Lord Sri Krishna says, "My dear Arjuna, there are different classes of men. One class of men, they are sleeping. And another class of men, they are awake. They are not sleeping." And how is this so? This chanting, which we have performed just now, is the wakening process for the sleeping soul. The soul is sleeping, covered by this material body. These bodily activities are in the sleeping stage. Just as we see dreams in the sleeping stage, similarly, all these bodily activities are dreams. Just
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What is Hariyali Teej?
Hariyali Teej is a festival celebrated in Shukla-paksha in the month of Shravana (August) during the rainy season. In 2010, Hariyali Teej is celebrated on 12 August.Hariyali relates to green and teej represents three. It means that the green festival is celebrated on the third day of Shravana. At this season, the fields turn lush green and the festivity is an invitation to prosperity. Some people regard it as a harvest festival. Hariyali Teej is often recognised as a festiv
Once, in the month of Magha(January - February), Lalita and other sakhis desired to bathe at Triveni, which is the confluence of the Ganga, Yamuna and Sarasvati Rivers. Sri Krsna therefore created this well for them with the tip of His flute, right before their eyes. Merely by His remembering them, the holy waters from the confluence at Triveni appeared in the well, and the gopis could bathe. Sri Dauji and Lalita daily bathed in Triveni K
"We should take any lila of Krishna as Supreme. The Vrindavan lila, Krishna's lila with the gopis, is the most confidential lila. We should not entertain this confidential lila unless we are liberated. It is very difficult subject. And because they cannot understand what is Krishna's lila, they imitate, they fall down."
Vrindavan, August 11, 1974
One who works in Krishna consciousness is servant to all, he is very dear to everyone. And, because everyone is satisfied by his work,
he is pure in consciousness. Because he is pure in consciousness, his mind is completely controlled. And, because his mind is controlled,
his senses are also controlled. Because his mind is always fixed on Krishna, there is no chance of his being deviated from Krishna.
Nor is there a chance that he will engage his senses in matters other than the service of the Lord
Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 6 Text 20
padas trayo bahis casann
aprajanam ya asramah
antas tri-lokyas tv aparo
grha-medho 'brhad-vratah
padah trayah -- the cosmos of three fourths of the Lord's energy; bahih -- thus situated beyond; ca -- and for all; asan -- were; aprajanam -- of those who are not meant for rebirth; ye -- those; asramah -- status of life; antah -- within; tri-lokyah -- of the three worlds; tu -- but; aparah -- others; grha-medhah -- attached to family life; abrhat-vratah -- w
Sri Narada-bhakti-sutra, purpoprt to Sutra 5:
The next item favorable for devotional service is niscaya, confidence. When one becomes disappointed in his service to the Supreme Lord, that disappointment must be rejected and replaced with confidence in attaining the ultimate goal, love of Godhead. The devotee should patiently follow the rules and regulations of devotional service so that the day will come when he will achieve, all of a sudden, a
Sonic technology awakens our potential
Question: In the Vedic tradition, there seems to be a lot of emphasis on sound, on hearing from a spiritual master. Why this emphasis?
Answer: Sonic technology is central to the Vedic program of spiritual redemption.
The Vedic texts explain that all of us are afflicted by spiritual amnesia. As spiritual beings, we are eternal and indestructible. But due to forgetting our spiritual identity, we live in anxiety and fear caused by the fragility and mortality of o
*Don’t play “God”*
Question: What are the moral implications of the recent scientific attempts to create synthetic life?
In the recent experiments, artificial life has certainly not been created, but real life may well have been endangered due to such attempts to “play God.” While esearchers promise beneficial, often sensational, future results, the past track record of such promises shows counter productive, often devastating, consequences. In the field of genetic engineering itself, genetically-
The transcendental vibration established by the chanting of Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna, Krsna Krsna, Hare Hare/ Hare Rama, Hare Rama, Rama Rama, Hare Hare is the sublime method of reviving our Krsna consciousness. As living spiritual souls we are all originally Krsna conscious entities, but due to our association with matter from time immemorial, our consciousness is now polluted by the material atmosphere. The material atmosphere, in which we are now living, is called maya, or illusion. Maya means
I personally heard and saw an example of this preaching mood in Srila Prabhupada in his last days. He instructed his disciple, the then President of the Bombay temple Giriraja Swami, about how to conduct the opening of the Juhu temple
Power of 'Nama Hatta' Preaching!
"In this modern age, it is most practical to apply the Nama Hatta form of preaching - cultivating people through small groups formed of the congregation. Nama Hatta groups can begin anywhere, without restrictions, whereas in a temple there are so many restrictions, not only spiritual but also material, in the sense that so many expenses must be met.
The Nama Hatta system start first with a small group, and then later, when the congregation grows, it is quite natura
Subject:SABOODANA MADE FROM MILLIONS OF "ANIMALS" ?
I am giving below rough translation on an article from one Nainmal
Surana published in Dakshin Samachar on March 31, 2010. Feel free to treat
this as you deem fit...or research yourself...
In Tamil Nadu, in Salem area on the road from Salem to Coimbatore
there are many saboodana factories. We start getting terribly bad smell when we are
about 2 kms away from the factories.
Saboodana is made from a root like sweet potato. Kerala has this root
each weigh
Pamho
Dear prabhu ji and mata ji
Please tell me how many type of indriya
| Hare Krishna Friends, In life we are accustomed to thinking either of the material or the spiritual energy. There are so many literatures which fill ourthoughts with the material energy--newspapers, magazines, novels, etc. Our thinking, which is now absorbed in these literatures, must be transferred to the Vedic literatures. The great sages, therefore, have written so many Vedic literatures such as the Puranas, etc. The Puranas are not imaginative; theyare historical records. Source:Bhagavad Gita |
Offenders of Lord and their Destiny
"One who considers the body of Krsna to be material should be driven out from all rituals and activities of the sruti and the smrti. And if one by chance sees his face, one should at once take bath in the Ganges to rid himself of infection." People jeer at Krsna because they are envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Their destiny is certainly to take birth after birth in the species of atheistic and demoniac life. Perpetually, their real knowledge will
Today is the appearance of Lord Baladeva, but we all broke the fast because no one checked the calendar until it was too late. Srila Prabhupada wasn't happy about it but didn't react too strongly. He simply told us to observe it tomorrow.
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Prabhupada didn't take his walk this morning because his legs are swollen, but he still preached to everyone on the back balcony for an hour, prompting the devotees to present challenges to our philosophy, and then giving effec
