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SB 4.7.16: The great sage Maitreya said: Thus being pardoned by Lord Śiva, King Dakṣa, with the permission of Lord Brahmā, again began the performance of the yajña, along with the great learned sages, the priests and others.

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.17

vaiṣṇavaḿ yajña-santatyai
tri-kapālaḿ dvijottamāḥ
puroḍāśaḿ niravapan
vīra-saḿsarga-śuddhaye

SYNONYMS:
vaiṣṇavam — meant for Lord Viṣṇu or His devotees; yajña — sacrifice; santatyai — for performances; tri-kapālam — three kinds of offerings; dvija-uttamāḥ —
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From logic to love

Beyond Logic to Love

Question: Aren't the two defining attributes of God - omnipotence and omniscience - self contradictory? If God can do anything, then he can change the future. But if he can change the future, then how can he be said to know the future? So doesn't this mean that God can either be omnipotent or omniscient but not both?

Questions like these arise when we approach God only with our head and not our heart. We then mistake God to be a static, unconscious object and his attributes to
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Satsvarupa Dasa Goswami


The Srimad-Bhagavatam tells the story of Bali Maharaja and Vamanadeva. Vamanadeva is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, appearing in the form of a small brahmana boy. He goes to Bali Maharaja and begs three paces of land, “as paced by My own steps.” As the story progresses, Vamanadeva reveals His universal form. His first two steps claim the whole universe, and Bali is then unable to fulfill his promise of three. Thus he is put into difficulty. Vamanadeva arrests him with

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pic38.jpgAfter being instructed by Kamsa, the demon Kesi assumed the form of a terrible horse. He entered the area of Vrndavana, his great mane flying and his hooves digging up the earth. He began to whinny and terrify the whole world. Krsna saw that the demon was terrifying all the residents of Vrndavana with his whinnying and his tail wheeling in the sky like a big cloud. Krsna could understand that the horse was challenging Him to fight. The Lord accepted his challenge and stood before the Kesi demon.

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The Books will Prove

Satsvarupa: They base many of their conclusions on finding of fossils, old remains.

Prabhupada: Eh?

Satsvarupa: Fossils, impressions of animals' bodies in the stone that are left there thousands of years. They gather all these... That's what Darwin's work mostly was. He would sail around the world and collect all these fossils, and make conclusions and write books.

Prabhupada: But where they will get fossils of old intelligent men?

Satsvarupa: Well, they say that they've found just skulls of very pr

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Life in other planets

In the evening, before any visitors arrived, Prabhupada sat in his room with Atreya Rsi, Harikesa, Parivrajakacarya, Jnanagamya and myself. He was again pointing out the defects of the so-called Mars landing, declaring that in the sastras it states very clearly that every planet is full of life. "Jana-kirna, this very word is used, jana-kirna, congested with life. Everything is described there. There is milk ocean, there is this ocean, that ocean, varieties of. So if we have
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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 6 Text 9
payur yamasya mitrasya
parimoksasya narada
himsaya nirrter mrtyor
nirayasya gudam smrtah


payuh -- the evacuating outlet; yamasya -- the controlling deity of death; mitrasya -- of Mitra; parimoksasya -- of the evacuating hole; narada -- O Narada; himsayah -- of envy; nirrteh -- of misfortune; mrtyoh -- of death; nirayasya -- of hell; gudam -- the rectum; smrtah -- is understood.


TRANSLATION
O Narada, the evacuating outlet of the universal form of the Lord is
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Introduction - Aim of Human life

In this world men are not meant for quarreling like cats and dogs. Men must be intelligent to realize the importance of human life and refuse to act like ordinary animals. A human being should realize the aim of his life, and this direction is given in all Vedic literatures, and the essence is given in Bhagavad-gita.

Vedic literature is meant for human beings, not for animals. Animals can kill other living animals, and there is no question of sin on their part, but

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Guru-varam mukunda-presthatve (smara):
Meditate on Sri Gurudeva as very dear to Sri Mukunda

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Sri Gurudeva is known as mukunda-prestha or one who is very dear to Sri Mukunda, who bestows mukti or liberation from material bondage. Devotees should think, "Sri Krsna, who is an ocean of mercy, has sent His very dear associate as my gurudeva in order to deliver me." It is, therefore, fully appropriate to consider Sri Gurudeva as a priya sakhi of Srimati Radhika. According to the statement of the sastras,
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What is a Spiritual Master?

On hearing the word guru, we tend to envision a caricature like image: a bizarre-looking old fellow with a long, stringy beard and flowing robes, meditating on distant, esoteric truths. Or we think of a cosmic con man cashing in on young seekers' spiritual gullibility.

But what really is a guru? What does he know that we don't? How does he enlighten us?

In a talk given in England in 1973, Srila Prabhupada provides some enlightening answers.

"om ajnana-timirandhasya jnananjana-salakaya
caksur unmilit
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Ghosts Versus Hare Krsna!



This is a true story that took place near Rome,
in March 2009

As soon as we entered the apartment we understood we were in for some excitement. We'd heard different stories of how this young woman had been terrorized by a ghost for the last nine years, of how just the other week she had been hospitalized due to a flying chair striking her in the head, and how she was now at the limit of her sanity. We'd been told of knives flying across the room, pictures leaping from the walls and levitating coff
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Hare krishna to all of the world. This is very crucial time when every person is suffring from sorrows.because of we does not remember the god. we does not thanks that God which he give us all the natural things. we does not beleive who gives us this life. It is very shamfull for us. which things we are using in this world that is given by that Jaggannath.

so we must attached with that Almighty Lord Jaggannatha. we Must serve for that Almighty Lord ...............

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SRI VILAPA KUSUMANJALI

SRI VILAPA KUSUMANJALI
(Prayers to Sri Radha)

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1. O queen, please rescue this unfortunate person, drowning in an ocean of pain. Place him on the strong
boat of your mercy and carry him to the wonderful realm of Your lotus feet.

2. O queen, with the medicine of the red lac from Your lotus feet, please bring back to life this person now dead from the bites of the black snake of not seeing You.

3. O queen, with the nectar of a moment's glance please restore the life of this gopi maidservant of Your lotu
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(CC Madhya 20.127-136): Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, said to Sanatana Goswami: "The following example may be given. Once a learned astrologer came to the house of a poor man and, seeing his distressed condition, questioned him. ""The astrologer asked, 'Why are you unhappy? Your father was very wealthy, but he did not disclose his wealth to you because he died elsewhere?' "Just as the words of the astrologer Sarvajna gave news of the poor man's treasure, Vedic li
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WHAT IS THE REAL GHEE PART 1



Ghee – An Ayurvedic Perspective:

The milk of cows is considered to possess the essence or sap of all plants and Ghee is the essence of milk... When we consider Ghee we are in the company of superlatives. In India, Ghee has been so highly regarded for so many things, for so long, that one is slightly embarrassed to enter into this crowded river of praise. This is what I have heard:

The ingestion of Ghee is like offering the finest of fuels into the fires of digestion-Agni. In accord with this, Ghee

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Sri Radhe-Krsna's playful pastimes (vihara)

Sri Radhe-Krsna's playful pastimes (vihara) - toll-tax

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Once, Sri Bhaguri Rsi was performing a sacrifice for the pleasure of the Supreme Lord. The cowherd boys and girls were bringing ingredients for the sacrifice from distant places. Srimati Radhika and Her sakhis were also bringing yoghurt, milk, butter and various kinds of milk-sweets, such as rabadi. Sri Krsna along with Subala, Madhumangala and other sakhas, obstructed their path and forcibly demanded toll-tax, and the sakhas and gopis began
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Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.7.14

vidyā-tapo-vrata-dharān mukhataḥ sma viprān
brahmātma-tattvam avituḿ prathamaḿ tvam asrāk
tad brāhmaṇān parama sarva-vipatsu pāsi
pālaḥ paśūn iva vibho pragṛhīta-daṇḍaḥ

SYNONYMS:
vidyā — learning; tapaḥ — austerities; vrata — vows; dharān — the followers; mukhataḥ — from the mouth; sma — was; viprān — the brāhmaṇas; brahmā — Lord Brahmā; ātma-tattvam — self-realization; avitum — to disseminate; prathamam — first; tvam — you; asrāk — created; tat — therefore; brāhma
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India's unique legacy

Question: Does the chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra do any practical good for the world?

Certainly.

As most of us know, the fundamental problem in economics is to reconcile the unlimited desires of people with the limited resources of the world. All of us perpetually seek happiness by fulfilling our desires. Two conflicting forces within our hearts determine our desires: the centrifugal force that allures us to external objects, and the centripetal force that draws us inwards to the Lord within
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2012 - END OF THE WORLD?

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SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS from around the world are predicting that five years from now, all life on Earth could well come to an end. Some are saying it'll be humans that would set it off. Others believe that a natural phenomenon will be the cause. And the religious folks are sayingit'll be God himself who would press the stop button. The following are somelikely arguments as to why the world would end by the year 2012.

Reason one: Mayan calendar

The first to predict 2012 as the end of the world were th

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"DEATH IS NATURAL"

Prabhupada: You become... I am explaining. You become entangled. Now, as soon as you become entangled... Suppose you become a dog. Now you suffer.

Dr. Patel: But when the dog is there, he does not think he's suffering. He's just like that pig.

Prabhupada: That is illusion. That is called moha, moha. One is suffering. Everyone is suffering. Suppose a big man, a minister, or the prime minister, or the chief minister, he's also suffering. But he's thinking, "Now I am prime minister." That is illusion
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