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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Initiation lecture

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 22, 2010 at 9:30am

Initiation lecture

In his lecture Srila Prabhupada explained, "Every human being must be initiated in Vedic culture, to make his life fulfilled, successful, because we are born animals."

He stressed the responsibility of spiritual life, and perhaps because of the girls, he put a little extra emphasis on giving up intoxicants. "So some of the devotees who are now eager to accept the spiritual life very seriously, and they have come to take initiation, this is the first initiation. Now they have to

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 28

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 22, 2010 at 9:30am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 28
yad vai vraje vraja-pasun visatoya-pitan
palams tv ajivayad anugraha-drsti-vrstya
tac-chuddhaye 'ti-visa-virya-vilola-jihvam
uccatayisyad uragam viharan hradinyam

yat -- one who; vai -- certainly; vraje -- at Vrndavana; vraja-pasun -- the animals thereof; visa-toya -- poisoned water; pitan -- those who drank; palan -- the cowherd men; tu -- also; ajivayat -- brought to life; anugraha-drsti -- merciful glance; vrstya -- by the showers of; tat -- that; sudd

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Essential quality to become a good devotee

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 22, 2010 at 9:26am

Hare Krishna,

The vice-chancellor of Benares Hindu University, a very famous man of his time named Madan Mohan Malaviya, went to the Gaudiya Math with some intricate, philosophical questions to present to Sarasvati Thakura, who said: "I won't answer you, but you should ask the devotees who are washing the arati paraphernalia." The scholar then said: "No, I am asking very difficult questions about Vedanta. They won't be able to answer!" Sarasvati Thakura, however, insisted that he go and ask the

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Reality of Material World

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 21, 2010 at 1:04pm

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14 Summary

The direct meaning of the forest of material existence is given in this chapter. Merchants sometimes enter the forest to collect many rare things and sell them at a good profit in the city, but the forest path is always bedecked with dangers. When the pure soul wants to give up the Lord's service to enjoy the material world, Kṛṣṇa certainly gives him a chance to enter the material world. As stated in the Prema-vivarta: kṛṣṇa-bahirmukha hañā b

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Srila Prabhupada Nectar

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 21, 2010 at 1:02pm

In the conditioned stage, we are influenced by material nature. In
this age people are generally situated in the lower modes of passion
and ignorance and are lazy, misguided, disturbed, quarrelsome,
short-lived and unlucky. In these modes we are not able to serve
Krsna. It is our constitutional position to serve someone. If we are
not serving Krsna, we are serving maya. We may serve our family,
society, country, business, automobile or whatever. It is because
service is our nature. We are simply lackin

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - One keep pure in any condition

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 21, 2010 at 1:01pm

One keep pure in any condition

Throughout the conversation, Mahamsa was in and out, busily arranging the initiations scheduled for mid-morning. He produced a list of five candidates that he had approved for first initiation and informed Srila Prabhupada that there was another five girls who also want to become Prabhupada's disciples. Four of the girls -- Meera (the youngest at 14 years), Shaku, Citra and Gita -- are daughters of Dr. M. K. Misra, a retired army lieutenant-colonel; the other girl,

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 27

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 21, 2010 at 1:00pm

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 27
tokena jiva-haranam yad uluki-kayas
trai-masikasya ca pada sakato 'pavrttah
yad ringatantara-gatena divi-sprsor va
unmulanam tv itaratharjunayor na bhavyam

tokena -- by a child; jiva-haranam -- killing a living being; yat -- one which; uluki-kayah -- assumed the giant body of a demon; trai-masikasya -- of one who is only three months old; ca -- also; pada -- by the leg; sakatah apavrttah -- turned over the cart; yat -- one who; ringata -- while crawling;

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Iskcon to manage 2 laddu counters at Tirumala

Posted by Pusta Gopika Devi Dasi on October 21, 2010 at 1:00pm

TIRUMALA: Two of the laddu counters in the Laddu Prasadam Complex beside the Srivari temple on Tirumala were formally entrusted to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) today.
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, with a view to streamlining the maintenance of the laddu counters which are being maintained by the TTD and banks, decided to avail the services of Iskcon and entrusted two counters to it on an experimental basis.
Only Iskcon’s volunteers will man the counters and is

Importance of Gurudeva

Posted by geeta kakkar on October 20, 2010 at 4:55pm

Importance of Gurudeva

If a devotee is doing a great deal of chanting, reading and glorifying Sri Krsna, but he is not following his gurudeva, what will be the result? It will be zero. This has been described in many places in sastra. Krsna
Himself has said in the Srimad-Bhagavatam (11.19.21): “madbhakta-pujabhyadhika – the worship of My devotees is better than worship of Me.” He also says, “That person who says he is My devotee but who is not devoted to My devotee, is not My devotee at all.” Krsn

अंतिम इच्छा

Posted by mantra prem das on October 20, 2010 at 1:38pm

अंतिम इच्छा
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उस रात
खोया था जब मै अपने मे
श्रीहरी आये मेरे सपने मे
पूछा
वत्स......
इच्छा क्या है तुम्हारी ?
नासमझ था
सोचा
सोचकर बताऊंगा
जल्दबाजी मे
गलत चीज
पा जाऊंगा
बोला
थोडा समय दीजिये प्रभु
श्रीहरी बोले
तथास्तु..........
उनके थोड़े समय में
मेरे कई जीवन निकल गए
जब तक गलती का आभास हुआ
राह से पैर फिसल गए
जय हो श्रीला प्रभुपाद
चखाया कृष्ण नाम का स्वाद
अब फिर से मेरी कोशिश है
की जब
श्रीहरी आये मेरे सपने मे
पाए मुझे
हरिंनाम जपने मे

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Is Pure Enjoyment Possible or Impossible?

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 20, 2010 at 9:48am

color:maroon"">Question: Is Pure Enjoyment Possible or Impossible?

Is pure enjoyment possible or impossible in this material world? Is the struggle for survival compulsory?

Avinash G.

color:maroon"">Answer: Pure Enjoyment is Possible in this World

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Pure enjoyment is possible in this material world, only if one fully surrenders to Krishna. If one does so, he will no longer be pinched
by the struggle for existence. Even though he will continue working, his lifewill be transformed into a

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He does not construct a big house.

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 20, 2010 at 8:55am

He does not construct a big house.

Bhagavad-gita 12.13

TRANSLATION

A devotee who is not dependant on the ordinary course of activities, who is pure, expert, without cares, free from all pains, and who does not strive for some result, is very dear to Me.

PURPORT

Money may be offered to a devotee, but he should not struggle to acquire it. If automatically, by the grace of the Supreme, money comes to him, he is not agītāted. Naturally a devotee takes bath at least twice in a day and rises early in the

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Satan's philosophy

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 20, 2010 at 8:53am

Satan's philosophy

To be nonviolent to human beings and to be a killer or enemy of the poor animals is Satan's philosophy. In this age there is enmity toward poor animals, and therefore the poor creatures are always anxious. The reaction of the poor animals is being forced on human society, and therefore there is always the strain of cold or hot war between men, individually, collectively or nationally. At the time of Maharaja Yudhisthira, there were no different nations, although there were diff

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Benefits of prasadam

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 20, 2010 at 8:53am

Benefits of prasadam

Manihara took the opportunity to clear up the answer to a question he had about the specific benefit someone gets when they take prasadam.

Prabhupada told him that by eating one is getting mercy. "Eating nobody will refuse. So by eating he is being favored by Krsna. This is the process. You understand Bengali? Krsna bado doyamoy, He's very merciful. Koribare jihva jay. We are accustomed to eat, go to the restaurant, go to the hotel, go to here and there, at home and so on. Sim

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 26

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 20, 2010 at 8:52am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 26
bhumeh suretara-varutha-vimarditayah
klesa-vyayaya kalaya sita-krsna-kesah
jatah karisyati jananupalaksya-margah
karmani catma-mahimopanibandhanani

bhumeh -- of the entire world; sura-itara -- other than godly persons; varutha -- soldiers; vimarditayah -- distressed by the burden; klesa -- miseries; vyayaya -- for the matter of diminishing; kalaya -- along with His plenary expansion; sita-krsna -- not only beautiful but also black; kesah -- with such hair

BABY WRESTLERS

Posted by geeta kakkar on October 19, 2010 at 4:39pm

BABY WRESTLERS
Taken from the book "The butter thief"

Sometimes, the cows would come into the cowherd town of Nandagrama, and stand waiting. Then Krishna and Baladeva used to go out, and lie down on the ground beneath them, and the cows udders would spontaneously pour milk into Their mouths. The cows would think, “If only Krishna were my son! Then I could give Him my milk, and show love and affection for Krishna.“ This mood was everywhere in Vraja.

Krishna and Baladeva grew up, and when They were

Lord Kapila's Teachings on the Movement of the Living Entities

Posted by Tanumadhya Dasa on October 19, 2010 at 1:00pm

S.B. Canto 3 Ch 31. Lord Kapila's Instructions on the Movements of the Living Entities

· · · · ·

The Personality of Godhead said:

Under the supervision of the Supreme Lord and according to the result of his work, the living entity, the soul, is made to enter into the womb of a woman through the particle

of male semen to assume a particular type of body.

On the first night, the sperm and ovum mix, and on the fifth night the mixture ferments into a bubble. On the tenth night it develops into a

form like

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Is Krishna (God) Male, Female, or Both?

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 19, 2010 at 9:51am

color:maroon"">Question: Is Krishna (God) Male, Female, or Both?

In talking with friends about God, they struggle to understand when I refer to God as He. They believe that because everything comes from God then He must be a She also. They also find itextremely hard to refer to God as He due to past negative experiences growingup as Christians. They feel that referring to God as He does not liberate themas females. I'm not sure how to handle their objections.mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Rom

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Need of Human Society

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 19, 2010 at 9:24am

Need of Human Society

We must know the present need of human society. And what is that need? Human society is no longer bounded by geographical limits to particular countries or communities. Human society is broader than in the Middle Ages, and the world tendency is toward one state or one human society. The ideals of spiritual communism, according to Srimad-Bhagavatam, are based more or less on the oneness of the entire human society, nay, of the entire energy of living beings. The need is felt

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The sex pleasure enjoyed in their association.

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 19, 2010 at 9:24am

The sex pleasure enjoyed in their association.

In the rainy season, when the rivers swell and rush to the ocean, and as the wind blows the waves about, the ocean appears to be agitated. Similarly, if a person engaged in the mystic yoga process is not very advanced in spiritual life, he can be affected by the modes of nature and thus will be agitated by the sex impulse.

A person fixed in spiritual knowledge will not be attracted by the allurement of material nature in the form of beautiful women a

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Initiation lecture

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 28

Essential quality to become a good devotee

Reality of Material World

Srila Prabhupada Nectar

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - One keep pure in any condition

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 27

Iskcon to manage 2 laddu counters at Tirumala

Importance of Gurudeva

अंतिम इच्छा

Is Pure Enjoyment Possible or Impossible?

He does not construct a big house.

Satan's philosophy

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Benefits of prasadam

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 26

BABY WRESTLERS

Lord Kapila's Teachings on the Movement of the Living Entities

Is Krishna (God) Male, Female, or Both?

Need of Human Society

The sex pleasure enjoyed in their association.

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