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Hare Krishna....

 

I have received so many response to my Blog "How Dhuki became Sukhi" that Lord Krishna should make everyone Sukhi.

 

My appeal to all Vaishnavas is that our attitude should be that of QUEEN QUNTI,we should always wish that we be in troubles / problems because, only when we have troubles and problems, we will think about KRISHNA, and INDIRECTLY, WHENEVER WE THINK ABOUT KRISHNA, DEFINITELY, THERE WILL NOT BE ANY PROBLEMS / TROUBLES.

 

SO, OUR ATTITUDE SHOULD ALWAYS BE TO REMEMBER KRIS

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Srila Prabhupada - on being a Dhira.

 

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We can become eternal, immortal, all qualified like God, if we get out of these material clutches. And for this, we have to become dhira. Dhira means, I have already explained, not to be disturbed, even the cause of disturbance is there. So that is the qualification of becoming immortal. So little tolerance of the sensation... Just like there is some sensation. If you have got some itches and you are feeling that "I should itch," but if you stop itching, this will be cured, and if you go on

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Govardhan giri episode - a lesson.

The episode of the lifting of the Govardhana Hill shows how surrendered the residents of Gokula and Nandgaon were to Krishna.
Dasaratha was heart broken at the thought of Rama having to go to the forest for 14 years but was unable to break his word to Kaikeyi. However Vasudeva was also known to be a Satyavaadi or one who always speaks the truth.  He promised to give his eighth son to Kamsa. He even gave Kamsa his first son when it was born.  However when the
voice told him to take Krishna to Gokul
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Dualities of the world

One must be tolerant in the face of dualities of this material world. Whether your rich or poor, literate or illiterate, live in shanties or high rises, or CEO or simple worker, you are to the shackles of old age, disease and death.. The body will get sick and die but the soul is beyond birth and death. We have to learn to love God and realize the eternal relationship between the soul and Him before death. To the degree , we understand this, we can face any of the these impediments and see them
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In the world, but not of the world

As Jesus Christ said, “We are in this world but not of this world.” To be in this world, but not of this world means the spiritual conception of life. We are above; we are transcendental to all the miseries, which are inevitable in this world. Such a spiritual person alone can actually create peace on Earth. Because he or she can enliven and illuminate others to get out of this world by being transcendental to the repetition of birth and death. So, as spiritualists, as devotees of God, our praye

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Unfortunate condition of the world.

Human form of life is meant for real satisfaction, which comes through self-realization that comes from the purification of the heart. But people, today, consider that this is impractical, unrealistic. This is the most unfortunate condition, the cause of all problems. It is practical, to destroy the water, to destroy the air, to destroy the ground with pollution, nuclear waste—it’s very realistic, is it not? It is very realistic and practical to be so frustrated in material endeavors, to fill yo

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The Spiritual World

The path of devotion teaches us the simple principle that we are all individual, eternal principles who are eternally connected to the Supreme Absolute Truth or Krishna, and we are all meant to serve the Absolute Truth. And in doing so we serve each other, and we create harmony. Why? Because then we will have common purpose.The spiritual world, the real world, is where everyone accepts that Krishna’s pleasure is their real goal in life. Ahaituki, Apratihata: everyone is selfless there. So everyo
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GURU

GURU

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Guru Kumhaar Shish kumbh hai, Garhi Garhi kade khot,
andar haath sanhaar de, baahar bahe chot.
Guru is like a Potter and our heads are like the clay mounted on His wheel. Just as the Potter hits the clay on the outside and digs the extra clay and impurities to give it shape from the inside, Guru may be harsh on His children from the outside, but from inside, He loves them and makes them pure.
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Dukhi was a simple poor maid servant, she was not educated but she was in the association of Srivas Thakur. 

 

 By Srivas's association, she developed a sincere desire to serve everyone and to please the Lord.  While all the senior devotees were bathing the Lord, Dukhi would arrange water pots from Ganges. She would ensure that there is water available for the service.  She was  not expecting any honor, she just wanted to serve unconditionally and the Lord was very pleased with here service attitu

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Sevak

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Diary of a Traveling Monk
Volume 11, Chapter 12
November 22, 2010
By Indradyumna Swami


There Are Too Few Like You


Dear Purnacandra Goswami,

Please accept my most humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

It was with great sorrow that I heard about your sudden departure from this world. Although we regularly hear about these things in sastra and are constantly preparing ourselves for such inevitable events, somehow when they actually happen we seem totally unprepared. And so it is that I can

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A study suggests that burning joss sticks raises the risk of certain mouth, throat and lung cancers

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Along with the piles of dirty laundry, empty beer cans and Bob Marley posters they are a common feature of many student digs. But scientists have now found that regularly burning joss sticks increases the risk of certain mouth, throat and lung cancers.

The 12-year study back

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Śrī Caitanya Caritāmrta Ādi 1.56

 

"A person interested in transcendental knowledge must therefore always directly and indirectly inquire about it to know the all-pervading truth."

 

One should understand, through the transparent medium of the spiritual master, that the Supreme Lord exists everywhere in His transcendental spiritual nature and that the living entities' relationships with the Lord are directly and indirectly existing everywhere, even in this material world. In the spiritual world ther

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Light in Darkness

This material world is a place of darkness. In darkness there isalways fear. Violence, hatred, envy, greed, lust and illusion—these arethe forces of darkness which control this world. This darkness ispropitiated through the two processes of cruel and hypocrisy. 

In the name of religion, people are exploiting others for their personal motives. In the name of peace and love,

there is violence and hatred. This is called hypocrisy. Whenhypocrisy is present within our material dealings, it creates impi

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Poverty of the Rich

Years ago, I met with Mother Teresa. A newspaper reporter was glorifying her for nicely serving the poor. She said, ‘You don’t know who the poor are. People in the western countries living in big mansions, expensive homes, driving in nice cars, eating all kinds of foods—they are poor. Because although they have so much wealth materially, their hearts are lonely, their hearts are starving. When I look in their eyes, I see poverty of the heart. These people dying in the streets of Calcutta with no
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Reason for suffering

Everyone tries to claim as their own what belongs to God. Therefore, there is so much miseryand suffering. Because trying to claim somebody else’s property as ourown is sinful. It creates bad karma. When people take something theyare not supposed to take, they become attached to it; they becomeaddicted to it and so passionate for it that they cannot live withoutit. They commit so many sins to keep it or to get it. And that is whythere is so much crime, illicit sex, and violence.

By Radhanath Swam

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Tumi sarvesvaresvara

Tumi sarvesvaresvara
(from saranagati)

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O youthful son of the King of Vraja, You are Lord of all lords. According to Your will, creation and destruction take place in the universe.(1)

According to Your will Lord Brahma creates, and according to Your will Lord Visnu maintains.(2)

According to Your will Lord Siva destroys, and according to Your will Maya constructs the prison house of this world.(3)

According to Your will the living beings take birth and die, and according to Your will they meet with pr
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Here are a few things that Srila Prabhupada said about chanting and reading Bhagavad-gita:Srila Prabhupada: “I thank you so much for having nicely appreciated the Bhagavad-gita As ItIs. This book should be read by all of my students at least one chapter per day, and in kirtanaclass it should be discussed sloka after sloka. Practically, we have tried to explain in this bookall of the basic principles of Krishna Consciousness. If you can simply cram Bhagavad-gitathen you will surely become a very
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Why we read the Bhagavat Geeta, even if we can't understand it? 

  

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 Bhagavat Geeta.

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 Bhagawat Geeta just like you but I don't understand it, and what I do understand, I forget as soon as I close the book. What goo

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Caitanya Lila

 

Srila Prabhupada on Chaitanya Lila
 
"Once a pilgrim brahmana was received at the house of Jagannatha Misra,and when he was offering food to the Godhead, the Lord appeared before him and partook of the prepared food. The eatables had to be rejected because the child touched them, and so the brahmana had to make another preparation. The next time the same thing happened, and when this happened repeatedly for the third time, the baby was finally put to bed. At about twelve at night when all the mem
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A Letter and a Story

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Letter December 6, 1974

Regarding your question, actually it is a fact that ultimately everyone should preach and distribute books if they want to please me in the best way. Book distribution must be given stress always. If you do this sincerely, it is a fact that Krishna will supply everything else required. I blindly follow my guru maharaj. I do not know what is the result. So I am stressing on this point of book distribution. He told me this personally. Book distribution is bhagavata marga and

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