Wonderful experiences in life are not planned. Cannot be planned. They come in our life out of the blue just like a beautiful aroma which suddenly wafts through the air and reaches our nose. completley out of its own accord. Experiences are like little pieces of a jigsaw puzzle which come together and produce a beautiful picture. It makes a picture complete. A picture of YOU. We should not be stingy or miserly. We should go out into the world and experience each day, each moment, each person as
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"G u r u m u k h p a d m a v a k y a"
Simplicity……………….Nectarean Mellows
Once at New Dwarka Srila Prabhupada was in his nice quarters. There was even a little chandelier. It was not really opulent. It was just basically nice. And Prabhupada said to one of his followers “Do you remember my quarters at Radha Damodara”? And in those days it wasn’t like it is now, Radha Damodara, it has been really renovated. It was just really simple - back in the early seventies, very very simple, like
Today, at 69 years old, Chaitanya Prema Dasa is a robust, healthy devotee, visiting the Potomac, Maryland ISKCON temple every Sunday and working at the Pentagon, where he has served for twenty-five years in the Department of the Defense Inspector General. He keeps a small altar with Srila Prabhupada and a large, beautiful picture of Lord Krishna in his office, so that his boss and co-workers see the Lord every time they have meetings there.
Seeing him, you would never guess that back in
Govinda Prem: Hare Krishna,all world wide vaishnavas are invited for the opening of this grand temple opening for programe.other details below
History of ISKCON in Kenya
August 1971, Mumbai
One day while meeting with an Indian man, Mr. R. B. Pandya from Mombasa, Kenya, Prabhupada mentioned his illness. Mr. Pandya said he owned a house on the ocean at Mombasa, where it was always sunny and warm to recover his health. Mr. Pandya invited Prabhupada to go and live there as he liked. Taking the offer se
Introduction
The transcendental talk - the all powerful discussions of Bhagavad Gita, was going on between intimate friends, namely the Hrisikesa and the Gudakesa. As friends, both of them were on the same level, but one of them voluntarily became a student of the other.
Krishna openly speaks Bhagavad Gita
Krsna was smiling because a friend had chosen to become a disciple. As Lord of all, He is always in the superior position as the master of everyone, and yet the Lord agrees to be a friend, a son
Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!
Date: February 28th, 2011
Topic: Dhruva Maharaja Goes Back To Godhead
SB: 4. 12. 23
Speaker: HG Urmila Mataji
sunanda-nandav ucatuh
bho bho rajan subhadram te
vacam no 'vahitah srnu
yahpanca-varsas tapasa
bhavan devam atitrpat
TRANSLATION: Nanda and Sunanda, the two confidential associates of Lord Visnu, said: Dear King, let there be all good fortune unto you. Please attentively hear what we shall say. When you were only five years old, you underwent severe austeri
Dear Prabhus
Please accept my Humble obeissances unto your Lotus Feet._/\ò_
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada.
Yesterday 2nd march 2011,H.G Rohini Tanay pr, Brahmachari disciple of H.H Radhanath Maharaj left his Body . Aged 31, his body was ravaging with a terrible cancer. Around last year june-july he was diagnosed with Terminal Cancer.
In his Last days of painful condition, Rohini Tanaya pr's Krishna consciousness stood out more brightly.
some incidents i want to share.
Monday 28th feb he almost had
"G u r u m u k h p a d m a v a k y a"
Srila Prabhupada: embodiment of simplicity……………….Nectarean Mellows
Being simple is a very very great opulence in this age of Kali. Srila Prabhupada was so simple. He really didn’t want anything for himself. He just wanted to serve. He just wanted to speak the truth. Recently I was reading Srila Prabhupada’s Vyasa Puja offering in 1973 in London. There were hundreds and hundreds of devotees from all of the European continent and the UK coming to su
Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!
Date: February 27th, 2011
Topic: Dhruva Maharaja Goes Back To Godhead
SB: 4. 12. 22
Speaker: HH Lokanath Swami
tam krsna-padabhinivista-cetasam
baddhanjalim prasraya-namra-kandharam
sunanda-nandav upasrtya sasmitam
pratyucatuh puskaranabha-sammatau
TRANSLATION: Dhruva Maharaja was always absorbed in thinking of the lotus feet of Lord Krishna. His heart was full with Krishna. When the two confidential servants of the Supreme Lord, who were named Nanda and Sunanda,
Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!
Date: February 26th, 2011
Topic: Dhruva Maharaja Goes Back To Godhead
Verse: SB 4.12.20
Speaker: HG Harivilas Prabhu
vijnaya tav uttamagaya-kinkarav
abhyutthitah sadhvasa-vismrta-kramah
nanama namani grnan madhudvisah
parsat-pradhanav iti samhatanjalih
TRANSLATION: Dhruva Maharaja, seeing that these uncommon personalities were direct servants of the Supreme Personality of Godhead, immediately stood up. But, being puzzled, in hastiness he forgot how to receive the
Death is extremely painful & the dying person experiences a pain that is equivalent to 40,000 scorpions biting simultaneously -Garuda Purana.
One CANNOT AVOID death, but certainly one can try to avoid re-birth by going back to GODHEAD.
INCREDIBLE PREACHING IN ORISSA
I recently learnt through a first-hand experience how villagers in Orissa,India, are naturally seeking shelter of God and with a little training, Krishna consciousness becomes their second nature. And if Krishna consciousness doesn't reach them, there are others ready to mislead them and exploit their God consciousness.
My travels in Orrissa have been an eye opener. I first went to a remote village called Godamatori, two hours' drive from the Khurda Road station
Question: Suicide and Abortion? |
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I would like to know your opinion about suicide. It's a very low act, but it is not like harming other creatures. After committing this act, after leaving the body and that particular unwanted life, where does the soul of the doer go? How about abortion? How about the soul that has already resided in the developing embryo? |
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Answer: Ghost Life and Being Aborted |
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It is not a matter of opinion. According to the stringent laws of material nature if one commits suicide |
Overeating, over-sense gratification, overdependence on another’s mercy and artificial standards of living sap the very vitality of human energy. Therefore, the duration of life is shortened. Srimad Bhagavatam 1st Canto, 1st Chapter, Text 10.
Today, at 69 years old, Chaitanya Prema Dasa is a robust, healthy devotee, visiting the Potomac, Maryland ISKCON temple every Sunday and working at the Pentagon, where he has served for twenty-five years in the Department of the Defense Inspector General. He keeps a small altar with Srila Prabhupada and a large, beautiful picture of Lord Krishna in his office, so that his boss and co-workers see the Lord every time they have meetings there.
Seeing him, you would never guess that back in 1997, a
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Date: 11-Feb-11 00:01 +0530
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In the late 1960s, while Srila Prabhupada was translating and
commenting on his monumental edi
One day as I was passing by the elephants, I suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg.
No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at anytime, break away from the ropes they were tied to but for some reason, they did
not. I saw a trainer nearby and asked why these beautiful, magnificent animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away.
"Well," he said, "when they are v
Pastimes of Chaitanya Mahaprabhu with Gopala Capala
It appears that although Gopala Capala was sinful, talkative and insulting, he nevertheless had the qualification of simplicity. Thus he believed Caitanya Mahaprabhu to be the incarnation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead who had come to deliver all fallen souls, and he appealed for his own deliverance, seeking the mercy of the Lord. He did not know, however, that the deliverance of the fallen does not consist of curing their bodily diseas
cause of suffering in material existence. This conditional life in
material existence is called saḿsāra. One may perform good work and
take his birth in a very nice material condition, but the process
under which birth and death take place is like a terrible fire.
Śrī Viśvanātha Cakravartī Ṭhākura, in his prayer to the spiritual
master, has described this. Saḿsāra, or the repetition of birth and
death, is compared to a forest fire. A f
Life is meant for inquiring.
So what should be the inquisitiveness in this human form of life? Therefore the Vedanta-sutra says: athato brahma jijnasa. Now this life is meant for inquiring about the Supreme Absolute Truth, or Krsna. Krsna is the Absolute Truth, ultimate goal. So that is human life, when we inquire about. Therefore those who are inquisitive about God, they are not ordinary persons. They have been described in the Bhagavad-gita as sukrtina. Sukrtina means background is pious. Jus