”
[Rohininandana das, Back to Godhead magazine #24, 1989]
So, we have fallen into this material condition, and we a
Madhudvisa ended his report with a mention of a current controversy.
In March 1971, Subal Maharaja asked you in Bombay at "Akash Ganga": "Did we have an original lila with Krishna on Krishna Loka or Vaikuntha before we first fell to maya?" Your answer was quite distinctly, "Yes." Everybody who was there was quite surprised for we were all thinking that we were originally shining jiva souls vibrating in the brahmajyoti with our relatio
ajasya janmotpatha-nasanaya
karmany akartur grahanaya pumsam
nanv anyatha ko 'rhati deha-yogam
paro gunanam uta karma-tantram
ajasya -- of the unborn; janma -- appearance; utpatha-nasanaya -- f or the sake of annihilating the upstarts; karmani -- works; akartuh -- of one who has nothing to do; grahanaya -- to take up; pumsam -- of all persons; nanu anyatha -- otherwise; kah -- who; arhati -- may deserve; deha-yogam -- contact of the body; parah -- transce
Zanzibar
We had come to attend the Nairobi Ratha Yatra in East Africa and after that thought of doing some book distribution in neighbouring Dar es salaam and Zanzibar by Caitanya Mahaprabhu's mercy. In Dar es salaam there are some devotees and there is some preaching going on. In Zanzibar, however the population is at least about ninety five percent muslims and, they are practicing muslims. Therefore there hasn't really been much done there. It is actually the birth place of the Swahili language
One thousand devotees from all over Russia gathered in Moscow for an eight-day festival from June 12th to 19th this summer, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of ISKCON Founder Srila Prabhupada’s first and only visit to the city.
The attendees included eighty veterans of ISKCON in Russia—devotees who joined during the oppressive communist reign, and before the movement’s official registration in 1988. They arrived for the festival from the Ukraine, the Baltics, and other ex-Soviet Union countri
. . .when you chant Krsna, Hare Krsna, actually the fact is Krsna is dancing on your tongue by sound vibration. Krsna is not away.Bhagavad-gita 4.20-24 Lecture
New York - August 9, 1966
Question: Difference Between Gita & Vedas? |
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Gurudeva, |
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Answer: Gita is the Perfection of Vedic Wisdom |
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Bhagavad-gita knowledge describing the form and personality of God is the perfection of Vedic knowledge. Although the Vedas describe nirakara, the formless, impersonal concep |
