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Please accept our humble obeisances.
All glories to Srila Prabhupda


We just got sad news from Vrindavan that His Grace Aindra prabhu suddenly left his body in Vrindavan few hours back.
There was an accidental gas leak in his room in Vrindavan causing a blast which caused 100 percent burns.
He was scheduled to do his regular dressing today morning of Sri Sri Radha Shyamsundar, ISKCON Vrindavan.
Devotees all around the world would very much miss this great devotee & kirtan singer.
His appearance day was
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Jagannatha, the strange-faced God

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

EVEN though the International Society for Krishna Consciousness celebrates the “Festival of the Chariots”, annually, in every major city of the world (including Moscow), yet most people are not aware why Lord Jagannatha (who is actually Krishna), His brother, Baladeva, and sister, Subhadra, appear in such strange primitive forms. The festival will be celebrated tomorrowall over the world.

The history is fascinating. In the Satya ‘yuga’, there

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Chariots of the Gods: Jagannath Rath Yatra

The little boy held his father's hand tightly. The huge crowd of devotees was surging towards the three multicoloured wooden chariots balanced on 12-foot wheels. The bright canopies were decorated with flags that were fluttering in the wind, pretty against the blue skies.

Crashing cymbals glistened in the bright sunshine, while the beating of drums, mridangas, set the mood. Scores of perspiring hands were t
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Q: U performed so many austerities in ur life. It was v peak time in our movement. Many times we feel frustrated while practicing spiritual lives. Did u never considered leaving KC?

Ans: I don’t remember even once consider leaving. I accepted “ I have to surrender”, nothing else. I understood from SP books that if we are not submissive, we cannot make proper spiritual advancement. So I was trying to be totally submissive. In those days, for 2 yrs atleast, I am not even getting 2-3 hrs sleep a day

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How to Overcome Distractions ?

Hare Krishna Prabhujis and Mathajis,

Please accept my humble obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhupada and Srila Gurudeva.

We are living in this world wherein we have so many distractions. Internet, TV, gossips, news-papers, criticisms, cheating, politics, social-pressures and the list is endless. How to save ourselves from these things ? In Srimad Bhagavatam verse 1.8.42, Kunti Maharani very nicely prays to Lord Krishna to help her to remember Him always without any deviation. She says,

tvayi m
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On Speaking Strongly in Srila Prabhupada's Service

There is no doubt that the words of the sadhu possess the power of destroying the evil propensities of one's mind. The sadhus in this way benefit everyone who associates with them. There are many things which we do not disclose to the sadhu. The real sadhu makes us speak out what we keep concealed in our hearts. He then applies the knife. The very word 'sadhu' has no meaning other than this. He stands in front of the block with the uplifted sacri
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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 5 Text 39
grivayam janaloko 'sya
tapolokah stana-dvayat
murdhabhih satyalokas tu
brahmalokah sanatanah


grivayam -- up to the neck; janalokah -- the Janaloka planetary system; asya -- of Him; tapolokah -- the Tapoloka planetary system; stana-dvayat -- beginning from the breast; murdhabhih -- by the head; satyalokah -- the Satyaloka planetary system; tu -- but; brahmalokah -- the spiritual planets; sanatanah -- eternal.


TRANSLATION
From the forefront of the chest up to
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Hera Panchami is a unique festival in the Puri Jagannath Rath Yatra at the Gundicha Temple. Hera means to ‘see’ and Panchami means the ‘fifth day’ – on Hera Panchami day Goddess Lakshmi comes to the Gundicha Temple to see Lord Jagannath. The visit of Goddess Lakshmi takes place five days after the Puri Jagannath Rath Yatra.

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The meaning of Hera-pancami is as follows. On the fifth day of the Rathayatra Festival, Laksmi-devi becomes very worried and thinks, "Where has my husband gone? He told me, 'I
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Jayapataka Swami's first japa

I am a godbrother JPs and my wife is his disciple. This article is a glimpse at how this courageous preacher carried on preaching, ecstatic, despite the crippling effects of the stroke on his body.

At this time he revealed the first time he chanted japa, with an amazing aspect.

I wrote the following on October 5, 2009, when Jayapataka Swami was in Kuala Lumpur. This was the first time I could be close to him since he had his stroke. For those who don't know, this stroke would normally have finishe
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The temple records reveal that the major temple complex calledSri-mandir was built in the 12th century by King Chodaganga Deva(Anangabhima Deva) and it houses as many as 4000 - 5000 priests andcovers an area of approximately one acre bounded by stone walls with agate on each of the four sides. The 25ft high outer wall (655ft x 640ft)is called Meghanada and the inner wall 420ft x 315ft is calledKurma-prachir. The gopura of the main shrine is said to be 215ft talland houses the six foot tall Deiti
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When is Anger Justified?

Hare Krishna

An ordinary man works for his own sense enjoyment, and when this principle of sense enjoyment is extended to include his society, nation or humanity in general, it assumes various attractive names such as altruism, socialism, communism, nationalism and humanitarianism. These "isms" are certainly very attractive forms of karma-bandhana (karmic bondage), but the Vedic instruction of Sri Īśopaniṣad is that if one actually wants to live for any of the above "isms," he should make them Go
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Good Fortune

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The Nectar of Instruction 3
By His Divine Grace A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami
The material world is a place of confinement for the living entities who are by nature ānandamaya, pleasure-seeking. They actually want to be free from the confinement of this world of conditional happiness, but not knowing the process of liberation, they are bound to transmigrate from one species of life to another and from one planet to another. In this way the living entities are wandering throughout the material
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On Speaking Strongly in Srila Prabhupada's Service

A devotee who confidently states his position and forcefully refutes others may be misunderstood to be arrogant, especially by those brought up in the pseudo-liberal belief that every opinion is as good as any other. But a devotee's confidence comes, not from pride or dogmatism, but because he is actually right and everyone else is wrong. Devotees know the Absolute Truth and thus know everything best. (c.f. Bg. 15.19)

The devotee is always right.
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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 5 Text 38
bhurlokah kalpitah padbhyam
bhuvarloko 'sya nabhitah
hrda svarloka urasa
maharloko mahatmanah


bhuh -- the lower planetary systems up to the stratum of the earth; lokah -- the planets; kalpitah -- it is so imagined or said; padbhyam -- out of the legs; bhuvah -- the upper; lokah -- the planetary system; asya -- of Him (the Lord); nabhitah -- from the navel abdomen; hrda -- by the heart; svarlokah -- the planetary systems occupied by the demigods; urasa --
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An answer to Krishna’s sometimes mysterious ways may lie in the following quote from the Saranagati songs of Srila Bhaktivinoda Thakur.

"All the troubles encountered in your devotional service are great causes of happiness, for in your devotional service joy and sorrow are equally great riches, both destroy the misery of ignorance."

I can see this in my own life, when in recent years I had to undergo much physical hardship and a certain degree of insecurity. I often asked myself: "Will I ever be p
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sunyayitam jagat sarvam govinda-virahena me

O Govinda! Feeling Your separation, a moment feels like twelve years or more. Tears are flowing from my eyes like torrents of rain, and I am feeling all vacant in the world in Your absence.

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For devotees of Krishna, the world feels empty in the absence of their beloved Lord. In affairs of love there is no substitute for the beloved—no other person, toy, or material object can replace one’s beloved. Without Krishna the world seems like a play
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Carry on the Mission!

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"Prabhupada really wanted us to be dedicated to carrying out his mission. We can be inspired how he carried out the mission of his spiritual master for us to carry out our mission which is Prabhupada’s mission, to carry out the mission of our Founder-acarya. And we know that all the subsequent generations of devotees--some of Prabhupada’s grand-disciples are members of our GBC--we’re already an endangered species, we’re going to eventually be in extinction, all the direct initiated disc
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The following text is a compilation of different quotes by Srila Prabhupada on idle sports.

On football world cup Srila Prabhupada did not have very positive opinion.

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Hamsaduta: This week is the big world football, soccer matches. So everyone goes to see that. They either stay at home and watch television or they go to the fields.
Prabhupada: Because they have been taught like that. Wh
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It’s time to become mature—high time. All around us the signs are clear, crystal clear. The winter of Kali-yuga is increasing its intensity. If we do not become mature soon, our life will freeze on the banyan tree of this world.

What exactly does it mean to become mature?

Immediately two answers come to mind:

(1) To develop a new set of desires and orientation in life
(2) To become enjoyable for others.

Let us consider the example of a young, immature boy and girl. When they become physically mat
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