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Dear Vaishnavas, Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Bhaktivedanta College Radhadesh has an opening for the position of Course Director for the new degree in Business Administration (BBA). If you want to be part of an enthusiastic team offering a vibrant service to Srila Prabhupada, in a well-established spiritual community, then please announce your interest. We would be happy to send additional information. This is a full time position, but we may consider oth
ISKCON Painters Feature Krishna in California Art Exhibit
Over one hundred people attended the reception for a new art exhibit by ISKCON artists Ramadasa Abhirama Dasa and his wife Dhriti Dasi, at the Exeter Courthouse Gallery and Museum in Central California this January 9th.
The show, entitled “A Marriage of Art,” included thirty-six landscape and figurative paintings by both artists, as well as ten of Vrindavana and fo
Krsna Pleases His Devotees
1. Next, after assimilating Uddhava’s report, Lord Krsna, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the omniscient Soul of all that be, desired to satisfy the serving girl Trivakra, who was troubled by lust. Thus He went to her house.
2. Trivakra’s home was opulently appointed with expensive furnishings and replete with sensual accouterments meant to inspire sexual desire. There were banners, rows of strung pear
क्यूँ भेजा मुझे मथुरा मैया
कोई कहे न मुझे कन्हैया.
ये ठाट-बाट भये न मुझको
लौटा दे मेरी लटुकी और गैया.
न यहाँ यमुना,यहाँ मधुवन
न व्रजवालों-सा चितवन.
सब कहे हैं ईश्वर मुझको
कोई सुने न मेरा क्रंदन.
सुबह कलेवा,दिन का भोजन
व्रज का वो मिस्री और माखन.
जब मथुरा सारी करे शयन
तब याद कर भीगे मेरे नयन .
मुरली बजाना भूल ही गया
राग तो सारे व्रज में ही छूटे.
रूठ गयी मुरली मुझसे मैया
तिस पर तुम सब भी हो रूठे.
क्यूं भेजा मुझे मथुरा मैया..........
PRABHUPADA'S QUOTE OF THE DAY "You said that your job is maya, but you must know that maya is illusion. As soon as there is absence of Krishna Consciousness - that is maya. But you are working just to help and push Krishna's interest; therefore, it is not maya. Anything used to Krishna Consciousness is real renouncement." Letter to Jayagovinda, Febryary 3, 1970 |
- AS WASPS GET ATTRACTED TOWARDS FIRE WITHOUT KNOWING THAT FIRE WILL BURN THEM , OFF SIIMILARLY WE GET ATTRACTED TOWARDS MAYA WITHOUT KNOWING THIS WILL BURN US OFF.
The eagle has the longest life-span among birds.
In its 40’s…..It’s long and flexible talons can no longer grab prey which serves as food.
It’s long and sharp beak becomes bent.
Then, the eagle is left with only two options: die or go through a painful process of change which lasts 150 days.
The process requires that the eagle fly to a mountain top and sit on its’ nest.
There the eagle knocks its’ beak against a rock until it plucks it out.
After plucking it out, the eagle will w
A Guru is absolutely necessary for every aspirant in the spiritual path. God teaches through the human enlightened body of a fully realized Guru. The Guru is the pattern into which you should mould yourself. Guru is the door to spiritual liberation, but it is the aspirant who has to enter it through niskama karma -righteous words, thoughts and actions performed without the expectation of results. Also a total surrender, a strong faith and a firm devotion towards th
A special event
International Vaisnavi Retreat in Govardhana
Fostering a spirit of love and care between devotees is on the agenda for the up-coming International Vaisnavi Retreat. This special event is aimed at generating peer support between female devotees dedicated to Srila Prabhupada’s mission. It has sprung from an initiative of the now three-year old GBC Devotee Care Committee and is being organized by the Vrindavana Institute for Higher Education.
Making friendship with peers is one of the
Parikrama Path – Sands of a Time Past?
The parikrama path that haloes Vrindavan is being destroyed by a government’s misplaced project. Begun bluntly last year, the project not only caused many old ashrams along the path to have their boundaries suddenly and brutally invaded, but rare trees were cut down, and the path itself began to get wholesale covered by several layers of invasive, purpose defeating concrete.
It may be argued that parikrama, as a subjective concept, can never be destroyed
[Set of Eight Prayers Glorifying Lord Kesava, Who Enjoys Pastimes in the Forest of Vrindavana]
by Srila Rupa Gosvami
Krsna who is called Syamasundara, is the beautiful color of a cloud. His lotuslike face as effulgent as the sun, His dress brilliant with jewels, and His body garlanded by flowers, He is the object of the ideal yogi's meditation.
1.indranila-mani-manjula-varnah
phulla-nipa-kusumancita-karnah
krishnalabhir akrisorasi hari
sundaro jayati kunja-vihari
"G u r u m u k h p a d m a v a k y a"
What actually is non-violence? ……………….Nectarean Mellows
Srila Prabhupada explains herein, the importance of being harmless and non-violent. Of course Prabhupada explains that we have to have not a sentimental but a philosophical understanding of what it means to be non-violent. It means to actually protect and have respect. But at the same time to protect others sometimes; taking physical action is non-violence. Prabhupada gives that example often
