TRANSLATION
Leaders who have fallen into ignorance and who mislead people by directing them to the path of destruction [as described in the previous verse] are, in effect, boarding a stone boat, and so too are those who blindly follow them. A stone boat would be unable to float and would sink i
Diary of a Traveling Monk - Volume 11, Chapter 11 - November 21, 2010
By Indradyumna Swami
One morning in Vrindavana, I was sitting in my house chanting my rounds when my disciple Narottam Das Thakur Das came to see me. He offered his respectful obeisances and then spoke. “Guru Maharaja,” he said, “it’s been a long time since I have visited Govardhana Hill. If you don’t have any service for me today, I would like your blessings to go on Govardhana parikrama.”
“You’re free to go,”
Putana was really Maya. Putana looked like nectar but actually within, it was poison. This whole material energy is just so many Putanas. Bodhamrit Part-IV
Prabhupada would often tell us, the price of Krishna, is the tears that you flow from your eyes, in longing separation from HIM. Bodhamrit-4
At the end of November we held an an istha ghosthi with the department leaders of our Swamibag temple in Dhaka/Bangladesh to prepare for the upcoming Prabhupada marathon. I appealed to everyone assembled to make some little extra endeavor for the marathon to distribute Prabhupada's books more widely, and we decided to read for a few minutes every morning after mangal artik from the wonderful book "The Nectar of Book Distribution" in order to help our devotees to cultivate Sankirtan consciousne
We are full of many mundane impressions; so we have to guard ourselves against those ten offences that should not be committed during the chanting of the Name of Hari.
Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Goswami Maharaja
Please find attached herewith a photo taken from my Mobile of a Lizard that was dead, sticking itself to the corner of a bathroom door.
Learning from the Photo:
Lizard, by its nature, normally found sticking itself on the walls. It was very strange to see the Lizard which was dead, but still sticking itself on the corner of the bathroom door.
Alike the Dead Lizard, our Determination towards our Devotional Service and Progress in Krishna Consciousness should be that till our time of
Hare Krishna....
I am attaching herewith a Photo taken from my Mobile while returning to home from office.
In the photo, one may find that few Buffalos being carried in a truck to butchers house, where they would be butchered. But the poor Buffalos, does not know their fate and happily enjoying the truck ride, cool breeze, experience of flying in air, without any stress of walking, running and flying.
We can very much infer the above photo to that, many people, blindly follow many
 We are full of many mundane impressions; so we have to guard ourselves against those ten offences that should not be committed during the chanting of the Name of Hari. Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Goswami Maharaja |
Today is Christmas Day, the birthday of Jesus Christ. In Europe and other countries, hardly anyone knows what Jesus Christ was doing in his youth, at around 15 years of age. Indian history shows that he was in India, where he visited Vrndavana, Ayodya, Jagannatha Puri, and other pilgrimage places. In Vrndavana he heard the name of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Krsna, and when he went to Jagannath Puri he heard how the local persons pronounce Krsna as Krusna or Krusta. Later, Krusta became
