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Tea and Krishna Devotees

Posted by shanti yadav on June 1, 2011 at 9:21am

Tea and Krishna Devotees

Hare Krishna,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada

Do we need an agitated, distracted and uncontrolled mind to progress in Krishna consciousness or we need a calm, peaceful and controlled mind?

It is a frequent argument that tea and coffee are obtained from plants. They have a vegetarian source. So why do you ask us to stop these for progressing in Krishna consciousness.

Conventional black tea has both caffeine and tannin in it. Arguably, nei

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Srila Prabhupada's quotes.

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 1, 2011 at 8:53am

"The process is how to think of Krsna. Man-mana bhava mad-bhaktah. This is meditation. So this... By kirtana it becomes very easy. If you chant Hare Krsna maha-mantra twenty-four hours like Haridasa Thakura... That is not possible. So as much as possible... Tirtha-yasasa. Kirtana, this is also kirtana. We are talking about Krsna, reading about Krsna, reading Krsna's instruction in the Bhagavad-gita or reading Krsna's glories in the Srimad-Bhagavatam. They are all kirtana. It is not that simply w

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Science from the vedic viewpoint

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 1, 2011 at 8:52am

THE PRINCIPLE OF REINCARNATION
by Bhaktisvarupa Damodara Swami

The scientific study of reincarnation may shed new light on many subtle phenomena inexplicable by currently accepted theories-phenomena such as the wide variety of living forms, innate abilities clearly not acquired from the environment, and near-death experiences. In recent years scholars in various disciplines have shown great interest in studying reincarnation, but to study it meaningfully we must first know whether life is an eter

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Cure for modern jaundice

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 1, 2011 at 8:51am

If a man is suffering from jaundice and you give him a piece of sugar candy, he will say that it is very bitter. But is sugar candy bitter? No, it is very sweet. And the medicine for jaundice is that sugar. Modern science prescribes this, and it is prescribed in the Vedic literature also. So if we take a great quantity of this sugar candy, then we will be relieved from jaundice. And when there is relief, then one says, "Oh, this is very sweet." So the modern jaundice of a godless civilization ca

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 9

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 1, 2011 at 8:49am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 9
yada ca partha-prahitah sabhayam
jagad-gurur yani jagada krsnah
na tani pumsam amrtayanani
rajoru mene ksata-punya-lesah

yada -- when; ca -- also; partha-prahitah -- being advised by Arjuna; sabhayam -- in the assembly; jagat-guruh -- teacher of the world; yani -- those; jagada -- went; krsnah -- Lord Krsna; na -- never; tani -- such words; pumsam -- of all men of sense; amrta-ayanani -- as good as nectar; raja -- the King (Dhrtarastra or Duryodhana); uru

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Gossip! It will destroy this movement Behind Srila Prabhupada's room was a tiny, two-metre square kitchenette. There, each day, Citralekha would prepare rasagullas for Prabhupada, who ate the sweets d

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 1, 2011 at 8:49am

Gossip! It will destroy this movement

Behind Srila Prabhupada's room was a tiny, two-metre square kitchenette. There, each day, Citralekha would prepare rasagullas for Prabhupada, who ate the sweets daily with his breakfast. Around mid-morning, Upendra would start to prepare Prabhupada's lunch.

A couple of devotees entered the kitchen while Upendra was cooking. Before too long, Upendra, as was his sometimes frivolous habit, had reduced the conversation to a mundane gossip session. After the devote

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God has unlimited potencies.

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 1, 2011 at 8:44am

God has unlimited potencies, but learned scholars, saintly persons, they have not rejected potencies, because they cannot be. There are certain philosophers, they are of opinion that God has no potency. But that is not fact. From Vedic information we see potency. What is that? How to understand the potency? The potency, you can understand. Just like from the fire you have got two potencies: heat and light. Nobody can deny it. Similarly, as fire is placed in one place but it expands its potencie

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Avoiding Offenses To Devotees

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 1, 2011 at 8:44am

Avoiding offenses to devotees of Krsna is the first and one of the most important offenses to avoid. We tend to get familiar with our spiritual associates and may make offenses or with ease criticise this devotee or that. This is due to our bodily concept of life, thinking we are this body and basing our thinking on this. When we chant well....this bodily concept melts and we see each other as a spiritual soul and a servant of the Lord.

In terms of spiritual life, this offense is one of the bigge

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Thought Of The Day

Posted by Shalabh Gupta on June 1, 2011 at 8:39am

The Final Test Presently, we see that we are in a beautiful situation-beautiful body, beautiful environment, beautiful facilities. Now this beautiful situation should somehow or the other be utilized for a happy ending. If the end is not happy then the whole human life has been a failure.

By H.H.Srila Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj

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Sharing the womb in suffering

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on May 31, 2011 at 2:27pm

Samjna, the wife of Vivasvan, the sun-god, gave birth to the Manu named Sraddhadeva, and the same fortunate wife also gave birth to the twins Yamaraja and the River Yamuna. Then Yami, while wandering on the earth in the form of a mare, gave birth to the Asvini-kumaras.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 6.6.40

Notes:

Twins
Kripa kripi
Yama Yami
Hiranyaksha Hiranakasipu

Transcendental Twins
Nara Narayana
Nakula and Shadeva
Jananivas Prabh and Pankajangri Prabhu

Hundred (Kauravas) where born from Gandhari what to speak

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Sex urge will not disturb them!

Posted by Gourab Saha on May 31, 2011 at 1:00pm

1968 Correspondence

If they are strong enough in Krishna Consciousness any amount of sex urge will not disturb them. Even it disturbs, it will come and go, Krishna is Madan Mohan, or the Enchanter of Cupid. And Cupid is the god of sex desire. So if anyone wants to enchant Cupid, instead of being enchanted by Cupid, he must take shelter of the Enchanter of Cupid, Sri Krishna.

Letter to Brahmananda -- Los Angeles 21 January, 1968:

New York

My Dear Brahmananda,

Please accept my blessings. I am in due re

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Room Conversation with Srila Prabhupada August 5, 1974,Vrindavan

Posted by Gourab Saha on May 31, 2011 at 12:51pm

Prabhupada: ...the business of the representative of Krishna to push the nipple. (?) Because they know what is the necessity. The whole world is upset for want of Krishna consciousness. This is the necessity. It is not a, I mean to say, whimsical sporting. It is the necessity. But they do not know. It is a very responsible task. That is called prayojana. Is it clear? What do you think? Huh?

Svarupa Damodara: Yes, they... There has to be...

Prabhupada: They do not know. The scientists, they do not

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Thought Of The Day

Posted by Shalabh Gupta on May 31, 2011 at 12:47pm

"It is better to think that spiritual advancement depends on our effort. Otherwise you will just wait for mercy. In English there is a saying, God helps those who help themselves. Krishna also says, ‘All of them, as they surrender unto Me, I reward them accordingly’. So the key is attentive chanting.

-By H.H. Srila Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj

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The Nectar of the Holy Name - Material contamination begins with these four Bad Habits!

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on May 31, 2011 at 11:09am

For those who want to be initiated in this Society for Krsna
consciousness, there are four principles: no illicit sex, no
intoxication, no meat-eating, and no gambling. We don't say, "No sex."
But we do say, "No illicit sex." If you want sex, get married and have
Krsna conscious children. "No intoxication" means not even taking tea
or coffee—to say nothing of other intoxicants. And there is no
gambling and no meat-eating (including fish and eggs). Simply by
following these four basic rules and regulati

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PAIN of BIRTH

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on May 31, 2011 at 11:07am

As human beings, we should be cognizant that we are suffering the pains of birth, old age, disease and death and should be inquisitive to know how to avoid these miseries. We have been suffering from the beginning of our birth when as a baby we were tightly placed for nine months in the womb of a mother. After birth, suffering continues; although a mother may take much care for her child, the baby still cries. Why? Because he is suffering. Either a bug is biting, or there is a pain in the stomac

* KRISHNA IS ADHOKSAJA *

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on May 31, 2011 at 10:56am

Krishna is Adhoksaja, difficult to understand but through the medium of devotional service what is difficult becomes easy. Those who engage on the path of devotional service they can gradually understand the Lord depending upon their degree of surrender.

(Gopal Krishna Goswami, BG 7.3, 19.5.2001, Moscow)

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How is Spiritual Master's Body Spiritual?

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on May 31, 2011 at 10:45am

Question: How is Spiritual Master's Body Spiritual?

It is said in scriptures that the body of a spiritual master is never to be considered a material body. Then, in this present material world, why does the spiritual master seem to take birth, get old, sometimes get sick and at the end leave his body at the time of death? D.P.

Answer: Like an Iron Rod in the Fire

Even though the spiritual master's body is still under the laws of material nature, it is a fully spiritualized body because it is fully

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 8

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on May 31, 2011 at 10:15am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 8
dyute tv adharmena jitasya sadhoh
satyavalambasya vanam gatasya
na yacato 'dat samayena dayam
tamo-jusano yad ajata-satroh

dyute -- by means of gambling; tu -- but; adharmena -- by unfair tricks; jitasya -- of the vanquished; sadhoh -- a saintly person; satya-avalambasya -- one who embraced truth as shelter; vanam -- forest; gatasya -- of the goer; na -- never; yacatah -- when asked for; adat -- delivered; samayena -- in due course; dayam -- right share; t

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Initiation

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on May 31, 2011 at 10:15am

Initiation

Thursday, 6 April 1972

The day was set aside for the installation of Sri Sri Radha and Krsna, the initiation of a dozen or so devotees into the chanting of the Hare Krsna maha-mantra, one marriage, and the sannyasa initiation of Hanuman dasa. Srila Prabhupada came down to the temple around mid-morning and sat down on a gold satin cushion on the floor before the newly-completed altar -- a very basic, box-like, wooden construction decorated with stencilled white swans and set atop three m

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Tea and Krishna Devotees

Srila Prabhupada's quotes.

Science from the vedic viewpoint

Cure for modern jaundice

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 9

Gossip! It will destroy this movement Behind Srila Prabhupada's room was a tiny, two-metre square kitchenette. There, each day, Citralekha would prepare rasagullas for Prabhupada, who ate the sweets d

God has unlimited potencies.

Avoiding Offenses To Devotees

Thought Of The Day

Sharing the womb in suffering

Sex urge will not disturb them!

1968 Correspondence

Room Conversation with Srila Prabhupada August 5, 1974,Vrindavan

Thought Of The Day

The Nectar of the Holy Name - Material contamination begins with these four Bad Habits!

PAIN of BIRTH

* KRISHNA IS ADHOKSAJA *

How is Spiritual Master's Body Spiritual?

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 3 Chapter 1 Text 8

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Initiation

Bhagavad Gita Quest Board Game ( Distributors Needed)

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