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Without Conscious Effort

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on March 29, 2011 at 10:30am

This morning is stood on the little bridge and looked down into the rushing creek. I heard the water over the rocks chanting and I thought, “Should I really try to answer more questions about japa?” I felt reluctant to go to the discursive level, and I was also afraid of presumption. I wanted to stay a simple villager, or even as simple as water running over rocks. I wanted to chant unconsciously, the way water flows down rocks or the way breath goes in and out without conscious effort.

Japa Walk

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World of Miseries

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on March 29, 2011 at 10:30am

One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.

There is nothing like cause and effect for the surrendered soul. Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura says in this regard that being put into this material world is like being thrown into a mine of salt. If one falls into a mine of salt, he tastes only salt wherever he goes. Similarly, this material world is full of miseries. The so-called temporary happiness of the worl

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Initiation Is Not Sufficient for Liberation

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on March 29, 2011 at 10:28am

To be initiated by any guru is not sufficient for going back to Godhead. The guru who can deliver you back to home, back to the spiritual world must himself be engaged 24 hours daily in Krishna's service and engage you also in doing that. Initiation means beginning. It does not mean that you are now delivered. It can be compared to registering as a student in a university. Registration does not mean that you are now graduated. It simply means that you are now formally beginning your studies. Wou

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Real conteraction against danger

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on March 29, 2011 at 10:28am

Whatever we have manufactured, pratikaram, counteraction against
danger, that will be also failure if Krsna does not sanction it. That
is realized by Prahlada Maharaja. He says "My dear Lord, people have
manufactured so many pratikaram, counteraction." But tanu-bhrtam,
"Those who have accepted this material body, they are simply
manufacturing things to counteract dangers. But even though they have
all this counteracting machine or counteracting agents, still, without
Your sanction, this counteracting m

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Unalloyed devotee

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on March 29, 2011 at 10:27am

One should become an unalloyed devotee of the Personality of Godhead, Sri Krsna, and serve Him with rapt attention.

The Lord taught the Gosvämé about devotional service, comparing it to a creeper, and advised him to protect the bhakti creeper most carefully against the mad elephant offense against the pure devotees. In addition, the creeper has to be protected from the desires of sense enjoyment, monistic liberation and perfection of the haöha-yoga system. They are all detrimental on the path of

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HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj at Interfaith Dialogue!!!

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on March 29, 2011 at 10:27am

February 10, 2011, Mumbai: Radhanath Swami was invited for an interfaith dialogue on the topic “Decline of morality in public life: Role of religion in restoring it” organized by K.J. Somaiya Bhartiya Sanskriti Peetham. The Somaiya trust is one of the largest educational trusts in India with 34 institutes and 27,000 students.

Radhanath Swami at Interfaith Dialogue

The dialogue brought together members from the highest order of the Christian, Hindu and Islamic faiths. H.E. Oswald Cardinal Gracias and H.E. Cardinal Murphy-O’ Connor repr

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Inspirational Nectar

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on March 29, 2011 at 10:24am

"In the beginning there may be some failures. That is quite natural.
Just as a child is trying to stand, he may fall down. But that does
not mean he should give up the idea. Go on. A time will come when he
will be perfect. A time will come when you’ll be perfectly Krishna
conscious."

Srila Prabhupada - Los Angeles, January, 1969

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Srila Prabhupada's poems

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on March 29, 2011 at 10:24am

Srila Prabhupada's poems

Bali-mardana and Upendra kept Srila Prabhupada informed of the latest developments on campus. Prabhupada was happy to hear of the university success, describing it as "engladdening". He continued to stress to them the urgent need of spreading Krsna consciousness amongst Australia's youth:

Just try to convince the younger section about the importance of this movement and how this one single venture can solve all the problems of the world. Krishna consciousness is not dry. I

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 10 Text 10

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on March 29, 2011 at 10:23am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 10 Text 10
puruso 'ndam vinirbhidya
yadasau sa vinirgatah
atmano 'yanam anvicchann
apo 'sraksic chucih sucih

purusah -- the Supreme Person, Paramatma; andam -- the universes; vinirbhidya -- making them each separately situated; yada -- when; asau -- the same; sah -- He (the Lord); vinirgatah -- came out; atmanah -- of Himself; ayanam -- lying in place; anvicchan -- desiring; apah -- water; asraksit -- created; sucih -- the most pure; sucih -- transcendental.

TRANSLA

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How to Find Permanent Bliss?

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on March 29, 2011 at 10:22am

Question: How to Find Permanent Bliss?

Hare Krishna, Maharaja, Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada. Day in and day out, I am trying very hard to become an ardent student of Krishna consciousness, but I always end up overwhelmed by miseries stemming from my work, people, corporate politics, mood swings, and other emotional disturbances. I am feeling very sick and tired of these day to day nuances. In my office everyone is playing so much politics and mind games, and t

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Chanting Rhyme

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on March 29, 2011 at 10:21am

There is a rhyme that I invented for my son to encourage him to concentrate while chanting Japa. It's very simple, but underlines two important points....hearing and pronounciation.

Chant the words so you can hear,

the Maha mantra loud and clear

In spiritual life, simple concepts are very important and these simple aspects of chanting are very important for our progress in Japa.

Boat Festival

Posted by Radhika Kavach Das on March 29, 2011 at 10:03am

Hare Krishna! ISKCON Delhi (Sri Sri Radha Parthsarthi Temple)is celebrating its 2nd Sri Sri Radha Krishna Boat Festival on 31st March 2011. Festival will be start by evening 06:00pm with the possession of Sri Sri Radha Krishna and it will reach by 06:30 to Kaliya Krishna Pond of Temple and then after aarti the Boat Festival will start by 06:50pm
Boat festival ki............jai

Indias-Holy-Cow--Becoming-Extinct

Posted by Bhagavati devi dasi on March 29, 2011 at 8:15am

http://krishnatube.com/video/699/Indias-Holy-Cow--Becoming-Extinct

New Vraja Dhama Plants Forests for Carbon-Neutral Heating

Posted by Dinesh Warungase on March 28, 2011 at 9:34pm

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Devotees at New Vraja Dhama, a sustainable ISKCON farm community in Hungary also known as Krishna Valley, are set to plant 6.5 hectares of trees—an incredible 50,000 Acacias, Oaks, and Willows—on their property at the end of this March.

But the effort is just a fraction of a much bigger project that has been underway since the community’s inception in 1993.

“This will bring the amount of trees we’ve planted since starting our 660-acre farm to 54 hectares—or 133 acres,” says Radha Krishna Dasa, wh

Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah ……………….Nectarean Mellows

Posted by Rasamrita Das on March 28, 2011 at 9:32pm

"G u r u m u k h p a d m a v a k y a"Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah ……………….Nectarean MellowsThe path of perfection is to follow in the footsteps of the mahajans. Lord Chaitanya declared in relation to Madhavendra Puri, that one cannot understand the true essence of spiritual perfection by austerities, by meditation, even by studying all of the scriptures scrutinizingly because there are so many ways to interpret anything within this world, the real path of perfection is to follow in the footstep

RE MAN KRSNA CHABI NIT DHYAAIYE

Posted by kamal nayan gulati on March 28, 2011 at 8:58pm

RE MAN KRSNA CHABI NIT DHYAAIYE..

MUKH SE HARE KRSNA YEH GAAIYE..

BIN HARI SUMIRAN GATI NAHI TERI..

BHAJ GOPALA MAAN LE MERI...

SHAN BHAR NA HARI KO BISRAAIYE..

MUKH SE HARE KRSNA YEH GAAIYE..1..

HARI HI MAAT PITA HARI MEET..

MUKH SE GAAYO HARI KE GEET..

DAS KAMAL ISS BIDHI HARI PAAIYE..

MUKH SE HARE KRSNA YEH GAAIYE..2..

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Bhagavad-Gita 7.28 - 8.6

Posted by Shalabh Gupta on March 28, 2011 at 10:48am

Death is nothing but sleeping for seven months. That’s all. Sleeping for seven months, that is called death. Just like, in the operation table, one becomes unconscious for one hour, half an hour. Then he comes to his consciousness. Again he comes to the same point. So similarly, death is nothing but to remain practically unconscious for seven months. That’s all. This body is left, and we enter into a particular womb of mother, and just to develop another body it takes about seven months. Then, a

'Enviro Conference' by ISKCON Coimbatore

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on March 28, 2011 at 9:41am

Coimbatore (India), March 11, 2011: The Bhaktivedanta Academy, the educational wing of ISKCON Coimbatore organized “ENVIRO 2011” – a Conference on Youth and Environment at GRD auditorium, PSG College of Arts & Science as a pioneering effort in bringing the attention of youth and people in general to one of the most critical issue we face today - the rapid changes in climate and itsconsequences.

The Conference had 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winning IPCC Chairman Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri as Chief G

'Enviro Conference' by ISKCON Coimbatore

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on March 28, 2011 at 9:41am

Coimbatore (India), March 11, 2011: The Bhaktivedanta Academy, the educational wing of ISKCON Coimbatore organized “ENVIRO 2011” – a Conference on Youth and Environment at GRD auditorium, PSG College of Arts & Science as a pioneering effort in bringing the attention of youth and people in general to one of the most critical issue we face today - the rapid changes in climate and itsconsequences.

The Conference had 2007 Nobel Peace Prize winning IPCC Chairman Dr Rajendra Kumar Pachauri as Chief G

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The whole Bhagawad Gita Saar is in four important slokas

Posted by Shalabh Gupta on March 28, 2011 at 9:26am

refer chapter 10 sloka's 8,9,10 and 11 ,so it is called Chatursloki Gita also.

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Without Conscious Effort

World of Miseries

Initiation Is Not Sufficient for Liberation

Real conteraction against danger

Unalloyed devotee

HH Radhanath Swami Maharaj at Interfaith Dialogue!!!

Inspirational Nectar

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Srila Prabhupada's poems

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 10 Text 10

How to Find Permanent Bliss?

Chanting Rhyme

Boat Festival

Indias-Holy-Cow--Becoming-Extinct

New Vraja Dhama Plants Forests for Carbon-Neutral Heating

Mahajano yena gatah sa panthah ……………….Nectarean Mellows

RE MAN KRSNA CHABI NIT DHYAAIYE

Bhagavad-Gita 7.28 - 8.6

'Enviro Conference' by ISKCON Coimbatore

'Enviro Conference' by ISKCON Coimbatore

The whole Bhagawad Gita Saar is in four important slokas

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