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Yesterday I came across this wonderful lecture on Holy Name by H.G Bhurijana Prabhu. In this lecture he is teaching a practical method to concentrate on Chanting.

 Here is the link to lecture:

 

http://audio.iskcondesiretree.info/05_-_ISKCON_Chowpatty/08%20-%20Seminars/Holy_Name_by_Bhurijana_Prabhu/06-10-27-Seminar_Holy_Name_Seminar_Bhurijana_Prabhu_ISKCON_Chowpatty.wma

 

 

I wont tell anything about this lecture here except that I am trying to implement it from yesterday and its really helping me.  

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The King of Sweet - by Dravida dasa

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His lips are sweet, His smile is sweet,
His eyes are sweet, His face is sweet,
His heart is sweet, His gait is sweet—
The King of Sweet is sweet complete.

 

His voice is sweet, His words are sweet,
His clothes and belly-folds are sweet,
His forest wanderings are sweet—
The King of Sweet is sweet complete.

 

His foot-dust and His flute are sweet,
His feet and hands and navel sweet,
His dancing and His friendship sweet—
The King of Sweet is sweet complete.

 

His songs and yellow cloth are sweet,
His eating

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Srila Prabhupada about his household life

In 1925 or '26 when my son was two years old. There was a table
fan, "I would like to touch it." And I said, "No, no, don't touch."
This is child. So but it's a child. He again tried to touch it.

Hari-sauri: They get a bit confused because God has to... Like that man last night was saying not even a blade of grass can move without God's sanction. So they think because God sanctions...

Prabhupada: Yes, that is so many times explained. Just like a child wants to do something. The father says, "Don'

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A thought..

I am staying in Malaysia with my husband who is working here. We have a limited period visa for Malaysia. Before buying little little things we think twice that is this thing really useful for our survival here. We know that we cannot take things we accumulate in Malaysia back to India with us. And we are sure that we'll go back to India within a few years. So we also try to buy only those things which are absolutely necessary here or those things which we can carry back to India with us which i
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Challenge: Science is Saving the World

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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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

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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

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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BG 10.9The 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
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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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

 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

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


SS-2010-12-11_21.12.34.jpg?width=338Diary 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,”

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