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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 6 Text 3
rupanam tejasam caksur
divah suryasya caksini
karnau disam ca tirthanam
srotram akasa-sabdayoh


rupanam -- for all kinds of forms; tejasam -- of all that is illuminating; caksuh -- the eyes; divah -- that which glitters; suryasya -- of the sun; ca -- also; aksini -- the eyeballs; karnau -- the ears; disam -- of all directions; ca -- and; tirthanam -- of all the Vedas; srotram -- the sense of hearing; akasa -- the sky; sabdayoh -- of all sounds.


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Krsna consciousness movement gives knowledge about the destiny of life

Everyone desires to achieve the ultimate goal of life, but in modern civilization the great scientists think that man's life has no plan. This gross ignorance is very dangerous and makes civilization very risky. People do not know the laws of nature, which are the rulings of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Because they are atheists of the first order, they have no faith in the existence of God and His rulings and therefore
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Who would not miss Aindra Prabhu? Even the dham of Vrindavan will miss him. Whoever has listened to his bhajan has been transferred into the Vaikunta realm by a unique and outer-worldly sound vibration. I remember the times in Bulgaria when we were living under very austere temple conditions: taking baths in snow water, freezing in the winter and squashing body to body in the small rooms. We were preaching boldly in the streets and constantly listening to Aindra Prabhu. The sound of his chanting

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PROCESS OF IMPROVING HABITS......

Transcribed lecture on the topic - Process of improving habits

We are discussing here, 2008, on the Puri beach, Japa meditations. And we are on page 31. Radha Vallabhadas, he gives three parts to reformjapa. If we want to improve our japa, reform our japa, there are 3 parts.

First we should spend one week observing our japa. Because the idea of reform, it is called ‘japa reform’, reform means to improve. So you can’t improve something unless you recognize the need for improvement, right? If you th

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AN OFFERING OF THE HEART by Radhanath Swami

As the effulgent sun of Sri Aindra Prabhu’s divine personality has risen in the spiritual world of Goloka Vrindaban, the sun of his physical presence has set in Gokula, the Vrindaban of this world. And we cry in separation.

The glorious life of Aindra Prabhu personifies determination and devotion, all aimed exclusively for the pleasure of Sri Sri Radha Shyamasundara. His heart floods like the Yamuna while being inundated by the monsoon of Srila Prabhupad

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Aindra Prabhuu’s Vyasa-puja Offering

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_O6tCYl9iFg

 

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Hare Krsna Hare Krsna Krsna Krsna Hare Hare Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

There is a saying, Srila Prabhupada even used it. There is a saying that a preacher is least appreciated in his own hometown. And I guess that’s just normal. So we shouldn’t get too upset if that thing happens to us.

Anyhow, I see most the devotees seem to be rather new devotees, so I don’t know, you know, how much you gonna be able to put this

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srila prabhupada said: Each & every pepole should chant holi name of ""LORD KRISHNA""HARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HAREHARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HAREHARE KRISHNA HARE KRISHNA KRISHNA KRISHNA HARE HAREHARE RAMA HARE RAMA RAMA RAMA HARE HARE
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I remember in New York - in the Brooklynn temple (the one that was bought after the Manhattan building was sold). Aindra prabhu was so into kirtan. I remember that many of the ladies would make fun of him because they didn't appreciate his singing. He put together a beautiful altar which he attached to the back of a flatbed truck. It became known as the Harinama truck. He used to work on that project a lot, sometimes very late into the evening.

Once he said to me "Do you know what Romapada Mahara
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Aindra Prabhu


By the members of the GBC Executive Committee

Dear Maharajas and Prabhus,

Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

It is with deeply sad hearts that we have come to know about the sudden passing of His Grace Aindra Prabhu.

There is possibly no devotee in the entire world of ISKCON who has not heard one of Aindra Prabhu’s kirtans, either live or from a recording, and has been left wondering whether this celestial singing was coming from this earth or from ano
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Continuation of Part 1


Breaking down false ego

In the Caitanya-caritamrta in the chapter called the bheda kirtans we see a description of how Lord Caitanya divided the devotees into various kirtan groups. There were four kirtan groups each having twomrdanga players, and eight kartal players, That's sixteen kartala players and six lead singers, simultaneously singing the lead with six lead responders simultaneously responding.

I have incorporated that standard to a large extent in my own endeavors t

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In Memory of Sripad Aindra Prabhu

(The following is an interview with Sripad Aindra dasa done last year for the forthcoming book Kirtan Meditations The Mood and Technique of Bhakti Kirtan compiled by Dhanurdhara Swami and Akincana Krishna dasa. Due to the unexpected loss of this great soul I decided to release his interview quite before the editing has been finished. I hope it gives some pleasure and solace to the congregation of the devotees feeling the loss of this great soul.)

AINDRA DASA

Doing

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Remembering Aindra Prabhu

In the summer of 2006, this blog was created when several of us decided to go to Vrindavan to participate in VIHE courses and live in the dham for several months. I can't speak for the others, but for me that was only really a cover reason for going as my main motivation was to participate in HG Aindra Prabhu's kirtans. I had been fascinated with his kirtan for several years before that, eagerly awaiting any new live recordings or videos that would come out of Vrindavan. Back in those days there
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sanatana gaswami uvaca:


In Hari-bhakti-vilasa, verse 2.147, Srila Sanatan Goswami quotes
Sammohana-tantra:

gopayed devatam istam gopayed gurum atmanah
gopayec ca nijam mantram gopayen nija-malikam

One should hide one's ista-deva, one should hide one's guru, one should hide
one's mantra, and one should hide one's japa-mala.

Wise persons keep their valuables in a confidential place. Similarly, an
intelligent sadhaka does not advertise his or her guru, nor do they
broadcast themselves as disciples of their guru. Considering thems
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srila prabhupada vani

Rise Above Animal Consciousness
If we pursue only bodily happiness
and fail to inquire into the cause
of our suffering, are we any
better than the animals?
Adapted from a lecture given in Buffalo, New York on April 23, 1969
By His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness
rsabha uvaca
nayam deho deha-bhajam nrloke
kastan kaman arhate vid-bhujam ye
tapo divyam putraka yena sattvam
suddhyed yasmad brahma-saukhyam tv anantam
"Lord
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"saved by krsna"- A very inspiring story

||Hare Kr•s•n•a ||


All Glories to Sri Guru & Gauranga!
All Glories to Srila Prabhupada!
Nitai Gaura Premanande, HARI HARI BOLO!

Patitanam Pavanebhyo Vaisn•avebhyo Namo Namah•!

Respected devotees,
Please accept our humble obeisance - dandavat pran•ama,

Krishna-Priya Dasi: Saved by Lord Krishna’s Song
By Madhava Smullen for ISKCON News on 18 Jun 2010



Krishna-priya Dasi
For young Kumud Jeendgar, life had never been easy. From the day of her birth
in
Jaipur, India in 1972, she had had severe physical disabiliti
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How does

a devotee take suffering ?

When there is suffering given by Krishna, a devotee does not take seriously suffering. A devotee thinks, “It is thefavour of Krishna that He has put me into suffering.” They never see suffering as suffering. It is favour of Krishna. That is devotee’s vision. It is exactly like a son who knows his father well. If the father slaps, the son never protests. He knows that “It is good for me.” Similarly, a devotee is never disturbed when there is suffering given by Kr

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Why should we change the quality of engagement of our mind ?

The mind is not to be killed. Mind or desire cannot be stopped, but to develop a desire to function for spiritual realization, the quality of engagement by the mind has to be changed. The mind is the pivot of the active sense organs, and as such if the quality of thinking, feeling and willing is changed, naturally the quality of actions by the instrumental senses will also change.

Srimad Bhagavatham, 2.1.17.

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Arrival Address"You cannot sit idly to show your gorgeousness in a secluded place, imitating Haridasa Thakura-Hare Krsna, Hare Krsna. No. You have to preach. That is really following Caitanya Mahaprabhu's order. Even you do that very nicely, that is for your safety. But one who is facing dangerous position for others' benefit, they are very quickly recognized by Krsna. Na ca tasman manusyesu kascin me priya-krttamah .... (Bg. 18.69)"So I am very happy that you Europeans and Americans especially,
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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 6 Text 2
sarvasunam ca vayos ca
tan-nase paramayane
asvinor osadhinam ca
ghrano moda-pramodayoh


sarva -- all; asunam -- different kinds of life air; ca -- and; vayoh -- of the air; ca -- also; tat -- His; nase -- in the nose; parama-ayane -- in the transcendental generating center; asvinoh -- of the Asvini-kumara demigods; osadhinam -- of all medicinal herbs; ca -- also; ghranah -- His smelling power; moda -- pleasure; pramodayoh -- specific sport.


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Sri Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi

Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati's
Sri Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi
(The Nectar Moon of Sri Radha's Sweetness)

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1. O Radha, O girl whose splendid braids are decorated with newly blossoming jasmine flowers, whose belt tinkles on broad hips, whose anklets tinkle, whose vine arms are splendid with bracelets, armlets, and other ornaments, and whose breasts are golden lotus-buds, when with my own eyes will I drink the nectar of seeing You?

2. O Radha, O girl whose body rocks to and fro, tossed by the waves in the
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