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Challenge: Science is Saving the World

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on December 27, 2010 at 5:17pm

Challenge: Science is Saving the World

Hare Krishna, Gurudeva,

Thank you for the inspirational daily thoughts. May Krishna elevate you tohighest level for bringing us joy even in our darkest moment. Blessed are youto have this blessing from Krishna Himself.

Regarding your statement in yesterday's "Thought for the Day" thatthe scientists will not be able to make us immortal. To me your statement iscalled vanity and fruitless work, misleading to the masses and disturbing theminds of devotees.

This

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In The Presence Of A Pure Chanter

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on December 27, 2010 at 5:14pm

The power of just being in the presence of a pure chanter of the holy name cannot be overestimated. The potency “exudes” from his person. You want to chant because you see how blissful he is in chanting, and if you talk to him you hear the gems of wisdom.

From Viraha Bhavan #155

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Defeat of Mayavada Philosophy by the Acharyas

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on December 27, 2010 at 5:10pm

Defeat of Mayavada Philosophy by the Acharyas

When Sri Visnu Svami, one of the four acaryas of the Vaisnava cult, presented his thesis on the subject matter of suddhadvaita-vada, immediately the Mayavadis took advantage of this philosophy and tried to establish their advaita-vada or kevaladvaita-vada. To defeat this kevaladvaita-vada, Sri Ramanujacarya presented his philosophy as visistadvaita-vada, and Sri Madhvacarya presented his philosophy of tattva-vada, both of which are stumbling blocks to

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Slow And Steady Wins The Race

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on December 27, 2010 at 5:09pm

Today I was thinking of these words of wisdom. We don't need to be in a hurry to chant our Japa, we just need to concentrate and steadily chant with determination and conviction to get back to Godhead. Don't be like the rabbit and race ahead to the end of your 16 rounds....relish the Holy names as you would relish delicious prasadam.

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The way of perfection of life

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on December 27, 2010 at 5:09pm

Generally, all conditioned souls in the material encagement are
influenced by the mode of passion because every one of them is trying
to become the Lord of material nature to fulfill his individual
desire. But in spite of the individual mode of passion, there is
always the chance of being influenced by the other modes of nature by
association.

If one is in good association he can develop the mode of goodness, and
if in bad association he may develop the mode of darkness or
ignorance. Nothing is stereoty

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Please Reject False Leaders who present Boats of Stone to Cross the Ocean of Nescience

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on December 27, 2010 at 5:07pm

BG 10.9: The thoughts of My pure devotees dwell in Me, their lives are fully devoted to My service, and they derive great satisfaction and bliss from always enlightening one another and conversing about Me.

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

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 8 Text 24

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on December 27, 2010 at 5:06pm

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 8 Text 24
sarvam etac ca bhagavan
prcchato me 'nupurvasah
tattvato 'rhasy udahartum
prapannaya maha-mune

sarvam -- all these; etat -- inquiries; ca -- also that I have not been able to ask; bhagavan -- O great sage; prcchatah -- of the inquisitive; me -- myself; anupurvasah -- from the beginning; tattvatah -- just in accordance with the truth; arhasi -- may kindly be explained; udahartum -- as you will let know; prapannaya -- one who is surrounded; maha-mune -- O g

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Simply desiring is not sinful

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on December 27, 2010 at 5:06pm

Simply desiring is not sinful

Harikesa, wanting to clarify at what point such fallen personalities recognize their position and turn to the Lord, asked, "The dogs and monkeys, they feel grateful?"

"Yes," Prabhupada said. "When they come to sense they feel grateful. As dogs they cannot. As dog or monkey they cannot enhance their sinful activities -- it is stopped. And whatever they do, that is not taken into account. And to suffer as dog or monkey means counteracting all previous sins. One punishme

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The mission of such saintly persons

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on December 27, 2010 at 5:05pm

The mission of such saintly personsis but to make suffering humanity happy by elevating everyone to spiritual consciousness. In the material world, everyone is trying to exploit one another -- one nation is trying to exploit another nation, one society is trying to exploit another, one businessman is trying to exploit another, etc. This is called the struggle for existence, and out of it the people who are struggling have invented a law called "Might is right," but we can actually see that even

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Might is Right Philosophy

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on December 27, 2010 at 5:04pm

Prabhupada: We are not concerned with government. We say there is no ksatriya, there is no government. At the present moment, anyone who has got some artificial power, he is government. That's all.

You get some way or other a little vote, and you become government. So government does not mean that. Government is another. Because there is no ksatriya, and where is government? They are thinking... Government means they should be always thinking how the citizens should be peaceful and happy and spi

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The Sacred Necklace

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on December 27, 2010 at 5:00pm

The Sacred Necklace

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,”

SERVING KRISHNA......

Posted by KOLLURU VENKATA SUBRAHMANYAM on December 27, 2010 at 4:53pm

Compared to the unlimited ocean of happiness that is derived from serving Krsna with luv,the pleasure of mukti is like a particle of one tiny drop – bodhamrit-III Srila Rupa Goswami

M AAAAAAAAAAAAA YYYYYYYYYYYYYY AAAAAAAAAAA

Posted by KOLLURU VENKATA SUBRAHMANYAM on December 27, 2010 at 4:52pm

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

THE PRICE OF KRISHNA....

Posted by KOLLURU VENKATA SUBRAHMANYAM on December 27, 2010 at 4:20pm

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

Sri Sri Siksastaka

Posted by geeta kakkar on December 27, 2010 at 1:30pm

Sri Sri Siksastaka
(Eight Instructions)
by Lord Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

Glory to the Sri-krsna-sankirtana, which cleanses the heart of all the dust accumulated for years and extinguishes the fire of conditional life, of repeated birth and death. This sankirtana movement is the prime benediction for humanity at large because it spreads the rays of the benediction moon. It is the life of all transcendental knowledge. It increases the ocean of transcendental bliss, and it enables us to fully taste the

Sri Radhe-Krsna's playful pastimes (vihara)

Posted by geeta kakkar on December 26, 2010 at 2:59pm

Sri Radhe-Krsna's playful pastimes (vihara) - Lalita-kunda

Once, Krsna warned Srimati Radhika to be cautious of Devarsi Narada. "Devarsi is a sage whose nature is very complicated," He said. "Sometimes he causes disputes between father and son, mother and father or husband and wife. It is best to always be cautious of him." But Srimatiji did not take particular heed of Krsna's words.

And so it happened that one day Lalita picked beli, cameli, and other flowers from the forest and began to string

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Book Distribution in Bangladesh

Posted by Pusta Gopika Devi Dasi on December 26, 2010 at 9:01am

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

Sri Harinama Cintamani INTRODUCTION TO THE GLORIES OF THE HOLY NAME

Posted by Rocanadeva Dasa on December 26, 2010 at 4:07am

Sri Harinama Cintamani

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION TO THE GLORIES OF THE HOLY NAME

http://bvml.org/SBTP/hc.htm

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

L I Z A R D D E T E R M I N A T I O N

Posted by KOLLURU VENKATA SUBRAHMANYAM on December 25, 2010 at 11:23pm

Lizard.jpg

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

600 US soldiers chant Hare Krishna for three miles

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on December 25, 2010 at 10:19pm

I am a soldier in the US Army and thought you all might get a laugh at what happened the other day.

We had to do a 6 mile run for fitness. Its custon to sing during these runs to build soldier cohesion.

So they asked me to sing. I agreed so we were running down the street , when the idea popped in my head to get them to chant. Now this wasn't 6 or 7 people, its was a total of 600 soldiers.

And they were into it, for 3 miles they chanted the Maha Mantra as loud as they could and were really into it.

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Challenge: Science is Saving the World

In The Presence Of A Pure Chanter

Defeat of Mayavada Philosophy by the Acharyas

Slow And Steady Wins The Race

The way of perfection of life

Please Reject False Leaders who present Boats of Stone to Cross the Ocean of Nescience

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 8 Text 24

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Simply desiring is not sinful

The mission of such saintly persons

Might is Right Philosophy

The Sacred Necklace

The Sacred Necklace

SERVING KRISHNA......

M AAAAAAAAAAAAA YYYYYYYYYYYYYY AAAAAAAAAAA

THE PRICE OF KRISHNA....

Sri Sri Siksastaka

Sri Radhe-Krsna's playful pastimes (vihara)

Book Distribution in Bangladesh

Sri Harinama Cintamani INTRODUCTION TO THE GLORIES OF THE HOLY NAME

Sri Harinama Cintamani

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION TO THE GLORIES OF THE HOLY NAME

L I Z A R D D E T E R M I N A T I O N

600 US soldiers chant Hare Krishna for three miles

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Sri Harinama CintamaniCHAPTER ONEINTRODUCTION TO THE GLORIES OF THE HOLY NAME

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Sri Harinama Cintamani

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION TO THE GLORIES OF THE HOLY NAME