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Srila Gopal Bhatta Goswami

The all merciful Lord Sri Gaur Hari, as He travelled from village to
village throughout the south of India, continued to distribute love of
Godhead wherever He went. Hearing the nectarean names of Hari from His
lotus mouth, thousands and thousands men and women felt relief from the
blazing fire of material existence. Various wretched, miserable and fallen
souls lives were completely rejuvenated and thus they became virtuous and
happy. While causing rains of love of God

The eternal Cupid, Shri Krishna, is eternally distinct from the material Cupid. The material Cupid produces pleasure only temporarily, but then lulls one into material dullness in just the next moment. But the eternal Cupid is ever-awakening and the transcendental pleasure is ever-increasing in ever-renewing developments. Such pleasure is eternally-existing and is not subject to the laws of material nature. The transient pleasure derived from the material Cupid is an enjoyable object to the mate

Now let me see what do i have today in my mind to share with all of you? Oh yes i have just returned from a most spiritually enlivening experience in Barsana by serving the Brijwasis in the Barsana Dental Camp. Everyday we would go in the morning for the darshan of Shriji for mangalarati and for chanting. After that come down and start work by 9 am and work untill 7 pm, with only a 20 min break for lunch. Like this we worked for 4 days without a sign of fatigue or irritation. Now that is complet

HARE KRISHNA! pamho. agtsp!

tyagaraja is a great composer of south indian classical music, known as karnatic music. He is a very great devotee of Lord Sri RAMACANDRA. it is considered that he was a karana - janmi [ having a Transcendental reason for birth in the material world and Not because of karma]. He had composed many Gems of songs which are considered as nourishment for the spiritual journey.

This song is called "nidhi chala sukahama" where He questions himself {and in the process, tries t

Hare Krishna

Following is an extract (Its bigger this time) from the lecture given by HH Indrayumna Swami Maharaj on 27th Nov,'1998 at Moscow (Russia).

[I got this transcription as "pdf" file from one devotee and while I was going through it, I really felt that Maharaj was speaking to me. Its such an amazing, mind-blowing, truly ISKCONite, and above all close to Srila Prabhupada's mood. Please grasp it much and praise the glories of, Srila Prabhupada created, ISKCON. Its our very great fortune to

For the 1st Blog regarding ISKCON (Part 1), please click on the following link:

http://www.iskcondesiretree.net/profiles/blogs/iskcon-should-do-this-that

Beside the previous topic in Part-1, I thought to add 'GLORIFICATION OF ISKCON' too in my future blogs. "My" blogs will ONLY consist of different quotes from various lectures or books/manuals etc. by various senior devotees related to, the ever graceful and love by all, a society: ISKCON.

Following is an extract from a lecture given by HH Indray

Hare krishna,PAMHO AGTSP!

please kindly help me for this answer,hare krishna,

trying to serve

servant

Vaishnava Arts Council Reaches out to British Devotee Artists

An exclusive event in Bhaktivedanta Manor’s Theater this February 9th will launch the Vaishnava Arts Council UK (VAC), which aims to represent British devotee artists, and connect them with each other and with potential clients.

About forty devotees representing various areas of the arts will attend, including writers, musicians, actors, dancers, film-makers, producers, fine artists, illustrators, photographers, brand consultants, and

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

Jai Srila Prabhupada

Becoming Free from Sex Desire

By Stephen Knapp

            The greatest happiness for the soul starts with complete freedom: freedom from misery, unhappiness, suffering, freedom from the dictates of desires, and, ultimately, freedom from being trapped in a material body. But what keeps us ensnared in such a condition are the desires for sensual and mental pleasures. And the hardest freedom to attain is freedom from sex desire.

Yoga is for attaining this kind of complete freedom. However, this mea

While Europe, as if weary of its medieval concepts of God, turned with new interest toward man and the mundane, a spiritual revolution in India—destined to spread worldwide—was revealing the dynamic nature of the Absolute Truth.

Europe in the fifteenth century was undergoing that awesome social and cultural transformation that the historian Jules Michelet, looking back in reverence, named the Renaissance, the “rebirth.” That long medieval period, with its vision so entranced by splendid images of

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      Since past few years i am nursing a secret desire within my heart. I would like to confess today. I know I am no Hemingway or Shakespeare for that matter. But definitely i have been always a voracious reader of books. No wonder then when the thought came

BBT Sales Rebound in 2010

Despite a dire economic situation in the U.S., the North American branch of the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust—ISKCON’s publishing arm—saw sales soar last year, its best since 2004.

Selling over $1 million worth of books on Krishna consciousness, the company, established by ISKCON founder Srila Prabhupada in 1972, saw a thirty-two per cent increase in sales since 2008.

The BBT’s best years were 1973 to 1977, each of which yielded sales of around $4 million worth of books. Of

HARE KRISHNA -THE ELIXIR OF LIFE

    Oh people of this world who feel the hot sun of suffering burning down your head. Oh people of this world who have no one to turn to. Oh people of this world who are struggling to keep body and soul together. oh people of this world who have nothing to look forward in life. Oh people of this world for whom the beginning of each day is like a heavy burden on the head and who would prefer death then living. Who choose to commit suicide rather than face life head

"G u r u     m u k h     p a d m a     v a k y a"

Vaishnava aparadh: Krsna takes it so seriously ……………….Nectarean Mellows

So therefore Srila Prabhupada is giving us this very very vital instruction, that real non-violence is not just ceasing murder and bloodshed. That’s the grossest form of non-violence. But vaisnava aparadha that is violence not only of the body but can be violence of the mouth; speaking in such a way to hurt another person’s heart out of carelessness or out of envy or out of ego

namas te narasiḿhāya   
prahlādāhlāda-dāyine
hiraṇyakaśipor vakṣaḥ-
śilā-ṭańka-nakhālaye

 ito nṛsiḿhaḥ parato nṛsiḿho

yato yato yāmi tato nṛsiḿhaḥ
bahir nṛsiḿho hṛdaye nṛsiḿho
nṛsiḿham ādiḿ śaraṇaḿ prapadye

tava kara-kamala-vare nakham adbhuta-śṛńgaḿ

dalita-hiraṇyakaśipu-tanu-bhṛńgam

keśava dhṛta-narahari-rūpa jaya jagadīśa hare