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Today is the appearance of Lord Baladeva, but we all broke the fast because no one checked the calendar until it was too late. Srila Prabhupada wasn't happy about it but didn't react too strongly. He simply told us to observe it tomorrow.
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Prabhupada didn't take his walk this morning because his legs are swollen, but he still preached to everyone on the back balcony for an hour, prompting the devotees to present challenges to our philosophy, and then giving effec
padesu sarva-bhutani
pumsah sthiti-pado viduh
amrtam ksemam abhayam
tri-murdhno 'dhayi murdhasu
padesu -- in the one fourth; sarva -- all; bhutani -- living entities; pumsah -- of the Supreme Person; sthiti-padah -- the reservoir of all material opulence; viduh -- you should know; amrtam -- deathlessness; ksemam -- all happiness, free from the anxiety of old age, diseases, etc.; abhayam -- fearlessness; tri-murdhnah -- beyond the three higher planetary sy
"King Ambarīṣa first of all engaged his mind on the lotus feet of Lord Kṛṣṇa; then, one after another, he engaged his words in describing the transcendental qualities of the Lord, his hands in mopping the temple of the Lord, his ears in hearing of the activities of the Lord, his eyes in seeing the transcendental forms of the Lord, his body in touching the bodies of the devotees, his sense of smell in smelling the scents of the lotus flowers offered to the Lord, his tongue in tasting the tula
A long and interesting conversation ensued with Ali asking
so 'mrtasyabhayasyeso
martyam annam yad atyagat
mahimaisa tato brahman
purusasya duratyayah
sah -- He (the Lord); amrtasya -- of deathlessness; abhayasya -- of fearlessness; isah -- the controller; martyam -- dying; annam -- fruitive action; yat -- one who has; atyagat -- has transcended; mahima -- the glories; esah -- of Him; tatah -- therefore; brahman -- O brahmana Narada; purusasya -- of the Supreme Personality; duratyayah -- immeasurable.
Krsna Steals the Garments of the Unmarried Gopis
1. During the first month of the winter season, the young unmarried girls of Gokula observed the vow of worshiping goddess Katyayani. For the entire month they ate only unspiced khichri.
2. After they had bathed in the water of the Yamuna just as the sun was rising, the gopis made an earthen deity of goddess Durga on the riverbank. Then they worshiped her with such aromatic substances
"Although God has no parents as He is eternal and is the father of everyone, yet He can agree to become someone's child - have a little baby form and a devotee to serve Him as a parent. As a parent, the parents think that they are bigger than the child.
The parents always want to protect the child. Even though Krishna is the Supreme protector of everyone. His parents always think, "I have to protect Krishna. If I don't protect Krishna, some danger will befall Krishna."So the parents actu
Introduction - The Supreme Abode
The abode of Lord Sri Krsna is described in the Bhagavad-gita, Fifteenth Chapter, sixth verse:
na tad bhasayate suryo
na sasanko na pavakah
yad gatva na nivartante
tad dhama paramam mama
"That supreme abode of Mine is not illumined by the sun or moon, nor by fire or electricity. Those who reach it never return to this material world."
Bhagavad Gita 15.6
This verse gives a description of that eternal sky. Of course we have a material conception of the sky, and we think of
(Excerpts from Sri Gopala-Tapani Upanishad)
1. Obeisances to Lord Govinda, handsome with a peacock-feather crown, identical with Balarama, His
intelligence sharp, and He the swan in the Manasa lake of the goddess of fortune's thoughts.
2. Obeisances to Him, the death of Kamsa and his allies, the killer of Kesi and Canura, the object of worship
for Siva, and the chariot-driver of Arjuna.
3. Obeisances to Him, the cowherd boy fond of playing the flute, the crusher of Kaliya, t
sva-dhisnyam pratapan prano
bahis ca pratapaty asau
evam virajam pratapams
tapaty antar bahih puman
sva-dhisnyam -- radiation; pratapan -- by expansion; pranah -- living energy; bahih -- external; ca -- also; pratapati -- illuminated; asau -- the sun; evam -- in the same way; virajam -- the universal form; pratapan -- by expansion of; tapati -- enlivens; antah -- internally; bahih -- externally; puman -- the Supreme Personality.
TRANSLATION
The sun illumina
Topic : Vision How to see God ? Ointment is applied to the eyes for clear vision. When the ointment of love of Godhead will be applied to our eyes, then with these eyes we shall be able to see God. God is not invisible. Simply like a man with cataract or any other eye disease, he cannot see. That does not mean the things do not exist. He cannot see. God is there, but because my eyes are not competent to see God, therefore, I deny God. God is there, everywhere. Srila Prabhupada, Boston, May 1st, 1969 |

On the 3rd of July, almost two thousand devotees gathered for a festival celebrating the 17th anniversary of the installation of the Deities at Moscow`s Leningradskiy Prospect temple. They also became witnesses to the rare event of a sannyasa initiation – that of thesecond Russian devotee accepting the renounced order of life.
Sannyasa is considered to be the highest spiritual rank in Hinduism in general and in the Bengali Vaishnava tradition. It means total renunciation of the world`s pleasures
Here, the gopis performed Lalita's(a friend of Srimati Radhika) wedding ceremony with seven-year-old Sri Krsna here. One day, Lalita and the sakhis were sitting with rasik Krsna and talking sweetly with Him. Upon the indication of Srimati Radhika, Visakha and some other sakhis tied Sri Syamsundara's yellow cloth to the corner of Sri Lalita's veil. Rangadevi and other sakhis started to sing wedding songs while Tungavidya and other