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Old age symptoms

As we prepared to go Srila Prabhupada went over some of the details of how to make his toothpaste with Harikesa, who had been the first to make it for him. Harikesa laughed at the suggestion that they use the bitter nim powder instead of calcium carbonate. He didn't think anyone would be able to tolerate the taste.

I reminded Srila Prabhupada of what he had said in London about his toothpaste. "You said your teeth were so rotten they want to fall out, but the toothpaste won't allo
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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 6 Text 31
narayane bhagavati
tad idam visvam ahitam
grhita-mayoru-gunah
sargadav agunah svatah


narayane -- unto Narayana; bhagavati -- the Personality of Godhead; tat idam -- all these material manifestations; visvam -- all the universes; ahitam -- situated; grhita -- having accepted; maya -- material energies; uru-gunah -- greatly powerful; sarga-adau -- in creation, maintenance and destruction; agunah -- without affinity for the material modes; svatah -- self-suf
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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 6 Text 30
tatas ca manavah kale
ijire rsayo 'pare
pitaro vibudha daitya
manusyah kratubhir vibhum


tatah -- thereafter; ca -- also; manavah -- the Manus, the fathers of mankind; kale -- in due course of time; ijire -- worshiped; rsayah -- great sages; apare -- others; pitarah -- the forefathers; vibudhah -- the learned scholars; daityah -- great devotees of the demigods; manusyah -- mankind; kratubhih vibhum -- by performance of sacrifices to please the Supreme Lord
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In visiting with my mom in her last days I revisited my very poor original dealings with her when I first took up the path of Bhakti or Krishna consciousness. In those days the devotees were almost all very young and inexperienced. We had no balanced elders to show us the way through their wisdom of having gone through many stages of life and various mistakes and blunders. Therefore our application of the philosophy was often very fanatical and short sighted. At least for many of us including my
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Sri Radhe-Krsna's playful pastimes (vihara)

Sri Radhe-Krsna's playful pastimes (vihara) - Mayuri-kuti

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Once, Srimati Radhika and Krsna came to this place together with the sakhis. Upon seeing them, the peacocks became overjoyed with ecstasy and began to dance. Clouds gathered in the sky, and a light shower of rain fell. Nature had decorated herself fully, as if she was a beautiful and charming young woman. Radha and Krsna could not check Their feelings. Taking the form of a peacock and peahen, They danced in an astonishing way along with th
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Make a habit of reading. It is a very good habit the habit of reading. That is goingto sharpen your intelligence. Your intelligence should have a twenty by twentyvision. When you have perfect vision this means that your eyes are able to seecorrectly, identify colors and so on. So our intelligence should be so trainedthat you can identify what is beneficial, what is detrimental, what is good,what is bad. Those devotees who are associated with ISKCON,who want to advance spiritually, save themselve
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Holy Name



Meditate on the holy name. It is our greatest weapon against maya. You read about these stories in the scriptures such as howHari Das Thakur was saved. He was absorbed in chanting and the prostitute alsofailed. Someone may say , “But I am not Hari das”. I am in 21stCentury, it is not going to help me. We may not be a Haridas but the potency ofthe holy name is as powerful today as it was five hundred years ago.

H H Gopal Krishna Goswami
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ISKCON Vraja Mandala Prikrama 2010

, H H Radha Raman Swami:

Dear Devotees,

Please accept my humble obeisance. All glories to Srila Prabhupada.

ISKCON’s 24th Vraja Mandala Parikrama will be held this year from Oct 23 till Nov 21. The Parikrama schedule is pasted at the end of this article. The Parikrama will start on Saturday 23rd October after mangal-arati at 5:00 am. The participants are requested to reach Vrindavan latest by the evening of Oct 22.

Please note that the participant will have to arrange own accommodation in Vrindavan

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THE DEPARTURE OF SVAYAMBHU MAHARAJA


We are sorry to announce the departure of Svayambhu Maharaja, a senior disciple of Srila Gour Govinda Swami and our dear godbrother and friend.

When speaking of the glory of the Vaishnavas, Srila Gour Govinda Maharaja would often quote the following Bengali verse from the poet Vaishnava Das:

vaisnavera guna gana, korile jivera trana
suniache sadhu-guru mukhe

"I have heard from the lips of sadhu-guru, if you glorify a devotee, you will be delivered very easily. Krishna will be very pleased
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Get Spiritually RICH!

Get Spiritually RICH!

"It is not required to live as a monk in the temple. Everyone receives benefit according to the faith and devotion he gives, whether big or small. Whatever devotion one has, he invests and gets profit. Thus one's capital accrues. Then he reinvests the enhanced capital. In this way one will very soon be Spiritually Rich.

To reside within a temple, one should be on the level of bhajana-kriya or anartha-nivrtti. But those living at home can be on any level, higher or lower. And

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rimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 6 Text 29
tatas te bhratara ime
prajanam patayo nava
ayajan vyaktam avyaktam
purusam su-samahitah


tatah -- thereafter; te -- your; bhratarah -- brothers; ime -- these; prajanam -- of the living creatures; patayah -- masters; nava -- nine; ayajan -- performed; vyaktam -- manifested; avyaktam -- nonmanifested; purusam -- personalities; su-samahitah -- with proper rituals.


TRANSLATION
My dear son, thereafter your nine brothers, who are the masters of living creatures, pe
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Living simply

"Yes, but now there's TV!" Harikesa Swami piped up.

Prabhupada pulled a face. "TV, yes."

"How can you enjoy without TV?" Harikesa asked.

"Yes," Srila Prabhupada said sardonically. "How can you waste your time?"

Navayauvana said people say they need TV because they work so hard all day that they need to forget.

"Why should you work? If you have to forget, why should you take such nonsense things that you have to forget again? Why not chant Hare Krsna?" Srila Prabhupada said. He had alread
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THE SPIRITUAL MASTER

The Spiritual Master does not equate PERFECTION...

The Spiritual Master equates SINCERE EXECUTION of ones Spiritual Masters
Instructions....

The Spiritual Master equates COMPLETE FAITH in Krishna...

The Spiritual Master equates ABSOLUTE LOVE for Krishna...

Just as in our material family, which one has personally chosen by karmic
design, one overcomes differences due to blood ties, so too in our spiritual
relations, as it goes so very much, much more deeper...

For KRISHNA has chosen my spiritual relation
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The Supreme Bargain!

The Supreme Bargain!

"In America, some companies offer rebate coupons. This means that after a person has purchased the particular product, he is mailed a cheque of, say, twenty percent of what he had paid, or sent some other offer. But whatever price one pays in the market of the holy name, he receives a rebate of many, many times that amount.

Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakura is describing the Supreme Bargain. In the material world we give our love and faith to people, but they can hardly reciprocate a

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Guranga and Murarigupta, Part 4


BY: SUN STAFF


Jan 07, CANADA (SUN) — A five-part series from 'Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu', edited by Srimad Bhakti Vaibhav Puri Goswami Maharaj, Founder Acharya of the Sri Krishna Chaitanya Mission, Ganjam,Orissa.

Sri Chaitanya then described the grades of Bhakti. According to Him from Sadhana Bhakti (the culture of pure devotion through regulations) sprouts up Rati (permanent seed of love). When Rati isdeepened it becomes Love for Prema. Intensified prema takes the fo

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The Limits of our Independence

To become Devas or Asuras is in the Limits of our independenceThe answer for this is also given in the Bhagavad-gita. It is said that there are two classes of men in the creation. One class is called the devas (godly) and the other class is called the asura (demonic or godless). As sons of the almighty Father Supreme Godhead, all individual living individuals have their respective independence. One can utilize this god-gifted independence properly or improperly.When a living entity improperly us
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GURU SADHU & SHASTRAS

Guru, sadhu, sastra. These can always be compared, and they should never contradict. The sadhus are the servants of the Lord. And the scriptures are the words of the Lord. They do not contradict because Krsna is the center of all of them.

>>> Ref. VedaBase => The Guru: Via Media to God

Abstaining from auspicious work is called akarma. Both vikarma and akarma are bad.

Those who are addicted to akarma and vikarma are outcastes, ostracized from the four varnas and asramas of the varnasrama system.

Jaiv

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Destiny is also described as time

Destiny is also described as timeHaving stated that the Supreme Lord controls this world, Jarasandha explains the specific method of control. It should be remembered that in the Vedic context kala, or time, does not refer merely to a system of measuring planetary movements such as days, weeks, months and years but rather to the way things are being moved. Everything is moving according to its destiny, and this destiny is also described as "time," since everyone's destiny is revealed and imposed
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Why a living being should be restricted in sense gratification?


The question may be raised why a living being should be restricted in sense gratification. If a king, to learn how to kill, may go to the forest and kill animals, why should a living entity, who has been given senses, not be allowed unrestricted sense gratification? At the present moment this argument is put forward even by so-called svāmīs and yogīs who publicly say that because we have senses we must satisfy them by sense gratifica

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Lord inclined to his devotees

Lord inclined to his devotees

The Supreme Lord Absolute Personality of Godhead Sri Krishna although equal to everyone still He is more inclined to His unflinching devotee who is completely a surrendered soul and knows nobody else as his protector and master. This conception of life having unflinching faith in the Supreme Lord as one's Protector, Friend and Master is the natural condition of eternal life. A living entity is so made by the will of the Almighty and, therefore, he is mostly happy by
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