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Bell Is Mightier Than The Bomb!
"One time Prabhupada was saying that the 'BELL' of the priest in the temple, when he performs the arati ceremony ringing the bell, that bell is more powerful than the nuclear weapon...the atomic bomb, because the bomb will blow up people's bodies and destroy vegetation and will make a hole in the ground and everything. But the bomb doesn't change spiritually, the situation that's happening with any of those souls, with any of those spiritual beings! Again they stil
As I gave Prabhupada his massage on the balcony adjoining his bedroom he made some practical observations about it. "Where is the question of independence?" he asked. "We are all dependent at every step on Krsna's mercy. I
Dear Prabhujis and Matajis,
Hare Krishna. Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila
Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva.
This mail is in continuation of the offering on the topic "Lessons from the
Twenty-four Gurus" wherein we were meditating on the valuable lessons that were
learnt by the avadhuta brahmana from his various spiritual masters. In this mail
let us hear from avadhuta brahmana the lesson that he learnt from his next
spiritual master - Python. Interestingly the example of pyth
ISKCON Guyana last weekend celebrated the 25th Anniversary of their first installed Deities, Sri Sri Nitai Chaitanya Chandra, on September 11th and 12th at the Gaura Nitai Ashirvad Mandir, Crane Village, located two miles west of the capital city of Georgetown. The occasion was marked with a Ratha-yatra parade down the main public road, from Pouderoyen Village to the Hare Krishna Temple at Crane Old Road—through the thoroughfare that on every other day of the year is reserved for traffic and bus
"Every human in the world is a potential customer (for taking up Krishna Consciousness). There are no restrictions due to caste, color, creed, gender or age. Everyone is a potential customer. Whoever has the proper 'money' can buy the goods.
The currency is described as being the pure desire to serve the Lord. Any mixture with other motives create a counterfeit situation. Counterfeit money means that when the customer chants the holy name of Krishna, he will not be able
ALONE IN BODY
BUT NOT IN SPIRITS
I guess everyone is born with fear. It taps at your shoulder at every every step of your life. It intensifies and grips you tighter if you weak, diseased or helpless. Loneliness gobbles you up and the heart stops seeing the dreams. Suddenly the signboard of ‘ NO THROUGHFARE’ blocks and halts the race of your life.
So was my case. Being a patient of ‘LIMB GIRDLE MYOPATHY’ fear gripped me at every step of my life. Ironically it was not the disease but the fear which
Cured for Service to Krsna
Their disease was supposed to be terminal, but they’ve survived for lives of inspired and inspiring devotional service.
By Gopal Hari Das
THE CROWDED BUS JERKED to a stop. A concerned father and mother, Mukunda and Mina Gandhi, struggled out. With them were their two children, Chirag (7) and Vishal (3), in wheelchairs. Both boys were victims of Pseudohypertrophic Muscular Atrophy, an incurable, terminal disease that gradually destroys all the muscles in the body.
- આપણે જાણીએ છીએ પુરાણોમાં પણ ગાયને શ્રેષ્ઠ માનવામાં આવે છે. ગાય વિશે એવું પણ કહેવાય છે કે ગાયમાતામાં ૩૩ કરોડ દેવતાનો વાસ છે. આપણે તો ગાયનું મહત્વ જાણીએ છીએ સાથે વૈજ્ઞાનિક રીતે પણ ગાયના છાણ, દૂધ, મૂત્રનો ઉપયોગ ઘણી જગ્યાએ થાય છે.
- વૈજ્ઞાનિક સંશોધન અનુસાર ગાયના છાણાં કોલેરાનાં જંતુઓનો નાશ કરવાની શક્તિ છે.
- રશિયન વિજ્ઞાની શિરોવિચનું કહેવું છે કે ભારતીય કૂળની ગાયના દૂધમાં રેડિયોવિકીરણની રક્ષણ કરવાની સૌથી વધુ શક્તિ છે.
- ગાયની કરોડરજજુમાં સૂર્યકેતુ નાડી હોય છે. તે સૂર્યના પ્રકાશમાં જાગ્રત થાય છે અને પી
Krsna is running forward. His earrings are swinging on his cheeks. He is wearing pitambara, a yellow cloth. Yasoda has decorated her small child very beautifully. Krsna looks backwards, and seeing Yasoda coming to catch Him, runs again. Yasoda is very full-bodied, and as she is running, her body is trembling. Whosoever sees this becomes enchanted.
jalaja nava laksani
sthavara laksha-vimsati
krimayo rudra sankhyakat
prkshinam dasa-laksanam
trimsal-laksani paravah
catur laksani manusah
sthavara laksha-vimsati
krimayo rudra sankhyakat
prkshinam dasa-laksanam
trimsal-laksani paravah
catur laksani manusah
"There are 900,000 species living in the water. There are also 2,000,000 nonmoving entities such as trees and plants. There are 1.100,000 species of insects and reptiles and there are 1,000,000 species of birds. As far as animals are concerned there are 3,000,000 varieties and there are 400,000 human species." (Padma Purana)
SB 2.10.37-40: Brahma and his sons like D
Macaroni & pasta
Mati (das) HKS (Siberia)
01-Jul-95
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I'd like to ask You is it OK to offer to Deity a macaroni bought in a shop and prepared as normal? My question created from thought that macaroni were manufactured with warm by karmi.
Shyamasundara Dasa
12-Jul-95
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Such items as macaroni, spagetti, etc., which fall into the general catagory of pasta are not cooked by karmis. They are
(1486-1533 AD - 47 years)
February 18, 1486 - His birth in Sri Mayapura
August, 1486 (age 6 months) ceremony of giving first grains, and ceremony of offering coins and the Srimad-Bhagavatam (He chose the Bhagavatam)
1494 (age 8) - He begins His schooling under Ganga Dasa Pandita
1496 (age 10) - He becomes a scholar; His brother Visva-rupa takes sannyasa
1500 (age 14) - He marries Srimati Laksmi-Priya
1502 (age 16) - He starts His own school, teaching Sanskrit grammar
1503 (age 17) - He travels to Gaya
Srila Rupa Gosvami, after consulting various scriptures, has enumerated the transcendental qualities of the Lord as follows:
(1) beautiful features of the entire body;
(2) marked with all auspicious characteristics;
(3) extremely pleasing;
(4) effulgent;
(5) strong;
(6) ever youthful;
(7) wonderful linguist;
(8) truthful;
(9) talks pleasingly;
(10) fluent;
(11) highly learned;
(12) highly intelligent;
(13) a genius;
(14) artistic;
(15) extremely clever;
(16) expert;
(17) grateful;
(18) firmly de
बरस रहा है कैसा ये प्यार
गोलोक से आ गई है राधिका
लिए साथ अपने भक्ति का संसार
राधा गोरी,अपनी किशोरी
लिया है जग में अवतार
वृषभानु के अंगने में देखो
सज रहा है वंदनवार
खुश है सारे व्रज के वासी
बधाई हो रही हर द्वार
देवगण भी कर रहे हैं
कैसे पुष्पों की बौछार
धरती पे आ गई हैं
सारी सृष्टि की पटरानी
जय हो जय हो जय हो
जय हो श्री राधे महारानी
जय जय श्री राधे
Different things that can or cannot be offered
Dill and Lilac
Mati (das) HKS (Siberia)
29-Apr-95
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I have one question regarding theas plants. I heard that one can't to use dill in cooking for Deity. And I also heard that one can't to use lilac-flowers in Deity worship. Is it properly?
Frozen and canned foods
Urmila (Devi Dasi) ACBSP
18-Apr-95
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Why do most ISKCON temples use canned and fr
Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.19.28-32
QUESTION:
Śrī Uddhava said: My dear Lord Kṛṣṇa, O chastiser of the enemies, please tell me how many types of disciplinary regulations and regular daily duties there are. Also, my Lord, tell me what is mental equilibrium, what is self-control, and what is the actual meaning of tolerance and steadfastness. What are charity, austerity and heroism, and how are reality and truth to he described? What is renunciation, and what is wealth? What is desirable, what is sacrif
Evidence that Advanced Technology existed 500,000 yrs back!
While mineral hunting in the mountains of California near Olancha during the winter of 1961, Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey and Mike Mikesell found a rock, among many others, that they thought was a geode - a good addition for their gem shop. Upon cutting it open, however, Mikesell found an object inside that seemed to be made of white porcelain. In the center was a shaft of shiny metal. Experts estimated that it should have taken about
Cooking/Bhoga – Prasada
Bread
Kamsahanta (das) HKS (Copenhagen - DK)
16-Apr-95
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The cooks are sometimes substituting papadams for breads. Is that proper/acceptable ?
Krsna Ksetra (das) ACBSP
Date: 22-Apr-95 17:45 SST
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If you mean by "breads" capatis, papadams have a totally different "funtion" in a menu. I always understood that they would be served (if one were not serving everything a
