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FESTIVAL OF INDIA TROUGH ADRIATIC SEA - 7 COUNTRIES FOR 7TH YEAR

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on June 18, 2010 at 8:53am

Hari Hari

Please accept our humble obeisances

All glories to most auspicious movement of Lord Caitanya and Srila Prabhupada!

Dear devotees, the summer is here and in 3 weeks we are starting our new Harinam tour „Festival of India through Adriatic sea“. The idea of the tour was born in 2004. and since then is continuously being performed every year. This will be seventh tour in a row.

The tour got bigger every year. On first tour there was only 5 of us squeesing in one car with deitys, instruments an

paavan hai ek krishna ka naam..

Posted by kamal nayan gulati on June 17, 2010 at 8:10pm

krodh,kaam aur nindaa chod de...

paapo se tu naata tod de...

bas bhaj krishna tu aatho yaam..

paavan hai ek krishna ka naam..1.

mor mukut sunder chabi sohe...

pyari murli man ko mohe...

hey man keh hari katha aviraam..

paavan hai ek krishna ka naam..2..

brahma,shankar,nit hi dhyavein..

ved puran sunder jas gavein..

bhaj ke pale krishna ka dhaam.

paavan hai ek krishna ka naam..3..

gaur sunder nit hi gavein...

ga ga hari prem ras paavein..

das kamal bhaj subaha aru shaam..

paavan hai ek krishna ka naam.4.

What is REAL LOVE?

Posted by Shabda Hari Das on June 17, 2010 at 1:30pm

GURUVAKYA

"People work so hard to build up a family and keep it united. But even if one successfully keeps the family together for the entire life, and even if there are some selfless friends and relatives who stay in spite of all life's difficulties, how long can they stay?

Eventually the time factor takes everyone away. Then where do all the friends and relatives go? They have left life and have gone to another new birth in another location.

This is the understanding that has been achieved in thi

vaishnava association

Posted by k.s. Subramanian on June 17, 2010 at 12:39pm

If there is one most precious thing in this material world ,I would say it is vaishnava association. Sadhu sanga lifts us up from the most fallen condition and quickly fills our mind and soul with happiness, faith and hope for the future. I have experienced the causeless mercy of vaishnavas over the past 8years ever since coming to ISKCON . Now, I cannot imagine life without them nor what would have been my fate had I not found them.

Not only have they helped me in overcoming spiritual problems b

Love Yourself!!

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on June 17, 2010 at 11:53am

Many devotees are under the impression that we should love Krishna and
denigrate ourselves!

It is understandable that they think this way because there are many
statements that one may misunderstand such as:
1. Thinking oneself lower than the straw in the street
2. The soul is one ten thousandth the tip of the hair in size
3. The individual soul is tiny
4. One should be selfless
5. Etc.

Also we may come in contact with people who in the name of Krishna
consciousness authority denigrate us, telling us that

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Remembering Srila Prabhupada - On Speaking Strongly in Srila Prabhupada's Service

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 17, 2010 at 9:53am

On Speaking Strongly in Srila Prabhupada's Service

Usually devotees lacking firm faith oppose strong preaching. Those influenced by worldly morality and public opinion think to measure the words of sastra with their mundane intelligence. Being inclined to compromise with maya, they want to avoid the fight that real preaching involves. Unless devotees are firmly committed to the principle of guru mukha padma vakya cittete koriya aikya ara na koriho mane asa -- accepting the words of the self-reali

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 5 Text 15

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 17, 2010 at 9:53am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 5 Text 15
narayana-para veda
deva narayanangajah
narayana-para loka
narayana-para makhah

narayana -- the Supreme Lord; parah -- is the cause and is meant for; vedah -- knowledge; devah -- the demigods; narayana -- the Supreme Lord; anga-jah -- assisting hands; narayana -- the Personality of Godhead; parah -- for the sake of; lokah -- the planets; narayana -- the Supreme Lord; parah -- just to please Him; makhah -- all sacrifices.

TRANSLATION
The Vedic literatures are

Radhagopinath...

Posted by Rajeev Pandita on June 17, 2010 at 8:44am

June 16th - HG Janmastami prabhu speaks on S.B. 4.4.28 - from Mayapur

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on June 16, 2010 at 6:19pm

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.4.28

tat paśyatāḿ khe bhuvi cādbhutaḿ mahad
hā heti vādaḥ sumahān ajāyata
hanta priyā daivatamasya devī
jahāv asūn kena satī prakopitā

SYNONYMS:
tat — that; paśyatām — of those who had seen; khe — in the sky; bhuvi — on the earth; ca — and; adbhutam — wonderful; mahat — great; hā hā — oh, oh; iti — thus; vādaḥ — roar; su-mahān — tumultuous; ajāyata — occurred; hanta — alas; priyā — the beloved; daiva-tamasya — of the most respectable demigod (Lord Śiva); devī — Satī; jahau — qu

Accepting both favourable and unfavourable situations in life as the Lord's mercy.

Posted by k.s. Subramanian on June 16, 2010 at 5:42pm

I have been moved by this particular sentiment which Maharaj and other senior vaishnavas often express in many of the lectures. Tad Dhenu Kampam verse has been repeatedly extolled by great acharyas as the guaranteed way to attract Lord's mercy.

But it is in the practical aplication of this lofty principle, which I implicitly endorse wholeheartedly, that I find myself falling short. Very often a fear of the unknown takes a powerful grip on the mind and interferes with unconditional surrender and s

Sri Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi

Posted by geeta kakkar on June 16, 2010 at 1:47pm

Srila Prabodhananda Sarasvati's
Sri Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi
(The Nectar Moon of Sri Radha's Sweetness)

1. When, seeing my sincere and unwavering devotion to Sri Radha's lotus feet, a devotion filled with boundless love greater than the love He feels for His own devotees, will charming Krsna embrace me, take the betel nuts from His mouth and place them in my mouth, and place His own forest garland upon me?

2. When will Sri Radha, whose beauty is supremely wonderful, whose expert skill in amorous pasti

3 Most Powerful Substances!

Posted by Shabda Hari Das on June 16, 2010 at 12:13pm

GURUVAKYA

"In the Caitanya Caritamrita, it is mentioned that three things can help us advance in Krishna Consciousness very quickly:

1. The Dust of the Lotus Feet of the Devotees.
2. The Water which has washed the feet of the Devotees.
3. The remnants of their Prasadam.

In India since sannyasis' bodies should not be touched by everyone and not at all by women, the wooden shoes of the sannyasi are often kept for disciples to touch. Ladies could also get dust from the Gurus feet from his shoes without

(Bhima) Pandava nirjala Ekadasi

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on June 16, 2010 at 11:34am

Story source: Brahma-Vaivarta Purana

During the hottest season (northern hemisphere), if one can perform
upavasa without water one is performing a great feat. One may take only
charanamrita and achman water. Bhima requested one vrata day by which he
could obtain the fruits of all the other days of vrata that he was incapable
of observing.

Vyasadeva advised him to follow this difficult vrata.

One should worship the Lord in the evening by bathing him in milk. On the
dvadasi one should give full pots of wa

H.H. Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj- Brief Biography

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on June 16, 2010 at 11:21am

His Holiness Gopala Krishna Goswami appeared on 14th August, 1944 in New Delhi, India. The day was the eleventh day of the waning moon, the auspicious day of Lord Hari - Annada Ekadashi.

After graduating from the University of Delhi, H.H. Gopala Krishna Goswami studied Business Management at the Sorbonne University of Paris (on a scholarship from the French Government). Later, he also obtained a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the McGill University at Montreal.

H.H. Gopala Krishna

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Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 5 Text 14

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 16, 2010 at 11:16am

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 5 Text 14
dravyam karma ca kalas ca
svabhavo jiva eva ca
vasudevat paro brahman
na canyo 'rtho 'sti tattvatah

dravyam -- the ingredients (earth, water, fire, air and sky); karma -- the interaction; ca -- and; kalah -- eternal time; ca -- also; sva-bhavah -- intuition or nature; jivah -- the living being; eva -- certainly; ca -- and; vasudevat -- from Vasudeva; parah -- differentiated parts; brahman -- O brahmana; na -- never; ca -- also; anyah -- separate; arthah -

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Who is a fanatic?

Posted by Saci Gaurasundara Dasa on June 16, 2010 at 11:00am

On Speaking Strongly in Srila Prabhupada's Service

Why should one be a fanatic? If one has got brain, one has got logic, why should he be a fanatic? Fanatic means dullheaded rascal.

However, the term "fanaticism" should not be misunderstood. Srila Prabhupada defines fanaticism as a manifestation of religion without philosophy. "Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism." (Bg. 3.3 purport.) If a devotee has realization and is preaching according to sastra, even if his pre

June 15th - H G Pankajanghri Prabhu speaks on S.B. 4.4.27 - from Mayapur

Posted by ISKCON desire tree on June 15, 2010 at 6:06pm

Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 4.4.27

tataḥ sva-bhartuś caraṇāmbujāsavaḿ
jagad-guroś cintayatī na cāparam
dadarśa deho hata-kalmaṣaḥ satī
sadyaḥ prajajvāla samādhijāgninā

SYNONYMS:
tataḥ — there; sva-bhartuḥ — of her husband; caraṇa-ambuja-āsavam — on the nectar of the lotus feet; jagat-guroḥ — of the supreme spiritual teacher of the universe; cintayatī — meditating; na — not; ca — and; aparam — not other (than her husband); dadarśa — saw; dehaḥ — her body; hata-kalmaṣaḥ — taints of sin being destroye

jagganath puri dham

Posted by shailendra badriprasad sharma on June 15, 2010 at 5:13pm

Jagannath Puri, is the abode of Lord Jagannath or Purushotham, the Lord ofthe Universe or the Supreme Personality of the Universe.Jagannath Puri Dham or Jagannath Puri or even Puri as it is called, is situatedon the sea shore of the Bay of Bengal in the State of Orissa (India). It is one of thefour Holy Kshetras of India including temples at Rameshwaram, Dwaraka, Badrinath and Puri. The Annual Rathayatra festival is the high point of all the Festivals celebratedand has been attracting lakhs of d

Story of Lord Krishna

Posted by geeta kakkar on June 15, 2010 at 2:53pm

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

The Pastimes of Krsna during age of pauganda

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1. When Lord Rama and Lord Krsna attained the age of pauganda [six to ten] while living in Vrndavana, the cowherd men allowed Them to take up the task of tending the cows. Engaging thus in the company of Their friends, the two boys rendered the land of Vrndavana most auspicious by imprinting upon it the marks of Their lotus feet.

2. Thus desiring to enjoy pastimes, Lord Madhava, sounding

Bathing Festival Of Lord Jagannath

Posted by Mayapur Vasi Das on June 15, 2010 at 12:51pm

A very special and sacred festival of Lord Jagannath held in the full-moon day of the month of Jyestha. This festival is known as 'Devasnan Purnima' or 'Snana Yatra' (Bathing Festival). There is a general belief that the devotee washes away all his sins if he gets a vision of the Lord on this day, therefore, it attracts thousands of pilgrims from all over the world. According to Skanda Purana when King Indradyumna installed the wooden deities he arranged this bathing ceremony.

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FESTIVAL OF INDIA TROUGH ADRIATIC SEA - 7 COUNTRIES FOR 7TH YEAR

paavan hai ek krishna ka naam..

What is REAL LOVE?

vaishnava association

Love Yourself!!

Remembering Srila Prabhupada - On Speaking Strongly in Srila Prabhupada's Service

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 5 Text 15

Radhagopinath...

June 16th - HG Janmastami prabhu speaks on S.B. 4.4.28 - from Mayapur

Accepting both favourable and unfavourable situations in life as the Lord's mercy.

Sri Radha-rasa-sudha-nidhi

3 Most Powerful Substances!

(Bhima) Pandava nirjala Ekadasi

H.H. Gopal Krishna Goswami Maharaj- Brief Biography

Srimad-Bhagavatam - Canto 2 Chapter 5 Text 14

Who is a fanatic?

June 15th - H G Pankajanghri Prabhu speaks on S.B. 4.4.27 - from Mayapur

jagganath puri dham

Story of Lord Krishna

Bathing Festival Of Lord Jagannath

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