A: But do we have to see things in order to believe in them? Did anyone see atoms or subatomic particles, etc.? Our senses are very limited and unreliable. To claim that something does not exist simply because I have not seen it is a childish logic. I have not seen you - therefore you don't exist? I
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A: But do we have to see things in order to believe in them? Did anyone see atoms or subatomic particles, etc.? Our senses are very limited and unreliable. To claim that something does not exist simply because I have not seen it is a childish logic. I have not seen you - therefore you don't exist? I
One Community One Culture
If possible see Sri Mujibur Rehman, president of Bangladesh, and show him evidence that Parsis, Jews, Christians, Muslims, all parties are participating in this Krishna Consciousness Movement -- so why they Bangladesh Muslims should not join? We want to unite everyone culturally. Without this, every society is imperfect, but with it, society is perfect. All intelligent leaders of society should try to understand in depth this fact.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Tamala K
| Hare Krishna Friends, Forgiving others is the best attitude to take A kindergarten teacher decided to let her class play a game. The teacher told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a few potatoes. Each potato will be given a name of a person that the child hates, so the number of potatoes that a child will put in his/her plastic bag will depend on the number of people he/she hates. So when the day came, every child brought some potatoes with the name of the people he/sh |
I was puzzled. I had never heard the term and I asked him what it was.
Prabhupada repeated, "Brain fag." Then he told us how one time in Delhi in the 1950's he was walking all over, from one office to another, trying to distribute his Back to Godhead newspaper. The entire production
dhautatma purusah krsna-
pada-mulam na muncati
mukta-sarva-pariklesah
panthah sva-saranam yatha
dhauta-atma -- whose heart has been cleansed; purusah -- the living being; krsna -- the Supreme Personality of Godhead; pada-mulam -- the shelter of the lotus feet; na -- never; muncati -- gives up; mukta -- liberated; sarva -- all; pariklesah -- of all miseries of life; panthah -- the traveler; sva-saranam -- in his own abode; yatha -- as it were.
The earth-goddess, in her prayers, directly touches upon the subtleties of transcendental philosophy, clarifying that although the Supreme Lord is unique and distinct from His creation, His creation has no independent existence and always rests within Him. Thus the Lord and His creation are simultaneously one and different, as explained by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu five hundred years ago.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 10.59.30
The Killing of the Demons Kesi and Vyoma
1. The demon Kesi, sent by Kamsa, appeared in Vraja as a great horse. Running with the speed of the mind, he tore up the earth with his hooves. The hairs of his mane scattered the clouds and the demigods’ airplanes throughout the sky, and he terrified everyone present with his loud neighing. When the supreme Personality of Godhead saw how the demon was frightening His village of Gokula by ne
We were invited to the Kumbha Abhisekam ceremony in a Vishnu Temple in Tamil Nadu, South India. After smarta brahmanas had recited various suktas and performed some yajnas, we were invited on the stage to perform kirtan and speak from the Bhagavad-gita. I spoke about fifteen minutes and introduced the "Bhagavad-gita As It Is" and Back to Godhead magazine in Tamil.
We were well into a second kirtan when all of a sudden people became a little excited and began looking behind us. We turned around an
what they can perceive with their senses.
Srila Prabhupada: Yes, they can perceive things with their senses, but
very imperfectly. They perceive the sand with their senses, but can
they see who has made the sand? Here is the sand, and here is the sea;
they can be seen by direct perception. But how can one directly
perceive the origin of the sand and the sea?
Student: The scientists say that if the sand and the sea were made by
God, we wo
am friendly to everyone." He's friendly, actually He's very friendly.
But people accuse Him: "Why God has created this distress? Why I am
suffering?"
But we are suffering for our own fault. God created you to become
happy. He's happy and you are part and parcel of Krsna so you should
also be happy. But we don't accept the way of happiness. That is the
fault.
Krsna says that you shall be happy in this way:
bhoktaram yajna-tapasam
sarva-lo
Srila Raghunatha Dasa Gosvami
anyatra ksana-matram acyuta-pure premamrtambho-nidhi
snato’py acutya-sajjanair api samam naham vasami kvacit |
kintv atra vraja-vasinam api samam yenapi kenapy alam
samlapair mama nirbharah prati muhur vaso’stu nityam mama ||105||
Even if I have the opportunity to bathe in the nectarean ocean of pure
love of
Krsna, and even if I have the pure devotees of the infallible Supreme
Personality of Godhead as my associates, I will not consent to live,
even
The mind says "Can't, can't, can't" - it's the nature of the mind to accept and reject and sometimes we find our mind will reject the idea of chanting the Holy names.
Each day the mind may come up with many excuses and reasons not to chant or to put it off "Don't worry about this chanting, you can do it later...there are more important things right now" - heard your mind preaching like this?
What we can do is to ignore this internal dialogue and remember the importance of making Japa the number on
pravistah karna-randhrena
svanam bhava-saroruham
dhunoti samalam krsnah
salilasya yatha sarat
pravistah -- thus being entered; karna-randhrena -- through the holes of the ears; svanam -- according to one's liberated position; bhava -- constitutional relationship; sarah-ruham -- the lotus flower; dhunoti -- cleanses; samalam -- material qualities like lust, anger, avarice and hankering; krsnah -- Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead; salilasya --
by H.G. Radharaman Prabhu, sent in by H.G. Dina Krishna Prabhu
Thursday 11th November 2010 saw history in the making with its first corporate sponsored event in the financial industry to host a Gaudiya Vaisnava sannyasi. In the heart of UK’s financial district of Canary Wharf, over 200 bankers and traders assembled 512 feet high in Barclays skyscraper for an evening event to celebrate the message of Diwali with His Holiness Bhakti Charu Swami.
Over the past year ba
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A spectacular dance-drama series, based on the Ramayana, was presented by the Kalakshetra Foundation, Chennai, at the ISKCON recently. |
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 The series brought to life some of the greatest episodes of the Ramayana. The three-day series, held from November 26 to 28, was a part of Sri Krishna Shringar, an annual festival of dance-drama, organised by ISKCON. Choreographed by the legendary artiste Rukmini Devi Arundale, the magnificent ballet started |
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The word ‘Guru’ has been derived from two roots, ‘Gu’ and ‘Ru’. ‘Gu’ means darkness and ‘Ru’ means light. The one who dispels all darkness and takes you towards light is a ‘Guru’. The one who dispels the darkness of sensuous pleasures and pains (which are temporary and fleeting) and takes you to the light of eternal bliss (which is permanent and everlasting), is a ‘Guru’. The one who teaches you the art of taming the five wild horses – ‘Kaam’ (Passion), ‘Krodha’ (Anger), ‘Lobh’ (Greed), ‘Moh
The Jagannath Yatra is symbolic of unity in diversity, writes Mona Mehta
Much like a gopi from the Ragamala miniatures, Satyabhama, a 32-year-old Krishna devotee from Guyana, wore a green ghagra or long skirt and embroidered duppatta, teamed with a rust-coloured blouse. Swaying to the music of mridangam and cymbals, she chanted 'Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare', as she pulled the ropes of the Lord Jagannath's chariot in the yatra organised by the International Society for
Here is a nice story from the life and teachings of Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati Thakur:
Once some devotees were sent to establish a preaching center in Bengal. They worked day and night, equipping it as a beautiful temple. When Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati arrived to install the Deities, he was very pleased and asked about one brahmacari who had worked hard on the preparations. The disciples told him, "Master, he became entangled with a lady. We rebuked him so much for his behavior that he
attvam rajas tama iti gunah prakrti-sambhavah |
nibadhnanti maha-baho dehe dehinam avyayam ||BG.14.5||
TRANSLATION
Material nature consists of the three modes--goodness, passion and ignorance. When the living entity comes in contact with nature, he becomes conditioned by these modes.
PURPORT
The living entity, because he is transcendental, has nothing to do with this material nature. Still, because he has become conditioned by the material world, he is acting under the spell of the three modes of mat
