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I was advised by a health specialist to go to a sauna and sweat, so I went to a pool near the Los Angeles temple, where I reside. I was sitting in the sauna with a friend; it was full.
All of a sudden an African-American man in his late 40's addressed me: "Excuse me. Can I ask you a question? Do you know Sanskrit?"
"I don't speak it," I replied, "but I'm learning." I asked him his name and he told me it was Matt, and then I asked him why he cares about Sanskrit.
"I'm reading the Bhagavad-gita," he
This place is situated west of Nandagaon. During cow herding, Krsna played His flute on this hill(pahadi) to assemble His hundereds of thousands of cows. By the tender and sweet sound of His flute, this hill melted and became marked with the impressions of Krsna's footprints(carana-cihna). Hence, this hill is called Carana-pahadi.
On Kamsa's order, the great devotee Akrura came to Nandagaon to bring Krsna and Balarama to Mathura. When he
Hare Krishna Prabhus,
Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada!
How the Prabhupada Marathon evolved is interesting. The most successful three days in book distribution history up to 1972 took place at the end of that year in Los Angeles. Three days before Christmas, the Los Angeles devotees distributed more than 17,000 pieces of literature! Because they distributed the most books ever just before Christmas, it became known as the Christmas Marathon. The next year it beca
Madhavacharya-Brahma Sampradya
Ramanujacharya - Sri Sampradaya
Vallabhachary of Rudra Sampradya
Nimbarkacharya - Kumara Sampradaya
Sree Madhyacharya belonged to Brahma Sampradaya, Sree Ramanuja to the Sree Sampradaya, Sree Vishnuswami to the Rudra Sampradaya and Sree Nimbarka belonged to Kumar Sampradaya. All these four Acharyas are bonafide preachers of the pure transcendental philosophy dealing with the problems of the world, the living entities and the Almighty God who is the Father of the creati
Question to Radhanath Swami: I feel science is the cause of so many problems like environmental pollution etc. Am I right?
Radhanath Swami Maharaja: It is due to lack of science that there are so many problems. By ‘science’ I don’t mean the manipulation of the external gross elements. Bhagavad-Gita, spirituality, and Sanatana Dharma are sciences. Without these foundational sciences strong, other sciences that we build on could create many difficulties. So the problem is not science. But the probl
Accepting things favorable to chanting and avoiding things unfavorable is the first item in saranagati, or surrender. Constant chanting means it must be done often and regularly. Srila Prabhupada had given us a minimum of sixteen rounds, but he said that we should do sixteen rounds on the beads and innumerable rounds off the beads.
From Bhajan Kutir #142
Philosophy of Bhagavat Gita
Being an unalloyed devotee of the Personality of Godhead, Marshal Arjuna was able to discuss the transcendental philosophy of Bhagavad-gita even on the battlefield of Kuruksetra. We modern men have no time to get into the details of the philosophy of Bhagavad-gita, even in the midst of our much more ordinary daily duties. But just to teach us, Marshal Arjuna tried to understand the philosophy of Bhagavad-gita at a time when a moment was virtually impossible to spare. A
As I laughed at this unusual bit of information, he went on to say that sex attraction is the strong binding force in all sp
yad adhatu-mato brahman
deharambho 'sya dhatubhih
yadrcchaya hetuna va
bhavanto janate yatha
yat -- as it is; adhatu-matah -- without being materially constituted; brahman -- O learned brahmana; deha -- the material body; arambhah -- the beginning of; asya -- of the living being; dhatubhih -- by matter; yadrcchaya -- without cause, accidental; hetuna -- due to some cause; va -- either; bhavantah -- your good self; janate -- as you may know it; yatha -- so
The most successful 3 days in book distribution up to 1972 took place in December 1972: more than 17,000 books were distributed!
As it was Christmas time, it became known as the Christmas Marathon. The next year it became a ten-day marathon. Not before too long it became a month-long marathon, known as the December Marathon. Some temples even stretched it further to a six-week marathon.
Many years ago the GBC changed the name to "The Prabhupada Mara
We All Know TAJ MAHAL As Symbol Of Love
But The Other Lesser Known Facts are:
1. Mumtaz Was Shahjahan's 4th Wife Out Of His 7 Wives.
2. Shahjahan Killed Mumtaz's Husband To Marry Her
3. Mumtaz Died due to her 14th Delivery
4. He Then Married Mumtaz's Siste
5. He has illicit sexual relationship with his own daughter
6.Shajahan killed all people who built Tajmahal........!
Question Arises: Is Taj Mahal a symbol of love or someone's uncontrolled lust?
In Caitanya-caritamrita, Adi-lila (4.165), we find this
Potomac, Silver Spring ceremonies filmed as part of view of Eastern religions in America
by Cody Calamaio | Staff WriterA decade of spiritual research has led three filmmakers to their third film in a documentary series that discusses the similarities and differences of seven religions in the United States.
Auteur Productions filmmakers Gerald Krell of Potomac, his son, Adam Krell of Washington, D.C., and Meyer Odze of Bethesda will premier their latest documentary "The Asian & Abrahamic Religi
A: But do we have to see things in order to believe in them? Did anyone see atoms or subatomic particles, etc.? Our senses are very limited and unreliable. To claim that something does not exist simply because I have not seen it is a childish logic. I have not seen you - therefore you don't exist? I
One Community One Culture
If possible see Sri Mujibur Rehman, president of Bangladesh, and show him evidence that Parsis, Jews, Christians, Muslims, all parties are participating in this Krishna Consciousness Movement -- so why they Bangladesh Muslims should not join? We want to unite everyone culturally. Without this, every society is imperfect, but with it, society is perfect. All intelligent leaders of society should try to understand in depth this fact.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => Letter to: Tamala K
| Hare Krishna Friends, Forgiving others is the best attitude to take A kindergarten teacher decided to let her class play a game. The teacher told each child in the class to bring along a plastic bag containing a few potatoes. Each potato will be given a name of a person that the child hates, so the number of potatoes that a child will put in his/her plastic bag will depend on the number of people he/she hates. So when the day came, every child brought some potatoes with the name of the people he/sh |
I was puzzled. I had never heard the term and I asked him what it was.
Prabhupada repeated, "Brain fag." Then he told us how one time in Delhi in the 1950's he was walking all over, from one office to another, trying to distribute his Back to Godhead newspaper. The entire production
dhautatma purusah krsna-
pada-mulam na muncati
mukta-sarva-pariklesah
panthah sva-saranam yatha
dhauta-atma -- whose heart has been cleansed; purusah -- the living being; krsna -- the Supreme Personality of Godhead; pada-mulam -- the shelter of the lotus feet; na -- never; muncati -- gives up; mukta -- liberated; sarva -- all; pariklesah -- of all miseries of life; panthah -- the traveler; sva-saranam -- in his own abode; yatha -- as it were.
The earth-goddess, in her prayers, directly touches upon the subtleties of transcendental philosophy, clarifying that although the Supreme Lord is unique and distinct from His creation, His creation has no independent existence and always rests within Him. Thus the Lord and His creation are simultaneously one and different, as explained by Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu five hundred years ago.
>>> Ref. VedaBase => SB 10.59.30
The Killing of the Demons Kesi and Vyoma
1. The demon Kesi, sent by Kamsa, appeared in Vraja as a great horse. Running with the speed of the mind, he tore up the earth with his hooves. The hairs of his mane scattered the clouds and the demigods’ airplanes throughout the sky, and he terrified everyone present with his loud neighing. When the supreme Personality of Godhead saw how the demon was frightening His village of Gokula by ne
