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Srila Prabhupada came down into the kitchen today to talk with Nandarani about her efforts to conserve vegetables by bottling and freezing them. I had expressed concern to her when I heard she was doing this because of wh
Lord Sri Krishna says, "My dear Arjuna, there are different classes of men. One class of men, they are sleeping. And another class of men, they are awake. They are not sleeping." And how is this so? This chanting, which we have performed just now, is the wakening process for the sleeping soul. The soul is sleeping, covered by this material body. These bodily activities are in the sleeping stage. Just as we see dreams in the sleeping stage, similarly, all these bodily activities are dreams. Just
What is Hariyali Teej?
Hariyali Teej is a festival celebrated in Shukla-paksha in the month of Shravana (August) during the rainy season. In 2010, Hariyali Teej is celebrated on 12 August.Hariyali relates to green and teej represents three. It means that the green festival is celebrated on the third day of Shravana. At this season, the fields turn lush green and the festivity is an invitation to prosperity. Some people regard it as a harvest festival. Hariyali Teej is often recognised as a festiv
"We should take any lila of Krishna as Supreme. The Vrindavan lila, Krishna's lila with the gopis, is the most confidential lila. We should not entertain this confidential lila unless we are liberated. It is very difficult subject. And because they cannot understand what is Krishna's lila, they imitate, they fall down."
Power of 'Nama Hatta' Preaching!
"In this modern age, it is most practical to apply the Nama Hatta form of preaching - cultivating people through small groups formed of the congregation. Nama Hatta groups can begin anywhere, without restrictions, whereas in a temple there are so many restrictions, not only spiritual but also material, in the sense that so many expenses must be met.
The Nama Hatta system start first with a small group, and then later, when the congregation grows, it is quite natura
Subject:SABOODANA MADE FROM MILLIONS OF "ANIMALS" ?
I am giving below rough translation on an article from one Nainmal
Surana published in Dakshin Samachar on March 31, 2010. Feel free to treat
this as you deem fit...or research yourself...
In Tamil Nadu, in Salem area on the road from Salem to Coimbatore
there are many saboodana factories. We start getting terribly bad smell when we are
about 2 kms away from the factories.
Saboodana is made from a root like sweet potato. Kerala has this root
each weigh
Hare Krishna Friends, In life we are accustomed to thinking either of the material or the spiritual energy. There are so many literatures which fill ourthoughts with the material energy--newspapers, magazines, novels, etc. Our thinking, which is now absorbed in these literatures, must be transferred to the Vedic literatures. The great sages, therefore, have written so many Vedic literatures such as the Puranas, etc. The Puranas are not imaginative; theyare historical records. Source:Bhagavad Gita |