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Krishna Often Surprises Us

Posted by Pusta Gopika Devi Dasi on October 23, 2010 at 8:30am

With the devotees from the San Diego temple I was distributing books at a table at Mesa College recently when a person who was apparently a rabbi came over and began looking at the pictures I had on display --
the famous picture of the man with a cow's head about to slaughter a cow with a man's head, along with a reincarnation picture and a meditation picture. As he studied the pictures I thought, "What's going to come
of this? Is he going to tell me how far I am from the truth and make a scene, o

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Story of Lord Krishna

Posted by geeta kakkar on October 22, 2010 at 2:30pm

Story of Lord Krishna - SRIMAD BHAGAVATA by Krsna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

The Gopis’ songs of separation

1. The gopis said: O beloved, Your birth in the land of Vraja has made it exceedingly glorious, and thus Indira, the goddess of fortune, always resides here. It is only for Your sake that we, Your devoted servants, maintain our lives. We have been searching everywhere for You, so please show Yourself to us.

2. O Lord of love, in beauty Your glance excels the whorl of the finest, most perfectly formed l

Caranamrta: Water from the Feet of the Lord

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on October 22, 2010 at 1:32pm

Definition

Caranamrta is obtained in the morning while the Lord is being washed before dressing. Scented with perfumes and flowers, the water comes gliding down through His lotus feet and is collected and mixed with yogurt. In this way this caranamrta not only becomes very tastefully flavored, but also has tremendous spiritual value. As described in Padma Purana, even a person who has never been able to give in charity, who has never been able to perform a great sacrifice, who has never been able

Srila Prabhupada Touches People's Hearts

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on October 22, 2010 at 1:29pm

Gauri Das :

I want to share two stories about two dearest people in my life.

My first story is about my late mother who, although not a devotee herself, was very fond of Srila Prabhupada. Once she went to see a friend of hers, a lady who happened to be one of the top authorities on literature and linguistics in the country. That lady was also known for her mystic ability to predict future. Almost all of her predictions came true, I have personally experienced it in my life.

So when my mother went t

How to Become Humble

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on October 22, 2010 at 1:25pm

Srila Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura recommends that we become humble by practicing the following meditation: "The earth, which is always visible to me, is the expansion of the lotus feet of my Lord, who is always to be meditated upon. All moving and nonmoving living beings have taken shelter of the earth and are thus sheltered at the lotus feet of my Lord. For this reason I should respect every living being and not envy anyone. In fact, all living entities constitute the Kaustubha gem on my Lord

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ISKCON's Hare Krishna Temple in Quetta, Pakistan

Posted by Pusta Gopika Devi Dasi on October 22, 2010 at 11:49am

(Photo : Sri Sri Radha Natha of Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan)

USA : According to CIA Report submitted to President of United States, Hinduism is the fastest growing religion in the world. Due to the hard work of various Hindu organisactions and math’s we have succeeded in popularizing Hinduism in America as well as Europe and Australia. Now in all countries we have at least 1% of that respective countries population who openly tells that they are practicing Hindu’s. In United States itself, we h

विवशता

Posted by mantra prem das on October 22, 2010 at 11:13am

विवशता

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दिन रात

पापी

पेट भरता रहा

प्रसाद का कंद न खा सका

हर पल

माला

जपता रहा

मन का द्वन्द न भगा सका

माया के इस

महाजाल में

परमानन्द न पा सका

काम लोभ मद मोह को

अब तक

ठण्ड न दिला सका

बच्चे को

कृष्ण नाम दिया

स्वयं को

नन्द न बना सका

तुम मेरी

मै तेरा लिखा

भक्ति का इक

छंद न बना सका

हे प्रभु

ये कैसी विवशता

जिसका अब तक

अंत न आ सका

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Karthika Month Quote

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 22, 2010 at 10:34am

In the Skanda Puräna, in a conversation of Brahma' and Närada, it is said: "O best of the followers of religion, a person who does not follow the vow of Kärttika-vrata is a sinner. He is like a person who murders. A person who gives ten million cows, all filled with milk and all the mothers of young calves, in charity to the brähmanas does not earn even one sixteenth of the pious merit earned by one who places a lamp on the roof of Lord Krishna's temple.

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Hedonistic philosophy

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 22, 2010 at 9:32am

Hedonistic philosophy

The materialistic man of the modern age will argue that life, or part of it, is never meant for discussion of theosophical or theological arguments. Life is meant for the maximum duration of existence for eating, drinking, sexual intercourse, making merry and enjoying life. The modern man wants to live forever by the advancement of material science, and there are many foolish theories for prolonging life to the maximum duration. But the Srimad-Bhagavatam affirms that life is

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Classless Society

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 22, 2010 at 9:31am

Classless Society

The tendency in this age of Kali to make a classless society and not observe the principles of varna and asrama is a manifestation of an impossible dream. Destruction of the social and spiritual orders will not bring fulfillment of the idea of a classless society. One should strictly observe the principles of varna and asrama for the satisfaction of the creator, for it is stated in the Bhagavad-gita by Lord Krsna that the four orders of the social system -- brahmanas, ksatriyas,

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Initiation lecture

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 22, 2010 at 9:30am

Initiation lecture

In his lecture Srila Prabhupada explained, "Every human being must be initiated in Vedic culture, to make his life fulfilled, successful, because we are born animals."

He stressed the responsibility of spiritual life, and perhaps because of the girls, he put a little extra emphasis on giving up intoxicants. "So some of the devotees who are now eager to accept the spiritual life very seriously, and they have come to take initiation, this is the first initiation. Now they have to

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 28

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 22, 2010 at 9:30am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 28
yad vai vraje vraja-pasun visatoya-pitan
palams tv ajivayad anugraha-drsti-vrstya
tac-chuddhaye 'ti-visa-virya-vilola-jihvam
uccatayisyad uragam viharan hradinyam

yat -- one who; vai -- certainly; vraje -- at Vrndavana; vraja-pasun -- the animals thereof; visa-toya -- poisoned water; pitan -- those who drank; palan -- the cowherd men; tu -- also; ajivayat -- brought to life; anugraha-drsti -- merciful glance; vrstya -- by the showers of; tat -- that; sudd

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Essential quality to become a good devotee

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 22, 2010 at 9:26am

Hare Krishna,

The vice-chancellor of Benares Hindu University, a very famous man of his time named Madan Mohan Malaviya, went to the Gaudiya Math with some intricate, philosophical questions to present to Sarasvati Thakura, who said: "I won't answer you, but you should ask the devotees who are washing the arati paraphernalia." The scholar then said: "No, I am asking very difficult questions about Vedanta. They won't be able to answer!" Sarasvati Thakura, however, insisted that he go and ask the

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Reality of Material World

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 21, 2010 at 1:04pm

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.14 Summary

The direct meaning of the forest of material existence is given in this chapter. Merchants sometimes enter the forest to collect many rare things and sell them at a good profit in the city, but the forest path is always bedecked with dangers. When the pure soul wants to give up the Lord's service to enjoy the material world, Kṛṣṇa certainly gives him a chance to enter the material world. As stated in the Prema-vivarta: kṛṣṇa-bahirmukha hañā b

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Srila Prabhupada Nectar

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 21, 2010 at 1:02pm

In the conditioned stage, we are influenced by material nature. In
this age people are generally situated in the lower modes of passion
and ignorance and are lazy, misguided, disturbed, quarrelsome,
short-lived and unlucky. In these modes we are not able to serve
Krsna. It is our constitutional position to serve someone. If we are
not serving Krsna, we are serving maya. We may serve our family,
society, country, business, automobile or whatever. It is because
service is our nature. We are simply lackin

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - One keep pure in any condition

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 21, 2010 at 1:01pm

One keep pure in any condition

Throughout the conversation, Mahamsa was in and out, busily arranging the initiations scheduled for mid-morning. He produced a list of five candidates that he had approved for first initiation and informed Srila Prabhupada that there was another five girls who also want to become Prabhupada's disciples. Four of the girls -- Meera (the youngest at 14 years), Shaku, Citra and Gita -- are daughters of Dr. M. K. Misra, a retired army lieutenant-colonel; the other girl,

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 27

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on October 21, 2010 at 1:00pm

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 27
tokena jiva-haranam yad uluki-kayas
trai-masikasya ca pada sakato 'pavrttah
yad ringatantara-gatena divi-sprsor va
unmulanam tv itaratharjunayor na bhavyam

tokena -- by a child; jiva-haranam -- killing a living being; yat -- one which; uluki-kayah -- assumed the giant body of a demon; trai-masikasya -- of one who is only three months old; ca -- also; pada -- by the leg; sakatah apavrttah -- turned over the cart; yat -- one who; ringata -- while crawling;

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Iskcon to manage 2 laddu counters at Tirumala

Posted by Pusta Gopika Devi Dasi on October 21, 2010 at 1:00pm

TIRUMALA: Two of the laddu counters in the Laddu Prasadam Complex beside the Srivari temple on Tirumala were formally entrusted to the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) today.
The Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams, with a view to streamlining the maintenance of the laddu counters which are being maintained by the TTD and banks, decided to avail the services of Iskcon and entrusted two counters to it on an experimental basis.
Only Iskcon’s volunteers will man the counters and is

Importance of Gurudeva

Posted by geeta kakkar on October 20, 2010 at 4:55pm

Importance of Gurudeva

If a devotee is doing a great deal of chanting, reading and glorifying Sri Krsna, but he is not following his gurudeva, what will be the result? It will be zero. This has been described in many places in sastra. Krsna
Himself has said in the Srimad-Bhagavatam (11.19.21): “madbhakta-pujabhyadhika – the worship of My devotees is better than worship of Me.” He also says, “That person who says he is My devotee but who is not devoted to My devotee, is not My devotee at all.” Krsn

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Krishna Often Surprises Us

FREE Damodarastaka Song Download for ALL!

Story of Lord Krishna

Caranamrta: Water from the Feet of the Lord

Srila Prabhupada Touches People's Hearts

How to Become Humble

ISKCON's Hare Krishna Temple in Quetta, Pakistan

विवशता

Karthika Month Quote

Hedonistic philosophy

Classless Society

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - Initiation lecture

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 28

Essential quality to become a good devotee

Reality of Material World

Srila Prabhupada Nectar

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - One keep pure in any condition

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 7 Text 27

Iskcon to manage 2 laddu counters at Tirumala

Importance of Gurudeva

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