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HH Ramai Swami

Posted by Shobha Radha Devi Dasi on February 25, 2011 at 11:18am

Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!

Date: February 19th, 2011

Topic: Dhruva Maharaj Goes Back To Godhead

Verse: SB 4.12.14

Speaker: HH Ramai Swami

evam bahu-savam kalammahatmavicalendriyahtri-vargaupayikam nitvaputrayadan nrpasanam

TRANSLATION: The self-controlled great soul Dhruva Maharaja thus passed many, many years favorably executing three kinds of worldly activities,namely religiosity, economic development and satisfaction of all material desires. Thereafter he handed over the charge of the

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HG Ajamila Prabhu

Posted by Shobha Radha Devi Dasi on February 25, 2011 at 10:51am

Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!

Date: February 18th, 2011

Topic: Dhruva Maharaj Goes Back to Godhead

Verse:SB 4.12.13Speaker: HG Ajamila Prabhu____________________________________________

sat-trimsad-varsa-sahasramsasasa ksiti-mandalambhogaih punya-ksayam kurvannabhogair asubha-ksayam

TRANSLATION: Dhruva Maharaja ruled over this planet for thirty-six thousand years; he diminished the reactions of pious activities by enjoyment, and bypracticing austerities he diminished inauspicious reactions

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How Can a Soul Leave Vaikuntha?

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on February 25, 2011 at 10:14am

Answers According to the Vedic Version:

Question: How Can a Soul Leave Vaikuntha?

Dear Gurudeva,

You have told us that those souls in the spiritual world who have the desire to become God will come to this material world. If a soul is completely satisfied in the company of God in Vaikuntha, the spiritual world, how can he have an unsatisfied desire? If a perverted desire can come to the soul even while he is the company of God, what is the assurance that we will not fall back to the material world

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Announcement!!!

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on February 25, 2011 at 8:44am

"Attention please*: Everyone in Mayapur who would like to have Sripad Aindra Dasa Babaji's book, please call this number - (0)9557068479! Let others know as well! Thanks."

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ISKCON Christchurch...!!!

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on February 25, 2011 at 8:40am

Hare Krishna dear devotees,

Please accept my humble obeisances

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada,

All Glories to Guru & Sri Sri Nitai Gaurasundara

Please read belowfrom His Holiness Janananda Goswami Maharaj

Your servant,

Madan Mohan das

Dear Devotees

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

I would like to update you all on the situation in Christchurch . As you probably know there was devastating earthquake there yesterday and the ISKCON temple was seriously damaged beyond rep

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Chanting some stotras

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on February 25, 2011 at 8:37am

Chanting some stotras

Trana-karta prabhu gave me another tape this morning featuring Akincana Krsna dasa Babaji, another of Prabhupada's Godbrothers, chanting some stotras. After I told him what Prabhupada said yesterday, he wanted to verify whether this tape was bona-fide.

I played it for Prabhupada to hear during massage. Again Prabhupada said it was all right to listen to. But he shrugged and said, "They will never be able to pronounce these things, neither they will ever be able understand the

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 9 Text 37

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on February 25, 2011 at 8:36am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 9 Text 37
etan matam samatistha
paramena samadhina
bhavan kalpa-vikalpesu
na vimuhyati karhicit

etat -- this; matam -- the conclusion; samatistha -- remain fixed; paramena -- by the supreme; samadhina -- concentration of the mind; bhavan -- yourself; kalpa -- intermediate devastation; vikalpesu -- in the final devastation; na vimuhyati -- will never bewilder; karhicit -- anything like complacence.

TRANSLATION
O Brahma, just follow this conclusion by fixed concentrati

An Earthquake tragedy Hits ISKCON New Zealand

Posted by Dinesh Warungase on February 24, 2011 at 10:00pm

Christchurch Quake Destroys Deities and Temple Beyond Repair

Image: Prananatha Dasa

Sri-Sri Nitai-Gaurachandra of Christchurch before the Earthquake

ISKCON Devotees in Christchurch, New Zealand are still in shock after a 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck on February 22nd, destroying their temple building and shattering the Deities of Nitai-Gaurachandra beyond repair. Incredibly, no one was seriously injured.

The disaster comes on the heels of a 7.1 magnitude quake in the same city on September 4

Fill our mind to hare krishna!

Posted by Raghupati Raghav Das on February 24, 2011 at 4:58pm

All Glories to Srila Prabhupada

Dandvats to all Vaishnav

This time is only fulfill our all source of internal desire into krishna desire.....

we have to endeavor every second to chant and hear his holy name,

fill in every cell of body, fill in every breath of heart the holy name of lord:-

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare

Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

Don't Give a Chance to loss our krishna Consciousness, fill up ! fill up ! hare krishna in every second

Your Servant

Rav

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Lord Krishna's devotees are dear to Lord Shiva and Lord Shiva is dear to them

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on February 24, 2011 at 3:56pm

HARE KRISHNA

Shiva works for the benefit of everyone, and tries to help the living beings make spiritual advancement. This is why he has his own line of disciplic succession. This is also why he says to the sons of King Pracinibarhi, “Any person who is surrendered to the Supreme Personality of God, Lord Krishna, the controller of everything, is very dear to me.”1

The sons of the King were going to practice austerities to worship Lord Vishnu and while searching for a suitable place happened to find

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HH Romapada Swami

Posted by Shobha Radha Devi Dasi on February 24, 2011 at 2:23pm

Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!
Date: February 17th, 2011
Topic: Dhruva Maharaj Goes Back to Godhead
Verse: SB 4.12.12
Speaker: HH Romapada Swami
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tam evam sila-sampannam
brahmanyam dina-vatsalam
goptaram dharma-setunam
menire pitaram prajah

TRANSLATION: Dhruva Maharaja was endowed with all godly qualities; he was very respectful to the devotees of the Supreme Lord and very kind to the poor and innocent, and he protected religious principles. With all th

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HH Jayapataka Swami

Posted by Shobha Radha Devi Dasi on February 24, 2011 at 1:00pm

Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!
Date: February 16th, 2011
Topic: Appearance of Lord Nityananda
Speaker: HH Jayapataka Swami
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They asked me to speak on the philosophy of Lord Nityananda. We heard the pastimes first. Maharaj like to give the sweet words but of course everything about Lord Nityananda is ecstatic and very blissful.

I want to thank Radhanath Swami for his very much appreciated lecture on how Lord Nityananda was first in Ekacakra; also how H

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HH Radhanath Swami

Posted by Shobha Radha Devi Dasi on February 24, 2011 at 1:00pm

Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!
Date: February 16th, 2011
Topic: Appearance of Lord Nityananda
Speaker: HH Radhanath Swami
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HH Radhanath Swami: I am very grateful for this opportunity to be with all of you in the holy dham Sri Mayapur on the holy day of the appearance of Sri Nityananda Prabhu. It appears that there is no verse selected so with your
permission I will just talk in what time is allotted.

How Lord Nityananda Prabhu revealed the glor

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HH Bhakti Sundar Goswami

Posted by Shobha Radha Devi Dasi on February 24, 2011 at 12:30pm

Live From Sri Mayapur Candrodaya Mandir!

Date: February 16th, 2011
Topic: Lord Varahadeva's Appearance Anniversary
Verse: SB 3.18.2
Speaker: HH Bhakti Sundar Goswami
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dadarsa tatrabhijitam dhara-dharam
pronniyamanavanim agra-damstraya
musnantam aksna sva-ruco 'runa-sriya
jahasa caho vana-gocaro mrgah

TRANSLATION: He saw there the all-powerful Personality of Godhead in His boar incarnation, bearing the earth upward on the ends of His tusks and robbing him of his splendor wi

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One needs to be Faithful

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on February 24, 2011 at 8:41am

One needs to be Faithful

The impersonalists are full of duplicity. Sometimes they pretend to execute devotional service, but their ultimate idea is to become one with the Supreme. This is duplicity, kapata.

The Bhagavatam does not allow this duplicity.

In the beginning of Srimad-Bhagavatam it is clearly stated, paramo nirmatsaranam: [SB 1.1.2] "This treatise Srimad-Bhagavatam is meant for those who are completely free from envy."

The same point is again stressed here. Unless one is completely fa

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Don’t let success go to your head

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on February 24, 2011 at 8:34am

Don’t let success go to your head

There’s an alarming trend: People who have had some degree of good fortune and success tend to lose their humility and become at least slightly arrogant. This is very unfortunate for many reasons. First, and most obviously, no one really wants to be around someone who is arrogant or self-absorbed. It’s boring, and it’s annoying! Arrogance implies a lack of gratitude. The assumption is, “I did this all by myself; it’s all about me.”

Factors such as our good karma,

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Do You Have Love For It

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on February 24, 2011 at 8:32am

Recently I read an article written by Satsvarupa Maharaja - he was asking himself the following questions.

Do you pay attention to Hare Krishna mantra when you chant? Do you have love for it?

This got me thinking about my own chanting and how much I have love for chanting - the answer was yes and no. Yes I like to chant, I wouldn't say I love to chant but I like it and I love it when I feel the Lord's spiritual energy.

It's an important point....we need to feel the spiritual energy of the Lord when

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 9 Text 36

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on February 24, 2011 at 8:31am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 9 Text 36
etavad eva jijnasyam
tattva-jijnasunatmanah
anvaya-vyatirekabhyam
yat syat sarvatra sarvada

etavat -- up to this; eva -- certainly; jijnasyam -- is to be inquired; tattva -- the Absolute Truth; jijnasuna -- by the student; atmanah -- of the Self; anvaya -- directly; vyatirekabhyam -- indirectly; yat -- whatever; syat -- it may be; sarvatra -- in all space and time; sarvada -- in all circumstances.

TRANSLATION
A person who is searching after the Supreme Abso

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Main business is liberation

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on February 24, 2011 at 8:31am

Main business is liberation

Prabhupada stated in class this morning that our main business is liberation. And simply by understanding who Krsna is, we can be liberated. The verse mentioned Krsna as Devaki-suta, the son of Devaki, and Prabhupada took this up as the main point in his short class. "Why He shall not appear as the son? Why you shall restrict? God is not under your restriction; that is God. If He becomes under your rules and regulation, then He's not God. That is inconceivable. He's th

LUST

Posted by KOLLURU VENKATA SUBRAHMANYAM on February 23, 2011 at 4:51pm

Lust is like a Fire, it is insatiable, it is constantly burning and the more you feed it, the more hungry the fire of Lust becomes within your mind - Bhodamrit-VI.

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HH Ramai Swami

HG Ajamila Prabhu

How Can a Soul Leave Vaikuntha?

Announcement!!!

ISKCON Christchurch...!!!

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Chanting some stotras

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 9 Text 37

An Earthquake tragedy Hits ISKCON New Zealand

Christchurch Quake Destroys Deities and Temple Beyond Repair

Fill our mind to hare krishna!

Lord Krishna's devotees are dear to Lord Shiva and Lord Shiva is dear to them

HH Romapada Swami

HH Jayapataka Swami

HH Radhanath Swami

HH Bhakti Sundar Goswami

One needs to be Faithful

Don’t let success go to your head

Do You Have Love For It

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 9 Text 36

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Main business is liberation

LUST

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