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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Order of reading books

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 21, 2010 at 2:47pm

Order of reading books

Acyutananda Swami suggested that even Prabhupada's description of rasa-lila in his Tenth Canto summary study, Krsna, should not be narrated in public.

But Prabhupada told him, "No, why? Krsna book must be there, in the book must be there. But you should go gradually. You first of all understand Krsna, then Krsna-lila. If you have not understood Krsna, then you'll think Krsna's rasa-lila is just like we mix with young women, and that becomes as polluted. Because they do not u

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Interactions with Dr.Patel

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 21, 2010 at 2:46pm

Interactions with Dr.Patel

August 16th, 1976

Prabhupada took his walk on the roof again this morning. When Dr. Patel arrived, they sat for a while in the open air and discussed vairagya, detachment. Prabhupada told him that if one has bhakti, detachment automatically comes. "Now, 'I have got some bhakti and some material desire also.' That is not bhakti; that is markata-vairagya [monkey renunciation]. That does not mean that I shall stop bhakti. No, you take bhakti to the regulative principle, the

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Bodyguard

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 21, 2010 at 2:45pm

Bodyguard

Late in the evening Harikesa Swami and I met with Srila Prabhupada about the possibility of him being attacked by the Communists. Since our arrival several reports have appeared in the newspapers indicating that in Delhi the Communists are instigating the government to investigate our Society. A tabloid-style paper, obviously appealing to the lower class, carried a report saying that the Mayapur scheme was "fishy."

We discussed whether Srila Prabhupada should have a body guard, debating

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Personal medication

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 21, 2010 at 2:45pm

Personal medication

Prabhupada is attempting to treat his disease by adjusting the spicing in his diet. In the morning he instructed Palika to soak black pepper and cumin seed and then grind them into a paste. He had her do the same with tumeric. She cooked his lunch using this spicing, carefully mixing the paste with the required amount of water and adding it to his lunch preparations. Then this evening he called her in and had her make two parathas and a potato and eggplant subji. We were delig

Bell Is Mightier Than The Bomb!

Posted by Shabda Hari Das on September 21, 2010 at 2:45pm

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

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Read with proper understanding

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 21, 2010 at 2:44pm

Read with proper understanding

There was no darsana this afternoon, although Srila Prabhupada did go up onto the roof to sit for a while with a few devotees. Then it began to rain so he returned to his sitting room. There he met with Giriraja and Nitai prabhus to discuss requirements for a library for the new building. Nitai has been given Rs. 4,000 by the temple to purchase books for it. Srila Prabhupada said the library should contain all his own books, those of all the acaryas, as well as the

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - We are always dependent

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on September 21, 2010 at 2:44pm

We are always dependent

Today is Indian Independence Day, so at noon some of the karmis who live on our land assembled in the modest park in front of Srila Prabhupada's building. They stood in silence for a minute before a small statue of Gandhi before holding their celebration.

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

Lessons from the Twenty-four Gurus

Posted by _ghanshyam das on September 20, 2010 at 9:43pm

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 Celebrates Deities' 25th Anniversary

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on September 20, 2010 at 6:00pm

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

Spiritual Purchasing Power!

Posted by Shabda Hari Das on September 20, 2010 at 12:42pm

SPIRITUAL PURCHASING POWER

"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 -----

Posted by Vandana Goel on September 20, 2010 at 9:17am

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

Real Life story -Cured for Service to Krishna

Posted by ISKCON Desire Tree on September 19, 2010 at 10:00am

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.

ગાયનું દૂધ અને ઘી પીળું કેમ ?

Posted by _ghanshyam das on September 16, 2010 at 11:00pm

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

A Glimpse (Ek Jhanki)

Posted by geeta kakkar on September 16, 2010 at 4:47pm

A Glimpse (Ek Jhanki)

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.

The species of life

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on September 16, 2010 at 10:33am

jalaja nava laksani
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

deity worship F.A.Q. Part-5 Sub= Macaroni & pasta

Posted by _ghanshyam das on September 16, 2010 at 10:30am

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

Key Events in the Life of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on September 16, 2010 at 10:27am

(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

Sixty-Four Qualities of the Lord

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on September 15, 2010 at 2:26pm

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

!! जय जय श्री राधे !!

Posted by Priya Sakhi Devi Dasi on September 15, 2010 at 1:55pm

देखो आज बरसाने में
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

deity worship F.A.Q. Part-5 Sub= Different things that can or cannot be offered

Posted by _ghanshyam das on September 15, 2010 at 10:00am

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

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Order of reading books

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Interactions with Dr.Patel

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Bodyguard

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Personal medication

Bell Is Mightier Than The Bomb!

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Read with proper understanding

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - We are always dependent

Lessons from the Twenty-four Gurus

ISKCON Guyana Celebrates Deities' 25th Anniversary

Spiritual Purchasing Power!

----- ALONE IN BODY BUT NOT IN SPIRITS -----

Real Life story -Cured for Service to Krishna

ગાયનું દૂધ અને ઘી પીળું કેમ ?

A Glimpse (Ek Jhanki)

The species of life

deity worship F.A.Q. Part-5 Sub= Macaroni & pasta

Macaroni & pasta

Mati (das) HKS (Siberia)

Shyamasundara Dasa

Key Events in the Life of Sri Caitanya Mahaprabhu

Sixty-Four Qualities of the Lord

!! जय जय श्री राधे !!

deity worship F.A.Q. Part-5 Sub= Different things that can or cannot be offered

Different things that can or cannot be offered

Dill and Lilac

Mati (das) HKS (Siberia)

Frozen and canned foods

Urmila (Devi Dasi) ACBSP

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