The Blind Well
Once a prince went to forest for hunting. Suddenly a tiger attacked him. Prince fell down from his horse. As his bow was not in his hand, he quickly ran to save his life. While running, his feet got stuck in a creeper and he fell into a dry blind well. As he was felling down, he managed to hold two tree branches, which were hanging into the well. He looked up and found that the tiger is waiting for him on the top of the well. As his eyes got accustomed to see in dark, he found two
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HH Indradumna Swami Maharaj
This is the story of my life. Or better yet, the story of two lives: the one my spiritual master saved me from, and the one he gave me. Both concern the same person, but one life was temporary, ignorant, and full of suffering, and the other is eternal and full of knowledge and bliss. This is the story of the miracle, for me at least, of how I was delivered from the ocean of material life.
You could say my story begins within the womb. But I know it goes back many lifeti
A Swami and His Father
I was recently blessed with the opportunity to sit down and have a conversation with Dr. Cornel West -- a brilliant thinker and someone I have come to regard as a heartfelt friend and spiritual brother. Among the many profound things Dr. West spoke that evening at Princeton, one thing he said struck me deeply. "I am who I am," he said, "because someone loved me." As I reflected on his words, images of various mentors and teachers flashed in my mind. I thought of all the ki
"Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare |
[ Pronounced as: Hare - ( Ha'ray), Rama - (Raa'maa) &
Krishna - ( Kri-Sh'-Naa) ]
'Hare Krishna' is the mantra which is known to maximum number of western seekers thanks to the commendable work done by His Divine Grace A C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupad (founder of ISKON - International Society for Krishna Consciousness in spreading its awareness world wide. George Harrison, the popular sing
One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour each afternoon to help drain the fluid from his lungs.
His bed was next to the room's only window.
The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.
The men talked for hours on end...
They spoke of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their involvement in the military service, where they had been on vacation..
Every afternoon, when the man in the bed by the window co
Was it not possible for me to stay in my normal worldly life to practice devotional service to Krishna?
Of course I certainly could have remained there, but I would have had to cater to the tastes of others. This was the main obstruction I faced in living amongst those who were antagonistic to shri Krishna’s service. That was unpleasant. I never wanted to make my valuable life unsuccessful by spending even a moment of it in activities other than serving shri Krishna.
To attain the opportunity to c
Jul 06, 2011 - INDIA (SUN) — On Sunday, July 3, 2011, corresponding to "aashaadh shukla dvitiyaa" (the second day of the waxing fortnight of the month of aashaadh), ISKCON Baroda observed the thirtieth annual Jagannath Rathayatra mahotsav ("festival of the Chariot").
The Rathayatra began at 2:30 PM, the traditional time, at the traditional place, the Baroda Railway Station. The Honorable Mayor of Baroda, Smt. Dr. Jyotiben Pandya, inaugurated the Rathayatra by performing arati to Their Lordships
On June 16-17, 2011, ISKCON devotees from the Motel Gita Project attended the annual convention of the Asian American Hotel Owners Association (AAHOA) in Las Vegas, Nevada, requesting the owners of hotels and motels to include a copy of “Bhagavad-gita As It Is” in their guest rooms, as is commonly done with Gideon’s Bibles. The Motel Gita project previously had booths at AAHOA’s annual national conventions last year in Chicago and in 2009 in Washington, D.C., as well as in smaller, regional conv
Enlightening Others With Krishna Consciousness |
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Thank you so much for sacrificing so much of yourself in helping others revive their original consciousness and in so doing taking them out of their miseries. |
Prabhupada encouraged the attentive crowd to a
An argumentative guest brought the program to a close. "I have one question. Swamiji, you accept Krsna as the
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
