Note: A careful reading is required.

1. The ceremony of diksha or initiation is that by which the spiritual Preceptor admits one to the status of a neophyte on the path of spiritual endeavour.

2. The ceremony tends to confer spiritual enlightenment by abrogating sinfulness. Its actual effect depends on the degree of willing co-operation on the part of the disciple and is, therefore, not the same in all cases. It does not preclude the possibility of reversion on the novice to the non-spiritual stat

GURU

GURU teaches us the art of living a balanced life with restraint and stability of mind. He is the one who dispels the darkness of ignorance and shows you the path of light and eternal bliss. He is the one who brings about awareness that actions (karmas) performed under the influence of senses, give rise to sensuous pleasures and pains, which are transitory and fleeting. He guides you how to discipline and bring under control the five wild horses - 'kaam' (passion), 'krodha' (anger), 'lobh' (

Devotee (3): Srila Prabhupada, when we are preaching to Christian people or to Muslim people, is there advantage in being familiar with their scriptures or simply Bhagavad-gita, Srimad-Bhagavatam?

Prabhupada: We are not preaching to Christian or Hindu or Muslim. We are preaching to human being. We do not see, "Here is a Christian. Here is a Muslim. Here is a Hindu. Here is a white man. Here is a black man." No. Every living being, his duty is tounderstand God. This is our preaching. This is our p

"Our centres are like the oasis in a vast desert. In the desert there is no water, but occasionally if one is fortunate he may come in contact with an oasis and he is saved. Similarly in this material world we are drying up due to lack of spiritual knowledge. Our ISKCON centres are meant to give relief to the dried up conditioned souls who are searching after the nectar of joyful life."

Dear Vaishnavas,
Please accept our humble obeisances. All glories to Srila
Prabhupada! Guru-parampara ki jaya!


Starting in January of 2011, Bhaktivedanta College will offer for the first
time a complete one-year VTE Bhakti Sastri course online at
www.bhakti-sastri.com

Study Prabhupada's books online, guided by experienced teachers, in a
virtual community of sincere devotees. The first module starts on January
17, 2011.


Four things you can expect:

--sadhu-sanga, a community of devotees encouraged to contr

K R I S H N A   I N S U R A N C EE

Are you insured??? Well, I am sure; you will quote the names of various insurance companies like LIC, HDFC, ICICI, KOTAK, STANDARD CHART, BIRLA SUN LIFE, SBI, AVIVA, etc., etc.

How much Premium are you paying???  Well, starting from Rs.1000/- to a Lac. What is the Maturity Value??? Are you going to reap the benefit of your premiums paid??? Well, your family may reap the benefits, but at what cost and when??? – At the cost of your life and after your death.  Wil

With whatever little knowledge I am acquiring by washing my feet with the waves, coming from the Ocean of ISKCON (under the guidance of my Councelor Shri Adbhuta Gauranga Das Prabhuji of Hyderabad), I am sharing with you:

How to Become Closer to Krishna???

1.   Krishna’s first mercy on a person is to crush him & thus the wretched fellow has no one to turn but to him. – Vandanam.

2.  To the maximum extent possible, try to see Krishna in everyone, everything & every place, therefore, u can be in inti

With whatever little knowledge I am acquiring by washing my feet with the waves, coming from the Ocean of ISKCON (under the guidance of my Councelor Shri Adbhuta Gauranga Das Prabhuji of Hyderabad), I am sharing with you, as "how to develop Eagerness of Sharing K.C. to others"
 
One of my security supervisor at Vijayawada, used to keep ?? (two question marks) batch on the shirt, (just like many put Sai Baba, Ayyappa, Murgan, etc.,).
 
I inquired him why he is putting ?? Batch.
 
He replied that First

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HARE KRISHNA to all. please read beautiful song from above link. you will be surely       very happy

harekrishna

Chavara International Center for Indian and Interreligious Studies (CICIIS) Sacramento organized a unique event on December 18, 2010, 6:30PM-9:00PM at  St. Mary’s Parish, M Street Sacramento.  Pastor and Director James Narithookil invited representatives of major religions to speak on the occasion of Interreligious Christmas Celebration 2010.  The programme commenced with carol singing by the students of St, Mary's School, Sacramento.
Dr. Metwalli Amer, Founder of SALAM Islamic Center delivered h

H.H. Indradyumna Swami Maharaj : Past, Present and Future

Srila Prabhupada: “Yes. There is the Brighu Samhitaa astrological calculation. You can know your past life, present life and future life. That is the system, Brighu Samhitaa.”

Incident

Before leaving Vrindavan for the West, I told Sri Prahlada das that I wanted to take darsan of the famous Deity of Sri Nathji, in Rajasthan. The Deity was discovered on Govardhan Hill by a great devotee, Madhavendra Puri, more than 500 years ago, before the ad

"O son of Kunti, the nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like theappearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons. They arise from sense perception, O scion of Bharata, and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed."

Sometimes a saintly person is misunderstood by gṛhasthas, especially when he instructs their young sons to accept Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Generally a gṛhastha thinks that unless one enters gṛhastha life he cannot properly enter the renounced order. If a young man immediately adopts the path of the renounced order in accordance with the instructions of Nārada or a member of his disciplic succession, his parents become very angry. This same phenomenon is occ