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Krsna and the Gopis Meet for the Rasa Dance

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 21, 2011 at 9:04am

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

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COAL to CLEAN

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 21, 2011 at 9:02am

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

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 45

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 21, 2011 at 9:00am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 45
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

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Jiva Fall down

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 21, 2011 at 9:00am

Jiva Fall down

Prabhupada gave another example from the Srimad-Bhagavatam:

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:

S

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Authorized Procedure for Performing A Kåñëa Conscious Marriage Ceremony

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 21, 2011 at 9:00am

Authorized Procedure for Performing A Krishna Conscious Marriage Ceremony

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

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Thought Of The Day

Posted by Shalabh Gupta on July 21, 2011 at 8:38am

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

STOP PLASTIC!! MAKE THE WORLD FANTASTIC!!

Posted by Sita devi dasi on July 20, 2011 at 10:52pm

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

STOP PLASTIC!! MAKE THE WORLD FANTASTIC!!

Posted by Sita devi dasi on July 20, 2011 at 10:52pm

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

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A weekend in Cape Town

Posted by Hitendra Patel on July 20, 2011 at 1:19pm

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

8TH MEDITERRANEAN TRAVELING "FESTIVAL OF INDIA 2011" - including Kosovo

Posted by shanti yadav on July 20, 2011 at 10:00am

"8TH MEDITERRANEAN TRAVELING "FESTIVAL OF INDIA 2011"

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

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Perfect Friendship !!

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 20, 2011 at 8:55am

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]

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Driving Ahead

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 20, 2011 at 8:52am

Suppose I am driving a very nice car, but I am simply absorbed in the machine only. I have forgotten my destination, where I have to go, and I am busy studying the car. What is the use? You may be driving a good car, but you must know how to reach your destination. That is your main business. Knowing how the car works is secondary. Your main business is knowing how to utilize the car so you can reach your destination. That is intelligence.

So, we have fallen into this material condition, and we a

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Jiva Fall down

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 20, 2011 at 8:51am

Jiva Fall down

[Modified to include the answer in the same mail]
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

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 44

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 20, 2011 at 8:50am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 44
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

Posted by shanti yadav on July 19, 2011 at 10:30am

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

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Moscow Devotees Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Prabhupada’s Visit

Posted by Hitendra Patel on July 19, 2011 at 10:30am

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

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Krsna Is Not Away

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 19, 2011 at 8:40am

. . .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

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Difference Between Gita & Vedas?

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 19, 2011 at 8:39am

Question: Difference Between Gita & Vedas?

Gurudeva, What is the difference between Vedic knowledge and Bhagavad-gita knowledge? The Bhagavad-gita says that Krishna is God. But the Vedas say that God is not a person, that He is nirakara, not possessing a form. I'm confused. Ashi

Answer: Gita is the Perfection of Vedic Wisdom

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

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relief from the blazing fire

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 19, 2011 at 8:39am

I mean to say, ocean of suffering, , the more we want to enjoy, the more sufferings enter. More suffering. You can understand. Just now we got this car, horseless car. But now there is a problem. They are thinking, "If there is no petrol available, then what will happen?" So this is material existence.... Anxiety. That anxiety is suffering, "What will happen? What will happen?" That is material existence. Always full of anxiety. This is material life. So Narottama dasa Thakura says that "The hea

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All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on July 19, 2011 at 8:38am

This is what happened when an Australian devotee girl was dying in Vrindavana in 2008 and Jamal is her father.

1. Just before Lila left the room was full of devotees having a "blazing kirtan".

Jamal said that he felt something lightly touch his arm from behind and when he turned around he saw Srila Prabhupada standing there fully manifest as we would see each other.

Jamal told her that Srila Prabhupada looked deep into his eyes to his very soul and simply nodded at him gravely. What happened

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Krsna and the Gopis Meet for the Rasa Dance

COAL to CLEAN

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 45

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Jiva Fall down

Authorized Procedure for Performing A Kåñëa Conscious Marriage Ceremony

Thought Of The Day

STOP PLASTIC!! MAKE THE WORLD FANTASTIC!!

STOP PLASTIC!! MAKE THE WORLD FANTASTIC!!

A weekend in Cape Town

8TH MEDITERRANEAN TRAVELING "FESTIVAL OF INDIA 2011" - including Kosovo

Perfect Friendship !!

Driving Ahead

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Jiva Fall down

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 44

Zanzibar

Moscow Devotees Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Prabhupada’s Visit

Krsna Is Not Away

Difference Between Gita & Vedas?

relief from the blazing fire

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

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